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Setting the agenda for social science research on the human microbiome (2020)
Journal Article
Greenhough, B., Read, C. J., Lorimer, J., Lezaun, J., McLeod, C., Benezra, A., Bloomfield, S., Brown, T., Clinch, M., D’Acquisto, F., Dumitriu, A., Evans, J., Fawcett, N., Fortané, N., Hall, L. J., Giraldo Herrera, C. E., Hodgetts, T., Johnson, K. V.-A., Kirchhelle, C., Krzywoszynska, A., …Wills, J. (2020). Setting the agenda for social science research on the human microbiome. Palgrave Communications, 6(2020), Article 18

The human microbiome is an important emergent area of cross, multi and transdisciplinary study. The complexity of this topic leads to conflicting narratives and regulatory challenges. It raises questions about the benefits of its commercialisation an... Read More about Setting the agenda for social science research on the human microbiome.

Polymer powder bed fusion surface texture measurement (2020)
Journal Article
de Pastre, M.-A., Thompson, A., Quinsat, Y., Albajez, J. A., Senin, N., & Leach, R. K. (2020). Polymer powder bed fusion surface texture measurement. Measurement Science and Technology, 31(5), Article 055002. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6501/ab63b1

Polymer laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) surfaces can be challenging to measure. These surfaces comprise complex features including undercuts, deep recesses, step-like transitions, a large range of measurement scales and unfavourable optically material... Read More about Polymer powder bed fusion surface texture measurement.

Field survey to evaluate space allowances for dairy cows in Great Britain (2020)
Journal Article
Thompson, J. S., Huxley, J. N., Hudson, C. D., Kaler, J., Gibbons, J., & Green, M. J. (2020). Field survey to evaluate space allowances for dairy cows in Great Britain. Journal of Dairy Science, 103(4), 3745-3759. https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2019-17004

© 2020 American Dairy Science Association Housing conditions can affect health of cows by increasing exposure to biological, chemical, and physical hazards, resulting in increased disease. A report in 2014 indicated that 99% of UK dairy cows are hous... Read More about Field survey to evaluate space allowances for dairy cows in Great Britain.

Self-Defence and Its Limits in Marguerite Porete’s Mirror of Simple Souls (2020)
Journal Article
Trombley, J. L. (2020). Self-Defence and Its Limits in Marguerite Porete’s Mirror of Simple Souls. Nottingham Medieval Studies, 63, 129-151. https://doi.org/10.1484/j.nms.5.118197

This article examines how Marguerite Porete defended her ideas in her mystical treatise The Mirror of Simple Souls, which along with its author was condemned as heretical in 1310. Most scholarship has focussed on the final sixteen chapters of the Mir... Read More about Self-Defence and Its Limits in Marguerite Porete’s Mirror of Simple Souls.

Disability, Options and Well-Being (2020)
Journal Article
Crawley, T. (2020). Disability, Options and Well-Being. Utilitas, 32(3), 316-334. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0953820819000463

Copyright © 2020 Cambridge University Press. Many endorse the Bad-Difference View (BDV) of disability which says that disability makes one likely to be worse off even in the absence of discrimination against the disabled. Others defend the Mere-Diffe... Read More about Disability, Options and Well-Being.

Experimental Evaluation of Geocell and EPS Geofoam as Means of Protecting Pipes at the Bottom of Repeatedly Loaded Trenches (2020)
Journal Article
Moghaddas Tafreshi, S. N., Joz Darabi, N., Dawson, A. R., & Azizian, M. (2020). Experimental Evaluation of Geocell and EPS Geofoam as Means of Protecting Pipes at the Bottom of Repeatedly Loaded Trenches. International Journal of Geomechanics, 20(4), 04020023. https://doi.org/10.1061/%28ASCE%29GM.1943-5622.0001624

© 2020 American Society of Civil Engineers. With growing populations and continuing urban development, embedding pipes in the ground that are then overrun by traffic is inevitable. This paper describes full-scale prototype tests on high-density polye... Read More about Experimental Evaluation of Geocell and EPS Geofoam as Means of Protecting Pipes at the Bottom of Repeatedly Loaded Trenches.

Rouge Brun or Counterrevolutionary? Another Look at Michel Houellebecq's Politics (2020)
Journal Article
Lane, J. (2020). Rouge Brun or Counterrevolutionary? Another Look at Michel Houellebecq's Politics. Modern Language Review, 115(1), 63-82. https://doi.org/10.5699/modelangrevi.115.1.0063

Michel Houellebecq has gained a reputation for combining left-wing critiques of neo-liberal capitalism with reactionary laments at the decline of nation, religion, honest labour, and the patriarchal family. Critics typically thus either declare the n... Read More about Rouge Brun or Counterrevolutionary? Another Look at Michel Houellebecq's Politics.

Berserks Behaving Badly: Manipulating Normative Expectations in Eyrbyggja saga (2020)
Book Chapter
Ruiter, K. (2020). Berserks Behaving Badly: Manipulating Normative Expectations in Eyrbyggja saga. In Narrating Law and Laws of Narration in Medieval Scandinavia (171-184). De Gruyter

A common thread running through the present volume is the consistent highlighting of the flexibility, negotiation, and pragmatism that is so apparent in narrated descriptions of law, legal norms, and legal practice in the medieval Scandinavian milieu... Read More about Berserks Behaving Badly: Manipulating Normative Expectations in Eyrbyggja saga.

Heresy and authority in Bede’s Letter to Plegwine (2020)
Book Chapter
Darby, P. (2020). Heresy and authority in Bede’s Letter to Plegwine. Cities, Saints and Communities in Early Medieval Europe (145-169). Brepols Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SEM-EB.5.119626

Study Habits and Attainment in Undergraduate Mathematics: A Social Network Analysis (2020)
Journal Article
Alcock, L., Hernandez-Martinez, P., Patel, A. G., & Sirl, D. (2020). Study Habits and Attainment in Undergraduate Mathematics: A Social Network Analysis. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 51(1), 26–49. https://doi.org/10.5951/jresematheduc.2019.0006

In this paper, we argue that although mathematics educators are concerned about social issues, minimal attention has been paid to student-student interactions outside the classroom. We discuss social network analysis (SNA) as a methodology for studyi... Read More about Study Habits and Attainment in Undergraduate Mathematics: A Social Network Analysis.

The role of the cingulate cortex in the generation of motor tics and the experience of the premonitory urge-to-tic in Tourette syndrome (2020)
Preprint / Working Paper
Jackson, S. R., Sigurdsson, H. P., Dyke, K., Condon, M., & Jackson, G. M. The role of the cingulate cortex in the generation of motor tics and the experience of the premonitory urge-to-tic in Tourette syndrome

Tourette syndrome (TS) is a neurological disorder of childhood onset that is characterised by the occurrence of motor and vocal tics. TS is associated with cortical-striatal-thalamic-cortical circuit [CSTC] dysfunction and hyper-excitability of corti... Read More about The role of the cingulate cortex in the generation of motor tics and the experience of the premonitory urge-to-tic in Tourette syndrome.

Spectral Representation of Behaviour Primitives for Depression Analysis (2020)
Journal Article
Song, S., Jaiswal, S., Shen, L., & Valstar, M. (2020). Spectral Representation of Behaviour Primitives for Depression Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, https://doi.org/10.1109/taffc.2020.2970712

Depression is a serious mental disorder affecting millions of people. Traditional clinical diagnosis methods are subjective, complicated and require extensive participation of clinicians. Recent advances in automatic depression analysis systems promi... Read More about Spectral Representation of Behaviour Primitives for Depression Analysis.

The entire 'Man of Letters'?: Robert Southey, correspondence and Romantic incompleteness (2020)
Book Chapter
Pratt, L. (2020). The entire 'Man of Letters'?: Robert Southey, correspondence and Romantic incompleteness. In M. Callaghan, & A. Howe (Eds.), Romanticism and the Letter (99-115). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29310-9

‘[I]ncompleteness, fragmentation, and ruin’ have been described as central to ‘both the theory and the actuality of Romanticism’...

Cellulose fibrillation and interaction with psyllium seed husk heteroxylan (2020)
Journal Article
Ren, Y., Linter, B. R., & Foster, T. J. (2020). Cellulose fibrillation and interaction with psyllium seed husk heteroxylan. Food Hydrocolloids, 104, Article 105725. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodhyd.2020.105725

© 2020 Elsevier Ltd Fibrillated cellulose (FC) and its mixture with psyllium seed husk powder (PSY) were investigated to broaden the applications of these two materials by a novel combination. Purified cellulose was processed by a colloid mill and re... Read More about Cellulose fibrillation and interaction with psyllium seed husk heteroxylan.

Untangling early embryo development using single cell genomics (2020)
Journal Article
Alberio, R. (2020). Untangling early embryo development using single cell genomics. Theriogenology, 150, 55-58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.theriogenology.2020.01.062

The zygote undergoes five cell divisions prior to the first signs of lineage segregation. Blastocyst formation requires segregation of the trophectoderm, needed for implantation, and the inner cell mass, which differentiate towards the major lineages... Read More about Untangling early embryo development using single cell genomics.

Cerium Oxide Nanoparticles Inside Carbon Nanoreactors for Selective Allylic Oxidation of Cyclohexene (2020)
Journal Article
Agasti, N., Astle, M. A., Rance, G. A., Alves Fernandes, J., Dupont, J., & Khlobystov, A. N. (2020). Cerium Oxide Nanoparticles Inside Carbon Nanoreactors for Selective Allylic Oxidation of Cyclohexene. Nano Letters, 20(2), 1161-1171. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b04579

The confinement of cerium oxide (CeO2) nanoparticles within hollow carbon nanostructures has been achieved and harnessed to control the oxidation of cyclohexene. Graphitized carbon nanofibers (GNF) have been used as the nanoscale tubular host and fil... Read More about Cerium Oxide Nanoparticles Inside Carbon Nanoreactors for Selective Allylic Oxidation of Cyclohexene.

Microfluidic formation of highly monodispersed multiple cored droplets using needle-based system in parallel mode (2020)
Journal Article
Lian, Z., Chan, Y., Luo, Y., Yang, X., Koh, K. S., Wang, J., Chen, G. Z., Ren, Y., & He, J. (2020). Microfluidic formation of highly monodispersed multiple cored droplets using needle-based system in parallel mode. ELECTROPHORESIS, 41(10-11), 891-901. https://doi.org/10.1002/elps.201900403

© 2020 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim Scale-up in droplet microfluidics achieved by increasing the number of devices running in parallel or increasing the droplet makers in the same device can compromise the narrow droplet-size distribu... Read More about Microfluidic formation of highly monodispersed multiple cored droplets using needle-based system in parallel mode.

Lens aberration compensation in interference microscopy (2020)
Journal Article
Su, R., Thomas, M., Liu, M., Drs, J., Bellouard, Y., Pruss, C., Coupland, J., & Leach, R. (2020). Lens aberration compensation in interference microscopy. Optics and Lasers in Engineering, 128, Article 106015. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optlaseng.2020.106015

Emergence of products that feature functional surfaces with complex geometries, such as freeform optics in consumer electronics and augmented reality and virtual reality, requires high-accuracy non-contact surface measurement. However, large discrepa... Read More about Lens aberration compensation in interference microscopy.

A randomised feasibility trial comparing needle fasciotomy with limited fasciectomy treatment for Dupuytren’s contractures (2020)
Journal Article
the HAND-1 Study group, Davis, T. R. C., Tan, W., Harrison, E. F., Hollingworth, W., Karantana, A., Mills, N., Hepburn, T., Sprange, K., Duley, L., Blazeby, J. M., Bainbridge, C. G., Murali, R., & Montgomery, A. A. (2020). A randomised feasibility trial comparing needle fasciotomy with limited fasciectomy treatment for Dupuytren’s contractures. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 6(1), Article 7. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-019-0546-y

© 2020 The Author(s). Purpose: The purpose of this study is to assess the feasibility of conducting a large, multicentre randomised controlled trial (RCT) comparing needle fasciotomy with limited fasciectomy for treatment of Dupuytren's contractures.... Read More about A randomised feasibility trial comparing needle fasciotomy with limited fasciectomy treatment for Dupuytren’s contractures.

Differential expression of HERV-W in peripheral blood in multiple sclerosis and healthy patients in two different ethnic groups (2020)
Journal Article
Tarlinton, R., Wang, B., Morandi, E., Gran, B., Khaibullin, T., Martynova, E., Rizvanov, A., & Khaiboullina, S. (2020). Differential expression of HERV-W in peripheral blood in multiple sclerosis and healthy patients in two different ethnic groups. Frontiers in Pharmacology, 10, Article 1645. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2019.01645

Copyright © 2020 Tarlinton, Wang, Morandi, Gran, Khaiboullin, Martynova, Rizvanov and Khaiboullina. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction... Read More about Differential expression of HERV-W in peripheral blood in multiple sclerosis and healthy patients in two different ethnic groups.