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Researching the lived experiences of cancer patients with malignant fungating wounds (2015)
Journal Article
Rowan, S., Moffatt, C., & Olden, A. (2015). Researching the lived experiences of cancer patients with malignant fungating wounds. International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 21(12), https://doi.org/10.12968/ijpn.2015.21.12.579

Background: Researching the experiences of terminally ill patients with disfiguring wounds is likely to be a challenge anywhere, and this investigation came face-to-face with different attitudes on the part of both patients and nurses and doctors in... Read More about Researching the lived experiences of cancer patients with malignant fungating wounds.

Development, testing and reporting of mobile apps for psycho-social interventions: lessons from the pharmaceuticals (2015)
Journal Article
Naeem, F., Syed, Y., Xiang, S., Shokraneh, F., Munshi, T., Yang, M., …Farooq, S. (2015). Development, testing and reporting of mobile apps for psycho-social interventions: lessons from the pharmaceuticals. https://doi.org/10.4172/2168-9784.1000191

The mobile Health offers great potential for delivery of Psycho-social Interventions. So far, the researchers have focused mainly on efficacy, and to some extent feasibility of Psycho-social Interventions. Poor reporting of development and initial te... Read More about Development, testing and reporting of mobile apps for psycho-social interventions: lessons from the pharmaceuticals.

Private lives and public power: Norwich merchants' houses between the 14th and 16th centuries (2015)
Book Chapter
King, C. (2015). Private lives and public power: Norwich merchants' houses between the 14th and 16th centuries. In Norwich: medieval and early modern art, architecture and archaeology. Maney Publishing

This chapter discusses the surviving examples of large merchants’ houses in the city of Norwich dating between the 14th and 16th centuries. These were the residences of families who dominated the economic and political life of the medieval and early... Read More about Private lives and public power: Norwich merchants' houses between the 14th and 16th centuries.

Introduction: looking beyond the state (2015)
Book Chapter
Greenwood, A. (2015). Introduction: looking beyond the state. In A. Greenwood (Ed.), Beyond the State: The Colonial Medical Service in British Africa. Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526137074

This chapter auto-critiques the editors early work (Crozier, Practising Colonial Medicine, 2007) for studying the Colonial Medical Service as a distinct entity, founded and run on shared principles, staffed by Europeans and micro-managed from Whiteha... Read More about Introduction: looking beyond the state.

4-Phenylpyridin-2-one Derivatives: A Novel Class of Positive Allosteric Modulator of the M1 Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptor (2015)
Journal Article
Mistry, S. N., Jörg, M., Lim, H., Vinh, N. B., Sexton, P. M., Capuano, B., …Scammells, P. J. (2016). 4-Phenylpyridin-2-one Derivatives: A Novel Class of Positive Allosteric Modulator of the M1 Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptor. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 59(1), 388-409. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jmedchem.5b01562

Positive allosteric modulators (PAMs) of the M1 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor (M1 mAChR) are a promising strategy for the treatment of the cognitive deficits associated with diseases including Alzheimer’s and schizophrenia. Herein, we report the... Read More about 4-Phenylpyridin-2-one Derivatives: A Novel Class of Positive Allosteric Modulator of the M1 Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptor.

Three-dimensional reconstruction of plant shoots from multiple images using an active vision system (2015)
Journal Article
Gibbs, J., Pound, M. P., Wells, D. M., Murchie, E. H., French, A. P., & Pridmore, T. P. (2015). Three-dimensional reconstruction of plant shoots from multiple images using an active vision system

The reconstruction of 3D models of plant shoots is a challenging problem central to the emerging discipline of plant phenomics – the quantitative measurement of plant structure and function. Current approaches are, however, often limited by the use o... Read More about Three-dimensional reconstruction of plant shoots from multiple images using an active vision system.

Ethics of Personalized Information Filtering (2015)
Book Chapter
Carter, C. J., Koene, A., Perez, E., Statache, R., Adolphs, S., O’Malley, C., …McAuley, D. (2015). Ethics of Personalized Information Filtering. In Internet Science (123-132). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18609-2_10

Online search engines, social media, news sites and retailers are all investing heavily in the development of ever more refined information filtering to optimally tune their services to the specific demands of their individual users and customers. In... Read More about Ethics of Personalized Information Filtering.

H-ATLAS/GAMA: quantifying the morphological evolution of the galaxy population using cosmic calorimetry (2015)
Journal Article
Eales, S., Fullard, A., Allen, M., Smith, M., Baldry, I., Bourne, N., …Serjeant, S. (2015). H-ATLAS/GAMA: quantifying the morphological evolution of the galaxy population using cosmic calorimetry. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 452(4), 3489--3507. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1300

Using results from the Herschel Astrophysical Terrahertz Large-Area Survey (H-ATLAS) and the Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) project, we show that, for galaxy masses above ≃ 108 M⊙, 51 per cent of the stellar mass-density in the local Universe is in... Read More about H-ATLAS/GAMA: quantifying the morphological evolution of the galaxy population using cosmic calorimetry.

Artificial bee colony algorithm with time-varying strategy (2015)
Journal Article
Qin, Q., Cheng, S., Zhang, Q., Li, L., & Shi, Y. (2015). Artificial bee colony algorithm with time-varying strategy. Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 2015, https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/674595

Artificial bee colony (ABC) is one of the newest additions to the class of swarm intelligence. ABC algorithm has been shown to be competitive with some other population-based algorithms. However, there is still an insufficiency that ABC is good at ex... Read More about Artificial bee colony algorithm with time-varying strategy.

The bottom-up formation and maintenance of a Twitter community: analysis of the #FreeJahar Twitter community (2015)
Journal Article
Ch'ng, E. (2015). The bottom-up formation and maintenance of a Twitter community: analysis of the #FreeJahar Twitter community. Industrial Management and Data Systems, 115(4), https://doi.org/10.1108/imds-11-2014-0332

Purpose – The article explores the formation, maintenance and disintegration of a fringe Twitter community in order to understand if offline community structure applies to online communities Design/methodology/approach – The research adopted Big Data... Read More about The bottom-up formation and maintenance of a Twitter community: analysis of the #FreeJahar Twitter community.

An investigation into the geometric parameters affecting field uniformity in four pole magnetisers (2015)
Journal Article
Bartolo, J. B., Klimczyk, P., Tiwisina, K., Denke, P., Siebert, S., & Gerada, C. (2015). An investigation into the geometric parameters affecting field uniformity in four pole magnetisers. International Journal of Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics, 48(2,3), https://doi.org/10.3233/JAE-151992

In recent years, the field-metric method for measuring the joule losses set up in an electrical steel laminate when subjected to a rotating field has gained popularity. The ideal geometry of the magnetiser required to set up such a field is still how... Read More about An investigation into the geometric parameters affecting field uniformity in four pole magnetisers.

Preface (2015)
Journal Article
Chen, G. Z. (2015). Preface. Progress in Natural Science, 25(6), 525-526. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pnsc.2015.12.003

Effect of head pitch and roll orientations on magnetically induced vertigo (2015)
Journal Article
Mian, O. S., GLOVER, P., Li, Y., Antunes, A., & Day, B. L. (2016). Effect of head pitch and roll orientations on magnetically induced vertigo. Journal of Physiology, 594(4), 1051-1067. https://doi.org/10.1113/JP271513

High strength static magnetic fields are known to induce vertigo, believed to be via stimulation of the vestibular system. The leading hypothesis (Lorentz forces) predicts that the induced vertigo should depend on the orientation of the magnetic fiel... Read More about Effect of head pitch and roll orientations on magnetically induced vertigo.

Starting antidepressant use: a qualitative synthesis of UK and Australian data (2015)
Journal Article
Anderson, C., Kirkpatrick, S., Ridge, D., Kokanovic, R., & Tanner, C. (2015). Starting antidepressant use: a qualitative synthesis of UK and Australian data. BMJ Open, 5(12), https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-008636

Objective :To explore people's experiences of starting antidepressant treatment. Design :Qualitative interpretive approach combining thematic analysis with constant comparison. Relevant coding reports from the original studies (generated using NVi... Read More about Starting antidepressant use: a qualitative synthesis of UK and Australian data.

Beyond National Literatures: Empire and Amitav Ghosh (2015)
Book Chapter
Maxey, R. (2015). Beyond National Literatures: Empire and Amitav Ghosh. The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature (567-582). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CHO9781107284289.034

An investigation on thermoelastic damping of high-Q ring resonators (2015)
Journal Article
Hossain, S. T., McWilliam, S., & Popov, A. A. (2016). An investigation on thermoelastic damping of high-Q ring resonators. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 106, 209-219. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2015.12.023

For applications requiring high performance angular rate measurements it is important to be able to design MEMS rate sensors with high quality factors (Q). This paper considers ring resonator based rate sensors and investigates the influence of desig... Read More about An investigation on thermoelastic damping of high-Q ring resonators.

Leaching as a pretreatment process to complement torrefaction in improving co-firing characteristics of Jatropha curcas seed cake (2015)
Journal Article
Madanayake, B. N., Gan, S., Eastwick, C., & Ng, H. K. (2016). Leaching as a pretreatment process to complement torrefaction in improving co-firing characteristics of Jatropha curcas seed cake. Waste and Biomass Valorization, 7(3), 559-569. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12649-015-9467-z

The presence of certain inorganic elements in biomass causes issues such as slagging, fouling and corrosion when co-firing with coal for power generation. In this work, the efficacy of leaching to remove these elements from Jatropha curcas seed cake... Read More about Leaching as a pretreatment process to complement torrefaction in improving co-firing characteristics of Jatropha curcas seed cake.

Citrullinated vimentin presented on MHC-II in tumor cells is a target for CD4+ T-cell-mediated antitumor immunity (2015)
Journal Article
Brentville, V. A., Metheringham, R. L., Gunn, B., Symonds, P., Daniels, I., Gijon, M., …Durrant, L. (2016). Citrullinated vimentin presented on MHC-II in tumor cells is a target for CD4+ T-cell-mediated antitumor immunity. Cancer Research, 76(3), 548-560. https://doi.org/10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-15-1085

Stressful conditions in the harsh tumor microenvironment induce autophagy in cancer cells as a mechanism to promote their survival. However, autophagy also causes post-translational modification of proteins that are recognized by the immune system. I... Read More about Citrullinated vimentin presented on MHC-II in tumor cells is a target for CD4+ T-cell-mediated antitumor immunity.

Inovação responsável através de fronteiras: tensões, paradoxos e possibilidades (2015)
Journal Article
Macnaghten, P., Owen, R., Stilgoe, J., Wynne, B., Azevedo, A., Campo, A. L. S. D., …Wilford, S. (2015). Inovação responsável através de fronteiras: tensões, paradoxos e possibilidades. Psicologia: Teoria e Pesquisa, 24(2), https://doi.org/10.4322/tp.24210

In March 2014 a group of early career researchers and academics from São Paulo state and from the UK met at the University of Campinas to participate in a workshop on ‘Responsible Innovation and the Governance of Socially Controversial Technologies’.... Read More about Inovação responsável através de fronteiras: tensões, paradoxos e possibilidades.

Systematic review of randomised controlled trials of interventions that aim to reduce the risk, either directly or indirectly, of overweight and obesity in infancy and early childhood (2015)
Journal Article
Redsell, S. A., Edmonds, B., Swift, J. A., Siriwardena, A. N., Weng, S., Nathan, D., & Glazebrook, C. (2016). Systematic review of randomised controlled trials of interventions that aim to reduce the risk, either directly or indirectly, of overweight and obesity in infancy and early childhood. Maternal and Child Nutrition, 12(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.12184

The risk factors for childhood overweight and obesity are known and can be identified antenatally or during infancy, however, the majority of effective interventions are designed for older children. This review identified interventions designed to re... Read More about Systematic review of randomised controlled trials of interventions that aim to reduce the risk, either directly or indirectly, of overweight and obesity in infancy and early childhood.