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Playing with Poetry: Poetic Representation of Research in Children’s Geographies of Nature and Adventurous Play (2018)
Journal Article
Coen, S. E., Tillmann, S., Ergler, C. R., McGuire, C., & Gilliland, J. A. (2018). Playing with Poetry: Poetic Representation of Research in Children’s Geographies of Nature and Adventurous Play. Geohumanities, 4(2), 557-575. https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566x.2018.1516956

In this article, we undertake a methodological and creative exploration of poetic representation in children’s geographies. Drawing on qualitative approaches to poetry as a method, we consider how poetic techniques have the potential to bring us into... Read More about Playing with Poetry: Poetic Representation of Research in Children’s Geographies of Nature and Adventurous Play.

Beyond the compulsory: a critical exploration of the experiences of extracurricular activity and employability in a northern red brick university (2018)
Journal Article
Hordósy, R., & Clark, T. (2018). Beyond the compulsory: a critical exploration of the experiences of extracurricular activity and employability in a northern red brick university. Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 23(3), 414-435. https://doi.org/10.1080/13596748.2018.1490094

© 2018, © 2018 Association for Research in Post‐Compulsory Education (ARPCE). There has been an increasing emphasis placed on the skills and attributes that university students develop whilst studying for their degree. These ‘narratives of employabil... Read More about Beyond the compulsory: a critical exploration of the experiences of extracurricular activity and employability in a northern red brick university.

Towards the cold atom analog false vacuum (2018)
Journal Article
Braden, J., Johnson, M. C., Peiris, H. V., & Weinfurtner, S. (2018). Towards the cold atom analog false vacuum. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2018(7), https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep07%282018%29014

Analog condensed matter systems present an exciting opportunity to simulate early Universe models in table-top experiments. We consider a recent proposal for an analog condensed matter experiment to simulate the relativistic quantum decay of the fals... Read More about Towards the cold atom analog false vacuum.

Lamb wave-based damage indicator for plate-like structures (2018)
Journal Article
Cantero-Chinchilla, S., Chiachío-Ruano, J., Chiachío-Ruano, M., Etxaniz, J., Aranguren, G., Jones, A., …Martin De La Escalera, F. (2018). Lamb wave-based damage indicator for plate-like structures. European Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society, 4(1),

Structural health monitoring based on ultrasonics typically involves complex data analysis. Ultrasound monitoring based on Lamb waves techniques are extensively used nowadays due to their efficiency in exploring large areas with relatively small atte... Read More about Lamb wave-based damage indicator for plate-like structures.

Direct Application of Convolutional Neural Network Features to Image Quality Assessment (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Hou, X., Sun, K., Liu, B., Gong, Y., Garibaldi, J., & Qiu, G. (2018). Direct Application of Convolutional Neural Network Features to Image Quality Assessment. In 2018 IEEE Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP). https://doi.org/10.1109/VCIP.2018.8698726

© 2018 IEEE. We take advantage of the popularity of deep con-volutional neural networks (CNNs) and have developed a very simple image quality assessment method that rivals state of the art. We show that convolutional layer outputs (deep features) of... Read More about Direct Application of Convolutional Neural Network Features to Image Quality Assessment.

The impact of immobilisation and inflammation on the regulation of muscle mass and insulin resistance: different routes to similar end points (2018)
Journal Article
Crossland, H., Skirrow, S., Puthucheary, Z. A., Constantin-Teodosiu, D., & Greenhaff, P. L. (2018). The impact of immobilisation and inflammation on the regulation of muscle mass and insulin resistance: different routes to similar end points. Journal of Physiology, 597(5), 1259-1270. https://doi.org/10.1113/jp275444

Loss of muscle mass and insulin sensitivity are common phenotypic traits of immobilisation and increased inflammatory burden. The suppression of muscle protein synthesis is the primary driver of muscle mass loss in human immobilisation, and includes... Read More about The impact of immobilisation and inflammation on the regulation of muscle mass and insulin resistance: different routes to similar end points.

Novel inflammatory cell infiltration scoring system to investigate healthy and footrot affected ovine interdigital skin (2018)
Journal Article
Agbaje, M., Rutland, C. S., Maboni, G., Blanchard, A., Bexon, M., Stewart, C., …Totemeyer, S. (2018). Novel inflammatory cell infiltration scoring system to investigate healthy and footrot affected ovine interdigital skin. PeerJ, 6, Article e5097. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5097

Ovine footrot is a degenerative disease of sheep feet leading to the separation of hoofhorn from the underlying skin and lameness. This study quantitatively examined histological features of the ovine interdigital skin as well as their relationship w... Read More about Novel inflammatory cell infiltration scoring system to investigate healthy and footrot affected ovine interdigital skin.

Effect of sugar and acid composition, aroma release and assessment conditions on aroma enhancement by taste in model wines (2018)
Journal Article
Arvisenet, G., Ballester, J., Ayed, C., Sémon, E., Andriot, I., Le Quere, J., & Guichard, E. (in press). Effect of sugar and acid composition, aroma release and assessment conditions on aroma enhancement by taste in model wines. Food Quality and Preference, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2018.07.001

Context: When congruent taste and retronasal aroma are perceived simultaneously, aroma can be enhanced by taste. Different explanations have been proposed: (i) physico-chemical interactions between tastants and aroma compounds, inducing a change of t... Read More about Effect of sugar and acid composition, aroma release and assessment conditions on aroma enhancement by taste in model wines.

Fluctuations about the Fubini-Lipatov instanton for false vacuum decay in classically scale invariant models (2018)
Journal Article
Garbrecht, B., & Millington, P. (in press). Fluctuations about the Fubini-Lipatov instanton for false vacuum decay in classically scale invariant models. Physical Review D, 98(1), Article 016001. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.98.016001

For a scalar theory whose classical scale invariance is broken by quantum effects, we compute self-consistent bounce solutions and Green's functions. Deriving analytic expressions, we find that the latter are similar to the Green's functions in the a... Read More about Fluctuations about the Fubini-Lipatov instanton for false vacuum decay in classically scale invariant models.

Getting a grip on sensorimotor effects in lexical–semantic processing (2018)
Journal Article
Heard, A., Madan, C. R., Protzner, A. B., & Pexman, P. M. (2019). Getting a grip on sensorimotor effects in lexical–semantic processing. Behavior Research Methods, 51(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-018-1072-1

One of the strategies that researchers have used to investigate the role of sensorimotor information in lexical-semantic processing is to examine effects of words’ rated body-object interaction (BOI; the ease with which the human body can interact wi... Read More about Getting a grip on sensorimotor effects in lexical–semantic processing.

Development of the Social Participation Restrictions Questionnaire (SPaRQ) through consultation with adults with hearing loss, researchers, and clinicians: a content evaluation study (2018)
Journal Article
Heffernan, E., Coulson, N. S., & Ferguson, M. (in press). Development of the Social Participation Restrictions Questionnaire (SPaRQ) through consultation with adults with hearing loss, researchers, and clinicians: a content evaluation study. International Journal of Audiology, https://doi.org/10.1080/14992027.2018.1483585

Objective - This research aimed to evaluate the content of the Social Participation Restrictions Questionnaire (SPaRQ) in terms of its relevance, clarity, comprehensiveness, acceptability to adults with hearing loss, and responsiveness. Design -... Read More about Development of the Social Participation Restrictions Questionnaire (SPaRQ) through consultation with adults with hearing loss, researchers, and clinicians: a content evaluation study.

A theoretical model of inflammation- and mechanotransduction-driven asthmatic airway remodelling (2018)
Journal Article
Hill, M., Philp, C. J., Billington, C. K., Tatler, A. L., Johnson, S. R., O'Dea, R. D., & Brook, B. S. (2018). A theoretical model of inflammation- and mechanotransduction-driven asthmatic airway remodelling. Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, 17(5), 1451-1470. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10237-018-1037-4

© 2018, The Author(s). Inflammation, airway hyper-responsiveness and airway remodelling are well-established hallmarks of asthma, but their inter-relationships remain elusive. In order to obtain a better understanding of their inter-dependence, we de... Read More about A theoretical model of inflammation- and mechanotransduction-driven asthmatic airway remodelling.

'Hiding in plain sight’: exploring the complexity of sexual safety within an acute mental health setting (2018)
Journal Article
McGarry, J. (2019). 'Hiding in plain sight’: exploring the complexity of sexual safety within an acute mental health setting. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 28(1), 171-180. https://doi.org/10.1111/inm.12514

It is increasingly being recognised that individuals who access acute mental health services are at risk of sexual assault. Assaults may be perpetrated by other patients but also by staff working in mental health environments, although this latter gr... Read More about 'Hiding in plain sight’: exploring the complexity of sexual safety within an acute mental health setting.

An inhaled sGC modulator can lower PH in COPD patients without deteriorating oxygenation (2018)
Journal Article
Saffaran, S., Wang, W., Das, A., Schmitt, W., Becker-Pelster, E., Hardman, J. G., …Bates, D. G. (2018). An inhaled sGC modulator can lower PH in COPD patients without deteriorating oxygenation. CPT: Pharmacometrics and Systems Pharmacology, 7(8), 491-498. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp4.12308

This study uses a highly fidelity computational simulator of pulmonary physiology to evaluate the impact of a soluble guanylate cyclase (sGC) modulator on gas exchange in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and pulmonary hypert... Read More about An inhaled sGC modulator can lower PH in COPD patients without deteriorating oxygenation.

Holocene atmospheric circulation in the central North Pacific: a new terrestrial diatom and δ18O dataset from the Aleutian Islands (2018)
Journal Article
Bailey, H. L., Kaufman, D. S., Sloane, H. J., Hubbard, A. L., Henderson, A. C., Leng, M. J., …Welker, J. M. (2018). Holocene atmospheric circulation in the central North Pacific: a new terrestrial diatom and δ18O dataset from the Aleutian Islands. Quaternary Science Reviews, 194, 27-38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.06.027

The North Pacific is a zone of cyclogenesis that modulates synoptic-scale atmospheric circulation, yet there is a paucity of instrumental and paleoclimate data to fully constrain its long-term state and variability. We present the first Holocene oxyg... Read More about Holocene atmospheric circulation in the central North Pacific: a new terrestrial diatom and δ18O dataset from the Aleutian Islands.