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Size dependence of ultrafast charge dynamics in monodisperse Au nanoparticles supported on TiO2 colloidal spheres (2014)
Journal Article
Al-Otaify, A., Leontiadou, M., dos Reis, F., Damato, T., Camargo, P., & Binks, D. (2014). Size dependence of ultrafast charge dynamics in monodisperse Au nanoparticles supported on TiO2 colloidal spheres. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 16, 14189-14194. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4cp01475h

Sub-nanosecond charge dynamics in monodisperse Au nanoparticles (NPs) supported on TiO2 colloidal spheres are studied as a function of NP diameter using ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy. The decay of the transmittance changes observed in t... Read More about Size dependence of ultrafast charge dynamics in monodisperse Au nanoparticles supported on TiO2 colloidal spheres.

A generic risk-based surveying method for invading plant pathogens (2014)
Journal Article
Parnell, S., Gottwald, T., Riley, T., & van den Bosch, F. (2014). A generic risk-based surveying method for invading plant pathogens. Ecological Applications, 24(4), 779-790. https://doi.org/10.1890/13-0704.1

Invasive plant pathogens are increasing with international trade and travel, with damaging environmental and economic consequences. Recent examples include tree diseases such as sudden oak death in the Western United States and ash dieback in Europe.... Read More about A generic risk-based surveying method for invading plant pathogens.

The structural and magnetic properties of rapidly solidified Fe100−xGax alloys, for 12.8≤x≤27.5 (2014)
Journal Article
Quinn, C., Grundy, P., & Mellors, N. (2014). The structural and magnetic properties of rapidly solidified Fe100−xGax alloys, for 12.8≤x≤27.5. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 361, 74-80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmmm.2014.02.004

This work presents the findings from structural, magnetic, and thermal investigations of melt-spun ribbons of Fe100−xGax alloys where 12.8≤x≤27.5 at%. X-ray diffraction analysis from the as-spun samples indicates that all of the compositions form the... Read More about The structural and magnetic properties of rapidly solidified Fe100−xGax alloys, for 12.8≤x≤27.5.

Employee suggestion system assessment model: the best practice scenarios (2014)
Journal Article
Lasrado, F., Arif, M., & Rizvi, A. (2014). Employee suggestion system assessment model: the best practice scenarios

Corporations widely use ‘Employee suggestion schemes’ to elicit employees’ creative ideas. Despite its many benefits, sustaining the suggestion system is still a challenge for the organisation. This paper uses a sustainability assessment model to ass... Read More about Employee suggestion system assessment model: the best practice scenarios.

Behavioural and ecological aspects of black tufted-ear marmosets, Callithrix penicillata (Geoffroy, 1812) (Primates: Callitrichidae) in a semi-urban environment (2014)
Journal Article
Santos, M., Duarte, M., & Young, R. (2014). Behavioural and ecological aspects of black tufted-ear marmosets, Callithrix penicillata (Geoffroy, 1812) (Primates: Callitrichidae) in a semi-urban environment. Revista de Etologia (Impresso), 13(1), 37-46

The black tufted-ear marmoset (Callithrix penicillata) is a small Neotropical primate, which lives in various types of environments from Cerrado (Brazilian savannah), Atlantic forest to urban areas. Research shows that food availability influences ho... Read More about Behavioural and ecological aspects of black tufted-ear marmosets, Callithrix penicillata (Geoffroy, 1812) (Primates: Callitrichidae) in a semi-urban environment.

Challenges of implementing infrastructure megaprojects through public-private partnerships in Nigeria : a case study of road infrastructure (2014)
Journal Article
Babatunde, S., Perera, S., Udeaja, C., & Zhou, L. (2014). Challenges of implementing infrastructure megaprojects through public-private partnerships in Nigeria : a case study of road infrastructure. International Journal of Architecture, Engineering and Construction (Online), 3(2), 142-154. https://doi.org/10.7492/IJAEC.2014.012

Nigeria’s infrastructure deficit, especially in transport sector is appalling. This triggered the Lagos state government to start addressing its infrastructure deficit through PPPs. The purpose of this paper is to identify the challenges at both deve... Read More about Challenges of implementing infrastructure megaprojects through public-private partnerships in Nigeria : a case study of road infrastructure.

Tagging frogs with passive integrated transponders causes disruption of the cutaneous bacterial community and proliferation of opportunistic fungi (2014)
Journal Article
Antwis, R., Garcia, G., Fidgett, A., & Preziosi, R. (2014). Tagging frogs with passive integrated transponders causes disruption of the cutaneous bacterial community and proliferation of opportunistic fungi. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 80(15), 4779-4784. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.01175-14

Symbiotic bacterial communities play a key role in protecting amphibians from infectious diseases including chytridiomycosis,caused by the pathogenic fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis. Events that lead to the disruption of the bacterial community... Read More about Tagging frogs with passive integrated transponders causes disruption of the cutaneous bacterial community and proliferation of opportunistic fungi.

Interactions of gold nanoparticles with a phospholipid monolayer membrane on mercury (2014)
Journal Article
Gordillo, G., Krpetic, Z., & Brust, M. (2014). Interactions of gold nanoparticles with a phospholipid monolayer membrane on mercury. ACS nano, 8(6), 6074-6080. https://doi.org/10.1021/nn501395e

It is demonstrated that a compact monolayer of 1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine adsorbed to a hanging mercury drop electrode can serve as a simple electrochemical model system to study biomembrane penetration by gold nanoparticles. The hydrog... Read More about Interactions of gold nanoparticles with a phospholipid monolayer membrane on mercury.

Evaluation of genetic association of the INK4 locus with primary open angle glaucoma in East Indian population (2014)
Journal Article
angle glaucoma in East Indian population. Scientific reports, 4, 5115. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep05115

INK4 locus at chromosome 9p21 has been reported to be associated with primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) and its subtypes along with the associated optic disc parameters across the populations of European, Japanese and African ancestries. The locus e... Read More about Evaluation of genetic association of the INK4 locus with primary open angle glaucoma in East Indian population.

Long-term effects of stock transfers : synergistic introgression of allochthonous genomes in salmonids (2014)
Journal Article
Horreo, J., Machado-Schiaffino, G., Griffiths, A., Bright, D., Stevens, J., & Garcia-Vazquez, E. (2014). Long-term effects of stock transfers : synergistic introgression of allochthonous genomes in salmonids. Journal of Fish Biology, 85(2), 292-306. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.12424

The genus Salmo was employed as a model to study introgression of genes between species due to secondary contacts. Seven microsatellite loci, the LDH-C1* locus and the 5S ribosomal DNA were studied. Results showed the mutually enhanced introgression... Read More about Long-term effects of stock transfers : synergistic introgression of allochthonous genomes in salmonids.

Knowledge intensive regeneration versus sustainable communities (2014)
Journal Article
Arayici, Y., & ozturk, Z. (2014). Knowledge intensive regeneration versus sustainable communities. International journal of 3-D information modeling (Online), 3(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.4018/ij3dim.2014010101

Regeneration is deemed as the enabler for societies and nations to transform them from industrial age to knowledge. In this regard, knowledge intensive regeneration is one of the latest models, called as New Century Cities (NCC) to make progress and... Read More about Knowledge intensive regeneration versus sustainable communities.

Automatic detection of microphone handling noise (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Kendrick, P., Cox, T., Li, F., Fazenda, B., & Jackson, I. (2014, May). Automatic detection of microphone handling noise. Presented at 4th International Workshop on Cognitive Information Processing, Copenhagen, Denmark

Microphone handling noise is a common problem with user generated content. It can occur when the operator
inadvertently knocks or brushes a recording device.
Handling noise may be impulsive, where a microphone is
knocked, or a more sustained rubbi... Read More about Automatic detection of microphone handling noise.

Key factors of the land tenure security in Iraqi cities: using Al-Nassiriya city as a case study (2014)
Presentation / Conference
using Al-Nassiriya city as a case study. Poster presented at a poster at Salford Postgraduate Annual Research Conference (SPARC), CST Dean’s Showcase, Media City, 26-28 May 2014, Salford,Media City

Land Tenure Security (LTS) is a significant way in which the land user's rights are protected. It
can be safeguarded under different forms that are included in various concepts, practices and
influences which can be registered and protected officia... Read More about Key factors of the land tenure security in Iraqi cities: using Al-Nassiriya city as a case study.

A workflow for bacterial metabolic fingerprinting and lipid profiling: application to Ciprofloxacin challenged Escherichia coli (2014)
Journal Article
Allwood, J., AlRabiah, H., Correa, E., Vaughan, A., Xu, Y., Upton, M., & Goodacre, R. (2015). A workflow for bacterial metabolic fingerprinting and lipid profiling: application to Ciprofloxacin challenged Escherichia coli. Metabolomics, 11(2), 438-453. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11306-014-0674-6

The field of lipidomics focuses upon the non-targeted analysis of lipid composition, the process of which follows similar routines to those applied in conventional metabolic profiling, however lipidomics differs with respect to the sample preparation... Read More about A workflow for bacterial metabolic fingerprinting and lipid profiling: application to Ciprofloxacin challenged Escherichia coli.

Omnidirectional acoustic absorber with a porous core and a metamaterial matching layer (2014)
Journal Article
layer. Journal of Applied Physics, 115(20), 204902. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4876119

An omnidirectional sound absorber based on the acoustic analogy of the electromagnetic metamaterial
“black hole” has been developed and tested. The resulting structure is composed of a hollow
cylindrical porous absorbing core and a graded index mat... Read More about Omnidirectional acoustic absorber with a porous core and a metamaterial matching layer.

Mechanisms of adiponectin-associated perivascular function in vascular disease (2014)
Journal Article
Withers, S., Bussey, C., Saxton, S., Melrose, H., Watkins, A., & Heagerty, A. (2014). Mechanisms of adiponectin-associated perivascular function in vascular disease. Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology, 34(8), 1637-42. https://doi.org/10.1161/ATVBAHA.114.303031

The concept that fat cells could influence the circulation and indeed cardiac function has been in existence for ≥20 years and has gained a wide interest and no less excitement as evidence has accrued to suggest that such effects may be profound enou... Read More about Mechanisms of adiponectin-associated perivascular function in vascular disease.

Effects of spatial pattern of greenspace on urban cooling in a large metropolitan area of eastern China (2014)
Journal Article
Kong, F., Yin, H., James, P., Hutyra, L., & He, H. (2014). Effects of spatial pattern of greenspace on urban cooling in a large metropolitan area of eastern China. Landscape and Urban Planning, 128, 35-47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2014.04.018

Urban areas will experience the greatest increases in temperature resulting from climate change due to the urban heat island (UHI) effect. Urban greenspace mitigates the UHI and provides cooler microclimates. Field research has established that tempe... Read More about Effects of spatial pattern of greenspace on urban cooling in a large metropolitan area of eastern China.

A methodology for classification by priority for action: Selecting road stretches for network noise action plans (2014)
Journal Article
Ruiz-Padillo, A., Torija Martinez, A., Ramos-Ridao, A., & Ruiz, D. (2014). A methodology for classification by priority for action: Selecting road stretches for network noise action plans. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 29, 66-78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2014.04.002

Road traffic noise is an element of outstanding importance within the overall context of
environmental impact. This problem must be technically addressed from an efficient
viewpoint, and solutions or alternatives should be considered by means of ap... Read More about A methodology for classification by priority for action: Selecting road stretches for network noise action plans.

Differential inflammatory responses of bovine foot skin fibroblasts and keratinocytes to digital dermatitis treponemes (2014)
Journal Article
Evans, N., Brown, J., Scholey, R., Murray, R., Birtles, R., Hart, C., & Carter, S. (2014). Differential inflammatory responses of bovine foot skin fibroblasts and keratinocytes to digital dermatitis treponemes. Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology, 161(1-2), 12-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vetimm.2014.05.005

Bovine digital dermatitis (BDD) is a serious infectious inflammatory lameness causing pain and suffering to many cattle worldwide and which has severe economic implications. This study set out to investigate relationships between the treponemes consi... Read More about Differential inflammatory responses of bovine foot skin fibroblasts and keratinocytes to digital dermatitis treponemes.

First report of Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Babesia microtiin rodents in Finland (2014)
Journal Article
Kallio, E., Begon, M., Birtles, R., Bown, K., Koskela, E., Mappes, T., & Watts, P. (2014). First report of Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Babesia microtiin rodents in Finland. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, 14(6), 389-393. https://doi.org/10.1089/vbz.2013.1383

Tick-borne diseases pose an increasingly important public health problem in Europe. Rodents are the reservoir host for many tick-transmitted pathogens, including Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Babesia microti, which can cause human granulocytic anapla... Read More about First report of Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Babesia microtiin rodents in Finland.