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Reactive Jetting of High Viscosity Nanocomposites for Dielectric Elastomer Actuation (2022)
Journal Article
Malas, A., Saleh, E., Giménez‐López, M. D. C., Rance, G. A., Helps, T., Taghavi, M., …Goodridge, R. D. (2022). Reactive Jetting of High Viscosity Nanocomposites for Dielectric Elastomer Actuation. Advanced Materials Technologies, 7(6), Article 2101111. https://doi.org/10.1002/admt.202101111

The layer-by-layer nature of additive manufacturing is well matched to the layer construction of stacked dielectric actuators, with inkjet printing offering a unique opportunity due to its droplet-on-demand capability, suitable for multi-material pro... Read More about Reactive Jetting of High Viscosity Nanocomposites for Dielectric Elastomer Actuation.

Mitonuclear incompatibility as a hidden driver behind the genome ancestry of African admixed cattle (2022)
Journal Article
Kwon, T., Kim, K., Caetano-Anolles, K., Sung, S., Cho, S., Jeong, C., …Kim, H. (2022). Mitonuclear incompatibility as a hidden driver behind the genome ancestry of African admixed cattle. BMC Biology, 20(1), Article 20. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-021-01206-x

Background: Africa is an important watershed in the genetic history of domestic cattle, as two lineages of modern cattle, Bos taurus and B. indicus, form distinct admixed cattle populations. Despite the predominant B. indicus nuclear ancestry of Afri... Read More about Mitonuclear incompatibility as a hidden driver behind the genome ancestry of African admixed cattle.

How IPO firms' product innovation strategy affects the likelihood of post-IPO acquisitions? (2022)
Journal Article
Kooli, M., Zhang, A., & Zhao, Y. (2022). How IPO firms' product innovation strategy affects the likelihood of post-IPO acquisitions?. Journal of Corporate Finance, 72, Article 102159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2022.102159

This study investigates why newly listed firms become M&A targets shortly after their initial public offering (IPOs) from the perspective of product innovation. We find strong empirical evidence that IPOs with less established trademarks increase the... Read More about How IPO firms' product innovation strategy affects the likelihood of post-IPO acquisitions?.

Biotic factors limit the invasion of the plague pathogen (Yersinia pestis) in novel geographical settings (2022)
Journal Article
Fell, H. G., Osborne, O. G., Jones, M. D., Atkinson, S., Tarr, S., Keddie, S. H., & Algar, A. C. (2022). Biotic factors limit the invasion of the plague pathogen (Yersinia pestis) in novel geographical settings. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 31(4), 672-684. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13453

Aim: The distribution of Yersinia pestis, the pathogen that causes plague in humans, is reliant upon transmission between host species; however, the degree to which host species distributions dictate the distribution of Y.pestis, compared with limita... Read More about Biotic factors limit the invasion of the plague pathogen (Yersinia pestis) in novel geographical settings.

Wool smuggling from England's eastern seaboard, c. 1337–45: An illicit economy in the late middle ages (2022)
Journal Article
Raven, M. (2022). Wool smuggling from England's eastern seaboard, c. 1337–45: An illicit economy in the late middle ages. Economic History Review, 75(4), 1182-1213. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13141

The medieval English wool trade was a commercial activity of huge economic importance. The historiography of the medieval wool trade, however, has focused overwhelmingly on its legitimate side. This article uses the evidence of legal proceedings pros... Read More about Wool smuggling from England's eastern seaboard, c. 1337–45: An illicit economy in the late middle ages.

“How you keep going”: Voluntary sector practitioners' story-lines as emotion work (2022)
Journal Article
Quinn, K., Tomczak, P., & Buck, G. (2022). “How you keep going”: Voluntary sector practitioners' story-lines as emotion work. British Journal of Sociology, 73(2), 370-386. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12914

The voluntary sector acts as the last line of defense for some of the most marginalized people in societies around the world, yet its capacities are significantly reduced by chronic resource shortages and dynamic political obstacles. Existing researc... Read More about “How you keep going”: Voluntary sector practitioners' story-lines as emotion work.

Losing the race? Philosophy of race in U.K. philosophy departments (2022)
Journal Article
Chauhan, V., Crowley, T., Fisher, A., McCabe, H., & Williams, H. (2022). Losing the race? Philosophy of race in U.K. philosophy departments. Metaphilosophy, 53(1), 134-143. https://doi.org/10.1111/meta.12538

Should philosophy of race be taught as part of a philosophy degree? This paper argues that it should. After surveying 1,166 modules on offer in 2019–2020, across forty-seven philosophy departments in the United Kingdom, however, the authors identifie... Read More about Losing the race? Philosophy of race in U.K. philosophy departments.

Ghost of vector fields in compact stars (2022)
Journal Article
Silva, H. O., Coates, A., Ramazanoǧlu, F. M., & Sotiriou, T. P. (2022). Ghost of vector fields in compact stars. Physical Review D, 105(2), Article 024046. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.105.024046

Spontaneous scalarization is a mechanism that allows a scalar field to go undetected in weak gravity environments and yet develop a nontrivial configuration in strongly gravitating systems. At the perturbative level it manifests as a tachyonic instab... Read More about Ghost of vector fields in compact stars.

Conforming with peers in honesty and cooperation (2022)
Journal Article
Isler, O., & Gächter, S. (2022). Conforming with peers in honesty and cooperation. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 195, 75-86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2021.12.026

Peer observation can influence social norm perceptions as well as behavior in various moral domains, but is the tendency to be influenced by and conform with peers domain-general? In an online experiment (N = 815), we studied peer effects in honesty... Read More about Conforming with peers in honesty and cooperation.

Executive compensation, environmental performance, and sustainable banking: The moderating effect of governance mechanisms (2022)
Journal Article
Adu, D., Al‐Najjar, B., & Sitthipongpanich, T. (2022). Executive compensation, environmental performance, and sustainable banking: The moderating effect of governance mechanisms. Business Strategy and the Environment, 31(4), 1439-1463. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.2963

This paper contributes to the extant business strategy and sustainable development literature by investigating the effect of a broad corporate governance disclosure index on executive compensation and, subsequently, determines the extent to which the... Read More about Executive compensation, environmental performance, and sustainable banking: The moderating effect of governance mechanisms.

Data and statistical analysis scripts for manuscript on wheat root response to nitrate using X-ray CT and OpenSimRoot (2022)
Data
(2022). Data and statistical analysis scripts for manuscript on wheat root response to nitrate using X-ray CT and OpenSimRoot. [Dataset]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5504299

Data and statistical analysis scripts for manuscript on wheat root response to nitrate using X-ray CT and OpenSimRoot

X-ray CT reveals 4D root system development and lateral root responses to nitrate in soil - [https://doi.org/10.1002/ppj2.20036]... Read More about Data and statistical analysis scripts for manuscript on wheat root response to nitrate using X-ray CT and OpenSimRoot.

Identifying Sustainable Nitrogen Management Practices for Tea Plantations (2022)
Journal Article
Rebello, R., Burgess, P. J., & Girkin, N. T. (2022). Identifying Sustainable Nitrogen Management Practices for Tea Plantations. Nitrogen, 3(1), 43-57. https://doi.org/10.3390/nitrogen3010003

Tea (Camellia sinensis L.) is the most widely consumed beverage in the world. It is mostly grown in the tropics with a heavy dependence on mineral nitrogen (N) fertilisers to maintain high yields while minimising the areas under cultivation. However,... Read More about Identifying Sustainable Nitrogen Management Practices for Tea Plantations.

Advances in magnetic resonance tomography (2022)
Book Chapter
Pirogov, Y. A., Anisimov, N. V., Pavlova, O. S., Pavlovskaya, G. E., Sadykhov, E., Gulyaev, M. V., …Gervits, L. L. (2022). Advances in magnetic resonance tomography. In Magnetic Materials and Technologies for Medical Applications (107-152). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-822532-5.00005-4

This chapter sets out the most promising modern directions of research in the field of magnetic resonance imaging. These include multinuclear studies aimed at the exploration of magnetic resonance (MR) image contrast induced by exogeneous (fluorine-1... Read More about Advances in magnetic resonance tomography.

MicroRNA-511-3p Mediated Modulation of the Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor Gamma (PPARγ) Controls LPS-Induced Inflammatory Responses in Human Monocyte Derived DCs (2022)
Journal Article
Awuah, D., Ruisinger, A., Alobaid, M., Mbadugha, C., & Ghaemmaghami, A. M. (2022). MicroRNA-511-3p Mediated Modulation of the Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor Gamma (PPARγ) Controls LPS-Induced Inflammatory Responses in Human Monocyte Derived DCs. Immuno, 2(1), 104-117. https://doi.org/10.3390/immuno2010008

Abstract: The peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPAR) is a ligand-activated transcription factor expressed in dendritic cells (DCs), where it exerts anti-inflammatory responses against TLR4-induced inflammation. Recently, microRNA-511... Read More about MicroRNA-511-3p Mediated Modulation of the Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor Gamma (PPARγ) Controls LPS-Induced Inflammatory Responses in Human Monocyte Derived DCs.

Energy management for a net zero dairy supply chain under climate change (2022)
Journal Article
Malliaroudaki, M. I., Watson, N. J., Ferrari, R., Nchari, L. N., & Gomes, R. L. (2022). Energy management for a net zero dairy supply chain under climate change. Trends in Food Science and Technology, 126, 153-167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tifs.2022.01.015

Background: The dairy industry requires substantial energy resources at all stages of production and supply to meet consumer needs in terms of quantity, quality and food safety. The expected future climate change effects will cause serious uncertaint... Read More about Energy management for a net zero dairy supply chain under climate change.

Mathematical modelling of earlier stages of COVID-19 transmission dynamics in Ghana (2022)
Journal Article
Acheampong, E., Okyere, E., Iddi, S., Bonney, J. H., Wattis, J. A., Gomes, R. L., & Asamoah, J. K. K. (2022). Mathematical modelling of earlier stages of COVID-19 transmission dynamics in Ghana. Results in Physics, 34, Article 105193. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rinp.2022.105193

In late 2019, a novel coronavirus, the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak was identified in Wuhan, China and later spread to every corner of the globe. Whilst the number of infection-induced deaths in Ghana, West Africa are minimal when compared with the rest of th... Read More about Mathematical modelling of earlier stages of COVID-19 transmission dynamics in Ghana.

Rapid intrapartum test for maternal group B streptococcal colonisation and its effect on antibiotic use in labouring women with risk factors for early-onset neonatal infection (GBS2): cluster randomised trial with nested test accuracy study (2022)
Journal Article
Daniels, J. P., Dixon, E., Gill, A., Bishop, J., Wilks, M., Millar, M., …Collaboative Group, G. (2022). Rapid intrapartum test for maternal group B streptococcal colonisation and its effect on antibiotic use in labouring women with risk factors for early-onset neonatal infection (GBS2): cluster randomised trial with nested test accuracy study. BMC Medicine, 20, Article 9. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-021-02202-2

Background: Mother-to-baby transmission of group B Streptococcus (GBS) is the main cause of early-onset infection. We evaluated whether, in women with clinical risk factors for early neonatal infection, the use of point-of-care rapid intrapartum test... Read More about Rapid intrapartum test for maternal group B streptococcal colonisation and its effect on antibiotic use in labouring women with risk factors for early-onset neonatal infection (GBS2): cluster randomised trial with nested test accuracy study.

What are the current factors that impact on health-related quality of life for women living with HIV? (2022)
Journal Article
Bourne, K., Croston, M., & Namiba, A. (2022). What are the current factors that impact on health-related quality of life for women living with HIV?. British Journal of Nursing, 31(1), S16-S22. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2022.31.1.s16

Since the start of the HIV epidemic, care has often had a strong focus on quality of life. In the early days, this was in part due to the limited treatment options available for people living with HIV, alongside the strong humanistic desire of those... Read More about What are the current factors that impact on health-related quality of life for women living with HIV?.