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Supplier performance assessment: Evidence from a UK-based manufacturing company and its suppliers (2019)
Journal Article
Romule, K., Bak, O., Collicchia, C., & Shaw, S. (2020). Supplier performance assessment: Evidence from a UK-based manufacturing company and its suppliers. Benchmarking, 27(2), 817-838. https://doi.org/10.1108/BIJ-10-2018-0305

Purpose: The discussion of supplier performance assessment and implementation challenges has been evidenced well in the academic literature. However, the analysis of supplier performance assessment has been limited in terms of inclusion of suppliers’... Read More about Supplier performance assessment: Evidence from a UK-based manufacturing company and its suppliers.

A meta-synthesis study of the key elements involved in childhood vaccine hesitancy (2019)
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Díaz Crescitelli, M. E., Ghirotto, L., Sisson, H., Sarli, L., Artioli, G., Bassi, M. C., …Hayter, M. (2020). A meta-synthesis study of the key elements involved in childhood vaccine hesitancy. Public health, 180, 38-45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2019.10.027

Objectives: Immunization is one of the most successful and cost-effective interventions to improve health outcomes. However, internationally, the phenomenon of parental vaccine hesitancy is increasing and presents a growing challenge for health profe... Read More about A meta-synthesis study of the key elements involved in childhood vaccine hesitancy.

Promoting Independence in Dementia (PRIDE): Protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial (2019)
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Shafayat, A., Csipke, E., Bradshaw, L., Charlesworth, G., Day, F., Leung, P., …Orrell, M. (2019). Promoting Independence in Dementia (PRIDE): Protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial. Trials, 20, Article 709. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-019-3838-x

© 2019 The Author(s). Background: Memory services often see people with early stage dementia who are largely independent and able to participate in community activities but who run the risk of reducing activities and social networks. PRIDE is a sel... Read More about Promoting Independence in Dementia (PRIDE): Protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial.

Weight, height, and midupper arm circumference are associated with haemoglobin levels in adolescent girls living in rural India: A cross‐sectional study (2019)
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Ahankari, A. S., Tata, L., & Fogarty, A. (2019). Weight, height, and midupper arm circumference are associated with haemoglobin levels in adolescent girls living in rural India: A cross‐sectional study. Maternal & child nutrition, https://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.12908

We aimed to explore the association of physical parameters with haemoglobin (Hb) levels to test the hypothesis that impaired physical development is associated with anaemia. A cross‐sectional survey study recruited adolescent girls (13 to 17 years) l... Read More about Weight, height, and midupper arm circumference are associated with haemoglobin levels in adolescent girls living in rural India: A cross‐sectional study.

Narrating Sovereignty: The Covenant Chain in Intercultural Diplomacy (2019)
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Hatton, H. (2019). Narrating Sovereignty: The Covenant Chain in Intercultural Diplomacy. Journal of early American history, 9(2-3), 118-144. https://doi.org/10.1163/18770703-00902015

This article considers Haudenosaunee recitals of the history of the Covenant Chain as a powerful communicative mechanism to define and assert sovereign identity and rights in the context of intercultural diplomacy. It reflects initially on the metaph... Read More about Narrating Sovereignty: The Covenant Chain in Intercultural Diplomacy.

Interactions between taste receptors and the gastrointestinal microbiome in inflammatory bowel disease (2019)
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Turner, A., Chijoff, E., Veysey, M., Keely, S., Scarlett, C. J., Lucock, M., & Beckett, E. L. (2019). Interactions between taste receptors and the gastrointestinal microbiome in inflammatory bowel disease. Journal of Nutrition and Intermediary Metabolism, 18, 100106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnim.2019.100106

Incidence rates of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are increasing worldwide. This correlates with increased consumption of red meats, alcohol, refined sugars, oils and animal fats, typical of a “Western” diet. Poor dietary habits are the most ubiqui... Read More about Interactions between taste receptors and the gastrointestinal microbiome in inflammatory bowel disease.

Beyond Settler Colonialism: State Sovereignty in Early America (2019)
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Prior, C. (2019). Beyond Settler Colonialism: State Sovereignty in Early America. Journal of early American history, 9(2-3), 93-117. https://doi.org/10.1163/18770703-00902013

This paper offers a critical reflection on the appropriateness of ‘settler colonialism’ as an analytic category for understanding the political dynamics of early America. It argues that the paradigm’s focus on the elimination of the native obscures t... Read More about Beyond Settler Colonialism: State Sovereignty in Early America.

Ageing bone fractures: The case of a ductile to brittle transition that shifts with age (2019)
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Zioupos, P., Kirchner, H. O., & Peterlik, H. (2020). Ageing bone fractures: The case of a ductile to brittle transition that shifts with age. Bone, 131, Article 115176. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bone.2019.115176

Human bone becomes increasingly brittle with ageing. Bones also fracture differently under slow and fast loadings, being ductile and brittle, respectively. The effects of a combination of these two factors have never been examined before. Here we sho... Read More about Ageing bone fractures: The case of a ductile to brittle transition that shifts with age.

Evaluation of bone excision effects on a human skull model—II: Finite element analysis (2019)
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Franceskides, C., Gibson, M., & Zioupos, P. (2020). Evaluation of bone excision effects on a human skull model—II: Finite element analysis. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine, 234(4), 346-355. https://doi.org/10.1177/0954411919892799

Patient-specific computational models are powerful tools which may assist in predicting the outcome of invasive surgery on the musculoskeletal system, and consequently help to improve therapeutic decision-making and post-operative care. Unfortunately... Read More about Evaluation of bone excision effects on a human skull model—II: Finite element analysis.

Clinical quantification of the integrin αvβ6 by [18F]FB-A20FMDV2 positron emission tomography in healthy and fibrotic human lung (PETAL Study) (2019)
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Lukey, P. T., Coello, C., Gunn, R., Parker, C., Wilson, F. J., Saleem, A., …Marshall, R. P. (2020). Clinical quantification of the integrin αvβ6 by [18F]FB-A20FMDV2 positron emission tomography in healthy and fibrotic human lung (PETAL Study). European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging, 47(4), 967-979. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-019-04586-z

© 2019, The Author(s). Purpose: The RGD-integrin, αvβ6, plays a role in the pathogenesis of pulmonary fibrosis through activation of transforming growth factor beta (TGFβ). This study sought to quantify expression of αvβ6 in the lungs of healthy huma... Read More about Clinical quantification of the integrin αvβ6 by [18F]FB-A20FMDV2 positron emission tomography in healthy and fibrotic human lung (PETAL Study).

Social media effect, investor recognition and the cross-section of stock returns (2019)
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Meng, X., Zhang, W., Li, Y., Cao, X., & Feng, X. (2020). Social media effect, investor recognition and the cross-section of stock returns. International review of financial analysis, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2019.101432

Investor recognition affects cross-sectional stock returns. In informationally incomplete markets, investors have limited recognition of all securities, and their holding of stocks with low recognition requires compensation for being imperfectly dive... Read More about Social media effect, investor recognition and the cross-section of stock returns.

Uncertainty, shame and consumption: negotiating occupational and non-work identities in community sports coaching (2019)
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Ives, B. A., Gale, L. A., Potrac, P. A., & Nelson, L. J. (2019). Uncertainty, shame and consumption: negotiating occupational and non-work identities in community sports coaching. Sport, Education and Society, 26(1), 87-103. https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2019.1699522

This paper addressed the lived experiences of two community sports coaches in an era of neoliberal capitalism, consumerism, and insecure employment. Specifically, we considered (a) their attempts to develop a desired occupational identity in a casual... Read More about Uncertainty, shame and consumption: negotiating occupational and non-work identities in community sports coaching.

Semantic interpretability does not influence masked priming effects (2019)
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Tseng, H., Lindsay, S., & Davis, C. J. (2020). Semantic interpretability does not influence masked priming effects. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 73(6), 856-867. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021819896766

Much of the recent masked nonword priming literature demonstrates no difference in priming between affixed and non-affixed nonword primes (e.g., maskity-MASK vs. maskond-MASK). A possible explanation for the absence of a difference is that studies ha... Read More about Semantic interpretability does not influence masked priming effects.

Scale effect on electrical characteristics of CPC-PV (2019)
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Li, G., Lu, Y., Shittu, S., & Zhao, X. (2020). Scale effect on electrical characteristics of CPC-PV. Energy, 192, Article 116726. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2019.116726

Recently, the flux distribution and Photovoltaic (PV) structure optimization have been paid more attention in the design of concentrating Photovoltaic (CPV) by several researchers while the scale factor is sometimes decided by the processing technolo... Read More about Scale effect on electrical characteristics of CPC-PV.

Evaluation of bone excision effects on a human skull model – I: Mechanical testing and digital image correlation (2019)
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Franceskides, C., Leger, T., Horsfall, I., Tozzi, G., Gibson, M., & Zioupos, P. (2020). Evaluation of bone excision effects on a human skull model – I: Mechanical testing and digital image correlation. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine, 234(4), 337-345. https://doi.org/10.1177/0954411919891885

The mechanisms of skull impact loading may change following surgical interventions such as the removal of bone lesions, but little is known about the consequences in the event of subsequent head trauma. We, therefore, prepared acrylonitrile butadiene... Read More about Evaluation of bone excision effects on a human skull model – I: Mechanical testing and digital image correlation.

Micronutrients and bioactive compounds in oral inflammatory diseases (2019)
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Kaur, K., Sculley, D., Wallace, J., Turner, A., Ferraris, C., Veysey, M., …Beckett, E. L. (2019). Micronutrients and bioactive compounds in oral inflammatory diseases. Journal of Nutrition and Intermediary Metabolism, 18, Article 100105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnim.2019.100105

Oral disorders are a significant public health concern. Oral inflammatory diseases are periodontal infections, oral mucosal lesions, pulpal and periapical lesions. The aetiology is multi-factorial and usually associated with a microbial origin, often... Read More about Micronutrients and bioactive compounds in oral inflammatory diseases.

Macroscopic chirality of twist-bend nematic phase in bent dimers confirmed by circular dichroism (2019)
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Stevenson, W. D., Zeng, X., Welch, C., Thakur, A. K., Ungar, G., & Mehl, G. H. (2020). Macroscopic chirality of twist-bend nematic phase in bent dimers confirmed by circular dichroism. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 8(3), 1041-1047. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9tc05061b

Many achiral bent molecules and some polymers with such repeat units exhibit a liquid crystal phase transition between a conventional nematic (N), and a second nematic (Nx) with periodically modulated orientation. Theory predicts several possible str... Read More about Macroscopic chirality of twist-bend nematic phase in bent dimers confirmed by circular dichroism.

Epidemiological pathology of Aβ deposition in the ageing brain in CFAS: addition of multiple Aβ-derived measures does not improve dementia assessment using logistic regression and machine learning approaches (2019)
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Wharton, S. B., Wang, D., Parikh, C., Matthews, F. E., Brayne, C., & Ince, P. G. (2019). Epidemiological pathology of Aβ deposition in the ageing brain in CFAS: addition of multiple Aβ-derived measures does not improve dementia assessment using logistic regression and machine learning approaches. Acta Neuropathologica Communications, 7(1), 198. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40478-019-0858-4

Aβ-amyloid deposition is a key feature of Alzheimer's disease, but Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease (CERAD) assessment, based on neuritic plaque density, shows a limited relationships to dementia. Thal phase is based on a ne... Read More about Epidemiological pathology of Aβ deposition in the ageing brain in CFAS: addition of multiple Aβ-derived measures does not improve dementia assessment using logistic regression and machine learning approaches.

Traumatic Brain Injury with Personality Change: a Challenge to Mental Capacity Law in England and Wales (2019)
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Whiting, D. (2020). Traumatic Brain Injury with Personality Change: a Challenge to Mental Capacity Law in England and Wales. Psychological Injury and Law, 13(1), 11-18. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12207-019-09366-6

It is well documented that people with moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) can undergo personality changes, including becoming more impulsive in terms of how they behave. Legal guidance and academic commentary support the view that impuls... Read More about Traumatic Brain Injury with Personality Change: a Challenge to Mental Capacity Law in England and Wales.

Intraday time-series momentum: Evidence from China (2019)
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Jin, M., Kearney, F., Li, Y., & Yang, Y. C. (in press). Intraday time-series momentum: Evidence from China. Journal of Futures Markets, https://doi.org/10.1002/fut.22084

This study conducts an investigation of intraday time‐series momentum across four Chinese commodity futures contracts: copper, steel, soybean, and soybean meal. Our results indicate that the first half‐hour return positively predicts the last half‐ho... Read More about Intraday time-series momentum: Evidence from China.