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PTU-093 Metabolomic profiling in inflammatory bowel disease (2015)
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Hildebrand, D., Trivedi, D., Xu, Y., Rattray, N., Ross, N., Correa, E., …Watson, A. (2015). PTU-093 Metabolomic profiling in inflammatory bowel disease. Gut, 64(Suppl), A102.1-A102. https://doi.org/10.1136/gutjnl-2015-309861.208

Introduction Inflammatory bowel disease is classified into 2 main types; Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC). Differentiation can prove clinically challenging. Metabolomic profiling is an emerging science that is utilised for biomarker d... Read More about PTU-093 Metabolomic profiling in inflammatory bowel disease.

PWE-200 Metabolomic profiling in pancreatic cancer; in search of new biomarkers (2015)
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Ross, N., Correa, E., Rattray, N., Hildebrand, D., Xu, Y., Trivedi, D., …Watson, A. (2015). PWE-200 Metabolomic profiling in pancreatic cancer; in search of new biomarkers. Gut, 64(Suppl), A300.1-A300. https://doi.org/10.1136/gutjnl-2015-309861.647

Introduction Pancreatic cancer is a devastating disease with a poor outcome. Current biomarkers fall short in accessibility, sensitivity, specificity and their ability to distinguish malignant from benign conditions. Metabolomics aims to decipher mol... Read More about PWE-200 Metabolomic profiling in pancreatic cancer; in search of new biomarkers.

PWE-199 Metabolomic profiling in acute pancreatitis; in search of new biomarkers (2015)
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Ross, N., Correa, E., Rattray, N., Hildebrand, D., Trivedi, D., Goodacre, R., & Watson, A. (2015). PWE-199 Metabolomic profiling in acute pancreatitis; in search of new biomarkers. Gut, 64(Suppl), A299.2-A300. https://doi.org/10.1136/gutjnl-2015-309861.646

Introduction Severe acute pancreatitis (AP) carries a 30–50% mortality.1Current scoring systems fall short in predictive accuracy, sensitivity, specificity and availability.2Metabolomics aims to decipher molecular signatures that will distinguish dis... Read More about PWE-199 Metabolomic profiling in acute pancreatitis; in search of new biomarkers.

Phenotypic Characterisation of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 Exposed to X-Radiation (2015)
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Senko, J., Brown, A., Correa, E., Xu, Y., AlMasoud, N., Pimblott, S., …Lloyd, J. (2015). Phenotypic Characterisation of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 Exposed to X-Radiation. PLoS ONE, 10(6), e0131249. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0131249

Biogeochemical processes mediated by Fe(III)-reducing bacteria such as Shewanella oneidensis have the potential to influence the post-closure evolution of a geological disposal facility for radioactive wastes and to affect the solubility of some radi... Read More about Phenotypic Characterisation of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 Exposed to X-Radiation.

Evaluating the predictions of objective intelligibility metrics for modified and synthetic speech (2015)
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Tang, Y., Cooke, M., & Valentini-Botinhao, C. (2015). Evaluating the predictions of objective intelligibility metrics for modified and synthetic speech. Computer Speech and Language, 35, 73-92. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csl.2015.06.002

Several modification algorithms that alter natural or synthetic speech with the goal of improving intelligibility in noise have been proposed recently. A key requirement of many modification techniques is the ability to predict intelligibility, both... Read More about Evaluating the predictions of objective intelligibility metrics for modified and synthetic speech.

Fiber guiding at the Dirac frequency beyond photonic bandgaps (2015)
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Xie, K., Zhang, W., Boardman, A., Jiang, H., Hu, Z., Xie, Y., …Wang, E. (2015). Fiber guiding at the Dirac frequency beyond photonic bandgaps. Light: Science & Applications (Print), 4(6), https://doi.org/10.1038/lsa.2015.77

Light trapping within waveguides is a key practice of modern optics, both scientifically and technologically. Photonic crystal fibers traditionally rely on total internal reflection (index-guiding fibers) or a photonic bandgap (photonic-bandgap fiber... Read More about Fiber guiding at the Dirac frequency beyond photonic bandgaps.

Spherical trigonometry-based kinematics for controlling a dexterous robotic hand with an articulated palm (2015)
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Emmanouil, E., Wei, G., & Dai, J. (2015). Spherical trigonometry-based kinematics for controlling a dexterous robotic hand with an articulated palm. Robotica, 34(12), 2788-2805. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263574715000399

This work presents a method based on spherical trigonometry for computing all joint angles of the spherical metamorphic palm. The spherical palm is segmented into spherical triangles which are then solved and combined to fully solve the palm configur... Read More about Spherical trigonometry-based kinematics for controlling a dexterous robotic hand with an articulated palm.

Book review : Parasitism. The diversity and ecology of animal parasites, 2nd edn. By Timothy M. Goater,Cameron P. Goater and Gerald W. Esch,editors, p. 497. Cambridge University Press, UK, 2014. (2015)
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Hide, G. (2015). Book review : Parasitism. The diversity and ecology of animal parasites, 2nd edn. By Timothy M. Goater,Cameron P. Goater and Gerald W. Esch,editors, p. 497. Cambridge University Press, UK, 2014. Parasitology, 142(10), 1348-1349. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031182015000645

Engendering change within a water infrastructure client organization : a participatory action research approach (2015)
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Potts, M., Awuzie, B., McDermott, P., & Stephenson, A. (2015). Engendering change within a water infrastructure client organization : a participatory action research approach. Journal of engineering, project, and production management, 5(2), 71-81

Continuing demands by stakeholders for improved service delivery has caused Infrastructure Client Organisations (ICO) in the UK to embark upon organisational restructuring. It is expected that such restructuring would enhance cost-effectiveness and q... Read More about Engendering change within a water infrastructure client organization : a participatory action research approach.

A set of NF-κB–regulated microRNAs induces acquired TRAIL resistance in lung cancer (2015)
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Jeon, Y., Middleton, J., Kim, T., Laguna, A., Piovan, C., Secchiero, P., …Croce, C. (2015). A set of NF-κB–regulated microRNAs induces acquired TRAIL resistance in lung cancer. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(26), E3355-E3364. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1504630112

TRAIL (TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand) is a promising anticancer agent that can be potentially used as an alternative or complementary therapy because of its specific antitumor activity. However, TRAIL can also stimulate the proliferation of c... Read More about A set of NF-κB–regulated microRNAs induces acquired TRAIL resistance in lung cancer.

Active control of structure-borne road noise based on the separation of front and rear structural road noise related dynamics (2015)
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Zafeiropoulos, N., Ballatore, M., Moorhouse, A., & Mackay, A. (2015). Active control of structure-borne road noise based on the separation of front and rear structural road noise related dynamics. SAE International Journal of Passenger Cars - Mechanical Systems, 8(3), https://doi.org/10.4271/2015-01-2222

Axle forces from tire-road interaction can excite different structural resonances of the vehicle hence a high number of sensors is required for observing and separating all the vibrations dynamics that are coherent with the cabin noise. Feed-forward... Read More about Active control of structure-borne road noise based on the separation of front and rear structural road noise related dynamics.

Three-dimensional post-glacial expansion and diversification of an exploited oceanic fish (2015)
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Shum, P., Pampoulie, C., Kristinsson, K., & Mariani, S. (2015). Three-dimensional post-glacial expansion and diversification of an exploited oceanic fish. Molecular Ecology, 24(14), 3652-3667. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.13262

Vertical divergence in marine organisms is being increasingly documented, yet much remains to be done to understand the role of depth in the context of phylogeographic reconstruction and the identification of management units. An ideal study system... Read More about Three-dimensional post-glacial expansion and diversification of an exploited oceanic fish.

Low cost fault-tolerant routing algorithm for Networks-on-Chip (2015)
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Liu, J., Harkin, J., Li, Y., & Maguire, L. (2015). Low cost fault-tolerant routing algorithm for Networks-on-Chip. Microprocessors and Microsystems, 39(6), 358-372. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micpro.2015.06.002

A novel adaptive routing algorithm - Efficient Dynamic Adaptive Routing (EDAR) is proposed to provide a fault-tolerant capability for Networks-on-Chip (NoC) via an efficient routing path selection mechanism. It is based on a weighted path selection s... Read More about Low cost fault-tolerant routing algorithm for Networks-on-Chip.

Good neighbours : distribution of black-tufted marmoset (Callithrix penicillata) in an urban environment (2015)
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(Callithrix penicillata) in an urban environment. Wildlife Research, 42(7), https://doi.org/10.1071/WR14148

Context: Primates are one of the most charismatic and widely studied vertebrate groups. However, the study of new world primates in green patches within urban areas has been neglected. Such primates have been viewed as a source of human–animal conf... Read More about Good neighbours : distribution of black-tufted marmoset (Callithrix penicillata) in an urban environment.

Electronic and optical properties of reduced graphene oxide (2015)
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Lundie, M., Šljivančanin, Z., & Tomic, S. (2015). Electronic and optical properties of reduced graphene oxide. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 3(29), 7632-7641. https://doi.org/10.1039/C5TC00437C

Controlled reduction of graphene oxide is an alternative and promising method to tune the electronic and optically active energy gap of this two-dimensional material in the energy range of the visible light spectrum. By means of ab initio calculati... Read More about Electronic and optical properties of reduced graphene oxide.

Change management in public agencies to attain low carbon efficiencies (2015)
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Ibbottson, K., Farrell, P., & Whittleston, G. (2015). Change management in public agencies to attain low carbon efficiencies

There is great impetus to implement change in all areas of the UK economy. Key aims are to reduce costs and CO2 emissions, and increase efficiency and growth. There are often difficulties in putting change into practice, evidenced by the perceived la... Read More about Change management in public agencies to attain low carbon efficiencies.

Visible spectrum quantum light sources based on InxGa1–xN/GaN Quantum Dots (2015)
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Tomic, S., Pal, J., Migliorato, M., Young, R., & Vukmirović, N. (2015). Visible spectrum quantum light sources based on InxGa1–xN/GaN Quantum Dots. ACS photonics, 2(7), 958-963. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.5b00159

We present a method for designing quantum light sources, emitting in the visible band, using wurtzite InxGa1−xN quantum dots (QDs) in a GaN matrix. This system is significantly more versatile than previously proposed arsenide- and phosphide-based... Read More about Visible spectrum quantum light sources based on InxGa1–xN/GaN Quantum Dots.

Mitochondrial biogenesis is required for the anchorage-independent survival and propagation of stem-like cancer cells (2015)
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De Luca, A., Fiorillo, M., Peiris-Pagès, M., Ozsvari, B., Smith, D., Sanchez-Alvarez, R., …Sotgia, F. (2015). Mitochondrial biogenesis is required for the anchorage-independent survival and propagation of stem-like cancer cells. Oncotarget, 6(17), 14777-14795. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.4401

Here, we show that new mitochondrial biogenesis is required for the anchorage independent survival and propagation of cancer stem-like cells (CSCs). More specifically, we used the drug XCT790 as an investigational tool, as it functions as a specific... Read More about Mitochondrial biogenesis is required for the anchorage-independent survival and propagation of stem-like cancer cells.

Pruning classification rules with instance reduction methods (2015)
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Othman, O., & Bryant, C. (2015). Pruning classification rules with instance reduction methods. International journal of machine learning and computing (Online), 5(3), 187-191. https://doi.org/10.7763/IJMLC.2015.V5.505

Generating classification rules from data often leads to large sets of rules that need to be pruned. A new pre-pruning technique for rule induction is presented which applies instance reduction before rule induction. Training three rule classifiers o... Read More about Pruning classification rules with instance reduction methods.