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Increases in stress hormone levels in a UK population during the COVID-19 pandemic: A prospective cohort study (2022)
Journal Article
Jia, R., Ayling, K., Coupland, C., Chalder, T., Massey, A., Nater, U., …Vedhara, K. (2023). Increases in stress hormone levels in a UK population during the COVID-19 pandemic: A prospective cohort study. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 148, Article 105992. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2022.105992

Background: Research suggests that psychological factors may influence vulnerability to SARS-CoV-2 infection, although the mechanisms are unclear. Purpose: We examined whether the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis may be a possible mechanism, by me... Read More about Increases in stress hormone levels in a UK population during the COVID-19 pandemic: A prospective cohort study.

Autonomous image background removal for accurate and efficient close-range photogrammetry (2022)
Journal Article
Eastwood, J., Leach, R. K., & Piano, S. (2023). Autonomous image background removal for accurate and efficient close-range photogrammetry. Measurement Science and Technology, 34(3), Article 035404. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6501/aca497

Close-range photogrammetry can be used to reconstruct dense point clouds of an object with very high surface coverage, making it useful for manufacturing metrology tasks such as part inspection and validation. However, compared to competing technique... Read More about Autonomous image background removal for accurate and efficient close-range photogrammetry.

Sulfation at Glycopolymer Side Chains Switches Activity at the Macrophage Mannose Receptor (CD206) In Vitro and In Vivo (2022)
Journal Article
Mastrotto, F., Pirazzini, M., Negro, S., Salama, A., Martinez-Pomares, L., & Mantovani, G. (2022). Sulfation at Glycopolymer Side Chains Switches Activity at the Macrophage Mannose Receptor (CD206) In Vitro and In Vivo. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 144(50), 23134–23147. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.2c10757

The mannose receptor (CD206) is an endocytic receptor expressed by selected innate immune cells and nonvascular endothelium, which plays a critical role in both homeostasis and pathogen recognition. Although its involvement in the development of seve... Read More about Sulfation at Glycopolymer Side Chains Switches Activity at the Macrophage Mannose Receptor (CD206) In Vitro and In Vivo.

Sulfation at Glycopolymer Side Chains Switches Activity at the Macrophage Mannose Receptor (CD206) In Vitro and In Vivo (2022)
Journal Article
Mastrotto, F., Pirazzini, M., Negro, S., Salama, A., Martinez-Pomares, L., & Mantovani, G. (2022). Sulfation at Glycopolymer Side Chains Switches Activity at the Macrophage Mannose Receptor (CD206) In Vitro and In Vivo. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 144(50), 23134-23147. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.2c10757

The mannose receptor (CD206) is an endocytic receptor expressed by selected innate immune cells and nonvascular endothelium, which plays a critical role in both homeostasis and pathogen recognition. Although its involvement in the development of seve... Read More about Sulfation at Glycopolymer Side Chains Switches Activity at the Macrophage Mannose Receptor (CD206) In Vitro and In Vivo.

Modified bronchoscopy masks mitigate aerosols during gastroscopies (2022)
Working Paper
Phillips, F., Crowley, J., Warburton, S., Gordon, G. S., & Parra-Blanco, A. Modified bronchoscopy masks mitigate aerosols during gastroscopies

Digestive endoscopy has been proven to produce aerosols (1–3). This represents a risk of infection by COVID-19 and other airborne viruses. A number of protective barriers have been proposed to minimise that risk. Continuous suction of the oral cavity... Read More about Modified bronchoscopy masks mitigate aerosols during gastroscopies.

Cost-effectiveness of England's national 'Safe At Home' scheme for reducing hospital admissions for unintentional injury in children aged under 5 (2022)
Journal Article
Jones, M., Hill, T., Coupland, C., Kendrick, D., Akbari, A., Rodgers, S., …Orton, E. (2022). Cost-effectiveness of England's national 'Safe At Home' scheme for reducing hospital admissions for unintentional injury in children aged under 5. Injury Prevention, https://doi.org/10.1136/ip-2022-044698

Background: Injuries in children aged under 5 years most commonly occur in the home and disproportionately affect those living in the most disadvantaged communities. The 'Safe at Home' (SAH) national home safety equipment scheme, which ran in England... Read More about Cost-effectiveness of England's national 'Safe At Home' scheme for reducing hospital admissions for unintentional injury in children aged under 5.

Effect of deleting four Toxoplasma gondii calcium-binding EGF domain-containing proteins on parasite replication and virulence (2022)
Journal Article
Wang, X., Li, T., Elsheikha, H. M., Zheng, X., Zhao, D., Wang, J., …Zhu, X. (2023). Effect of deleting four Toxoplasma gondii calcium-binding EGF domain-containing proteins on parasite replication and virulence. Parasitology Research, 122, 441-450. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-022-07739-6

Several calcium-binding proteins including calcium-dependent protein kinases play important roles in several facets of the intracellular infection cycle of the apicomplexan protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii. However, the role of the calcium-bindin... Read More about Effect of deleting four Toxoplasma gondii calcium-binding EGF domain-containing proteins on parasite replication and virulence.

Reframing race and widening access into higher education (2022)
Journal Article
Madriaga, M. (2023). Reframing race and widening access into higher education. Higher Education, 86(6), 1455-1470. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-022-00981-y

This paper draws attention to empirical work on widening access to understand the silence on race matters in English higher education. This work repurposes a critical race theoretical framework that offers a glimpse of how the issue of unequal acces... Read More about Reframing race and widening access into higher education.

Designing lesson study for individual and collective learning: networking theoretical perspectives (2022)
Journal Article
Wake, G. (2023). Designing lesson study for individual and collective learning: networking theoretical perspectives. International Journal for Lesson and Learning Studies, 12(1), 7-20. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJLLS-08-2022-0111

This article aims to explore, by drawing on, and coordinating and combining Cultural Historical Activity Theory and Community of Practice theoretical perspectives, what we might learn about how to design for Lesson Study that best supports both colle... Read More about Designing lesson study for individual and collective learning: networking theoretical perspectives.

An investigation of droplet impingement on a conical obstacle (2022)
Journal Article
Wang, L., Wang, X., & Yan, Y. (2023). An investigation of droplet impingement on a conical obstacle. Thermal Science and Engineering Progress, 37, Article 101586. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsep.2022.101586

Droplet impingement has been intensively studied in recent years due to its wide range of applications. In the present study, a multi-component multiphase Lattice Boltzmann model is adopted to study the droplet impingement on conical obstacles. A mod... Read More about An investigation of droplet impingement on a conical obstacle.

Neutralising antibody potency against SARS-CoV-2 wild-type and omicron BA.1 and BA.4/5 variants in patients with inflammatory bowel disease treated with infliximab and vedolizumab after three doses of COVID-19 vaccine (CLARITY IBD): an analysis of a prospective multicentre cohort study (2022)
Journal Article
Liu, Z., Le, K., Zhou, X., Alexander, J. L., Lin, S., Bewshea, C., …Powell, N. (2023). Neutralising antibody potency against SARS-CoV-2 wild-type and omicron BA.1 and BA.4/5 variants in patients with inflammatory bowel disease treated with infliximab and vedolizumab after three doses of COVID-19 vaccine (CLARITY IBD): an analysis of a prospective multicentre cohort study. The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology, 8(2), 145-156. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-1253%2822%2900389-2

Background Anti-TNF drugs, such as infliximab, are associated with attenuated antibody responses after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination. We aimed to determine how the anti-TNF drug infliximab and the anti-integrin drug vedolizumab affect vaccine-induced neutr... Read More about Neutralising antibody potency against SARS-CoV-2 wild-type and omicron BA.1 and BA.4/5 variants in patients with inflammatory bowel disease treated with infliximab and vedolizumab after three doses of COVID-19 vaccine (CLARITY IBD): an analysis of a prospective multicentre cohort study.

Adjoint-aided inference of Gaussian process driven differential equations (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Gahungu, P., Lanyon, C. W., Álvarez, M. A., Smith, M. T., & Wilkinson, R. D. (2022). Adjoint-aided inference of Gaussian process driven differential equations. In S. Koyejo, S. Mohamed, A. Agarwal, D. Belgrave, K. Cho, & A. Oh (Eds.), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 35 (NeurIPS 2022)

Linear systems occur throughout engineering and the sciences, most notably as differential equations. In many cases the forcing function for the system is unknown, and interest lies in using noisy observations of the system to infer the forcing, as w... Read More about Adjoint-aided inference of Gaussian process driven differential equations.

A wedge of arbitrary angle interacting with a generalized singularity (2022)
Journal Article
Ma, L., & Hills, D. A. (2023). A wedge of arbitrary angle interacting with a generalized singularity. International Journal of Solids and Structures, 262-263, Article 112062. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2022.112062

In this paper, the state of stress induced within a semi-infinite wedge of arbitrary angle by a generalized singularity is studied, and its analytical solution is derived. The wedge may, usefully, be a V-shaped notch if the internal wedge angle is la... Read More about A wedge of arbitrary angle interacting with a generalized singularity.

Designing for Trust: Autonomous Animal-Centric Robotic & AI Systems (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Chamberlain, A., Benford, S., Fischer, J., Barnard, P., Greenhalgh, C., Row Farr, J., …Adams, M. (2022). Designing for Trust: Autonomous Animal-Centric Robotic & AI Systems. In ACI '22: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction. https://doi.org/10.1145/3565995.3566046

From cat feeders and cat flaps to robot toys, humans are deploying increasingly autonomous systems to look after their pets. In parallel, industry is developing the next generation of autonomous systems to look after humans in the home – most notably... Read More about Designing for Trust: Autonomous Animal-Centric Robotic & AI Systems.

AC/DC Converter Topologies Comparison for More Electric Aircraft Applications (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Khera, F. A., Gerada, C., Bozhko, S., & Wheeler, P. W. (2022). AC/DC Converter Topologies Comparison for More Electric Aircraft Applications. In 2022 IEEE 7th Southern Power Electronics Conference (SPEC). https://doi.org/10.1109/SPEC55080.2022.10058465

This paper compares the potential AC/DC power converter topologies that are appropriate for medium voltage and medium/high power aircraft applications. The power converter's rated power and the DC distribution voltage level in this application assume... Read More about AC/DC Converter Topologies Comparison for More Electric Aircraft Applications.

A Highly Customizable and Efficient Hardware Implementation for Parallel Matrix Inversion (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Alqahtani, S., Zhu, Y., Shi, Q., Meng, X., & Wang, X. (2022). A Highly Customizable and Efficient Hardware Implementation for Parallel Matrix Inversion. In 2022 International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology (ICFPT). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICFPT56656.2022.9974569

This paper introduces an efficient and customizable FPGA-based architecture for parallel matrix inversion. The capability of the proposed customizable architecture to adapt to different matrix sizes with low latency and effective resource utilization... Read More about A Highly Customizable and Efficient Hardware Implementation for Parallel Matrix Inversion.

‘Ahhh it was like paradise, but inside’: children’s experiences and perceptions of a free physical activity program (2022)
Journal Article
Ostermeier, E., Reilly, K., Nelson Ferguson, K., Coen, S. E., & Gilliland, J. (2023). ‘Ahhh it was like paradise, but inside’: children’s experiences and perceptions of a free physical activity program. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 15(3), 345-363. https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676X.2022.2152081

As most Canadian children are not attaining the recommended 60 minutes of daily physical activity, it is imperative that affordable and accessible programs are implemented to help children become more physically active. Specifically, community-based... Read More about ‘Ahhh it was like paradise, but inside’: children’s experiences and perceptions of a free physical activity program.