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Slowing on quantitative EEG is associated with transition to dementia in mild cognitive impairment (2021)
Journal Article
Hamilton, C. A., Schumacher, J., Matthews, F., Taylor, J. P., Allan, L., Barnett, N., …Thomas, A. J. (2021). Slowing on quantitative EEG is associated with transition to dementia in mild cognitive impairment. International Psychogeriatrics, 33(12), 1321-1325. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1041610221001083

Electroencephalographic (EEG) abnormalities are greater in mild cognitive impairment (MCI) with Lewy bodies (MCI-LB) than in MCI due to Alzheimer's disease (MCI-AD) and may anticipate the onset of dementia. We aimed to assess whether quantitative EEG... Read More about Slowing on quantitative EEG is associated with transition to dementia in mild cognitive impairment.

Association of microRNAs With Embryo Development and Fertilization in Women Undergoing Subfertility Treatments: A Pilot Study (2021)
Journal Article
Butler, A. E., Cunningham, T. K., Ramachandran, V., Diboun, I., Halama, A., Sathyapalan, T., …Atkin, S. L. (2021). Association of microRNAs With Embryo Development and Fertilization in Women Undergoing Subfertility Treatments: A Pilot Study. Frontiers in Reproductive Health, 3, Article 719326. https://doi.org/10.3389/frph.2021.719326

Objective: Small non-coding RNAs, known as microRNAs (miRNAs), have emerging regulatory functions within the ovary that have been related to fertility. This study was undertaken to determine if circulating miRNAs reflect the changes associated with t... Read More about Association of microRNAs With Embryo Development and Fertilization in Women Undergoing Subfertility Treatments: A Pilot Study.

Exploring farmers’ understanding of and responses to endemic animal health and welfare issues in the UK (2021)
Journal Article
Mahon, N., Clark, B., Proctor, A., & Holloway, L. (in press). Exploring farmers’ understanding of and responses to endemic animal health and welfare issues in the UK. Veterinary Record, Article e941. https://doi.org/10.1002/vetr.941

Background: This paper uses two endemic health conditions to explore farmer understandings of and responses to livestock health and welfare issues. Methods: The findings are based on a survey of 42 livestock farmers in the north of England, exploring... Read More about Exploring farmers’ understanding of and responses to endemic animal health and welfare issues in the UK.

Environment friendly dual-frequency ultrasonic exfoliation of few-layer graphene (2021)
Journal Article
Tyurnina, A. V., Morton, J. A., Subroto, T., Khavari, M., Maciejewska, B., Mi, J., …Eskin, D. G. (2021). Environment friendly dual-frequency ultrasonic exfoliation of few-layer graphene. Carbon, 185, 536-545. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2021.09.036

Ultrasound-aided liquid phase exfoliation (ULPE) of graphene in pure water is environment-friendly. Two limiting factors of ULPE are the non-uniform thickness of few-layer graphene (FLG) and a relatively low graphene yield. Here we describe ULPE in w... Read More about Environment friendly dual-frequency ultrasonic exfoliation of few-layer graphene.

Employee participation, job quality, and inequality (2021)
Journal Article
FitzRoy, F. R., & Nolan, M. A. (2022). Employee participation, job quality, and inequality. Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership, 5(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1108/JPEO-05-2020-0014

Purpose: The purpose is to review the effects of employee participation (EP) in decision-making, ownership and profit on job quality, worker well-being and productivity, and derive policy recommendations from the findings. Design/methodology/approach... Read More about Employee participation, job quality, and inequality.

Regularized Stokeslets lines suitable for slender bodies in viscous flow (2021)
Journal Article
Zhao, B., & Koens, L. (2021). Regularized Stokeslets lines suitable for slender bodies in viscous flow. Fluids, 6(9), Article 335. https://doi.org/10.3390/fluids6090335

Slender-body approximations have been successfully used to explain many phenomena in low-Reynolds number fluid mechanics. These approximations typically use a line of singularity solutions to represent flow. These singularities can be difficult to im... Read More about Regularized Stokeslets lines suitable for slender bodies in viscous flow.

Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA): The environmental impact on SFR and metallicity in galaxy groups (2021)
Journal Article
Sotillo-Ramos, D., Lara-López, M. A., Pérez-García, A. M., Pérez-Martínez, R., Hopkins, A. M., Holwerda, B. W., …Pimbblet, K. A. (2021). Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA): The environmental impact on SFR and metallicity in galaxy groups. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 508(2), 1817-1830. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab2641

We present a study of the relationships and environmental dependencies between stellar mass, star formation rate, and gas metallicity for more than 700 galaxies in groups up to redshift 0.35 from the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey. To identif... Read More about Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA): The environmental impact on SFR and metallicity in galaxy groups.

Real-World Use of Once-Weekly Semaglutide in Type 2 Diabetes: Results from the SURE UK Multicentre, Prospective, Observational Study (2021)
Journal Article
Holmes, P., Bell, H. E., Bozkurt, K., Catarig, A. M., Clark, A., Machell, A., & Sathyapalan, T. (2021). Real-World Use of Once-Weekly Semaglutide in Type 2 Diabetes: Results from the SURE UK Multicentre, Prospective, Observational Study. Diabetes Therapy, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13300-021-01141-8

Introduction: Once-weekly (OW) semaglutide was associated with clinically relevant improvements in glycaemic control and body weight versus comparators in the SUSTAIN randomised controlled trials (RCTs). SURE UK, which is one of a series of individua... Read More about Real-World Use of Once-Weekly Semaglutide in Type 2 Diabetes: Results from the SURE UK Multicentre, Prospective, Observational Study.

The unique information and communication needs of men affected by prostate cancer: A qualitative study of men's experience (2021)
Journal Article
Chen, H., Twiddy, M., Jones, L., & Johnson, M. J. (2021). The unique information and communication needs of men affected by prostate cancer: A qualitative study of men's experience. European Journal of Cancer Care, 30(6), Article e13503. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecc.13503

Objective: The objective of this study is to explore the specific information and communication needs of men affected by prostate cancer to inform the development of educational materials for clinicians. Methods: This is a qualitative descriptive stu... Read More about The unique information and communication needs of men affected by prostate cancer: A qualitative study of men's experience.

MaTrEx AM: A new hybrid additive manufacturing process to selectively control mechanical properties (2021)
Journal Article
Moetazedian, A., Allum, J., Gleadall, A., Mele, E., & Silberschmidt, V. V. (2021). MaTrEx AM: A new hybrid additive manufacturing process to selectively control mechanical properties. Additive Manufacturing, 47, Article 102337. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addma.2021.102337

This study is the first to demonstrate how mechanical and geometrical properties of polylactide (PLA) and acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) additively manufactured with material extrusion can be selectively tailored using a newly devised treatmen... Read More about MaTrEx AM: A new hybrid additive manufacturing process to selectively control mechanical properties.

The relationship between deprivation and frailty trajectories over 1 year and at the end of life: A case-control study (2021)
Journal Article
Stow, D., Hanratty, B., & Matthews, F. E. (2022). The relationship between deprivation and frailty trajectories over 1 year and at the end of life: A case-control study. Journal of Public Health, 44(4), 844-850. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdab320

Background: We investigated the association between area-level, multi-domain deprivation and frailty trajectories in the last year of life and over 1 year in a matched non-end-of-life sample. Methods: A 1-year longitudinal case-control study using pr... Read More about The relationship between deprivation and frailty trajectories over 1 year and at the end of life: A case-control study.

The vibrational properties of benzene on an ordered water ice surface (2021)
Journal Article
Clark, V. H., & Benoit, D. M. (2021). The vibrational properties of benzene on an ordered water ice surface. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 508(3), 3239-3250. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab2670

We present a hybrid CCSD(T) + PBE-D3 approach to calculating the vibrational signatures for gas-phase benzene and benzene adsorbed on an ordered water ice surface. We compare the results of our method against experimentally recorded spectra and calcu... Read More about The vibrational properties of benzene on an ordered water ice surface.

Exploring the effectiveness of grey literature indicators and life cycle assessment in assessing circular economy at the micro level: a comparative analysis (2021)
Journal Article
Roos Lindgreen, E., Mondello, G., Salomone, R., Lanuzza, F., & Saija, G. (2021). Exploring the effectiveness of grey literature indicators and life cycle assessment in assessing circular economy at the micro level: a comparative analysis. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 26(11), 2171-2191. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11367-021-01972-4

Purpose Methods and tools to measure Circular Economy (CE) are in an early stage of development, especially on the micro level, and only limited guidance is available to companies’ decision-making processes related to CE solutions. In this context,... Read More about Exploring the effectiveness of grey literature indicators and life cycle assessment in assessing circular economy at the micro level: a comparative analysis.

From linear economy legacies to circular economy resources: Maximising the multifaceted values of legacy mineral wastes (2021)
Book Chapter
Mayes, W. M., Hull, S. L., & Gomes, H. I. (2021). From linear economy legacies to circular economy resources: Maximising the multifaceted values of legacy mineral wastes. In A. Stefanakis, & I. Nikolaou (Eds.), Circular Economy and Sustainability Volume 1: Management and Policy (409-431). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-819817-9.00009-0

Extractive industries represent the first stage of our global cycles of production and consumption. Environmental legacies associated with mining and mineral processing to all environmental compartments (air, soil, water) are extensive, long-lived, a... Read More about From linear economy legacies to circular economy resources: Maximising the multifaceted values of legacy mineral wastes.

From an economic crisis to a pandemic crisis: The need for accurate marine monitoring data to take informed management decisions (2021)
Book Chapter
Borja, A., & Elliott, M. (2021). From an economic crisis to a pandemic crisis: The need for accurate marine monitoring data to take informed management decisions. In C. Sheppard (Ed.), Advances in Marine Biology (79-114). London: Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.amb.2021.08.002

It is axomatic that a system cannot be managed unless it is measured and that the measurements occur in a rigorous, defendable manner covering relevant spatial and temporal scales. Furthermore, it is not possible to predict the future direction of a... Read More about From an economic crisis to a pandemic crisis: The need for accurate marine monitoring data to take informed management decisions.

Performance status and trial site-level factors are associated with missing data in palliative care trials: An individual participant-level data analysis of 10 phase 3 trials (2021)
Journal Article
Hussain, J. A., White, I. R., Johnson, M. J., Bland, M., & Currow, D. C. (2021). Performance status and trial site-level factors are associated with missing data in palliative care trials: An individual participant-level data analysis of 10 phase 3 trials. Palliative medicine, https://doi.org/10.1177/02692163211040970

Background: Missing data compromise the internal and external validity of trial findings, however there is limited evidence on how best to reduce missing data in palliative care trials. Aim: To assess the association between participant and site leve... Read More about Performance status and trial site-level factors are associated with missing data in palliative care trials: An individual participant-level data analysis of 10 phase 3 trials.

Previous structured education attendance and the relationship with HbA1c and hypoglycaemia awareness in people living with type 1 diabetes mellitus using FreeStyle Libre: insights from the Association of British Clinical Diabetologists (ABCD) Nationwide Audit (2021)
Journal Article
Shah, N., Deshmukh, H., Wilmot, E. G., Patmore, J., Choudhary, P., Christian, P., …Sathyapalan, T. (in press). Previous structured education attendance and the relationship with HbA1c and hypoglycaemia awareness in people living with type 1 diabetes mellitus using FreeStyle Libre: insights from the Association of British Clinical Diabetologists (ABCD) Nationwide Audit. British Journal of Diabetes, https://doi.org/10.15277/bjd.2021.308

Empathy and prosocial behavior in early childhood: A review (2021)
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Combe, K. L. (2021). Empathy and prosocial behavior in early childhood: A review. Journal of Health Visiting, 9(9), 380-390. https://doi.org/10.12968/johv.2021.9.9.380

Empathy and prosocial behaviour in early childhood: A review › Abstract The ability to empathise and understand others' emotions has been shown to have an impact on social interactions and prosocial behaviours. The objective of this review was to exp... Read More about Empathy and prosocial behavior in early childhood: A review.

Enhanced clearing of Candida biofilms on a 3D urothelial cell in vitro model using lysozyme-functionalized fluconazole-loaded shellac nanoparticles (2021)
Journal Article
Wang, A., Weldrick, P. J., Madden, L. A., & Paunov, V. N. (2021). Enhanced clearing of Candida biofilms on a 3D urothelial cell in vitro model using lysozyme-functionalized fluconazole-loaded shellac nanoparticles. Biomaterials science / Royal Society of Chemistry, 9(20), 6927-6939. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1bm01035b

Candida urinary tract biofilms are increasingly witnessed in nosocomial infections due to reduced immunity of patients and the hospital ecosystem. The indwelling devices utilized to support patients with urethral diseases that connect the unsterilize... Read More about Enhanced clearing of Candida biofilms on a 3D urothelial cell in vitro model using lysozyme-functionalized fluconazole-loaded shellac nanoparticles.