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The inverse-trans-influence in tetravalent lanthanide and actinide bis(carbene) complexes (2017)
Journal Article
Gregson, M., Lu, E., Mills, D. P., Tuna, F., McInnes, E. J., Hennig, C., …Liddle, S. T. (2017). The inverse-trans-influence in tetravalent lanthanide and actinide bis(carbene) complexes. Nature Communications, 8, Article 14137. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14137

© The Author(s) 2017. Across the periodic table the trans-influence operates, whereby tightly bonded ligands selectively lengthen mutually trans metal-ligand bonds. Conversely, in high oxidation state actinide complexes the inverse-trans-influence op... Read More about The inverse-trans-influence in tetravalent lanthanide and actinide bis(carbene) complexes.

An analytical approach to the ?-phase coarsening behaviour in a thermally sprayed CoNiCrAlY bond coat alloy (2017)
Journal Article
Chen, H., Si, Y., & McCartney, D. (in press). An analytical approach to the ?-phase coarsening behaviour in a thermally sprayed CoNiCrAlY bond coat alloy. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2017.02.002

This paper investigates the ?-phase coarsening behaviour during isothermal heat treatment of free-standing CoNiCrAlY (Co-31.7%Ni-20.8%Cr-8.1%Al-0.5%Y, all in wt%) coatings prepared by high velocity oxy-fuel (HVOF) thermal spraying. The microstructure... Read More about An analytical approach to the ?-phase coarsening behaviour in a thermally sprayed CoNiCrAlY bond coat alloy.

Endotoxemia in peritoneal dialysis patients: a pilot study to examine the role of intestinal perfusion and congestion (2017)
Journal Article
Grant, C., Harrison, L., Hoad, C., Marciani, L., Cox, E., Buchanan, C., …McIntyre, C. (2017). Endotoxemia in peritoneal dialysis patients: a pilot study to examine the role of intestinal perfusion and congestion. Peritoneal Dialysis International, 37(1), 111-115. https://doi.org/10.3747/pdi.2016.00079

Endotoxemia is common in advanced chronic kidney disease and is particularly severe in those receiving dialysis. In hemodialysis patients, translocation from the bowel occurs as a consequence of recurrent circulatory stress leading to a reduction in... Read More about Endotoxemia in peritoneal dialysis patients: a pilot study to examine the role of intestinal perfusion and congestion.

Unpacking the indirect effects and consequences of environmental regulation (2017)
Journal Article
Tan, K. H., Chung, L., Shi, L., & Chiu, A. (2017). Unpacking the indirect effects and consequences of environmental regulation. International Journal of Production Economics, 186, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2017.01.017

Environmental regulation and its corresponding measures and control is an important issue but have not been fully investigated. Literature on the unintended consequences of regulation control and measures appears to be sparse. Through a series of exp... Read More about Unpacking the indirect effects and consequences of environmental regulation.

What influences healthcare professionals' treatment preferences for older women with operable breast cancer?: an application of the discrete choice experiment (2017)
Journal Article
Morgan, J., Walters, S., Collins, K., Robinson, T., Cheung, K., Audisio, R., …Wyld, L. (2017). What influences healthcare professionals' treatment preferences for older women with operable breast cancer?: an application of the discrete choice experiment. EJSO - European Journal of Surgical Oncology, 43(7), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejso.2017.01.012

Introduction Primary endocrine therapy (PET) is used variably in the UK as an alternative to surgery for older women with operable breast cancer. Guidelines state that only patients with “significant comorbidity” or “reduced life expectancy” shoul... Read More about What influences healthcare professionals' treatment preferences for older women with operable breast cancer?: an application of the discrete choice experiment.

Formation of the stomatal outer cuticular ledge requires a guard cell wall proline-rich protein (2017)
Journal Article
Hunt, L., Amsbury, S., Baillie, A., Movahedi, M., Mitchell, A., Afsharinafar, M., …Gray, J. E. (2017). Formation of the stomatal outer cuticular ledge requires a guard cell wall proline-rich protein. Plant Physiology, 174(2), https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.16.01715

Stomata are formed by a pair of guard cells which have thickened, elastic cell walls to withstand the large increases in turgor pressure that have to be generated to open the pore that they surround. We have characterised FOCL1, a guard cell-expresse... Read More about Formation of the stomatal outer cuticular ledge requires a guard cell wall proline-rich protein.

Exploring structure and function of sensory cortex with 7 T MRI (2017)
Journal Article
Schluppeck, D., Sánchez-Panchuelo, R., & Francis, S. T. (2018). Exploring structure and function of sensory cortex with 7 T MRI. NeuroImage, 164, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.01.081

In this paper, we present an overview of 7 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies of the detailed function and anatomy of sensory areas of the human brain. We discuss the motivation for the studies, with particular emphasis on increasing the... Read More about Exploring structure and function of sensory cortex with 7 T MRI.

Investigating the effect of independent blinded digital image assessment on the STOP GAP trial (2017)
Journal Article
Patsko, E., Godolphin, P. J., Thomas, K. S., Hepburn, T., Mitchell, E., Craig, F. E., …Montgomery, A. A. (2017). Investigating the effect of independent blinded digital image assessment on the STOP GAP trial. Trials, 18(1), Article 53. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-017-1779-9

Background Blinding is the process of keeping treatment assignment hidden and is used to minimise the possibility of bias. Trials at high risk of bias have been shown to report larger treatment effects than low risk studies. In dermatology, one popu... Read More about Investigating the effect of independent blinded digital image assessment on the STOP GAP trial.

An examination of the long-term business value of investments in information technology (2017)
Journal Article
Shea, V. J., Dow, K. E., Chong, A. Y., & Ngai, E. W. T. (2017). An examination of the long-term business value of investments in information technology. Information Systems Frontiers, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-017-9735-5

In this paper, we examine the effects of investments in Information Technology (IT) on the long term business values of organizations. The regression discontinuity design is used in this research to examine eight hundred and ten IT investment announc... Read More about An examination of the long-term business value of investments in information technology.

Religion and the English parish (2017)
Book Chapter
Merritt, J. (2017). Religion and the English parish. In A. Milton (Ed.), The Oxford history of Anglicanism: Volume I. Reformation and identity c.1520-1662. Oxford University Press

Does document relevance affect the searcher's perception of time? (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Luo, C., Liu, Y., Sakai, T., Zhou, K., Zhang, F., Li, X., & Ma, S. (2017). Does document relevance affect the searcher's perception of time?. In Proceedings of the Tenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining - WSDM '17 (141-150). https://doi.org/10.1145/3018661.3018694

Time plays an essential role in multiple areas of Information Retrieval (IR) studies such as search evaluation, user behavior analysis, temporal search result ranking and query understanding. Especially, in search evaluation studies, time is usually... Read More about Does document relevance affect the searcher's perception of time?.

Reducing weight and fuel consumption of civil aircraft by electromagnetic launch (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Bertola, L., Cox, T., Wheeler, P., Polenta, V., Garvey, S. D., & Morvan, H. (2017). Reducing weight and fuel consumption of civil aircraft by electromagnetic launch.

Electromagnetic launch systems have been proposed for military applications to accelerate jet planes on aircraft carriers. This paper proposes the implementation of similar technology to aid civil aircraft take-off, which can provide significant econ... Read More about Reducing weight and fuel consumption of civil aircraft by electromagnetic launch.

System design and maintenance modelling for safety in extended life operation (2017)
Journal Article
Andrews, J., & Fecarotti, C. (in press). System design and maintenance modelling for safety in extended life operation. Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 163, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2017.01.024

It is frequently the most cost effective option to operate systems and infrastructure over an extended life period rather than enter a new build programme. The condition and performance of existing systems operated beyond their originally intended de... Read More about System design and maintenance modelling for safety in extended life operation.

Differential regulation of blood flow induced neovascularisation and mural cell recruitment by VEGF and angiopoietin signaling (2017)
Journal Article
Stone, O. A., Carter, J. G., Lin, P. C., Paleolog, E., Machado, M. J. C., & Bates, D. O. (2017). Differential regulation of blood flow induced neovascularisation and mural cell recruitment by VEGF and angiopoietin signaling. Journal of Physiology, 595(5), 1575-1591. https://doi.org/10.1113/JP273430

Signalling through VEGF receptors and the Tie2 receptor by angiopoietins is required in combination with blood flow for the formation of a functional vascular network. We tested the hypothesis that VEGF and Ang1 contribute differentially to neovascul... Read More about Differential regulation of blood flow induced neovascularisation and mural cell recruitment by VEGF and angiopoietin signaling.

Electrochemical Optimization of Gold Nanoparticles for Efficient Electron Transfer—Implication for Highly Sensitive Biosensing (2017)
Journal Article
Thangamuthu, M., Santschi, C., & Martin, O. (2017). Electrochemical Optimization of Gold Nanoparticles for Efficient Electron Transfer—Implication for Highly Sensitive Biosensing. Sensor Letters, 15(2), 126-131. https://doi.org/10.1166/sl.2017.3773

More Than a ‘Little Act of Kindness’? Towards a Typology of Volunteering as Unpaid Work (2017)
Journal Article
Kelemen, M., Mangan, A., & Moffat, S. (2017). More Than a ‘Little Act of Kindness’? Towards a Typology of Volunteering as Unpaid Work. Sociology, 51(6), 1239-1256. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038517692512

Definitions of volunteering are widespread and complex, yet relatively little attention is given to volunteering as unpaid work, even though it intersects with the worlds of paid employment and the domestic sphere, cutting across individual/collectiv... Read More about More Than a ‘Little Act of Kindness’? Towards a Typology of Volunteering as Unpaid Work.

Understanding how Millennial shoppers decide what to buy: digitally connected unseen journeys (2017)
Journal Article
Hall, A., Towers, N., & Shaw, D. (2017). Understanding how Millennial shoppers decide what to buy: digitally connected unseen journeys. International Journal of Retail and Distribution Management, 45(5), 498-517. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJRDM-11-2016-0206

Purpose: The shopper journey can cross a number of channels leading up to the point of a possible purchase, which may be unseen by the retailer or brand for the targeted purchase. The purpose of this paper is to gain a greater understanding of the de... Read More about Understanding how Millennial shoppers decide what to buy: digitally connected unseen journeys.

Special economic zones in the Dominican Republic: policy considerations: special economic zones, global value chains, and the degree of domestic linkages in the Dominican Republic for a more competitive and inclusive sector: (2017)
Report
Reyes, J., Eduardo Sanchez, M., Ferrantino, M., Riano, A., Defever, F., Engel, J., …Ahdiyyih, S. (2017). Special economic zones in the Dominican Republic: policy considerations: special economic zones, global value chains, and the degree of domestic linkages in the Dominican Republic for a more competitive and inclusive sector:. Washington, D.C.: World Bank

The Dominican Republic is often considered an example of the successful implementation of Special Economic Zones (henceforth SEZs) in the Western hemisphere. The zones fueled economic growth during the 1980s and 1990s and, while they experienced a sh... Read More about Special economic zones in the Dominican Republic: policy considerations: special economic zones, global value chains, and the degree of domestic linkages in the Dominican Republic for a more competitive and inclusive sector:.

Positive and negative thinking in tinnitus: factor structure of the Tinnitus Cognitions Questionnaire. (2017)
Journal Article
Handscomb, L. E., Hall, D. A., Shorter, G. W., & Hoare, D. (2017). Positive and negative thinking in tinnitus: factor structure of the Tinnitus Cognitions Questionnaire. Ear and Hearing, 38(1), 126–132. https://doi.org/10.1097/AUD.0000000000000365

Objectives: Researchers and clinicians consider thinking to be important in the development and maintenance of tinnitus distress, and altering thoughts or thinking style is an object of many forms of psychological therapy for tinnitus. Those working... Read More about Positive and negative thinking in tinnitus: factor structure of the Tinnitus Cognitions Questionnaire..

Macrophage phenotype in response to ECM bioscaffolds (2017)
Journal Article
Huleihel, L., Dziki, J. L., Bartolacci, J. G., Rausch, T., Scarritt, M. E., Cramer, M. C., …Badylak, S. F. (2017). Macrophage phenotype in response to ECM bioscaffolds. Seminars in Immunology, 29, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.smim.2017.04.004

Macrophage presence and phenotype are critical determinants of the healing response following injury. Downregulation of the pro-inflammatory macrophage phenotype has been associated with the therapeutic use of bioscaffolds composed of extracellular... Read More about Macrophage phenotype in response to ECM bioscaffolds.