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Preparation of conductive films and their use as gas sensors (1991)
Patent

An electrically-conductive polypyrrole film is formed, on a non-conducting substrate, by contacting the substrate with pyrrole and an oxidising agent in a solvent, or with the colloidal polypyrrole that is the reaction product thereof, and removing t... Read More about Preparation of conductive films and their use as gas sensors.

Langmuir blodgett films (1987)
Patent

Novel Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) films of ABAB structure in which the compounds A and B are different and contain complementary groups which result in non-centrosymmetry of the layer plane. Three types of structure are described (i) in which A and B have... Read More about Langmuir blodgett films.

Sensors for determining volatile compounds based on electrical conductivity and cataluminescence measurements of metal oxide films (2019)
Patent

The invention relates to the field of sensors for detecting volatile compounds. The sensor of the present invention for detecting volatile compounds comprises: a film of metal oxide; a heater configured to provide heat energy to the film of metal oxi... Read More about Sensors for determining volatile compounds based on electrical conductivity and cataluminescence measurements of metal oxide films.

Using DNA metabarcoding to identify the floral composition of honey: A new tool for investigating honey bee foraging preferences (2015)
Journal Article

Copyright © 2015 Hawkins et al. Identifying the floral composition of honey provides a method for investigating the plants that honey bees visit. We compared melissopalynology, where pollen grains retrieved from honey are identified morphologically,... Read More about Using DNA metabarcoding to identify the floral composition of honey: A new tool for investigating honey bee foraging preferences.

Serine-arginine protein kinase 1 (SRPK1) inhibition as a potential novel targeted therapeutic strategy in prostate cancer (2014)
Journal Article

© 2015 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved. Angiogenesis is required for tumour growth and is induced principally by vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGF-A). VEGF-A pre-mRNA is alternatively spliced at the terminal exon to produce... Read More about Serine-arginine protein kinase 1 (SRPK1) inhibition as a potential novel targeted therapeutic strategy in prostate cancer.

Managing conflict between bats and humans: The response of soprano pipistrelles (pipistrellus pygmaeus) to exclusion from roosts in houses (2015)
Journal Article

Copyright: © 2015 Stone 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 sour... Read More about Managing conflict between bats and humans: The response of soprano pipistrelles (pipistrellus pygmaeus) to exclusion from roosts in houses.

Light-emitting diode street lights reduce last-ditch evasive manoeuvres by moths to bat echolocation calls (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 The Authors. The light-emitting diode (LED) street light market is expanding globally, and it is important to understand how LED lights affect wildlife populations. We compared evasive flight responses of moths to bat echolocation calls experi... Read More about Light-emitting diode street lights reduce last-ditch evasive manoeuvres by moths to bat echolocation calls.

The redox switch that regulates molecular chaperones (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 by De Gruyter. Modification of reactive cysteine residues plays an integral role in redox-regulated reactions. Oxidation of thiolate anions to sulphenic acid can result in disulphide bond formation, or overoxidation to sulphonic acid, represen... Read More about The redox switch that regulates molecular chaperones.

Performance of charged aerosol detection with hydrophilic interaction chromatography (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 The Authors. The performance of the charged aerosol detector (CAD) was investigated using a diverse set of 29 solutes, including acids, bases and neutrals, over a range of mobile phase compositions, particularly with regard to its suitability... Read More about Performance of charged aerosol detection with hydrophilic interaction chromatography.

Voltammetric behaviour of Bronopol at a glassy carbon electrode and its amperometric determination in environmental water samples
Journal Article

This paper represents the first detailed report on the electrochemical behaviour of the pesticide, Bronopol (2-bromo-2-nitropropane-1,3-diol). The electrochemical behaviour of Bronopol has been investigated at glassy carbon electrode by cyclic volta... Read More about Voltammetric behaviour of Bronopol at a glassy carbon electrode and its amperometric determination in environmental water samples.

Comparative analysis of multiple inducible phages from Mannheimia haemolytica (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 Niu et al. Background: Mannheimia haemolytica is a commensal bacterium that resides in the upper respiratory tract of cattle that can play a role in bovine respiratory disease. Prophages are common in the M. haemolytica genome and contribute s... Read More about Comparative analysis of multiple inducible phages from Mannheimia haemolytica.

Development of a novel reagentless, screen-printed amperometric biosensor based on glutamate dehydrogenase and NAD+, integrated with multi-walled carbon nanotubes for the determination of glutamate in food and clinical applications (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 Elsevier B.V. Abstract A screen printed carbon electrode (SPCE) containing the electrocatalyst Meldola's Blue (MB) has been investigated as the base transducer for a reagentless glutamate biosensor. The biopolymer chitosan (CHIT) and multiwall... Read More about Development of a novel reagentless, screen-printed amperometric biosensor based on glutamate dehydrogenase and NAD+, integrated with multi-walled carbon nanotubes for the determination of glutamate in food and clinical applications.

Tailored printed primary battery system for powering a diagnostic sensor device (2014)
Journal Article

The role of primary cilia in the development and disease of the retina (2013)
Journal Article

The normal development and function of photoreceptors is essential for eye health and visual acuity in vertebrates. Mutations in genes encoding proteins involved in photoreceptor development and function are associated with a suite of inherited retin... Read More about The role of primary cilia in the development and disease of the retina.

Wholly printed polypyrrole nanoparticle-based biosensors on flexible substrate (2014)
Journal Article

Printing has been widely used in the sensor industry for its speed, low cost and production scalability. In this work we present a wholly-printed polypyrrole (PPy) based biosensor produced by inkjet printing bioinks composed of dispersions of PPy nan... Read More about Wholly printed polypyrrole nanoparticle-based biosensors on flexible substrate.

Using research-based learning to enhance doctoral skills development (2014)
Journal Article

Direct mixing of atomistic solutes and coarse-grained water (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014 American Chemical Society. We present a new dual-resolution approach for coupling atomistic and coarse-grained models in molecular dynamics simulations of hydrated systems. In particular, a coarse-grained point dipolar water model is used to s... Read More about Direct mixing of atomistic solutes and coarse-grained water.

Molecular dynamics simulation of humic substances (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014, Orsi. Humic substances (HS) are complex mixtures of natural organic material which are found almost everywhere in the environment, and particularly in soils, sediments, and natural water. HS play key roles in many processes of paramount impor... Read More about Molecular dynamics simulation of humic substances.

Convergence of vitamin D and lysophosphatidic acid signaling in stimulating human osteoblast maturation (2014)
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Adrenomedullin and Glucocorticoids interaction at the glial/endothelial interface: two sides of the same regulatory coin? (2014)
Journal Article

Adrenomedullin is a vasodilatatory peptide, important during the inflammation process and also able to regulate blood-brain barrier function. Adrenomedullin and its receptors have been shown to be glucocorticoid-dependent in many cell types, includin... Read More about Adrenomedullin and Glucocorticoids interaction at the glial/endothelial interface: two sides of the same regulatory coin?.