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The inhibition of human lung fibroblast proliferation and differentiation by Gs-coupled receptors is not predicted by the magnitude of cAMP response (2018)
Journal Article
Roberts, M. J., Broome, R. E., Kent, T. C., Charlton, S. J., & Rosethorne, E. M. (2018). The inhibition of human lung fibroblast proliferation and differentiation by Gs-coupled receptors is not predicted by the magnitude of cAMP response. Respiratory Research, 19, Article 56. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12931-018-0759-2

Background Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is 22 a chronic and progressive fibrotic lung disease for which there is no cure. Current therapeutics are only able to slow disease progression, therefore there is a need to explore alternative, novel t... Read More about The inhibition of human lung fibroblast proliferation and differentiation by Gs-coupled receptors is not predicted by the magnitude of cAMP response.

Facilitating customer adherence to complex services through multi-interface interactions: the case of a weight loss service (2018)
Journal Article
Temerak, M., Winklhofer, H., & Hibbert, S. (2018). Facilitating customer adherence to complex services through multi-interface interactions: the case of a weight loss service. Journal of Business Research, 88, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2018.03.029

Today’s communication landscape affords multiple service interfaces to promote customer engagement (i.e. adherence) with complex and prolonged services, but understanding of how customers use them is limited. This study compares personal and non-pers... Read More about Facilitating customer adherence to complex services through multi-interface interactions: the case of a weight loss service.

Assessment of milk fat content in fat blends by 13 C NMR spectroscopy analysis of butyrate (2018)
Journal Article
Sacchi, R., Paduano, A., Caporaso, N., Picariello, G., Romano, R., & Addeo, F. (2018). Assessment of milk fat content in fat blends by 13 C NMR spectroscopy analysis of butyrate. Food Control, 91, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodcont.2018.04.011

Butyric acid (butyrate) is a candidate marker of milk fat in complex fat blends, since it is exclusive of milk triacylglycerols (TAGs) from different ruminant species. In this work, we determined the amount of milk fat used for the preparation of fat... Read More about Assessment of milk fat content in fat blends by 13 C NMR spectroscopy analysis of butyrate.

Testing star formation laws in a starburst galaxy at redshift 3 resolved with ALMA (2018)
Journal Article
Sharda, P., Federrath, C., da Cunha, E., Swinbank, A., & Dye, S. (2018). Testing star formation laws in a starburst galaxy at redshift 3 resolved with ALMA. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 477(4), 4380-4390. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty886

Using high-resolution (sub-kiloparsec scale) data obtained by ALMA, we analyse the star formation rate (SFR), gas content, and kinematics in SDP 81, a gravitationally lensed starburst galaxy at redshift 3. We estimate the SFR surface density (ΣSFR) i... Read More about Testing star formation laws in a starburst galaxy at redshift 3 resolved with ALMA.

Characterizing Microstructural Tissue Properties in Multiple Sclerosis with Diffusion MRI at 7?T and 3?T: The Impact of the Experimental Design (2018)
Journal Article
De Santis, S., Bastiani, M., Droby, A., Kolber, P., Zipp, F., Pracht, E., …Roebroeck, A. (2019). Characterizing Microstructural Tissue Properties in Multiple Sclerosis with Diffusion MRI at 7 T and 3 T: The Impact of the Experimental Design. Neuroscience, 403, 17-26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2018.03.048

© 2018 The Author(s) The recent introduction of advanced magnetic resonance (MR) imaging techniques to characterize focal and global degeneration in multiple sclerosis (MS), like the Composite Hindered and Restricted Model of Diffusion, or CHARMED, d... Read More about Characterizing Microstructural Tissue Properties in Multiple Sclerosis with Diffusion MRI at 7?T and 3?T: The Impact of the Experimental Design.

Operation principles of quasi Z-source modular multilevel converters (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Khera, F. A., Klumpner, C., & Wheeler, P. W. (2018). Operation principles of quasi Z-source modular multilevel converters. In Proceedings 2017 IEEE Southern Power Electronics Conference (SPEC) (1-6). https://doi.org/10.1109/SPEC.2017.8333617

This paper proposes the integration of a quasi Z-source network with a modular multilevel converter (MMC) to provide voltage boost capability. The proposed quasi-Z-source MMC uses two symmetrical networks of inductors and capacitors connected between... Read More about Operation principles of quasi Z-source modular multilevel converters.

The clinical effectiveness and cost effectiveness of lamotrigine for people with borderline personality disorder: a randomized, placebo-controlled trial (2018)
Journal Article
Crawford, M. J., Sanatinia, R., Barrett, B., Cunningham, G., Dale, O., Ganguli, P., …Reilly, J. G. (2018). The clinical effectiveness and cost effectiveness of lamotrigine for people with borderline personality disorder: a randomized, placebo-controlled trial. American Journal of Psychiatry, 175(8), 756-764. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2018.17091006

Objectives: To examine whether lamotrigine is a clinically effective and cost-effective treatment for people with borderline personality disorder. Method: Multicentre, double-blind, placebo-controlled randomized trial. Between July 2013 to Novembe... Read More about The clinical effectiveness and cost effectiveness of lamotrigine for people with borderline personality disorder: a randomized, placebo-controlled trial.

Yellow-sticker shopping as competent, creative consumption (2018)
Journal Article
Kelsey, S., Morris, C., & Crewe, L. (2019). Yellow-sticker shopping as competent, creative consumption. Area, 51(1), 64-71. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12435

This paper presents the preliminary findings of an empirical study into a specific and novel form of contemporary consumption: ‘yellow sticker shopping’. This type of consumption involves the active targeting for purchase of food products that have b... Read More about Yellow-sticker shopping as competent, creative consumption.

A case study investigation into the effects of spatially dependent convection coefficients on the fatigue response of a power plant header component (2018)
Journal Article
Rouse, J., Zacharzewski, P., Hyde, C., Jefferson-Loveday, R. J., Morris, A., & Kyaw, S. (2018). A case study investigation into the effects of spatially dependent convection coefficients on the fatigue response of a power plant header component. International Journal of Fatigue, 113, 137-148. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijfatigue.2018.03.032

Societal and environmental pressures are forcing thermal power plant operators to deviate greatly from the generation strategies of the past. The application of high frequency start up/shut down/partial load cycles to components that may well be outs... Read More about A case study investigation into the effects of spatially dependent convection coefficients on the fatigue response of a power plant header component.

A two-dimensional, two-level framework for achieving corporate sustainable development : assessing the return on sustainability initiatives (2018)
Journal Article
Wu, L., Subramanian, N., Gunasekaran, A., Pawar, K., Doran, D., & Dan‐Asabe Abdulrahman, M. (2018). A two-dimensional, two-level framework for achieving corporate sustainable development : assessing the return on sustainability initiatives. Business Strategy and the Environment, 27(8), 1117-1130. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.2055

Sustainability studies in operations management have reported the positive effects of lean, green, and social management systems on various dimensions of a firm’s sustainability performance. However, despite its high importance and relevance, the tim... Read More about A two-dimensional, two-level framework for achieving corporate sustainable development : assessing the return on sustainability initiatives.

Medical revalidation as professional regulatory reform: challenging the power of enforceable trust in the United Kingdom (2018)
Journal Article
Spendlove, Z. (2018). Medical revalidation as professional regulatory reform: challenging the power of enforceable trust in the United Kingdom. Social Science and Medicine, 205, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.04.004

For more than two decades, international healthcare crises and ensuing political debates have led to increasing professional governance and regulatory policy reform. Governance and policy reforms, commonly representing a shift from embodied trust in... Read More about Medical revalidation as professional regulatory reform: challenging the power of enforceable trust in the United Kingdom.

Measuring sustainable intensification: combining composite indicators and efficiency analysis to account for positive externalities in cereal production (2018)
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Areal, F. J., Jones, P. J., Mortimer, S. R., & Wilson, P. (2018). Measuring sustainable intensification: combining composite indicators and efficiency analysis to account for positive externalities in cereal production. Land Use Policy, 75, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.04.001

We combine the use of a stochastic frontier analysis framework and composite indicators for farm provision of environmental goods to obtain a farm level composite indicator reflecting sustainable intensification. The novel sustainable intensification... Read More about Measuring sustainable intensification: combining composite indicators and efficiency analysis to account for positive externalities in cereal production.

A thermodynamically-based viscoelastic-viscoplastic model for the high temperature cyclic behaviour of 9-12% Cr steels (2018)
Journal Article
Benaarbia, A., Rouse, J. P., & Sun, W. (2018). A thermodynamically-based viscoelastic-viscoplastic model for the high temperature cyclic behaviour of 9-12% Cr steels. International Journal of Plasticity, 107, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijplas.2018.03.015

Improving the understanding of the long term rate dependent behaviour of materials is of critical importance in many engineering applications. Without this understanding, it is potentially difficult to ensure safe and effective plant operation while... Read More about A thermodynamically-based viscoelastic-viscoplastic model for the high temperature cyclic behaviour of 9-12% Cr steels.

Oral ketamine vs placebo in patients with cancer-related neuropathic pain (2018)
Journal Article
Fallon, M. T., Wilcock, A., Kelly, C. A., Paul, J., Lewsley, L., Norrie, J., & Laird, B. J. A. (2018). Oral ketamine vs placebo in patients with cancer-related neuropathic pain. JAMA Oncology, 4(6), 870-872. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamaoncol.2018.0131

Ketamine hydrochloride is used as an adjuvant treatment for cancer-related neuropathic pain, but evidence of its effectiveness is limited.1 Findings of a large trial investigating the use of ketamine for general cancer pain were negative, but the pop... Read More about Oral ketamine vs placebo in patients with cancer-related neuropathic pain.

Identification of lipases with activity towards monoacylglycerol by criterion of conserved cap architectures (2018)
Journal Article
Riegler-Berket, L., Leitmeier, A., Aschauer, P., Dreveny, I., & Oberer, M. (in press). Identification of lipases with activity towards monoacylglycerol by criterion of conserved cap architectures. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids, 1863(7),

Monoacylglycerol lipases (MGL) are a subclass of lipases that predominantly hydrolyze monoacylglycerol (MG) into glycerol and fatty acid. MGLs are ubiquitous enzymes across species and play a role in lipid metabolism, affecting energy homeostasis and... Read More about Identification of lipases with activity towards monoacylglycerol by criterion of conserved cap architectures.

Clinical diagnostic model for sciatica developed in primary care patients with low back-related leg pain (2018)
Journal Article
Stynes, S., Konstantinou, K., Ogollah, R. O., Hay, E. M., & Dunn, K. M. (2018). Clinical diagnostic model for sciatica developed in primary care patients with low back-related leg pain. PLoS ONE, 13(4), Article e0191852. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0191852

Background Identification of sciatica may assist timely management but can be challenging in clinical practice. Diagnostic models to identify sciatica have mainly been developed in secondary care settings with conflicting reference standard select... Read More about Clinical diagnostic model for sciatica developed in primary care patients with low back-related leg pain.

Plant responses to simulated carbon capture and transport leakage: the effect of impurities in the CO2 gas stream (2018)
Journal Article
Lake, J. A., & Lomax, B. H. (2018). Plant responses to simulated carbon capture and transport leakage: the effect of impurities in the CO2 gas stream. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 72, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2018.01.013

To deliver an effective transition from a carbon-based 24 to a carbon-free energy market, bridging technologies are required. One such possibility is the use of carbon capture and storage, (CCS). However, before such innovations can be rolled out a k... Read More about Plant responses to simulated carbon capture and transport leakage: the effect of impurities in the CO2 gas stream.

Changes in CO2 during ocean anoxic event 1d indicate similarities to other carbon cycle perturbations (2018)
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Richey, J. D., Upchurch, G., Montañez, I. P., Lomax, B. H., Suarez, M. B., Crout, N. M., …Smith, J. J. (2018). Changes in CO2 during ocean anoxic event 1d indicate similarities to other carbon cycle perturbations. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 491, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2018.03.035

Past greenhouse intervals of the Mesozoic were repeatedly punctuated by Ocean Anoxic Events (OAEs), major perturbations to the global carbon cycle and abrupt climate changes that may serve as relevant analogs for Earth’s greenhouse gas-forced climate... Read More about Changes in CO2 during ocean anoxic event 1d indicate similarities to other carbon cycle perturbations.

South-South migration and the labor market: evidence from South Africa (2018)
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Biavaschi, C., Facchini, G., Mayda, A. M., & Mendola, M. (2018). South-South migration and the labor market: evidence from South Africa. Journal of Economic Geography, 18(4), 823-853. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lby010

Using census data for 1996, 2001 and 2007 we study the labor market effect of immigration to South Africa. We exploit the variation – both at the district and at the national level –in the share of foreign–born male workers across schooling and exper... Read More about South-South migration and the labor market: evidence from South Africa.