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In silico identification of chemical compounds in Spondias mombin targeting aldose reductase and glycogen synthase kinase 3β to abate diabetes mellitus (2022)
Journal Article
Ajiboye, B. O., Fagbola, T. M., Folorunso, I. M., Salami, A. W., Aletile, O. N., Akomolede, B. A., …Oyinloye, B. E. (2023). In silico identification of chemical compounds in Spondias mombin targeting aldose reductase and glycogen synthase kinase 3β to abate diabetes mellitus. Informatics in Medicine Unlocked, 36, Article 101126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.imu.2022.101126

Aldose reductase and glycogen synthase kinase 3β (GSK3β) represent two of the ideal drug targets in diabetes due to their role in the pathogenesis of diabetes. Studies have shown that plant compounds provide therapeutics in diabetes management. This... Read More about In silico identification of chemical compounds in Spondias mombin targeting aldose reductase and glycogen synthase kinase 3β to abate diabetes mellitus.

The Vanishing South: Race and the Ecogothic in Ambrose Bierce and Charles Chesnutt (2022)
Journal Article
Corstorphine, K. (in press). The Vanishing South: Race and the Ecogothic in Ambrose Bierce and Charles Chesnutt. Studies in American Fiction, 49( Special Issue on the Ecogothic),

Ambrose Bierce’s short stories present Gothic visions of the colonial encounter with the American wilderness in a way that complicates notions of land ownership and the relationship of humans to the environment. In ‘The Damned Thing’ (1893), a seemin... Read More about The Vanishing South: Race and the Ecogothic in Ambrose Bierce and Charles Chesnutt.

Host-guest inclusion complexes formed between a symmetrical tetrasubstituted cucurbit[6]uril and glycine (2022)
Journal Article
Yuan, S. W., Shan, P. H., Yang, M. X., Yang, M. X., Ma, P. H., Prior, T. J., …Xiao, X. (2022). Host-guest inclusion complexes formed between a symmetrical tetrasubstituted cucurbit[6]uril and glycine. CrystEngComm, https://doi.org/10.1039/d2ce01308h

Herein, we have investigated the host-guest inclusion complexes formed on interaction of the symmetric tetramethyl-substituted cucurbit[6]uril (TMeQ[6]) with glycine (Gly) under different conditions. The interactions have been studied both in solutio... Read More about Host-guest inclusion complexes formed between a symmetrical tetrasubstituted cucurbit[6]uril and glycine.

Looking at Meyerhold's Unseen Theatre (2022)
Book Chapter
Skinner, A. (2022). Looking at Meyerhold's Unseen Theatre. In J. Pitches, & S. Aquilina (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Vsevolod Meyerhold (80-98). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003110804-8

This essay addresses the importance of visual spectatorship in Meyerhold’s theatre. By identifying and exploring the ‘modes of looking’ suggested by production examples from the late 1920s and 1930s, it considers the relationship between how scenogra... Read More about Looking at Meyerhold's Unseen Theatre.

A sample-to-answer COVID-19 diagnostic device based on immiscible filtration and CRISPR-Cas12a-assisted detection (2022)
Journal Article
Ngamsom, B., Iles, A., Kamita, M., Kimani, R., Wakaba, P., Rodriguez-Mateos, P., Mungai, M., Dyer, C. E., Walter, C., Gitaka, J., & Pamme, N. (2022). A sample-to-answer COVID-19 diagnostic device based on immiscible filtration and CRISPR-Cas12a-assisted detection. Talanta Open, 6, Article 100166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.talo.2022.100166

In response to the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and disparities of vaccination coverage in low-and middle-income countries, it is vital to adopt a widespread testing and screening programme, combined with contact tracing, to m... Read More about A sample-to-answer COVID-19 diagnostic device based on immiscible filtration and CRISPR-Cas12a-assisted detection.

Introduction: Sugar and Slaves after Fifty Years (2022)
Journal Article
Burnard, T., & Games, A. (2022). Introduction: Sugar and Slaves after Fifty Years. Early American Studies, 20(4), 549-556. https://doi.org/10.1353/eam.2022.0018

A brief essay introducing a special issue devoted to exploring the scholarly legacies of Richard S. Dunn's Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English, 1624–1713, first published in 1972, upon the fiftieth anniversary of the work. Read More about Introduction: Sugar and Slaves after Fifty Years.

Linking sustainability and spirituality: a preliminary assessment in pursuit of a sustainable and ethically correct world (2022)
Journal Article
Leal Filho, W., Salvia, A. L., Ulluwishewa, R., Abubakar, I. R., Mifsud, M., LeVasseur, T. J., …Farrugia, E. (2022). Linking sustainability and spirituality: a preliminary assessment in pursuit of a sustainable and ethically correct world. Journal of cleaner production, 380, Article 135091. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.135091

The influence of humanity on the environment and the use of natural resources may be affected by spirituality, through awareness for developing a greater conscience about the implications of human actions and needs to adjust these in achieving sustai... Read More about Linking sustainability and spirituality: a preliminary assessment in pursuit of a sustainable and ethically correct world.

Insights into the Effect of Magnetic Confinement on the Performance of Magnetic Nanocomposites in Magnetic Hyperthermia and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (2022)
Journal Article
Scialla, S., Genicio, N., Brito, B., Florek-Wojciechowska, M., Stasiuk, G. J., Kruk, D., …Gallo, J. (2022). Insights into the Effect of Magnetic Confinement on the Performance of Magnetic Nanocomposites in Magnetic Hyperthermia and Magnetic Resonance Imaging. ACS Applied Nano Materials, 5(11), 16462–16474. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.2c03537

The combination of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) and lipid matrices enables the integration of imaging, drug delivery, and therapy functionalities into smart theranostic nanocomposites. SPION confinement creates new interactions... Read More about Insights into the Effect of Magnetic Confinement on the Performance of Magnetic Nanocomposites in Magnetic Hyperthermia and Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

Two closely related ureotelic fish species of the genus Alcolapia express different levels of ammonium transporters in gills (2022)
Journal Article
White, L. J., Rose, M., Lawson, M., Joyce, D., Smith, A. M., Thomas, G. H., …Pownall, M. E. (2022). Two closely related ureotelic fish species of the genus Alcolapia express different levels of ammonium transporters in gills. Biology Open, 11(11), Article bio059575. https://doi.org/10.1242/bio.059575

Most fish excrete their nitrogenous waste across the gills as ammonia through the activity of the Rhesus glycoprotein ammonium transporters. In contrast, fish of the subgenus Alcolapia (Oreochromis) are the only vertebrates that survive the extreme c... Read More about Two closely related ureotelic fish species of the genus Alcolapia express different levels of ammonium transporters in gills.

Utilising the Professional Standards Framework for teaching and supporting learning for strategic transformation (2022)
Report
(2022). Utilising the Professional Standards Framework for teaching and supporting learning for strategic transformation. AdvanceHE

This report and case studies from the 2021-22 Advance HE Collaborative Development Fund project, Utilising the Professional Standards Framework for teaching and supporting learning for strategic transformation, bring together studies from institution... Read More about Utilising the Professional Standards Framework for teaching and supporting learning for strategic transformation.

Renal Effects of Empagliflozin in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (2022)
Journal Article
Yaribeygi, H., Maleki, M., Sathyapalan, T., Jamialahmadi, T., & Sahebkar, A. (2022). Renal Effects of Empagliflozin in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. Current medicinal chemistry, 30(25), 2850-2863. https://doi.org/10.2174/0929867329666220831151645

Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is one of the main causes of mortality and morbidity worldwide. It leads to various long-term complications such as diabetic nephropathy. Diabetes nephropathy is the leading cause of renal failure in patients with chro... Read More about Renal Effects of Empagliflozin in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.

Bank market power and performance of financial technology firms (2022)
Journal Article
Andrikopoulos, A., & Dassiou, X. (in press). Bank market power and performance of financial technology firms. International journal of finance & economics : IJFE, https://doi.org/10.1002/ijfe.2727

We adopt a novel variation of the traditional structure-conduct-performance modelling approach, looking at between, rather than within, industries to study the impact of changes in the bank market structure on the corporate performance of financial t... Read More about Bank market power and performance of financial technology firms.

Chemical evolution of fluorine in the Milky Way (2022)
Journal Article
Womack, K., Vincenzo, F., Gibson, B., Côté, B., Pignatari, M., Brinkman, H. E., …Karakas, A. (2023). Chemical evolution of fluorine in the Milky Way. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 518(1), 1543-1556. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac3180

Fluorine has many different potential sites and channels of production, making narrowing down a dominant site of fluorine production particularly challenging. In this work, we investigate which sources are the dominant contributors to the galactic fl... Read More about Chemical evolution of fluorine in the Milky Way.

A research agenda for intelligence studies and government (2022)
Book
Dover, R., Dylan, H., & Goodman, M. S. (Eds.). (2022). A research agenda for intelligence studies and government. London: Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800378803

This Research Agenda explores the academic field of intelligence studies and how it is developing into an increasingly international and diverse area of study.

As more governments release records, and as new generations of scholars engage with the... Read More about A research agenda for intelligence studies and government.

Rapid megaflood-triggered base-level rise on Mars (2022)
Journal Article
Ahmed, J., Peakall, J., Balme, M., & Parsons, D. R. (2023). Rapid megaflood-triggered base-level rise on Mars. Geology, 51(1), 28-32. https://doi.org/10.1130/G50277.1

The existence of ancient fluvial systems on Mars is widely accepted, but little is known about how quickly they formed, or what environmental conditions controlled their evolution. We analyzed a sequence of well-preserved inner-bank bar deposits with... Read More about Rapid megaflood-triggered base-level rise on Mars.

Introduction to a research agenda for intelligence studies and government (2022)
Book Chapter
Dover, R., Dylan, H., Bennett, H., & Goodman, M. (2022). Introduction to a research agenda for intelligence studies and government. In R. Dover, H. Dylan, & M. S. Goodman (Eds.), A Research Agenda for Intelligence Studies and Government (1-6). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800378803.00005

The Deep State: Definitional Debates and Impacts (2022)
Book Chapter
Dover, R. (2022). The Deep State: Definitional Debates and Impacts. In R. Dover, H. Dylan, & M. S. Goodman (Eds.), A Research Agenda for Intelligence Studies and Government (155-165). London: Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800378803.00020

The term deep state has been used to describe the military-intelligence-industrial complex in some notable contexts such as the US, UK, India, Egypt and Turkey. More recently it has been appropriated by populists and conspiracy theorists to describe... Read More about The Deep State: Definitional Debates and Impacts.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly: galaxy morphology in the green valley, prominent rings, and looser spiral arms (2022)
Journal Article
Smith, D., Haberzettl, L., Porter, L. E., Porter-Temple, R., Henry, C. P., Holwerda, B., …Géron, T. (2022). Galaxy And Mass Assembly: galaxy morphology in the green valley, prominent rings, and looser spiral arms. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 517(3), 4575-4589. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac2258

Galaxies fall broadly into two categories: star-forming (blue) galaxies and quiescent (red) galaxies. In between, one finds the less populated 'green valley'. Some of these galaxies are suspected to be in the process of ceasing their star formation t... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly: galaxy morphology in the green valley, prominent rings, and looser spiral arms.

Fighting for Andean Resources : extractive industries, cultural politics, and environmental struggles in Peru (2022)
Journal Article
Porter, J. (2022). Fighting for Andean Resources : extractive industries, cultural politics, and environmental struggles in Peru. International Affairs, 98(6), 2170-2171. https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiac235

Extract
Too often it is assumed that all impact from mining, upon the environment and society, is inherently bad. This is the result of a narrow focus on the power asymmetries between cash-strapped countries (and their needs) and cash-rich countries... Read More about Fighting for Andean Resources : extractive industries, cultural politics, and environmental struggles in Peru.

Sex and gametogenesis stage are strong drivers of gene expression in Mytilus edulis exposed to environmentally relevant plasticiser levels and pH 7.7 (2022)
Journal Article
Mincarelli, L., Chapman, E. C., Rotchell, J. M., Turner, A., & Wollenberg Valero, K. C. (in press). Sex and gametogenesis stage are strong drivers of gene expression in Mytilus edulis exposed to environmentally relevant plasticiser levels and pH 7.7. Environmental science and pollution research, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-23801-3

Plastic pollution and changes in oceanic pH are both pressing environmental issues. Little emphasis, however, has been placed on the influence of sex and gametogenesis stage when investigating the effects of such stressors. Here, we examined histolog... Read More about Sex and gametogenesis stage are strong drivers of gene expression in Mytilus edulis exposed to environmentally relevant plasticiser levels and pH 7.7.