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Cost Modelling for Recycling Fiber-Reinforced Composites: State-of-the-Art and Future Research (2022)
Journal Article
Shehab, E., Meiirbekov, A., Amantayeva, A., & Tokbolat, S. (2023). Cost Modelling for Recycling Fiber-Reinforced Composites: State-of-the-Art and Future Research. Polymers, 15(1), Article 150. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym15010150

Fiber-reinforced composites, such as carbon and glass fibers, are widely used across various industries. This is mainly a result of their outperforming properties in contrast with traditional materials. As a response to the environmental legal enforc... Read More about Cost Modelling for Recycling Fiber-Reinforced Composites: State-of-the-Art and Future Research.

Three Centuries of Appendicectomy (2022)
Journal Article
Herrod, P. J. J., Kwok, A. T., & Lobo, D. N. (2023). Three Centuries of Appendicectomy. World Journal of Surgery, 47(4), 928-936. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00268-022-06874-6

Background
Save for the contribution of Charles McBurney, who described his eponymous point and the appendicectomy incision, the history of appendicectomy is largely unknown among the medical profession. This review traces the history from the first... Read More about Three Centuries of Appendicectomy.

In Vitro Anticancer Properties of Novel Bis-Triazoles (2022)
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Saleh, M. M., Abuarqoub, D. A., Hammad, A. M., Hossan, M. S., Ahmed, N., Aslam, N., Naser, A. Y., Moody, C. J., Laughton, C. A., & Bradshaw, T. D. (2023). In Vitro Anticancer Properties of Novel Bis-Triazoles. Current Issues in Molecular Biology, 45(1), 175-196. https://doi.org/10.3390/cimb45010014

Here, we describe the anticancer activity of our novel bis-triazoles MS47 and MS49, developed previously as G-quadruplex stabilizers, focusing specifically upon the human melanoma MDA-MB-435 cell line. At the National Cancer Institute (NCI), USA, bis... Read More about In Vitro Anticancer Properties of Novel Bis-Triazoles.

The ethical and legal landscape of brain data governance (2022)
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Ochang, P., Stahl, B. C., & Eke, D. (2022). The ethical and legal landscape of brain data governance. PLoS ONE, 17(12), Article e0273473. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0273473

Neuroscience research is producing big brain data which informs both advancements in neuroscience research and drives the development of advanced datasets to provide advanced medical solutions. These brain data are produced under different jurisdicti... Read More about The ethical and legal landscape of brain data governance.

How does cholesterol burden change the case for investing in familial hypercholesterolaemia? A cost-effectiveness analysis (2022)
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Faria, R., Saramago, P., Cox, E., Weng, S., Iyen, B., Akyea, R. K., …Woods, B. (2023). How does cholesterol burden change the case for investing in familial hypercholesterolaemia? A cost-effectiveness analysis. Atherosclerosis, 367, 40-47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2022.12.001

Background and aims
This study aimed to ascertain how the long-term benefits and costs of diagnosis and treatment of familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) vary by prognostic factors and ‘cholesterol burden’, which is the effect of long-term exposure t... Read More about How does cholesterol burden change the case for investing in familial hypercholesterolaemia? A cost-effectiveness analysis.

Dual-Functional ZnO/LiF Layer Protected Lithium Metal for Stable Li10GeP2S12-Based All-Solid-State Lithium Batteries (2022)
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Changa, X., Liu, G., Wu, M., Chang, M., Zhao, X., Chen, G. Z., Loon Fow, K., & Yaoa, X. (2023). Dual-Functional ZnO/LiF Layer Protected Lithium Metal for Stable Li10GeP2S12-Based All-Solid-State Lithium Batteries. Battery Energy, 2(3), Article 20220051. https://doi.org/10.1002/bte2.20220051

All-solid-state lithium battery has become one of the most promising secondary batteries due to its high energy density and excellent safety. However, the growth of lithium dendrites and side reactions between lithium metal and solid electrolytes hin... Read More about Dual-Functional ZnO/LiF Layer Protected Lithium Metal for Stable Li10GeP2S12-Based All-Solid-State Lithium Batteries.

ESG complementarities in the US economy (2022)
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Duygun, M., Hall, S., Kenjegalieva, A., & Kenjegaliev, A. (2024). ESG complementarities in the US economy. European Journal of Finance, 30(7), 753-771. https://doi.org/10.1080/1351847x.2022.2157300

This paper investigates ESG from the perspective of changes in input elasticities of substitution and complementarity. Rather than compute these elasticities from the cost function, we compute them from the Input Distance Function (IDF). Our data are... Read More about ESG complementarities in the US economy.

Climate risk disclosures and global sustainability initiatives: A conceptual analysis and agenda for future research (2022)
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Ngo, T., Le, T., Ullah, S., & Trinh, H. (2023). Climate risk disclosures and global sustainability initiatives: A conceptual analysis and agenda for future research. Business Strategy and the Environment, 32(6), 3705-3720. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.3323

Climate change impacts, risks and sustainability disclosures have attracted increasing attention from scholars in various streams of the economics and finance literature towards achieving the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Within the stre... Read More about Climate risk disclosures and global sustainability initiatives: A conceptual analysis and agenda for future research.

Stakeholders’ perspectives about engagement in communication skills training in an integrated pharmacy curriculum: A qualitative study (2022)
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Gülpinar, G., & Anderson, C. (2022). Stakeholders’ perspectives about engagement in communication skills training in an integrated pharmacy curriculum: A qualitative study. Journal of Research in Pharmacy, 26(6), 1923-1936. https://doi.org/10.29228/jrp.283

Investigating experiences of stakeholders on communication skills training in an integrated pharmacy curriculum is essential to reach high-level outcomes. This study aimed to explore the perceptions of the stakeholders who are connected with communic... Read More about Stakeholders’ perspectives about engagement in communication skills training in an integrated pharmacy curriculum: A qualitative study.

Automated algorithm design using proximal policy optimisation with identified features (2022)
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Yi, W., Qu, R., & Jiao, L. (2023). Automated algorithm design using proximal policy optimisation with identified features. Expert Systems with Applications, 216, Article 119461. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2022.119461

Automated algorithm design is attracting considerable recent research attention in solving complex combinatorial optimisation problems, due to that most metaheuristics may be particularly effective at certain problems or certain instances of the same... Read More about Automated algorithm design using proximal policy optimisation with identified features.

Influence of Social Support, Financial Status, and Lifestyle on the Disparity Between Inflammation and Disability in Rheumatoid Arthritis (2022)
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Gwinnutt, J. M., Norton, S., Hyrich, K. L., Lunt, M., Combe, B., Rincheval, N., Ruyssen‐Witrand, A., Fautrel, B., McWilliams, D. F., Walsh, D. A., Nikiphorou, E., Kiely, P. D., Young, A., Chipping, J. R., MacGregor, A., & Verstappen, S. M. (2023). Influence of Social Support, Financial Status, and Lifestyle on the Disparity Between Inflammation and Disability in Rheumatoid Arthritis. Arthritis Care and Research, 75(5), 1026-1035. https://doi.org/10.1002/acr.24996

Objective: To investigate how social support, financial status, and lifestyle influence the development of excess disability in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Methods: Data were obtained from the Étude et Suivi des Polyarthrites Indifférenciées Récentes... Read More about Influence of Social Support, Financial Status, and Lifestyle on the Disparity Between Inflammation and Disability in Rheumatoid Arthritis.

Confidence in COVID-19 vaccines moderates the association between vaccination status and mental distress (2022)
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Tan, C. M., Owuamalam, C., Sarma, . V. J., & Ng, P. K. (2023). Confidence in COVID-19 vaccines moderates the association between vaccination status and mental distress. Stress and Health, 39(4), 744-752. https://doi.org/10.1002/smi.3216

Previous research has demonstrated that becoming vaccinated with the Coronavirus vaccine may lower mental distress. However, it remains uncertain whether this relationship holds amid concerns of vaccine side effects and doubts of the vaccine's protec... Read More about Confidence in COVID-19 vaccines moderates the association between vaccination status and mental distress.

Effect of sweeteners and carbonation on aroma partitioning and release in beverage systems (2022)
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Yeo, H. Q., Linforth, R., MacNaughtan, W., Williams, H., Hewson, L., & Fisk, I. D. (2023). Effect of sweeteners and carbonation on aroma partitioning and release in beverage systems. Food Research International, 164, 112373. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodres.2022.112373

The effect of monosaccharides (glucose, fructose and galactose) and disaccharides (sucrose and lactose) at 10, 20 and 30 % w/v on the in-vitro aroma partitioning of C4 – C10 aldehydes and ethyl esters, as well as limonene (concentration of aroma comp... Read More about Effect of sweeteners and carbonation on aroma partitioning and release in beverage systems.

Superradiance-induced multistability in one-dimensional driven Rydberg lattice gases (2022)
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He, Y., Bai, Z., Jiao, Y., Zhao, J., & Li, W. (2022). Superradiance-induced multistability in one-dimensional driven Rydberg lattice gases. Physical Review A, 106(6), Article 063319. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.106.063319

We study steady-state phases of a one-dimensional array of Rydberg atoms coupled by a microwave (MW) field where the higher-energy Rydberg state decays to the lower-energy one via single-body and collective (superradiant) decay. Using mean-field appr... Read More about Superradiance-induced multistability in one-dimensional driven Rydberg lattice gases.

Non-defendant bad character and s. 100 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003: A socio-legal analysis of admissibility gateways and trial tactics (2022)
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Thomason, M. (2023). Non-defendant bad character and s. 100 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003: A socio-legal analysis of admissibility gateways and trial tactics. International Journal of Evidence and Proof, 27(1), 26-50. https://doi.org/10.1177/13657127221140459

This article presents a socio-legal analysis of the use of non-defendant bad character evidence in Crown Court criminal trials in England. Combining an in-depth doctrinal analysis of s.100 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 with original qualitative em... Read More about Non-defendant bad character and s. 100 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003: A socio-legal analysis of admissibility gateways and trial tactics.

Estimating carbon footprints from large scale financial transaction data (2022)
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Trendl, A., Owen, A., Vomfell, L., Kilian, L., Gathergood, J., Stewart, N., & Leake, D. (2023). Estimating carbon footprints from large scale financial transaction data. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 27(1), 56-70. https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13351

Financial transactions are increasingly used by consumer apps and financial service providers to estimate consumption-based carbon emissions. This approach promises a low-resource, ultra-fast, and highly scalable approach to measuring emissions at di... Read More about Estimating carbon footprints from large scale financial transaction data.

A Reconfigurable Microstrip Patch Antenna With Switchable Liquid-Metal Ground Plane (2022)
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Qu, Z., Kelly, J. R., Wang, Z., Alkaraki, S., & Gao, Y. (2023). A Reconfigurable Microstrip Patch Antenna With Switchable Liquid-Metal Ground Plane. IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, 22(5), 1045-1049. https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWP.2022.3231872

This letter presents a novel reconfigurable microstrip patch antenna that is reconfigured using liquid metal. The proposed antenna employs two approaches in unison to switch the direction of the main beam. Specifically, the antenna uses the parasitic... Read More about A Reconfigurable Microstrip Patch Antenna With Switchable Liquid-Metal Ground Plane.

Developmental programming: Preconceptional and gestational exposure of sheep to a real-life environmental chemical mixture alters maternal metabolome in a fetal sex-specific manner (2022)
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Thangaraj, S. V., Kachman, M., Halloran, K. M., Sinclair, K. D., Lea, R., Bellingham, M., …Padmanabhan, V. (2023). Developmental programming: Preconceptional and gestational exposure of sheep to a real-life environmental chemical mixture alters maternal metabolome in a fetal sex-specific manner. Science of the Total Environment, 864, Article 161054. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.161054

Background
Everyday, humans are exposed to a mixture of environmental chemicals some of which have endocrine and/or metabolism disrupting actions which may contribute to non-communicable diseases. The adverse health impacts of real-world chemical ex... Read More about Developmental programming: Preconceptional and gestational exposure of sheep to a real-life environmental chemical mixture alters maternal metabolome in a fetal sex-specific manner.