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PAID-11: a brief measure of diabetes distress vaildated in adults with type 1 diabetes (2019)
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Stanulewicz, N., Mansell, P., Cooke, D., Hopkins, D., Speight, J., & Blake, H. (2019). PAID-11: a brief measure of diabetes distress vaildated in adults with type 1 diabetes. Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, 149, 27-38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diabres.2019.01.026

Objective: The Problem Areas In Diabetes (PAID) questionnaire is widely used to assess emotional distress related to living with diabetes, although it is lengthy for routine clinical use. Our aim was to determine whether the original 20-item PAID que... Read More about PAID-11: a brief measure of diabetes distress vaildated in adults with type 1 diabetes.

Pluripotency and X chromosome dynamics revealed in pig pre-gastrulating embryos by single cell analysis (2019)
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Ramos-Ibeas, P., Sang, F., Zhu, Q., Wang, W. W., Withey, S., Klisch, D., …Alberio, R. (2019). Pluripotency and X chromosome dynamics revealed in pig pre-gastrulating embryos by single cell analysis. Nature Communications, 10, Article 500. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08387-8

High-resolution molecular programmes delineating the cellular foundations of mammalian embryogenesis have emerged recently. Similar analysis of human embryos is limited to pre-implantation stages, since early post-implantation embryos are largely ina... Read More about Pluripotency and X chromosome dynamics revealed in pig pre-gastrulating embryos by single cell analysis.

Short email with attachment versus long email without attachment when contacting authors to request unpublished data for a systematic review: a nested randomised trial (2019)
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Godolphin, P. J., Bath, P. M., & Montgomery, A. A. (2019). Short email with attachment versus long email without attachment when contacting authors to request unpublished data for a systematic review: a nested randomised trial. BMJ Open, 9(1), Article e25273. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-025273

Objective: Systematic reviews often rely on the acquisition of unpublished analyses or data. We carried out a nested randomised trial comparing two different approaches for contacting authors to request additional data for a systematic review. Part... Read More about Short email with attachment versus long email without attachment when contacting authors to request unpublished data for a systematic review: a nested randomised trial.

Genetic testing for Huntington’s disease: A thematic analysis of online support community messages (2019)
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Smedley, R. M., & Coulson, N. S. (2021). Genetic testing for Huntington’s disease: A thematic analysis of online support community messages. Journal of Health Psychology, 26(4), 580-594. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105319826340

Huntington’s disease is a fatal late-onset genetic illness that causes motor, cognitive and psychiatric disorders. Individuals considering genetic testing may benefit from online social support. This study investigates how genetic testing is discusse... Read More about Genetic testing for Huntington’s disease: A thematic analysis of online support community messages.

How UX Practitioners Produce Findings in Usability Testing (2019)
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Reeves, S. (2019). How UX Practitioners Produce Findings in Usability Testing. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 26(1), 1-38. https://doi.org/10.1145/3299096

Usability testing has long been a core interest of HCI research and forms a key element of industry practice. Yet our knowledge of it harbours striking absences. There are few, if any detailed accounts of the contingent, material ways in which usabil... Read More about How UX Practitioners Produce Findings in Usability Testing.

Landmark Papers no. 8: Burgess, T.M. & Webster, R. 1980. Optimal interpolation and isarithmic mapping of soil properties. I. The semi-variogram and punctual kriging. Journal of Soil Science, 31, 315-331: Commentary on the impact of Burgess & Webster (1980a) (2019)
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Lark, R., Heuvelink, G., & Bishop, T. (2019). Landmark Papers no. 8: Burgess, T.M. & Webster, R. 1980. Optimal interpolation and isarithmic mapping of soil properties. I. The semi-variogram and punctual kriging. Journal of Soil Science, 31, 315-331: Commentary on the impact of Burgess & Webster (1980a). European Journal of Soil Science, 70(1), 7-10. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejss.12749

This landmark paper by Burgess & Webster (1980a) signalled a new era in the spatial mapping of the soil. The emergence of pedometrics as a distinct subdiscipline of soil science was a gradual process, and had its roots in earlier studies than this on... Read More about Landmark Papers no. 8: Burgess, T.M. & Webster, R. 1980. Optimal interpolation and isarithmic mapping of soil properties. I. The semi-variogram and punctual kriging. Journal of Soil Science, 31, 315-331: Commentary on the impact of Burgess & Webster (1980a).

Spaces before partition: an Introduction (2019)
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Legg, S., & Gould, W. (2019). Spaces before partition: an Introduction. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 42(1), 69-79. https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2019.1554489

This introduction frames a selection of papers that encourage a richer spatial understanding of the years before the partition of India. The papers respond to two types of question. One type is spatial (at what scale to do we approach partition? Thro... Read More about Spaces before partition: an Introduction.

EU Aggregate Demand As a Way out of Crisis? Engaging the Post-Keynesian Critique: EU Aggregate Demand As a Way out of Crisis? (2019)
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Bieler, A., Jordan, J., & Morton, A. D. (2019). EU Aggregate Demand As a Way out of Crisis? Engaging the Post-Keynesian Critique: EU Aggregate Demand As a Way out of Crisis?. Journal of Common Market Studies, 57(4), 805-822. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.12843

Post-Keynesians have delivered an important advance in providing explanations of the Eurozone Crisis, not the least in demonstrating how the formation of the European integration project lacked the means to manage effectively the macroeconomic imbala... Read More about EU Aggregate Demand As a Way out of Crisis? Engaging the Post-Keynesian Critique: EU Aggregate Demand As a Way out of Crisis?.

The long shadow of colonial cartography: Britain and the Sino-Indian war of 1962 (2019)
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McGarr, P. M. (2020). The long shadow of colonial cartography: Britain and the Sino-Indian war of 1962. Journal of Strategic Studies, 42(5), 626-653. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402390.2019.1570147

© 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article examines British responses to the Sino-Indian border war of 1962. It illustrates how, in the years leading up to the war, Britain’s colonial legacy in the Indian subcontinen... Read More about The long shadow of colonial cartography: Britain and the Sino-Indian war of 1962.

Antibiotic prescribing for residents in long-term-care facilities across the UK (2019)
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Thornley, T., Ashiru-Oredope, D., Normington, A., Beech, E., & Howard, P. (2019). Antibiotic prescribing for residents in long-term-care facilities across the UK. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 74(5), 1447-1451. https://doi.org/10.1093/jac/dkz008

Background: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major public health problem. Elderly residents in long-term-care facilities (LTCFs) are frequently prescribed antibiotics, particularly for urinary tract infections. Optimizing appropriate antibiotic us... Read More about Antibiotic prescribing for residents in long-term-care facilities across the UK.

Formation of bitumen in the Elgin/Franklin complex, Central Graben, North Sea: Implications for hydrocarbon charging (2019)
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Meredith, W., Uguna, C. N., Snape, C. E., Carr, A. D., & Scotchman, I. C. (2019). Formation of bitumen in the Elgin/Franklin complex, Central Graben, North Sea: Implications for hydrocarbon charging. Geological Society Special Publications, 484, SP484-2017-344. https://doi.org/10.1144/sp484-2017-344

The Elgin/Franklin complex contains gas condensates in Upper Jurassic reservoirs in the North Sea Central Graben. Upper parts of the reservoirs contain bitumens, which previous studies have suggested were formed by the thermal cracking of oil as the... Read More about Formation of bitumen in the Elgin/Franklin complex, Central Graben, North Sea: Implications for hydrocarbon charging.

Automated segmentation of haematoma and perihaematomal oedema in MRI of acute spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage (2019)
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Pszczolkowski, S., Law, Z. K., Gallagher, R. G., Meng, D., Swienton, D. J., Morgan, P. S., …Dineen, R. A. (2019). Automated segmentation of haematoma and perihaematomal oedema in MRI of acute spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage. Computers in Biology and Medicine, 106, 126-139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2019.01.022

Background Spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage (SICH) is a common condition with high morbidity and mortality. Segmentation of haematoma and perihaematoma oedema on medical images provides quantitative outcome measures for clinical trials and may... Read More about Automated segmentation of haematoma and perihaematomal oedema in MRI of acute spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage.

Stop smoking practitioner consensus on barriers and facilitators to smoking cessation in pregnancy and how to address these: a modified Delphi survey (2019)
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Fergie, L., Campbell, K., Coleman-Haynes, T., Ussher, M., Cooper, S., & Coleman, T. (2019). Stop smoking practitioner consensus on barriers and facilitators to smoking cessation in pregnancy and how to address these: a modified Delphi survey. Addictive Behaviors Reports, 9, Article 100164. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.abrep.2019.100164

Introduction: Pregnant women can experience barriers and facilitators towards achieving smoking cessation. We sought consensus from smoking cessation practitioners on how influential pre-identified barriers and facilitators can be on pregnant women'... Read More about Stop smoking practitioner consensus on barriers and facilitators to smoking cessation in pregnancy and how to address these: a modified Delphi survey.

Large-scale experiments into the tsunamigenic potential of different iceberg calving mechanisms (2019)
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Heller, V., Chen, F., Brühl, M., Gabl, R., Chen, X., Wolters, G., & Fuchs, H. (2019). Large-scale experiments into the tsunamigenic potential of different iceberg calving mechanisms. Scientific Reports, 9(1), Article 861. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-36634-3

Mass balance analysis of ice sheets is a key component to understand the effects of global warming. A significant component of ice sheet and shelf mass balance is iceberg calving, which can generate large tsunamis endangering human beings and coastal... Read More about Large-scale experiments into the tsunamigenic potential of different iceberg calving mechanisms.

Earth observation and machine learning to meet Sustainable Development Goal 8.7: mapping sites associated with slavery from space (2019)
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Foody, G., Ling, F., Boyd, D., Li, X., & Wardlaw, J. (2019). Earth observation and machine learning to meet Sustainable Development Goal 8.7: mapping sites associated with slavery from space. Remote Sensing, 11(3), Article 266. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11030266

A large proportion of the workforce in the brick kilns of the Brick Belt of Asia are modern-day slaves. Work to liberate slaves and contribute to UN Sustainable Development Goal 8.7 would benefit from maps showing the location of brick kilns. Previou... Read More about Earth observation and machine learning to meet Sustainable Development Goal 8.7: mapping sites associated with slavery from space.

A novel 3D in vitro model of glioblastoma reveals resistance to temozolomide which was potentiated by hypoxia (2019)
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Musah-Eroje, A., & Watson, S. (2019). A novel 3D in vitro model of glioblastoma reveals resistance to temozolomide which was potentiated by hypoxia. Journal of Neuro-Oncology, 142(2), 231-240. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11060-019-03107-0

Purpose Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common invasive malignant brain tumour in adults. It is traditionally investigated in vitro by culturing cells as a monolayer (2D culture) or as neurospheres (clusters enriched in cancer stem cells) but neither... Read More about A novel 3D in vitro model of glioblastoma reveals resistance to temozolomide which was potentiated by hypoxia.

Advances in the Development of Anti-Toxoplasma gondii Vaccines: Challenges, Opportunities and Perspectives (2019)
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Wang, J.-L., Zhang, N.-Z., Li, T.-T., He, J.-J., Elsheikha, H. M., & Zhu, X.-Q. (2019). Advances in the Development of Anti-Toxoplasma gondii Vaccines: Challenges, Opportunities and Perspectives. Trends in Parasitology, 35(3), 239-253. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2019.01.005

Important progress has been made in understanding how immunity is elicited against Toxoplasma gondii - a complex pathogen with multiple mechanisms of immune evasion. Many vaccine candidates have been tested using various strategies in animal models.... Read More about Advances in the Development of Anti-Toxoplasma gondii Vaccines: Challenges, Opportunities and Perspectives.

The Hepatitis C Awareness Through to Treatment (HepCATT) study: improving the cascade of care for hepatitis C virus-infected people who inject drugs in England (2019)
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Harrison, G. I., Murray, K., Gore, R., Lee, P., Sreedharan, A., Richardson, P., …Irving, W. L. (2019). The Hepatitis C Awareness Through to Treatment (HepCATT) study: improving the cascade of care for hepatitis C virus-infected people who inject drugs in England. Addiction, 114(6), 1113-1122. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.14569

Background and Aims: Previous studies have shown low rates of diagnosis and treatment of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in people who inject drugs (PWID). Our aims were to test the effect of a complex intervention (“HepCATT”) in drug and alcohol c... Read More about The Hepatitis C Awareness Through to Treatment (HepCATT) study: improving the cascade of care for hepatitis C virus-infected people who inject drugs in England.

A foreign body response-on-a-chip platform (2019)
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Sharifi, F., Htwe, S. S., Righi, M., Liu, H., Peietralunga, A., Yesil-Celiktas, O., …Zhang, Y. S. (2019). A foreign body response-on-a-chip platform. Advanced Healthcare Materials, 8(4), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1002/adhm.201801425

Understanding the foreign body response (FBR) and desiging strategies to modulate such a response represent a grand challenge for implant devices and biomaterials. Here, the development of a microfluidic platform is reported, i.e., the FBR‐on‐a‐chip... Read More about A foreign body response-on-a-chip platform.

Changing causes of death for patients with chronic respiratory disease in England, 2005-2015 (2019)
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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.