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A Geography of Infection: Spatial Processes and Patterns in Epidemics and Pandemics (2022)
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Smallman-Raynor, M., Cliff, A., Ord, K., & Haggett, P. (2022). A Geography of Infection: Spatial Processes and Patterns in Epidemics and Pandemics. (2nd). Oxford: Oxford University Press (OUP)

The last half century has witnessed two landmark events in medical history. The 1970s saw euphoria about the defeat of one of humankind’s oldest disease scourges with the global eradication of smallpox. To set against this, the 2020s are experiencing... Read More about A Geography of Infection: Spatial Processes and Patterns in Epidemics and Pandemics.

Rate and severity of radiological features of physical abuse in children during the first UK-wide COVID-19 enforced national lockdown (2022)
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Stivaros, S. M., Paddock, M., Rajai, A., Cliffe, H., Connolly, D. J., Dineen, R. A., …Offiah, A. C. (2022). Rate and severity of radiological features of physical abuse in children during the first UK-wide COVID-19 enforced national lockdown. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 107(6), 575-581. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2021-323444

Objective To assess the number, type and outcome of radiological investigations for children presenting to hospital with suspected physical abuse (SPA; including abusive head trauma) during the first national COVID-19 enforced lockdown compared with... Read More about Rate and severity of radiological features of physical abuse in children during the first UK-wide COVID-19 enforced national lockdown.

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need to invest in care home research infrastructure (2022)
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Gordon, A. L., Rick, C., Juszczak, E., Montgomery, A., Howard, R., Guthrie, B., …Tate, V. (2022). The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need to invest in care home research infrastructure. Age and Ageing, 51(3), Article afac052. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afac052

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in catastrophic levels of morbidity and mortality for care home residents. Despite this, research platforms for COVID-19 in care homes arrived late in the pandemic compared with other care settings. The Prophylactic The... Read More about The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need to invest in care home research infrastructure.

Tract-specific statistics based on diffusion-weighted probabilistic tractography (2022)
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Reid, A. T., Camilleri, J. A., Hoffstaedter, F., & Eickhoff, S. B. (2022). Tract-specific statistics based on diffusion-weighted probabilistic tractography. Communications Biology, 5(1), Article 138. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03073-w

Diffusion-weighted neuroimaging approaches provide rich evidence for estimating the structural integrity of white matter in vivo, but typically do not assess white matter integrity for connections between two specific regions of the brain. Here, we p... Read More about Tract-specific statistics based on diffusion-weighted probabilistic tractography.

Terror as justice, justice as terror: counterterrorism and anti-Black racism in the United States (2022)
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Meier, A. A. (2022). Terror as justice, justice as terror: counterterrorism and anti-Black racism in the United States. Critical Studies on Terrorism, 15(1), 83-101. https://doi.org/10.1080/17539153.2022.2031132

How do counterterrorism policies in the United States reproduce anti-Black racism? Research on U.S. domestic counterterrorism post-9/11 has largely focused on the experiences of Muslim Americans while marginalising both overlapping and separate effec... Read More about Terror as justice, justice as terror: counterterrorism and anti-Black racism in the United States.

Is it possible to implement a rare disease case-finding tool in primary care? A UK-based pilot study (2022)
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Buendia, O., Shankar, S., Mahon, H., Toal, C., Menzies, L., Ravichandran, P., …Evans, W. (2022). Is it possible to implement a rare disease case-finding tool in primary care? A UK-based pilot study. Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, 17, Article 54. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13023-022-02216-w

Introduction: This study implemented MendelScan, a primary care rare disease case-finding tool, into a UK National Health Service population. Rare disease diagnosis is challenging due to disease complexity and low physician awareness. The 2021 UK Rar... Read More about Is it possible to implement a rare disease case-finding tool in primary care? A UK-based pilot study.

Resonant X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy: identification of atomic contributions to valence states (2022)
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Seymour, J., Gousseva, E., Bennett, R. A., Large, A. I., Held, G., Hein, D., …Lovelock, K. R. J. (2022). Resonant X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy: identification of atomic contributions to valence states. Faraday Discussions, 236, 389-411. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1fd00117e

Valence electronic structure is crucial for understanding and predicting reactivity. Valence non-resonant X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (NRXPS) provides a direct method for probing the overall valence electronic structure. However, it is often dif... Read More about Resonant X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy: identification of atomic contributions to valence states.

Predicting viewer gifting behavior in sports live streaming platforms: The impact of viewer perception and satisfaction (2022)
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Tan, K. H., Pawar, K., & Liu, H. (2022). Predicting viewer gifting behavior in sports live streaming platforms: The impact of viewer perception and satisfaction. Journal of Business Research, 144, 599-613. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.02.045

Sports viewers have been offered an unprecedented viewing experience to share their passion with their team and communicate in real-time with a streamer and other viewers by sending messages and virtual gifts on sport live streaming platforms (SLSPs)... Read More about Predicting viewer gifting behavior in sports live streaming platforms: The impact of viewer perception and satisfaction.

Can the introduction of a research-informed teaching intervention enhance student performance and influence perceptions? (2022)
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Mali, D., & Lim, H. J. (2022). Can the introduction of a research-informed teaching intervention enhance student performance and influence perceptions?. Accounting Education, 31(3), 322-346. https://doi.org/10.1080/09639284.2021.2014914

In this study, we compare the academic performance and perceptions of two student groups. The control group includes students that receive traditional accounting instruction (TA) during the totality of a lecture. The experimental group receives a res... Read More about Can the introduction of a research-informed teaching intervention enhance student performance and influence perceptions?.

The Childhood Cancer Diagnosis (CCD) Study: a UK observational study to describe referral pathways and quantify diagnostic intervals in children and young people with cancer (2022)
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Shanmugavadivel, D., Liu, J.-F., Ball-Gamble, A., Polanco, A., Vedhara, K., Walker, D., & Ojha, S. (2022). The Childhood Cancer Diagnosis (CCD) Study: a UK observational study to describe referral pathways and quantify diagnostic intervals in children and young people with cancer. BMJ Open, 12(2), Article e058744. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-058744

Introduction: Childhood cancer is diagnosed in 400 000 children and young people (CYP) aged 0–19 years worldwide annually. In the UK, a child’s cumulative cancer risk increases from 1 in 4690 from birth to aged 1, to 1 in 470 by age 15. Once diagnose... Read More about The Childhood Cancer Diagnosis (CCD) Study: a UK observational study to describe referral pathways and quantify diagnostic intervals in children and young people with cancer.

Perfect Chirality with Imperfect Polarization (2022)
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Lang, B., McCutcheon, D. P., Harbord, E., Young, A. B., & Oulton, R. (2022). Perfect Chirality with Imperfect Polarization. Physical Review Letters, 128(7), Article 073602. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.128.073602

Unidirectional (chiral) emission of light from a circular dipole emitter into a waveguide is only possible at points of perfect circular polarization (C points), with elliptical polarizations yielding a lower directional contrast. However, there is n... Read More about Perfect Chirality with Imperfect Polarization.

A Developmental Perspective on Facets of Impulsivity and Brain Activity Correlates From Adolescence to Adulthood (2022)
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Kaiser, A., Holz, N. E., Banaschewski, T., Baumeister, S., Bokde, A. L. W., Desrivières, S., …Nees, F. (2022). A Developmental Perspective on Facets of Impulsivity and Brain Activity Correlates From Adolescence to Adulthood. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 7(11), 1103-1115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2022.02.003

Background: On a theoretical level, impulsivity represents a multidimensional construct associated with acting without foresight, inefficient inhibitory response control, and alterations in reward processing. On an empirical level, relationships and... Read More about A Developmental Perspective on Facets of Impulsivity and Brain Activity Correlates From Adolescence to Adulthood.

Childhood Cancer Diagnosis (CCD) Study: a UK observational study to describe referral pathways and quantify diagnostic intervals in children and young people with cancer (2022)
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Shanmugavadivel, D., Liu, J.-F., Gamble, A., Polanco, A., Vedhara, K., Walker, D., & Ojha, S. (2022). Childhood Cancer Diagnosis (CCD) Study: a UK observational study to describe referral pathways and quantify diagnostic intervals in children and young people with cancer. BMJ Open, 12(2), Article e058744. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-058744

Introduction: Childhood cancer is diagnosed in 400,000 children and young people (CYP) aged 0-19 years worldwide annually. In the UK, a child’s cumulative cancer risk increases from 1 in 4690 from birth to aged 1, to 1 in 470 by age 15. Once diagnose... Read More about Childhood Cancer Diagnosis (CCD) Study: a UK observational study to describe referral pathways and quantify diagnostic intervals in children and young people with cancer.

Effect of perindopril or leucine on physical performance in older people with sarcopenia: the LACE randomized controlled trial (2022)
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The LACE study group, Achison, M., Adamson, S., Akpan, A., Aspray, T., Avenell, A., …Witham, M. D. (2022). Effect of perindopril or leucine on physical performance in older people with sarcopenia: the LACE randomized controlled trial. Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, 13(2), 858-871. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcsm.12934

BACKGROUND: This trial aimed to determine the efficacy of leucine and/or perindopril in improving physical function in older people with sarcopenia. METHODS: Placebo-controlled, parallel group, double-blind, randomized two-by-two factorial trial. We... Read More about Effect of perindopril or leucine on physical performance in older people with sarcopenia: the LACE randomized controlled trial.

Treatment with outgrowth endothelial cells protects cerebral barrier against ischemic injury (2022)
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Kadir, R. R. A., Alwjwaj, M., & Bayraktutan, U. (2022). Treatment with outgrowth endothelial cells protects cerebral barrier against ischemic injury. Cytotherapy, 24(5), 489-499. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcyt.2021.11.005

Background and aims: We have previously reported that outgrowth endothelial cells (OECs) restore cerebral endothelial cell integrity through effective homing to the injury site. This study further investigates whether treatment with OECs can restore... Read More about Treatment with outgrowth endothelial cells protects cerebral barrier against ischemic injury.

Upregulation of Cyclin B2 (CCNB2) in breast cancer contributes to the development of lymphovascular invasion (2022)
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Aljohani, A. I., Toss, M. S., El-Sharawy, K. A., Mirza, S., Ball, G. R., Green, A. R., & Rakha, E. (2022). Upregulation of Cyclin B2 (CCNB2) in breast cancer contributes to the development of lymphovascular invasion. American Journal of Cancer Research, 12(2), 469-489

Lymphovascular invasion (LVI) is a key step in breast cancer (BC) metastasis. Targeting the molecular drivers of LVI can improve BC patients’ management. However, the underlying molecular mechanisms of LVI are complex and interconnected with various... Read More about Upregulation of Cyclin B2 (CCNB2) in breast cancer contributes to the development of lymphovascular invasion.

Modelling and experimental study of surface treatment in abrasive waterjet peening of Nickel-based superalloy: Inverse problem (2022)
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Wang, Z., Liao, Z., Yang, Y., Dong, X., Augustinavicius, G., Yu, T., & Zhao, J. (2022). Modelling and experimental study of surface treatment in abrasive waterjet peening of Nickel-based superalloy: Inverse problem. Materials and Design, 215, Article 110471. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2022.110471

Abrasive waterjet peening (AWJP) is a promising method of surface treatment for modifying mechanical properties of components by introducing compressive residual stress (CRS) to a workpiece surface. Many efforts have been paid so far to modelling and... Read More about Modelling and experimental study of surface treatment in abrasive waterjet peening of Nickel-based superalloy: Inverse problem.