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Multinationals and the globalization of R&D (2019)
Journal Article
García-Vega, M., Hofmann, P., & Kneller, R. (2019). Multinationals and the globalization of R&D. International Journal of Industrial Organization, 63, 583-614. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijindorg.2019.01.001

In this paper we consider how the location, organization and output of knowledge production evolve within domestic firms following acquisition-FDI in order to understand the aggregate effect on an index of domestically produced innovations. We find s... Read More about Multinationals and the globalization of R&D.

Service innovation through resource integration: An empirical examination of co-created value using telehealth services (2019)
Journal Article
Go Jefferies, J., Bishop, S., & Hibbert, S. (2021). Service innovation through resource integration: An empirical examination of co-created value using telehealth services. Public Policy and Administration, 36(1), 69-88. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952076718822715

Scholars, policymakers and practitioners recognise the potential to improve public services through active citizen involvement and much research has examined the formal opportunities to 'co-produce' changes in the structures and cultures of public se... Read More about Service innovation through resource integration: An empirical examination of co-created value using telehealth services.

Prescription opioids: regional variation and socioeconomic status: evidence from primary care in England (2019)
Journal Article
Chen, T.-C., Chen, L.-C., Kerry, M., & Knaggs, R. D. (2019). Prescription opioids: regional variation and socioeconomic status: evidence from primary care in England. International Journal of Drug Policy, 64, 87-94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2018.10.013

Background: This study aimed to quantify dispensed opioid prescriptions among primary care practices throughout England and investigate its association with socioeconomic status (SES). Methods: This cross-sectional study used publicly available data... Read More about Prescription opioids: regional variation and socioeconomic status: evidence from primary care in England.

The multiplicative loops of Jha-Johnson semifields (2019)
Journal Article
Pumpluen, S. (2019). The multiplicative loops of Jha-Johnson semifields. Communications in Contemporary Mathematics, 721, 227-242

The multiplicative loops of Jha-Johnson semifields are non-automorphic finite loops whose left and right nuclei are the multiplicative groups of a field extension of their centers. They yield examples of finite loops with non-trivial automorphism gro... Read More about The multiplicative loops of Jha-Johnson semifields.

Does bank stakeholder orientation enhance financial stability? (2019)
Journal Article
Leung, W. S., Song, W., & Chen, J. (2019). Does bank stakeholder orientation enhance financial stability?. Journal of Corporate Finance, 56, 38-63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2019.01.003

Using the staggered enactment of constituency statutes across US states, we find that banks with directors whose legal duties are expanded to consider stakeholder and long-term interests significantly reduce risk-taking by increasing capital and shif... Read More about Does bank stakeholder orientation enhance financial stability?.

Labor market reforms: An evaluation of the Hartz policies in Germany (2019)
Journal Article
Bradley, J., & Kügler, A. (2019). Labor market reforms: An evaluation of the Hartz policies in Germany. European Economic Review, 113, 108-135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2018.12.008

How do workers and firms respond to comprehensive labor market reforms? We use detailed micro data to analyze the German Hartz Reforms through the lens of a structural model of the labor market. These reforms aimed at reducing unemployment, by increa... Read More about Labor market reforms: An evaluation of the Hartz policies in Germany.

The relationship between inquiry-based teaching and students’ achievement. New evidence from a longitudinal PISA study in England (2019)
Journal Article
Jerrim, J., Oliver, M., & Sims, S. (2019). The relationship between inquiry-based teaching and students’ achievement. New evidence from a longitudinal PISA study in England. Learning and Instruction, 61, 35-44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2018.12.004

© 2019 Elsevier Ltd Inquiry-based science teaching involves supporting pupils to acquire scientific knowledge indirectly by conducting their own scientific experiments, rather than receiving scientific knowledge directly from teachers. This approach... Read More about The relationship between inquiry-based teaching and students’ achievement. New evidence from a longitudinal PISA study in England.

Monitoring morphology evolution within block copolymer microparticles during dispersion polymerisation in supercritical carbon dioxide: a high pressure SAXS study (2019)
Journal Article
Alauhdin, M., Bennett, T. M., He, G., Bassett, S. P., Portale, G., Bras, W., …Howdle, S. M. (2019). Monitoring morphology evolution within block copolymer microparticles during dispersion polymerisation in supercritical carbon dioxide: a high pressure SAXS study. Polymer Chemistry, 10(7), 860-871. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8py01578c

Reversible addition–fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) dispersion polymerisation in supercritical carbon dioxide is an effective process for creating block copolymer microparticles with internal nanostructures. Here we report an alternative synthesi... Read More about Monitoring morphology evolution within block copolymer microparticles during dispersion polymerisation in supercritical carbon dioxide: a high pressure SAXS study.

Melting and solidification characteristics of a double-pipe latent heat storage system with sinusoidal wavy channels embedded in a porous medium (2019)
Journal Article
Shahsavar, A., Al-Rashed, A. A., Entezari, S., & Sardari, P. T. (2019). Melting and solidification characteristics of a double-pipe latent heat storage system with sinusoidal wavy channels embedded in a porous medium. Energy, 171, 751-769. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2019.01.045

The aim of this investigation is to explore the combined effects of porous medium and surface waviness on the melting and solidification of PCM inside a vertical double-pipe latent heat storage (LHTES) system. The results are compared with the cases... Read More about Melting and solidification characteristics of a double-pipe latent heat storage system with sinusoidal wavy channels embedded in a porous medium.

Ex vivo MRI cell tracking of autologous mesenchymal stromal cells in an ovine osteochondral defect model (2019)
Journal Article
Markides, H., Newell, K. J., Rudorf, H., Ferreras, L. B., Dixon, J. E., Morris, R. H., …El Haj, A. J. (2019). Ex vivo MRI cell tracking of autologous mesenchymal stromal cells in an ovine osteochondral defect model. Stem Cell Research and Therapy, 10, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13287-018-1123-7

Background Osteochondral injuries represent a significant clinical problem requiring novel cell-based therapies to restore function of the damaged joint with the use of mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) leading research efforts. Pre-clinical studies... Read More about Ex vivo MRI cell tracking of autologous mesenchymal stromal cells in an ovine osteochondral defect model.

Timeline and location of recurrence following successful ablation in Barrett’s oesophagus: an international multicentre study (2019)
Journal Article
Sami, S. S., Ravindran, A., Kahn, A., Snyder, D., Santiago, J., Ortiz-Fernandez-Sordo, J., …Iyer, P. G. (2019). Timeline and location of recurrence following successful ablation in Barrett’s oesophagus: an international multicentre study. Gut, 68(8), 1379-1385. https://doi.org/10.1136/gutjnl-2018-317513

Objectives: Surveillance intervals protocols after complete remission of intestinal metaplasia (CRIM) post radiofrequency ablation (RFA) in Barrett’s esophagus (BE) are currently empiric and not based on substantial evidence. We aimed to assess the t... Read More about Timeline and location of recurrence following successful ablation in Barrett’s oesophagus: an international multicentre study.

Patient reported outcome measures in the recovery of adults hospitalised with community-acquired pneumonia: a systematic review (2019)
Journal Article
Pick, H. J., Bolton, C. E., Lim, W. S., & McKeever, T. M. (2019). Patient reported outcome measures in the recovery of adults hospitalised with community-acquired pneumonia: a systematic review. European Respiratory Journal, 53(3), Article 1802165. https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.02165-2018

Symptomatic and functional recovery are important patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) in community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) that are increasingly used as trial endpoints. This systematic review summarises the literature on PROMs in CAP. Comp... Read More about Patient reported outcome measures in the recovery of adults hospitalised with community-acquired pneumonia: a systematic review.

Small airway hyperresponsiveness in COPD: relationship between structure and function in lung slices (2019)
Journal Article
Maarsingh, H., Bidan, C. M., Brook, B. S., Zuidhof, A. B., Elzinga, C. R., Smit, M., …Meurs, H. (2019). Small airway hyperresponsiveness in COPD: relationship between structure and function in lung slices. AJP - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology, 316(3), L537-L546. https://doi.org/10.1152/ajplung.00325.2018

The direct relationship between pulmonary structural changes and airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR) in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is unclear. We investigated AHR in relation to airway and parenchymal structural changes in a guinea pig... Read More about Small airway hyperresponsiveness in COPD: relationship between structure and function in lung slices.

Anion-binding-induced electrochemical signal transduction in ferrocenylimidazolium: combined electrochemical experimental and theoretical investigation (2019)
Journal Article
Weng, T., Huang, Y., Xue, L., Cheng, J., Jin, S., Liu, S., …Chen, G. Z. (2019). Anion-binding-induced electrochemical signal transduction in ferrocenylimidazolium: combined electrochemical experimental and theoretical investigation. Molecules, 24(2), Article 238. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules24020238

Five ferrocene alkymethylimidazolium cations 1a–1d and 2 with different alkyl spacer lengths were reinvestigated using voltammetry and density functional theory (DFT) calculations. The voltammetric responses of ligand 2 toward various anions are desc... Read More about Anion-binding-induced electrochemical signal transduction in ferrocenylimidazolium: combined electrochemical experimental and theoretical investigation.

Seasonal scheduling of shellfish collection in the Middle and Later Stone Ages of southern Africa (2019)
Journal Article
Loftus, E., Lee-Thorp, J., Leng, M., Marean, C., & Sealy, J. (2019). Seasonal scheduling of shellfish collection in the Middle and Later Stone Ages of southern Africa. Journal of Human Evolution, 128, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2018.12.009

This study assesses the seasonal scheduling of shellfish harvesting among hunter-gatherer populations along the southernmost coast of South Africa, based on a large number of serial oxygen isotope analyses of marine mollusk shells from four archaeolo... Read More about Seasonal scheduling of shellfish collection in the Middle and Later Stone Ages of southern Africa.

Social Media Brand Engagement as a Proxy for E-Commerce Activities: A Case Study of Sina Weibo and JD (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lin, W., Saleiro, P., Milic-Frayling, N., & Ch'ng, E. (2019). Social Media Brand Engagement as a Proxy for E-Commerce Activities: A Case Study of Sina Weibo and JD. In Proceedings - 2018 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI) (375-382). https://doi.org/10.1109/WI.2018.00-65

E-commerce platforms facilitate sales of products while product vendors engage in Social Media Activities (SMA) to drive E-commerce Platform Activities (EPA) of consumers, enticing them to search, browse and buy products. The frequency and timing of... Read More about Social Media Brand Engagement as a Proxy for E-Commerce Activities: A Case Study of Sina Weibo and JD.

Impact of technology-based interventions for children and young people with type 1 diabetes on key diabetes self-management behaviours and prerequisites: a systematic review (2019)
Journal Article
Knox, E. C. L., Quirk, H., Glazebrook, C., Randell, T., & Blake, H. (2019). Impact of technology-based interventions for children and young people with type 1 diabetes on key diabetes self-management behaviours and prerequisites: a systematic review. BMC Endocrine Disorders, 19(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12902-018-0331-6

Background The role of technology in the self-management of type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) among children and young people is not well understood. Interventions should aim to improve key diabetes self-management behaviours (self-management of blo... Read More about Impact of technology-based interventions for children and young people with type 1 diabetes on key diabetes self-management behaviours and prerequisites: a systematic review.

Gambling on smartphones: a study of a potentially addictive behaviour in a naturalistic setting (2019)
Journal Article
James, R. J., O 'Malley, C., & Tunney, R. J. (2019). Gambling on smartphones: a study of a potentially addictive behaviour in a naturalistic setting. European Addiction Research, 25(1), 30-40. https://doi.org/10.1159/000495663

Smartphone users engage extensively with their devices, on an intermittent basis for short periods of time. These patterns of behaviour have the potential to make mobile gambling especially perseverative. This paper reports the first empirical study... Read More about Gambling on smartphones: a study of a potentially addictive behaviour in a naturalistic setting.

The social anatomy of 'collusion' (2019)
Journal Article
Crook, C., & Elizabeth, N. (2019). The social anatomy of 'collusion'. British Educational Research Journal, 45(2), 388-406. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3504

This paper offers a conceptual analysis of collusion, the often overlooked relative of plagiarism in debates on academic integrity. Considered as an inherently social phenomenon, we present the results of a systematic effort to understand the anatomy... Read More about The social anatomy of 'collusion'.

Bail-in rules and the pricing of Italian bank bonds (2019)
Journal Article
Crespi, F., Giacomini, E., & Mascia, D. V. (2019). Bail-in rules and the pricing of Italian bank bonds. European Financial Management, 25(5), 1321-1347. https://doi.org/10.1111/eufm.12206

We analyze whether the introduction of the bail-in tool in January 2016 affected the pricing of Italian bank bonds. Using a unique dataset of 1,798 fixed-rate bonds issued during the period 2013–2016, we find an increase of the spread at issuance of... Read More about Bail-in rules and the pricing of Italian bank bonds.