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    • Comprehensive Management of Production Line Stops System 

      School of Physics, Engineering & Computer Science; Asef, Pedram (2012-07-21)

    • Design and production harmonic gage with microcontroller Atmega16 

      School of Physics, Engineering & Computer Science; Asef, Pedram (2012-09-26)

    • Apparatus, buffer and method for pH control 

      School of Life and Medical Sciences; Centre for Research into Topical Drug Delivery and Toxicology; Pharmaceutics; Pharmaceutical Analysis and Product Characterisation; Bioadhesive Drug Delivery Group; Department of Clinical, Pharmaceutical and Biological Science; Liu, Fang; Curl, Andrew; Fitzgerald , Dean (2019-04)

    • Method Computer Program and System for Facial Recognition : European Patent Application 17154640.1 

      Centre for Engineering Research; School of Engineering and Technology; School of Physics, Engineering & Computer Science; Communications and Intelligent Systems; Department of Engineering and Technology; Sáez-Trigueros, Daniel; Hertlein, Heinz; Ariyaeeinia, Aladdin; Meng, Li; Alitto, Moneer; Hartnett, Margaret (European Patent Office, 2017-08-09)
      Facial recognition is used in a wide range of applications, which include access control, identification systems, surveillance, and identity verification. A partic­ular application is the role of facial recognition in the ...

    • Improvements Relating to Facial Recognition 

      Information Engineering and Processing Architectures; Communications and Intelligent Systems; Centre for Engineering Research; School of Physics, Engineering & Computer Science; Department of Engineering and Technology; Sáez-Trigueros, Daniel; Meng, Li; Hartnett, Margaret (European Patent Office, 2019-01-16)
      A method of identifying at least one face region having a predominant contribution to face recognition, comprising (i) obtaining a set of face images, (ii) using a face-recognition model to predict a non-occluded identity ...

    • Anthracene based compounds and their uses 

      School of Life and Medical Sciences; Natural Product Chemistry and Drug Design; Centre for Research into Topical Drug Delivery and Toxicology; Psychopharmacology, Drug Misuse and Novel Psychoactive Substances Unit; Centre for Health Services and Clinical Research; Centre for Research in Mechanisms of Disease and Drug Discovery; Department of Clinical, Pharmaceutical and Biological Science; Rossiter, Sharon; Kirton, Stewart; Camara, Ramatoulie (2016-11-17)

    • Arylalkylpiperazines for use as neuroprotective agents : Arlyalkylpiperazines and neuroprotection 

      Basic and Clinical Science Unit; School of Life and Medical Sciences; Centre for Health Services and Clinical Research; Centre for Research in Mechanisms of Disease and Drug Discovery; Department of Clinical, Pharmaceutical and Biological Science; Iravani, Mahmoud (2016-04-07)
      A compound of the general formula A or a or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof, wherein: R1 is selected from the group consisting of: C1-C12-alkyl, C3-C12-cycloalkyl, C6- C10-aryl, and C5-C7-heteroaryl; ...

    • Apparatus and Method for the Analysis of Particle Characteristics using Monotonically Scattered light. 

      Particle Instruments and diagnostics; Centre for Research in Biodetection Technologies; Centre for Hazard Detection and Protection Research; Centre for Atmospheric and Climate Physics Research; School of Physics, Engineering & Computer Science; Department of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics; Kaye, Paul; Hirst, Edwin (1995-11-28)

    • Understanding the role α7 nicotinic receptors play in dopamine efflux in nucleus accumbens 

      Maex, Reinoud; Grinevich, Vladimir P; Grinevich, Valentina; Budygin, Evgeny; Bencherif, Merouane; Gutkin, Boris (2014-08-22)
      Neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (NNRs) of the α7 subtype have been shown to contribute to the release of dopamine in the nucleus accumbens. The site of action and the underlying mechanism, however, are unclear. ...

    • Coming to Voice as Total Top or Total Bottom : Autobiographical Acts and the Sexual Politics of Versatility on Reddit 

      Vytniorgu, Richard (2024-01-24)
      For gay, bisexual, and men who have sex with men (GBMSM), sexual versatility encompasses both insertive (top) and receptive (bottom) sexual practices. By contrast, “total top” and “total bottom” roles are often marginalized ...

    • Membrane vesicles of Clostridioides difficile and other Clostridial species 

      Goh, Shan; Inal, Jameel (Springer Nature, 2024-01-05)
      Membrane vesicles are secreted by growing bacterial cells and are important components of the bacterial secretome, with a role in delivering effector molecules that ultimately enable bacterial survival. Membrane vesicles ...

    • The definition of treatment resistance in anxiety disorders: a Delphi method-based consensus guideline 

      Domschke, Katharina; Seuling, Patrik D.; Schiele, Miriam A.; Bandelow, Borwin; Batelaan, Neeltje M.; Bokma, Wicher A.; Branchi, Igor; Broich, Karl; Burkauskas, Julius; Davies, Simon J.C.; Dell'Osso, Bernardo; Fagan, Harry; Fineberg, Naomi; Furukawa, Toshi A.; Hofmann, Stefan G.; Hood, Sean; Huneke, Nathan T.M.; Latas, Milan; Lidbetter, Nicky; Masdrakis, Vasilios; McAllister-Williams, R. Hamish; Nardi, Antonio E.; Pallanti, Stefano; Penninx, Brenda W.J.H.; Perna, Giampaolo; Pilling, Steve; Pini, Stefano; Reif, Andreas; Seedat, Soraya; Simons, Gemma; Srivastava, Shrikant; Steibliene, Vesta; Stein, Dan J.; Stein, Murray; Van Ameringen, Michael; van Balkom, Anton J.L.M.; van der Wee, Nic; Zwanzger, Peter; Baldwin, David S (2024-02-28)
      Anxiety disorders are very prevalent and often persistent mental disorders, with a considerable rate of treatment resistance which requires regulatory clinical trials of innovative therapeutic interventions. However, an ...

    • The high energy X-ray probe (HEX-P): magnetars and other isolated neutron stars 

      Alford, J. A. J.; Younes, G. A.; Wadiasingh, Z.; Abdelmaguid, M.; An, H.; Bachetti, M.; Baring, M. G.; Beloborodov, A.; Chen, A. Y.; Enoto, T.; García, J. A.; Gelfand, J. D.; Gotthelf, E. V.; Harding, A. K.; Hu, C-P.; Jaodand, A. D.; Kaspi, V.; Kim, C.; Kouveliotou, C.; Kuiper, L.; Mori, K.; Nynka, M.; Park, J.; Stern, D.; Valverde, J.; Walton, D. J. (2024-01-09)
      The hard X-ray emission from magnetars and other isolated neutron stars remains under-explored. An instrument with higher sensitivity to hard X-rays is critical to understanding the physics of neutron star magnetospheres ...

    • Aberrant salience in cannabis-induced psychosis: a comparative study 

      Ricci, Valerio; Di Muzio, Ilenia; Ceci, Franca; Di Carlo, Francesco; Mancusi, Gianluca; Piro, Tommaso; Paggi, Andrea; Pettorruso, Mauro; Vellante, Federica; De Berardis, Domenico; Martinotti, Giovanni; Maina, Giuseppe (2024-01-08)
      Background: Natural Cannabis (NC) and Synthetic Cannabinoids (SCs) use can increase the risk and exacerbate the course of psychotic disorders. These could be influenced by the Aberrant Salience (AS) construct. It refers ...

    • Heuristic Search of Heuristics 

      Pirrone, Angelo; Lane, Peter; Bartlett, Laura; Javed, Noman; Gobet, Fernand (Springer Nature Link, 2023-11-08)
      How can we infer the strategies that human participants adopt to carry out a task? One possibility, which we present and discuss here, is to develop a large number of strategies that participants could have adopted, given ...

    • Editorial: Comorbidity in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, volume III 

      Martinotti, Giovanni; Fornaro, Michele; De Berardis, Domenico (2024-01-09)

    • Descriptive research into large-scale user data from an established alcohol identification and brief advice (IBA) intervention website 

      Kerr, Dylan Andrew; Corkery, John Martin (figshare, 2024-01-16)
      Alcohol misuse causes significant health harms, including early mortality, increased healthcare and wider governmental costs. Identification and Brief Advice (IBA) interventions can reduce alcohol consumption, prevent ...

    • Impairments in psychological functioning in refugees and asylum seekers 

      Baumgartner, Josef S.; Renner, Antonia; Wochele-Thoma, Thomas; Wehle, Peter; Barbui, Corrado; Purgato, Marianna; Tedeschi, Federico; Tarsitani, Lorenzo; Roselli, Valentina; Acartürk, Ceren; Uygun, Ersin; Anttila, Minna; Lantta, Tella; Välimäki, Maritta; Churchill, Rachel; Walker, Lauren; Sijbrandij, Marit; Cuijpers, Pim; Koesters, Markus; Klein, Thomas; White, Ross G.; Aichberger, Marion C.; Wancata, Johannes (2024-01-08)
      Refugees are at increased risk for developing psychological impairments due to stressors in the pre-, peri- and post-migration periods. There is limited knowledge on how everyday functioning is affected by migration ...

    • The High Energy X-ray Probe (HEX-P): probing accretion onto stellar mass black holes 

      Connors, Riley M. T.; Tomsick, John A.; Draghis, Paul; Coughenour, Benjamin; Shaw, Aarran W.; García, Javier A.; Walton, Dominic; Madsen, Kristin; Stern, Daniel; Rodriguez, Nicole Cavero; Dauser, Thomas; Del Santo, Melania; Jiang, Jiachen; Krawczynski, Henric; Liu, Honghui; Neilsen, Joseph; Nowak, Michael; Pike, Sean; Santangelo, Andrea; Sridhar, Navin; West, Andrew; Wilms, Jörn (2024-01-08)
      Accretion is a universal astrophysical process that plays a key role in cosmic history, from the epoch of reionization to galaxy and stellar formation and evolution. Accreting stellar-mass black holes in X-ray binaries are ...

    • Empowering Academic Reading: Strategies for Student Engagement in the Digital Age 

      Scott, Rebecca J; Bilson, Jane (2023-11-24)
      Academic staff express concerns that many students do not engage with academic reading, do not have adequate note-taking skills and lack enthusiasm for academic texts (Hoeft, 2012; Miller & Merdian, 2020). Effective academic ...