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Use of low-dose oral theophylline as an adjunct to inhaled corticosteroids in preventing exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial (2015)
Journal Article
Devereux, G., Cotton, S., Barnes, P., Briggs, A., Burns, G., Chaudhuri, R., …Price, D. (2015). Use of low-dose oral theophylline as an adjunct to inhaled corticosteroids in preventing exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials, 16(1), Article 267. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-015-0782-2

© Devereux et al. Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is associated with high morbidity, mortality, and health-care costs. An incomplete response to the anti-inflammatory effects of inhaled corticosteroids is present in COPD. Pre... Read More about Use of low-dose oral theophylline as an adjunct to inhaled corticosteroids in preventing exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.

Lateglacial and early Holocene climates of the Atlantic margins of Europe: Stable isotope, mollusc and pollen records from Orkney, Scotland (2015)
Journal Article
Whittington, G., Edwards, K. J., Zanchetta, G., Keen, D. H., Bunting, M. J., Fallick, A. E., & Bryant, C. L. (2015). Lateglacial and early Holocene climates of the Atlantic margins of Europe: Stable isotope, mollusc and pollen records from Orkney, Scotland. Quaternary science reviews, 122, 112-130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.05.026

The margins of mainland Europe, and especially those areas coming under the influence of North Atlantic weather systems, are ideally placed to record changing palaeoclimates. Cores from an infilled lake basin at Crudale Meadow in Mainland, Orkney, re... Read More about Lateglacial and early Holocene climates of the Atlantic margins of Europe: Stable isotope, mollusc and pollen records from Orkney, Scotland.

Stainless steel made to rust: a robust water-splitting catalyst with benchmark characteristics (2015)
Journal Article
Schäfer, H., Sadaf, S., Walder, L., Kuepper, K., Dinklage, S., Wollschläger, J., …Daum, D. (2015). Stainless steel made to rust: a robust water-splitting catalyst with benchmark characteristics. Energy & environmental science, 8(9), 2685-2697. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5ee01601k

The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is known as the efficiency-limiting step for the electrochemical cleavage of water mainly due to the large overpotentials commonly used materials on the anode side cause. Since Ni–Fe oxides reduce overpotentials oc... Read More about Stainless steel made to rust: a robust water-splitting catalyst with benchmark characteristics.

Bionanomaterials from plant viruses (2015)
Book Chapter
Aljabali, A. A. A., & Evans, D. (2015). Bionanomaterials from plant viruses. In Y. Khudyakov, & P. Pumpens (Eds.), Viral Nanotechnology (263-278). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/b18596-20

Plant virus capsids have emerged as useful biotemplates for material synthesis. All plant virus capsids are assembled with high-precision, three-dimensional structures providing nanoscale architectures that are highly monodisperse, can be produced in... Read More about Bionanomaterials from plant viruses.

Country life: agricultural technologies and the emergence of new rural subjectivities (2015)
Journal Article
Bear, C., & Holloway, L. (2015). Country life: agricultural technologies and the emergence of new rural subjectivities. Geography compass, 9(6), 303-315. https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12217

Rural areas have long been spaces of technological experimentation, development and resistance. In the UK, this is especially true in the post-second world war era of productivist food regimes, characterised by moves to intensification. The technolog... Read More about Country life: agricultural technologies and the emergence of new rural subjectivities.

Thermal Behavior of Benzoic Acid/Isonicotinamide Binary Cocrystals (2015)
Journal Article
Buanz, A., Prior, T. J., Burley, J. C., Raimi-Abraham, B. T., Telford, R., Hart, M., …Williams, G. R. (2015). Thermal Behavior of Benzoic Acid/Isonicotinamide Binary Cocrystals. Crystal growth & design, 15(7), 3249-3256. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.5b00351

© 2015 American Chemical Society. A comprehensive study of the thermal behavior of the 1:1 and 2:1 benzoic acid/isonicotinamide cocrystals is reported. The 1:1 material shows a simple unit cell expansion followed by melting upon heating. The 2:1 crys... Read More about Thermal Behavior of Benzoic Acid/Isonicotinamide Binary Cocrystals.

Doping of inorganic materials in microreactors – preparation of Zn doped Fe₃O₄ nanoparticles (2015)
Journal Article
Simmons, M. D., Jones, N., Evans, D. J., Wiles, C., Watts, P., Salamon, S., …Francesconi, M. G. (2015). Doping of inorganic materials in microreactors – preparation of Zn doped Fe₃O₄ nanoparticles. Lab on a chip, 15(15), 3154-3162. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5lc00287g

Microreactor systems are now used more and more for the continuous production of metal nanoparticles and metal oxide nanoparticles owing to the controllability of the particle size, an important property in many applications. Here, for the first time... Read More about Doping of inorganic materials in microreactors – preparation of Zn doped Fe₃O₄ nanoparticles.

An alternative methodology to assess the quality of empirical potentials for small gold clusters (2015)
Journal Article
Mancera, L. A., & Benoit, D. M. (2015). An alternative methodology to assess the quality of empirical potentials for small gold clusters. Computational and Theoretical Chemistry, 1067(September), 24-32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comptc.2015.05.026

We present a methodology based on local comparisons of potential energy surfaces (PES) in order to assess the quality of empirical potentials. We compare five typical empirical potentials using a criterion that shows which of these potentials resembl... Read More about An alternative methodology to assess the quality of empirical potentials for small gold clusters.

How a regulatory capital requirement affects banks' productivity: an application to emerging economies (2015)
Journal Article
Duygun, M., Shaban, M., Sickles, R. C., & Weyman-Jones, T. (2015). How a regulatory capital requirement affects banks' productivity: an application to emerging economies. Journal of productivity analysis, 44(3), 237-248. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11123-015-0451-1

© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media New York. This paper presents a novel approach to measure efficiency and productivity decomposition in the banking systems of emerging economies with a special focus on the role of equity capital. We model the... Read More about How a regulatory capital requirement affects banks' productivity: an application to emerging economies.

First do no harm: intentionally shortening lives of patients without their explicit request in Belgium (2015)
Journal Article
Cohen-Almagor, R. (2015). First do no harm: intentionally shortening lives of patients without their explicit request in Belgium. Journal of medical ethics, 41(8), 625-629. https://doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2014-102387

The aim of this article is to provide a critical review of one of the most worrying aspects of the euthanasia policy and practice in Belgium-the deliberate shortening of lives of some patients without their explicit voluntary request. Some suggestion... Read More about First do no harm: intentionally shortening lives of patients without their explicit request in Belgium.

Coping in young people with chronic kidney disease (CKD) (2015)
Journal Article
Muhammad, S., Milford, D. V., Carson, A., Young, H., & Martin, C. R. (2016). Coping in young people with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Journal of renal care, 42(1), 34-42. https://doi.org/10.1111/jorc.12131

Background Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is an irreversible disease with physiological, psychological and psychosocial challenges, especially for young people. Objectives The objective of this phenomenological study was to identify coping strategies... Read More about Coping in young people with chronic kidney disease (CKD).

Mechanisms of methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus (2015)
Journal Article
Peacock, S. J., & Paterson, G. K. (2015). Mechanisms of methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus. Annual review of biochemistry, 84(1), 577-601. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-biochem-060614-034516

Staphylococcus aureus is a major human and veterinary pathogen worldwide. Methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) poses a significant and enduring problem to the treatment of infection by such strains. Resistance is usually conferred by the acquisitio... Read More about Mechanisms of methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus.

The ETTAA study protocol: A UK-wide observational study of 'Effective treatments for thoracic aortic aneurysm' (2015)
Journal Article
Sastry, P., Hughes, V., Hayes, P., Vallabhaneni, S. R., Sharples, L., Thompson, M., …on behalf of the ETTAA collaborators. (2015). The ETTAA study protocol: A UK-wide observational study of 'Effective treatments for thoracic aortic aneurysm'. BMJ open, 5(6), e008147-e008147. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-008147

© 2015 BMJ Open. Introduction: Chronic thoracic aortic aneurysm (CTAA) affecting the arch or descending aorta is an indolent but life-threatening condition with a rising prevalence as the UK population ages. Treatment may be in the form of open surgi... Read More about The ETTAA study protocol: A UK-wide observational study of 'Effective treatments for thoracic aortic aneurysm'.

Exploring the Underdiagnosis and Prevalence of Autism Spectrum Conditions in Beijing (2015)
Journal Article
Sun, X., Allison, C., Matthews, F. E., Zhang, Z., Auyeung, B., Baron-Cohen, S., & Brayne, C. (2015). Exploring the Underdiagnosis and Prevalence of Autism Spectrum Conditions in Beijing. Autism Research, 8(3), 250-260. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.1441

Previous studies reported that the prevalence of Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC) in mainland China is much lower than estimates from developed countries (around 1%). The aim of the study is to apply current screening and standardized diagnostic inst... Read More about Exploring the Underdiagnosis and Prevalence of Autism Spectrum Conditions in Beijing.

Experiences of the relationship between hospital staff and people who self-harm (2015)
Thesis
O'Connor, S. (2015). Experiences of the relationship between hospital staff and people who self-harm. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4217359

The portfolio thesis consists of three parts: a systematic meta-synthesis, an empirical study, and appendices. Part one is a meta-synthesis of hospital staffs’ relationships with people who self-harm.The review aimed to gain an insight in to staff... Read More about Experiences of the relationship between hospital staff and people who self-harm.

Wettability of anisotropic and porous particles adsorbed to fluid interfaces (2015)
Thesis
Al-Shehri, H. S. A. (2015). Wettability of anisotropic and porous particles adsorbed to fluid interfaces. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4219431

The wettability of particles and the way they attach to liquid interfaces is important for many technologies where powders are mixed with liquids or used as emulsifiers. Most such powders are highly agglomerated into larger aggregates that are highly... Read More about Wettability of anisotropic and porous particles adsorbed to fluid interfaces.

A neuronal DNA damage response is detected at the earliest stages of Alzheimer's neuropathology and correlates with cognitive impairment in the Medical Research Council's Cognitive Function and Ageing Study ageing brain cohort (2015)
Journal Article
Simpson, J. E., Ince, P. G., Matthews, F. E., Shaw, P. J., Heath, P. R., Brayne, C., …Wharton, S. B. (2015). A neuronal DNA damage response is detected at the earliest stages of Alzheimer's neuropathology and correlates with cognitive impairment in the Medical Research Council's Cognitive Function and Ageing Study ageing brain cohort. Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology, 41(4), 483-496. https://doi.org/10.1111/nan.12202

Aims: Population-based studies have shown that approximately 20% of the ageing population (aged 65 years and over) with dementia have little or no classical Alzheimer-type neuropathology. Cumulative DNA damage and a reduced capacity of DNA repair may... Read More about A neuronal DNA damage response is detected at the earliest stages of Alzheimer's neuropathology and correlates with cognitive impairment in the Medical Research Council's Cognitive Function and Ageing Study ageing brain cohort.

On ungrounded ground: a poet in residence at the dump (2015)
Journal Article
Wedgwood Clarke, J. (2015). On ungrounded ground: a poet in residence at the dump. Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 8(2-3), 109-125 . https://doi.org/10.1386/jwcp.8.2-3.109_1

‘On ungrounded ground’ reflects upon a writer’s yearlong ‘residency’ at a landfill site and resource recovery facility. The article explores the significance of contemporary waste management within an archaeological, ecological and geological context... Read More about On ungrounded ground: a poet in residence at the dump.

Managing different roles : the experiences of female nursing reservists who have deployed with the UK armed forces (2015)
Thesis
Topp, K. D. (2015). Managing different roles : the experiences of female nursing reservists who have deployed with the UK armed forces. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4217881

This thesis is divided into three parts. The first section is a systematic literature review focusing on the British literature regarding attitudes towards mental health in the military, and what stops British military personnel from accessing car... Read More about Managing different roles : the experiences of female nursing reservists who have deployed with the UK armed forces.