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Electrohydrodynamic printing as a method to micropattern large titanium implant surfaces with photocrosslinkable structures (2017)
Journal Article

Metallic implants are widely used in orthopaedic and orthodontic applications. However, generally surface treatment of the metallic surfaces is necessary to render them more biologically active. Herein, we describe a direct write printing method to m... Read More about Electrohydrodynamic printing as a method to micropattern large titanium implant surfaces with photocrosslinkable structures.

Social media in health science education: an international survey (2017)
Journal Article

Background: Social media is an asset that higher education students can use for an array of purposes. Studies have shown the merits of social media use in educational settings; however, its adoption in health science education has been slow, and the... Read More about Social media in health science education: an international survey.

Sociological knowledge and transformation at ‘Diversity University’ (2017)
Book Chapter

Diversity University’ is a large university in London, UK, which appears in the bottom-third of national league tables and provides education for poorer students, often from ethnic minority groups. The Sociology Department at Diversity was the focus... Read More about Sociological knowledge and transformation at ‘Diversity University’.

Systematic review with meta-analysis: vasoactive drugs for the treatment of hepatorenal syndrome type 1 (2017)
Journal Article

Background Hepatorenal syndrome type 1 (HRS1) is a functional, rapidly progressive, potentially reversible form of acute kidney injury occurring in patients with cirrhosis. Characterised by intense renal arterial vasoconstriction, it carries a ver... Read More about Systematic review with meta-analysis: vasoactive drugs for the treatment of hepatorenal syndrome type 1.

An impedance boundary condition EFIE that is low-frequency and refinement stable (2017)
Journal Article

A discretization of the impedance boundary condition electric field integral equation (IBC-EFIE) is introduced that: 1) yields the correct solution at arbitrarily small frequencies and 2) requires for its solution a number of matrix vector products b... Read More about An impedance boundary condition EFIE that is low-frequency and refinement stable.

Experimental measurements of water molecule binding energies for the second and third solvation shells of [Ca(H?O)n]2+ complexes (2017)
Journal Article

Further understanding of the biological role of the Ca2+ ion in an aqueous environment requires quantitative measurements of both the short and long range interactions experienced by the ion in an aqueous medium. Here we present experimental measurem... Read More about Experimental measurements of water molecule binding energies for the second and third solvation shells of [Ca(H?O)n]2+ complexes.

The virtues of idleness: a decidable fragment of resource agent logic (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 The Authors Alternating Time Temporal Logic (ATL) is widely used for the verification of multi-agent systems. We consider Resource Agent Logic (RAL), which extends ATL to allow the verification of properties of systems where agents act under r... Read More about The virtues of idleness: a decidable fragment of resource agent logic.

Lay causes of binge drinking in the United Kingdom and Australia: a causal network diagram approach (2017)
Journal Article

Binge drinking is associated with deleterious health, social and economic outcomes. This study explored the lay understanding of the causes of binge drinking in members of the general public in the United Kingdom and Australia. Participants in the Un... Read More about Lay causes of binge drinking in the United Kingdom and Australia: a causal network diagram approach.

Combatting Cybercrime and Sexual Exploitation of Children: An Open Source Toolkit (2017)
Book Chapter

This chapter presents the UINFC2 “Engaging Users in preventing and fighting Cybercrime” software platform, showcasing how software tools designed to detect, collect, analyse, categorise and correlate information that is publically available online, c... Read More about Combatting Cybercrime and Sexual Exploitation of Children: An Open Source Toolkit.

One-Health: a Safe, Efficient, Dual-Use Vaccine for Humans and Animals against Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus and Rabies Virus (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 American Society for Microbiology. Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) emerged in 2012 and is a highly pathogenic respiratory virus. There are no treatment options against MERS-CoV for humans or animals, and there are no la... Read More about One-Health: a Safe, Efficient, Dual-Use Vaccine for Humans and Animals against Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus and Rabies Virus.

Automating drainage direction and physiographic inputs to the CEQUEAU hydrological model: Sensitivity testing on the lower Saint John River watershed, Canada (2017)
Journal Article

© IWA Publishing 2017. CEQUEAU is a process-based hydrological model capable of simulating river flows and temperatures. Despite an active user base, no facility yet exists for the automatic assembly and input of watershed data required for flow simu... Read More about Automating drainage direction and physiographic inputs to the CEQUEAU hydrological model: Sensitivity testing on the lower Saint John River watershed, Canada.

Direct fabrication of unsupported inclined aluminum pillars based on uniform micro droplets deposition (2017)
Journal Article

In order to investigate forming directly complex parts without support materials or structures by uniform micro droplets deposition technique, the present work focus on fabricating the unsupported inclined aluminum pillars through offset deposition.... Read More about Direct fabrication of unsupported inclined aluminum pillars based on uniform micro droplets deposition.

Electrolytes for electrochemical energy storage (2017)
Journal Article

An electrolyte is a key component of electrochemical energy storage (EES) devices and its properties greatly affect the energy capacity, rate performance, cyclability and safety of all EES devices. This article offers a critical review of the recent... Read More about Electrolytes for electrochemical energy storage.

Effects of a mutual recovery intervention on mental health in depressed elderly community-dwelling adults: a pilot study (2017)
Journal Article

Background The prevalence of depression in the elderly is growing worldwide, and the population aging in China makes depression a major health problem for the elderly adults and a tremendous burden to the society. Effective interventions should be... Read More about Effects of a mutual recovery intervention on mental health in depressed elderly community-dwelling adults: a pilot study.

Development and implementation of rapid metabolic engineering tools for chemical and fuel production in Geobacillus thermoglucosidasius NCIMB 11955 (2017)
Journal Article

Background The thermophile Geobacillus thermoglucosidasius has considerable attraction as a chassis for the production of chemicals and fuels. It utilises a wide range of sugars and oligosaccharides typical of those derived from lignocellulose and... Read More about Development and implementation of rapid metabolic engineering tools for chemical and fuel production in Geobacillus thermoglucosidasius NCIMB 11955.

Identification of host proteins interacting with Toxoplasma gondii GRA15 (TgGRA15) by yeast two-hybrid system (2017)
Journal Article

Background Toxoplasma gondii, an obligate intracellular protozoan parasite, possesses the remarkable ability to co-opt host cell machinery in order to maintain its intracellular survival. This parasite can modulate signaling pathways of its host t... Read More about Identification of host proteins interacting with Toxoplasma gondii GRA15 (TgGRA15) by yeast two-hybrid system.

Tracking HCV protease population diversity during transmission and susceptibility of founder populations to antiviral therapy (2017)
Journal Article

Due to the highly restricted species-tropism of Hepatitis C virus (HCV) a limited number of animal models exist for pre-clinical evaluation of vaccines and antiviral compounds. The human-liver chimeric mouse model allows heterologous challenge with c... Read More about Tracking HCV protease population diversity during transmission and susceptibility of founder populations to antiviral therapy.

Recent progress in translational research on neurovascular and neurodegenerative disorders (2017)
Journal Article

The already established and widely used intravenous application of recombinant tissue plasminogen activator as a re-opening strategy for acute vessel occlusion in ischemic stroke was recently added by mechanical thrombectomy, representing a fundament... Read More about Recent progress in translational research on neurovascular and neurodegenerative disorders.

“We are a United Humanity”: Death, Emotion and Digital Media in the Church of Sweden (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Broadcast Education Association. This article seeks to bring together the study of death, digital media, emotion and religion, using a Christian organization as a case study. The Swedish national church (Svenska kyrkan) has a large but declini... Read More about “We are a United Humanity”: Death, Emotion and Digital Media in the Church of Sweden.

The impact of community expectations on corporate community involvement disclosures in the UK (2017)
Journal Article

Despite increase mistrust between corporations and societies in the aftermath of the global corporate misbehaviours, the literature examining the impact of community concerns on corporate communications is undeveloped. Our paper is timely; it contrib... Read More about The impact of community expectations on corporate community involvement disclosures in the UK.