Science and Technology

Shi-Wen, X., Parapuram, S.K., Pala, D., Chen, Y., Carter, D.E., Eastwood, M., Denton, C.P., Abraham, D.J. and Leask, A. 2009. Requirement of transforming growth factor β–activated kinase 1 for transforming growth factor β–induced -smooth muscle actin expression and extracellular matrix contraction in fibroblasts. Arthritis & Rheumatism. 60 (1), pp. 234-241. https://doi.org/10.1002/art.24223

Denton, C.P., Khan, K., Hoyles, R.K., Shiwen, X., Leoni, P., Chen, Y., Eastwood, M. and Abraham, D.J. 2009. Inducible lineage-specific deletion of TβRII in fibroblasts defines a pivotal regulatory role during adult skin wound healing. Journal of Investigative Dermatology. 129 (1), pp. 194-204. https://doi.org/10.1038/jid.2008.171

Bambra, C., Pope, D., Swami, V., Stanistreet, D., Roskam, A., Kunst, A. and Scott-Samuel, A. 2009. Gender, health inequalities and welfare state regimes: a cross-national study of 13 European countries. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 63 (1), pp. 38-44. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech.2007.070292

Getting, S.J., Kaneva, M., Bhadresa, Y., Renshaw, D., Leoni, G., Patel, H.B., Kerrigan, M.J.P. and Locke, I.C. 2009. Melanocortin peptide therapy for the treatment of arthritic pathologies. The Scientific World Journal. 9, pp. 1394-1414. https://doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2009.163

Williams, A.E., Perry, M.M., Moschos, S.A., Larner-Svensson, H.M. and Lindsay, M.A. 2008. Role of miRNA-146a in the regulation of the innate immune response and cancer. Biochemical Society. Transactions. 36 (6), pp. 1211-1215. https://doi.org/10.1042/BST0361211

Voracek, M., Loibl, L.M., Swami, V., Vintilă, M., Kõlves, K., Sinniah, D., Pillai, S.K., Ponnusamy, S., Sonneck, G., Furnham, A. and Lester, D. 2008. The beliefs in the inheritance of risk factors for suicide ccale (BIRFSS): cross-cultural validation in Estonia, Malaysia, Romania, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior. 38 (6), pp. 688-698. https://doi.org/10.1521/suli.2008.38.6.688

Swami, V., Rozmus-Wrzesinska, M., Voracek, M., Haubner, T., Danel, D., Pawlowski, B., Stanistreet, D., Chaplin, F., Chaudhri, J., Sheth, P., Shostak, A., Zhang, E.X. and Furnham, A. 2008. The influence of skin tone, body weight, and hair colour on perceptions of women's attractiveness and health: a cross-cultural investigation. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology. 6 (4), pp. 321-341. https://doi.org/10.1556/JEP.6.2008.4.4

Swami, V. and Chamorro-Premuzic, T. 2008. Factor structure of the Body Appreciation Scale among Malaysian women. Body Image. 5 (4), pp. 409-413. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2008.04.005

Leoni, G., Patel, H.B., Sampaio, A.L.F., Gavins, F.N.E., Murray, J.F., Grieco, P., Getting, S.J. and Perretti, M. 2008. Inflamed phenotype of the mesenteric microcirculation of melanocortin type 3 receptor-null mice after ischemia-reperfusion. FASEB Journal. 22 (12), pp. 4228-4238. https://doi.org/10.1096/fj.08-113886

Furnham, A. and Swami, V. 2008. Patient preferences for psychological counsellors: evidence of a similarity effect. Counselling Psychology Quarterly. 21 (4), pp. 361-370. https://doi.org/10.1080/09515070802602146

Benton, S. 2008. Putting the patient first? An analysis of what drives doctors and managers in NHS hospitals. Journal of Information Technology in Healthcare. 6 (4), pp. 303-317.

Roche, D.M., Edmunds, S., Cable, T., Didi, M. and Stratton, G. 2008. Skin microvascular reactivity in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes in relation to levels of physical activity and aerobic fitness. Pediatric Exercise Science. 20 (4), pp. 426-438.

Ovtchinnikov, E. 2008. Computing several eigenpairs of Hermitian problems by conjugate gradient iterations. Journal of Computational Physics. 227 (22), pp. 9477-9497. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2008.06.038

Forrester, G.S. 2008. A multidimensional approach to investigations of behaviour: revealing structure in animal communication signals. Animal Behaviour. 76 (5), pp. 1749-1760. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.05.026

Chain, B.M., Noursadeghi, M., Gardener, M., Tsang, J. and Wright, E. 2008. HIV blocking antibodies following immunisation with chimaeric peptides coding a short N-terminal sequence of the CCR5 receptor. Vaccine. 26 (45), pp. 5752-5759. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2008.08.025

Swami, V. and Hernandez, E.G. 2008. A beauty-map of London: ratings of the physical attractiveness of women and men in London’s boroughs. Personality and Individual Differences. 45 (5), pp. 361-366. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2008.05.005

Swami, V., Furnham, A. and Joshi, K. 2008. The influence of skin tone, hair length, and hair colour on ratings of women's physical attractiveness, health and fertility. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. 49 (5), pp. 429-437. https://doi.org/1111/j.1467-9450.2008.00651.x

Swami, V., Furnham, A., Balakumar, N., Williams, C., Canaway, K. and Stanistreet, D. 2008. Factors influencing preferences for height: a replication and extension. Personality and Individual Differences. 45 (5), pp. 395-400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2008.05.012

Swami, V., Furnham, A., Amin, R., Chaudhri, J., Joshi, K., Jundi, S., Miller, R., Mirza-Begum, J., Begum, F.N., Sheth, P. and Tovee, M.J. 2008. Lonelier, lazier, and teased: the stigmatizing effect of body size. Journal of Social Psychology. 148 (5), pp. 577-593.

Dalli, J., Norling, L.V., Renshaw, D., Cooper, D., Leung Kit-Y and Perretti, M. 2008. Annexin 1 mediates the rapid anti-inflammatory effects of neutrophil-derived microparticles. Blood. 112 (6), pp. 2512-2519. https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2008-02-140533

Wright, E., Temperton, N.J., Marston, D.A., McElhinney, L.M., Fooks, A.R. and Weiss, R.A. 2008. Investigating antibody neutralization of lyssaviruses using lentiviral pseudotypes: a cross-species comparison. Journal of General Virology. 89 (9), pp. 2204-2213. https://doi.org/10.1099/vir.0.2008/000349-0

Swami, V., Hadji-Michael, M. and Furnham, A. 2008. Personality and individual difference correlates of positive body image. Body Image. 5 (3), pp. 322-325. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2008.03.007

Swami, V. 2008. Translation and validation of the Malay subjective happiness scale. Social Indicators Research. 88 (2), pp. 247-353. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-007-9195-2

Gosling, R., Stanistreet, D. and Swami, V. 2008. 'If Michael Owen drinks it, why can't I?' - 9 and 10 year olds' perceptions of physical activity and healthy eating. Health Education Journal. 67 (3), pp. 167-181. https://doi.org/10.1177/0017896908094635

George, H.R., Swami, V., Cornelissen, P.L. and Tovee, M.J. 2008. Preferences for body mass index and waist-to-hip ratio do not vary with observer age. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology. 6 (3), pp. 207-218. https://doi.org/10.1556/JEP.6.2008.3.4

Swami, V., Tovee, M.J. and Furnham, A. 2008. Does financial security influence judgements of female physical attractiveness? Journal of Socio-Economics. 37 (4), pp. 1363-1370. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2007.03.006

Sack, A.T., Jacobs, C., De Martino, F., Staeren, N., Goebel, R. and Formisano, E. 2008. Dynamic premotor-to-parietal interactions during spatial imagery. The Journal of Neuroscience. 28 (34), pp. 8417-8429. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2656-08.2008

Liu, J.Q., Zhang, M., Zhang, C.-F., Qi, H.Y., Bashall, A., Bligh, S.W.A. and Wang, Z. 2008. Cytotoxic sesquiterpenes from Ligularia platyglossa. Phytochemistry. 69 (11), pp. 2231-2236. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phytochem.2008.05.018

He, W., Neil, S., Kulkarni, H., Wright, E., Agan, B.K., Marconi, V.C., Dolan, M.J., Weiss, R.A. and Ahuja, S.K. 2008. Duffy Antigen Receptor for Chemokines mediates trans-infection of HIV-1 from red blood cells to target cells and affects HIV-AIDS susceptibility. Cell Host and Microbe. 4 (1), pp. 52-62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2008.06.002

Stanistreet, D., Watkins, F., Bromley, H. and Swami, V. 2008. Running out of time: a qualitative investigation of homeless men's access to health services. Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless. 17 (3), pp. 190-212.

Scott, I.M., Swami, V., Josephson, S.C. and Penton-Voak, I.S. 2008. Context-dependent preferences for facial dimorphism in a rural Malaysian population. Evolution and Human Behavior. 29 (4), pp. 289-296. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2008.02.004

Kapetanios, E., Sugumaran, V. and Tanase, D. 2008. A parametric linguistics based approach for cross-lingual web querying. Data & Knowledge Engineering. 66 (1), pp. 35-52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.datak.2007.07.008

Furnham, A., Swami, V., Arteche, A. and Chamorro-Premuzic, T. 2008. Cognitive ability, learning approaches and personality correlates of general knowledge. Educational Psychology. 28 (4), pp. 427-437. https://doi.org/10.1080/01443410701727376

Wang, Y., Yang, L., He, Y.Q., Wang, C.-H., Welbeck, E., Bligh, S.W.A. and Wang, Z. 2008. Characterization of fifty-one flavonoids in a Chinese herbal prescription Longdan Xiegan Decoction by high-performance liquid chromatography coupled to electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry and photodiode array detection. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 22 (12), pp. 1767-1778. https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.3536

Hoyles, L., Honda, H., Logan, N.A., Halket, G., La Ragione, R.M. and McCartney, A.L. 2008. Isolation of Bacillus clausii, Bacillus licheniformis and other bacilli from human faecal samples. INRA–Rowett 2008: Gut Microbiome: Functionality, Interaction with the Host and Impact on the Environment. Clermont-Ferrand, France 18 Jun 2008

Swami, V., Salem, N., Furnham, A. and Tovee, M.J. 2008. The influence of feminist ascription on judgements of women's physical attractiveness. Body Image. 5 (2), pp. 224 -229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2007.10.003

Swami, V., Salem, N., Furnham, A. and Tovee, M.J. 2008. Initial examination of the validity and reliability of the female photographic figure rating scale for body image assessment. Personality and Individual Differences. 44 (8), pp. 1752 -1761. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2008.02.002

Swami, V., Maakip, I., Sinniah, D., Pillai, S.K., Subramaniam, P., Kannan, K. and Furnham, A. 2008. Attitudes toward the use and role of mobile telephony: a comparison of East and West Malaysia. Journal of Mobile Multimedia. 4 (2), pp. 149-162.

Swami, V., Furnham, A. and Christopher, A.N. 2008. Free the animals? Investigating attitudes toward animal testing in Britain and the United States. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. 49 (3), pp. 269-276. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9450.2008.00636.x

Godden, K. 2008. The effects of global warming on food security. Field Exchange. 33, p. 21.