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The association between socioeconomic position and the symptoms and concerns of hospital inpatients seen by specialist palliative care: Analysis of routinely collected patient data (2022)
Journal Article
Davies, J. M., Sleeman, K. E., Ramsenthaler, C., Prentice, W., Maddocks, M., & Murtagh, F. E. (2022). The association between socioeconomic position and the symptoms and concerns of hospital inpatients seen by specialist palliative care: Analysis of routinely collected patient data. Palliative medicine, https://doi.org/10.1177/02692163221115331

Background: Understanding how socioeconomic position influences the symptoms and concerns of patients approaching the end of life is important for planning more equitable care. Data on this relationship is lacking, particularly for patients with non-... Read More about The association between socioeconomic position and the symptoms and concerns of hospital inpatients seen by specialist palliative care: Analysis of routinely collected patient data.

Testing the public’s response to receiving Severe Flood Warnings using simulated Cell Broadcast (2022)
Data
Smith, K. R., Grant, S., & Thomas, R. E. (2022). Testing the public’s response to receiving Severe Flood Warnings using simulated Cell Broadcast. [Data]

European Governments must implement a public alerting system to reach mobile phone users affected by major emergencies and disasters by June 2022. Cell Broadcast is used to issue emergency alerts in several countries but has not yet been introduced i... Read More about Testing the public’s response to receiving Severe Flood Warnings using simulated Cell Broadcast.

MiRNA and associated inflammatory changes from baseline to hypoglycemia in type 2 diabetes (2022)
Journal Article
Ramanjaneya, M., Priyanka, R., Bensila, M., Jerobin, J., Pawar, K., Sathyapalan, T., Abou-Samra, A. B., Halabi, N. M., Moin, A. S. M., Atkin, S. L., & Butler, A. E. (2022). MiRNA and associated inflammatory changes from baseline to hypoglycemia in type 2 diabetes. Frontiers in endocrinology, 13, Article 917041. https://doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2022.917041

Objective: Hypoglycemia in type 2 diabetes (T2D) increases morbidity and mortality but the underlying physiological response is still not fully understood, though physiological changes are still apparent 24 hours after the event. Small noncoding micr... Read More about MiRNA and associated inflammatory changes from baseline to hypoglycemia in type 2 diabetes.

Book review: Consuming Katrina: Public disaster and personal narrative by Kate Parker Horrigan (2022)
Journal Article
Smith, K. (in press). Book review: Consuming Katrina: Public disaster and personal narrative by Kate Parker Horrigan. Folklore, https://doi.org/10.1080/0015587X.2022.2090666

Parker Horrigan's slim but densely layered volume presents multiple viewpoints of narratives that emerged from citizen's experiences during Hurricane Katrina. Echoing the methodologies deployed in recent socio-hydrology and/or flood studies, notably... Read More about Book review: Consuming Katrina: Public disaster and personal narrative by Kate Parker Horrigan.

Automated Question-Answering for Interactive Decision Support in Operations & Maintenance of Wind Turbines (2022)
Journal Article
Chatterjee, J., & Dethlefs, N. (2022). Automated Question-Answering for Interactive Decision Support in Operations & Maintenance of Wind Turbines. IEEE Access, 10, 84710-84737. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3197167

Intelligent question-answering (QA) systems have witnessed increased interest in recent years, particularly in their ability to facilitate information access, data interpretation or decision support. The wind energy sector is one of the most promisin... Read More about Automated Question-Answering for Interactive Decision Support in Operations & Maintenance of Wind Turbines.

Me, myself, and nature: living with dementia and connecting with the natural world – more than a breath of fresh air? A literature review (2022)
Journal Article
Bennett, J., Wolverson, E., & Price, L. (2022). Me, myself, and nature: living with dementia and connecting with the natural world – more than a breath of fresh air? A literature review. Dementia, https://doi.org/10.1177/14713012221117896

Objective: Depsite the growing awareness of the importance of engagement with the natural world for people living with dementia, little is known about the impact specifically for people living independently in their own home. This review identifies,... Read More about Me, myself, and nature: living with dementia and connecting with the natural world – more than a breath of fresh air? A literature review.

Waste Plastic Thermal Pyrolysis: A Recent Advanced Study (2022)
Book Chapter
Yansaneh, O. Y., & Zein, S. H. (2022). Waste Plastic Thermal Pyrolysis: A Recent Advanced Study. In G. Bucci (Ed.), Current Overview on Science and Technology Research Vol. 1 (1-36). Book Publisher International. https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/costr/v1/2637b

This work is essentially a simplification of a collection of thermal pyrolysis research work, mostly recent, being reviewed and referenced here, and showcasing the increased interest in pyrolysis treatment methods. The management of waste plastic (WP... Read More about Waste Plastic Thermal Pyrolysis: A Recent Advanced Study.

Toward a decade of ocean science for sustainable development through acoustic animal tracking (2022)
Journal Article
Alós, J., Aarestrup, K., Abecasis, D., Afonso, P., Alonso‐Fernandez, A., Aspillaga, E., Barcelo‐Serra, M., Bolland, J., Cabanellas-Reboredo, M., Lennox, R., McGill, R., Özgül, A., Reubens, J., & Villegas-Ríos, D. (in press). Toward a decade of ocean science for sustainable development through acoustic animal tracking. Global change biology, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16343

The ocean is a key component of the Earth's dynamics, providing a great variety of ecosystem services to humans. Yet, human activities are globally changing its structure and major components, including marine biodiversity. In this context, the Unite... Read More about Toward a decade of ocean science for sustainable development through acoustic animal tracking.

‘It just fundamentally reflects the best of social work’: Social Worker’s Practice Understandings and Experience of the Best Interests Assessor role (2022)
Journal Article
Buckton, W. (in press). ‘It just fundamentally reflects the best of social work’: Social Worker’s Practice Understandings and Experience of the Best Interests Assessor role. The British journal of social work, Article bcac147. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcac147

This article explores narratives of professional social workers tasked with undertaking the formal para-legal role of Best Interests Assessor under the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) scheme. Wholesale reform of this practice has been debate... Read More about ‘It just fundamentally reflects the best of social work’: Social Worker’s Practice Understandings and Experience of the Best Interests Assessor role.

Supramolecular Polymeric Material Based on Twisted Cucurbit[14]uril: Sensitive Detection and Removal of Potential Cyanide from Water (2022)
Journal Article
Zhang, W., Luo, Y., Zhu, P. H., Ni, X. L., Redshaw, C., Tao, Z., & Xiao, X. (2022). Supramolecular Polymeric Material Based on Twisted Cucurbit[14]uril: Sensitive Detection and Removal of Potential Cyanide from Water. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.2c10866

Potassium ferricyanide in an aqueous solution is easily decomposed into highly toxic substances (potassium cyanide and hydrogen cyanide) by light or alkaline action, which poses a major hazard to environmental and human health. Here, a reticulated ag... Read More about Supramolecular Polymeric Material Based on Twisted Cucurbit[14]uril: Sensitive Detection and Removal of Potential Cyanide from Water.

'I'm not Doing It for the Company' -Examining Employee Volunteering Through Employees' Eyes (2022)
Journal Article
Cook, J., Burchell, J., Thiery, H., & Roy, T. (in press). 'I'm not Doing It for the Company' -Examining Employee Volunteering Through Employees' Eyes. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.1177/08997640221114309

This article contributes to research on Employee Volunteering (EV) by focusing on the experiences of individuals in order to address the current over-emphasis upon collective organisational outcomes. Drawing on qualitative research with employees and... Read More about 'I'm not Doing It for the Company' -Examining Employee Volunteering Through Employees' Eyes.

Quantification of bush-cricket acoustic trachea mechanics using Atomic Force Microscopy nanoindentation (2022)
Journal Article
Siamantouras, E., Woodrow, C., Celiker, E., Cullen, D. A., Hills, C. E., Squires, P. E., & Montealegre-Z, F. (2022). Quantification of bush-cricket acoustic trachea mechanics using Atomic Force Microscopy nanoindentation. Acta Biomaterialia, 153, 399-410. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2022.08.056

Derived from the respiratory tracheae, bush-crickets’ acoustic tracheae (or ear canals) are hollow tubes evolved to transmit sounds from the external environment to the interior ear. Due to the location of the ears in the forelegs, the acoustic trach... Read More about Quantification of bush-cricket acoustic trachea mechanics using Atomic Force Microscopy nanoindentation.

An Efficient Approach to Pyrene-based Aggregation-induced Emission Luminogens (2022)
Journal Article
Guo, H., Song, X., Wang, X., Liu, Y., Redshaw, C., & Feng, X. (2022). An Efficient Approach to Pyrene-based Aggregation-induced Emission Luminogens. ChemistrySelect, 7(29), Article e202202208. https://doi.org/10.1002/slct.202202208

To suppress the fluorescence quenching of pyrene in the aggregation state, this article presents a facile strategy for the construction of pyrene-based aggregation-induced emission luminogens (AIEgens) via decorating the pyrene core with benzophenone... Read More about An Efficient Approach to Pyrene-based Aggregation-induced Emission Luminogens.

Encapsulationof the Haloalkane 4-Chloromethylpyridine Hydrochloride by Cucurbit[8]uril (2022)
Journal Article
Shan, P., Lu, Y., Yu, Z., Fan, Y., Zhao, A., Redshaw, C., Tao, Z., & Xiao, X. (2022). Encapsulationof the Haloalkane 4-Chloromethylpyridine Hydrochloride by Cucurbit[8]uril. ChemistrySelect, 7(29), Article e202200107. https://doi.org/10.1002/slct.202200107

Complexation of 4-chloromethylpyridine hydrochloride (G) with cucurbit[8]uril (Q[8]) has been investigated using NMR spectroscopy, UV-visible spectroscopy, isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC), Quantum calculation, and X-ray crystallography. The da... Read More about Encapsulationof the Haloalkane 4-Chloromethylpyridine Hydrochloride by Cucurbit[8]uril.

Structure-controlled intramolecular charge transfer in asymmetric pyrene-based luminogens: synthesis, characterization and optical properties (2022)
Journal Article
Yu, Z. D., Cao, J. Y., Li, H. L., Yang, G., Xue, Z. M., Jiang, L., Yu, J. Y., Wang, C. Z., Liu, X. Y., Redshaw, C., & Yamato, T. (2022). Structure-controlled intramolecular charge transfer in asymmetric pyrene-based luminogens: synthesis, characterization and optical properties. New journal of chemistry = Nouveau journal de chimie, https://doi.org/10.1039/d2nj02968e

Full-colour emitting materials have been widely studied driven by their promising potential application in fluorescence imaging and optoelectronic devices. In this paper, the synthesis and charactization of four asymmetric D-A type pyrene-based lumin... Read More about Structure-controlled intramolecular charge transfer in asymmetric pyrene-based luminogens: synthesis, characterization and optical properties.

Diagnostic accuracy of telemedicine for detection of surgical site infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2022)
Journal Article
Lathan, R., Sidapra, M., Yiasemidou, M., Long, J., Totty, J., Smith, G., & Chetter, I. (2022). Diagnostic accuracy of telemedicine for detection of surgical site infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis. npj Digital Medicine, 5(1), Article 108. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-022-00655-0

The Sars-CoV-2 pandemic catalysed integration of telemedicine worldwide. This systematic review assesses it’s accuracy for diagnosis of Surgical Site Infection (SSI). Databases were searched for telemedicine and wound infection studies. All types of... Read More about Diagnostic accuracy of telemedicine for detection of surgical site infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Dynamic Relief Items Distribution Model with Sliding Time Window in the Post-Disaster Environment (2022)
Journal Article
Mishra, B. K., Dahal, K., & Pervez, Z. (2022). Dynamic Relief Items Distribution Model with Sliding Time Window in the Post-Disaster Environment. Applied Sciences, 12(16), Article 8358. https://doi.org/10.3390/app12168358

In smart cities, relief items distribution is a complex task due to the factors such as incomplete information, unpredictable exact demand, lack of resources, and causality levels, to name a few. With the development of Internet of Things (IoT) techn... Read More about Dynamic Relief Items Distribution Model with Sliding Time Window in the Post-Disaster Environment.

Multi-omic analysis of two common p53 mutations: Proteins regulated by mutated p53 as potential targets for immunotherapy (2022)
Journal Article
Vadakekolathu, J., Boocock, D. J., Pandey, K., Guinn, B. A., Legrand, A., Miles, A. K., Coveney, C., Ayala, R., Purcell, A. W., & McArdle, S. E. (2022). Multi-omic analysis of two common p53 mutations: Proteins regulated by mutated p53 as potential targets for immunotherapy. Cancers, 14(16), Article 3975. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers14163975

The p53 protein is mutated in more than 50% of human cancers. Mutated p53 proteins not only lose their normal function but often acquire novel oncogenic functions, a phenomenon termed mutant p53 gain-of-function. Mutant p53 has been shown to affect t... Read More about Multi-omic analysis of two common p53 mutations: Proteins regulated by mutated p53 as potential targets for immunotherapy.

Dispelling the myths around the role of a general practice nurse (2022)
Journal Article
Butler, S. (2022). Dispelling the myths around the role of a general practice nurse. Practice Nursing, 33(8), 324-328. https://doi.org/10.12968/pnur.2022.33.8.324

There are many myths surrounding the general practice nurse role. Sarah Butler looks at these myths and clears up some of the misunderstandings that are often repeated

In the UK there is a need to promote and increase the number of general practic... Read More about Dispelling the myths around the role of a general practice nurse.

Simultaneous fall and flow during pyroclastic eruptions: A novel proximal hybrid facies (2022)
Journal Article
Dowey, N., & Williams, R. (2022). Simultaneous fall and flow during pyroclastic eruptions: A novel proximal hybrid facies. Geology, 50(10), 1187-1191. https://doi.org/10.1130/G50169.1

The deposits of Plinian and subplinian eruptions provide critical insights into past volcanic events and inform numerical models that aim to mitigate against future hazards. However, pyroclastic deposits are often considered from either a fallout or... Read More about Simultaneous fall and flow during pyroclastic eruptions: A novel proximal hybrid facies.