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Synthesis and antimicrobial effects of highly dispersed, cellulose-stabilized silver/cellulose nanocomposites (2018)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Second pregnancy prevention among teenagers (2018)
Journal Article
Hayter, M., & Jones, C. (2018). Second pregnancy prevention among teenagers. Community Practitioner, 44-46

Practitioners’ perspectives were used to evaluate a sexual health service designed to prevent second unplanned teenage pregnancy. The service is called Preventing Second Pregnancy (P2P). According to the Family Planning Association (FPA), the UK h... Read More about Second pregnancy prevention among teenagers.

India’s PSYWAR Against Islamic Terrorism: A Trident Strategy (2018)
Journal Article
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)
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., …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., 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)
Journal Article
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)
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., …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., …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.