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The impact of anxiety on chronic musculoskeletal pain and the role of astrocyte activation (2018)
Journal Article
Burston, J. J., Valdes, A. M., Woodhams, S. G., Mapp, P. I., Stocks, J., Watson, D. J. G., …Chapman, V. (2019). The impact of anxiety on chronic musculoskeletal pain and the role of astrocyte activation. PAIN, 160(3), 658-669. https://doi.org/10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001445

© 2018 International Association for the Study of Pain. Anxiety and depression are associated with increased pain responses in chronic pain states. The extent to which anxiety drives chronic pain, or vice versa, remains an important question that has... Read More about The impact of anxiety on chronic musculoskeletal pain and the role of astrocyte activation.

Influences of the mixed LiCl-CaCl 2 liquid desiccant solution on a membrane-based dehumidification system: parametric analysis and mixing ratio selection (2018)
Journal Article
Bai, H., Zhu, J., Chu, J., Chen, X., Cui, Y., & Yan, Y. (2019). Influences of the mixed LiCl-CaCl 2 liquid desiccant solution on a membrane-based dehumidification system: parametric analysis and mixing ratio selection. Energy and Buildings, 183, 592-606. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2018.11.038

The membrane-based liquid desiccant dehumidification system has high energy efficiency without the traditional liquid system carry-over problem. The performance of such a system strongly depends on solution's temperature and concentration, which have... Read More about Influences of the mixed LiCl-CaCl 2 liquid desiccant solution on a membrane-based dehumidification system: parametric analysis and mixing ratio selection.

Comparative study of praseodymium additives in active selenide chalcogenide optical fibers (2018)
Journal Article
Tang, Z., Sojka, L., Furniss, D., Nunes, J., Sakr, H., Barney, E., …Seddon, A. B. (2018). Comparative study of praseodymium additives in active selenide chalcogenide optical fibers. Optical Materials Express, 8(12), 3910-3926. https://doi.org/10.1364/OME.8.003910

The choice of rare earth additive when doping chalcogenide glasses can affect their mid-infrared fiber performance. Three praseodymium additives, Pr-foil, PrCl3 and PrI3 are investigated in Ge-As-Ga-Se fibers. All the fibers are X-ray amorphous and t... Read More about Comparative study of praseodymium additives in active selenide chalcogenide optical fibers.

Engaging and developing the frontline clinical nurse to drive care excellence: evaluating the Chief Nurse Junior Excellence in Care Fellowship Initiative (2018)
Journal Article
Bramley, L., Manning, J., & Cooper, J. (2018). Engaging and developing the frontline clinical nurse to drive care excellence: evaluating the Chief Nurse Junior Excellence in Care Fellowship Initiative. International Journal of Research in Nursing, 16(12), 1977-1990. https://doi.org/10.1177/1744987118808843

Background Global challenges in the development of a highly skilled and motivated nursing workforce, jeopardises the delivery of high quality care. Flexible and innovative workforce solutions are required to overcome these challenges. Aims... Read More about Engaging and developing the frontline clinical nurse to drive care excellence: evaluating the Chief Nurse Junior Excellence in Care Fellowship Initiative.

The Griffin (1820) and Other Works (2018)
Book
Morris, T. D. (2018). M. N. Fhlathúin (Ed.), The Griffin (1820) and Other Works. Romantic Circles

This edition showcases the poetry of Thomas D’Arcy Morris (1792-1835), a significant figure in the Bombay literary scene of the early nineteenth century. It identifies and attributes Morris’s works, originally published anonymously or pseudonymously... Read More about The Griffin (1820) and Other Works.

Creative practice with clay: a mutual route to recovery? (2018)
Journal Article
Argyle, E., & Winship, G. (2018). Creative practice with clay: a mutual route to recovery?. Journal of Applied Arts and Health, 9(3), 385-397. https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah.9.3.385_1

This article summarises the findings of a project called ‘Clay Transformations’ and was part of the Creative Practice as Mutual Recovery Programme funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Using a mixed methods approach, the project aimed t... Read More about Creative practice with clay: a mutual route to recovery?.

A staff training intervention to improve communication between people living with dementia and health-care professionals in hospital: the VOICE mixed-methods development and evaluation study (2018)
Journal Article
Harwood, R. H., O’Brien, R., Goldberg, S. E., Allwood, R., Pilnick, A., Beeke, S., …Schneider, J. (2018). A staff training intervention to improve communication between people living with dementia and health-care professionals in hospital: the VOICE mixed-methods development and evaluation study. Health Services and Delivery Research, 6(41), 1-134. https://doi.org/10.3310/hsdr06410

Background 25% of hospital beds are occupied by a person living with dementia. Dementia affects expressive communication and understanding. Healthcare professionals report lack of communication skills training. Objectives To identify teachable ef... Read More about A staff training intervention to improve communication between people living with dementia and health-care professionals in hospital: the VOICE mixed-methods development and evaluation study.

Analgesic efficacy and safety of morphine in the Procedural Pain in Premature Infants (Poppi) study: randomised placebo-controlled trial (2018)
Journal Article
Hartley, C., Moultrie, F., Hoskin, A., Green, G., Monk, V., Bell, J. L., …Slater, R. (2018). Analgesic efficacy and safety of morphine in the Procedural Pain in Premature Infants (Poppi) study: randomised placebo-controlled trial. Lancet, 392(10164), 2595-2605. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736%2818%2931813-0

Background: Infant pain has immediate and long-term effects but is undertreated because of a paucity of evidence-based analgesics. Although morphine is often used to sedate ventilated infants, its analgesic efficacy is unclear. We aimed to establish... Read More about Analgesic efficacy and safety of morphine in the Procedural Pain in Premature Infants (Poppi) study: randomised placebo-controlled trial.

Food, Ethics and Community: Using Cultural Animation to Develop a Food Vision for North Staffordshire (2018)
Journal Article
Surman, E., Kelemen, M., Millward, H., & Moffat, S. (2018). Food, Ethics and Community: Using Cultural Animation to Develop a Food Vision for North Staffordshire. Journal of Consumer Ethics, 2(2), 17-25

Eating ethically involves a plethora of activities, being both a contingent and a challenging practice (Williams et al, 2015). The desire to be more ethical in our food choices is connected to anxieties over food consumption, including how and what w... Read More about Food, Ethics and Community: Using Cultural Animation to Develop a Food Vision for North Staffordshire.

FRP-strengthened masonry (2018)
Book Chapter
Aiello, M. A., Ghiassi, B., & Lourenço, P. B. (2018). FRP-strengthened masonry. In Long-term Performance and Durability of Masonry Structures: Degradation Mechanisms, Health Monitoring and Service Life Design (209-238). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-08-102110-1.00007-8

This chapter provides an overview of the durability of FRP-strengthened masonry, focusing on the main degradation mechanisms, available literature, and experimental backgrounds. A brief review of the available models for modeling degradation of these... Read More about FRP-strengthened masonry.

Amisulpride for very late-onset schizophrenia-like psychosis: the ATLAS three-arm RCT (2018)
Journal Article
Howard, R., Cort, E., Bradley, R., Harper, E., Kelly, L., Bentham, P., …Gray, R. (2018). Amisulpride for very late-onset schizophrenia-like psychosis: the ATLAS three-arm RCT. Health Technology Assessment, 22(67), 1-62. https://doi.org/10.3310/hta22670

© Queen's Printer and Controller of HMSO 2018. Background: Very late-onset (aged ≥60 years) schizophrenia-like psychosis (VLOSLP) occurs frequently but no placebo-controlled, randomised trials have assessed the efficacy or risks of antipsychotic trea... Read More about Amisulpride for very late-onset schizophrenia-like psychosis: the ATLAS three-arm RCT.

Biopolitical Borders and the State of Exception in the European Migration 'Crisis' (2018)
Journal Article
Davitti, D. (2018). Biopolitical Borders and the State of Exception in the European Migration 'Crisis'. European Journal of International Law, 29(4), 1173-1196. https://doi.org/10.1093/ejil/chy065

© 2018 The Author(s). This article examines the current European refugee 'crisis' by challenging, from a theoretical perspective, the way in which the European Union (EU) has used the increased number of deaths in the Mediterranean as an opportunity... Read More about Biopolitical Borders and the State of Exception in the European Migration 'Crisis'.

Three-dimensional Segmentation of Blood Vessels from Intensity In-homogeneous Medical Images (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bukenya, F., Awwad, A., Duan, J., Ehling, J., Faas, H., & Bai, L. (2018). Three-dimensional Segmentation of Blood Vessels from Intensity In-homogeneous Medical Images. In 2018 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) (1508-1514). https://doi.org/10.1109/SSCI.2018.8628675

Blood vessel segmentation helps to know the progress of the disease during diagnosis. The presence of intensity in-homogeneity, conglutination tissue and noise in medical images has led to difficulty in extraction of different sizes of blood vessels,... Read More about Three-dimensional Segmentation of Blood Vessels from Intensity In-homogeneous Medical Images.

Topographical art and historical geography: amateur English representations of Ligurian landscape in the early nineteenth century (2018)
Journal Article
Piana, P., Watkins, C., & Balzaretti, R. (2019). Topographical art and historical geography: amateur English representations of Ligurian landscape in the early nineteenth century. Geostoria. Bollettino e Notiziario del Centro Italiano per gli Studi Storico-Geografici, 26(3), 195-221

Since the 1970s scholars have studied representational landscape art to examine changing social conditions, the relationship between landscape and power, and as a source for interpreting past landscapes. Landscape and topographical art if carefully p... Read More about Topographical art and historical geography: amateur English representations of Ligurian landscape in the early nineteenth century.

Shareholder voting in mergers and acquisitions: evidence from the UK (2018)
Journal Article
Tokbolat, Y., Thompson, S., & Le, H. (2019). Shareholder voting in mergers and acquisitions: evidence from the UK. European Journal of Finance, 25(9), 815-834. https://doi.org/10.1080/1351847X.2018.1552602

This paper examines the determinants and consequences of shareholder voting on mergers and acquisitions using a sample of resolutions approved by shareholders of UK publicly listed firms from 1997 to 2015. We find that dissent on M&A resolutions is n... Read More about Shareholder voting in mergers and acquisitions: evidence from the UK.

Low accuracy of Bayesian latent class analysis for estimation of herd-level true prevalence under certain disease characteristics—An analysis using simulated data (2018)
Journal Article
McAloon, C. G., Doherty, M. L., Whyte, P., Verdugo, C., Toft, N., More, S. J., …Green, M. J. (2019). Low accuracy of Bayesian latent class analysis for estimation of herd-level true prevalence under certain disease characteristics—An analysis using simulated data. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 162, 117-125. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prevetmed.2018.11.014

Estimation of the true prevalence of infected individuals involves the application of a diagnostic test to a population and adjusting according to test performance, sensitivity and specificity. Bayesian latent class analysis for the estimation of her... Read More about Low accuracy of Bayesian latent class analysis for estimation of herd-level true prevalence under certain disease characteristics—An analysis using simulated data.

The Three Hundred Project: the influence of environment on simulated galaxy properties (2018)
Journal Article
Wang, Y., Pearce, F., Knebe, A., Yepes, G., Cui, W., Power, C., …Feng, L. (2018). The Three Hundred Project: the influence of environment on simulated galaxy properties. Astrophysical Journal, 868(2), Article 130. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aae52e

The relationship between galaxy properties and environment is a widely discussed topic within astrophysics. Here, we use galaxy samples from hydrodynamical resimulations to examine this relationship. We use the overdensity (δ1)within a h-1Mpc sphere... Read More about The Three Hundred Project: the influence of environment on simulated galaxy properties.