A systematic investigation of the effect of sample diluent on peak shape in hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography (2010)
Journal Article
Ruta, J., Rudaz, S., McCalley, D. V., Veuthey, J. L., & Guillarme, D. (2010). A systematic investigation of the effect of sample diluent on peak shape in hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography. Journal of Chromatography A, 1217(52), 8230-8240. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chroma.2010.10.106

The aim of this study was to evaluate the importance of sample diluents to improve peak shapes in hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography (HILIC), using low molecular weight (

Magnetic particle detector system (2010)
Patent
Kiely, J., Luxton, R. W., & Hawkins, P. (2010). Magnetic particle detector system. EP20050744998 20050517

A magnetic particle detector system comprises a plurality of reaction surfaces; a corresponding plurality of electrical coils, each located adjacent a respective reaction surface; and a measuring system for measuring the effect of magnetic particles... Read More about Magnetic particle detector system.

A novel hydrogen sulfide donor causes stomatal opening and reduces nitric oxide accumulation (2010)
Journal Article
Lisjak, M., Srivastava, N., Teklic, T., Civale, L., Lewandowski, K., Wilson, I. D., …Hancock, J. T. (2010). A novel hydrogen sulfide donor causes stomatal opening and reduces nitric oxide accumulation. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 48(12), 931-935. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plaphy.2010.09.016

Effects of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) on plant physiology have been previously studied, but such studies have relied on the use of NaSH as a method for supplying H2S to tissues. Now new compounds which give a less severe H2S shock and a more prolonged ex... Read More about A novel hydrogen sulfide donor causes stomatal opening and reduces nitric oxide accumulation.

Small scale microbial fuel cells and different ways of reporting output (2010)
Journal Article
Ieropoulos, I., Winfield, J., Greenman, J., & Melhuish, C. (2010). Small scale microbial fuel cells and different ways of reporting output. ECS Transactions, 28(9), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1149/1.3492221

The present study, reports on the findings of connecting 2 stacks of 48 MFCs and the importance of maturity and acclimation for the anodic biofilms. Furthermore, an attempt is made to emphasize the importance of a universal unit for quantifying power... Read More about Small scale microbial fuel cells and different ways of reporting output.

Evidence for local declines in Tanzania's puku antelope (Kobus vardoni Livingstone, 1857) population between 1999 and 2003 (2010)
Journal Article
Lamontagne-Godwin, J., Bonnington, C., Steer, M. D., Owen, N., & Grainger, M. (2010). Evidence for local declines in Tanzania's puku antelope (Kobus vardoni Livingstone, 1857) population between 1999 and 2003. African Journal of Ecology, 48(4), 1139-1142. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2028.2010.01224.x

Introduction The Kilombero Valley in Tanzania holds c. 75% of the world’s puku antelope (Kobus vardoni), which is an estimated 50,000–60,000 individuals (East, 1998; Jenkins, Maliti & Corti, 2003). Globally, survival of this species is closely rela... Read More about Evidence for local declines in Tanzania's puku antelope (Kobus vardoni Livingstone, 1857) population between 1999 and 2003.

A bioluminescent microbial biosensor for in vitro pretreatment assessment of cytarabine efficacy in leukemia (2010)
Journal Article
Salisbury, V. C., Hill, P. J., Angell, J. E., Ruddock, M. W., Martin, A. D., Alloush, H. M., …Mehta, P. (2010). A bioluminescent microbial biosensor for in vitro pretreatment assessment of cytarabine efficacy in leukemia. Clinical Chemistry, 56(12), 1862-1870. https://doi.org/10.1373/clinchem.2010.145581

BACKGROUND: The nucleoside analog cytarabine (Ara-C [cytosine arabinoside]) is the key agent for treating acute myeloid leukemia (AML); however, up to 30% of patients fail to respond to treatment. Screening of patient blood samples to determine drug... Read More about A bioluminescent microbial biosensor for in vitro pretreatment assessment of cytarabine efficacy in leukemia.

Description of Gibbsiella quercinecans gen. nov., sp. nov., associated with Acute Oak Decline (2010)
Journal Article
Brady, C., Denman, S., Kirk, S., Venter, S., Rodríguez-Palenzuela, P., & Coutinho, T. (2010). Description of Gibbsiella quercinecans gen. nov., sp. nov., associated with Acute Oak Decline. Systematic and Applied Microbiology, 33(8), 444-450. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2010.08.006

Gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic bacterial strains were consistently isolated from oak trees displaying symptoms of extensive stem bleeding. In Britain, this disorder is called Acute Oak Decline (AOD). A similar condition has been noted on spec... Read More about Description of Gibbsiella quercinecans gen. nov., sp. nov., associated with Acute Oak Decline.

Bacterial bioluminescence as a tool for monitoring the real-time activity of antimicrobial agents (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Robinson, G. M., Lee, S., Thorn, R., & Reynolds, D. M. (2010, November). Bacterial bioluminescence as a tool for monitoring the real-time activity of antimicrobial agents. Presented at International Conference on Antimicrobial Research, Valladolid, Spain

Assessment of the influence of different sample processing and cold storage duration on plant free proline content analyses (2010)
Journal Article
Andrić, L., ParadIković, N., Stanisavljević, A., ŠPoljarević, M., Teklić, T., Lisjak, M., …Hancock, J. T. (2010). Assessment of the influence of different sample processing and cold storage duration on plant free proline content analyses. Phytochemical Analysis, 21(6), 561-565. https://doi.org/10.1002/pca.1233

Introduction - A method which is widely accepted for the analysis of free proline content in plant tissues is based on the use of 3% sulfosalicylic acid as an extractant, followed by spectrophotometric quantification of a proline-ninhydrin complex in... Read More about Assessment of the influence of different sample processing and cold storage duration on plant free proline content analyses.

British Association for Psychopharmacology consensus statement on evidence-based treatment of insomnia, parasomnias and circadian rhythm disorders (2010)
Journal Article
Wade, A. G., Sharpley, A. L., Nash, J. R., Krystal, A. D., Espie, C. A., Dijk, D. J., …Wade, A. (2010). British Association for Psychopharmacology consensus statement on evidence-based treatment of insomnia, parasomnias and circadian rhythm disorders. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 24(11), 1577-1600. https://doi.org/10.1177/0269881110379307

Sleep disorders are common in the general population and even more so in clinical practice, yet are relatively poorly understood by doctors and other health care practitioners. These British Association for Psychopharmacology guidelines are designed... Read More about British Association for Psychopharmacology consensus statement on evidence-based treatment of insomnia, parasomnias and circadian rhythm disorders.

Phylogeny can be used to make useful predictions of soil-to-plant transfer factors for radionuclides (2010)
Journal Article
Willey, N. (2010). Phylogeny can be used to make useful predictions of soil-to-plant transfer factors for radionuclides. Radiation and Environmental Biophysics, 49(4), 613-623. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00411-010-0320-2

Soil-to-plant transfer of radionuclides can be related to plant evolutionary history (phylogeny). For some species and radionuclides the effect is significant enough to be useful in predicting Transfer Factors (TFs). Here a Residual Maximum Likelihoo... Read More about Phylogeny can be used to make useful predictions of soil-to-plant transfer factors for radionuclides.

Development of an in vitro model to investigate the effect of chemotherapeutic treatment on mesenchymal stromal cells (2010)
Thesis
May, J. E. Development of an in vitro model to investigate the effect of chemotherapeutic treatment on mesenchymal stromal cells. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/973931

Vinblastine and diethylstilboestrol tested in the in vitro mammalian cell micronucleus test (MNvit) at Swansea University UK in support of OECD draft Test Guideline 487 (2010)
Journal Article
Doak, S. H., Thomas, A. D., Johnson, G. E., Jenkins, G. J., & Thomas, A. D. (2010). Vinblastine and diethylstilboestrol tested in the in vitro mammalian cell micronucleus test (MNvit) at Swansea University UK in support of OECD draft Test Guideline 487. Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis, 702(2), 189-192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mrgentox.2009.07.014

The known aneugens vinblastine and diethylstilboestrol (DES) were tested in the in vitro micronucleus assay, with and without cytokinesis block in Chinese hamster CHO cells, at the laboratories of Swansea University, Swansea, UK. These experiments we... Read More about Vinblastine and diethylstilboestrol tested in the in vitro mammalian cell micronucleus test (MNvit) at Swansea University UK in support of OECD draft Test Guideline 487.

A new shoot and stem disease of eucalyptus species caused by Erwinia psidii (2010)
Journal Article
Coutinho, T. A., Brady, C. L., van der Vaart, M., Venter, S. N., Telechea, N., Rolfo, M., …Wingfield, M. J. (2011). A new shoot and stem disease of eucalyptus species caused by Erwinia psidii. Australasian Plant Pathology, 40(1), 55-60. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13313-010-0013-y

A serious disease of green, actively expanding stems of young Eucalyptus grandis, E. dunnii, E. globulus and E. globulus subsp. maidenii has been observed in plantations in Uruguay and Argentina during the course of the past 10 years. The symptoms of... Read More about A new shoot and stem disease of eucalyptus species caused by Erwinia psidii.

Designing interfaces that encourage a more effortful cognitive strategy (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Morgan, P., & Patrick, J. (2010, October). Designing interfaces that encourage a more effortful cognitive strategy. Paper presented at 54th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, San Francisco, California, USA

Typically, interface design attempts to minimize cognitive load by providing immediately accessible task-relevant information. However, this may have the unintended consequence of encouraging display-based strategies that minimize the degree of cogni... Read More about Designing interfaces that encourage a more effortful cognitive strategy.

Emended description of the genus Pantoea, description of four species from human clinical samples, Pantoea septica sp. nov., Pantoea eucrina sp. nov., Pantoea brenneri sp. nov. and Pantoea conspicua sp. nov., and transfer of Pectobacterium cypripedii (Hori 1911) Brenner et al. 1973 emend. Hauben et al. 1998 to the genus as Pantoea cypripedii comb. nov. (2010)
Journal Article
Brady, C. L., Cleenwerck, I., Venter, S. N., Engelbeen, K., De Vos, P., & Coutinho, T. A. (2010). Emended description of the genus Pantoea, description of four species from human clinical samples, Pantoea septica sp. nov., Pantoea eucrina sp. nov., Pantoea brenneri sp. nov. and Pantoea conspicua sp. nov., and transfer of Pectobacterium cypripedii (Hori 1911) Brenner et al. 1973 emend. Hauben et al. 1998 to the genus as Pantoea cypripedii comb. nov. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 60(10), 2430-2440. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.017301-0

Bacterial strains belonging to DNA hybridization groups (HG) II, IV and V, in the Erwinia herbicola-Enterobacter agglomerans complex, of Brenner et al. [Int J Syst Bacteriol 34 (1984), 45-55] were suggested previously to belong to the genus Pantoea,... Read More about Emended description of the genus Pantoea, description of four species from human clinical samples, Pantoea septica sp. nov., Pantoea eucrina sp. nov., Pantoea brenneri sp. nov. and Pantoea conspicua sp. nov., and transfer of Pectobacterium cypripedii (Hori 1911) Brenner et al. 1973 emend. Hauben et al. 1998 to the genus as Pantoea cypripedii comb. nov..

Confocal imaging of pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola colony development in bean reveals reduced multiplication of strains containing the genomic island PPHGI-1 (2010)
Journal Article
Mansfield, J. W., Godfrey, S., Mansfield, J. W., Corry, D., Lovell, H., Jackson, R., & Arnold, D. L. (2010). Confocal imaging of pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola colony development in bean reveals reduced multiplication of strains containing the genomic island PPHGI-1. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 23(10), 1294-1302. https://doi.org/10.1094/MPMI-05-10-0114

Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola is the seed borne causativeagent of halo blight in the common bean Phaseolus vulgaris. Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola race 4 strain 1302A contains the avirulence gene hopAR1 (located on a 106-kb genomic is... Read More about Confocal imaging of pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola colony development in bean reveals reduced multiplication of strains containing the genomic island PPHGI-1.

Continuous fluorescence excitation-emission matrix monitoring of river organic matter (2010)
Journal Article
Carstea, E. M., Baker, A., Bieroza, M., & Reynolds, D. M. (2010). Continuous fluorescence excitation-emission matrix monitoring of river organic matter. Water Research, 44(18), 5356-5366. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2010.06.036

Real-time fluorescence monitoring has been mostly performed in marine systems, with little progress being made in the application of fluorescence excitation-emission matrix (EEM) spectroscopy, especially for freshwater monitoring. This paper presents... Read More about Continuous fluorescence excitation-emission matrix monitoring of river organic matter.

Neisseria lactamica selectively induces mitogenic proliferation of the naive B cell pool via cell surface Ig (2010)
Journal Article
Massari, P., Vaughan, A. T., Brackenbury, L. S., Davenport, V., Gorringe, A., Heyderman, R. S., & Williams, N. A. (2010). Neisseria lactamica selectively induces mitogenic proliferation of the naive B cell pool via cell surface Ig. Journal of Immunology, 185(6), 3652-3660. https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.0902468

Neisseria lactamica is a commensal bacteria that colonizes the human upper respiratory tract mucosa during early childhood. In contrast to the closely related opportunistic pathogen Neisseria meningitidis, there is an absence of adaptive cell-mediate... Read More about Neisseria lactamica selectively induces mitogenic proliferation of the naive B cell pool via cell surface Ig.

Comparative genome analysis provides insights into the evolution and adaptation of Pseudomonas syringae pv. aesculi on Aesculus hippocastanum (2010)
Journal Article
Laue, B. E., Studholme, D. J., Green, S., Dorati, F., Lovell, H., Arnold, D. L., …Kamoun, S. (2010). Comparative genome analysis provides insights into the evolution and adaptation of Pseudomonas syringae pv. aesculi on Aesculus hippocastanum. PLoS ONE, 5(4), e10224. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0010224

A recently emerging bleeding canker disease, caused by Pseudomonas syringae pathovar aesculi (Pae), is threatening European horse chestnut in northwest Europe. Very little is known about the origin and biology of this new disease. We used the nucleot... Read More about Comparative genome analysis provides insights into the evolution and adaptation of Pseudomonas syringae pv. aesculi on Aesculus hippocastanum.