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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 (

New frontiers in science communication: Researchers’ experiences of coming out of the lab (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Rocks, C., & Bultitude, K. (2010, December). New frontiers in science communication: Researchers’ experiences of coming out of the lab. Paper presented at The 11th International Conference on Public Communication of Science & Technology (PCST-2010), New Delhi, India

Researchers are increasingly playing a key role in the public communication of science. This makes understanding researchers’ motivations, and the benefits and barriers they perceive, an important step to ensuring successful direct interactions betwe... Read More about New frontiers in science communication: Researchers’ experiences of coming out of the lab.

Muddying the waters or clearing the stream? Open Science as a communication medium (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Grand, A., Bultitude, K., Wilkinson, C., & Winfield, A. F. (2010, December). Muddying the waters or clearing the stream? Open Science as a communication medium. Paper presented at Public Communication of Science and Technology, New Delhi, India

Open Science is an approach to the conduct of science in which the whole of an ongoing scientific investigation – data, ideas, questions, plans, results and more – is made available online. Open Science began as a way to facilitate the workings of mu... Read More about Muddying the waters or clearing the stream? Open Science as a communication medium.

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 novel hydrogen sulfide donor causes stomatal opening and reduces nitric oxide accumulation (2010)
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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.

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.

Phylogeny can be used to make useful predictions of soil-to-plant transfer factors for radionuclides (2010)
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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.

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.

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.

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.

Podologues: Conversations created by science podcasts (2010)
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Birch, H., & Weitkamp, E. (2010). Podologues: Conversations created by science podcasts. New Media and Society, 12(6), 889-909. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444809356333

Podcasts are media files that can be automatically aggregated and downloaded via the internet, and transferred to portable media players. Combined with online discussion facilities, podcasts represent flexible and potentially valuable tools for commu... Read More about Podologues: Conversations created by science podcasts.

Community acquired infections and its implications in the elderly (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Adukwu, E., Phillips, C., & Allen, S. (2010, September). Community acquired infections and its implications in the elderly. Paper presented at East Midlands Universities Association (EMUA) Annual conference, Nottingham, UK

Community acquired infections have been defined as infections acquired in the community in contrast with infections acquired in a hospital or health care facility. An infection would also be referred to as community-acquired if the patient had not re... Read More about Community acquired infections and its implications in the elderly.

Comparative genome analysis provides insights into the evolution and adaptation of Pseudomonas syringae pv. aesculi on Aesculus hippocastanum (2010)
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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.

Nonlinear stability of the one-domain approach to modelling convection in superposed fluid and porous layers (2010)
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Hill, A. A., & Carr, M. (2010). Nonlinear stability of the one-domain approach to modelling convection in superposed fluid and porous layers. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 466(2121), 2695-2705. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2010.0014

Studies of the nonlinear stability of fluid/porous systems have been developed very recently. A two-domain modelling approach has been adopted in previous works, but was restricted to specific configurations. The extension to the more general case of... Read More about Nonlinear stability of the one-domain approach to modelling convection in superposed fluid and porous layers.

Plant responses to cold: transcriptome analysis of wheat (2010)
Journal Article
Winfield, M. O., Lu, C., Wilson, I. D., Coghill, J. A., & Edwards, K. J. (2010). Plant responses to cold: transcriptome analysis of wheat. Plant Biotechnology Journal, 8(7), 749-771. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7652.2010.00536.x

Temperature and light are important environmental stimuli that have a profound influence on the growth and development of plants. Wheat varieties can be divided on the basis of whether they require an extended period of cold to flower (vernalization)... Read More about Plant responses to cold: transcriptome analysis of wheat.