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Exploring social patterns of participation in university-entrance level mathematics in England (2009)
Journal Article
Noyes, A. (2009). Exploring social patterns of participation in university-entrance level mathematics in England. Research in Mathematics Education, 11(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/14794800903063356

In recent years in England there has been considerable attention given to a range of apparent crises in mathematics education, one of which has been the long term decline of participation in university-entrance level (Advanced or A) mathematics. Giv... Read More about Exploring social patterns of participation in university-entrance level mathematics in England.

Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Retrofitting of Predamaged Substandard RC Prismatic Members (2009)
Journal Article
Thermou, G. E., & Pantazopoulou, S. J. (2009). Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Retrofitting of Predamaged Substandard RC Prismatic Members. Journal of Composites for Construction, 13(6), 535-546. doi:10.1061/(asce)cc.1943-5614.0000057

An experimental study was conducted to investigate the efficiency of FRP jackets in upgrading the seismic behavior of lightly reinforced concrete prismatic members previously damaged under a combination of axial compression and a reversed cyclic late... Read More about Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Retrofitting of Predamaged Substandard RC Prismatic Members.

Mimicking the behaviour of idiotypic AIS robot controllers using probabilistic systems (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Whitbrook, A., Whitbrook, A. M., Aickelin, U., & Garibaldi, J. M. (2009, July). Mimicking the behaviour of idiotypic AIS robot controllers using probabilistic systems. Paper presented at 13th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics: WMSCI 2009

Previous work has shown that robot navigation systems that employ an architecture based upon the idiotypic network theory of the immune system have an advantage over control techniques that rely on reinforcement learning only. This is thought to be a... Read More about Mimicking the behaviour of idiotypic AIS robot controllers using probabilistic systems.

Base flipping in Tn10 transposition: an active flip and capture mechanism (2009)
Journal Article
Bischerour, J., & Chalmers, R. (2009). Base flipping in Tn10 transposition: an active flip and capture mechanism. PLoS ONE, 4(7), Article e6201. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0006201

The bacterial Tn5 and Tn10 transposases have a single active site that cuts both strands of DNA at their respective transposon ends. This is achieved using a hairpin intermediate that requires the DNA to change conformation during the reaction. In Tn... Read More about Base flipping in Tn10 transposition: an active flip and capture mechanism.

Demographic, physical and lifestyle factors associated with androgen status: The Florey Adelaide Male Ageing Study (FAMAS) (2009)
Journal Article
Atlantis, E., Martin, S. A., Haren, M. T., O'Loughlin, P. D., Taylor, A. W., Anand-Ivell, R., …Wittert, G. A. (2009). Demographic, physical and lifestyle factors associated with androgen status: The Florey Adelaide Male Ageing Study (FAMAS). Clinical Endocrinology, 71(2), 261-272. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2265.2008.03463.x

Objective Plasma androgen levels are inversely associated with health in men, the age-related decline of which may result from factors other than ageing per se. This study aimed to determine the effects of demographic, physical and lifestyle factors... Read More about Demographic, physical and lifestyle factors associated with androgen status: The Florey Adelaide Male Ageing Study (FAMAS).

Cosmological constraints on f(G) dark energy models (2009)
Journal Article
Zhou, S., Copeland, E. J., & Saffin, P. M. (2009). Cosmological constraints on f(G) dark energy models. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2009(7), https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2009/07/009

Modified gravity theories with the Gauss-Bonnet term G=R2?4R??R??+R????R???? have recently gained a lot of attention as a possible explanation of dark energy. We perform a thorough phase space analysis on the so-called f(G) models, where f(G) is some... Read More about Cosmological constraints on f(G) dark energy models.

Autophagy at the gut interface: Mucosal responses to stress and the consequences for inflammatory bowel diseases (2009)
Journal Article
Huett, A., & Xavier, R. J. (2010). Autophagy at the gut interface: Mucosal responses to stress and the consequences for inflammatory bowel diseases. Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, 16(1), 152-174. https://doi.org/10.1002/ibd.20991

Autophagy is a conserved homeostatic process by which cells degrade and recycle cytoplasmic contents and organelles. Recently, autophagy has come to prominence as a factor in many disease states, including inflammatory bowel diseases. In this review... Read More about Autophagy at the gut interface: Mucosal responses to stress and the consequences for inflammatory bowel diseases.

The evolution of the Lyman-alpha forest effective optical depth following HeII reionisation (2009)
Journal Article
S. Bolton, J., Peng Oh, S., & R. Furlanetto, S. (2009). The evolution of the Lyman-alpha forest effective optical depth following HeII reionisation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 396(4), 2405–2418. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.14914.x

Three independent observational studies have now detected a narrow (\Delta z ~ 0.5) dip centred at z=3.2 in the otherwise smooth redshift evolution of the Lya forest effective optical depth. This feature has previously been interpreted as an indirect... Read More about The evolution of the Lyman-alpha forest effective optical depth following HeII reionisation.

Journals and repositories: an evolving relationship? (2009)
Journal Article
Pinfield, S. (2009). Journals and repositories: an evolving relationship?. Learned Publishing, 22(3),

It is now widely accepted that there are two routes to open access (OA): OA repositories and OA journals. It is often assumed these are distinct alternative parallel tracks. However, it has recently become clear that there is potential for repositori... Read More about Journals and repositories: an evolving relationship?.

Carbon reduction activism in the UK: lexical creativity and lexical framing in the context of climate change (2009)
Journal Article
Nerlich, B., & Koteyko, N. (2009). Carbon reduction activism in the UK: lexical creativity and lexical framing in the context of climate change. Environmental Communication, 3(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/17524030902928793

This article examines discourses associated with a new environmental movement, “Carbon Rationing Action Groups” (CRAGs). This case study is intended to contribute to a wider investigation of the emergence of a new type of language used to debate clim... Read More about Carbon reduction activism in the UK: lexical creativity and lexical framing in the context of climate change.

China’s ethnic policies: political dimension and challenges (2009)
Journal Article
Lai, H. (2009). China’s ethnic policies: political dimension and challenges. East Asian Policy, 1(3),

Dramatic developments in Tibet and Xinjiang since 2008 have highlighted the challenges to China’s ethnic policies. The pillar of China’s ethnic policies is regional autonomy for ethnic minorities. Ethnic areas enjoy limited administrative autonomy an... Read More about China’s ethnic policies: political dimension and challenges.

Helminth species richness in wild wood mice, Apodemus sylvaticus, is enhanced by the presence of the intestinal nematode Heligmosomoides polygyrus (2009)
Journal Article
Behnke, J., Eira, C., Rogan, M., Gilbert, F., Torres, J., Miquel, J., & Lewis, J. (2009). Helminth species richness in wild wood mice, Apodemus sylvaticus, is enhanced by the presence of the intestinal nematode Heligmosomoides polygyrus. Parasitology, 136(7), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031182009006039

We analysed 3 independently collected datasets of fully censused helminth burdens in wood mice, Apodemus sylvaticus, testing the a priori hypothesis of Behnke et al. (2005) that the presence of the intestinal nematode Heligmosomoides polygyrus predis... Read More about Helminth species richness in wild wood mice, Apodemus sylvaticus, is enhanced by the presence of the intestinal nematode Heligmosomoides polygyrus.

AasP autotransporter protein of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae does not protect pigs against homologous challenge (2009)
Journal Article
Oldfield, N. J., Worrall, K. E., Rycroft, A. N., Ali, T., Wooldridge, K. G., & Ala'Aldeen, D. A. (2009). AasP autotransporter protein of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae does not protect pigs against homologous challenge. Vaccine, 27(38), 5278-5283. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2009.06.047

Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae is a major respiratory pathogen of pigs; current vaccines provide only limited protection. AasP, a subtilisin-like serine protease, is a conserved outer membrane-localised autotransporter protein. We hypothesized that... Read More about AasP autotransporter protein of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae does not protect pigs against homologous challenge.

Systematic review and meta-analysis of interventions relevant for young offenders with mood disorders, anxiety disorders, or self-harm (2009)
Journal Article
Townsend, E., Walker, D., Sargeant, S., Vostanis, P., Hawton, K., Stocker, O., & Sithole, J. (2010). Systematic review and meta-analysis of interventions relevant for young offenders with mood disorders, anxiety disorders, or self-harm. Journal of Adolescence, 33(1), 9-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2009.05.015

Background: Mood and anxiety disorders, and problems with self harm are significant and serious issues that are common in young people in the Criminal Justice System. Aims: To examine whether interventions relevant to young offenders with mood or an... Read More about Systematic review and meta-analysis of interventions relevant for young offenders with mood disorders, anxiety disorders, or self-harm.

An automated georeferencing tool for watershed scale fluvial remote sensing (2009)
Journal Article
Carbonneau, P. E., Dugdale, S. J., & Clough, S. (2011). An automated georeferencing tool for watershed scale fluvial remote sensing. River Research and Applications, 26(5), 650-658. doi:10.1002/rra.1263

In recent years, remotely sensed image datasets with ground resolutions below 10?cm have seen widening applications in fluvial sciences with the development of methods for image based measurements of bathymetry, grain sizes and habitat types. However... Read More about An automated georeferencing tool for watershed scale fluvial remote sensing.

What Was Tropical about Tropical Neurasthenia? The Utility of the Diagnosis in the Management of British East Africa (2009)
Journal Article
Crozier, A. (2009). What Was Tropical about Tropical Neurasthenia? The Utility of the Diagnosis in the Management of British East Africa. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 64(4), 518-548. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrp017

During the first quarter of the twentieth century, tropical neurasthenia was a popular diagnosis for a nervous condition experienced by Europeans in the topics. Tropical neurasthenia was not psychosis or madness, but was rather an ennui or loss of “e... Read More about What Was Tropical about Tropical Neurasthenia? The Utility of the Diagnosis in the Management of British East Africa.

`Don't Ask a Woman to Do Another Woman's Job': Gendered Interactions and the Emotional Ethnographer (2009)
Journal Article
Lumsden, K. (2009). `Don't Ask a Woman to Do Another Woman's Job': Gendered Interactions and the Emotional Ethnographer. Sociology, 43(3), 497-513. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038509103205

This article contributes to the reflexive turn within the social sciences by arguing for enhanced recognition of the role of gender and emotions in the research process. The chief instrument of research, the ethnographer herself, may alter that which... Read More about `Don't Ask a Woman to Do Another Woman's Job': Gendered Interactions and the Emotional Ethnographer.