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Hydrothermal synthesis of zeolites using silica extracted from tropical volcanic ash (2023)
Journal Article
Otieno, S. O., Kengara, F. O., Kowenje, C. O., & Mokaya, R. (2023). Hydrothermal synthesis of zeolites using silica extracted from tropical volcanic ash. Materials Advances, 4(10), 2292-2300. https://doi.org/10.1039/d3ma00065f

This study addresses the reliance on costly aluminosilicate sources for the synthesis of zeolites by exploring the use of silica extracted from tropical volcanic ash. The volcanic ash contained CaO, in the form of calcite polymorph of CaCO3, and sili... Read More about Hydrothermal synthesis of zeolites using silica extracted from tropical volcanic ash.

Changing water quality and thermocline depth along an aquaculture gradient in six tropical crater lakes (2022)
Journal Article
Briddon, C. L., Metcalfe, S., Taylor, D., Bannister, W., Cunanan, M., Santos-Borja, A. C., Papa, R. D., & McGowan, S. (2023). Changing water quality and thermocline depth along an aquaculture gradient in six tropical crater lakes. Hydrobiologia, 850(2), 283-299. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-022-05065-7

Understanding how lakes respond to changes in nutrient loading along a productivity gradient can help identify key drivers of aquatic change, thereby allowing appropriate mitigation strategies to be developed. Physical, chemical and biological water... Read More about Changing water quality and thermocline depth along an aquaculture gradient in six tropical crater lakes.

How well do crop modeling groups predict wheat phenology, given calibration data from the target population? (2021)
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Wallach, D., Palosuo, T., Thorburn, P., Gourdain, E., Asseng, S., Basso, B., Buis, S., Crout, N., Dibari, C., Dumont, B., Ferrise, R., Gaiser, T., Garcia, C., Gayler, S., Ghahramani, A., Hochman, Z., Hoek, S., Hoogenboom, G., Horan, H., Huang, M., …Seidel, S. J. (2021). How well do crop modeling groups predict wheat phenology, given calibration data from the target population?. European Journal of Agronomy, 124, Article 126195. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eja.2020.126195

© 2020 Elsevier B.V. Predicting phenology is essential for adapting varieties to different environmental conditions and for crop management. Therefore, it is important to evaluate how well different crop modeling groups can predict phenology. Multipl... Read More about How well do crop modeling groups predict wheat phenology, given calibration data from the target population?.

Supportive care needs of patients following treatment for colorectal cancer: risk factors for unmet needs and the association between unmet needs and health-related quality of life—results from the ColoREctal Wellbeing (CREW) study (2019)
Journal Article
Members of Study Advisory Committee, Sodergren, S. C., Wheelwright, S. J., Permyakova, N. V., Patel, M., Calman, L., Smith, P. W. F., Din, A., Richardson, A., Fenlon, D., Winter, J., Corner, J., & Foster, C. (2019). Supportive care needs of patients following treatment for colorectal cancer: risk factors for unmet needs and the association between unmet needs and health-related quality of life—results from the ColoREctal Wellbeing (CREW) study. Journal of Cancer Survivorship, 13, 899–909. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11764-019-00805-6

Purpose

To investigate unmet needs of patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) at the end of treatment and whether unmet needs improve over time. Identify predictors of need following treatment and whether unmet need is associated with worse health-r... Read More about Supportive care needs of patients following treatment for colorectal cancer: risk factors for unmet needs and the association between unmet needs and health-related quality of life—results from the ColoREctal Wellbeing (CREW) study.

Microparticles for controlled GDF6 delivery to direct ASC‐based nucleus pulposus regeneration (2019)
Journal Article
Hodgkinson, T., Stening, J. Z., White, L. J., Shakesheff, K. M., Hoyland, J. A., & Richardson, S. M. (2019). Microparticles for controlled GDF6 delivery to direct ASC‐based nucleus pulposus regeneration. Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, 13(8), 1406-1417. https://doi.org/10.1002/term.2882

Currently, there is no effective long-term treatment for intervertebral disc degeneration (IVDD), making it an attractive candidate for regenerative therapies. Hydrogel delivery of adipose stem cells (ASCs) in combination with controlled release of b... Read More about Microparticles for controlled GDF6 delivery to direct ASC‐based nucleus pulposus regeneration.

Targeted protein delivery: carbodiimide crosslinking influences protein release from microparticles incorporated within collagen scaffolds (2019)
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Tanase, C. E., Qutachi, O., White, L. J., Shakesheff, K. M., McCaskie, A. W., Best, S. M., & Cameron, R. E. (2019). Targeted protein delivery: carbodiimide crosslinking influences protein release from microparticles incorporated within collagen scaffolds. Regenerative Biomaterials, 6(5), 279-287. https://doi.org/10.1093/rb/rbz015

Tissue engineering response may be tailored via controlled, sustained release of active agents from protein loaded degradable microparticles incorporated directly within 3D ice-templated collagen scaffolds. However, the effects of covalent crosslink... Read More about Targeted protein delivery: carbodiimide crosslinking influences protein release from microparticles incorporated within collagen scaffolds.

Functional Outcomes and Health-Related Quality of Life After Curative Treatment for Rectal Cancer: A Population-Level Study in England (2018)
Journal Article
Downing, A., Glaser, A. W., Finan, P. J., Wright, P., Thomas, J. D., Gilbert, A., Corner, J., Richards, M., Morris, E. J., & Sebag-Montefiore, D. (2019). Functional Outcomes and Health-Related Quality of Life After Curative Treatment for Rectal Cancer: A Population-Level Study in England. International Journal of Radiation Oncology - Biology - Physics, 103(5), 1132-1142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijrobp.2018.12.005

Purpose
There is a growing population of cancer survivors at risk of treatment-related morbidity. This study investigated how potentially curative rectal cancer treatment influences subsequent function and health-related quality of life using data f... Read More about Functional Outcomes and Health-Related Quality of Life After Curative Treatment for Rectal Cancer: A Population-Level Study in England.

A detailed assessment of varying ejection rate on delivery efficiency of mesenchymal stem cells using narrow-bore needles (2016)
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Rose, F., Shakesheff, K., White, L., & Amer, M. (2016). A detailed assessment of varying ejection rate on delivery efficiency of mesenchymal stem cells using narrow-bore needles. Stem Cells Translational Medicine, 5(3), 366-378. https://doi.org/10.5966/sctm.2015-0208

As the number of clinical trials exploring cell therapy rises, a thorough understanding of the limits of cell delivery is essential. We used an extensive toolset comprising various standard and multiplex assays for the assessment of cell delivery pos... Read More about A detailed assessment of varying ejection rate on delivery efficiency of mesenchymal stem cells using narrow-bore needles.

Vacuolating cytotoxin genotypes are strong markers of gastric cancer and duodenal ulcer-associated Helicobacter pylori strains: A matched case-control study (2014)
Journal Article
Memon, A. A., Hussein, N. R., Miendje Deyi, V. Y., Burette, A., & Atherton, J. C. (2014). Vacuolating cytotoxin genotypes are strong markers of gastric cancer and duodenal ulcer-associated Helicobacter pylori strains: A matched case-control study. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 52(8), 2984-2989. https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.00551-14

The Helicobacter pylori virulence gene, cagA, and active forms of the vacuolating cytotoxin gene, vacA, are major determinants of pathogenesis. However, previous studies linking these factors to disease risk have often included patients using aspirin... Read More about Vacuolating cytotoxin genotypes are strong markers of gastric cancer and duodenal ulcer-associated Helicobacter pylori strains: A matched case-control study.