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Tetraazamacrocyclic derivatives and their metal complexes as antileishmanial leads (2019)
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Hubin, T. J., Walker, A. N., Davilla, D. J., Carder Freeman, T. R. N., Epley, B. M., Hasley, T. R., Amoyaw, P. N., Jain, S., Archibald, S. J., Prior, T. J., Krause, J. A., Oliver, A. G., Tekwani, B. L., & Khan, M. O. F. (2019). Tetraazamacrocyclic derivatives and their metal complexes as antileishmanial leads. Polyhedron, 163, 42-53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poly.2019.02.027

© 2019 A total of 44 bis-aryl-monocyclic polyamines, monoaryl-monocyclic polyamines and their transition metal complexes were prepared, chemically characterized, and screened in vitro against the Leishmania donovani promastigotes, axenic amastigotes... Read More about Tetraazamacrocyclic derivatives and their metal complexes as antileishmanial leads.

The hand-held fan and the Calming Hand for people with chronic breathlessness: a feasibility trial (2019)
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Swan, F., English, A., Allgar, V., Hart, S. P., & Johnson, M. J. (2019). The hand-held fan and the Calming Hand for people with chronic breathlessness: a feasibility trial. Journal of pain and symptom management, 57(6), 1051-1061.e1. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2019.02.017

Context: The battery-operated hand-held fan (“fan”)and the Calming Hand (CH), a cognitive strategy, are interventions used in clinical practice to relieve chronic breathlessness. Objective: To test the feasibility of a Phase III randomized controlled... Read More about The hand-held fan and the Calming Hand for people with chronic breathlessness: a feasibility trial.

The structure and entrainment characteristics of partially-confined gravity currents (2019)
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Kelly, R. W., Dorrell, R. M., Burns, A. D., & McCaffrey, W. D. (2019). The structure and entrainment characteristics of partially-confined gravity currents. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 124(3), 2110-2125. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JC014042

Seafloor channels are the main conduit for turbidity currents transporting sediment to the deep ocean and they can extend for thousands of kilometres along the ocean floor. Although it is common for channel‐traversing turbidity currents to spill onto... Read More about The structure and entrainment characteristics of partially-confined gravity currents.

Berry-Esseen bounds in the inhomogeneous Curie-Weiss model with external field (2019)
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Dommers, S., & Eichelsbacher, P. (in press). Berry-Esseen bounds in the inhomogeneous Curie-Weiss model with external field. Stochastic processes and their applications, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spa.2019.02.007

We study the inhomogeneous Curie-Weiss model with external field, where the inhomo-geneity is introduced by adding a positive weight to every vertex and letting the interaction strength between two vertices be proportional to the product of their wei... Read More about Berry-Esseen bounds in the inhomogeneous Curie-Weiss model with external field.

Risk assessment in public contracts (2019)
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Bloomfield, K. (2019). Risk assessment in public contracts. European Procurement and Public Private Partnership Law Review, 14(1), 7-15. https://doi.org/10.21552/epppl/2019/1/4

This article aims to introduce a novel approach to risk assessment in public service commissioning contracts, through the lens of the UK’s defence sector. It begins by providing a concise background to the contemporary service commissioning tools and... Read More about Risk assessment in public contracts.

The classification of minor gait alterations using wearable sensors and deep learning (2019)
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Turner, A., & Hayes, S. (2019). The classification of minor gait alterations using wearable sensors and deep learning. IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering / Bio-medical Engineering Group, 66(11), 3136-3145. https://doi.org/10.1109/TBME.2019.2900863

Objective: This paper describes how non-invasive wearable sensors can be used in combination with deep learning to classify artificially induced gait alterations without the requirement for a medical professional or gait analyst to be present. This a... Read More about The classification of minor gait alterations using wearable sensors and deep learning.

Recovery of benthic communities following the Toarcian oceanic anoxic event in the Cleveland Basin, UK (2019)
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Caswell, B. A., & Dawn, S. J. (2019). Recovery of benthic communities following the Toarcian oceanic anoxic event in the Cleveland Basin, UK. Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology, 521, 114-126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.02.014

During the Toarcian oceanic anoxic event (OAE) considerable environmental changes occurred that were associated with global warming, perturbations to the C-cycle and ocean deoxygenation which resulted in a mass extinction of marine fauna. Recovery of... Read More about Recovery of benthic communities following the Toarcian oceanic anoxic event in the Cleveland Basin, UK.

Survey of registered nurses’ selection of compression systems for the treatment of venous leg ulcers in the UK (2019)
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Oates, A., & Adderley, U. (2019). Survey of registered nurses’ selection of compression systems for the treatment of venous leg ulcers in the UK. Journal of tissue viability, 28(2), 115-119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtv.2019.02.004

Background: Venous leg ulceration is common in older adults in the United Kingdom. The gold-standard treatment is compression therapy. There are several compression bandage and hosiery systems that can be prescribed or purchased, but it was unclear w... Read More about Survey of registered nurses’ selection of compression systems for the treatment of venous leg ulcers in the UK.

Recent developments on catalytic membrane for gas cleaning (2019)
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Chen, J., Zhong, Z., Xia, Y., Ke, X., & Xing, W. (2019). Recent developments on catalytic membrane for gas cleaning. Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering, 27(6), 1391-1402. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cjche.2019.02.001

© 2019 Elsevier B.V. Catalytic membrane, a novel membrane separation technology that combines catalysis and separation, exhibits significant potential in gas purification such as formaldehyde, toluene and nitrogen oxides (NOx). The catalytic membrane... Read More about Recent developments on catalytic membrane for gas cleaning.

Data reduction analyses of animal behaviour: avoiding Kaiser's criterion and adopting more robust automated methods (2019)
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Morton, F. B., & Altschul, D. (2019). Data reduction analyses of animal behaviour: avoiding Kaiser's criterion and adopting more robust automated methods. Animal behaviour, 149, 89-95. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.01.003

Data reduction analyses such as principal components and exploratory factor analyses identify relationships within a set of potentially correlated variables, and cluster correlated variables into a smaller overall quantity of groupings. Because of th... Read More about Data reduction analyses of animal behaviour: avoiding Kaiser's criterion and adopting more robust automated methods.

Mercury chemostratigraphy across the Cambrian Series 2 – Series 3 boundary: evidence for increased volcanic activity coincident with extinction? (2019)
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Faggetter, L. E., Wignall, P. B., Pruss, S. B., Jones, D. S., Grasby, S., Widdowson, M., & Newton, R. J. (2019). Mercury chemostratigraphy across the Cambrian Series 2 – Series 3 boundary: evidence for increased volcanic activity coincident with extinction?. Chemical Geology, 510, 188-199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.02.006

Flood basalt volcanism represented by the Kalkarindji Province (Australia) is temporally associated with a trilobite mass extinction at the Cambrian Series 2 – Series 3 boundary, providing one of the oldest potential links between volcanism and bioti... Read More about Mercury chemostratigraphy across the Cambrian Series 2 – Series 3 boundary: evidence for increased volcanic activity coincident with extinction?.

Constraining Gas Motions in the Intra-Cluster Medium (2019)
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Simionescu, A., ZuHone, J., Zhuravleva, I., Churazov, E., Gaspari, M., Nagai, D., Werner, N., Roediger, E., Canning, R., Eckert, D., Gu, L., & Paerels, F. (2019). Constraining Gas Motions in the Intra-Cluster Medium. Space Science Reviews, 215(2), Article 24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-019-0590-1

The detailed velocity structure of the diffuse X-ray emitting intra-cluster medium (ICM) remains one of the last missing key ingredients in understanding the microphysical properties of these hot baryons and constraining our models of the growth and... Read More about Constraining Gas Motions in the Intra-Cluster Medium.

Perfectionistic self-presentation and emotional experiences in music students: A three-wave longitudinal study (2019)
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Hill, A. P., Burland, K., King, E. C., & Pitts, S. E. (in press). Perfectionistic self-presentation and emotional experiences in music students: A three-wave longitudinal study. Psychology of music, https://doi.org/10.1177/0305735618824155

Research has shown that perfectionism predicts emotional experiences among amateur, professional and adolescent musicians. In examining these relationships, previous research has measured trait perfectionism and employed cross-sectional designs. The... Read More about Perfectionistic self-presentation and emotional experiences in music students: A three-wave longitudinal study.

Globalisation, governance, accountability and the natural resource ‘curse’: Implications for socio-economic growth of oil-rich developing countries (2019)
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Adams, D., Adams, K., Ullah, S., & Ullah, F. (2019). Globalisation, governance, accountability and the natural resource ‘curse’: Implications for socio-economic growth of oil-rich developing countries. Resources policy, 61, 128-140. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2019.02.009

Motivated by recent inconclusive debates on the natural resource ‘curse’ phenomenon, this paper reviews studies that have explored the causes and implications of natural resource endowments ‘curse’ within oil-rich developing countries (ODCs). Most of... Read More about Globalisation, governance, accountability and the natural resource ‘curse’: Implications for socio-economic growth of oil-rich developing countries.

Applications of Bayesian networks and Petri nets in safety, reliability, and risk assessments: A review (2019)
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Kabir, S., & Papadopoulos, Y. (2019). Applications of Bayesian networks and Petri nets in safety, reliability, and risk assessments: A review. Safety science, 115, 154-175. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2019.02.009

System safety, reliability and risk analysis are important tasks that are performed throughout the system life-cycle to ensure the dependability of safety-critical systems. Probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) approaches are comprehensive, structured... Read More about Applications of Bayesian networks and Petri nets in safety, reliability, and risk assessments: A review.

Effectiveness of interventions to support the early detection of skin cancer through skin self-examination: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2019)
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Ersser, S., Effah, A., Dyson, J., Kellar, I., Thomas, S., McNichol, E., …Muinonen-Martin, A. (2019). Effectiveness of interventions to support the early detection of skin cancer through skin self-examination: a systematic review and meta-analysis. British journal of dermatology, 180(6), 1339-1347. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjd.17529

Background
As skin cancer incidence rises, there is a need to evaluate early detection interventions by the public using skin self‐examination (SSE), however, the literature focuses on primary prevention. No systematic reviews have evaluated the effe... Read More about Effectiveness of interventions to support the early detection of skin cancer through skin self-examination: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Other Girls: a qualitative exploration of teenage mothers views on teen pregnancy in contemporaries (2019)
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Jones, C., Whitfield, C., Seymour, J., & Hayter, M. (2019). Other Girls: a qualitative exploration of teenage mothers views on teen pregnancy in contemporaries. Sexuality and Culture, 23(3), 760–773. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-019-09589-4

Perspectives that consider teenage mothers as a ‘social problem’ are well described in the literature. However, the attitudes towards teenage mothers held by other teenage mothers are not well understood. Given the growing use of peer support in the... Read More about Other Girls: a qualitative exploration of teenage mothers views on teen pregnancy in contemporaries.

Foraging guppies can compensate for low-light conditions, but not via a sensory switch (2019)
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Morrell, L. J., Kimbell, H., Chapman, B., & Dobbinson, K. (2019). Foraging guppies can compensate for low-light conditions, but not via a sensory switch. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 73(3), Article 32. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-019-2640-9

Animals can adapt to changes in their environment through behavioural or developmental plasticity, but studies of these responses tend to focus on either short-term exposure of adults to the changed conditions, or long-term exposure of juveniles. Juv... Read More about Foraging guppies can compensate for low-light conditions, but not via a sensory switch.