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Weft Yarn Interlacement Modelling for 3D Profiled Structures (2021)
Journal Article
Spackman, G., Brown, L., & Turner, T. (2022). Weft Yarn Interlacement Modelling for 3D Profiled Structures. Applied Composite Materials, 29(1), 219-227. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10443-021-09978-9

Currently, generation of 3D woven T-joint models with complex weave geometries, using TexGen software, is a manual process. One of the main challenges to automatic generation of these textiles is the order in which the weft yarns interlace within the... Read More about Weft Yarn Interlacement Modelling for 3D Profiled Structures.

Distinct small non-coding RNA landscape in the axons and released extracellular vesicles of developing primary cortical neurons and the axoplasm of adult nerves (2021)
Journal Article
Mesquita-Ribeiro, R., Fort, R. S., Rathbone, A., Farias, J., Lucci, C., James, V., …Dajas-Bailador, F. (2021). Distinct small non-coding RNA landscape in the axons and released extracellular vesicles of developing primary cortical neurons and the axoplasm of adult nerves. RNA Biology, 18(sup2), 832-855. https://doi.org/10.1080/15476286.2021.2000792

Neurons have highlighted the needs for decentralized gene expression and specific RNA function in somato-dendritic and axonal compartments, as well as in intercellular communication via extracellular vesicles (EVs). Despite advances in miRNA biology,... Read More about Distinct small non-coding RNA landscape in the axons and released extracellular vesicles of developing primary cortical neurons and the axoplasm of adult nerves.

Subwavelength focusing by engineered power-flow conformal metamirrors (2021)
Journal Article
Taghvaee, H., Liu, F., Díaz-Rubio, A., & Tretyakov, S. (2021). Subwavelength focusing by engineered power-flow conformal metamirrors. Physical Review B, 104(23), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.104.235409

Many advances in reflective metasurfaces have been made during the last few years, implementing efficient manipulations of wave fronts, especially for plane waves. Despite numerous solutions that have been developed throughout the years, a practical... Read More about Subwavelength focusing by engineered power-flow conformal metamirrors.

Cost stickiness: A systematic literature review of 27 years of research and a future research agenda (2021)
Journal Article
Ibrahim, A. E. A., Ali, H., & Aboelkheir, H. (2022). Cost stickiness: A systematic literature review of 27 years of research and a future research agenda. Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation, 46, Article 100439. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intaccaudtax.2021.100439

Recent research has found that the cost response to an equivalent activity change is asymmetric. This study systematically reviews 80 research articles published in 36 journals during the last 27 years (1994–2020). Through three reviews, the study sy... Read More about Cost stickiness: A systematic literature review of 27 years of research and a future research agenda.

Intestinal function and transit associate with gut microbiota dysbiosis in cystic fibrosis (2021)
Journal Article
Marsh, R., Gavillet, H., Hanson, L., Ng, C., Mitchell-Whyte, M., Major, G., …van der Gast, C. (2022). Intestinal function and transit associate with gut microbiota dysbiosis in cystic fibrosis. Journal of Cystic Fibrosis, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcf.2021.11.014

Background: Most people with cystic fibrosis (pwCF) suffer from gastrointestinal symptoms and are at risk of gut complications. Gut microbiota dysbiosis is apparent within the CF population across all age groups, with evidence linking dysbiosis to in... Read More about Intestinal function and transit associate with gut microbiota dysbiosis in cystic fibrosis.

Current Use of EEN in Pre-Operative Optimisation in Crohn’s Disease (2021)
Journal Article
Shariff, S., Moran, G., Grimes, C., & Cooney, R. M. (2021). Current Use of EEN in Pre-Operative Optimisation in Crohn’s Disease. Nutrients, 13(12), Article 4389. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13124389

Despite the increasing array of medications available for the treatment of Crohn’s disease and a focus on mucosal healing, approximately 35% of patients with Crohn’s disease undergo bowel surgery at some stage. The importance of nutritional optimisat... Read More about Current Use of EEN in Pre-Operative Optimisation in Crohn’s Disease.

Current Issues in the Use of Opioids for the Management of Postoperative Pain: A Review (2021)
Journal Article
Macintyre, P. E., Quinlan, J., Levy, N., & Lobo, D. N. (2022). Current Issues in the Use of Opioids for the Management of Postoperative Pain: A Review. JAMA Surgery, 157(2), 158-166. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamasurg.2021.6210

Importance: Uncontrolled and indiscriminate prescribing of opioids has led to an opioid crisis that started in North America and spread throughout high-income countries. The aim of this narrative review was to explore some of the current issues surro... Read More about Current Issues in the Use of Opioids for the Management of Postoperative Pain: A Review.

Exorcising Malthusian ghosts: Vaccinating the Nexus to advance integrated water, energy and food resource resilience (2021)
Journal Article
Kemp, P. S., Acuto, M., Larcom, S., Lumbroso, D., & Owen, M. R. (2022). Exorcising Malthusian ghosts: Vaccinating the Nexus to advance integrated water, energy and food resource resilience. Current Research in Environmental Sustainability, 4, Article 100108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsust.2021.100108

Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus interactions vary from seemingly negative and intractable wicked problems to opportunities for enhanced sustainability. The aim of this paper is to review the current state of understanding on WEF resource interactions a... Read More about Exorcising Malthusian ghosts: Vaccinating the Nexus to advance integrated water, energy and food resource resilience.

Airborne Infection and Breathing Walls (2021)
Book Chapter
Ekici, D. (2021). Airborne Infection and Breathing Walls. In A. Jasper (Ed.), Social Distance (132-137)

Carbohydrates from Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms interact with immune C-type lectins and interfere with their receptor function (2021)
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Singh, S., Almuhanna, Y., Alshahrani, M. Y., Lowman, D. W., Rice, P. J., Gell, C., …Martinez-Pomares, L. (2021). Carbohydrates from Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms interact with immune C-type lectins and interfere with their receptor function. npj Biofilms and Microbiomes, 7(1), Article 87. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41522-021-00257-w

Bacterial biofilms represent a challenge to the healthcare system because of their resilience against antimicrobials and immune attack. Biofilms consist of bacterial aggregates embedded in an extracellular polymeric substance (EPS) composed of polysa... Read More about Carbohydrates from Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms interact with immune C-type lectins and interfere with their receptor function.

Forecasting high-frequency excess stock returns via data analytics and machine learning (2021)
Journal Article
Akyildirim, E., Nguyen, D. K., Sensoy, A., & Šikić, M. (2023). Forecasting high-frequency excess stock returns via data analytics and machine learning. European Financial Management, 29(1), 22-75. https://doi.org/10.1111/eufm.12345

Borsa Istanbul introduced data analytics to present additional information about its market conditions. We examine whether this product can be utilized via various machine learning methods to predict intraday excess returns. Accordingly, these analyt... Read More about Forecasting high-frequency excess stock returns via data analytics and machine learning.

Understanding the perceptions of UK COVID-19 contact tracing app in the BAME community in Leicester (2021)
Journal Article
Akintoye, S., Ogoh, G., Krokida, Z., Nnadi, J., & Eke, D. (2021). Understanding the perceptions of UK COVID-19 contact tracing app in the BAME community in Leicester. Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, 19(4), 521-536. https://doi.org/10.1108/jices-06-2021-0071

Purpose
Digital contact tracing technologies are critical to the fight against COVID-19 in many countries including the UK. However, a number of ethical, legal and socio-economic concerns that can affect uptake of the app have been raised. The purpo... Read More about Understanding the perceptions of UK COVID-19 contact tracing app in the BAME community in Leicester.

Insights into the Structure and Self‐Assembly of Organic‐Semiconductor/Quantum‐Dot Blends (2021)
Journal Article
Toolan, D. T. W., Weir, M. P., Allardice, J., Smith, J. A., Dowland, S. A., Winkel, J., …Ryan, A. J. (2022). Insights into the Structure and Self‐Assembly of Organic‐Semiconductor/Quantum‐Dot Blends. Advanced Functional Materials, 32(13), Article 2109252. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202109252

Controlling the dispersibility of crystalline inorganic quantum dots (QD) within organic-QD nanocomposite films is critical for a wide range of optoelectronic devices. A promising way to control nanoscale structure in these nanocomposites is via the... Read More about Insights into the Structure and Self‐Assembly of Organic‐Semiconductor/Quantum‐Dot Blends.

Diversity of European habitat types is correlated with geography more than climate and human pressure (2021)
Journal Article
Cervellini, M., Di Musciano, M., Zannini, P., Fattorini, S., Jiménez‐Alfaro, B., Agrillo, E., Attorre, F., Angelini, P., Beierkuhnlein, C., Casella, L., Field, R., Fischer, J., Genovesi, P., Hoffmann, S., Irl, S. D. H., Nascimbene, J., Rocchini, D., Steinbauer, M., Vetaas, O. R., & Chiarucci, A. (2021). Diversity of European habitat types is correlated with geography more than climate and human pressure. Ecology and Evolution, 11(24), 18111-18124. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8409

Habitat richness, that is, the diversity of ecosystem types, is a complex, spatially explicit aspect of biodiversity, which is affected by bioclimatic, geographic, and anthropogenic variables. The distribution of habitat types is a key component for... Read More about Diversity of European habitat types is correlated with geography more than climate and human pressure.

Pluripotent stem cells related to embryonic disc exhibit common self-renewal requirements in diverse livestock species (2021)
Journal Article
Kinoshita, M., Kobayashi, T., Planells, B., Klisch, D., Spindlow, D., Masaki, H., …Smith, A. (2021). Pluripotent stem cells related to embryonic disc exhibit common self-renewal requirements in diverse livestock species. Development, 148(23), Article dev199901. https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.199901

Despite four decades of effort, robust propagation of pluripotent stem cells from livestock animals remains challenging. The requirements for self-renewal are unclear and the relationship of cultured stem cells to pluripotent cells resident in the em... Read More about Pluripotent stem cells related to embryonic disc exhibit common self-renewal requirements in diverse livestock species.

Palaeoceanography of the Japan Sea Across the Mid‐Pleistocene Transition: Insights From IODP Exp. 346, Site U1427 (2021)
Journal Article
Henderson, A. C. G., Felder, S., Sagawa, T., Greaves, M., Leng, M. J., Ikehara, K., …Henderson, A. C. (2022). Palaeoceanography of the Japan Sea Across the Mid‐Pleistocene Transition: Insights From IODP Exp. 346, Site U1427. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 37(1), Article e2021PA004236. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021pa004236

Large-scale atmospheric circulation patterns, such as the East Asian monsoon, have been proposed as possible feedbacks of the mid-Pleistocene transition (MPT). Marine sediments of the Japan Sea (JS) record variations in the East Asian monsoon over lo... Read More about Palaeoceanography of the Japan Sea Across the Mid‐Pleistocene Transition: Insights From IODP Exp. 346, Site U1427.

Optimization of interval type-2 fuzzy logic system using grasshopper optimization algorithm (2021)
Journal Article
Hassan, S., Khanesar, M. A., Hussein, N. K., Belhaouari, S. B., Amjad, U., & Mashwani, W. K. (2022). Optimization of interval type-2 fuzzy logic system using grasshopper optimization algorithm. Computers, Materials & Continua, 71(2), 3513-3531. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2022.022018

The estimation of the fuzzy membership function parameters for interval type 2 fuzzy logic system (IT2-FLS) is a challenging task in the presence of uncertainty and imprecision. Grasshopper optimization algorithm (GOA) is a fresh population based met... Read More about Optimization of interval type-2 fuzzy logic system using grasshopper optimization algorithm.

Constitutive modelling of hot deformation behaviour of metallic materials (2021)
Journal Article
Zhu, H., & Ou, H. (2022). Constitutive modelling of hot deformation behaviour of metallic materials. Materials Science and Engineering: A, 832, Article 142473. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2021.142473

The complexity of hot deformation behaviours of metallic materials is acknowledged in decades of study. The present work uses a new constitutive model by Zhu-Ou-Popov (ZOP model) and its modifications to predict the hot deformation behaviours of meta... Read More about Constitutive modelling of hot deformation behaviour of metallic materials.

Enhanced thermal and electrical properties by Ag nanoparticles decorated GO-CNT nanostructures in PEEK composites (2021)
Journal Article
Hu, C., Liu, T., Neate, N., Fay, M., Hou, X., Grant, D., & Xu, F. (2022). Enhanced thermal and electrical properties by Ag nanoparticles decorated GO-CNT nanostructures in PEEK composites. Composites Science and Technology, 218, Article 109201. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compscitech.2021.109201

A nanostructure of graphene oxide (GO) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) decorated with silver nanoparticles (AgGNT) has been prepared via a molecular-level-mixing (MLM) method followed by a subsequent freeze-drying and reduction process. The obtained well... Read More about Enhanced thermal and electrical properties by Ag nanoparticles decorated GO-CNT nanostructures in PEEK composites.

Change in rhetoric but not in action? Framing of the ethical issue of modern slavery in a UK sector at high risk of labor exploitation (2021)
Journal Article
Gutierrez-Huerter, G., Gold, S., & Trautrims, A. (2023). Change in rhetoric but not in action? Framing of the ethical issue of modern slavery in a UK sector at high risk of labor exploitation. Journal of Business Ethics, 182(1), 35-58. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-021-05013-w

This article shows how the ethical framing of the contemporary issue of modern slavery has evolved in UK construction, a sector in which there is a high risk of labor exploitation. It also examines how these framing dynamics have inhibited the emerge... Read More about Change in rhetoric but not in action? Framing of the ethical issue of modern slavery in a UK sector at high risk of labor exploitation.