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A novel design of thermoelectric generator for automotive waste heat recovery (2018)
Journal Article
Huang, K., Yan, Y., Li, B., Li, Y., Li, K., & Li, J. (2018). A novel design of thermoelectric generator for automotive waste heat recovery. Automotive Innovation, 1(1), https://doi.org/10.1007/s42154-018-0006-z

With progressively stringent fuel consumption regulations, many researchers and engineers are focusing on the employment of waste heat recovery technologies for automotive applications. Regarded as a promising method of waste heat recovery, the therm... Read More about A novel design of thermoelectric generator for automotive waste heat recovery.

Long-stay in forensic-psychiatric care in the UK (2018)
Journal Article
Hare Duke, L., Furtado, V., Guo, B., & Völlm, B. A. (in press). Long-stay in forensic-psychiatric care in the UK. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-017-1473-y

Purpose: Forensic services provide care for mentally disordered offenders. In England this is provided at three levels of security – low, medium and high. Significant number of patients within these settings remain detained for protracted periods of... Read More about Long-stay in forensic-psychiatric care in the UK.

Stillbirth among women prescribed nicotine replacement therapy in pregnancy: analysis of a large UK pregnancy cohort (2018)
Journal Article
Dhalwani, N. N., Szatkowski, L., Coleman, T., Fiaschi, L., & Tata, L. J. (2019). Stillbirth among women prescribed nicotine replacement therapy in pregnancy: analysis of a large UK pregnancy cohort. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 21(4), 409–415. https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/nty019

Objective: To compare risk of stillbirth between maternal smokers and those prescribed NRT during pregnancy.

Design: Cross-sectional analysis nested in a pregnancy cohort with longitudinal routinely-recorded medical data.

Setting: United Kingdo... Read More about Stillbirth among women prescribed nicotine replacement therapy in pregnancy: analysis of a large UK pregnancy cohort.

A Method for Evaluating Options for Motif Detection in Electricity Meter Data (2018)
Journal Article
Dent, I., Craig, T., Aickelin, U., & Rodden, T. (2018). A Method for Evaluating Options for Motif Detection in Electricity Meter Data. International Journal of Data Science, 16(1), 1-28. https://doi.org/10.6339/jds.201801_16%281%29.0001

Investigation of household electricity usage patterns, and matching the patterns to behaviours, is an important area of research given the centrality of such patterns in addressing the needs of the electricity industry. Additional knowledge of househ... Read More about A Method for Evaluating Options for Motif Detection in Electricity Meter Data.

Transcranial direct current stimulation over left inferior frontal cortex improves speech fluency in adults who stutter (2018)
Journal Article
Chesters, J., Möttönen, R., & Watkins, K. E. (2018). Transcranial direct current stimulation over left inferior frontal cortex improves speech fluency in adults who stutter. Brain, 141(4), 1161-1171. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awy011

© The Author(s) (2018). Stuttering is a neurodevelopmental condition affecting 5% of children, and persisting in 1% of adults. Promoting lasting fluency improvement in adults who stutter is a particular challenge. Novel interventions to improve outco... Read More about Transcranial direct current stimulation over left inferior frontal cortex improves speech fluency in adults who stutter.

The shape dependence of chameleon screening (2018)
Journal Article
Burrage, C., Copeland, E. J., Moss, A., & Stevenson, J. A. (2018). The shape dependence of chameleon screening. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2018(1), https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2018/01/056

Chameleon scalar fields can screen their associated fifth forces from detection by changing their mass with the local density. These models are an archetypal example of a screening mechanism, and have become an important target for both cosmological... Read More about The shape dependence of chameleon screening.

Cochrane Corner: Hearing aids for mild to moderate hearing loss in adults (2018)
Journal Article
Brennan-Jones, C. G., Weeda, E., & Ferguson, M. A. (in press). Cochrane Corner: Hearing aids for mild to moderate hearing loss in adults. International Journal of Audiology, https://doi.org/10.1080/14992027.2018.1432903

This Cochrane Corner features the review entitled “Hearing aids for mild to moderate hearing loss in adults” published in 2017. In their review, Ferguson et al. identified five randomised controlled trials (RCTs) involving 825 participants, with mode... Read More about Cochrane Corner: Hearing aids for mild to moderate hearing loss in adults.

Experimental evidences of quantum confined 2D indirect excitons in single barrier GaAs/AlAs/GaAs heterostructure using photocapacitance at room temperature (2018)
Journal Article
Bhunia, A., Singh, M. K., Galvao Gobato, Y., Henini, M., & Datta, S. (in press). Experimental evidences of quantum confined 2D indirect excitons in single barrier GaAs/AlAs/GaAs heterostructure using photocapacitance at room temperature. Journal of Applied Physics, 123(4), Article 044305. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5007820

We investigated excitonic absorptions in a GaAs/AlAs/GaAs single barrier heterostructure using both photocapacitance and photocurrent spectroscopies at room temperature. Photocapacitance spectra show well defined resonance peaks of indirect excitons... Read More about Experimental evidences of quantum confined 2D indirect excitons in single barrier GaAs/AlAs/GaAs heterostructure using photocapacitance at room temperature.

Spot dynamics in a reaction-diffusion model of plant root hair initiation (2018)
Journal Article
Avitabile, D., Brena-Medina, V. F., & Ward, M. J. (2018). Spot dynamics in a reaction-diffusion model of plant root hair initiation. SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 78(1), https://doi.org/10.1137/17M1120932

We study pattern formation in a 2-D reaction-diffusion (RD) sub-cellular model characterizing the effect of a spatial gradient of a plant hormone distribution on a family of G-proteins associated with root-hair (RH) initiation in the plant cell Arabi... Read More about Spot dynamics in a reaction-diffusion model of plant root hair initiation.

Feasibility of training group exercise class instructors to adopt a motivationally adaptive communication style (2018)
Journal Article
Hancox, J. E., Thøgersen-Ntoumani, C., Quested, E., & Ntoumanis, N. (2018). Feasibility of training group exercise class instructors to adopt a motivationally adaptive communication style. International Journal of Sport Psychology, 49(1), 17-34. https://doi.org/10.7352/IJSP+2017.48

This study examined the feasibility of a 10-week self-determination theory-based training programme delivered to 24 group exercise instructors. Feasibility of implementing the programme was explored in terms of 1) recruitment, 2) rates of adherence a... Read More about Feasibility of training group exercise class instructors to adopt a motivationally adaptive communication style.

Probing the heart and mind of the viewer: scientific studies of film and theatre spectators in the Soviet Union, 1917-1936 (2018)
Journal Article
Toropova, A. (2018). Probing the heart and mind of the viewer: scientific studies of film and theatre spectators in the Soviet Union, 1917-1936. Slavic Review, 76(4), 931-958. https://doi.org/10.1017/slr.2017.271

A vast array of research institutes and cultural organizations began to study the viewer of Soviet cinema and theatre in the years following the October Revolution. These investigations called on the techniques of sociology, psychology, and physiolog... Read More about Probing the heart and mind of the viewer: scientific studies of film and theatre spectators in the Soviet Union, 1917-1936.

Selective Photoinduced Antibacterial Activity of Amoxicillin-Coated Gold Nanoparticles: From One-Step Synthesis to in Vivo Cytocompatibility (2018)
Journal Article
Silvero C., M. J., Rocca, D. M., de la Villarmois, E. A., Fournier, K., Lanterna, A. E., Pérez, M. F., …Scaiano, J. C. (2018). Selective Photoinduced Antibacterial Activity of Amoxicillin-Coated Gold Nanoparticles: From One-Step Synthesis to in Vivo Cytocompatibility. ACS Omega, 3(1), 1220-1230. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.7b01779

Photoinduced antibacterial gold nanoparticles were developed as an alternative for the treatment of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Thanks to the amoxicillin coating, they possess high in vivo stability, selectivity for the bacteria wall, a good renal... Read More about Selective Photoinduced Antibacterial Activity of Amoxicillin-Coated Gold Nanoparticles: From One-Step Synthesis to in Vivo Cytocompatibility.

A long goodbye to the 'good girl': An auto ethnographic account (2018)
Book Chapter
Thomson, P. (2018). A long goodbye to the 'good girl': An auto ethnographic account. In Feeling academic in the neoliberal university: Feminist flights, fights and failures (243-260). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64224-6_11

The contemporary university relies on academic staff who are ready and willing to be highly productive on a number of fronts—publish widely and for a range of audiences, publish for audit purposes, attract funding, work in interdisciplinary teams, pr... Read More about A long goodbye to the 'good girl': An auto ethnographic account.

The strength of weight-bearing bones is similar in amenorrheic and eumenorrheic elite long-distance runners (2018)
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Piasecki, J., Ireland, A., Piasecki, M., Cameron, J., McPhee, J. S., & Degens, H. (2018). The strength of weight-bearing bones is similar in amenorrheic and eumenorrheic elite long-distance runners. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports, 28(5), 1559-1568. https://doi.org/10.1111/sms.13062

Regular intense endurance exercise can lead to amenorrhea with possible adverse consequences for bone health. We compared whole body and regional bone strength and skeletal muscle characteristics between amenorrheic (AA: n = 14) and eumenorrheic (EA:... Read More about The strength of weight-bearing bones is similar in amenorrheic and eumenorrheic elite long-distance runners.

Experiences of restrictiveness in forensic psychiatric care: systematic review and concept analysis (2018)
Journal Article
Tomlin, J., Bartlett, P., & Völlm, B. (2018). Experiences of restrictiveness in forensic psychiatric care: systematic review and concept analysis. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 57, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2017.12.006

Mentally disordered offenders may be sent to secure psychiatric hospitals. These settings can resemble carceral spaces, employing high levels of security restricting resident autonomy, expression and social interaction. However, research exploring th... Read More about Experiences of restrictiveness in forensic psychiatric care: systematic review and concept analysis.

A review of the stable isotope bio-geochemistry of the global silicon cycle and its associated trace elements (2018)
Journal Article
Sutton, J. N., André, L., Cardinal, D., Conley, D. J., de Souza, G. F., Dean, J. R., …Swann, G. E. (2018). A review of the stable isotope bio-geochemistry of the global silicon cycle and its associated trace elements. Frontiers in Earth Science, 5, Article 112. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2017.00112

Silicon (Si) is the second most abundant element in the Earth’s crust and is an important nutrient in the ocean. The global Si cycle plays a critical role in regulating primary productivity and carbon cycling on the continents and in the oceans. Deve... Read More about A review of the stable isotope bio-geochemistry of the global silicon cycle and its associated trace elements.

Web-Based Decision Aid to Assist Help-Seeking Choices for Young People Who Self-Harm: Outcomes From a Randomized Controlled Feasibility Trial (2018)
Journal Article
Rowe, S. L., Patel, K., French, R. S., Henderson, C., Ougrin, D., Slade, M., & Moran, P. (2018). Web-Based Decision Aid to Assist Help-Seeking Choices for Young People Who Self-Harm: Outcomes From a Randomized Controlled Feasibility Trial. JMIR Mental Health, 5(1), Article e10. https://doi.org/10.2196/mental.8098

Background: Adolescents who self-harm are often unsure how or where to get help. We developed a web-based personalised decision aid (DA), designed to support young people in decision-making about seeking help for their self-harm.
Objective: Our aim... Read More about Web-Based Decision Aid to Assist Help-Seeking Choices for Young People Who Self-Harm: Outcomes From a Randomized Controlled Feasibility Trial.

Variation in grain Zn concentration, and the grain ionome, in field-grown Indian wheat (2018)
Journal Article
Khokhar, J. S., Sareen, S., Tyagi, B. S., Singh, G., Wilson, L., King, I. P., …Broadley, M. R. (2018). Variation in grain Zn concentration, and the grain ionome, in field-grown Indian wheat. PLoS ONE, 13(1), Article e0192026. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0192026

Wheat is an important dietary source of zinc (Zn) and other mineral elements in many countries. Dietary Zn deficiency is widespread, especially in developing countries, and breeding (genetic biofortification) through the HarvestPlus programme has rec... Read More about Variation in grain Zn concentration, and the grain ionome, in field-grown Indian wheat.