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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., Bath, P. M., Sprigg, N., & 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., Hughes, A. J., Wiselka, M., Gelson, W., Unitt, E., Ratcliff, K., Orton, A., Trinder, K., Simpson, C., Ryder, S. D., Oelbaum, S., Foster, G. R., Archie, C., Smith, S., Thomson, B. J., …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., Maharjan, S., Cha, B.-H., Shin, S.-R., Dokmeci, M. R., Vrana, N. E., Ghaemmaghammi, A. M., Khademhosseini, A., & 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.

Is All Formulaic Language Created Equal? Unpacking the Processing Advantage for Different Types of Formulaic Sequences (2019)
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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)
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Hall, D. A., Hibbert, A., Smith, H., Haider, H. F., Londero, A., Mazurek, B., Fackerell, K., & 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)
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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)
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Chappell, L. C., Green, M., Marlow, N., Sandall, J., Hunter, R., Robson, S., Bowler, U., Chiocchia, V., Hardy, P., Juszczak, E., Linsell, L., Placzek, A., Brocklehurst, P., & 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)
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Neal, A., Nornes, S., Payne, S., Wallace, M. D., Fritzsche, M., Louphrasitthiphol, P., Wilkinson, R. N., Chouliaras, K. M., Liu, K., Plant, K., Sholapurkar, R., Ratnayaka, I., Herzog, W., Chico, T., Bond, G., Bou-Gharios, G., & 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)
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Syed, B. M., Green, A. R., Morgan, D. A., Ellis, I. O., & Cheung, K.-L. (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)
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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.