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The development of novel fuel dehydrating icing inhibitors (2015)
Thesis
Repetto, S. L. The development of novel fuel dehydrating icing inhibitors. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/7512199

Dissolved water is a normal component of jet fuel which is vapourised during combustion; however, free water is a contaminant that can starve engines, freeze to form ice crystals capable of blocking fuel feeds, support microbial growth, and contribut... Read More about The development of novel fuel dehydrating icing inhibitors.

Fluorophosphonate-functionalised titanium via a pre-adsorbed alkane phosphonic acid: a novel dual action surface finish for bone regenerative applications (2015)
Journal Article
Ayre, W. N., Scott, T., Hallam, K., Blom, A. W., Denyer, S., Bone, H. K., & Mansell, J. P. (2016). Fluorophosphonate-functionalised titanium via a pre-adsorbed alkane phosphonic acid: a novel dual action surface finish for bone regenerative applications. Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine, 27(2), Article 36. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10856-015-5644-7

© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media New York. Abstract: Enhancing vitamin D-induced human osteoblast (hOB) maturation at bone biomaterial surfaces is likely to improve prosthesis integration with resultant reductions in the need for revision art... Read More about Fluorophosphonate-functionalised titanium via a pre-adsorbed alkane phosphonic acid: a novel dual action surface finish for bone regenerative applications.

The worries of weaning: Newspaper reporting of infant weaning and its impact on dialogue in online discussion forums (2015)
Journal Article
Knowles, R., & Wilkinson, C. (2017). The worries of weaning: Newspaper reporting of infant weaning and its impact on dialogue in online discussion forums. Journalism, 18(3), 350-367. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884915620230

© SAGE Publications. Despite infant weaning being one of the most challenging aspects of parenting, there is uncertainty about the right time to start. This research aimed to understand the impact of newspaper reporting of weaning on parents, in part... Read More about The worries of weaning: Newspaper reporting of infant weaning and its impact on dialogue in online discussion forums.

Facile aqueous growth of 150 nm ZnO nanowires for energy harvester: Enhanced output voltage using Pt sputtered electrode (2015)
Journal Article
Luxton, R., Ahmad, M., Kiely, J., Luxton, R. W., Jabeen, M., & Khalid, M. (2016). Facile aqueous growth of 150 nm ZnO nanowires for energy harvester: Enhanced output voltage using Pt sputtered electrode. Sensing and Bio-Sensing Research, 7, 141-145. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbsr.2015.12.005

© 2015. Facile aqueous growth technique was adopted to grow diameter controlled 150 nm ZnO nanowires on an ITO (indium tin oxide) coated PET (poly ethylene terephthalate) substrate. Prior to nanowire growth, a pure wurtazite structured ZnO seed layer... Read More about Facile aqueous growth of 150 nm ZnO nanowires for energy harvester: Enhanced output voltage using Pt sputtered electrode.

Development and validation of a high throughput, closed tube method for the determination of haemoglobin alpha gene (HBA1 and HBA2) numbers by gene ratio assay copy enumeration-PCR (GRACE-PCR) (2015)
Journal Article
Turner, A., Sasse, J., & Varadi, A. (2015). Development and validation of a high throughput, closed tube method for the determination of haemoglobin alpha gene (HBA1 and HBA2) numbers by gene ratio assay copy enumeration-PCR (GRACE-PCR). BMC Medical Genetics, 16, Article 115. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12881-015-0258-y

© 2015 Turner et al. Background: Deletions of the aα-globin genes are the most common genetic abnormalities in the world. Currently multiplex Gap-PCRs are frequently used to identify specific sets of common deletions. However, these assays require si... Read More about Development and validation of a high throughput, closed tube method for the determination of haemoglobin alpha gene (HBA1 and HBA2) numbers by gene ratio assay copy enumeration-PCR (GRACE-PCR).

Environmental Plant Physiology (2015)
Book
Willey, N. (2015). Environmental Plant Physiology. New York: Garland Science

Environmental Plant Physiology focuses on the physiology of plant-environment interactions, revealing plants as the key terrestrial intersection of the biosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere and geosphere. It provides a contemporary understanding of the... Read More about Environmental Plant Physiology.

Effects of Lipid Composition on Bilayer Membranes Quantified by All-Atom Molecular Dynamics (2015)
Journal Article
Ding, W., Palaiokostas, M., Wang, W., & Orsi, M. (2015). Effects of Lipid Composition on Bilayer Membranes Quantified by All-Atom Molecular Dynamics. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 119(49), 15263-15274. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.5b06604

© 2015 American Chemical Society. Biological bilayer membranes typically contain varying amounts of lamellar and nonlamellar lipids. Lamellar lipids, such as dioleoylphosphatidylcholine (DOPC), are defined by their tendency to form the lamellar phase... Read More about Effects of Lipid Composition on Bilayer Membranes Quantified by All-Atom Molecular Dynamics.

The design, development and application of electrochemical glutamate biosensors (2015)
Journal Article
Hart, J. P., Pemberton, R. M., Hughes, G., Hughes, G., Pemberton, R., Fielden, P. R., & Hart, J. P. (2016). The design, development and application of electrochemical glutamate biosensors. Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 79, 106-113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trac.2015.10.020

© 2015 Elsevier B.V. The development of biosensors for the determination of glutamate has been of great research interest for the past 25 years due to its importance in biomedical and food studies. This review focusses on the various strategies used... Read More about The design, development and application of electrochemical glutamate biosensors.

SUMOylation of Syntaxin1A regulates presynaptic endocytosis (2015)
Journal Article
Henley, J. M., Craig, T. J., Anderson, D., Evans, A. J., & Girach, F. (2015). SUMOylation of Syntaxin1A regulates presynaptic endocytosis. Scientific Reports, 5, 17669. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep17669

Neurotransmitter release from the presynaptic terminal is under very precise spatial and temporal control. Following neurotransmitter release, synaptic vesicles are recycled by endocytosis and refilled with neurotransmitter. During the exocytosis eve... Read More about SUMOylation of Syntaxin1A regulates presynaptic endocytosis.

Gibbsiella papilionis Kim et al. 2013 is a later heterotypic synonym of gibbsiella dentisursi Saito et al. 2013 (2015)
Journal Article
Brady, C., Irisawa, T., Iino, T., Ohkuma, M., Arnold, D. L., & Denman, S. (2015). Gibbsiella papilionis Kim et al. 2013 is a later heterotypic synonym of gibbsiella dentisursi Saito et al. 2013. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 65(12), 4788-4791. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.000649

© 2015 IUMS. Synonymy of Gibbsiella dentisursi DSM 23818T (=NUM 1720T) and Gibbsiella papilionis JCM 18389T (=LEN33T) was suspected following multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA) of both type strains in a previous classification study, where they were... Read More about Gibbsiella papilionis Kim et al. 2013 is a later heterotypic synonym of gibbsiella dentisursi Saito et al. 2013.

Dual Action of lysophosphatidate- functionalised titanium: Interactions with human (MG63) osteoblasts and methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (2015)
Journal Article
Skindersoe, M. E., Krogfelt, K. A., Blom, A., Jiang, G., Prestwich, G. D., & Mansell, J. P. (2015). Dual Action of lysophosphatidate- functionalised titanium: Interactions with human (MG63) osteoblasts and methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus. PLoS ONE, 10(11), Article e0143509. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0143509

© 2015 Skindersoe et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are... Read More about Dual Action of lysophosphatidate- functionalised titanium: Interactions with human (MG63) osteoblasts and methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus.

Actividades Educativas en el museo científico: De ciencia divertida a ciencia seductora (2015)
Journal Article
Fernandez, G., Stengler, E., & Viladot, P. (2015). Actividades Educativas en el museo científico: De ciencia divertida a ciencia seductora

Science centres and museums have undergone a great evolution in recent decades although it seems that, lately, the science museum model has been somewhat stagnant. Since the radical changes of the mid-twentieth century, it has developed towards strat... Read More about Actividades Educativas en el museo científico: De ciencia divertida a ciencia seductora.

Design and application of liquid chromatography dual electrode detection (2015)
Book Chapter
Honeychurch, K. C. (2015). Design and application of liquid chromatography dual electrode detection. In C. Banks, R. Mortimer, & S. Mcintosh (Eds.), Specialist Periodical Reports (1-20). Cambridge: Royal Society of Chemistry. https://doi.org/10.1039/9781782620273

Liquid chromatography with electrochemical detection has been shown to be both highly sensitive and selective. Initially electrochemical detection in this approach has utilised single electrode based electrochemical detector systems, where the compou... Read More about Design and application of liquid chromatography dual electrode detection.

Design and application of liquid chromatography dual electrode detection (2015)
Book Chapter
Honeychurch, K. C. (2016). Design and application of liquid chromatography dual electrode detection. In C. Banks, R. Mortimer, & S. McIntosh (Eds.), Electrochemistry: Volume 13 (1-20). Royal Society of Chemistry. https://doi.org/10.1039/9781782620273-00001

This review describes developments in the design and application of liquid chromatography dual electrode detection. The design and relative merits of both series and parallel electrode systems are examined. The application of liquid chromatography du... Read More about Design and application of liquid chromatography dual electrode detection.

Open education: Sustainability versus vulnerability (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Rolfe, V. (2015, November). Open education: Sustainability versus vulnerability. Paper presented at Open Education Conference 2015 (OpenEd), Vancouver, BC, Canada

The idea of innovation in education (or anywhere) is dependent on the ability of people to embrace a shared problem (Nisbet & Collins 1978). In doing so, the seeking of solutions often gives rise to tensions; these develop from dichotomies of ideas a... Read More about Open education: Sustainability versus vulnerability.

The Molecular Biology of RNA (2015)
Book
Elliott, D., & Ladomery, M. (2015). The Molecular Biology of RNA. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Inter-Taxa differences in iodine uptake by plants: Implications for food quality and contamination (2015)
Journal Article
Siasou, E., & Willey, N. (2015). Inter-Taxa differences in iodine uptake by plants: Implications for food quality and contamination. Agronomy, 5(4), 537-554. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy5040537

© 2015 by the authors. Although iodine is not essential for plants, they take it up readily and, in foodchains, are significant sources of iodine for organisms with an essential requirement for it. During several nuclear accidents radioiodine has bee... Read More about Inter-Taxa differences in iodine uptake by plants: Implications for food quality and contamination.

The stromal cell line HS-5 is an alternative mesenchymal stem cell source for the development of a 3D bone marrow model (2015)
Journal Article
Kabrah, S., May, J. E., Donaldson, C., & Morse, H. R. (2015). The stromal cell line HS-5 is an alternative mesenchymal stem cell source for the development of a 3D bone marrow model. Mutagenesis, 30(6), 861. https://doi.org/10.1093/mutage/gev074

Developing a novel three-dimensional (3D) in vitro model of the bone marrow microenvironment using bone mar- row mesenchymal stem cells (BM-MSCs) in commercial matrices involves a series of distinct processes. This starts with selecting an appropriat... Read More about The stromal cell line HS-5 is an alternative mesenchymal stem cell source for the development of a 3D bone marrow model.