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Core Rehabilitation Outcome Set for Single Sided Deafness (CROSSSD) study: protocol for an international consensus on outcome measures for single sided deafness interventions using a modified Delphi survey (2020)
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Katiri, R., Hall, D. A., Buggy, N., Hogan, N., Horobin, A., van de Heyning, P., …Kitterick, P. T. (2020). Core Rehabilitation Outcome Set for Single Sided Deafness (CROSSSD) study: protocol for an international consensus on outcome measures for single sided deafness interventions using a modified Delphi survey. Trials, 21(1), Article 238. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-020-4094-9

Background Single-sided deafness (SSD) describes the presence of a unilateral severe to profound sensorineural hearing loss. SSD disrupts spatial hearing and understanding speech in background noise. It has functional, psychological and social con... Read More about Core Rehabilitation Outcome Set for Single Sided Deafness (CROSSSD) study: protocol for an international consensus on outcome measures for single sided deafness interventions using a modified Delphi survey.

Natural course of adult-onset vitelliform lesions in eyes with and without comorbid subretinal drusenoid deposits (2020)
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Yeung, A. M.-H., Wilde, C., Awad, M., Giannouladis, K., Lakshmanan, A., Dua, H., & Amoaku, W. M. (2020). Natural course of adult-onset vitelliform lesions in eyes with and without comorbid subretinal drusenoid deposits. International Ophthalmology, 40, 1501–1508. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10792-020-01319-2

Purpose Adult vitelliform lesions (AVL) are associated with age related macular degeneration (AMD) and subretinal drusenoid deposits (SRDD). We evaluated the natural course of AVL, assessing the influence of SRDD on disease progression, visual fun... Read More about Natural course of adult-onset vitelliform lesions in eyes with and without comorbid subretinal drusenoid deposits.

Late-Stage Functionalization by Chan–Lam Amination: Rapid Access to Potent and Selective Integrin Inhibitors (2020)
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Robinson, H., Oatley, S., Rowedder, J., Slade, P., Macdonald, S., Argent, S., …Moody, C. J. (2020). Late-Stage Functionalization by Chan–Lam Amination: Rapid Access to Potent and Selective Integrin Inhibitors. Chemistry - A European Journal, 26(34), 7678-7684. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202001059

© 2020 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim A late-stage functionalization of the aromatic ring in amino acid derivatives is described. The key step is a copper-catalysed diversification of a boronate ester by amination (Chan–Lam reaction) th... Read More about Late-Stage Functionalization by Chan–Lam Amination: Rapid Access to Potent and Selective Integrin Inhibitors.

Effects of pore widening versus oxygenation on capacitance of activated carbon in aqueous sodium sulfate electrolyte (2020)
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Zhang, L., Chi, Y., Sun, X., Gu, H., Zhang, H., Li, Z., …Chen, G. Z. (2020). Effects of pore widening versus oxygenation on capacitance of activated carbon in aqueous sodium sulfate electrolyte. Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 167, Article 040524. https://doi.org/10.1149/1945-7111/ab75c8

The commercial activated carbon has a relatively low specific capacitance in the Na2SO4 electrolyte, which hinder the development of asymmetrical supercapacitors with high voltage. Re-activation and oxidative etching methods were applied to change th... Read More about Effects of pore widening versus oxygenation on capacitance of activated carbon in aqueous sodium sulfate electrolyte.

Disordered protein-graphene oxide co-assembly and supramolecular biofabrication of functional fluidic devices (2020)
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Wu, Y., Okesola, B. O., Xu, J., Korotkin, I., Berado, A., Corridori, I., …Mata, A. (2020). Disordered protein-graphene oxide co-assembly and supramolecular biofabrication of functional fluidic devices. Nature Communications, 11(1), Article 1182. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14716-z

Supramolecular chemistry offers an exciting opportunity to assemble materials with molecular precision. However, there remains an unmet need to turn molecular self-assembly into functional materials and devices. Harnessing the inherent properties of... Read More about Disordered protein-graphene oxide co-assembly and supramolecular biofabrication of functional fluidic devices.

Future of evidence ecosystem series: 2. Current opportunities and need for better tools and methods (2020)
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Créquit, P., Boutron, I., Meerpohl, J., Williams, H., Craig, J., & Ravaud, P. (2020). Future of evidence ecosystem series: 2. Current opportunities and need for better tools and methods. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 123, 143-152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2020.01.023

To become user-driven and more useful for decision-making, the current evidence synthesis ecosystem requires significant changes (Paper 1.Future of evidence ecosystem series). Reviewers have access to new sources of data (clinical trial registries, p... Read More about Future of evidence ecosystem series: 2. Current opportunities and need for better tools and methods.

Future of evidence ecosystem series: 1. Introduction — Evidence synthesis ecosystem needs dramatic change (2020)
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Craig, J. C., Boutron, I., Créquit, P., Williams, H., Meerpohl, J., Craig, J. C., & Ravaud, P. (2020). Future of evidence ecosystem series: 1. Introduction — Evidence synthesis ecosystem needs dramatic change. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 123, 135-142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2020.01.024

To make healthcare decisions, patients, clinicians, clinical practice guideline developers, researchers, policy-makers and health system managers need a comprehensive, critical, accessible, actionable and up-to-date synthesis of all available evidenc... Read More about Future of evidence ecosystem series: 1. Introduction — Evidence synthesis ecosystem needs dramatic change.

Asynchronous Carbon Sink Saturation in African and Amazonian Tropical Forests (2020)
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Hubau, W., Lewis, S. L., Phillips, O. L., Affum-Baffoe, K., Beeckman, H., Cuní-Sanchez, A., …Zemagho, L. (2020). Asynchronous Carbon Sink Saturation in African and Amazonian Tropical Forests. Nature, 579(7797), 80-87. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2035-0

© 2020, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited. Structurally intact tropical forests sequestered about half of the global terrestrial carbon uptake over the 1990s and early 2000s, removing about 15 per cent of anthropogenic... Read More about Asynchronous Carbon Sink Saturation in African and Amazonian Tropical Forests.

Effect of Bariatric Surgery on Diagnosed Chronic Kidney Disease and Cardiovascular Events in Patients with Insulin-treated Type 2 Diabetes: a Retrospective Cohort Study from a Large UK Primary Care Database (2020)
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Alkharaiji, M., Anyanwagu, U., Donnelly, R., & Idris, I. (2020). Effect of Bariatric Surgery on Diagnosed Chronic Kidney Disease and Cardiovascular Events in Patients with Insulin-treated Type 2 Diabetes: a Retrospective Cohort Study from a Large UK Primary Care Database. Obesity Surgery, 30(5), 1685–1695. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11695-019-04201-y

Aims: To compare the effect of bariatric surgery on renal, chronic kidney disease (CKD), and cardiovascular (CV) outcomes among obese patients with insulin-treated type 2 diabetes (T2D) with and without microalbuminuria (i.e. uACR > 3.0 mg/mmol).... Read More about Effect of Bariatric Surgery on Diagnosed Chronic Kidney Disease and Cardiovascular Events in Patients with Insulin-treated Type 2 Diabetes: a Retrospective Cohort Study from a Large UK Primary Care Database.

Supporting Japanese Mothers of Children at Risk for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): A Small Scale Randomized Control Trial of Well Parent Japan (2020)
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Shimabukuro, S., Daley, D., Thompson, M., Laver-Bradbury, C., Lovern, K., & Tripp, G. (2020). Supporting Japanese Mothers of Children at Risk for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): A Small Scale Randomized Control Trial of Well Parent Japan. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 29(6), 1604-1616. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-020-01704-6

Objectives Guidelines recommend parent management training in the multi-modal treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The availability of such interventions in Japan is limited. This study evaluated the effects of Well Parent J... Read More about Supporting Japanese Mothers of Children at Risk for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): A Small Scale Randomized Control Trial of Well Parent Japan.

Dynamic pH responsivity of triazole-based self-immolative linkers (2020)
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Stevens, M. M., Roberts, D. A., Pilgrim, B. S., & Dell, T. N. (2020). Dynamic pH responsivity of triazole-based self-immolative linkers. Chemical Science, 11(14), 3713-3718. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0sc00532k

Gating the release of chemical payloads in response to transient signals is an important feature of ‘smart’ delivery systems. Herein, we report a triazole-based self-immolative linker that can be reversibly paused or slowed and restarted throughout i... Read More about Dynamic pH responsivity of triazole-based self-immolative linkers.

Optical fibre sensor for simultaneous measurement of capillary refill time and contact pressure (2020)
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Liu, C., Correia, R., Ballaji, H., Korposh, S., Hayes‐gill, B., & Morgan, S. (2020). Optical fibre sensor for simultaneous measurement of capillary refill time and contact pressure. Sensors, 20(5), Article 1388. https://doi.org/10.3390/s20051388

© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. The widely applied capillary refill time (CRT) measurement is currently performed by manually applying pressure and using a stopwatch to record the time taken for the skin to recover its norma... Read More about Optical fibre sensor for simultaneous measurement of capillary refill time and contact pressure.

Insights from semi-oriented EPR spectroscopy studies into the interaction of lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases with cellulose (2020)
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Ciano, L., Paradisi, A., Hemsworth, G. R., Tovborg, M., Davies, G. J., & Walton, P. H. (2020). Insights from semi-oriented EPR spectroscopy studies into the interaction of lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases with cellulose. Dalton Transactions, 49(11), 3413-3422. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9dt04065j

Probing the detailed interaction between lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs) and their polysaccharide substrates is key to revealing further insights into the mechanism of action of this class of enzymes on recalcitrant biomass. This investig... Read More about Insights from semi-oriented EPR spectroscopy studies into the interaction of lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases with cellulose.

Measurement Properties of the Suicidal Behaviour Questionnaire-Revised in Autistic Adults (2020)
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Cassidy, S. A., Bradley, L., Cogger-Ward, H., Shaw, R., Bowen, E., Glod, M., …Rodgers, J. (2020). Measurement Properties of the Suicidal Behaviour Questionnaire-Revised in Autistic Adults. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 50, 3477-3488. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-020-04431-5

We explored the appropriateness and measurement properties of a suicidality assessment tool (SBQ-R) developed for the general population, in autistic adults—a high risk group for suicide. 188 autistic adults and 183 general population adults complete... Read More about Measurement Properties of the Suicidal Behaviour Questionnaire-Revised in Autistic Adults.

Mechanistic-Insight-Driven Rate Enhancement of Asymmetric Copper-Catalyzed 1,4-Addition of Dialkylzinc Reagents to Enones (2020)
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Nouch, R., Woodward, S., Willcox, D., Robinson, D., & Lewis, W. (2020). Mechanistic-Insight-Driven Rate Enhancement of Asymmetric Copper-Catalyzed 1,4-Addition of Dialkylzinc Reagents to Enones. Organometallics, 39(6), 834-840. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.organomet.0c00005

Combination of [Cu(MeCN)4]TFA•TFAH (TFA = O2CCF3) with Feringa's phosphoramidite ligand (LA) provides an exceptionally active (0.75 mol%) catalyst for asymmetric conjugate additions of ZnR2 (R = Et, Me at-40 to-80 o C) to enones. Kinetic and other st... Read More about Mechanistic-Insight-Driven Rate Enhancement of Asymmetric Copper-Catalyzed 1,4-Addition of Dialkylzinc Reagents to Enones.

Robust Modal Damping Control for Active Flutter Suppression (2020)
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Theis, J., Pfifer, H., & Seiler, P. (2020). Robust Modal Damping Control for Active Flutter Suppression. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 43(6), 1056-1068. https://doi.org/10.2514/1.g004846

Flutter is an unstable oscillation caused by the interaction of aerodynamics and structural dynamics. It is current practice to operate aircraft well below their open-loop flutter speed in a stable flight regime. For future aircraft, weight reduction... Read More about Robust Modal Damping Control for Active Flutter Suppression.

How genomic information is accessed in clinical practice: an electronic survey of UK general practitioners (2020)
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R. H. Evans, W., Tranter, J., Rafi, I., Hayward, J., & Qureshi, N. (2020). How genomic information is accessed in clinical practice: an electronic survey of UK general practitioners. Journal of Community Genetics, 11(3), 377–386. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12687-020-00457-5

Genomic technologies are having an increasing impact across medicine, including primary care. To enable their wider adoption and realise their potential, education of primary healthcare practitioners will be required. To enable the development of suc... Read More about How genomic information is accessed in clinical practice: an electronic survey of UK general practitioners.

‘Living at the border of poverty’: How theater actors maintain their calling through narrative identity work (2020)
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Cinque, S., Nyberg, D., & Starkey, K. (2021). ‘Living at the border of poverty’: How theater actors maintain their calling through narrative identity work. Human Relations, 74(11), 1755-1780. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726720908663

People who have a sense of calling to their work are more inspired, motivated and engaged with what they do. But how is calling constructed and maintained within organizations? More importantly, how do people maintain a sense of calling to their work... Read More about ‘Living at the border of poverty’: How theater actors maintain their calling through narrative identity work.

The effects of acute and sustained cannabidiol dosing for seven days on the haemodynamics in healthy men: A randomised controlled trial (2020)
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O'Sullivan, S. E., England, T. J., & Sultan, S. R. (2020). The effects of acute and sustained cannabidiol dosing for seven days on the haemodynamics in healthy men: A randomised controlled trial. British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, https://doi.org/10.1111/bcp.14225

© 2020 The British Pharmacological Society Background: In vivo studies show that cannabidiol (CBD) acutely reduces blood pressure (BP) in men. The aim of this study was to assess the effects of repeated CBD dosing on haemodynamics. Methods: Twenty-si... Read More about The effects of acute and sustained cannabidiol dosing for seven days on the haemodynamics in healthy men: A randomised controlled trial.

The Paradox of Scottish Life Imprisonment (2020)
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van Zyl Smit, D., & Morrison, K. (2020). The Paradox of Scottish Life Imprisonment. European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, 28(1), 76-102. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718174-02801004

More people are serving life sentences in Scotland as a proportion of the national population than in any other country in Europe. Yet Scotland claims to adopt a welfarist rather than a penal approach to criminal justice. This paper uses a wide rang... Read More about The Paradox of Scottish Life Imprisonment.