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Tinnitus healthcare: a survey revealing extensive variation in opinion and practices across Europe (2020)
Journal Article
Cima, R. F., Kikidis, D., Mazurek, B., Haider, H., Cederroth, C. R., Norena, A., …Hoare, D. J. (2020). Tinnitus healthcare: a survey revealing extensive variation in opinion and practices across Europe. BMJ Open, 10(1), Article e029346. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-029346

Tinnitus remains a scientific and clinical problem whereby, in spite of increasing knowledge on effective treatment and management for tinnitus, very little impact on clinical practice has been observed. There is evidence that prolonged, obscure and... Read More about Tinnitus healthcare: a survey revealing extensive variation in opinion and practices across Europe.

Using digitally augmented objects to reduce sedentary behavior in office workers: design and development of the WorkMyWay intervention (2020)
Preprint / Working Paper
Huang, Y., Price, D., Benford, S., & Blake, H. Using digitally augmented objects to reduce sedentary behavior in office workers: design and development of the WorkMyWay intervention

Background:

Sedentary behavior (SB) is associated with various adverse health outcomes. The prevalence of prolonged sitting at work among office workers makes a case for SB interventions to target this setting and population. Everyday mundane obje... Read More about Using digitally augmented objects to reduce sedentary behavior in office workers: design and development of the WorkMyWay intervention.

Microwave digestion of gibbsite and bauxite in sodium hydroxide (2020)
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Dillinger, B., Batchelor, A., Katrib, J., Dodds, C., Suchicital, C., Kingman, S., & Clark, D. (2020). Microwave digestion of gibbsite and bauxite in sodium hydroxide. Hydrometallurgy, 192, Article 105257. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hydromet.2020.105257

It was hypothesized that bauxite digestion may be improved by using microwave heating as it has been shown in literature that some material processes have improved efficiency. To test this hypothesis, a set of digestion experiments were conducted usi... Read More about Microwave digestion of gibbsite and bauxite in sodium hydroxide.

Prosocial exchange systems: Nonreciprocal giving, lending, and skill-sharing (2020)
Journal Article
Harvey, J., Smith, A., Golightly, D., Goulding, J., & Gallage, H. S. (2020). Prosocial exchange systems: Nonreciprocal giving, lending, and skill-sharing. Computers in Human Behavior, 107, Article 106268. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2020.106268

Prosocial exchange systems support cooperation and exchange in support of more sustainable forms of consumption. While often assumed that exchanges within such systems are reciprocal, it remains unproven as to what extent reciprocity occurs. This stu... Read More about Prosocial exchange systems: Nonreciprocal giving, lending, and skill-sharing.

Quench dynamics of Rydberg-dressed bosons on two-dimensional square lattices (2020)
Journal Article
Zhou, Y., Li, Y., Nath, R., & Li, W. (2020). Quench dynamics of Rydberg-dressed bosons on two-dimensional square lattices. Physical Review A, 101(1), Article 013427. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.101.013427

We study dynamics of bosonic atoms on a two dimensional square lattice, where atomic interactions are long ranged with either a box or soft-core shape. The latter can be realized through laser dressing ground state atoms to electronically excited Ryd... Read More about Quench dynamics of Rydberg-dressed bosons on two-dimensional square lattices.

Some animals are more equal than others: Validation of a new scale to measure how attitudes to animals depend on species and human purpose of use (2020)
Journal Article
Bibby, P. A., Bradley, A., Mennie, N., Bibby, P. A., & Cassaday, H. J. (2020). Some animals are more equal than others: Validation of a new scale to measure how attitudes to animals depend on species and human purpose of use. PLoS ONE, 15(1), Article e0227948. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0227948

© 2020 Bradley et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are cr... Read More about Some animals are more equal than others: Validation of a new scale to measure how attitudes to animals depend on species and human purpose of use.

Resonant tunnelling into the two-dimensional subbands of InSe layers (2020)
Journal Article
Kudrynskyi, Z. R., Kerfoot, J., Mazumder, D., Greenaway, M. T., Vdovin, E. E., Makarovsky, O., …Patanè, A. (2020). Resonant tunnelling into the two-dimensional subbands of InSe layers. Communications Physics, 3, Article 16. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-020-0290-x

Two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) crystals have attracted considerable interest for digital electronics beyond Si-based complementary metal oxide semiconductor technologies. Despite the transformative success of Si-based devices, there are lim... Read More about Resonant tunnelling into the two-dimensional subbands of InSe layers.

Nurses' illness perceptions during presenteeism and absenteeism (2020)
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Fiorini, L., Houdmont, J., & Griffiths, A. (2020). Nurses' illness perceptions during presenteeism and absenteeism. Occupational Medicine, 70(2), 101–106. https://doi.org/10.1093/occmed/kqaa012

Background
Presenteeism has been linked with lost productivity, impaired health and absence. Whilst much research has focused on types of diseases associated with presenteeism and absenteeism, there has been little investigation into the role of ind... Read More about Nurses' illness perceptions during presenteeism and absenteeism.

V. I. Lenin on the ‘Black Question’ (2020)
Journal Article
Pateman, J. (2020). V. I. Lenin on the ‘Black Question’. Critique: Journal of Socialist Theory, 48(1), 77-93. https://doi.org/10.1080/03017605.2019.1706786

In his revolutionary activities and writings from 1913 to the fourth Comintern Congress in 1922, V. I. Lenin didn't merely analyse the function of black labour in the process of capitalist development. He also had something to say about the role that... Read More about V. I. Lenin on the ‘Black Question’.

Real time monitoring of biofilm formation on coated medical devices for the reduction and interception of bacterial infections (2020)
Journal Article
Kurmoo, Y., Hook, A. L., Harvey, D., Dubern, J.-F., Williams, P., Morgan, S. P., …Alexander, M. R. (2020). Real time monitoring of biofilm formation on coated medical devices for the reduction and interception of bacterial infections. Biomaterials Science, 8(5), 1464-1477. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9bm00875f

Real time monitoring of bacterial attachment to medical devices provides opportunities to detect early biofilm formation and instigate appropriate interventions before infection develops. This study utilises long period grating (LPG) optical fibre se... Read More about Real time monitoring of biofilm formation on coated medical devices for the reduction and interception of bacterial infections.

Greenhouse gas emissions resulting from conversion of peat swamp forest to oil palm plantation (2020)
Journal Article
Cooper, H. V., Evers, S., Aplin, P., Crout, N., Dahalan, M. P. B., & Sjogersten, S. (2020). Greenhouse gas emissions resulting from conversion of peat swamp forest to oil palm plantation. Nature Communications, 11(1), Article 407. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14298-w

© 2020, The Author(s). Conversion of tropical peat swamp forest to drainage-based agriculture alters greenhouse gas (GHG) production, but the magnitude of these changes remains highly uncertain. Current emissions factors for oil palm grown on drained... Read More about Greenhouse gas emissions resulting from conversion of peat swamp forest to oil palm plantation.

Theology of Wagner's Ring Cycle II: Theological and Ethical Issues (2020)
Book
Bell, R. H. (2020). Theology of Wagner's Ring Cycle II: Theological and Ethical Issues. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock

This considers thematically the theological and ethical issued raised in the Ring cycle. Central to the argument are the Jesus of Nazareth sketches the composer wrote as he embarked on his Ring cycle project.

Theology of Wagner's Ring Cycle I: The Genesis and Development of the Tetralogy and the Appropriation of Sources, Artists, Philosophers, and Theologians (2020)
Book
Bell, R. (2020). Theology of Wagner's Ring Cycle I: The Genesis and Development of the Tetralogy and the Appropriation of Sources, Artists, Philosophers, and Theologians. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock

Considers how Wagner's Ring Cycle developed over its 26 year composition and how the composer appropriated his sources. The aim is to uncover the theology implicit in the artwork.

Feature Extraction of Oscillating Flow with Vapor Condensation of Moist Air in a Sonic Nozzle (2020)
Journal Article
Ding, H., Li, Y., Wang, C., Wen, C., & Tian, Y. (2020). Feature Extraction of Oscillating Flow with Vapor Condensation of Moist Air in a Sonic Nozzle. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 69(9), 1-1. https://doi.org/10.1109/tim.2020.2967130

The sonic nozzle is commonly used in flow measurement. However, the non-equilibrium condensation phenomenon of moist air in the nozzle has a negative effect on the measuring accuracy. To investigate this complex phenomenon, the experiments on the osc... Read More about Feature Extraction of Oscillating Flow with Vapor Condensation of Moist Air in a Sonic Nozzle.

Culture-enriched metagenomic sequencing enables in-depth profiling of the cystic fibrosis lung microbiota (2020)
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Whelan, F. J., Waddell, B., Syed, S. A., Shekarriz, S., Rabin, H. R., Parkins, M. D., & Surette, M. G. (2020). Culture-enriched metagenomic sequencing enables in-depth profiling of the cystic fibrosis lung microbiota. Nature Microbiology, 5, 379-390. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-019-0643-y

Amplicon sequencing (for example, of the 16S rRNA gene) identifies the presence and relative abundance of microbial community members. However, metagenomic sequencing is needed to identify the genetic content and functional potential of a community.... Read More about Culture-enriched metagenomic sequencing enables in-depth profiling of the cystic fibrosis lung microbiota.

An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 cosmology legacy survey UKIDSS/UDS field: Dust attenuation in high-redshift Lyman-break galaxies (2020)
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Koprowski, M. P., Coppin, K. E. K., E. Geach, J., Dudzevičiūtė, U., Smail, I., Almaini, O., …Whitaker, K. E. (2020). An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 cosmology legacy survey UKIDSS/UDS field: Dust attenuation in high-redshift Lyman-break galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 492(4), 4927-4944. https://doi.org/10.1093/MNRAS/STAA160

© 2020 Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. We analyse 870 ∼m Atacama Large Millimetre Array (ALMA) dust continuum detections of 41 canonically selected z3 Lyman-break galaxies (LBGs), aswell as 209 ALMA-undetected LBGs, in follow-up of SCUB... Read More about An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 cosmology legacy survey UKIDSS/UDS field: Dust attenuation in high-redshift Lyman-break galaxies.

Comparative Pro-cognitive and Neurochemical Profiles of Glycine Modulatory Site Agonists and Glycine Reuptake Inhibitors in the Rat: Potential Relevance to Cognitive Dysfunction and Its Management (2020)
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Fone, K. C., Watson, D. J., Billiras, R. I., Sicard, D. I., Dekeyne, A., Rivet, J., …Millan, M. J. (2020). Comparative Pro-cognitive and Neurochemical Profiles of Glycine Modulatory Site Agonists and Glycine Reuptake Inhibitors in the Rat: Potential Relevance to Cognitive Dysfunction and Its Management. Molecular Neurobiology, 57, 2144–2166. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12035-020-01875-9

© 2020, The Author(s). Frontocortical NMDA receptors are pivotal in regulating cognition and mood, are hypofunctional in schizophrenia, and may contribute to autistic spectrum disorders. Despite extensive interest in agents potentiating activity at t... Read More about Comparative Pro-cognitive and Neurochemical Profiles of Glycine Modulatory Site Agonists and Glycine Reuptake Inhibitors in the Rat: Potential Relevance to Cognitive Dysfunction and Its Management.

Natural fluorapatite dissolution kinetics and Mn2+ and Cr3+ metal removal from sulfate fluids at 35 °C (2020)
Journal Article
Vandeginste, V., Cowan, C., Gomes, R. L., Hassan, T., & Titman, J. (2020). Natural fluorapatite dissolution kinetics and Mn2+ and Cr3+ metal removal from sulfate fluids at 35 °C. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 389, Article 122150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2020.122150

In light of the consequences of global warming and population growth, access to safe drinking water becomes an ever greater challenge, in particular in low to middle income countries in arid regions. Moreover, mining which may cause acid mine drainag... Read More about Natural fluorapatite dissolution kinetics and Mn2+ and Cr3+ metal removal from sulfate fluids at 35 °C.

Human occupation and ecosystem change on Upolu (Samoa) during the Holocene (2020)
Journal Article
Gosling, W. D., Sear, D. A., Hassall, J. D., Langdon, P. G., Bönnen, M. N. T., Driessen, T. D., …McMichael, C. N. H. (2020). Human occupation and ecosystem change on Upolu (Samoa) during the Holocene. Journal of Biogeography, 47(3), 600-614. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13783

Aim: To track the peopling of the South Pacific and assess their impact on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Location: Upolu, Samoa. Taxon: Terrestrial and aquatic plants. Methods: A sedimentary record covering the last c. 10,500years was recovered... Read More about Human occupation and ecosystem change on Upolu (Samoa) during the Holocene.

Novel insights into viral infection and oncogenesis from Koala Retrovirus (KoRV) infection of HEK293T cells (2020)
Journal Article
Sarker, N., Tarlinton, R., Owen, H., David Emes, R., Seddon, J., Simmons, G., & Meers, J. (2020). Novel insights into viral infection and oncogenesis from Koala Retrovirus (KoRV) infection of HEK293T cells. Gene, 733, Article 144366. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gene.2020.144366

Koala retrovirus is thought to be an underlying cause of high levels of neoplasia and immunosuppression in koalas. While epidemiology studies suggest a strong link between KoRV and disease it has been difficult to prove causality because of the compl... Read More about Novel insights into viral infection and oncogenesis from Koala Retrovirus (KoRV) infection of HEK293T cells.