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The ethics of researching the police : dilemmas and new directions. (2015)
Book Chapter
Skinns, L., Wooff, A., & Sprawson, A. (2015). The ethics of researching the police : dilemmas and new directions. In M. Brunger, S. Tong, & D. Martin (Eds.), Introduction to policing research : taking lessons from practice (185-203). Routledge

This chapter examines key ethical dilemmas faced by social science researchers. It explores informed and voluntary consent, confidentiality and anonymity, and relationships in the field, but with specific reference to research on the police, drawing... Read More about The ethics of researching the police : dilemmas and new directions..

New records of the striped cleaner shrimp Lysmata grabhami (Gordon, 1935) from Brazil, Southwestern Atlantic. (2015)
Journal Article
Kassuga, A. D., Diele, K., & Hostim-Silva, M. (2015). New records of the striped cleaner shrimp Lysmata grabhami (Gordon, 1935) from Brazil, Southwestern Atlantic. Brazilian Journal of Biology ==, 75(4), 936-939. https://doi.org/10.1590/1519-6984.03014

New records for Lysmata grabhami (Gordon, 1935) in Brazilian waters are presented. Four adult individuals from coastal waters off the city of Vitória, Espírito Santo coast and one adult from Trindade Island were collected during scuba diving in depth... Read More about New records of the striped cleaner shrimp Lysmata grabhami (Gordon, 1935) from Brazil, Southwestern Atlantic..

Modern Day Time Pressures (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pitkethly, A. (2015, November). Modern Day Time Pressures. Presented at Time for Golf, Royal & Ancient (R&A), St. Andrews, Scotland

No abstract available.

How fluent is the fluent speech of people who stutter? A new approach to measuring kinematics with ultrasound (2015)
Journal Article
Heyde, C. J., Scobbie, J. M., Lickley, R., & Drake, E. K. E. (2016). How fluent is the fluent speech of people who stutter? A new approach to measuring kinematics with ultrasound. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 30(3-5), 292-312. https://doi.org/10.3109/02699206.2015.1100684

We present a new approach to the investigation of dynamic ultrasound tongue imaging (UTI) data, applied here to analyse the subtle aspects of the fluency of people who stutter (PWS). Fluent productions of CV syllables (C = /k/; V = /ɑ, i, ə/) from th... Read More about How fluent is the fluent speech of people who stutter? A new approach to measuring kinematics with ultrasound.

Soil contamination with silver nanoparticles reduces Bishop pine growth and ectomycorrhizal diversity on pine roots (2015)
Journal Article
Sweet, M. J., & Singleton, I. (2015). Soil contamination with silver nanoparticles reduces Bishop pine growth and ectomycorrhizal diversity on pine roots. Journal of Nanoparticle Research, 17, 448. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11051-015-3246-4

Soil contamination by silver nanoparticles (AgNP) is of potential environmental concern but little work has been carried out on the effect of such contamination on ectomycorrhizal fungi (EMF). EMF are essential to forest ecosystem functions as they a... Read More about Soil contamination with silver nanoparticles reduces Bishop pine growth and ectomycorrhizal diversity on pine roots.

Chitosan functionalisation of gold nanoparticles encourages particle uptake and induces cytotoxicity and pro-inflammatory conditions in phagocytic cells, as well as enhancing particle interactions with serum components (2015)
Journal Article
Boyles, M. S. P., Kristl, T., Andosch, A., Zimmermann, M., Tran, N., Casals, E., Himly, M., Puntes, V., Huber, C. G., Lütz-Meindl, U., & Duschl, A. (2015). Chitosan functionalisation of gold nanoparticles encourages particle uptake and induces cytotoxicity and pro-inflammatory conditions in phagocytic cells, as well as enhancing particle interactions with serum components. Journal of Nanobiotechnology, 13, Article 84. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12951-015-0146-9

Background
Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) are a popular choice for use in medical and biomedical research applications. With suitable functionalisation AuNPs can be applied in drug delivery systems, or can aid in disease diagnosis. One such functionalis... Read More about Chitosan functionalisation of gold nanoparticles encourages particle uptake and induces cytotoxicity and pro-inflammatory conditions in phagocytic cells, as well as enhancing particle interactions with serum components.

Missing a trick? Response to: ‘Disinfectant wipes are appropriate to control microbial bioburden from surfaces’ (2015)
Journal Article
Dancer, S. (2016). Missing a trick? Response to: ‘Disinfectant wipes are appropriate to control microbial bioburden from surfaces’. Journal of Hospital Infection, 92(2), 208-209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2015.10.020

Letter to Editor.

Refers to - J.-Y. Maillard, S.A. Sattar, C. Bradley
Missing a trick? Response to: ‘Disinfectant wipes are appropriate to control microbial bioburden from surfaces’
Journal of Hospital Infection, Volume 92, Issue 2, February 201... Read More about Missing a trick? Response to: ‘Disinfectant wipes are appropriate to control microbial bioburden from surfaces’.

How Visuo-Spatial Mental Imagery Develops: Image Generation and Maintenance (2015)
Journal Article
Wimmer, M. C., Maras, K. L., Robinson, E. J., Doherty, M. J., & Pugeault, N. (2015). How Visuo-Spatial Mental Imagery Develops: Image Generation and Maintenance. PLOS ONE, 10, e0142566--e0142566. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0142566

Two experiments examined the nature of visuo-spatial mental imagery generation and maintenance in 4-, 6-, 8-, 10-year old children and adults (N = 211). The key questions were how image generation and maintenance develop (Experiment 1) and how accura... Read More about How Visuo-Spatial Mental Imagery Develops: Image Generation and Maintenance.

The benefit of context for facial-composite construction (2015)
Journal Article
Skelton, F. C., Frowd, C. D., & Speers, K. E. (2015). The benefit of context for facial-composite construction. British Journal of Forensic Practice, 17(4), 281-290. https://doi.org/10.1108/JFP-08-2014-0022

Purpose - The aim of this study was to investigate whether the presence of a whole-face context during facial composite production facilitates construction of facial composite images.
Design/Methodology - In Experiment 1, constructors viewed a celeb... Read More about The benefit of context for facial-composite construction.

The impact of irrelevant auditory facial descriptions on memory for target faces: implications for eyewitness memory (2015)
Journal Article
Marsh, J. E., Demaine, J., Bell, R., Skelton, F. C., Frowd, C. D., Roer, J. P., & Buchner, A. (2015). The impact of irrelevant auditory facial descriptions on memory for target faces: implications for eyewitness memory. Journal of Forensic Practice, 17(4), 271-280. https://doi.org/10.1108/JFP-08-2014-0029

Purpose

– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the potential susceptibility of eyewitness memory to the presence of extraneous background speech that comprises a description consistent with, or at odds with, a target face.

Design/method... Read More about The impact of irrelevant auditory facial descriptions on memory for target faces: implications for eyewitness memory.

A decade of evolving composites: regression- and meta-analysis (2015)
Journal Article
Frowd, C. D., Lampinen, J. M., Erickson, W. B., Skelton, F. C., McIntyre, A. H., & Hancock, P. J. B. (2015). A decade of evolving composites: regression- and meta-analysis. Journal of Forensic Practice, 17(4), 319-334. https://doi.org/10.1108/JFP-08-2014-0025

Purpose

– The purpose of this paper is to assess the impact of seven variables that emerge from forensic research on facial-composite construction and naming using contemporary police systems: EvoFIT, Feature and Sketch.

Design/methodology/app... Read More about A decade of evolving composites: regression- and meta-analysis.

Altered adipocytes in an ovine model of polycystic ovary syndrome (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Siemienowicz, K., Couckan, F., Lerner, A., Franks, S., Rae, M., & Duncan, C. (2015, November). Altered adipocytes in an ovine model of polycystic ovary syndrome. Poster presented at Society for Endocrinology BES, Edinburgh

An acute outbreak of equine dysautonomia (equine grass sickness) in a group of eight Przewalski's horses (Equus ferus [caballus] przewalskii) (2015)
Journal Article
Girling, S. J., Fraser, M. A., Richardson, D., Harley, J., Ireland, J. L., Naylor, A., & Milne, E. (2017). An acute outbreak of equine dysautonomia (equine grass sickness) in a group of eight Przewalski's horses (Equus ferus [caballus] przewalskii). Equine Veterinary Education, 29(7), 358-361. https://doi.org/10.1111/eve.12493

Equine grass sickness (EGS) is a neurodegenerative disease affecting grazing equids of which a single case of the chronic clinical presentation has previously been reported in a Przewalski's horse (Equus ferus [caballus] przewalskii). A group of 8 Pr... Read More about An acute outbreak of equine dysautonomia (equine grass sickness) in a group of eight Przewalski's horses (Equus ferus [caballus] przewalskii).

Releasing the grip of managerial domination: The role of communities of practice in tackling multiple exclusion homelessness (2015)
Journal Article
Clark, M., Cornes, M., Manthorpe, J., Hennessy, C., & Anderson, S. (2015). Releasing the grip of managerial domination: The role of communities of practice in tackling multiple exclusion homelessness. Journal of Integrated Care, 23(5), 287-301. https://doi.org/10.1108/jica-06-2015-0023

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to discuss “system transformation” in the context of different workforces and organisations seeking to support people experiencing multiple exclusion homelessness (MEH). From a relational and integrated care pers... Read More about Releasing the grip of managerial domination: The role of communities of practice in tackling multiple exclusion homelessness.

Expression of Sulf1 and Sulf2 in cartilage, bone and endochondral fracture healing (2015)
Journal Article
Zaman, G., Farquharson, C., Staines, K. A., Newton, P. T., Dudhia, J., Chenu, C., …Dhoot, G. K. (2016). Expression of Sulf1 and Sulf2 in cartilage, bone and endochondral fracture healing. Histochemistry and Cell Biology, 145(1), 67-79. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00418-015-1365-8

SULF1/SULF2 enzymes regulate cell signalling that impacts the growth and differentiation of many tissues. To determine their possible role in cartilage and bone growth or repair, their expression was examined during development and bone fracture heal... Read More about Expression of Sulf1 and Sulf2 in cartilage, bone and endochondral fracture healing.

Resource availability and life-history origin affect competitive behavior in territorial disputes (2015)
Journal Article
Van Leeuwen, T. E., Hughes, M. R., Dodd, J. A., Adams, C. E., & Metcalfe, N. B. (2016). Resource availability and life-history origin affect competitive behavior in territorial disputes. Behavioral Ecology, 27(2), 385-392. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arv163

Partial migration, in which some individuals of a population migrate and others remain sedentary, is a phenomenon that occurs across a wide range of taxa, but the factors that predispose particular individuals to one or the other strategy are usually... Read More about Resource availability and life-history origin affect competitive behavior in territorial disputes.