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Moral injury in healthcare professionals: A scoping review and discussion (2021)
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Čartolovni, A., Stolt, M., Scott, P. A., & Suhonen, R. (in press). Moral injury in healthcare professionals: A scoping review and discussion. Nursing Ethics, https://doi.org/10.1177/0969733020966776

Moral injury emerged in the healthcare discussion quite recently because of the difficulties and challenges healthcare workers and healthcare systems face in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Moral injury involves a deep emotional wound and is un... Read More about Moral injury in healthcare professionals: A scoping review and discussion.

Healthy ageing for all? Comparisons of socioeconomic inequalities in health expectancies over two decades in the Cognitive Function and Ageing Studies I and II (2021)
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Bennett, H. Q., Kingston, A., Spiers, G., Robinson, L., Corner, L., Bambra, C., …Jagger, C. (2021). Healthy ageing for all? Comparisons of socioeconomic inequalities in health expectancies over two decades in the Cognitive Function and Ageing Studies I and II. International Journal of Epidemiology, 50(3), 841-851. https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyaa271

Background: Despite increasing life expectancy (LE), cross-sectional data show widening inequalities in disability-free LE (DFLE) by socioeconomic status (SES) in many countries. We use longitudinal data to better understand trends in DFLE and years... Read More about Healthy ageing for all? Comparisons of socioeconomic inequalities in health expectancies over two decades in the Cognitive Function and Ageing Studies I and II.

A World on His Shoulders: Nat Cohen, Anglo-EMI and the British Film Industry (2021)
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Mayne, L. (2021). A World on His Shoulders: Nat Cohen, Anglo-EMI and the British Film Industry. Journal of British cinema and television, 18(1), 34-49. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2021.0554

Despite being one of the most significant players in the British film industry of the 1960s and 1970s, Nat Cohen remains a curiously neglected figure in histories of that era. At Anglo-Amalgamated he oversaw a varied slate of productions, from B-movi... Read More about A World on His Shoulders: Nat Cohen, Anglo-EMI and the British Film Industry.

Online child sexual exploitation: a new MIS challenge (2021)
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Demetis, D. S., & Kietzmann, J. (2021). Online child sexual exploitation: a new MIS challenge. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 22(1), 5-40. https://doi.org/10.17705/1jais.00652

© 2021, Association for Information Systems. All rights reserved. This paper deals with the difficult yet increasingly important MIS phenomenon of online child sexual exploitation (online CSE). Through the use of secondary and publicly available data... Read More about Online child sexual exploitation: a new MIS challenge.

Dopamine induces functional extracellular traps in microglia (2021)
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Agrawal, I., Sharma, N., Saxena, S., Arvind, S., Chakraborty, D., Chakraborty, D. B., …Jha, S. (2021). Dopamine induces functional extracellular traps in microglia. iScience, 24(1), Article 101968. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2020.101968

Dopamine (DA) plays many roles in the brain, especially in movement, motivation, and reinforcement of behavior; however, its role in regulating innate immunity is not clear. Here, we show that DA can induce DNA-based extracellular traps in primary, a... Read More about Dopamine induces functional extracellular traps in microglia.

Type 2 diabetes mellitus-associated transcriptome alterations in cortical neurones and associated neurovascular unit cells in the ageing brain (2021)
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Bury, J. J., Chambers, A., Heath, P. R., Ince, P. G., Shaw, P. J., Matthews, F. E., …Wharton, S. B. (2021). Type 2 diabetes mellitus-associated transcriptome alterations in cortical neurones and associated neurovascular unit cells in the ageing brain. Acta Neuropathologica Communications, 9(1), Article 5. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40478-020-01109-y

Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D), characterised by peripheral insulin resistance, is a risk factor for dementia. In addition to its contribution to small and large vessel disease, T2D may directly damage cells of the brain neurovascular unit. In this s... Read More about Type 2 diabetes mellitus-associated transcriptome alterations in cortical neurones and associated neurovascular unit cells in the ageing brain.

Arginine methylation: the promise of a ‘silver bullet’ for brain tumours? (2021)
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Samuel, S. F., Barry, A., Greenman, J., & Beltran-Alvarez, P. (2021). Arginine methylation: the promise of a ‘silver bullet’ for brain tumours?. Amino acids, 53(4), 489-506. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00726-020-02937-x

Despite intense research efforts, our pharmaceutical repertoire against high-grade brain tumours has not been able to increase patient survival for a decade and life expectancy remains at less than 16months after diagnosis, on average. Inhibitors of... Read More about Arginine methylation: the promise of a ‘silver bullet’ for brain tumours?.

Smart windows – Transmittance tuned thermochromic coatings for dynamic control of building performance (2021)
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Aburas, M., Ebendorff-Heidepriem, H., Lei, L., Li, M., Zhao, J., Williamson, T., …Soebarto, V. (2021). Smart windows – Transmittance tuned thermochromic coatings for dynamic control of building performance. Energy and Buildings, 235, Article 110717. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2021.110717

Thermochromic window technologies promise energy-saving capabilities through intelligent regulation of solar irradiation indoor penetration. Although improvements have been made, nanoparticle thermochromic coated glazing technology has not yet achiev... Read More about Smart windows – Transmittance tuned thermochromic coatings for dynamic control of building performance.

A divide-and-conquer approach to neural natural language generation from structured data (2021)
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Dethlefs, N., Schoene, A., & Cuayáhuitl, H. (2021). A divide-and-conquer approach to neural natural language generation from structured data. Neurocomputing, 433, 300-309. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2020.12.083

Current approaches that generate text from linked data for complex real-world domains can face problems including rich and sparse vocabularies as well as learning from examples of long varied sequences. In this article, we propose a novel divide-and-... Read More about A divide-and-conquer approach to neural natural language generation from structured data.

Direct contact membrane distillation: A sensitivity analysis and an outlook on membrane effective thermal conductivity (2021)
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Ismail, M. S., Mohamed, A. M., Poggio, D., & Pourkashanian, M. (2021). Direct contact membrane distillation: A sensitivity analysis and an outlook on membrane effective thermal conductivity. Journal of membrane science, 624, Article 119035. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2020.119035

A rigorous and high-fidelity two-dimensional numerical model for a direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD) module has been developed. The developed model incorporates all the key physics governing the transport phenomena taking place within the m... Read More about Direct contact membrane distillation: A sensitivity analysis and an outlook on membrane effective thermal conductivity.

Community Occupational Therapy for people with dementia and family carers (COTiD-UK) versus treatment as usual (Valuing Active Life in Dementia [VALID]) study: A single-blind, randomised controlled trial (2021)
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Wenborn, J., O’Keeffe, A. G., Mountain, G., Moniz-Cook, E., King, M., Omar, R. Z., …Orrell, M. (2021). Community Occupational Therapy for people with dementia and family carers (COTiD-UK) versus treatment as usual (Valuing Active Life in Dementia [VALID]) study: A single-blind, randomised controlled trial. PLoS Medicine, 18(1), Article e1003433. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003433

© 2021 Wenborn et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are cr... Read More about Community Occupational Therapy for people with dementia and family carers (COTiD-UK) versus treatment as usual (Valuing Active Life in Dementia [VALID]) study: A single-blind, randomised controlled trial.

Equilibrating ripple effect, disturbing information cascade effect and regional disparity – A perspective from China's tiered housing markets (2021)
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Xiao, Q. (2023). Equilibrating ripple effect, disturbing information cascade effect and regional disparity – A perspective from China's tiered housing markets. International journal of finance & economics : IJFE, 28(1), 858-875. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijfe.2453

The current study investigates the role of the tier-one cities of China in affecting regional disparities within and across its five mega-city clusters, through the lens of housing market. For that purpose, an equilibrating ripple effect is different... Read More about Equilibrating ripple effect, disturbing information cascade effect and regional disparity – A perspective from China's tiered housing markets.

Order book price impact in the Chinese soybean futures market (2021)
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Jin, M., Kearney, F., Li, Y., & Yang, Y. C. (in press). Order book price impact in the Chinese soybean futures market. International journal of finance & economics : IJFE, https://doi.org/10.1002/ijfe.2439

We study the price impact of order flow in the world's largest soybean meal futures markets. Our intraday results indicate that incoming orders can be used to explain and predict future price changes. Our results are shown to be robust to various ord... Read More about Order book price impact in the Chinese soybean futures market.

Sustainable product development in a circular economy: Implications for products, actors, decision-making support and lifecycle information management (2021)
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Diaz, A., Schöggl, J., Reyes, T., & Baumgartner, R. J. (2021). Sustainable product development in a circular economy: Implications for products, actors, decision-making support and lifecycle information management. Sustainable Production and Consumption, 26, 1031-1045. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spc.2020.12.044

The concept of circular economy (CE) is of great interest for manufacturing companies since it provides a framework which allows them to align organisational objectives with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Corporate CE entails the adoption... Read More about Sustainable product development in a circular economy: Implications for products, actors, decision-making support and lifecycle information management.

A call to evaluate Plastic's impacts on marine benthic ecosystem interaction networks (2021)
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Ladewig, S. M., Bianchi, T. S., Coco, G., Hope, J. A., & Thrush, S. F. (2021). A call to evaluate Plastic's impacts on marine benthic ecosystem interaction networks. Environmental pollution, 273, Article 116423. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2021.116423

Plastic pollution continues to seep into natural and pristine habitats. Emerging laboratory-based research has evoked concern regarding plastic’s impact on ecosystem structure and function, the essence of the ecosystem services that supports our life... Read More about A call to evaluate Plastic's impacts on marine benthic ecosystem interaction networks.

Deathly triangle for pancreatic β-cells: Hippo pathway-MTORC1-autophagy (2021)
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Ardestani, A., & Maedler, K. (2021). Deathly triangle for pancreatic β-cells: Hippo pathway-MTORC1-autophagy. Autophagy, 17(12), 4494-4496. https://doi.org/10.1080/15548627.2021.1972404

A progressive decline in the macroautophagic/autophagic flux is a hallmark of pancreatic β-cell failure in type 2 diabetes (T2D) but the responsible intrinsic factors and underlying molecular mechanisms are incompletely understood. A stress-sensitive... Read More about Deathly triangle for pancreatic β-cells: Hippo pathway-MTORC1-autophagy.

Breast cancer chemotherapy vascular toxicity: a review of mediating mechanisms and exercise as a potential therapeutic (2021)
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Mclaughlin, M., Florida-James, G., & Ross, M. (2021). Breast cancer chemotherapy vascular toxicity: a review of mediating mechanisms and exercise as a potential therapeutic. Vascular Biology, 3(1), R106-R120. https://doi.org/10.1530/vb-21-0013

Breast cancer chemotherapy, although very potent against tumour tissue, results in significant cardiovascular toxicity. The focus of research in this area has been predominantly towards cardiotoxicity. There is limited evidence detailing the impact o... Read More about Breast cancer chemotherapy vascular toxicity: a review of mediating mechanisms and exercise as a potential therapeutic.

Finding the most navigable path in road networks (2021)
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Kaur, R., Goyal, V., & Gunturi, V. M. (2021). Finding the most navigable path in road networks. GeoInformatica, 25(1), 207-240. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10707-020-00428-5

Input to the Most Navigable Path (MNP) problem consists of the following: (a) a road network represented as a directed graph, where each edge is associated with numeric attributes of cost and “navigability score” values; (b) a source and a destinatio... Read More about Finding the most navigable path in road networks.