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Blood platelets stimulate cancer extravasation through TGFβ-mediated downregulation of PRH/HHEX (2020)
Journal Article
Marcolino De Assis, E., Siddiqui, Y. H., van den Bosch, M., Poole, A. W., Jayaraman, P., & Gaston, K. (2020). Blood platelets stimulate cancer extravasation through TGFβ-mediated downregulation of PRH/HHEX. Oncogenesis, 9, Article 10. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41389-020-0189-0

Cancer cells go through a process known as epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) during which they acquire the ability to migrate and invade extracellular matrix. Some cells also acquire the ability to move across a layer of endothelial cells to en... Read More about Blood platelets stimulate cancer extravasation through TGFβ-mediated downregulation of PRH/HHEX.

Emotional Processing of Ironic Versus Literal Criticism in Autistic and Nonautistic Adults: Evidence From Eye-Tracking (2020)
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Barzy, M., Filik, R., Ferguson, H. J., & Williams, D. (2020). Emotional Processing of Ironic Versus Literal Criticism in Autistic and Nonautistic Adults: Evidence From Eye-Tracking. Autism Research, 13(4), 563-578. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.2272

© 2020 International Society for Autism Research, Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Typically developing adults are able to keep track of story characters' emotional states online while reading. Filik et al. showed that initially, participants expected the vic... Read More about Emotional Processing of Ironic Versus Literal Criticism in Autistic and Nonautistic Adults: Evidence From Eye-Tracking.

Not Yet Dead: The Establishment and Regulation of Slavery by the Islamic State (2020)
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Al-Dayel, N., Mumford, A., & Bales, K. (2022). Not Yet Dead: The Establishment and Regulation of Slavery by the Islamic State. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 45(11), 929-952. https://doi.org/10.1080/1057610X.2020.1711590

The Islamic State is an organization at the nexus of modern slavery and terrorism. This article provides the first in-depth analysis of how it regulated slavery. With a consideration of gendered approaches, it applies multiple data sources to reveal... Read More about Not Yet Dead: The Establishment and Regulation of Slavery by the Islamic State.

Assessment of rapeseed oil body (oleosome) lipolytic activity as an effective predictor of emulsion purity and stability (2020)
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De Chirico, S., di Bari, V., Romero Guzmán, M. J., Nikiforidis, C., Foster, T., & Gray, D. (2020). Assessment of rapeseed oil body (oleosome) lipolytic activity as an effective predictor of emulsion purity and stability. Food Chemistry, 316, Article 126355. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2020.126355

© 2020 Elsevier Ltd The lipolytic activity in oil body creams as affected by recovery and washing protocols was investigated. The effect of thermal treatment on the hydrolytic activity and physical stability of fresh and aged (up to 30 days) oil body... Read More about Assessment of rapeseed oil body (oleosome) lipolytic activity as an effective predictor of emulsion purity and stability.

FibroScan-AST (FAST) score for the non-invasive identification of patients with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis with significant activity and fibrosis: a prospective derivation and global validation study (2020)
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Newsome, P. N., Sasso, M., Deeks, J. J., Paredes, A., Boursier, J., Chan, W.-K., …Harrison, S. A. (2020). FibroScan-AST (FAST) score for the non-invasive identification of patients with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis with significant activity and fibrosis: a prospective derivation and global validation study. The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology, 5(4), 362-373. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-1253%2819%2930383-8

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The burden of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is increasing globally, and a major priority is to identify patients with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) who are at greater risk of progression to cirrhosis, and who will be ca... Read More about FibroScan-AST (FAST) score for the non-invasive identification of patients with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis with significant activity and fibrosis: a prospective derivation and global validation study.

Rethinking co-creation: the fluid and relational process of value co-creation in public service organizations (2020)
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Cluley, V., & Radnor, Z. (2021). Rethinking co-creation: the fluid and relational process of value co-creation in public service organizations. Public Money and Management, 41(7), 563-572. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2020.1719672

IMPACT: Public services are increasingly thought of in terms of the public value they provide. Co-creation is a popular public service management tool to provide services that benefit public value. Both public value and co-creation have been conceptu... Read More about Rethinking co-creation: the fluid and relational process of value co-creation in public service organizations.

¿Agonía o transformación? El carlismo en la literatura española, 1876-1912 (2020)
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Roberts, S. ¿Agonía o transformación? El carlismo en la literatura española, 1876-1912. Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra

This is the Catalogue that accompanied the exhibition of the same title that Stephen Roberts curated at the Museo del Carlismo in Estella (Navarra, Spain) between October 2019 and June 2020. Roberts wrote the introduction (44 pages) and the 30 panels... Read More about ¿Agonía o transformación? El carlismo en la literatura española, 1876-1912.

Dynamic capabilities and environmental sustainability for emerging economies’ multinational enterprises (2020)
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Akhtar, P., Ullah, S., Amin, S. H., Kabra, G., & Shaw, S. (2020). Dynamic capabilities and environmental sustainability for emerging economies’ multinational enterprises. International Studies of Management and Organization, 50(1), 27-42. https://doi.org/10.1080/00208825.2019.1703376

The purpose of this study is to enhance our understanding of how macro (country)-level dynamic capabilities, such as government environmental policies, legal and market requirements, and technological advances, and micro (firm)-level dynamic capabili... Read More about Dynamic capabilities and environmental sustainability for emerging economies’ multinational enterprises.

Site-Selective Orbital Interactions in an Ultrathin Iron-Carbene Photosensitizer Film (2020)
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Temperton, R. H., Rosemann, N. W., Guo, M., Johansson, N., Fredin, L. A., Prakash, O., …Persson, P. (2020). Site-Selective Orbital Interactions in an Ultrathin Iron-Carbene Photosensitizer Film. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 124(8), 1603-1609. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.0c00803

We present the first experimental study of the frontier orbitals in an ultrathin film of the novel hexa-carbene photosensitizer [Fe(btz)3]3+, where btz is 3,3′-dimethyl-1,1′-bis(p-tolyl)-4,4′-bis(1,2,3-triazol-5-ylidene). Resonant photoelectron spect... Read More about Site-Selective Orbital Interactions in an Ultrathin Iron-Carbene Photosensitizer Film.

Freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionidae) from the rising sun (Far East Asia): phylogeny, systematics, and distribution (2020)
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Lopes-Lima, M., Hattori, A., Kondo, T., Hee Lee, J., Ki Kim, S., Shirai, A., …Froufe, E. (2020). Freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionidae) from the rising sun (Far East Asia): phylogeny, systematics, and distribution. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 146, Article 106755. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106755

Freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionidae) is a diverse family with around 700 species being widespread in the Northern Hemisphere and Africa. These animals fulfill key ecological functions and provide important services to humans. Unfortunately, popul... Read More about Freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionidae) from the rising sun (Far East Asia): phylogeny, systematics, and distribution.

Moving Toward a Reliability-Oriented Design Approach of Low-Voltage Electrical Machines by Including Insulation Thermal Aging Considerations (2020)
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Giangrande, P., Madonna, V., Nuzzo, S., & Galea, M. (2020). Moving Toward a Reliability-Oriented Design Approach of Low-Voltage Electrical Machines by Including Insulation Thermal Aging Considerations. IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification, 6(1), 16-27. https://doi.org/10.1109/TTE.2020.2971191

© 2020 IEEE. Electrical machines (EMs) are required to consistently perform their intended mission over a specified timeframe. The move toward transportation electrification made the EMs' reliability an even stringent and predominant requirement, sin... Read More about Moving Toward a Reliability-Oriented Design Approach of Low-Voltage Electrical Machines by Including Insulation Thermal Aging Considerations.

Discovery of a fungal copper radical oxidase with high catalytic efficiency towards 5-hydroxymethylfurfural and benzyl alcohols for bioprocessing (2020)
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Mathieu, Y., Offen, W. A., Forget, S. M., Ciano, L., Viborg, A. H., Blagova, E., …Brumer, H. (2020). Discovery of a fungal copper radical oxidase with high catalytic efficiency towards 5-hydroxymethylfurfural and benzyl alcohols for bioprocessing. ACS Catalysis, 10(5), 3042-3058. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.9b04727

Copyright © 2020 American Chemical Society. Alternatives to petroleum-based chemicals are highly sought-after for ongoing efforts to reduce the damaging effects of human activity on the environment. Copper radical oxidases from Auxiliary Activity Fam... Read More about Discovery of a fungal copper radical oxidase with high catalytic efficiency towards 5-hydroxymethylfurfural and benzyl alcohols for bioprocessing.

Cross-cultural effects on detecting multiple sources of driving hazard: Evidence from the deceleration detection flicker test (2020)
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Lee, Y. M., Miller, K., Crundall, D., & Sheppard, E. (2020). Cross-cultural effects on detecting multiple sources of driving hazard: Evidence from the deceleration detection flicker test. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 69, 222-234. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2020.01.013

Collision rates in Malaysia are much higher than the UK; do these reflect poorer hazard perception skill or does exposure to hazardous events improve hazard detection ability? The deceleration detection flicker test (DDFT) was used to investigate the... Read More about Cross-cultural effects on detecting multiple sources of driving hazard: Evidence from the deceleration detection flicker test.

SquidLab—A user-friendly program for background subtraction and fitting of magnetization data (2020)
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Coak, M. J., Liu, C., Jarvis, D. M., Park, S., Cliffe, M. J., & Goddard, P. A. (2020). SquidLab—A user-friendly program for background subtraction and fitting of magnetization data. Review of Scientific Instruments, 91(2), Article 023901. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5137820

We present an open-source program free to download for academic use with a full user-friendly graphical interface for performing flexible and robust background subtraction and dipole fitting on magnetization data. For magnetic samples with small mome... Read More about SquidLab—A user-friendly program for background subtraction and fitting of magnetization data.

The role of node dynamics in shaping emergent functional connectivity patterns in the brain (2020)
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Forrester, M., Crofts, J. J., Sotiropoulos, S., Coombes, S., & O’Dea, R. (2020). The role of node dynamics in shaping emergent functional connectivity patterns in the brain. Network Neuroscience, 4(2), 467-483. https://doi.org/10.1162/netn_a_00130

The contribution of structural connectivity to functional brain states remains poorly understood. We present a mathematical and computational study suited to assess the structure–function issue, treating a system of Jansen–Rit neural-mass nodes with... Read More about The role of node dynamics in shaping emergent functional connectivity patterns in the brain.

Structural and biochemical evaluation of bisubstrate inhibitors of protein arginine N-methyltransferases PRMT1 and CARM1 (PRMT4) (2020)
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Gunnell, E. A., Al-Noori, A., Muhsen, U., Davies, C. C., Dowden, J., & Dreveny, I. (2020). Structural and biochemical evaluation of bisubstrate inhibitors of protein arginine N-methyltransferases PRMT1 and CARM1 (PRMT4). Biochemical Journal, 477(4), 787–800. https://doi.org/10.1042/bcj20190826

Attenuating the function of protein arginine methyltransferases (PRMTs) is an objective for the investigation and treatment of several diseases including cardiovascular disease and cancer. Bisubstrate inhibitors that simultaneously target binding sit... Read More about Structural and biochemical evaluation of bisubstrate inhibitors of protein arginine N-methyltransferases PRMT1 and CARM1 (PRMT4).

The Three Hundred Project: Backsplash galaxies in simulations of clusters (2020)
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Haggar, R., Gray, M. E., Pearce, F. R., Knebe, A., Cui, W., Mostoghiu, R., & Yepes, G. (2020). The Three Hundred Project: Backsplash galaxies in simulations of clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 492(4), 6074–6085. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa273

In the outer regions of a galaxy cluster, galaxies may be either falling into the cluster for the first time, or have already passed through the cluster centre at some point in their past. To investigate these two distinct populations, we utilise The... Read More about The Three Hundred Project: Backsplash galaxies in simulations of clusters.

An investigation of the effect of pre-straining on the creep behaviour of a P91 steel at 600°C using impression creep testing (2020)
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Brett, S. J., Dyson, C., Maskill, S., Bridges, A., & Sun, W. (2020). An investigation of the effect of pre-straining on the creep behaviour of a P91 steel at 600°C using impression creep testing. Materials Science and Engineering: A, 776, Article 139032. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2020.139032

© 2020 Elsevier B.V. This paper investigates the effect of high temperature tensile strain on subsequent creep strength in a grade 91 steel using impression creep testing. The grade 91 material investigated has been tested in two different microstruc... Read More about An investigation of the effect of pre-straining on the creep behaviour of a P91 steel at 600°C using impression creep testing.

The intravenous pharmacokinetics of butorphanol and detomidine dosed in combination compared with individual dose administrations to exercised horses (2020)
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Paine, S. W., Bright, J., Scarth, J. P., Hincks, P. R., Pearce, C. M., Hannan, C., …Hillyer, L. (2020). The intravenous pharmacokinetics of butorphanol and detomidine dosed in combination compared with individual dose administrations to exercised horses. Journal of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 43(2), 162-170. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvp.12838

In equine and racing practice, detomidine and butorphanol are commonly used in combination for their sedative properties. The aim of the study was to produce detection times to better inform European veterinary surgeons, so that both drugs can be use... Read More about The intravenous pharmacokinetics of butorphanol and detomidine dosed in combination compared with individual dose administrations to exercised horses.