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Method for RNA extraction and transcriptomic analysis of single fungal spores (2019)
Journal Article
Geoghegan, I. A., Emes, R. D., Archer, D. B., & Avery, S. V. (2020). Method for RNA extraction and transcriptomic analysis of single fungal spores. MethodsX, 7, 50-55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mex.2019.12.002

Transcriptomic analysis of single cells has been increasingly in demand in recent years, thanks to technological and methodological advances as well as growing recognition of the importance of individuals in biological systems. However, the majority... Read More about Method for RNA extraction and transcriptomic analysis of single fungal spores.

A Framework for Food Supply Chain Digitalisation: Lessons from Thailand (2019)
Journal Article
Kittipanya-Ngam, P., & Tan, K. H. (2020). A Framework for Food Supply Chain Digitalisation: Lessons from Thailand. Production Planning and Control, 31(2-3), 158-172. https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2019.1631462

The promise of digitalisation is enormous and nowhere is it more critical than in its potential to transform food supply chain. Consumers have become more educated and are demanding real-time updated information on foods they consumed through digital... Read More about A Framework for Food Supply Chain Digitalisation: Lessons from Thailand.

An Improved Control Strategy for Switched Reluctance Generator System in More Electric Aircraft (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Velmurugan, G., YEOH, S. S., Yang, T., & Bozhko, S. (2019). An Improved Control Strategy for Switched Reluctance Generator System in More Electric Aircraft.

Switched Reluctance Machines (SRM) has emerged as an important possible technology for usage in More Electric Aircraft (MEA) in particular as a starter/generator. As a starter/generator, the SRM operates as a generator as well as a motor (starter). T... Read More about An Improved Control Strategy for Switched Reluctance Generator System in More Electric Aircraft.

The effectiveness and reporting standards of psychological interventions for improving short and long-term pain outcomes after total knee replacement: a systematic review (2019)
Journal Article
Whale, K., Wylde, V., Beswick, A. D., Rathbone, J., Vedhara, K., & Gooberman-Hill, R. (2019). The effectiveness and reporting standards of psychological interventions for improving short and long-term pain outcomes after total knee replacement: a systematic review. BMJ Open, 9(12), Article e029742. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-029742

Objectives: To assess the effectiveness and reporting standards of psychological interventions for improving outcomes after total knee replacement (TKR). Design: The systematic review protocol was registered on the International Prospective Regist... Read More about The effectiveness and reporting standards of psychological interventions for improving short and long-term pain outcomes after total knee replacement: a systematic review.

Might Teaching Be Judgement Dependent? (2019)
Journal Article
Tallant, J., & Fisher, A. (2020). Might Teaching Be Judgement Dependent?. Philosophia, 48, 777–787. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-019-00130-3

Our thesis in this paper is that consideration of Wright’s account of what it is to be judgement-dependent leads us to the conclusion that teaching is judgement dependent. We begin with a consideration of Wright’s account of what it is to be judgemen... Read More about Might Teaching Be Judgement Dependent?.

Characterizing customer experience management in business markets (2019)
Journal Article
Witell, L., Kowalkowski, C., Perks, H., Raddats, C., Schwabe, M., Benedettini, O., & Burton, J. (2020). Characterizing customer experience management in business markets. Journal of Business Research, 116, 420-430. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.08.050

© 2019 Elsevier Inc. Managing the customer experience has become a top priority for marketing managers and researchers. Research on customer experience management (CEM) has traditionally adopted a customer's viewpoint. Few studies have explicitly emb... Read More about Characterizing customer experience management in business markets.

Partial safety factors for prestressed concrete girders strengthened with CFRP laminates (2019)
Journal Article
Dias-da-Costa, D., Neves, L. A. C., Gomes, S., Graça-e-Costa, R., Hadigheh, S. A., & Fernandes, P. (2020). Partial safety factors for prestressed concrete girders strengthened with CFRP laminates. Journal of Composites for Construction, 24(1), Article 04019060. https://doi.org/10.1061/%28ASCE%29CC.1943-5614.0000993

This paper provides a framework for the calibration of partial safety factors in prestressed concrete (PC) girders strengthened in flexure with carbon fibre-reinforced polymer (CFRP) laminates. A hybrid approach was proposed to take advantage of comp... Read More about Partial safety factors for prestressed concrete girders strengthened with CFRP laminates.

Sperm Gatekeeping: 3D Imaging Reveals a Constricted Entrance to Zebra Finch Sperm Storage Tubules (2019)
Journal Article
Mendonca, T., Cadby, A. J., & Hemmings, N. (2019). Sperm Gatekeeping: 3D Imaging Reveals a Constricted Entrance to Zebra Finch Sperm Storage Tubules. Biophysical Journal, 117(11), 2180-2187. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2019.10.038

Females across many internally fertilizing taxa store sperm, often in specialized storage organs in their reproductive tracts. In birds, several hundred sperm storage tubules exist in the utero-vaginal junction of the oviduct, and there is growing ev... Read More about Sperm Gatekeeping: 3D Imaging Reveals a Constricted Entrance to Zebra Finch Sperm Storage Tubules.

Response to: "Multiple Systems Analysis for the Quantification of Modern Slavery: Classical and Bayesian Approaches" (2019)
Other
Sparks, J. (in press). Response to: "Multiple Systems Analysis for the Quantification of Modern Slavery: Classical and Bayesian Approaches"

Scattering amplitudes, black holes and leading singularities in cubic theories of gravity (2019)
Journal Article
Emond, W. T., & Moynihan, N. (2019). Scattering amplitudes, black holes and leading singularities in cubic theories of gravity. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019(12), Article 19. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep12%282019%29019

We compute the semi-classical potential arising from a generic theory of cubic gravity, a higher derivative theory of spin-2 particles, in the framework of modern amplitude techniques. We show that there are several interesting aspects of the potenti... Read More about Scattering amplitudes, black holes and leading singularities in cubic theories of gravity.

A novel approach to welfare interventions in problem multi-cat households (2019)
Journal Article
Hill, K., Yates, D., Dean, R., & Stavisky, J. (2019). A novel approach to welfare interventions in problem multi-cat households. BMC Veterinary Research, 15, Article 434. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12917-019-2183-3

Background Thousands of injured, stray and relinquished cats are received at the RSPCA Greater Manchester Animal Hospital each year. A significant and challenging proportion of these cats are confiscated from multicat households by RSPCA Inspectors,... Read More about A novel approach to welfare interventions in problem multi-cat households.

The development and use of Actiphage® to detect viable mycobacteria from bovine tuberculosis and Johne’s disease-infected animals (2019)
Journal Article
Swift, B. M., Meade, N., Barron, E. S., Bennett, M., Perehenic, T., Hughes, V., …Rees, C. E. (2020). The development and use of Actiphage® to detect viable mycobacteria from bovine tuberculosis and Johne’s disease-infected animals. Microbial Biotechnology, 13(3), 738-746. https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.13518

© 2019 The Authors. Microbial Biotechnology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd and Society for Applied Microbiology. Here, we describe the development of a method that exploits bacteriophage D29 as a lysis agent for efficient DNA extraction from lo... Read More about The development and use of Actiphage® to detect viable mycobacteria from bovine tuberculosis and Johne’s disease-infected animals.

Development and initial testing of a new instrument to measure the experience of eczema control in adults and children: Recap of atopic eczema (RECAP) (2019)
Journal Article
Howells, L. M., Chalmers, J. R., Gran, S., Ahmed, A., Apfelbacher, C., Burton, T., …Thomas, K. S. (2020). Development and initial testing of a new instrument to measure the experience of eczema control in adults and children: Recap of atopic eczema (RECAP). British Journal of Dermatology, 183(3), 524-536. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjd.18780

Background: Eczema control has been identified as an important outcome by key stakeholders in eczema research (including patients, carers, healthcare professionals and researchers) but no validated instruments for the domain have been identified. Obj... Read More about Development and initial testing of a new instrument to measure the experience of eczema control in adults and children: Recap of atopic eczema (RECAP).

What Do Service Users Want from Mental Health Social Work? A Best–Worst Scaling Analysis (2019)
Journal Article
Wilberforce, M., Abendstern, M., Batool, S., Boland, J., Challis, D., Christian, J., …Roberts, D. (2019). What Do Service Users Want from Mental Health Social Work? A Best–Worst Scaling Analysis. British Journal of Social Work, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcz133

Despite being a profession dedicated to the empowerment of service users, empirical study of mental health social work appears dominated by the perspectives of social workers themselves. What service users value is less often reported. This study, au... Read More about What Do Service Users Want from Mental Health Social Work? A Best–Worst Scaling Analysis.

What Do Service Users Want from Mental Health Social Work? A Best–Worst Scaling Analysis (2019)
Journal Article
Wilberforce, M., Abendstern, M., Batool, S., Boland, J., Challis, D., Christian, J., …Roberts, D. (2019). What Do Service Users Want from Mental Health Social Work? A Best–Worst Scaling Analysis. British Journal of Social Work, 50(5), 1324-1344. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcz133

Despite being a profession dedicated to the empowerment of service users, empirical study of mental health social work appears dominated by the perspectives of social workers themselves. What service users value is less often reported. This study, au... Read More about What Do Service Users Want from Mental Health Social Work? A Best–Worst Scaling Analysis.

Under the influence of the environment: children’s responding invigorated and biased by predictive cues (2019)
Journal Article
Alarcón, D., & Bonardi, C. (2020). Under the influence of the environment: children’s responding invigorated and biased by predictive cues. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 191, Article 104741. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2019.104741

Cues that signal motivationally significant consequences can elevate responding and bias choice. A task known as Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer (PIT) has been used to assess the influence of these cues on independently trained responses, and to s... Read More about Under the influence of the environment: children’s responding invigorated and biased by predictive cues.

Indigo Formation and Rapid NADPH Consumption Provide Robust Prediction of Raspberry Ketone Synthesis by Engineered Cytochrome P450 BM3 (2019)
Journal Article
Pelletier, J. N., Rousseau, O., Ebert, M. C. C. J. C., Quaglia, D., Fendri, A., Parisien, A. H., …Iyathurai, S. (2020). Indigo Formation and Rapid NADPH Consumption Provide Robust Prediction of Raspberry Ketone Synthesis by Engineered Cytochrome P450 BM3. ChemCatChem, 12(3), 837-845. https://doi.org/10.1002/cctc.201901974

Natural raspberry ketone has a high value in the flavor, fragrance and pharmaceutical industries. Its extraction is costly, justifying the search for biosynthetic routes. We hypothesized that cytochrome P450 BM3 (P450 BM3) could be engineered to cata... Read More about Indigo Formation and Rapid NADPH Consumption Provide Robust Prediction of Raspberry Ketone Synthesis by Engineered Cytochrome P450 BM3.

Genome-wide association studies for methane production in dairy cattle (2019)
Journal Article
Calderón-Chagoya, R., Hernandez-Medrano, J. H., Ruiz-López, F. J., Garcia-Ruiz, A., Vega-Murillo, V. E., Montano-Bermudez, M., …Román-Ponce, S. I. (2019). Genome-wide association studies for methane production in dairy cattle. Genes, 10(12), Article 995. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes10120995

© 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Genomic selection has been proposed for the mitigation of methane (CH4) emissions by cattle because there is considerable variability in CH4 emissions between individuals fed on the same diet.... Read More about Genome-wide association studies for methane production in dairy cattle.

Whatever Happened to the Frontier? Performing Provincialism in Post-War Los Angeles (2019)
Journal Article
Bradnock, L. (2019). Whatever Happened to the Frontier? Performing Provincialism in Post-War Los Angeles. Tate Papers, 32,

During the 1950s and 1960s, critics writing about art on America’s West Coast often treated it as provincial. At the same time, artists working in Los Angeles engaged in projects of self-fashioning that frequently alluded to frontiersmen and cowboys.... Read More about Whatever Happened to the Frontier? Performing Provincialism in Post-War Los Angeles.

Modeling of Classical Synchronous Generators Using Size-Efficient Lookup Tables With Skewing Effect (2019)
Journal Article
Quadri, Q. H., Nuzzo, S., Rashed, M., Gerada, C., & Galea, M. (2019). Modeling of Classical Synchronous Generators Using Size-Efficient Lookup Tables With Skewing Effect. IEEE Access, 7, 174551-174561. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2019.2957102

In this paper, an analytical model aimed at reducing computational times for the analysis of classical synchronous generators is proposed and validated. While the proposed model's attractiveness comes from its simple and fast nature, however, it also... Read More about Modeling of Classical Synchronous Generators Using Size-Efficient Lookup Tables With Skewing Effect.