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Understanding Young Buddhists: Living out Ethical Journeys (2017)
Book
Yip, A., & Page, S. (2017). Understanding Young Buddhists: Living out Ethical Journeys. Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004339262

There is currently an acute lack of scholarly engagement with Buddhism and youth. Based on ground-breaking empirical research, Understanding Young Buddhists: Living out Ethical Journeys explores the stories of young Buddhists, through a rich analysis... Read More about Understanding Young Buddhists: Living out Ethical Journeys.

Increased charcoal yield and production of lighter oils from the slow pyrolysis of biomass (2017)
Journal Article
Russell, S., Turrion-Gomez, J. L., Meredith, W., Langston, P. A., & Snape, C. E. (2017). Increased charcoal yield and production of lighter oils from the slow pyrolysis of biomass. Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis, 124, 536-541. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaap.2017.01.028

In an effort to reduce CO2 emissions from solid fuels, a considerable amount of research is going into how improve the manufacturing processes and product properties of the products from pyrolysis. One aspect that is often overlooked is the productio... Read More about Increased charcoal yield and production of lighter oils from the slow pyrolysis of biomass.

Recovery and creative practices in people with severe mental illness: evaluating well-being and social inclusion (2017)
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Saavedra, J., Perez, E., Crawford, P., & Arias, S. (2018). Recovery and creative practices in people with severe mental illness: evaluating well-being and social inclusion. Disability and Rehabilitation, 40(8), 905-911. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2017.1278797

Purpose: This mixed (quantitative-qualitative) study evaluates the impact of an artistic workshop on a group of people with severe mental illness. This study focuses on the impact of creative practices on well-being and social inclusion outcomes. Me... Read More about Recovery and creative practices in people with severe mental illness: evaluating well-being and social inclusion.

Non-existence of natural states for Abelian Chern–Simons theory (2017)
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Dappiaggi, C., Murro, S., & Schenkel, A. (2017). Non-existence of natural states for Abelian Chern–Simons theory. Journal of Geometry and Physics, 116, 119-123. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomphys.2017.01.015

We give an elementary proof that Abelian Chern-Simons theory, described as a functor from oriented surfaces to C*-algebras, does not admit a natural state. Non-existence of natural states is thus not only a phenomenon of quantum field theories on Lor... Read More about Non-existence of natural states for Abelian Chern–Simons theory.

Why geriatric medicine? A survey of UK specialist trainees in geriatric medicine (2017)
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Fisher, J. M., Garside, M. J., Brock, P., Gibson, V., Hunt, K. K., Briggs, S., & Gordon, A. L. (2017). Why geriatric medicine? A survey of UK specialist trainees in geriatric medicine. Age and Ageing, 46(4), 672-677. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afx009

Background: There is global concern that there are insufficient numbers of geriatricians to meet the needs of the ageing population. A 2005 survey described factors that influenced why UK geriatricians had chosen to specialise in the field - in the d... Read More about Why geriatric medicine? A survey of UK specialist trainees in geriatric medicine.

Heterozygous truncation mutations of the SMC1A gene cause a severe early onset epilepsy with cluster seizures in females: Detailed phenotyping of 10 new cases (2017)
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Symonds, J. D., Joss, S., Metcalfe, K. A., Somarathi, S., Cruden, J., Devlin, A. M., …Zuberi, S. M. (2017). Heterozygous truncation mutations of the SMC1A gene cause a severe early onset epilepsy with cluster seizures in females: Detailed phenotyping of 10 new cases. Epilepsia, 58(4), 565-575. https://doi.org/10.1111/epi.13669

Wiley Periodicals, Inc. © 2017 International League Against Epilepsy Objective: The phenotype of seizure clustering with febrile illnesses in infancy/early childhood is well recognized. To date the only genetic epilepsy consistently associated with t... Read More about Heterozygous truncation mutations of the SMC1A gene cause a severe early onset epilepsy with cluster seizures in females: Detailed phenotyping of 10 new cases.

Detecting intratumoral heterogeneity of EGFR activity by liposome-based in vivo transfection of a fluorescent biosensor (2017)
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Weitsman, G., Mitchell, N. J., Evans, R., Cheung, A., Kalber, T. L., Bofinger, R., …Ng, T. (in press). Detecting intratumoral heterogeneity of EGFR activity by liposome-based in vivo transfection of a fluorescent biosensor. Oncogene, https://doi.org/10.1038/onc.2016.522

Despite decades of research in the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) signalling field, and many targeted anti-cancer drugs that have been tested clinically, the success rate for these agents in the clinic is low, particularly in terms of the im... Read More about Detecting intratumoral heterogeneity of EGFR activity by liposome-based in vivo transfection of a fluorescent biosensor.

Genome-wide association analyses for lung function and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease identify new loci and potential druggable targets (2017)
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Wain, L. V., Shrine, N., Artigas, M. S., Erzurumluoglu, A. M., Noyvert, B., Bossini-Castillo, L., …Hall, I. P. (2017). Genome-wide association analyses for lung function and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease identify new loci and potential druggable targets. Nature Genetics, 49(3), 416-425. https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3787

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is characterized by reduced lung function and is the third leading cause of death globally. Through genome-wide association discovery in 48,943 individuals, selected from extremes of the lung function dist... Read More about Genome-wide association analyses for lung function and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease identify new loci and potential druggable targets.

A comparative study of the effects of electoral institutions on campaigns (2017)
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Sudulich, L., & Trumm, S. (2019). A comparative study of the effects of electoral institutions on campaigns. British Journal of Political Science, 49(1), 381-399. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123416000570

© Cambridge University Press 2017. A long tradition of studies in political science has unveiled the effects of electoral institutions on party systems and parliamentary representation. Yet their effects on campaign activities remain overlooked. Rese... Read More about A comparative study of the effects of electoral institutions on campaigns.

Different measures of auditory and visual stroop interference and their relationship to speech intelligibility in noise (2017)
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Knight, S., & Heinrich, A. (in press). Different measures of auditory and visual stroop interference and their relationship to speech intelligibility in noise. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00230

Inhibition – the ability to suppress goal-irrelevant information – is thought to be an important cognitive skill in many situations, including speech-in-noise (SiN) perception. One way to measure inhibition is by means of Stroop tasks, in which one s... Read More about Different measures of auditory and visual stroop interference and their relationship to speech intelligibility in noise.

Genetic loci associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease overlap with loci for lung function and pulmonary fibrosis (2017)
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Hobbs, B. D., de Jong, K., Lamontagne, M., Bossé, Y., Shrine, N., Artigas, M. S., …Cho, M. H. (in press). Genetic loci associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease overlap with loci for lung function and pulmonary fibrosis. Nature Genetics, 49(3), https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3752

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a leading cause of mortality worldwide. We performed a genetic association study in 15,256 cases and 47,936 controls, with replication of select top results (P < 5 × 10(-6)) in 9,498 cases and 9,748 con... Read More about Genetic loci associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease overlap with loci for lung function and pulmonary fibrosis.

Oesophageal Doppler guided optimization of cardiac output does not increase visceral microvascular blood flow in healthy volunteers (2017)
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Heinink, T. P., Read, D. J., Mitchell, W. K., Bhalla, A., Lund, J. N., Phillips, B. E., & Williams, J. P. (2018). Oesophageal Doppler guided optimization of cardiac output does not increase visceral microvascular blood flow in healthy volunteers. Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging, 38(2), 213-219. https://doi.org/10.1111/cpf.12401

Background Oesophageal Doppler monitoring (ODM) is used clinically to optimize cardiac output (CO) and guide fluid therapy. Despite limited experimental evidence, it is assumed that increasing CO increases visceral microvascular blood flow (MBF).... Read More about Oesophageal Doppler guided optimization of cardiac output does not increase visceral microvascular blood flow in healthy volunteers.

‘Doing good by proxy’: Human-animal kinship and the ‘donation’ of canine blood (2017)
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Ashall, V., & Hobson-West, P. (in press). ‘Doing good by proxy’: Human-animal kinship and the ‘donation’ of canine blood. Sociology of Health and Illness, 39(6), https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12534

This paper demonstrates the relevance of animals to medical sociology by arguing that pet owners’ accounts of veterinary decision-making can highlight key sociological themes which have important relevance to both human and animal health. Based on se... Read More about ‘Doing good by proxy’: Human-animal kinship and the ‘donation’ of canine blood.

Interpolated energy densities, correlation indicators and lower bounds from approximations to the strong coupling limit of DFT (2017)
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Vuckovic, S., Irons, T. J., Wagner, L. O., Teale, A. M., & Gori-Giorgi, P. (2017). Interpolated energy densities, correlation indicators and lower bounds from approximations to the strong coupling limit of DFT. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 19, https://doi.org/10.1039/C6CP08704C

We investigate the construction of approximated exchange-correlation functionals by interpolating locally along the adiabatic connection between the weak- and the strong-coupling regimes, focussing on the effect of using approximate functionals for t... Read More about Interpolated energy densities, correlation indicators and lower bounds from approximations to the strong coupling limit of DFT.

Development of potent, selective SRPK1 inhibitors as potential topical therapeutics for neovascular eye disease (2017)
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Batson, J., Toop, H. D., Redondo, C., Babaei-Jadidi, R., Chaikaud, A., Wearmouth, S. F., …Morris, J. C. (2017). Development of potent, selective SRPK1 inhibitors as potential topical therapeutics for neovascular eye disease. ACS Chemical Biology, 12(3), 825-832. https://doi.org/10.1021/acschembio.6b01048

Serine/arginine-protein kinase 1 (SRPK1) regulates alternative splicing of VEGF-A to pro-angiogenic isoforms and SRPK1 inhibition can restore the balance of pro/antiangiogenic isoforms to normal physiological levels. The lack of potency and selectivi... Read More about Development of potent, selective SRPK1 inhibitors as potential topical therapeutics for neovascular eye disease.

Synthesis and properties of a novel highly thermal stable N-propargyl monomer containing benzoxazole ring (2017)
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Yang, G., Wang, C., Liu, C., Yang, Z., & Hou, X. (2018). Synthesis and properties of a novel highly thermal stable N-propargyl monomer containing benzoxazole ring. High Performance Polymers, 30(2), 239-246. https://doi.org/10.1177/0954008317690432

© 2017, © The Author(s) 2017. A novel highly thermal stable propargyl functional compound containing benzoxazole ring, N, N, N′, N′-tetra propargyl-5-amino-2-(p-aminophenyl) benzoxazole (TPAPB), was proposed and synthesized using a phase-transfer cat... Read More about Synthesis and properties of a novel highly thermal stable N-propargyl monomer containing benzoxazole ring.

Telling stories: engaging critical literacy through urban legends in an English secondary school (2017)
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Jones, S., & Chapman, K. (in press). Telling stories: engaging critical literacy through urban legends in an English secondary school. English Teaching: Practice & Critique, 16(1), https://doi.org/10.1108/ETPC-02-2016-0031

Non-dominant voices have been further marginalised in the most recent National Curriculum in England (DfE 2014) and those working across the English teaching profession often find the subject framed according to narrow, assessment driven models and p... Read More about Telling stories: engaging critical literacy through urban legends in an English secondary school.

Ancillary academia: video shorts and the production of university paratexts (2017)
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Grainge, P. (2017). Ancillary academia: video shorts and the production of university paratexts. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 34(2), 184-192. https://doi.org/10.1080/15295036.2017.1286024

This article considers the production of media paratexts beyond the bounds of the entertainment industry. Specifically, it examines the development of video content strategy by universities, and the paratextual function that video shorts serve in the... Read More about Ancillary academia: video shorts and the production of university paratexts.

The effective ingredients of social care support at home for people with dementia: a literature review (2017)
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Argyle, E., Kelly, T., Gladman, J. R., & Jones, R. (2017). The effective ingredients of social care support at home for people with dementia: a literature review. Journal of Integrated Care, 25(2), 110-119. https://doi.org/10.1108/JICA-09-2016-0032

Purpose: Formal ties between the theatre and research dissemination have only recently developed and its general efficacy is largely unknown. Here the purpose of this paper is to redress this neglect by examining the effectiveness of a research-base... Read More about The effective ingredients of social care support at home for people with dementia: a literature review.

Familial aggregation of rheumatoid arthritis and co-aggregation of autoimmune diseases in affected families: a nationwide population-based study (2017)
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Kuo, C. F., Grainge, M. J., Valdes, A. M., See, L. C., Yu, K. H., Steven Shaw, S. W., …Doherty, M. (2017). Familial aggregation of rheumatoid arthritis and co-aggregation of autoimmune diseases in affected families: a nationwide population-based study. Rheumatology, 56(6), 928-933. https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/kew500

© The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Rheumatology. All rights reserved. Objective. The aim was to estimate familial relative risk (RR) for RA and other autoimmune diseases and the genetic contri... Read More about Familial aggregation of rheumatoid arthritis and co-aggregation of autoimmune diseases in affected families: a nationwide population-based study.