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Centrifuge modeling of the impact of local and global scour erosion on the monotonic lateral response of a monopile in sand (2020)
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Li, Q., Prendergast, L. J., Askarinejad, A., Chortis, G., & Gavin, K. (2020). Centrifuge modeling of the impact of local and global scour erosion on the monotonic lateral response of a monopile in sand. Geotechnical Testing Journal, 43(5), 20180322. https://doi.org/10.1520/GTJ20180322

Copyright © 2020 by ASTM International, 100 Barr Harbor Drive, PO Box C700, West Conshohocken, PA 19428-2959. The majority of offshore wind turbines are founded on large-diameter, open-ended steel monopiles. Monopiles must resist lateral loads and ov... Read More about Centrifuge modeling of the impact of local and global scour erosion on the monotonic lateral response of a monopile in sand.

A randomised phase II trial of hydroxychloroquine and imatinib versus imatinib alone for patients with chronic myeloid leukaemia in major cytogenetic response with residual disease (2020)
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Gallipoli, P., Horne, G. A., Stobo, J., Kelly, C., Mukhopadhyay, A., Latif, A. L., …Copland, M. (2020). A randomised phase II trial of hydroxychloroquine and imatinib versus imatinib alone for patients with chronic myeloid leukaemia in major cytogenetic response with residual disease. Leukemia, 34, 1775–1786. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41375-019-0700-9

© 2020, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited. In chronic-phase chronic myeloid leukaemia (CP-CML), residual BCR-ABL1+ leukaemia stem cells are responsible for disease persistence despite TKI. Based on in vitro data, CHOIC... Read More about A randomised phase II trial of hydroxychloroquine and imatinib versus imatinib alone for patients with chronic myeloid leukaemia in major cytogenetic response with residual disease.

A Bibliometric Overview of the Field of Type-2 Fuzzy Sets and Systems [Discussion Forum] (2020)
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Shukla, A. K., Kumar Bansal, S., Seth, T., Basu, A., John, R., & Muhuri, P. K. (2020). A Bibliometric Overview of the Field of Type-2 Fuzzy Sets and Systems [Discussion Forum]. IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, 15(1), 89-98. https://doi.org/10.1109/MCI.2019.2954669

© 2005-2012 IEEE. Fuzzy Sets and Systems is an area of computational intelligence, pioneered by Lotfi Zadeh over 50 years ago in a seminal paper in Information and Control. Fuzzy Sets (FSs) deal with uncertainty in our knowledge of a particular situa... Read More about A Bibliometric Overview of the Field of Type-2 Fuzzy Sets and Systems [Discussion Forum].

Entrapment and suicide risk: The development of the 4-item Entrapment Scale Short-Form (E-SF) (2020)
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Wetherall, K., De Beurs, D., Cleare, S., Eschle-Byrne, S., Ferguson, E., B O'Connor, D., & C O'Connor, R. (2020). Entrapment and suicide risk: The development of the 4-item Entrapment Scale Short-Form (E-SF). Psychiatry Research, 284, Article 112765. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2020.112765

© 2020 The Authors Evidence suggests that suicidal behaviour arises from one's attempt to escape from unbearable situations or unbearable thoughts and feelings. These feelings of entrapment are usually assessed via the 16-item Entrapment Scale, but t... Read More about Entrapment and suicide risk: The development of the 4-item Entrapment Scale Short-Form (E-SF).

Precipitation regionalization, anomalies and drought occurrence in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico (2020)
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De la Barreda, B., Metcalfe, S. E., & Boyd, D. S. (2020). Precipitation regionalization, anomalies and drought occurrence in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. International Journal of Climatology, 40(10), 4541-4555. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.6474

© 2020 The Authors. International Journal of Climatology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of the Royal Meteorological Society. Climate change projections have identified the Yucatan Peninsula as being vulnerable to increasing drought. U... Read More about Precipitation regionalization, anomalies and drought occurrence in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.

Modelling damage in fibre-reinforced thermoplastic composite laminates subjected to three-point-bend loading (2020)
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Liu, H., Liu, J., Ding, Y., Zhou, J., Kong, X., Harper, L. T., …Dear, J. P. (2020). Modelling damage in fibre-reinforced thermoplastic composite laminates subjected to three-point-bend loading. Composite Structures, 236, Article 111889. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruct.2020.111889

It is important to account for nonlinearity in the deformation of a thermoplastic matrix, as well as fibre fracture and matrix cracking, when predicting progressive failure in unidirectional fibre-reinforced thermoplastic composites. In this research... Read More about Modelling damage in fibre-reinforced thermoplastic composite laminates subjected to three-point-bend loading.

Acute Hyperenergetic, High-Fat Feeding Increases Circulating FGF21, LECT2, and Fetuin-A in Healthy Men (2020)
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Willis, S. A., Sargeant, J. A., Yates, T., Takamura, T., Takayama, H., Gupta, V., …King, J. A. (2020). Acute Hyperenergetic, High-Fat Feeding Increases Circulating FGF21, LECT2, and Fetuin-A in Healthy Men. Journal of Nutrition, 150(5), 1076–1085. https://doi.org/10.1093/jn/nxz333

Background: Hepatokines such as fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21), leukocyte cell-derived chemotaxin 2 (LECT2), fetuin-A, fetuin-B and selenoprotein P (SeP) are liver-derived proteins which are modulated by chronic energy status and metabolic disea... Read More about Acute Hyperenergetic, High-Fat Feeding Increases Circulating FGF21, LECT2, and Fetuin-A in Healthy Men.

Image-guided neural activity manipulation with a paramagnetic drug (2020)
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Bricault, S., Barandov, A., Harvey, P., DeTienne, E., Hai, A., & Jasanoff, A. (2020). Image-guided neural activity manipulation with a paramagnetic drug. Nature Communications, 11(1), Article 136. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13933-5

© 2020, The Author(s). Targeted manipulations of neural activity are essential approaches in neuroscience and neurology, but monitoring such procedures in the living brain remains a significant challenge. Here we introduce a paramagnetic analog of th... Read More about Image-guided neural activity manipulation with a paramagnetic drug.

Heteroleptic iron(ii) complexes with naphthoquinone-type ligands (2020)
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Shiga, T., Kumamaru, R., Newton, G. N., & Oshio, H. (2020). Heteroleptic iron(ii) complexes with naphthoquinone-type ligands. Dalton Transactions, 49(5), 1485-1491. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9dt03946e

Heteroleptic iron complexes with a naphthoquinone-type ligand, 2-(pyridin-2-yl)-1H-naphtho[2,3-d]imidazole-4,9-dione (HL), were synthesized, and their structures and magnetic properties were investigated. Two spin-crossover complexes, [Fe(L)2(L1)] (1... Read More about Heteroleptic iron(ii) complexes with naphthoquinone-type ligands.

Measuring and optimising the efficiency of community hospital inpatient care for older people: the MoCHA mixed-methods study (2020)
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Young, J., Hulme, C., Smith, A., Buckell, J., Godfrey, M., Holditch, C., …Thiebaud, J.-C. (2020). Measuring and optimising the efficiency of community hospital inpatient care for older people: the MoCHA mixed-methods study. Health Services and Delivery Research, 8(1), 1-99. https://doi.org/10.3310/hsdr08010

Background: Community hospitals are small hospitals providing local inpatient and outpatient services. National surveys report that inpatient rehabilitation for older people is a core function but there are large differences in key performance meas... Read More about Measuring and optimising the efficiency of community hospital inpatient care for older people: the MoCHA mixed-methods study.

Early Responses of Brassica oleracea Roots to Zinc Supply Under Sufficient and Sub-Optimal Phosphorus Supply (2020)
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Pongrac, P., Fischer, S., Thompson, J. A., Wright, G., & White, P. J. (2020). Early Responses of Brassica oleracea Roots to Zinc Supply Under Sufficient and Sub-Optimal Phosphorus Supply. Frontiers in Plant Science, 10, Article 1645. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2019.01645

© Copyright © 2020 Pongrac, Fischer, Thompson, Wright and White. Shoot zinc (Zn) concentration in Brassica oleracea is affected by soil Zn and phosphorus (P) supply. Most problematic is the negative impact of P fertilizers on Zn concentrations in cro... Read More about Early Responses of Brassica oleracea Roots to Zinc Supply Under Sufficient and Sub-Optimal Phosphorus Supply.

Explaining the unsuitability of the kappa coefficient in the assessment and comparison of the accuracy of thematic maps obtained by image classification (2020)
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Foody, G. M. (2020). Explaining the unsuitability of the kappa coefficient in the assessment and comparison of the accuracy of thematic maps obtained by image classification. Remote Sensing of Environment, 239, Article 111630. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2019.111630

The kappa coefficient is not an index of accuracy, indeed it is not an index of overall agreement but one of agreement beyond chance. Chance agreement is, however, irrelevant in an accuracy assessment and is anyway inappropriately modelled in the cal... Read More about Explaining the unsuitability of the kappa coefficient in the assessment and comparison of the accuracy of thematic maps obtained by image classification.

Endothelial progenitor cells, potential biomarkers for diagnosis and prognosis of ischemic stroke: protocol for an observational case-control study (2020)
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Othman, O., Rakkar, K., Sprigg, N., Bath, P., & Bayraktutan, U. (2020). Endothelial progenitor cells, potential biomarkers for diagnosis and prognosis of ischemic stroke: protocol for an observational case-control study. Neural Regeneration Research, 15(7), 1300-1307. https://doi.org/10.4103/1673-5374.269028

Ischemic stroke is a devastating, life altering event which can severely reduce patient quality of life. Despite years of research there have been minimal therapeutic advances. Endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs), stem cells involved in both vasculog... Read More about Endothelial progenitor cells, potential biomarkers for diagnosis and prognosis of ischemic stroke: protocol for an observational case-control study.

Metallotexaphyrins as MRI-Active Catalytic Antioxidants for Neurodegenerative Disease: A Study on Alzheimer’s Disease (2020)
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Brewster II, J. T., Thiabaud, G. D., Harvey, P., Zafar, H., Reuther, J. F., Dell'Acqua, S., …Sessler, J. L. (2020). Metallotexaphyrins as MRI-Active Catalytic Antioxidants for Neurodegenerative Disease: A Study on Alzheimer’s Disease. Chem, 6(3), 703-724. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chempr.2019.12.016

The complex etiology of neurodegeneration continues to stifle efforts to develop effective therapeutics. New agents elucidating key pathways causing neurodegeneration might serve to increase our understanding and potentially lead to improved treatmen... Read More about Metallotexaphyrins as MRI-Active Catalytic Antioxidants for Neurodegenerative Disease: A Study on Alzheimer’s Disease.

Van der Waals SnSe2(1-x)S2x alloys: composition-dependent bowing coefficient and electron-phonon interaction (2020)
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Kudrynskyi, Z. R., Wang, X., Sutcliffe, J., Bhuiyan, M. A., Fu, Y., Yang, Z., …Patanè, A. (2020). Van der Waals SnSe2(1-x)S2x alloys: composition-dependent bowing coefficient and electron-phonon interaction. Advanced Functional Materials, 30(9), Article 1908092. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201908092

The design of advanced functional materials with customized properties often requires the use of an alloy. This approach has been used for decades, but only recently to create van der Waals (vdW) alloys for applications in electronics, optoelectronic... Read More about Van der Waals SnSe2(1-x)S2x alloys: composition-dependent bowing coefficient and electron-phonon interaction.

Exchange Rate Flexibility: How Should We Measure It? (2020)
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Bleaney, M., & Tian, M. (2020). Exchange Rate Flexibility: How Should We Measure It?. Open Economies Review, 31(4), 881–900. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11079-019-09577-z

This paper first examines some recent exchange rate classification schemes. There is little evidence of a trend towards greater agreement between schemes. There is a probability of between 16 and 28 percent that a peg in one classification scheme is... Read More about Exchange Rate Flexibility: How Should We Measure It?.

Measuring atopic eczema symptoms in clinical practice: The first consensus statement from the Harmonising Outcome Measures for Eczema in clinical practice initiative (2020)
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Leshem, Y. A., Chalmers, J. R., Apfelbacher, C., Furue, M., Gerbens, L. A., Prinsen, C. A., …Simpson, E. L. (2020). Measuring atopic eczema symptoms in clinical practice: The first consensus statement from the Harmonising Outcome Measures for Eczema in clinical practice initiative. Journal of The American Academy of Dermatology, 82(5), 1181-1186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaad.2019.12.055

Background: Measuring patient-centered outcomes in clinical practice is valuable for monitoring patients and advancing real-world research. A new initiative from the Harmonising Outcome Measures for Eczema (HOME) group aims to recommend what might be... Read More about Measuring atopic eczema symptoms in clinical practice: The first consensus statement from the Harmonising Outcome Measures for Eczema in clinical practice initiative.

Visible‐Light‐Driven Strain‐Increase Ring Contraction Allows the Synthesis of Cyclobutyl Boronic Esters (2020)
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Davenport, R., Silvi, M., Noble, A., Hosni, Z., Fey, N., & Aggarwal, V. K. (2020). Visible‐Light‐Driven Strain‐Increase Ring Contraction Allows the Synthesis of Cyclobutyl Boronic Esters. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 59(16), 6525-6528. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201915409

There are a limited number of ring‐contraction methodologies which convert readily available five‐membered rings into strained four‐membered rings. Here we report a photo‐induced radical‐mediated ring contraction of five‐membered‐ring alkenyl boronat... Read More about Visible‐Light‐Driven Strain‐Increase Ring Contraction Allows the Synthesis of Cyclobutyl Boronic Esters.