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Hydrodynamic modelling of tidal-fluvial flows in a large river estuary (2018)
Journal Article
Sandbach, S., Nicholas, A., Ashworth, P., Best, J., Keevil, C., Parsons, D., …Simpson, C. (2018). Hydrodynamic modelling of tidal-fluvial flows in a large river estuary. Estuarine, coastal and shelf science, 212, 176-188. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2018.06.023

© 2018 The Authors The transition between riverine and estuarine environments is characterised by a change from unidirectional to bidirectional flows, in a region referred to herein as the Tidally-Influenced Fluvial Zone (TIFZ). In order to improve o... Read More about Hydrodynamic modelling of tidal-fluvial flows in a large river estuary.

Midwifery abdication – is it acknowledged or discussed within the midwifery literature: An integrative review (2018)
Journal Article
within the midwifery literature: An integrative review. European Journal of Midwifery, 2(June), Article 6. https://doi.org/10.18332/ejm/92529

Aim: To explore the concept of ‘Midwifery Abdication’ and whether it is acknowledged or discussed within the midwifery literature. Method:A modified Whittemore and Knafl (2005) integrative review framework enabled consideration of quantitative and q... Read More about Midwifery abdication – is it acknowledged or discussed within the midwifery literature: An integrative review.

The Progressives (2018)
Book Chapter
Beech, M. (2018). The Progressives. In M. Beech, K. Hickson, & R. Plant (Eds.), The Struggle for Labour's Soul: Understanding Labour's Political Thought Since 1945 (67-79). (2nd edition). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315170848-6

The chapter on New Labour in the first edition of this volume was finished in 2003. Tony Blair resigned in 2007 and Gordon Brown left office in 2010. This chapter seeks not to cover previous ground but to take the long view. By that I mean to explain... Read More about The Progressives.

Low serum chloride in patients with chronic heart failure: clinical associations and prognostic significance (2018)
Journal Article
Cuthbert, J. J., Pellicori, P., Rigby, A., Pan, D., Kazmi, S., Shah, P., & Clark, A. L. (2018). Low serum chloride in patients with chronic heart failure: clinical associations and prognostic significance. European journal of heart failure, 20(10), 1426-1435. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejhf.1247

© 2018 The Authors. European Journal of Heart Failure © 2018 European Society of Cardiology Background: Low serum chloride is common in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) and is associated with worse outcomes. We investigated the clinical and... Read More about Low serum chloride in patients with chronic heart failure: clinical associations and prognostic significance.

Automatic visual-spatial perspective taking in alcohol-dependence: A study with happy emotional faces (2018)
Journal Article
Cox, S., Maurage, P., O'Connor, R., Chandler, C., & Riggs, K. (2018). Automatic visual-spatial perspective taking in alcohol-dependence: A study with happy emotional faces. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 190, 42-45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2018.05.025

Background: Understanding the world from another’s perspective is an important and potentially automatic human process which is crucial for efficient social interactions. However, whilst deficits have been repeatedly described for various interperson... Read More about Automatic visual-spatial perspective taking in alcohol-dependence: A study with happy emotional faces.

Digital dystopia: Surveillance, Autonomy and Social Justice in Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story (2018)
Journal Article
Willmetts, S. (2018). Digital dystopia: Surveillance, Autonomy and Social Justice in Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story. American Quarterly, 70(2), 267-289

This essay proposes Gary Shteyngart's dystopian satire, Super Sad True Love Story, as an appropriate heuristic model for understanding surveillance and society in the twenty-first century. While George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four remains influentia... Read More about Digital dystopia: Surveillance, Autonomy and Social Justice in Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story.

Reframing global palliative care advocacy for the sustainable development goal era: A qualitative study of the views of international palliative care experts (2018)
Journal Article
Clark, J., Barnes, A., & Gardiner, C. (2018). Reframing global palliative care advocacy for the sustainable development goal era: A qualitative study of the views of international palliative care experts. Journal of pain and symptom management, 56(3), 363-370. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2018.06.009

Context The World Health Assembly Palliative Care Resolution in 2014 and the inclusion of palliative care within the sustainable development goals raised optimism that palliative care would no longer be a peripheral aspect of global health. However,... Read More about Reframing global palliative care advocacy for the sustainable development goal era: A qualitative study of the views of international palliative care experts.

Selective radiolabelling with 68Ga under mild conditions: a route towards a porphyrin PET/PDT theranostic agent (2018)
Journal Article
Yap, S. Y., Price, T. W., Savoie, H., Boyle, R. W., & Stasiuk, G. J. (2018). Selective radiolabelling with 68Ga under mild conditions: a route towards a porphyrin PET/PDT theranostic agent. Chemical communications : Chem comm / the Royal Society of Chemistry, 54(57), 7952-7954. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8cc03897j

A theranostic conjugate for use as a positron emission tomography (PET) radiotracer and as a photosensitiser for photodynamic therapy (PDT) has been synthesised. A water-soluble porphyrin was coupled with the bifunctional chelate, H4Dpaa.ga. This con... Read More about Selective radiolabelling with 68Ga under mild conditions: a route towards a porphyrin PET/PDT theranostic agent.

Dynamic risk stratification using serial measurements of plasma concentrations of natriuretic peptides in patients with heart failure (2018)
Journal Article
Zhang, J., Pellicori, P., Pan, D., Dierckx, R., Clark, A. L., & Cleland, J. (2018). Dynamic risk stratification using serial measurements of plasma concentrations of natriuretic peptides in patients with heart failure. International journal of cardiology, 269, 196-200. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcard.2018.06.070

Background Prognostic models for patients with chronic heart failure are generally based on a single assessment but treatment is often given with the intention of changing risk; re- evaluation of risk is an important aspect of care. The prognostic va... Read More about Dynamic risk stratification using serial measurements of plasma concentrations of natriuretic peptides in patients with heart failure.

Test-Retest reliability of a commercial linear position transducer (GymAware PowerTool) to measure velocity and power in the Back Squat and Bench Press (2018)
Journal Article
Orange, S. T., Metcalfe, J. W., Vince, R. V., Marshall, P., Madden, L. A., & Liefeith, A. (2020). Test-Retest reliability of a commercial linear position transducer (GymAware PowerTool) to measure velocity and power in the Back Squat and Bench Press. Journal of strength and conditioning research, 34(3), 728-737. https://doi.org/10.1519/JSC.0000000000002715

This study examined the test-retest reliability of the GymAware PowerTool (GYM) to measure velocity and power in the free-weight back squat and bench press. Twenty-nine academy rugby league players (age: 17.6 ± 1.0 years; body mass: 87.3 ± 20.8 kg) c... Read More about Test-Retest reliability of a commercial linear position transducer (GymAware PowerTool) to measure velocity and power in the Back Squat and Bench Press.

Synergistic effects of lignin and cellulose during pyrolysis of agricultural waste. (2018)
Journal Article
Volpe, R., Zabaniotou, A. A., & Skoulou, V. (2018). Synergistic effects of lignin and cellulose during pyrolysis of agricultural waste. Energy and Fuels, 32(8), 8420-8430. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.8b00767

© 2018 American Chemical Society. Varying lignin and cellulose contents in agro-waste cause feed-stock to respond differently during their thermochemical conversion. The effect of pyrolysis temperature (400, 500, 600oC) and feedstock composition on p... Read More about Synergistic effects of lignin and cellulose during pyrolysis of agricultural waste..

The effect of Glucose Concentration (5.6 mM vs. 17 mM) During IVM on Developmental and Metabolic Markers of Equine Cumulus-oocyte Complex Function (2018)
Journal Article
Lewis, N., Hinrichs, K., Brison, D., Sturmey, R., & McG. Argo, C. (2018). The effect of Glucose Concentration (5.6 mM vs. 17 mM) During IVM on Developmental and Metabolic Markers of Equine Cumulus-oocyte Complex Function. Journal of Equine Veterinary Science, 66, 181. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jevs.2018.05.073

Both M199 and DMEM/F-12 support in vitro maturation (IVM) of equine oocytes and production of viable embryos after ICSI. However, these media differ markedly in glucose concentration: 5.6 mM (M199) vs. 17 mM (DMEM/F-12). Given the known impact of emb... Read More about The effect of Glucose Concentration (5.6 mM vs. 17 mM) During IVM on Developmental and Metabolic Markers of Equine Cumulus-oocyte Complex Function.

Breathlessness and sexual activity in older adults: The Australian Longitudinal Study of Ageing (2018)
Journal Article
Ekström, M., Johnson, M. J., Taylor, B., Luszcz, M., Wohland, P., Ferreira, D. H., & Currow, D. C. (2018). Breathlessness and sexual activity in older adults: The Australian Longitudinal Study of Ageing. NPJ Primary Care Respiratory Medicine, 28(1), Article 20 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41533-018-0090-x

© 2018 The Author(s). Sexual activity is important to older adults (65 +). Breathlessness affects about 25% of older adults but impact on sexual activity is unknown. We evaluated the relationships between breathlessness and sexual inactivity and self... Read More about Breathlessness and sexual activity in older adults: The Australian Longitudinal Study of Ageing.

Advanced sliding mode control techniques for Inverted Pendulum: Modelling and simulation (2018)
Journal Article
Irfan, S., Mehmood, A., Razzaq, M. T., & Iqbal, J. (2018). Advanced sliding mode control techniques for Inverted Pendulum: Modelling and simulation. Engineering Science and Technology : an International Journal, 21(4), 753-759. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jestch.2018.06.010

Numerous practical applications like robot balancing, segway and hover board riding and operation of a rocket propeller are inherently based on Inverted Pendulum (IP). The control of an IP is a sophisticated problem due to various real world phenomen... Read More about Advanced sliding mode control techniques for Inverted Pendulum: Modelling and simulation.

Community pharmacist-led interventions and their impact on patients’ medication adherence and other health outcomes: a systematic review (2018)
Journal Article
Milosavljevic, A., Aspden, T., & Harrison, J. (2018). Community pharmacist-led interventions and their impact on patients’ medication adherence and other health outcomes: a systematic review. The International journal of pharmacy practice, 26(5), 387-397. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijpp.12462

Introduction Medication adherence can be defined as the extent to which one’s medication‐taking behaviour follows that mutually agreed upon by the prescribing physician. Optimal medication adherence is often deemed crucial for the success of a patie... Read More about Community pharmacist-led interventions and their impact on patients’ medication adherence and other health outcomes: a systematic review.

Price discovery in the Chinese gold market (2018)
Journal Article
Jin, M., Li, Y., Wang, J., & Yang, Y. C. (2018). Price discovery in the Chinese gold market. Journal of Futures Markets, 38(10), 1262-1281. https://doi.org/10.1002/fut.21938

This study conducts price discovery analysis in the Chinese gold market. Our results indicate that Chinese gold market price discovery occurs predominantly in the futures market. The result is robust to numerous different measures of price discovery,... Read More about Price discovery in the Chinese gold market.

A Facile synthesis of silver modified ZnO nanoplates for efficient removal of ofloxacin drug in aqueous phase under solar irradiation (2018)
Journal Article
Kaur, A., Gupta, G., Ibhadon, A. O., Salunke, D. B., Sinha, A. S., & Kansal, S. K. (2018). A Facile synthesis of silver modified ZnO nanoplates for efficient removal of ofloxacin drug in aqueous phase under solar irradiation. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 6(3), 3621-3630. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jece.2017.05.032

Here we report, silver modified ZnO was successfully synthesized via hydrothermal method. The as-prepared material was further characterized in detail for their structural, morphological and optical properties using X-ray diffraction, Fourier transfo... Read More about A Facile synthesis of silver modified ZnO nanoplates for efficient removal of ofloxacin drug in aqueous phase under solar irradiation.

Relationships between walking speed, T-score and age with gait parameters in older post-menopausal women with low bone mineral density (2018)
Journal Article
Dostanpor, A., Dobson, C. A., & Vanicek, N. (2018). Relationships between walking speed, T-score and age with gait parameters in older post-menopausal women with low bone mineral density. Gait and Posture, 64, 230-237. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gaitpost.2018.05.005

Background: The gait patterns of women with low bone mineral density (BMD) or osteoporosis have not been thoroughly explored, and when examined, often studied in relation to falls and kyphosis. Research question: The aim of this study was to investig... Read More about Relationships between walking speed, T-score and age with gait parameters in older post-menopausal women with low bone mineral density.

A proposed interdisciplinary framework for the environmental management of water and air-borne emissions in maritime logistics (2018)
Journal Article
Grant, D. B., & Elliott, M. (2018). A proposed interdisciplinary framework for the environmental management of water and air-borne emissions in maritime logistics. Ocean and Coastal Management, 163, 162-172. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2018.06.011

This paper develops and tests a conceptual environmental risk assessment and management framework to guide businesses and other stakeholders, including government, in defining and addressing potential environmental problems in ocean shipping and port... Read More about A proposed interdisciplinary framework for the environmental management of water and air-borne emissions in maritime logistics.