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Analysis of root growth from a phenotyping data set using a density-based model (2016)
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Kalogiros, D. I., Adu, M. O., Adu, M. O., White, P. J., Broadley, M. R., Draye, X., …Dupuy, L. X. (2016). Analysis of root growth from a phenotyping data set using a density-based model. Journal of Experimental Botany, 67(4), 1045-1058. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erv573

Major research efforts are targeting the improved performance of root systems for more efficient use of water and nutrients by crops. However, characterizing root system architecture (RSA) is challenging, because roots are difficult objects to observ... Read More about Analysis of root growth from a phenotyping data set using a density-based model.

SiC power MOSFETs performance, robustness and technology maturity (2016)
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Castellazzi, A., Fayyaz, A., Romano, G., Yang, L., Riccio, M., & Irace, A. (2016). SiC power MOSFETs performance, robustness and technology maturity. Microelectronics Reliability, 58, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.microrel.2015.12.034

Relatively recently, SiC power MOSFETs have transitioned from being a research exercise to becoming an industrial reality. The potential benefits that can be drawn from this technology in the electrical energy conversion domain have been amply discus... Read More about SiC power MOSFETs performance, robustness and technology maturity.

A sensing mechanism for the detection of carbon nanotubes using selective photoluminescent probes based on ionic complexes with organic dyes (2016)
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Lutsyk, P., Arif, R., Hruby, J., Bukivskyi, A., Vinijchuk, O., Shandura, M., …Rozhin, A. (2016). A sensing mechanism for the detection of carbon nanotubes using selective photoluminescent probes based on ionic complexes with organic dyes. Light: Science and Applications, 5, Article e16028. https://doi.org/10.1038/lsa.2016.28

© 2016 CIOMP. All rights reserved. The multifunctional properties of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) make them a powerful platform for unprecedented innovations in a variety of practical applications. As a result of the surging growth of nanotechnology, nano... Read More about A sensing mechanism for the detection of carbon nanotubes using selective photoluminescent probes based on ionic complexes with organic dyes.

How do different stakeholders utilise the same data? The case of school leavers’ and graduates’ information systems in three European countries (2016)
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Hordósy, R. (2017). How do different stakeholders utilise the same data? The case of school leavers’ and graduates’ information systems in three European countries. International Journal of Research and Method in Education, 40(4), 403-420. https://doi.org/10.1080/1743727x.2016.1144740

This paper analyses how three European countries produce and use data within a specific educational policy field, that of school leaving and graduation. It compares how stakeholders in England, Finland and the Netherlands know what happens to the lea... Read More about How do different stakeholders utilise the same data? The case of school leavers’ and graduates’ information systems in three European countries.

Specific allergen immunotherapy for the treatment of atopic eczema (2016)
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Tam, H., Calderon, M. A., Manikam, L., Nankervis, H., Núñez, I. G., Williams, H. C., & Boyle, R. (2016). Specific allergen immunotherapy for the treatment of atopic eczema. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Article CD008774. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD008774.pub2

BACKGROUND: Specific allergen immunotherapy (SIT) is a treatment that may improve disease severity in people with atopic eczema (AE) by inducing immune tolerance to the relevant allergen. A high quality systematic review has not previously assess... Read More about Specific allergen immunotherapy for the treatment of atopic eczema.

PP1 initiates the dephosphorylation of MASTL, triggering mitotic exit and bistability in human cells (2016)
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Rogers, S., Fey, D., McCloy, R. A., Parker, B. L., Mitchell, N. J., Payne, R. J., …Burgess, A. (2016). PP1 initiates the dephosphorylation of MASTL, triggering mitotic exit and bistability in human cells. Journal of Cell Science, 129(7), 1340-1354. https://doi.org/10.1242/jcs.179754

Entry into mitosis is driven by the phosphorylation of thousands of substrates, under the master control of Cdk1. During entry into mitosis, Cdk1, in collaboration with MASTL kinase, represses the activity of the major mitotic protein phosphatases, P... Read More about PP1 initiates the dephosphorylation of MASTL, triggering mitotic exit and bistability in human cells.

Colonic response to laxative ingestion as assessed by MRI differs in constipated irritable bowel syndrome compared to functional constipation (2016)
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Lam, C., Chaddock, G., Marciani, L., Costigan, C., Paul, J., Cox, E., …Spiller, R. C. (2016). Colonic response to laxative ingestion as assessed by MRI differs in constipated irritable bowel syndrome compared to functional constipation. Neurogastroenterology and Motility, 28(6), https://doi.org/10.1111/nmo.12784

Background Functional constipation (FC) and irritable bowel syndrome with constipation (IBS-C) share many symptoms but underlying mechanisms may be different. We have developed a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique to measure intestinal vol... Read More about Colonic response to laxative ingestion as assessed by MRI differs in constipated irritable bowel syndrome compared to functional constipation.

Surface microstructuring to modify wettability for 3D printing of nano-filled inks (2016)
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Vafaei, S., Tuck, C., Ashcroft, I., & Wildman, R. D. (2016). Surface microstructuring to modify wettability for 3D printing of nano-filled inks. Chemical Engineering Research and Design, 109, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cherd.2016.02.004

This paper investigates the effect of surface wettability on the cross-sectional profiles of printed nanofluid inks which can have a significant role on conductivity of printed lines that are used in the production of printed electronics. Glass subst... Read More about Surface microstructuring to modify wettability for 3D printing of nano-filled inks.

MT4WS: an automated metamorphic testing system for web services (2016)
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Sun, C. A., Wang, G., Wen, Q., Towey, D., & Chen, T. Y. (in press). MT4WS: an automated metamorphic testing system for web services. International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking, 9(1/2), https://doi.org/10.1504/IJHPCN.2016.074663

The use of web services has been growing significantly, with increasingly large numbers of applications being implemented through the web. A difficulty associated with this development is the quality assurance of these services, specifically the chal... Read More about MT4WS: an automated metamorphic testing system for web services.

When “He” can also be “She”: an ERP study of reflexive pronoun resolution in written mandarin Chinese (2016)
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Su, J., Molinaro, N., Gillon-Dowens, M., Tsai, P., Wu, D. H., & Carreiras, M. (2016). When “He” can also be “She”: an ERP study of reflexive pronoun resolution in written mandarin Chinese. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00151

The gender information in written Chinese third person pronouns is not symmetrically encoded: the character for "he" (, with semantic radical , meaning human) is used as a default referring to every individual, while the character for "she" (, with s... Read More about When “He” can also be “She”: an ERP study of reflexive pronoun resolution in written mandarin Chinese.

Synthesis of quaternary aryl phosphonium salts: photoredox-mediated phosphine arylation (2016)
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Fearnley, A., An, J., Jackson, M., Lindovska, P., & Denton, R. (2016). Synthesis of quaternary aryl phosphonium salts: photoredox-mediated phosphine arylation. Chemical Communications, 52, https://doi.org/10.1039/C6CC00556J

We report a synthesis method for the construction of quaternary aryl phoshonium salts at ambient temperature. The regiospecific reaction invovles the coupling of phosphines with aryl radicals derived from diaryliodonium salts under photoredox conditi... Read More about Synthesis of quaternary aryl phosphonium salts: photoredox-mediated phosphine arylation.

Validation of the Vitiligo Noticeability Scale: a patient-reported outcome measure of Vitiligo treatment success (2016)
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Batchelor, J., Tan, W., Tour, S., Yong, A., Montgomery, A. A., & Thomas, K. (2016). Validation of the Vitiligo Noticeability Scale: a patient-reported outcome measure of Vitiligo treatment success. British Journal of Dermatology, 174(2), https://doi.org/10.1111/bjd.14208

Background: Patient-reported outcome measures are rarely used in vitiligo trials. The Vitiligo Noticeability Scale (VNS) is a new patient-reported outcome measure assessing how ‘noticeable’ the vitiligo patches are after treatment. The noticeabilit... Read More about Validation of the Vitiligo Noticeability Scale: a patient-reported outcome measure of Vitiligo treatment success.

Sub-percent constraints on cosmological temperature evolution (2016)
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Avgoustidis, A., Genova-Santos, R. .., Luzzi, G., & Martins, C. (2016). Sub-percent constraints on cosmological temperature evolution. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 93(4), Article 043521. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.93.043521

The redshift dependence of the cosmic microwave background temperature is one of the key cosmological observables. In the standard cosmological model one has T (z) = T0(1 + z), where T0 is the present-day temperature. Deviations from this behavior wo... Read More about Sub-percent constraints on cosmological temperature evolution.

A Breathing Zirconium Metal-Organic Framework with Reversible Loss of Crystallinity by Correlated Nanodomain Formation (2016)
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Bueken, B., Vermoortele, F., Cliffe, M. J., Wharmby, M. T., Foucher, D., Wieme, J., …De Vos, D. (2016). A Breathing Zirconium Metal-Organic Framework with Reversible Loss of Crystallinity by Correlated Nanodomain Formation. Chemistry - A European Journal, 22(10), 3264-3267. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201600330

The isoreticular analogue of the metal–organic framework UiO‐66(Zr), synthesized with the flexible trans‐1,4‐cyclohexanedicarboxylic acid as linker, shows a peculiar breathing behavior by reversibly losing long‐range crystalline order upon evacuation... Read More about A Breathing Zirconium Metal-Organic Framework with Reversible Loss of Crystallinity by Correlated Nanodomain Formation.

Reduced Ets domain-containing protein Elk1 promotes pulmonary fibrosis via increased integrin ?v?6 expression (2016)
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Tatler, A. L., Habgood, A., Porte, J., John, A. E., Stavrou, A., Hodge, E., …Jenkins, G. (2016). Reduced Ets domain-containing protein Elk1 promotes pulmonary fibrosis via increased integrin αvβ6 expression. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 291(18), 9540-9553. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M115.692368

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a progressive fibrotic lung disease with high mortality. Active TGF?1 is considered central to the pathogenesis of IPF. A major mechanism of TGF?1 activation in the lung involves the epithelially restricted ?v?6... Read More about Reduced Ets domain-containing protein Elk1 promotes pulmonary fibrosis via increased integrin ?v?6 expression.

Tests of the co-integration rank in VAR models in the presence of a possible break in trend at an unknown point (2016)
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Harris, D., Leybourne, S. J., & Taylor, A. R. (2016). Tests of the co-integration rank in VAR models in the presence of a possible break in trend at an unknown point. Journal of Econometrics, 192(2), 451-467. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2016.02.010

In this paper we consider the problem of testing for the co-integration rank of a vector autoregressive process in the case where a trend break may potentially be present in the data. It is known that un-modelled trend breaks can result in tests whi... Read More about Tests of the co-integration rank in VAR models in the presence of a possible break in trend at an unknown point.

A distributed model predictive control strategy for back-to-back converters (2016)
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Tarisciotti, L., Lo Calzo, G., Gaeta, A., Zanchetta, P., Valencia, F., & Saez, D. (2016). A distributed model predictive control strategy for back-to-back converters. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 63(9), 5867-5878. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIE.2016.2527693

In recent years Model Predictive Control (MPC) has been successfully used for the control of power electronics converters with different topologies and for different applications. MPC offers many advantages over more traditional control techniques su... Read More about A distributed model predictive control strategy for back-to-back converters.