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Measuring sub-mm structural displacements using QDaedalus: a digital clip-on measuring system developed for total stations (2014)
Journal Article
Charalampous, E., Psimoulis, P., Guillaume, S., Spiridonakos, M., Klis, R., Burki, B., …Feltrin, G. (2015). Measuring sub-mm structural displacements using QDaedalus: a digital clip-on measuring system developed for total stations. Applied Geomatics, 7(2), https://doi.org/10.1007/s12518-014-0150-z

The monitoring of rigid structures of modal frequencies greater than 5 Hz and sub-mm displacement is mainly based so far on relative quantities from accelerometers, strain gauges etc. Additionally geodetic techniques such as GPS and Robotic Total Sta... Read More about Measuring sub-mm structural displacements using QDaedalus: a digital clip-on measuring system developed for total stations.

Improving identification of familial hypercholesterolaemia in primary care: Derivation and validation of the familial hypercholesterolaemia case ascertainment tool (FAMCAT) (2014)
Journal Article
Weng, S. F., Kai, J., Neil, H. A., Humphries, S. E., & Qureshi, N. (2015). Improving identification of familial hypercholesterolaemia in primary care: Derivation and validation of the familial hypercholesterolaemia case ascertainment tool (FAMCAT). Atherosclerosis, 238(2), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2014.12.034

Objective: Heterozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) is a common autosomal dominant disorder. The vast majority of affected individuals remain undiagnosed, resulting in lost opportunities for preventing premature heart disease. Better use of r... Read More about Improving identification of familial hypercholesterolaemia in primary care: Derivation and validation of the familial hypercholesterolaemia case ascertainment tool (FAMCAT).

“You can’t just jump on a bike and go”: a qualitative study exploring parents’ perceptions of physical activity in children with type 1 diabetes (2014)
Journal Article
Quirk, H., Blake, H., Dee, B., & Glazebrook, C. (2014). “You can’t just jump on a bike and go”: a qualitative study exploring parents’ perceptions of physical activity in children with type 1 diabetes. BMC Pediatrics, 14(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12887-014-0313-4

Background Parents of children with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM) have an important role in supporting diabetes management behaviours and helping to maintain their child’s healthy lifestyle. Physical activity has known benefits for children with... Read More about “You can’t just jump on a bike and go”: a qualitative study exploring parents’ perceptions of physical activity in children with type 1 diabetes.

Effects of bowel cleansing on the intestinal microbiota (2014)
Journal Article
Jalanka, J., Salonen, A., Salojärvi, J., Ritari, J., Immonen, O., Marciani, L., …de Vos, W. M. (2015). Effects of bowel cleansing on the intestinal microbiota. Gut, 64(10), 1562-1568. https://doi.org/10.1136/gutjnl-2014-307240

Objective: An adequate bowel cleansing is essential for a successful colonoscopy. Although purgative consumption is safe for the patient, there is little consensus on how the intestinal microbiota is affected by the procedure, especially regarding th... Read More about Effects of bowel cleansing on the intestinal microbiota.

Mesenchymal stromal cells express GARP/LRRC32 on their surface: Effects on their biology and immunomodulatory capacity (2014)
Journal Article
Carrillo-Galvez, A. B., Cobo, M., Cuevas-Ocaña, S., Gutiérrez-Guerrero, A., Sánchez-Gilabert, A., Bongarzone, P., …Anderson, P. (2015). Mesenchymal stromal cells express GARP/LRRC32 on their surface: Effects on their biology and immunomodulatory capacity. STEM CELLS, 33(1), 183-195. https://doi.org/10.1002/stem.1821

Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) represent a promising tool for therapy in regenerative medicine, transplantation, and autoimmune disease due to their trophic and immunomodulatory activities. However, we are still far from understanding the mechanism... Read More about Mesenchymal stromal cells express GARP/LRRC32 on their surface: Effects on their biology and immunomodulatory capacity.

Recognition of Haptic Interaction Patterns in Dyadic Joint Object Manipulation (2014)
Journal Article
Madan, C. E., Kucukyilmaz, A., Sezgin, T. M., & Basdogan, C. (2015). Recognition of Haptic Interaction Patterns in Dyadic Joint Object Manipulation. IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 8(1), 54-66. https://doi.org/10.1109/toh.2014.2384049

The development of robots that can physically cooperate with humans has attained interest in the last decades. Obviously, this effort requires a deep understanding of the intrinsic properties of interaction. Up to now, many researchers have focused o... Read More about Recognition of Haptic Interaction Patterns in Dyadic Joint Object Manipulation.

The Iron Cage of Liberalism: International Politics and Unarmed Revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa (2014)
Book
Ritter, D. (2014). The Iron Cage of Liberalism: International Politics and Unarmed Revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199658329.001.0001

Revolutions no longer stand to be recognized. In contrast to the processes of political and social change spearheaded—and romanticized—by revolutionaries like Lenin and Mao, contemporary revolutions no longer require violent struggle in order to secu... Read More about The Iron Cage of Liberalism: International Politics and Unarmed Revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa.

Variation in the inter-service intervals of UK dairy cows (2014)
Journal Article
Remnant, J., Green, M. J., Huxley, J., & Hudson, C. (2015). Variation in the inter-service intervals of UK dairy cows. Journal of Dairy Science, 98(2), https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2014-8366

An understanding of the normal estrous cycle length of the cow is important when managing and monitoring dairy herd fertility. Whilst the normal inter-ovulatory interval is widely considered to be 21 days, some studies have found alternative interval... Read More about Variation in the inter-service intervals of UK dairy cows.

Prebiotic and probiotic agents enhance antibody-based immune responses to Salmonella Typhimurium infection in pigs (2014)
Journal Article
Naqid, I. A., Owen, J. P., Maddison, B. C., Gardner, D. S., Foster, N., Tchorzewska, M., …Gough, K. C. (2015). Prebiotic and probiotic agents enhance antibody-based immune responses to Salmonella Typhimurium infection in pigs. Animal Feed Science and Technology, 201, 57-65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anifeedsci.2014.12.005

Salmonellosis causes significant economic losses to the pig industry and contaminated pork products are an important source of Salmonella for humans. The EU ban on the use of antibiotic growth promoters in pig production, and the emergence of antibio... Read More about Prebiotic and probiotic agents enhance antibody-based immune responses to Salmonella Typhimurium infection in pigs.

An investigation of the efficacy of a polyvalent mastitis vaccine using different vaccination regimens under field conditions in the United Kingdom (2014)
Journal Article
Bradley, A., Breen, J., Payne, B., White, V., & Green, M. (2015). An investigation of the efficacy of a polyvalent mastitis vaccine using different vaccination regimens under field conditions in the United Kingdom. Journal of Dairy Science, 98(3), https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2014-8332

Vaccination can play a useful role in mastitis control programs, although there is a relative dearth of large, well-controlled field efficacy studies. This paper presents the findings on the use of a commercially available vaccine (Startvac, Hipra UK... Read More about An investigation of the efficacy of a polyvalent mastitis vaccine using different vaccination regimens under field conditions in the United Kingdom.

Data-informed fuzzy measures for fuzzy integration of intervals and fuzzy numbers (2014)
Journal Article
Havens, T. C., Anderson, D. T., & Wagner, C. (2015). Data-informed fuzzy measures for fuzzy integration of intervals and fuzzy numbers. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 23(5), https://doi.org/10.1109/TFUZZ.2014.2382133

The fuzzy integral (FI) with respect to a fuzzy measure (FM) is a powerful means of aggregating information. The most popular FIs are the Choquet and Sugeno, and most research focuses on these two variants. The arena of the FM is much more populated,... Read More about Data-informed fuzzy measures for fuzzy integration of intervals and fuzzy numbers.

Contrasting patterns of turnover between plants, pollinators and their interactions (2014)
Journal Article
Norfolk, O., Eichhorn, M. P., & Gilbert, F. S. (2015). Contrasting patterns of turnover between plants, pollinators and their interactions. Diversity and Distributions, 21(4), https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12295

Aim: Biogeographers typically assess patterns of diversity across landscapes. As interacting groups often exhibit contrasting trends, this leads to variation in the structure of interaction networks and thereby influences ecosystem processes. Here we... Read More about Contrasting patterns of turnover between plants, pollinators and their interactions.

Beyond risk-taking: effects of psychological safety on cooperative goal interdependence and prosocial behavior (2014)
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Leung, K., Deng, H., Wang, J., & Zhou, F. (2015). Beyond risk-taking: effects of psychological safety on cooperative goal interdependence and prosocial behavior. Group and Organization Management, 40(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/1059601114564012

In addition to risk-taking behavior, we propose that psychological safety also promotes prosocial behavior through cooperative goal interdependence. To differentiate these two types of effects, we contrasted the moderating effects of two interpersona... Read More about Beyond risk-taking: effects of psychological safety on cooperative goal interdependence and prosocial behavior.

Screening for celiac disease in the general population and in high-risk groups (2014)
Journal Article
Ludvigsson, J. F., Card, T. R., Kaukinen, K., Bai, J., Zingone, F., Sanders, D. S., & Murray, J. A. (in press). Screening for celiac disease in the general population and in high-risk groups. United European Gastroenterology Journal, 3(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/2050640614561668

BACKGROUND: Celiac disease (CD) occurs in approximately 1% of the Western population. It is a lifelong disorder that is associated with impaired quality of life (QOL) and an excessive risk of comorbidity and death. OBJECTIVES: To review the liter... Read More about Screening for celiac disease in the general population and in high-risk groups.

Access to medicines by child refugees in the East Midlands region of England: a cross-sectional study (2014)
Journal Article
Alkahtani, S. A., Cherrill, J., Millward, C., Grayson, K., Hilliam, R., Sammons, H., & Choonara, I. (2014). Access to medicines by child refugees in the East Midlands region of England: a cross-sectional study. BMJ Open, 4, Article e006421. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2014-006421

Objectives: To explore access to primary healthcare and drug therapy by refugee children in the East Midlands region of England. Design: Interviews with refugees with children and a control group of British parents with children. Setting: East Midl... Read More about Access to medicines by child refugees in the East Midlands region of England: a cross-sectional study.

Measuring corruption: Perspectives, critiques and limits (2014)
Book Chapter
Heywood, P. M. (2014). Measuring corruption: Perspectives, critiques and limits. In P. M. Heywood (Ed.), Routledge handbook of political corruption (137-153). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315739175.ch10

How do we measure some thing that is, by its very nature, largely hidden? This is the conundrum that faces all who have attempted to develop a means of measuring corruption. Given the seemingly intractable nature of this problem, the obvious question... Read More about Measuring corruption: Perspectives, critiques and limits.

Introduction: Scale and focus in the study of corruption (2014)
Book Chapter
Heywood, P. M. (2014). Introduction: Scale and focus in the study of corruption. In P. M. Heywood (Ed.), Routledge handbook of political corruption (1-14). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315739175.intro

Corruption is one of the most high-profile issues in the contemporary world. According to the 2011 ‘World Speaks’ surveys, conducted by GlobeScan for the BBC World Service, corruption was the world’s most talked-about problem, ahead of extreme povert... Read More about Introduction: Scale and focus in the study of corruption.