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The potential role of incretin-based therapies for polycystic ovary syndrome: a narrative review of the current evidence (2021)
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Abdalla, M. A., Deshmukh, H., Atkin, S., & Sathyapalan, T. (2021). The potential role of incretin-based therapies for polycystic ovary syndrome: a narrative review of the current evidence. Therapeutic Advances in Endocrinology and Metabolism, 12, https://doi.org/10.1177/2042018821989238

© The Author(s), 2021. Introduction: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a common endocrine disorder that affects women of reproductive age. Metabolic consequences associated with PCOS include, but are not limited to, insulin resistance (IR), type 2... Read More about The potential role of incretin-based therapies for polycystic ovary syndrome: a narrative review of the current evidence.

Manipulating Surface Termination of Perovskite Manganate for Oxygen Activation (2021)
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Wang, X., Li, X., Chu, X., Cao, R., Qian, J., Cong, Y., …Feng, S. (in press). Manipulating Surface Termination of Perovskite Manganate for Oxygen Activation. Advanced Functional Materials, Article 2006439. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202006439

For ABO3 perovskite oxides, one of the key issues limiting their utilization in heterogeneous catalysis is the dominant presence of catalytically inactive A‐site cations at the surface. The engineering of B‐site terminated perovskites is considered a... Read More about Manipulating Surface Termination of Perovskite Manganate for Oxygen Activation.

Erratum: Tuning the Electrical and Solar Thermal Heating Efficiencies of Nanocarbon Aerogels (Chem. Mater. (2021) 33: 1 (392-402) DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c04166) (2021)
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Xia, D., Xu, Y., Mannering, J., Ma, X., Ismail, M. S., Borman, D., …Menzel, R. (2021). Erratum: Tuning the Electrical and Solar Thermal Heating Efficiencies of Nanocarbon Aerogels (Chem. Mater. (2021) 33: 1 (392-402) DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c04166). Chemistry of materials : a publication of the American Chemical Society, 33(3), 1082. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.1c00026

We noticed that the Marie Curie Individual Fellowship of Dr. Xu (H2020-MSAC-IF-2019-885795-PolyTEM) was inappropriately acknowledged in the manuscript, as this funding source is not relevant to this study. All authors of this manuscript agree with st... Read More about Erratum: Tuning the Electrical and Solar Thermal Heating Efficiencies of Nanocarbon Aerogels (Chem. Mater. (2021) 33: 1 (392-402) DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c04166).

Author response to: Comment on: Patterns of acute surgical inflammatory processes presentation of in the COVID-19 outbreak (PIACO Study): surgery may be the best treatment option (2021)
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Guadalajara, H., Muñoz de Nova, J. L., Fernandez Gonzalez, S., Yiasemidou, M., Recarte Rico, M., Juez, L. D., …PIACO Collaboration Group. (2021). Author response to: Comment on: Patterns of acute surgical inflammatory processes presentation of in the COVID-19 outbreak (PIACO Study): surgery may be the best treatment option. British journal of surgery, 108(1), e42-e43. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjs/znaa022

Co-polymerization of propylene oxide and CO2 using early transition metal (groups IV and V) metallocalix[n]arenes (n = 4, 6, 8) (2021)
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Sun, Y. C., He, Z. H., Wang, Z. Y., Xing, T., Wang, Z., Sun, Y., …Redshaw, C. (in press). Co-polymerization of propylene oxide and CO2 using early transition metal (groups IV and V) metallocalix[n]arenes (n = 4, 6, 8). Journal of Applied Polymer Science, Article 50513. https://doi.org/10.1002/app.50513

A number of metallocalix[n]arenes, where n = 4, 6, or 8, of titanium and vanadium have been screened for their ability to act as catalysts for the co‐polymerization of propylene oxide and CO2 to form cyclic/polycarbonates. The vanadium‐containing cat... Read More about Co-polymerization of propylene oxide and CO2 using early transition metal (groups IV and V) metallocalix[n]arenes (n = 4, 6, 8).

Informal mhealth at scale in Africa : opportunities and challenges (2021)
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Hampshire, K., Mwase-Vuma, T., Alemu, K., Abane, A., Munthali, A., Awoke, T., …Kasim, A. S. (2021). Informal mhealth at scale in Africa : opportunities and challenges. World Development, 140, Article 105257. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105257

© 2020 The extraordinary global growth of digital connectivity has generated optimism that mobile technologies can help overcome infrastructural barriers to development, with ‘mobile health’ (mhealth) being a key component of this. However, while ‘fo... Read More about Informal mhealth at scale in Africa : opportunities and challenges.

Role of element-specific damping in ultrafast, helicity-independent, all-optical switching dynamics in amorphous (Gd,Tb)Co thin films (2021)
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Ceballos, A., Pattabi, A., El-Ghazaly, A., Ruta, S., Simon, C. P., Evans, R. F., …Hellman, F. (2021). Role of element-specific damping in ultrafast, helicity-independent, all-optical switching dynamics in amorphous (Gd,Tb)Co thin films. Physical Review B, 103(2), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.103.024438

Ultrafast control of the magnetization in ps timescales by fs laser pulses offers an attractive avenue for applications such as fast magnetic devices for logic and memory. However, ultrafast helicity-independent all-optical switching (HI-AOS) of the... Read More about Role of element-specific damping in ultrafast, helicity-independent, all-optical switching dynamics in amorphous (Gd,Tb)Co thin films.

‘When I asked for help and support it was not there’: current NHS employment practice and its impact on people with systemic lupus erythematosus (2021)
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Booth, S., Price, E., & Walker, E. (2021). ‘When I asked for help and support it was not there’: current NHS employment practice and its impact on people with systemic lupus erythematosus. Rheumatology Advances in Practice, 5(1), Article rkab019. https://doi.org/10.1093/rap/rkab019

Objectives The aim was to investigate whether National Health Service (NHS) employees with SLE, for whom work disability and early retirement are high, are supported effectively in at work. Methods An online survey of 393 people with lupus was com... Read More about ‘When I asked for help and support it was not there’: current NHS employment practice and its impact on people with systemic lupus erythematosus.

Training future generations to deliver evidence-based conservation and ecosystem management (2021)
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Downey, H., Amano, T., Benítez-López, A., Cadotte, M., Cook, C. N., Cooke, S. J., …Sutherland, W. J. (2021). Training future generations to deliver evidence-based conservation and ecosystem management. Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 2(1), Article e12032. https://doi.org/10.1002/2688-8319.12032

1. To be effective, the next generation of conservation practitioners and managers need to be critical thinkers with a deep understanding of how to make evidence-based decisions and of the value of evidence synthesis. 2. If, as educators, we do not m... Read More about Training future generations to deliver evidence-based conservation and ecosystem management.

Formalising ‘informal’ mHealth in Ghana: Opportunities and challenges for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) (2021)
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Mariwah, S., Machistey Abane, A., Asiedu Owusu, S., Kasim, A., Robson, E., Castelli, M., & Hampshire, K. (in press). Formalising ‘informal’ mHealth in Ghana: Opportunities and challenges for Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Global Public Health, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2021.1874467

While mobile phones promise to be an important tool for bridging the healthcare gaps in resource-poor areas in developing countries, scalability and sustainability of mobile phones for health (mhealth) interventions still remain a major challenge. Me... Read More about Formalising ‘informal’ mHealth in Ghana: Opportunities and challenges for Universal Health Coverage (UHC).

CEO Overconfidence and the Probability of Corporate Failure: Evidence from the United Kingdom (2021)
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Leng, J., Ozkan, A., Ozkan, N., & Trzeciakiewicz, A. (in press). CEO Overconfidence and the Probability of Corporate Failure: Evidence from the United Kingdom. The European journal of finance, https://doi.org/10.1080/1351847X.2021.1876131

This paper investigates the impact of CEO overconfidence on the probability of corporate bankruptcy. Using a large dataset of UK firms, we find that firms with overconfident CEOs face a greater risk of failure. The presence of overconfident CEOs lead... Read More about CEO Overconfidence and the Probability of Corporate Failure: Evidence from the United Kingdom.

Perceived and objective availability of green and blue spaces and quality of life in people with dementia: results from the IDEAL programme (2021)
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Wu, Y. T., Clare, L., Jones, I. R., Nelis, S. M., Quinn, C., Martyr, A., …Matthews, F. E. (2021). Perceived and objective availability of green and blue spaces and quality of life in people with dementia: results from the IDEAL programme. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 56(9), 1601-1610. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-021-02030-y

Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the associations between quality of life and both perceived and objective availability of local green and blue spaces in people with dementia, including potential variation across rural/urban settings... Read More about Perceived and objective availability of green and blue spaces and quality of life in people with dementia: results from the IDEAL programme.

Supported progressive resistance exercise training to counter the adverse side effects of robot-assisted radical prostatectomy: a randomised controlled trial (2021)
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Ashton, R. E., Aning, J. J., Tew, G. A., Robson, W. A., & Saxton, J. M. (2021). Supported progressive resistance exercise training to counter the adverse side effects of robot-assisted radical prostatectomy: a randomised controlled trial. Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer, 29(8), 4595-4605. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-021-06002-5

Purpose: To investigate the effects of a supported home-based progressive resistance exercise training (RET) programme on indices of cardiovascular health, muscular strength and health-related quality of life (HR-QoL) in prostate cancer (PCa) patient... Read More about Supported progressive resistance exercise training to counter the adverse side effects of robot-assisted radical prostatectomy: a randomised controlled trial.

Overcoming Current Challenges for Circular Economy Assessment Implementation in Public Sector Organisations (2021)
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Droege, H., Raggi, A., & Ramos, T. B. (2021). Overcoming Current Challenges for Circular Economy Assessment Implementation in Public Sector Organisations. Sustainability, 13(3), Article 1182. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13031182

Circular Economy (CE) is seen as a key strategy in achieving sustainable development and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). To seize the potential of CE, public and private organisations need to evaluate and communicate their pr... Read More about Overcoming Current Challenges for Circular Economy Assessment Implementation in Public Sector Organisations.

Age related changes of rib cortical bone matrix and the application to forensic age-at-death estimation (2021)
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Bonicelli, A., Zioupos, P., Arnold, E., Rogers, K. D., Xhemali, B., & Kranioti, E. F. (2021). Age related changes of rib cortical bone matrix and the application to forensic age-at-death estimation. Scientific reports, 11(1), Article 2086. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-81342-0

Forensic anthropology includes, amongst other applications, the positive identification of unknown human skeletal remains. The first step in this process is an assessment of the biological profile, that is: sex, age, stature and ancestry. In forensic... Read More about Age related changes of rib cortical bone matrix and the application to forensic age-at-death estimation.

KiDS-1000 cosmology: Cosmic shear constraints and comparison between two point statistics (2021)
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Asgari, M., Lin, C. A., Joachimi, B., Giblin, B., Heymans, C., Hildebrandt, H., …Valentijn, E. (2021). KiDS-1000 cosmology: Cosmic shear constraints and comparison between two point statistics. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 645, Article A104. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202039070

We present cosmological constraints from a cosmic shear analysis of the fourth data release of the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS-1000), which doubles the survey area with nine-band optical and near-infrared photometry with respect to previous KiDS analyse... Read More about KiDS-1000 cosmology: Cosmic shear constraints and comparison between two point statistics.

Distributed Fault-Tolerant Consensus Tracking Control of Multi-Agent Systems under Fixed and Switching Topologies (2021)
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Patton, R. J., Liu, C., Jiang, B., & Zhang, K. (2021). Distributed Fault-Tolerant Consensus Tracking Control of Multi-Agent Systems under Fixed and Switching Topologies. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, 68(4), 1646-1658. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSI.2021.3049347

This paper proposes a novel distributed fault-tolerant consensus tracking control design for multi-agent systems with abrupt and incipient actuator faults under fixed and switching topologies. The fault and state information of each individual agent... Read More about Distributed Fault-Tolerant Consensus Tracking Control of Multi-Agent Systems under Fixed and Switching Topologies.

Brief interventions to prevent excessive alcohol use in adolescents at low-risk presenting to Emergency Departments: Three-arm, randomised trial of effectiveness and cost-effectiveness (2021)
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Deluca, P., Coulton, S., Alam, M. F., Boniface, S., Cohen, D., Donoghue, K., …Drummond, C. (in press). Brief interventions to prevent excessive alcohol use in adolescents at low-risk presenting to Emergency Departments: Three-arm, randomised trial of effectiveness and cost-effectiveness. International Journal of Drug Policy, Article 103113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2021.103113

© 2021 Background: Alcohol consumption and related harm increase rapidly from the age of 12 years. We evaluated whether alcohol screening and brief intervention is effective and cost-effective in delaying hazardous or harmful drinking amongst low-ris... Read More about Brief interventions to prevent excessive alcohol use in adolescents at low-risk presenting to Emergency Departments: Three-arm, randomised trial of effectiveness and cost-effectiveness.

3D phase field modeling of multi-dendrites evolution in solidification and validation by synchrotron x-ray tomography (2021)
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Wang, S., Guo, Z., Kang, J., Zou, M., Li, X., Zhang, A., …Mi, J. (2021). 3D phase field modeling of multi-dendrites evolution in solidification and validation by synchrotron x-ray tomography. Materials, 14(3), Article 520. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma14030520

© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. In this paper, the dynamics of multi-dendrite concurrent growth and coarsening of an Al-15 wt.% Cu alloy was studied using a highly computationally efficient 3D phase field model and real-time... Read More about 3D phase field modeling of multi-dendrites evolution in solidification and validation by synchrotron x-ray tomography.