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Hygiene and biosecurity: the language and politics of risk in an era of emerging infectious diseases (2009)
Journal Article
Brown, B., Nerlich, B., Crawford, P., Koteyko, N., & Carter, R. (2009). Hygiene and biosecurity: the language and politics of risk in an era of emerging infectious diseases. Sociology Compass, 3(5), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-9020.2009.00230.x

Infectious diseases, such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and avian influenza, have recently been high on the agenda of policy makers and the public. Although hygiene and biosecurity are preferred options for disease management, policy... Read More about Hygiene and biosecurity: the language and politics of risk in an era of emerging infectious diseases.

Exploring protein structural dissimilarity to facilitate structure classification (2009)
Journal Article
Jain, P., & Hirst, J. (2009). Exploring protein structural dissimilarity to facilitate structure classification. BMC Structural Biology, 9, https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6807-9-60

Background: Classification of newly resolved protein structures is important in understanding their architectural, evolutionary and functional relatedness to known protein structures. Among various efforts to improve the database of Structural Classi... Read More about Exploring protein structural dissimilarity to facilitate structure classification.

Symmetry Reduction and Exact Solutions in Twisted Noncommutative Gravity (2009)
Journal Article
Schenkel, A. (2009). Symmetry Reduction and Exact Solutions in Twisted Noncommutative Gravity. Acta Physica Polonica B Proceedings Supplement, 2(3), 657-667

We review the noncommutative gravity of Wess et al. and discuss its physical applications. We define noncommutative symmetry reduction and construct deformed symmetric solutions of the noncommutative Einstein equations. We apply our framework to find... Read More about Symmetry Reduction and Exact Solutions in Twisted Noncommutative Gravity.

A facile method to clickable sensing polymeric nanoparticles (2009)
Journal Article
Welser, K., Perera, M. D., Aylott, J. W., & Chan, W. C. (2009). A facile method to clickable sensing polymeric nanoparticles. Chemical Communications, 6601-6603. https://doi.org/10.1039/b914358k

Clickable biocompatible nanoparticles were prepared in a one-pot process by microemulsion polymerization using acrylamide, N,N′-methylene bisacrylamide and either N-(11-azido-3,6,9-trioxaundecanyl)acrylamide or N-propargylacrylamide, which were then... Read More about A facile method to clickable sensing polymeric nanoparticles.

Granulocyte-colony stimulating factor in experimental stroke and its effects on infarct size and functional outcome: a systematic review (2009)
Journal Article
England, T. J., Gibson, C. L., & Bath, P. M. (2009). Granulocyte-colony stimulating factor in experimental stroke and its effects on infarct size and functional outcome: a systematic review. Brain Research, 62(1), 71-82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainresrev.2009.09.002

Background: Granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) shows promise as a treatment for stroke. This systematic review assesses G-CSF in experimental ischaemic stroke. Methods: Relevant studies were identified with searches of Medline, Embase and... Read More about Granulocyte-colony stimulating factor in experimental stroke and its effects on infarct size and functional outcome: a systematic review.

Crohn's disease-associated adherent-invasive E. coli are selectively favoured by impaired autophagy to replicate intracellularly (2009)
Journal Article
Lapaquette, P., Glasser, A. L., Huett, A., Xavier, R. J., & Darfeuille-Michaud, A. (2009). Crohn's disease-associated adherent-invasive E. coli are selectively favoured by impaired autophagy to replicate intracellularly. Cellular Microbiology, 12(1), 99-113. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1462-5822.2009.01381.x

Ileal lesions in Crohn's disease (CD) patients are colonized by pathogenic adherent-invasive Escherichia coli (AIEC) able to invade and to replicate within intestinal epithelial cells. Recent genome-wide association studies have highlighted the autop... Read More about Crohn's disease-associated adherent-invasive E. coli are selectively favoured by impaired autophagy to replicate intracellularly.

Determination of material properties in the Chaboche unified viscoplasticity model (2009)
Journal Article
Gong, Y., Hyde, C. J., Sun, W., & Hyde, T. (2010). Determination of material properties in the Chaboche unified viscoplasticity model. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part L: Journal of Materials: Design and Applications, 224(1), https://doi.org/10.1243/14644207JMDA273

An experimental programme of cyclic mechanical testing of a 316 stainless steel, at temperatures up to 600°C, under isothermal conditions, for the identification of material constitutive constants, has been carried out using a thermo-mechanical fatig... Read More about Determination of material properties in the Chaboche unified viscoplasticity model.

Wind turbine-energy storage control system for delivering constant demand power shared by DFIGs through droop characteristics (2009)
Conference Proceeding
Fazeli, M., Asher, G., Klumpner, C., Bozhko, S., Yao, L., & Bazargan, M. (2009). Wind turbine-energy storage control system for delivering constant demand power shared by DFIGs through droop characteristics. In 2009 13th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications

This paper investigates embedding Energy Storage (ES) with multiple wind turbines in order to deliver to the grid a smooth and constant power as demanded by the system operator. The demand power is shared by DFIGs proportional to their ratings utiliz... Read More about Wind turbine-energy storage control system for delivering constant demand power shared by DFIGs through droop characteristics.

REFINE (Reducing Falls in In-patient Elderly): a randomised controlled trial (2009)
Journal Article
Vass, C. D., Sahota, O., Drummond, A., Kendrick, D., Gladman, J., Sach, T., …Grainge, M. (2009). REFINE (Reducing Falls in In-patient Elderly): a randomised controlled trial. Trials, 10, Article 83. https://doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-10-83

Background: Falls in hospitals are common, resulting in injury and anxiety to patients, and large costs to NHS organisations. More than half of all in-patient falls in elderly people in acute care settings occur at the bedside, during transfers or wh... Read More about REFINE (Reducing Falls in In-patient Elderly): a randomised controlled trial.

'City of London, City of Learning'? Placing business education within the geographies of finance (2009)
Journal Article
Hall, S., & Appleyard, L. (2009). 'City of London, City of Learning'? Placing business education within the geographies of finance. Journal of Economic Geography, 9(5), 597-617. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbp026

The role of highly skilled financiers in shaping the spatialities of financial systems has been widely studied by social scientists. However, comparatively less attention has been paid to the growing use of business education to (re)produce 'highly s... Read More about 'City of London, City of Learning'? Placing business education within the geographies of finance.

Using biologically plausible neural models to specify the functional and neural mechanisms of visual search (2009)
Journal Article
Humphreys, G. W., Allen, H. A., & Mavritsaki, E. (2009). Using biologically plausible neural models to specify the functional and neural mechanisms of visual search. Progress in Brain Research, 176, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0079-6123%2809%2917609-4

We review research from our laboratory that attempts to pull apart the functional and neural mechanisms of visual search using converging, inter-disciplinary evidence from experimental studies with normal participants, neuropsychological studies with... Read More about Using biologically plausible neural models to specify the functional and neural mechanisms of visual search.

Dynamics of INSL3 Peptide Expression in the Rodent Testis (2009)
Journal Article
Anand-Ivell, R., Heng, K., Hafen, B., Setchell, B., & Ivell, R. (2009). Dynamics of INSL3 Peptide Expression in the Rodent Testis. Biology of Reproduction, 81(3), 480-487. https://doi.org/10.1095/biolreprod.109.077552

The Leydig cell-specific factor insulin-like peptide 3 (INSL3) is involved in testicular descent during embryo development, and has been suggested to regulate spermatogenesis and bone metabolism in the adult. Using a new, sensitive assay specific for... Read More about Dynamics of INSL3 Peptide Expression in the Rodent Testis.

Resolving the high redshift Lyman-alpha forest in smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations (2009)
Journal Article
S. Bolton, J., & D. Becker, G. (2009). Resolving the high redshift Lyman-alpha forest in smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 398(1), L26–L30. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-3933.2009.00700.x

We use a large set of cosmological smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations to examine the effect of mass resolution and box size on synthetic Lya forest spectra at 2 \leq z \leq 5. The mass resolution requirements for the convergence of the... Read More about Resolving the high redshift Lyman-alpha forest in smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations.

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanning for research: the experiences of healthy volunteers and patients with remitted depressive illness (2009)
Journal Article
Tischler, V., Bronjewski, E., O'Connor, K., & Calton, T. (2009). Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanning for research: the experiences of healthy volunteers and patients with remitted depressive illness. Mental Health Review Journal, 14(3), https://doi.org/10.1108/13619322200900018

We report the findings from a study exploring the experiences of individuals undergoing MRI scanning for research. Semi structured interviews took place before and after scanning with 17 participants; 12 were healthy volunteers and 5 were patients wi... Read More about Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanning for research: the experiences of healthy volunteers and patients with remitted depressive illness.

Shifting development in mid-childhood: the influence of between-task interference (2009)
Journal Article
Cragg, L., & Nation, K. (2009). Shifting development in mid-childhood: the influence of between-task interference. Developmental Psychology, 45(5), https://doi.org/10.1037/a0015360

Performance on the task-switching paradigm is greatly affected by the amount of conflict between tasks. Compared to adults, children appear to be particularly influenced by this conflict, suggesting that the ability to resolve interference between ta... Read More about Shifting development in mid-childhood: the influence of between-task interference.

Automated re-typesetting, indexing and content enhancement for scanned marriage registers (2009)
Conference Proceeding
Brailsford, D. F. (2009). Automated re-typesetting, indexing and content enhancement for scanned marriage registers.

For much of England and Wales marriage registers began to be kept in 1537. The marriage details were recorded locally, and in longhand, until 1st July 1837, when central records began. All registers were kept in the local parish church. In the perio... Read More about Automated re-typesetting, indexing and content enhancement for scanned marriage registers.

"The post-antibiotic apocalypse" and the "war on superbugs": catastrophe discourse in microbiology, its rhetorical form and political function (2009)
Journal Article
Nerlich, B., & James, R. (2009). "The post-antibiotic apocalypse" and the "war on superbugs": catastrophe discourse in microbiology, its rhetorical form and political function. Public Understanding of Science, 18(5), https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662507087974

Discourses evoking an antibiotic apocalypse and a war on superbugs are emerging just at a time when so-called "catastrophe discourses" are undergoing critical and reflexive scrutiny in the context of global warming and climate change. This article co... Read More about "The post-antibiotic apocalypse" and the "war on superbugs": catastrophe discourse in microbiology, its rhetorical form and political function.