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Professionals and public-good capabilities (2015)
Journal Article
Walker, M., & McLean, M. (2015). Professionals and public-good capabilities. Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning, 3(2), 60-82. https://doi.org/10.14426/cristal.v3i2.42

Martha Nussbaum (2011) reminds us that, all over the world people are struggling for a life that is fully human - a life worthy of human dignity. Purely income-based and preference based evaluations, as Sen (1999) argues, do not adequately capture wh... Read More about Professionals and public-good capabilities.

Sun safety knowledge and practice in UK postal delivery workers (2015)
Journal Article
Houdmont, J., Davis, S., & Griffiths, A. (2016). Sun safety knowledge and practice in UK postal delivery workers. Occupational Medicine, 66(4), 279-284. https://doi.org/10.1093/occmed/kqv204

Background: Postal delivery workers spend a large proportion of their work time outdoors, placing them at increased risk for skin cancer. To date, no studies have examined occupational sun safety knowledge and practice within this group in the UK. A... Read More about Sun safety knowledge and practice in UK postal delivery workers.

The professionals speak: practitioners’ perspectives on professional election campaigning (2015)
Journal Article
Tenscher, J., Koc-Michalska, K., Lilleker, D. G., Mykkänen, J., Walter, A. S., Findor, A., …Róka, J. (2016). The professionals speak: practitioners’ perspectives on professional election campaigning. European Journal of Communication, 31(2), 95-119. https://doi.org/10.1177/0267323115612212

Faced with some fundamental changes in the socio-cultural, political and media environment, political parties in post-industrialized democracies have started to initiate substantial transformations of both their organizational structures and communic... Read More about The professionals speak: practitioners’ perspectives on professional election campaigning.

Optimizing the mix design of cold bitumen emulsion mixtures using response surface methodology (2015)
Journal Article
Nassar, A. I., Thom, N., & Parry, T. (2016). Optimizing the mix design of cold bitumen emulsion mixtures using response surface methodology. Construction and Building Materials, 104, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2015.12.073

Cold mix asphalt (CMA) has been increasingly recognized as an important alternative worldwide. One of the common types of CMA is cold bitumen emulsion mixture (CBEM). In the present study, the optimization of CBEM has been investigated, to determine... Read More about Optimizing the mix design of cold bitumen emulsion mixtures using response surface methodology.

Thionated perylene diimides with intense absorbance in the near-IR (2015)
Journal Article
Llewellyn, B. A., Davies, S. E., Pfeiffer, C. R., Cooper, M., Lewis, W., & Champness, N. R. (2015). Thionated perylene diimides with intense absorbance in the near-IR. Chemical Communications, https://doi.org/10.1039/C5CC09962E

A synthetic strategy involving a combination of tetra-thionation and amine substitution in the bay region of a perylene diimide (PDI) leads to remarkable examples of neutral PDIs with intense absorption maxima in the near infrared. Generation of the... Read More about Thionated perylene diimides with intense absorbance in the near-IR.

Intermolecular artifacts in probe microscope images of C60 assemblies (2015)
Journal Article
Jarvis, S. P., Rashid, M. A., Sweetman, A., Leaf, J., Taylor, S., Moriarty, P., & Dunn, J. (2015). Intermolecular artifacts in probe microscope images of C60 assemblies. Physical review B: Condensed matter and materials physics, 92(24), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.92.241405

Claims that dynamic force microscopy has the capability to resolve intermolecular bonds in real space continue to be vigorously debated. To date, studies have been restricted to planar molecular assemblies with small separations between neighboring m... Read More about Intermolecular artifacts in probe microscope images of C60 assemblies.

HOXA5 Counteracts Stem Cell Traits by Inhibiting Wnt Signaling in Colorectal Cancer (2015)
Journal Article
Ordóñez-Morán, P., Dafflon, C., Imajo, M., Nishida, E., & Huelsken, J. (2015). HOXA5 Counteracts Stem Cell Traits by Inhibiting Wnt Signaling in Colorectal Cancer. Cancer Cell, 28(6), 815-829. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccell.2015.11.001

Hierarchical organization of tissues relies on stem cells, which either self-renew or produce committed progenitors predestined for lineage differentiation. Here we identify HOXA5 as an important repressor of intestinal stem cell fate in vivo and ide... Read More about HOXA5 Counteracts Stem Cell Traits by Inhibiting Wnt Signaling in Colorectal Cancer.

Reconstruction-classification method for quantitative photoacoustic tomography (2015)
Journal Article
Malone, E., Powell, S., Cox, B. T., & Arridge, S. (2015). Reconstruction-classification method for quantitative photoacoustic tomography. Journal of Biomedical Optics, 20(12), https://doi.org/10.1117/1.jbo.20.12.126004

We propose a combined reconstruction-classification method for simultaneously recovering absorption and scattering in turbid media from images of absorbed optical energy. This method exploits knowledge that optical parameters are determined by a limi... Read More about Reconstruction-classification method for quantitative photoacoustic tomography.

Measuring asymmetry and testing symmetry (2015)
Journal Article
Partlett, C., & Patil, P. (2017). Measuring asymmetry and testing symmetry. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 69(2), 429-460. doi:10.1007/s10463-015-0547-4

In this paper, we show that some of the most commonly used tests of symmetry do not have power which is reflective of the size of asymmetry. This is because the primary rationale for the test statistics that are proposed in the literature to test for... Read More about Measuring asymmetry and testing symmetry.

Age-dependent motor unit remodelling in human limb muscles (2015)
Journal Article
Piasecki, M., Ireland, A., Jones, D. A., & McPhee, J. S. (2016). Age-dependent motor unit remodelling in human limb muscles. Biogerontology, 17(3), 485-496. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10522-015-9627-3

Voluntary control of skeletal muscle enables humans to interact with and manipulate the environment. Lower muscle mass, weakness and poor coordination are common complaints in older age and reduce physical capabilities. Attention has focused on ways... Read More about Age-dependent motor unit remodelling in human limb muscles.

Strategic and natural risk in entrepreneurship: an experimental study (2015)
Journal Article
Morgan, J., Orzen, H., Sefton, M., & Sisak, D. (2016). Strategic and natural risk in entrepreneurship: an experimental study. Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 25(2), https://doi.org/10.1111/jems.12140

We report on the results of experiments where participants choose between entrepreneurship and an outside option. Entrepreneurs enter a market and then make investment decisions to capture value. Payoffs depend on both strategic risk (i.e. the invest... Read More about Strategic and natural risk in entrepreneurship: an experimental study.

Extended decomposition for mixed integer programming to solve a workforce scheduling and routing problem (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Laesanklang, W., Pinheiro, R. L., Algethami, H., & Landa-Silva, D. (2015). Extended decomposition for mixed integer programming to solve a workforce scheduling and routing problem. In D. D. Werra, G. H. Parlier, & B. Vitoriano (Eds.), Operations research and enterprise systems: 4th International Conference, ICORES 2015, Lisbon, Portugal, January 10-12, 2015: revised selected papers (191–211). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27680-9_12

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015. We propose an approach based on mixed integer programming (MIP) with decomposition to solve a workforce scheduling and routing problem, in which a set of workers should be assigned to tasks that a... Read More about Extended decomposition for mixed integer programming to solve a workforce scheduling and routing problem.

An experiment to assess the effects of diatom dissolution on oxygen isotope ratios (2015)
Journal Article
Smith, A. C., Leng, M. J., Swann, G. E., Barker, P. A., Mackay, A. W., Ryves, D. B., …Hems, M. (2016). An experiment to assess the effects of diatom dissolution on oxygen isotope ratios. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 30(2), 293-300. https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.7446

Rationale: Current studies which use the oxygen isotope composition from diatom silica (δ18Odiatom) as a palaeoclimate proxy assume that the δ18Odiatom value reflects the isotopic composition of the water in which the diatom formed. However, diatoms... Read More about An experiment to assess the effects of diatom dissolution on oxygen isotope ratios.

TRIC-track: tracking by regression with incrementally learned cascades (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Wang, X., Valstar, M. F., Martinez, B., Khan, M. H., & Pridmore, T. (2015). TRIC-track: tracking by regression with incrementally learned cascades. In 2015 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) (4337-4345). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCV.2015.493

This paper proposes a novel approach to part-based track- ing by replacing local matching of an appearance model by direct prediction of the displacement between local image patches and part locations. We propose to use cascaded regression with incre... Read More about TRIC-track: tracking by regression with incrementally learned cascades.

Rheological and textural properties of sodium reduced salt soluble myofibrillar protein gels containing sodium tri-polyphosphate (2015)
Journal Article
Çarkcioğlu, E., Rosenthal, A. J., & Candoğan, K. (2016). Rheological and textural properties of sodium reduced salt soluble myofibrillar protein gels containing sodium tri-polyphosphate. Journal of Texture Studies, 47(3), 181-187. https://doi.org/10.1111/jtxs.12169

The effect of partial replacement of NaCl (50%) with KCl in the presence of sodium tri-polyphosphate (STPP) on the cooking loss (CL), water-holding capacity (WHC), rheological and textural properties of salt soluble myofibrillar proteins (SSMP) gels... Read More about Rheological and textural properties of sodium reduced salt soluble myofibrillar protein gels containing sodium tri-polyphosphate.

The effectiveness of information-motivation-behavioural skills model-based diabetes self-management education among patients with type 2 diabetes in Jordan (IMB-DSME): trial protocol (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Albelbisi, Z., Adams, G. G., Windle, R., & Blake, H. (2015). The effectiveness of information-motivation-behavioural skills model-based diabetes self-management education among patients with type 2 diabetes in Jordan (IMB-DSME): trial protocol.

Abstract for UKSBM conference: Background: According to the World Health Organization in 2014, 9% of adults over 18 years old are diagnosed with diabetes and more than 1.5 million deaths occur directly by diabetes in low and middle-income countries.... Read More about The effectiveness of information-motivation-behavioural skills model-based diabetes self-management education among patients with type 2 diabetes in Jordan (IMB-DSME): trial protocol.