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Wear performance of TiC/Fe cermet electrical discharge coatings (2018)
Journal Article
Algodi, S. J., Murray, J. W., Brown, P. D., & Clare, A. T. (2018). Wear performance of TiC/Fe cermet electrical discharge coatings. Wear, 402-403, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wear.2018.02.007

The tribological behaviours of TiC-based cermet coatings, prepared by electrical discharge coating (EDC) using a semi-sintered TiC tool electrode, have been investigated. The as-deposited coatings exhibited complex microstructures, comprising TiC gra... Read More about Wear performance of TiC/Fe cermet electrical discharge coatings.

Fruit softening: revisiting the role of pectin (2018)
Journal Article
Wang, D., Yeats, T. H., Uluisik, S., Rose, J. K., & Seymour, G. B. (2018). Fruit softening: revisiting the role of pectin. Trends in Plant Science, 23(4), 302-310. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2018.01.006

Fruit softening is a major determinant of shelf life and commercial value. Here, we highlight recent work that revisits the role of pectin in fruit softening and primary cell wall structure. These studies demonstrate the importance of pectin and the... Read More about Fruit softening: revisiting the role of pectin.

Hybrid learning for interval type-2 intuitionistic fuzzy logic systems as applied to identification and prediction problems (2018)
Journal Article
Eyoh, I., John, R., de Maere, G., & Kayacan, E. (2018). Hybrid learning for interval type-2 intuitionistic fuzzy logic systems as applied to identification and prediction problems. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 26(5), 2672-2685. https://doi.org/10.1109/TFUZZ.2018.2803751

This paper presents a novel application of a hybrid learning approach to the optimisation of membership and non-membership functions of a newly developed interval type-2 intuitionistic fuzzy logic system (IT2 IFLS) of a Takagi-Sugeno-Kang (TSK) fuzzy... Read More about Hybrid learning for interval type-2 intuitionistic fuzzy logic systems as applied to identification and prediction problems.

“I always feel like I have to rush…”: pet owner and small animal veterinary surgeons’ reflections on time during preventative healthcare consultations in the United Kingdom (2018)
Journal Article
Belshaw, Z., Robinson, N., Dean, R. S., & Brennan, M. L. (2018). “I always feel like I have to rush…”: pet owner and small animal veterinary surgeons’ reflections on time during preventative healthcare consultations in the United Kingdom. Veterinary Sciences, 5(1), Article 20. https://doi.org/10.3390/vetsci5010020

Canine and feline preventative healthcare consultations can be more complex than other consultation types, but they are typically not allocated additional time in the United Kingdom (UK). Impacts of the perceived length of UK preventative healthcare... Read More about “I always feel like I have to rush…”: pet owner and small animal veterinary surgeons’ reflections on time during preventative healthcare consultations in the United Kingdom.

From 'celluloid comrades' to 'digital video activism': queer filmmaking in postsocialist China (2018)
Journal Article
Bao, H. (2018). From 'celluloid comrades' to 'digital video activism': queer filmmaking in postsocialist China. JOMEC Journal, 12, https://doi.org/10.18573/jomec.171

Although homosexuality was decriminalised in 1997 and partially depathologised in 2001, LGBTQ issues are still strictly censored in Chinese media. With the rapid growth of China’s LGBTQ community, an increasing number of independent films featuring L... Read More about From 'celluloid comrades' to 'digital video activism': queer filmmaking in postsocialist China.

Moving anticoagulation initiation and monitoring services into the community: Evaluation of the Brighton and hove community pharmacy service (2018)
Journal Article
Ingram, S. J., Kirkdale, C. L., Williams, S., Hartley, E., Wintle, S., Sefton, V., & Thornley, T. (2018). Moving anticoagulation initiation and monitoring services into the community: Evaluation of the Brighton and hove community pharmacy service. BMC Health Services Research, 18(1), Article 91. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-018-2901-8

Background: As part of the NHS desire to move services closer to where people live, and provide greater accessibility and convenience to patients, Brighton and Hove Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) underwent a review of their anticoagulation servic... Read More about Moving anticoagulation initiation and monitoring services into the community: Evaluation of the Brighton and hove community pharmacy service.

Relative efficacy and safety of topical non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for osteoarthritis: a systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials and observational studies (2018)
Journal Article
Zeng, C., Wei, J., Persson, M. S., Sarmanova, A., Doherty, M., Xie, D., …Zhang, W. (2018). Relative efficacy and safety of topical non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for osteoarthritis: a systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials and observational studies. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 52(10), 642-650. https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2017-098043

© Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2018. All rights reserved. No commercial use is permitted unless otherwise expressly granted. Objectives To compare the efficacy and safety of topical non-s... Read More about Relative efficacy and safety of topical non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for osteoarthritis: a systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials and observational studies.

Productivity growth in network models: an application to banking during the financial crisis (2018)
Journal Article
Kourtzidis, S. A., Matousek, R., & Tzeremes, N. G. (2018). Productivity growth in network models: an application to banking during the financial crisis. Journal of the Operational Research Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/01605682.2017.1421851

We construct Malmquist Productivity indices for two-stage processes. A two-stage data envelopment analysis model with an additive efficiency decomposition is used for the modeling of the two-stage process. We incorporate prior information into the an... Read More about Productivity growth in network models: an application to banking during the financial crisis.

Single solvent based film casting method for the production of porous polymer films (2018)
Journal Article
Hossain, K. M. Z., Felfel, R. M., Ogbilikana, P. S., Thakker, D., Grant, D. M., Scotchford, C., & Ahmed, I. (2018). Single solvent based film casting method for the production of porous polymer films. Macromolecular Materials and Engineering, 303, https://doi.org/10.1002/mame.201700628

A single solvent based film casting process for fabricating porous polymer films was developed in this study. The porous film was produced by mixing concentrated polylactic acid/ chloroform solution (20 wt%) and fresh chloroform solvent followed by f... Read More about Single solvent based film casting method for the production of porous polymer films.

Thick drops climbing uphill on an oscillating substrate (2018)
Journal Article
Bradshaw, J., & Billingham, J. (2018). Thick drops climbing uphill on an oscillating substrate. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 840, https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2018.71

Experiments have shown that a liquid droplet on an inclined plane can be made to move uphill by suffciently strong, vertical oscillations (Brunet, Eggers, and Deegan, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 2007). In this paper, we study a two dimensional, inviscid, ir... Read More about Thick drops climbing uphill on an oscillating substrate.

Phase II, open-label, randomized, multicenter trial (HERBY) of Bevacizumab in pediatric patients with newly diagnosed high-grade glioma (2018)
Journal Article
Grill, J., Massimino, M., Bouffet, E., Azizi, A. A., McCowage, G., Cañete, A., …Giangaspero, F. (2018). Phase II, open-label, randomized, multicenter trial (HERBY) of Bevacizumab in pediatric patients with newly diagnosed high-grade glioma. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 36(10), https://doi.org/10.1200/JCO.2017.76.0611

Purpose
Bevacizumab (BEV) is approved in more than 60 countries for use in adults with recurrent glioblastoma. We evaluated the addition of BEV to radiotherapy plus temozolomide (RT+TMZ) in pediatric patients with newly diagnosed high-grade glioma (... Read More about Phase II, open-label, randomized, multicenter trial (HERBY) of Bevacizumab in pediatric patients with newly diagnosed high-grade glioma.

A candidate tolerance gene identified in a natural population of field voles (Microtus agrestis) (2018)
Journal Article
Wanelik, K. M., Begon, M., Birtles, R. J., Bradley, J. E., Friberg, I. M., Jackson, J. A., …Paterson, S. (in press). A candidate tolerance gene identified in a natural population of field voles (Microtus agrestis). Molecular Ecology, 27(4), https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.14476

The animal immune response has hitherto been viewed primarily in the context of resistance only. However, individuals can also employ a tolerance strategy to maintain good health in the face of ongoing infection. To shed light on the genetic and phys... Read More about A candidate tolerance gene identified in a natural population of field voles (Microtus agrestis).

Evaluation of sampling frequency, window size and sensor position for classification of sheep behaviour (2018)
Journal Article
Walton, E., Casey, C., Mitsch, J., Vázquez-Diosdado, J. A., Yan, J., Dottorini, T., …Kaler, J. (2018). Evaluation of sampling frequency, window size and sensor position for classification of sheep behaviour. Royal Society Open Science, 5(2), https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.171442

Automated behavioural classification and identification through sensors has the potential to improve health and welfare of the animals. Position of a sensor, sampling frequency and window size of segmented signal data has a major impact on classifica... Read More about Evaluation of sampling frequency, window size and sensor position for classification of sheep behaviour.

Sustenance and performance: nutritional reserves, longevity and contest outcomes of fed and starved adult parasitoid wasps (2018)
Journal Article
Snart, C. J., Kapranas, A., Williams, H., Barrett, D. A., & Hardy, I. C. (2018). Sustenance and performance: nutritional reserves, longevity and contest outcomes of fed and starved adult parasitoid wasps. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2018.00012

Dyadic contests for possession of resources occur across a wide range of animal taxa, with contest outcome often being heavily influenced by the energetic reserves of the competitors. The majority of studied parasitoid wasps lack de novo lipogenesis,... Read More about Sustenance and performance: nutritional reserves, longevity and contest outcomes of fed and starved adult parasitoid wasps.

A physical activity intervention for children with type 1 diabetes: Steps to Active Kids with Diabetes (STAK-D): a feasibility study (2018)
Journal Article
Quirk, H., Glazebrook, C., & Blake, H. (in press). A physical activity intervention for children with type 1 diabetes: Steps to Active Kids with Diabetes (STAK-D): a feasibility study. BMC Pediatrics, 18, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12887-018-1036-8

Background: This study describes the development and feasibility evaluation of a physical activity intervention for children with type 1 diabetes called ‘Steps to Active Kids with Diabetes’ (STAK-D). It aims to explore the feasibility and acceptabili... Read More about A physical activity intervention for children with type 1 diabetes: Steps to Active Kids with Diabetes (STAK-D): a feasibility study.

Enhanced detection services for developmental dysplasia of the hip in Scottish children 1997-2013 (2018)
Journal Article
McAllister, D. A., Morling, J. R., Fischbacher, C., Reidy, M., Murray, A., & Wood, R. (2018). Enhanced detection services for developmental dysplasia of the hip in Scottish children 1997-2013. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 103(11), 1021-1026. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2017-314354

Background

Developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) remains common. If detected early, DDH can usually be corrected with conservative management. Late presentations often require surgery, and have worse outcomes.

Objective

We estimated th... Read More about Enhanced detection services for developmental dysplasia of the hip in Scottish children 1997-2013.

Synthesis of orchestrations of transducers for manufacturing (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
De Giacomo, G., Vardi, M. Y., Felli, P., Alechina, N., & Logan, B. (2018). Synthesis of orchestrations of transducers for manufacturing.

In this paper, we model manufacturing processes and facilities as transducers (automata with output). The problem of whether a given manufacturing process can be realized by a given set of manufacturing resources can then be stated as an orchestratio... Read More about Synthesis of orchestrations of transducers for manufacturing.

Educating for a systems design approach to complex societal problems (2018)
Journal Article
Costa Junior, J. D., Diehl, J. C., & Secomandi, F. (2018). Educating for a systems design approach to complex societal problems. Journal of Engineering Design, 29(3), https://doi.org/10.1080/09544828.2018.1436162

Design education has devoted little attention to the topic of societal systems transformation in the context of sustainable development. This paper reports on a master‘s-level course that aims to build the capacity for design engineering students to... Read More about Educating for a systems design approach to complex societal problems.

Cutting Materials in Half: A Graph Theory Approach for Generating Crystal Surfaces and Its Prediction of 2D Zeolites (2018)
Journal Article
Witman, M., Ling, S., Boyd, P., Barthel, S., Haranczyk, M., Slater, B., & Smit, B. (2018). Cutting Materials in Half: A Graph Theory Approach for Generating Crystal Surfaces and Its Prediction of 2D Zeolites. ACS Central Science, 4(2), 235-245. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.7b00555

© 2018 American Chemical Society. Scientific interest in two-dimensional (2D) materials, ranging from graphene and other single layer materials to atomically thin crystals, is quickly increasing for a large variety of technological applications. Whil... Read More about Cutting Materials in Half: A Graph Theory Approach for Generating Crystal Surfaces and Its Prediction of 2D Zeolites.