Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

All Outputs (1200)

What nursing home environment can maximise eating independence best among residents with cognitive impairment? Findings of a secondary analysis (2020)
Journal Article
Palese, A., Gonella, S., Grassetti, L., Longobardi, M., De Caro, A., Achil, I., Hayter, M., & Watson, R. (2020). What nursing home environment can maximise eating independence best among residents with cognitive impairment? Findings of a secondary analysis. Geriatric Nursing, 41(6), 709-716. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gerinurse.2020.03.020

To explore the influence of the Nursing Home (NH) environment on eating independence while taking into account individual and nursing care factors, was the aim of the study. A secondary analysis was performed based on data collected in a multicentre... Read More about What nursing home environment can maximise eating independence best among residents with cognitive impairment? Findings of a secondary analysis.

FDI and Economic Performance of Firms in India (2020)
Journal Article
Bhattarai, K., & Negi, V. (2020). FDI and Economic Performance of Firms in India. Studies in Microeconomics, 8(1), 44-74. https://doi.org/10.1177/2321022220918684

FDI contributed positively to sales, profit, employment and wages of firms in India from 2004 to 2018. Foreign capital is complementing domestic capital well embodying technology and innovations required for expansion of domestic firms in it. Foreign... Read More about FDI and Economic Performance of Firms in India.

Consistency in the strength of laterality in male, but not female, guppies across different behavioural contexts (2020)
Journal Article
McLean, S., & Morrell, L. J. (2020). Consistency in the strength of laterality in male, but not female, guppies across different behavioural contexts. Biology Letters, 16(5), Article 20190870. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2019.0870

© 2020 The Author(s) Published by the Royal Society. All rights reserved. Laterality, the division of brain functions into separate hemispheres, is widespread across animal taxa. Lateralized individuals exhibit cognitive advantages yet substantial va... Read More about Consistency in the strength of laterality in male, but not female, guppies across different behavioural contexts.

APOE ε4 and the influence of sex, age, vascular risk factors, and ethnicity on cognitive decline (2020)
Journal Article
Makkar, S. R., Lipnicki, D. M., Crawford, J. D., Kochan, N. A., Castro-Costa, E., Lima-Costa, M. F., Diniz, B. S., Brayne, C., Stephan, B., Matthews, F., Llibre-Rodriguez, J. J., Llibre-Guerra, J. J., Valhuerdi-Cepero, A. J., Lipton, R. B., Katz, M. J., CuilingWang, Ritchie, K., Carles, S., Carriere, I., Scarmeas, N., …Sachdev, P. (2020). APOE ε4 and the influence of sex, age, vascular risk factors, and ethnicity on cognitive decline. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences, 75(10), 1863-1873. https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glaa116

We aimed to examine the relationship between Apolipoprotein E ε4 (APOE*4) carriage on cognitive decline, and whether these associations were moderated by sex, baseline age, ethnicity, and vascular risk factors. Participants were 19,225 individuals ag... Read More about APOE ε4 and the influence of sex, age, vascular risk factors, and ethnicity on cognitive decline.

Composite Liquid Marbles as a Macroscopic Model System Representing Shedding of Enveloped Viruses (2020)
Journal Article
Roy, P. K., Binks, B. P., Fujii, S., Shoval, S., & Bormashenko, E. (2020). Composite Liquid Marbles as a Macroscopic Model System Representing Shedding of Enveloped Viruses. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 11(11), 4279-4285. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c01230

Copyright © 2020 American Chemical Society. A model macroscopic system imitating the entry of viruses into living cells is suggested. The system represents the contact of a composite (core-shell) liquid marble with hydrophobic/hydrophilic particles.... Read More about Composite Liquid Marbles as a Macroscopic Model System Representing Shedding of Enveloped Viruses.

Interlayer bonding has bulk-material strength in extrusion additive manufacturing: New understanding of anisotropy (2020)
Journal Article
Allum, J., Moetazedian, A., Gleadall, A., & Silberschmidt, V. V. (2020). Interlayer bonding has bulk-material strength in extrusion additive manufacturing: New understanding of anisotropy. Additive Manufacturing, 34, Article 101297. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addma.2020.101297

This study demonstrates that the interface between layers in 3D-printed polylactide has strength of the bulk filament. Specially designed 3D-printed tensile specimens were developed to test mechanical properties in the direction of the extruded filam... Read More about Interlayer bonding has bulk-material strength in extrusion additive manufacturing: New understanding of anisotropy.

How circular is your tyre: Experiences with extended producer responsibility from a circular economy perspective (2020)
Journal Article
Campbell-Johnston, K., Calisto Friant, M., Thapa, K., Lakerveld, D., & Vermeulen, W. J. (2020). How circular is your tyre: Experiences with extended producer responsibility from a circular economy perspective. Journal of cleaner production, 270, Article 122042. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.122042

The circular economy (CE) emphasises closing material loops to retain material value. The current practice of tyre recycling in the Netherlands, through a system of extended producer responsibility (EPR), appears an overwhelming success, with claims... Read More about How circular is your tyre: Experiences with extended producer responsibility from a circular economy perspective.

Fingerprint enhancement using multi-scale classification dictionaries with reduced dimensionality (2020)
Journal Article
Bian, W., Xu, D., Cheng, Y., Li, Q., Luo, Y., & Yu, Q. (2020). Fingerprint enhancement using multi-scale classification dictionaries with reduced dimensionality. IET Biometrics, 9(5), 194-204. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-bmt.2019.0121

In order to improve the quality of fingerprint with large noise, this paper proposes a fingerprint enhancement method by using a sparse representation of learned multi-scale classification dictionaries with reduced dimensionality. Mul... Read More about Fingerprint enhancement using multi-scale classification dictionaries with reduced dimensionality.

Psychological concerns of Indian women with breast cancer in different national contexts: A systematic review and mixed-methods synthesis (2020)
Journal Article
Daniel, S., Clark, J., Gnanapragasam, S., Venkateswaran, C., & Johnson, M. J. (in press). Psychological concerns of Indian women with breast cancer in different national contexts: A systematic review and mixed-methods synthesis. BMJ supportive & palliative care, https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjspcare-2019-002076

© 2020 Author(s). Background: Breast cancer is becoming the most common cancer among women of Indian origin. However, little is known about the psychological impact of the disease and its treatment among this population. Aim: To improve understanding... Read More about Psychological concerns of Indian women with breast cancer in different national contexts: A systematic review and mixed-methods synthesis.

Responses to child victims of modern slavery in the United Kingdom: a children’s rights perspective (2020)
Journal Article
Dunhill, A., Gordon, F., Kidd, A., Kirk, T., & Lundy, L. (in press). Responses to child victims of modern slavery in the United Kingdom: a children’s rights perspective. Child and Family Law Quarterly,

Freedom from slavery is one of the few absolute human rights that exist. While it has been abolished globally, situations of slavery continue to exist today in the form of ‘modern slavery’. This paper focuses on child victims of modern slavery in th... Read More about Responses to child victims of modern slavery in the United Kingdom: a children’s rights perspective.

Locality Regularized Robust-PCRC: A Novel Simultaneous Feature Extraction and Classification Framework for Hyperspectral Images (2020)
Journal Article
Yang, Z., Cao, F., Cheng, Y., Ling, W.-K., & Hu, R. (in press). Locality Regularized Robust-PCRC: A Novel Simultaneous Feature Extraction and Classification Framework for Hyperspectral Images. IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing : a publication of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1109/tgrs.2020.2988900

Despite the successful applications of probabilistic collaborative representation classification (PCRC) in pattern classification, it still suffers from two challenges when being applied on hyperspectral images (HSIs) classification: 1) ineffective f... Read More about Locality Regularized Robust-PCRC: A Novel Simultaneous Feature Extraction and Classification Framework for Hyperspectral Images.

Transmissive flexoelectro-optic liquid crystal optical phase modulator with 2 π modulation (2020)
Journal Article
Wang, X., Fells, J. A. J., Ali, T., Lin, J. D., Welch, C., Mehl, G. H., Wilkinson, T. D., Booth, M. J., Morris, S. M., & Elston, S. J. (2020). Transmissive flexoelectro-optic liquid crystal optical phase modulator with 2 π modulation. AIP Advances, 10(5), Article 055011. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0009630

© 2020 Author(s). In this paper, we demonstrate analog phase modulation in a transmissive configuration using the flexoelectro-optic effect in short-pitch chiral nematic liquid crystal (LC) devices. Two different modes are considered, both of which a... Read More about Transmissive flexoelectro-optic liquid crystal optical phase modulator with 2 π modulation.

Bi2WO6/C-dots/TiO2: A novel z-scheme photocatalyst for the degradation of fluoroquinolone levofloxacin from aqueous medium (2020)
Journal Article
Elumalai, S., Sharma, S., Ibhadon, A. O., Grazia Francesconi, M., Mehta, S. K., Kansal, S. K., Umar, A., & Baskoutas, S. (2020). Bi2WO6/C-dots/TiO2: A novel z-scheme photocatalyst for the degradation of fluoroquinolone levofloxacin from aqueous medium. Nanomaterials, 10(5), Article 910. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10050910

© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Photocatalytic materials and semiconductors of appropriate structural and morphological architectures as well as energy band gaps are materials needed for mitigating current environmental prob... Read More about Bi2WO6/C-dots/TiO2: A novel z-scheme photocatalyst for the degradation of fluoroquinolone levofloxacin from aqueous medium.

High interindividual variability in habitat selection and functional habitat relationships in European nightjars over a period of habitat change (2020)
Journal Article
Mitchell, L. J., Kohler, T., White, P. C. L., & Arnold, K. E. (in press). High interindividual variability in habitat selection and functional habitat relationships in European nightjars over a period of habitat change. Ecology and Evolution, https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6331

An animal's choice of foraging habitat reflects its response to environmental cues and is likely to vary among individuals in a population. Analyzing the magnitude of individual habitat selection can indicate how resilient populations may be to anthr... Read More about High interindividual variability in habitat selection and functional habitat relationships in European nightjars over a period of habitat change.

Review of thermoelectric geometry and structure optimization for performance enhancement (2020)
Journal Article
Shittu, S., Li, G., Zhao, X., & Ma, X. (2020). Review of thermoelectric geometry and structure optimization for performance enhancement. Applied energy, 268, Article 115075. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.115075

© 2020 Elsevier Ltd Thermoelectric geometry and structure optimization are vital research areas which are being explored extensively in recent years due to significant performance enhancement achieved. However, the lack of a single review paper on th... Read More about Review of thermoelectric geometry and structure optimization for performance enhancement.

Ethics review, neoliberal governmentality and the activation of moral subjects (2020)
Journal Article
James, F. (in press). Ethics review, neoliberal governmentality and the activation of moral subjects. Educational Philosophy and Theory, https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2020.1761327

This article examines forms of subjectivation propagated through the processes and practices of ethics review in UK Higher Education Institutions. Codified notions of research ethics are particularly prevalent in the university context along with str... Read More about Ethics review, neoliberal governmentality and the activation of moral subjects.

Whole-genome sequencing of a sporadic primary immunodeficiency cohort (2020)
Journal Article
Cooper, N., Abbs, S., Farmery, J. H., Deevi, S. V., Thaventhiran, J. E., Adhya, Z., Adlard, J., Afzal, M., Ahmed, I., Ahmed, M., Ahmed, S., Aitman, T. J., Alachkar, H., Anderson, J., Alamelu, J., Alikhan, R., Allen, C. E., Allen, L., Alvi, A., Ambegaonkar, G., …Smith, K. G. C. (2020). Whole-genome sequencing of a sporadic primary immunodeficiency cohort. Nature, 583(7814), 90-95. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2265-1

Primary immunodeficiency (PID) is characterized by recurrent and often life-threatening infections, autoimmunity and cancer, and it poses major diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. Although the most severe forms of PID are identified in early child... Read More about Whole-genome sequencing of a sporadic primary immunodeficiency cohort.

Prospective predictors of decline v. stability in mild cognitive impairment with Lewy bodies or Alzheimer's disease (2020)
Journal Article
Hamilton, C. A., Matthews, F. E., Donaghy, P. C., Taylor, J. P., O'Brien, J. T., Barnett, N., …Thomas, A. J. (2021). Prospective predictors of decline v. stability in mild cognitive impairment with Lewy bodies or Alzheimer's disease. Psychological Medicine, 51(15), 2590-2598. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291720001130

Background Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) may gradually worsen to dementia, but often remains stable for extended periods of time. Little is known about the predictors of decline to help explain this variation. We aimed to explore whether this heter... Read More about Prospective predictors of decline v. stability in mild cognitive impairment with Lewy bodies or Alzheimer's disease.