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The public interest environmental law group: from USA to Europe (2018)
Journal Article
Goodman, M., & Connelly, J. (2018). The public interest environmental law group: from USA to Europe. Environmental Politics, 27(6), 1014-1032. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2018.1438789

The European environmental movement has been reconfigured since the introduction of the pan-European public interest environmental law group based on the model founded in the USA around 1970. Yet it has been claimed that there is a low degree of succ... Read More about The public interest environmental law group: from USA to Europe.

Cover Picture: Ann. Phys. 2'2018 (2018)
Journal Article
Verrelli, E., Michelakaki, I., Boukos, N., Kyriakou, G., & Tsoukalas, D. (2018). Cover Picture: Ann. Phys. 2'2018. Annalen der Physik, 530(2), https://doi.org/10.1002/andp.201870013

In article number 1700256, Emanuele Verrelli and co‐workers propose that cluster beam deposition of sub‐2nm magic number Au clusters, Au20 and Au55, on flat surfaces reveals a rich evolution of the phenomena taking place at substrate level. New magic... Read More about Cover Picture: Ann. Phys. 2'2018.

i-process contribution of rapidly accreting white dwarfs to the solar composition of first-peak neutron-capture elements (2018)
Journal Article
Côté, B., Denissenkov, P., Herwig, F., Ruiter, A. J., Ritter, C., Pignatari, M., & Belczynski, K. (2018). i-process contribution of rapidly accreting white dwarfs to the solar composition of first-peak neutron-capture elements. The Astrophysical journal, 854(2), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aaaae8

Rapidly accreting white dwarfs (RAWDs) have been proposed as contributors to the chemical evolution of heavy elements in the Galaxy. Here, we test this scenario for the first time and determine the contribution of RAWDs to the solar composition of fi... Read More about i-process contribution of rapidly accreting white dwarfs to the solar composition of first-peak neutron-capture elements.

Tuning catalytic selectivity in cascade reactions by light irradiation (2018)
Journal Article
Zhang, X., Yao, J., & Ke, X. (2018). Tuning catalytic selectivity in cascade reactions by light irradiation. Catalysis Letters, 148(4), 1124-1129. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10562-018-2320-9

Selectivity of cascade redox reactions: the reduction of nitrobenzene to azoxybenzene and then to azobenzene and the oxidation of benzyl alcohol to benzaldehyde and then to benzoic acid, is discovered to be tuneable via light irradiation over plasmon... Read More about Tuning catalytic selectivity in cascade reactions by light irradiation.

Asset allocation with time series momentum and reversal (2018)
Journal Article
He, X.-Z., Li, K., & Li, Y. (2018). Asset allocation with time series momentum and reversal. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 91, 441-457. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jedc.2018.02.004

To capture the well documented time series momentum and reversal in asset price, we develop a continuous-time asset price model, derive the optimal investment strategy theoretically, and test the strategy empirically. We show that, by combining marke... Read More about Asset allocation with time series momentum and reversal.

Particle Size Distribution Controls the Threshold Between Net Sediment Erosion and Deposition in Suspended Load Dominated Flows (2018)
Journal Article
Dorrell, R. M., Amy, L. A., Peakall, J., & McCaffrey, W. D. (2018). Particle Size Distribution Controls the Threshold Between Net Sediment Erosion and Deposition in Suspended Load Dominated Flows. Geophysical research letters, 45(3), 1443-1452. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017gl076489

©2018. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved. The central problem of describing most environmental and industrial flows is predicting when material is entrained into, or deposited from, suspension. The threshold between erosional and deposi... Read More about Particle Size Distribution Controls the Threshold Between Net Sediment Erosion and Deposition in Suspended Load Dominated Flows.

Two-hour post-challenge glucose is a better predictor of adverse outcome after myocardial infarction than fasting or admission glucose in patients without diabetes (2018)
Journal Article
Chattopadhyay, S., George, A., John, J., & Sathyapalan, T. (2018). Two-hour post-challenge glucose is a better predictor of adverse outcome after myocardial infarction than fasting or admission glucose in patients without diabetes. Acta Diabetologica, 55(5), 449–458. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00592-018-1114-2

Aims
We evaluate prevalence of new abnormal glucose tolerance (AGT) in post-MI survivors without known diabetes (DM) if guidelines are followed and compare the ability of admission (APG), fasting (FPG) and 2-h post-load plasma glucose (2h-PG) to pred... Read More about Two-hour post-challenge glucose is a better predictor of adverse outcome after myocardial infarction than fasting or admission glucose in patients without diabetes.

Th/U and U series systematics of saprolite: importance for the oceanic 234U excess (2018)
Journal Article
Suhr, N., Widdowson, M., McDermott, F., & Kamber, B. S. (2018). Th/U and U series systematics of saprolite: importance for the oceanic 234U excess. Geochemical Perspectives Letters, 6, 17-22. https://doi.org/10.7185/geochemlet.1803

The presence of excess 234U in seawater is a compelling argument for active delivery of solutes from the continents to the oceans. Previous studies found, however, that the complementary 234U deficit on the continents is surprisingly modest, which wo... Read More about Th/U and U series systematics of saprolite: importance for the oceanic 234U excess.

Survey of midwives' perinatal mental health knowledge, confidence, attitudes and learning needs (2018)
Journal Article
Noonan, M., Jomeen, J., Galvin, R., & Doody, O. (2018). Survey of midwives' perinatal mental health knowledge, confidence, attitudes and learning needs. Women and Birth, 31(6), e358-e366. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wombi.2018.02.002

Background

Midwives have a primary role in facilitating the first stage of perinatal mental health risk reduction through inquiring about perinatal mental health, identifying risk factors and current perinatal mental health problems, providing suppo... Read More about Survey of midwives' perinatal mental health knowledge, confidence, attitudes and learning needs.

A biomechanical analysis of prognathous and orthognathous insect head capsules: Evidence for a many to one mapping of ridge strain to head strain (2018)
Journal Article
Blanke, A., Pinheiro, M., Watson, P. J., & Fagan, M. J. (2018). A biomechanical analysis of prognathous and orthognathous insect head capsules: Evidence for a many to one mapping of ridge strain to head strain. Journal of evolutionary biology, 31(5), 665-674. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13251

Insect head shapes are remarkably variable but the influences of these changes on biomechanical performance are unclear. Among “basal” winged insects, such as dragonflies, mayflies, earwigs, and stoneflies, some of the most prominent anatomical chang... Read More about A biomechanical analysis of prognathous and orthognathous insect head capsules: Evidence for a many to one mapping of ridge strain to head strain.

Reversal of stress fibre formation by Nitric Oxide mediated RhoA inhibition leads to reduction in the height of preformed thrombi (2018)
Journal Article
Atkinson, L., Yusuf, M. Z., Aburima, A., Ahmed, Y., Thomas, S. G., Naseem, K. M., & Calaminus, S. D. J. (2018). Reversal of stress fibre formation by Nitric Oxide mediated RhoA inhibition leads to reduction in the height of preformed thrombi. Scientific reports, 8(1), Article ARTN 3032. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-21167-6

© 2018 The Author(s). Evidence has emerged to suggest that thrombi are dynamic structures with distinct areas of differing platelet activation and inhibition. We hypothesised that Nitric oxide (NO), a platelet inhibitor, can modulate the actin cytosk... Read More about Reversal of stress fibre formation by Nitric Oxide mediated RhoA inhibition leads to reduction in the height of preformed thrombi.

Speculative bubbles or explosive fundamentals in stock prices? New evidence from SADF and GSADF tests (2018)
Journal Article
El Montasser, G., Naoui, K., & Fry, J. (2018). Speculative bubbles or explosive fundamentals in stock prices? New evidence from SADF and GSADF tests. Journal of Statistics and Management Systems, 21(1), 93-106. https://doi.org/10.1080/09720510.2017.1401799

This paper uses recently developed sequential ADF tests to distinguish between rational speculative bubbles and explosive fundamentals in the US Stock market. The sequential ADF tests are shown to be more sensitive than the conventional ADF test. Res... Read More about Speculative bubbles or explosive fundamentals in stock prices? New evidence from SADF and GSADF tests.

Resistant adaptation: Reflections on escape from Italian prisons (2018)
Book Chapter
Santorso, S. (2018). Resistant adaptation: Reflections on escape from Italian prisons. In T. M. Martin, & G. Chantraine (Eds.), Prison Breaks: Toward a Sociology of Escape (87-112). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64358-8_4

Prison escape has been narrated as part of news sections, historical romances or TV fictions. Rarely has the academy taken into consideration the escape as part of prison life. This chapter aims to analyse prisoners’ biographies underlining the escap... Read More about Resistant adaptation: Reflections on escape from Italian prisons.

Liver resection surgery versus thermal ablation for colorectal LiVer MetAstases (LAVA): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial (2018)
Journal Article
Gurusamy, K., Corrigan, N., Croft, J., Twiddy, M., Morris, S., Woodward, N., Bandula, S., Hochhauser, D., Napp, V., Pullan, A., Jakowiw, N., Prasad, R., Damink, S. O., van Laarhoven, C. J., de Wilt, J. H., Brown, J., & Davidson, B. R. (2018). Liver resection surgery versus thermal ablation for colorectal LiVer MetAstases (LAVA): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials, 19(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-018-2499-5

Background:Although surgical resection has been considered the only curative option for colorectal livermetastases (CLM), thermal ablation has recently been suggested as an alternative curative treatment. A prospective randomised trial is required to... Read More about Liver resection surgery versus thermal ablation for colorectal LiVer MetAstases (LAVA): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.

The effect of a simulated commercial flight environment with hypoxia and low humidity on clotting, platelet, and endothelial function in participants with type 2 diabetes - A cross-over study (2018)
Journal Article
Konya, J., Spurgeon, B. E. J., Al Qaissi, A., Sathyapalan, T., Ajjan, R., Madden, L., Naseem, K. M., Garrett, A. T., Kilpatrick, E., & Atkin, S. L. (2018). The effect of a simulated commercial flight environment with hypoxia and low humidity on clotting, platelet, and endothelial function in participants with type 2 diabetes - A cross-over study. Frontiers in endocrinology, 9(FEB), Article 26. https://doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2018.00026

© 2018 Konya, Al Qaissi, Sathyapalan, Ajjan, Madden, Naseem, Garrett, Kilpatrick and Atkin. Aims: To determine if clotting, platelet, and endothelial function were affected by simulated short-haul commercial air flight conditions (SF) in participants... Read More about The effect of a simulated commercial flight environment with hypoxia and low humidity on clotting, platelet, and endothelial function in participants with type 2 diabetes - A cross-over study.

Imprisoned mothers in Victorian England, 1853–1900: Motherhood, identity and the convict prison (2018)
Journal Article
Johnston, H. (2019). Imprisoned mothers in Victorian England, 1853–1900: Motherhood, identity and the convict prison. Criminology & criminal Justice, 19(2), 215-231. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895818757833

This article explores the experiences of imprisoned mothers in the Victorian convict prison system. It argues that motherhood, of central importance to the ideals of Victorian femininity, was disrupted and fractured by women's long-term imprisonment... Read More about Imprisoned mothers in Victorian England, 1853–1900: Motherhood, identity and the convict prison.

Is cough important in acute exacerbations of COPD? (2018)
Journal Article
Crooks, M. G., Brown, T., & Morice, A. H. (2018). Is cough important in acute exacerbations of COPD?. Respiratory Physiology and Neurobiology, 257, 30-35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resp.2018.02.005

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is predicted to become the 4th leading cause of death worldwide by 2030. The natural history of the disease includes progressive symptoms punctuated by acute exacerbations during which symptoms rapidly deteriorat... Read More about Is cough important in acute exacerbations of COPD?.

Social responsibility on the Internet: Addressing the challenge of cyberbullying (2018)
Journal Article
Cohen-Almagor, R. (2018). Social responsibility on the Internet: Addressing the challenge of cyberbullying. Aggression and violent behavior, 39, 42-52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avb.2018.01.001

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd This article discusses the phenomena of cyberbullying especially among young people. The discussion, based on an interdisciplinary study in the fields of brain studies, child development, psychology, social policy, victimization a... Read More about Social responsibility on the Internet: Addressing the challenge of cyberbullying.

Preschoolers fast map and retain artifact functions as efficiently as artifact names, but artifact actions are the most easily learned (2018)
Journal Article
Holland, A. K., Hyde, G., Riggs, K. J., & Simpson, A. (2018). Preschoolers fast map and retain artifact functions as efficiently as artifact names, but artifact actions are the most easily learned. Journal of experimental child psychology, 170, 57-71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2017.12.013

To become skilled artifact users, children must learn the actions and functions associated with artifacts. We investigated preschoolers’ ability to fast map an action, function and name associated with a novel artifact, and retain the new mapping lon... Read More about Preschoolers fast map and retain artifact functions as efficiently as artifact names, but artifact actions are the most easily learned.