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Effect of creatine supplementation on the airways of youth elite soccer players (2019)
Journal Article
Simpson, A. J., Horne, S., Sharp, P., Sharps, R., & Kippelen, P. (2019). Effect of creatine supplementation on the airways of youth elite soccer players. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 51(8), 1582-1590. https://doi.org/10.1249/MSS.0000000000001979

Introduction Owing to its well-established ergogenic potential, creatine is a highly popular food supplement in sports. As an oral supplement, creatine is considered safe and ethical. However, no data exist on the safety of creatine on lung function... Read More about Effect of creatine supplementation on the airways of youth elite soccer players.

Autism prevalence in China is comparable to Western prevalence (2019)
Journal Article
Sun, X., Allison, C., Wei, L., Matthews, F. E., Auyeung, B., Wu, Y. Y., …Brayne, C. (2019). Autism prevalence in China is comparable to Western prevalence. Molecular Autism, 10(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13229-018-0246-0

Background: Autism prevalence in the West is approximately 1% of school age children. Autism prevalence in China has been reported to be lower than in the West. This is likely due to at least two reasons: (1) most studies in China only included the s... Read More about Autism prevalence in China is comparable to Western prevalence.

Safety and efficacy of a sirolimus-eluting coronary stent with ultra-thin strut for treatment of atherosclerotic lesions (TALENT): a prospective multicentre randomised controlled trial (2019)
Journal Article
Zaman, A., de Winter, R. J., Kogame, N., Chang, C. C., Modolo, R., Spitzer, E., Tonino, P., Hofma, S., Zurakowski, A., Smits, P. C., Prokopczuk, J., Moreno, R., Choudhury, A., Petrov, I., Cequier, A., Kukreja, N., Hoye, A., Iniguez, A., Ungi, I., Serra, A., …Serruys, P. W. (2019). Safety and efficacy of a sirolimus-eluting coronary stent with ultra-thin strut for treatment of atherosclerotic lesions (TALENT): a prospective multicentre randomised controlled trial. Lancet, 393(10175), 987-997. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736%2818%2932467-X

Background: Supraflex is a sirolimus-eluting stent with a biodegradable polymer coating and ultra-thin struts. We aimed to compare Supraflex with the standard of care, Xience, an everolimus-eluting stent with a durable polymer coating, regarding clin... Read More about Safety and efficacy of a sirolimus-eluting coronary stent with ultra-thin strut for treatment of atherosclerotic lesions (TALENT): a prospective multicentre randomised controlled trial.

Post Treatment for Prostate Cancer: The Experiences and Psychosocial Needs of Black African and Black Caribbean Men and their Partners (2019)
Thesis
Bamidele, O. (2019). Post Treatment for Prostate Cancer: The Experiences and Psychosocial Needs of Black African and Black Caribbean Men and their Partners. (Thesis). Ulster University. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/3303524

This study explored the experiences, psychosocial needs and how best to address them after prostate cancer treatment for Black African/Black Caribbean men and their partners in England. Cancer statistics in the United Kingdom show that Black African... Read More about Post Treatment for Prostate Cancer: The Experiences and Psychosocial Needs of Black African and Black Caribbean Men and their Partners.

Maximising motivators for technology-enhanced learning for further education teachers: moving beyond the early adopters in a time of austerity (2019)
Journal Article
Armstrong, E. J. (2019). Maximising motivators for technology-enhanced learning for further education teachers: moving beyond the early adopters in a time of austerity. Research in Learning Technology, 27, https://doi.org/10.25304/rlt.v27.2032

Technology-enhanced learning (TEL) has become a prominent issue in further education (FE) since the publication of the Further Education Learning Technology Action Group (FELTAG) report in 2014, but many initiatives have concentrated on digital compe... Read More about Maximising motivators for technology-enhanced learning for further education teachers: moving beyond the early adopters in a time of austerity.

Statistical design and analysis in trials of proportionate interventions: a systematic review (2019)
Journal Article
Candlish, J., Teare, M. D., Cohen, J., & Bywater, T. (2019). Statistical design and analysis in trials of proportionate interventions: a systematic review. Trials, 20(1), Article 151. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-019-3206-x

Background: In proportionate or adaptive interventions, the dose or intensity can be adjusted based on individual need at predefined decision stages during the delivery of the intervention. The development of such interventions may require an evaluat... Read More about Statistical design and analysis in trials of proportionate interventions: a systematic review.

Automatic classification method for software vulnerability based on deep neural network (2019)
Journal Article
Huang, G., Li, Y., Wang, Q., Ren, J., Cheng, Y., & Zhao, X. (2019). Automatic classification method for software vulnerability based on deep neural network. IEEE Access, 7, 28291-28298. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2900462

Software vulnerabilities are the root causes of various security risks. Once a vulnerability is exploited by malicious attacks, it will greatly compromise the safety of the system, and may even cause catastrophic losses. Hence automatic classificatio... Read More about Automatic classification method for software vulnerability based on deep neural network.

Predicting blood pressure from physiological index data using the SVR algorithm (2019)
Journal Article
Zhang, B., Ren, H., Huang, G., Cheng, Y., & Hu, C. (2019). Predicting blood pressure from physiological index data using the SVR algorithm. BMC Bioinformatics, 20(1), Article 109. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-019-2667-y

© 2019 The Author(s). Background: Blood pressure diseases have increasingly been identified as among the main factors threatening human health. How to accurately and conveniently measure blood pressure is the key to the implementation of effective pr... Read More about Predicting blood pressure from physiological index data using the SVR algorithm.

More than bricks and mortar: Female property ownership as economic strategy in mid-nineteenth-century urban England (2019)
Journal Article
Aston, J., Capern, A., & McDonagh, B. (2019). More than bricks and mortar: Female property ownership as economic strategy in mid-nineteenth-century urban England. Urban history, 46(4), 695-721. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963926819000142

Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2019Â. This article uses a quantitative and qualitative methodology to examine the role that women played as property owners in three mid-nineteenth-century English towns. Using data from the previously under-ut... Read More about More than bricks and mortar: Female property ownership as economic strategy in mid-nineteenth-century urban England.

Translational research on reserve against neurodegenerative disease: Consensus report of the International Conference on Cognitive Reserve in the Dementias and the Alzheimer's Association Reserve, Resilience and Protective Factors Professional Interest Area working groups (2019)
Journal Article
Perneczky, R., Kempermann, G., Korczyn, A. D., Matthews, F. E., Ikram, M. A., Scarmeas, N., …Ewers, M. (2019). Translational research on reserve against neurodegenerative disease: Consensus report of the International Conference on Cognitive Reserve in the Dementias and the Alzheimer's Association Reserve, Resilience and Protective Factors Professional Interest Area working groups. BMC medicine, 17(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-019-1283-z

Background: The concept of reserve was established to account for the observation that a given degree of neurodegenerative pathology may result in varying degrees of symptoms in different individuals. There is a large amount of evidence on epidemiolo... Read More about Translational research on reserve against neurodegenerative disease: Consensus report of the International Conference on Cognitive Reserve in the Dementias and the Alzheimer's Association Reserve, Resilience and Protective Factors Professional Interest Area working groups.

Exploring teachers’ and pupils’ behaviour in online and face-to-face instrumental lessons (2019)
Journal Article
King, A., Prior, H., & Waddington-Jones, C. (2019). Exploring teachers’ and pupils’ behaviour in online and face-to-face instrumental lessons. Music education research, 21(2), 197-209. https://doi.org/10.1080/14613808.2019.1585791

The provision of instrumental lessons in certain areas of England can be hampered by the geographical position of some schools that are rural in nature, with teachers needing to travel long distances between schools. Internet-based technologies have... Read More about Exploring teachers’ and pupils’ behaviour in online and face-to-face instrumental lessons.

Are mentors failing to fail underperforming student nurses? An integrative literature review (2019)
Journal Article
Wray, J., Kennedy, M., & North, H. (2019). Are mentors failing to fail underperforming student nurses? An integrative literature review. British Journal of Nursing, 28(4), 250-255. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2019.28.4.250

Aim: this review aimed to identify and review primary research to address the question: ‘Is there evidence that mentors are failing to fail underperforming student nurses?’ Design: this was an integrative literature review. Methods: online databases... Read More about Are mentors failing to fail underperforming student nurses? An integrative literature review.

Comparative Study of the Effect of Fuel Deoxygenation and Polar Species Removal on Jet Fuel Surface Deposition (2019)
Journal Article
Alborzi, E., Gadsby, P., Ismail, M. S., Sheikhansari, A., Dwyer, M. R., Meijer, A. J., …Pourkashanian, M. (2019). Comparative Study of the Effect of Fuel Deoxygenation and Polar Species Removal on Jet Fuel Surface Deposition. Energy and Fuels, 33(3), 1825-1836. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.8b03468

The effect of near-complete deoxygenation and polar species removal on the deposition propensity of a Jet A-1 fuel type with marginal thermal oxidative stability was studied in a laboratory-scale approach. The fuel deoxygenation was carried out via n... Read More about Comparative Study of the Effect of Fuel Deoxygenation and Polar Species Removal on Jet Fuel Surface Deposition.

Prospectivity mapping for high sulfidation epithermal porphyry deposits using an integrated compositional and topographic remote sensing dataset (2019)
Journal Article
Ferrier, G., Ganas, A., & Pope, R. (2019). Prospectivity mapping for high sulfidation epithermal porphyry deposits using an integrated compositional and topographic remote sensing dataset. Ore Geology Reviews, 107, 353-363. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2019.02.029

© 2019 Elsevier B.V. The targeting and discovery of epithermal porphyry mineral deposits can be enhanced using a structured quantitative methodology to analyse the distribution of ore deposits and model their spatial association with exploration evid... Read More about Prospectivity mapping for high sulfidation epithermal porphyry deposits using an integrated compositional and topographic remote sensing dataset.

Regulation of the dystrophin-associated glycoprotein complex composition by the metabolic properties of muscle fibres (2019)
Journal Article
Omairi, S., Hau, K. L., Collins-Hooper, H., Scott, C., Vaiyapuri, S., Torelli, S., Montanaro, F., Matsakas, A., & Patel, K. (2019). Regulation of the dystrophin-associated glycoprotein complex composition by the metabolic properties of muscle fibres. Scientific reports, 9(1), Article 2770. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-39532-4

The dystrophin-glycoprotein complex (DGC) links the muscle cytoskeleton to the extracellular matrix and is responsible for force transduction and protects the muscle fibres from contraction induced damage. Mutations in components of the DGC are respo... Read More about Regulation of the dystrophin-associated glycoprotein complex composition by the metabolic properties of muscle fibres.

Model transformation for analyzing dependability of AADL model by using HiP-HOPS (2019)
Journal Article
Mian, Z., Bottaci, L., Papadopoulos, Y., & Mahmud, N. (2019). Model transformation for analyzing dependability of AADL model by using HiP-HOPS. Journal of Systems and Software, 151, 258-282. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2019.02.019

The Architecture Analysis and Design Language (AADL) has emerged as a potential future standard in aerospace, automobile and avionics industries for model-based development of dependability-critical systems. As AADL is relatively new, some existing a... Read More about Model transformation for analyzing dependability of AADL model by using HiP-HOPS.

Thin film thickness measurements in two phase annular flows using ultrasonic pulse echo techniques (2019)
Journal Article
Al-Aufi, Y., Hewakandamby, B., Dimitrakis, G., Holmes, M., Hasan, A., & Watson, N. (2019). Thin film thickness measurements in two phase annular flows using ultrasonic pulse echo techniques. Flow Measurement and Instrumentation, 66, 67-78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.flowmeasinst.2019.02.008

The electric power generation and oil/gas production industries have a strong interest in the physical characterization of conducting and non-conducting liquid films that are formed during the flow of liquids in pipes. Conducting and non-conducting l... Read More about Thin film thickness measurements in two phase annular flows using ultrasonic pulse echo techniques.