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The role of high resolution oesophageal manometry in occult respiratory symptoms (2018)
Journal Article
Burke, J. M., Jackson, W., & Morice, A. H. (2018). The role of high resolution oesophageal manometry in occult respiratory symptoms. Respiratory medicine, 138, 47-49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rmed.2018.03.027

Purpose: Cough Hypersensitivity Syndrome is the urge to cough following minimal stimulation, but its mechanism and method of provocation remain unexplained. 121 patients (44 males, 77 females; age range 18–81 years) were evaluated. Procedures: High r... Read More about The role of high resolution oesophageal manometry in occult respiratory symptoms.

Opportunistic screening for alcohol use problems in adolescents attending emergency departments: an evaluation of screening tools (2018)
Journal Article
Coulton, S., Alam, M. F., Boniface, S., Deluca, P., Donoghue, K., Gilvarry, E., Kaner, E., Lynch, E., Maconochie, I., McArdle, P., McGovern, R., Newbury-Birch, D., Patton, R., Phillips, C. J., Phillips, T., Rose, H., Russell, I., Strang, J., & Drummond, C. (2019). Opportunistic screening for alcohol use problems in adolescents attending emergency departments: an evaluation of screening tools. Journal of Public Health, 41(1), e53-e60. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdy049

Objective
To estimate and compare the optimal cut-off score of Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) and AUDIT-C in identifying at-risk alcohol consumption, heavy episodic alcohol use, ICD-10 alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence in adoles... Read More about Opportunistic screening for alcohol use problems in adolescents attending emergency departments: an evaluation of screening tools.

The role of negative and positive forms of power in supporting CSR alignment and commitment between large firms and SMEs (2018)
Journal Article
Harness, D., Ranaweera, C., Karjaluoto, H., & Jayawardhena, C. (2018). The role of negative and positive forms of power in supporting CSR alignment and commitment between large firms and SMEs. Industrial marketing management, 75, 17-30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indmarman.2018.03.006

Do large firms exert power to shape the CSR behavior of their SME partners?” We answer this question by proposing a model built on the stakeholder theory and the shareholder theory, and go on to explain how this impact influences the commitment of th... Read More about The role of negative and positive forms of power in supporting CSR alignment and commitment between large firms and SMEs.

Joint moment strategies during stair descent in patients with peripheral arterial disease and intermittent claudication (2018)
Journal Article
King, S. L., Vanicek, N., & O'Brien, T. D. (2018). Joint moment strategies during stair descent in patients with peripheral arterial disease and intermittent claudication. Gait and Posture, 62, 359-365. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gaitpost.2018.03.035

Objective
To determine the lower limb joint kinetic strategies during stair descent in claudicants with peripheral arterial disease (PAD-IC).

Design
Cross-sectional observation study.

Setting
University laboratory.

Participants
A total of 22 parti... Read More about Joint moment strategies during stair descent in patients with peripheral arterial disease and intermittent claudication.

Anticancer properties of essential oils and other natural products (2018)
Journal Article
Blowman, K., Magalhães, M., Lemos, M. F., Cabral, C., & Pires, I. M. (2018). Anticancer properties of essential oils and other natural products. Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM, 2018, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/3149362

Essential oils are secondary metabolites with a key-role in plants protection, consisting primarily of terpenes with a volatile nature and a diverse array of chemical structures. Essential oils exhibit a wide range of bioactivities, especially antimi... Read More about Anticancer properties of essential oils and other natural products.

Self-reported skin concerns: An epidemiological study of community-dwelling older people (2018)
Journal Article
Cowdell, F., Dyson, J., Long, J., & Macleod, U. (2018). Self-reported skin concerns: An epidemiological study of community-dwelling older people. International journal of older people nursing, 13(3), e12195. https://doi.org/10.1111/opn.12195

Background
Globally the population is getting older and it is essential to develop effective interventions to promote healthy ageing. Skin change with age is inevitable and renders this often neglected organ more vulnerable to damage and breakdown;... Read More about Self-reported skin concerns: An epidemiological study of community-dwelling older people.

An SCFfbxo28 E3 ligase protects pancreatic β-cells from apoptosis (2018)
Journal Article
Gorrepati, K. D. D., He, W., Lupse, B., Yuan, T., Maedler, K., & Ardestani, A. (2018). An SCFfbxo28 E3 ligase protects pancreatic β-cells from apoptosis. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 19(4), Article 975. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms19040975

Loss of pancreatic β-cell function and/or mass is a central hallmark of all forms of diabetes but its molecular basis is incompletely understood. β-cell apoptosis contributes to the reduced β-cell mass in diabetes. Therefore, the identification of im... Read More about An SCFfbxo28 E3 ligase protects pancreatic β-cells from apoptosis.

Loss of Deubiquitinase USP1 Blocks Pancreatic β-Cell Apoptosis by Inhibiting DNA Damage Response (2018)
Journal Article
Gorrepati, K. D. D., Lupse, B., Annamalai, K., Yuan, T., Maedler, K., & Ardestani, A. (2018). Loss of Deubiquitinase USP1 Blocks Pancreatic β-Cell Apoptosis by Inhibiting DNA Damage Response. iScience, 1, 72-86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2018.02.003

Impaired pancreatic β-cell survival contributes to the reduced β-cell mass in diabetes, but underlying regulatory mechanisms and key players in this process remain incompletely understood. Here, we identified the deubiquitinase ubiquitin-specific pro... Read More about Loss of Deubiquitinase USP1 Blocks Pancreatic β-Cell Apoptosis by Inhibiting DNA Damage Response.

A plant-like mitochondrial carrier family protein facilitates mitochondrial transport of di- and tricarboxylates in Trypanosoma brucei (2018)
Journal Article
Colasante, C., Zheng, F., Kemp, C., & Voncken, F. (2018). A plant-like mitochondrial carrier family protein facilitates mitochondrial transport of di- and tricarboxylates in Trypanosoma brucei. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, 221, 36-51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molbiopara.2018.03.003

The procyclic form of the human parasite Trypanosoma brucei harbors one single, large mitochondrion containing all tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle enzymes and respiratory chain complexes present also in higher eukaryotes. Metabolite exchange among sub... Read More about A plant-like mitochondrial carrier family protein facilitates mitochondrial transport of di- and tricarboxylates in Trypanosoma brucei.

Shaping metal-organic framework materials with a honeycomb internal structure (2018)
Journal Article
Zhang, Y., Cai, J., Zhang, D., Ke, X., & Zhang, L. (2018). Shaping metal-organic framework materials with a honeycomb internal structure. Chemical communications : Chem comm / the Royal Society of Chemistry, 54(30), 3775-3778. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8cc01289j

© 2018 The Royal Society of Chemistry. A self-assembly technology allows metal-organic framework materials to constitute a honeycomb internal structure while being shaped into millimeter-scale spheres. The ZIF-8 load is up to 83 wt% through solidific... Read More about Shaping metal-organic framework materials with a honeycomb internal structure.

Establishing a coherent and replicable measurement model of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (2018)
Journal Article
Martin, C. R., & Redshaw, M. (2018). Establishing a coherent and replicable measurement model of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale. Psychiatry research, 264, 182-191. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2018.03.062

© 2018 The Authors The 10-item Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) is an established screening tool for postnatal depression. Inconsistent findings in factor structure and replication difficulties have limited the scope of development of the... Read More about Establishing a coherent and replicable measurement model of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale.

Leadership style and organisational commitment among nursing staff in Saudi Arabia (2018)
Journal Article
Al-Yami, M., Galdas, P., & Watson, R. (2018). Leadership style and organisational commitment among nursing staff in Saudi Arabia. Journal of nursing management, 26(5), 531-539. https://doi.org/10.1111/jonm.12578

© 2018 The Authors. Aims: To examine how nurse managers' leadership styles, and nurses' organisational commitment in Saudi Arabia relate. Background: Effective leadership is influential in staff retention; however, recruiting and maintaining nurses i... Read More about Leadership style and organisational commitment among nursing staff in Saudi Arabia.

Effect of beta-adrenergic blockade on weight changes in patients with chronic heart failure (2018)
Journal Article
Sze, S., Pellicori, P., Kamzi, S., Anton, A., & Clark, A. L. (2018). Effect of beta-adrenergic blockade on weight changes in patients with chronic heart failure. International journal of cardiology, 264, 104-112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcard.2018.03.089

Abstract:
Background:
Weight loss is common in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) and is associated with adverse outcome. Activation of the sympathetic nervous system has been implicated in weight loss, wasting and cachexia. However, the effe... Read More about Effect of beta-adrenergic blockade on weight changes in patients with chronic heart failure.

Neuroscientific deconstruction of the ideologised »hopelessness« of the vegetative state (2018)
Journal Article
Čartolovni, A. (2018). Neuroscientific deconstruction of the ideologised »hopelessness« of the vegetative state. Nova prisutnost časopis za intelektualna i duhovna pitanja, XVI(1), 73-87. https://doi.org/10.31192/np.16.1.5

Recent neuroscientific research challenges today's prejudice of a vegetative state as a «hopeless» state. The results from these findings not only destroy the actual existing prejudices about people in a vegetative state, but they also provide a new... Read More about Neuroscientific deconstruction of the ideologised »hopelessness« of the vegetative state.

The influence of solvent representation on nuclear shielding calculations of protonation states of small biological molecules (2018)
Journal Article
Roggatz, C. C., Lorch, M., & Benoit, D. M. (2018). The influence of solvent representation on nuclear shielding calculations of protonation states of small biological molecules. Journal of chemical theory and computation : JCTC, 14(5), 2684-2695. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.7b01020

In this study, we assess the influence of solvation on the accuracy and reliability of isotropic nuclear magnetic shielding calculations for amino acids in comparison to experimental data. We focus particularly on the performance of solvation methods... Read More about The influence of solvent representation on nuclear shielding calculations of protonation states of small biological molecules.

Accurate geometry modeling of vasculatures using implicit fitting with 2D radial basis functions (2018)
Journal Article
Hong, Q., Li, Q., Wang, B., Liu, K., Lin, F., Lin, J., Cheng, X., Zhang, Z., & Zeng, M. (2018). Accurate geometry modeling of vasculatures using implicit fitting with 2D radial basis functions. Computer aided geometric design, 62, 206-216. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cagd.2018.03.006

Accurate vascular geometry modeling is an essential task in computer assisted vascular surgery and therapy. This paper presents a vessel cross-section based implicit vascular modeling technique, which represents a vascular surface as a set of locally... Read More about Accurate geometry modeling of vasculatures using implicit fitting with 2D radial basis functions.

Security feature measurement for frequent dynamic execution paths in software system (2018)
Journal Article
Wang, Q., Ren, J., Yang, X., Cheng, Y., Davis, D. N., & Hu, C. (2018). Security feature measurement for frequent dynamic execution paths in software system. Security and communication networks, 2018, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/5716878

© 2018 Qian Wang et al. The scale and complexity of software systems are constantly increasing, imposing new challenges for software fault location and daily maintenance. In this paper, the Security Feature measurement algorithm of Frequent dynamic e... Read More about Security feature measurement for frequent dynamic execution paths in software system.

Factor analysis and Mokken scaling of the Organizational Commitment Questionnaire in nurses (2018)
Journal Article
Al-Yami, M., Galdas, P., & Watson, R. (2019). Factor analysis and Mokken scaling of the Organizational Commitment Questionnaire in nurses. International Nursing Review, 66(1), 52-60. https://doi.org/10.1111/inr.12454

Aims: To generate an Arabic version of the Organizational Commitment Questionnaire that would be easily understood by Arabic speakers and would be sensitive to Arabic culture. Background: The nursing workforce in Saudi Arabia is undergoing a process... Read More about Factor analysis and Mokken scaling of the Organizational Commitment Questionnaire in nurses.

The role of country-level institutional factors in escaping the natural resource curse: Insights from Ghana (2018)
Journal Article
Adams, D., Ullah, S., Akhtar, P., Adams, K., & Saidi, S. (2019). The role of country-level institutional factors in escaping the natural resource curse: Insights from Ghana. Resources policy, 61, 433-440. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2018.03.005

Empirical research shows that developing countries that are rich in natural resources tend to suffer slow economic growth and development due to various factors such as quality of institutions, governance, among others. The phenomenon of slow growth... Read More about The role of country-level institutional factors in escaping the natural resource curse: Insights from Ghana.