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The effects of short-term omission of daily medication on the pathophysiology of heart failure (2017)
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Dovancescu, S., Pellicori, P., Mabote, T., Torabi, A., Clark, A. L., & Cleland, J. G. (2017). The effects of short-term omission of daily medication on the pathophysiology of heart failure. European journal of heart failure, 19(5), 643-649. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejhf.748

Aims Pharmacological therapies for heart failure (HF) aim to improve congestion, symptoms, and prognosis. Failing to take medication is a potential cause of worsening HF. Characterizing the effects of short-term medication omission could inform the d... Read More about The effects of short-term omission of daily medication on the pathophysiology of heart failure.

Cartoons vs. manga movies : a brief history of anime in the UK (2017)
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Hernández-Pérez, M., Corstorphine, K., & Stephens, D. (2017). Cartoons vs. manga movies : a brief history of anime in the UK. Mutual Images, 2(Winter), 5-43. https://doi.org/10.32926/2017.2.HER.carto

This paper has as main objective to explore, adopting a historical and critical perspective, the release of film and anime TV in UK. This would be a first step towards the studio of the peculiar implementation of manganime Culture in Britain. Compare... Read More about Cartoons vs. manga movies : a brief history of anime in the UK.

Boosting and decreasing action prediction abilities through excitatory and inhibitory tDCS of inferior frontal cortex (2017)
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Avenanti, A., Paracampo, R., Annella, L., Tidoni, E., & Aglioti, S. M. (2018). Boosting and decreasing action prediction abilities through excitatory and inhibitory tDCS of inferior frontal cortex. Cerebral Cortex, 28(4), 1282-1296. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhx041

Influential theories suggest that humans predict others’ upcoming actions by using their own motor system as an internal forward model. However, evidence that the motor system is causally essential for predicting others’ actions is meager. Using tran... Read More about Boosting and decreasing action prediction abilities through excitatory and inhibitory tDCS of inferior frontal cortex.

Factors affecting the programme completion of pre-registration nursing students through a three year course: a retrospective cohort study (2017)
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Wray, J., Aspland, J., Barrett, D., & Gardiner, E. (2017). Factors affecting the programme completion of pre-registration nursing students through a three year course: a retrospective cohort study. Nurse education in practice, 24, 14-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2017.03.002

© 2017 Students who leave pre-registration nurse education having failed to complete remain a concern for higher education institutions. This study identifed factors influencing completion using a retrospective cohort analysis to map student characte... Read More about Factors affecting the programme completion of pre-registration nursing students through a three year course: a retrospective cohort study.

An Uncompetitive Cinema: The British Fiction Short Film in the 1960s (2017)
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Mayne, L. (2018). An Uncompetitive Cinema: The British Fiction Short Film in the 1960s. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 38(1), 116-132. https://doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2017.1300000

This article offers a historical study of short films and their place in the British cinema programmes of the 1960s as a way of exploring the monopolistic practices which characterised the film industry during this period. Focusing on the short ficti... Read More about An Uncompetitive Cinema: The British Fiction Short Film in the 1960s.

Oral and topical antibiotics for clinically infected eczema in children: A pragmatic randomized controlled trial in ambulatory care (2017)
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Francis, N. A., Ridd, M. J., Thomas-Jones, E., Butler, C. C., Hood, K., Shepherd, V., Marwick, C. A., Huang, C., Longo, M., Wootton, M., & Sullivan, F. (2017). Oral and topical antibiotics for clinically infected eczema in children: A pragmatic randomized controlled trial in ambulatory care. Annals of Family Medicine, 15(2), 124-130. https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.2038

PURPOSE Eczema may flare because of bacterial infection, but evidence supporting antibiotic treatment is of low quality. We aimed to determine the effect of oral and topical antibiotics in addition to topical emollient and corticosteroids in children... Read More about Oral and topical antibiotics for clinically infected eczema in children: A pragmatic randomized controlled trial in ambulatory care.

Alkyl substituted cucurbit[6]uril assisted competitive fluorescence recognition of lysine and methionine in aqueous solution (2017)
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Bai, Q., Zhang, S., Chen, H., Sun, T., Redshaw, C., Zhang, J.-X., Ni, X.-L., Wei, G., & Tao, Z. (2017). Alkyl substituted cucurbit[6]uril assisted competitive fluorescence recognition of lysine and methionine in aqueous solution. ChemistrySelect, 2(8), 2569-2573. https://doi.org/10.1002/slct.201700053

The use of competitive ratiometric fluorescence indicator displacement chemosensors derived from two alkyl substituted cucurbit[6]uril-based host-guest complexes is reported. In particular, the differing binding abilities of two cucurbit[6]uril deriv... Read More about Alkyl substituted cucurbit[6]uril assisted competitive fluorescence recognition of lysine and methionine in aqueous solution.

Vitamin D3 supplementation of a high fat high sugar diet ameliorates prediabetic phenotype in female LDLR–/–and LDLR+/+mice (2017)
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Carroll, S., Hobkirk, J., Browning, M. J., Janus, J., Kheder, R., Saeed, Z., & Stover, C. (2017). Vitamin D3 supplementation of a high fat high sugar diet ameliorates prediabetic phenotype in female LDLR–/–and LDLR+/+mice. Immunity, Inflammation and Disease, 5(2), 151-154. https://doi.org/10.1002/iid3.154

© 2017 The Authors. Immunity, Inflammation and Disease Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. INTRODUCTION: Fatty liver disease is prevalent in populations with high caloric intake. Nutritherapeutic approaches are being considered, such as supplementa... Read More about Vitamin D3 supplementation of a high fat high sugar diet ameliorates prediabetic phenotype in female LDLR–/–and LDLR+/+mice.

An investigation of Digoxin by Cyclic Voltammetry using Gold and Silver Solid Electrodes and Chemometric Analysis (2017)
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Bellia, G., Corrall, H., Baron, M., Croxton, R., & Gonzalez-Rodriguez, J. (2017). An investigation of Digoxin by Cyclic Voltammetry using Gold and Silver Solid Electrodes and Chemometric Analysis. International Journal of Electrochemical Science, 12, 3050-3062. https://doi.org/10.20964/2017.04.60

Digoxin, one of the main cardiac glycosides medication, has shown to have a strong analytical response under investigation by voltammetric analysis using mercury electrodes, achieving nanomole sensitivity. In this study we investigated the suitabilit... Read More about An investigation of Digoxin by Cyclic Voltammetry using Gold and Silver Solid Electrodes and Chemometric Analysis.

A calibration method for non-positive definite covariance matrix in multivariate data analysis (2017)
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Huang, C., Farewell, D., & Pan, J. (2017). A calibration method for non-positive definite covariance matrix in multivariate data analysis. Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 157, 45-52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmva.2017.03.001

Covariance matrices that fail to be positive definite arise often in covariance estimation. Approaches addressing this problem exist, but are not well supported theoretically. In this paper, we propose a unified statistical and numerical matrix calib... Read More about A calibration method for non-positive definite covariance matrix in multivariate data analysis.

A chemical signature from fast-rotating low-metallicity massive stars: ROA 276 in ω Centauri (2017)
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Yong, D., Norris, J. E., Da Costa, G. S., Stanford, L. M., Karakas, A. I., Shingles, L. J., Hirschi, R., & Pignatari, M. (2017). A chemical signature from fast-rotating low-metallicity massive stars: ROA 276 in ω Centauri. The Astrophysical journal, 837(2), 176. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa6250

© 2017. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. We present a chemical abundance analysis of a metal-poor star, ROA 276, in the stellar system ω Centauri. We confirm that this star has an unusually high [Sr/Ba] abundance ratio. Additio... Read More about A chemical signature from fast-rotating low-metallicity massive stars: ROA 276 in ω Centauri.

An integrative review on women living with obstetric fistula and after treatment experiences (2017)
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Mafo Degge, H., Hayter, M., & Laurenson, M. (2017). An integrative review on women living with obstetric fistula and after treatment experiences. Journal of clinical nursing, 26(11-12), 1445-1457. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.13590

Aims and objectives. To review literature on the experiences of women with obstetric fistula, their lived experiences after treatment; and to provide evidence for future research. Background. Obstetric fistula is an injury most commonly resulting from... Read More about An integrative review on women living with obstetric fistula and after treatment experiences.

Exploring the performance reserve: Effect of different magnitudes of power output deception on 4,000 m cycling time-trial performance (2017)
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Stone, M. R., Thomas, K., Wilkinson, M., Stevenson, E., St. Clair Gibson, A., Jones, A. M., & Thompson, K. G. (in press). Exploring the performance reserve: Effect of different magnitudes of power output deception on 4,000 m cycling time-trial performance. PLoS ONE, 12(3), Article e0173120. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0173120

Purpose The aim of the present study was to investigate whether a magnitude of deception of 5% in power output would lead to a greater reduction in the amount of time taken for participants to complete a 4000 m cycling TT than a magnitude of deceptio... Read More about Exploring the performance reserve: Effect of different magnitudes of power output deception on 4,000 m cycling time-trial performance.

Statins attenuate but do not eliminate the reverse epidemiology of total serum cholesterol in patients with non-ischemic chronic heart failure (2017)
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Fröhlich, H., Raman, N., Täger, T., Schellberg, D., Goode, K. M., Kazmi, S., Grundtvig, M., Hole, T., Cleland, J. G., Katus, H. A., Agewall, S., Clark, A. L., Atar, D., & Frankenstein, L. (2017). Statins attenuate but do not eliminate the reverse epidemiology of total serum cholesterol in patients with non-ischemic chronic heart failure. International journal of cardiology, 238, 97-104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcard.2017.03.028

© 2017 Elsevier B.V. Background In patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) increasing levels of total serum cholesterol are associated with improved survival – while statin usage is not. The impact of statin treatment on the “reverse epidemiology”... Read More about Statins attenuate but do not eliminate the reverse epidemiology of total serum cholesterol in patients with non-ischemic chronic heart failure.

Isolation mediates persistent founder effects on zooplankton colonisation in new temporary ponds (2017)
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Badosa, A., Frisch, D., Green, A. J., Rico, C., & Gómez, A. (2017). Isolation mediates persistent founder effects on zooplankton colonisation in new temporary ponds. Scientific reports, 7, Article 43983. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep43983

Understanding the colonisation process in zooplankton is crucial for successful restoration of aquatic ecosystems. Here, we analyzed the clonal and genetic structure of the cyclical parthenogenetic rotifer Brachionus plicatilis by following populatio... Read More about Isolation mediates persistent founder effects on zooplankton colonisation in new temporary ponds.

On the isotropic constant of random polytopes with vertices on an ℓp-Sphere (2017)
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Hörrmann, J., Prochno, J., & Thäle, C. (2018). On the isotropic constant of random polytopes with vertices on an ℓp-Sphere. The Journal of geometric analysis, 28(1), 405-426. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12220-017-9826-z

The symmetric convex hull of random points that are independent and distributed according to the cone probability measure on the p-unit sphere of Rn for some 1 ≤ p < ∞ is considered. We prove that these random polytopes have uniformly absolutely boun... Read More about On the isotropic constant of random polytopes with vertices on an ℓp-Sphere.

Development of a patient-reported palliative care-specific health classification system: the POS-E (2017)
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Murtagh, F. E. M., Murtagh, F. E., Dzingina, M., Higginson, I. J., McCrone, P., & Murtagh, F. (2017). Development of a patient-reported palliative care-specific health classification system: the POS-E. Patient, 10(3), 353-365. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40271-017-0224-1

Background Generic preference-based measures are commonly used to estimate quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) to inform resource-allocation decisions. However, concerns have been raised that generic measures may be inappropriate in palliative care.... Read More about Development of a patient-reported palliative care-specific health classification system: the POS-E.

On the high-pressure phase stability and elastic properties of β-titanium alloys (2017)
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Smith, D., Joris, O. P. J., Sankaran, A., Weekes, H. E., Bull, D. J., Dye, D., Errandonea, D., Smith, D., Joris, O. P. J., Sankaran, A., Weekes, H. E., Bull, D. J., Prior, T. J., Dye, D., Errandonea, D., & Proctor, J. E. (2017). On the high-pressure phase stability and elastic properties of β-titanium alloys. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 29(15), 155401. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-648x/aa60b6

We have studied the compressibility and stability of different β-titanium alloys at high pressure, including binary Ti-Mo, Ti-24Nb-4Zr-8Sn (Ti2448) and Ti-36Nb-2Ta-0.3O (gum metal). We observed stability of the β phase in these alloys to 40 GPa, well... Read More about On the high-pressure phase stability and elastic properties of β-titanium alloys.

Maintenance of head and neck tumor on-chip: gateway to personalized treatment? (2017)
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Bower, R., Green, V. L., Kuvshinova, E., Kuvshinov, D., Karsai, L., Crank, S. T., Stafford, N. D., & Greenman, J. (2017). Maintenance of head and neck tumor on-chip: gateway to personalized treatment?. Future Science OA, 3(2), FSO174. https://doi.org/10.4155/fsoa-2016-0089

Aim: Head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCC) are solid tumors with low overall survival (40–60%). In a move toward personalized medicine, maintenance of tumor biopsies in microfluidic tissue culture devices is being developed. Methodology/ res... Read More about Maintenance of head and neck tumor on-chip: gateway to personalized treatment?.