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Protecting Secularism in Bangladesh: A Critique of the Constitutional Unamendability Approach (2023)
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Chowdhury, J., Mamun, M. A. A., & Jahed, M. J. I. (2023). Protecting Secularism in Bangladesh: A Critique of the Constitutional Unamendability Approach. Rajshahi University Law Journal, 11, 108-131

Bangladesh’s struggle with religious fundamentalism is persistent. The liberal political force that spearheaded the country’s liberation war in 1971 tried to adopt a hard secularist policy by banning the religion-based political parties. However, the... Read More about Protecting Secularism in Bangladesh: A Critique of the Constitutional Unamendability Approach.

Double Cross-Linked Hydrogel Dressings Based on Triblock Copolymers Bearing Antifreezing, Antidrying, and Inherent Antibacterial Properties (2023)
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Wang, Q., Liang, X., Shen, L., Xu, H., Wang, Z., Redshaw, C., & Zhang, Q. (2024). Double Cross-Linked Hydrogel Dressings Based on Triblock Copolymers Bearing Antifreezing, Antidrying, and Inherent Antibacterial Properties. Biomacromolecules, 25(1), 388-399. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.biomac.3c01040

Bacterial infections typically invade the living tissue of wounds, thereby aggravating the inflammatory response, delaying wound healing, or causing further complications. In this paper, the antibacterial hydrogel (PNVBA) with antifreezing and antidr... Read More about Double Cross-Linked Hydrogel Dressings Based on Triblock Copolymers Bearing Antifreezing, Antidrying, and Inherent Antibacterial Properties.

Operational Research: Methods and Applications (2023)
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Petropoulos, F., Laporte, G., Aktas, E., Alumur, S. A., Archetti, C., Ayhan, H., …Zhao, X. (2023). Operational Research: Methods and Applications. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 75(3), 423–617. https://doi.org/10.1080/01605682.2023.2253852

Throughout its history, Operational Research has evolved to include methods, models and algorithms that have been applied to a wide range of contexts. This encyclopedic article consists of two main sections: methods and applications. The first summar... Read More about Operational Research: Methods and Applications.

Competition, competitiveness, and competitive advantage in higher education institutions: a systematic literature review (2023)
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Hart, P. F., & Rodgers, W. (in press). Competition, competitiveness, and competitive advantage in higher education institutions: a systematic literature review. Studies in higher education, https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2023.2293926

The higher education (HE) sector has witnessed escalating competition, resulting in an increase in scholarly interest. Despite this, a comprehensive review of the existing literature in this domain remains absent. Thus, based on Tranfield et al.’s (2... Read More about Competition, competitiveness, and competitive advantage in higher education institutions: a systematic literature review.

An incremental high impedance fault detection method under non-stationary environments in distribution networks (2023)
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Guo, M. F., Yao, M., Gao, J. H., Liu, W. L., & Lin, S. (2024). An incremental high impedance fault detection method under non-stationary environments in distribution networks. International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, 156, Article 109705. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijepes.2023.109705

In the non-stationary environments of distribution networks, where operating conditions continually evolve, maintaining reliable high impedance faults (HIF) detection is a significant challenge due to the frequent changes in data distribution caused... Read More about An incremental high impedance fault detection method under non-stationary environments in distribution networks.

Impact of the iWHELD digital person-centered care program on quality of life, agitation and psychotropic medications in people with dementia living in nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic: A randomized controlled trial (2023)
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Mcdermid, J., Henley, W., Corbett, A., Williams, G., Fossey, J., Clare, L., …Ballard, C. (in press). Impact of the iWHELD digital person-centered care program on quality of life, agitation and psychotropic medications in people with dementia living in nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic: A randomized controlled trial. Alzheimer's & dementia, https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.13582

Introduction: iWHELD is a digital person-centered care program for people with dementia in nursing homes adapted for remote delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: A 16-week two-arm cluster-randomized controlled trial in 149 UK nursing homes... Read More about Impact of the iWHELD digital person-centered care program on quality of life, agitation and psychotropic medications in people with dementia living in nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic: A randomized controlled trial.

The Use of Tissue-on-Chip Technology to Focus the Search for Extracellular Vesicle miRNA Biomarkers in Thyroid Disease (2023)
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Haigh, T., Beattie, H., Wade, M. A., England, J., Kuvshinov, D., Karsai, L., …Green, V. (2024). The Use of Tissue-on-Chip Technology to Focus the Search for Extracellular Vesicle miRNA Biomarkers in Thyroid Disease. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 25(1), Article 71. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms25010071

Small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) contain microRNAs (miRNAs) which have potential to act as disease-specific biomarkers. The current study uses an established method to maintain human thyroid tissue ex vivo on a tissue-on-chip device, allowing the... Read More about The Use of Tissue-on-Chip Technology to Focus the Search for Extracellular Vesicle miRNA Biomarkers in Thyroid Disease.

‘You must have lived it’: learning from the views of physiotherapists who worked during the COVID-19 pandemic (2023)
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van der Westhuizen, B., & Killingback, C. (in press). ‘You must have lived it’: learning from the views of physiotherapists who worked during the COVID-19 pandemic. Physical Therapy Reviews, https://doi.org/10.1080/10833196.2023.2288478

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a total of 676 million cases of infection and 6.9 million deaths. During a pandemic, healthcare workers are exposed to psychological stressors such as high risk of infection, inadequate protection, an... Read More about ‘You must have lived it’: learning from the views of physiotherapists who worked during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A decision making framework for joint replenishment and delivery scheduling problems under mixed uncertainty (2023)
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Wang, G., Zhou, J., Pantelous, A. A., Liu, Y., & Li, Y. (2024). A decision making framework for joint replenishment and delivery scheduling problems under mixed uncertainty. Computers and Industrial Engineering, 187, Article 109835. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2023.109835

Concerning the essence of risk, a joint replenishment and delivery scheduling problem with fuzzy cost-related parameters and random number of imperfect quality items is developed to make it suitable for the inherent uncertainties of procurement-shipm... Read More about A decision making framework for joint replenishment and delivery scheduling problems under mixed uncertainty.

Practical approaches to analyzing PTA data: Cosmic strings with six pulsars (2023)
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Quelquejay Leclere, H., Auclair, P., Babak, S., Chalumeau, A., Steer, D. A., Antoniadis, J., …Wu, Z. (2023). Practical approaches to analyzing PTA data: Cosmic strings with six pulsars. Physical Review D, 108(12), Article 123527. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.108.123527

We search for a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) generated by a network of cosmic strings using six millisecond pulsars from Data Release 2 (DR2) of the European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA). We perform a Bayesian analysis considering tw... Read More about Practical approaches to analyzing PTA data: Cosmic strings with six pulsars.

The Four Waves of Systems Thinking (2023)
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Cabrera, D., Cabrera, L., & Midgley, G. (2023). The Four Waves of Systems Thinking. Journal of Systems Thinking, 3, 1-51. https://doi.org/10.54120/jost.000051

This Handbook is about the past, present, and future of systems thinking. It captures the history of systems thinking over its first three ‘waves,’ which are thought of as significant paradigmatic time periods in the history of the field. It then int... Read More about The Four Waves of Systems Thinking.

Performance investigation of a novel low-carbon solar-assisted multi-source heat pump heating system demonstrated in a public building in Hull (2023)
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Li, Y., Li, Z., Song, Z., Fan, Y., Zhao, X., & Li, J. (2024). Performance investigation of a novel low-carbon solar-assisted multi-source heat pump heating system demonstrated in a public building in Hull. Energy Conversion and Management, 300, Article 117979. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2023.117979

Global climate change has raised great attention from governments and prompted a wave of application of low-carbon heating technologies. However, solar-assisted heat pump, as an attractive technology, has challenges of unstable performance and comple... Read More about Performance investigation of a novel low-carbon solar-assisted multi-source heat pump heating system demonstrated in a public building in Hull.

Predicting patients with dementia most at risk of needing psychiatric inpatient or enhanced community care using routinely collected clinical data: a retrospective multi-site cohort study (2023)
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London, S., Chen, S., Lewis, J., Wolverson, E., Cardinal, R., Mueller, C., & Underwood, B. (in press). Predicting patients with dementia most at risk of needing psychiatric inpatient or enhanced community care using routinely collected clinical data: a retrospective multi-site cohort study. British Journal of Psychology,

BACKGROUND. Dementia is a common and progressive condition whose prevalence is grow-ing worldwide. It is challenging for healthcare systems to provide continuity in clinical ser-vices for all patients from diagnosis to death. AIMS. To test whether pa... Read More about Predicting patients with dementia most at risk of needing psychiatric inpatient or enhanced community care using routinely collected clinical data: a retrospective multi-site cohort study.

High-resolution CT phenotypes in pulmonary sarcoidosis: a multinational Delphi consensus study (2023)
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Desai, S. R., Sivarasan, N., Johannson, K. A., George, P. M., Culver, D. A., Devaraj, A., …Inoue, Y. (in press). High-resolution CT phenotypes in pulmonary sarcoidosis: a multinational Delphi consensus study. The lancet. Respiratory medicine, https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600%2823%2900267-9

One view of sarcoidosis is that the term covers many different diseases. However, no classification framework exists for the future exploration of pathogenetic pathways, genetic or trigger predilections, patterns of lung function impairment, or treat... Read More about High-resolution CT phenotypes in pulmonary sarcoidosis: a multinational Delphi consensus study.

How can patients influence service improvement decision-making? A participatory research mixed methods study (2023)
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Drinkwater, J., MacFarlane, A., Twiddy, M., Meads, D., Chadwick, R. H., Donnelly, A., …Foy, R. (in press). How can patients influence service improvement decision-making? A participatory research mixed methods study. The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, Article BJGP-2023-0263.R2. https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2023.0263

Background Health policy promotes patient participation in decision-making about service organisation. In English general practice this happens through contractually required patient participation groups (PPGs). However, there are problems with the... Read More about How can patients influence service improvement decision-making? A participatory research mixed methods study.

Joseph Fouche, 'Continental Policing' and its Impact on British Policing (2023)
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Joyce, P., & Laverick, W. (in press). Joseph Fouche, 'Continental Policing' and its Impact on British Policing. Journal of the Police History Society, 37, 109-114

This article examines the nature of policing associated with the French statesman and police reformer, Joseph Fouché, and seeks to explain how this influenced the style and character of professional policing as this developed across England and Wales... Read More about Joseph Fouche, 'Continental Policing' and its Impact on British Policing.