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Agricultural Pea Waste as a Low-Cost Pollutant Biosorbent for Methylene Blue Removal: Adsorption Kinetics, Isotherm And Thermodynamic Studies (2022)
Journal Article
Holliday, M. C., Parsons, D. R., & Zein, S. H. (2022). Agricultural Pea Waste as a Low-Cost Pollutant Biosorbent for Methylene Blue Removal: Adsorption Kinetics, Isotherm And Thermodynamic Studies. Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13399-022-02865-8

Biosorbents are an alternative pollutant adsorbent, usually sourced from waste biomass and requiring little to no treatment. This makes them cheaper than conventional adsorbents. In this paper, green pea (Pisum sativum) haulm was used as a biosorbent... Read More about Agricultural Pea Waste as a Low-Cost Pollutant Biosorbent for Methylene Blue Removal: Adsorption Kinetics, Isotherm And Thermodynamic Studies.

Bioproduction of Linalool From Paper Mill Waste (2022)
Journal Article
Rinaldi, M. A., Tait, S., Toogood, H. S., & Scrutton, N. S. (2022). Bioproduction of Linalool From Paper Mill Waste. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 10, Article 892896. https://doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2022.892896

A key challenge in chemicals biomanufacturing is the maintenance of stable, highly productive microbial strains to enable cost-effective fermentation at scale. A “cookie-cutter” approach to microbial engineering is often used to optimize host stabili... Read More about Bioproduction of Linalool From Paper Mill Waste.

Understanding and addressing ‘modern slavery’ in DRC-UK cobalt supply chains (2022)
Book Chapter
McQuilken, J., Shirgholami, Z., & McFarlane, D. (2022). Understanding and addressing ‘modern slavery’ in DRC-UK cobalt supply chains. In N. Yakovleva, & E. Nickless (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development (514-541). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003001317

The UK’s – and the world’s – ‘green industrial revolution’ is intrinsically tied to the artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) of cobalt in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This largely informal sector produces approximately 12–21% of the worl... Read More about Understanding and addressing ‘modern slavery’ in DRC-UK cobalt supply chains.

Safety, Pharmacodynamics, and Pharmacokinetics of P2X3 Receptor Antagonist Eliapixant (BAY 1817080) in Healthy Subjects: Double-Blind Randomized Study (2022)
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Friedrich, C., Francke, K., Gashaw, I., Scheerans, C., Klein, S., Fels, L., …Morice, A. (2022). Safety, Pharmacodynamics, and Pharmacokinetics of P2X3 Receptor Antagonist Eliapixant (BAY 1817080) in Healthy Subjects: Double-Blind Randomized Study. Clinical Pharmacokinetics, 61, 1143–1156. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40262-022-01126-1

Background and Objective: There is no licensed treatment for refractory chronic cough; off-label therapies have limited efficacy and can produce adverse effects. Excessive adenosine triphosphate signaling via P2X3 receptors is implicated in refractor... Read More about Safety, Pharmacodynamics, and Pharmacokinetics of P2X3 Receptor Antagonist Eliapixant (BAY 1817080) in Healthy Subjects: Double-Blind Randomized Study.

Thinking About the Future, Symptom Control and Other Aspects of Palliative Care in Advanced CKD (2022)
Book Chapter
Murtagh, F. E., Wilson, J., & Davison, S. N. (2022). Thinking About the Future, Symptom Control and Other Aspects of Palliative Care in Advanced CKD. In M. Harber (Ed.), Primer on Nephrology (1163-1174). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76419-7_68

Palliative and supportive care have always been important for those with advanced CKD, but – until recently – there has been little research or evidence to inform best care. This is changing rapidly. This chapter draws on recent evidence to provide a... Read More about Thinking About the Future, Symptom Control and Other Aspects of Palliative Care in Advanced CKD.

Validity and reliability of the movement assessment battery second edition test in children with and without motor impairment: A prospective cohort study (2022)
Journal Article
Ghayour Najafabadi, M., Saghaei, B., Shariat, A., Ingle, L., Babazadeh-Zavieh, S. S., Shojaei, M., & Daneshfar, A. (2022). Validity and reliability of the movement assessment battery second edition test in children with and without motor impairment: A prospective cohort study. Annals of Medicine and Surgery, 77, Article 103672. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2022.103672

Background: Examining the reliability and validity of the second edition movement assessment battery test (MABC-2) in children with and without motor impairment. Materials and methods: In this prospective cohort study, the MABC-2 test and development... Read More about Validity and reliability of the movement assessment battery second edition test in children with and without motor impairment: A prospective cohort study.

Fracture mechanisms of additively manufactured polylactide: Effect of in vitro hydrolytic degradation (2022)
Journal Article
Moetazedian, A., Gleadall, A., & V Silberschmidt, V. (2022). Fracture mechanisms of additively manufactured polylactide: Effect of in vitro hydrolytic degradation. Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 269, Article 108572. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engfracmech.2022.108572

This is the first study considering the effect of in vitro hydrolytic degradation at 37 °C on fracture mechanism of the most important aspect of additive manufacturing – the interface between layers. Specimens were tested transversely (failure betwee... Read More about Fracture mechanisms of additively manufactured polylactide: Effect of in vitro hydrolytic degradation.

A theoretical analysis of the scale separation in a model to predict solid tumour growth (2022)
Journal Article
de Melo Quintela, B., Hervas-Raluy, S., Garcia-Aznar, J. M., Walker, D., Wertheim, K. Y., & Viceconti, M. (2022). A theoretical analysis of the scale separation in a model to predict solid tumour growth. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 547, Article 111173. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2022.111173

Solid tumour growth depends on a host of factors which affect the cell life cycle and extracellular matrix vascularization that leads to a favourable environment. The whole solid tumour can either grow or wither in response to the action of the immun... Read More about A theoretical analysis of the scale separation in a model to predict solid tumour growth.

The Large Dispersion and Scattering of FRB 20190520B Are Dominated by the Host Galaxy (2022)
Journal Article
Koch Ocker, S., Cordes, J. M., Chatterjee, S., Niu, C. H., Li, D., McKee, J. W., …Cruces, M. (2022). The Large Dispersion and Scattering of FRB 20190520B Are Dominated by the Host Galaxy. The Astrophysical journal, 931(2), Article 87. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac6504

The repeating fast radio burst FRB 20190520B is localized to a galaxy at z = 0.241, much closer than expected given its dispersion measure DM = 1205 ± 4 pc cm-3. Here we assess implications of the large DM and scattering observed from FRB 20190520B f... Read More about The Large Dispersion and Scattering of FRB 20190520B Are Dominated by the Host Galaxy.

Progress in host–guest macrocycle/pesticide research: Recognition, detection, release and application (2022)
Journal Article
Shan, P. H., Hu, J. H., Liu, M., Tao, Z., Xiao, X., & Redshaw, C. (2022). Progress in host–guest macrocycle/pesticide research: Recognition, detection, release and application. Coordination chemistry reviews, 467, Article 214580. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccr.2022.214580

Macrocyclic compounds are formed via a series of cyclic oligomers possessing repeating units, and classical examples include cyclodextrins, calix[n]arenes, cucurbit[n]urils and pillar[n]arenes (n represents the number of repeat units). Given their un... Read More about Progress in host–guest macrocycle/pesticide research: Recognition, detection, release and application.

Male pre-service teachers: navigating masculinities on campus and on placement (2022)
Journal Article
Eldred, L., Gough, B., & Glazzard, J. (2022). Male pre-service teachers: navigating masculinities on campus and on placement. Gender and Education, 34(7), 755-769. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2022.2078794

This paper reports on research examining how male pre-service primary school teachers negotiate masculinities during their time within majority-female spaces. Four white undergraduate pre-service teachers in the North of England, UK, who were trainin... Read More about Male pre-service teachers: navigating masculinities on campus and on placement.

Searches for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars at Two Harmonics in the Second and Third LIGO-Virgo Observing Runs (2022)
Journal Article
Abbott, R., Abe, H., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adhikari, N., Adhikari, R., …Weltevrede, P. (2022). Searches for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars at Two Harmonics in the Second and Third LIGO-Virgo Observing Runs. The Astrophysical journal, 935(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac6acf

We present a targeted search for continuous gravitational waves (GWs) from 236 pulsars using data from the third observing run of LIGO and Virgo (O3) combined with data from the second observing run (O2). Searches were for emission from the l = m = 2... Read More about Searches for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars at Two Harmonics in the Second and Third LIGO-Virgo Observing Runs.

Compression following treatment of superficial venous incompetence: systematic review (2022)
Journal Article
Mohamed, A. H., Thadani, S., Mohamed, S. H., Sidapra, M., Smith, G., Chetter, I., & Carradice, D. (2022). Compression following treatment of superficial venous incompetence: systematic review. British journal of surgery, 109(8), 679-685. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjs/znac116

BACKGROUND: International guidelines recommend postprocedural compression when treating symptomatic superficial venous incompetence (SVI). This updated review of RCTs investigated the requirement for postprocedural compression and how it can be appli... Read More about Compression following treatment of superficial venous incompetence: systematic review.

Sensorimotor anticipation of others’ actions in real-world and video settings: Modulation by level of engagement? (2022)
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Krol, M. A., & Jellema, T. (2022). Sensorimotor anticipation of others’ actions in real-world and video settings: Modulation by level of engagement?. Social Neuroscience, 17(3), 293-304. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2022.2083229

Electroencephalography (EEG) studies investigating social cognition have used both video and real-world stimuli, often without a strong reasoning as to why one or the other was chosen. Video stimuli can be selected for practical reasons, while natura... Read More about Sensorimotor anticipation of others’ actions in real-world and video settings: Modulation by level of engagement?.

Human but not robotic gaze facilitates action prediction (2022)
Journal Article
Tidoni, E., Holle, H., Scandola, M., Schindler, I., Hill, L., & Cross, E. S. (2022). Human but not robotic gaze facilitates action prediction. iScience, 25(6), Article 104462. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.104462

Do people ascribe intentions to humanoid robots as they would to humans or non-human-like animated objects? In six experiments, we compared people's ability to extract non-mentalistic (i.e., where an agent is looking) and mentalistic (i.e., what an a... Read More about Human but not robotic gaze facilitates action prediction.

A study of the inclusion complex formed between cucurcubit[7]uril and 1-[4-(dimethylamino)phenyl]-ethanone (2022)
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Feng, X. H., Yu, Z. C., Zhang, W., Redshaw, C., Prior, T. J., Meng, T. H., …Xiao, X. (2022). A study of the inclusion complex formed between cucurcubit[7]uril and 1-[4-(dimethylamino)phenyl]-ethanone. Polyhedron, 222, Article 115938. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poly.2022.115938

In the work, we have studied the interaction of cucurbit[7]uril (Q[7]) with 1-[4-(dimethylamino)phenyl]-ethanone (DAPE) using a variety of techiniques including 1H NMR spectroscopy, UV–vis adsorption and fluorescence spectroscopies, Isothermal titrat... Read More about A study of the inclusion complex formed between cucurcubit[7]uril and 1-[4-(dimethylamino)phenyl]-ethanone.

A review of volunteers’ motivations to monitor and control invasive alien species (2022)
Journal Article
Anđelković, A., Lawson Handley, L., Marchante, E., Adriaens, T., Brown, P., Tricarico, E., & Verbrugge, L. (2022). A review of volunteers’ motivations to monitor and control invasive alien species. Neobiota, 73, 153-175. https://doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.73.79636

People make an important contribution to the study and management of biological invasions, as many monitoring and control projects rely heavily on volunteer assistance. Understanding the reasons why people participate in such projects is critical for... Read More about A review of volunteers’ motivations to monitor and control invasive alien species.

Conceptualising Translational Research in Schools: A Systematic Literature Review. (2022)
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Jones, S., Procter, R., Connolly, C., Hall, A., & Fazlagić, J. (2022). Conceptualising Translational Research in Schools: A Systematic Literature Review. International Journal of Educational Research, 114, Article 101998. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2022.101998

Since Stenhouse (1975) called for teachers to have ownership of research, there have been initial forays into teacher led research and evidence based practice in schools. However the notion of translational research in schools remains contested, in s... Read More about Conceptualising Translational Research in Schools: A Systematic Literature Review..

A Modelling Study of Post-Combustion Capture Plant Process Conditions to Facilitate 95–99% CO<inf>2</inf> Capture Levels From Gas Turbine Flue Gases (2022)
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Michailos, S., & Gibbins, J. (2022). A Modelling Study of Post-Combustion Capture Plant Process Conditions to Facilitate 95–99% CO2 Capture Levels From Gas Turbine Flue Gases. Frontiers in Energy Research, 10, Article 866838. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenrg.2022.866838

The principal purpose of this study is to examine the changes in process conditions that might be needed to achieve up to 99% capture levels in amine post-combustion capture (PCC) plants for combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) flue gases. This informat... Read More about A Modelling Study of Post-Combustion Capture Plant Process Conditions to Facilitate 95–99% CO<inf>2</inf> Capture Levels From Gas Turbine Flue Gases.