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Microwave thermal pre-treatment and calcination of biomineralised sorbents for calcium looping (2024)
Journal Article
Erans, M., Durán-Jimenez, G., Rodríguez, J. M., Stevens, L., & Dodds, C. (2024). Microwave thermal pre-treatment and calcination of biomineralised sorbents for calcium looping. Journal of Co2 Utilization, 83, Article 102794. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcou.2024.102794

Waste eggshells have been investigated as biomineralised CO2 sorbents for the calcium looping cycle due to their high Ca content, low cost, availability, and high CO2 uptake. This work investigates a novel heat-pre-treatment using eggshells as raw ma... Read More about Microwave thermal pre-treatment and calcination of biomineralised sorbents for calcium looping.

Predicting the risk of pancreatic cancer in adults with new-onset diabetes: development and internal–external validation of a clinical risk prediction model (2024)
Journal Article
Clift, A. K., Tan, P. S., Patone, M., Liao, W., Coupland, C., Bashford-Rogers, R., Sivakumar, S., & Hippisley-Cox, J. (2024). Predicting the risk of pancreatic cancer in adults with new-onset diabetes: development and internal–external validation of a clinical risk prediction model. British Journal of Cancer, 130, 1969-1978. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41416-024-02693-9

Background: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommends that people aged 60+ years with newly diagnosed diabetes and weight loss undergo abdominal imaging to assess for pancreatic cancer. More nuanced stratification could... Read More about Predicting the risk of pancreatic cancer in adults with new-onset diabetes: development and internal–external validation of a clinical risk prediction model.

A method for the ethical analysis of brain-inspired AI (2024)
Journal Article
Farisco, M., Baldassarre, G., Cartoni, E., Leach, A., Petrovici, M. A., Rosemann, A., Salles, A., Stahl, B., & van Albada, S. J. (2024). A method for the ethical analysis of brain-inspired AI. Artificial Intelligence Review, 57(6), Article 133. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-024-10769-4

Despite its successes, to date Artificial Intelligence (AI) is still characterized by a number of shortcomings with regards to different application domains and goals. These limitations are arguably both conceptual (e.g., related to the underlying th... Read More about A method for the ethical analysis of brain-inspired AI.

Beyond the Walls: Patterns of Child Labour, Forced Labour, and Exploitation in a New Domestic Workers Dataset (2024)
Journal Article
Trodd, Z., Waite, C., Goulding, J., & Boyd, D. S. (2024). Beyond the Walls: Patterns of Child Labour, Forced Labour, and Exploitation in a New Domestic Workers Dataset. Societies, 14(5), Article 62. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc14050062

The new Domestic Workers Dataset is the largest single set of surveys (n = 11,759) of domestic workers to date. Our analysis of this dataset reveals features about the lives and work of this “hard-to-find” population in India—a country estimated to h... Read More about Beyond the Walls: Patterns of Child Labour, Forced Labour, and Exploitation in a New Domestic Workers Dataset.

The separate effect of halo mass and stellar mass on the evolution of massive disc galaxies (2024)
Journal Article
Zhou, S., Aragón-Salamanca, A., & Merrifield, M. (2024). The separate effect of halo mass and stellar mass on the evolution of massive disc galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 530(4), 4082-4093. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae1127

We analyse a sample of massive disc galaxies selected from the fourth-generation Sloan Digital Sky Survey/Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory survey to investigate how the evolution of these galaxies depends on their stellar and halo... Read More about The separate effect of halo mass and stellar mass on the evolution of massive disc galaxies.

Post-discharge surgical site infection surveillance using patient smartphones: a single-centre experience in cardiac surgery (2024)
Journal Article
Rochon, M., Tanner, J., Cariaga, K., Ingusan, S. D., Jawarchan, A., Morais, C., Odattil, B., & Dizon, R. (2024). Post-discharge surgical site infection surveillance using patient smartphones: a single-centre experience in cardiac surgery. British Journal of Cardiac Nursing, 19(5), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjca.2023.0099

Background/Aims Surgical site infections following cardiac surgery pose significant risks and financial burdens to both patients and healthcare systems. This study aimed to explore the implementation and outcomes of a novel surgical wound monitoring... Read More about Post-discharge surgical site infection surveillance using patient smartphones: a single-centre experience in cardiac surgery.

Metformin for endometrial hyperplasia (2024)
Journal Article
Shiwani, H., Clement, N. S., Daniels, J. P., & Atiomo, W. (2024). Metformin for endometrial hyperplasia. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2024(5), Article CD012214. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.cd012214.pub3

Background
Endometrial cancer is one of the most common gynaecological cancers in the world. Rates of endometrial cancer are rising, in part because of rising obesity rates. Endometrial hyperplasia is a precancerous condition in women that can lead... Read More about Metformin for endometrial hyperplasia.

Health professional attitudes and perceptions of prehabilitation and nutrition before haematopoietic cell transplantation (2024)
Journal Article
Miller, L. J., Halliday, V., Snowden, J. A., Aithal, G. P., Lee, J., & Greenfield, D. M. (2024). Health professional attitudes and perceptions of prehabilitation and nutrition before haematopoietic cell transplantation. Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, 37(4), 1007-1021. https://doi.org/10.1111/jhn.13315

Background
Nutritional prehabilitation may improve haematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) outcomes, although little evidence exists. The present study aimed to understand healthcare professional (HCP) perceptions of prehabilitation and nutritiona... Read More about Health professional attitudes and perceptions of prehabilitation and nutrition before haematopoietic cell transplantation.

The 2022 symposium on dementia and brain aging in low‐ and middle‐income countries: Highlights on research, diagnosis, care, and impact (2024)
Journal Article
Kalaria, R., Maestre, G., Mahinrad, S., Acosta, D. M., Akinyemi, R. O., Alladi, S., Allegri, R. F., Arshad, F., Babalola, D. O., Baiyewu, O., Bak, T. H., Bellaj, T., Brodie‐Mends, D. K., Carrillo, M. C., Celestin, K., Damasceno, A., de Silva, R. K., de Silva, R., Djibuti, M., Dreyer, A. J., …Ismail, O. (2024). The 2022 symposium on dementia and brain aging in low‐ and middle‐income countries: Highlights on research, diagnosis, care, and impact. Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association, 20(6), 4290-4314. https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.13836

Two of every three persons living with dementia reside in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs). The projected increase in global dementia rates is expected to affect LMICs disproportionately. However, the majority of global dementia care costs oc... Read More about The 2022 symposium on dementia and brain aging in low‐ and middle‐income countries: Highlights on research, diagnosis, care, and impact.

Prevalence and distributions of severely elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-c) according to age, gender and clinic location among patients in the Malaysian primary care (2024)
Journal Article
Kanchau, J. D., Akyea, R. K., Baharudin, N., Mohamed-Yassin, M., Kamal, A., Chua, Y., …Ramli, A. S. (2024). Prevalence and distributions of severely elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-c) according to age, gender and clinic location among patients in the Malaysian primary care. Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health, 27, Article 101619. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cegh.2024.101619

Background
Adults with severely elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-c) may have familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) and are at high risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD). The prevalence of elevated LDL-c in primary car... Read More about Prevalence and distributions of severely elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-c) according to age, gender and clinic location among patients in the Malaysian primary care.

End of life decision making when home mechanical ventilation is used to sustain breathing in Motor Neurone Disease: patient and family perspectives (2024)
Journal Article
Wilson, E., Palmer, J., Armstrong, A., Messer, B., Presswood, E., & Faull, C. (2024). End of life decision making when home mechanical ventilation is used to sustain breathing in Motor Neurone Disease: patient and family perspectives. BMC Palliative Care, 23(1), Article 115. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12904-024-01443-1

Background
Motor Neurone Disease (MND) leads to muscle weakening, affecting movement, speech, and breathing. Home mechanical ventilation, particularly non-invasive ventilation (NIV), is used to alleviate symptoms and support breathing in people livi... Read More about End of life decision making when home mechanical ventilation is used to sustain breathing in Motor Neurone Disease: patient and family perspectives.

Iterative solution methods for high-order/hp–DGFEM approximation of the linear Boltzmann transport equation (2024)
Journal Article
Houston, P., Hubbard, M. E., & Radley, T. J. (2024). Iterative solution methods for high-order/hp–DGFEM approximation of the linear Boltzmann transport equation. Computers and Mathematics with Applications, 166, 37-49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.camwa.2024.04.011

In this article we consider the iterative solution of the linear system of equations arising from the discretisation of the poly-energetic linear Boltzmann transport equation using a high-order/hp–version discontinuous Galerkin finite element approxi... Read More about Iterative solution methods for high-order/hp–DGFEM approximation of the linear Boltzmann transport equation.

A Periodical Masquerade: The History of the Book in Nineteenth Century America, Unbound (2024)
Book Chapter
Pethers, M. (in press). A Periodical Masquerade: The History of the Book in Nineteenth Century America, Unbound. In The New Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies. Cambridge University Press

Co-creating prisons knowledge inspired by collective autoethnography (2024)
Journal Article
Buck, G., Banwell-Moore, R., Harriott, P., & Tomczak, P. (2024). Co-creating prisons knowledge inspired by collective autoethnography. Prison Service Journal, 272, 4-11

This is a story, a kind of map, about a study we co-produced on prison peer support work. The social science community call these mapping stories methodology papers. We have tried to write this one in an informal (less academic) style to appeal to a... Read More about Co-creating prisons knowledge inspired by collective autoethnography.

Factors influencing use and choice of Core Outcome Sets and outcome measurement instruments in trials of interventions to prevent childhood obesity: A survey protocol (2024)
Journal Article
Matvienko-Sikar, K., Anokye, R., Dutch, D., Duffy, M., Looney, E., Brown, V., Browne, J., Dahly, D., Devane, D., Harrington, J., Hayes, C., Johnson, B., Kearney, P. M., J Kirkham, J., Leahy-Warren, P., Murphy, A. W., Redsell, S., Seidler, A. L., & Skouteris, H. (in press). Factors influencing use and choice of Core Outcome Sets and outcome measurement instruments in trials of interventions to prevent childhood obesity: A survey protocol. HRB Open Research, 7, Article 28. https://doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.13884.1

Background

Two core outcome sets for childhood obesity prevention have been developed; standardised sets of outcome measurement instruments for these core outcome sets are currently being developed. Core outcome sets and standardised measurement s... Read More about Factors influencing use and choice of Core Outcome Sets and outcome measurement instruments in trials of interventions to prevent childhood obesity: A survey protocol.

A Dynamic Diffusion Algorithm for Discrete-Time Cooperative Control for DC Microgrids (2024)
Journal Article
Zhang, B., Gao, F., Liao, D., Liu, D., & Wheeler, P. (2024). A Dynamic Diffusion Algorithm for Discrete-Time Cooperative Control for DC Microgrids. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 39(8), 9399-9414. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPEL.2024.3395998

Voltage restoration and current sharing are crucial issues for the secondary control in dc microgrids (MGs). Distributed control has been widely employed as an effective approach for the secondary control, where different algorithms can be used in th... Read More about A Dynamic Diffusion Algorithm for Discrete-Time Cooperative Control for DC Microgrids.

From novel ecosystems to novel natures (2024)
Journal Article
Montana, J., Heger, T., Kelz, R., Bischoff, A., Buitenwerf, R., Eser, U., Kung, K., Sattler, J., Schweiger, A. H., Searle, A., Teixeira, L. H., Travassos-Britto, B., & Higgs, E. (2024). From novel ecosystems to novel natures. GAiA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, 33(1), 146-151. https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.33.1.6

Ecologists, particularly restoration ecologists, were early to recognise the challenges of historically unprecedented combinations of species and abiotic conditions brought about by human intervention. However, to date, this ecological understanding... Read More about From novel ecosystems to novel natures.

Clinicopathological Significance of Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 2 (CDK2) in Ductal Carcinoma In Situ and Early-Stage Invasive Breast Cancers (2024)
Journal Article
Lashen, A., Alqahtani, S., Shoqafi, A., Algethami, M., Jeyapalan, J. N., Mongan, N. P., Rakha, E. A., & Madhusudan, S. (2024). Clinicopathological Significance of Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 2 (CDK2) in Ductal Carcinoma In Situ and Early-Stage Invasive Breast Cancers. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 25(9), Article 5053. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms25095053

Cyclin-dependent kinase 2 (CDK2) is a key cell cycle regulator, with essential roles during G1/S transition. The clinicopathological significance of CDK2 in ductal carcinomas in situ (DCIS) and early-stage invasive breast cancers (BCs) remains largel... Read More about Clinicopathological Significance of Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 2 (CDK2) in Ductal Carcinoma In Situ and Early-Stage Invasive Breast Cancers.

Democracy Doesn't Always Happen Over Night: Regime Change in Stages and Economic Growth (2024)
Journal Article
Boese-Schlosser, V., & Eberhardt, M. (in press). Democracy Doesn't Always Happen Over Night: Regime Change in Stages and Economic Growth. Review of Economics and Statistics,

How substantial are the economic benefits from democratic regime change? We argue that democratisation is often not a discrete event but a two-stage process: autocracies enter into 'episodes' of political liberalisation which eventually culminate in... Read More about Democracy Doesn't Always Happen Over Night: Regime Change in Stages and Economic Growth.

Unveiling the gut bacteriome diversity and distribution in the national fish hilsa (Tenualosa ilisha) of Bangladesh (2024)
Journal Article
Kawser, A. Q. M. R., Hoque, M. N., Rahman, M. S., Sakif, T. I., Coffey, T. J., & Islam, T. (2024). Unveiling the gut bacteriome diversity and distribution in the national fish hilsa (Tenualosa ilisha) of Bangladesh. PLoS ONE, 19(5), Article e0303047. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0303047

The field of fish microbiome research has rapidly been advancing, primarily focusing on farmed or laboratory fish species rather than natural or marine fish populations. This study sought to reveal the distinctive gut bacteriome composition and diver... Read More about Unveiling the gut bacteriome diversity and distribution in the national fish hilsa (Tenualosa ilisha) of Bangladesh.