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Using a machine learning model to risk stratify for the presence of significant liver disease in a primary care population (2023)
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Bennett, L., Mostafa, M., Hammersley, R., Purssell, H., Patel, M., Street, O., …Guha, I. N. (2023). Using a machine learning model to risk stratify for the presence of significant liver disease in a primary care population. Journal of Medical Artificial Intelligence, 6, Article 27. https://doi.org/10.21037/jmai-23-35

Background: Current strategies for detecting significant chronic liver disease (CLD) in the community are based on the extrapolation of diagnostic tests used in secondary care settings. Whilst this approach provides clinical utility, it has limitatio... Read More about Using a machine learning model to risk stratify for the presence of significant liver disease in a primary care population.

Assessment of variability of peat physicochemical properties, subsidence and their interactions within Selangor forests (2023)
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Dhandapani, S., Evers, S., Boyd, D. S., Yesuf, G., Kinneen, L., Haughan, A., & Sjogersten, S. (2023). Assessment of variability of peat physicochemical properties, subsidence and their interactions within Selangor forests. European Journal of Soil Science, 74(6), Article e13431. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejss.13431

Tropical peat swamp forests are carbon-rich ecosystems both above- and belowground, which play a major role in the climate balance of the earth. The majority of the world's tropical peat forest cover is located in Southeast Asia and is increasingly t... Read More about Assessment of variability of peat physicochemical properties, subsidence and their interactions within Selangor forests.

Assessing the value of integrating national longitudinal shopping data into respiratory disease forecasting models (2023)
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Dolan, E., Goulding, J., Marshall, H., Smith, G., Long, G., & Tata, L. J. (2023). Assessing the value of integrating national longitudinal shopping data into respiratory disease forecasting models. Nature Communications, 14, Article 7258. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-42776-4

The COVID-19 pandemic led to unparalleled pressure on healthcare services. Improved healthcare planning in relation to diseases affecting the respiratory system has consequently become a key concern. We investigated the value of integrating sales of... Read More about Assessing the value of integrating national longitudinal shopping data into respiratory disease forecasting models.

Lifestyle behaviours and associated factors among people with type 2 diabetes attending a diabetes clinic in Ningbo, China: A crosssectional study (2023)
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Carter, N., Li, J., Xu, M., Li, L., Xu, S., Fan, X., …Chattopadhyay, K. (2023). Lifestyle behaviours and associated factors among people with type 2 diabetes attending a diabetes clinic in Ningbo, China: A crosssectional study. PLoS ONE, 18(11), Article e0294245. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0294245

The burden of type 2 diabetes (T2DM) in China is significant and growing, and this is reflected in high rates of T2DM in the city of Ningbo, China. Consequent impacts on morbidity, mortality, healthcare expenditure, and health-related quality of life... Read More about Lifestyle behaviours and associated factors among people with type 2 diabetes attending a diabetes clinic in Ningbo, China: A crosssectional study.

Differential interaction patterns of opioid analgesics with µ opioid receptors correlate with ligand-specific voltage sensitivity (2023)
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Kirchhofer, S. B., Lim, V. J. Y., Ernst, S., Karsai, N., Julia, R. G., Canals, M., …Bünemann, M. (2023). Differential interaction patterns of opioid analgesics with µ opioid receptors correlate with ligand-specific voltage sensitivity. eLife, 12, Article e91291. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.91291

The µ opioid receptor (MOR) is the key target for analgesia, but the application of opioids is accompanied by several issues. There is a wide range of opioid analgesics, differing in their chemical structure and their properties of receptor activatio... Read More about Differential interaction patterns of opioid analgesics with µ opioid receptors correlate with ligand-specific voltage sensitivity.

A resource for development and comparison of multimodal brain 3T MRI harmonisation approaches (2023)
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Warrington, S., Ntata, A., Mougin, O., Campbell, J., Torchi, A., Craig, M., …Sotiropoulos, S. N. (2023). A resource for development and comparison of multimodal brain 3T MRI harmonisation approaches. Imaging Neuroscience, 1(2023), 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1162/imag_a_00042

Despite the huge potential of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in mapping and exploring the brain, MRI measures can often be limited in their consistency, reproducibility and accuracy which subsequently restricts their quantifiability. Nuisance nonbi... Read More about A resource for development and comparison of multimodal brain 3T MRI harmonisation approaches.

Modulating Skeletons of Covalent Organic Framework for High‐Efficiency Gold Recovery (2023)
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Liu, M., Jiang, D., Fu, Y., Zheng Chen, G., Bi, S., Ding, X., …Zeng, G. (2024). Modulating Skeletons of Covalent Organic Framework for High‐Efficiency Gold Recovery. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 63(1), Article e202317015. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202317015

Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) have attracted considerable attention as adsorbents for capturing and separating gold from electronic wastes. To enhance the binding capture efficiency, constructing hydrogen-bond nanotraps along the pore walls was... Read More about Modulating Skeletons of Covalent Organic Framework for High‐Efficiency Gold Recovery.

Evaluation of a COVID‐19 fundamental nursing care guideline versus usual care: The COVID‐NURSE cluster randomized controlled trial (2023)
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Richards, D. A., Bollen, J., Jones, B., Melendez-Torres, G. J., Hulme, C., Cockcroft, E., …Wootton, S. (2024). Evaluation of a COVID‐19 fundamental nursing care guideline versus usual care: The COVID‐NURSE cluster randomized controlled trial. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 80(5), 2137-2152. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.15959

Aim: To evaluate the impact of usual care plus a fundamental nursing care guideline compared to usual care only for patients in hospital with COVID‐19 on patient experience, care quality, functional ability, treatment outcomes, nurses' moral distress... Read More about Evaluation of a COVID‐19 fundamental nursing care guideline versus usual care: The COVID‐NURSE cluster randomized controlled trial.

Supporting early‐career dementia researchers: Identifying support needs and ways forward via a European study (2023)
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Dupont, C., Gilissen, J., Dassen, F. C. M., Branco, R. M., Heins, P., Heffernan, E., & Bartels, S. L. (2024). Supporting early‐career dementia researchers: Identifying support needs and ways forward via a European study. Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association, 20(2), 1321-1333. https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.13530

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Early-career researchers contribute significantly to dementia research and clinical practice. However, a growing group of early-career dementia researchers (ECDRs) lack appropriate support throughout their careers. Thus, we aim to (i) e... Read More about Supporting early‐career dementia researchers: Identifying support needs and ways forward via a European study.

Daily emotional dynamics and changes in posttraumatic growth and posttraumatic depreciation among people living with HIV (2023)
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Pięta-Lendzion, M., Rzeszutek, M., Tsukayama, E., Blackie, L. E. R., & Gruszczyńska, E. (2024). Daily emotional dynamics and changes in posttraumatic growth and posttraumatic depreciation among people living with HIV. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 176, Article 111552. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2023.111552

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Posttraumatic growth (PTG), and its negative reflection, posttraumatic depreciation (PTD), are two aspects of response to trauma. This study explores whether daily emotional dynamics (inertia and innovation) can translate into positive v... Read More about Daily emotional dynamics and changes in posttraumatic growth and posttraumatic depreciation among people living with HIV.

Sea level controls on the provenance of fine-grained sediments in the Xisha Trough, northwestern South China Sea over the last ~30 ka (2023)
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Zhang, Q., Swann, G. E., Liu, J., Gao, W., Cui, Z., Li, G., …Li, W. (2023). Sea level controls on the provenance of fine-grained sediments in the Xisha Trough, northwestern South China Sea over the last ~30 ka. Marine Geology, 466, Article 107184. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2023.107184

The Xisha Trough situated in the northwestern South China Sea (SCS), plays a pivotal role in transporting sediments from the Red River into the deep-sea basin of the SCS, and thus is a critical place to examine variations in source-to-sink process of... Read More about Sea level controls on the provenance of fine-grained sediments in the Xisha Trough, northwestern South China Sea over the last ~30 ka.

BASIL: A Toolbox for Perfusion Quantification using Arterial Spin Labelling (2023)
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Chappell, M. A., Kirk, T. F., Craig, M. S., McConnell, F. A. K., Zhao, M. Y., MacIntosh, B. J., …Woolrich, M. W. (2023). BASIL: A Toolbox for Perfusion Quantification using Arterial Spin Labelling. Imaging Neuroscience, https://doi.org/10.1162/imag_a_00041

Arterial Spin Labelling (ASL) MRI is now an established non-invasive method to quantify cerebral blood flow and is increasingly being used in a variety of neuroimaging applications. With standard ASL acquisition protocols widely available, there is a... Read More about BASIL: A Toolbox for Perfusion Quantification using Arterial Spin Labelling.

Thermochemical behavior of agricultural and industrial sugarcane residues for bioenergy applications (2023)
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Guerrero-Perez, J., Martinez-Mendoza, K., Barraza-Burgos, J., Forero, C. R., Williams, O., Lester, E., & Gil, N. (2023). Thermochemical behavior of agricultural and industrial sugarcane residues for bioenergy applications. Bioengineered, 14(1), Article 2283264. https://doi.org/10.1080/21655979.2023.2283264

The Colombian sugarcane industry yields significant residues, categorized as agricultural and industrial. While bagasse, a widely studied industrial residue, is employed for energy recovery through combustion, agricultural residues are often left in... Read More about Thermochemical behavior of agricultural and industrial sugarcane residues for bioenergy applications.

To screen, or not to screen: An experimental comparison of two methods for correlating video game loot box expenditure and problem gambling severity (2023)
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Xiao, L. Y., Newall, P., & James, R. J. (2024). To screen, or not to screen: An experimental comparison of two methods for correlating video game loot box expenditure and problem gambling severity. Computers in Human Behavior, 151, Article 108019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2023.108019

Loot boxes are gambling-like products found in video games that players can buy with real-world money to obtain random rewards. A positive correlation between loot box spending and problem gambling severity has been well-replicated. Some researchers... Read More about To screen, or not to screen: An experimental comparison of two methods for correlating video game loot box expenditure and problem gambling severity.

MacIntyre and Hegel on the possibility of resolving philosophical disagreements (2023)
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Burns, T. (2023). MacIntyre and Hegel on the possibility of resolving philosophical disagreements. Philosophy and Social Criticism, https://doi.org/10.1177/01914537231215713

This article examines the views of Hegel and Alasdair MacIntyre regarding philosophical disagreements, whether or not they can be resolved and if so how. For both thinkers such a disagreement is thought of as taking place between the advocates of two... Read More about MacIntyre and Hegel on the possibility of resolving philosophical disagreements.

The Influence of National Culture on Corporate Social Responsibility in the Ethiopian Mining Sector (2023)
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Bekele, M., Muthuri, J., & Ayele, M. B. (2024). The Influence of National Culture on Corporate Social Responsibility in the Ethiopian Mining Sector. Resources Policy, 88, Article 104209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2023.104209

This study examines the influence of national culture on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the community activities in Ethiopia's mining sector. We adopted a mixed method with quantitative data collected from 250 middle and top-level managers... Read More about The Influence of National Culture on Corporate Social Responsibility in the Ethiopian Mining Sector.

Comparative techno-economic and life cycle analyses of synthetic “drop-in” fuel production from UK wet biomass (2023)
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Lilonfe, S., Dimitriou, I., Davies, B., Abdul-Manan, A. F., & McKechnie, J. (2024). Comparative techno-economic and life cycle analyses of synthetic “drop-in” fuel production from UK wet biomass. Chemical Engineering Journal, 479, Article 147516. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2023.147516

Renewable synthetic hydrocarbon “drop-in” fuels can help mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from transport, particularly in hard-to-abate sectors like freight and aviation. However, no study has extensively addressed the concerns over biomass availabi... Read More about Comparative techno-economic and life cycle analyses of synthetic “drop-in” fuel production from UK wet biomass.

Building energy-saving potential of a dual-functional solar heating and radiative cooling system (2023)
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Suhendri, S., Hu, M., Dan, Y., Su, Y., Zhao, B., & Riffat, S. (2024). Building energy-saving potential of a dual-functional solar heating and radiative cooling system. Energy and Buildings, 303, Article 113764. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2023.113764

Space heating and cooling devices that rely on renewable resources are in demand amid energy crises in parts of the world. However, common renewable space heating and cooling devices are mono-functional. For regions with heating and cooling seasons,... Read More about Building energy-saving potential of a dual-functional solar heating and radiative cooling system.