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Assessment of urinary deoxynivalenol biomarkers in UK children and adolescents (2018)
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Papageorgiou, M., Wells, L., Williams, C., White, K., De Santis, B., Liu, Y., …Sathyapalan, T. (2018). Assessment of urinary deoxynivalenol biomarkers in UK children and adolescents. Toxins, 10(2), 50. https://doi.org/10.3390/toxins10020050

© 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Deoxynivalenol (DON), the mycotoxin produced mainly by Fusarium graminearum and found in contaminated cereal-based foodstuff, has been consistently detected in body fluids in adults. Available... Read More about Assessment of urinary deoxynivalenol biomarkers in UK children and adolescents.

Type inference in flexible model-driven engineering using classification algorithms (2018)
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Zolotas, A., Matragkas, N., Devlin, S., Kolovos, D. S., & Paige, R. F. (2019). Type inference in flexible model-driven engineering using classification algorithms. Software and systems modeling, 18(1), 345–366. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10270-018-0658-5

Flexible or bottom-up model-driven engineering (MDE) is an emerging approach to domain and systems modelling. Domain experts, who have detailed domain knowledge, typically lack the technical expertise to transfer this knowledge using traditional MDE... Read More about Type inference in flexible model-driven engineering using classification algorithms.

Transcranial magnetic stimulation over left inferior frontal and posterior temporal cortex disrupts gesture-speech integration (2018)
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Zhao, W., Riggs, K., Schindler, I., & Holle, H. (2018). Transcranial magnetic stimulation over left inferior frontal and posterior temporal cortex disrupts gesture-speech integration. Journal of Neuroscience, 38(8), 1891-1900. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1748-17.2017

Language and action naturally occur together in the form of co-speech gestures and there is now convincing evidence that listeners display a strong tendency to integrate semantic information from both domains during comprehension. A contentious quest... Read More about Transcranial magnetic stimulation over left inferior frontal and posterior temporal cortex disrupts gesture-speech integration.

Change in Physiological Variables in the Last Two Weeks of Life: An Observational Study of Hospitalized Adults With Heart Failure (2018)
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Taylor, P., Crouch, S., Howell, D. A., Dowding, D. W., & Johnson, M. J. (2018). Change in Physiological Variables in the Last Two Weeks of Life: An Observational Study of Hospitalized Adults With Heart Failure. Journal of pain and symptom management, 55(5), 1335-1340. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2018.01.006

© 2018 American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Context: Recognition of dying is a difficult task in end-stage heart failure, yet it remains an important clinical skill in providing good palliative care to these patients. Objectives: To us... Read More about Change in Physiological Variables in the Last Two Weeks of Life: An Observational Study of Hospitalized Adults With Heart Failure.

Evidence for the Little Ice Age in upland northwestern Europe: multiproxy climate data from three blanket mires in northern England (2018)
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Chambers, F. M., Webb, J. C., & Thom, T. (in press). Evidence for the Little Ice Age in upland northwestern Europe: multiproxy climate data from three blanket mires in northern England. Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology,

The Little Ice Age (LIA) is a well-recognised palaeoclimatic phenomenon, although its causes, duration and severity have been matters of debate and dispute. Data from a wide range of archives have been used to infer climate variability before, during... Read More about Evidence for the Little Ice Age in upland northwestern Europe: multiproxy climate data from three blanket mires in northern England.

Book review: Policing the Planet: why the policing crisis led to Black Lives Matter Edited by Camp, Jordan T., and Heatherton, Christina (London: Verso, 2016), 320 pp (2018)
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Burnett, J. (2018). Book review: Policing the Planet: why the policing crisis led to Black Lives Matter Edited by Camp, Jordan T., and Heatherton, Christina (London: Verso, 2016), 320 pp. Race & class, 59(3), 108-110. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306396817737239

Book review of Policing the Planet: why the policing crisis led to Black Lives Matter

Synthesis and antimicrobial effects of highly dispersed, cellulose-stabilized silver/cellulose nanocomposites (2018)
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Alahmadi, N. S., Kelly, S. M., Betts, J. W., Heinze, T., Wadhawan, J. D., & Koschella, A. (2018). Synthesis and antimicrobial effects of highly dispersed, cellulose-stabilized silver/cellulose nanocomposites. RSC advances, 8(7), 3646-3656. https://doi.org/10.1039/c7ra12280b

Small, spherical silver nanoclusters were synthesised on the surface of paper as a model cellulosic fibre substrate by a standard chemical reduction method. The concentration of the silver nanoclusters on the substrate surface is roughly proportional... Read More about Synthesis and antimicrobial effects of highly dispersed, cellulose-stabilized silver/cellulose nanocomposites.

Psychosocial interventions for people with dementia: a synthesis of systematic reviews (2018)
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McDermott, O., Charlesworth, G., Hogervorst, E., Stoner, C., Moniz-Cook, E., Spector, A., …Orrell, M. (2019). Psychosocial interventions for people with dementia: a synthesis of systematic reviews. Aging and Mental Health, 23(4), 393-403. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2017.1423031

Objectives: Over the last 10 years there has been a multitude of studies of psychosocial interventions for people with dementia. However, clinical services face a dilemma about which intervention should be introduced into clinical practice because of... Read More about Psychosocial interventions for people with dementia: a synthesis of systematic reviews.

Smart soaps: stimulus responsive soap–hydrogel bead composites for controlled dissolution and release of actives (2018)
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Thompson, B. R., Rutkevičius, M., Horozov, T. S., Stoyanov, S. D., & Paunov, V. N. (2018). Smart soaps: stimulus responsive soap–hydrogel bead composites for controlled dissolution and release of actives. Materials Chemistry Frontiers, 2(2), 402-409. https://doi.org/10.1039/c7qm00556c

We designed pressure responsive soap–hydrogel bead composites by incorporating agar hydrogel beads of different size distributions within a molten soap matrix at various volume fractions. Upon cooling, the combined suspension of hydrogel beads into t... Read More about Smart soaps: stimulus responsive soap–hydrogel bead composites for controlled dissolution and release of actives.

Synthesis of a novel HER2 targeted aza-BODIPY–antibody conjugate: synthesis, photophysical characterisation and in vitro evaluation (2018)
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Cheng, M. H. Y., Cheng, M. H., Maruani, A., Savoie, H., Chudasama, V., & Boyle, R. W. (2018). Synthesis of a novel HER2 targeted aza-BODIPY–antibody conjugate: synthesis, photophysical characterisation and in vitro evaluation. Organic & biomolecular chemistry, 16(7), 1144-1149. https://doi.org/10.1039/c7ob02957h

We herein report the synthesis and analysis of a novel aza-BODIPY–antibody conjugate, formed by controlled and regioselective bioconjugation methodology. Employing the clinically relevant antibody, which targets HER2 positive cancers, represents the... Read More about Synthesis of a novel HER2 targeted aza-BODIPY–antibody conjugate: synthesis, photophysical characterisation and in vitro evaluation.

India’s PSYWAR Against Islamic Terrorism: A Trident Strategy (2018)
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Dheeraj, P. C. (2020). India’s PSYWAR Against Islamic Terrorism: A Trident Strategy. Terrorism and Political Violence, 32(3), 558-581. https://doi.org/10.1080/09546553.2017.1388792

Islamic terrorism in India has posed a formidable threat to India’s national security. A result of inimical state policies from India’s north-western borders as well as home-grown radicalisation, it has developed into a threat that demands a multi-fa... Read More about India’s PSYWAR Against Islamic Terrorism: A Trident Strategy.

Outcome of Demonstration Program on Hand Washing Technique among Nursing Staff in Dhiraj General Hospital (2018)
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Ravindra, H., Christian, K., Bhargav, A., Abhi, B., Urja, C., Krishna, C., & Abhilasha, G. (2018). Outcome of Demonstration Program on Hand Washing Technique among Nursing Staff in Dhiraj General Hospital. Journal of Nursing Today, 6(1), 9-18

Background of the study: Thousands of people die every day around the world from infections acquired while receiving health care. Hands are the main pathways of germ transmission during health care. Hand hygiene is therefore the most important measur... Read More about Outcome of Demonstration Program on Hand Washing Technique among Nursing Staff in Dhiraj General Hospital.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): the effect of galaxy group environment on active galactic nuclei (2018)
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Gordon, Y. A., Pimbblet, K. A., Owers, M. S., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Brough, S., Brown, M. J. I., …Wang, L. (2018). Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): the effect of galaxy group environment on active galactic nuclei. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 475(3), 4223-4234. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty115

© 2017 The Author(s). In galaxy clusters, efficiently accreting active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are preferentially located in the infall regions of the cluster projected phase-space, and are rarely found in the cluster core. This has been attributed to... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): the effect of galaxy group environment on active galactic nuclei.

Multiple photoluminescence from pyrene-fused hexaarylbenzenes with aggregation-enhanced emission features (2018)
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Venkatesan, P., Yamato, T., Elsegood, M. R., Wang, C., Noda, Y., Wu, C., …Yamato, P. T. (2018). Multiple photoluminescence from pyrene-fused hexaarylbenzenes with aggregation-enhanced emission features. Asian journal of organic chemistry an ACES journal, 7(2), 444-450. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajoc.201700563

© 2018 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim Multiple photoluminescence, which included monomer emission, excimer emission, and charge-transfer emission processes, has been observed from new pyrene-fused hexaarylbenzene (HAB) compounds, which... Read More about Multiple photoluminescence from pyrene-fused hexaarylbenzenes with aggregation-enhanced emission features.

Host-guest interaction of cucurbit[8]uril with n-(3-aminopropyl)cyclohexylamine: Cyclohexyl encapsulation triggered ternary complex (2018)
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Xia, Y., Wang, C., Tian, M., Tao, Z., Ni, X., Prior, T. J., & Redshaw, C. (2018). Host-guest interaction of cucurbit[8]uril with n-(3-aminopropyl)cyclohexylamine: Cyclohexyl encapsulation triggered ternary complex. Molecules, 23(1), 175. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules23010175

2018 by the authors. The host-guest interaction of a series of cyclohexyl-appended guests with cucurbit[8]uril (Q[8] ) was studied by 1 H NMR spectroscopy, isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC), and X-ray crystallography. The X-ray structure reveale... Read More about Host-guest interaction of cucurbit[8]uril with n-(3-aminopropyl)cyclohexylamine: Cyclohexyl encapsulation triggered ternary complex.

Identifying enablers and barriers to individually tailored prescribing: a survey of healthcare professionals in the UK (2018)
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Reeve, J., Britten, N., Byng, R., Fleming, J., Heaton, J., & Krska, J. (2018). Identifying enablers and barriers to individually tailored prescribing: a survey of healthcare professionals in the UK. BMC family practice, 19(1), Article 17. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-017-0705-2

Background Many people now take multiple medications on a long-term basis to manage health conditions. Optimising the benefit of such polypharmacy requires tailoring of medicines use to the needs and circumstances of individuals. However, profession... Read More about Identifying enablers and barriers to individually tailored prescribing: a survey of healthcare professionals in the UK.

Problems with assessing student autonomy in Higher Education, an alternative perspective and a role for mentoring (2018)
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Holmes, A. G. (2018). Problems with assessing student autonomy in Higher Education, an alternative perspective and a role for mentoring. Educational Process: International Journal, 7(1), 24-38. https://doi.org/10.22521/edupij.2018.71

The paper explores, from a conceptual basis, the inherent tensions in assessing student autonomy in higher education. The author argues that, despite the development of student autonomy being a key aim of higher education, there are problems in ident... Read More about Problems with assessing student autonomy in Higher Education, an alternative perspective and a role for mentoring.

Surface fitting for quasi scattered data from coordinate measuring systems (2018)
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Mao, Q., Liu, S., Wang, S., & Ma, X. (2018). Surface fitting for quasi scattered data from coordinate measuring systems. Sensors, 18(1), 214. https://doi.org/10.3390/s18010214

Non-uniform rational B-spline (NURBS) surface fitting from data points is wildly used in the fields of computer aided design (CAD), medical imaging, cultural relic representation and object-shape detection. Usually, the measured data acquired from co... Read More about Surface fitting for quasi scattered data from coordinate measuring systems.

Simultaneous thermal and visual imaging of liquid water of the PEM fuel cell flow channels (2018)
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Aslam, R. M., Ingham, D. B., Ismail, M. S., Hughes, K. J., Ma, L., & Pourkashanian, M. (2019). Simultaneous thermal and visual imaging of liquid water of the PEM fuel cell flow channels. Journal of the Energy Institute, 92(2), 311-318. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joei.2018.01.005

Water flooding and membrane dry-out are two major issues that could be very detrimental to the performance and/or durability of the proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells. The above two phenomena are well-related to the distributions of and the in... Read More about Simultaneous thermal and visual imaging of liquid water of the PEM fuel cell flow channels.