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NIHR Liver/Renal Biomarker Programme Final Report: Evaluating the benefits for patients and the NHS of new and existing biological fluid biomarkers in liver and renal disease (2017)
Report
Selby, P., Banks, R., Gregory, W., Hewison, J., Rosenberg, W., Altman, D., …Hutchinson, M. (2017). NIHR Liver/Renal Biomarker Programme Final Report: Evaluating the benefits for patients and the NHS of new and existing biological fluid biomarkers in liver and renal disease. Southampton: NIHR

Protein biomarkers are naturally occurring substances that can be measured, often in fluids such as blood or urine, and which provide information about a patient and their illness. Different diseases have different biomarkers. When people become ill,... Read More about NIHR Liver/Renal Biomarker Programme Final Report: Evaluating the benefits for patients and the NHS of new and existing biological fluid biomarkers in liver and renal disease.

Brazilian business and Itamaraty in the PT era: foreign policy-making in the context of ‘graduation dilemmas’ (2017)
Journal Article
Doctor, M. (2017). Brazilian business and Itamaraty in the PT era: foreign policy-making in the context of ‘graduation dilemmas’. International Affairs, 93(3), 643-660. https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iix077

This article discusses how Brazilian foreign policy-makers addressed one of the key graduation dilemmas facing Brazil, i.e. the need to build domestic support for a shared vision within society for Brazil's role in the international arena. In the con... Read More about Brazilian business and Itamaraty in the PT era: foreign policy-making in the context of ‘graduation dilemmas’.

Towards an expert consensus to delineate a clinical syndrome of chronic breathlessness (2017)
Journal Article
Johnson, M. J., Yorke, J., Hansen-Flaschen, J., Lansing, R., Ekström, M., Similowski, T., & Currow, D. (2017). Towards an expert consensus to delineate a clinical syndrome of chronic breathlessness. European respiratory journal, 49(5), Article 1602277. https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.02277-2016

Copyright ©ERS 2017. Breathlessness that persists despite treatment for the underlying conditions is debilitating. Identifying this discrete entity as a clinical syndrome should raise awareness amongst patients, clinicians, service providers, researc... Read More about Towards an expert consensus to delineate a clinical syndrome of chronic breathlessness.

Methods of monitoring training load and their relationships to changes in fitness and performance in competitive road cyclists (2017)
Journal Article
Sanders, D., Abt, G., Hesselink, M. K. C., Myers, T., & Akubat, I. (2017). Methods of monitoring training load and their relationships to changes in fitness and performance in competitive road cyclists. International journal of sports physiology and performance : IJSPP, 12(5), 668-675. https://doi.org/10.1123/ijspp.2016-0454

Purpose: The aim of this study was to assess the dose-response relationships between different training load methods and aerobic fitness and performance in competitive road cyclists. Method: Training data from 15 well-trained competitive cyclists wer... Read More about Methods of monitoring training load and their relationships to changes in fitness and performance in competitive road cyclists.

Aeolian empires: the influence of winds and currents on European maritime expansion in the days of sail (2017)
Journal Article
Bankoff, G. (2017). Aeolian empires: the influence of winds and currents on European maritime expansion in the days of sail. Environment and History, 23(2), 163-196. https://doi.org/10.3197/096734017X14900292921734

Historiography has paid insufficient attention to the influence of winds and currents. The rise of Western European states to global dominance and world empires from the sixteenth century is usually characterised as maritime but should more fittingly... Read More about Aeolian empires: the influence of winds and currents on European maritime expansion in the days of sail.

Exercise-induced dehydration alters pulmonary function but does not modify airway responsiveness to dry air in athletes with mild asthma (2017)
Journal Article
Simpson, A. J., Romer, L. M., & Kippelen, P. (2017). Exercise-induced dehydration alters pulmonary function but does not modify airway responsiveness to dry air in athletes with mild asthma. Journal of Applied Physiology, 122(5), 1329-1335. https://doi.org/10.1152/japplphysiol.01114.2016

Local airway water loss is the main physiological trigger for exercise-induced bronchoconstriction (EIB). Our aim was to investigate the effects of whole body water loss on airway responsiveness and pulmonary function in athletes with mild asthma and... Read More about Exercise-induced dehydration alters pulmonary function but does not modify airway responsiveness to dry air in athletes with mild asthma.

Perspectives of patients and healthcare professionals on mHealth for asthma self-management (2017)
Journal Article
Simpson, A. J., Honkoop, P. J., Kennington, E., Snoeck-Stroband, J., Smith, I., East, J., …Fowler, S. (2017). Perspectives of patients and healthcare professionals on mHealth for asthma self-management. European respiratory journal, 49(5), Article ARTN 1601966. https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.01966-2016

Copyright ©ERS 2017. Mobile healthcare (mHealth) has the potential to revolutionise the self-management of long-term medical conditions such as asthma. A user-centred design is integral if mHealth is to be embraced by patients and healthcare professi... Read More about Perspectives of patients and healthcare professionals on mHealth for asthma self-management.

Heart rate and rhythm and the benefit of beta-blockers in patients with heart failure (2017)
Journal Article
Kotecha, D., Flather, M. D., Altman, D. G., Holmes, J., Rosano, G., Wikstrand, J., …Cleland, J. G. (2017). Heart rate and rhythm and the benefit of beta-blockers in patients with heart failure. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 69(24), 2885-2896. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2017.04.001

Background The relationship between mortality and heart rate remains unclear for patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction in either sinus rhythm or atrial fibrillation (AF). Objectives This analysis explored the prognostic importan... Read More about Heart rate and rhythm and the benefit of beta-blockers in patients with heart failure.

Nature of behaviours that challenge in residents living in aged care homes: implications for psychosocial interventions and service development (2017)
Journal Article
James, I., Watson, R., Whitaker, C., Stokes, G., Hart, C., & Moniz-Cook, E. (2017). Nature of behaviours that challenge in residents living in aged care homes: implications for psychosocial interventions and service development. FPOP Bulletin, 19-27

Background/Aims: Competing theories exist regarding the causes and nature of behaviours that challenge (BC). The present study attempted to provide better insight into these behaviours and determine whether there were any underlying relationships for... Read More about Nature of behaviours that challenge in residents living in aged care homes: implications for psychosocial interventions and service development.

Multilevel determinants of teenage childbearing in sub-Saharan Africa in the context of HIV/AIDS (2017)
Journal Article
Magadi, M. A. (2017). Multilevel determinants of teenage childbearing in sub-Saharan Africa in the context of HIV/AIDS. Health and Place, 46, 37-48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2017.04.006

This paper examined national variations and multilevel determinants of teenage childbearing in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in the context of HIV/AIDS using data from recent Demographic and Health Surveys conducted in 29 countries of SSA. Results showed... Read More about Multilevel determinants of teenage childbearing in sub-Saharan Africa in the context of HIV/AIDS.

Asymmetric metallicity patterns in the stellar velocity space with RAVE (2017)
Journal Article
Antoja, T., Kordopatis, G., Helmi, A., Monari, G., Famaey, B., Wyse, R. F. G., …Zwitter, T. (2017). Asymmetric metallicity patterns in the stellar velocity space with RAVE. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 601, A59. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201629387

© ESO, 2017. Context. The chemical abundances of stars encode information on their place and time of origin. Stars formed together in e.g. a cluster, should present chemical homogeneity. Also disk stars influenced by the effects of the bar and the sp... Read More about Asymmetric metallicity patterns in the stellar velocity space with RAVE.

Heterogeneity of phenotype and function reflects the multistage development of t follicular helper cells (2017)
Journal Article
Trüb, M., Barr, T. A., Morrison, V. L., Brown, S., Caserta, S., Rixon, J., …Gray, D. (2017). Heterogeneity of phenotype and function reflects the multistage development of t follicular helper cells. Frontiers in immunology, 8(APR), 489. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2017.00489

T follicular helper cells (Tfh) provide crucial signals for germinal center (GC) formation, but Tfh populations are heterogeneous. While PD1 hi Tfh are important in the GC response, the function of the PD1 lo Tfh-like subset is unknown. We show that... Read More about Heterogeneity of phenotype and function reflects the multistage development of t follicular helper cells.

A 3D forward stratigraphic model of fluvial meander-bend evolution for prediction of point-bar lithofacies architecture (2017)
Journal Article
Yan, N., Mountney, N. P., Colombera, L., & Dorrell, R. M. (2017). A 3D forward stratigraphic model of fluvial meander-bend evolution for prediction of point-bar lithofacies architecture. Computers & geosciences, 105, 65-80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2017.04.012

© 2017 Elsevier Ltd Although fundamental types of fluvial meander-bend transformations – expansion, translation, rotation, and combinations thereof – are widely recognised, the relationship between the migratory behaviour of a meander bend, and its r... Read More about A 3D forward stratigraphic model of fluvial meander-bend evolution for prediction of point-bar lithofacies architecture.

Synthesis and fluorescence emission properties of D-π-D monomers based on dithieno[3,2-b:2′,3′-d]thiophene (2017)
Journal Article
Wang, C., Do, J., Akther, T., Feng, X., Matsumoto, T., Tanaka, J., …Yamato, T. (2017). Synthesis and fluorescence emission properties of D-π-D monomers based on dithieno[3,2-b:2′,3′-d]thiophene. Journal of Luminescence, 188(388), 388-393. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlumin.2017.04.060

We herein present four highly fluorescent and stable D-π-D monomers (2), which were designed and synthesized using different types of aryl substituent as the donor via a Suzuki-Miyaura coupling reaction. We have studied these four symmetrical chromop... Read More about Synthesis and fluorescence emission properties of D-π-D monomers based on dithieno[3,2-b:2′,3′-d]thiophene.

Genistein crosses the bioartificial oviduct and alters secretion composition (2017)
Journal Article
Simintiras, C. A., & Sturmey, R. G. (2017). Genistein crosses the bioartificial oviduct and alters secretion composition. Reproductive Toxicology, 71, 63-70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.reprotox.2017.04.010

The dietary derived isoflavone and oestrogen analogue, genistein, is known to perturb fundamental reproductive events such as implantation and embryo cleavage. However the question of whether genistein is able to traverse the oviduct epithelial monol... Read More about Genistein crosses the bioartificial oviduct and alters secretion composition.

Dynamic CGE model of the Chinese economy for fiscal and financial policy analysis (2017)
Journal Article
Bhattarai, K. (2017). Dynamic CGE model of the Chinese economy for fiscal and financial policy analysis. USA-China business review, 16(4), 141-164. https://doi.org/10.17265/1537-1514/2017.04.001

China is to become the largest economy in the world by 2020 according to the IMF forecasts. Annual growth rates of output remained around 9.3 percent on average during 1980 to 2015. It was made possible by the accumulation capital with steady flows o... Read More about Dynamic CGE model of the Chinese economy for fiscal and financial policy analysis.

Cough hypersensitivity syndrome: A few more steps forward (2017)
Journal Article
Song, W. J., & Morice, A. H. (2017). Cough hypersensitivity syndrome: A few more steps forward. Allergy Asthma and Immunology Research, 9(5), 394-402. https://doi.org/10.4168/aair.2017.9.5.394

© The Korean Academy of Asthma, Allergy and Clinical Immunology. Cough reflex is a vital protective mechanism against aspiration, but when dysregulated, it can become hypersensitive. In fact, chronic cough is a significant medical problem with a high... Read More about Cough hypersensitivity syndrome: A few more steps forward.

Exploration of dietary patterns and alcohol consumption in pregnant women in the UK: A mixed methods study (2017)
Journal Article
Coathup, V., Smith, L., & Boulton, M. (2017). Exploration of dietary patterns and alcohol consumption in pregnant women in the UK: A mixed methods study. Midwifery, 51, 24-32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2017.04.011

Background fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders is a term used to describe a range of physical, cognitive and behavioural deficits in the offspring of women who drank alcohol during pregnancy. A growing body of evidence suggests alcohol consumption in th... Read More about Exploration of dietary patterns and alcohol consumption in pregnant women in the UK: A mixed methods study.

Who cares and how would you know? Conceptualising ‘doxic’ care (2017)
Book Chapter
Hughes, G. (2017). Who cares and how would you know? Conceptualising ‘doxic’ care. In J. Horton, & M. Pyer (Eds.), Children, young people and care (26-43). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315686752-2

This chapter draws from a study which explores the conceptualisations of care in theory and practice, examining (in Pierre Bourdieu’s terms) its ‘doxic’ qualities: that is, how it often seems ‘natural’, ‘self-evident’, or ‘understood without question... Read More about Who cares and how would you know? Conceptualising ‘doxic’ care.