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Measuring organizational climate via psychological networks analysis (2021)
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Menezes, I., Menezes, A. C., Moraes, E., & P. Pires, P. (2021). Measuring organizational climate via psychological networks analysis. International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior, https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOTB-08-2020-0142

Purpose – This study introduces how psychological networks can be applied to the investigation of organizational climate under the Thriving at Work perspective and what variables and dimensions are the most central for its investigation. Moreover, it... Read More about Measuring organizational climate via psychological networks analysis.

Optimization of fuzzy logic quadrotor attitude controller - particle swarm, Cuckoo search and BAT algorithms (2021)
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Siddiq Zatout, M., Rezoug, A., Rezoug, A., Baizid, K., & Iqbal, J. (2021). Optimization of fuzzy logic quadrotor attitude controller - particle swarm, Cuckoo search and BAT algorithms. International Journal of Systems Science, https://doi.org/10.1080/00207721.2021.1978012

Bio-inspired optimisation algorithms have recently attracted much attention in the control community. Most of these algorithms mimic particular behaviours of some animal species in such a way that allows solving optimisation problems. The present pap... Read More about Optimization of fuzzy logic quadrotor attitude controller - particle swarm, Cuckoo search and BAT algorithms.

360-degree video in education: An overview and a comparative social media data analysis of the last decade (2021)
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Lampropoulos, G., Barkoukis, V., Burden, K., & Anastasiadis, T. (2021). 360-degree video in education: An overview and a comparative social media data analysis of the last decade. Smart Learning Environments, 8(1), Article 20. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40561-021-00165-8

Due to its immersive and interactive nature, 360-degree video is becoming ever more popular. However, little is known about the public’s viewpoints and attitudes regarding the use of this emerging technology in educational contexts. This study review... Read More about 360-degree video in education: An overview and a comparative social media data analysis of the last decade.

Interactome and evolutionary conservation of dictyostelid small GTPases and their direct regulators (2021)
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Forbes, G., Schilde, C., Lawal, H., Kin, K., Du, Q., Chen, Z., …Schaap, P. (in press). Interactome and evolutionary conservation of dictyostelid small GTPases and their direct regulators. Small GTPases, https://doi.org/10.1080/21541248.2021.1984829

The GTP binding proteins known as small GTPases make up one of the largest groups of regulatory proteins and control almost all functions of living cells. Their activity is under respectively positive and negative regulation by guanine nucleotide exc... Read More about Interactome and evolutionary conservation of dictyostelid small GTPases and their direct regulators.

Promoted N[triple bond]N activation by oxygen and boosted ammonia production over Bi4O5Br2 (2021)
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Yuan, C., Lu, Z., Jiang, W., Ibhadon, A. O., & Teng, F. (2021). Promoted N[triple bond]N activation by oxygen and boosted ammonia production over Bi4O5Br2. Molecular Catalysis, 515, Article 111913. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mcat.2021.111913

Nitrogen photoreduction method is recognized as a safe, environmentally friendly and sustainable technology for ammonia production. For this method, nevertheless, it is a big challenge to efficaciously activate the N[tbnd]N triple bond. In this work,... Read More about Promoted N[triple bond]N activation by oxygen and boosted ammonia production over Bi4O5Br2.

Multi-agent architecture for waste minimisation in beef supply chain (2021)
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Nguyen, A. H. T., Singh, A., Kumari, S., & Choudhary, S. (in press). Multi-agent architecture for waste minimisation in beef supply chain. Production planning & control, https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2021.1979679

Food waste is an alarming issue pertaining to the rising global hunger, huge environmental footprint, and high monetary value. In developing and developed nations, it occurs primarily due to inefficiencies upstream and downstream of the supply chain... Read More about Multi-agent architecture for waste minimisation in beef supply chain.

Economic policy uncertainty and cross-border mergers and acquisitions (2021)
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Gregoriou, A., Nguyen, B. D., Nguyen, T. D., Le, H., & Hudson, R. (2021). Economic policy uncertainty and cross-border mergers and acquisitions. International review of financial analysis, 78, Article 101911. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2021.101911

We examine the impact of policy uncertainty on cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As). Using a sample of 23 countries worldwide over the period from 2003 to 2016, we provide evidence that when a country has high policy uncertainty, the volume o... Read More about Economic policy uncertainty and cross-border mergers and acquisitions.

Naval Disasters, World War Two and the British Stock Market (2021)
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Hudson, R., & Urquhart, A. (2022). Naval Disasters, World War Two and the British Stock Market. Research in international business and finance, 59, Article 101556. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2021.101556

This paper studies investor sentiment by examining the impact on the British stock market of naval disasters. Since the British Empire was a world power and its navy was held in great regard, Britain was dependent on control of the sea for survival d... Read More about Naval Disasters, World War Two and the British Stock Market.

Slowing on quantitative EEG is associated with transition to dementia in mild cognitive impairment (2021)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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.