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The press and the pledge: Father Theobald Mathew’s 1843 temperance tour of Britain (2014)
Journal Article
Beckingham, D. (2014). The press and the pledge: Father Theobald Mathew’s 1843 temperance tour of Britain. Historical Geography, 42,

This article examines Father Theobald Mathew’s temperance tour of Britain in 1843. Estimates vary, but by this point some 6 million people in Ireland may have made a personal pledge to abstain from consuming alcohol. This pledge involved more than... Read More about The press and the pledge: Father Theobald Mathew’s 1843 temperance tour of Britain.

Use of carbon accumulation rates to estimate the duration of coal seams and the influence of atmospheric dust deposition on coal composition (2014)
Book Chapter
Large, D., & Marshall, C. (2015). Use of carbon accumulation rates to estimate the duration of coal seams and the influence of atmospheric dust deposition on coal composition. In D. Smith, R. Bailey, P. Burgess, & A. Fraser (Eds.), Strata and Time: Probing the Gaps in Our Understanding, 303-315. Geological Society. doi:10.1144/SP404.15

Time contained within coal seams is most commonly estimated using a volumetric approach that fails to take into account processes of carbon accumulation and loss during peat formation and coalification. A more appropriate approach for estimating the... Read More about Use of carbon accumulation rates to estimate the duration of coal seams and the influence of atmospheric dust deposition on coal composition.

Novel mechanisms of resistance to vemurafenib in melanoma – V600E B-Raf reversion and switching VEGF-A splice isoform expression (2014)
Journal Article
Beazley Long, N., Gaston, K., Harper, S. J., Orlando, A., & Bates, D. O. (2015). Novel mechanisms of resistance to vemurafenib in melanoma – V600E B-Raf reversion and switching VEGF-A splice isoform expression. American Journal of Cancer Research, 5(1), 433--441

Targeting activating mutations in the proto-oncogene B-Raf, in melanoma, has led to increases in progression free survival. Treatment with vemurafenib, which inhibits the most common activating-mutated form of B-Raf (B-RafV600E), eventually results i... Read More about Novel mechanisms of resistance to vemurafenib in melanoma – V600E B-Raf reversion and switching VEGF-A splice isoform expression.

Quantitative Microstructure Characterization of Ag Nanoparticle Sintered Joints for Power Die Attachment (2014)
Journal Article
Wang, Y., Li, J., Agyakwa, P., Johnson, C. M., & Li, S. (2014). Quantitative Microstructure Characterization of Ag Nanoparticle Sintered Joints for Power Die Attachment. Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, 604(1), 11-26. https://doi.org/10.1080/15421406.2014.967647

© 2014 Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. The samples of sintered Ag joints for power die attachments were prepared using paste of Ag nanoparticles at 240°C and 5 MPa for 3 to 17 minutes. Their microstructural features were quantitatively cha... Read More about Quantitative Microstructure Characterization of Ag Nanoparticle Sintered Joints for Power Die Attachment.

Assessing the effect of fibre extraction processes on the strength of flax fibre reinforcement (2014)
Journal Article
Zeng, X., Mooney, S., & Sturrock, C. J. (2015). Assessing the effect of fibre extraction processes on the strength of flax fibre reinforcement. Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, 70, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesa.2014.12.004

A number of factors impede the direct translation of fibre properties from plant crop species to natural fibre composites. Commercially available fibre extraction processes introduce defects and degrade the mechanical properties of fibres. This study... Read More about Assessing the effect of fibre extraction processes on the strength of flax fibre reinforcement.

Possible mechanism behind the hard-to-swallow property of oil seed pastes (2014)
Journal Article
Rosenthal, A. J., & Yilmaz, S. (2015). Possible mechanism behind the hard-to-swallow property of oil seed pastes. International Journal of Food Properties, 18(9), https://doi.org/10.1080/10942912.2013.862633

Roasted and crushed oil-rich seeds, such as sesame paste and peanut butter, both share a common structure and elicit an apparent sensation of thickening in the mouth. Working with sesame paste, as an example, the force needed to compress sesame paste... Read More about Possible mechanism behind the hard-to-swallow property of oil seed pastes.

Understanding and protecting vulnerable financial consumers (2014)
Journal Article
Cartwright, P. (2015). Understanding and protecting vulnerable financial consumers. Journal of Consumer Policy, 38(2), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10603-014-9278-9

This article considers how consumer protection law and policy should address the interests of particularly vulnerable financial consumers. Specifically, the article proposes a taxonomy of vulnerability which helps to identify (a) what makes consumers... Read More about Understanding and protecting vulnerable financial consumers.

Exploring impacts of process technology development and regional factors on life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of corn stover ethanol (2014)
Journal Article
McKechnie, J., Pourbafrani, M., Saville, B. A., & MacLean, H. L. (2015). Exploring impacts of process technology development and regional factors on life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of corn stover ethanol. Renewable Energy, 76, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2014.11.088

This paper examines impacts of regional factors affecting biomass and process input supply chains and ongoing technology development on the life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of ethanol production from corn stover in the U.S. Corn stover suppl... Read More about Exploring impacts of process technology development and regional factors on life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of corn stover ethanol.

Longitudinal assessment of circulating insulin-like peptide 3 levels in healthy peripubertal girls (2014)
Journal Article
Hagen, C. P., Mieritz, M. G., Nielsen, J. E., Anand-Ivell, R., Ivell, R., & Juul, A. (2015). Longitudinal assessment of circulating insulin-like peptide 3 levels in healthy peripubertal girls. Fertility and Sterility, 103(3), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fertnstert.2014.11.014

Objective: To elucidate the natural course of circulating insulin-like peptide 3 (INSL3) levels according to puberty as well as its relation to other reproductive hormones. Design: Population-based cohort study. Setting: Not applicable. Patient(s)... Read More about Longitudinal assessment of circulating insulin-like peptide 3 levels in healthy peripubertal girls.

Peddling a semiotics of fear: a critical examination of scare tactics and commercial strategies in public health promotion (2014)
Journal Article
Brookes, G., & Harvey, K. (2015). Peddling a semiotics of fear: a critical examination of scare tactics and commercial strategies in public health promotion. Social Semiotics, 25(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2014.988920

This study critically examines the ways in which the nationwide Diabetes UK/Tesco public health promotion campaign (2013-2014) sought to raise awareness of Type 2 diabetes. Conducting a multimodal critical discourse analysis of six campaign images, w... Read More about Peddling a semiotics of fear: a critical examination of scare tactics and commercial strategies in public health promotion.

South Asian older adults with memory impairment: Improving assessment and access to dementia care (2014)
Journal Article
Giebel, C. M., Zubair, M., Jolley, D., Bhui, K. S., Purandare, N., Worden, A., & Challis, D. (2015). South Asian older adults with memory impairment: Improving assessment and access to dementia care. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 30(4), 345-356. https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.4242

© 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Objective With increasing international migration, mental health care of migrants and ethnic minorities is a public health priority. South Asian older adults experience difficulties in accessing services for memory i... Read More about South Asian older adults with memory impairment: Improving assessment and access to dementia care.

Migratory bird species benefit from traditional agricultural gardens in arid South Sinai (2014)
Journal Article
Norfolk, O., Power, A., Eichhorn, M. P., & Gilbert, F. (2015). Migratory bird species benefit from traditional agricultural gardens in arid South Sinai. Journal of Arid Environments, 114, 110-115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2014.12.004

In temperate and tropical regions agricultural conversion of natural habitat typically has negative impacts upon the diversity and functional complexity of bird communities. In arid environments however, the irrigation associated with agricultural ca... Read More about Migratory bird species benefit from traditional agricultural gardens in arid South Sinai.

The role of input flood and input enhancement in EFL learners’ acquisition of collocations (2014)
Journal Article
Szudarski, P., & Carter, R. (2016). The role of input flood and input enhancement in EFL learners’ acquisition of collocations. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 26(2), 245-265. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijal.12092

The study investigated L2 learners’ acquisition of verb-noun and adjective-noun collocations following two kinds of instruction: input flood only and input flood plus input enhancement (in the form of underlining). L1 Polish learners of English as a... Read More about The role of input flood and input enhancement in EFL learners’ acquisition of collocations.

GNSS avionics-based integrity augmentation for RPAS detect-and-avoid applications (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Sabatini, R., Moore, T., & Hill, C. (2014). GNSS avionics-based integrity augmentation for RPAS detect-and-avoid applications.

Taking the move from our recent research on GNSS Avionics Based Integrity Augmentation (ABIA), this article investigates the synergies of ABIA with a novel Detect-and-Avoid (DAA) architecture for Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS). Based on simu... Read More about GNSS avionics-based integrity augmentation for RPAS detect-and-avoid applications.

Detection of high-speed railway subsidence and geometry irregularity using terrestrial laser scanning (2014)
Journal Article
Liu, C., Li, N., Wu, H., & Meng, X. (2014). Detection of high-speed railway subsidence and geometry irregularity using terrestrial laser scanning. Journal of Surveying Engineering, 140(3), Article 04014009. https://doi.org/10.1061/%28ASCE%29SU.1943-5428.0000131

Subsidence and geometry deformation monitoring are essential for safe transportation on a high-speed railway. Terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) is able to collect dense three-dimensional point data from the survey scene and achieve highly accurate mea... Read More about Detection of high-speed railway subsidence and geometry irregularity using terrestrial laser scanning.

Pore structure and permeation characteristics of foamed concrete (2014)
Journal Article
Hilal, A. A., Thom, N., & Dawson, A. (2014). Pore structure and permeation characteristics of foamed concrete. Journal of Advanced Concrete Technology, 12(12), https://doi.org/10.3151/jact.12.535

A study has been undertaken to investigate the pore structure characteristics, porosity and critical pore diameter of preformed foamed concrete with a density between 1300 and 1900 kg/m3, and its effect on the permeation characteristics, water absorp... Read More about Pore structure and permeation characteristics of foamed concrete.