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Rethinking intertextuality in CDA (2019)
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Farrelly, M. (2020). Rethinking intertextuality in CDA. Critical Discourse Studies, 17(4), 359-376. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2019.1609538

Intertextuality–instances of texts linking to other texts (explicitly, implicitly, by referring to them or incorporating elements of them)–is a key concept with which CDA accounts for discursive elements in social relations of power and solidarity. H... Read More about Rethinking intertextuality in CDA.

Current Insights into the Potential Misuse of Platelet-based Applications for Doping in Sports (2019)
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Scully, D., & Matsakas, A. (2019). Current Insights into the Potential Misuse of Platelet-based Applications for Doping in Sports. International journal of sports medicine, 40(7), 427-433. https://doi.org/10.1055/a-0884-0734

Platelet-based applications are currently used for the delivery of growth factors and other biomolecules as autologous biomaterials in regenerative medicine and cosmetic therapies. Many studies have revealed that platelet-based applications such as p... Read More about Current Insights into the Potential Misuse of Platelet-based Applications for Doping in Sports.

Probing the molecular orientation of a single conjugated polymer via nano-gap SERS (2019)
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Marshall, A. R. L., Roberts, M., Gierschner, J., Bouillard, J. S. G., & Adawi, A. M. (2019). Probing the molecular orientation of a single conjugated polymer via nano-gap SERS. ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 1(5), 1175-1180. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsapm.9b00180

Determining the molecular orientation at the single molecule level is of key importance for a wide range of applications ranging from molecular electronic devices to biomedical applications. In this work surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) was u... Read More about Probing the molecular orientation of a single conjugated polymer via nano-gap SERS.

Understanding and applying practitioner and patient views on the implementation of a novel automated Computer-Aided Risk Score (CARS) predicting the risk of death following emergency medical admission to hospital: qualitative study (2019)
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Dyson, J., Marsh, C., Jackson, N., Richardson, D., Faisal, M., Scally, A. J., & Mohammed, M. (2019). Understanding and applying practitioner and patient views on the implementation of a novel automated Computer-Aided Risk Score (CARS) predicting the risk of death following emergency medical admission to hospital: qualitative study. BMJ open, 9(4), Article e026591. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-026591

Objectives The Computer-Aided Risk Score (CARS) estimates the risk of death following emergency admission to medical wards using routinely collected vital signs and blood test data. Our aim was to elicit the views of healthcare practitioners (staff)... Read More about Understanding and applying practitioner and patient views on the implementation of a novel automated Computer-Aided Risk Score (CARS) predicting the risk of death following emergency medical admission to hospital: qualitative study.

Socioeconomic position and use of health care in the last year of life: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2019)
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Davies, J. M., Sleeman, K. E., Leniz, J., Wilson, R., Higginson, I. J., Verne, J., Maddocks, M., & Murtagh, F. E. (2019). Socioeconomic position and use of health care in the last year of life: a systematic review and meta-analysis. PLoS Medicine, 16(4), Article e1002782. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002782

BACKGROUND: Low socioeconomic position (SEP) is recognized as a risk factor for worse health outcomes. How socioeconomic factors influence end-of-life care, and the magnitude of their effect, is not understood. This review aimed to synthesise and qua... Read More about Socioeconomic position and use of health care in the last year of life: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Evaluation of the performance and economic viability of a novel low temperature carbon capture process (2019)
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Willson, P., Lychnos, G., Clements, A., Michailos, S., Font-Palma, C., Diego, M. E., Pourkashanian, M., & Howe, J. (2019). Evaluation of the performance and economic viability of a novel low temperature carbon capture process. International journal of greenhouse gas control, 86, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2019.04.001

© 2019 Elsevier Ltd A novel Advanced Cryogenic Carbon Capture (A3C) process is being developed using low cost but high intensity heat transfer to achieve high CO2 capture efficiencies with a much reduced energy consumption and process equipment size.... Read More about Evaluation of the performance and economic viability of a novel low temperature carbon capture process.

Neutron star mergers might not be the only source of r-process elements in the Milky Way (2019)
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Côté, B., Eichler, M., Arcones, A., Hansen, C. J., Simonetti, P., Frebel, A., Fryer, C. L., Pignatari, M., Reichert, M., Belczynski, K., & Matteucci, F. (2019). Neutron star mergers might not be the only source of r-process elements in the Milky Way. The Astrophysical journal, 875(2), 106. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab10db

Probing the origin of r-process elements in the universe represents a multidisciplinary challenge. We review the observational evidence that probes the properties of r-process sites, and address them using galactic chemical evolution simulations, bin... Read More about Neutron star mergers might not be the only source of r-process elements in the Milky Way.

The roles of dispositional coping style and social support in helping people with respiratory disease cope with a breathlessness crisis (2019)
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Johnson, M., Garcia, M. V., Luckett, T., Hutchinson, A., Lal, S., & Phillips, J. (2019). The roles of dispositional coping style and social support in helping people with respiratory disease cope with a breathlessness crisis. Journal of advanced nursing, 75(9), 1953-1965. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.14039

Aim: To explore the role of coping moderators in self-management of breathlessness crises by people with advanced respiratory disease. Design: A secondary analysis of semi-structured interview data. Methods: Interviews with patients who had advanced... Read More about The roles of dispositional coping style and social support in helping people with respiratory disease cope with a breathlessness crisis.

Comparative study of a concentrated photovoltaic-thermoelectric system with and without flat plate heat pipe (2019)
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Shittu, S., Li, G., Zhao, X., Golizadeh Akhlaghi, Y., Ma, X., & Yu, M. (2019). Comparative study of a concentrated photovoltaic-thermoelectric system with and without flat plate heat pipe. Energy Conversion and Management, 193, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2019.04.055

Thermal management of photovoltaic cells is an essential research objective for increasing the conversion efficiency of the photovoltaic. Flat plate heat pipe is a passive cooling device capable of effectively reducing the solar cell temperature. The... Read More about Comparative study of a concentrated photovoltaic-thermoelectric system with and without flat plate heat pipe.

The strong approximation theorem and computing with linear groups (2019)
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Detinko, A. S., Flannery, D. L., & Hulpke, A. (2019). The strong approximation theorem and computing with linear groups. Journal of Algebra, 529, 536-549. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jalgebra.2019.04.011

We obtain a computational realization of the strong approximation theorem. That is, we develop algorithms to compute all congruence quotients modulo rational primes of a finitely generated Zariski dense group for . More generally, we are able to com... Read More about The strong approximation theorem and computing with linear groups.

A comprehensive experimental and theoretical study of the CO + NO reaction catalyzed by Au/Ni nanoparticles (2019)
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Holgado, J. P., Wheatley, A. E., Kyriakou, G., Márquez, A. M., Holgado, J. P., Taylor, M. J., Wheatley, A. E. H., Mehta, J. P., Fernández Sanz, J., Beaumont, S. K., & Lambert, R. M. (2019). A comprehensive experimental and theoretical study of the CO + NO reaction catalyzed by Au/Ni nanoparticles. ACS Catalysis, 9(6), 4919-4929. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.8b05154

The catalytic and structural properties of five different nanoparticle catalysts with varying Au/Ni composition were studied by six different methods, including in situ X-ray absorption spectroscopy and density functional theory (DFT) calculations. T... Read More about A comprehensive experimental and theoretical study of the CO + NO reaction catalyzed by Au/Ni nanoparticles.

A patient tumour-on-a-chip system for personalised investigation of radiotherapy based treatment regimens (2019)
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Kennedy, R., Kuvshinov, D., Sdrolia, A., Kuvshinova, E., Hilton, K., Crank, S., Beavis, A. W., Green, V., & Greenman, J. (2019). A patient tumour-on-a-chip system for personalised investigation of radiotherapy based treatment regimens. Scientific reports, 9(1), Article 6327. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-42745-2

Development of personalised cancer models to predict response to radiation would benefit patient care; particularly in malignancies where treatment resistance is prevalent. Herein, a robust, easy to use, tumour-on-a-chip platform which maintains prec... Read More about A patient tumour-on-a-chip system for personalised investigation of radiotherapy based treatment regimens.

Coseismic ultramylonites: An investigation of nanoscale viscous flow and fault weakening during seismic slip (2019)
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Pozzi, G., De Paola, N., Holdsworth, R. E., Bowen, L., Nielsen, S. B., & Dempsey, E. D. (2019). Coseismic ultramylonites: An investigation of nanoscale viscous flow and fault weakening during seismic slip. Earth and planetary science letters, 516, 164-175. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2019.03.042

Faults weaken during the propagation of earthquakes due to the onset of thermally-activated mechanisms, which vary depending on the rock type. Recent experimental work suggests that carbonate-hosted faults are lubricated by viscous flow in nano-granu... Read More about Coseismic ultramylonites: An investigation of nanoscale viscous flow and fault weakening during seismic slip.

Good conduct: How can protests be ethically policed? (2019)
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Laverick, W., & Joyce, P. (2019). Good conduct: How can protests be ethically policed?. Policing Insight,

Ten years ago, London was the scene of the G20 Summit protests. This week climate change activists caused major disruption in the city. Protests are part and parcel of a liberal democracy, but how do we ensure they are ethically policed? Professor Pe... Read More about Good conduct: How can protests be ethically policed?.

Low molecular weight heparin and direct oral anticoagulants influence tumour formation, growth, invasion and vascularisation by separate mechanisms (2019)
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Featherby, S., Xiao, Y. P., Ettelaie, C., Nikitenko, L. L., Greenman, J., & Maraveyas, A. (2019). Low molecular weight heparin and direct oral anticoagulants influence tumour formation, growth, invasion and vascularisation by separate mechanisms. Scientific reports, 9(1), Article 6272. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-42738-1

The bidirectional association between coagulation and cancer has been established. However, anticoagulant therapies have been reported to have beneficial outcomes by influencing the vascularisation of the tumours. In this study the influence of a set... Read More about Low molecular weight heparin and direct oral anticoagulants influence tumour formation, growth, invasion and vascularisation by separate mechanisms.

Do psychopharmacological interventions affect suicide reattempters? (2019)
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Fishburn, K. E., & Barker, A. P. (2019). Do psychopharmacological interventions affect suicide reattempters?. Evidence-Based Nursing, 23(1), 23. https://doi.org/10.1136/ebnurs-2019-103086

Commentary on: Irigoyen M, Segovia AP, Galván L, et al. Predictors of re-attempt in a cohort of suicide attempters: a survival analysis. J Affect Disord. 2019 Mar 15;247:20-28. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2018.12.050. Epub 18 Dec 2018.