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Creditor rights and bank capital decisions: Conventional vs. Islamic banking (2018)
Journal Article
Bitar, M., & Tarazi, A. (2019). Creditor rights and bank capital decisions: Conventional vs. Islamic banking. Journal of Corporate Finance, 55, 69-104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2018.11.007

© 2018 Elsevier B.V. Using a sample of banks operating in 24 countries, we provide robust evidence that stronger creditor rights are associated with higher capital adequacy ratios for conventional banks but not for Islamic banks. Such results suggest... Read More about Creditor rights and bank capital decisions: Conventional vs. Islamic banking.

Simplified Damper Cage Circuital Model and Fast Analytical–Numerical Approach for the Analysis of Synchronous Generators (2018)
Journal Article
Nuzzo, S., Bolognesi, P., Gerada, C., & Galea, M. (2019). Simplified Damper Cage Circuital Model and Fast Analytical–Numerical Approach for the Analysis of Synchronous Generators. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 66(11), 8361-8371. https://doi.org/10.1109/tie.2018.2885737

The long and enduring history of utilization of the wound-field synchronous generator in a large number of applications makes it one of the most known and consolidated electrical machine technologies. Thus, its design, modeling, and analysis processe... Read More about Simplified Damper Cage Circuital Model and Fast Analytical–Numerical Approach for the Analysis of Synchronous Generators.

Patient reported distress can aid clinical decision making in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: analysis of the PROFILE cohort (2018)
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Stewart, I., McKeever, T., Braybrooke, R., Oballa, E., Simpson, J. K., Maher, T. M., …Saini, G. (2018). Patient reported distress can aid clinical decision making in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: analysis of the PROFILE cohort

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is a progressive and fatal interstitial lung disease. We aimed to determine if patient response to a palliative assessment survey could predict disease progression or death. We undertook a cross-sectional study in a U... Read More about Patient reported distress can aid clinical decision making in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: analysis of the PROFILE cohort.

Profiling of 54 plasma glycoproteins by label-free targeted LC-MS/MS (2018)
Journal Article
Dahabiyeh, L. A., Tooth, D., & Barrett, D. A. (2019). Profiling of 54 plasma glycoproteins by label-free targeted LC-MS/MS. Analytical Biochemistry, 567, 72-81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ab.2018.12.011

Glycoproteins play a central role in diverse biological processes and are linked with many serious human diseases. In this paper we present a simple, reproducible and cost-effective analytical workflow that enables the reliable quantification of clin... Read More about Profiling of 54 plasma glycoproteins by label-free targeted LC-MS/MS.

Appropriate Control Methods for Mobile Virtual Exhibitions (2018)
Book Chapter
Li, Y., Tennent, P., & Cobb, S. (2018). Appropriate Control Methods for Mobile Virtual Exhibitions. In VR Technologies in Cultural Heritage (165-183). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05819-7_13

© 2019, The Author(s). It is becoming popular to render art exhibitions in Virtual Reality (VR). Many of these are used to deliver at-home experiences on peoples’ own mobile devices, however, control options on mobile VR systems are necessarily less... Read More about Appropriate Control Methods for Mobile Virtual Exhibitions.

The second Painlevé equation, a related nonautonomous semidiscrete equation, and a limit to the first Painlevé equation: scalar and matrix cases (2018)
Journal Article
Pickering, A., Gordoa, P. R., & Wattis, J. A. (2019). The second Painlevé equation, a related nonautonomous semidiscrete equation, and a limit to the first Painlevé equation: scalar and matrix cases. Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 391, 72-86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physd.2018.12.001

In this paper we consider the matrix nonautonomous semidiscrete (or lattice) equation D dtUn = (2n − 1)(Un+1 − Un−1)−1, as well as the scalar case thereof. This equation was recently derived in the context of auto-Bäcklund transformations for a matri... Read More about The second Painlevé equation, a related nonautonomous semidiscrete equation, and a limit to the first Painlevé equation: scalar and matrix cases.

Functional Outcomes and Health-Related Quality of Life After Curative Treatment for Rectal Cancer: A Population-Level Study in England (2018)
Journal Article
Downing, A., Glaser, A. W., Finan, P. J., Wright, P., Thomas, J. D., Gilbert, A., …Sebag-Montefiore, D. (2019). Functional Outcomes and Health-Related Quality of Life After Curative Treatment for Rectal Cancer: A Population-Level Study in England. International Journal of Radiation Oncology - Biology - Physics, 103(5), 1132-1142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijrobp.2018.12.005

Purpose There is a growing population of cancer survivors at risk of treatment-related morbidity. This study investigated how potentially curative rectal cancer treatment influences subsequent function and health-related quality of life using data f... Read More about Functional Outcomes and Health-Related Quality of Life After Curative Treatment for Rectal Cancer: A Population-Level Study in England.

Menopause and work: an overview of UK guidance (2018)
Journal Article
Hardy, C., Hunter, M. S., & Griffiths, A. (2018). Menopause and work: an overview of UK guidance. Occupational Medicine, 68(9), 580–586. https://doi.org/10.1093/occmed/kqy134

Background: Recent evidence suggests that some women experience menopausal symptoms that impact on their working lives, and that work environments can impact upon the experience of menopause. As a result, guidance for employers and other key stakehol... Read More about Menopause and work: an overview of UK guidance.

Effect of non-meat, high protein supplementation on quality of life and clinical outcomes for older people living in care homes: systematic review and meta-analysis (2018)
Journal Article
Donaldson, A., Smith, T. O., Alder, S., Johnstone, A. M., De Roos, B., Aucott, L. S., …Myint, P. K. (2019). Effect of non-meat, high protein supplementation on quality of life and clinical outcomes for older people living in care homes: systematic review and meta-analysis. Nutrition Reviews, 77(2), 116-127. https://doi.org/10.1093/nutrit/nuy061

CONTEXT: Care home residents are at risk of malnutrition through reduced overall food intake, ‘anabolic resistance’ in ageing muscle and high prevalence of medical morbidity and functional dependency. There has been limited consensus regarding effect... Read More about Effect of non-meat, high protein supplementation on quality of life and clinical outcomes for older people living in care homes: systematic review and meta-analysis.

Reasserting Agency: Procedural Justice, Victim-Centricity, and the Right to Remedy for Survivors of Slavery and Related Exploitation (2018)
Journal Article
Schwarz, K., & Geng, J. (2018). Reasserting Agency: Procedural Justice, Victim-Centricity, and the Right to Remedy for Survivors of Slavery and Related Exploitation. Journal of Modern Slavery, 4(2), 93-120

One of the biggest failings of contemporary regimes governing human exploitation is their treatment of ‘victims’. This paper roots narratives of victimhood and agency in the legal frameworks through analysis of the right to effective remedy in human... Read More about Reasserting Agency: Procedural Justice, Victim-Centricity, and the Right to Remedy for Survivors of Slavery and Related Exploitation.

An Evaluation of the Combined Effect of Window Shading and Thermal Mass to Reduce Overheating (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jimenez-Bescos, C. (2018). An Evaluation of the Combined Effect of Window Shading and Thermal Mass to Reduce Overheating. In Cold Climate HVAC 2018 (637-644). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00662-4_53

Thermal mass has the benefit of regulating energy in buildings and generates potential savings in energy and CO 2 emissions. Window and local shading can provide shelter and reduce the severity of overheating during the year and mostly during the sum... Read More about An Evaluation of the Combined Effect of Window Shading and Thermal Mass to Reduce Overheating.

Advocate General suggests that Germany cannot rely on copyright to protect confidential information (2018)
Journal Article
Jütte, B. J. (2019). Advocate General suggests that Germany cannot rely on copyright to protect confidential information. Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice, 14(2), 83-85. https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpy171

Opinion of Advocate General Szpunar in Funke Medien NRW GmbH v Federal Republic of Germany, C-469/17, EU: C: 2018: 870, 25 October 2018 A Member State is not a beneficiary of fundamental rights protection and cannot invoke copyright to keep inform... Read More about Advocate General suggests that Germany cannot rely on copyright to protect confidential information.

Effective metal-insulator nonequilibrium quantum phase transition in the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model (2018)
Journal Article
Porta, S., Ziani, N. T., Kennes, D. M., Gambetta, F. M., Sassetti, M., & Cavaliere, F. (2018). Effective metal-insulator nonequilibrium quantum phase transition in the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model. Physical Review B, 98(21), Article 214306. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.98.214306

We consider the steady-state behavior of observables in the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model and in the one-dimensional transverse field quantum Ising model after a sudden quantum quench of the parameter controlling the gap. In the thermodynamic limi... Read More about Effective metal-insulator nonequilibrium quantum phase transition in the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model.

Peer victimization and its impact on adolescent brain development and psychopathology (2018)
Journal Article
Quinlan, E. B., Barker, E. D., Luo, Q., Banaschewski, T., Bokde, A. L. W., Bromberg, U., …IMAGEN Consortium. (2018). Peer victimization and its impact on adolescent brain development and psychopathology. Molecular Psychiatry, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-018-0297-9

Chronic peer victimization has long-term impacts on mental health; however, the biological mediators of this adverse relationship are unknown. We sought to determine whether adolescent brain development is involved in mediating the effect of peer vic... Read More about Peer victimization and its impact on adolescent brain development and psychopathology.

Plasmodium centrin PbCEN-4 localizes to the putative MTOC and is dispensable for malaria parasite proliferation (2018)
Journal Article
Roques, M., Stanway, R. R., Rea, E. I., Markus, R., Brady, D., Holder, A. A., …Tewari, R. (2018). Plasmodium centrin PbCEN-4 localizes to the putative MTOC and is dispensable for malaria parasite proliferation. Biology Open, 8(1), Article bio.036822. https://doi.org/10.1242/bio.036822

Centrins are calmodulin-like phosphoproteins present in the centrosome and play an active role in the duplication, separation and organization of centrosomal structures such as the microtubule-organizing centre (MTOC) during mitosis. They are also ma... Read More about Plasmodium centrin PbCEN-4 localizes to the putative MTOC and is dispensable for malaria parasite proliferation.

Young adults with chronic kidney disease: an exploration of their relationships and support networks (2018)
Journal Article
Coyne, E., Langham, H., Tomlin, M., Hope, W., Johnson, C., Byrne, C., …Buchanan, H. (2019). Young adults with chronic kidney disease: an exploration of their relationships and support networks. Journal of Renal Care, 45(1), 20-28. https://doi.org/10.1111/jorc.12263

Background: Young people with chronic kidney disease (CKD) have a number of key issues and life changes to manage while also possibly transitioning into adult care. During this time, the nature of their support networks including, social, romantic, f... Read More about Young adults with chronic kidney disease: an exploration of their relationships and support networks.

Non-equilibrium absorbing state phase transitions in discrete-time quantum cellular automaton dynamics on spin lattices (2018)
Journal Article
Lesanovsky, I., Macieszczak, K., & Garrahan, J. P. (2018). Non-equilibrium absorbing state phase transitions in discrete-time quantum cellular automaton dynamics on spin lattices. Quantum Science and Technology, 4(2), https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-9565/aaf831

We introduce a discrete-time quantum dynamics on a two-dimensional lattice that describes the evolution of a $1+1$-dimensional spin system. The underlying quantum map is constructed such that the reduced state at each time step is separable. We show... Read More about Non-equilibrium absorbing state phase transitions in discrete-time quantum cellular automaton dynamics on spin lattices.