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Citation network analysis for supporting continuous improvement in higher education (2017)
Journal Article
Colicchia, C., Creazza, A., & Strozzi, F. (2018). Citation network analysis for supporting continuous improvement in higher education. Studies in higher education, 43(9), 1637-1653. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2016.1276550

Continuous improvement in Higher Education can be supported by effective literature reviews to unveil contemporary and current educational needs and lay the foundations of programmes of study. As no discipline remains static, the aim of this paper is... Read More about Citation network analysis for supporting continuous improvement in higher education.

The gathering storm: Federalization and constitutional change in the United Kingdom (2017)
Book Chapter
Lee, S. (2017). The gathering storm: Federalization and constitutional change in the United Kingdom. In R. Eccleston, & R. Krever (Eds.), The Future of Federalism : Intergovernmental Financial Relations in an Age of Austerity (124-144). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784717780.00013

This chapter provides an analysis of the changing nature of intergovernmental relations in the UK in light of its unique historical and constitutional context as a ‘state-nation’, of which England is overwhelmingly the largest component. England may... Read More about The gathering storm: Federalization and constitutional change in the United Kingdom.

Quantifying mating success of territorial males and sneakers in a bower-building cichlid fish (2017)
Journal Article
Magalhaes, I. S., Smith, A. M., & Joyce, D. A. (2017). Quantifying mating success of territorial males and sneakers in a bower-building cichlid fish. Scientific reports, 7(1), Article 41128. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep41128

The strategies and traits males evolve to mate with females are incredible in their diversity. Theory on the evolution of secondary sexual characters suggests that evolving any costly trait or strategy will pay off and stabilise in the population if... Read More about Quantifying mating success of territorial males and sneakers in a bower-building cichlid fish.

Exploring the relation between changes in NT-proBNP and renal function in patients with suspected heart failure using structural equation modelling (2017)
Journal Article
Zhang, J., Wong, K., Clark, A. L., & Cleland, J. G. (2017). Exploring the relation between changes in NT-proBNP and renal function in patients with suspected heart failure using structural equation modelling. International journal of cardiology, 233, 67-72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcard.2017.01.127

Background The relation between changes in NT-proBNP and renal function has commonly been studied using multiple regressions, which may ignore the complexity of relations between related variables. Methods and results Data were collected from patient... Read More about Exploring the relation between changes in NT-proBNP and renal function in patients with suspected heart failure using structural equation modelling.

A potential sex dimorphism in the relationship between bitter taste and alcohol consumption (2017)
Journal Article
Beckett, E., Duesing, K., Boyd, L., Yates, Z., Veysey, M., & Lucock, M. (2017). A potential sex dimorphism in the relationship between bitter taste and alcohol consumption. Food and Function, 8(3), 1116-1123. https://doi.org/10.1039/c6fo01759b

© The Royal Society of Chemistry. Background: Bitterness is an innate aversive taste important in detecting potentially toxic substances, including alcohol. However, bitter compounds exist in many foods and beverages, and can be desirable, such as in... Read More about A potential sex dimorphism in the relationship between bitter taste and alcohol consumption.

Through the eyes of others - The social experiences of people with dementia: A systematic literature review and synthesis (2017)
Journal Article
Patterson, K. M., Clarke, C., Wolverson, E. L., Moniz-Cook, E. D., Patterson, K., Clarke, C., Wolverson, E., & Moniz-Cook, E. (2018). Through the eyes of others - The social experiences of people with dementia: A systematic literature review and synthesis. International Psychogeriatrics, 30(6), 791-805. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1041610216002374

Psychosocial models suggest that the lived experience of dementia is affected by interpersonal factors such as the ways in which others view, talk about, and behave toward the person with dementia. This review aimed to illuminate how informal, everyd... Read More about Through the eyes of others - The social experiences of people with dementia: A systematic literature review and synthesis.

Estimating 1min rain rate distributions from numerical weather prediction (2017)
Journal Article
Paulson, K. S. (2017). Estimating 1min rain rate distributions from numerical weather prediction. Radio science, 52(1), 176-184. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016rs006111

Internationally recognized prognostic models of rain fade on terrestrial and Earth-space EHF links rely fundamentally on distributions of one-minute rain rates. Currently, in Rec. ITU-R P.837-6, these distributions are generated using the Salonen Poi... Read More about Estimating 1min rain rate distributions from numerical weather prediction.

Regulating civil mediation in England and Wales: towards a 'win-win' outcome (2017)
Journal Article
Whitehouse, M. (2017). Regulating civil mediation in England and Wales: towards a 'win-win' outcome. Mediation theory and practice, 2(1), 69-83. https://doi.org/10.1558/mtp.31937

Civil mediation in Britain has rapidly moved away from being an option, for private choice, to becoming increasingly a compulsory or near-compulsory part of the public justice system. But regulation of the mediation industry remains minimal, and unde... Read More about Regulating civil mediation in England and Wales: towards a 'win-win' outcome.

Regulation of IL-12p40 by HIF controls Th1/Th17 responses to prevent mucosal inflammation (2017)
Journal Article
Marks, E., Naudin, C., Nolan, G., Goggins, B. J., Burns, G., Mateer, S. W., Latimore, J. K., Minahan, K., Plank, M., Foster, P. S., Callister, R., Veysey, M., Walker, M. M., Talley, N. J., Radford-Smith, G., & Keely, S. (2017). Regulation of IL-12p40 by HIF controls Th1/Th17 responses to prevent mucosal inflammation. Mucosal Immunology, 10(5), 1224-1236. https://doi.org/10.1038/mi.2016.135

Intestinal inflammatory lesions are inherently hypoxic, due to increased metabolic demands created by cellular infiltration and proliferation, and reduced oxygen supply due to vascular damage. Hypoxia stabilizes the transcription factor hypoxia-induc... Read More about Regulation of IL-12p40 by HIF controls Th1/Th17 responses to prevent mucosal inflammation.

On the geometry of random convex sets between polytopes and zonotopes (2017)
Journal Article
Alonso-Gutiérrez, D., & Prochno, J. (2017). On the geometry of random convex sets between polytopes and zonotopes. Journal of mathematical analysis and applications, 450(1), 670-690. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmaa.2017.01.042

In this work we study a class of random convex sets that "interpolate" between polytopes and zonotopes. These sets arise from considering a qth-moment (q≥1) of an average of order statistics of 1-dimensional marginals of a sequence of N≥n independent... Read More about On the geometry of random convex sets between polytopes and zonotopes.

Opportunities, challenges and concerns for the implementation and uptake of pelvic floor muscle assessment and exercises during the childbearing years: Protocol for a critical interpretive synthesis (2017)
Journal Article
Salmon, V. E., Hay-Smith, E. J. C., Jarvie, R., Dean, S., Oborn, E., Bayliss, S. E., Bick, D., Davenport, C., Ismail, K. M., MacArthur, C., & Pearson, M. (2017). Opportunities, challenges and concerns for the implementation and uptake of pelvic floor muscle assessment and exercises during the childbearing years: Protocol for a critical interpretive synthesis. Systematic reviews, 6(1), Article 18. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-017-0420-z

© 2017 The Author(s). Background: Pregnancy and childbirth are important risk factors for urinary incontinence (UI) in women. Pelvic floor muscle exercises (PFME) are effective for prevention of UI. Guidelines for the management of UI recommend offer... Read More about Opportunities, challenges and concerns for the implementation and uptake of pelvic floor muscle assessment and exercises during the childbearing years: Protocol for a critical interpretive synthesis.

Gendering happiness and its discontents (2017)
Journal Article
Clisby, S. (2017). Gendering happiness and its discontents. Journal of gender studies, 26(1), 2-9. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2017.1273362

Providing an introductory framework to the Special Issue: Gendering Happiness: the power of pleasure, here I consider the highly gendered and political contexts of happiness, pleasure, desire, and the tyrannies of its converse discontents. As this sp... Read More about Gendering happiness and its discontents.

Clinical decision making in the recognition of dying: a qualitative interview study (2017)
Journal Article
Taylor, P., Dowding, D., & Johnson, M. (2017). Clinical decision making in the recognition of dying: a qualitative interview study. BMC Palliative Care, 16(11), Article ARTN 11. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12904-016-0179-3

Background: Recognising dying is an essential clinical skill for general and palliative care professionals alike. Despite the high importance, both identification and good clinical care of the dying patient remains extremely difficult and often contr... Read More about Clinical decision making in the recognition of dying: a qualitative interview study.

Hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction in humans: Tale or myth (2017)
Journal Article
Hussain, A., Suleiman, M. S., George, S. J., Loubani, M., & Morice, A. (2017). Hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction in humans: Tale or myth. Open Cardiovascular Medicine Journal, 11, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.2174/1874192401711010001

© Hussain et al. Hypoxic Pulmonary vasoconstriction (HPV) describes the physiological adaptive process of lungs to preserves systemic oxygenation. It has clinical implications in the development of pulmonary hypertension which impacts on outcomes of... Read More about Hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction in humans: Tale or myth.

Nanocarbons from acid pretreated waste coffee grounds using microwave radiation (2017)
Journal Article
Zein, S. H., Gyamera, B. A., & Skoulou, V. K. (2017). Nanocarbons from acid pretreated waste coffee grounds using microwave radiation. Materials letters, 193, 46-49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2017.01.100

This study investigates the use of microwave radiation to produce nanocarbons from Waste Coffee Grounds (WCG). It is first step to demonstrate the potential of integrating the microwave power to conventional methods of carbonaceous materials and nano... Read More about Nanocarbons from acid pretreated waste coffee grounds using microwave radiation.

MyAirCoach: The use of home-monitoring and mHealth systems to predict deterioration in asthma control and the occurrence of asthma exacerbations; Study protocol of an observational study (2017)
Journal Article
Honkoop, P. J., Simpson, A., Bonini, M., Snoeck-Stroband, J. B., Meah, S., Chung, K. F., Usmani, O. S., Fowler, S., & Sont, J. K. (2017). MyAirCoach: The use of home-monitoring and mHealth systems to predict deterioration in asthma control and the occurrence of asthma exacerbations; Study protocol of an observational study. BMJ open, 7(1), Article ARTN e013935. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-013935

© Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. Introduction Asthma is a variable lung condition whereby patients experience periods of controlled and uncontrolled asthma symptoms. Patients who experience prolonged periods of uncontrolled asthma hav... Read More about MyAirCoach: The use of home-monitoring and mHealth systems to predict deterioration in asthma control and the occurrence of asthma exacerbations; Study protocol of an observational study.

Effects of catalyst agglomerate shape in polymer electrolyte fuel cells investigated by a multi-scale modelling framework (2017)
Journal Article
Ismail, M. S., Ingham, D. B., Ma, L., Hughes, K. J., & Pourkashanian, M. (2017). Effects of catalyst agglomerate shape in polymer electrolyte fuel cells investigated by a multi-scale modelling framework. Energy, 122, 420-430. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2017.01.092

A multi-scale modelling framework is developed for the PEFC cathode electrode. Unlike the conventional agglomerate model, the effects of the microstructure of the agglomerate are numerically coupled to the fuel cell-scale model in this framework. Thi... Read More about Effects of catalyst agglomerate shape in polymer electrolyte fuel cells investigated by a multi-scale modelling framework.

Genome-wide association analysis of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, Hodgkin lymphoma and multiple myeloma identifies pleiotropic risk loci (2017)
Journal Article
Law, P. J., Sud, A., Mitchell, J. S., Henrion, M., Orlando, G., Lenive, O., Broderick, P., Speedy, H. E., Johnson, D. C., Kaiser, M., Weinhold, N., Cooke, R., Sunter, N. J., Jackson, G. H., Summerfield, G., Harris, R. J., Pettitt, A. R., Allsup, D. J., Carmichael, J., Bailey, J. R., …Houlston, R. S. (2017). Genome-wide association analysis of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, Hodgkin lymphoma and multiple myeloma identifies pleiotropic risk loci. Scientific reports, 7, 41071. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep41071

B-cell malignancies (BCM) originate from the same cell of origin, but at different maturation stages and have distinct clinical phenotypes. Although genetic risk variants for individual BCMs have been identified, an agnostic, genome-wide search for s... Read More about Genome-wide association analysis of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, Hodgkin lymphoma and multiple myeloma identifies pleiotropic risk loci.

Engineering the Cambrian explosion: the earliest bioturbators as ecosystem engineers (2017)
Journal Article
Herringshaw, L. G., Callow, R. H. T., & McIlroy, D. (2017). Engineering the Cambrian explosion: the earliest bioturbators as ecosystem engineers. Geological Society Special Publications, 448(1), 369-382. https://doi.org/10.1144/sp448.18

By applying modern biological criteria to trace fossil types and assessing burrow morphology, complexity, depth, potential burrow function and the likelihood of bioirrigation, we assign ecosystem engineering impact (EEI) values to the key ichnotaxa i... Read More about Engineering the Cambrian explosion: the earliest bioturbators as ecosystem engineers.