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Geophysical surveying to determine the structure and origin of the Woore Moraine, Shropshire, UK (2013)
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Parkes, A. A., Stimpson, I. G., & Waller, R. I. (2013). Geophysical surveying to determine the structure and origin of the Woore Moraine, Shropshire, UK. Annals of Glaciology, 54(64), 97-104. https://doi.org/10.3189/2013AoG64A112

The Woore Moraine, situated within the Cheshire Plain, is one of the largest glacial landforms in Britain. However, its key characteristics, internal structure and glaciological significance are poorly understood due to limited exposure of its key ge... Read More about Geophysical surveying to determine the structure and origin of the Woore Moraine, Shropshire, UK.

Critical mutation rate has an exponential dependence on population size in haploid and diploid populations (2013)
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Ashton, E., Channon, A., Day, C., & Knight, C. (2013). Critical mutation rate has an exponential dependence on population size in haploid and diploid populations. PloS one, e83438 -e83438. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0083438

Understanding the effect of population size on the key parameters of evolution is particularly important for populations nearing extinction. There are evolutionary pressures to evolve sequences that are both fit and robust. At high mutation rates, in... Read More about Critical mutation rate has an exponential dependence on population size in haploid and diploid populations.

Dynamical evolution of star-forming regions (2013)
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Wright. (2013). Dynamical evolution of star-forming regions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 620-638. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt2231

We model the dynamical evolution of star-forming regions with a wide range of initial properties. We follow the evolution of the regions’ substructure using the Q-parameter, we search for dynamical mass segregation using the ?MSR technique, and we al... Read More about Dynamical evolution of star-forming regions.

Dynamical evolution of star-forming regions (2013)
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Parker, R. J., Wright, N. J., Goodwin, S. P., & Meyer, M. R. (2013). Dynamical evolution of star-forming regions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 438(1), 620-638. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt2231

We model the dynamical evolution of star-forming regions with a wide range of initial properties. We follow the evolution of the regions’ substructure using the Q-parameter, we search for dynamical mass segregation using the ?MSR technique, and we al... Read More about Dynamical evolution of star-forming regions.

Circum-stellar medium around rotating massive stars at solar metallicity (2013)
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(2013). Circum-stellar medium around rotating massive stars at solar metallicity. Astronomy & Astrophysics,

Aims. Observations show nebulae around some massive stars but not around others. If observed, their chemical composition is far from homogeneous. Our goal is to put these observational features into the context of the evolution of massive stars and t... Read More about Circum-stellar medium around rotating massive stars at solar metallicity.

Fundamental properties of core-collapse Supernova and GRB progenitors: predicting the look of massive stars before death (2013)
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(2013). Fundamental properties of core-collapse Supernova and GRB progenitors: predicting the look of massive stars before death. Astronomy & Astrophysics, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201321906

We investigate the fundamental properties of core-collapse Supernova (SN) progenitors from single stars at solar metallicity. We combine Geneva stellar evolutionary models with initial masses of Mini=20-120 Msun with atmospheric/wind models using CMF... Read More about Fundamental properties of core-collapse Supernova and GRB progenitors: predicting the look of massive stars before death.

Late Pleistocene and early Holocene change in the Weddell Sea: a new climate record from the Patriot Hills, Ellsworth Mountains, West Antarctica (2013)
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(2013). Late Pleistocene and early Holocene change in the Weddell Sea: a new climate record from the Patriot Hills, Ellsworth Mountains, West Antarctica. Journal of Quaternary Science, 697 - 704. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.2668

The transition from the late Pleistocene to the Holocene (30 000-5000 years ago) was a period of considerable climate variability, which has been associated with changes in deep water formation and the intensity of the Meridional Overturning Circulat... Read More about Late Pleistocene and early Holocene change in the Weddell Sea: a new climate record from the Patriot Hills, Ellsworth Mountains, West Antarctica.

Doped-carbon electrocatalysts with trimodal porosity from a homogeneous polypeptide gel (2013)
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Schnepp, Z., Zhang, Y., Hollamby, M., Pauw, B., Tanaka, M., Matsushita, Y., & Sakka, Y. (2013). Doped-carbon electrocatalysts with trimodal porosity from a homogeneous polypeptide gel. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 1(43), 13576 -13581. https://doi.org/10.1039/c3ta12996a

One of the biggest challenges for materials science is to design facile routes to structurally complex materials, which is particularly important for global applications such as fuel cells. Doped nanostructured carbons are targeted as noble metal-fre... Read More about Doped-carbon electrocatalysts with trimodal porosity from a homogeneous polypeptide gel.

Libertarian paternalism as a tool to explore strategic sub-regional planning in England? (2013)
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Pemberton, S., & Morphet, J. (2013). Libertarian paternalism as a tool to explore strategic sub-regional planning in England?. European Planning Studies, 2020 - 2036. https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2012.722971

Across Europe, a series of revisions and realignments are currently taking place in sub-national governance structures. In England, this involves the creation of a new scalar construct through the dismantling of the regional tier and the creation of... Read More about Libertarian paternalism as a tool to explore strategic sub-regional planning in England?.

A revised 1000 year atmospheric delta C-13-CO2 record from Law Dome and South Pole, Antarctica (2013)
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(2013). A revised 1000 year atmospheric delta C-13-CO2 record from Law Dome and South Pole, Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 8482 -8499. https://doi.org/10.1002/jgrd.50668

[1] We present new measurements of d13C of CO2 extracted from a high-resolution ice core from Law Dome (East Antarctica), together with firn measurements performed at Law Dome and South Pole, covering the last 150?years. Our analysis is motivated by... Read More about A revised 1000 year atmospheric delta C-13-CO2 record from Law Dome and South Pole, Antarctica.

Volunteering, choice and control: a case study of higher education student volunteering (2013)
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Holdsworth, C., & Brewis, G. (in press). Volunteering, choice and control: a case study of higher education student volunteering. Journal of Youth Studies, 17(2), 204 - 219. https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2013.815702

There has been a step change around youth volunteering in the UK in recent years as this once unheralded and taken for granted activity has moved more centre stage, particularly as a key strand of recent Government initiatives directed towards welfar... Read More about Volunteering, choice and control: a case study of higher education student volunteering.

Comparison of magnetic, electrical and ground penetrating radar surveys to detect buried forensic objects in semi-urban and domestic patio environments (2013)
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Pringle, J. K., & Hansen, J. D. (2013). Comparison of magnetic, electrical and ground penetrating radar surveys to detect buried forensic objects in semi-urban and domestic patio environments. Geological Society Special Publications, 384, 229 - 251. https://doi.org/10.1144/SP384.13

Near-surface geophysical techniques should be routinely utilized by law enforcement agencies to locate shallowly buried forensic objects, saving human and other resources. However, there has been little published research on optimum geophysical detec... Read More about Comparison of magnetic, electrical and ground penetrating radar surveys to detect buried forensic objects in semi-urban and domestic patio environments.

Rapid thinning of the Late Pleistocene Patagonian Ice Sheet followed migration of the Southern Westerlies. (2013)
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(2013). Rapid thinning of the Late Pleistocene Patagonian Ice Sheet followed migration of the Southern Westerlies. Scientific reports, 2118 -?. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep02118

Here we present the first reconstruction of vertical ice-sheet profile changes from any of the Southern Hemisphere's mid-latitude Pleistocene ice sheets. We use cosmogenic radio-nuclide (CRN) exposure analysis to record the decay of the former Patago... Read More about Rapid thinning of the Late Pleistocene Patagonian Ice Sheet followed migration of the Southern Westerlies..

Nonvolatile liquid anthracenes for facile full-colour luminescence tuning at single blue-light excitation (2013)
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Möhwald, H., Nakanishi, T., Hagiwara, K., Yoshizawa, M., Babu, S., Hollamby, M., …Kobayashi, K. (2013). Nonvolatile liquid anthracenes for facile full-colour luminescence tuning at single blue-light excitation. Nature communications, https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms2969

Nonvolatile room-temperature luminescent molecular liquids are a new generation of organic soft materials. They possess high stability, versatile optical properties, solvent-free fluid behaviour and can effectively accommodate dopant dye molecules. H... Read More about Nonvolatile liquid anthracenes for facile full-colour luminescence tuning at single blue-light excitation.

Efficient chemical synthesis of heparin-like octa-, deca- and dodecasaccharides and inhibition of FGF2-and VEGF(165)-mediated endothelial cell functions (2013)
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Miller, G. J., Hansen, S. U., Avizienyte, E., Rushton, G., Cole, C., Jayson, G. C., & Gardiner, J. M. (2013). Efficient chemical synthesis of heparin-like octa-, deca- and dodecasaccharides and inhibition of FGF2-and VEGF(165)-mediated endothelial cell functions. Chemical Science, 4(8), 3218 - 3222. https://doi.org/10.1039/C3SC51217G

A concise chemical synthesis of a series of structurally-defined heparin-like oligosaccharides is described. This work provides an efficient entry to octa-, deca-, and dodecasaccharides, including the first synthesis of (GlcNS6S-IdoA2S)5 and (GlcNS6S... Read More about Efficient chemical synthesis of heparin-like octa-, deca- and dodecasaccharides and inhibition of FGF2-and VEGF(165)-mediated endothelial cell functions.

UK monitoring and deposition of tephra from the May 2011 eruption of Grímsvötn, Iceland (2013)
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Stevenson, J., Loughlin, S., Font, A., Fuller, G., MacLeod, A., Oliver, I., …Dawson, I. (2013). UK monitoring and deposition of tephra from the May 2011 eruption of Grímsvötn, Iceland. Journal of Applied Volcanology, 3 -?. https://doi.org/10.1186/2191-5040-2-3

Mapping the transport and deposition of tephra is important for the assessment of an eruption’s impact on health, transport, vegetation and infrastructure, but it is challenging at large distances from a volcano (>?1000 km), where it may not be visib... Read More about UK monitoring and deposition of tephra from the May 2011 eruption of Grímsvötn, Iceland.

The Relationship Between Residential Quality of Life and Socioeconomic Status in England (2013)
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Campanera, J. M., Nobajas, A., & Higgins, P. (2014). The Relationship Between Residential Quality of Life and Socioeconomic Status in England. Urban Affairs Review, 50(1), 100-133. https://doi.org/10.1177/1078087413485204

This article explores the quintessential “person–environment” relationship that forms the core of the subdiscipline of social geography within the context of a national accountability shift from state to society in England. Two Audit Commission datas... Read More about The Relationship Between Residential Quality of Life and Socioeconomic Status in England.

WASP-8b: characterization of a cool and eccentric exoplanet with Spitzer (2013)
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(2013). WASP-8b: characterization of a cool and eccentric exoplanet with Spitzer. Astrophysical Journal, https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/768/1/42

WASP-8b has 2.18 times Jupiter's mass and is on an eccentric ($e=0.31$) 8.16-day orbit. With a time-averaged equilibrium temperature of 948 K, it is one of the least-irradiated hot Jupiters observed with the Spitzer Space Telescope. We have analyzed... Read More about WASP-8b: characterization of a cool and eccentric exoplanet with Spitzer.