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Global assessment of agricultural system redesign for sustainable intensification (2018)
Journal Article
Pretty, J., Benton, T. G., Bharucha, Z. P., Dicks, L. V., Flora, C. B., Godfray, H. C. J., …Wratten, S. (2018). Global assessment of agricultural system redesign for sustainable intensification. Nature Sustainability, 1(8), 441-446. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-018-0114-0

© 2018, The Author(s). The sustainable intensification of agricultural systems offers synergistic opportunities for the co-production of agricultural and natural capital outcomes. Efficiency and substitution are steps towards sustainable intensificat... Read More about Global assessment of agricultural system redesign for sustainable intensification.

Staphylococcus aureus in cystic fibrosis: pivotal role or bit part actor? (2018)
Journal Article
Hurley, M. N., & Smyth, A. R. (2018). Staphylococcus aureus in cystic fibrosis: pivotal role or bit part actor?. Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine, 24(6), 586-591. https://doi.org/10.1097/MCP.0000000000000518

Purpose of review: describe why this review is timely and relevant. The cystic fibrosis lung has long been appreciated as a competitive niche for complex interactions between bacterial species. The individual relationships between effects on the host... Read More about Staphylococcus aureus in cystic fibrosis: pivotal role or bit part actor?.

The establishment of a marine focused biorefinery for bioethanol production using seawater and a novel marine yeast strain (2018)
Journal Article
Zaky, A. S., Greetham, D., Tucker, G. A., & Du, C. (2018). The establishment of a marine focused biorefinery for bioethanol production using seawater and a novel marine yeast strain. Scientific Reports, 8(1), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-30660-x

Current technologies for bioethanol production rely on the use of freshwater for preparing the fermentation media and use yeasts of a terrestrial origin. Life cycle assessment has suggested that between 1,388 to 9,812 litres of freshwater are consume... Read More about The establishment of a marine focused biorefinery for bioethanol production using seawater and a novel marine yeast strain.

The effect of cordycepin and simvastatin on cigarettes smoke extract induced cytokine and chemokine production in human bronchial epithelial cells (2018)
Journal Article
Alshehri, M., Brand, O., Alqarni, A., Pasini, A., & PANG, L. (2018). The effect of cordycepin and simvastatin on cigarettes smoke extract induced cytokine and chemokine production in human bronchial epithelial cells. European Respiratory Journal, 52(Suppl 62), Article PA4245

COPD is a common chronic inflammatory lung disease with cigarette smoke (CS) as the major cause. The receptor for advanced glycation end products (RAGE) and its ligands are critically involved in inflammation. Inhaled corticosteroids are poorly effec... Read More about The effect of cordycepin and simvastatin on cigarettes smoke extract induced cytokine and chemokine production in human bronchial epithelial cells.

Pyrolysis of wood pellets in the presence of oxygen carriers in a fluidised bed coupled with a DBD reactor for tar quantification (2018)
Journal Article
Zheng, Y., Grant, R., Hu, W., & Scott, S. A. (2019). Pyrolysis of wood pellets in the presence of oxygen carriers in a fluidised bed coupled with a DBD reactor for tar quantification. Chemical Engineering Journal, 355, 858-870. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2018.08.090

The pyrolysis of wood in the presence of chemical looping agents including Fe2O3, mayenite-supported CuO and mayenite-supported Cu2O was studied from 773 to 1173 K. A continuous tar quantification system, based on a DBD reactor downstream of the flui... Read More about Pyrolysis of wood pellets in the presence of oxygen carriers in a fluidised bed coupled with a DBD reactor for tar quantification.

Assessing the Design and Development of Accounting Modules across UK Higher Educational Institutions (2018)
Journal Article
Ullah, S., Kimani, D., Bai, Y., & Ahmed, R. (2018). Assessing the Design and Development of Accounting Modules across UK Higher Educational Institutions. Cogent Business and Management, 5(1), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/23311975.2018.1510717

The purpose of this paper is to understand how accounting modules are designed and developed across UK Higher Educational Institutions. We carried out a content analysis of Undergraduate Year 1 Accounting Module Handbooks for a sample of 12 UK Univer... Read More about Assessing the Design and Development of Accounting Modules across UK Higher Educational Institutions.

Therapeutic interventions in children and adolescents with patellar tendon related pain: a systematic review (2018)
Journal Article
Cairns, G., Owen, T., Kluzek, S., Thurley, N., Holden, S., Rathleff, M. S., & Dean, B. J. F. (2018). Therapeutic interventions in children and adolescents with patellar tendon related pain: a systematic review. BMJ Open Sport and Exercise Medicine, 4(1), https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjsem-2018-000383

Objective: Evaluate effectiveness and harms of interventions for patellar tendon related pain in children and adolescents. Design: Systematic review and meta-analysis. Data sources: Medline via Pubmed, Embase via OVID, CINAHL via Ebsco, SportDi... Read More about Therapeutic interventions in children and adolescents with patellar tendon related pain: a systematic review.

The role of PIP5K1?/pAKT and targeted inhibition of growth of subtypes of breast cancer using PIP5K1? inhibitor (2018)
Journal Article
Sarwar, M., Syed Khaja, A. S., Aleskandarany, M., Karlsson, R., Althobiti, M., Ødum, N., …Persson, J. L. (2019). The role of PIP5K1α/pAKT and targeted inhibition of growth of subtypes of breast cancer using PIP5K1α inhibitor. Oncogene, 38(3), 375-389. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41388-018-0438-2

© 2018, The Author(s). Despite recent improvement in adjuvant therapies, triple-negative, and ER + subtypes of breast cancer (BC) with metastatic potentials remain the leading cause of BC-related deaths. We investigated the role of phosphatidylinosi... Read More about The role of PIP5K1?/pAKT and targeted inhibition of growth of subtypes of breast cancer using PIP5K1? inhibitor.

Intravenous remifentanil patient-controlled analgesia versus intramuscular pethidine for pain relief in labour (RESPITE): an open-label, multicentre, randomised controlled trial (2018)
Journal Article
Wilson, M. J., MacArthur, C., Hewitt, . C. A., Handley, K., Gao, F., Beeson, L., & Daniels, J. (2018). Intravenous remifentanil patient-controlled analgesia versus intramuscular pethidine for pain relief in labour (RESPITE): an open-label, multicentre, randomised controlled trial. Lancet, 392(10148), 662-672. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31613-1

Background: Approximately a third of women receiving pethidine for labour pain subsequently require an epidural, which provides effective pain relief but increases the risk of instrumental delivery. Remifentanil patient controlled analgesia (PCA) in... Read More about Intravenous remifentanil patient-controlled analgesia versus intramuscular pethidine for pain relief in labour (RESPITE): an open-label, multicentre, randomised controlled trial.

A comment on "A direct approach for determining the switch points in the Karnik-Mendel algorithm" (2018)
Journal Article
Chen, C., Wu, D., Garibaldi, J. M., John, R., Twycross, J., & Mendel, J. M. (2018). A comment on "A direct approach for determining the switch points in the Karnik-Mendel algorithm". IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 26(6), 3905-3907. https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2018.2865134

This letter is a supplement to the previous paper “A Direct Approach for Determining the Switch Points in the Karnik-Mendel Algorithm”. In the previous paper, the enhanced iterative algorithm with stop condition (EIASC) was shown to be the most ineff... Read More about A comment on "A direct approach for determining the switch points in the Karnik-Mendel algorithm".

Association between subjective tinnitus and cognitive performance: protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis (2018)
Journal Article
Clarke, N. A., Akeroyd, M. A., Henshaw, H., & Hoare, D. J. (2018). Association between subjective tinnitus and cognitive performance: protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ Open, 8(8), Article e023700. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023700

Introduction Subjective tinnitus is very common and has a number of comorbid associations including depression, sleep disturbance and concentration difficulties. Concentration difficulties may be observable in people with tinnitus through poorer... Read More about Association between subjective tinnitus and cognitive performance: protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis.

Performance of CPT-based methods to assess monopile driveability in North Sea sands (2018)
Journal Article
Byrne, T., Gavin, K., Prendergast, L., Cachim, P., Doherty, P., & Chenicheri Pulukul, S. (2018). Performance of CPT-based methods to assess monopile driveability in North Sea sands. Ocean Engineering, 166, 76-91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2018.08.010

Offshore pile driving is a high-risk activity as delays can be financially punitive. Experience of pile driving for offshore jacket structures where pile diameters are typically < 2 m has led to the development of empirical pile driveability models w... Read More about Performance of CPT-based methods to assess monopile driveability in North Sea sands.

Apocalypse and reform in Bede's De die iudicii (2018)
Book Chapter
Darby, P. (2018). Apocalypse and reform in Bede's De die iudicii. In M. Gabriele, & J. T. Palmer (Eds.), Apocalypse and reform from late antiquity to the Middle Ages (77-100). Abingdon: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Curvature-based segmentation of powder bed point clouds for in-process monitoring (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Chung Chee Law, A., Southon, N., Senin, N., Stavroulakis, P., Leach, R., Goodridge, R., & Kong, Z. (2018). Curvature-based segmentation of powder bed point clouds for in-process monitoring. In 29th Annual International Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium - an Additive Manufacturing Conference 2018

This paper presents a curvature-based analysis of point clouds collected in-process with fringe projection in a polymer powder bed fusion process. The three-dimensional point clouds were obtained from outside of the build chamber with a fringe projec... Read More about Curvature-based segmentation of powder bed point clouds for in-process monitoring.

Behavior of expanded polystyrene (EPS) blocks under cyclic pavement foundation loading (2018)
Journal Article
Siabil, S. M. A. G., Tafreshi, S. N. M., Dawson, A. R., & Parvizi Omran, M. (2019). Behavior of expanded polystyrene (EPS) blocks under cyclic pavement foundation loading. Geosynthetics International, 26(1), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1680/jgein.18.00033

This study introduces a mechanism for initial assessment and future development to improve understanding of expanded polystyrene (EPS) behavior as a super-lightweight material for road construction. Large scale cyclic plate load tests on model paveme... Read More about Behavior of expanded polystyrene (EPS) blocks under cyclic pavement foundation loading.

Focus group or individual interviews for exploring children's health behaviour: the example of physical activity (2018)
Journal Article
Woolley, K., Edwards, K. L., & Glazebrook, C. (2018). Focus group or individual interviews for exploring children's health behaviour: the example of physical activity. Advances in Pediatric Research, 5(2), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.24105/apr.2018.5.11

Background: Children's health behaviours affect their current and future health. An appreciation of children’s perceptions regarding these behaviours can inform health promotion initiatives. Focus groups and individual interviews have increasingly be... Read More about Focus group or individual interviews for exploring children's health behaviour: the example of physical activity.