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The use of the ASET in the diagnosis of ventriculoatrial shunt infection: a case report (2012)
Journal Article
Reaper, J., Collins, S. A., & Bayston, R. (2012). The use of the ASET in the diagnosis of ventriculoatrial shunt infection: a case report. BMJ Case Reports, https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr.2012.006164

A 38yr-old male with a ventriculoatrial shunt presented with nonspecific symptoms (headache, back pain, night sweats) and inconclusive laboratory results. He showed an extremely high titre of antibody to Staphylococcus epidermidis which proved diagno... Read More about The use of the ASET in the diagnosis of ventriculoatrial shunt infection: a case report.

Post-oil urbanism in the Gulf: new evolutions in governance and the impact on urban morphologies (2012)
Book
Wiedmann, F. (2012). Post-oil urbanism in the Gulf: new evolutions in governance and the impact on urban morphologies. Stuttgart: Südwestdeutscher Verlag für Hochschulschriften

Since the end of the 20th century the governments of various Gulf states have been attempting to diversify their oil-dependent economies. This has resulted in a new type of urbanism, which the author refers to as post-oil urbanism. The first model of... Read More about Post-oil urbanism in the Gulf: new evolutions in governance and the impact on urban morphologies.

Epigenetics and miRNA emerge as key regulators of smooth muscle cell phenotype and function (2012)
Journal Article
Clifford, R. L., Singer, C. A., & John, A. E. (2013). Epigenetics and miRNA emerge as key regulators of smooth muscle cell phenotype and function. Pulmonary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 26(1), 75-85. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pupt.2012.07.002

Regulation of phenotypic plasticity in smooth muscle requires an understanding of the mechanisms regulating phenotype-specific genes and the processes dysregulated during pathogenesis. Decades of study in airway smooth muscle has provided extensive k... Read More about Epigenetics and miRNA emerge as key regulators of smooth muscle cell phenotype and function.

Studies on the Interactions Between Fungicides, Alternaria tenuissima, Cladosporium herbarum and Microdochium spp., on Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Development and Deoxynivalenol (DON) Concentration in Grain Caused by Fusarium culmorum (2012)
Journal Article
Pirgozliev, S., Ray, R., Edwards, S., Hare, M., & Jenkinson, P. (2012). Studies on the Interactions Between Fungicides, Alternaria tenuissima, Cladosporium herbarum and Microdochium spp., on Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Development and Deoxynivalenol (DON) Concentration in Grain Caused by Fusarium culmorum. Cereal Research Communications, 40(4), 509-517. https://doi.org/10.1556/CRC.40.2012.0010

Saprophytic microflora and non-toxin producing Microdochium spp. capable of causing Fusarium head blight (FHB) have been suggested to affect the development of FHB caused by Fusarium spp., the occurrence of mycotoxins and the efficacy of fungicides f... Read More about Studies on the Interactions Between Fungicides, Alternaria tenuissima, Cladosporium herbarum and Microdochium spp., on Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Development and Deoxynivalenol (DON) Concentration in Grain Caused by Fusarium culmorum.

Maternal selenium, copper and zinc concentrations in pregnancy associated with small-for-gestational-age infants (2012)
Journal Article
Mistry, H. D., Kurlak, L., Young, S. D., Briley, A., Broughton Pipkin, F., Baker, P., & Poston, L. (2014). Maternal selenium, copper and zinc concentrations in pregnancy associated with small-for-gestational-age infants. Maternal and Child Nutrition, 10, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1740-8709.2012.00430.x

Pregnancy during adolescence increases the risk of adverse pregnancy outcome, especially risk of small-for gestational-age (SGA) birth, which has been linked to micronutrient deficiencies. Likewise, smoking has been shown to be related with lower mic... Read More about Maternal selenium, copper and zinc concentrations in pregnancy associated with small-for-gestational-age infants.

Neuromagnetic indicators of tinnitus and tinnitus masking in patients with and without hearing loss (2012)
Journal Article
Adjamian, P., Sereda, M., Zobay, O., Hall, D. A., & Palmer, A. R. (2012). Neuromagnetic indicators of tinnitus and tinnitus masking in patients with and without hearing loss. Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 13(5), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10162-012-0340-5

Tinnitus is an auditory phenomenon characterised by the perception of a sound in the absence of an external auditory stimulus. Chronic subjective tinnitus is almost certainly maintained via central mechanisms, and this is consistent with observed mea... Read More about Neuromagnetic indicators of tinnitus and tinnitus masking in patients with and without hearing loss.

Apparent ploidy effects on silencing are post-transcriptional at HML and telomeres in saccharomyces cerevisiae (2012)
Journal Article
McLaughlan, J. M., Liti, G., Sharp, S., Maslowska, A., & Louis, E. J. (2012). Apparent ploidy effects on silencing are post-transcriptional at HML and telomeres in saccharomyces cerevisiae. PLoS ONE, 7(7), Article e39044. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0039044

The repression of genes in regions of heterochromatin is known as transcriptional silencing. It occurs in a wide range of organisms and can have importance in adaptation to the environment, developmental changes and disease. The model organism Saccha... Read More about Apparent ploidy effects on silencing are post-transcriptional at HML and telomeres in saccharomyces cerevisiae.

The Restoration county community: a post-conflict culture (2012)
Book Chapter
Appleby, D. (2012). The Restoration county community: a post-conflict culture. In J. Eales, & A. Hopper (Eds.), The County Community in Seventeenth-century England and Wales. , (100-124). University of Hertfordshire Press

Surface electromyography reveals males have a slower patellar reflex than females (2012)
Journal Article
Vickery, H. S., & Smith, P. A. (2012). Surface electromyography reveals males have a slower patellar reflex than females. Journal of Electro - myography and Kinesiology, 22(6), 990-996. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jelekin.2012.06.001

In humans the cross sectional area of spinal motor neurons at L3 is larger in males than in females. Since these contribute to the control of the quadriceps femoris muscle group and are involved in the patellar reflex (PR), gender differences in the... Read More about Surface electromyography reveals males have a slower patellar reflex than females.

Conservation of replication timing reveals global and local regulation of replication origin activity (2012)
Journal Article
Müller, C. A., & Nieduszynski, C. A. (2012). Conservation of replication timing reveals global and local regulation of replication origin activity. Genome Research, 22(10), https://doi.org/10.1101/gr.139477.112

DNA replication initiates from defined locations called replication origins; some origins are highly active, whereas others are dormant and rarely used. Origins also differ in their activation time, resulting in particular genomic regions replicating... Read More about Conservation of replication timing reveals global and local regulation of replication origin activity.

The rapid emergence of stimulus specific perceptual learning (2012)
Journal Article
Hussain, Z., McGraw, P. V., Sekuler, A. B., & Bennett, P. J. (2012). The rapid emergence of stimulus specific perceptual learning. Frontiers in Psychology, 3(226), https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00226

Is stimulus specific perceptual learning the result of extended practice or does it emerge early in the time course of learning? We examined this issue by manipulating the amount of practice given on a face identification task on Day 1, and altering... Read More about The rapid emergence of stimulus specific perceptual learning.

Produced water treatment technologies (2012)
Journal Article
Igunnu, E. T., & Chen, G. Z. (2014). Produced water treatment technologies. International Journal of Low-Carbon Technologies, 9(3), 157-177. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijlct/cts049

Produced water is a complex mixture of organic and inorganic compounds and the largest volume of by-product generated during oil and gas recovery operations. The potential of oilfield produced water to be a source of fresh water for water-stressed oi... Read More about Produced water treatment technologies.

Informality and Employment Relationships in Small Firms: Humour, Ambiguity and Straight?talking (2012)
Journal Article
Mallett, O., & Wapshott, R. (2014). Informality and Employment Relationships in Small Firms: Humour, Ambiguity and Straight?talking. British Journal of Management, 25(1), 118-132. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8551.2012.00836.x

This paper presents in-depth qualitative research on three small professional service firms whose owner-managers sought to introduce greater degrees of formality in their firms' working practices and employment relationships. We focus on humour as an... Read More about Informality and Employment Relationships in Small Firms: Humour, Ambiguity and Straight?talking.

Supporting Negotiation Behavior with Haptics-Enabled Human-Computer Interfaces (2012)
Journal Article
Oguz, S. O., Kucukyilmaz, A., Sezgin, T. M., & Basdogan, C. (2012). Supporting Negotiation Behavior with Haptics-Enabled Human-Computer Interfaces. IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 5(3), 274--284. https://doi.org/10.1109/toh.2012.37

An active research goal for human-computer interaction is to allow humans to communicate with computers in an intuitive and natural fashion, especially in real-life interaction scenarios. One approach that has been advocated to achieve this has been... Read More about Supporting Negotiation Behavior with Haptics-Enabled Human-Computer Interfaces.

Carbohydrate binding and gene expression by in vitro and in vivo propagated Campylobacter jejuni after Immunomagnetic Separation (2012)
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King, R. M., Day, C. J., Hartley-Tassell, L. E., Connerton, I. F., Tiralongo, J., Mcguckin, M. A., & Korolik, V. (2012). Carbohydrate binding and gene expression by in vitro and in vivo propagated Campylobacter jejuni after Immunomagnetic Separation. Journal of Basic Microbiology, 53(3), 240-250. https://doi.org/10.1002/jobm.201100466

Campylobacter jejuni is an important human food-borne intestinal pathogen, however relatively little is known about its mechanisms of pathogenesis or pathogen-host interactions. To monitor changes in gene expression and glycan binding of C. jejuni wi... Read More about Carbohydrate binding and gene expression by in vitro and in vivo propagated Campylobacter jejuni after Immunomagnetic Separation.

Strengthening foundation phase teacher education through mentoring (2012)
Journal Article
Kerryn, D., Lorayne, E., Vivien, L., Corin, M., Manono, M., & Geeta, M. (2012). Strengthening foundation phase teacher education through mentoring. South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2(1), Article a20. https://doi.org/10.4102/SAJCE.V2I1.20

This paper explores a multidimensional mentorship model implemented between lecturers from the foundation phase at the Wits School of Education and four master’s students from the University of Limpopo, as part of the Departments of Education’s resea... Read More about Strengthening foundation phase teacher education through mentoring.

Making space for markets in economic geography (2012)
Journal Article
Hall, S. (2012). Making space for markets in economic geography. Dialogues in Human Geography, 2(2), 142-145. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820612449311

In this commentary, I respond to Peck's (2012) call to position markets as central conceptual, methodological and political research objects within economic geography. In particular, I suggest that cultural economy work on market devices and market a... Read More about Making space for markets in economic geography.

Competing for talent: Global mobility, immigration and the City of London's labour market (2012)
Journal Article
Beaverstock, J. V., & Hall, S. (2012). Competing for talent: Global mobility, immigration and the City of London's labour market. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 5(2), 271-287. https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rss005

The City of London's competitiveness is founded on its global talent pool and ability to attract and retain workers of all nationalities. Drawing on ONS Long-Term International Migration data and fieldwork-based studies of banking, professional servi... Read More about Competing for talent: Global mobility, immigration and the City of London's labour market.

The importance of vital signs in the triage of injured patients (2012)
Journal Article
Chalari, E., Intas, G., Stergiannis, P., Paraskevas, V., & Fildissis, G. (2012). The importance of vital signs in the triage of injured patients. Critical Care Nursing Quarterly, 35(3), 292-298. https://doi.org/10.1097/CNQ.0b013e318255d6b3

Background: Vital signs are indicators of a patient presenting to an emergency department (ED). Abnormal vital signs have been associated with an increased likelihood of admission to the hospital. Physicians have long recognized the importance of vit... Read More about The importance of vital signs in the triage of injured patients.

An evolutionary non-Linear great deluge approach for solving course timetabling problems (2012)
Journal Article
Obit, J. H., Ouelhadj, D., Landa-Silva, D., & Alfred, R. (2012). An evolutionary non-Linear great deluge approach for solving course timetabling problems. International Journal of Computer Science Issues, 9(4),

The aim of this paper is to extend our non-linear great deluge algorithm into an evolutionary approach by incorporating a population and a mutation operator to solve the university course timetabling problems. This approach might be seen as a variati... Read More about An evolutionary non-Linear great deluge approach for solving course timetabling problems.