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The application of pupillometry in hearing science to assess listening effort (2018)
Journal Article
Naylor, G., Koelewijn, T., Zekveld, A. A., & Kramer, S. E. (2018). The application of pupillometry in hearing science to assess listening effort. Trends in Hearing, 22, 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1177/2331216518799437

In recent years, the fields of Audiology and Cognitive Sciences have seen a burgeoning of research focusing on the assessment of the effort required during listening. Among approaches to this question, the pupil dilation response has shown to be an i... Read More about The application of pupillometry in hearing science to assess listening effort.

The Developing Human Connectome Project: a minimal processing pipeline for neonatal cortical surface reconstruction (2018)
Journal Article
Makropoulos, A., Robinson, E. C., Schuh, A., Wright, R., Fitzgibbon, S., Bozek, J., …Rueckert, D. (2018). The Developing Human Connectome Project: a minimal processing pipeline for neonatal cortical surface reconstruction. NeuroImage, 173, 88-112. https://doi.org/10.1101/125526

The Developing Human Connectome Project (dHCP) seeks to create the first 4-dimensional connectome of early life. Understanding this connectome in detail may provide insights into normal as well as abnormal patterns of brain development. Following est... Read More about The Developing Human Connectome Project: a minimal processing pipeline for neonatal cortical surface reconstruction.

Identification of Positive Allosteric Modulators of the D1 Dopamine Receptor That Act at Diverse Binding Sites (2018)
Journal Article
Luderman, K. D., Conroy, J. L., Free, R. B., Southall, N., Ferrer, M., Sanchez-Soto, M., …Sibley, D. R. (2018). Identification of Positive Allosteric Modulators of the D1 Dopamine Receptor That Act at Diverse Binding Sites. Molecular Pharmacology, 94(4), 1197-1209. https://doi.org/10.1124/mol.118.113175

The D1 dopamine receptor is linked to a variety of neuropsychiatric disorders and represents an attractive drug target for the enhancement of cognition in schizophrenia, Alzheimer disease, and other disorders. Positive allosteric modulators (PAMs), w... Read More about Identification of Positive Allosteric Modulators of the D1 Dopamine Receptor That Act at Diverse Binding Sites.

MiRoR—Miniaturized Robotic Systems for Holistic In-Situ Repair and maintenance works in restrained and hazardous environments (2018)
Journal Article
Axinte, D., Dong, X., Palmer, D., Rushworth, A., Guzman, S. C., Olarra, A., …Kell, J. (2018). MiRoR—Miniaturized Robotic Systems for Holistic In-Situ Repair and maintenance works in restrained and hazardous environments. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 23(2), 978-981. https://doi.org/10.1109/tmech.2018.2800285

This letter presents the novel concept of a miniaturized robotized machine tool, Mini-RoboMach, consisting of a walking hexapod robot and a Slender Continuum Arm. By combining the mobility of the walking robot with the positioning accuracy of the mac... Read More about MiRoR—Miniaturized Robotic Systems for Holistic In-Situ Repair and maintenance works in restrained and hazardous environments.

CubeSat constellations for disaster management in remote areas (2018)
Journal Article
Santilli, G., Vendittozzi, C., Cappelletti, C., Battistini, S., & Gessini, P. (2018). CubeSat constellations for disaster management in remote areas. Acta Astronautica, 145, 11-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2017.12.050

In recent years, CubeSats have considerably extended their range of possible applications, from a low cost means to train students and young researchers in space related activities up to possible complementary solutions to larger missions. Increasing... Read More about CubeSat constellations for disaster management in remote areas.

Documenting Heimkehr: Photography, Displacement and 'Homecoming' in the Nazi Resettlement of the Ethnic Germans, 1939-1940 (2018)
Book Chapter
Harvey, E. (2018). Documenting Heimkehr: Photography, Displacement and 'Homecoming' in the Nazi Resettlement of the Ethnic Germans, 1939-1940. In J. Evans, P. Betts, & S. Hoffmann (Eds.), The Ethics of Seeing: Photography and Twentieth-Century German History (79-107). Berghahn

This chapter examines the immense photographic effort undertaken by the Nazi regime to document the resettlement of different 'ethnic German' minorities from eastern and south-eastern Europe in the period 1939-41 and asks what propaganda messages can... Read More about Documenting Heimkehr: Photography, Displacement and 'Homecoming' in the Nazi Resettlement of the Ethnic Germans, 1939-1940.

Probing the heart and mind of the viewer: scientific studies of film and theatre spectators in the Soviet Union, 1917-1936 (2018)
Journal Article
Toropova, A. (2018). Probing the heart and mind of the viewer: scientific studies of film and theatre spectators in the Soviet Union, 1917-1936. Slavic Review, 76(4), 931-958. https://doi.org/10.1017/slr.2017.271

A vast array of research institutes and cultural organizations began to study the viewer of Soviet cinema and theatre in the years following the October Revolution. These investigations called on the techniques of sociology, psychology, and physiolog... Read More about Probing the heart and mind of the viewer: scientific studies of film and theatre spectators in the Soviet Union, 1917-1936.

Feasibility of training group exercise class instructors to adopt a motivationally adaptive communication style (2018)
Journal Article
Hancox, J. E., Thøgersen-Ntoumani, C., Quested, E., & Ntoumanis, N. (2018). Feasibility of training group exercise class instructors to adopt a motivationally adaptive communication style. International Journal of Sport Psychology, 49(1), 17-34. https://doi.org/10.7352/IJSP+2017.48

This study examined the feasibility of a 10-week self-determination theory-based training programme delivered to 24 group exercise instructors. Feasibility of implementing the programme was explored in terms of 1) recruitment, 2) rates of adherence a... Read More about Feasibility of training group exercise class instructors to adopt a motivationally adaptive communication style.

Spot dynamics in a reaction-diffusion model of plant root hair initiation (2018)
Journal Article
Avitabile, D., Brena-Medina, V. F., & Ward, M. J. (2018). Spot dynamics in a reaction-diffusion model of plant root hair initiation. SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 78(1), https://doi.org/10.1137/17M1120932

We study pattern formation in a 2-D reaction-diffusion (RD) sub-cellular model characterizing the effect of a spatial gradient of a plant hormone distribution on a family of G-proteins associated with root-hair (RH) initiation in the plant cell Arabi... Read More about Spot dynamics in a reaction-diffusion model of plant root hair initiation.

Experimental evidences of quantum confined 2D indirect excitons in single barrier GaAs/AlAs/GaAs heterostructure using photocapacitance at room temperature (2018)
Journal Article
Bhunia, A., Singh, M. K., Galvao Gobato, Y., Henini, M., & Datta, S. (in press). Experimental evidences of quantum confined 2D indirect excitons in single barrier GaAs/AlAs/GaAs heterostructure using photocapacitance at room temperature. Journal of Applied Physics, 123(4), Article 044305. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5007820

We investigated excitonic absorptions in a GaAs/AlAs/GaAs single barrier heterostructure using both photocapacitance and photocurrent spectroscopies at room temperature. Photocapacitance spectra show well defined resonance peaks of indirect excitons... Read More about Experimental evidences of quantum confined 2D indirect excitons in single barrier GaAs/AlAs/GaAs heterostructure using photocapacitance at room temperature.

Cochrane Corner: Hearing aids for mild to moderate hearing loss in adults (2018)
Journal Article
Brennan-Jones, C. G., Weeda, E., & Ferguson, M. A. (in press). Cochrane Corner: Hearing aids for mild to moderate hearing loss in adults. International Journal of Audiology, https://doi.org/10.1080/14992027.2018.1432903

This Cochrane Corner features the review entitled “Hearing aids for mild to moderate hearing loss in adults” published in 2017. In their review, Ferguson et al. identified five randomised controlled trials (RCTs) involving 825 participants, with mode... Read More about Cochrane Corner: Hearing aids for mild to moderate hearing loss in adults.

The shape dependence of chameleon screening (2018)
Journal Article
Burrage, C., Copeland, E. J., Moss, A., & Stevenson, J. A. (2018). The shape dependence of chameleon screening. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2018(1), https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2018/01/056

Chameleon scalar fields can screen their associated fifth forces from detection by changing their mass with the local density. These models are an archetypal example of a screening mechanism, and have become an important target for both cosmological... Read More about The shape dependence of chameleon screening.

Transcranial direct current stimulation over left inferior frontal cortex improves speech fluency in adults who stutter (2018)
Journal Article
Chesters, J., Möttönen, R., & Watkins, K. E. (2018). Transcranial direct current stimulation over left inferior frontal cortex improves speech fluency in adults who stutter. Brain, 141(4), 1161-1171. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awy011

© The Author(s) (2018). Stuttering is a neurodevelopmental condition affecting 5% of children, and persisting in 1% of adults. Promoting lasting fluency improvement in adults who stutter is a particular challenge. Novel interventions to improve outco... Read More about Transcranial direct current stimulation over left inferior frontal cortex improves speech fluency in adults who stutter.

A Method for Evaluating Options for Motif Detection in Electricity Meter Data (2018)
Journal Article
Dent, I., Craig, T., Aickelin, U., & Rodden, T. (2018). A Method for Evaluating Options for Motif Detection in Electricity Meter Data. International Journal of Data Science, 16(1), 1-28. https://doi.org/10.6339/jds.201801_16%281%29.0001

Investigation of household electricity usage patterns, and matching the patterns to behaviours, is an important area of research given the centrality of such patterns in addressing the needs of the electricity industry. Additional knowledge of househ... Read More about A Method for Evaluating Options for Motif Detection in Electricity Meter Data.

Stillbirth among women prescribed nicotine replacement therapy in pregnancy: analysis of a large UK pregnancy cohort (2018)
Journal Article
Dhalwani, N. N., Szatkowski, L., Coleman, T., Fiaschi, L., & Tata, L. J. (2019). Stillbirth among women prescribed nicotine replacement therapy in pregnancy: analysis of a large UK pregnancy cohort. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 21(4), 409–415. https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/nty019

Objective: To compare risk of stillbirth between maternal smokers and those prescribed NRT during pregnancy. Design: Cross-sectional analysis nested in a pregnancy cohort with longitudinal routinely-recorded medical data. Setting: United Kingdo... Read More about Stillbirth among women prescribed nicotine replacement therapy in pregnancy: analysis of a large UK pregnancy cohort.

Long-stay in forensic-psychiatric care in the UK (2018)
Journal Article
Hare Duke, L., Furtado, V., Guo, B., & Völlm, B. A. (in press). Long-stay in forensic-psychiatric care in the UK. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-017-1473-y

Purpose: Forensic services provide care for mentally disordered offenders. In England this is provided at three levels of security – low, medium and high. Significant number of patients within these settings remain detained for protracted periods of... Read More about Long-stay in forensic-psychiatric care in the UK.

A novel design of thermoelectric generator for automotive waste heat recovery (2018)
Journal Article
Huang, K., Yan, Y., Li, B., Li, Y., Li, K., & Li, J. (2018). A novel design of thermoelectric generator for automotive waste heat recovery. Automotive Innovation, 1(1), https://doi.org/10.1007/s42154-018-0006-z

With progressively stringent fuel consumption regulations, many researchers and engineers are focusing on the employment of waste heat recovery technologies for automotive applications. Regarded as a promising method of waste heat recovery, the therm... Read More about A novel design of thermoelectric generator for automotive waste heat recovery.