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Ultrafast vibrational spectroscopic Studies on the photoionization of the α-Tocopherol analogue Trolox C (2014)
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Parker, A., Bisby, R., Greetham, G., Kukura, P., Scherer, K., & Towrie, M. (2014). Ultrafast vibrational spectroscopic Studies on the photoionization of the α-Tocopherol analogue Trolox C. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 118(42), 12087-12097. https://doi.org/10.1021/jp505113k

The initial events after photoexcitation and photoionization of α-tocopherol (vitamin E) and the analogue Trolox C have been studied by femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy, transient absorption spectroscopy and time-resolved infrared spectrosco... Read More about Ultrafast vibrational spectroscopic Studies on the photoionization of the α-Tocopherol analogue Trolox C.

Ancient dates or accelerated rates? Morphological clocks and the antiquity of placental mammals (2014)
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Beck, R., & Lee, M. (2014). Ancient dates or accelerated rates? Morphological clocks and the antiquity of placental mammals. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 281(1793), 20141278. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.1278

Analyses of a comprehensive morphological character matrix of mammals using ‘relaxed’ clock models (which simultaneously estimate topology, divergence dates and evolutionary rates), either alone or in combination with an 8.5 kb nuclear sequence da... Read More about Ancient dates or accelerated rates? Morphological clocks and the antiquity of placental mammals.

Impact of rapid mixing velocity and rapid mixing time on sludge dewaterability (2014)
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Fitria, D., Scholz, M., & Swift, G. (2014, October). Impact of rapid mixing velocity and rapid mixing time on sludge dewaterability. Presented at 1st International Conference on Science and Technology for Sustainability, Batam Island, Riau Archipelago (Kepulauan Riau) Province, Indonesia

Metal removal from contaminated soils trough bioleaching with oxidizing bacteria and washing with rhamnolipid bio surfactants. (2014)
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Rienzo, M. A., Urdaneta De Ranson, I., Dorta, B., Banat, I. M., Blazquez, M. L., Gonzalez, F., …Ballester, A. (2014). Metal removal from contaminated soils trough bioleaching with oxidizing bacteria and washing with rhamnolipid bio surfactants. Soil and Sediment Contamination, 24(1), 16-29. https://doi.org/10.1080/15320383.2014.907239

The use of surfactants as a method for solubilization and removal of heavy metal contamination from soil has been reported before. Biosurfactants produced by some microorganisms are able to modify the surface of various metals and aggregate on interp... Read More about Metal removal from contaminated soils trough bioleaching with oxidizing bacteria and washing with rhamnolipid bio surfactants..

Nanoscale characterisation and magnetic properties of Co81Cu19/Cu multilayer nanowires (2014)
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Zhang, J., Ma, H., Zhang, S., Zhang, H., Deng, X., Lan, Q., …Peng, Y. (2014). Nanoscale characterisation and magnetic properties of Co81Cu19/Cu multilayer nanowires. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 3(1), 85-93. https://doi.org/10.1039/C4TC01510J

Bamboo-like CoCu/Cu multilayer nanowires have been successfully fabricated into anodic aluminium oxide templates using an electrodeposition method, and their chemistry and crystal structure have been characterised at the nanoscale. Energy-dispersive... Read More about Nanoscale characterisation and magnetic properties of Co81Cu19/Cu multilayer nanowires.

Equation of state and high-pressure/high-temperature phase diagram of magnesium (2014)
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Stinton, G., Macleod, S., Cynn, H., Errandonea, D., Evans, W., Proctor, J., …McMahon, M. (2014). Equation of state and high-pressure/high-temperature phase diagram of magnesium. Physical review B: Condensed matter and materials physics, 90(13), 134105-134105. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.90.134105

The phase diagram of magnesium has been investigated to 211 GPa at 300 K, and to 105 GPa at 4500 K, by using a combination of x-ray diffraction and resistive and laser heating. The ambient pressure hcp structure is found to start transforming to the... Read More about Equation of state and high-pressure/high-temperature phase diagram of magnesium.

Special issue: Comparative biogeography of neotropical primates (2014)
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Lynch Alfaro, J., Cortés-Ortiz, L., Di Fiore, A., & Boubli, J. (2015). Special issue: Comparative biogeography of neotropical primates. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 82, 518-529. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2014.09.027

New research presented in this special issue of Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution on the “Phylogeny and Biogeography of Neotropical Primates” greatly improves our understanding of the evolutionary history of the New World monkeys and provides ins... Read More about Special issue: Comparative biogeography of neotropical primates.

Microbial community structure mediates response of soil C decomposition to litter addition and warming (2014)
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decomposition to litter addition and warming. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 80, 175-188. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2014.10.008

Microbial activity has been highlighted as one of the main unknowns controlling the fate and turnover of soil organic matter (SOM) in response to climate change. How microbial community structure and function may (or may not) interact with increasi... Read More about Microbial community structure mediates response of soil C decomposition to litter addition and warming.

A new simplified allometric approach for predicting the biological half-life of radionuclides in reptiles (2014)
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Beresford, N., & Wood, M. (2014). A new simplified allometric approach for predicting the biological half-life of radionuclides in reptiles. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 138, 116-121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2014.08.012

A major source of uncertainty in the estimation of radiation dose to wildlife is the prediction of internal radionuclide activity concentrations. Allometric (mass-dependent) relationships describing biological half-life (T1/2b) of radionuclides in or... Read More about A new simplified allometric approach for predicting the biological half-life of radionuclides in reptiles.

Incorporating the flow duration curve method within the digital filtering algorithms to estimate the base flow contribution to total runoff (2014)
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Al-Faraj, F., & Scholz, M. (2014). Incorporating the flow duration curve method within the digital filtering algorithms to estimate the base flow contribution to total runoff. Water Resources Management, 28(15), 5477-5489. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11269-014-0816-7

The urgent need for rational use of water resources and the intense competition among most of the riparian countries with respect to the use of shared water sources have raised the importance of examining the contribution of base flow to total stream... Read More about Incorporating the flow duration curve method within the digital filtering algorithms to estimate the base flow contribution to total runoff.

Male body size and parental relatedness but not nuptial colouration influence paternity success during scramble competition in Rana arvalis (2014)
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Rausch, A., Sztatecsny, M., Jehle, R., Ringler, E., & Hoedl, W. (2014). Male body size and parental relatedness but not nuptial colouration influence paternity success during scramble competition in Rana arvalis. Behaviour, 151, 1869-1884. https://doi.org/10.1163/1568539X-00003220

Female mate choice promotes the development of male secondary sexual traits such as nuptial colouration, whereas scramble competition favours male traits which enhance their ability for access to females. In the explosively breeding moor frog (Rana a... Read More about Male body size and parental relatedness but not nuptial colouration influence paternity success during scramble competition in Rana arvalis.

Sensitivity of surface runoff to drought and climate change : application for shared river basins (2014)
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Al-Faraj, F., Scholz, M., & Tigkas, D. (2014). Sensitivity of surface runoff to drought and climate change : application for shared river basins. Water, 6(10), 3033-3048. https://doi.org/10.3390/w6103033

This study quantifies the sensitivity of surface runoff to drought and climate change in the Diyala watershed shared between Iraq and Iran. This was achieved through a combined use of a wide range of changes in the amount of precipitation (a decline... Read More about Sensitivity of surface runoff to drought and climate change : application for shared river basins.

Indoor thermal comfort in urban courtyard block dwellings in the Netherlands (2014)
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Taleghani, M., Tenpierik, M., & van den Dobbelsteen, A. (2014). Indoor thermal comfort in urban courtyard block dwellings in the Netherlands. Building and Environment, 82(Dec 14), 566-579. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2014.09.028

Global warming and elevated temperatures in the Netherlands will increase the energy demand for cooling. Studying passive strategies to cope with the consequences of climate change is inevitable. This paper investigates the thermal performance of cou... Read More about Indoor thermal comfort in urban courtyard block dwellings in the Netherlands.

Simulating radiation damage cascades in graphite (2014)
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Christie, H., Robinson, M., Roach, D., Ross, D., Suarez-Martinez, I., & Marks, N. (2015). Simulating radiation damage cascades in graphite. Carbon, 81, 105-114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2014.09.031

Molecular dynamics simulation is used to study radiation damage cascades in graphite. High statistical precision is obtained by sampling a wide energy range (100–2500 eV) and a large number of initial directions of the primary knock-on atom. Chemical... Read More about Simulating radiation damage cascades in graphite.

Recycling of domestic wastewater treated by vertical-flow wetlands for watering of vegetables (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Almuktar, S., Al-Isawi, R., Sani, A., & Scholz, M. (2014, October). Recycling of domestic wastewater treated by vertical-flow wetlands for watering of vegetables. Presented at 14th International Water Association (IWA) Conference on Wetland Systems for Water Pollution Control, Shanghai, China

The aim was to assess if domestic wastewater treated by different vertical-flow wetlands can be successfully recycled to water commercially grown crops. The growth of both Sweet Pepper (California Wonder; cultivar of Capsicum annuum Linnaeus Grossum... Read More about Recycling of domestic wastewater treated by vertical-flow wetlands for watering of vegetables.

The benefits and needs of exercise in public open spaces on women's health (2014)
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Maghrabi, A., Ormerod, M., & Newton, R. (2014, October). The benefits and needs of exercise in public open spaces on women's health. Poster presented at Habitats for Happy and Healthy Ageing, Edinburgh, UK

This research explores women’s physical activities in urban public open spaces in Saudi Arabia. Physical inactivity is a growing health concern, and research has begun to address the physical environment, a subset of which looks particularly at the r... Read More about The benefits and needs of exercise in public open spaces on women's health.

Gold nanorods for optimized photothermal therapy : the influence of irradiating in the first and second biological windows (2014)
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Martinez Maestro, L., Enrique, E., Sanchez-Gil, J., Rodriguez-Oliveros, R., Ramiro-Bargue˜no, J., Caama˜no, A., …Garcia Sole, J. (2014). Gold nanorods for optimized photothermal therapy : the influence of irradiating in the first and second biological windows. RSC Advances, 4(96), 54122-54129. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4ra08956a

The light-to-heat conversion efficiency of gold nanorods (GNRs) with surface plasmon resonances in the first (700-950 nm) and second (1000-1350 nm) biological windows has been studied by Quantum Dot based Fluorescence Nanothermometry. It has been fou... Read More about Gold nanorods for optimized photothermal therapy : the influence of irradiating in the first and second biological windows.