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“It's really important work…and celebrating that, I think, is really important” – co‐produced qualitative research into future of mental health nurse education (2024)
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Pearson, M., Long, L., Baker, C., Doran, D., & Pringle, A. (2024). “It's really important work…and celebrating that, I think, is really important” – co‐produced qualitative research into future of mental health nurse education. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, https://doi.org/10.1111/inm.13361

The education of mental health nurses has long remained a contentious topic in the UK and internationally. This research seeks to gather the perspectives of those directly affected by mental health nurse education. To investigate what knowledge, skil... Read More about “It's really important work…and celebrating that, I think, is really important” – co‐produced qualitative research into future of mental health nurse education.

Machine Learning Metabolomics Profiling of Dietary Interventions from a Six-Week Randomised Trial (2024)
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Kouraki, A., Nogal, A., Nocun, W., Louca, P., Vijay, A., Wong, K., …Valdes, A. M. (2024). Machine Learning Metabolomics Profiling of Dietary Interventions from a Six-Week Randomised Trial. Metabolites, 14(6), Article 311. https://doi.org/10.3390/metabo14060311

Metabolomics can uncover physiological responses to prebiotic fibre and omega-3 fatty acid supplements with known health benefits and identify response-specific metabolites. We profiled 534 stool and 799 serum metabolites in 64 healthy adults followi... Read More about Machine Learning Metabolomics Profiling of Dietary Interventions from a Six-Week Randomised Trial.

Solving the microwave heating uniformity conundrum for scalable high-temperature processes via a toroidal fluidised-bed reactor (2024)
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Rodriguez, J., Morona, L., Erans, M., Buttress, A. J., Nicholls, M., Batchelor, A. R., …Dodds, C. (2024). Solving the microwave heating uniformity conundrum for scalable high-temperature processes via a toroidal fluidised-bed reactor. Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification, 202, Article 109838. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cep.2024.109838

Challenges exist to implementing high-temperature microwave processes with changing dielectric properties that achieve uniform processing. This paper presents a new high-temperature hybrid microwave processing system which overcomes these challenges... Read More about Solving the microwave heating uniformity conundrum for scalable high-temperature processes via a toroidal fluidised-bed reactor.

Biochar in the UK Print News Media: Issue Frames and Their Implications for Opening up Debate About Land-based Greenhouse Gas Removal (2024)
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Morris, C., Price, C., & Nerlich, B. (2024). Biochar in the UK Print News Media: Issue Frames and Their Implications for Opening up Debate About Land-based Greenhouse Gas Removal. Environmental Communication, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2024.2357318

Biochar is a land-based greenhouse gas removal technology with potential to address the climate crisis. This article examines societal debate and discussion around biochar as represented in the UK print news media and reflects on its implications for... Read More about Biochar in the UK Print News Media: Issue Frames and Their Implications for Opening up Debate About Land-based Greenhouse Gas Removal.

Population infection estimation from wastewater surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 in Nagpur, India during the second pandemic wave (2024)
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Acheampong, E., Husain, A. A., Dudani, H., Nayak, A. R., Nag, A., Meena, E., …Monaghan, T. M. (2024). Population infection estimation from wastewater surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 in Nagpur, India during the second pandemic wave. PLoS ONE, 19(5), Article e0303529. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0303529

Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has emerged as an effective environmental surveillance tool for predicting severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) disease outbreaks in high-income countries (HICs) with centralized sewage infr... Read More about Population infection estimation from wastewater surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 in Nagpur, India during the second pandemic wave.

Spectral Signatures of Vibronic Coupling in Trapped Cold Ionic Rydberg Systems (2024)
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Wilkinson, J. W., Li, W., & Lesanovsky, I. (2024). Spectral Signatures of Vibronic Coupling in Trapped Cold Ionic Rydberg Systems. Physical Review Letters, 132(22), Article 223401. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.132.223401

Atoms and ions confined with electric and optical fields form the basis of many current quantum simulation and computing platforms. When excited to high-lying Rydberg states, long-ranged dipole interactions emerge which strongly couple the electronic... Read More about Spectral Signatures of Vibronic Coupling in Trapped Cold Ionic Rydberg Systems.

How Long Does It Take to Read a Mammogram? Investigating the Reading Time of Digital Breast Tomosynthesis and Digital Mammography (2024)
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Partridge, G. J., Darker, I., James, J. J., Satchithananda, K., Sharma, N., Valencia, A., …Chen, Y. (2024). How Long Does It Take to Read a Mammogram? Investigating the Reading Time of Digital Breast Tomosynthesis and Digital Mammography. European Journal of Radiology, 177, Article 111535. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrad.2024.111535

Purpose To analyse digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) reading times in the screening setting, compared to 2D full-field digital mammography (FFDM), and investigate the impact of reader experience and professional group on interpretation times. Me... Read More about How Long Does It Take to Read a Mammogram? Investigating the Reading Time of Digital Breast Tomosynthesis and Digital Mammography.

A SARS-CoV-2 minimum data standard to support national serology reporting (2024)
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Urwin, E. N., Martin, J., Sebire, N., Harris, A., Johnson, J., Masood, E., …Jefferson, E. (2024). A SARS-CoV-2 minimum data standard to support national serology reporting. Annals of Clinical Biochemistry, https://doi.org/10.1177/00045632241261274

Background: Healthcare laboratory systems produce and capture a vast array of information, yet do not always report all of this to the national infrastructure within the United Kingdom. The global COVID-19 pandemic brought about a much greater need f... Read More about A SARS-CoV-2 minimum data standard to support national serology reporting.

Real-imaginary spectrum decomposition of the transparency spectra in microwave dressed Rydberg systems (2024)
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Niu, W., Qin, L., Shi, Z., Zhang, Y., Xia, S., Feng, X., …Zhao, X. (2024). Real-imaginary spectrum decomposition of the transparency spectra in microwave dressed Rydberg systems. Optics Express, 32(12), 21374-21388. https://doi.org/10.1364/oe.520789

To distinguish the contributions of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) and Autler-Townes splitting (ATS) in their applications in precision laser spectroscopy, we propose a real-imaginary spectrum decomposition method to investigate the t... Read More about Real-imaginary spectrum decomposition of the transparency spectra in microwave dressed Rydberg systems.

Smoking, nicotine and pregnancy 2 (SNAP2) trial: protocol for a randomised controlled trial of an intervention to improve adherence to nicotine replacement therapy during pregnancy (2024)
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Clark, M. M., Cooper, S., Naughton, F., Ussher, M., Emery, J., McDaid, L., …Coleman, T. (2024). Smoking, nicotine and pregnancy 2 (SNAP2) trial: protocol for a randomised controlled trial of an intervention to improve adherence to nicotine replacement therapy during pregnancy. BMJ Open, 14(5), Article e087175. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-087175

IntroductionSmoking during pregnancy is harmful to unborn babies, infants and women. Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) is offered as the usual stop-smoking support in the UK. However, this is often used in insufficient doses, intermittently or for t... Read More about Smoking, nicotine and pregnancy 2 (SNAP2) trial: protocol for a randomised controlled trial of an intervention to improve adherence to nicotine replacement therapy during pregnancy.

The Potential of Plant-Produced Virus-like Particle Vaccines for African Horse Sickness and Other Equine Orbiviruses (2024)
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Pitchers, K. G., Boakye, O. D., Campeotto, I., & Daly, J. M. (2024). The Potential of Plant-Produced Virus-like Particle Vaccines for African Horse Sickness and Other Equine Orbiviruses. Pathogens, 13(6), Article 458. https://doi.org/10.3390/pathogens13060458

African horse sickness is a devastating viral disease of equids. It is transmitted by biting midges of the genus Culicoides with mortalities reaching over 90% in naïve horses. It is endemic to sub-Saharan Africa and is seasonally endemic in many part... Read More about The Potential of Plant-Produced Virus-like Particle Vaccines for African Horse Sickness and Other Equine Orbiviruses.

Solvent flashcards: a visualisation tool for sustainable chemistry. (2024)
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Heeley, J., Boobier, S., & Hirst, J. D. (2024). Solvent flashcards: a visualisation tool for sustainable chemistry. Journal of Cheminformatics, 16(1), Article 60. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13321-024-00854-9

Selecting greener solvents during experiment design is imperative for greener chemistry. While many solvent selection guides are currently used in the pharmaceutical industry, these are often paper-based guides which can make it difficult to identify... Read More about Solvent flashcards: a visualisation tool for sustainable chemistry..

Investigating the effect of sharing environmental information on consumer responses to conventional and hypothetical ‘precision fermented’ yoghurt (2024)
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Ford, H., Thibodeau, M., Newton, L., Child, C., & Yang, Q. (2024). Investigating the effect of sharing environmental information on consumer responses to conventional and hypothetical ‘precision fermented’ yoghurt. International Journal of Food Science and Technology, https://doi.org/10.1111/ijfs.17228

Precision fermented dairy (PFD) is a novel technology used to produce milk proteins that can be used to replicate conventional dairy (CD) products. With PFD products likely to be available soon in the United Kingdom, this study aimed to explore consu... Read More about Investigating the effect of sharing environmental information on consumer responses to conventional and hypothetical ‘precision fermented’ yoghurt.

Harnessing the runoff reduction potential of urban bioswales as an adaptation response to climate change (2024)
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Lu, L., Johnson, M., Zhu, F., Xu, Y., Ruan, T., & Chan, F. (2024). Harnessing the runoff reduction potential of urban bioswales as an adaptation response to climate change. Scientific Reports, 14(1), Article 12207. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-61878-7

Nature-based solutions (NbS), including China's Sponge City Program (SCP), can address the challenges urban communities face due to surface runoff and flooding. The current capacity of SCP facilities in urban environments falls short of meeting the d... Read More about Harnessing the runoff reduction potential of urban bioswales as an adaptation response to climate change.

Smoking, nicotine and pregnancy 2 (SNAP2) trial: protocol for a randomised controlled trial of an intervention to improve adherence to nicotine replacement therapy in pregnancy (2024)
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Clark, M., Cooper, S., Naughton, F., Ussher, M., Emery, J., Mcdaid, L., …Coleman, T. (2024). Smoking, nicotine and pregnancy 2 (SNAP2) trial: protocol for a randomised controlled trial of an intervention to improve adherence to nicotine replacement therapy in pregnancy. BMJ Open, 14(5), Article e087175. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-087175

Introduction: Smoking in pregnancy is harmful for unborn babies, infants, and women. Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) is offered as usual stop smoking support in the UK. However, this is often used in insufficient doses, intermittently, or for too... Read More about Smoking, nicotine and pregnancy 2 (SNAP2) trial: protocol for a randomised controlled trial of an intervention to improve adherence to nicotine replacement therapy in pregnancy.

Prospective study of exposure to smoking imagery in films and changes in susceptibility to smoking in a cohort of school students in Southern India (2024)
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Kamath, V. G., Kulkarni, M. M., Kamath, A., Lewis, S., Bogdanovica, I., Bains, M., …Britton, J. (2024). Prospective study of exposure to smoking imagery in films and changes in susceptibility to smoking in a cohort of school students in Southern India. Tobacco Induced Diseases, 22(May), Article 88. https://doi.org/10.18332/tid/178442

INTRODUCTION India has unique tobacco-free film and TV rules designed to prevent tobacco uptake. In this study, we examined the potential influence of exposure to smoking imagery in regionally famous films, on susceptibility to smoke in teenagers enr... Read More about Prospective study of exposure to smoking imagery in films and changes in susceptibility to smoking in a cohort of school students in Southern India.

An alternative theoretical approach to develop a new conception about pain in people with dementia (2024)
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Morgner, C., Dening, K. H., Dening, T., & Gibson, B. (2024). An alternative theoretical approach to develop a new conception about pain in people with dementia. Medical Humanities, https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2023-012718

The theoretical approach presented in this paper describes a novel experimental-theoretical methodology to conceptualise pain in people with dementia. Existing procedures for assessment of pain rely on subjective self-report using pain questionnaires... Read More about An alternative theoretical approach to develop a new conception about pain in people with dementia.

Safety outcomes following COVID-19 vaccination and infection in 5.1 million children in England (2024)
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Copland, E., Patone, M., Saatci, D., Handunnetthi, L., Hirst, J., Hunt, D. P. J., …Hippisley-Cox, J. (2024). Safety outcomes following COVID-19 vaccination and infection in 5.1 million children in England. Nature Communications, 15(1), Article 3822. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47745-z

The risk-benefit profile of COVID-19 vaccination in children remains uncertain. A self-controlled case-series study was conducted using linked data of 5.1 million children in England to compare risks of hospitalisation from vaccine safety outcomes af... Read More about Safety outcomes following COVID-19 vaccination and infection in 5.1 million children in England.

Investigation of the bonding properties of bitumen using a novel modified binder bond strength test (2024)
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Zhou, L., Airey, G., Zhang, Y., Wang, C., & Zhong, H. (2024). Investigation of the bonding properties of bitumen using a novel modified binder bond strength test. Construction and Building Materials, 434, Article 136784. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2024.136784

The binder bond strength (BBS) test can directly quantify the bonding of bitumen-stone joints. However, the index "bond strength" used in this method cannot provide a clear distinction when evaluating the performance of various bitumen, and some resu... Read More about Investigation of the bonding properties of bitumen using a novel modified binder bond strength test.

Biotechnology for sustainable materials: innovating today for a greener tomorrow (2024)
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Bhatia, S. K., Bhatia, S., Inda-Webb, M. E., Kourmentza, K., Moon, T. S., Singh, V., …Zhao, J. (2024). Biotechnology for sustainable materials: innovating today for a greener tomorrow. Biotechnology for Sustainable Materials, 1(1), Article 3. https://doi.org/10.1186/s44316-024-00006-x

Biotechnology for Sustainable Materials, positioned at the forefront of environmentally conscious practices, is pivotal in realizing the objectives of Sustainable Development Goal 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production). Sustainable materials are... Read More about Biotechnology for sustainable materials: innovating today for a greener tomorrow.