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Relationships between lower body muscle structure and isometric mid-thigh pull peak force (2015)
Journal Article
McMahon, J., Stapley, J., Suchomel, T., & Comfort, P. (2015). Relationships between lower body muscle structure and isometric mid-thigh pull peak force. Journal of trainology, 4(2), 43-48. https://doi.org/10.17338/trainology.4.2_43

Objectives: To explore relationships between aspects of vastus lateralis (VL) and medial gastrocnemius (MG) muscle structure (muscle thickness, fascicle length and pennation angle) and isometric mid-thigh pull (IMTP) peak force capacity. Design and M... Read More about Relationships between lower body muscle structure and isometric mid-thigh pull peak force.

Biphasic decay of the Ca transient results from increased sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca leak (2015)
Journal Article
Sankaranarayanan, R., Li, Y., Greensmith, D., Eisner, D., & Venetucci, L. (2016). Biphasic decay of the Ca transient results from increased sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca leak. Journal of Physiology, 594(3), 611-623. https://doi.org/10.1113/JP271473

In heart failure, a reduction in Ca transient amplitude and contractile dysfunction can by caused by Ca leak through the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) Ca channel (ryanodine receptor, RyR) and/or decreased activity of the SR Ca ATPase (SERCA). We have c... Read More about Biphasic decay of the Ca transient results from increased sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca leak.

The influence of headphones on the localization of external loudspeaker sources (2015)
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Satongar, D., Pike, C., Lam, Y., & Tew, A. (2015). The influence of headphones on the localization of external loudspeaker sources. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 63(10), 799-810. https://doi.org/10.17743/jaes.2015.0072

When validating systems that use headphones to synthesize virtual sound sources, a direct
comparison between virtual and real sources is sometimes needed. This paper considers the
passive influence of headphones on the sound transmission and percep... Read More about The influence of headphones on the localization of external loudspeaker sources.

Metabolism, oxidative stress and territorial behaviour in a female colour polymorphic cichlid fish (2015)
Journal Article
Dijkstra, P. D., Pierotti, M. E., Seehausen, O., & Metcalfe, N. B. (2016). Metabolism, oxidative stress and territorial behaviour in a female colour polymorphic cichlid fish. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 70, 99–109. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-015-2028-4

Intrasexual selection on body coloration is thought to play an important role in the evolution of colour polymorphism, but its physiological underpinnings have received limited attention. In the colour polymorphic cichlid Neochromis omnicaeruleus, th... Read More about Metabolism, oxidative stress and territorial behaviour in a female colour polymorphic cichlid fish.

Reverse dependency : a longitudinal case study investigation into headquarter-subsidiary relationship in the context of an emerging country (2015)
Journal Article

This study provides a conceptual framework and typology to measure headquarter and subsidiary dependency on capabilities and resources. Using an in-depth longitudinal case study approach, it highlights a novel phenomenon called ‘reverse dependency’ w... Read More about Reverse dependency : a longitudinal case study investigation into headquarter-subsidiary relationship in the context of an emerging country.

Workshop on numerical acoustic simulation and auralisation as built environment design consultation tools (2015)
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Extended version of an article appearing in the November 2015 issue of Acoustics Bulletin, the UK Institute of Acoustics magazine. Describes an EPSRC-funded workshop, which was co-hosted by Arup and the University of Salford.

For more informatio... Read More about Workshop on numerical acoustic simulation and auralisation as built environment design consultation tools.

Theorising web 3.0 : ICTs in a changing society (2015)
Journal Article

Purpose:
In this Editorial introduction the broad phases of web development – the read-only Web 1.0, the read-write Web 2.0, and the collaborative and Internet of Things Web 3.0 – are examined for the theoretical lenses through which they have been... Read More about Theorising web 3.0 : ICTs in a changing society.

An INS special forum : the US Senate Select Committee Report on the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program (2015)
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Interrogation Program. Intelligence and National Security, 31(1), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2016.1103442

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Relationships between speed, change of direction and jump performance with cricket specific speed tests in male academy cricketers (2015)
Journal Article
Foden, M., Astley, S., McMahon, J., Comfort, P., Matthews, M., & Jones, P. (2015). Relationships between speed, change of direction and jump performance with cricket specific speed tests in male academy cricketers. Journal of trainology, 4(2), 37-42. https://doi.org/10.17338/trainology.4.2_37

Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships between general speed and change of direction speed and‘cricket specific’ speed tests and the relationships between jump performance and speed and change of direction ability in m... Read More about Relationships between speed, change of direction and jump performance with cricket specific speed tests in male academy cricketers.

Reliability of maximal back squat and power clean performances in inexperienced athletes (2015)
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Comfort, P., & McMahon, J. (2015). Reliability of maximal back squat and power clean performances in inexperienced athletes. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 29(11), 3089-3096. https://doi.org/10.1519/JSC.0000000000000815

The aim of the study was to determine between-session reliability of maximal weight lifted during the back squat and power clean, in inexperienced athletes, and to identify the smallest detectable difference between sessions. Forty-four collegiate at... Read More about Reliability of maximal back squat and power clean performances in inexperienced athletes.

Visual function assessment in medical imaging research (2015)
Journal Article

Background: Medical image perception research relies on visual data to study the diagnostic relationship between
observers and medical images. A consistent method to assess visual function for participants in medical imaging
research has not been d... Read More about Visual function assessment in medical imaging research.

Graphic design educators’ network : re-establishing the purpose and value of a graphic design subject association (2015)
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Burns, J., Corazzo, J., Hardie, K., Harland, R., & Raven, D. (2015). Graphic design educators’ network : re-establishing the purpose and value of a graphic design subject association. Art, Design and Communication in Higher Education, 14(2), 199-205. https://doi.org/10.1386/adch.14.2.199_3

This report discusses the Graphic Design Educators’ Network (GDEN): a fledgling subject association that has pedagogic practice, research and scholarship at its heart. The rationale and impetus for creating the network – its origins, development, aim... Read More about Graphic design educators’ network : re-establishing the purpose and value of a graphic design subject association.

Can the development of a conceptual model for UK engineering companies help understand what the customer wants from new products? (2015)
Journal Article
Owens, J., & Atherton, A. (2015). Can the development of a conceptual model for UK engineering companies help understand what the customer wants from new products?

The long-term survival of a business often hinges upon its ability to successfully introduce new products into the market place. These new products and their successful development can be the lifeblood of a company. Thus, New Product Development (N... Read More about Can the development of a conceptual model for UK engineering companies help understand what the customer wants from new products?.

Rumen microbial community composition varies with diet and host, but a core microbiome is found across a wide geographical range (2015)
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Henderson, G., Cox, F., Ganesh, S., Jonker, A., Young, W., Global Rumen Census Collaborators, G., & Janssen, P. (2015). Rumen microbial community composition varies with diet and host, but a core microbiome is found across a wide geographical range. Scientific reports, 5(14567), https://doi.org/10.1038/srep14567

Ruminant livestock are important sources of human food and global greenhouse gas emissions.
Feed degradation and methane formation by ruminants rely on metabolic interactions between
rumen microbes and affect ruminant productivity. Rumen and cameli... Read More about Rumen microbial community composition varies with diet and host, but a core microbiome is found across a wide geographical range.

Automatic Speaker Recognition System in Adverse Conditions — Implication of Noise and Reverberation on System Performance (2015)
Journal Article
A. Al-Karawi, K., H. Al-Noori, A., Li, F., & Ritchings, T. (2015). Automatic Speaker Recognition System in Adverse Conditions — Implication of Noise and Reverberation on System Performance. International journal of information and electronics engineering (Singapore : Online), 5(6), 423-427. https://doi.org/10.7763/IJIEE.2015.V5.571

Speaker recognition has been developed and evolved over the past few decades into a supposedly mature technique. Existing methods typically utilize robust features
extracted from clean speech. In real-world applications,
especially security and for... Read More about Automatic Speaker Recognition System in Adverse Conditions — Implication of Noise and Reverberation on System Performance.

Service user involvement in preregistration general nurse education: a systematic review (2015)
Journal Article
Scammell, J., Heaslip, V., & Crowley, E. (2015). Service user involvement in preregistration general nurse education: a systematic review. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 25(1-2), 53-69. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.13068

Aims and objectives
A systematic review of published studies on service user involvement in undergraduate, preregistration general nursing education (excluding mental health-specific programmes). The objective is to examine how students are exposed... Read More about Service user involvement in preregistration general nurse education: a systematic review.

Superinfection exclusion and the long-term survival of honey bees in Varroa-infested colonies (2015)
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Mordecai, G. J., Brettell, L., Martin, S. J., Dixon, D., Jones, I. M., & Schroeder, D. C. (2016). Superinfection exclusion and the long-term survival of honey bees in Varroa-infested colonies. ISME Journal, 10(5), 1182-1191. https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2015.186

Over the past 50 years, many millions of European honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies have died as the ectoparasitic mite, Varroa destructor, has spread around the world. Subsequent studies have indicated that the mite’s association with a group of R... Read More about Superinfection exclusion and the long-term survival of honey bees in Varroa-infested colonies.

Terrestrial laser scanning for plot-scale forest measurement (2015)
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Plot-scale measurements have been the foundation
for forest surveys and reporting for over 200 years. Through
recent integration with airborne and satellite remote sensing, manual measurements of vegetation structure at the plot scale are now the b... Read More about Terrestrial laser scanning for plot-scale forest measurement.

Hedging in the Middle East and China-U.S. Competition (2015)
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This article examines policies of both China and the United States in the Middle East. It evaluates the effectiveness of Beijing's strategic hedging behavior against Washington's “hard power” strategies by discussing several policy challenges in this... Read More about Hedging in the Middle East and China-U.S. Competition.

A new role for an old drug: Ambroxol triggers lysosomal exocytosis via pH-dependent Ca2+ release from acidic Ca2+ stores (2015)
Journal Article

Ambroxol (Ax) is a frequently prescribed drug used to facilitate mucociliary clearance, but its mode of action is yet poorly understood. Here we show by X-ray spectroscopy that Ax accumulates in lamellar bodies (LBs), the surfactant storing, secretor... Read More about A new role for an old drug: Ambroxol triggers lysosomal exocytosis via pH-dependent Ca2+ release from acidic Ca2+ stores.