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Becoming respectable: low-income young mothers, consumption and the pursuit of value (2015)
Journal Article
(2015). Becoming respectable: low-income young mothers, consumption and the pursuit of value. Journal of Marketing Management, 652-672. https://doi.org/10.1080/0267257X.2015.1117517

Teenage mothers find themselves caught between two discourses: the irresponsibility of youth and the responsibility of motherhood. We unravel some of the complexities surrounding the performance of socially approved ‘good mothering’, from a social po... Read More about Becoming respectable: low-income young mothers, consumption and the pursuit of value.

Probing the Local Bubble with diffuse interstellar bands: I. Project overview and southern hemisphere survey⋆ (2015)
Journal Article
Bailey, M., van Loon, J. T., Farhang, A., Javadi, A., Khosroshahi, H. G., Sarre, P. J., & Smith, K. T. (2016). Probing the Local Bubble with diffuse interstellar bands: I. Project overview and southern hemisphere survey⋆. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 585, A12. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526656

Context. The Sun traverses a low-density, hot entity called the Local Bubble. Despite its relevance to life on Earth, the conditions in the Local Bubble and its exact configuration are not very well known. Besides that, there is some unknown interste... Read More about Probing the Local Bubble with diffuse interstellar bands: I. Project overview and southern hemisphere survey⋆.

The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2015/16: Overview: The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2015/16: Overview (2015)
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Alexander, S. P., Kelly, E., Marrion, N., Peters, J. A., Benson, H. E., Faccenda, E., …Wong, S. S. (2015). The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2015/16: Overview: The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2015/16: Overview. British Journal of Pharmacology, 172(24), 5729-5743. https://doi.org/10.1111/bph.13347

The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2015/16 provides concise overviews of the key properties of over 1750 human drug targets with their pharmacology, plus links to an open access knowledgebase of drug targets and their ligands (www.guidetopharmacology.... Read More about The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2015/16: Overview: The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2015/16: Overview.

Understanding the magnetic polarizability tensor (2015)
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Ledger, P. D., & Lionheart, W. R. B. (2016). Understanding the magnetic polarizability tensor. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 52(5), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1109/tmag.2015.2507169

The aim of this paper is to provide new insights into the properties of the rank 2 polarizability tensor M̆ proposed by Ledger and Lionheart for describing the perturbation in the magnetic field caused by the presence of a conducting object in the ed... Read More about Understanding the magnetic polarizability tensor.

Differences in concentration of metal debris in blood, serum, and plasma samples of patients with metal-on-metal hip resurfacing arthroplasty (2015)
Journal Article
Khan, M., Kuiper, J., Sieniawska, C., & Richardson, J. (2016). Differences in concentration of metal debris in blood, serum, and plasma samples of patients with metal-on-metal hip resurfacing arthroplasty. Journal of Orthopaedics, 13(4), 450-454. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jor.2015.10.006

Background/aims
Cobalt and chromium are released from MOM hips and their precise nature (ions/particles) is not known. Their distribution in serum, plasma, and whole blood may help to determine their nature.

Methods
We measured cobalt and chromi... Read More about Differences in concentration of metal debris in blood, serum, and plasma samples of patients with metal-on-metal hip resurfacing arthroplasty.

Heterosis Increases Fertility, Fecundity and Survival of Laboratory-Produced F1 Hybrid Males of the Malaria Mosquito Anopheles coluzzii (2015)
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(2015). Heterosis Increases Fertility, Fecundity and Survival of Laboratory-Produced F1 Hybrid Males of the Malaria Mosquito Anopheles coluzzii. G3: Genes | Genomes | Genetics, 2693-2709. https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.115.021436

The success of vector control strategies aiming to decrease disease transmission via the release of sterile or genetically-modified male mosquitoes critically depends on mating between laboratory-reared males and wild females. Unfortunately, mosquito... Read More about Heterosis Increases Fertility, Fecundity and Survival of Laboratory-Produced F1 Hybrid Males of the Malaria Mosquito Anopheles coluzzii.

The fantasy of congruency: the Abbe Sieyes and the ‘nation-state’ problematique revisited (2015)
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Mandelbaum, M. (2015). The fantasy of congruency: the Abbe Sieyes and the ‘nation-state’ problematique revisited. Philosophy and Social Criticism, https://doi.org/10.1177/0191453715617503

This paper offers an alternative reading of the Abbé Sieyès and the modern ‘nation-state’ problématique. I argue that the subject/object that is constituted in the early days of modernity is the incomplete society: an impossible-possibility ideal of... Read More about The fantasy of congruency: the Abbe Sieyes and the ‘nation-state’ problematique revisited.

Changes in large-scale climate alter spatial synchrony of aphid pests (2015)
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Sheppard, L. W., Bell, J. R., Harrington, R., & Reuman, D. C. (2016). Changes in large-scale climate alter spatial synchrony of aphid pests. Nature Climate Change, 6, Article 610-613. https://doi.org/10.1038/NCLIMATE2881

Spatial synchrony, the tendency of distant populations to fluctuate similarly, is a major concern in ecology1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8. Except in special circumstances3,9, researchers historically had difficulty identifying drivers of synchrony in field systems... Read More about Changes in large-scale climate alter spatial synchrony of aphid pests.

Revisiting the Classics: policing coercion and liberty: a review of P.A.J. Waddington's Liberty and Order (1994) and Policing Citizens (1999) (2015)
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Stott, C. (2016). Revisiting the Classics: policing coercion and liberty: a review of P.A.J. Waddington's Liberty and Order (1994) and Policing Citizens (1999). Policing and Society, 26(1), 114-119. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2015.1107297

As a field of social science research, policing has been fortunate to have a number of influential academic researchers and a rich history of significant writing. This is something to be celebrated. Our Revisiting the Classics series aims to bring to... Read More about Revisiting the Classics: policing coercion and liberty: a review of P.A.J. Waddington's Liberty and Order (1994) and Policing Citizens (1999).

I Lived and Learned': Violence, Survival and Knowledge in Trans Women's Lives in Turkey (2015)
Journal Article
Tascioglu, E. (2015). I Lived and Learned': Violence, Survival and Knowledge in Trans Women's Lives in Turkey. Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 1452-1470

This article examines life story narratives of trans women in an effort to understand how violence produces and shapes their lives and subjectivities in Istanbul, Turkey. After delineating the main forms of violence that target them, it looks at the... Read More about I Lived and Learned': Violence, Survival and Knowledge in Trans Women's Lives in Turkey.

DEP2SA: A Decentralized Efficient Privacy-Preserving and Selective Aggregation Scheme in Advanced Metering Infrastructure (2015)
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Fan, Z., Mustafa, M. A., Zhang, N., & Kalogridis, G. (2015). DEP2SA: A Decentralized Efficient Privacy-Preserving and Selective Aggregation Scheme in Advanced Metering Infrastructure. IEEE Access, 3, 2828-2846. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2015.2506198

This paper proposes a novel solution, called a decentralized, efficient, privacy-preserving, and selective aggregation (DEP2SA) scheme, designed to support secure and user privacy-preserving data collection in the advanced metering infrastructure. DE... Read More about DEP2SA: A Decentralized Efficient Privacy-Preserving and Selective Aggregation Scheme in Advanced Metering Infrastructure.

Pharmacological interventions for acute and transient psychotic disorder (ATPD) (2015)
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Farooq, S., Rehman, M., & Naeem, F. Pharmacological interventions for acute and transient psychotic disorder (ATPD). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.cd011974

This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (Intervention). The objectives are as follows:

To evaluate the effects of pharmacological interventions, including cost‐effectiveness, when compared to placebo or between different pharmacological agents in... Read More about Pharmacological interventions for acute and transient psychotic disorder (ATPD).

The welfare state, institutions and export performance (2015)
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Bournakis, I., & Tsoukis, C. (2016). The welfare state, institutions and export performance. Economic Modelling, 53, 37 - 47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2015.11.011

With a panel of 18 OECD countries, 1980–2005, we investigate the determinants of export performance, in particular the effects of the size of government and institutional features. In a model of endogenous extent of domestically-produced goods, gover... Read More about The welfare state, institutions and export performance.

Government size, institutions and export performance among OECD economies (2015)
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Tsoukis. (2015). Government size, institutions and export performance among OECD economies. Economic Modelling, 37-47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2015.11.011

With a panel of 18 OECD countries, 1980–2005, we investigate the determinants of export performance, in particular the effects of the size of government and institutional features. In a model of endogenous extent of domestically-produced goods, gover... Read More about Government size, institutions and export performance among OECD economies.

Response of European yews to climate change: a review (2015)
Journal Article
(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.

Nanofibrous scaffolds supporting optimal central nervous system regeneration: an evidence-based review (2015)
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Yang, Y. (2015). Nanofibrous scaffolds supporting optimal central nervous system regeneration: an evidence-based review. Journal of Neurorestoratology, 123 - 131. https://doi.org/10.2147/JN.S70337

Restoration of function following damage to the central nervous system (CNS) is severely restricted by several factors. These include the hindrance of axonal regeneration imposed by glial scars resulting from inflammatory response to damage, and limi... Read More about Nanofibrous scaffolds supporting optimal central nervous system regeneration: an evidence-based 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.