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Modulatory properties of curcumin in cancer: A narrative review on the role of interferons (2023)
Journal Article
Chamani, S., Moossavi, M., Naghizadeh, A., Abbasifard, M., Kesharwani, P., Sathyapalan, T., & Sahebkar, A. (in press). Modulatory properties of curcumin in cancer: A narrative review on the role of interferons. Phytotherapy Research, https://doi.org/10.1002/ptr.7734

The immune network is an effective network of cell types and chemical compounds established to maintain the body's homeostasis from foreign threats and to prevent the risk of a wide range of diseases; hence, its proper functioning and balance are ess... Read More about Modulatory properties of curcumin in cancer: A narrative review on the role of interferons.

Multi-level participation in integrative, systemic planning: The case of climate adaptation in Ghana (2023)
Journal Article
Helfgott, A., Midgley, G., Chaudhury, A., Vervoort, J., Sova, C., & Ryan, A. (2023). Multi-level participation in integrative, systemic planning: The case of climate adaptation in Ghana. European journal of operational research, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2023.01.045

Adaptation to climate change is impacted by a range of interrelated processes operating from local to global levels. There are often significant disconnects between different people's perceptions of responsibilities, capabilities and motivations, and... Read More about Multi-level participation in integrative, systemic planning: The case of climate adaptation in Ghana.

Effects of green solvents and surfactants on the characteristics of few-layer graphene produced by dual-frequency ultrasonic liquid phase exfoliation technique (2023)
Journal Article
Tyurnina, A. V., Morton, J. A., Kaur, A., Mi, J., Grobert, N., Porfyrakis, K., …Eskin, D. G. (2023). Effects of green solvents and surfactants on the characteristics of few-layer graphene produced by dual-frequency ultrasonic liquid phase exfoliation technique. Carbon, 206, 7-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2023.01.062

Nowadays, one of the promising methods for scalable graphene production is ultrasound-aided liquid phase exfoliation (ULPE) of graphite. Two current limiting factors of ULPE are the use of harmful solutions (such as N-Methyl-2-pyrrolidone or Dimethyl... Read More about Effects of green solvents and surfactants on the characteristics of few-layer graphene produced by dual-frequency ultrasonic liquid phase exfoliation technique.

Women and maternity care providers experiences of planned home birth in Northern Ireland: A descriptive survey (2023)
Journal Article
Gillen, P., Bamidele, O., & Healy, M. (2023). Women and maternity care providers experiences of planned home birth in Northern Ireland: A descriptive survey. Women and Birth, 36(4), e412-e420. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wombi.2023.01.005

Background: Where a woman gives birth impacts both her postnatal outcomes and experiences. However, for women who plan home birth in Northern Ireland, their experiences and that of their maternity care providers are rarely sought. Aim: This study exa... Read More about Women and maternity care providers experiences of planned home birth in Northern Ireland: A descriptive survey.

Experimental investigation of a novel two-stage heat recovery heat pump system employing the vapor injection compressor at cold ambience and high water temperature conditions (2023)
Journal Article
Li, Y., Li, Z., Fan, Y., Zeng, C., Cui, Y., Zhao, X., …Shen, C. (2023). Experimental investigation of a novel two-stage heat recovery heat pump system employing the vapor injection compressor at cold ambience and high water temperature conditions. Renewable energy, 205, 678-694. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2023.01.101

Heat pumps (HPs) are energy-efficient space heating devices that are key to global carbon reduction and carbon neutrality. However, current commercial HPs have performance issues in cold climates where space heating is needed most, including low COP... Read More about Experimental investigation of a novel two-stage heat recovery heat pump system employing the vapor injection compressor at cold ambience and high water temperature conditions.

Sulfonate ligand-induced formation of alkali metal-cucurbit[5]uril-based assemblies (2023)
Journal Article
Xu, J., Wang, Q., Ge, W. W., Wu, D., Redshaw, C., & Chen, K. (2023). Sulfonate ligand-induced formation of alkali metal-cucurbit[5]uril-based assemblies. CrystEngComm, https://doi.org/10.1039/d2ce01568d

Herein, we report the use of 1,5-naphthalene disulfonic acid (H2NDS) as a structure-directing agent to construct cucurbit[5]uril-based supramolecular assemblies. In order to demonstrate the directing role played by H2NDS. {Q[5]·3[H3O]·3Cl·11H2O} (1)... Read More about Sulfonate ligand-induced formation of alkali metal-cucurbit[5]uril-based assemblies.

The Equator Project (2023)
Report
Dowey, N., Giles, S., Jackson, C., Williams, R., Fernando, B., Lawrence, A., …Souch, C. (2023). The Equator Project

The Intersection of Fashion, Immersive Technology, and Sustainability: A Literature Review (2023)
Journal Article
Mesjar, L., Cross, K., Jiang, Y., & Steed, J. (2023). The Intersection of Fashion, Immersive Technology, and Sustainability: A Literature Review. Sustainability, 15(4), Article 3761. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15043761

Fashion industry emissions, resource use, and waste are attracting increasing consumer and government attention, with broad agreement that a new approach is required along the supply chain. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, a move to digitalisation fa... Read More about The Intersection of Fashion, Immersive Technology, and Sustainability: A Literature Review.

Ex Vivo treatment of coronary artery endothelial cells with serum post-exercise training offers limited protection against in vitro exposure to FEC-T chemotherapy (2023)
Journal Article
Mclaughlin, M., Hesketh, K. L., Horgan, S. L., Florida-James, G., Cocks, M., Strauss, J. A., & Ross, M. (2023). Ex Vivo treatment of coronary artery endothelial cells with serum post-exercise training offers limited protection against in vitro exposure to FEC-T chemotherapy. Frontiers in Physiology, 14, Article 1079983. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2023.1079983

Background: Chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer associates with well-documented cardiovascular detriments. Exercise has shown promise as a potentially protective intervention against cardiac toxicity. However, there is a paucity of evidence for... Read More about Ex Vivo treatment of coronary artery endothelial cells with serum post-exercise training offers limited protection against in vitro exposure to FEC-T chemotherapy.

Validation of the HULL Score clinical prediction rule for unsuspected pulmonary embolism in ambulatory cancer patients (2023)
Journal Article
Haque, F., Ryde, J., Broughton, L., Huang, C., Sethi, S., Stephens, A., …Maraveyas, A. (2023). Validation of the HULL Score clinical prediction rule for unsuspected pulmonary embolism in ambulatory cancer patients. ERJ Open Research, 9(3), Article 00651-2022. https://doi.org/10.1183/23120541.00651-2022

Background Clinical prediction rules (CPRs) developed to predict adverse outcomes of suspected pulmonary embolism (PE) and facilitate outpatient management have limitations in discriminating outcomes for ambulatory cancer patients with unsuspected PE... Read More about Validation of the HULL Score clinical prediction rule for unsuspected pulmonary embolism in ambulatory cancer patients.

Chattering Free Sliding Mode Control and State Dependent Kalman Filter Design for Underground Gasification Energy Conversion Process (2023)
Journal Article
Ahmad, S., Uppal, A. A., Azam, M. R., & Iqbal, J. (2023). Chattering Free Sliding Mode Control and State Dependent Kalman Filter Design for Underground Gasification Energy Conversion Process. Electronics, 12(4), Article 876. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12040876

The fluctuations in the heating value of an underground coal gasification (UCG) process limit its application in electricity generation, where a desired composition of the combustible gases is required to operate gas turbines efficiently. This shortc... Read More about Chattering Free Sliding Mode Control and State Dependent Kalman Filter Design for Underground Gasification Energy Conversion Process.

Complex Fractional-Order LQIR for Inverted-Pendulum-Type Robotic Mechanisms: Design and Experimental Validation (2023)
Journal Article
Saleem, O., Abbas, F., & Iqbal, J. (2023). Complex Fractional-Order LQIR for Inverted-Pendulum-Type Robotic Mechanisms: Design and Experimental Validation. Mathematics, 11(4), Article 913. https://doi.org/10.3390/math11040913

This article presents a systematic approach to formulate and experimentally validate a novel Complex Fractional Order (CFO) Linear Quadratic Integral Regulator (LQIR) design to enhance the robustness of inverted-pendulum-type robotic mechanisms again... Read More about Complex Fractional-Order LQIR for Inverted-Pendulum-Type Robotic Mechanisms: Design and Experimental Validation.

The Parliament (Jatiya Sangsad) of Bangladesh (2023)
Book Chapter
Chowdhury, M. J. A. (2023). The Parliament (Jatiya Sangsad) of Bangladesh. In P. J. Yap, & R. Abeyratne (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Asian Parliaments (103-124). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003109402-9

The Parliament of Bangladesh (hereinafter, the Parliament) is officially known as the Jatiya Sangsad (House of the Nation). It is a unicameral legislature established under Article 65 of the Constitution of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh (herein... Read More about The Parliament (Jatiya Sangsad) of Bangladesh.

Police practitioner views on the challenges of analysing and responding to knife crime (2023)
Journal Article
Bullock, K., Agar, I., Ashby, M., Brennan, I., Hales, G., Sidebottom, A., & Tilley, N. (2023). Police practitioner views on the challenges of analysing and responding to knife crime. Crime Science, 12(1), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40163-022-00180-1

Knife crime remains a major concern in England and Wales. Problem-oriented and public health approaches to tackling knife crime have been widely advocated, but little is known about how these approaches are understood and implemented by police practi... Read More about Police practitioner views on the challenges of analysing and responding to knife crime.

Stimuli-responsive mechanically interlocked molecules constructed from cucurbit[n]uril homologues and derivatives (2023)
Journal Article
Liu, J. X., Chen, K., & Redshaw, C. (2023). Stimuli-responsive mechanically interlocked molecules constructed from cucurbit[n]uril homologues and derivatives. Chemical Society Reviews, https://doi.org/10.1039/d2cs00785a

Cucurbit[n]uril supramolecular chemistry has developed rapidly since 2001 when different cucurbit[n]uril homologues (Q[n]) were successfully separated in pure form. The combination of Q[n] cavity size and various types of external stimuli has given b... Read More about Stimuli-responsive mechanically interlocked molecules constructed from cucurbit[n]uril homologues and derivatives.

HETDEX Public Source Catalog 1: 220 K Sources Including Over 50 K Lyα Emitters from an Untargeted Wide-area Spectroscopic Survey (2023)
Journal Article
Mentuch Cooper, E., Gebhardt, K., Davis, D., Farrow, D. J., Liu, C., Zeimann, G., …Zhang, Y. (2023). HETDEX Public Source Catalog 1: 220 K Sources Including Over 50 K Lyα Emitters from an Untargeted Wide-area Spectroscopic Survey. The Astrophysical journal, 943(2), Article 177. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aca962

We present the first publicly released catalog of sources obtained from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX). HETDEX is an integral field spectroscopic survey designed to measure the Hubble expansion parameter and angular diamet... Read More about HETDEX Public Source Catalog 1: 220 K Sources Including Over 50 K Lyα Emitters from an Untargeted Wide-area Spectroscopic Survey.

Targeting NRF2 to promote epithelial repair (2023)
Journal Article
Hiebert, P., & Werner, S. (2023). Targeting NRF2 to promote epithelial repair. Biochemical Society Transactions, 51(1), 101-111. https://doi.org/10.1042/BST20220228

The transcription factor NRF2 is well known as a master regulator of the cellular stress response. As such, activation of NRF2 has gained widespread attention for its potential to prevent tissue injury, but also as a possible therapeutic approach to... Read More about Targeting NRF2 to promote epithelial repair.

Association between nanoscale strains and tissue level nanoindentation properties in age-related hip-fractures (2023)
Journal Article
Bonicelli, A., Tay, T., Cobb, J. P., Boughton, O. R., Hansen, U., Abel, R. L., & Zioupos, P. (2023). Association between nanoscale strains and tissue level nanoindentation properties in age-related hip-fractures. Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials, 138, Article 105573. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmbbm.2022.105573

Measurement of the properties of bone as a material can happen in various length scales in its hierarchical and composite structure. The aim of this study was to test the tissue level properties of clinically-relevant human bone samples which were co... Read More about Association between nanoscale strains and tissue level nanoindentation properties in age-related hip-fractures.

Actuator fault tolerant offshore wind turbine load mitigation control (2023)
Journal Article
Liu, Y., Patton, R. J., & Shi, S. (2023). Actuator fault tolerant offshore wind turbine load mitigation control. Renewable energy, 205, 432-446. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2023.01.092

Offshore wind turbine (OWT) rotors have large diameters with flexible blade structures which are subject to asymmetrical loads caused by blade flapping and turbulent or unsteady wind flow. Rotor imbalance inevitably leads to enhanced fatigue of blade... Read More about Actuator fault tolerant offshore wind turbine load mitigation control.

Diagnostic delays for breathlessness in primary care: a qualitative study to investigate current care and inform future pathways (2023)
Journal Article
Doe, G., Williams, M. T., Chantrell, S., Steiner, M. C., Armstrong, N., Hutchinson, A., & Evans, R. A. (2023). Diagnostic delays for breathlessness in primary care: a qualitative study to investigate current care and inform future pathways. The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 73(731), e468-e477. https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2022.0475

BACKGROUND: Evidence about the delays to diagnosis for patients presenting with breathlessness is lacking. AIM: To explore current care of patients with breathlessness through the experiences of adults presenting with chronic breathlessness who are a... Read More about Diagnostic delays for breathlessness in primary care: a qualitative study to investigate current care and inform future pathways.