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Frictional behaviour of non-crimp fabrics (NCFs) in contact with a forming tool (2018)
Journal Article
Avgoulas, E. I., Mulvihill, D. M., Endruweit, A., Sutcliffe, M. P., Warrior, N. A., De Focatiis, D. S., & Long, A. C. (2018). Frictional behaviour of non-crimp fabrics (NCFs) in contact with a forming tool. Tribology International, 121, 71-77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.triboint.2018.01.026

Microscopic observation and analysis are used to examine the role that contact conditions play in determining the frictional behaviour of non-crimp fabrics (NCFs). The true fibre contact length is measured over a range of normal pressures. For the NC... Read More about Frictional behaviour of non-crimp fabrics (NCFs) in contact with a forming tool.

Thermal analysis of fault-tolerant electrical machines for more electric aircraft applications (2018)
Journal Article
Madonna, V., Giangrande, P., Gerada, C., & Galea, M. (2018). Thermal analysis of fault-tolerant electrical machines for more electric aircraft applications. Journal of Engineering, 2018(13), 461-467. https://doi.org/10.1049/joe.2018.0040

For safety critical applications, electrical machines need to satisfy several constraints, in order to be considered fault-tolerant. In fact, if specific design choices and appropriate control strategies are adopted, fault-tolerant machines can opera... Read More about Thermal analysis of fault-tolerant electrical machines for more electric aircraft applications.

Cost-effective envelope optimisation for social housing in Brazil's moderate climates zones (2018)
Journal Article
Tubelo, R., Rodrigues, L., Gillott, M., & Gonçalves Soares, J. C. (2018). Cost-effective envelope optimisation for social housing in Brazil's moderate climates zones. Building and Environment, 133, 213-227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2018.01.038

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd Brazil faces a housing deficit of more than 5.5 million units and nearly 11 million existing homes present inadequate living conditions. In response, the Brazilian government launched in 2009 a mass social housing programme with a... Read More about Cost-effective envelope optimisation for social housing in Brazil's moderate climates zones.

Emergency Manuals: How Quality Improvement and Implementation Science Can Enable Better Perioperative Management During Crises (2018)
Journal Article
Goldhaber-Fiebert, S. N., & Macrae, C. (2018). Emergency Manuals: How Quality Improvement and Implementation Science Can Enable Better Perioperative Management During Crises. Anesthesiology Clinics, 36(1), 45-62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anclin.2017.10.003

© 2017 Sara N. Goldhaber-Fiebert, Carl Macrae How can teams manage critical events more effectively? There are commonly gaps in performance during perioperative crises, and emergency manuals are recently available tools that can improve team performa... Read More about Emergency Manuals: How Quality Improvement and Implementation Science Can Enable Better Perioperative Management During Crises.

Fuzzy C-means-based scenario bundling for stochastic service network design (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Jiang, X., Bai, R., Landa-Silva, D., & Aickelin, U. (2018). Fuzzy C-means-based scenario bundling for stochastic service network design. In 2017 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI 2017 - Proceedings (1-8). https://doi.org/10.1109/SSCI.2017.8280905

Stochastic service network designs with uncertain demand represented by a set of scenarios can be modelled as a large-scale two-stage stochastic mixed-integer program (SMIP). The progressive hedging algorithm (PHA) is a decomposition method for solvi... Read More about Fuzzy C-means-based scenario bundling for stochastic service network design.

Targeting ataxia telangiectasia mutated and Rad3 related kinase (ATR) in PTEN deficient breast cancers for personalized therapy (2018)
Journal Article
Al-Subhi, N., Ali, R., Abdel-Fatah, T., Moseley, P. M., Chan, S. Y., Green, A. R., …Madhusudan, S. (2018). Targeting ataxia telangiectasia mutated and Rad3 related kinase (ATR) in PTEN deficient breast cancers for personalized therapy. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 169(2), 277–286. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10549-018-4683-4

Purpose: PTEN, a negative regulator of PI3K signaling, is involved in DNA repair. ATR is a key sensor of DNA damage and replication stress. We evaluated whether ATR signaling has clinical significance and could be targeted by synthetic lethality in P... Read More about Targeting ataxia telangiectasia mutated and Rad3 related kinase (ATR) in PTEN deficient breast cancers for personalized therapy.

On the complexity of resource-bounded logics (2018)
Journal Article
Alechina, N., Bulling, N., Demri, S., & Logan, B. S. (2018). On the complexity of resource-bounded logics. Theoretical Computer Science, 750, 69-100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tcs.2018.01.019

We revisit decidability results for resource-bounded logics and use decision problems on vector addition systems with states (VASS) in order to establish complexity characterisations of (decidable) model checking problems. We show that the model chec... Read More about On the complexity of resource-bounded logics.

A Genome-Wide Association Study in Hispanics/Latinos Identifies Novel Signals for Lung Function. The Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (2018)
Journal Article
Burkart, K. M., Sofer, T., London, S. J., Manichaikul, A., Hartwig, F. P., Yan, Q., …Barr, R. G. (2018). A Genome-Wide Association Study in Hispanics/Latinos Identifies Novel Signals for Lung Function. The Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 198(2), 208-219. https://doi.org/10.1164/rccm.201707-1493OC

Rationale: Lung function and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are heritable traits. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified numerous pulmonary function and COPD loci, primarily in cohorts of European ancestry. Objectives:... Read More about A Genome-Wide Association Study in Hispanics/Latinos Identifies Novel Signals for Lung Function. The Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos.

The influence of multinational enterprises on subsidiaries: context matters (2018)
Journal Article
Egbe, I., Adegbite, E., & Yekini, K. C. (2018). The influence of multinational enterprises on subsidiaries: context matters. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 31(2), https://doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ-06-2016-2608

Purpose: This paper examines how differences in the institutional environment of a multinational enterprise (MNE) shape the role of management control systems (MCSs) and social capital in the headquarters-subsidiary relationship of an emerging econom... Read More about The influence of multinational enterprises on subsidiaries: context matters.

BQ323636.1, a novel splice variant to NCOR2, as a predictor for tamoxifen resistant breast cancer (2018)
Journal Article
Gong, C., Man, E. P., Tsoi, H., Lee, T. K., Paul, L., Mak, S., …Khoo, U. (2018). BQ323636.1, a novel splice variant to NCOR2, as a predictor for tamoxifen resistant breast cancer. Clinical Cancer Research, 24(15), 3681-3691. https://doi.org/10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-17-2259

Purpose: Adjuvant tamoxifen treatment revolutionized the management of estrogen receptor (ER) positive breast cancers to prevent cancer recurrence; however drug resistance compromises its clinical efficacy. The mechanisms underlying tamoxifen resista... Read More about BQ323636.1, a novel splice variant to NCOR2, as a predictor for tamoxifen resistant breast cancer.

Imperial careering and enslavement in the long eighteenth-century: the Bentinck family, 1710-1830s (2018)
Journal Article
Haggerty, S., & Seymour, S. (2018). Imperial careering and enslavement in the long eighteenth-century: the Bentinck family, 1710-1830s. Slavery and Abolition, 39(4), 642-662. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144039X.2018.1429190

This paper examines the claims of Eric Williams and the more recent Legacies of British Slave-Ownership projects regarding the influence of enslavement in the building of Britain and its empire through a multi-generational study of a leading British... Read More about Imperial careering and enslavement in the long eighteenth-century: the Bentinck family, 1710-1830s.

Exercise and other nonpharmacological strategies to reduce blood pressure in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2018)
Journal Article
Herrod, P. J., Doleman, B., Blackwell, J. E., O’Boyle, F., Williams, J. P., Lund, J. N., & Phillips, B. E. (in press). Exercise and other nonpharmacological strategies to reduce blood pressure in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of the American Society of Hypertension, 12(4), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jash.2018.01.008

The incidence of hypertension increases with advancing age and represents a significant burden of disease. Lifestyle modification represents the first-line intervention in treatment algorithms; however, the majority of evidence for this comes from st... Read More about Exercise and other nonpharmacological strategies to reduce blood pressure in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Tumour-draining axillary lymph nodes in patients with large and locally advanced breast cancers undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC): the crucial contribution of immune cells (effector, regulatory) and cytokines (TH1, TH2) to immune-mediated tumour cell death induced by NAC (2018)
Journal Article
Kaewkangsadan, V., Verma, C., Eremin, J. M., Cowley, G. P., Ilyas, M., & Eremin, O. (2018). Tumour-draining axillary lymph nodes in patients with large and locally advanced breast cancers undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC): the crucial contribution of immune cells (effector, regulatory) and cytokines (TH1, TH2) to immune-mediated tumour cell death induced by NAC. BMC Cancer, 18, Article 123. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-018-4044-z

Background The tumour microenvironment consists of malignant cells, stroma and immune cells. In women with large and locally advanced breast cancers (LLABCs) undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC), tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs), variou... Read More about Tumour-draining axillary lymph nodes in patients with large and locally advanced breast cancers undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC): the crucial contribution of immune cells (effector, regulatory) and cytokines (TH1, TH2) to immune-mediated tumour cell death induced by NAC.

Bayesian nonparametrics for stochastic epidemic models (2018)
Journal Article
Kypraios, T., & O'Neill, P. D. (2018). Bayesian nonparametrics for stochastic epidemic models. Statistical Science, 33(1), https://doi.org/10.1214/17-STS617

The vast majority of models for the spread of communicable diseases are parametric in nature and involve underlying assumptions about how the disease spreads through a population. In this article we consider the use of Bayesian nonparametric approach... Read More about Bayesian nonparametrics for stochastic epidemic models.

The history of language learning and teaching in Britain (2018)
Journal Article
McLelland, N. (2018). The history of language learning and teaching in Britain. Language Learning Journal, 46(1), 6-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/09571736.2017.1382052

This article provides an overview, based on the most recent research available, of the history of language learning and teaching (HoLLT) in Britain. After an overview of the state of research, we consider which languages have been learnt, why, and ho... Read More about The history of language learning and teaching in Britain.

Mendelian adult-onset leukodystrophy genes in Alzheimer´s disease. Critical influence of CSF1R and NOTCH3 (2018)
Journal Article
Sassi, C., Nalls, M., Ridge, P., Gibbs, R., Lupton, M., Troakes, C., …Hardy, J. (in press). Mendelian adult-onset leukodystrophy genes in Alzheimer´s disease. Critical influence of CSF1R and NOTCH3. Neurobiology of Aging, 66, Article 179.e17-179.e29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2018.01.015

Mendelian adult-onset leukodystrophies are a spectrum of rare inherited progressive neurodegenerative disorders affecting the white matter of the central nervous system. Among these, Cerebral Autosomal Dominant and Recessive Arteriopathy with Subcort... Read More about Mendelian adult-onset leukodystrophy genes in Alzheimer´s disease. Critical influence of CSF1R and NOTCH3.

Evaluating attitudes to safety leadership within rail construction projects (2018)
Journal Article
Stiles, S., Ryan, B., & Golightly, D. (2018). Evaluating attitudes to safety leadership within rail construction projects. Safety Science, 110(B), 134-144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2017.12.030

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd Safety leadership is widely discussed, commonly relating to improving safety performance within an occupational environment. Whilst there is considerable research on the characteristics of positive and negative safety leadership b... Read More about Evaluating attitudes to safety leadership within rail construction projects.