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Chapter 1 - The structure of the adenosine receptors implications for drug discovery (2011)
Journal Article
Lane, J. R., Jaakola, V., & Ijzerman, A. P. (2011). Chapter 1 - The structure of the adenosine receptors implications for drug discovery. Advances in Pharmacology, 61, 1-40. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-385526-8.00001-1

Extracellular adenosine mediates most of its physiological effects via an interaction with four G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), the adenosine receptors (ARs). These ARs are important pharmacological targets in the treatment of a wide variety of... Read More about Chapter 1 - The structure of the adenosine receptors implications for drug discovery.

Going paperless at the emergency department: A socio-technical study of an information system for patient tracking (2011)
Journal Article
Vezyridis, P., Timmons, S., & Wharrad, H. (2011). Going paperless at the emergency department: A socio-technical study of an information system for patient tracking. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 80(7), 455-465. doi:10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2011.04.001

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine nurses' attitudes and reflection on the transformation of their workpractices after the implementation of an Emergency Department Information System (EDIS). Methods: A qualitative study using intervie... Read More about Going paperless at the emergency department: A socio-technical study of an information system for patient tracking.

Nonsmooth dynamics in spiking neuron models (2011)
Journal Article
Coombes, S., Thul, R., & Wedgwood, K. C. (2012). Nonsmooth dynamics in spiking neuron models. Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 241(22), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physd.2011.05.012

Large scale studies of spiking neural networks are a key part of modern approaches to understanding the dynamics of biological neural tissue. One approach in computational neuroscience has been to consider the detailed electrophysiological propertie... Read More about Nonsmooth dynamics in spiking neuron models.

H-NS mediates the dissociation of a refractory protein–DNA complex during Tn10/IS10 transposition (2011)
Journal Article
Liu, D., Haniford, D. B., & Chalmers, R. (2011). H-NS mediates the dissociation of a refractory protein–DNA complex during Tn10/IS10 transposition. Nucleic Acids Research, 39(15), https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkr309

Tn10/IS10 transposition takes place in the context of a protein–DNA complex called a transpososome. During the reaction, the transpososome undergoes several conformational changes. The host proteins IHF and H-NS, which also are global regulators of g... Read More about H-NS mediates the dissociation of a refractory protein–DNA complex during Tn10/IS10 transposition.

Visual motion induces a forward prediction of spatial pattern (2011)
Journal Article
Roach, N. W., McGraw, P. V., & Johnston, A. (2011). Visual motion induces a forward prediction of spatial pattern. Current Biology, 21(9), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2011.03.031

Cortical motion analysis continuously encodes image velocity but might also be used to predict future patterns of sensory input along the motion path. We asked whether this predictive aspect of motion is exploited by the human visual system. Targets... Read More about Visual motion induces a forward prediction of spatial pattern.

Motivating mobility: designing for lived motivation in stroke rehabilitation (2011)
Book Chapter
Balaam, M., Rennick Egglestone, S., Fitzpatrick, G., Rodden, T., Hughes, A., Wilkinson, A., …Burridge, J. (2011). Motivating mobility: designing for lived motivation in stroke rehabilitation. In D. Tan, B. Begole, & W. Kellog (Eds.), CHI 2011: conference proceedings and extended abstracts: 29th Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, May 7-12, 2011. ACM Press. https://doi.org/10.1145/1978942.1979397

How to motivate and support behaviour change through design is becoming of increasing interest to the CHI community. In this paper, we present our experiences of building systems that motivate people to engage in upper limb rehabilitation exercise af... Read More about Motivating mobility: designing for lived motivation in stroke rehabilitation.

Effect of questionnaire length, personalisation and reminder type on response rate to a complex postal survey: Randomised controlled trial (2011)
Journal Article
Sahlqvist, S., Song, Y., Bull, F., Adams, E., Preston, J., & Ogilvie, D. (2011). Effect of questionnaire length, personalisation and reminder type on response rate to a complex postal survey: Randomised controlled trial. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 11(62), https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-11-62

Background Minimising participant non-response in postal surveys helps to maximise the generalisability of the inferences made from the data collected. The aim of this study was to examine the effect of questionnaire length, personalisation and remi... Read More about Effect of questionnaire length, personalisation and reminder type on response rate to a complex postal survey: Randomised controlled trial.

Bamgro: A simple model to simulate the response of bambara groundnut to abiotic stress (2011)
Journal Article
Karunaratne, A. S., Azam-Ali, S. N., & Crout, N. M. (2011). Bamgro: A simple model to simulate the response of bambara groundnut to abiotic stress. Experimental Agriculture, 47(3), 489-507. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0014479711000093

Simulation models for many crops are often simple, empirical equations that lack generality across different locations or different levels of abiotic stress making them difficult to apply by independent researchers. The objective of this paper is to... Read More about Bamgro: A simple model to simulate the response of bambara groundnut to abiotic stress.

Reconciliation of Local and Global Symmetries for a Class of Crystals with Defects (2011)
Journal Article
Parry, G. P., & Sigrist, R. (2012). Reconciliation of Local and Global Symmetries for a Class of Crystals with Defects. Journal of Elasticity, 107(1), 81-104. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10659-011-9342-5

We consider the symmetry of discrete and continuous crystal structures which are compatible with a given choice of dislocation density tensor. By introducing the notion of a 'defective point group' (determined by the dislocation density tensor), we g... Read More about Reconciliation of Local and Global Symmetries for a Class of Crystals with Defects.

Calpastatin is associated with lymphovascular invasion in breast cancer (2011)
Journal Article
Storr, S. J., Mohammed, R. A., Woolston, C. M., Green, A. R., Parr, T., Spiteri, I., …Martin, S. G. (2011). Calpastatin is associated with lymphovascular invasion in breast cancer. Breast, 20(5), 413-418. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.breast.2011.04.002

Metastasis of breast cancer is a major contributor to mortality. Histological assessment of vascular invasion (VI) provides important prognostic information and demonstrates that VI occurs predominantly via lymphatics in breast cancer. We sought to e... Read More about Calpastatin is associated with lymphovascular invasion in breast cancer.

The interactions of CO2, ethanol, hop acids and sweetener on flavour perception in a model beer (2011)
Journal Article
Clark, R. A., Hewson, L., Bealin-Kelly, F., & Hort, J. (2011). The interactions of CO2, ethanol, hop acids and sweetener on flavour perception in a model beer. Chemosensory Perception, 4(1-2), 42-54. doi:10.1007/s12078-011-9087-3

Beer is a complex beverage. Beer flavour is a multisensory experience in which, in addition to aroma volatiles, CO2, ethanol, bitterness (hop acids) and sweetness all contribute. To investigate the interactions between these fundamental components, a... Read More about The interactions of CO2, ethanol, hop acids and sweetener on flavour perception in a model beer.

Novel approaches to assessing cardiac safety - Proceedings of a workshop: Regulators, industry and academia discuss the future of in silico cardiac modelling to predict the proarrhythmic safety of drugs (2011)
Journal Article
Fletcher, K., Shah, R. R., Thomas, A., Tobin, F., Rodriguez, B., Mirams, G. R., …Noble, D. (2011). Novel approaches to assessing cardiac safety - Proceedings of a workshop: Regulators, industry and academia discuss the future of in silico cardiac modelling to predict the proarrhythmic safety of drugs. Drug Safety, 34(5), 439-443. https://doi.org/10.2165/11591950-000000000-00000

Essentials of Veterinary Parasitology (2011)
Book
Elsheikha, H. M., & Khan, N. A. (Eds.). (2011). Essentials of Veterinary Parasitology. Caister Academic Press

Essentials of Veterinary Parasitology provides an up-to-date resource for students and practicing veterinarians on how to recognize, diagnose and treat parasitic diseases in livestock and companion animals. Featuring full-colour illustrations and a u... Read More about Essentials of Veterinary Parasitology.

Advances in research on the prenatal development of skeletal muscle in animals in relation to the quality of muscle-based food. I. Regulation of myogenesis and environmental impact (2011)
Journal Article
Rehfeldt, C., Te Pas, M. F., Wimmers, K., Brameld, J. M., Nissen, P. M., Berri, C., …Oksbjerg, N. (2011). Advances in research on the prenatal development of skeletal muscle in animals in relation to the quality of muscle-based food. I. Regulation of myogenesis and environmental impact. animal, 5(5), 703-717. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1751731110002089

Skeletal muscle development in vertebrates - also termed myogenesis - is a highly integrated process. Evidence to date indicates that the processes are very similar across mammals, poultry and fish, although the timings of the various steps differ co... Read More about Advances in research on the prenatal development of skeletal muscle in animals in relation to the quality of muscle-based food. I. Regulation of myogenesis and environmental impact.

Designing difficult office space allocation problem instances with mathematical programming (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Ulker, O., & Landa-Silva, D. (2011). Designing difficult office space allocation problem instances with mathematical programming.

Office space allocation (OSA) refers to the assignment of room space to a set of entities (people, machines, roles, etc.), with the goal of optimising the space utilisation while satisfying a set of additional constraints. In this paper, a mathematic... Read More about Designing difficult office space allocation problem instances with mathematical programming.

Seeing a phrase “time and again” matters: the role of phrasal frequency in the processing of multiword sequences (2011)
Journal Article
Siyanova-Chanturia, A., Conklin, K., & van Heuven, W. J. (2011). Seeing a phrase “time and again” matters: the role of phrasal frequency in the processing of multiword sequences. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 37(3), https://doi.org/10.1037/a0022531

Are speakers sensitive to the frequency with which phrases occur in language. The authors report an eye-tracking study that investigates this by examining the processing of multiword sequences that differ in phrasal frequency by native and proficient... Read More about Seeing a phrase “time and again” matters: the role of phrasal frequency in the processing of multiword sequences.

Comparing hybrid constructive heuristics for university course timetabling (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Landa-Silva, D., & Obit, J. H. (2011). Comparing hybrid constructive heuristics for university course timetabling.

This extended abstract outlines four hybrid heuristics to generate initial solutions to the University course timetabling problem. These hybrid approaches combine graph colouring heuristics and local search in different ways. Results of experiments u... Read More about Comparing hybrid constructive heuristics for university course timetabling.

Into the wild: challenges and opportunities for field trial methods (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Brown, B., Reeves, S., & Sherwood, S. (2011). Into the wild: challenges and opportunities for field trial methods.

Field trials of experimental systems `in the wild' have developed into a standard method within HCI - testing new systems with groups of users in relatively unconstrained settings outside of the laboratory. In this paper we discuss methodological cha... Read More about Into the wild: challenges and opportunities for field trial methods.

Asynchrony adaptation reveals neural population code for audio-visual timing (2011)
Journal Article
Roach, N. W., Heron, J., Whitaker, D., & McGraw, P. V. (2011). Asynchrony adaptation reveals neural population code for audio-visual timing. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 278(1710), https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2010.1737

The relative timing of auditory and visual stimuli is a critical cue for determining whether sensory signals relate to a common source and for making inferences about causality. However, the way in which the brain represents temporal relationships re... Read More about Asynchrony adaptation reveals neural population code for audio-visual timing.