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Profile of Tofacitinib in the Treatment of Ulcerative Colitis: An Evidence-Based Review of Recent Data (2019)
Journal Article
Varyani, F., Argyriou, K., Phillips, F., Tsakiridou, E., & Moran, G. W. (2019). Profile of Tofacitinib in the Treatment of Ulcerative Colitis: An Evidence-Based Review of Recent Data. Drug Design, Development and Therapy, 13, 4091-4105. https://doi.org/10.2147/dddt.s182891

Recent advances in the understanding of the pathophysiology of ulcerative colitis (UC) have led to the expansion of our therapeutic arsenal. Conventional treatment options, including aminosalicylates, corticosteroids, thiopurines, and calcineurin inh... Read More about Profile of Tofacitinib in the Treatment of Ulcerative Colitis: An Evidence-Based Review of Recent Data.

Recommendations from the ERAS® Society for standards for the development of enhanced recovery after surgery guidelines (2019)
Journal Article
Brindle, M., Nelson, G., Lobo, D. N., Ljungqvist, O., & Gustafsson, U. O. (2020). Recommendations from the ERAS® Society for standards for the development of enhanced recovery after surgery guidelines. BJS Open, 4(1), 157-163. https://doi.org/10.1002/bjs5.50238

Background
ERAS® Society guidelines are holistic, multidisciplinary tools designed to improve outcomes after surgery. The enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) approach was initially developed for colorectal surgery and has been implemented success... Read More about Recommendations from the ERAS® Society for standards for the development of enhanced recovery after surgery guidelines.

Short-term integrated rehabilitation for people with newly diagnosed thoracic cancer: a multi-centre randomized controlled feasibility trial (2019)
Journal Article
Bayly, J., Fettes, L., Douglas, E., Douglas, E., Teixiera, M. J., Peat, N., …Maddocks, M. (2020). Short-term integrated rehabilitation for people with newly diagnosed thoracic cancer: a multi-centre randomized controlled feasibility trial. Clinical Rehabilitation, 34(2), 205-219. https://doi.org/10.1177/0269215519888794

© The Author(s) 2019. Objectives: The main objective of this study is to determine the feasibility of recruiting and retaining patients recently diagnosed with thoracic cancer to a trial of short-term integrated rehabilitation; evaluate uptake of the... Read More about Short-term integrated rehabilitation for people with newly diagnosed thoracic cancer: a multi-centre randomized controlled feasibility trial.

Presenting a new defamilization and familization framework for investigating the residualization of old‐age income security measures—The case study of Hong Kong (2019)
Journal Article
Yu, S. W. K., Chau, R. C. M., & Jung, M.-A. (2020). Presenting a new defamilization and familization framework for investigating the residualization of old‐age income security measures—The case study of Hong Kong. Asian Social Work and Policy Review, 14(1), 53-60. https://doi.org/10.1111/aswp.12192

Familisation and defamilisation studies are increasingly seen as an important component of welfare research. They are concerned with the threats to individuals’ welfare caused by involuntary participation in the unwanted family relationship. Moreove... Read More about Presenting a new defamilization and familization framework for investigating the residualization of old‐age income security measures—The case study of Hong Kong.

Oiling the bureaucracy? political spending, bureaucrats and the resource curse (2019)
Journal Article
Harris, A. S., Sigman, R., Meyer-Sahling, J.-H., Mikkelsen, K. S., & Schuster, C. (2020). Oiling the bureaucracy? political spending, bureaucrats and the resource curse. World Development, 127, Article 104745. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104745

What role do bureaucrats play in the development of the resource curse in countries that have recently discovered oil? Much of the resource curse literature argues that political leaders spend natural resource revenue in ways that entrench their poli... Read More about Oiling the bureaucracy? political spending, bureaucrats and the resource curse.

The Blue-Green Path to Urban Flood Resilience (2019)
Journal Article
O'Donnell, E., Thorne, C., Ahilan, S., Arthur, S., Birkinshaw, S., Butler, D., …Wright, N. (2019). The Blue-Green Path to Urban Flood Resilience. Blue-Green Systems, 1(1), 172-189. https://doi.org/10.2166/bgs.2019.199

Achieving urban flood resilience at local, regional and national levels requires a transformative change in planning, design and implementation of urban water systems. Flood risk, wastewater and stormwater management should be re-envisaged and transf... Read More about The Blue-Green Path to Urban Flood Resilience.

Magnesium biofortification of Italian ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum L.) via agronomy and breeding as a potential way to reduce grass tetany in grazing ruminants (2019)
Journal Article
Kumssa, D. B., Lovatt, J. A., Graham, N. S., Palmer, S., Hayden, R., Wilson, L., …Broadley, M. R. (2020). Magnesium biofortification of Italian ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum L.) via agronomy and breeding as a potential way to reduce grass tetany in grazing ruminants. Plant and Soil, 457, 25–41. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-019-04337-x

© 2019, The Author(s). Aim: Magnesium (Mg) deficiency (known as grass tetany) is a serious metabolic disorder that affects grazing ruminants. We tested whether Mg-fertiliser can increase Mg concentration of Italian ryegrasses (Lolium multiflorum L.)... Read More about Magnesium biofortification of Italian ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum L.) via agronomy and breeding as a potential way to reduce grass tetany in grazing ruminants.

Engagement barriers and service inequities in the NHS Breast Screening Programme: Views from British-Pakistani women (2019)
Journal Article
Woof, V. G., Ruane, H., Ulph, F., French, D. P., Qureshi, N., Khan, N., …Donnelly, L. S. (2020). Engagement barriers and service inequities in the NHS Breast Screening Programme: Views from British-Pakistani women. Journal of Medical Screening, 27(3), 130-137. https://doi.org/10.1177/0969141319887405

Objectives: Previous research has largely attempted to explore breast screening experiences of South Asian women by combining opinions from Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Indian women. This research often fails to reach the most underserved sub-groups of... Read More about Engagement barriers and service inequities in the NHS Breast Screening Programme: Views from British-Pakistani women.

Feminism/feminist geography (2019)
Book Chapter
Calkin, S., & Freeman, C. (2019). Feminism/feminist geography. In International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. (2). Elsevier

Migration and Urbanism in Glasgow: The Spatial Impact of South Asian Communities (2019)
Journal Article
Remali, A. M., Salama, A. M., & Wiedmann, F. (2019). Migration and Urbanism in Glasgow: The Spatial Impact of South Asian Communities. Open House International, 44(4), 45-54. https://doi.org/10.1108/ohi-04-2019-b0007

South Asian communities have lived in Scotland since the late nineteenth century, experiencing a substantial growth in the post-war period. This paper contributes a new understanding of the spatial practices of South Asian communities in the city of... Read More about Migration and Urbanism in Glasgow: The Spatial Impact of South Asian Communities.

An Examination of Urban Vertical Gated Communities of Nagpur, India (2019)
Journal Article
Wiedmann, F., & Khan, S. (2019). An Examination of Urban Vertical Gated Communities of Nagpur, India. Open House International, 44(4), 5-12. https://doi.org/10.1108/ohi-04-2019-b0002

This paper explores a new type of housing in India and resulting urban dynamics in Nagpur, a Grade A city in the Indian state of Maharashtra. The accelerating urban growth rate led to a dynamic housing market to accommodate the on-going migration. A... Read More about An Examination of Urban Vertical Gated Communities of Nagpur, India.

A CO2‐Tolerant Perovskite Oxide with High Oxide Ion and Electronic Conductivity (2019)
Journal Article
Li, M., Niu, H., Druce, J., Téllez, H., Ishihara, T., Kilner, J. A., …Rosseinsky, M. J. (2020). A CO2‐Tolerant Perovskite Oxide with High Oxide Ion and Electronic Conductivity. Advanced Materials, 32(4), Article 1905200. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201905200

Mixed ionic–electronic conductors (MIECs) that display high oxide ion conductivity (σo) and electronic conductivity (σe) constitute an important family of electrocatalysts for a variety of applications including fuel cells and oxygen separation membr... Read More about A CO2‐Tolerant Perovskite Oxide with High Oxide Ion and Electronic Conductivity.

A General Description of the Performance of Surface Plasmon Sensors Using a Transmission Line Resonant Circuit Model (2019)
Journal Article
Shen, M., & Somekh, M. G. (2019). A General Description of the Performance of Surface Plasmon Sensors Using a Transmission Line Resonant Circuit Model. IEEE Sensors Journal, 19(23), 11281-11288. https://doi.org/10.1109/jsen.2019.2933320

We analyze the response of surface plasmon (SP) sensors using a transmission line model. We illustrate this analysis with particular reference to a layered structure in which plasmon hybridization occurs. By applying the appropriate resonant conditio... Read More about A General Description of the Performance of Surface Plasmon Sensors Using a Transmission Line Resonant Circuit Model.

Customer engagement behaviour on social media platforms: A systematic literature review (2019)
Journal Article
Bjiboye, T., Harvey, J., & Resnick, S. (2019). Customer engagement behaviour on social media platforms: A systematic literature review. Journal of Customer Behaviour, 18(3), 239-256. https://doi.org/10.1362/147539219X15774563471801

Customer engagement behaviours (CEB) on social media have the potential to strengthen relationships between firms and customers. However, there have been no systematic attempts to review the antecedents of CEB on social media despite wide recognition... Read More about Customer engagement behaviour on social media platforms: A systematic literature review.

Similar factors underlie tree abundance in forests in native and alien ranges (2019)
Journal Article
van der Sande, M. T., Bruelheide, H., Dawson, W., Dengler, J., Essl, F., Field, R., …Knight, T. M. (2020). Similar factors underlie tree abundance in forests in native and alien ranges. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 29(2), 281-294. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13027

© 2019 The Authors. Global Ecology and Biogeography published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd Aim: Alien plant species can cause severe ecological and economic problems, and therefore attract a lot of research interest in biogeography and related fields.... Read More about Similar factors underlie tree abundance in forests in native and alien ranges.

Queer comrades: towards a postsocialist queer politics (2019)
Journal Article
Bao, H. (2019). Queer comrades: towards a postsocialist queer politics. Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture, 24-37. https://doi.org/10.3898/soun.73.03.2019

Perhaps one of the most fascinating changes in the modern Chinese language in the past century has been the use of the term tongzhi (同志). In its early twentieth-century sense of ‘comrade’, tongzhi was widely used as an honorific in China’s revoluti... Read More about Queer comrades: towards a postsocialist queer politics.

The Technical Challenges Facing the Integration of Small-Scale and Large-scale PV Systems into the Grid: A Critical Review (2019)
Journal Article
Alshahrani, A., Omer, S., Su, Y., Mohamed, E., & Alotaibi, S. (2019). The Technical Challenges Facing the Integration of Small-Scale and Large-scale PV Systems into the Grid: A Critical Review. Electronics, 8(12), Article 1443. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics8121443

Decarbonisation, energy security and expanding energy access are the main driving forces behind the worldwide increasing attention in renewable energy. This paper focuses on the solar photovoltaic (PV) technology because, currently, it has the most a... Read More about The Technical Challenges Facing the Integration of Small-Scale and Large-scale PV Systems into the Grid: A Critical Review.

Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy for Spinal Cord Contusion: A Comparative Study on Small and Large Animal Models (2019)
Journal Article
Mukhamedshina, Y., Shulman, I., Ogurcov, S., Kostennikov, A., Zakirova, E., Akhmetzyanova, E., …Rizvanov, A. (2019). Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy for Spinal Cord Contusion: A Comparative Study on Small and Large Animal Models. Biomolecules, 9(12), Article 811. https://doi.org/10.3390/biom9120811

Here, we provide a first comparative study of the therapeutic potential of allogeneic mesenchymal stem cells derived from bone marrow (BM-MSCs), adipose tissue (AD-MSCs), and dental pulp (DP-MSCs) embedded in fibrin matrix, in small (rat) and large (... Read More about Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy for Spinal Cord Contusion: A Comparative Study on Small and Large Animal Models.