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Outcome of Demonstration Program on Hand Washing Technique among Nursing Staff in Dhiraj General Hospital (2018)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
Gordon, Y. A., Pimbblet, K. A., Owers, M. S., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Brough, S., Brown, M. J. I., Cluver, M. E., Croom, S. M., Holwerda, B. W., Loveday, J., Mahajan, S., & 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)
Journal Article
Venkatesan, P., Yamato, T., Elsegood, M. R., Wang, C.-Z., Noda, Y., Wu, C., Feng, X., Venatesan, P., Cong, H., Elsegood, M. R. J., Warwick, T. G., Teat, S. J., Redshaw, 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)
Journal Article
Xia, Y., Wang, C.-Z., Tian, M., Tao, Z., Ni, X.-L., 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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Les nudges sont-ils des outils extra-juridiques? (2018)
Book Chapter
Cserne, P. (2018). Les nudges sont-ils des outils extra-juridiques?. In A. Brunon-Ernst, & M. Bozzo-Rey (Eds.), Nudges et normativités: Généalogies, Concepts et Applications (121–145)

Surface fitting for quasi scattered data from coordinate measuring systems (2018)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Interaction of suppressor of cytokine signalling 3 with cavin-1 links SOCS3 function and cavin-1 stability (2018)
Journal Article
Williams, J. J., Alotaiq, N., Mullen, W., Burchmore, R., Liu, L., Baillie, G. S., Schaper, F., Pilch, P. F., & Palmer, T. M. (2018). Interaction of suppressor of cytokine signalling 3 with cavin-1 links SOCS3 function and cavin-1 stability. Nature communications, 9(1), Article 168. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02585-y

Effective suppression of JAK–STAT signalling by the inducible inhibitor “suppressor of cytokine signalling 3” (SOCS3) is essential for limiting signalling from cytokine receptors. Here we show that cavin-1, a component of caveolae, is a functionally... Read More about Interaction of suppressor of cytokine signalling 3 with cavin-1 links SOCS3 function and cavin-1 stability.

Homeland and its use of bipolar disorder for sensationalist and dramatic effect (2018)
Journal Article
Wondemaghen, M. (2019). Homeland and its use of bipolar disorder for sensationalist and dramatic effect. Social Semiotics, 29(2), 131-144. https://doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2017.1422900

When a lead character in a critically acclaimed and award-winning television programme is depicted as a proficient and meticulous heroine with a mental disorder, it is crucial to examine if this reflects a change in the media depiction of people with... Read More about Homeland and its use of bipolar disorder for sensationalist and dramatic effect.

An Empirical study on Predicting Blood Pressure using Classification and Regression Trees (2018)
Journal Article
Zhang, B., Wei, Z., Ren, J., Cheng, Y., & Zheng, Z. (2018). An Empirical study on Predicting Blood Pressure using Classification and Regression Trees. IEEE Access, 6, 21758 - 21768. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2017.2787980

Blood pressure diseases have become one of the major threats to human health. Continuous measurement of blood pressure has proven to be a prerequisite for effective incident prevention. In contrast with the traditional prediction models with low meas... Read More about An Empirical study on Predicting Blood Pressure using Classification and Regression Trees.

Youth livelihoods in the cellphone era: Perspectives from urban Africa (2018)
Journal Article
Porter, G., Hampshire, K., de Lannoy, A., Bango, A., Munthali, A., Robson, E., Tanle, A., Abane, A., & Owusu, S. (2018). Youth livelihoods in the cellphone era: Perspectives from urban Africa. Journal of international development, 30(4), 539-558. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3340

Issues surrounding youth employment and unemployment are central to the next development decade. Understanding how youth use mobile phones as a means of communicating and exchanging information about employment and livelihoods is particularly import... Read More about Youth livelihoods in the cellphone era: Perspectives from urban Africa.

A qualitative study of patients’ feedback about Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT) services in Northern England : implications for service improvement (2018)
Journal Article
Twiddy, M., Czoski Murray, C. J., Mason, S. J., Meads, D., Wright, J. M., Mitchell, E. D., & Minton, J. (2018). A qualitative study of patients’ feedback about Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT) services in Northern England : implications for service improvement. BMJ open, 8(1), e019099. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-019099

Abstract Objective Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) provides opportunities for improved cost savings, but in the UK, implementation is patchy and a variety of service models are in use. The slow uptake in the UK and Europe is due to... Read More about A qualitative study of patients’ feedback about Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT) services in Northern England : implications for service improvement.

Dealing with endogeneity bias: The generalized method of moments (GMM) for panel data (2018)
Journal Article
Ullah, S., Akhtar, P., & Zaefarian, G. (2018). Dealing with endogeneity bias: The generalized method of moments (GMM) for panel data. Industrial marketing management, 71, 69-78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indmarman.2017.11.010

Endogeneity bias can lead to inconsistent estimates and incorrect inferences, which may provide misleading conclusions and inappropriate theoretical interpretations. Sometimes such bias can even lead to coefficients having the wrong sign. Although th... Read More about Dealing with endogeneity bias: The generalized method of moments (GMM) for panel data.

Why we need to establish international political psychology (2018)
Journal Article
Beyer, C. (in press). Why we need to establish international political psychology. Asia Pacific journal of advanced business and social studies, 4(1), 393-401. https://doi.org/10.25275/apjabssv4i1ss14

A combination of Psychology with International Relations yields important results and ideas for improving the international world. This chapter proposes to establish International Political Psychology as a discipline with the purpose of harvesting id... Read More about Why we need to establish international political psychology.

Abolishing the security dilemma: Why we need to integrate the militaries (2018)
Journal Article
Beyer, A. C. (2018). Abolishing the security dilemma: Why we need to integrate the militaries. Cambridge Journal of Eurasian Studies, 2, 93EAZO. https://doi.org/10.22261/CJES.93EAZO

This article argues that the Security Dilemma can in fact be abolished by integrating the militaries into one common global organisation, possibly under one common command. The existence and workings of NATO are an approximate example of this ideal i... Read More about Abolishing the security dilemma: Why we need to integrate the militaries.

Early arthritis induces disturbances at bone nanostructural level reflected in decreased tissue hardness in an animal model of arthritis (2018)
Journal Article
Vidal, B., Cascão, R., Finnilä, M. A., Lopes, I. P., Saarakkala, S., Zioupos, P., …Fonseca, J. E. (2018). Early arthritis induces disturbances at bone nanostructural level reflected in decreased tissue hardness in an animal model of arthritis. PLoS ONE, 13(1), Article e0190920. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0190920

Introduction Arthritis induces joint erosions and skeletal bone fragility. Objectives The main goal of this work was to analyze the early arthritis induced events at bone architecture and mechanical properties at tissue level. Methods Eighty-eight Wi... Read More about Early arthritis induces disturbances at bone nanostructural level reflected in decreased tissue hardness in an animal model of arthritis.

Meaningful yet useless? Factors behind the retention of questionable concepts in human geography (2018)
Journal Article
Dymitrow, M., & Brauer, R. (2018). Meaningful yet useless? Factors behind the retention of questionable concepts in human geography. Geografiska annaler. Series B, Human geography, 100(3), 195-219. https://doi.org/10.1080/04353684.2017.1419071

The concepts ‘rural’ and ‘urban’ have long been criticized by geographers for their lack of analytical and explanatory power, yet have remained a vital source for conceptual guidance in human geography. Realizing that the continued use of questionabl... Read More about Meaningful yet useless? Factors behind the retention of questionable concepts in human geography.

Perception of artificial conspecifics by bearded dragons (Pogona vitticeps) (2018)
Journal Article
Frohnwieser, A., Pike, T. W., Murray, J. C., & Wilkinson, A. (2019). Perception of artificial conspecifics by bearded dragons (Pogona vitticeps). Integrative Zoology, 14(2), 214-222. https://doi.org/10.1111/1749-4877.12303

Artificial animals are increasingly used as conspecific stimuli in animal behavior research. However, researchers often have an incomplete understanding of how the species under study perceives conspecifics, and, hence, which features are needed for... Read More about Perception of artificial conspecifics by bearded dragons (Pogona vitticeps).