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Does fecal calprotectin equally and accurately measure disease activity in small bowel and large bowel Crohn's disease? A systematic review (2019)
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Simon, E. G., Wardle, R., Thi, A. A., Eldridge, J., Samuel, S., & Moran, G. W. (2019). Does fecal calprotectin equally and accurately measure disease activity in small bowel and large bowel Crohn's disease? A systematic review. Intestinal Research, 17(2), 160-170. https://doi.org/10.5217/ir.2018.00114

Fecal calprotectin (FC) is a highly sensitive disease activity biomarker in inflammatory bowel disease. However, there are conflicting reports on whether the diagnostic accuracy in Crohn’s disease is influenced by disease location. The aim of this st... Read More about Does fecal calprotectin equally and accurately measure disease activity in small bowel and large bowel Crohn's disease? A systematic review.

PsychoPy2: experiments in behavior made easy (2019)
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Peirce, J., Gray, J. R., Simpson, S., MacAskill, M., Höchenberger, R., Sogo, H., …Lindeløv, J. (2019). PsychoPy2: experiments in behavior made easy. Behavior Research Methods, 51(1), 195–203. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-018-01193-y

PsychoPy is an application for the creation of experiments in behavioral science (psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, etc.) with precise spatial control and timing of stimuli. It now provides a choice of interface; users can write scripts Python i... Read More about PsychoPy2: experiments in behavior made easy.

Intensive blood pressure reduction with intravenous thrombolysis therapy for acute ischaemic stroke (ENCHANTED): an international randomised, open-label, blinded-endpoint phase 3 trial (2019)
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Anderson, C. S., Huang, Y., Lindley, R. I., Chen, X., Arima, H., Chen, G., …ENCHANTED Investigators and Coordinators. (2019). Intensive blood pressure reduction with intravenous thrombolysis therapy for acute ischaemic stroke (ENCHANTED): an international randomised, open-label, blinded-endpoint phase 3 trial. Lancet, 393(10174), 877-888. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736%2819%2930038-8

IPSE, a urogenital parasite-derived immunomodulatory protein, ameliorates ifosfamide-induced hemorrhagic cystitis through downregulation of pro-inflammatory pathways (2019)
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Mbanefo, E. C., Le, L., Zee, R., Banskota, N., Ishida, K., Pennington, L. F., …Hsieh, M. H. (2019). IPSE, a urogenital parasite-derived immunomodulatory protein, ameliorates ifosfamide-induced hemorrhagic cystitis through downregulation of pro-inflammatory pathways. Scientific Reports, 9, Article 1586. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-38274-z

Ifosfamide and other oxazaphosphorines can result in hemorrhagic cystitis, a constellation of complications caused by acrolein metabolites. We previously showed that a single dose of IPSE (Interleukin-4-inducing principle from Schistosoma eggs), a sc... Read More about IPSE, a urogenital parasite-derived immunomodulatory protein, ameliorates ifosfamide-induced hemorrhagic cystitis through downregulation of pro-inflammatory pathways.

3D printing strategic deployment: the supply chain perspective (2019)
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Braziotis, C. (2019). 3D printing strategic deployment: the supply chain perspective. Supply Chain Management, 24(3), 397-404. https://doi.org/10.1108/SCM-09-2017-0305

Purpose – The emergence and application of 3D Printing (3DP) is changing the way products are developed and reach the customer, allowing for unprecedented customisation options. Past research has focused on the modus operandi of the technology, provi... Read More about 3D printing strategic deployment: the supply chain perspective.

A pseudospectral method for solution of the radiative transport equation (2019)
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Powell, S., Cox, B. T., & Arridge, S. R. (2019). A pseudospectral method for solution of the radiative transport equation. Journal of Computational Physics, 384, 376-382. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2019.01.024

The radiative transport equation accurately describes light transport in participating media, though analytic solutions are known only for simple geometries. We present a pseudospectral technique to efficiently compute numerical solutions to large-sc... Read More about A pseudospectral method for solution of the radiative transport equation.

Effective chair training methods for neuroscience research involving rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) (2019)
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Mason, S., Premereur, E., Pelekanos, V., Emberton, A., Honess, P., & Mitchell, A. S. (2019). Effective chair training methods for neuroscience research involving rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 317, 82-93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneumeth.2019.02.001

© 2019 The Authors Background: Neuroscience research using macaques remains fundamental in our endeavours to understand how the human brain functions. Applying the refinement principle of the 3Rs is essential to optimise the monkeys’ welfare and stil... Read More about Effective chair training methods for neuroscience research involving rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta).

Reversible, High-Affinity Surface Capturing of Proteins Directed by Supramolecular Assembly (2019)
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Di Palma, G., Kotowska, A. M., Hart, L. R., Scurr, D. J., Rawson, F. J., Tommasone, S., & Mendes, P. M. (2019). Reversible, High-Affinity Surface Capturing of Proteins Directed by Supramolecular Assembly. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 11(9), 8937-8944. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.9b00927

The ability to design surfaces with reversible, high-affinity protein binding sites represents a significant step forward in the advancement of analytical methods for diverse biochemical and biomedical applications. Herein, we report a dynamic supram... Read More about Reversible, High-Affinity Surface Capturing of Proteins Directed by Supramolecular Assembly.

Who seeks physiotherapy or exercise treatment for hip and knee osteoarthritis? A cross-sectional analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (2019)
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Smith, T., Collier, T. S., Smith, B., & Mansfield, M. (2019). Who seeks physiotherapy or exercise treatment for hip and knee osteoarthritis? A cross-sectional analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. International Journal of Rheumatic Diseases, 22(5), 897-904. https://doi.org/10.1111/1756-185X.13480

© 2019 Asia Pacific League of Associations for Rheumatology and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd Objectives: To determine the characteristics of individuals with hip and/or knee osteoarthritis who are recommended to seek physiotherapy or exercise t... Read More about Who seeks physiotherapy or exercise treatment for hip and knee osteoarthritis? A cross-sectional analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.

The tensions of innovation: experiences of teachers during a whole school pedagogical shift (2019)
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Knight, R. (2019). The tensions of innovation: experiences of teachers during a whole school pedagogical shift. Research Papers in Education, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/02671522.2019.1568527

© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Education in many countries is heavily influenced by what has been termed a Global Education Reform Movement, based on competition, measurement and comparison. As well as emphasi... Read More about The tensions of innovation: experiences of teachers during a whole school pedagogical shift.

SCENe things: IoT-based monitoring of a community energy scheme (2019)
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Shipman, R., & Gillott, M. (2019). SCENe things: IoT-based monitoring of a community energy scheme. Future Cities and Environment, 5(1), Article 6. https://doi.org/10.5334/fce.64

This paper describes a technology platform for monitoring homes within a community energy scheme. A range of sensors was deployed to measure in-home environmental conditions, occupancy, electrical power, electrical energy, thermal energy, heating beh... Read More about SCENe things: IoT-based monitoring of a community energy scheme.

Multi-objective ant colony optimization algorithm based on decomposition for community detection in complex networks (2019)
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Mu, C., Zhang, J., Liu, Y., Qu, R., & Huang, T. (2019). Multi-objective ant colony optimization algorithm based on decomposition for community detection in complex networks. Soft Computing, 23, 12683-12709. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-019-03820-y

Community detection aims to identify topological structures and discover patterns in complex networks, which presents an important problem of great significance. The problem can be modeled as an NP hard combinatorial optimization problem, to which mu... Read More about Multi-objective ant colony optimization algorithm based on decomposition for community detection in complex networks.

A wave-based numerical scheme for damage detection and identification in two-dimensional composite structures (2019)
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Apalowo, R., & Chronopoulos, D. (2019). A wave-based numerical scheme for damage detection and identification in two-dimensional composite structures. Composite Structures, 214, 164-182. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruct.2019.01.098

Previous studies on wave inspection in different propagation directions have focussed on the analysis of wave propagation and wave scattering from various types of joints in two-dimensional monolayered structures. In this work, a Finite Element (FE)... Read More about A wave-based numerical scheme for damage detection and identification in two-dimensional composite structures.

Prehospital transdermal glyceryl trinitrate in patients with ultra-acute presumed stroke (RIGHT-2): an ambulance-based, randomised, sham-controlled, blinded, phase 3 trial (2019)
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Bath, P. M., Scutt, P., Anderson, C. S., Appleton, J. P., Berge, E., Cala, L., Dixon, M., England, T. M., Godolphin, P. J., Havard, D., Haywood, L., Hepburn, T., Krishnan, K., Mair, G., Montgomery, A. A., Muir, K., Phillips, S. J., Pocock, S., Potter, J., Price, C., …Mir, R. (2019). Prehospital transdermal glyceryl trinitrate in patients with ultra-acute presumed stroke (RIGHT-2): an ambulance-based, randomised, sham-controlled, blinded, phase 3 trial. Lancet, 393(10175), 1009-1020. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736%2819%2930194-1

© 2019 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under the CC BY 4.0 license Background: High blood pressure is common in acute stroke and is a predictor of poor outcome; however, large trials of lowering blood pressure... Read More about Prehospital transdermal glyceryl trinitrate in patients with ultra-acute presumed stroke (RIGHT-2): an ambulance-based, randomised, sham-controlled, blinded, phase 3 trial.

The prognostic significance of lysosomal protective protein (Cathepsin A) in breast ductal carcinoma in situ (2019)
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Toss, M. S., Miligy, I. M., Haj-Ahmad, R., Gorringe, K. L., AlKawaz, A., Mittal, K., …Rakha, E. A. (2019). The prognostic significance of lysosomal protective protein (Cathepsin A) in breast ductal carcinoma in situ. Histopathology, 74(7), 1025-1035. https://doi.org/10.1111/his.13835

Background: Cathepsin A (CTSA) is a key regulatory enzyme for galactoside metabolism. Additionally, it has a distinct proteolytic activity and plays a role in tumour progression. CTSA is differentially expressed at the mRNA level between br... Read More about The prognostic significance of lysosomal protective protein (Cathepsin A) in breast ductal carcinoma in situ.

Development of a behavioural welfare assessment tool for routine use with captive elephants (2019)
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Yon, L., Williams, E., Harvey, N., & Archer, L. (2019). Development of a behavioural welfare assessment tool for routine use with captive elephants. PLoS ONE, 14(2), Article e0210783. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210783

There has been much concern in recent years about the welfare of elephants in zoos across North America and Europe. While some previous studies have assessed captive elephant welfare at a particular point in time, there has been little work to devel... Read More about Development of a behavioural welfare assessment tool for routine use with captive elephants.

Trust: from the Philosophical to the Commercial (2019)
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Tallant, J., & Donati, D. (2020). Trust: from the Philosophical to the Commercial. Philosophy of Management, 19(1), 3-19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40926-019-00107-y

© 2019, The Author(s). This is a paper about trust, with a specific focus on the ways in which trust is investigated in the business literature and the commercial sector. The lens through which the topic is approached is distinctively philosophical.... Read More about Trust: from the Philosophical to the Commercial.

Time preferences are reliable across time- horizons and verbal versus experiential tasks (2019)
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Lukinova, E., Wang, Y., Lehrer, S. F., & Erlich, J. C. (2019). Time preferences are reliable across time- horizons and verbal versus experiential tasks. eLife, 8, Article e39656. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.39656

Individual differences in delay-discounting correlate with important real world outcomes, for example education, income, drug use, and criminality. As such, delay-discounting has been extensively studied by economists, psychologists and neuroscientis... Read More about Time preferences are reliable across time- horizons and verbal versus experiential tasks.