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Phenazines as model low-midpoint potential electron shuttles for photosynthetic bioelectrochemical systems (2021)
Journal Article
Clifford, E. R., Bradley, R. W., Wey, L. T., Lawrence, J. M., Chen, X., Howe, C. J., & Zhang, J. Z. (2021). Phenazines as model low-midpoint potential electron shuttles for photosynthetic bioelectrochemical systems. Chemical Science, 12(9), 3328-3338. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0sc05655c

Bioelectrochemical approaches for energy conversion rely on efficient wiring of natural electron transport chains to electrodes. However, state-of-the-art exogenous electron mediators give rise to significant energy losses and, in the case of living... Read More about Phenazines as model low-midpoint potential electron shuttles for photosynthetic bioelectrochemical systems.

Anisotropic scattering characteristics of nanoparticles in different morphologies: improving the temperature uniformity of tumors during thermal therapy using forward scattering (2021)
Journal Article
Chen, Q., Ren, Y., Yin, Y., & Qi, H. (2021). Anisotropic scattering characteristics of nanoparticles in different morphologies: improving the temperature uniformity of tumors during thermal therapy using forward scattering. Biomedical Optics Express, 12(2), 893-906. https://doi.org/10.1364/BOE.415666

Precise control of the thermal damage area is the key issue during thermal therapy, which can be achieved by manipulating the light propagation in biological tissue. In the present work, a method is proposed to increase the uniformity of the specific... Read More about Anisotropic scattering characteristics of nanoparticles in different morphologies: improving the temperature uniformity of tumors during thermal therapy using forward scattering.

Social Eating Initiatives and the Practices of Commensality (2021)
Journal Article
Smith, M., & Harvey, J. (2021). Social Eating Initiatives and the Practices of Commensality. Appetite, 161, Article 105107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2021.105107

Social eating initiatives are a mode of food provisioning and eating that have become increasingly popular in the UK. These organisations provide a menu of low-cost meals prepared using food surpluses and deliberately serve food communally to improve... Read More about Social Eating Initiatives and the Practices of Commensality.

Test?guided dietary management of eczema in children: A randomized controlled feasibility trial (TEST) (2021)
Journal Article
Ridd, M. J., Webb, D., Roberts, K., Santer, M., Chalmers, J. R., Gilbertson, A., …Boyle, R. J. (2021). Test‐guided dietary management of eczema in children: A randomized controlled feasibility trial (TEST). Clinical and Experimental Allergy, 51(3), 452-462. https://doi.org/10.1111/cea.13816

Background Parents commonly ask about food allergy tests, to find a cause for their child's eczema, yet the value of routine testing is uncertain. Objective To determine whether a clinical trial comparing test‐guided dietary advice versus usual... Read More about Test?guided dietary management of eczema in children: A randomized controlled feasibility trial (TEST).

Thiamethoxam exposure deregulates short ORF gene expression in the honey bee and compromises immune response to bacteria (2021)
Journal Article
Decio, P., Ustaoglu, P., Derecka, K., Hardy, I. C. W., Roat, T. C., Malaspina, O., …Soller, M. (2021). Thiamethoxam exposure deregulates short ORF gene expression in the honey bee and compromises immune response to bacteria. Scientific Reports, 11(1), Article 1489. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-80620-7

© 2021, The Author(s). Maximizing crop yields relies on the use of agrochemicals to control insect pests. One of the most widely used classes of insecticides are neonicotinoids that interfere with signalling of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, but... Read More about Thiamethoxam exposure deregulates short ORF gene expression in the honey bee and compromises immune response to bacteria.

Plant roots sense soil compaction through restricted ethylene diffusion (2021)
Journal Article
Pandey, B. K., Huang, G., Bhosale, R., Hartman, S., Sturrock, C. J., Jose, L., …Bennett, M. J. (2021). Plant roots sense soil compaction through restricted ethylene diffusion. Science, 371(6526), 276-280. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abf3013

© 2021 The Authors, some rights reserved. Soil compaction represents a major challenge for modern agriculture. Compaction is intuitively thought to reduce root growth by limiting the ability of roots to penetrate harder soils. We report that root gro... Read More about Plant roots sense soil compaction through restricted ethylene diffusion.

Can patient characteristics explain variance in ultrasound strain elastography measures of the quadratus femoris and patellar tendons? (2021)
Journal Article
Dickson, D. M., Smith, S. L., & Hendry, G. J. (2021). Can patient characteristics explain variance in ultrasound strain elastography measures of the quadratus femoris and patellar tendons?. Knee, 28, 282-293. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knee.2020.12.011

Objectives To explore the associations between participant characteristics and magnitudes of difference in paired elastography measures of knee tendon from different ultrasound systems, and to compare strain elastography pattern description. Material... Read More about Can patient characteristics explain variance in ultrasound strain elastography measures of the quadratus femoris and patellar tendons?.

Controlling multiple orderings in metal thiocyanate molecular perovskites Ax{Ni[Bi(SCN)6]} (2021)
Journal Article
Lee, J. Y., Ling, S., Argent, S., Senn, M., Cañadillas-Delgado, L., & Cliffe, M. (2021). Controlling multiple orderings in metal thiocyanate molecular perovskites Ax{Ni[Bi(SCN)6]}. Chemical Science, 12(10), 3516-3525. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0sc06619b

We report four new A-site vacancy ordered thiocyanate double double perovskites, A1–x{Ni[Bi(SCN)6](1–x)/3}, A = K+, NH4+, CH3(NH3)+ (MeNH3+) and C(NH2)3+ (Gua+), including the first examples of thiocyanate perovskites containing organic A-site cation... Read More about Controlling multiple orderings in metal thiocyanate molecular perovskites Ax{Ni[Bi(SCN)6]}.

Kubrick and the Critics (2021)
Book Chapter
Frame, G. (2021). Kubrick and the Critics. In N. Abrams, & I. Q. Hunter (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Companion to Stanley Kubrick (75-84). Bloomsbury Publishing

The role of ALDH1A1 in contributing to breast tumour aggressiveness: A study conducted in an African population (2021)
Journal Article
Gyan, E., Green, A., Ahenkorah-Fondjo, L., Jackson, A., Toss, M. S., Akakpo, P. K., …Owiredu, W. (2021). The role of ALDH1A1 in contributing to breast tumour aggressiveness: A study conducted in an African population. Annals of Diagnostic Pathology, 51, Article 151696. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anndiagpath.2020.151696

Aldehyde dehydrogenase 1 member A1 (ALDH1A1) is one of the most well studied breast cancer stem cells. Its expression has been associated with poor clinicopathological features and clinical outcomes in several studies. This paper studies the expressi... Read More about The role of ALDH1A1 in contributing to breast tumour aggressiveness: A study conducted in an African population.

A Cooperative Photoactive Class-I Hybrid Polyoxometalate With Benzothiadiazole–Imidazolium Cations (2021)
Journal Article
Kibler, A. J., Souza, V. S., Fernandes, J. A., Lewis, W., Argent, S. P., Dupont, J., & Newton, G. N. (2021). A Cooperative Photoactive Class-I Hybrid Polyoxometalate With Benzothiadiazole–Imidazolium Cations. Frontiers in Chemistry, 8, Article 612535. https://doi.org/10.3389/fchem.2020.612535

An organic–inorganic hybrid species based on the Wells–Dawson polyoxotungstate [P2W18O62]6− and novel fluorescent benzothiadiazole–imidazolium cations, [BTD-4,7-ImH]2+, has been synthesized. X-ray crystallographic analysis shows that the inorganic an... Read More about A Cooperative Photoactive Class-I Hybrid Polyoxometalate With Benzothiadiazole–Imidazolium Cations.

The Bloomsbury handbook of the internationalization of higher education in the Global South (2021)
Book
Thondhlana, J., Chiyevo Garwe, E., de Wit, H., Gacel-Ávila, J., Huang, F., & Tamrat, W. (Eds.). (2021). The Bloomsbury handbook of the internationalization of higher education in the Global South. Bloomsbury Publishing

This Handbook covers a wide range of historical perspectives, realities, research and practice of internationalization of higher education (IHE) in the global south and makes comparisons to IHE issues in the global north. Drawing on the expertise of... Read More about The Bloomsbury handbook of the internationalization of higher education in the Global South.

Creative Facticity and 'Hyper-Archaeology': the Spatial and Performative Textualities of Psychogeography (2021)
Book Chapter
Jordan, S. (2021). Creative Facticity and 'Hyper-Archaeology': the Spatial and Performative Textualities of Psychogeography. In Writing Remains New Intersections of Archaeology, Literature and Science (95-116). London: Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350109490.ch-004

The chapter examines the interdependencies between fiction and archaeology through the analysis of psychogeography, a broad and ever expanding genre that mixes archaeological and historical fact with fiction. Critical to this analysis is an understan... Read More about Creative Facticity and 'Hyper-Archaeology': the Spatial and Performative Textualities of Psychogeography.

Spatial distribution of the different strains of the distinct coconut lethal yellowing-type phytoplasma species associated with the syndrome in Tanzania (2021)
Journal Article
Mpunami, A., Pilet, F., Fabre, S., Kullaya, A., Dickinson, M., & Dollet, M. (2021). Spatial distribution of the different strains of the distinct coconut lethal yellowing-type phytoplasma species associated with the syndrome in Tanzania. Tropical plant pathology, 46(2), 207-217. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40858-020-00407-z

Phytoplasmas are associated with the lethal disease of coconut palms in Tanzania (LDT). It is a destructive lethal yellowing-type syndrome (LYTS) exhibiting differences in losses between the southern districts and the northern districts. To explain t... Read More about Spatial distribution of the different strains of the distinct coconut lethal yellowing-type phytoplasma species associated with the syndrome in Tanzania.

How well do crop modeling groups predict wheat phenology, given calibration data from the target population? (2021)
Journal Article
Wallach, D., Palosuo, T., Thorburn, P., Gourdain, E., Asseng, S., Basso, B., …Seidel, S. J. (2021). How well do crop modeling groups predict wheat phenology, given calibration data from the target population?. European Journal of Agronomy, 124, Article 126195. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eja.2020.126195

© 2020 Elsevier B.V. Predicting phenology is essential for adapting varieties to different environmental conditions and for crop management. Therefore, it is important to evaluate how well different crop modeling groups can predict phenology. Multipl... Read More about How well do crop modeling groups predict wheat phenology, given calibration data from the target population?.

Laboratory investigation of a bridge scour monitoring method using decentralized modal analysis (2021)
Journal Article
Khan, M. A., McCrum, D. P., Prendergast, L. J., OBrien, E. J., Fitzgerald, P. C., & Kim, C. (2021). Laboratory investigation of a bridge scour monitoring method using decentralized modal analysis. Structural Health Monitoring, 20(6), 3327-3341. https://doi.org/10.1177/1475921720985122

Scour is a significant issue for bridges worldwide that influences the global stiffness of bridge structures and hence alters the dynamic behaviour of these systems. For the first time, this article presents a new approach to detect bridge scour at s... Read More about Laboratory investigation of a bridge scour monitoring method using decentralized modal analysis.