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Metabolic Imaging in Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: Applications of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (2021)
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Thiagarajan, P., Bawden, S. J., & Aithal, G. P. (2021). Metabolic Imaging in Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: Applications of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 10(4), Article 632. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm10040632

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is poised to dominate the landscape of clinical hepatology in the 21st century. Its complex, interdependent aetiologies, non-linear disease progression and uncertain natural history have presented great chall... Read More about Metabolic Imaging in Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: Applications of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy.

Understanding cell‐cell communication and signaling in the colorectal cancer microenvironment (2021)
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Almusawi, S., Ahmed, M., & Nateri, A. S. (2021). Understanding cell‐cell communication and signaling in the colorectal cancer microenvironment. Clinical and Translational Medicine, 11(2), Article e308. https://doi.org/10.1002/ctm2.308

Carcinomas are complex heterocellular systems containing epithelial cancer cells, stromal fibroblasts, and multiple immune cell‐types. Cell‐cell communication between these tumor microenvironments (TME) and cells drives cancer progression and influen... Read More about Understanding cell‐cell communication and signaling in the colorectal cancer microenvironment.

Comparison of the impact of moisture on methane adsorption and nanoporosity for over mature shales and their kerogens (2021)
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Li, W., Stevens, L. A., Uguna, C. N., Vane, C. H., Meredith, W., Tang, L., …Snape, C. E. (2021). Comparison of the impact of moisture on methane adsorption and nanoporosity for over mature shales and their kerogens. International Journal of Coal Geology, 237, Article 103705. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coal.2021.103705

© 2021 Elsevier B.V. Moisture in shales under reservoir conditions adversely affects gas adsorption and nanoporosity and is also likely to impact on the contribution that kerogen makes to the methane adsorption capacity. To investigate these phenomen... Read More about Comparison of the impact of moisture on methane adsorption and nanoporosity for over mature shales and their kerogens.

Towards a general model for predicting minimal metal concentrations co-selecting for antibiotic resistance plasmids (2021)
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Arya, S., Williams, A., Reina, S. V., Knapp, C. W., Kreft, J.-U., Hobman, J. L., & Stekel, D. J. (2021). Towards a general model for predicting minimal metal concentrations co-selecting for antibiotic resistance plasmids. Environmental Pollution, 275, Article 116602. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2021.116602

© 2021 Elsevier Ltd Many antibiotic resistance genes co-occur with resistance genes for transition metals, such as copper, zinc, or mercury. In some environments, a positive correlation between high metal concentration and high abundance of antibioti... Read More about Towards a general model for predicting minimal metal concentrations co-selecting for antibiotic resistance plasmids.

Knowledge sharing to support long term condition self-management - patient and healthcare professional perspectives (2021)
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Brad, S., & Timmons, S. (2021). Knowledge sharing to support long term condition self-management - patient and healthcare professional perspectives. Health Expectations, 24(2), 628-637. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.13209

Background: Increased self management is a suggested solution to the burden on healthcare services of long term conditions (LTCs). This requires effective sharing of knowledge between healthcare professionals and patients, and is an underexplored are... Read More about Knowledge sharing to support long term condition self-management - patient and healthcare professional perspectives.

Social media-related tensions on business-to-business markets - Evidence from China (2021)
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Luo, J., Toth, Z., Liu, M. J., & Yuan, R. (2021). Social media-related tensions on business-to-business markets - Evidence from China. Industrial Marketing Management, 93, 293-306. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indmarman.2020.12.015

Previous research has established the benefits of using social media in support of engagement in business-to-business settings. Yet the study of problems that arise from social media use in business relationships remains limited. Utilizing a dyadic p... Read More about Social media-related tensions on business-to-business markets - Evidence from China.

Hierarchical Multiscale Recurrent Neural Networks for Detecting Suicide Notes (2021)
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Schoene, A. M., Turner, A. P., De Mel, G., & Dethlefs, N. (2023). Hierarchical Multiscale Recurrent Neural Networks for Detecting Suicide Notes. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 14(1), 153-164. https://doi.org/10.1109/TAFFC.2021.3057105

Recent statistics in suicide prevention show that people are increasingly posting their last words online and with the unprecedented availability of textual data from social media platforms researchers have the opportunity to analyse such data. Furth... Read More about Hierarchical Multiscale Recurrent Neural Networks for Detecting Suicide Notes.

Selenium speciation and bioaccessibility in Se-fertilised crops of dietary importance in Malawi (2021)
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Muleya, M., Young, S. D., Reina, S. V., Ligowe, I. S., Broadley, M. R., Joy, E. J., …Bailey, E. H. (2021). Selenium speciation and bioaccessibility in Se-fertilised crops of dietary importance in Malawi. Journal of Food Composition and Analysis, 98, Article 103841. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfca.2021.103841

© 2021 The Author(s) The purpose of this research was to explore the speciation and bioaccessibility of native soil-derived selenium (Se) versus Se applied via fertiliser in the edible portions of maize, groundnut and cowpea grown in Malawi. Fertilis... Read More about Selenium speciation and bioaccessibility in Se-fertilised crops of dietary importance in Malawi.

Supporting self-care for eczema: protocol for two randomised controlled trials of ECO (Eczema Care Online) interventions for young people and parents/carers (2021)
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Muller, I., Stuart, B., Sach, T., Hooper, J., Wilczynska, S., Steele, M., …Santer, M. (2021). Supporting self-care for eczema: protocol for two randomised controlled trials of ECO (Eczema Care Online) interventions for young people and parents/carers. BMJ Open, 11(2), Article e045583. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-045583

Introduction Eczema care requires management of triggers and various treatments. We developed two online behavioural interventions to support eczema care called ECO (Eczema Care Online) for young people and ECO for families. This protocol describes t... Read More about Supporting self-care for eczema: protocol for two randomised controlled trials of ECO (Eczema Care Online) interventions for young people and parents/carers.

Acute gabapentin administration in healthy adults. A double-blind placebo-controlled study using transcranial magnetic stimulation and 7T 1H-MRS (2021)
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Dyke, K., Pépés, S. E., Babourina-Brooks, B., Chen, C., Kim, S., Sigurdsson, H. P., …Jackson, S. R. (2021). Acute gabapentin administration in healthy adults. A double-blind placebo-controlled study using transcranial magnetic stimulation and 7T 1H-MRS. NeuroImage: Reports, 1(1), Article 100003. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ynirp.2021.100003

Multiple target data-driven models to enable sustainable process manufacturing: An industrial bioprocess case study (2021)
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FISHER, O. J., WATSON, N. J., PORCU, L., BACON, D., RIGLEY, M., & GOMES, R. L. (2021). Multiple target data-driven models to enable sustainable process manufacturing: An industrial bioprocess case study. Journal of Cleaner Production, 296, Article 126242. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.126242

Process manufacturing industries constantly strive to make their processes increasingly sustainable from an environmental and economic perspective. A manufacturing system model is a powerful tool to holistically evaluate various manufacturing configu... Read More about Multiple target data-driven models to enable sustainable process manufacturing: An industrial bioprocess case study.

Decline in seasonal influenza vaccine effectiveness with vaccination program maturation: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2021)
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Okoli, G. N., Racovitan, F., Abdulwahid, T., Hyder, S. K., Lansbury, L., Righolt, C. H., …Nguyen-Van-Tam, J. S. (2021). Decline in seasonal influenza vaccine effectiveness with vaccination program maturation: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 8(3), Article ofab069. https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofab069

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Evidence suggests repeated influenza vaccination may reduce vaccine effectiveness (VE). Using influenza vaccination program maturation (number of years since program inception) [PM] as proxy for population-level repeated vaccination, we... Read More about Decline in seasonal influenza vaccine effectiveness with vaccination program maturation: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Skin care interventions in infants for preventing eczema and food allergy (2021)
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Kelleher, M. M., Cro, S., Cornelius, V., Lodrup Carlsen, K. C., Skjerven, H. O., Rehbinder, E. M., …Boyle, R. J. (2021). Skin care interventions in infants for preventing eczema and food allergy. Cochrane Library, 2021(2), Article CD013534. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.cd013534.pub2

Background

Eczema and food allergy are common health conditions that usually begin in early childhood and often occur together in the same people. They can be associated with an impaired skin barrier in early infancy. It is unclear whether trying... Read More about Skin care interventions in infants for preventing eczema and food allergy.

Unveiling surfaces for advanced materials characterisation with large-area electrochemical jet machining (2021)
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Speidel, A., Xu, D., Bisterov, I., Mitchell-Smith, J., & Clare, A. T. (2021). Unveiling surfaces for advanced materials characterisation with large-area electrochemical jet machining. Materials and Design, 202, Article 109539. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2021.109539

Surface preparation for advanced materials inspection methods like electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) generally involve laborious and destructive material sectioning and sequential polishing steps, as EBSD is sensitive to both sample topography... Read More about Unveiling surfaces for advanced materials characterisation with large-area electrochemical jet machining.

Lipid traffic analysis reveals the impact of high paternal carbohydrate intake on offsprings’ lipid metabolism (2021)
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Furse, S., Watkins, A., Hojat, N., Smith, J., Williams, H., Chiarugi, D., & Koulman, A. (2021). Lipid traffic analysis reveals the impact of high paternal carbohydrate intake on offsprings’ lipid metabolism. Communications Biology, 4, Article 163. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-01686-1

In this paper we present an investigation of parental-diet-driven metabolic programming in offspring using a novel computational network analysis tool. The impact of high paternal carbohydrate intake on offsprings’ phospholipid and triglyceride metab... Read More about Lipid traffic analysis reveals the impact of high paternal carbohydrate intake on offsprings’ lipid metabolism.

Teaching Mathematics to Computer Scientists: Reflections and a Case Study (2021)
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Neri, F. (2021). Teaching Mathematics to Computer Scientists: Reflections and a Case Study. SN Computer Science, 2(2), Article 75. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-021-00461-7

Mathematics, despite being the foundation of computer science, is nowadays often considered a totally separate subject. The fact that many jobs in computer science do not explicitly require any specific mathematical knowledge posed questions about th... Read More about Teaching Mathematics to Computer Scientists: Reflections and a Case Study.