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An apicobasal gradient of Rac activity determines protrusion form and position (2017)
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Couto, A., Mack, N. A., Favia, L., & Georgiou, M. (2017). An apicobasal gradient of Rac activity determines protrusion form and position. Nature Communications, 8, Article 15385. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15385

Each cell within a polarised epithelial sheet must align and correctly position a wide range of subcellular structures, including actin-based dynamic protrusions. Using in vivo inducible transgenes that can sense or modify Rac activity, we demonstrat... Read More about An apicobasal gradient of Rac activity determines protrusion form and position.

Antiferromagnetic CuMnAs multi-level memory cell with microelectronic compatibility (2017)
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Olejnik, K., Schuler, V., Marti, X., Novák, V., Kaspar, Z., Wadley, P., …Jungwirth, T. (2017). Antiferromagnetic CuMnAs multi-level memory cell with microelectronic compatibility. Nature Communications, 8, Article 15434. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15434

Antiferromagnets offer a unique combination of properties including the radiation and magnetic field hardness, the absence of stray magnetic fields, and the spin-dynamics frequency scale in terahertz. Recent experiments have demonstrated that relativ... Read More about Antiferromagnetic CuMnAs multi-level memory cell with microelectronic compatibility.

Attitudes of older people with mild dementia and mild cognitive impairment and their relatives about falls risk and prevention: a qualitative study (2017)
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Peach, T., Pollock, K., van der Wardt, V., das Nair, R., Logan, P., & Harwood, R. H. (2017). Attitudes of older people with mild dementia and mild cognitive impairment and their relatives about falls risk and prevention: a qualitative study. PLoS ONE, 12(5), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0177530

Objective: To explore the perceptions of older people with mild dementia and mild cognitive impairment, and their family carers, about falling, falls risk and the acceptability of falls prevention interventions. Design: Qualitative study involving t... Read More about Attitudes of older people with mild dementia and mild cognitive impairment and their relatives about falls risk and prevention: a qualitative study.

Complete sequence and genomic annotation of carrot torradovirus 1 (2017)
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Rozado-Aguirre, Z., Adams, I., Fox, A., Dickinson, M., & Boonham, N. (in press). Complete sequence and genomic annotation of carrot torradovirus 1. Archives of Virology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-017-3410-5

Carrot torradovirus 1 (CaTV1) is a new member of the genus Torradovirus within the family Secoviridae. CaTV1 genome sequences were obtained from a previous next-generation sequencing (NGS) study and were compared to other members and tentative new me... Read More about Complete sequence and genomic annotation of carrot torradovirus 1.

Global anomalies on Lorentzian space-times (2017)
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Schenkel, A., & Zahn, J. (2017). Global anomalies on Lorentzian space-times. Annales Henri Poincaré, 18(8), 2693-2714. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00023-017-0590-1

We formulate an algebraic criterion for the presence of global anomalies on globally hyperbolic space-times in the framework of locally covariant field theory. We discuss some consequences and check that it reproduces the well-known global SU(2) anom... Read More about Global anomalies on Lorentzian space-times.

Straightforward synthesis of 2- and 2,8-substituted tetracenes (2017)
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Woodward, S., Ackermann, M., Ahirwar, S., Burroughs, L., Robert Garrett, M., Ritchie, J., …Woodward, P. (in press). Straightforward synthesis of 2- and 2,8-substituted tetracenes. Chemistry - A European Journal, https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201701170

A simple regiospecific route to otherwise problematic substituted tetracenes is described. The diverse cores (E)- 1,2-Ar1CH2(HOCH2)C=C(CH2OH)I (Ar1 = Ph, 4-MePh, 4-MeOPh, 4-FPh) and (E)-1,2-I(HOCH2)C=C(CH2OH)I, accessed from ultra-low cost HOCH2C?CCH... Read More about Straightforward synthesis of 2- and 2,8-substituted tetracenes.

Decitabine-Vorinostat combination treatment in acute myeloid leukemia activates pathways with potential for novel triple therapy (2017)
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Young, C. S., Clarke, K. M., Kettyle, L. M., Thompson, A., & Mills, K. I. (2017). Decitabine-Vorinostat combination treatment in acute myeloid leukemia activates pathways with potential for novel triple therapy. Oncotarget, 8(31), https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.18009

Despite advancements in cancer therapeutics, acute myeloid leukemia patients over 60 years old have a 5-year survival rate of less than 8%. In an attempt to improve this, epigenetic modifying agents have been combined as therapies in clinical studies... Read More about Decitabine-Vorinostat combination treatment in acute myeloid leukemia activates pathways with potential for novel triple therapy.

Rediscovering the region: the West German daily press in the 1970s (2017)
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Haase, C., & Kraiker, C. (2017). Rediscovering the region: the West German daily press in the 1970s. German History, 35(2), 247–271. https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghx042

After Willy Brandt’s Ostpolitik, West Germans began to accept the more permanent division of the country and rediscovered the regional fundaments of their federal political system. A catalyst for this process was provided by a massive regionalization... Read More about Rediscovering the region: the West German daily press in the 1970s.

Arylative intramolecular allylation of ketones with 1,3-enynes enabled by catalytic alkenyl-to-allyl 1,4-Rh(I) migration (2017)
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Partridge, B. . M., Callingham, M., Lewis, W., & Lam, H. W. (2017). Arylative intramolecular allylation of ketones with 1,3-enynes enabled by catalytic alkenyl-to-allyl 1,4-Rh(I) migration. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 56(25), https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201703155

Alkenyl-to-allyl 1,4-Rh(I) migration enables the generation of nucleophilic allylrhodium(I) species by remote C–H activation. This new mode of reactivity was employed in the diastereoselective reaction of arylboron reagents with substrates containing... Read More about Arylative intramolecular allylation of ketones with 1,3-enynes enabled by catalytic alkenyl-to-allyl 1,4-Rh(I) migration.

Sialic acids regulate microvessel permeability, revealed by novel in vivo studies of endothelial glycocalyx structure and function (2017)
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Betteridge, K., Arkill, K., Neal, C., Harper, S., Foster, B., Satchell, S., …Salmon, A. (2017). Sialic acids regulate microvessel permeability, revealed by novel in vivo studies of endothelial glycocalyx structure and function. Journal of Physiology, 595(15), https://doi.org/10.1113/JP274167

The endothelial glycocalyx forms a continuous coat over the luminal surface of all vessels, and regulates multiple vascular functions. The contribution of individual components of the endothelial glycocalyx to one critical vascular function, microvas... Read More about Sialic acids regulate microvessel permeability, revealed by novel in vivo studies of endothelial glycocalyx structure and function.

Activation induced changes in GABA: functional MRS at 7 T with MEGA-sLASER (2017)
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Chen, C., Sigurdsson, H. P., Pépés, S. E., Auer, D. P., Morris, P. G., Morgan, P. S., …Jackson, S. R. (2017). Activation induced changes in GABA: functional MRS at 7 T with MEGA-sLASER. NeuroImage, 156, 207-213. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.05.044

Functional magnetic resonance spectroscopy (fMRS) has been used to assess the dynamic metabolic responses of the brain to a physiological stimulus non-invasively. However, only limited information on the dynamic functional response of γ-aminobutyric... Read More about Activation induced changes in GABA: functional MRS at 7 T with MEGA-sLASER.

Optimum community energy storage for renewable energy and demand load management (2017)
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Parra, D., Norman, S. A., Walker, G. S., & Gillott, M. C. (2017). Optimum community energy storage for renewable energy and demand load management. Applied Energy, 200, 358-369. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.05.048

While the management of PV generation is the prime application of residential batteries, they can deliver additional services in order to help systems to become cost-competitive. They can level-out the demand and potentially reduce the cost and emiss... Read More about Optimum community energy storage for renewable energy and demand load management.

Characterization on insulation performance, poststability, and foaming process of rigid polyurethane sandwich panel for cold storage warehouse (2017)
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Xu, J., Wu, T., Sun, W., & Peng, C. (2017). Characterization on insulation performance, poststability, and foaming process of rigid polyurethane sandwich panel for cold storage warehouse. Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, 29(9), https://doi.org/10.1061/%28ASCE%29MT.1943-5533.0001984

Polyurethane (PU) is a commonly used insulation material for cold storage warehouses. The insulation performance of PU sandwich panels made from blended blowing agents were re-assessed by k-factor measurements and insulation thickness calculation bas... Read More about Characterization on insulation performance, poststability, and foaming process of rigid polyurethane sandwich panel for cold storage warehouse.

Design and implementation of a loss optimization control for electric vehicle in-wheel permanent-magnet synchronous motor direct drive system (2017)
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Guo, Q., Zhang, C., Li, L., Gerada, D., Zhang, J., & Wang, M. (2017). Design and implementation of a loss optimization control for electric vehicle in-wheel permanent-magnet synchronous motor direct drive system. Applied Energy, 204, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.05.023

As a main driving force of electric vehicles (EVs), the losses of in-wheel permanent-magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) direct drive system can seriously affect the energy consumption of EVs. This paper proposes a loss optimization control strategy for... Read More about Design and implementation of a loss optimization control for electric vehicle in-wheel permanent-magnet synchronous motor direct drive system.

Numerical investigation of roof heating impacts on thermal comfort and air quality in urban canyons (2017)
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Ghobadi, P., Hosseini, S. H., Ahmadi, T., & Calautit, J. K. (2017). Numerical investigation of roof heating impacts on thermal comfort and air quality in urban canyons. Applied Thermal Engineering, 123, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2017.05.095

Impacts of thermal and buoyancy forces on the thermal comfort and air quality in urban canyons with different H/W ratios and rise/run ratio of rooftops are studied. 18 isothermal and non-isothermal models are studied by CFD modeling validated with ex... Read More about Numerical investigation of roof heating impacts on thermal comfort and air quality in urban canyons.

Quantum propagation across cosmological singularities (2017)
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Gielen, S., & Turok, N. (2017). Quantum propagation across cosmological singularities. Physical Review D, 95(10), Article 103510. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.95.103510

The initial singularity is the most troubling feature of the standard cosmology, which quantum effects are hoped to resolve. In this paper, we study quantum cosmology with conformal (Weyl) invariant matter. We show that it is natural to extend the sc... Read More about Quantum propagation across cosmological singularities.

Anion···π Interactions and Metastability: Structural Transformations in a Silver–Pyrazine Network (2017)
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Gee, W. J., Robertson, K., & Skelton, J. M. (2017). Anion···π Interactions and Metastability: Structural Transformations in a Silver–Pyrazine Network. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2017(19), 2628-2636. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejic.201700505

Structural evidence of anion···π interactions influencing single-crystal-to-single-crystal (SCSC) transformations is demonstrated herein with a metastable silver–pyrazine system. A cascade of SCSC transformations driven by changes to anion···π stabil... Read More about Anion···π Interactions and Metastability: Structural Transformations in a Silver–Pyrazine Network.