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Direct contact membrane distillation: A sensitivity analysis and an outlook on membrane effective thermal conductivity (2021)
Journal Article
Ismail, M. S., Mohamed, A. M., Poggio, D., & Pourkashanian, M. (2021). Direct contact membrane distillation: A sensitivity analysis and an outlook on membrane effective thermal conductivity. Journal of membrane science, 624, Article 119035. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2020.119035

A rigorous and high-fidelity two-dimensional numerical model for a direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD) module has been developed. The developed model incorporates all the key physics governing the transport phenomena taking place within the m... Read More about Direct contact membrane distillation: A sensitivity analysis and an outlook on membrane effective thermal conductivity.

Community Occupational Therapy for people with dementia and family carers (COTiD-UK) versus treatment as usual (Valuing Active Life in Dementia [VALID]) study: A single-blind, randomised controlled trial (2021)
Journal Article
Wenborn, J., O’Keeffe, A. G., Mountain, G., Moniz-Cook, E., King, M., Omar, R. Z., Mundy, J., Burgess, J., Poland, F., Morris, S., Pizzo, E., Vernooij-Dassen, M., Challis, D., Michie, S., Russell, I., Sackley, C., Graff, M., Swinson, T., Crellin, N., Hynes, S., …Orrell, M. (2021). Community Occupational Therapy for people with dementia and family carers (COTiD-UK) versus treatment as usual (Valuing Active Life in Dementia [VALID]) study: A single-blind, randomised controlled trial. PLoS Medicine, 18(1), Article e1003433. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003433

© 2021 Wenborn et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are cr... Read More about Community Occupational Therapy for people with dementia and family carers (COTiD-UK) versus treatment as usual (Valuing Active Life in Dementia [VALID]) study: A single-blind, randomised controlled trial.

Equilibrating ripple effect, disturbing information cascade effect and regional disparity – A perspective from China's tiered housing markets (2021)
Journal Article
Xiao, Q. (2023). Equilibrating ripple effect, disturbing information cascade effect and regional disparity – A perspective from China's tiered housing markets. International journal of finance & economics : IJFE, 28(1), 858-875. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijfe.2453

The current study investigates the role of the tier-one cities of China in affecting regional disparities within and across its five mega-city clusters, through the lens of housing market. For that purpose, an equilibrating ripple effect is different... Read More about Equilibrating ripple effect, disturbing information cascade effect and regional disparity – A perspective from China's tiered housing markets.

Order book price impact in the Chinese soybean futures market (2021)
Journal Article
Jin, M., Kearney, F., Li, Y., & Yang, Y. C. (in press). Order book price impact in the Chinese soybean futures market. International journal of finance & economics : IJFE, https://doi.org/10.1002/ijfe.2439

We study the price impact of order flow in the world's largest soybean meal futures markets. Our intraday results indicate that incoming orders can be used to explain and predict future price changes. Our results are shown to be robust to various ord... Read More about Order book price impact in the Chinese soybean futures market.

Sustainable product development in a circular economy: Implications for products, actors, decision-making support and lifecycle information management (2021)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Adversarial Reconstruction Loss for Domain Generalization (2021)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Value co-creation intention, practices and experience in self-service technologies (2021)
Thesis
Galdolage, B. S. (2021). Value co-creation intention, practices and experience in self-service technologies. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4223196

The 21st century is known as the experience economy where the prime aim of businesses is to provide superior customer experiences, mainly through actively seeking mutually beneficial interactions with customers which is often labelled as ‘value co-cr... Read More about Value co-creation intention, practices and experience in self-service technologies.

Alternative exercise programmes for the treatment of intermittent claudication - from unsupervised home-based walking to supervised high-intensity interval cycling (2021)
Thesis
Pymer, S. (2021). Alternative exercise programmes for the treatment of intermittent claudication - from unsupervised home-based walking to supervised high-intensity interval cycling. (Thesis). Hull York Medical School, the University of Hull and the University of York. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4223166

Supervised exercise programmes (SEP) for intermittent claudication (IC) suffer from low provision and uptake rates. As such, alternative interventions should be explored, such as home-based exercise programmes (HEP) and high-intensity interval traini... Read More about Alternative exercise programmes for the treatment of intermittent claudication - from unsupervised home-based walking to supervised high-intensity interval cycling.

Repositioning Roald Dahl : morality and fantasy in Dahl’s life and writing for children (2021)
Thesis
Pojana Maneeyingsakul. (2021). Repositioning Roald Dahl : morality and fantasy in Dahl’s life and writing for children. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4223113

This thesis aims to reposition Roald Dahl and his children’s fiction in the evolution of the morality debate in other popular children’s writers. His works for children, which were written during the last three decades of his life, have been frequent... Read More about Repositioning Roald Dahl : morality and fantasy in Dahl’s life and writing for children.

Acoustic investigation of perforated liners in gas turbine combustors (2021)
Thesis
Shahjalal, A. (2021). Acoustic investigation of perforated liners in gas turbine combustors. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4223014

Modern combustion systems in industrial applications, from the gas turbine to aero or rocket engines, have become more critical during the last few years due to an exponential increase in commercial air traffic, resulting in an elevated level of atmo... Read More about Acoustic investigation of perforated liners in gas turbine combustors.

The impact of the first covid-19 surge on severe asthma patients in the uk. Which is worse: The virus or the lockdown? (2021)
Journal Article
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

Natural Insulin Sensitizers for the Management of Diabetes Mellitus: A Review of Possible Molecular Mechanisms (2021)
Book Chapter
Yaribeygi, H., Sathyapalan, T., Jamialahmadi, T., & Sahebkar, A. (2021). Natural Insulin Sensitizers for the Management of Diabetes Mellitus: A Review of Possible Molecular Mechanisms. In A. Sahebkar, & T. Sathyapalan (Eds.), Natural Products and Human Diseases (401-410). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73234-9_26

Diabetes mellitus is a growing health challenge globally which is increasing in epidemic proportion. Naturally occurring pharmacological agents are more likely to provide beneficial therapeutic effects without undesirable side effects compared to the... Read More about Natural Insulin Sensitizers for the Management of Diabetes Mellitus: A Review of Possible Molecular Mechanisms.