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Exposure to the ROCK inhibitor fasudil promotes gliogenesis of neural stem cells in vitro (2018)
Journal Article
Nizamudeen, Z. A., Chakrabarti, L., & Sottile, V. (2018). Exposure to the ROCK inhibitor fasudil promotes gliogenesis of neural stem cells in vitro. Stem Cell Research, 28, 75-86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scr.2018.02.001

Fasudil is a clinically approved Rho-associated protein kinase (ROCK) inhibitor that has been used widely to treat cerebral consequences of subarachnoid haemorrhage. It is known to have a positive effect on animal models of neurological disorders inc... Read More about Exposure to the ROCK inhibitor fasudil promotes gliogenesis of neural stem cells in vitro.

Effects of sprint interval training on ectopic lipids and tissue-specific insulin sensitivity in men with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (2018)
Journal Article
Sargeant, J. A., Bawden, S., Aithal, G. P., Simpson, E. J., Macdonald, I. A., Turner, M. C., …King, J. A. (2018). Effects of sprint interval training on ectopic lipids and tissue-specific insulin sensitivity in men with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. European Journal of Applied Physiology, 118(4), 817-828. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00421-018-3818-y

Purpose: This study examined the feasibility of sprint interval exercise training (SIT) for men with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and its effects on intrahepatic triglyceride (IHTG), insulin sensitivity (hepatic and peripheral), visceral... Read More about Effects of sprint interval training on ectopic lipids and tissue-specific insulin sensitivity in men with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

The enhancement of rapidly quenched galaxies in distant clusters at 0.5 < z < 1.0 (2018)
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Socolovsky, M., Almaini, O., Hatch, N. A., Wild, V., Maltby, D. T., Hartley, W. G., & Simpson, C. (2018). The enhancement of rapidly quenched galaxies in distant clusters at 0.5 < z < 1.0. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 476(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty312

We investigate the relationship between environment and galaxy evolution in the redshift range $0.5

Cutting Materials in Half: A Graph Theory Approach for Generating Crystal Surfaces and Its Prediction of 2D Zeolites (2018)
Journal Article
Witman, M., Ling, S., Boyd, P., Barthel, S., Haranczyk, M., Slater, B., & Smit, B. (2018). Cutting Materials in Half: A Graph Theory Approach for Generating Crystal Surfaces and Its Prediction of 2D Zeolites. ACS Central Science, 4(2), 235-245. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.7b00555

© 2018 American Chemical Society. Scientific interest in two-dimensional (2D) materials, ranging from graphene and other single layer materials to atomically thin crystals, is quickly increasing for a large variety of technological applications. Whil... Read More about Cutting Materials in Half: A Graph Theory Approach for Generating Crystal Surfaces and Its Prediction of 2D Zeolites.

Cover Image, Volume 49, Issue 1 (2018)
Journal Article
Rosenthal, A. J., Lacresse, A., & Voyer, E. (2018). Cover Image, Volume 49, Issue 1. Journal of Texture Studies, 49(1), i-i. doi:10.1111/jtxs.12324

The impact of extracellular osmolality on Saccharomyces yeast populations during brewing fermentations (2018)
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Zhuang, S., Smart, K., & Powell, C. (2018). The impact of extracellular osmolality on Saccharomyces yeast populations during brewing fermentations. Journal- American Society of Brewing Chemists, 75(3), 244-254. https://doi.org/10.1094/ASBCJ-2017-3505-01

Osmotic stress represents one of the major environmental challenges experienced by yeast during industrial 15 fermentations. This stress is particularly associated with high gravity processes which utilise concentrated 16 substrates to yield products... Read More about The impact of extracellular osmolality on Saccharomyces yeast populations during brewing fermentations.

Quantum chemical study of the structure, spectroscopy and reactivity of NO+.(H2O)n=1-5 clusters (2018)
Journal Article
Linton, K. A., Wright, T. G., & Besley, N. A. (2018). Quantum chemical study of the structure, spectroscopy and reactivity of NO+.(H2O)n=1-5 clusters. Philosophical Transactions A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 376(2115), Article 20170152

Quantum chemical methods including Møller-Plesset perturbation (MP2) theory and density functional theory (DFT) have been used to study the structure, spectroscopy and reactivity of NO+.(H2O)n=1−5 clusters. MP2/6-311++G** calculations are shown to de... Read More about Quantum chemical study of the structure, spectroscopy and reactivity of NO+.(H2O)n=1-5 clusters.

Adult education under a comparative lens: areas of influence (2018)
Book Chapter
Holford, J., Milana, M., & Rasmussen, P. (2018). Adult education under a comparative lens: areas of influence. In A. W. Wiseman (Ed.), Annual review of comparative and international education 2017 (85-93). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-367920180000034009

This chapter outlines key areas of literature and policy that have influenced or affected our research on the comparative study of adult education. Policy influences include the growth of lifelong learning within a neoliberal framing since the 1990s... Read More about Adult education under a comparative lens: areas of influence.

Population exposure to smoking and tobacco branding in the UK reality show ‘Love Island’ (2018)
Journal Article
Barker, A. B., Opazo-Breton, M., Cranwell, J., Britton, J., & Murray, R. L. (2018). Population exposure to smoking and tobacco branding in the UK reality show ‘Love Island’. Tobacco Control, 27(6), 709-711. https://doi.org/10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2017-054125

Background: Reality television shows are popular with children and young adults; inclusion of tobacco imagery in these programmes is likely to cause smoking in these groups. Series 3 of the UK reality show Love Island, broadcast in 2017, attracted wi... Read More about Population exposure to smoking and tobacco branding in the UK reality show ‘Love Island’.

Individual differences in first- and second-order temporal judgment (2018)
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Corcoran, A. W., Groot, C., Bruno, A., Johnston, A., & Cropper, S. J. (2018). Individual differences in first- and second-order temporal judgment. PLoS ONE, 13(2), Article e0191422. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0191422

The ability of subjects to identify and reproduce brief temporal intervals is influenced by many factors whether they be stimulus-based, task-based or subject-based. The current study examines the role individual differences play in subsecond and sup... Read More about Individual differences in first- and second-order temporal judgment.

Galaxy Zoo: Morphological Classification of Galaxy Images from the Illustris Simulation (2018)
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Dickinson, H., Fortson, L., Lintott, C., Scarlata, C., Willett, K., Bamford, S., …Snyder, G. F. (2018). Galaxy Zoo: Morphological Classification of Galaxy Images from the Illustris Simulation. Astrophysical Journal, 853(2), Article 194. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aaa250

Modern large-scale cosmological simulations model the universe with increasing sophistication and at higher spatial and temporal resolutions. These ongoing enhancements permit increasingly detailed comparisons between the simulation outputs and real... Read More about Galaxy Zoo: Morphological Classification of Galaxy Images from the Illustris Simulation.

An integrated converter and machine control system for MMC-based high-power drives (2018)
Journal Article
Espinoza-B, M., Cárdenas, R., Clare, J., Soto-Sanchez, D., Diaz, M., Espina, E., & Hackl, C. (2019). An integrated converter and machine control system for MMC-based high-power drives. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 66(3), 2343-2354. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIE.2018.2801839

© 2018 IEEE. The modular multilevel converter (MMC) is a promising topology for high-power drive applications. However, large voltage fluctuations can be produced in the floating capacitors when the machine operates with high stator currents at low r... Read More about An integrated converter and machine control system for MMC-based high-power drives.

Observer-based pulsed signal injection for grid impedance estimation in three phase systems (2018)
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Garcia, P., Sumner, M., Navarro-Rodríguez, Á., Guerrero, J. M., & Garcia, J. (in press). Observer-based pulsed signal injection for grid impedance estimation in three phase systems. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, https://doi.org/10.1109/TIE.2018.2801784

This paper addresses the estimation of the grid impedance and the control of grid-tied converters by combining pulsed-signal injection and observer based techniques. A Luenberger based observer is used for controlling the grid-side current of an LCL... Read More about Observer-based pulsed signal injection for grid impedance estimation in three phase systems.

To boil an egg: substrate binding affects critical stability in thermal unfolding of proteins (2018)
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Hussain, R., Hughes, C. S., Jávorfi, T., Siligardi, G., Williams, P., & Bonev, B. B. (2018). To boil an egg: substrate binding affects critical stability in thermal unfolding of proteins. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 122(8), 2213-2218. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b10643

Thermal unfolding of proteins is used extensively in screening of drug candidates because molecular interactions with ligands and substrates affect strongly protein stability, transition temperature, and cooperativity. We use synchrotron radiation ci... Read More about To boil an egg: substrate binding affects critical stability in thermal unfolding of proteins.

The impacts of copper, iron and manganese metal ions on the EPR assessment of beer oxidative stability. (2018)
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Jenkins, D., James, S., Dehrmann, F., Smart, K., & Cook, D. (in press). The impacts of copper, iron and manganese metal ions on the EPR assessment of beer oxidative stability. Journal- American Society of Brewing Chemists, 76(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/03610470.2017.1402585

Beer flavour stability is a key quality parameter as brewers seek to maintain the quality of their product throughout the supply chain. The electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) oxidative stability assay is one method that brewers are utilising to op... Read More about The impacts of copper, iron and manganese metal ions on the EPR assessment of beer oxidative stability..

Dynamic simulations of many-body electrostatic self-assembly (2018)
Journal Article
Lindgren, E. B., Stamm, B., Maday, Y., Besley, E., & Stace, A. J. (2018). Dynamic simulations of many-body electrostatic self-assembly. Philosophical Transactions A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2017.0143

Two experimental studies relating to electrostatic self-assembly have been the subject of dynamic computer simulations, where the consequences of changing the charge and the dielectric constant of the materials concerned have been explored. One serie... Read More about Dynamic simulations of many-body electrostatic self-assembly.

Could stool collection devices help increase uptake to bowel cancer screening programmes? (2018)
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Morling, J. R., Barke, A., Chapman, C., & Logan, R. (2018). Could stool collection devices help increase uptake to bowel cancer screening programmes?. Journal of Medical Screening, 25(4), 174-177. https://doi.org/10.1177/0969141317753463

Objective: We aimed to understand the usage and acceptability of a faecal collection device (FCD) amongst participants of the NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme in order to influence future uptake. Setting: Men and women completing faecal occult... Read More about Could stool collection devices help increase uptake to bowel cancer screening programmes?.

Engineering Escherichia coli to grow constitutively on D-xylose using the carbon-efficient Weimberg pathway (2018)
Journal Article
Rossoni, L., Carr, R., Baxter, S., Cortis, R., Thorpe, T., Eastham, G., & Stephens, G. (in press). Engineering Escherichia coli to grow constitutively on D-xylose using the carbon-efficient Weimberg pathway. Microbiology, 164(3), https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.000611

Bio-production of fuels and chemicals from lignocellulosic C5 sugars usually requires the use of the pentose phosphate pathway (PPP) to produce pyruvate. Unfortunately, the oxidation of pyruvate to acetyl-coenzyme A results in the loss of 33?% of the... Read More about Engineering Escherichia coli to grow constitutively on D-xylose using the carbon-efficient Weimberg pathway.

The significance of tumour microarchitectural features in breast cancer prognosis: a digital image analysis (2018)
Journal Article
Roxanis, I., Colling, R., Kartsonaki, C., Green, A., & Rakha, E. (2018). The significance of tumour microarchitectural features in breast cancer prognosis: a digital image analysis. Breast Cancer Research, 20(11), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13058-018-0934-x

BACKGROUND: As only a minor portion of the information present in histological sections is accessible by eye, recognition and quantification of complex patterns and relationships among constituents relies on digital image analysis. In this study, our... Read More about The significance of tumour microarchitectural features in breast cancer prognosis: a digital image analysis.

Phylogenetic classification of the world’s tropical forests (2018)
Journal Article
Slik, J. F., Franklin, J., Arroyo-Rodríguez, V., Field, R., Aguilar, S., Aguirre, N., …Zang, R. (2018). Phylogenetic classification of the world’s tropical forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(8), 1837-1842. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1714977115

Knowledge about the biogeographic affinities of the world’s tropical forests helps to better understand regional differences in forest structure, diversity, composition, and dynamics. Such understanding will enable anticipation of region-specific res... Read More about Phylogenetic classification of the world’s tropical forests.