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Measuring women's experiences of childbirth using the Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised (BSS-R) (2020)
Journal Article
Hollins Martin, C., Martinez, L. J., & Martin, C. (2020). Measuring women's experiences of childbirth using the Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised (BSS-R). British Journal of Midwifery, 28(5), 306-312. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjom.2020.28.5.306

© 2020 MA Healthcare Ltd. Birth satisfaction relates to women's perceptions of their childbirth experience, with importance placed on the midwife to improve standards of the intranatal care provided. With evaluating intranatal care in mind, this pape... Read More about Measuring women's experiences of childbirth using the Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised (BSS-R).

Probing synergies between lignin-rich and cellulose compounds for gasification (2020)
Journal Article
Taylor, M. J., Michopoulos, A. K., Zabaniotou, A. A., & Skoulou, V. (2020). Probing synergies between lignin-rich and cellulose compounds for gasification. Energies, 13(10), Article 2590. https://doi.org/10.3390/en13102590

The fixed bed gasification of lignin rich and deficient mixtures was carried out to probe the synergistic effects between two model compounds, Lignin Pink (LP) rich in Na and Cellulose Microcrystalline (CM). Reaction conditions utilized the most comm... Read More about Probing synergies between lignin-rich and cellulose compounds for gasification.

COVID-19 and the 5G conspiracy theory: Social network analysis of twitter data (2020)
Journal Article
Ahmed, W., Vidal-Alaball, J., Downing, J., & Seguí, F. L. (2020). COVID-19 and the 5G conspiracy theory: Social network analysis of twitter data. Journal of medical Internet research, 22(5), Article e19458. https://doi.org/10.2196/19458

Background: Since the beginning of December 2019, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has spread rapidly around the world, which has led to increased discussions across online platforms. These conversations have also included various conspiracies shar... Read More about COVID-19 and the 5G conspiracy theory: Social network analysis of twitter data.

Developing students' mental health literacy through the power of sport (2020)
Journal Article
Glazzard, J., & Szreter, B. (2020). Developing students' mental health literacy through the power of sport. Support for Learning, 35(2), 222-251. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9604.12301

This research is an evaluation of a six-week mental health literacy programme, referred to as the Cambridge United Community Trust’s ‘Mind Your Head’ programme, which was delivered by sports professionals to secondary school students (11-16) in Cambr... Read More about Developing students' mental health literacy through the power of sport.

Report on workshop: Planning the future of agent simulation (2020)
Journal Article
Polack, F., & Zschaler, S. (2020). Report on workshop: Planning the future of agent simulation. Artificial Life, 26(2), 307-313. https://doi.org/10.1162/artl_a_00320

In May 2019, a workshop on principled development of future agent-based simulations was held at Keele University. Participants spanned companies and academia, and a range of domains of interest, as well as participant career stages. This report summa... Read More about Report on workshop: Planning the future of agent simulation.

Glucose concentration during equine in vitro maturation alters mitochondrial function (2020)
Journal Article
Lewis, N., Hinrichs, K., Leese, H. J., McGregor Argo, C., Brison, D. R., & Sturmey, R. G. (2020). Glucose concentration during equine in vitro maturation alters mitochondrial function. Reproduction, 160(2), 227-237. https://doi.org/10.1530/REP-20-0032

The use of in vitro embryo production in the horse is increasing in clinical and research settings, however, protocols are yet to be optimised. Notably, the two most commonly used base media for in vitro maturation (IVM) supply glucose at markedly di... Read More about Glucose concentration during equine in vitro maturation alters mitochondrial function.

Breathlessness and opioid prescribing in COPD in general practice: a cross-sectional, observational study (2020)
Journal Article
Currow, D. C., Johnson, M. J., Pollack, A., Ferreira, D. H., Kochovska, S., Ekström, M., & Harrison, C. (2020). Breathlessness and opioid prescribing in COPD in general practice: a cross-sectional, observational study. ERJ Open Research, 6(2), Article 00299-2019. https://doi.org/10.1183/23120541.00299-2019

Chronic breathlessness is a disabling syndrome, prevalent in people with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Regular, low-dose, oral sustained-release morphine is approved in Australia to reduce symptomatic chronic breathlessness.... Read More about Breathlessness and opioid prescribing in COPD in general practice: a cross-sectional, observational study.

The effects of board structure on corporate performance: Evidence from East African frontier markets (2020)
Journal Article
Guney, Y., Karpuz, A., & Komba, G. (2020). The effects of board structure on corporate performance: Evidence from East African frontier markets. Research in international business and finance, 53, 101222. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2020.101222

The effectiveness of the well-known corporate governance practices may not be universal due to fundamental differences in the environments under which firms operate. By using hand-collected data from all the non-financial firms listed on the unexplor... Read More about The effects of board structure on corporate performance: Evidence from East African frontier markets.

The first microsolvation step for furans : new experiments and benchmarking strategies (2020)
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Gottschalk, H. C., Poblotzki, A., Fatima, M., Obenchain, D. A., Pérez, C., Antony, J., Auer, A. A., Baptista, L., Benoit, D. M., Bistoni, G., Bohle, F., Dahmani, R., Firaha, D., Grimme, S., Hansen, A., Harding, M. E., Hochlaf, M., Holzer, C., Jansen, G., Klopper, W., …Schnell, M. (2020). The first microsolvation step for furans : new experiments and benchmarking strategies. The Journal of chemical physics, 152(16), 164303. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0004465

The site-specific first microsolvation step of furan and some of its derivatives with methanol is explored to benchmark the ability of quantum-chemical methods to describe the structure, energetics, and vibrational spectrum at low temperature. Infrar... Read More about The first microsolvation step for furans : new experiments and benchmarking strategies.

Analysis of thermoelectric geometry in a concentrated photovoltaic-thermoelectric under varying weather conditions (2020)
Journal Article
Shittu, S., Li, G., Tang, X., Zhao, X., Ma, X., & Badiei, A. (2020). Analysis of thermoelectric geometry in a concentrated photovoltaic-thermoelectric under varying weather conditions. Energy, 202, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2020.117742

This study presents a detailed three-dimensional numerical investigation of the optimum thermoelectric geometry in a hybrid concentrated photovoltaic-thermoelectric system under varying weather conditions. Four different thermoelectric leg geometries... Read More about Analysis of thermoelectric geometry in a concentrated photovoltaic-thermoelectric under varying weather conditions.

Title: A cross sectional multisite exploration of Italian paediatric nurses' reported burnout and its relationship to perceptions of clinical safety and adverse events using the RN4CAST@IT-Ped (2020)
Journal Article
Bagnasco, A., Dasso, N., Rossi, S., Timmins, F., Watson, R., Aleo, G., Catania, G., Zanini, M., & Sasso, L. (2020). Title: A cross sectional multisite exploration of Italian paediatric nurses' reported burnout and its relationship to perceptions of clinical safety and adverse events using the RN4CAST@IT-Ped. Journal of advanced nursing, 76(8), 2072-2081. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.14401

Aim
To explore Italian paediatric nurses’ reported burnout and its relationship to their perceptions of safety and adverse events.

Design
A cross‐sectional study using the RN4CAST@IT‐Ped database with a web‐based survey design.

Methods
The R... Read More about Title: A cross sectional multisite exploration of Italian paediatric nurses' reported burnout and its relationship to perceptions of clinical safety and adverse events using the RN4CAST@IT-Ped.

Interventions to minimise doctors’ mental ill-health and its impacts on the workforce and patient care: the Care Under Pressure realist review (2020)
Journal Article
Carrieri, D., Pearson, M., Mattick, K., Papoutsi, C., Briscoe, S., Wong, G., & Jackson, M. (in press). Interventions to minimise doctors’ mental ill-health and its impacts on the workforce and patient care: the Care Under Pressure realist review. Health Services and Delivery Research, 8(19), 1-132. https://doi.org/10.3310/hsdr08190

Background
The growing incidence of mental ill-health in health professionals, including doctors, is a global concern. Although a large body of literature exists on interventions that offer support, advice and/or treatment to sick doctors, it has no... Read More about Interventions to minimise doctors’ mental ill-health and its impacts on the workforce and patient care: the Care Under Pressure realist review.

When does contextual positivity influence judgments of familiarity? Investigating moderators of the positivity-familiarity effect (2020)
Journal Article
Weil, R., Palma, T., & Gawronski, B. (2020). When does contextual positivity influence judgments of familiarity? Investigating moderators of the positivity-familiarity effect. Social cognition : the official journal of the International Social Cognition Network, 38(2), 119-145. https://doi.org/10.1521/soco.2020.38.2.119

The positivity-familiarity effect suggests that people use positive affect as a cue to answer the question of whether they have encountered a stimulus before. Five experiments investigated this effect under various conditions. Positivity-familiarity... Read More about When does contextual positivity influence judgments of familiarity? Investigating moderators of the positivity-familiarity effect.

Multiscale characterization of the nucleation and 3D structure of Al3Sc phases using electron microscopy and synchrotron X-ray tomography (2020)
Journal Article
Zhao, Y., Zhang, W., Koe, B., Du, W., Wang, M., Wang, W., Boller, E., Rack, A., Sun, Z., Shu, D., Sun, B., & Mi, J. (2020). Multiscale characterization of the nucleation and 3D structure of Al3Sc phases using electron microscopy and synchrotron X-ray tomography. Materials Characterization, 164, Article 110353. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchar.2020.110353

Scandium (Sc) has been long recognized as one of the most effective grain refining elements for Al alloys because of the Al3Sc phases formed in an Al melt containing Sc. However, there are still lack of comprehensive studies on the exact mechanism of... Read More about Multiscale characterization of the nucleation and 3D structure of Al3Sc phases using electron microscopy and synchrotron X-ray tomography.

The EAHAD blood coagulation factor VII variant database (2020)
Journal Article
Kemball-Cook, G., Giansily-Blaizot, M., Giansily‐Blaizot, M., Rallapalli, P. M., Perkins, S. J., Kemball‐Cook, G., Hampshire, D. J., Gomez, K., Ludlam, C. A., & McVey, J. H. (2020). The EAHAD blood coagulation factor VII variant database. Human Mutation, 41(7), 1209-1219. https://doi.org/10.1002/humu.24025

Hereditary blood coagulation factor VII (FVII) deficiency is a rare autosomal recessive bleeding disorder resulting from variants in the gene encoding FVII (F7 ). Integration of genetic variation with functional consequences on protein function is es... Read More about The EAHAD blood coagulation factor VII variant database.

Extending the Mossakovskii method to contacts supporting a moment (2020)
Journal Article
Moore, M. R., & Hills, D. A. (2020). Extending the Mossakovskii method to contacts supporting a moment. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 141, Article 103989. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2020.103989

In this article, we extend the Mossakovskii approach to half-plane contacts supporting a moment. Since the method relies on approximating the punch geometry by a series of flat punches, we choose the load path in (P, M)-space that fixes the body tilt... Read More about Extending the Mossakovskii method to contacts supporting a moment.

microRNA Expression in Women With and Without Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome Matched for Body Mass Index (2020)
Journal Article
Butler, A. E., Ramachandran, V., Sathyapalan, T., David, R., Gooderham, N. J., Benurwar, M., …Atkin, S. L. (2020). microRNA Expression in Women With and Without Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome Matched for Body Mass Index. Frontiers in endocrinology, 11, Article 206. https://doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2020.00206

Background: Despite several authors who have hypothesized that alterations of small noncoding RNAs (miR) are implicated in the etiopathogenesis of polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), contrasting findings have been reported so far. Discrepancies in bo... Read More about microRNA Expression in Women With and Without Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome Matched for Body Mass Index.

Local keypoint-based Faster R-CNN (2020)
Journal Article
Ding, X., Li, Q., Cheng, Y., Wang, J., Bian, W., & Jie, B. (in press). Local keypoint-based Faster R-CNN. Applied Intelligence, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-020-01665-9

Region-based Convolutional Neural Network (R-CNN) detectors have achieved state-of-the-art results on various challenging benchmarks. Although R-CNN has achieved high detection performance, the research of local information in producing candidates is... Read More about Local keypoint-based Faster R-CNN.

The effect of metal precursor on copper phase dispersion and nanoparticle formation for the catalytic transformations of furfural (2020)
Journal Article
Islam, M. J., Granollers Mesa, M., Osatiashtiani, A., Taylor, M. J., Manayil, J. C., Parlett, C. M., Isaacs, M. A., & Kyriakou, G. (2020). The effect of metal precursor on copper phase dispersion and nanoparticle formation for the catalytic transformations of furfural. Applied catalysis. B, Environmental, 273, Article 119062. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2020.119062

The formation of copper-based catalysts ranging from nanoparticles to isolated and dimeric Cu species supported on nanophased alumina is reported and utilised for the catalytic liquid-phase hydrogenation of furfural. The materials were synthesised vi... Read More about The effect of metal precursor on copper phase dispersion and nanoparticle formation for the catalytic transformations of furfural.

Can whole building energy models outperform numerical models, when forecasting performance of indirect evaporative cooling systems? (2020)
Journal Article
Badiei, A., Akhlaghi, Y. G., Zhao, X., Li, J., Yi, F., & Wang, Z. (2020). Can whole building energy models outperform numerical models, when forecasting performance of indirect evaporative cooling systems?. Energy Conversion and Management, 213, Article 112886. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2020.112886

This paper presents a whole building energy modelling work incorporating a state-of-the-art indirect evaporative cooling system. The model is calibrated and validated with real-life empirical data, and is capable of representing actual performance of... Read More about Can whole building energy models outperform numerical models, when forecasting performance of indirect evaporative cooling systems?.