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Neutron reflection study of the interaction of the eukaryotic pore-forming actinoporin equinatoxin II with lipid membranes reveals intermediate states in pore formation (2015)
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(2015). Neutron reflection study of the interaction of the eukaryotic pore-forming actinoporin equinatoxin II with lipid membranes reveals intermediate states in pore formation. BBA - Biomembranes, 640-652. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbamem.2015.12.019

Equinatoxin II (EqtII), a eukaryotic pore-forming toxin, lyses cell membranes through a mechanism involving the insertion of its N-terminal a-helix into the membrane. EqtII pore formation is dependent on sphingomyelin (SM), although cholesterol (Chol... Read More about Neutron reflection study of the interaction of the eukaryotic pore-forming actinoporin equinatoxin II with lipid membranes reveals intermediate states in pore formation.

Relative Magnitude and Controls of in Situ N2 and N2O Fluxes due to Denitrification in Natural and Seminatural Terrestrial Ecosystems Using (15)N Tracers. (2015)
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(2015). Relative Magnitude and Controls of in Situ N2 and N2O Fluxes due to Denitrification in Natural and Seminatural Terrestrial Ecosystems Using (15)N Tracers. Environmental Science and Technology, 14110 - 14119. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.5b03513

Denitrification is the most uncertain component of the nitrogen (N) cycle, hampering our ability to assess its contribution to reactive N (Nr) removal. This uncertainty emanates from the difficulty in measuring in situ soil N2 production and from the... Read More about Relative Magnitude and Controls of in Situ N2 and N2O Fluxes due to Denitrification in Natural and Seminatural Terrestrial Ecosystems Using (15)N Tracers..

Response of European yews to climate change: a review (2015)
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(2015). Response of European yews to climate change: a review. https://doi.org/10.5424/fs/2015243-07465

Aim of study: Being the longest-lived of all European trees, capable of living significantly over 2,000 years, yew is highly likely to be negatively affected by climate change; this paper explores the changes in distribution and abundance. Main r... Read More about Response of European yews to climate change: a review.

The Concept Of Transport Capacity In Geomorphology (2015)
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(2015). The Concept Of Transport Capacity In Geomorphology. Reviews of Geophysics, 1155-1202. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014RG000474

The notion of sediment-transport capacity has been engrained in geomorphological and related literature for over 50?years, although its earliest roots date back explicitly to Gilbert in fluvial geomorphology in the 1870s and implicitly to eighteenth... Read More about The Concept Of Transport Capacity In Geomorphology.

Outcrop analogue study of Permocarboniferous geothermal sandstone reservoir formations (northern Upper Rhine Graben, Germany): impact of mineral content, depositional environment and diagenesis on petrophysical properties (2015)
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(2015). Outcrop analogue study of Permocarboniferous geothermal sandstone reservoir formations (northern Upper Rhine Graben, Germany): impact of mineral content, depositional environment and diagenesis on petrophysical properties. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 1431-1452. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-015-1263-2

The Permocarboniferous siliciclastic formations represent the largest hydrothermal reservoir in the northern Upper Rhine Graben in SW Germany and have so far been investigated in large-scale studies only. The Cenozoic Upper Rhine Graben crosses the P... Read More about Outcrop analogue study of Permocarboniferous geothermal sandstone reservoir formations (northern Upper Rhine Graben, Germany): impact of mineral content, depositional environment and diagenesis on petrophysical properties.

Biodiversity conservation: the impacts of UK university research (2015)
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Devenish, C. (2015). Biodiversity conservation: the impacts of UK university research. Environmental Scientist, 24(3), 13-21

The 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) assessed the impact of research undertaken by UK universities for the first time. Universities submitted case studies to demonstrate their research impacts on “the economy, society, culture, public policy... Read More about Biodiversity conservation: the impacts of UK university research.

Spectroscopic confirmation of M-dwarf candidate members of the Beta Pictoris and AB Doradus Moving Groups (2015)
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(2016). Spectroscopic confirmation of M-dwarf candidate members of the Beta Pictoris and AB Doradus Moving Groups. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 455(3), 3345-3358. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2431

Optical spectroscopic observations are reported for 24 and 23, nearby, proper-motion-selected M-dwarf candidate members of the Beta Pictoris and AB Doradus moving groups (BPMG and ABDMG). Using kinematic criteria, the presence of both Halpha emission... Read More about Spectroscopic confirmation of M-dwarf candidate members of the Beta Pictoris and AB Doradus Moving Groups.

Rapid Holocene thinning of an East Antarctic outlet glacier driven by marine ice sheet instability (2015)
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(2015). Rapid Holocene thinning of an East Antarctic outlet glacier driven by marine ice sheet instability. Nature communications, 8910 -?. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9910

Outlet glaciers grounded on a bed that deepens inland and extends below sea level are potentially vulnerable to 'marine ice sheet instability'. This instability, which may lead to runaway ice loss, has been simulated in models, but its consequences h... Read More about Rapid Holocene thinning of an East Antarctic outlet glacier driven by marine ice sheet instability.

Integral field spectroscopy of massive young stellar objects in the N113 H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (2015)
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Ward, J., Oliveira, J., Van Loon, J. T., & Sewiło, M. (2016). Integral field spectroscopy of massive young stellar objects in the N113 H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 455(3), 2345 - 2362. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2424

The Spitzer Surveying the Agents of Galaxy Evolution (SAGE) survey has allowed the identification and analysis of significant samples of Young Stellar Object (YSO) candidates in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). However, the angular resolution of Spi... Read More about Integral field spectroscopy of massive young stellar objects in the N113 H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

The JCMT Plane Survey: early results from the l=30 degrees field (2015)
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(2015). The JCMT Plane Survey: early results from the l=30 degrees field. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 4264 -4277. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1833

We present early results from the JCMT (James Clerk Maxwell Telescope) Plane Survey (JPS), which has surveyed the northern inner Galactic plane between longitudes = 7? and = 63? in the 850-µm continuum with SCUBA-2 (Submm Common-User Bolometer Arra... Read More about The JCMT Plane Survey: early results from the l=30 degrees field.

Family Practices, Holiday and the Everyday (2015)
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Holdsworth, C., & Hall, S. M. (2015). Family Practices, Holiday and the Everyday. Mobilities, 284-302. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2014.970374

Holidays are central to the rhythm of everyday family practices and consumption, and are often depicted, within both academic literature and consumer marketing, as a defining moment in contemporary family life. To date, academic accounts of the exper... Read More about Family Practices, Holiday and the Everyday.

Peroxyl radical reactions with carotenoids in microemulsions: Influence of microemulsion composition and the nature of peroxyl radical precursor (2015)
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(2015). Peroxyl radical reactions with carotenoids in microemulsions: Influence of microemulsion composition and the nature of peroxyl radical precursor. Free Radical Biology and Medicine, 75-84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2015.10.427

The reactions of acetylperoxyl radicals with different carotenoids (7,7'-dihydro-ß-carotene and ?-carotene) in SDS and CTAC microemulsions of different compositions were investigated using laser flash photolysis (LFP) coupled with kinetic absorption... Read More about Peroxyl radical reactions with carotenoids in microemulsions: Influence of microemulsion composition and the nature of peroxyl radical precursor.

The role of steric effects and acidity in direct synthesis of iso-paraffins from syngas on cobalt zeolite catalysts (2015)
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Zholobenko. (2015). The role of steric effects and acidity in direct synthesis of iso-paraffins from syngas on cobalt zeolite catalysts. ChemCatChem, 380-389. https://doi.org/10.1002/cctc.201500777

This study focuses on the effects of the localization of Co species, zeolite structure, and acidity on the performance of Co bifunctional catalysts promoted with Pt for the direct synthesis of iso-paraffins from syngas. ZSM-5, MOR, and BEA were chose... Read More about The role of steric effects and acidity in direct synthesis of iso-paraffins from syngas on cobalt zeolite catalysts.

The Chandra/HETG view of NGC 1365 in a Compton-thick state (2015)
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Nardini, E., Gofford, J., Reeves, J. N., Braito, V., Risaliti, G., & Costa, M. (2015). The Chandra/HETG view of NGC 1365 in a Compton-thick state. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 453(3), 2558-2568. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1826

We present the analysis of a Chandra High-Energy Transmission Grating (HETG) observation of the local Seyfert galaxy NGC 1365. The source, well known for its dramatic X-ray spectral variability, was caught in a reflection-dominated, Compton-thick sta... Read More about The Chandra/HETG view of NGC 1365 in a Compton-thick state.

Lifecourse transitions, gender and drinking in later life (2015)
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Frisher, M., Holdsworth, C., MENDONÇA, M., DE OLIVEIRIA, C., PIKHART, H., & SHELTON, N. (2017). Lifecourse transitions, gender and drinking in later life. Ageing and society, 37(3), 462-494. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X15001178

Older people consume less alcohol than any other adult age group. However, in recent years survey data on alcohol consumption in the United Kingdom have shown that while younger age groups have experienced a decline in alcohol consumption, drinking b... Read More about Lifecourse transitions, gender and drinking in later life.

The Early Infrared Temporal Development Of Nova Delphini 2013 (v339 Del) Observed With The Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (sofia) And From The Ground (2015)
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(2015). The Early Infrared Temporal Development Of Nova Delphini 2013 (v339 Del) Observed With The Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (sofia) And From The Ground. Astrophysical Journal, https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/812/2/132

We present ground-based infrared photometry, JHK spectroscopy, and 5–28 µm SOFIA FORCAST spectroscopy documenting the early temporal development of Nova Delphini 2013 (V339 Del). We derive a distance of ~4.5 kpc using data available from the early ex... Read More about The Early Infrared Temporal Development Of Nova Delphini 2013 (v339 Del) Observed With The Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (sofia) And From The Ground.

Spatial and temporal variability of lake ontogeny in south-western Greenland (2015)
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Law, A. (2015). Spatial and temporal variability of lake ontogeny in south-western Greenland. Quaternary Science Reviews, 1 -16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.08.005

Holocene palaeolimnological records of diatoms and ß carotene (a proxy for aquatic production) from four lakes in the low Arctic region of south-western Greenland were used to investigate the role of climate on lake ontogeny. Two of the lakes are loc... Read More about Spatial and temporal variability of lake ontogeny in south-western Greenland.

Sensitivity of the Southern Ocean to enhanced regional Antarctic ice sheet meltwater input (2015)
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(2015). Sensitivity of the Southern Ocean to enhanced regional Antarctic ice sheet meltwater input. Earth's Future, 317 - 329. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015EF000306

Despite advances in our understanding of the processes driving contemporary sea level rise, the stability of the Antarctic ice sheets and their contribution to sea level under projected future warming remains uncertain due to the influence of strong... Read More about Sensitivity of the Southern Ocean to enhanced regional Antarctic ice sheet meltwater input.