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Enhanced chemical etch rate of borosilicate glass via spatially resolved laser-generated color centers (2019)
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Serkov, A. A., & Snelling, H. V. (2020). Enhanced chemical etch rate of borosilicate glass via spatially resolved laser-generated color centers. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 53(13), Article 135306. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6463/ab6515

© 2020 IOP Publishing Ltd. In this work, it is shown that controllable increases in chemical reactivity of borosilicate glass can be induced through spatially resolved femtosecond laser irradiation at fluence values significantly lower than the damag... Read More about Enhanced chemical etch rate of borosilicate glass via spatially resolved laser-generated color centers.

Patient-Specific Coronary Artery 3D Printing Based on Intravascular Optical Coherence Tomography and Coronary Angiography (2019)
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Huang, C., Lan, Y., Chen, S., Liu, Q., Luo, X., Xu, G., …Che, W. (2019). Patient-Specific Coronary Artery 3D Printing Based on Intravascular Optical Coherence Tomography and Coronary Angiography. Complexity, 2019, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/5712594

Despite the new ideas were inspired in medical treatment by the rapid advancement of three-dimensional (3D) printing technology, there is still rare research work reported on 3D printing of coronary arteries being documented in the literature. In thi... Read More about Patient-Specific Coronary Artery 3D Printing Based on Intravascular Optical Coherence Tomography and Coronary Angiography.

The relationship between pain, analgesics and survival in patients with advanced cancer: a secondary data analysis of the international European palliative care cancer symptom study. (2019)
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Boland, J. W., Allgar, V., Boland, E. G., Bennett, M. I., Kaasa, S., Hjermstad, M. J., & Johnson, M. (2020). The relationship between pain, analgesics and survival in patients with advanced cancer: a secondary data analysis of the international European palliative care cancer symptom study. European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 76(3), 393-402. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00228-019-02801-2

© 2019, The Author(s). Purpose: Opioids reduce cancer-related pain but an association with shorter survival is variably reported. Aim: To investigate the relationship between pain, analgesics, cancer and survival within the European Palliative Care C... Read More about The relationship between pain, analgesics and survival in patients with advanced cancer: a secondary data analysis of the international European palliative care cancer symptom study..

Sub‐arctic river bank dynamics and driving processes during the open‐channel flow period (2019)
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Lotsari, E., Hackney, C., Salmela, J., Kasvi, E., Kemp, J., Alho, P., & Darby, S. (2020). Sub‐arctic river bank dynamics and driving processes during the open‐channel flow period. Earth surface processes and landforms : the journal of the British Geomorphological Research Group, 45(5), 1198-1216. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4796

There is growing concern that rapidly changing climate in high latitudes may generate significant geomorphological changes that could mobilise floodplain sediments and carbon; however detailed investigations into the bank erosion process regimes of h... Read More about Sub‐arctic river bank dynamics and driving processes during the open‐channel flow period.

Characterization of ultrasonic bubble clouds in a liquid metal by synchrotron X-ray high speed imaging and statistical analysis (2019)
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Wang, C., Connolley, T., Tzanakis, I., Eskin, D., & Mi, J. (2020). Characterization of ultrasonic bubble clouds in a liquid metal by synchrotron X-ray high speed imaging and statistical analysis. Materials, 13(1), Article 44. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma13010044

Quantitative understanding of the interactions of ultrasonic waves with liquid and solidifying metals is essential for developing optimal processing strategies for ultrasound processing of metal alloys in the solidification processes. In this researc... Read More about Characterization of ultrasonic bubble clouds in a liquid metal by synchrotron X-ray high speed imaging and statistical analysis.

Under the volcano: Mount Mayon and co-volcanic societies in the Philippines (2019)
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Bankoff, G. (2020). Under the volcano: Mount Mayon and co-volcanic societies in the Philippines. Environment and History, 26(1), 7-29. https://doi.org/10.3197/096734019X15755402985532

Rich volcanic soils have long attracted human settlements, which have traded the risk of eruption against the benefits of higher agricultural yields. Yet little research has been done on how societies have normalised the risks and adapted to living i... Read More about Under the volcano: Mount Mayon and co-volcanic societies in the Philippines.

Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): Defining passive galaxy samples and searching for the UV upturn (2019)
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Phillipps, S., Ali, S. S., Bremer, M. N., de Propris, R., Sansom, A. E., Cluver, M. E., …Wang, L. (2020). Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): Defining passive galaxy samples and searching for the UV upturn. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 492(2), 2128-2139. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz3552

© 2019 The Author(s) We use data from the GAMA and GALEX surveys to demonstrate that the UV upturn, an unexpected excess of ultraviolet flux from a hot stellar component, seen in the spectra of many early-type galaxies, arises from processes internal... Read More about Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): Defining passive galaxy samples and searching for the UV upturn.

Spill-in counts in the quantification of 18F-florbetapir on Aβ-negative subjects: the effect of including white matter in the reference region (2019)
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López-González, F. J., Moscoso, A., Efthimiou, N., Fernández-Ferreiro, A., Piñeiro-Fiel, M., Archibald, S. J., …Silva-Rodríguez, J. (2019). Spill-in counts in the quantification of 18F-florbetapir on Aβ-negative subjects: the effect of including white matter in the reference region. EJNMMI Physics, 6, Article 27. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40658-019-0258-7

© 2019, The Author(s). Background: We aim to provide a systematic study of the impact of white matter (WM) spill-in on the calculation of standardized uptake value ratios (SUVRs) on Aβ-negative subjects, and we study the effect of including WM in... Read More about Spill-in counts in the quantification of 18F-florbetapir on Aβ-negative subjects: the effect of including white matter in the reference region.

Towards person-centered quality care for children with life-limiting and life-threatening illness: self-reported symptoms, concerns and priority outcomes from a multi-country qualitative study (2019)
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Namisango, E., Bristowe, K., Murtagh, F. E. M., Downing, J., Powell, R. A., Abas, M., …Murtagh, F. (in press). Towards person-centered quality care for children with life-limiting and life-threatening illness: self-reported symptoms, concerns and priority outcomes from a multi-country qualitative study. Palliative medicine,

Abstract Background: Paediatric life-limiting and life-threatening conditionslife-limiting conditions place significant strain on children, families and health systems. Given high service use among this population, it is essential that care address... Read More about Towards person-centered quality care for children with life-limiting and life-threatening illness: self-reported symptoms, concerns and priority outcomes from a multi-country qualitative study.

What determines the downstream evolution of turbidity currents? (2019)
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Heerema, C. J., Talling, P. J., Cartigny, M. J., Paull, C. K., Bailey, L., Simmons, S. M., …Pope, E. (2020). What determines the downstream evolution of turbidity currents?. Earth and planetary science letters, 532, Article 116023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2019.116023

© 2019 Seabed sediment flows called turbidity currents form some of the largest sediment accumulations, deepest canyons and longest channel systems on Earth. Only rivers transport comparable sediment volumes over such large areas; but there are far f... Read More about What determines the downstream evolution of turbidity currents?.

Breaking bad online: a synthesis of the darker sides of social networking sites (2019)
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Demetis, D. S. (2020). Breaking bad online: a synthesis of the darker sides of social networking sites. European Management Journal, 38(1), 33-44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2019.12.013

This essay deconstructs the ultra-dark side of social media and explores the variety of ‘bad’ behaviour online by looking at a wide spectrum of exploitative practices. Through the use of primary data from an online platform, we posit the question ‘Wh... Read More about Breaking bad online: a synthesis of the darker sides of social networking sites.

Plasma mEV levels in Ghanain malaria patients with low parasitaemia are higher than those of healthy controls, raising the potential for parasite markers in mEVs as diagnostic targets (2019)
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Antwi-Baffour, S., Malibha-Pinchbeck, M., Stratton, D., Jorfi, S., Lange, S., & Inal, J. (2020). Plasma mEV levels in Ghanain malaria patients with low parasitaemia are higher than those of healthy controls, raising the potential for parasite markers in mEVs as diagnostic targets. Journal of Extracellular Vesicles, 9(1), Article 1697124. https://doi.org/10.1080/20013078.2019.1697124

This study sought to measure medium-sized extracellular vesicles (mEVs) in plasma, when patients have low Plasmodium falciparum early in infection. We aimed to define the relationship between plasma mEVs and: (i) parasitaemia, (ii) period from onset... Read More about Plasma mEV levels in Ghanain malaria patients with low parasitaemia are higher than those of healthy controls, raising the potential for parasite markers in mEVs as diagnostic targets.

Sustainability transitions and policy dismantling: Zero carbon housing in the UK (2019)
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O'Neill, K., & Gibbs, D. (2020). Sustainability transitions and policy dismantling: Zero carbon housing in the UK. Geoforum, 108, 119-129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.11.011

In this paper we examine the failure of the zero carbon homes agenda in the UK and argue that it represents a case of policy dismantling, where a range of policies and programmes have been introduced, revised and then removed by government. We bring... Read More about Sustainability transitions and policy dismantling: Zero carbon housing in the UK.

GASP XXIII: a jellyfish galaxy as an astrophysical laboratory of the baryonic cycle (2019)
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Poggianti, B. M., Ignesti, A., Gitti, M., Wolter, A., Brighenti, F., Biviano, A., …Omizzolo, A. (2019). GASP XXIII: a jellyfish galaxy as an astrophysical laboratory of the baryonic cycle. The Astrophysical journal, 887(2), Article 155. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab5224

© 2019. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. With MUSE, Chandra, VLA, ALMA, and UVIT data from the GASP program, we study the multiphase baryonic components in a jellyfish galaxy (JW100) with a stellar mass 3.2 × 1011 M o hosting a... Read More about GASP XXIII: a jellyfish galaxy as an astrophysical laboratory of the baryonic cycle.

Towards infield, live plant phenotyping using a reduced-parameter CNN (2019)
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Atanbori, J., French, A. P., & Pridmore, T. P. (2020). Towards infield, live plant phenotyping using a reduced-parameter CNN. Machine Vision and Applications, 31(1), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00138-019-01051-7

© 2019, The Author(s). There is an increase in consumption of agricultural produce as a result of the rapidly growing human population, particularly in developing nations. This has triggered high-quality plant phenotyping research to help with the br... Read More about Towards infield, live plant phenotyping using a reduced-parameter CNN.

Unravelling The Role Of Green Entrepreneurs In Urban Sustainability Transitions (2019)
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Gibbs, D., & Yu, Z. (in press). Unravelling The Role Of Green Entrepreneurs In Urban Sustainability Transitions. Urban studies, https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098019888144

This paper aims to understand the role of green entrepreneurs in urban sustainability transitions. We propose an analytical framework combining transition approaches and green entrepreneurship from a relational lens. It includes four processes: emerg... Read More about Unravelling The Role Of Green Entrepreneurs In Urban Sustainability Transitions.

Physiologically relevant screening of polyphenol-rich commercial preparations for bioactivity in vascular endothelial cells and application to healthy volunteers: a viable workflow and a cautionary tale (2019)
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Jones, H., Papageorgiou, M., Gordon, A., Ehtesham, Javed, Z., Wells, L. K., …Sathyapalan, T. (2020). Physiologically relevant screening of polyphenol-rich commercial preparations for bioactivity in vascular endothelial cells and application to healthy volunteers: a viable workflow and a cautionary tale. Biochemical Pharmacology, 173, Article 113754. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bcp.2019.113754

© 2019 Elsevier Inc. This study describes the screening of 13 commercially-available plant extracts for pharmacological activity modulating vascular function using an endothelial cell model. A French maritime pine bark extract (FMPBE) was found to ha... Read More about Physiologically relevant screening of polyphenol-rich commercial preparations for bioactivity in vascular endothelial cells and application to healthy volunteers: a viable workflow and a cautionary tale.

Stuffing down feelings: Bereavement, anxiety and emotional detachment in the life stories of people with eating disorders (2019)
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Reid, M., Wilson‐Walsh, R., Cartwright, L., & Hammersley, R. (2020). Stuffing down feelings: Bereavement, anxiety and emotional detachment in the life stories of people with eating disorders. Health and Social Care in the Community, 28(3), 979-987. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.12930

This study aimed to explore the life stories of people with eating disorders (EDs) in order to better understand possible contributing factors to their development. It used a qualitative Life Story method, in order to reduce the tendency to focus on... Read More about Stuffing down feelings: Bereavement, anxiety and emotional detachment in the life stories of people with eating disorders.

Experimental analysis of defrosting and heating performance of a solar-assisted heat pump integrated phase change energy storage (2019)
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Chen, H., Li, G., Wang, Y., Zhang, F., Badiei, A., Lu, T., …Zhang, Y. (2020). Experimental analysis of defrosting and heating performance of a solar-assisted heat pump integrated phase change energy storage. International journal of energy research, 44(3), 2173-2182. https://doi.org/10.1002/er.5076

© 2019 John Wiley & Sons Ltd This thesis investigates a novel solar-assisted heat pump integrated phase change energy storage system. The defrosting performance of this system was studied experimentally and the results were compared with two tradit... Read More about Experimental analysis of defrosting and heating performance of a solar-assisted heat pump integrated phase change energy storage.

Test–retest repeatability of the NX-16: a three-dimensional (3D) body scanner in a male cohort (2019)
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Turpin, R. L., Douglas, C. C., Gleadall-Siddall, D. O., Turpin, R., Douglas, C., Ingle, L., & Garrett, A. T. (2020). Test–retest repeatability of the NX-16: a three-dimensional (3D) body scanner in a male cohort. Sport Sciences for Health, 16(2), 337-346. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11332-019-00611-8

© 2019, The Author(s). Purpose: Whole-body three-dimensional scanning is a tool utilised for the collection of body girths, volume, and surface area measurements. Few studies have investigated the validity and repeatability of this technology. The ai... Read More about Test–retest repeatability of the NX-16: a three-dimensional (3D) body scanner in a male cohort.