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GaitKeeper: a system for measuring canine gait (2017)
Journal Article
Ladha, C., O’Sullivan, J., Belshaw, Z., & Asher, L. (2017). GaitKeeper: a system for measuring canine gait. Sensors, 17(2), https://doi.org/10.3390/s17020309

It is understood gait has the potential to be used as a window into neurodegenerative disorders, identify markers of subclinical pathology, inform diagnostic algorithms of disease progression and measure the efficacy of interventions. Dogs’ gaits are... Read More about GaitKeeper: a system for measuring canine gait.

Volatile organic compounds sensing with use of fibre optic sensor with long period grating and mesoporous nano-scale coating (2017)
Journal Article
Hromadka, J., Korposh, S., Partridge, M., James, S., Davis, F., Charlton, A., …Tatam, R. (2017). Volatile organic compounds sensing with use of fibre optic sensor with long period grating and mesoporous nano-scale coating. Sensors, 17(2), Article 205. https://doi.org/10.3390/s17020205

A long period grating (LPG) modified with a mesoporous film infused with a calixarene as a functional compound was employed for the detection of individual volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and their mixtures. The mesoporous film consisted of an inor... Read More about Volatile organic compounds sensing with use of fibre optic sensor with long period grating and mesoporous nano-scale coating.

Hemodynamic effects of lung recruitment maneuvers in acute respiratory distress syndrome (2017)
Journal Article
Das, A., Haque, M., Chikhani, M., Cole, O., Wang, W., Hardman, J. G., & Bates, D. G. (2017). Hemodynamic effects of lung recruitment maneuvers in acute respiratory distress syndrome. BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 17(34), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12890-017-0369-7

Background: Clinical trials have, so far, failed to establish clear beneficial outcomes of recruitment maneuvers (RMs) on patient mortality in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), and the effects of RMs on the cardiovascular system remain poor... Read More about Hemodynamic effects of lung recruitment maneuvers in acute respiratory distress syndrome.

"The will's there and the skill's there": prison mental health care (2017)
Book Chapter
Jordan, M. (2017). "The will's there and the skill's there": prison mental health care. In H. Middleton, & M. Jordan (Eds.), Mental health uncertainty and inevitability: rejuvenating the relationship between social science and psychiatry (105-136). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43970-9

This discussion explores some of the data from a social science PhD whose fieldwork took place in a category B, adult male, local and remand prison in England run by Her Majesty’s Prison Service (HMPS). The debate analyses National Health Service (NH... Read More about "The will's there and the skill's there": prison mental health care.

Financial social innovation to engage the economically marginalized: insights from an Indian case study (2017)
Journal Article
Bhatt, P., & Ahmad, A. J. (2017). Financial social innovation to engage the economically marginalized: insights from an Indian case study. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 29(5-6), 391-413. https://doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2017.1287961

© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. New sources of finance within the label of ‘impact investing’ have emerged as mechanisms to promote entrepreneurship within marginalized communities. Different vehicles for impact invest... Read More about Financial social innovation to engage the economically marginalized: insights from an Indian case study.

When time is money: sideline jobs, ancillary income and legislative effort (2017)
Journal Article
Hurka, S., Obholzer, L., & Daniel, W. T. (2018). When time is money: sideline jobs, ancillary income and legislative effort. Journal of European Public Policy, 25(5), 651-669. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2017.1285341

Moonlighting, the pursuit of (paid or unpaid) sideline jobs by democratically elected politicians, regularly evokes public outcry. This study provides an empirical test of the claim that moonlighting goes hand-in-hand with a lower degree of parliamen... Read More about When time is money: sideline jobs, ancillary income and legislative effort.

Lessons from Lysenko (2017)
Book Chapter
Marks, J. (2017). Lessons from Lysenko. In W. deJong-Lambert, & N. Krementsov (Eds.), The Lysenko Controversy As A Global Phenomenon - Volume 2 (185-206). Palgrave MacMillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39179-3_7

This chapter explores the question of whether we can still “learn lessons” from Lysenkoism. Contemporary allusions are often narrowly polemical, usually making the claim that scientific work is being marginalised for non-scientific reasons. However,... Read More about Lessons from Lysenko.

Multi-objective optimisation in inventory planning with supplier selection (2017)
Journal Article
Turk, S., Özcan, E., & John, R. (2017). Multi-objective optimisation in inventory planning with supplier selection. Expert Systems with Applications, 78, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2017.02.014

Supplier selection and inventory planning are critical and challenging tasks in Supply Chain Management. There are many studies on both topics and many solution techniques have been proposed dealing with each problem separately. In this study, we pre... Read More about Multi-objective optimisation in inventory planning with supplier selection.

Genetic variants affecting cross-sectional lung function in adults show little or no effect on longitudinal lung function decline (2017)
Journal Article
John, C., Soler Artigas, M., Hui, J., Nielsen, S. F., Rafaels, N., Paré, P. D., …Tobin, M. D. (2017). Genetic variants affecting cross-sectional lung function in adults show little or no effect on longitudinal lung function decline. Thorax, 72(5), https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2016-208448

Background: Genome-wide association studies have identified numerous genetic regions that influence cross-sectional lung function. Longitudinal decline in lung function also includes a heritable component but the genetic determinants have yet to be d... Read More about Genetic variants affecting cross-sectional lung function in adults show little or no effect on longitudinal lung function decline.

Sterol regulatory element binding protein-1 (SREBP1) gene expression is similarly increased in polycystic ovary syndrome and endometrial cancer (2017)
Journal Article
Shafiee, M. N., Mongan, N. P., Seedhouse, C., Chapman, C., Deen, S., Abu, J., & Atiomo, W. (2017). Sterol regulatory element binding protein-1 (SREBP1) gene expression is similarly increased in polycystic ovary syndrome and endometrial cancer. Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica, 96(5), 556-562. https://doi.org/10.1111/aogs.13106

Introduction: Women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) have a 3-fold higher risk of endometrial cancer (EC). Insulin resistance and hyperlipidaemia may be pertinent factors in the pathogenesis of both conditions. The aim of this study was to inves... Read More about Sterol regulatory element binding protein-1 (SREBP1) gene expression is similarly increased in polycystic ovary syndrome and endometrial cancer.

Band-gaps in long Josephson junctions with periodic phase-shifts (2017)
Journal Article
Ahmad, S., Susanto, H., & Wattis, J. A. (2017). Band-gaps in long Josephson junctions with periodic phase-shifts. Physics Letters A, 381(13), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physleta.2017.01.062

We investigate analytically and numerically a long Josephson junction on an infnite domain, having arbitrary periodic phase shift of k, that is, the so-called 0-k long Josephson junction. The system is described by a one-dimensional sine-Gordon equat... Read More about Band-gaps in long Josephson junctions with periodic phase-shifts.

Recognising barriers to implementation of Blue-Green infrastructure: a Newcastle case study (2017)
Journal Article
O'Donnell, E. C., Lamond, J. E., & Thorne, C. R. (in press). Recognising barriers to implementation of Blue-Green infrastructure: a Newcastle case study. Urban Water Journal, 14(9), https://doi.org/10.1080/1573062X.2017.1279190

There is a recognised need for a fundamental change in how the UK manages urban water and flood risk in response to increasingly frequent rainfall events coupled with planned urban expansion. Approaches centred on ‘living with and making space for wa... Read More about Recognising barriers to implementation of Blue-Green infrastructure: a Newcastle case study.

Differential equation-based specification of turbulence integral length scales for cavity flows (2017)
Journal Article
Jefferson-Loveday, R. J. (2017). Differential equation-based specification of turbulence integral length scales for cavity flows. Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, 139(6), https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4035602

A new modeling approach has been developed that explicitly accounts for expected turbulent eddy length scales in cavity zones. It uses a hybrid approach with Poisson and Hamilton–Jacobi differential equations. These are used to set turbulent length s... Read More about Differential equation-based specification of turbulence integral length scales for cavity flows.

Psychiatric disorders among older prisoners: a systematic review and comparison study against older people in the community (2017)
Journal Article
Di Lorito, C., Völlm, B., & Dening, T. (in press). Psychiatric disorders among older prisoners: a systematic review and comparison study against older people in the community. Aging and Mental Health, 22(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2017.1286453

Objectives: Despite emerging evidence that older prisoners experience poor mental health, literature in this area is still limited. In the present systematic review and meta-analysis, we report on the prevalence of psychiatric disorders among older p... Read More about Psychiatric disorders among older prisoners: a systematic review and comparison study against older people in the community.

Probing the origins of vibrational mode specificity in intramolecular dynamics through picosecond time-resolved photoelectron imaging studies (2017)
Journal Article
Davies, J. A., Whalley, L., & Reid, K. L. (2017). Probing the origins of vibrational mode specificity in intramolecular dynamics through picosecond time-resolved photoelectron imaging studies. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 19(7), 5051-5062. https://doi.org/10.1039/c6cp08132k

We have studied the intramolecular dynamics induced by selective photoexcitation of two near-isoenergetic vibrational states in S1 p-fluorotoluene using picosecond time-resolved photoelectron imaging. We find that similar dynamics ensue following the... Read More about Probing the origins of vibrational mode specificity in intramolecular dynamics through picosecond time-resolved photoelectron imaging studies.

Expression of Aspergillus niger CAZymes is determined by compositional changes in wheat straw generated by hydrothermal or ionic liquid pretreatments (2017)
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Daly, P., van Munster, J. M., Blythe, M. J., Ibbett, R., Kokolski, M., Gaddipati, S., …Archer, D. B. (2017). Expression of Aspergillus niger CAZymes is determined by compositional changes in wheat straw generated by hydrothermal or ionic liquid pretreatments. Biotechnology for Biofuels, 10(1), Article 35. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13068-017-0700-9

Background The capacity of fungi, such as Aspergillus niger, to degrade lignocellulose is harnessed in biotechnology to generate biofuels and high-value compounds from renewable feedstocks. Most feedstocks are currently pretreated to increase enzy... Read More about Expression of Aspergillus niger CAZymes is determined by compositional changes in wheat straw generated by hydrothermal or ionic liquid pretreatments.

Quantification and qualitative effects of different PEGylations on Poly(butyl cyanoacrylate) nanoparticles (2017)
Journal Article
Aslund, A. K., Sulheim, E., Snipstad, S., von Haartman, E., Baghirov, H., Starr, N. J., …Ýrr, M. (in press). Quantification and qualitative effects of different PEGylations on Poly(butyl cyanoacrylate) nanoparticles. Molecular Pharmaceutics, 14(8), https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.6b01085

Protein adsorption on nanoparticles (NPs) used in nanomedicine leads to opsonization and activation of the complement system in blood, which substantially reduces the blood circulation time of NPs. The most commonly used method to avoid protein adsor... Read More about Quantification and qualitative effects of different PEGylations on Poly(butyl cyanoacrylate) nanoparticles.

Diversity, biogeography and conservation of freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionida) in East and Southeast Asia (2017)
Journal Article
Zieritz, A., Bogan, A. E., Froufe, E., Klishko, O., Kondo, T., Kovitvadhi, U., …Zanatta, D. T. (2018). Diversity, biogeography and conservation of freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionida) in East and Southeast Asia. Hydrobiologia, 810(1), 29-44. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-017-3104-8

Recent research efforts have significantly advanced our knowledge on Asian freshwater mussel (Bivalvia: Unionida) diversity and distribution. Here we provide a modern consensus of the diversity, biogeography and conservation of Unionida in the region... Read More about Diversity, biogeography and conservation of freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionida) in East and Southeast Asia.

‘Can we have a child exchange?’ Constructing and subverting the ‘good mother’ through play in Mumsnet Talk (2017)
Journal Article
Mackenzie, J. (2017). ‘Can we have a child exchange?’ Constructing and subverting the ‘good mother’ through play in Mumsnet Talk. Discourse and Society, 28(3), 296-312. https://doi.org/10.1177/0957926516687417

This article uses a feminist poststructuralist approach to explore how contributors to a single thread from the discussion forum of a popular British parenting website, Mumsnet Talk, position themselves as ‘good mothers’. The qualitative analysis tha... Read More about ‘Can we have a child exchange?’ Constructing and subverting the ‘good mother’ through play in Mumsnet Talk.