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Under imperialism “Black lives don’t matter.” Ho Chi Minh, The Black Race, and Black liberation (2021)
Journal Article
Pateman, J. (2021). Under imperialism “Black lives don’t matter.” Ho Chi Minh, The Black Race, and Black liberation. Critical Asian Studies, 53(4), 582-589. https://doi.org/10.1080/14672715.2021.1974913

Ho Chi Minh, the father of modern Vietnam, was deeply interested in the lives of Black people and their struggles for equality. He was one of the first Asian communist leaders to explore the issues facing Black communities and promote their freedom m... Read More about Under imperialism “Black lives don’t matter.” Ho Chi Minh, The Black Race, and Black liberation.

Exploring Children’s Understanding of the Legal Rights of Suspects in England and Wales (2021)
Journal Article
Kemp, V., & Watkins, D. (2021). Exploring Children’s Understanding of the Legal Rights of Suspects in England and Wales. Youth Justice, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1177/14732254211030597

While studies have explored adult suspects’ understanding of their legal rights, seldom are the experiences of children and young people taken into account. In this article, we discuss findings arising out of research interviews conducted with 61 chi... Read More about Exploring Children’s Understanding of the Legal Rights of Suspects in England and Wales.

Legal rules, information transparency and Islamic bank capital decisions (2021)
Journal Article
Bitar, M., Benlemlih, M., Erragragui, E., & Peillex, J. (2021). Legal rules, information transparency and Islamic bank capital decisions. Applied Economics, 53(53), 6184-6203. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2021.1937497

To what extent does the formal institutional environment influence Islamic bank capital decisions? We answer this question by assessing the effect of the legal rule index on a sample of 100 Islamic banks in 28 countries from 1999 to 2013. Our econome... Read More about Legal rules, information transparency and Islamic bank capital decisions.

The burden of chronic respiratory diseases in adults in Nepal: A systematic review (2021)
Journal Article
Ekezie, W., Jenkins, A. R., Hall, I. P., Evans, C., Koju, R., Kurmi, O. P., & Bolton, C. E. (2021). The burden of chronic respiratory diseases in adults in Nepal: A systematic review. Chronic Respiratory Disease, 18, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1177/1479973121994572

While chronic lung disease causes substantial global morbidity and mortality, global estimates have primarily been based on broad assumptions. Specific country data from low-income countries such as Nepal are limited. This review assessed primary evi... Read More about The burden of chronic respiratory diseases in adults in Nepal: A systematic review.

‘The dreadful done’: Henry James’s style of abstraction (2021)
Journal Article
Scott, R. (2021). ‘The dreadful done’: Henry James’s style of abstraction. Textual Practice, 35(6), 941-966. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2021.1936773

Since the 1990s, when the late novels of Henry James became a touchstone for the ethical turn in literary criticism, ethical critics of different persuasions, such as Martha Nussbaum and J. Hillis Miller, homed in on certain complex terms and ambiguo... Read More about ‘The dreadful done’: Henry James’s style of abstraction.

Cosmopolitan Brands: graduate students navigating the social space of elite global universities (2021)
Journal Article
Myers, M., & Bhopal, K. (2021). Cosmopolitan Brands: graduate students navigating the social space of elite global universities. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 42(5-6), 701-716. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2021.1941763

Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s analysis of the competition for economic, social and cultural capitals within educational fields, this article reports empirical research from 49 in-depth interviews with graduate students at four elite universities in th... Read More about Cosmopolitan Brands: graduate students navigating the social space of elite global universities.

Neural Fields with Rebound Currents: Novel Routes to Patterning (2021)
Journal Article
Modhara, S., Lai, Y. M., Thul, R., & Coombes, S. (2021). Neural Fields with Rebound Currents: Novel Routes to Patterning. SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, 20(3), 1596-1620. https://doi.org/10.1137/20M1364710

The understanding of how spatio-temporal patterns of neural activity may arise in the cortex of the brain has advanced with the development and analysis of neural field models. To replicate this success for sub-cortical tissues, such as the thalamus,... Read More about Neural Fields with Rebound Currents: Novel Routes to Patterning.

Journaling: A More Mindful Approach to Researching a Mindfulness-Based Intervention in a Junior School (2021)
Journal Article
Joseph, S., Sellman, E., & Crawford, A. (2021). Journaling: A More Mindful Approach to Researching a Mindfulness-Based Intervention in a Junior School. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 20, Article 160940692110147. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069211014771

Mindfulness, often defined as present-moment awareness, has in recent years become a topic of multidisciplinary interest. This article addresses methodological issues for researching mindfulness and education. It is argued that there are advantages t... Read More about Journaling: A More Mindful Approach to Researching a Mindfulness-Based Intervention in a Junior School.

Individual differences in theta-band oscillations in a spatial memory network revealed by electroencephalography predict rapid place learning (2021)
Journal Article
Bauer, M., Buckley, M. G., & Bast, T. (2021). Individual differences in theta-band oscillations in a spatial memory network revealed by electroencephalography predict rapid place learning. Brain and Neuroscience Advances, 5, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1177/23982128211002725

Spatial memory has been closely related to the medial temporal lobe (MTL) and theta-oscillations are thought to play a key role. However, it remains difficult to investigate MTL activation related to spatial memory with non-invasive electrophysiologi... Read More about Individual differences in theta-band oscillations in a spatial memory network revealed by electroencephalography predict rapid place learning.

A lipid-anchored neurokinin 1 receptor antagonist prolongs pain relief by a three-pronged mechanism of action targeting the receptor at the plasma membrane and in endosomes (2021)
Journal Article
Mai, Q. N., Shenoy, P., Quach, T., Retamal, J. S., Gondin, A. B., Yeatman, H. R., …Veldhuis, N. A. (2021). A lipid-anchored neurokinin 1 receptor antagonist prolongs pain relief by a three-pronged mechanism of action targeting the receptor at the plasma membrane and in endosomes. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 296, Article 100345. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.JBC.2021.100345

G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are traditionally known for signaling at the plasma membrane, but they can also signal from endosomes after internalization to control important pathophysiological processes. In spinal neurons, sustained endosomal... Read More about A lipid-anchored neurokinin 1 receptor antagonist prolongs pain relief by a three-pronged mechanism of action targeting the receptor at the plasma membrane and in endosomes.

Optimal feedback law recovery by gradient-augmented sparse polynomial regression (2021)
Journal Article
Azmi, B., Kalise, D., & Kunisch, K. (2021). Optimal feedback law recovery by gradient-augmented sparse polynomial regression. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 22, 1-32

A sparse regression approach for the computation of high-dimensional optimal feedback laws arising in deterministic nonlinear control is proposed. The approach exploits the control-theoretical link between Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman PDEs characterizing... Read More about Optimal feedback law recovery by gradient-augmented sparse polynomial regression.

ABCB1 inhibition provides a novel therapeutic target to block TWIST1-induced migration in medulloblastoma (2021)
Journal Article
Nasir, A., Cardall, A., Othman, R. T., Nicolaou, N., Lourdusamy, A., Linke, F., …Coyle, B. (2021). ABCB1 inhibition provides a novel therapeutic target to block TWIST1-induced migration in medulloblastoma. Neuro-Oncology Advances, 3(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/noajnl/vdab030

Background: Therapeutic intervention in metastatic medulloblastoma is dependent upon elucidating the underlying metastatic mechanism. We investigated whether an epithelialmesenchymal transition (EMT)-like pathway could drive medulloblastoma metastasi... Read More about ABCB1 inhibition provides a novel therapeutic target to block TWIST1-induced migration in medulloblastoma.

International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology. CX. Classification of Receptors for 5-hydroxytryptamine; Pharmacology and Function (2021)
Journal Article
Barnes, N. M., Ahern, G. P., Becamel, C., Bockaert, J., Camilleri, M., Chaumont-Dubel, S., …Hoyer, D. (2021). International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology. CX. Classification of Receptors for 5-hydroxytryptamine; Pharmacology and Function. Pharmacological Reviews, 73(1), 310-520. https://doi.org/10.1124/pr.118.015552

Copyright © 2020 by The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. 5-HT receptors expressed throughout the human body are targets for established therapeutics and various drugs in development. Their diversity of structure and fu... Read More about International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology. CX. Classification of Receptors for 5-hydroxytryptamine; Pharmacology and Function.

Meiosis and beyond – understanding the mechanistic and evolutionary processes shaping the germline genome (2021)
Journal Article
Bergero, R., Ellis, P., Haerty, W., Larcombe, L., Macaulay, I., Mehta, T., …Immler, S. (2021). Meiosis and beyond – understanding the mechanistic and evolutionary processes shaping the germline genome. Biological Reviews, 96(3), 822-841. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12680

The separation of germ cell populations from the soma is part of the evolutionary transition to multicellularity. Only genetic information present in the germ cells will be inherited by future generations, and any molecular processes affecting the ge... Read More about Meiosis and beyond – understanding the mechanistic and evolutionary processes shaping the germline genome.

Potential of Bioenergy in Rural Ghana (2021)
Journal Article
Nelson, N., Darkwa, J., Calautit, J., Worall, M., Mokaya, R., Adjei, E., …Ahiekpor, J. (2021). Potential of Bioenergy in Rural Ghana. Sustainability, 13(1), Article 381. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13010381

Crop residues are common in rural Ghana due to the predominant role agriculture plays in livelihood activities in these communities. In this paper we investigate the prospects of exploiting agricultural crop residues for rural development in Ghana th... Read More about Potential of Bioenergy in Rural Ghana.

AhaP, A Quorum Quenching Acylase from Psychrobacter sp. M9-54-1 That Attenuates Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Vibrio coralliilyticus Virulence (2021)
Journal Article
Reina, J. C., Romero, M., Salto, R., Cámara, M., & Llamas, I. (2021). AhaP, A Quorum Quenching Acylase from Psychrobacter sp. M9-54-1 That Attenuates Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Vibrio coralliilyticus Virulence. Marine Drugs, 19(1), Article 16. https://doi.org/10.3390/md19010016

Although Psychrobacter strain M9-54-1 had been previously isolated from the microbiota of holothurians and shown to degrade quorum sensing (QS) signal molecules C6 and C10-homoserine lactone (HSL), little was known about the gene responsible for this... Read More about AhaP, A Quorum Quenching Acylase from Psychrobacter sp. M9-54-1 That Attenuates Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Vibrio coralliilyticus Virulence.

Comparison of simple averaging and latent class modeling to estimate the area of land cover in the presence of reference data variability (2021)
Journal Article
Xing, D., Stehman, S. V., Foody, G. M., & Pengra, B. W. (2021). Comparison of simple averaging and latent class modeling to estimate the area of land cover in the presence of reference data variability. Land, 10(1), Article 35. https://doi.org/10.3390/land10010035

© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Estimates of the area or percent area of the land cover classes within a study region are often based on the reference land cover class labels assigned by analysts interpreting satellite image... Read More about Comparison of simple averaging and latent class modeling to estimate the area of land cover in the presence of reference data variability.

Why is school-to-school collaboration important and how can we make it work? (2021)
Book Chapter
Greany, T. (2021). Why is school-to-school collaboration important and how can we make it work?. In Connecting Classrooms: Unlocking a world of potential - Leading the way (25-32). London: British Council

Networks, collaborations and partnerships between schools can take multiple forms and achieve multiple objectives. This can make them hard to make sense of – and even harder to lead and manage. Nevertheless, this chapter argues that policy makers sho... Read More about Why is school-to-school collaboration important and how can we make it work?.