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Tuberculosis treatment adherence in Ghana: patients’ perspectives of barriers and enablers to treatment (2017)
Journal Article

Tuberculosis (TB) treatment continues to be a daunting task in most low and middle- income countries due to cultural beliefs held by people and inadequate information about the importance of treatment adherence in the community. This study explored t... Read More about Tuberculosis treatment adherence in Ghana: patients’ perspectives of barriers and enablers to treatment.

DichroCalc: improvements in computing protein circular dichroism spectroscopy in the near-ultraviolet (2017)
Journal Article

A fully quantitative theory connecting protein conformation and optical spectroscopy would facilitate deeper insights into biophysical and simulation studies of protein dynamics and folding. The web-server DichroCalc (http://comp.chem.nottingham.ac.u... Read More about DichroCalc: improvements in computing protein circular dichroism spectroscopy in the near-ultraviolet.

Research Progress and Perspectives on High Voltage, Flame Retardant Electrolytes for Lithium-Ion Batteries (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The electrolyte is an indispensable constituent in lithium ion batteries, and its role conducts electricity by means of the transportation of charge carries between the pair... Read More about Research Progress and Perspectives on High Voltage, Flame Retardant Electrolytes for Lithium-Ion Batteries.

Characterization of the impact of rpoB mutations on the in vitro and in vivo competitive fitness of Clostridium difficile and susceptibility to fidaxomicin (2017)
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Objectives To establish the role of specific, non-synonymous SNPs in the RNA polymerase ? subunit (rpoB) gene in reducing the susceptibility of Clostridium difficile to fidaxomicin and to explore the potential in vivo significance of rpoB mutant str... Read More about Characterization of the impact of rpoB mutations on the in vitro and in vivo competitive fitness of Clostridium difficile and susceptibility to fidaxomicin.

Gas-free calibrated fMRI with a correction for vessel-size sensitivity (2017)
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Calibrated functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a method to independently measure the metabolic and hemodynamic contributions to the blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) signal. This technique typically requires the use of a respirator... Read More about Gas-free calibrated fMRI with a correction for vessel-size sensitivity.

Nerve terminals at the human corneoscleral limbus (2017)
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Aims: To demonstrate and characterise distinct subepithelial compact nerve endings (CNE) at the human corneoscleral limbus. Methods: Ten fresh human donor corneoscleral discs (mean age, 67 years) and 26 organ-cultured corneoscleral rims (mean age,... Read More about Nerve terminals at the human corneoscleral limbus.

VLT/FORS2 view at z ~ 6: Lyman-α emitter fraction and galaxy physical properties at the edge of the epoch of cosmic reionization (2017)
Journal Article

The fraction of Lyman-α emitters (LAEs) among the galaxy population has been found to increase from z ~ 0 to z ~ 6 and drop dramatically at z> 6. This drop has been interpreted as an effect of an increasingly neutral intergalactic medium (IGM) with i... Read More about VLT/FORS2 view at z ~ 6: Lyman-α emitter fraction and galaxy physical properties at the edge of the epoch of cosmic reionization.

Enhancing cell and gene therapy manufacture through the application of advanced fluorescent optical sensors (Review) (2017)
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Cell and gene therapies (CGTs) are examples of future therapeutics that can be used to cure or alleviate the symptoms of disease, by repairing damaged tissue or reprogramming defective genetic information. However, despite the recent advancements in... Read More about Enhancing cell and gene therapy manufacture through the application of advanced fluorescent optical sensors (Review).

Using simulation to incorporate dynamic criteria into multiple criteria decision making (2017)
Journal Article

In this paper we present a case study demonstrating how dynamic and uncertain criteria can be incorporated into a multi-criteria analysis with the help of discrete event simulation. The simulation guided multi-criteria analysis can include both monet... Read More about Using simulation to incorporate dynamic criteria into multiple criteria decision making.

UDP-sugars activate P2Y 14 receptors to mediate vasoconstriction of the porcine coronary artery (2017)
Journal Article

Aims UDP-sugars can act as extracellular signalling molecules, but relatively little is known about their cardiovascular actions. The P2Y14 receptor is a Gi/o-coupled receptor which is activated by UDP-glucose and related sugar nucleotides. In thi... Read More about UDP-sugars activate P2Y 14 receptors to mediate vasoconstriction of the porcine coronary artery.

The Arabidopsis thaliana F-box gene HAWAIIAN SKIRT is a new player in the microRNA pathway (2017)
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In Arabidopsis, the F-box HAWAIIAN SKIRT (HWS) protein is important for organ growth. Loss of function of HWS exhibits pleiotropic phenotypes including sepal fusion. To dissect the HWS role, we EMS-mutagenized hws-1 seeds and screened for mutations t... Read More about The Arabidopsis thaliana F-box gene HAWAIIAN SKIRT is a new player in the microRNA pathway.

An English cover-up: masks, murders, and English cruelty in Goncourt, Lorrain, and Schwob (2017)
Journal Article

Fin-de-siècle writers from diverse disciplines were drawn to the seductive potential of masks and disguise; mask-wearing characters of indefinite identity, indeterminate gender, and insecure psychology proliferate in their texts. However, when charac... Read More about An English cover-up: masks, murders, and English cruelty in Goncourt, Lorrain, and Schwob.

Iberian: language, writing, epigraphy (2017)
Book

La lengua ibérica está documentada fundamentalmente por más de 2.000 inscripciones datables entre los siglos V a.E. y I d.E. en un territorio de la franja mediterránea que va desde el río Hérault en el Rosellón francés hasta Almería. Se trata, hoy po... Read More about Iberian: language, writing, epigraphy.

Transnational mobility, strong states and contested sovereignty: learning from the China–Taiwan context (2017)
Journal Article

Mobility across the Taiwan Strait has intensified since the border was opened in 1987. The cross-border social, cultural and economic exchanges, however, have remained closely embedded in the nationalistic logic specific to cross-Strait relations. Em... Read More about Transnational mobility, strong states and contested sovereignty: learning from the China–Taiwan context.

Insights into the mechanical properties of several triplyperiodic minimal surface lattice structures made by polymeradditive manufacturing (2017)
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Three-dimensional lattices have applications across a range of fields including structural lightweighting, impact absorption and biomedicine. In this work, lattices based on triply periodic minimal surfaces were produced by polymer additive manufactu... Read More about Insights into the mechanical properties of several triplyperiodic minimal surface lattice structures made by polymeradditive manufacturing.

Nature of events and alcohol-related content in marketing materials at a university freshers’ fair: a summative content analysis (2017)
Journal Article

Introduction:The transition to university is a potentially influential time upon students’ drinking behaviour. This study explored the nature of activities and alcohol-related content in marketing materials from student-led societies and local busine... Read More about Nature of events and alcohol-related content in marketing materials at a university freshers’ fair: a summative content analysis.

Reliance of building energy in various climatic regions using multi criteria (2017)
Journal Article

Selecting a ventilation system for a certain building has always been considered as one of the critical problems for designers. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is characterized by a large area of significant climatic changes. In this research, five cri... Read More about Reliance of building energy in various climatic regions using multi criteria.

Ultrasonographic scoring system for superficial digital flexor tendon injuries in horses: intra- and inter-rater variability (2017)
Journal Article

Superficial digital flexor tendon (SDFT) tendinopathy is an important musculoskeletal problem in horses. The study objective was to validate an ultrasonographic scoring system for SDFT injuries. Ultrasonographic images from 14 Thoroughbred racehorses... Read More about Ultrasonographic scoring system for superficial digital flexor tendon injuries in horses: intra- and inter-rater variability.

Assessment of basis sets for density functional theory based calculations of core electron spectroscopies (2017)
Journal Article

The performance of gaussian basis sets for density functional theory based calculations of core electron spectroscopies is assessed. The convergence of core-electron binding energies and core-excitation energies using a range of basis sets, including... Read More about Assessment of basis sets for density functional theory based calculations of core electron spectroscopies.

Long term outcomes of daily oral vs. pulsed intravenous cyclophosphamide in a non-trial setting in ANCA associated vasculitis (2017)
Journal Article

Objectives We aimed to compare risk of death, relapse, neutropenia and infection requiring hospital admission between unselected ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV) patients according to whether cyclophosphamide induction was by daily oral (PO) or pulse... Read More about Long term outcomes of daily oral vs. pulsed intravenous cyclophosphamide in a non-trial setting in ANCA associated vasculitis.