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Multiple mechanisms quench passive spiral galaxies (2017)
Journal Article
Fraser-McKelvie, A., Brown, M. J. I., Pimbblet, K., Dolley, T., & Bonne, N. J. (2018). Multiple mechanisms quench passive spiral galaxies. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 474(2), 1909-1921. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2823

© 2017 The Author(s). We examine the properties of a sample of 35 nearby passive spiral galaxies in order to determine their dominant quenching mechanism(s). All five low-mass (M * < 1 × 10 10 M ⊙ ) passive spiral galaxies are located in the rich Vi... Read More about Multiple mechanisms quench passive spiral galaxies.

Correction: On-chip polyelectrolyte coating onto magnetic droplets – towards continuous flow assembly of drug delivery capsules (2017)
Journal Article
Alorabi, A. Q., Tarn, M. D., Gómez-Pastora, J., Bringas, E., Ortiz, I., Paunov, V. N., & Pamme, N. (2017). Correction: On-chip polyelectrolyte coating onto magnetic droplets – towards continuous flow assembly of drug delivery capsules. Lab on a chip, 17(22), 3934. https://doi.org/10.1039/c7lc90110k

Correction for ‘On-chip polyelectrolyte coating onto magnetic droplets – towards continuous flow assembly of drug delivery capsules’ by Ali Q. Alorabi et al., Lab Chip, 2017, DOI: 10.1039/c7lc00918f.

The development and initial validation of the Perinatal Mental Health Awareness scale in student midwives (2017)
Journal Article
Martin, C. R., Jomeen, J., & Jarrett, P. (2017). The development and initial validation of the Perinatal Mental Health Awareness scale in student midwives. Journal of midwifery and reproductive health, 5(4), 1021-1031. https://doi.org/10.22038/JMRH.2017.9251

Background & aim: Perinatal mental health problems have been demonstrated to impact upon maternal, and fetal/child outcomes. Despite the global evidence and a policy-driven responsibility for identification of these problems, research demonstrates th... Read More about The development and initial validation of the Perinatal Mental Health Awareness scale in student midwives.

Impacts of Trump tax reforms on growth, inequality and debt (2017)
Journal Article
Bhattarai, K., Haughton, J. H., & Tuerck, D. (2017). Impacts of Trump tax reforms on growth, inequality and debt. 00 Journal not listed, 20-21

Reforming the tax system of the US has become a major policy agenda of the Trump administration. After months of negotiations the “Big Six”, including the Treasury Secretary, National Economic Director, Republicans in the House and the Senate are gra... Read More about Impacts of Trump tax reforms on growth, inequality and debt.

‘Behaviour that challenges’ in dementia care: an update of psychological approaches for home and care home settings (2017)
Journal Article
Moniz-Cook, E., & James, I. (2017). ‘Behaviour that challenges’ in dementia care: an update of psychological approaches for home and care home settings. FPOP Bulletin, 140, 43-49

Over and above the personal and financial costs associated with dementia, those for ‘behaviour that challenges’ (BtC) are significant (Lowry & Warner, 2009; Hermann et al., 2006). This briefing paper outlines the importance of having a psychological... Read More about ‘Behaviour that challenges’ in dementia care: an update of psychological approaches for home and care home settings.

Mary Hays and the Imagined Female Communities of Early Modern Europe (2017)
Book Chapter
Capern, A. (2017). Mary Hays and the Imagined Female Communities of Early Modern Europe. In G. L. Walker (Ed.), The Invention of Female Biography (174-198). Routledge

This research essay is appears in a collection of essays written by the subject-expert sub-editors who worked on a three year research project with a team in New York under PI Gina Luria Walker to produce a modern multi-volume edition of Mary Hay, Fe... Read More about Mary Hays and the Imagined Female Communities of Early Modern Europe.

Superposition of translational and rotational motions under self-propulsion of liquid marbles filled by aqueous solutions of camphor (2017)
Journal Article
Bormashenko, E. Y., Frenkel, M., Bormashenko, Y., Chaniel, G., Valtsifer, V. A., & Binks, B. P. (2017). Superposition of translational and rotational motions under self-propulsion of liquid marbles filled by aqueous solutions of camphor. Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids, 33(46), 13234-13241. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b03356

Self-locomotion of liquid marbles, coated with lycopodium or fumed fluorosilica powder, filled with a saturated aqueous solution of camphor and placed on a water/vapor interface is reported. Self-propelled marbles demonstrated a complicated motion, r... Read More about Superposition of translational and rotational motions under self-propulsion of liquid marbles filled by aqueous solutions of camphor.

Smoke-free legislation and paediatric hospitalisations for acute respiratory tract infections: national quasi-experimental study with unexpected findings and important methodological implications (2017)
Journal Article
Been, J. V., Mackay, D. F., Millett, C., Soyiri, I., van Schayck, C. P., Pell, J. P., & Sheikh, A. (2018). Smoke-free legislation and paediatric hospitalisations for acute respiratory tract infections: national quasi-experimental study with unexpected findings and important methodological implications. Tobacco Control, 27(e2), e160-e166. https://doi.org/10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2017-053801

Objectives We investigated whether Scottish implementation of smoke-free legislation was associated with a reduction in unplanned hospitalisations or deaths (‘events’) due to respiratory tract infections (RTIs) among children.

Design Interrupted tim... Read More about Smoke-free legislation and paediatric hospitalisations for acute respiratory tract infections: national quasi-experimental study with unexpected findings and important methodological implications.

The 2013 February 17 sunquake in the context of the active region's magnetic field configuration (2017)
Journal Article
Green, L. M., Valori, G., Zuccarello, F. P., Zharkov, S., Matthews, S. A., & Guglielmino, S. L. (2017). The 2013 February 17 sunquake in the context of the active region's magnetic field configuration. The Astrophysical journal, 849(1), Article 40. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa8db6

© 2017. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. Sunquakes are created by the hydrodynamic response of the lower atmosphere to a sudden deposition of energy and momentum. In this study, we investigate a sunquake that occurred in NOAA a... Read More about The 2013 February 17 sunquake in the context of the active region's magnetic field configuration.

Care and self-reported outcomes of care experienced by women with mental health problems in pregnancy: findings from a national survey (2017)
Journal Article
Henderson, J., Jomeen, J., & Redshaw, M. (2018). Care and self-reported outcomes of care experienced by women with mental health problems in pregnancy: findings from a national survey. Midwifery, 56, 171-178. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2017.10.020

Background mental health problems in pregnancy and the postnatal period are relatively common and, in pregnancy, are associated with an increase in adverse outcome. It is recommended that all women are asked about their emotional and mental health an... Read More about Care and self-reported outcomes of care experienced by women with mental health problems in pregnancy: findings from a national survey.

Risk factors for negative experiences during psychotherapy (2017)
Journal Article
Hardy, G. E., Bishop-Edwards, L., Chambers, E., Connell, J., Dent-Brown, K., Kothari, G., O’Hara, R., & Parry, G. D. (2017). Risk factors for negative experiences during psychotherapy. Psychotherapy Research, 29(3), 404-414. https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2017.1393575

Background: It is estimated that between 3% and 15% of patients have a negative experience of psychotherapy, but little is understood about this. Aims: The aim of this study was to investigate the factors associated with patients’ negative therapy ex... Read More about Risk factors for negative experiences during psychotherapy.

Reasoning with BDI robots: from simulation to physical environment – implementations and limitations (2017)
Journal Article
Davis, D. N., & Ramulu, S. K. (2017). Reasoning with BDI robots: from simulation to physical environment – implementations and limitations. Paladyn journal of behavioural robotics, 8(1), 39-57. https://doi.org/10.1515/pjbr-2017-0003

In this paper an overview of the state of research into cognitive robots is given. This is driven by insights arising from research that has moved from simulation to physical robots over the course of a number of sub-projects. A number of major issue... Read More about Reasoning with BDI robots: from simulation to physical environment – implementations and limitations.

A brighter future : the effect of positive episodic simulation on future predictions in non-depressed, moderately dysphoric & highly dysphoric individuals (2017)
Journal Article
Boland, J., Riggs, K. J., & Anderson, R. J. (2018). A brighter future : the effect of positive episodic simulation on future predictions in non-depressed, moderately dysphoric & highly dysphoric individuals. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 100, 7-16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2017.10.010

Previous research suggests depressed individuals have difficulties with future directed cognitions. For instance, compared with non-depressed individuals, they predict positive events are less likely to occur. Recent work suggests that episodic simul... Read More about A brighter future : the effect of positive episodic simulation on future predictions in non-depressed, moderately dysphoric & highly dysphoric individuals.

Performing rurality. But who? (2017)
Journal Article
Dymitrow, M., & Brauer, R. (2017). Performing rurality. But who?. Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series, 38(38), 27-45. https://doi.org/10.1515/bog-2017-0032

Reflective inquiries to better understand ‘the rural’ have tried to embed rural research within the notion of performativity. Performativity assumes that the capacity of language is not simply to communicate but also to consummate action, whereupon c... Read More about Performing rurality. But who?.

RN4CAST@IT-Ped: Nurse staffing and children's safety (2017)
Journal Article
Sasso, L., Bagnasco, A., Petralia, P., Scelsi, S., Zanini, M., Catania, G., Aleo, G., Dasso, N., Rossi, S., Watson, R., Sermeus, W., Icardi, G., & Aiken, L. H. (2018). RN4CAST@IT-Ped: Nurse staffing and children's safety. Journal of advanced nursing, 74(6), 1223-1225. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.13462

Some authors argue that it is not longer ethically correct to expose hospitalized patients to death risks associated with understaffing (Nickitas, 2014). Also the Care Quality Commission (CQC, an independent regulator of all health and social care se... Read More about RN4CAST@IT-Ped: Nurse staffing and children's safety.

Reversible optical switching memristors with tunable STDP synaptic plasticity: a route to hierarchical control in artificial intelligent systems (2017)
Journal Article
Jaafar, A. H., Gray, R. J., Verrelli, E., O'Neill, M., Kelly, S. M., & Kemp, N. T. (2017). Reversible optical switching memristors with tunable STDP synaptic plasticity: a route to hierarchical control in artificial intelligent systems. Nanoscale, 9(43), 17091-17098. https://doi.org/10.1039/c7nr06138b

© 2017 The Royal Society of Chemistry. Optical control of memristors opens the route to new applications in optoelectronic switching and neuromorphic computing. Motivated by the need for reversible and latched optical switching we report on the devel... Read More about Reversible optical switching memristors with tunable STDP synaptic plasticity: a route to hierarchical control in artificial intelligent systems.

The Taipan Galaxy Survey: Scientific Goals and Observing Strategy (2017)
Journal Article
Driver, S. P., Taylor, E. N., Lagos, C., White, M., Bilicki, M., Brown, M. J. I., Bryant, J., Croom, S., Jones, D. H., Koribalski, B., Lorente, N., Tinney, C. G., Tothill, N. F. H., Koribalski, B., Lima Da Cunha, E., Hopkins, A. M., Colless, M., Taylor, E. N. C., Blake, C., Howlett, C., …Watson, F. (2017). The Taipan Galaxy Survey: Scientific Goals and Observing Strategy. Publications / Astronomical Society of Australia, 34, Article ARTN e047. https://doi.org/10.1017/pasa.2017.41

© Astronomical Society of Australia 2017; published by Cambridge University Press. The Taipan galaxy survey (hereafter simply 'Taipan') is a multi-object spectroscopic survey starting in 2017 that will cover 2π steradians over the southern sky (δ ≲ 1... Read More about The Taipan Galaxy Survey: Scientific Goals and Observing Strategy.

High throughput fabrication of cell spheroids by templating water-in-water Pickering emulsions (2017)
Journal Article
Das, A. A. K., Filby, B. W., Geddes, D. A., Legrande, D., & Paunov, V. N. (2017). High throughput fabrication of cell spheroids by templating water-in-water Pickering emulsions. Materials Horizons, 4(6), 1196-1200. https://doi.org/10.1039/c7mh00677b

© The Royal Society of Chemistry 2017. We report a simple technique for the high throughput generation of tissue spheroids based on the encapsulation of dispersed adherent cells in particle-stabilised water-in-water emulsions. We demonstrate cell enc... Read More about High throughput fabrication of cell spheroids by templating water-in-water Pickering emulsions.