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Potential smoke-free dividend across local areas in England: A cross-sectional analysis (2024)
Journal Article
Morris, D., Gillespie, D., Dockrell, M., Cook, M., Horton, M., Brown, J., & Langley, T. (2024). Potential smoke-free dividend across local areas in England: A cross-sectional analysis. Tobacco Control, https://doi.org/10.1136/tc-2023-058264

Background
The value that might be added to local economies each year through the money that people who smoke tobacco would save if everyone quit smoking is called the “smoke-free dividend”. This study aimed to estimate the value of the smoke-free d... Read More about Potential smoke-free dividend across local areas in England: A cross-sectional analysis.

Exploratory factor analysis and Rasch analysis to assess the structural validity of the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit Proxy version (ASCOT-Proxy) completed by care home staff (2024)
Journal Article
Rand, S., Towers, A., Allan, S., Webster, L., Palmer, S., Carroll, R., …Goodman, C. (2024). Exploratory factor analysis and Rasch analysis to assess the structural validity of the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit Proxy version (ASCOT-Proxy) completed by care home staff. Quality of Life Research, 33, 1555-1567. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-024-03631-1

Purpose.

Rasch analysis and exploratory factor analysis (EFA) were used to evaluate the structural validity of the ASCOT-Proxy measures completed by staff on behalf of older adults resident in care homes, by comparison to the ASCOT-SCT4, the meas... Read More about Exploratory factor analysis and Rasch analysis to assess the structural validity of the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit Proxy version (ASCOT-Proxy) completed by care home staff.

Implementing and Evaluating a National Integrated Digital Registry and Clinical Decision Support System in Early Intervention in Psychosis Services (Early Psychosis Informatics Into Care): Co-Designed Protocol (2024)
Journal Article
Griffiths, S. L., Murray, G. K., Logeswaran, Y., Ainsworth, J., Allan, S. M., Campbell, N., …Upthegrove, R. (2024). Implementing and Evaluating a National Integrated Digital Registry and Clinical Decision Support System in Early Intervention in Psychosis Services (Early Psychosis Informatics Into Care): Co-Designed Protocol. JMIR Research Protocols, 13(1), Article e50177. https://doi.org/10.2196/50177

Background: Early intervention in psychosis (EIP) services are nationally mandated in England to provide multidisciplinary care to people experiencing first-episode psychosis, which disproportionately affects deprived and ethnic minority youth. Quali... Read More about Implementing and Evaluating a National Integrated Digital Registry and Clinical Decision Support System in Early Intervention in Psychosis Services (Early Psychosis Informatics Into Care): Co-Designed Protocol.

Differentiation of Bulinus senegalensis and Bulinus forskalii Snails in West Africa Using Morphometric Analysis (2024)
Journal Article
Andrus, P. S., Joof, E., & Wade, C. M. (2024). Differentiation of Bulinus senegalensis and Bulinus forskalii Snails in West Africa Using Morphometric Analysis. Acta Parasitologica, 69, 1016–1026. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11686-024-00830-1

Purpose: Accurate identification of medically important intermediate host and vector species is crucial for understanding disease transmission and control. Identifying Bulinus snails which act as intermediate host species for the transmission of schi... Read More about Differentiation of Bulinus senegalensis and Bulinus forskalii Snails in West Africa Using Morphometric Analysis.

A randomised crossover trial of tezacaftor-ivacaftor for gut dysfunction in cystic fibrosis with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) outcomes: a pilot study (2024)
Journal Article
Ng, C., Dellschaft, N. S., Hoad, C., Marciani, L., Spiller, R., Crooks, C., …Smyth, A. R. (2024). A randomised crossover trial of tezacaftor-ivacaftor for gut dysfunction in cystic fibrosis with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) outcomes: a pilot study. NIHR Open Research, 3, Article 65. https://doi.org/10.3310/nihropenres.13510.2

Background
People with cystic fibrosis (CF) can experience recurrent chest infections, pancreatic exocrine insufficiency and gastrointestinal symptoms. New cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) modulator drugs improve lung funct... Read More about A randomised crossover trial of tezacaftor-ivacaftor for gut dysfunction in cystic fibrosis with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) outcomes: a pilot study.

A characterisation of linear repetitivity for cut and project sets with general polytopal windows (2024)
Journal Article
Walton, J. J. (2024). A characterisation of linear repetitivity for cut and project sets with general polytopal windows. Indagationes Mathematicae, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indag.2024.03.003

The cut and project method is a central construction in the theory of Aperiodic Order for generating quasicrystals with pure point diffraction. Linear repetitivity (LR) is a form of ideal regularity of aperiodic patterns. Recently, Koivusalo and the... Read More about A characterisation of linear repetitivity for cut and project sets with general polytopal windows.

CXCL17 is an allosteric inhibitor of CXCR4 through a mechanism of action involving glycosaminoglycans (2024)
Journal Article
White, C. W., Platt, S., Kilpatrick, L. E., Dale, N., Abhayawardana, R. S., Dekkers, S., …Hill, S. J. (2024). CXCL17 is an allosteric inhibitor of CXCR4 through a mechanism of action involving glycosaminoglycans. Science Signaling, 17(828), Article abl3758. https://doi.org/10.1126/scisignal.abl3758

CXCL17 is a chemokine principally expressed by mucosal tissues, where it facilitates chemotaxis of monocytes, dendritic cells, and macrophages and has antimicrobial properties. CXCL17 is also implicated in the pathology of inflammatory disorders and... Read More about CXCL17 is an allosteric inhibitor of CXCR4 through a mechanism of action involving glycosaminoglycans.

Substantial cost savings of ultrasound-based management over magnetic resonance imaging-based management in an inflammatory bowel disease service (2024)
Journal Article
Radford, S. J., Abdul-Aema, B., Tench, C., Leighton, P., Coad, J., & Moran, G. W. (2024). Substantial cost savings of ultrasound-based management over magnetic resonance imaging-based management in an inflammatory bowel disease service. Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology, 59(6), 683-689. https://doi.org/10.1080/00365521.2024.2330588

Background: Imaging is used to monitor disease activity in small bowel Crohn’s disease (CD). Magnetic Resonance Enterography is often employed as a first modality in the United Kingdom for assessment and monitoring; however, waiting times, cost, pati... Read More about Substantial cost savings of ultrasound-based management over magnetic resonance imaging-based management in an inflammatory bowel disease service.

Just public algorithms: Mapping public engagement with the use of algorithms in UK public services (2024)
Journal Article
Pallett, H., Price, C., Chilvers, J., & Burall, S. (2024). Just public algorithms: Mapping public engagement with the use of algorithms in UK public services. Big Data and Society, 11(1), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517241235867

This paper proposes and models a novel approach to public engagement with the use of algorithms in public services. Algorithms pose significant risks which need to be anticipated and mitigated through democratic governance, including public engagemen... Read More about Just public algorithms: Mapping public engagement with the use of algorithms in UK public services.

Landscape genomics reveals regions associated with adaptive phenotypic and genetic variation in Ethiopian indigenous chickens (2024)
Journal Article
Kebede, F. G., Derks, M. F., Dessie, T., Hanotte, O., Barros, C. P., Crooijmans, R. P., Komen, H., & Bastiaansen, J. W. (2024). Landscape genomics reveals regions associated with adaptive phenotypic and genetic variation in Ethiopian indigenous chickens. BMC Genomics, 25(1), Article 284. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-024-10193-6

Climate change is a threat to sustainable livestock production and livelihoods in the tropics. It has adverse impacts on feed and water availability, disease prevalence, production, environmental temperature, and biodiversity. Unravelling the drivers... Read More about Landscape genomics reveals regions associated with adaptive phenotypic and genetic variation in Ethiopian indigenous chickens.

Design and implementation of a cost-aware and smart oyster mushroom cultivation system (2024)
Journal Article
Elewi, A., Hajhamed, A., Khankan, R., Duman, S., Souag, A., & Ahmed, A. (2024). Design and implementation of a cost-aware and smart oyster mushroom cultivation system. Smart Agricultural Technology, 8, Article 100439. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atech.2024.100439

Mushrooms are a nutritious food source, which can play a crucial role in providing affordable sources of proteins, vitamins and minerals for people worldwide, but their cultivation requires extensive training and considerable relevant expertise in or... Read More about Design and implementation of a cost-aware and smart oyster mushroom cultivation system.

Characterising the stimulus-response function of mouse C-Low threshold mechanoreceptors to mechanical stimuliin vivo (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper
Semizoglou, E., Lo Re, L., Middleton, S. J., Perez-Sanchez, J., Tufarelli, T., Bennett, D. L., & Chisholm, K. I. Characterising the stimulus-response function of mouse C-Low threshold mechanoreceptors to mechanical stimuliin vivo

C-low threshold mechanoreceptors (C-LTMRs) in animals (termed C-tactile (CT) fibres in humans) are a subgroup of C-fibre primary afferents, which innervate hairy skin and respond to low threshold punctate indentations and brush stimuli. These afferen... Read More about Characterising the stimulus-response function of mouse C-Low threshold mechanoreceptors to mechanical stimuliin vivo.

Competition between stacking and divalent cation mediated electrostatic interactions determines the conformations of short DNA sequences (2024)
Journal Article
Mondal, B., Chakraborty, D., Hori, N., Nguyen, H. T., & Thirumalai, D. (2024). Competition between stacking and divalent cation mediated electrostatic interactions determines the conformations of short DNA sequences. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 20(7), 2934-2946. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.3c01193

Interplay between divalent cations (Mg2+ and Ca2+) and single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) and double-stranded DNA (dsDNA), as well as stacking interactions, is important in nucleosome stability and phase separation in nucleic acids. Quantitative techniques... Read More about Competition between stacking and divalent cation mediated electrostatic interactions determines the conformations of short DNA sequences.

Liquid Metal Reconfigurable Phased Array Antenna (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alkaraki, S., Lin, Q. W., Erman, F., Jilani, S. F., Wang, Z., Wong, H., & Kelly, J. R. (2024, March). Liquid Metal Reconfigurable Phased Array Antenna. Paper presented at 2024 18th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Glasgow, United Kingdom

A design for a phased array antenna using liquid metal (LM) technology is presented. The phased array antenna uses substrate integrated waveguides (SIW) feeding structure to excite a 1×4 printed dipole antenna array. The phase distribution on SIW pow... Read More about Liquid Metal Reconfigurable Phased Array Antenna.

A Compact High-Gain 28 GHz Antenna Array for Beyond 5G Wireless Networks (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Meates, I., Alkaraki, S., Aslam, M., Abbasi, Q., Evans, A., & Jilani, S. F. (2024, March). A Compact High-Gain 28 GHz Antenna Array for Beyond 5G Wireless Networks. Paper presented at 2024 18th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Glasgow, United Kingdom

In this paper a novel, high-gain corporate-fed 16-element circular patch array featuring a coplanar waveguide (CPW) feed and parasitic loop is proposed for beyond 5G and future 6G applications. An ultra-thin Rogers RO4003C substrate of 0.02 mm thickn... Read More about A Compact High-Gain 28 GHz Antenna Array for Beyond 5G Wireless Networks.

Flexor Injury Rehabilitation Splint Trial (FIRST): protocol for a pragmatic randomised controlled trial comparing three splints for finger flexor tendon repairs (2024)
Journal Article
Bamford, E., Berntsson, H., Beale, S., Desoysa, L., Dias, J., Hamer-Kiwacz, S., Hind, D., Johnson, N., Loban, A., Molloy, K., Morvan, E., Rombach, I., Selby, A., Thokala, P., Turtle, C., Walters, S., & Drummond, A. (2024). Flexor Injury Rehabilitation Splint Trial (FIRST): protocol for a pragmatic randomised controlled trial comparing three splints for finger flexor tendon repairs. Trials, 25(1), Article 193. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-024-08013-z

Background: Without surgical repair, flexor tendon injuries do not heal and patients’ ability to bend fingers and grip objects is impaired. However, flexor tendon repair surgery also requires optimal rehabilitation. There are currently three custom-m... Read More about Flexor Injury Rehabilitation Splint Trial (FIRST): protocol for a pragmatic randomised controlled trial comparing three splints for finger flexor tendon repairs.

Antimicrobial prophylaxis in companion animal surgery: A scoping review for European Network for Optimization of Antimicrobial Therapy (ENOVAT) guidelines (2024)
Journal Article
Sørensen, T. M., Scahill, K., Ruperez, J. E., Olejnik, M., Swinbourne, F., Verwilghen, D. R., …Allerton, F. (2024). Antimicrobial prophylaxis in companion animal surgery: A scoping review for European Network for Optimization of Antimicrobial Therapy (ENOVAT) guidelines. Veterinary Journal, 304, Article 106101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tvjl.2024.106101

Surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis (SAP) is widely used to reduce the risk of surgical site infections (SSI), but there is uncertainty as to what the proportion of SSI reduction is. Therefore, it is difficult for surgeons to properly weigh the costs,... Read More about Antimicrobial prophylaxis in companion animal surgery: A scoping review for European Network for Optimization of Antimicrobial Therapy (ENOVAT) guidelines.

Racial Capitalism and Entrepreneurship: An Intersectional Feminist Labour Market Perspective on UK Self-Employment (2024)
Journal Article
Martinez Dy, A., Jayawarna, D., & Marlow, S. (2024). Racial Capitalism and Entrepreneurship: An Intersectional Feminist Labour Market Perspective on UK Self-Employment. Sociology, https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385241228444

This article explains entrepreneurial activity patterns in the United Kingdom labour market using theories of racial capitalism and intersectional feminism. Using UK Office for National Statistics Labour Force Survey data 2018–2019 and employing prob... Read More about Racial Capitalism and Entrepreneurship: An Intersectional Feminist Labour Market Perspective on UK Self-Employment.

“I’m pulling through because of you”: injured workers’ perspective of workplace factors supporting return to work under the Saskatchewan Workers’ Compensation Board scheme (2024)
Journal Article
Lewis, I., & Houdmont, J. (2024). “I’m pulling through because of you”: injured workers’ perspective of workplace factors supporting return to work under the Saskatchewan Workers’ Compensation Board scheme. Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences, 5, Article 1373888. https://doi.org/10.3389/fresc.2024.1373888

Background: Research demonstrates sustained return to work (RTW) by individuals on medical leave is influenced by personal and job resources and job demands. Relatively few studies have been conducted in the workers’ compensation context that is know... Read More about “I’m pulling through because of you”: injured workers’ perspective of workplace factors supporting return to work under the Saskatchewan Workers’ Compensation Board scheme.