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Emergency Manuals: How Quality Improvement and Implementation Science Can Enable Better Perioperative Management During Crises (2018)
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Goldhaber-Fiebert, S. N., & Macrae, C. (2018). Emergency Manuals: How Quality Improvement and Implementation Science Can Enable Better Perioperative Management During Crises. Anesthesiology Clinics, 36(1), 45-62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anclin.2017.10.003

© 2017 Sara N. Goldhaber-Fiebert, Carl Macrae How can teams manage critical events more effectively? There are commonly gaps in performance during perioperative crises, and emergency manuals are recently available tools that can improve team performa... Read More about Emergency Manuals: How Quality Improvement and Implementation Science Can Enable Better Perioperative Management During Crises.

Hyperacusis: major research questions (2018)
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Baguley, D. M., & Hoare, D. J. (2018). Hyperacusis: major research questions. HNO, 66(5), (358-363). doi:10.1007/s00106-017-0464-3. ISSN 0017-6192

Background: Hyperacusis is a troublesome symptom that can have a marked negative impact on quality of life. Objectives: To identify major research questions in hyperacusis. Materials and methods: Review of gaps in knowledge regarding hyperacusis, a... Read More about Hyperacusis: major research questions.

Preface (2018)
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Hanzalek, Z., Kendall, G., McCollum, B., Sucha, P., & Berghe, G. V. (2018). Preface. Journal of Scheduling, 21, 129-130. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10951-018-0557-1

This is a Preface to a special of the journal that contains 8 selected papers from the 2015 Multidisciplinary International Scheduling Conference: Theory and Applications (MISTA) that was held in Prague, Czech Republic (25–28 August 2015).

Enhancing the potential of enantioselective organocatalysis with light (2018)
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Melchiorre, P., & Silvi, M. (2018). Enhancing the potential of enantioselective organocatalysis with light. Nature, 554(7690), 41-49. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature25175

© 2018 Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature. All rights reserved. Organocatalysis - catalysis mediated by small chiral organic molecules - is a powerful technology for enantioselective synthesis, and has extensive applications in tra... Read More about Enhancing the potential of enantioselective organocatalysis with light.

Oral green tea catechins do not provide photoprotection from direct DNA damage induced by higher dose solar simulated radiation: A randomized controlled trial (2018)
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Farrar, M. D., Huq, R., Mason, S., Nicolaou, A., Clarke, K. A., Dew, T. P., …Rhodes, L. E. (2018). Oral green tea catechins do not provide photoprotection from direct DNA damage induced by higher dose solar simulated radiation: A randomized controlled trial. Journal of The American Academy of Dermatology, 78(2), 414-416. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaad.2017.08.021

“World Community Interest” Approach to Interim Measures on “Robot Weapons”: Revisiting the Nuclear Test Cases (2018)
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Ulgen, O. (2018). “World Community Interest” Approach to Interim Measures on “Robot Weapons”: Revisiting the Nuclear Test Cases. New Zealand Yearbook of International Law, 14(2016), 3-34. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004345911_002

Forty-four years after the ICJ provisional measures orders in the Nuclear Test Cases requesting France stop atmospheric nuclear weapons testing in the South Pacific, we are facing another deadly threat from the use and development of "robot weapons".... Read More about “World Community Interest” Approach to Interim Measures on “Robot Weapons”: Revisiting the Nuclear Test Cases.

Community based treatment for chronic oedema: an effective service model (2018)
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Moffatt, C. J., Doherty, D., Franks, P. J., & Mortimer, P. (2018). Community based treatment for chronic oedema: an effective service model. Lymphatic Research and Biology, 16(1), 92-99. https://doi.org/10.1089/lrb.2017.0021

BACKGROUND: Chronic oedema care is patchy and of variable quality internationally. This study was undertaken to develop and evaluate a system of care that would provide for patients within a geographical area of London (Wandsworth), UK. METHODS AND... Read More about Community based treatment for chronic oedema: an effective service model.

Safety of antiepileptic drugs in children and young people: a prospective cohort study (2018)
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Egunsola, O., Choonara, I., Sammons, H. M., & Whitehouse, W. P. (2018). Safety of antiepileptic drugs in children and young people: a prospective cohort study. Seizure - European Journal of Epilepsy, 56, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seizure.2018.01.018

Purpose: This study aims to describe the incidence of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) in children receiving antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) and compare ADRs to the individual drugs when given as monotherapy. Method: Paediatric patients (?18 years old) we... Read More about Safety of antiepileptic drugs in children and young people: a prospective cohort study.

Firm Dynamics and Residual Inequality in Open Economies (2018)
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Felbermayr, G., Impullitti, G., & Prat, J. (2018). Firm Dynamics and Residual Inequality in Open Economies. Journal of European Economic Association, 16(5), 1476-1539. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvx049

© The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of European Economic Association. All rights reserved. Wage inequality between similar workers has been on the rise in many rich countries. Recent empirical research suggests that h... Read More about Firm Dynamics and Residual Inequality in Open Economies.

Risk, networks and privateering in Liverpool during the Seven Years War, 1756-1763 (2018)
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Haggerty, S. (2018). Risk, networks and privateering in Liverpool during the Seven Years War, 1756-1763. International Journal of Maritime History, 30(1), 30-51. https://doi.org/10.1177/0843871417745742

Privateering has often been portrayed as a particularly risky business. Some historians have posited that it was undertaken only by disreputable merchants, whilst others have argued that profits would not have been made if systems of control had been... Read More about Risk, networks and privateering in Liverpool during the Seven Years War, 1756-1763.

Supersolidity of lattice bosons immersed in strongly correlated Rydberg dressed atoms (2018)
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Li, Y., Gei?ler, A., Hofstetter, W., & Li, W. (2018). Supersolidity of lattice bosons immersed in strongly correlated Rydberg dressed atoms. Physical Review A, 97(2), Article 023619. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.97.023619

Recent experiments have illustrated that long range two-body interactions can be induced by laser coupling atoms to highly excited Rydberg states. Stimulated by this achievement, we study supersolidity of lattice bosons in an experimentally relevant... Read More about Supersolidity of lattice bosons immersed in strongly correlated Rydberg dressed atoms.

Sheep farmers’ attitudes to farm inspections and the role of sanctions and rewards as motivation to reduce the prevalence of lameness (2018)
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Liu, N. L., Kaler, J., Ferguson, E., O’Kane, H., & Green, L. E. (2018). Sheep farmers’ attitudes to farm inspections and the role of sanctions and rewards as motivation to reduce the prevalence of lameness. Animal Welfare Journal, 27(1), https://doi.org/10.7120/09627286.27.1.067

The Welfare of Farmed Animals (England) Regulations 2007 make it an offence to allow unnecessary suffering to animals, highlighting that farmers have a duty of care for their animals. Despite this, the current global mean prevalence of lameness in sh... Read More about Sheep farmers’ attitudes to farm inspections and the role of sanctions and rewards as motivation to reduce the prevalence of lameness.

Expansion of the 'Antibiotic Guardian' one health behavioural campaign across Europe to tackle antibiotic resistance: pilot phase and analysis of AMR knowledge (2018)
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Newitt, S., Anthierens, S., Coenen, S., Lo Fo Wong, D., Salvi, C., Puleston, R., & Ashiru-Oredope, D. (2018). Expansion of the 'Antibiotic Guardian' one health behavioural campaign across Europe to tackle antibiotic resistance: pilot phase and analysis of AMR knowledge. European Journal of Public Health, 28(3), 437-439. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckx239

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major public health threat. The UK Antibiotic Guardian (AG) behavioural change campaign developed to tackle AMR was expanded across Europe through translation into Russian, Dutch and French. Demographics and knowle... Read More about Expansion of the 'Antibiotic Guardian' one health behavioural campaign across Europe to tackle antibiotic resistance: pilot phase and analysis of AMR knowledge.

Active search for computer-aided drug design (2018)
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Oglic, D., Oatley, S. A., Macdonald, S. J., McInally, T., Garnett, R., Hirst, J. D., & Gärtner, T. (in press). Active search for computer-aided drug design. Molecular Informatics, 37, https://doi.org/10.1002/minf.201700130

We consider lead discovery as active search in a space of labelled graphs. In particular, we extend our recent data-driven adaptive Markov chain approach, and evaluate it on a focused drug design problem, where we search for an antagonist of an av in... Read More about Active search for computer-aided drug design.

Targeting gp100 and TRP-2 with a DNA vaccine: incorporating T cell epitopes with a human IgG1 antibody induces potent T cell responses that are associated with favourable clinical outcome in a phase I/II trial (2018)
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Patel, P. M., Ottensmeier, C. H., Mulatero, C., Lorigan, P., Plummer, R., Pandha, H. S., …Durrant, L. (2018). Targeting gp100 and TRP-2 with a DNA vaccine: incorporating T cell epitopes with a human IgG1 antibody induces potent T cell responses that are associated with favourable clinical outcome in a phase I/II trial. OncoImmunology, 7(6), Article e1433516. https://doi.org/10.1080/2162402X.2018.1433516

A DNA vaccine, SCIB1, incorporating two CD8 and two CD4 epitopes from TRP-2/gp100 was evaluated in patients with metastatic melanoma. Each patient received SCIB1 via intramuscular injection with electroporation. The trial was designed to find the saf... Read More about Targeting gp100 and TRP-2 with a DNA vaccine: incorporating T cell epitopes with a human IgG1 antibody induces potent T cell responses that are associated with favourable clinical outcome in a phase I/II trial.

Dynamic functional contribution of the water channel AQP5 to the water permeability of peripheral lens fiber cells (2018)
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Petrova, R. S., Webb, K. F., Vaghefi, E., Walker, K., Schey, K. L., & Donaldson, P. J. (2018). Dynamic functional contribution of the water channel AQP5 to the water permeability of peripheral lens fiber cells. American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology, 314(2), C191-C201. https://doi.org/10.1152/ajpcell.00214.2017

Although the functionality of the lens water channels aquaporin 1 (AQP1; epithelium) and AQP0 (fiber cells) is well established, less is known about the role of AQP5 in the lens. Since in other tissues AQP5 functions as a regulated water channel with... Read More about Dynamic functional contribution of the water channel AQP5 to the water permeability of peripheral lens fiber cells.