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Antimicrobial Activity of Lipopeptide Biosurfactants Against Foodborne Pathogen and Food Spoilage Microorganisms and Their Cytotoxicity (2021)
Journal Article
Kourmentza, K., Gromada, X., Michael, N., Degraeve, C., Vanier, G., Ravallec, R., …Jauregi, P. (2021). Antimicrobial Activity of Lipopeptide Biosurfactants Against Foodborne Pathogen and Food Spoilage Microorganisms and Their Cytotoxicity. Frontiers in Microbiology, 11, Article 561060. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.561060

Lipopeptide biosurfactants produced by Bacillus sp. were assessed regarding their antimicrobial activity against foodborne pathogenic and food spoilage microorganisms. Both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria were found not to be susceptible to... Read More about Antimicrobial Activity of Lipopeptide Biosurfactants Against Foodborne Pathogen and Food Spoilage Microorganisms and Their Cytotoxicity.

Model selection for inferential models with high dimensional data: synthesis and graphical representation of multiple techniques (2021)
Journal Article
Lima, E., Hyde, R., & Green, M. (2021). Model selection for inferential models with high dimensional data: synthesis and graphical representation of multiple techniques. Scientific Reports, 11(1), Article 412. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-79317-8

Can nitrogen fertilizer management improve grain iron concentration of agro-biofortified crops in Zimbabwe? (2021)
Journal Article
Manzeke-Kangara, M. G., Mtambanengwe, F., Watts, M. J., Broadley, M. R., Lark, R. M., & Mapfumo, P. (2021). Can nitrogen fertilizer management improve grain iron concentration of agro-biofortified crops in Zimbabwe?. Agronomy, 11(1), https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy11010124

Improving iron (Fe) concentration in staple grain crops could help reduce Fe-deficiency anaemia in communities dependent on plant-based diets. Co-application of nitrogen (N) and zinc (Zn) fertilizers has been reported to improve both yield and grain... Read More about Can nitrogen fertilizer management improve grain iron concentration of agro-biofortified crops in Zimbabwe?.

Collision-enhanced friction of a bouncing ball on a rough vibrating surface (2021)
Journal Article
Smith, N. D., Swift, M. R., & Smith, M. I. (2021). Collision-enhanced friction of a bouncing ball on a rough vibrating surface. Scientific Reports, 11, Article 442. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-80067-w

We describe experiments and simulations to investigate the dynamics of a ball bouncing on a rough vibrating surface. Directly measuring the impulse due to each bounce we find that the frictional interaction with the surface is strongly enhanced near... Read More about Collision-enhanced friction of a bouncing ball on a rough vibrating surface.

Global Terrestrial Water Storage and Drought Severity under Climate Change (2021)
Journal Article
Pokhrel, Y., Felfelani, F., Satoh, Y., Boulange, J., Burek, P., Gädeke, A., …Wada, Y. (2021). Global Terrestrial Water Storage and Drought Severity under Climate Change. Nature Climate Change, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-00972-w

Terrestrial water storage (TWS) modulates the hydrological cycle and is a key determinant of water availability and an indicator of drought. While historical TWS variations have been increasingly studied, future changes in TWS and the linkages to dro... Read More about Global Terrestrial Water Storage and Drought Severity under Climate Change.

Global terrestrial water storage and drought severity under climate change (2021)
Journal Article
Pokhrel, Y., Felfelani, F., Satoh, Y., Boulange, J., Burek, P., Gädeke, A., …Wada, Y. (2021). Global terrestrial water storage and drought severity under climate change. Nature Climate Change, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-00972-w

Terrestrial water storage (TWS) modulates the hydrological cycle and is a key determinant of water availability and an indicator of drought. While historical TWS variations have been increasingly studied, future changes in TWS and the linkages to dro... Read More about Global terrestrial water storage and drought severity under climate change.

Prostate-specific antigen testing and opportunistic prostate cancer screening: a cohort study in England, 1998–2017 (2021)
Journal Article
Clift, A. K., Coupland, C. A., & Hippisley-Cox, J. (2021). Prostate-specific antigen testing and opportunistic prostate cancer screening: a cohort study in England, 1998–2017. British Journal of General Practice, 71(703), e157-e165. https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp20X713957

Background: Prostate cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related death. Interpretation of results from trials of screening with prostate-specific antigen (PSA) are complex in terms of defining optimal prostate cancer screening policy. Aims: Assess... Read More about Prostate-specific antigen testing and opportunistic prostate cancer screening: a cohort study in England, 1998–2017.

Defamilisation/familisation measures and pensions in Hong Kong and Taiwan (2021)
Journal Article
Kam, S. W., Foster, L., Chau, R. C. M., & Pun, Y. (2021). Defamilisation/familisation measures and pensions in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Journal of Aging and Social Policy, 33(2), 161-176. https://doi.org/10.1080/08959420.2020.1851348

This article discusses the link between familisation measures (to lower the negative consequences of participating in the family as a care-provider) and defamilisation measures (to reduce individual responsibility for providing care in the family), a... Read More about Defamilisation/familisation measures and pensions in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Molecular phylogeny of the orthurethra (panpulmonata: Stylommatophora) (2021)
Journal Article
Saadi, A. J., Mordan, P. B., & Wade, C. M. (2021). Molecular phylogeny of the orthurethra (panpulmonata: Stylommatophora). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 193(3), 1126-1140. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa168

We have undertaken a molecular analysis of the Orthurethra, one of the major groups of stylommatophoran land snails and slugs. Approximately 4000 nucleotides of the rRNA gene cluster [5.8S, internal transcribed spacer 2 (ITS2) and almost the full-len... Read More about Molecular phylogeny of the orthurethra (panpulmonata: Stylommatophora).

Dealing with Scarce Labelled Data: Semi-supervised Deep Learning with Mix Match for Covid-19 Detection Using Chest X-ray Images (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Calderon-Ramirez, S., Giri, R., Moemeni, A., Umaña, M., Elizondo, D., Torrents-Barrena, J., & Molina-Cabello, M. A. (2021). Dealing with Scarce Labelled Data: Semi-supervised Deep Learning with Mix Match for Covid-19 Detection Using Chest X-ray Images. In Proceedings of ICPR 2020 : 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPR48806.2021.9412946

Coronavirus (Covid-19) is spreading fast, infecting people through contact in various forms including droplets from sneezing and coughing. Therefore, the detection of infected subjects in an early, quick and cheap manner is urgent. Currently availabl... Read More about Dealing with Scarce Labelled Data: Semi-supervised Deep Learning with Mix Match for Covid-19 Detection Using Chest X-ray Images.

Exercise efficacy and prescription during treatment for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: a systematic review (2021)
Journal Article
O’Connor, D., Brown, M., Eatock, M., Turkington, R. C., & Prue, G. (2021). Exercise efficacy and prescription during treatment for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: a systematic review. BMC Cancer, 21(1), Article 43. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-020-07733-0

Background: Surgical resection remains the only curative treatment for pancreatic cancer and is associated with significant post-operative morbidity and mortality. Patients eligible for surgery, increasingly receive neo-adjuvant therapy before surger... Read More about Exercise efficacy and prescription during treatment for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: a systematic review.

The experiences of childbearing women who tested positive to COVID-19 during the pandemic in northern Italy (2021)
Journal Article
Fumagalli, S., Ornaghi, S., Borrelli, S., Vergani, P., & Nespoli, A. (2022). The experiences of childbearing women who tested positive to COVID-19 during the pandemic in northern Italy. Women and Birth, 35(3), 242-253. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wombi.2021.01.001

Problem The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly challenged maternity provision internationally. COVID-19 positive women are one of the childbearing groups most impacted by the pandemic due to drastic changes to maternity care pathways put in place.... Read More about The experiences of childbearing women who tested positive to COVID-19 during the pandemic in northern Italy.

We got the power: Predicting available capacity for vehicle-to-grid services using a deep recurrent neural network (2021)
Journal Article
Shipman, R., Roberts, R., Waldron, J., Naylor, S., Pinchin, J., Rodrigues, L., & Gillott, M. (2021). We got the power: Predicting available capacity for vehicle-to-grid services using a deep recurrent neural network. Energy, 221, Article 119813. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2021.119813

© 2021 Elsevier Ltd Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) services utilise a population of electric vehicle batteries to provide the aggregated capacity required to participate in power and energy markets. Such participation relies on the prediction of available cap... Read More about We got the power: Predicting available capacity for vehicle-to-grid services using a deep recurrent neural network.

Experimental Data on Water Vapour Adsorption on Silica Gel in Fully Packed and Z-Annulus Packed Beds (2021)
Journal Article
Yeboah, S. K., & Darkwa, J. (2021). Experimental Data on Water Vapour Adsorption on Silica Gel in Fully Packed and Z-Annulus Packed Beds. Data in Brief, 34, Article 106736. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2021.106736

Experimental data on water vapour adsorption on silica gel in four packed bed configurations namely fully packed bed (FPB), large annulus packed bed (LAPB), medium annulus packed bed (MAPB) and small annulus packed bed (SAPB) are presented. Raw tempe... Read More about Experimental Data on Water Vapour Adsorption on Silica Gel in Fully Packed and Z-Annulus Packed Beds.

Smartphone monitoring of in-ambulance vibration and noise (2021)
Journal Article
Partridge, T., Gherman, L., Morris, D., Light, R., Leslie, A., Sharkey, D., …Crowe, J. (2021). Smartphone monitoring of in-ambulance vibration and noise. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine, 235(4), 428-436. https://doi.org/10.1177/0954411920985994

Transferring sick premature infants between hospitals increases the risk of severe brain injury, potentially linked to the excessive exposure to noise, vibration and driving-related accelerations. One method of reducing these levels may be to travel... Read More about Smartphone monitoring of in-ambulance vibration and noise.

Compact object scalarization with general relativity as a cosmic attractor (2021)
Journal Article
Antoniou, G., Bordin, L., & Sotiriou, T. P. (2021). Compact object scalarization with general relativity as a cosmic attractor. Physical Review D, 103(2), Article 024012. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.103.024012

We demonstrate that there are theories that exhibit spontaneous scalarization in the strong gravity regime while having general relativity with a constant scalar as a cosmological attractor. We identify the minimal model that has this property and di... Read More about Compact object scalarization with general relativity as a cosmic attractor.

Clinicopathological and Functional Evaluation Reveal NBS1 as a Predictor of Platinum Resistance in Epithelial Ovarian Cancers (2021)
Journal Article
Alblihy, A., Alabdullah, M. L., Ali, R., Algethami, M., Toss, M. S., Mongan, N. P., …Madhusudan, S. (2021). Clinicopathological and Functional Evaluation Reveal NBS1 as a Predictor of Platinum Resistance in Epithelial Ovarian Cancers. Biomedicines, 9(1), Article 56. https://doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines9010056

Platinum resistance seriously impacts on the survival outcomes of patients with ovarian cancers. Platinum-induced DNA damage is processed through DNA repair. NBS1 is a key DNA repair protein. Here, we evaluated the role of NBS1 in ovarian cancers. NB... Read More about Clinicopathological and Functional Evaluation Reveal NBS1 as a Predictor of Platinum Resistance in Epithelial Ovarian Cancers.

Understanding each other's models: a standard representation of global water models to support improvement, intercomparison, and communication (2021)
Working Paper
Telteu, C., Müller Schmied, H., Thiery, W., Leng, G., Burek, P., Liu, X., …Herz, F. Understanding each other's models: a standard representation of global water models to support improvement, intercomparison, and communication

Global water models (GWMs) simulate the terrestrial water cycle, on the global scale, and are used to assess the impacts of climate change on freshwater systems. GWMs are developed within different modeling frameworks and consider different underlyin... Read More about Understanding each other's models: a standard representation of global water models to support improvement, intercomparison, and communication.

Understanding the sensory and physicochemical differences between commercially produced non-alcoholic lagers, and their influence on consumer liking (2021)
Journal Article
Ramsey, I., Yang, Q., Fisk, I., & Ford, R. (2021). Understanding the sensory and physicochemical differences between commercially produced non-alcoholic lagers, and their influence on consumer liking. Food Chemistry: X, 9, Article 100114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fochx.2021.100114

© 2021 The Authors This study aimed to investigate the sensory and physicochemical differences of a range of commercial non-alcoholic lagers, as well as their influence on overall liking. Using physicochemical analysis and modified quantitative descr... Read More about Understanding the sensory and physicochemical differences between commercially produced non-alcoholic lagers, and their influence on consumer liking.

Design and Validation of a Novel Fuzzy-Logic-Based Static Feedback Controller for Tendon-Driven Continuum Robots (2021)
Journal Article
Ba, W., Dong, X., Mohammad, A., Wang, M., Axinte, D., & Norton, A. (2021). Design and Validation of a Novel Fuzzy-Logic-Based Static Feedback Controller for Tendon-Driven Continuum Robots. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 26(6), 3010-3021. https://doi.org/10.1109/TMECH.2021.3050263

IEEE Continuum robots (CRs) outperform the conventional rigid-link manipulators in aspects of hyper-redundant and compliant features. They provide universal and efficient solutions to access to constrained environments, e.g., aero-engines and industr... Read More about Design and Validation of a Novel Fuzzy-Logic-Based Static Feedback Controller for Tendon-Driven Continuum Robots.