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A Comparative Exploration of Quality Assurance Results by the Third-Party Pharmaceutical Education Evaluation in Japan (2020)
Journal Article
Takeda, K., & Arakawa, N. (2021). A Comparative Exploration of Quality Assurance Results by the Third-Party Pharmaceutical Education Evaluation in Japan. Pharmacy, 9(1), 9. https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy9010006

Background: The Standards for the Establishment of Universities in Japan were revised; subsequently, the number of schools or universities of pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences increased from 46 in 2002 to 74 in 2016.The pharmacy education programme wa... Read More about A Comparative Exploration of Quality Assurance Results by the Third-Party Pharmaceutical Education Evaluation in Japan.

Self-Induced Transparency in Warm and Strongly Interacting Rydberg Gases (2020)
Journal Article
Bai, Z., Adams, C. S., Huang, G., & Li, W. (2020). Self-Induced Transparency in Warm and Strongly Interacting Rydberg Gases. Physical Review Letters, 125(26), Article 263605. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.263605

We study dispersive optical nonlinearities of short pulses propagating in high number density, warm atomic vapors where the laser resonantly excites atoms to Rydberg P states via a single-photon transition. Three different regimes of the light-atom i... Read More about Self-Induced Transparency in Warm and Strongly Interacting Rydberg Gases.

The corona-virus disease 2019 pandemic compromised routine care for hypertension: a survey conducted among excellence centers of the European Society of Hypertension (2020)
Journal Article
Weber, T., Januszewicz, A., Agabiti Rosei, E., Tsioufis, K., Okorie, M., Stergiou, G. S., …Zweiker, R. (2021). The corona-virus disease 2019 pandemic compromised routine care for hypertension: a survey conducted among excellence centers of the European Society of Hypertension. Journal of Hypertension, 39(1), 190-195. https://doi.org/10.1097/HJH.0000000000002703

Background: The Covid-19 pandemic caused a shutdown of healthcare systems in many countries. We explored the impact on hypertension care in the Excellence Center (EC) network of the European Society of Hypertension. Methods: We conducted a 17-questio... Read More about The corona-virus disease 2019 pandemic compromised routine care for hypertension: a survey conducted among excellence centers of the European Society of Hypertension.

Changes in IgA-targeted microbiota following fecal transplantation for recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection (2020)
Journal Article
Huus, K. E., Frankowski, M., Pučić-Baković, M., Vučković, F., Lauc, G., Mullish, B. H., …Finlay, B. B. (2021). Changes in IgA-targeted microbiota following fecal transplantation for recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection. Gut Microbes, 13(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/19490976.2020.1862027

Secretory immunoglobulin A (IgA) interacts with intestinal microbiota and promotes mucosal homeostasis. IgA-bacteria interactions are altered during inflammatory diseases, but how these interactions are shaped by bacterial, host, and environmental fa... Read More about Changes in IgA-targeted microbiota following fecal transplantation for recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection.

Caves and rock shelters, burials and smelting (2020)
Journal Article
Pearce, M. (2020). Caves and rock shelters, burials and smelting. Metalla, Sonderheft 10, 17-21. https://doi.org/10.46586/metalla.v.2020.i10

This paper is an extended abstract for the International Conference on Resources and Transformation in Pre-modern Societies, Bochum 19–21 November 2020, 11 December 2020 and 15 January 2021. It discusses the world view of Copper Age and Early Bronze... Read More about Caves and rock shelters, burials and smelting.

Mitogenomic phylogeny and fossil-calibrated mutation rates for all F- and M-type mtDNA genes of the largest freshwater mussel family, the Unionidae (Bivalvia) (2020)
Journal Article
Zieritz, A., Froufe, E., Bolotov, I., Gonçalves, D. V., Aldridge, D. C., Bogan, A. E., …Lopes-Lima, M. (2021). Mitogenomic phylogeny and fossil-calibrated mutation rates for all F- and M-type mtDNA genes of the largest freshwater mussel family, the Unionidae (Bivalvia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 193(3), 1088-1107. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa153

The Unionidae represent an excellent model taxon for unravelling the drivers of freshwater diversity, but, phylogeographic studies on Southeast Asian taxa are hampered by lack of a comprehensive phylogeny and mutation rates for this fauna. We present... Read More about Mitogenomic phylogeny and fossil-calibrated mutation rates for all F- and M-type mtDNA genes of the largest freshwater mussel family, the Unionidae (Bivalvia).

How might modern slavery risk in English adult social care procurement be reduced? (2020)
Journal Article
Emberson, C., & Trautrims, A. (2020). How might modern slavery risk in English adult social care procurement be reduced?. Public Procurement Law Review, 29(6), 390-404

UK legislation, in the form of the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 (hereafter SVA) and more recently the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (hereafter MSA) has begun to acknowledge the role public procurement can play in improving social sustainability.... Read More about How might modern slavery risk in English adult social care procurement be reduced?.

Barriers and facilitators to type 2 diabetes management in the Caribbean region: a qualitative systematic review (2020)
Journal Article
Nixon, A. L., Leonardi-Bee, J., Wang, H., & Chattopadhyay, K. (2021). Barriers and facilitators to type 2 diabetes management in the Caribbean region: a qualitative systematic review. JBI Evidence Synthesis, 19(5), 911-965. https://doi.org/10.11124/jbisrir-d-19-00424

Objective:The objective of this systematic review was to summarize the barriers and facilitators to type 2 diabetes mellitus management in the Caribbean region.Introduction:The prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus in the Caribbean is of significant... Read More about Barriers and facilitators to type 2 diabetes management in the Caribbean region: a qualitative systematic review.

Students' perceptions on chatbots' potential and design characteristics in healthcare education (2020)
Book Chapter
Stathakarou, N., Nifakos, S., Karlgren, K., Konstantinidis, S. T., Bamidis, P. D., Pattichis, C. S., & Davoody, N. (2020). Students' perceptions on chatbots' potential and design characteristics in healthcare education. In J. Mantas, A. Hasman, M. S. Househ, P. Gallos, & E. Zoulias (Eds.), The importance of health informatics in public health during a pandemic (209-212). Amsterdam: IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI200531

Chatbots may have the potential to support healthcare education by enabling personalized learning. Trust is a pre-requisite for the users to accept the chatbots. In this study we analyzed students' assignments of the MSc course "User Needs, Requireme... Read More about Students' perceptions on chatbots' potential and design characteristics in healthcare education.

Writing Black Scotland (2020)
Book
Jackson, J. (2020). Writing Black Scotland. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

Writing Black Scotland examines race and racism in devolutionary Scottish literature, with a focus on the critical significance of blackness. The book reads blackness in Scottish writing from the 1970s to the early 2000s, a period of history defined... Read More about Writing Black Scotland.

‘Incorrigible Jacobins’: Hazlitt’s Engagement with German Literature (2020)
Journal Article
Oergel, M. (2020). ‘Incorrigible Jacobins’: Hazlitt’s Engagement with German Literature. Hazlitt Review, 13(1),

The fact that William Hazlitt engaged closely with contemporary German literature throughout his life has so far not received any detailed attention in Hazlitt research. The essay focuses on Hazlitt's assessment of German drama put forward in his thi... Read More about ‘Incorrigible Jacobins’: Hazlitt’s Engagement with German Literature.

Hausdorff Stability and Error Estimates for Compensated Convexity Based Methods for Approximation and Interpolation for Functions in Rn (2020)
Journal Article
Alatawi, M., & Zhang, K. (2020). Hausdorff Stability and Error Estimates for Compensated Convexity Based Methods for Approximation and Interpolation for Functions in Rn. Journal of Convex Analysis, 27(4),

We establish error estimates and Hausdorff stability for approximations and interpolations for sampled functions in Rn by using compensated convex transforms introduced previously by K. Zhang [Compensated convexity and its applications, Ann. l’Instit... Read More about Hausdorff Stability and Error Estimates for Compensated Convexity Based Methods for Approximation and Interpolation for Functions in Rn.