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The epidemiology of irritable bowel syndrome (2014)
Journal Article
Canavan, C., West, J., & Card, T. R. (2014). The epidemiology of irritable bowel syndrome. Clinical Epidemiology, 6, https://doi.org/10.2147/CLEP.S40245

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a functional condition of the bowel that is diagnosed using clinical criteria. This paper discusses the nature of the diagnostic process for IBS and how this impacts epidemiological measurements. Depending on the dia... Read More about The epidemiology of irritable bowel syndrome.

Proposed norms for the Glasgow hearing-aid benefit profile (Ghabp) questionnaire (2014)
Journal Article
Whitmer, W. M., Howell, P., & Akeroyd, M. A. (2014). Proposed norms for the Glasgow hearing-aid benefit profile (Ghabp) questionnaire. International Journal of Audiology, 53(5), 345-351. https://doi.org/10.3109/14992027.2013.876110

Objective: To form a normative set of responses to the GHABP questionnaire from a large regional dataset. Design: Participants were asked to rate their hearing disability, handicap, hearing-aid (HA) use, HA benefit, HA satisfaction, and residual (aid... Read More about Proposed norms for the Glasgow hearing-aid benefit profile (Ghabp) questionnaire.

A review of bridge scour monitoring techniques (2014)
Journal Article
Prendergast, L., & Gavin, K. (2014). A review of bridge scour monitoring techniques. Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, 6(2), (138-149). doi:10.1016/j.jrmge.2014.01.007

The high profile failure of the Malahide Viaduct in Dublin, Ireland, which is a part of the EU TEN-T network of critical transport links, was caused by foundation scour. Scour is a common soil-structure interaction problem. In light of current change... Read More about A review of bridge scour monitoring techniques.

A second-generation ligand for the enantioselective rhodium-catalyzed addition of arylboronic acids to alkenylazaarenes (2014)
Journal Article
Roy, I. D., Burns, A. R., Pattison, G., Michel, B., Parker, A. J., & Lam, H. W. (2014). A second-generation ligand for the enantioselective rhodium-catalyzed addition of arylboronic acids to alkenylazaarenes. Chemical Communications, 50(22), https://doi.org/10.1039/C4CC00340C

A 2,4,6-trialkylanilide-containing chiral diene has been identified as a superior ligand for the enantioselective rhodiumcatalyzed arylation of alkenylazaarenes with arylboronic acids.

Recombinant plants provide a new approach to the production of bacterial polysaccharide for vaccines (2014)
Journal Article
Smith, C. M., Fry, S. C., Gough, K. C., Patel, A. J., Glenn, S., Goldrick, M., …Andrew, P. W. (2014). Recombinant plants provide a new approach to the production of bacterial polysaccharide for vaccines. PLoS ONE, 9(2), Article e88144. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0088144

Bacterial polysaccharides have numerous clinical or industrial uses. Recombinant plants could offer the possibility of producing bacterial polysaccharides on a large scale and free of contaminating bacterial toxins and antigens. We investigated the f... Read More about Recombinant plants provide a new approach to the production of bacterial polysaccharide for vaccines.

How to transform an asphalt concrete pavement into a solar turbine (2014)
Journal Article
García, A., & Partl, M. N. (2014). How to transform an asphalt concrete pavement into a solar turbine. Applied Energy, 119, 431-437. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2014.01.006

Asphalt concrete can absorb a considerable amount of the incident solar radiation. For this reason asphalt roads could be used as solar collectors. There have been different attempts to achieve this goal. All of them have been done by integrating pip... Read More about How to transform an asphalt concrete pavement into a solar turbine.

How do transport costs affect firms’ exports? Evidence from a vanishing bridge (2014)
Journal Article
Volpe Martincus, C., Carballo, J., Garcia, P. M., & Graziano, A. (2014). How do transport costs affect firms’ exports? Evidence from a vanishing bridge. Economics Letters, 123(2), 149-153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2014.01.030

In this paper we provide estimates of the effects of international transport costs on firms’ exports anddisentangle the channels of these effects. In so doing, we use a unique dataset consisting of highlydisaggregated transaction-level trade and tran... Read More about How do transport costs affect firms’ exports? Evidence from a vanishing bridge.

Patterns of hearing aid usage predict hearing aid use amount (data logged and self-reported) and overreport (2014)
Journal Article
Laplante-Lévesque, A., Nielsen, C., Jensen, L. D., & Naylor, G. (2014). Patterns of hearing aid usage predict hearing aid use amount (data logged and self-reported) and overreport. Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, 25(2), 187-198. https://doi.org/10.3766/jaaa.25.2.7

Background: Previous studies found that, on average, users overreport their daily amount of hearing aid use compared to objective measures such as data logging. However, the reasons for this are unclear. Purpose: This study assessed data-logged and... Read More about Patterns of hearing aid usage predict hearing aid use amount (data logged and self-reported) and overreport.

Fabrication and atomic structure of size-selected, layered MoS2 clusters for catalysis (2014)
Journal Article
Cuddy, M. J., Arkill, K. P., Wang, Z. W., Komsa, H., Krasheninnikov, A. V., & Palmer, R. E. (2014). Fabrication and atomic structure of size-selected, layered MoS2 clusters for catalysis. Nanoscale, 6(21), 12463-12469. doi:10.1039/c4nr04317k

Well defined MoS2 nanoparticles having a layered structure and abundant edges would be of considerable interest for applications including photocatalysis. We report the atomic structure of MoS2 size-selected clusters with mass in a range all the way... Read More about Fabrication and atomic structure of size-selected, layered MoS2 clusters for catalysis.

Resolution of the three dimensional structure of components of the glomerular filtration barrier (2014)
Journal Article
Qvortrup, K., ARKILL, K., Starborg, T., Mantell, J., Knupp, C., Michel, C., …Neal, C. (2014). Resolution of the three dimensional structure of components of the glomerular filtration barrier. BMC Nephrology, 15(1), Article 24. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2369-15-24

Background: The human glomerulus is the primary filtration unit of the kidney, and contains the Glomerular Filtration Barrier (GFB). The GFB had been thought to comprise 3 layers - the endothelium, the basement membrane and the podocyte foot processe... Read More about Resolution of the three dimensional structure of components of the glomerular filtration barrier.

Acoustic emission monitoring from a lab scale high shear granulator—A novel approach (2014)
Journal Article
Watson, N., Povey, M., Reynolds, G., Xu, B., & Ding, Y. (2014). Acoustic emission monitoring from a lab scale high shear granulator—A novel approach. International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 465(1-2), 262-274. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpharm.2014.01.032

A new approach to the monitoring of granulation processes using passive acoustics together with precise control over the granulation process has highlighted the importance of particle–particle and particle–bowl collisions in acoustic emission. The re... Read More about Acoustic emission monitoring from a lab scale high shear granulator—A novel approach.

CEO pay and voting dissent before and after the crisis (2014)
Journal Article
Thompson, S., Gregory‐Smith, I., & Wright, P. W. (2014). CEO pay and voting dissent before and after the crisis. Economic Journal, 124(574), F22–F39. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12108

‘Say on pay’ – that is empowering shareholders to vote on the remuneration arrangements of their firm’s senior executives – has become an international policy response to the perceived explosion in rewards for top management. In this study, we examin... Read More about CEO pay and voting dissent before and after the crisis.

Swap70b is required for convergent and extension cell movement during zebrafish gastrulation linking Wnt11 signalling and RhoA effector function (2014)
Journal Article
Xu, X., Shuen, W. H., Chen, C., Goudevenou, K., Jones, P., & Sablitzky, F. (2014). Swap70b is required for convergent and extension cell movement during zebrafish gastrulation linking Wnt11 signalling and RhoA effector function. Developmental Biology, 386(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ydbio.2013.10.020

Swap70 functions as a guanine nucleotide exchange factor for Rac and RhoA regulating F-actin cytoskeletal rearrangements and playing a crucial role in mammalian cell activation, migration, adhesion and invasion. Here we show that the zebrafish orthol... Read More about Swap70b is required for convergent and extension cell movement during zebrafish gastrulation linking Wnt11 signalling and RhoA effector function.

Supporting group interactions in museum visiting (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Tolmie, P., Benford, S., Greenhalgh, C., Rodden, T., & Reeves, S. (2014). Supporting group interactions in museum visiting.

Ethnographic study in two contrasting museums highlights a widespread but rarely documented challenge for CSCW design. Visitors' engagement with exhibits often ends prematurely due to the need to keep up with or attend to fellow group members. We unp... Read More about Supporting group interactions in museum visiting.

Effectiveness of 0.05% oxymetazoline (Vicks Sinex Micromist) nasal spray in the treatment of objective nasal congestion demonstrated to 12h post-administration by magnetic resonance imaging (2014)
Journal Article
Pritchard, S. E., Glover, M., Guthrie, G., Brum, J., Ramsey, D., Kappler, G., …Gowland, P. A. (2014). Effectiveness of 0.05% oxymetazoline (Vicks Sinex Micromist) nasal spray in the treatment of objective nasal congestion demonstrated to 12h post-administration by magnetic resonance imaging. Pulmonary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 27(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pupt.2013.08.002

Introduction: This study aimed to assess the qualitative and quantitative utility of MRI imaging to illustrate the magnitude and duration of the effect of a standard 100 ?g dose of oxymetazoline in a commercially available formulation that also cont... Read More about Effectiveness of 0.05% oxymetazoline (Vicks Sinex Micromist) nasal spray in the treatment of objective nasal congestion demonstrated to 12h post-administration by magnetic resonance imaging.

The genetics of Alzheimer's disease: putting flesh on the bones (2014)
Journal Article
Medway, C., & Morgan, K. (2014). The genetics of Alzheimer's disease: putting flesh on the bones. Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology, 40(2), https://doi.org/10.1111/nan.12101

For two decades the search for genes involved in Alzheimer's disease brought little reward; it was not until the advent of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) that genetic associations started to be revealed. Since 2009 increasingly large GWAS hav... Read More about The genetics of Alzheimer's disease: putting flesh on the bones.

Assessing mathematical problem solving using comparative judgement (2014)
Journal Article
Jones, I., Swan, M., & Pollitt, A. (2014). Assessing mathematical problem solving using comparative judgement. International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 13(1), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10763-013-9497-6

There is an increasing demand from employers and universities for school leavers to be able to apply their mathematical knowledge to problem solving in varied and unfamiliar contexts. These aspects are however neglected in most examinations of mathem... Read More about Assessing mathematical problem solving using comparative judgement.