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Impacts of marine instability across the East Antarctic Ice Sheet on Southern Ocean dynamics (2016)
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(2016). Impacts of marine instability across the East Antarctic Ice Sheet on Southern Ocean dynamics. Cryosphere, 2317 -2328. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2317-2016

Recent observations and modelling studies have demonstrated the potential for rapid and substantial retreat of large sectors of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS). This has major implications for ocean circulation and global sea level. Here we exami... Read More about Impacts of marine instability across the East Antarctic Ice Sheet on Southern Ocean dynamics.

The Gaia-ESO Survey: revisiting the Li-rich giant problem (2016)
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Casey, A., Ruchti, G., Masseron, T., Randich, S., Gilmore, G., Lind, K., Kennedy, G., Koposov, S., Hourihane, A., Franciosini, E., Lewis, J., Magrini, L., Morbidelli, L., Sacco, G., Worley, C., Feltzing, S., Jeffries, R., Vallenari, A., Bensby, T., Bragaglia, A., …Valentini, M. (2016). The Gaia-ESO Survey: revisiting the Li-rich giant problem. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 461(3), 3336 - 3352. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1512

The discovery of lithium-rich giants contradicts expectations from canonical stellar evolution. Here we report on the serendipitous discovery of 20 Li-rich giants observed during the Gaia-ESO Survey, which includes the first nine Li-rich giant stars... Read More about The Gaia-ESO Survey: revisiting the Li-rich giant problem.

Impacts of climate change on national biodiversity population trends (2016)
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Martay, B., Brewer, M., Elston, D., Bell, J., Harrington, R., Brereton, T., Barlow, K., Botham, M., & Pearce-Higgins, J. (2017). Impacts of climate change on national biodiversity population trends. Ecography, 40(10), 1139-1151. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.02411

Climate change has had well-documented impacts on the distribution and phenology of species across many taxa, but impacts on species’ abundance, which relates closely to extinction risk and ecosystem function, have not been assessed across taxa. In t... Read More about Impacts of climate change on national biodiversity population trends.

Handbook of protocols for standardized measurement of terrestrial invertebrate functional traits (2016)
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Moretti, M., Dias, A. T., de Bello, F., Altermatt, F., Chown, S. L., Azcárate, F. M., Bell, J. R., Fournier, B., Hedde, M., Hortal, J., Ibanez, S., Öckinger, E., Sousa, J. P., Ellers, J., & Berg, M. P. (2017). Handbook of protocols for standardized measurement of terrestrial invertebrate functional traits. Functional Ecology, 31(3), 558-567. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12776

Trait-based approaches are increasingly being used to test mechanisms underlying species assemblages and biotic interactions across a wide range of organisms including terrestrial arthropods and to investigate consequences for ecosystem processes. Su... Read More about Handbook of protocols for standardized measurement of terrestrial invertebrate functional traits.

Behaviour change techniques in home-based cardiac rehabilitation: a systematic review (2016)
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Heron, N., Kee, F., Donnelly, M., Cardwell, C., Tully, M. A., & Cupples, M. E. (2016). Behaviour change techniques in home-based cardiac rehabilitation: a systematic review. British Journal of General Practice (BJGP), e747 - e757. https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp16X686617

Background Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) programmes offering secondary prevention for cardiovascular disease (CVD) advise healthy lifestyle behaviours, with the behaviour change techniques (BCTs) of goals and planning, feedback and monitoring, and soci... Read More about Behaviour change techniques in home-based cardiac rehabilitation: a systematic review.

Potential of hybrid iron oxide–gold nanoparticles as thermal triggers for pancreatic cancer therapy (2016)
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Oluwasanmi, A., Malekigorji, M., Jones, S., Curtis, A., & Hoskins, C. (2016). Potential of hybrid iron oxide–gold nanoparticles as thermal triggers for pancreatic cancer therapy. RSC advances, https://doi.org/10.1039/c6ra20552f

Theranostics are emerging platforms for rapid cancer diagnosis and therapy. Hybrid iron oxide–gold nanoparticles (HNPs) have shown potential as theranostics due to their ability for imaging using MRI, heating using laser irradiation and carrier abili... Read More about Potential of hybrid iron oxide–gold nanoparticles as thermal triggers for pancreatic cancer therapy.

The oxoglutarate receptor 1 (OXGR1) modulates pressure overload-induced cardiac hypertrophy in mice (2016)
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Mamas. (2016). The oxoglutarate receptor 1 (OXGR1) modulates pressure overload-induced cardiac hypertrophy in mice. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 708-714. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2016.09.147

The G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) family of proteins play essential roles in the heart, including in the regulation of cardiac hypertrophy. One member of this family, the oxoglutarate receptor 1 (OXGR1), may have a crucial role in the heart bec... Read More about The oxoglutarate receptor 1 (OXGR1) modulates pressure overload-induced cardiac hypertrophy in mice.

A Standing Investment Court under TTIP from the Perspective of the Court of Justice of the European Union (2016)
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(2016). A Standing Investment Court under TTIP from the Perspective of the Court of Justice of the European Union. Journal of World Investment and Trade, 701 -742. https://doi.org/10.1163/22119000-12340010

This article critically assesses the feasibility of the recently proposed Investment Court System (ICS) under the envisaged Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), from the perspective of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJE... Read More about A Standing Investment Court under TTIP from the Perspective of the Court of Justice of the European Union.

The Feasibility of Health Trainer Improved Patient Self-Management in Patients with Low Health Literacy and Poorly Controlled Diabetes: A Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial (2016)
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Protheroe, J., Rathod, T., Bartlam, B., Rowlands, G., Richardson, G., & Reeves, D. (2016). The Feasibility of Health Trainer Improved Patient Self-Management in Patients with Low Health Literacy and Poorly Controlled Diabetes: A Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial. Journal of Diabetes Research, 2016, Article 6903245. https://doi.org/10.1155/2016/6903245

Type 2 diabetes mellitus is most prevalent in deprived communities and patients with low health literacy have worse glycaemic control and higher rates of diabetic complications. However, recruitment from this patient population into intervention tria... Read More about The Feasibility of Health Trainer Improved Patient Self-Management in Patients with Low Health Literacy and Poorly Controlled Diabetes: A Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial.

Physiotherapy, and speech and language therapy intervention for patients with refractory chronic cough: a multicentre randomised control trial. (2016)
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(2016). Physiotherapy, and speech and language therapy intervention for patients with refractory chronic cough: a multicentre randomised control trial. Thorax, https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2016-208843

BACKGROUND: Physiotherapy, and speech and language therapy are emerging non-pharmacological treatments for refractory chronic cough. We aimed to investigate the efficacy of a physiotherapy, and speech and language therapy intervention (PSALTI) to imp... Read More about Physiotherapy, and speech and language therapy intervention for patients with refractory chronic cough: a multicentre randomised control trial..

Nanoengineering neural stem cells on biomimetic substrates using magnetofection technology. (2016)
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Adams, C., Dickson, A., Kuiper, J., & Chari, D. (2016). Nanoengineering neural stem cells on biomimetic substrates using magnetofection technology. Nanoscale, 8, 17869-17880. https://doi.org/10.1039/c6nr05244d

Tissue engineering studies are witnessing a major paradigm shift to cell culture on biomimetic materials that replicate native tissue features from which the cells are derived. Few studies have been performed in this regard for neural cells, particul... Read More about Nanoengineering neural stem cells on biomimetic substrates using magnetofection technology..

The Gaia-ESO Survey: Lithium depletion in the Gamma Velorum cluster and inflated radii in low-mass pre-main-sequence stars (2016)
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Jeffries. (2016). The Gaia-ESO Survey: Lithium depletion in the Gamma Velorum cluster and inflated radii in low-mass pre-main-sequence stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1456-1465. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2458

We show that non-magnetic models for the evolution of pre-main-sequence (PMS) stars cannot simultaneously describe the colour–magnitude diagram (CMD) and the pattern of lithium depletion seen in the cluster of young, low-mass stars surrounding ?2 Vel... Read More about The Gaia-ESO Survey: Lithium depletion in the Gamma Velorum cluster and inflated radii in low-mass pre-main-sequence stars.

Porous Polyrotaxane Coordination Networks Containing Two Distinct Conformers of a Discontinuously Flexible Ligand (2016)
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Hawes, C. S., Knowles, G. P., Chaffee, A. L., White, K. F., Abrahams, B. F., Batten, S. R., & Turner, D. R. (2016). Porous Polyrotaxane Coordination Networks Containing Two Distinct Conformers of a Discontinuously Flexible Ligand. Inorganic Chemistry, 10467 -10474. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6b01713

A new divergent homopiperazine-derived ligand N,N'-bis(4-carboxyphenyl)-1,4-diazacycloheptane H2L has been prepared, containing a semirigid saturated heterocyclic core which is capable of providing multiple distinct bridging geometries. Reaction of H... Read More about Porous Polyrotaxane Coordination Networks Containing Two Distinct Conformers of a Discontinuously Flexible Ligand.

Looking for imprints of the first stellar generations in metal-poor bulge field stars (2016)
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Hirschi. (2016). Looking for imprints of the first stellar generations in metal-poor bulge field stars. Astronomy and Astrophysics, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628104

Context. Efforts to look for signatures of the first stars have concentrated on metal-poor halo objects. However, the low end of the bulge metallicity distribution has been shown to host some of the oldest objects in the Milky Way and hence this Gala... Read More about Looking for imprints of the first stellar generations in metal-poor bulge field stars.

The implications of living with heart failure; the impact on everyday life, family support, co-morbidities and access to healthcare: a secondary qualitative analysis. (2016)
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Fry, M., McLachlan, S., Purdy, S., Sanders, T., Kadam, U. T., & Chew-Graham, C. A. (2016). The implications of living with heart failure; the impact on everyday life, family support, co-morbidities and access to healthcare: a secondary qualitative analysis. BMC Family Practice, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-016-0537-5

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to use secondary analysis to interrogate a qualitative data set to explore the experiences of patients living with heart failure. METHODS: The data-set comprised interviews with 11 patients who had participated i... Read More about The implications of living with heart failure; the impact on everyday life, family support, co-morbidities and access to healthcare: a secondary qualitative analysis..

Paragonimiasis in tuberculosis patients in Nagaland, India. (2016)
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(2016). Paragonimiasis in tuberculosis patients in Nagaland, India. Global Health Action, 32387 - ?. https://doi.org/10.3402/gha.v9.32387

BACKGROUND: One of the infections that mimic tuberculosis (TB) is paragonimiasis (PRG), a foodborne parasitic disease caused by lung flukes of the genusParagonimus. In the northeastern states of India, TB and PRG are endemic; however, PRG is rarely i... Read More about Paragonimiasis in tuberculosis patients in Nagaland, India..

Cellular senescence in aging and osteoarthritis. (2016)
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(2016). Cellular senescence in aging and osteoarthritis. Acta Orthopaedica, 6- 14. https://doi.org/10.1080/17453674.2016.1235087

- It is well accepted that age is an important contributing factor to poor cartilage repair following injury, and to the development of osteoarthritis. Cellular senescence, the loss of the ability of cells to divide, has been noted as the major facto... Read More about Cellular senescence in aging and osteoarthritis..

When is policing fair?: groups, identity and judgements of the procedural justice of coercive crowd policing (2016)
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Stott. (2016). When is policing fair?: groups, identity and judgements of the procedural justice of coercive crowd policing. Policing and Society, 647-664. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2016.1234470

Procedural justice theory (PJT) is now a widely utilised theoretical perspective in policing research that acknowledges the centrality of police ‘fairness’. Despite its widespread acceptance this paper asserts that there are conceptual limitations th... Read More about When is policing fair?: groups, identity and judgements of the procedural justice of coercive crowd policing.

Migration decision-making: a geographical imaginations approach (2016)
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(2016). Migration decision-making: a geographical imaginations approach. Area, 77 - 84. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12292

Within the past two decades, scholars of migration are beginning to understand the importance of incorporating cultural dimensions into research concerning migration decision-making practices. While it is recognised that economic, social and politica... Read More about Migration decision-making: a geographical imaginations approach.