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First-person narratives around sexuality in residential healthcare settings: a meta-ethnographic synthesis (2016)
Journal Article
Hooper, A., De Boos, D., Nair, R. D., & Moghaddam, N. (2016). First-person narratives around sexuality in residential healthcare settings: a meta-ethnographic synthesis. Sexual and Relationship Therapy, 31(2), 207-229. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681994.2015.1131256

The aim of this review is to identify, critically appraise, and synthesise the existing literature exploring adults’ narratives around sexuality within residential healthcare settings from a first-person perspective. A systematic literature review wa... Read More about First-person narratives around sexuality in residential healthcare settings: a meta-ethnographic synthesis.

Streptococcus uberis strains isolated from the bovine mammary gland evade immune recognition by mammary epithelial cells, but not of macrophages (2016)
Journal Article
Günther, J., Czabanska, A., Bauer, I., Leigh, J. A., Holst, O., & Seyfert, H.-M. (2016). Streptococcus uberis strains isolated from the bovine mammary gland evade immune recognition by mammary epithelial cells, but not of macrophages. Veterinary Research, 47(13), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13567-015-0287-8

Streptococcus uberis is frequently isolated from the mammary gland of dairy cattle. Infection with some strains can induce mild subclinical inflammation whilst others induce severe inflammation and clinical mastitis. We compared here the inflammatory... Read More about Streptococcus uberis strains isolated from the bovine mammary gland evade immune recognition by mammary epithelial cells, but not of macrophages.

Family-led rehabilitation after stroke in India: the ATTEND trial, study protocol for a randomized controlled trial (2016)
Journal Article
Alim, M., Lindley, R., Felix, C., Gandhi, D. B. C., Verma, S. J., Tugnawat, D. K., …Pandian, J. D. (2016). Family-led rehabilitation after stroke in India: the ATTEND trial, study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials, 17(13), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-015-1129-8

Background: Globally, most strokes occur in low- and middle-income countries, such as India, with many affected people having no or limited access to rehabilitation services. Western models of stroke rehabilitation are often unaffordable in many popu... Read More about Family-led rehabilitation after stroke in India: the ATTEND trial, study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

Clinical care pathways for patients with hepatitis C: reducing critical barriers to effective treatment. (2016)
Journal Article

Background: Engagement of individuals infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) with care pathways remains a major barrier to realizing the benefits of new and more effective antiviral therapies. After an exploratory study, we have undertaken an evidence... Read More about Clinical care pathways for patients with hepatitis C: reducing critical barriers to effective treatment..

Relative Contribution of Intramyocellular Lipid to Whole-Body Fat Oxidation Is Reduced With Age but Subsarcolemmal Lipid Accumulation and Insulin Resistance Are Only Associated With Overweight Individuals (2016)
Journal Article
Chee, C., Shannon, C. E., Burns, A., Selby, A. L., Wilkinson, D., Smith, K., …Stephens, F. B. (2016). Relative Contribution of Intramyocellular Lipid to Whole-Body Fat Oxidation Is Reduced With Age but Subsarcolemmal Lipid Accumulation and Insulin Resistance Are Only Associated With Overweight Individuals. Diabetes, 65(4), 840-850. https://doi.org/10.2337/db15-1383

© 2016 by the American Diabetes Association. Insulin resistance is closely related to intramyocellular lipid (IMCL) accumulation, and both are associated with increasing age. It remains to be determined to what extent perturbations in IMCL metabolism... Read More about Relative Contribution of Intramyocellular Lipid to Whole-Body Fat Oxidation Is Reduced With Age but Subsarcolemmal Lipid Accumulation and Insulin Resistance Are Only Associated With Overweight Individuals.

Effects of rapeseed variety and oil extraction method on the content and ileal digestibility of crude protein and amino acids in rapeseed cake and softly processed rapeseed meal fed to broiler chickens (2016)
Journal Article
Kasprzak, M., Houdijk, J., Kightley, S., Olukosi, O., White, G., Carre, P., & Wiseman, J. (2016). Effects of rapeseed variety and oil extraction method on the content and ileal digestibility of crude protein and amino acids in rapeseed cake and softly processed rapeseed meal fed to broiler chickens. Animal Feed Science and Technology, 213, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anifeedsci.2016.01.002

We examined the effects of rapeseed variety and oil extraction method on crude protein (CP) and amino acid (AA) content in rapeseed co-products, and determined their coefficient of apparent (AID) and standardised ileal digestibility (SID) in broiler... Read More about Effects of rapeseed variety and oil extraction method on the content and ileal digestibility of crude protein and amino acids in rapeseed cake and softly processed rapeseed meal fed to broiler chickens.

Pregnant women’s experiences and views on an “opt-out” referral pathway to specialist smoking cessation support: a qualitative evaluation (2016)
Journal Article
Sloan, M., Campbell, K., Bowker, K., Coleman, T., Cooper, S., Brafman-Price, B., & Naughton, F. (in press). Pregnant women’s experiences and views on an “opt-out” referral pathway to specialist smoking cessation support: a qualitative evaluation. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 18(5), https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntv273

Introduction: Smoking in pregnancy remains an important and costly public health concern with policy makers worldwide researching methods to aid cessation. UK government guidelines recommend implementation of an “opt-out” (ie, whether requested or no... Read More about Pregnant women’s experiences and views on an “opt-out” referral pathway to specialist smoking cessation support: a qualitative evaluation.

A comparison of simple methods to incorporate material temperature dependency in the Green’s function method for estimating transient thermal stresses in thick-walled power plant components (2016)
Journal Article
Rouse, J., & Hyde, C. J. (in press). A comparison of simple methods to incorporate material temperature dependency in the Green’s function method for estimating transient thermal stresses in thick-walled power plant components. Materials, 9(1), https://doi.org/10.3390/ma9010026

The threat of thermal fatigue is an increasing concern for thermal power plant operators due to the increasing tendency to adopt “two-shifting” operating procedures. Thermal plants are likely to remain part of the energy portfolio for the foreseeable... Read More about A comparison of simple methods to incorporate material temperature dependency in the Green’s function method for estimating transient thermal stresses in thick-walled power plant components.

Flicker-defined form stimuli are minimally affected by centre-surround lateral contrast interactions (2016)
Journal Article
Denniss, J., & McKendrick, A. M. (2016). Flicker-defined form stimuli are minimally affected by centre-surround lateral contrast interactions. Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, 36(2), 174-182. https://doi.org/10.1111/opo.12268

Purpose: Flicker-defined form (FDF) stimuli have recently been adopted for visual field testing. A key difference between FDF and traditional perimetric stimuli is that the entire display background contains flickering dots. The purpose of this study... Read More about Flicker-defined form stimuli are minimally affected by centre-surround lateral contrast interactions.

Highly efficient photoanodes based on cascade structural semiconductors of Cu2Se/CdSe/TiO2: A multifaceted approach to achieving microstructural and compositional control (2016)
Journal Article
Chong, B., Zhu, W., Liu, Y., Guan, L., & Chen, G. Z. (2016). Highly efficient photoanodes based on cascade structural semiconductors of Cu2Se/CdSe/TiO2: A multifaceted approach to achieving microstructural and compositional control. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 4, 1336-1344. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5ta09179a

© The Royal Society of Chemistry 2016. Hydrogen produced by splitting water is receiving significant attention due to the rising global energy demand and growing climate concerns. The photocatalytic decomposition of water converts solar energy into c... Read More about Highly efficient photoanodes based on cascade structural semiconductors of Cu2Se/CdSe/TiO2: A multifaceted approach to achieving microstructural and compositional control.

Mathematical frameworks for oscillatory network dynamics in neuroscience (2016)
Journal Article
Ashwin, P., Coombes, S., & Nicks, R. (2016). Mathematical frameworks for oscillatory network dynamics in neuroscience. Journal of Mathematical Neuroscience, 6, Article 2. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13408-015-0033-6

The tools of weakly coupled phase oscillator theory have had a profound impact on the neuroscience community, providing insight into a variety of network behaviours ranging from central pattern generation to synchronisation, as well as predicting nov... Read More about Mathematical frameworks for oscillatory network dynamics in neuroscience.

Artificial Epigenetic Networks: Automatic Decomposition of Dynamical Control Tasks Using Topological Self-Modification (2016)
Journal Article
Turner, A. P., Caves, L. S. D., Stepney, S., Tyrrell, A. M., & Lones, M. A. (2017). Artificial Epigenetic Networks: Automatic Decomposition of Dynamical Control Tasks Using Topological Self-Modification. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 28(1), 218-230. https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2015.2497142

This paper describes the artificial epigenetic network, a recurrent connectionist architecture that is able to dynamically modify its topology in order to automatically decompose and solve dynamical problems. The approach is motivated by the behavior... Read More about Artificial Epigenetic Networks: Automatic Decomposition of Dynamical Control Tasks Using Topological Self-Modification.

Effects of pre-cracking on small punch creep testing of a vacuum plasma-sprayed CoNiCrAlY coating (2016)
Journal Article
Chen, H., Hyde, T., Voisey, K., & McCartney, D. (2018). Effects of pre-cracking on small punch creep testing of a vacuum plasma-sprayed CoNiCrAlY coating. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part L: Journal of Materials: Design and Applications, 232(3), 242-249. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464420715622495

This paper presents the results of small punch creep testing (SPCT) of a vacuum plasma-sprayed (VPS) CoNiCrAlY coating (Co – 31.7%, Ni – 20.8%, Cr – 8.1%, Al – 0.5%, Y, all in wt%) carried out at 750 grad. C. Coating cross-sections, after initial hea... Read More about Effects of pre-cracking on small punch creep testing of a vacuum plasma-sprayed CoNiCrAlY coating.

Saturated fatty acids and coronary heart disease risk: the debate goes on (2016)
Journal Article

Professionals’ views on the use of smartphone technology to support children and adolescents with memory impairment due to acquired brain injury (2016)
Journal Article
Plackett, R., Thomas, S., & Thomas, S. A. (2017). Professionals’ views on the use of smartphone technology to support children and adolescents with memory impairment due to acquired brain injury. Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, 12(3), 236-243. https://doi.org/10.3109/17483107.2015.1127436

Purpose: To identify from a health-care professionals’ perspective whether smartphones are used by children and adolescents with acquired brain injury as memory aids; what factors predict smartphone use and what barriers prevent the use of smartphone... Read More about Professionals’ views on the use of smartphone technology to support children and adolescents with memory impairment due to acquired brain injury.

High energy supercapattery with an ionic liquid solution of LiClO4 (2016)
Journal Article
Yu, L., & Chen, G. Z. (2016). High energy supercapattery with an ionic liquid solution of LiClO4. Faraday Discussions, 190, 231-240. https://doi.org/10.1039/C5FD00232J

A supercapattery combining an ideally polarized capacitor-like electrode and a battery-like electrode is demonstrated theoretically and practically using an ionic liquid electrolyte containing 1-butyl-1-methylpyrrolidinium tri(pentafluoroethyl)triflu... Read More about High energy supercapattery with an ionic liquid solution of LiClO4.

Staphylococcus aureus enterotoxin A (SEA) stimulates STAT3 activation and IL-17 expression in cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (2016)
Journal Article
Willerslev-Olsen, A., Krejsgaard, T., Lindahl, L. M., Litvinov, I. V., Fredholm, S., Petersen, D. L., …Odum, N. (2016). Staphylococcus aureus enterotoxin A (SEA) stimulates STAT3 activation and IL-17 expression in cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. Blood, 127(10), 1287-1296. https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2015-08-662353

Cutaneous T cell lymphoma (CTCL) is characterized by proliferation of malignant T cells in a chronic inflammatory environment. With disease progression, bacteria colonize the compromised skin barrier and half of CTCL patients die from infection rathe... Read More about Staphylococcus aureus enterotoxin A (SEA) stimulates STAT3 activation and IL-17 expression in cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.

Early stage Healthcare Technology Assessment (2016)
Book Chapter
Pecchia, L., Castaldo, R., Melillo, P., Bracale, U., Craven, M. P., & Bracale, M. (2016). Early stage Healthcare Technology Assessment. In R. Miniati, E. Iadenza, & F. Dori (Eds.), Clinical engineering: from devices to systems. Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-803767-6.00008-8

This chapter presents an overview of HTA methods aiming to inform the research and development of new medical devices, here defined as early stage HTA methods. First, standard HTA methods are briefly introduced and their limits and weaknesses are dis... Read More about Early stage Healthcare Technology Assessment.

Manipulation and reduction of paediatric fractures of the distal radius and forearm using intranasal diamorphine and 50% oxygen and nitrous oxide in the emergency department (2016)
Journal Article
Kurien, T., Price, K., Pearson, R. G., & Hunter, J. (in press). Manipulation and reduction of paediatric fractures of the distal radius and forearm using intranasal diamorphine and 50% oxygen and nitrous oxide in the emergency department. Bone and Joint Journal, 98B(1), https://doi.org/10.1302/0301-620X.98B1.36118

A retrospective study was performed in 100 children aged between two and 16 years, with a dorsally angulated stable fracture of the distal radius or forearm, who were treated with manipulation in the emergency department (ED) using intranasal diamorp... Read More about Manipulation and reduction of paediatric fractures of the distal radius and forearm using intranasal diamorphine and 50% oxygen and nitrous oxide in the emergency department.

Composite modelling of subaerial landslide-tsunamis in different water body geometries and novel insight into slide and wave kinematics (2016)
Journal Article
Heller, V., Bruggemann, M., Spinneken, J., & Rogers, B. (2016). Composite modelling of subaerial landslide-tsunamis in different water body geometries and novel insight into slide and wave kinematics. Coastal Engineering, 109(3), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2015.12.004

This article addresses subaerial landslide-tsunamis with a composite (experimental-numerical) modelling approach. A shortcoming of generic empirical equations used for hazard assessment is that they are commonly based on the two idealised water body... Read More about Composite modelling of subaerial landslide-tsunamis in different water body geometries and novel insight into slide and wave kinematics.