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Development of an electrochemical assay for the illegal “fat burner” 2,4-dinitrophenol and its potential application in forensic and biomedical analysis (2016)
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Honeychurch, K. C. (2016). Development of an electrochemical assay for the illegal “fat burner” 2,4-dinitrophenol and its potential application in forensic and biomedical analysis. Advances in Analytical Chemistry, 6(2), 41-48. https://doi.org/10.5923/j.aac.20160602.02

The illegal use of 2,4-dinitrophenol (24DNP) as a diet aid has increased markedly resulting in a number of deaths. This paper describes the development of a simple voltammetric method for the measurement of 24DNP in serum at glassy carbon electrode... Read More about Development of an electrochemical assay for the illegal “fat burner” 2,4-dinitrophenol and its potential application in forensic and biomedical analysis.

Factors that influence cartilage implant integration during joint repair. (2016)
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Al-obaid, A., Quasnichka, H., Tarlton, J., & Kafienah, W. (2016). Factors that influence cartilage implant integration during joint repair. International Journal of Experimental Pathology, 97(5), A1-A19. https://doi.org/10.1111/iep.12197

The low spontaneous healing capacity of articular cartilage, the avascular nature, and the acellularity of the interface of damaged cartilage, all these factors limit the integration between the implanted engineered cartilage and native articular car... Read More about Factors that influence cartilage implant integration during joint repair..

The global decline of cheetah Acinonyx jubatus and what it means for conservation (2016)
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Durant, S. M., Mitchell, N., Groom, R., Pettorelli, N., Ipavec, A., Jacobson, A. P., …Young-Overton, K. (2017). The global decline of cheetah Acinonyx jubatus and what it means for conservation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(3), 528-533. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1611122114

Establishing and maintaining protected areas (PAs) are key tools for biodiversity conservation. However, this approach is insufficient for many species, particularly those that are wide-ranging and sparse. The cheetah Acinonyx jubatus exemplifies suc... Read More about The global decline of cheetah Acinonyx jubatus and what it means for conservation.

A loop-mediated isothermal amplification method for rapid direct detection and differentiation of nonpathogenic and verocytotoxigenic Escherichia coli in beef and bovine faeces (2016)
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Stratakos, A. C., Stratakos, A., Linton, M., Millington, S., & Grant, I. R. (2017). A loop-mediated isothermal amplification method for rapid direct detection and differentiation of nonpathogenic and verocytotoxigenic Escherichia coli in beef and bovine faeces. Journal of Applied Microbiology, 122(3), 817-828. https://doi.org/10.1111/jam.13381

© 2016 The Society for Applied Microbiology Aim: To develop a multiplex loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay capable of quantifying Escherichia coli and differentiating verocytotoxigenic E.coli (VTEC). Methods and Results: Primer sets... Read More about A loop-mediated isothermal amplification method for rapid direct detection and differentiation of nonpathogenic and verocytotoxigenic Escherichia coli in beef and bovine faeces.

Effect of mobile phase additives on solute retention at low aqueous pH in hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography (2016)
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McCalley, D. V. (2017). Effect of mobile phase additives on solute retention at low aqueous pH in hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography. Journal of Chromatography A, 1483, 71-79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chroma.2016.12.035

© 2016 Elsevier B.V. Trifluoracetic acid (TFA) added to the aqueous acetonitrile mobile phase induces some unexpected changes in the ionic component of retention in hydrophilic interaction separations when using Type B silica and amide-bonded silica... Read More about Effect of mobile phase additives on solute retention at low aqueous pH in hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography.

Online science videos: An exploratory study with major professional content providers in the United Kingdom (2016)
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Erviti, M. D. C., & Stengler, E. (2016). Online science videos: An exploratory study with major professional content providers in the United Kingdom. JCOM: Journal of Science Communication, 15(6), A06

We present an exploratory study of science communication via online video through various UK-based YouTube science content providers. We interviewed five people responsible for eight of the most viewed and subscribed professionally generated content... Read More about Online science videos: An exploratory study with major professional content providers in the United Kingdom.

EphA2 Drives the Segregation of Ras-Transformed Epithelial Cells from Normal Neighbors (2016)
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Porazinski, S., de Navascués, J., Yako, Y., Hill, W., Jones, M. R., Maddison, R., …Hogan, C. (2016). EphA2 Drives the Segregation of Ras-Transformed Epithelial Cells from Normal Neighbors. Current Biology, 26(23), 3220-3229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.09.037

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd In epithelial tissues, cells expressing oncogenic Ras (hereafter RasV12 cells) are detected by normal neighbors and as a result are often extruded from the tissue [1–6]. RasV12 cells are eliminated apically, suggesting that extrus... Read More about EphA2 Drives the Segregation of Ras-Transformed Epithelial Cells from Normal Neighbors.

Web strategies for the curation and discovery of open educational resources (2016)
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educational resources. Open Praxis, 8(4), 297-312. https://doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.8.4.305

For those receiving funding from the UK HEFCE-funded Open Educational Resource Programme (2009 – 2012), the sustainability of project outputs was one of a number of essential goals. Our approach for the hosting and distribution of health and life sci... Read More about Web strategies for the curation and discovery of open educational resources.

Resting serum concentration of high-sensitivity c-reactive protein (hs-CRP) in sportsmen and untrained male adults (2016)
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Niyi-Odumosu, F. A., Bello, O. A., Biliaminu, S. A., Owoyele, B. V., Abu, T. O., & Dominic, O. L. (2016). Resting serum concentration of high-sensitivity c-reactive protein (hs-CRP) in sportsmen and untrained male adults. Nigerian Journal of Physiological Sciences, 31(2), 177-181

There is an inverse relationship between regular physical activity and concentration of serum inflammatory markers, with variations in resting CRP in trained and untrained subjects. The effect of acute and prolonged exercises has been studied on infl... Read More about Resting serum concentration of high-sensitivity c-reactive protein (hs-CRP) in sportsmen and untrained male adults.

Enhancing the lycopene in vitro bioaccessibility of tomato juice synergistically applying thermal and non-thermal processing technologies (2016)
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Jayathunge, K., Stratakos, A. C., Cregenzán-Albertia, O., Grant, I. R., Lyng, J., & Koidis, A. (2017). Enhancing the lycopene in vitro bioaccessibility of tomato juice synergistically applying thermal and non-thermal processing technologies. Food Chemistry, 221, 698-705. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2016.11.117

The influence of moderate intensity pulsed electric field pre-processing on increasing the lycopene bioaccessibility of tomato fruit, and the combined effect of blanching, ultrasonic and high intensity pulsed electric field processing on further enha... Read More about Enhancing the lycopene in vitro bioaccessibility of tomato juice synergistically applying thermal and non-thermal processing technologies.

Irritable bowel syndrome and active inflammatory bowel disease diagnosed by faecal gas analysis (2016)
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Aggio, R. B., White, P., Jayasena, H., de Lacy Costello, B., Ratcliffe, N. M., & Probert, C. S. (2017). Irritable bowel syndrome and active inflammatory bowel disease diagnosed by faecal gas analysis. Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 45(1), 82-90. https://doi.org/10.1111/apt.13822

© 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Background: Inflammatory bowel disease and irritable bowel syndrome may present in a similar manner. Measuring faecal calprotectin concentration is often recommended to rule out inflammatory bowel disease, however, ther... Read More about Irritable bowel syndrome and active inflammatory bowel disease diagnosed by faecal gas analysis.

Using leap motion to investigate the emergence of structure in speech and language (2016)
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Eryilmaz, K., & Little, H. (2017). Using leap motion to investigate the emergence of structure in speech and language. Behavior Research Methods, 49(5), 1748-1768. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-016-0818-x

© 2016, The Author(s). In evolutionary linguistics, experiments using artificial signal spaces are being used to investigate the emergenceof speech structure. These signal spaces need to be continuous, non-discretized spaces from which discrete units... Read More about Using leap motion to investigate the emergence of structure in speech and language.

A Printed and Microfabricated Sensor Device for the Sensitive Low Volume Measurement of Aqueous Ammonia (2016)
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Killard, A. J., Brannelly, N. T., Brannelly, N., & Killard, A. (2017). A Printed and Microfabricated Sensor Device for the Sensitive Low Volume Measurement of Aqueous Ammonia. Electroanalysis, 29(1), 162-171. https://doi.org/10.1002/elan.201600556

© 2017 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim The measurement of low concentrations of ammonia in small sample volumes is required in biological, biomedical and environmental measurement applications. However, achieving this without instrumenta... Read More about A Printed and Microfabricated Sensor Device for the Sensitive Low Volume Measurement of Aqueous Ammonia.

Multi-locus sequence typing of Escherichia coli isolates with acquired ampC genes and ampC promoter mutations (2016)
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Lawrance, L. M., Moore, P. C., Lewis, J. A., Moore, P. C. L., Arnold, D. L., & Lawrance, L. (2016). Multi-locus sequence typing of Escherichia coli isolates with acquired ampC genes and ampC promoter mutations. Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease, 86(3), 265-267. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2016.08.008

© 2016 Elsevier Inc. Multi-locus sequence typing was used to reveal a high degree of diversity amongst the E. coli isolates with AmpC plasmid genes, and a high prevalence of the −32 mutation present.

Rapid detection of pathological mutations and deletions of the haemoglobin beta gene (HBB) by High Resolution Melting (HRM) analysis and Gene Ratio Analysis Copy Enumeration PCR (GRACE-PCR) (2016)
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Turner, A., Sasse, J., & Varadi, A. (2016). Rapid detection of pathological mutations and deletions of the haemoglobin beta gene (HBB) by High Resolution Melting (HRM) analysis and Gene Ratio Analysis Copy Enumeration PCR (GRACE-PCR). BMC Medical Genetics, 17, Article 75. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12881-016-0334-y

© 2016 The Author(s). Objectives: Inherited disorders of haemoglobin are the world's most common genetic diseases, resulting in significant morbidity and mortality. The large number of mutations associated with the haemoglobin beta gene (HBB) makes g... Read More about Rapid detection of pathological mutations and deletions of the haemoglobin beta gene (HBB) by High Resolution Melting (HRM) analysis and Gene Ratio Analysis Copy Enumeration PCR (GRACE-PCR).

Experimentally comparing the attractiveness of domestic lights to insects: Do LEDs attract fewer insects than conventional light types? (2016)
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Wakefield, A., Broyles, M., Stone, E. L., Jones, G., & Harris, S. (2016). Experimentally comparing the attractiveness of domestic lights to insects: Do LEDs attract fewer insects than conventional light types?. Ecology and Evolution, 6(22), 8028-8036. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2527

© 2016 The Authors. Ecology and Evolution published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. LED lighting is predicted to constitute 70% of the outdoor and residential lighting markets by 2020. While the use of LEDs promotes energy and cost savings relative to tr... Read More about Experimentally comparing the attractiveness of domestic lights to insects: Do LEDs attract fewer insects than conventional light types?.

An MHD couple stress fluid due to a perforated sheet undergoing linear stretching with heat transfer (2016)
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Hill, A. A., Mahabaleshwar, U. S., Sarris, I. E., Hill, A. A., Lorenzini, G., & Pop, I. (2017). An MHD couple stress fluid due to a perforated sheet undergoing linear stretching with heat transfer. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 105, 157-167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2016.09.040

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd We investigate an MHD couple stress liquid due to a perforated sheet undergoing linear stretching with radiation. The liquid is initially at rest with its activity is restricted by pulling the two sheet ends with parallel and iden... Read More about An MHD couple stress fluid due to a perforated sheet undergoing linear stretching with heat transfer.

Insulin receptor isoform variations in prostate cancer cells (2016)
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Perks, C. M., Zielinska, H. A., Wang, J., Jarrett, C., Frankow, A., Ladomery, M. R., …Holly, J. M. P. (2016). Insulin receptor isoform variations in prostate cancer cells. Frontiers in Endocrinology, 7(SEP), https://doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2016.00132

� 2016 Perks, Zielinska, Wang, Jarrett, Frankow, Ladomery, Bahl, Rhodes, Oxley and Holly. Men who develop prostate cancer (PCa) increasingly have one of the co-morbidities associated with a Western lifestyle that are characterized by hyperinsulinem... Read More about Insulin receptor isoform variations in prostate cancer cells.

Genetic toxicity assessment of engineered nanoparticles using a 3D in vitro skin model (EpiDerm ™ ) (2016)
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Wills, J. W., Hondow, N., Thomas, A. D., Chapman, K. E., Fish, D., Maffeis, T. G., …Doak, S. H. (2016). Genetic toxicity assessment of engineered nanoparticles using a 3D in vitro skin model (EpiDerm ™ ). Particle and Fibre Toxicology, 13, Article 50. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12989-016-0161-5

© 2016 The Author(s). Background: The rapid production and incorporation of engineered nanomaterials into consumer products alongside research suggesting nanomaterials can cause cell death and DNA damage (genotoxicity) makes in vitro assays desirabl... Read More about Genetic toxicity assessment of engineered nanoparticles using a 3D in vitro skin model (EpiDerm ™ ).

Medical performance and the ‘inaccessible’ experience of illness: An exploratory study (2016)
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Weitkamp, E., & Mermikides, A. (2016). Medical performance and the ‘inaccessible’ experience of illness: An exploratory study. Medical Humanities, 42(3), 186-193. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2016-010959

© 2016 Medical Humanities. All rights reserved. We report a survey of audience members’ responses (147 questionnaires collected at seven performances) and 10 in-depth interviews (five former patients and two family members, three medical practitioner... Read More about Medical performance and the ‘inaccessible’ experience of illness: An exploratory study.