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Breast cancer surgery in older women: outcomes of the Bridging Age Gap in Breast Cancer study (2020)
Journal Article
Morgan, J. L., George, J., Holmes, G., Martin, C., Reed, M. W. R., Ward, S., …Bridging the Age Gap Trial Management Team. (2020). Breast cancer surgery in older women: outcomes of the Bridging Age Gap in Breast Cancer study. British Journal of Surgery, https://doi.org/10.1002/bjs.11617

© 2020 The Authors. British Journal of Surgery published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of BJS Society Ltd Background: Breast cancer surgery in older women is variable and sometimes non-standard owing to concerns about morbidity. Bridging the A... Read More about Breast cancer surgery in older women: outcomes of the Bridging Age Gap in Breast Cancer study.

Comparison of thermal and reliability performance between a SiC MOSFET module with embedded decoupling capacitors and commercial Si IGBT power modules (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Yang, L., Agyakwa, P., Corfield, M., Johnson, M., Harris, A., Packwood, M., & Paciura, K. (2018). Comparison of thermal and reliability performance between a SiC MOSFET module with embedded decoupling capacitors and commercial Si IGBT power modules.

This paper characterizes thermal and reliability performance of a SiC MOSFET power module with embedded decoupling capacitors and without anti-parallel diodes. Active and passive temperature cycling, supported by transient thermal impedance character... Read More about Comparison of thermal and reliability performance between a SiC MOSFET module with embedded decoupling capacitors and commercial Si IGBT power modules.

Variation in visiting and isolation policies in neonatal units: a UK nationwide survey (2017)
Journal Article
Tan, S., Clarkson, M., & Sharkey, D. (in press). Variation in visiting and isolation policies in neonatal units: a UK nationwide survey. Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, https://doi.org/10.1097/INF.0000000000001820

Global pandemics, such as H1N1, are a major risk for neonatal patients. We surveyed UK tertiary and district neonatal units about visiting and infection control policies relating to viral respiratory infections. There was marked variation with visiti... Read More about Variation in visiting and isolation policies in neonatal units: a UK nationwide survey.

Outcomes of nosocomial viral respiratory infections in high-risk neonates (2016)
Journal Article
Zinna, S., Lakshmanan, A., Tan, S., McClaughry, R., Clarkson, M., Soo, S., …Sharkey, D. (2016). Outcomes of nosocomial viral respiratory infections in high-risk neonates. Pediatrics, 138(5), Article e20161675. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2016-1675

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Neonatal respiratory disease, particularly bronchopulmonary dysplasia, remains one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in newborn infants. Recent evidence suggests nosocomially acquired viral respiratory tract... Read More about Outcomes of nosocomial viral respiratory infections in high-risk neonates.

Do student nurses experience Imposter Phenomenon? An international comparison of Final Year Undergraduate Nursing Students readiness for registration (2016)
Journal Article
Christensen, M., Aubeeluck, A., Fergusson, D., Craft, J., Knight, J., Wirihana, L., & Stupple, E. (in press). Do student nurses experience Imposter Phenomenon? An international comparison of Final Year Undergraduate Nursing Students readiness for registration. Journal of Advanced Nursing, https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.13034

Background: The transition shock sometimes associated with moving from student to registered nurse can lead to feelings of self-doubt and insecurity especially with the increased expectations and responsibilities that registration brings. Known as Im... Read More about Do student nurses experience Imposter Phenomenon? An international comparison of Final Year Undergraduate Nursing Students readiness for registration.

Circles of support and accountability: the characteristics of core members in England and Wales (2016)
Journal Article
Clarke, M., Warwick, L., & Völlm, B. (in press). Circles of support and accountability: the characteristics of core members in England and Wales. Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, https://doi.org/10.1002/cbm.2003

Background Circles of support and accountability, or Circles, use community volunteers to help reintegrate sex offenders at risk of reoffending in the community. Aims The aims of this study are to describe the first 275 male sex offenders (‘core... Read More about Circles of support and accountability: the characteristics of core members in England and Wales.

Staff experience of harassment and stalking behaviour by patients (2016)
Journal Article
Clarke, M., Yanson, I., Saleem, Y., Edworthy, R., & Khalifa, N. (in press). Staff experience of harassment and stalking behaviour by patients. International Journal of Forensic Mental Health, 15(3), https://doi.org/10.1080/14999013.2016.1166465

Staff from one National Health Service (NHS) Trust in England completed an online survey (N = 590) about their experience of intrusive behaviours from patients. These experiences were categorised into either stalking or harassment and compared in ter... Read More about Staff experience of harassment and stalking behaviour by patients.

Iterated local search using an add and delete hyper- heuristic for university course timetabling (2016)
Journal Article
Soria-Alcaraz, J. A., Özcan, E., Swan, J., Kendall, G., & Carpio, M. (2016). Iterated local search using an add and delete hyper- heuristic for university course timetabling. Applied Soft Computing, 40, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2015.11.043

Hyper-heuristics are (meta-)heuristics that operate at a higher level to choose or generate a set of low-level (meta-)heuristics in an attempt of solve difficult optimization problems. Iterated local search (ILS) is a well-known approach for discrete... Read More about Iterated local search using an add and delete hyper- heuristic for university course timetabling.

Exome-wide analysis of rare coding variation identifies novel associations with COPD and airflow limitation in MOCS3, IFIT3 and SERPINA12 (2016)
Journal Article
Jackson, V. E., Ntalla, I., Sayers, I., Morris, R., Whincup, P., Casas, J., …Wain, L. V. (in press). Exome-wide analysis of rare coding variation identifies novel associations with COPD and airflow limitation in MOCS3, IFIT3 and SERPINA12. Thorax, 71(6), https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2015-207876

Background Several regions of the genome have shown to be associated with COPD in genome-wide association studies of common variants. Objective To determine rare and potentially functional single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated... Read More about Exome-wide analysis of rare coding variation identifies novel associations with COPD and airflow limitation in MOCS3, IFIT3 and SERPINA12.

A thermal cycling reliability study of ultrasonically bonded copper wires (2016)
Journal Article
Arjmand, E., Agyakwa, P. A., Corfield, M. R., Li, J., Mouawad, B., & Mark Johnson, C. (2016). A thermal cycling reliability study of ultrasonically bonded copper wires. Microelectronics Reliability, 59, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.microrel.2016.01.009

In this work we report on a reliability investigation regarding heavy copper wires ultrasonically bonded onto active braze copper substrates. The results obtained from both a non-destructive approach using 3D X-ray tomography and shear tests showed n... Read More about A thermal cycling reliability study of ultrasonically bonded copper wires.