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A sociotechnical system approach to virtual citizen science: an application of BS ISO 27500:2016 (2019)
Journal Article
Houghton, R., Sprinks, J., Wardlaw, J., Bamford, S., & Marsh, S. (2019). A sociotechnical system approach to virtual citizen science: an application of BS ISO 27500:2016. JCOM: Journal of Science Communication, 18(01), https://doi.org/10.22323/2.18010201

We discuss the potential application to virtual citizen science of a recent standard (BS ISO 27500:2016 “The human-centred organisation”) which encourages the adoption of a sociotechnical systems perspective across a wide range of businesses, organiz... Read More about A sociotechnical system approach to virtual citizen science: an application of BS ISO 27500:2016.

The divergence of bank lending rates from policy rates after the financial crisis: The role of bank funding costs (2019)
Journal Article
Illes, A., Lombardi, M. J., & Mizen, P. (2019). The divergence of bank lending rates from policy rates after the financial crisis: The role of bank funding costs. Journal of International Money and Finance, 93, 117-141. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jimonfin.2019.01.003

After the global financial crisis, policy rates were cut to near-zero levels, yet, bank lending rates did not fall as much as the decline in policy rates would have suggested. If the crisis represents a structural break in the relationship between mo... Read More about The divergence of bank lending rates from policy rates after the financial crisis: The role of bank funding costs.

Effect of temperature, oxygen and light on the degradation of β-carotene, lutein and α-tocopherol in spray-dried spinach juice powder during storage (2019)
Journal Article
Syamila, M., Gedi, M., Briars, R., Ayed, C., & Gray, D. (2019). Effect of temperature, oxygen and light on the degradation of β-carotene, lutein and α-tocopherol in spray-dried spinach juice powder during storage. Food Chemistry, 284, 188-197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2019.01.055

© 2019 The aim of this study was to evaluate the interaction between packaging parameters (transmission of light and oxygen) and storage temperatures (4, 20, 40 °C) on nutrient retention of Spinach (Spinacia oleracea) juice, spray-dried in the absen... Read More about Effect of temperature, oxygen and light on the degradation of β-carotene, lutein and α-tocopherol in spray-dried spinach juice powder during storage.

The effect of consumption context on consumer hedonics, emotional response and beer choice (2019)
Journal Article
Nijman, M., James, S., Dehrmann, F., Smart, K., Ford, R., & Hort, J. (2019). The effect of consumption context on consumer hedonics, emotional response and beer choice. Food Quality and Preference, 74, 59-71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2019.01.011

The context of a consumer test affects participant response. Data collected in a sensory laboratory is likely to have little predictive value of consumer experience in real-life situations. This study determined the effects of context on consumer res... Read More about The effect of consumption context on consumer hedonics, emotional response and beer choice.

Haemoproteus minutus is highly virulent for Australasian and South American parrots (2019)
Journal Article
Ortiz-Catedral, L., Brunton, D., Stidworthy, M. F., Elsheikha, H. M., Pennycott, T., Schulze, C., …Olias, P. (2019). Haemoproteus minutus is highly virulent for Australasian and South American parrots. Parasites and Vectors, 12(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-018-3255-0

Background: Haemoproteus and Plasmodium species are widespread avian blood parasites. Several Plasmodium species are known for their high virulence and have caused significant declines in naïve bird populations. The impact of closely related Haemopro... Read More about Haemoproteus minutus is highly virulent for Australasian and South American parrots.

Dopamine D1-like receptors in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex regulate contextual fear conditioning (2019)
Journal Article
Stubbendorff, C., Hale, E., Cassaday, H. J., Bast, T., & Stevenson, C. W. (2019). Dopamine D1-like receptors in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex regulate contextual fear conditioning. Psychopharmacology, 236(6), 1771-1782. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-018-5162-7

Rationale

Dopamine D1 receptor (D1R) signalling is involved in contextual fear conditioning. The D1R antagonist SCH23390 impairs the acquisition of contextual fear when administered systemically or infused locally into the dorsal hippocampus or ba... Read More about Dopamine D1-like receptors in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex regulate contextual fear conditioning.

Moving to another world: understanding the impact of clinical trial closure on research participants living with HIV in Uganda (2019)
Journal Article
Nalubega, S., Cox, K., Cert, O., Mugerwa, H., & Evans, C. (2019). Moving to another world: understanding the impact of clinical trial closure on research participants living with HIV in Uganda. Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, 30(5), e96-e108. https://doi.org/10.1097/JNC.0000000000000057

Despite an increasing need for clinical trials involving people living with HIV (PLWH), little is known about how PLWH experience trial closure, particularly in low-income countries, where the majority of trials take place. We sought to explore the i... Read More about Moving to another world: understanding the impact of clinical trial closure on research participants living with HIV in Uganda.

'Ovid, Plath, Baskin, Hughes' (2019)
Journal Article
Ranger, H. (2019). 'Ovid, Plath, Baskin, Hughes'. Ted Hughes Society Journal, 7(2), 7-24

Many critical treatments of the poetic interaction of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes have overlooked Hughes's 1997 translation of 24 episodes from Ovid's Metamorphoses, Tales from Ovid. This paper argues that the connections between Hughes, Plath, and O... Read More about 'Ovid, Plath, Baskin, Hughes'.

ISO 14001 standard: literature review and theory-based research agenda (2019)
Journal Article
Sartor, M., Orzes, G., Nassimbeni, G., Touboulic, A., & Culot, G. (2019). ISO 14001 standard: literature review and theory-based research agenda. Quality Management Journal, 26(1), 32-64. https://doi.org/10.1080/10686967.2018.1542288

Environmental sustainability has gained momentum in the business world and academia. After about twenty years of research in this field, this paper presents an holistic literature review specifically focused on ISO 14001, which is widely considered t... Read More about ISO 14001 standard: literature review and theory-based research agenda.

Assistive technologies for severe and profound hearing loss: beyond hearing aids and implants (2019)
Journal Article
Hermawati, S., & Pieri, K. (2019). Assistive technologies for severe and profound hearing loss: beyond hearing aids and implants. Assistive Technology: The Offical Journal of RESNA, https://doi.org/10.1080/10400435.2018.1522524

Assistive technologies offer capabilities that were previously inaccessible to individuals with severe and profound hearing loss who have no or limited access to hearing aids and implants. This literature review aims to explore existing assistive tec... Read More about Assistive technologies for severe and profound hearing loss: beyond hearing aids and implants.

A loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay for rapid and specific detection of airborne inoculum of Uromyces betae (sugar beet rust) (2019)
Journal Article
Kaczmarek, A., King, K., West, J., Stevens, M., Sparkes, D., & Dickinson, M. (2019). A loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay for rapid and specific detection of airborne inoculum of Uromyces betae (sugar beet rust). Plant Disease, 103(3), 417-421. https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-02-18-0337-RE

Sugar beet rust disease (causal agent Uromyces betae) represents a serious threat to worldwide sugar beet (Beta vulgaris) crops, causing yield losses of up to 10% in the UK. Currently, the disease is managed mainly by application of fungicides after... Read More about A loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay for rapid and specific detection of airborne inoculum of Uromyces betae (sugar beet rust).

Slow growth of out-of-time-order correlators and entanglement entropy in integrable disordered systems (2019)
Journal Article
McGinley, M., Nunnenkamp, A., & Knolle, J. (2019). Slow growth of out-of-time-order correlators and entanglement entropy in integrable disordered systems. Physical Review Letters, 122(2), Article 020603. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.020603

We investigate how information spreads in three paradigmatic one-dimensional models with spatial disorder. The models we consider are unitarily related to a system of free fermions and, thus, are manifestly integrable. We demonstrate that out-of-time... Read More about Slow growth of out-of-time-order correlators and entanglement entropy in integrable disordered systems.

Prominence, complexity, and pricing (2019)
Journal Article
Chioveanu, I. (2019). Prominence, complexity, and pricing. International Journal of Industrial Organization, 63, 551-582. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijindorg.2018.12.005

This paper analyzes prominence in a homogeneous product market where two firms simultaneously choose both prices and price complexity levels. Market-wide complexity results in consumer confusion. Confused consumers are more likely to buy from the pro... Read More about Prominence, complexity, and pricing.

Performance Optimization of a Fuzzy Entropy Based Feature Selection and Classification Framework (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Shen, Z., Chen, X., & Garibaldi, J. (2019). Performance Optimization of a Fuzzy Entropy Based Feature Selection and Classification Framework. . https://doi.org/10.1109/SMC.2018.00238

© 2018 IEEE. In this paper, based on a fuzzy entropy feature selection framework, different methods have been implemented and compared to improve the key components of the framework. Those methods include the combinations of three ideal vector calcul... Read More about Performance Optimization of a Fuzzy Entropy Based Feature Selection and Classification Framework.

Bridging customer knowledge to innovative product development: a data mining approach (2019)
Journal Article
Zhan, Y., Tan, K. H., & Huo, B. (2019). Bridging customer knowledge to innovative product development: a data mining approach. International Journal of Production Research, 57(20), 6335-6350. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2019.1566662

In the big data era, firms are inundated with customer data, which are valuable in improving services, developing new products, and identifying new markets. However, it is not clear how companies apply data-driven methods to facilitate customer knowl... Read More about Bridging customer knowledge to innovative product development: a data mining approach.

Least concern to endangered: Applying climate change projections profoundly influences the extinction risk assessment for wild Arabica coffee (2019)
Journal Article
Moat, J., Gole, T. W., & Davis, A. P. (2019). Least concern to endangered: Applying climate change projections profoundly influences the extinction risk assessment for wild Arabica coffee. Global Change Biology, 25(2), 390-403. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14341

Arabica coffee (Coffea arabica) is a key crop in many tropical countries and globally provides an export value of over US$13 billion per year. Wild Arabica coffee is of fundamental importance for the global coffee sector and of direct importance with... Read More about Least concern to endangered: Applying climate change projections profoundly influences the extinction risk assessment for wild Arabica coffee.

Antigenicity and immunogenicity of differentially glycosylated HCV E2 envelope proteins expressed in mammalian and insect cells (2019)
Journal Article
Urbanowicz, R. A., Wang, R., Schiel, J. E., Keck, Z., Kerzic, M. C., Lau, P., …Fuerst, T. R. (2019). Antigenicity and immunogenicity of differentially glycosylated HCV E2 envelope proteins expressed in mammalian and insect cells. Journal of Virology, 93(7), https://doi.org/10.1128/jvi.01403-18

Development of a prophylactic vaccine for hepatitis C virus (HCV) remains a global health challenge. Cumulative evidence supports the importance of antibodies targeting the HCV E2 envelope glycoprotein to facilitate viral clearance. However, a signif... Read More about Antigenicity and immunogenicity of differentially glycosylated HCV E2 envelope proteins expressed in mammalian and insect cells.

Development of novel apoferritin formulations for antitumour benzothiazoles (2019)
Journal Article
Breen, A. F., Wells, G., Turyanska, L., & Bradshaw, T. D. (2019). Development of novel apoferritin formulations for antitumour benzothiazoles. Cancer Reports, 2(4), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1002/cnr2.1155

Background
The benzothiazole structure is important in medicinal chemistry, and 5‐fluoro‐2‐(3,4‐dimethoxyphenyl) benzothiazole (GW 610) is of particular interest as it shows outstanding anticancer activity in sensitive breast and colorectal carcinom... Read More about Development of novel apoferritin formulations for antitumour benzothiazoles.