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Polarization properties of Raman scattering by surface phonon polaritons in GaAsP nanowires (2021)
Journal Article
Rybchenko, S. I., Ali, S., Zhang, Y., & Liu, H. (2021). Polarization properties of Raman scattering by surface phonon polaritons in GaAsP nanowires. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 54(47), Article 475109. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6463/ac2400

Strong resonant enhancement of Raman scattering on photonic resonance was observed in GaAsP semiconductor nanowires. The enhancement allowed for detailed studies of the surface phonon polariton (SPhP) scattering peak on individual nanowires. In parti... Read More about Polarization properties of Raman scattering by surface phonon polaritons in GaAsP nanowires.

BiCyCLE NMES—neuromuscular electrical stimulation in the perioperative treatment of sarcopenia and myosteatosis in advanced rectal cancer patients: design and methodology of a phase II randomised controlled trial (2021)
Journal Article
Pring, E. T., Gould, L. E., Malietzis, G., Lung, P., Bharal, M., Fadodun, T., …Jenkins, J. T. (2021). BiCyCLE NMES—neuromuscular electrical stimulation in the perioperative treatment of sarcopenia and myosteatosis in advanced rectal cancer patients: design and methodology of a phase II randomised controlled trial. Trials, 22(1), Article 621. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-021-05573-2

Background: Colorectal cancer is associated with secondary sarcopenia (muscle loss) and myosteatosis (fatty infiltration of muscle) and patients who exhibit these host characteristics have poorer outcomes following surgery. Furthermore, patients, who... Read More about BiCyCLE NMES—neuromuscular electrical stimulation in the perioperative treatment of sarcopenia and myosteatosis in advanced rectal cancer patients: design and methodology of a phase II randomised controlled trial.

Impaired Awareness of Hypoglycemia and Severe Hypoglycemia in Drivers With Diabetes: Insights From the Association of British Clinical Diabetologists Nationwide Audit (2021)
Journal Article
Deshmukh, H., Wilmot, E. G., Choudhary, P., Narendran, P., Shah, N., Barnes, D., …Sathyapalan, T. (2021). Impaired Awareness of Hypoglycemia and Severe Hypoglycemia in Drivers With Diabetes: Insights From the Association of British Clinical Diabetologists Nationwide Audit. Diabetes Care, 44(11), e190-e191. https://doi.org/10.2337/dc21-1181

The effects of top management team strategic cognition on corporate financial health and value: an interactive multi-dimensional approach (2021)
Journal Article
Attah-Boakye, R., Costanzo, L. A., Guney, Y., & Rodgers, W. (in press). The effects of top management team strategic cognition on corporate financial health and value: an interactive multi-dimensional approach. The European journal of finance, https://doi.org/10.1080/1351847X.2021.1977360

The upper echelons theory posits that the values, personalities, experience and education background of the top management team (TMT) affect both executives’ strategic cognition and corporate outcomes. Since TMT members differ in their cognitive stru... Read More about The effects of top management team strategic cognition on corporate financial health and value: an interactive multi-dimensional approach.

Economic and Institutional Determinants of Mergers & Acquisitions in BRICS, G7 and G20 Economies (2021)
Journal Article
Bhattarai, K., Prasuna, A., & Kumar, S. N. V. S. (in press). Economic and Institutional Determinants of Mergers & Acquisitions in BRICS, G7 and G20 Economies. Journal of Applied Business and Economics,

Factors contributing towards increasing the number of mergers and acquisitions (M &A) among firms and the volume of business and sales of these firms are assessed empiricallybased on results of the static and dynamic panel data models for BRICS, G7 a... Read More about Economic and Institutional Determinants of Mergers & Acquisitions in BRICS, G7 and G20 Economies.

Ancient art and the eighteenth‐century auction: Collecting, catalogues and competition (2021)
Journal Article
Cochrane, N. (2021). Ancient art and the eighteenth‐century auction: Collecting, catalogues and competition. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 44(3), 277-292. https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12775

This article explores the role of the auction in the formation and dispersal of collections of ancient art in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. I demonstrate that competitive collecting, as well as the culture of acquiring as wel... Read More about Ancient art and the eighteenth‐century auction: Collecting, catalogues and competition.

Main-group metal complexes of α-diimine ligands: structure, bonding and reactivity (2021)
Journal Article
Zhang, R., Wang, Y., Zhao, Y., Redshaw, C., Fedushkin, I. L., Wu, B., & Yang, X. J. (2021). Main-group metal complexes of α-diimine ligands: structure, bonding and reactivity. Dalton Transactions : an international journal of inorganic chemistry, 50(39), 13634-13650. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1dt02120f

α-Diimine ligands, in particular 1,4-diazabutadiene (dad) and bis(iminoacenaphthene) (bian) derivatives, have been widely used for coordination with various metals, including main-group, transition, and lanthanide and actinide metals. In addition to... Read More about Main-group metal complexes of α-diimine ligands: structure, bonding and reactivity.

Rapid realist review: Anxiolytic effects of music therapy on mechanically ventilated patients (2021)
Preprint / Working Paper
Watson, H., & Marshall, P. Rapid realist review: Anxiolytic effects of music therapy on mechanically ventilated patients

Aims To review the literature focusing on anxiety and music therapy as a non-pharmacological anxiolytic for patients receiving mechanical ventilation and to determine the contexts, mechanisms and outcomes of what works for whom and under what circu... Read More about Rapid realist review: Anxiolytic effects of music therapy on mechanically ventilated patients.

Identification of soluble tissue‑derived biomarkers from human thyroid tissue explants maintained on a microfluidic device (2021)
Journal Article
Riley, A., Jones, H., England, J., Kuvshinov, D., Green, V., & Greenman, J. (2021). Identification of soluble tissue‑derived biomarkers from human thyroid tissue explants maintained on a microfluidic device. Oncology Letters, 22(5), Article 780. https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2021.13041

Although a large cohort of potential biomarkers for thyroid cancer aggressiveness have been tested in various formats in recent years, to the best of our knowledge, thyro‑ globulin and calcitonin remain the only two established biomarkers associated... Read More about Identification of soluble tissue‑derived biomarkers from human thyroid tissue explants maintained on a microfluidic device.

Predicting personalised optimal arc parameter using knowledge-based planning model for inoperable locally advanced lung cancer patients to reduce organ at risk doses (2021)
Journal Article
Tambe, N. S., Pires, I. M., Moore, C., Wieczorek, A., Upadhyay, S., & Beavis, A. W. (2021). Predicting personalised optimal arc parameter using knowledge-based planning model for inoperable locally advanced lung cancer patients to reduce organ at risk doses. Biomedical Physics and Engineering Express, 7(6), Article 065016. https://doi.org/10.1088/2057-1976/ac2635

Objectives. Volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) allows for reduction of organs at risk (OAR) volumes receiving higher doses, but increases OAR volumes receiving lower radiation doses and can subsequently increasing associated toxicity. Therefore,... Read More about Predicting personalised optimal arc parameter using knowledge-based planning model for inoperable locally advanced lung cancer patients to reduce organ at risk doses.

Measurement properties of external training load variables during standardised games in soccer: Implications for training and monitoring strategies (2021)
Data
McLaren-Towlson, C., Barrett, S., & Clubb, J. Measurement properties of external training load variables during standardised games in soccer: Implications for training and monitoring strategies. [Dataset]

The aim of this study was to assess the measurement properties of external training load measures across three formats of standardised training games. Eighty-eight players from two English professional soccer clubs participated in the study spanning... Read More about Measurement properties of external training load variables during standardised games in soccer: Implications for training and monitoring strategies.

Specialist palliative care services response to ethnic minority groups with COVID-19: equal but inequitable—an observational study (2021)
Journal Article
Bajwah, S., Koffman, J., Hussain, J., Bradshaw, A., Hocaoglu, M. B., Fraser, L. K., …Murtagh, F. E. M. (2021). Specialist palliative care services response to ethnic minority groups with COVID-19: equal but inequitable—an observational study. BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, bmjspcare-2021-003083. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjspcare-2021-003083

Objectives: To develop insights into response of palliative care services caring for people from ethnic minority groups during COVID-19. Methods: Cross-sectional online survey of UK palliative care services response to COVID-19. Quantitative data w... Read More about Specialist palliative care services response to ethnic minority groups with COVID-19: equal but inequitable—an observational study.

Characterization of the Convoluted 3D Intermetallic Phases in a Recycled Al Alloy by Synchrotron X-ray Tomography and Machine Learning (2021)
Journal Article
Li, Z., Qin, L., Guo, B., Yuan, J., Zhang, Z., Li, W., & Mi, J. (2022). Characterization of the Convoluted 3D Intermetallic Phases in a Recycled Al Alloy by Synchrotron X-ray Tomography and Machine Learning. Acta Metallurgica Sinica (English Letters), 35(1), 115–123. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40195-021-01312-3

Fe-rich intermetallic phases in recycled Al alloys often exhibit complex and 3D convoluted structures and morphologies. They are the common detrimental intermetallic phases to the mechanical properties of recycled Al alloys. In this study, we used sy... Read More about Characterization of the Convoluted 3D Intermetallic Phases in a Recycled Al Alloy by Synchrotron X-ray Tomography and Machine Learning.

A pause in time: history writers and the regicide of Charles I (2021)
Journal Article
Wong, M. (2021). A pause in time: history writers and the regicide of Charles I. Historical research : the bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, 94(266), 758-781. https://doi.org/10.1093/hisres/htab029

The unprecedented trial and execution of Charles I left a nation aghast and bewildered. This article examines how the English reacted to such a disruptive event, namely how the regicide changed ideas of time and the future. Using a diachronic approac... Read More about A pause in time: history writers and the regicide of Charles I.

Long-Term Changes in the Abundance of Benthic Foraging Birds in a Restored Wetland (2021)
Journal Article
Mander, L., Scapin, L., Thaxter, C. B., Forster, R. M., & Burton, N. H. (2021). Long-Term Changes in the Abundance of Benthic Foraging Birds in a Restored Wetland. Frontiers in ecology and evolution, 9, Article 673148. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.673148

Estuaries have historically been subject to considerable habitat loss, and continue to be subjected to such in areas where the natural landward migration of intertidal habitats is constrained by hard coastal defences. Thus, in estuaries where direct... Read More about Long-Term Changes in the Abundance of Benthic Foraging Birds in a Restored Wetland.

A Novel Robust Low-rank Multi-view Diversity Optimization Model with Adaptive-Weighting Based Manifold Learning (2021)
Journal Article
Tan, J., Yang, Z., Ren, J., Wang, B., Cheng, Y., & Ling, W. K. (2022). A Novel Robust Low-rank Multi-view Diversity Optimization Model with Adaptive-Weighting Based Manifold Learning. Pattern Recognition, 122, Article 108298. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2021.108298

Multi-view clustering has become a hot yet challenging topic, due mainly to the independence of and information complementarity between different views. Although good results are achieved to a certain extent from typical methods including multi-view... Read More about A Novel Robust Low-rank Multi-view Diversity Optimization Model with Adaptive-Weighting Based Manifold Learning.

Profile changes associated with dispersion measure events in PSR J1713+0747 (2021)
Journal Article
Lin, F. X., Lin, H. H., Luo, J., Main, R., McKee, J., Pen, U. L., …van Kerkwijk, M. H. (2021). Profile changes associated with dispersion measure events in PSR J1713+0747. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 508(1), 1115-1127. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab2529

Propagation effects in the interstellar medium and intrinsic profile changes can cause variability in the timing of pulsars, which limits the accuracy of fundamental science done via pulsar timing. One of the best timing pulsars, PSR J1713+0747, has... Read More about Profile changes associated with dispersion measure events in PSR J1713+0747.

Sandy beach social–ecological systems at risk: regime shifts, collapses, and governance challenges (2021)
Journal Article
Defeo, O., McLachlan, A., Armitage, D., Elliott, M., & Pittman, J. (2021). Sandy beach social–ecological systems at risk: regime shifts, collapses, and governance challenges. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 19(10), 564-573. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2406

Approximately half of the world’s ice-free ocean coastline is composed of sandy beaches, which support a higher level of recreational use than any other ecosystem. However, the contribution of sandy beaches to societal welfare is under increasing ris... Read More about Sandy beach social–ecological systems at risk: regime shifts, collapses, and governance challenges.

Brownfield sites promote biodiversity at a landscape scale (2021)
Journal Article
Macgregor, C. J., Bunting, M. J., Deutz, P., Bourn, N. A., Roy, D. B., & Mayes, W. M. (2022). Brownfield sites promote biodiversity at a landscape scale. The Science of the total environment, 804, Article 150162. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150162

Repurposing of brownfield sites is often promoted, because it is perceived that protecting the “green belt” limits damage to biodiversity; yet brownfield sites provide scarce habitats with limited disturbance, so conversely are also perceived to be e... Read More about Brownfield sites promote biodiversity at a landscape scale.