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The influence of small states on superpowers: Jamaica and U.S. foreign policy; Michael Manley and Jamaican Democracy, 1972—1980: The word is love; Michael Manley—The Biography (2017)
Journal Article
Clegg, P. (2017). The influence of small states on superpowers: Jamaica and U.S. foreign policy; Michael Manley and Jamaican Democracy, 1972—1980: The word is love; Michael Manley—The Biography. Round Table, 106(4), 488-491. https://doi.org/10.1080/00358533.2017.1348023

Former Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley was a powerful and influential figure both at home and abroad. He was determined to improve the position of the Jamaican people by reconfiguring both political and economic orthodoxies, which he and many... Read More about The influence of small states on superpowers: Jamaica and U.S. foreign policy; Michael Manley and Jamaican Democracy, 1972—1980: The word is love; Michael Manley—The Biography.

Quantity does not always mean quality: The importance of qualitative social science in conservation research (2017)
Journal Article
Rust, N. A., Abrams, A., Challender, D. W. S., Chapron, G., Ghoddousi, A., Glikman, J. A., …Hill, C. M. (2017). Quantity does not always mean quality: The importance of qualitative social science in conservation research. Society and Natural Resources, 30(10), 1304-1310. https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2017.1333661

Qualitative methods are important to gain a deep understanding of complex problems and poorly researched areas. They can be particularly useful to help explain underlying conservation problems. However, the significance in choosing and justifying app... Read More about Quantity does not always mean quality: The importance of qualitative social science in conservation research.

Evaluation of recombinant factor C assay for the detection of divergent lipopolysaccharide structural species and comparison with Limulus amebocyte lysate-based assays and a human monocyte activity assay (2017)
Journal Article
Jackson, S. K., Sattar, A. A., Abate, W., Liu, J., & Conway, M. E. (2017). Evaluation of recombinant factor C assay for the detection of divergent lipopolysaccharide structural species and comparison with Limulus amebocyte lysate-based assays and a human monocyte activity assay. Journal of Medical Microbiology, 66(7), 888-897. https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.000510

© 2017 The Authors. Purpose. The Limulus amebocytelysate (LAL) assay is widely used for the screening of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in parenteral pharmaceuticals. However, correlation of LPS in Gram-negative bacterial infections by LAL assay has been p... Read More about Evaluation of recombinant factor C assay for the detection of divergent lipopolysaccharide structural species and comparison with Limulus amebocyte lysate-based assays and a human monocyte activity assay.

Sitting outside the Milky Way: Communicating science with adults in a 3D planetarium (2017)
Journal Article
Glester, A. (2017). Sitting outside the Milky Way: Communicating science with adults in a 3D planetarium

Planetariums are evolving. In July 2015, the @Bristol Planetarium became the first 3D planetarium in the UK. Audiences are taken on a multimedia, 3D journey through the Cosmos to supplement the more traditional 2D representation of the night sky. Thi... Read More about Sitting outside the Milky Way: Communicating science with adults in a 3D planetarium.

Exploring public perceptions and attitudes on palm oil (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Noyce, T., & Stengler, E. (2017, June). Exploring public perceptions and attitudes on palm oil

Palm oil has become one of the leading causes of deforestation in countries that are developing their economic growth. Despite the vast research and knowledge of the advantages and disadvantages of palm oil, little is known about how people perceive... Read More about Exploring public perceptions and attitudes on palm oil.

Assessing the antimicrobial potential of aerosolised electrochemically activated solutions (ECAS) for reducing the microbial bio-burden on fresh food produce held under cooled or cold storage conditions (2017)
Journal Article
Thorn, R., Pendred, J., & Reynolds, D. M. (2017). Assessing the antimicrobial potential of aerosolised electrochemically activated solutions (ECAS) for reducing the microbial bio-burden on fresh food produce held under cooled or cold storage conditions. Food Microbiology, 68, 41-50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fm.2017.06.018

© 2017 The main aim of this study was to assess the antimicrobial efficacy of electrochemically activated fog (ECAF) for reducing the microbial bio-burden on artificially inoculated fresh produce held under cooled (cucumber and vine tomatoes) or cold... Read More about Assessing the antimicrobial potential of aerosolised electrochemically activated solutions (ECAS) for reducing the microbial bio-burden on fresh food produce held under cooled or cold storage conditions.

Proteins involved in endocytosis are upregulated by ageing in the normal human brain: Implications for the development of Alzheimer's Disease (2017)
Journal Article
Alsaqati, M., Thomas, R. S., & Kidd, E. J. (2018). Proteins involved in endocytosis are upregulated by ageing in the normal human brain: Implications for the development of Alzheimer's Disease. Journals of Gerontology, Series A, 73(3), 289-298. https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glx135

© The Author(s) 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. All rights reserved. The greatest risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD) is advanced age, but the reason for this association remains unc... Read More about Proteins involved in endocytosis are upregulated by ageing in the normal human brain: Implications for the development of Alzheimer's Disease.

Residual ground-water levels of the neonicotinoid thiacloprid perturb chemosensing of Caenorhabditis elegans (2017)
Journal Article
Floyd, K. G., Hopewell, H., Burnell, D., Hancock, J. T., Allainguillaume, J., Ladomery, M., & Wilson, I. D. (2017). Residual ground-water levels of the neonicotinoid thiacloprid perturb chemosensing of Caenorhabditis elegans. Ecotoxicology, 26(7), 981-990. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10646-017-1826-z

© 2017, The Author(s). This study investigated the neurological effects of residual ground-water levels of thiaclopridon the non-target organism Caenorhabditis elegans. Nematodes treated with thiacloprid showed a dose-dependent and significantly incr... Read More about Residual ground-water levels of the neonicotinoid thiacloprid perturb chemosensing of Caenorhabditis elegans.

Biomedical Diagnostics Enabled by Integrated Organic and Printed Electronics (2017)
Journal Article
Baumann, R. R., Ahmadraji, T., Gonzalez-Macia, L., Ritvonen, T., Willert, A., Ylimaula, S., …Killard, A. (2017). Biomedical Diagnostics Enabled by Integrated Organic and Printed Electronics. Analytical Chemistry, 89(14), 7447-7454. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.7b01012

© 2017 American Chemical Society. Organic and printed electronics integration has the potential to revolutionize many technologies, including biomedical diagnostics. This work demonstrates the successful integration of multiple printed electronic fu... Read More about Biomedical Diagnostics Enabled by Integrated Organic and Printed Electronics.

Signal dimensionality and the emergence of combinatorial structure (2017)
Journal Article
Little, H., Eryılmaz, K., & de Boer, B. (2017). Signal dimensionality and the emergence of combinatorial structure. Cognition, 168, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2017.06.011

© 2017 Elsevier B.V. In language, a small number of meaningless building blocks can be combined into an unlimited set of meaningful utterances. This is known as combinatorial structure. One hypothesis for the initial emergence of combinatorial struct... Read More about Signal dimensionality and the emergence of combinatorial structure.

Taxonomy and identification of bacteria associated with acute oak decline (2017)
Journal Article
Brady, C., Arnold, D. L., McDonald, J., & Denman, S. (2017). Taxonomy and identification of bacteria associated with acute oak decline. World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, 33(7), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11274-017-2296-4

© 2017, The Author(s). Acute oak decline (AOD) is a relatively newly described disorder affecting native oak species in Britain. Symptomatic trees are characterised by stem bleeds from vertical fissures, necrotic lesions in the live tissue beneath an... Read More about Taxonomy and identification of bacteria associated with acute oak decline.

In vitro discrimination of wound-associated bacteria by volatile compound profiling using selected ion flow tube-mass spectrometry (2017)
Journal Article
Slade, E. A., Thorn, R. M., Lovering, A. M., Young, A., & Reynolds, D. M. (2017). In vitro discrimination of wound-associated bacteria by volatile compound profiling using selected ion flow tube-mass spectrometry. Journal of Applied Microbiology, 123(1), 233-245. https://doi.org/10.1111/jam.13473

© 2017 The Society for Applied Microbiology Aims: To determine if bacterial species responsible for clinically relevant wound infection produce specific volatile profiles that would allow their speciation. Methods and Results: Selected ion flow tube-... Read More about In vitro discrimination of wound-associated bacteria by volatile compound profiling using selected ion flow tube-mass spectrometry.

Understanding and manipulating the separation in hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography (2017)
Journal Article
McCalley, D. V. (2017). Understanding and manipulating the separation in hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography. Journal of Chromatography A, 1523, 49-71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chroma.2017.06.026

© 2017 Elsevier B.V. Hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography (HILIC) has emerged as a valuable complimentary technique to reversed-phase (RP), being especially suited for the analysis of polar and ionised solutes, which are difficult to retain... Read More about Understanding and manipulating the separation in hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography.

Body image in midlife: Developing a psychosocial intervention for women who have received treatment for breast cancer (2017)
Thesis
Lewis-Smith, H. Body image in midlife: Developing a psychosocial intervention for women who have received treatment for breast cancer. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/886181

Survival rates for breast cancer have improved over the recent decades, and increasing numbers of women in midlife are coming to terms with the consequences of the disease and its treatment. Among the various side-effects associated with treatment ar... Read More about Body image in midlife: Developing a psychosocial intervention for women who have received treatment for breast cancer.

Collaborating with burn patients and their families to develop the CARe Burn Scales: A portfolio of burn specific quality of life PROMs for use in paediatric and adult burn care (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Griffiths, C., Guest, E., & Harcourt, D. (2017, June). Collaborating with burn patients and their families to develop the CARe Burn Scales: A portfolio of burn specific quality of life PROMs for use in paediatric and adult burn care. Presented at Advances in Patient Reported Outcomes Research Conference, St Anne's College, University of Oxford, Oxford, England

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Insider theory and the construction of statelessness (2017)
Book Chapter
Cole, P. (2017). Insider theory and the construction of statelessness. In P. Cole, T. Bloom, & K. Tonkiss (Eds.), Understanding Statelessness (255-266). London and New York: Routledge

In this chapter I adopt a 'radically theoretical' perspective to expose and interrogate the assumptions about the political systems in which we live which sit at the heart of political theory and to problematize these from the perspective of stateles... Read More about Insider theory and the construction of statelessness.

Providing a framework for understanding statelessness (2017)
Book Chapter
Cole, P., Bloom, T., & Tonkiss, K. (2017). Providing a framework for understanding statelessness. In P. Cole, T. Bloom, & K. Tonkiss (Eds.), Understanding Statelessness (1-14). London and New York: Routledge

This is an introduction to the book Understanding Statelessness, setting the collection in the context of the current theoretical and political landscape.

Understanding Statelessness (2017)
Book
Cole, P., Tonkiss, K., & Bloom, T. (Eds.). (2017). Understanding Statelessness. London and New York: Routledge

Understanding Statelessness offers a comprehensive, in-depth examination of statelessness. The volume presents the theoretical, legal and political concept of statelessness through the work of leading critical thinkers in this area.　They offer a cri... Read More about Understanding Statelessness.