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Time-dependence and exposure-dependence of material removal rates in fretting (2021)
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Shipway, P. H. (2021). Time-dependence and exposure-dependence of material removal rates in fretting. Wear, 477, Article 203826. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wear.2021.203826

Fretting generally results in either material removal or fatigue, or a combination of both. Although the term is rarely used now, in the early literature addressing this subject, fretting that resulted in material removal was sometimes termed “fretti... Read More about Time-dependence and exposure-dependence of material removal rates in fretting.

Application of DNP-enhanced solid-state NMR to studies of amyloid-β peptide interaction with lipid membranes (2021)
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Deo, T., Cheng, Q., Paul, S., Qiang, W., & Potapov, A. (2021). Application of DNP-enhanced solid-state NMR to studies of amyloid-β peptide interaction with lipid membranes. Chemistry and Physics of Lipids, 236, Article 105071. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2021.105071

The cellular membrane disruption induced by the aggregation of Aβ peptide has been proposed as a plausible cause of neuronal cell death during Alzheimer’s disease. The molecular-level details of the Aβ interaction with cellular membranes were previou... Read More about Application of DNP-enhanced solid-state NMR to studies of amyloid-β peptide interaction with lipid membranes.

Clinical integration of fast Raman spectroscopy for Mohs micrographic surgery of basal cell carcinoma (2021)
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Boitor, R., de Wolf, C., Weesie, F., Shipp, D. W., Varma, S., Veitch, D., Wernham, A., Koloydenko, A., Puppels, G., Nijsten, T., Williams, H. C., Caspers, P., & Notingher, I. (2021). Clinical integration of fast Raman spectroscopy for Mohs micrographic surgery of basal cell carcinoma. Biomedical Optics Express, 12(4), 2015-2026. https://doi.org/10.1364/boe.417896

We present the first clinical integration of a prototype device based on integrated auto-fluorescence imaging and Raman spectroscopy (Fast Raman device) for intra-operative assessment of surgical margins during Mohs micrographic surgery of basal cell... Read More about Clinical integration of fast Raman spectroscopy for Mohs micrographic surgery of basal cell carcinoma.

The impact of tumour biology on the management of primary breast cancer in older women—based on a research programme in Nottingham (2021)
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Parks, R. M., Green, A. R., & Cheung, K.-L. (2021). The impact of tumour biology on the management of primary breast cancer in older women—based on a research programme in Nottingham. Annals of Breast Surgery, 5, Article 5. https://doi.org/10.21037/abs-20-130

The incidence of breast cancer increases with age. Average life expectancies are increasing; the older population is expanding globally. This presents a huge challenge on an international scale in the coming years as more older people are living with... Read More about The impact of tumour biology on the management of primary breast cancer in older women—based on a research programme in Nottingham.

A Tryptophan ‘Gate’ in the CRISPR-Cas3 Nuclease Controls ssDNA Entry into the Nuclease Site, That When Removed Results in Nuclease Hyperactivity (2021)
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He, L., Matošević, Z. J., Mitić, D., Markulin, D., Killelea, T., Matković, M., Bertoša, B., Ivančić-Baće, I., & Bolt, E. L. (2021). A Tryptophan ‘Gate’ in the CRISPR-Cas3 Nuclease Controls ssDNA Entry into the Nuclease Site, That When Removed Results in Nuclease Hyperactivity. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 22(6), Article 2848. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms22062848

Cas3 is a ssDNA-targeting nuclease-helicase essential for class 1 prokaryotic CRISPR immunity systems, which has been utilized for genome editing in human cells. Cas3-DNA crystal structures show that ssDNA follows a pathway from helicase domains into... Read More about A Tryptophan ‘Gate’ in the CRISPR-Cas3 Nuclease Controls ssDNA Entry into the Nuclease Site, That When Removed Results in Nuclease Hyperactivity.

Measuring Online Wellbeing: A Scoping Review of Subjective Wellbeing Measures (2021)
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Ong, Z. X., Dowthwaite, L., Vallejos, E. P., & Long, Y. (2021). Measuring Online Wellbeing: A Scoping Review of Subjective Wellbeing Measures. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, Article 616637. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.616637

With the increasing importance of the internet to our everyday lives, questions are rightly being asked about how its’ use affects our wellbeing. It is important to be able to effectively measure the effects of the online context as it allows us to a... Read More about Measuring Online Wellbeing: A Scoping Review of Subjective Wellbeing Measures.

REFOCUS-PULSAR Recovery-Oriented Practice Training in Adult Primary Mental Health Care: Exploratory Findings Including From a Pretest–Posttest Evaluation (2021)
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Enticott, J. C., Shawyer, F., Brophy, L. M., Russell, G., Mazza, D., Wilson-Evered, E., Weller, P. J., Slade, M., Edan, V., & Meadows, G. N. (2021). REFOCUS-PULSAR Recovery-Oriented Practice Training in Adult Primary Mental Health Care: Exploratory Findings Including From a Pretest–Posttest Evaluation. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12, Article 625408. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.625408

Objectives: Australian general practitioners (GPs) are pivotal in mental health care. The REFOCUS-PULSAR (Principles Unite Local Services Assisting Recovery) primary care study aimed to improve personal recovery outcomes in adults with mental health... Read More about REFOCUS-PULSAR Recovery-Oriented Practice Training in Adult Primary Mental Health Care: Exploratory Findings Including From a Pretest–Posttest Evaluation.

Time dependent asymptotic analysis of the gene regulatory network of the AcrAB-TolC efflux pump system in gram-negative bacteria (2021)
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Youlden, G. H., Ricci, V., Wang-Kan, X., Piddock, L. J., Jabbari, S., & King, J. R. (2021). Time dependent asymptotic analysis of the gene regulatory network of the AcrAB-TolC efflux pump system in gram-negative bacteria. Journal of Mathematical Biology, 82(4), Article 31. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00285-021-01576-4

Efflux pumps are a mechanism of intrinsic and evolved resistance in bacteria. If an efflux pump can expel an antibiotic so that its concentration within the cell is below a killing threshold the bacteria are resistant to the antibiotic. Efflux pumps... Read More about Time dependent asymptotic analysis of the gene regulatory network of the AcrAB-TolC efflux pump system in gram-negative bacteria.

Imaging and analysis of covalent organic framework crystallites on a carbon surface: a nanocrystalline scaly COF/nanotube hybrid (2021)
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Weare, B. L., Lodge, R. W., Zyk, N., Weilhard, A., Housley, C. L., Strutyński, K., Melle-Franco, M., Mateo-Alonso, A., & Khlobystov, A. N. (2021). Imaging and analysis of covalent organic framework crystallites on a carbon surface: a nanocrystalline scaly COF/nanotube hybrid. Nanoscale, 13(14), 6834-6845. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0nr08973g

Synthesis of covalent organic frameworks (COFs) is well-advanced but understanding their nanoscale structure and interaction with other materials remains a significant challenge. Here, we have developed a methodology for the detailed imaging and anal... Read More about Imaging and analysis of covalent organic framework crystallites on a carbon surface: a nanocrystalline scaly COF/nanotube hybrid.

Optical Tweezers with Integrated Multiplane Microscopy (OpTIMuM): a new tool for 3D microrheology (2021)
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Matheson, A. B., Paterson, L., Wright, A. J., Mendonca, T., Tassieri, M., & Dalgarno, P. A. (2021). Optical Tweezers with Integrated Multiplane Microscopy (OpTIMuM): a new tool for 3D microrheology. Scientific Reports, 11, Article 5614. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-85013-y

We introduce a novel 3D microrheology system that combines for the first time Optical Tweezers with Integrated Multiplane Microscopy (OpTIMuM). The system allows the 3D tracking of an optically trapped bead, with ~ 20 nm accuracy along the optical ax... Read More about Optical Tweezers with Integrated Multiplane Microscopy (OpTIMuM): a new tool for 3D microrheology.

Impact of mixed feedstock of wheat straw, willow and Miscanthus on enzymatic hydrolysis and inhibitor production after microwave hydrothermal pre-treatment in Europe (2021)
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Moirangthem, K., Greetham, D., Craigon, J., & Tucker, G. (2022). Impact of mixed feedstock of wheat straw, willow and Miscanthus on enzymatic hydrolysis and inhibitor production after microwave hydrothermal pre-treatment in Europe. Biofuels, 13(6), 727-734. https://doi.org/10.1080/17597269.2021.1894782

Lignocellulosic feedstocks for biorefinery are likely to be seasonal and the supply of feedstock to cellulosic biorefineries remains a challenge. One way to overcome this is by utilizing a mixed feedstock which facilitates the maintenance of a year-r... Read More about Impact of mixed feedstock of wheat straw, willow and Miscanthus on enzymatic hydrolysis and inhibitor production after microwave hydrothermal pre-treatment in Europe.

Anterior cruciate ligament injury: Towards a gendered environmental approach (2021)
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Parsons, J. L., Coen, S. E., & Bekker, S. (2021). Anterior cruciate ligament injury: Towards a gendered environmental approach. British Journal of Sports Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2020-103173

Background: The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury rate for girls/women has not changed in over 20 years, and they remain 3-6 times more likely to experience injury compared with boys/men. To date, ACL injury prevention and management has been a... Read More about Anterior cruciate ligament injury: Towards a gendered environmental approach.

Near-Fiber Electromyography (2021)
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Piasecki, M., Garnés-Camarena, O., & Stashuk, D. W. (2021). Near-Fiber Electromyography. Clinical Neurophysiology, 132(5), 1089-1104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clinph.2021.02.008

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Describe and evaluate the concepts of near fiber electromyography (NFEMG), the features used, including near fiber motor unit potential (NFMUP) duration and dispersion, which relate to motor unit distal axonal branch and muscle fiber con... Read More about Near-Fiber Electromyography.

An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS field: Halo masses for submillimetre galaxies (2021)
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Stach, S. M., Smail, I., Amvrosiadis, A., Swinbank, A. M., Dudzevičiūtė, U., Geach, J. E., Almaini, O., Birkin, J. E., Chen, C. C., Conselice, C. J., Cooke, E. A., Coppin, K. E. K., Dunlop, J. S., Farrah, D., Ikarashi, S., Ivison, R. J., & Wardlow, J. L. (2021). An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS field: Halo masses for submillimetre galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 504(1), 172-184. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab714

We present an analysis of the spatial clustering of a large sample of high-resolution, interferometically identified, submillimetre galaxies (SMGs). We measure the projected cross-correlation function of ∼350 SMGs in the UKIDSS Ultra Deep-Survey Fiel... Read More about An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS field: Halo masses for submillimetre galaxies.

Modeling of the spectroscopy of core electrons with density functional theory (2021)
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Besley, N. A. (2021). Modeling of the spectroscopy of core electrons with density functional theory. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Molecular Science, 11(6), Article e1527. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcms.1527

The availability of X-ray light sources with increased resolution and intensity has provided a foundation for increasingly sophisticated experimental studies exploiting the spectroscopy of core electrons to probe fundamental chemical, physical, and b... Read More about Modeling of the spectroscopy of core electrons with density functional theory.

Ionic Liquids-Cobalt(II) Thermochromic Complexes: How the Structure Tunability Affects "self-Contained" Systems (2021)
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Billeci, F., Gunaratne, H. Q., Licence, P., Seddon, K. R., Plechkova, N. V., & D'Anna, F. (2021). Ionic Liquids-Cobalt(II) Thermochromic Complexes: How the Structure Tunability Affects "self-Contained" Systems. ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, 9(11), 4064-4075. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.0c08586

With the aim of obtaining thermochromic systems with potential applications in solar energy storage, we evaluated the behavior of some sugar-based ionic liquids (ILs)-Co(NTf2)2 complexes, in IL solution, as a function of temperature. Different struct... Read More about Ionic Liquids-Cobalt(II) Thermochromic Complexes: How the Structure Tunability Affects "self-Contained" Systems.

Predictive Control with Current-Based Maximum Power Point-Tracking for On-Grid Photovoltaic Applications (2021)
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Muñoz, C., Rivera, M., Villalón, A., Baier, C. R., Muñoz, J., Ramirez, R. O., & Wheeler, P. (2021). Predictive Control with Current-Based Maximum Power Point-Tracking for On-Grid Photovoltaic Applications. Sustainability, 13(6), 3037. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13063037

The high increase of renewable energy sources and the increment of distributed generation in the electrical grid has made them complex and of variable parameters, causing potential stability problems to the PI controllers. In this document, a control... Read More about Predictive Control with Current-Based Maximum Power Point-Tracking for On-Grid Photovoltaic Applications.

Outcomes for children with acquired brain injury (ABI) admitted to acute neurorehabilitation (2021)
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Keetley, R., Bennett, E., Williams, J., Stewart, I., Whitehouse, W. P., Pilling, P., & Manning, J. C. (2021). Outcomes for children with acquired brain injury (ABI) admitted to acute neurorehabilitation. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 63(7), 824-830. https://doi.org/10.1111/dmcn.14846

Aim: To evaluate an innovative paediatric neurorehabilitation model in relation to improving quality of neurorehabilitation and reducing length of stay (LOS) for children with acquired brain injury. Method: A process evaluation approach was conducted... Read More about Outcomes for children with acquired brain injury (ABI) admitted to acute neurorehabilitation.

Immobilisation induces sizeable and sustained reductions in forearm glucose uptake in just 24h but does not change lipid uptake in healthy men (2021)
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Burns, A. M., Nixon, A., Mallinson, J., Cordon, S. M., Stephens, F. B., & Greenhaff, P. L. (2021). Immobilisation induces sizeable and sustained reductions in forearm glucose uptake in just 24h but does not change lipid uptake in healthy men. Journal of Physiology, 599(8), 2197-2210. https://doi.org/10.1113/JP281021

© 2021 The Authors. The Journal of Physiology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of The Physiological Society Key points: The trajectory, magnitude and localisation of metabolic perturbations caused by immobilisation (IMM) are unresolved.... Read More about Immobilisation induces sizeable and sustained reductions in forearm glucose uptake in just 24h but does not change lipid uptake in healthy men.

Thermo-mechanical Dynamics of Nanoimprinting Anti-Reflective Structures onto Small-core Mid- IR Chalcogenide Fibers (2021)
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Petersen, C. R., Lotz, M. B., Markos, C., Woyessa, G., Furniss, D., Seddon, A. B., Taboryski, R. J., & Bang, O. (2021). Thermo-mechanical Dynamics of Nanoimprinting Anti-Reflective Structures onto Small-core Mid- IR Chalcogenide Fibers. Chinese Optics Letters, 19(3), Article 030603

Thermal nanoimprinting is a fast and versatile method for transferring the anti-reflective properties of subwavelength nanostructures onto the surface of highly reflective substrates, such as chalcogenide glass optical fiber end-facets. In this paper... Read More about Thermo-mechanical Dynamics of Nanoimprinting Anti-Reflective Structures onto Small-core Mid- IR Chalcogenide Fibers.