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Transcriptomic analyses reveal rhythmic and CLOCK-driven pathways in human skeletal muscle (2018)
Journal Article
Perrin, L., Loizides-Mangold, U., Chanon, S., Gobet, C., Hulo, N., Isenegger, L., …Dibner, C. (2018). Transcriptomic analyses reveal rhythmic and CLOCK-driven pathways in human skeletal muscle. eLife, 7, Article e34114. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.34114.001

Circadian regulation of transcriptional processes has a broad impact on cell metabolism. Here, we compared the diurnal transcriptome of human skeletal muscle conducted on serial muscle biopsies in vivo with profiles of human skeletal myotubes synchro... Read More about Transcriptomic analyses reveal rhythmic and CLOCK-driven pathways in human skeletal muscle.

A clinical assessment tool to improve the use of pain relieving treatments in knee osteoarthritis (2018)
Journal Article
Akin-Akinyosoye, K., Frowd, N., Marshall, L., Stocks, J., Fernandes, G., Valdes, A., …Walsh, D. (2018). A clinical assessment tool to improve the use of pain relieving treatments in knee osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 26(Supplement 1), S231-S232. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joca.2018.02.483

Purpose: Approximately 1 in 4 individuals in the UK over the age of 55 experience knee pain (KP), predominantly due to osteoarthritis (OA). Following treatment targeted at the affected knee, pain relief is reported in only 60%–80% of individuals with... Read More about A clinical assessment tool to improve the use of pain relieving treatments in knee osteoarthritis.

Model predictive control for Active-Bridge-Active-Clamp (ABAC) converter (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Chen, L., Tarisciotti, L., Costabeber, A., Gottardo, D., Zanchetta, P., & Wheeler, P. (2018). Model predictive control for Active-Bridge-Active-Clamp (ABAC) converter.

The Dual-Active-Bridge is a well-established isolated, bidirectional DC/DC topology suitable for applications where high efficiency, galvanic isolation and large voltage conversion ratios are required. However, in low voltage high power cases, the ou... Read More about Model predictive control for Active-Bridge-Active-Clamp (ABAC) converter.

Clinical utility of remote platelet function measurement using P-selectin: assessment of aspirin, clopidogrel and prasugrel, and bleeding disorders (2018)
Journal Article
Bath, P. M., May, J., & Heptinstall, S. (2018). Clinical utility of remote platelet function measurement using P-selectin: assessment of aspirin, clopidogrel and prasugrel, and bleeding disorders. Platelets, 29(5), 425-430. https://doi.org/10.1080/09537104.2018.1445839

Vascular diseases such as myocardial infarction and ischaemic stroke are associated with increased platelet function whilst the risk of recurrence is reduced by antiplatelet agents such as aspirin, clopidogrel and prasugrel. However, some patients ex... Read More about Clinical utility of remote platelet function measurement using P-selectin: assessment of aspirin, clopidogrel and prasugrel, and bleeding disorders.

Characteristics and pathways of long-stay patients in high and medium secure settings in England : a secondary publication from a large mixed-methods study (2018)
Journal Article
Völlm, B. A., Edworthy, R., Huband, N., Talbot, E., Majid, S., Holley, J., …Duggan, C. (2018). Characteristics and pathways of long-stay patients in high and medium secure settings in England : a secondary publication from a large mixed-methods study. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 9, Article 140. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00140

Background: Many patients experience extended stays within forensic care, but the characteristics of long-stay patients are poorly understood. Aims: To describe the characteristics of long-stay patients in high and medium secure settings in England.... Read More about Characteristics and pathways of long-stay patients in high and medium secure settings in England : a secondary publication from a large mixed-methods study.

The butanol producing microbe Clostridium beijerinckii NCIMB 14988 manipulated using forward and reverse genetic tools (2018)
Journal Article
Little, G. T., Willson, B. J., Heap, J. T., Winzer, K., & Minton, N. P. (2018). The butanol producing microbe Clostridium beijerinckii NCIMB 14988 manipulated using forward and reverse genetic tools. Biotechnology Journal, https://doi.org/10.1002/biot.201700711

The solventogenic anaerobe Clostridium beijerinckii has potential for use in the sustainable bioconversion of plant-derived carbohydrates into solvents, such as butanol or acetone. However, relatively few strains have been extensively characterised e... Read More about The butanol producing microbe Clostridium beijerinckii NCIMB 14988 manipulated using forward and reverse genetic tools.

Cosmological evolution as squeezing: a toy model for group field cosmology (2018)
Journal Article
Adjei, E., Gielen, S., & Wieland, W. (2018). Cosmological evolution as squeezing: a toy model for group field cosmology. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 35(10), Article 105016. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/aaba11

We present a simple model of quantum cosmology based on the group field theory (GFT) approach to quantum gravity. The model is formulated on a subspace of the GFT Fock space for the quanta of geometry, with a fixed volume per quantum. In this Hilbert... Read More about Cosmological evolution as squeezing: a toy model for group field cosmology.

Dispersive detection of radio-frequency-dressed states (2018)
Journal Article
Jammi, S., Pyragius, T., Bason, M. G., Florez, H. M., & Fernholz, T. (2018). Dispersive detection of radio-frequency-dressed states. Physical Review A, 97(4), Article 043416. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.97.043416

We introduce a method to dispersively detect alkali atoms in radio-frequency dressed states. In particular, we use dressed detection to measure populations and population differences of atoms prepared in their clock states. Linear birefringence of th... Read More about Dispersive detection of radio-frequency-dressed states.

Quantum memory for Rindler supertranslations (2018)
Journal Article
Kolekar, S., & Louko, J. (2018). Quantum memory for Rindler supertranslations. Physical Review D, 97(8), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.97.085012

The Rindler horizon in Minkowski spacetime can be implanted with supertranslation hair by a matter shock wave without planar symmetry, and the hair is observable as a supertranslation memory on the Rindler family of uniformly linearly accelerated obs... Read More about Quantum memory for Rindler supertranslations.

Workload Alerts—Using Physiological Measures of Mental Workload to Provide Feedback During Tasks (2018)
Journal Article
Maior, H. A., Wilson, M. L., & Sharples, S. (2018). Workload Alerts—Using Physiological Measures of Mental Workload to Provide Feedback During Tasks. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 25(2), 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1145/3173380

Feedback is valuable for allowing us to improve on tasks. While retrospective feedback can help us improve for next time, feedback “in action” can allow us to improve the outcome of on-going tasks. In this paper, we use data from functional Near Infr... Read More about Workload Alerts—Using Physiological Measures of Mental Workload to Provide Feedback During Tasks.

A comparison of growth on mercuric chloride for three Lemnaceae species reveals differences in growth dynamics that effect their suitability for use in either monitoring or remediating ecosystems contaminated with mercury (2018)
Journal Article
Yang, J., Li, G., Bishopp, A., Heenatigala, P., Hu, S., Chen, Y., …Hou, H. (2018). A comparison of growth on mercuric chloride for three Lemnaceae species reveals differences in growth dynamics that effect their suitability for use in either monitoring or remediating ecosystems contaminated with mercury. Frontiers in Chemistry, 6(112), https://doi.org/10.3389/fchem.2018.00112

Mercury (Hg) is a toxic heavy metal that can alter the ecological balance when it contaminates aquatic ecosystems. Previously, researchers have used various Lemnaceae species either to monitor and/or remove heavy metals from freshwater systems. As Hg... Read More about A comparison of growth on mercuric chloride for three Lemnaceae species reveals differences in growth dynamics that effect their suitability for use in either monitoring or remediating ecosystems contaminated with mercury.

Intracellular replication of Streptococcus pneumoniae inside splenic macrophages serves as a reservoir for septicaemia (2018)
Journal Article
Ercoli, G., Fernandes, V. E., Chung, W. Y., Wanford, J. J., Thomson, S., Bayliss, C. D., …Oggioni, M. R. (2018). Intracellular replication of Streptococcus pneumoniae inside splenic macrophages serves as a reservoir for septicaemia. Nature Microbiology, 3, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-018-0147-1

Bacterial septicaemia is a major cause of mortality, but its pathogenesis remains poorly understood. In experimental pneumococcal murine intravenous infection, an initial reduction of bacteria in the blood is followed hours later by a fatal septicaem... Read More about Intracellular replication of Streptococcus pneumoniae inside splenic macrophages serves as a reservoir for septicaemia.

Evolution of genome architecture in archaea: spontaneous generation of a new chromosome in Haloferax volcanii (2018)
Journal Article
Ausiannikava, D., Mitchell, L., Marriott, H., Smith, V., Hawkins, M., Makarova, K. S., …Allers, T. (2018). Evolution of genome architecture in archaea: spontaneous generation of a new chromosome in Haloferax volcanii. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 35(8), 1855-1868. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msy075

The common ancestry of archaea and eukaryotes is evident in their genome architecture. All eukaryotic and several archaeal genomes consist of multiple chromosomes, each replicated from multiple origins. Three scenarios have been proposed for the evol... Read More about Evolution of genome architecture in archaea: spontaneous generation of a new chromosome in Haloferax volcanii.

Transylvanian Saxon politics and imperial Germany, 1871-1876 (2018)
Journal Article
Kwan, J. (2018). Transylvanian Saxon politics and imperial Germany, 1871-1876. Historical Journal, 61(4), 991-1015. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X17000486

This article investigates the potential influence of the newly formed Imperial Germany on Transylvanian Saxon politics. The Saxons were German-speaking settlers with long traditions of local autonomy and political privileges within the kingdom of Hun... Read More about Transylvanian Saxon politics and imperial Germany, 1871-1876.

End-to-end audiovisual speech recognition (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Petridis, S., Stafylakis, T., Ma, P., Cai, F., Tzimiropoulos, G., & Pantic, M. (2018). End-to-end audiovisual speech recognition.

Several end-to-end deep learning approaches have been recently presented which extract either audio or visual features from the input images or audio signals and perform speech recognition. However, research on end-to-end audiovisual models is very l... Read More about End-to-end audiovisual speech recognition.

Deconstructing the 'older worker': exploring the complexities of subject positioning at the intersection of multiple discourses (2018)
Journal Article
Spedale, S. (2019). Deconstructing the 'older worker': exploring the complexities of subject positioning at the intersection of multiple discourses. Organization, 26(1), 38-54. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508418768072

This study adopts an intersectional approach to explore the complexities and contingencies of subject positioning in the case of an individual older worker. Five deconstruction strategies are applied to an older worker’s account of his experience of... Read More about Deconstructing the 'older worker': exploring the complexities of subject positioning at the intersection of multiple discourses.

Deep word embeddings for visual speech recognition (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Stafylakis, T., & Tzimiropoulos, G. (2018). Deep word embeddings for visual speech recognition.

In this paper we present a deep learning architecture for extracting word embeddings for visual speech recognition. The embeddings summarize the information of the mouth region that is relevant to the problem of word recognition, while suppressing ot... Read More about Deep word embeddings for visual speech recognition.

Quotient inductive-inductive types (2018)
Book Chapter
Altenkirch, T., Capriotti, P., Dijkstra, G., Kraus, N., & Nordvall Forsberg, F. (2018). Quotient inductive-inductive types. In C. Baier, & U. Dal Lago (Eds.), FoSSaCS 2018: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures (293-310). Cham: Springer Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89366-2_16

Higher inductive types (HITs) in Homotopy Type Theory (HoTT) allow the definition of datatypes which have constructors for equalities over the defined type. HITs generalise quotient types and allow to define types which are not sets in the sense of H... Read More about Quotient inductive-inductive types.

Foreign direct investment, unionised labour markets and welfare (2018)
Journal Article
Cao, J., & Mukherjee, A. (2018). Foreign direct investment, unionised labour markets and welfare. International Review of Economics and Finance, 58, 330-339. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iref.2018.04.004

Although empirical evidence on the relationship between labour union and foreign direct investment (FDI) is mixed, the theoretical literature mainly explains the negative relationship between labour union and FDI. We show that a multinational firm ma... Read More about Foreign direct investment, unionised labour markets and welfare.

Effective Police Station Legal Advice - Country Report 2: England and Wales (2018)
Book
Kemp, V. (2018). Effective Police Station Legal Advice - Country Report 2: England and Wales. University of Nottingham

This Country Report for England and Wales has arisen out of a comparative study into police station legal advice, led by Dr Vicky Kemp, University of Nottingham. She received a small grant from the British Academy/Leverhulme to undertake semi-structu... Read More about Effective Police Station Legal Advice - Country Report 2: England and Wales.