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Changing causes of death for patients with chronic respiratory disease in England, 2005-2015 (2019)
Journal Article
Gayle, A. V., Axson, E. L., Bloom, C. I., Navaratnam, V., & Quint, J. K. (2019). Changing causes of death for patients with chronic respiratory disease in England, 2005-2015. Thorax, 74(5), 483-491. https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2018-212514

Background: Chronic respiratory diseases (CRD) are common, increasing in prevalence, and cause significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. However, we have limited knowledge on causes of death of patients with CRD in the general population. Ob... Read More about Changing causes of death for patients with chronic respiratory disease in England, 2005-2015.

Is All Formulaic Language Created Equal? Unpacking the Processing Advantage for Different Types of Formulaic Sequences (2019)
Journal Article
Carrol, G., & Conklin, K. (2020). Is All Formulaic Language Created Equal? Unpacking the Processing Advantage for Different Types of Formulaic Sequences. Language and Speech, 63(1), 95-122. https://doi.org/10.1177/0023830918823230

Research into recurrent, highly conventionalised ‘formulaic’ sequences has shown a processing advantage compared to ‘novel’ (non-formulaic) language. Studies of individual types of formulaic sequence often acknowledge the contribution of specific fac... Read More about Is All Formulaic Language Created Equal? Unpacking the Processing Advantage for Different Types of Formulaic Sequences.

One size does not fit all: developing common standards for outcomes in early-phase clinical trials of sound-, psychology-, and pharmacology-based interventions for chronic subjective tinnitus in adults (2019)
Journal Article
Hall, D. A., Hibbert, A., Smith, H., Haider, H. F., Londero, A., Mazurek, B., …Core Outcome Measures in Tinnitus (COMiT). (2019). One size does not fit all: developing common standards for outcomes in early-phase clinical trials of sound-, psychology-, and pharmacology-based interventions for chronic subjective tinnitus in adults. Trends in Hearing, 23, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1177/2331216518824827

Good practice in clinical trials advocates common standards for assessing and reporting condition-specific complaints (‘outcome domains’). For tinnitus there is no common standard. The COMiT’ID study created recommendations that are relevant to the m... Read More about One size does not fit all: developing common standards for outcomes in early-phase clinical trials of sound-, psychology-, and pharmacology-based interventions for chronic subjective tinnitus in adults.

Global governance and place making: India, internationalism and empire in 1930s London (2019)
Journal Article
Legg, S. (2019). Global governance and place making: India, internationalism and empire in 1930s London. Geography, 104(1), 4-11. https://doi.org/10.1080/00167487.2019.12094056

In this paper I argue that two core components of contemporary British human geography curricula (global governance and place making) can and should be taught together. I also argue that materials from the past provide valuable teaching tools in the... Read More about Global governance and place making: India, internationalism and empire in 1930s London.

Planned delivery or expectant management for late preterm pre-eclampsia: Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial (PHOENIX trial) (2019)
Journal Article
Chappell, L. C., Green, M., Marlow, N., Sandall, J., Hunter, R., Robson, S., …Shennan, A. (2019). Planned delivery or expectant management for late preterm pre-eclampsia: Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial (PHOENIX trial). Trials, 20(1), Article 85. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-018-3150-1

Background: Pre-eclampsia is a pregnancy disorder, characterised by hypertension and multisystem complications in the mother. The adverse outcomes of pre-eclampsia include severe hypertension, stroke, renal and hepatic injury, haemorrhage, fetal grow... Read More about Planned delivery or expectant management for late preterm pre-eclampsia: Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial (PHOENIX trial).

Venous identity requires BMP signalling through ALK3 (2019)
Journal Article
Neal, A., Nornes, S., Payne, S., Wallace, M. D., Fritzsche, M., Louphrasitthiphol, P., …De Val, S. (2019). Venous identity requires BMP signalling through ALK3. Nature Communications, 10(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08315-w

Venous endothelial cells are molecularly and functionally distinct from their arterial counterparts. Although veins are often considered the default endothelial state, genetic manipulations can modulate both acquisition and loss of venous fate, sugge... Read More about Venous identity requires BMP signalling through ALK3.

Liver kinase B1—a potential therapeutic target in hormone-sensitive breast cancer in older women (2019)
Journal Article
Syed, B. M., Green, A. R., Morgan, D. A., Ellis, I. O., & Cheung, K. (2019). Liver kinase B1—a potential therapeutic target in hormone-sensitive breast cancer in older women. Cancers, 11(2), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers11020149

Background: The role of liver kinase B1 (LKB1), a serine/threonine kinase, has been described in the development of PeutzJagher’s syndrome, where a proportion (~45%) of patients have developed breast cancer in their lifetime. Cell line studies have l... Read More about Liver kinase B1—a potential therapeutic target in hormone-sensitive breast cancer in older women.

Simultaneous in situ temperature and relative humidity monitoring in mechanical ventilators using an array of functionalised optical fibre long period grating sensors (2019)
Journal Article
Hromadka, J., Hazlan, N. N. M., Hernandez, F. U., Correia, R., Norris, A., Morgan, S. P., & Korposh, S. (2019). Simultaneous in situ temperature and relative humidity monitoring in mechanical ventilators using an array of functionalised optical fibre long period grating sensors. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 286, 306 - 314. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2019.01.124

An array of optical fibre long period gratings (LPGs) has been demonstrated for biomedical application to monitor temperature and relative humidity (RH) changes in the air delivered by a mechanical ventilator operating in different modes. The LPG arr... Read More about Simultaneous in situ temperature and relative humidity monitoring in mechanical ventilators using an array of functionalised optical fibre long period grating sensors.

Ultrafast insulator-metal transition in VO2 nanostructures assisted by picosecond strain pulses (2019)
Journal Article
Mogunov, I. A., Fernández, F., Lysenko, S., Kent, A., Scherbakov, A., Kalashnikova, A., & Akimov, A. (2019). Ultrafast insulator-metal transition in VO2 nanostructures assisted by picosecond strain pulses. Physical Review Applied, 11(1), Article 014054. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevapplied.11.014054

Strain engineering is a powerful technology that exploits the stationary external or internal stress of specific spatial distribution for controlling the fundamental properties of condensed materials and nanostructures. This advanced technique modula... Read More about Ultrafast insulator-metal transition in VO2 nanostructures assisted by picosecond strain pulses.

Accurate Monte Carlo simulation of frequency-domain optical coherence tomography (2019)
Journal Article
Wang, Y., & Bai, L. (2019). Accurate Monte Carlo simulation of frequency-domain optical coherence tomography. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering, 35(4), Article e3177. https://doi.org/10.1002/cnm.3177

Optical coherence Tomography (OCT) relies on optical interferometry to provide non‐invasive imaging of living tissues. In addition to its 3D imaging capacity for medical diagnosis, its potential use for recovering optical parameters of biological tis... Read More about Accurate Monte Carlo simulation of frequency-domain optical coherence tomography.

Electromagnetic analysis of the lasing thresholds of hybrid plasmon modes of a silver tube nanolaser with active core and active shell (2019)
Journal Article
Natarov, D. M., Benson, T. M., & Nosich, A. I. (2019). Electromagnetic analysis of the lasing thresholds of hybrid plasmon modes of a silver tube nanolaser with active core and active shell. Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology, 10, 294-304. https://doi.org/10.3762/bjnano.10.28

Results from the electromagnetic modeling of the threshold conditions of hybrid plasmon modes of a laser based on a silver nanotube with an active core and covered with an active shell are presented. We study the modes of such a nanolaser that have t... Read More about Electromagnetic analysis of the lasing thresholds of hybrid plasmon modes of a silver tube nanolaser with active core and active shell.

Always best or good enough? The effect of ‘mind-set’ on preference consistency over time in tourist decision making (2019)
Journal Article
Li, Q., Li, C., McCabe, S., & Xu, H. (2019). Always best or good enough? The effect of ‘mind-set’ on preference consistency over time in tourist decision making. Annals of Tourism Research, 75, 186-201. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2019.01.003

ABSTRACT: Where a lengthy period is available for the choice of tourist destination, people’s tendency to change their minds can be pronounced. This makes the investigation of preference (in)consistency of great interest. Here, we integrate construal... Read More about Always best or good enough? The effect of ‘mind-set’ on preference consistency over time in tourist decision making.

Is microfinance associated with changes in women's wellbeing and children's nutrition? a systematic review and meta-analysis (2019)
Journal Article
Gichuru, W., Ojha, S., Smith, S., Smyth, A. R., & Szatkowski, L. (2019). Is microfinance associated with changes in women's wellbeing and children's nutrition? a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ Open, 9(1), Article e023658. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023658

Background: Microfinance is the provision of savings and small loans services, with no physical collateral. Most recipients are disadvantaged women. The social and health impacts of microfinance have not been comprehensively evaluated. Objective: To... Read More about Is microfinance associated with changes in women's wellbeing and children's nutrition? a systematic review and meta-analysis.

You can trust the ladder, but you shouldn’t (2019)
Journal Article
Tallant, J. (2019). You can trust the ladder, but you shouldn’t. Theoria, 85(2), 102-118. https://doi.org/10.1111/theo.12177

My claim in this paper is that, contra what I take to be the orthodoxy in the wider literature, we do trust inanimate objects—per the example in the title, there are cases where people really do trust a ladder (to hold their weight, for instance), an... Read More about You can trust the ladder, but you shouldn’t.

A service evaluation of FIT and anaemia for risk stratification in the two week wait pathway for colorectal cancer (2019)
Journal Article
Chapman, C., Bunce, J., Oliver, S., Ng, O., Tangri, A., Rogers, R., …Banerjea, A. (2019). A service evaluation of FIT and anaemia for risk stratification in the two week wait pathway for colorectal cancer. BJS Open, 3(3), 395-402. https://doi.org/10.1002/bjs5.50131

Introduction: New national guidance on urgent referral for investigation for Colorectal Cancer (CRC) included faecal occult blood testing in 2015. We evaluated faecal immunochemical testing (FIT) and anaemia as risk stratification tools in symptomati... Read More about A service evaluation of FIT and anaemia for risk stratification in the two week wait pathway for colorectal cancer.

Deep Hourglass for Brain Tumor Segmentation (2019)
Book Chapter
Benson, E., Pound, M. P., French, A. P., Jackson, A. S., & Pridmore, T. P. (2019). Deep Hourglass for Brain Tumor Segmentation. In BrainLes 2018: Brainlesion: Glioma, Multiple Sclerosis, Stroke and Traumatic Brain Injuries (419-428). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11726-9_37

The segmentation of a brain tumour in an MRI scan is a challenging task, in this paper we present our results for this problem via the BraTS 2018 challenge, consisting of 210 high grade glioma (HGG) and 75 low grade glioma (LGG) volumes for training.... Read More about Deep Hourglass for Brain Tumor Segmentation.

Three dimensional nanoscale analysis reveals aperiodic mesopores in a covalent organic framework and conjugated microporous polymer (2019)
Journal Article
Stoppiello, C. T., Isla, H., Martínez-Abadía, M., Fay, M. W., Parmenter, C. D. J., Roe, M. J., …Khlobystov, A. N. (2019). Three dimensional nanoscale analysis reveals aperiodic mesopores in a covalent organic framework and conjugated microporous polymer. Nanoscale, 11(6), 2848-2854. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8nr10086a

The integrated analytical approach developed in this study offers a powerful methodology for the structural characterization of complex molecular nanomaterials. Structures of a covalent organic framework based on boronate esters (COF-5) and a conjuga... Read More about Three dimensional nanoscale analysis reveals aperiodic mesopores in a covalent organic framework and conjugated microporous polymer.

Mongoose Manor: Herpestidae remains from the Early Pleistocene Cooper’s D locality in the Cradle of Humankind, Gauteng, South Africa (2019)
Journal Article
Cohen, B., O'REGAN, H., & Steininger, C. (2019). Mongoose Manor: Herpestidae remains from the Early Pleistocene Cooper’s D locality in the Cradle of Humankind, Gauteng, South Africa. Palaeontologia Africana, 53, 97-113

Mongooses (Herpestidae) are an important component of African ecosystems, and a common constituent of southern African fossil assemblages. Despite this, mongoose fossils from the Cradle of Humankind, Gauteng, South Africa, have received relatively li... Read More about Mongoose Manor: Herpestidae remains from the Early Pleistocene Cooper’s D locality in the Cradle of Humankind, Gauteng, South Africa.