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Sustainable product development in a circular economy: Implications for products, actors, decision-making support and lifecycle information management (2021)
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Diaz, A., Schöggl, J.-P., Reyes, T., & Baumgartner, R. J. (2021). Sustainable product development in a circular economy: Implications for products, actors, decision-making support and lifecycle information management. Sustainable Production and Consumption, 26, 1031-1045. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spc.2020.12.044

The concept of circular economy (CE) is of great interest for manufacturing companies since it provides a framework which allows them to align organisational objectives with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Corporate CE entails the adoption... Read More about Sustainable product development in a circular economy: Implications for products, actors, decision-making support and lifecycle information management.

A call to evaluate Plastic's impacts on marine benthic ecosystem interaction networks (2021)
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Ladewig, S. M., Bianchi, T. S., Coco, G., Hope, J. A., & Thrush, S. F. (2021). A call to evaluate Plastic's impacts on marine benthic ecosystem interaction networks. Environmental pollution, 273, Article 116423. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2021.116423

Plastic pollution continues to seep into natural and pristine habitats. Emerging laboratory-based research has evoked concern regarding plastic’s impact on ecosystem structure and function, the essence of the ecosystem services that supports our life... Read More about A call to evaluate Plastic's impacts on marine benthic ecosystem interaction networks.

The interaction of grammatically distinct agreement dependencies in predictive processing (2021)
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Stone, K., Veríssimo, J., Schad, D. J., Oltrogge, E., Vasishth, S., & Lago, S. (2021). The interaction of grammatically distinct agreement dependencies in predictive processing. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 36(9), 1159-1179. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2021.1921816

Previous research has found that comprehenders sometimes predict information that is grammatically unlicensed by sentence constraints. An open question is why such grammatically unlicensed predictions occur. We examined the possibility that unlicense... Read More about The interaction of grammatically distinct agreement dependencies in predictive processing.

Adversarial Reconstruction Loss for Domain Generalization (2021)
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Bekkouch, I. E. I., Nicolae, D. C., Khan, A., Kazmi, S. M., Khattak, A. M., & Ibragimov, B. (2021). Adversarial Reconstruction Loss for Domain Generalization. IEEE Access, 9, 42424-42437. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3066041

The biggest fear when deploying machine learning models to the real world is their ability to handle the new data. This problem is significant especially in medicine, where models trained on rich high-quality data extracted from large hospitals do no... Read More about Adversarial Reconstruction Loss for Domain Generalization.

Deathly triangle for pancreatic β-cells: Hippo pathway-MTORC1-autophagy (2021)
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Ardestani, A., & Maedler, K. (2021). Deathly triangle for pancreatic β-cells: Hippo pathway-MTORC1-autophagy. Autophagy, 17(12), 4494-4496. https://doi.org/10.1080/15548627.2021.1972404

A progressive decline in the macroautophagic/autophagic flux is a hallmark of pancreatic β-cell failure in type 2 diabetes (T2D) but the responsible intrinsic factors and underlying molecular mechanisms are incompletely understood. A stress-sensitive... Read More about Deathly triangle for pancreatic β-cells: Hippo pathway-MTORC1-autophagy.

Current and future prevalence estimates of mild cognitive impairment, dementia, and its subtypes in a population-based sample of people 70 years and older in Norway: The HUNT study (2021)
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Gjøra, L., Strand, B. H., Bergh, S., Borza, T., Brækhus, A., Engedal, K., Johannessen, A., Kvello-Alme, M., Krokstad, S., Livingston, G., Matthews, F. E., Myrstad, C., Skjellegrind, H., Thingstad, P., Aakhus, E., Aam, S., & Selbæk, G. (2021). Current and future prevalence estimates of mild cognitive impairment, dementia, and its subtypes in a population-based sample of people 70 years and older in Norway: The HUNT study. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 79(3), 1213-1226. https://doi.org/10.3233/JAD-201275

Background: Having accurate, up-to-date information on the epidemiology of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia is imperative. Objective: To determine the prevalence of MCI and dementia in Norway using data from a large population-based study... Read More about Current and future prevalence estimates of mild cognitive impairment, dementia, and its subtypes in a population-based sample of people 70 years and older in Norway: The HUNT study.

Dementia in the older population is associated with neocortex content of serum amyloid P component (2021)
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Ellmerich, S., Taylor, G. W., Richardson, C. D., Minett, T., Schmidt, A. F., Brayne, C., Matthews, F. E., Ince, P. G., Wharton, S. B., & Pepys, M. B. (2021). Dementia in the older population is associated with neocortex content of serum amyloid P component. Brain Communications, 3(4), Article fcab225. https://doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcab225

Despite many reported associations, the direct cause of neurodegeneration responsible for cognitive loss in Alzheimer's disease and some other common dementias is not known. The normal human plasma protein, serum amyloid P component, a constituent of... Read More about Dementia in the older population is associated with neocortex content of serum amyloid P component.

Breast cancer chemotherapy vascular toxicity: a review of mediating mechanisms and exercise as a potential therapeutic (2021)
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Mclaughlin, M., Florida-James, G., & Ross, M. (2021). Breast cancer chemotherapy vascular toxicity: a review of mediating mechanisms and exercise as a potential therapeutic. Vascular Biology, 3(1), R106-R120. https://doi.org/10.1530/vb-21-0013

Breast cancer chemotherapy, although very potent against tumour tissue, results in significant cardiovascular toxicity. The focus of research in this area has been predominantly towards cardiotoxicity. There is limited evidence detailing the impact o... Read More about Breast cancer chemotherapy vascular toxicity: a review of mediating mechanisms and exercise as a potential therapeutic.

Finding the most navigable path in road networks (2021)
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Kaur, R., Goyal, V., & Gunturi, V. M. (2021). Finding the most navigable path in road networks. GeoInformatica, 25(1), 207-240. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10707-020-00428-5

Input to the Most Navigable Path (MNP) problem consists of the following: (a) a road network represented as a directed graph, where each edge is associated with numeric attributes of cost and “navigability score” values; (b) a source and a destinatio... Read More about Finding the most navigable path in road networks.

The impact of the first covid-19 surge on severe asthma patients in the uk. Which is worse: The virus or the lockdown? (2021)
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Smith, S. J., Busby, J., Heaney, L. G., Pfeffer, P. E., Jackson, D. J., Yang, F., Fowler, S. J., Menzies-Gow, A., Idris, E., Brown, T., Gore, R., Faruqi, S., Dennison, P., Dodd, J. W., Doe, S., Mansur, A. H., Priyadarshi, R., Holmes, J., Hearn, A., Al-Aqqad, H., …Chaudhuri, R. (2021). The impact of the first covid-19 surge on severe asthma patients in the uk. Which is worse: The virus or the lockdown?. ERJ Open Research, 7(1), Article 00768-2020. https://doi.org/10.1183/23120541.00768-2020

A Semantic Knowledge-Based Framework for Information Extraction and Exploration (2021)
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Aljamel, A., Osman, T., & Thakker, D. (2021). A Semantic Knowledge-Based Framework for Information Extraction and Exploration. International Journal of Decision Support System Technology, 13(2), 85--109. https://doi.org/10.4018/IJDSST.2021040105

The availability of online documents that describe domain-specific information provides an opportunity in employing a knowledge-based approach in extracting information from web data. This research proposes a novel comprehensive semantic knowledge-ba... Read More about A Semantic Knowledge-Based Framework for Information Extraction and Exploration.

siRNA Therapeutics: Future Promise for Neurodegenerative Diseases (2021)
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Amiri, A., Barreto, G., Sathyapalan, T., & Sahebkar, A. (2021). siRNA Therapeutics: Future Promise for Neurodegenerative Diseases. Current Neuropharmacology, 19(11), 1896-1911. https://doi.org/10.2174/1570159X19666210402104054

Neurodegenerative diseases (ND), as a group of central nervous system (CNS) disorders, are among the most prominent medical problems of the 21st century. They are often associated with considerable disability, motor dysfunction and dementia and are m... Read More about siRNA Therapeutics: Future Promise for Neurodegenerative Diseases.

Prostate cancer: unmet supportive and palliative care needs: national survey of patients and family carers (2021)
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Johnson, M. J., Huang, C., Chen, H., Jones, L., & Twiddy, M. (2021). Prostate cancer: unmet supportive and palliative care needs: national survey of patients and family carers. BMJ supportive & palliative care, https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjspcare-2021-003438

Objectives: Men living with prostate cancer have supportive and palliative needs. However, few studies detail unmet needs (vs quality of life measurement) or include data from those with advanced disease. We aimed to identify unmet needs of people li... Read More about Prostate cancer: unmet supportive and palliative care needs: national survey of patients and family carers.

The role of alliance management, big data analytics and information visibility on new-product development capability (2021)
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Dubey, R., Bryde, D. J., Graham, G., Foropon, C., Kumari, S., & Gupta, O. (2021). The role of alliance management, big data analytics and information visibility on new-product development capability. Annals of Operations Research, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-021-04390-9

Many organizations are increasingly investing in building dynamic capabilities to gain competitive advantage. New products play an important role in gaining competitive advantage and can significantly boost organizational performance. Although new pr... Read More about The role of alliance management, big data analytics and information visibility on new-product development capability.

Optimising planned medical education strategies to develop learners' person-centredness: A realist review (2021)
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Bansal, A., Greenley, S., Mitchell, C., Park, S., Shearn, K., & Reeve, J. (2021). Optimising planned medical education strategies to develop learners' person-centredness: A realist review. Medical Education, https://doi.org/10.1111/medu.14707

Context: Person-centeredness is a stated aim for medical education; however, studies suggest this is not being achieved. There is a gap in our understanding of how, why and in what circumstances medical education interventions that aim to develop per... Read More about Optimising planned medical education strategies to develop learners' person-centredness: A realist review.

Therapeutics for type-2 diabetes mellitus: a glance at the recent inclusions and novel agents under development for use in clinical practice (2021)
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Shah, N., Abdalla, M. A., Deshmukh, H., & Sathyapalan, T. (2021). Therapeutics for type-2 diabetes mellitus: a glance at the recent inclusions and novel agents under development for use in clinical practice. Therapeutic Advances in Endocrinology and Metabolism, 12, https://doi.org/10.1177/20420188211042145

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a chronic, progressive, and multifaceted illness resulting in significant physical and psychological detriment to patients. As of 2019, 463 million people are estimated to be living with DM worldwide, out of which 90% have t... Read More about Therapeutics for type-2 diabetes mellitus: a glance at the recent inclusions and novel agents under development for use in clinical practice.

2020-Vision: understanding climate (in)action through the emotional lens of loss (2021)
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Jones, L., Halstead, F., Parsons, K. J., Le, H., Bui, L. T. H., Hackney, C. R., & Parsons, D. R. (2021). 2020-Vision: understanding climate (in)action through the emotional lens of loss. Journal of the British Academy, 9(s5), 29-68. https://doi.org/10.5871/jba/009s5.029

We are the midst of a climate emergency requiring urgent climate action that is as yet unforthcoming both on the scale and at the speed needed. This article considers this current state of inaction and how we might understand the processes of attitud... Read More about 2020-Vision: understanding climate (in)action through the emotional lens of loss.

Nonlinear adaptive backstepping control of permanent magnet synchronous motor (2021)
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Ali, N., Alam, W., Pervaiz, M., & Iqbal, J. (2021). Nonlinear adaptive backstepping control of permanent magnet synchronous motor. Revue Roumaine des Sciences Techniques : Série Électrotechnique et Énergétique, 66(1), 9-14

This paper addresses the speed tracking problem of a permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) under the influence of parametric uncertainties and external load torque disturbances. The nonlinear dynamics associated with both PMSM and load is conside... Read More about Nonlinear adaptive backstepping control of permanent magnet synchronous motor.