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Apoferritin and Dps as drug delivery vehicles: Some selected examples in oncology (2021)
Journal Article
Kuruppu, A. I., Turyanska, L., Bradshaw, T. D., Manickam, S., Galhena, B. P., Paranagama, P., & De Silva, R. (2022). Apoferritin and Dps as drug delivery vehicles: Some selected examples in oncology. BBA - General Subjects, 1866(2), Article 130067. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbagen.2021.130067

Background: The ideal nanoparticle should be able to encapsulate either pharmaceutical agents or imaging probes so that it could treat or image clinical tumours by targeting the cancer site efficiently. Further, it would be an added advantage if it d... Read More about Apoferritin and Dps as drug delivery vehicles: Some selected examples in oncology.

The impact of COVID-19 on the wellbeing of the UK nursing and midwifery workforce during the first pandemic wave: A longitudinal survey study (2021)
Journal Article
Couper, K., Murrells, T., Sanders, J., Anderson, J. E., Blake, H., Kelly, D., …Harris, R. (2022). The impact of COVID-19 on the wellbeing of the UK nursing and midwifery workforce during the first pandemic wave: A longitudinal survey study. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 127, Article 104155. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2021.104155

Background: The specific challenges experienced by the nursing and midwifery workforce in previous pandemics have exacerbated pre-existing professional and personal challenges, and triggered new issues. We aimed to determine the psychological impact... Read More about The impact of COVID-19 on the wellbeing of the UK nursing and midwifery workforce during the first pandemic wave: A longitudinal survey study.

This is Me: Evaluation of a boardgame to promote social engagement, wellbeing and agency in people with dementia through mindful life-storytelling (2021)
Journal Article
Niedderer, K., Holthoff-Detto, V., van Rompay, T. J., Karahanoglu, A., Ludden, G. D., Almeida, R., …Tournier, I. (2022). This is Me: Evaluation of a boardgame to promote social engagement, wellbeing and agency in people with dementia through mindful life-storytelling. Journal of Aging Studies, 60, Article 100995. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2021.100995

Receiving a dementia diagnosis is a difficult experience for most people and often affects their wellbeing negatively. To support people's wellbeing, in a therapeutic context, life-storytelling, reminiscence and mindfulness are used with people with... Read More about This is Me: Evaluation of a boardgame to promote social engagement, wellbeing and agency in people with dementia through mindful life-storytelling.

Maternal prenatal anxiety and depression and trajectories of cardiometabolic risk factors across childhood and adolescence: a prospective cohort study (2021)
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Matvienko-Sikar, K., O' Neill, K., Fraser, A., Hayes, C., Howe, L., Huizink, A. C., …O'Keefe, L. M. (2022). Maternal prenatal anxiety and depression and trajectories of cardiometabolic risk factors across childhood and adolescence: a prospective cohort study. BMJ Open, 11(12), Article e051681. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-051681

Objectives: Quantifying long-term offspring cardiometabolic health risks associated with maternal prenatal anxiety and depression can guide cardiometabolic risk prevention. This study examines associations between maternal prenatal anxiety and depres... Read More about Maternal prenatal anxiety and depression and trajectories of cardiometabolic risk factors across childhood and adolescence: a prospective cohort study.

Saliva for COVID-19 testing: Simple but useless or an undervalued resource? (2021)
Journal Article
Pijuan-Galito, S., Tarantini, F. S., Tomlin, H., Jenkins, H., Thompson, J. L., Scales, D., …Denning, C. (2021). Saliva for COVID-19 testing: Simple but useless or an undervalued resource?. Frontiers in Virology, 1, Article 778790. https://doi.org/10.3389/fviro.2021.778790

During the COVID-19 pandemic, countries with robust population-based asymptomatic testing were generally successful in controlling virus spread, hence reducing hospitalizations and deaths. This effectiveness inspired widespread asymptomatic surveilla... Read More about Saliva for COVID-19 testing: Simple but useless or an undervalued resource?.

Being and becoming human in higher education: A co-autoethnographic inquiry (2021)
Book Chapter
Pithouse-Morgan, K., Pillay, D., & Naicker, I. (2021). Being and becoming human in higher education: A co-autoethnographic inquiry. In E. Lyle (Ed.), Re/humanizing education (31-42). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004507593_004

We are South African academics in teacher development studies and educational leadership and management. In this chapter, we inquire, what have we learned through our autoethnographic explorations for re/humanizing learning and teaching, academic sel... Read More about Being and becoming human in higher education: A co-autoethnographic inquiry.

Brain structural covariance network differences in adults with alcohol dependence and heavy-drinking adolescents (2021)
Journal Article
Ottino-González, J., Albaugh, M. D., Cao, Z., Cupertino, R. B., Schwab, N., Spechler, P. A., …Garavan, H. (2022). Brain structural covariance network differences in adults with alcohol dependence and heavy-drinking adolescents. Addiction, 117(5), 1312-1325. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.15772

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Graph theoretic analysis of structural covariance networks (SCN) provides an assessment of brain organization that has not yet been applied to alcohol dependence (AD). We estimated whether SCN differences are present in adults wi... Read More about Brain structural covariance network differences in adults with alcohol dependence and heavy-drinking adolescents.

Neuroprotection Against NMDA-Induced Retinal Damage by Philanthotoxin-343 Involves Reduced Nitrosative Stress (2021)
Journal Article
Mohamad, M. H. N., Abu, I. F., Fazel, M. F., Agarwal, R., Iezhitsa, I., Juliana, N., …Franzyk, H. (2021). Neuroprotection Against NMDA-Induced Retinal Damage by Philanthotoxin-343 Involves Reduced Nitrosative Stress. Frontiers in Pharmacology, 12, Article 798794. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2021.798794

N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) overstimulation is known to mediate neurodegeneration, and hence represents a relevant therapeutic target for neurodegenerative disorders including glaucoma. This study examined the neuroprotective effects of phi... Read More about Neuroprotection Against NMDA-Induced Retinal Damage by Philanthotoxin-343 Involves Reduced Nitrosative Stress.

A multi-scale integrated assessment model to support urban sustainability (2021)
Journal Article
Purvis, B., Mao, Y., & Robinson, D. (2022). A multi-scale integrated assessment model to support urban sustainability. Sustainability Science, 17(1), 151-169. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-021-01080-0

Tools purposed towards supporting the transition to more sustainable urban futures typically focus on specific phenomena at the local level. Whilst such approaches remain valuable, there is a need to complement this micro approach with broader integr... Read More about A multi-scale integrated assessment model to support urban sustainability.

Risks of myocarditis, pericarditis, and cardiac arrhythmias associated with COVID-19 vaccination or SARS-CoV-2 infection (2021)
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Patone, M., Mei, X. W., Handunnetthi, L., Dixon, S., Zaccardi, F., Shankar-Hari, M., …Hippisley-Cox, J. (2022). Risks of myocarditis, pericarditis, and cardiac arrhythmias associated with COVID-19 vaccination or SARS-CoV-2 infection. Nature Medicine, 28(2), 410-422. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-021-01630-0

Although myocarditis and pericarditis were not observed as adverse events in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine trials, there have been numerous reports of suspected cases following vaccination in the general population. We undertook a self-... Read More about Risks of myocarditis, pericarditis, and cardiac arrhythmias associated with COVID-19 vaccination or SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Seismic response of piles in layered soils: Performance of pseudostatic Winkler models against centrifuge data (2021)
Journal Article
Tott-Buswell, J., Garala, T., Prendergast, L., Madabhushi, S., & Rovithis, E. (2022). Seismic response of piles in layered soils: Performance of pseudostatic Winkler models against centrifuge data. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 153, Article 107110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soildyn.2021.107110

In this study, the suitability of the pseudostatic approach for the seismic analysis of pile foundations in layered soils is explored by means of experimental data from centrifuge tests performed at 60g. A free-head single pile and a capped (1 × 3) p... Read More about Seismic response of piles in layered soils: Performance of pseudostatic Winkler models against centrifuge data.

Sexuality and politics: ‘Coming out’ in German and Chinese queer films (2021)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. (2021). Sexuality and politics: ‘Coming out’ in German and Chinese queer films. In Research Handbook on Political Propaganda (156-167). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789906424.00018

This chapter analyses the ‘coming out’ narratives represented in two queer films from different cultural contexts: Coming Out (dir. Heiner Carow, GDR, 1989) and Lan Yu (dir. Stanley Kwan, China, 2001). Both films feature gay men’s ‘coming out’ experi... Read More about Sexuality and politics: ‘Coming out’ in German and Chinese queer films.

Fact-checking false claims and propaganda in the age of post-truth politics: the Brexit referendum (2021)
Book Chapter
Birks, J. (2021). Fact-checking false claims and propaganda in the age of post-truth politics: the Brexit referendum. In G. D. Rawnsley, Y. Ma, & K. Pothong (Eds.), Research Handbook of Political Propaganda (398-412). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789906424

This chapter examines the claims that the current age is one of post-truth politics, where politicians not only lie, but do not suffer at the ballot box from being caught out in a lie by the news media. Donald Trump is the paradigmatic case, as a le... Read More about Fact-checking false claims and propaganda in the age of post-truth politics: the Brexit referendum.

A review on second-life of Li-ion batteries: prospects, challenges, and issues (2021)
Journal Article
Shahjalal, M., Roy, P. K., Shams, T., Fly, A., Chowdhury, J. I., Ahmed, M. R., & Liu, K. (2022). A review on second-life of Li-ion batteries: prospects, challenges, and issues. Energy, 241, Article 122881. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2021.122881

High energy density has made Li-ion battery become a reliable energy storage technology for transport-grid applications. Safely disposing batteries that below 80% of their nominal capacity is a matter of great concern to reduce overall carbon footpri... Read More about A review on second-life of Li-ion batteries: prospects, challenges, and issues.

A geometrical formulation for the workspace of parallel manipulators (2021)
Journal Article
Russo, M., & Ceccarelli, M. (2022). A geometrical formulation for the workspace of parallel manipulators. Robotica, 40(8), 2581-2591. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263574721001806

In study this paper, a geometric formulation is proposed to describe the workspace of parallel manipulators by using a recursive approach as an extension of volume generation for solids of revolution. In this approach, the workspace volume and bounda... Read More about A geometrical formulation for the workspace of parallel manipulators.

Light-emitting field-effect transistors with EQE over 20% enabled by a dielectric-quantum dots-dielectric sandwich structure (2021)
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Kong, L., Wu, J., Li, Y., Cao, F., Wang, F., Wu, Q., …Yang, X. (2022). Light-emitting field-effect transistors with EQE over 20% enabled by a dielectric-quantum dots-dielectric sandwich structure. Science Bulletin, 67(5), 529-536. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2021.12.013

Emerging quantum dots (QDs) based light-emitting field-effect transistors (QLEFETs) could generate light emission with high color purity and provide facile route to tune optoelectronic properties at a low fabrication cost. Considerable efforts have b... Read More about Light-emitting field-effect transistors with EQE over 20% enabled by a dielectric-quantum dots-dielectric sandwich structure.

Towards a more reliable interpretation of machine learning outputs for safety-critical systems using feature importance fusion (2021)
Journal Article
Rengasamy, D., Rothwell, B. C., & Figueredo, G. P. (2021). Towards a more reliable interpretation of machine learning outputs for safety-critical systems using feature importance fusion. Applied Sciences, 11(24), Article 11854. https://doi.org/10.3390/app112411854

When machine learning supports decision-making in safety-critical systems, it is important to verify and understand the reasons why a particular output is produced. Although feature importance calculation approaches assist in interpretation, there is... Read More about Towards a more reliable interpretation of machine learning outputs for safety-critical systems using feature importance fusion.

Smooth 1-Dimensional Algebraic Quantum Field Theories (2021)
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Benini, M., Perin, M., & Schenkel, A. (2022). Smooth 1-Dimensional Algebraic Quantum Field Theories. Annales Henri Poincaré, 23, 2069-2111. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00023-021-01132-2

This paper proposes a refinement of the usual concept of algebraic quantum field theories (AQFTs) to theories that are smooth in the sense that they assign to every smooth family of spacetimes a smooth family of observable algebras. Using stacks of c... Read More about Smooth 1-Dimensional Algebraic Quantum Field Theories.

Bureaucratic Professionalization is a Contagious Process Inside Government: Evidence from a Priming Experiment with 3,000 Chilean Civil Servants (2021)
Journal Article
Sass Mikkelsen, K., Schuster, C., Meyer-Sahling, J.-H., & Rojas, M. (2022). Bureaucratic Professionalization is a Contagious Process Inside Government: Evidence from a Priming Experiment with 3,000 Chilean Civil Servants. Public Administration Review, 82(2), 290-302. https://doi.org/10.1002/puar.13446

Education is at the centre of theories of how bureaucracies professionalize. Going back to Weber, the process towards a capable and professional bureaucracy has been viewed as driven by the entry of well-educated, professional recruits. We argue that... Read More about Bureaucratic Professionalization is a Contagious Process Inside Government: Evidence from a Priming Experiment with 3,000 Chilean Civil Servants.