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Portraits of everyday literacy for social justice : reframing the debate for families and communities (2018)
Book
JONES, S. (2018). Portraits of everyday literacy for social justice : reframing the debate for families and communities. Palgrave Macmillan

Based on an ethnographic study involving three families who live on a Midlands council housing estate, this book presents portraits of everyday lives - and the literacy practices that are part of them - as a way to explore the complex relationship be... Read More about Portraits of everyday literacy for social justice : reframing the debate for families and communities.

Institutional Strategies of Higher Education Reform in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan: Differentiating to Survive Between State and Market (2018)
Book Chapter
Shadymanova, S., & Amsler, S. (2018). Institutional Strategies of Higher Education Reform in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan: Differentiating to Survive Between State and Market. In J. Huisman, A. Smolentseva, & I. Froumin (Eds.), 25 Years of Transformations of Higher Education Systems in Post-Soviet Countries: Reform and Continuity (229-257). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52980-6_9

© 2018, The Author(s). Between 1991 and today, the Soviet system of state-funded and Communist Party controlled higher education institutions (HEIs) in Kyrgyzstan has been transformed into an expansive, diverse, unequal, semiprivatized and marketized... Read More about Institutional Strategies of Higher Education Reform in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan: Differentiating to Survive Between State and Market.

Baroque à la Hitchcock: the music of Dangerous Liaisons (1988) (2018)
Book Chapter
Cooke, M. (2018). Baroque à la Hitchcock: the music of Dangerous Liaisons (1988). In J. Cook, A. Kolassa, & A. Whittaker (Eds.), Recomposing the past: representations of early music on stage and screen. Routledge

George Fenton’s resourceful use of both pastiche and genuine baroque and classical music in the scoring of period-set feature films is nowhere more impressive than in Dangerous Liaisons (1988). Strongly influenced by the films of Alfred Hitchcock, di... Read More about Baroque à la Hitchcock: the music of Dangerous Liaisons (1988).

Tony Leung Chiu-Wai (2018)
Book
Gallagher, M. (2018). Tony Leung Chiu-Wai. BFI Publishing/Bloomsbury

Biocatalyst-artificial metalloenzyme cascade based on alcohol dehydrogenase (2018)
Journal Article
Morra, S., & Pordea, A. (2018). Biocatalyst-artificial metalloenzyme cascade based on alcohol dehydrogenase. Chemical Science, 9(38), 7447-7454. https://doi.org/10.1039/C8SC02371A

© The Royal Society of Chemistry. Chemo-enzymatic cascades of enzymes with transition metal catalysts can offer efficient synthetic strategies, but their development is challenging due to the incompatibility between proteins and transition metal comp... Read More about Biocatalyst-artificial metalloenzyme cascade based on alcohol dehydrogenase.

Design optimization for an additively manufactured automotive component (2018)
Journal Article
Abdi, M., Ashcroft, I., & Wildman, R. D. (2018). Design optimization for an additively manufactured automotive component. International Journal of Powertrains, 7(1-3), https://doi.org/10.1504/IJPT.2018.090371

The aim of this paper is to investigate the design optimization and additive manufacture of automotive components. A Titanium brake pedal processed through Selective Laser Melting (SLM) is considered as a test case. Different design optimisation tech... Read More about Design optimization for an additively manufactured automotive component.

The Coinductive Formulation of Common Knowledge (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Baston, C., & Capretta, V. (2018). The Coinductive Formulation of Common Knowledge. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94821-8_8

© 2018, Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature. We study the coinductive formulation of common knowledge in type theory. We formalise both the traditional relational semantics and an operator semantics, similar in form to the e... Read More about The Coinductive Formulation of Common Knowledge.

Who are the ‘gatekeepers’?: in continuation of the debate on direct applicability and direct effect of EU international agreements (2018)
Journal Article
Ghazaryan, N. (2018). Who are the ‘gatekeepers’?: in continuation of the debate on direct applicability and direct effect of EU international agreements. Yearbook of European Law, 37, 27–74. https://doi.org/10.1093/yel/yey003

The article revisits the debate on direct applicability and direct effect of EU international agreements by questioning the role of the so called gatekeepers. It considers the established role of the Court of Justice of the EU as the gatekeeper of th... Read More about Who are the ‘gatekeepers’?: in continuation of the debate on direct applicability and direct effect of EU international agreements.

Genome-wide mapping of the RNA targets of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa riboregulatory protein RsmN (2018)
Journal Article
Romero, M., Silistre, H., Lovelock, L., Wright, V. J., Kok, G., Kar-Wai, H., …Heeb, S. (2018). Genome-wide mapping of the RNA targets of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa riboregulatory protein RsmN. Nucleic Acids Research, 46(13), 6823-6840. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gky324

Pseudomonads typically carry multiple non-identical alleles of the post-transcriptional regulator rsmA. In P. aeruginosa, RsmN is notable in that its structural rearrangement confers distinct and overlapping functions with RsmA. However, little is k... Read More about Genome-wide mapping of the RNA targets of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa riboregulatory protein RsmN.

Root gravitropism: quantification, challenges, and solutions (2018)
Journal Article
Muller, L., Bennett, M. J., French, A., Wells, D. M., & Swarup, R. (2018). Root gravitropism: quantification, challenges, and solutions. Methods in Molecular Biology, 1761, 103-112. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7747-5_8

© 2018, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. Better understanding of root traits such as root angle and root gravitropism will be crucial for development of crops with improved resource use efficiency. This chapter describes a high-throughput, autom... Read More about Root gravitropism: quantification, challenges, and solutions.

Direct observation of vibrational energy dispersal: Via methyl torsions (2018)
Journal Article
Gardner, A. M., Tuttle, W. D., Whalley, L. E., & Wright, T. G. (2018). Direct observation of vibrational energy dispersal: Via methyl torsions. Chemical Science, 9(8), 2270-2283. https://doi.org/10.1039/c7sc05309f

© 2018 The Royal Society of Chemistry. Explicit evidence for the role of methyl rotor levels in promoting energy dispersal is reported. A set of coupled zero-order vibration/vibration-torsion (vibtor) levels in the S1 state of para-fluorotoluene (pFT... Read More about Direct observation of vibrational energy dispersal: Via methyl torsions.

A switched-capacitor bidirectional DC-DC converter with wide voltage gain range for electric vehicles with hybrid energy sources (2018)
Journal Article
Zhang, Y., Gao, Y., Zhou, L., & Sumner, M. (in press). A switched-capacitor bidirectional DC-DC converter with wide voltage gain range for electric vehicles with hybrid energy sources. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, PP(99), https://doi.org/10.1109/TPEL.2017.2788436

A switched-capacitor bidirectional DC-DC converter with a high step-up/step-down voltage gain is proposed for electric vehicles (EVs) with a hybrid energy source system (HESS). The converter presented has the advantages of being a simple circuit, a r... Read More about A switched-capacitor bidirectional DC-DC converter with wide voltage gain range for electric vehicles with hybrid energy sources.

“Good housekeeping”? Re-assessing John Stuart Mill’s position on the gendered division of labour (2018)
Journal Article
McCabe, H. (2018). “Good housekeeping”? Re-assessing John Stuart Mill’s position on the gendered division of labour. History of Political Thought, 39(1), 135-155

This paper considers an oft-criticised passage of John Stuart Mill’s The Subjection of Women, arguing that Mill’s position is misunderstood. In this passage, Mill identifies a trilemma facing women in non-ideal circumstances. Two elements of this c... Read More about “Good housekeeping”? Re-assessing John Stuart Mill’s position on the gendered division of labour.

Rethinking risk: a narrative approach (2018)
Journal Article
Felton, A., & Stickley, T. (in press). Rethinking risk: a narrative approach. Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice, 13(1), https://doi.org/10.1108/JMHTEP-06-2017-0043

Purpose The assessment and management of risk is central to contemporary mental health practice. The emergence of recovery has contributed to demands for more service user centered approaches to risk. This paper examines the potential of narrative... Read More about Rethinking risk: a narrative approach.

Associative mechanisms involved in specific Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer (PIT) in human learning tasks (2018)
Journal Article
Alarcón, D., Bonardi, C., & Delamater, A. (2018). Associative mechanisms involved in specific Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer (PIT) in human learning tasks. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71(7), 1607-1625. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2017.1342671

Four experiments compared the effect of forward and backward conditioning procedures on the ability of conditioned stimuli (CSs) to elevate instrumental responding in a Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer (PIT) task. Two responses were each trained wi... Read More about Associative mechanisms involved in specific Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer (PIT) in human learning tasks.

The effects of stimulus distribution form during trace conditioning (2018)
Journal Article
Bonardi, C., & Jennings, D. J. (2018). The effects of stimulus distribution form during trace conditioning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2017.1367017

Three experiments examined the effect of the distribution form of the trace interval on trace conditioning. In Experiments 1 and 2 two groups of rats were conditioned to a fixed duration CS in a trace interval procedure; rats in Group Fix received a... Read More about The effects of stimulus distribution form during trace conditioning.

Age and growth rate estimations of the commercially fished gastropod Buccinum undatum (2018)
Journal Article
Hollyman, P. R., Chenery, S. R., Leng, M. J., Laptikhovsky, V. V., Colvin, C. N., & Richardson, C. A. (2018). Age and growth rate estimations of the commercially fished gastropod Buccinum undatum. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 75(6), 2129-2144. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsy100

Calculating age and growth rate for the commercially important whelk, Buccinum undatum in the aid of fishery management has historically been undertaken using growth rings on the organic operculum. This is difficult due to their poor readability and... Read More about Age and growth rate estimations of the commercially fished gastropod Buccinum undatum.