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Conceptual Change in Science Is Facilitated Through Peer Collaboration for Boys but Not for Girls (2016)
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(2016). Conceptual Change in Science Is Facilitated Through Peer Collaboration for Boys but Not for Girls. Child Development, 176 -183. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12481

Three hundred and forty-one children (Mage  = 9,0 years) engaged in a series of science tasks in collaborative, same-sex pairs or did not interact. All children who collaborated on the science tasks advanced in basic-level understanding of the releva... Read More about Conceptual Change in Science Is Facilitated Through Peer Collaboration for Boys but Not for Girls.

Revascularization for Left Anterior Descending Artery Stenosis: A Review of the Evidence That Supports Practice (2016)
Journal Article
Mamas. (2016). Revascularization for Left Anterior Descending Artery Stenosis: A Review of the Evidence That Supports Practice. Cardiology in Review, https://doi.org/10.1097/CRD.0000000000000097

Disease of the proximal left anterior descending (LAD) artery is a common pathological finding often combined with disease in other coronary arteries. In this article we review specifically the evidence (and the guidelines arising from the data) for... Read More about Revascularization for Left Anterior Descending Artery Stenosis: A Review of the Evidence That Supports Practice.

Impact of operator volume for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) on clinical outcomes: what do the numbers say? (2016)
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Mamas, M., & Rashid, M. (2016). Impact of operator volume for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) on clinical outcomes: what do the numbers say?. European Heart Journal, 16-22. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjqcco/qcv030

The impact of operator and centre volume on clinical outcomes and quality of care has been of considerable debate in recent years in a number of surgical- and procedural-based specialities. A relationship between higher volumes at both the institutio... Read More about Impact of operator volume for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) on clinical outcomes: what do the numbers say?.

Risk Related to Pre–Diabetes Mellitus and Diabetes Mellitus in Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction (2016)
Journal Article
Mamas. (2016). Risk Related to Pre–Diabetes Mellitus and Diabetes Mellitus in Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction. Circulation: Heart Failure, https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.115.002560

Background—
The prevalence of pre–diabetes mellitus and its consequences in patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction are not known. We investigated these in the Prospective Comparison of ARNI With ACEI to Determine Impact on Global... Read More about Risk Related to Pre–Diabetes Mellitus and Diabetes Mellitus in Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction.

Non-European nurses’ perceived barriers to UK nurse registration (2016)
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(2016). Non-European nurses’ perceived barriers to UK nurse registration. Nursing Standard, 45 -51. https://doi.org/10.7748/ns.30.37.45.s41

Aim
To conduct a scoping project to identify perceived barriers to UK nurse registration as experienced by internationally educated nurses working as healthcare assistants in the UK.

Method
Eleven internationally educated nurses working as healt... Read More about Non-European nurses’ perceived barriers to UK nurse registration.

Support vector regression to estimate the permeability enhancement of potential transdermal enhancers (2016)
Journal Article
Moss. (2016). Support vector regression to estimate the permeability enhancement of potential transdermal enhancers. Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, 170-184. https://doi.org/10.1111/jphp.12508

Objectives
Searching for chemicals that will safely enhance transdermal drug delivery is a significant challenge. This study applies support vector regression (SVR) for the first time to estimating the optimal formulation design of transdermal hydro... Read More about Support vector regression to estimate the permeability enhancement of potential transdermal enhancers.

'Stealth' nanoparticles evade neural immune cells but also evade all major brain cell populations: Implications for PEG-based neurotherapeutics (2016)
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Jenkins, S., Weinberg, D., Al-Shakli, A., Fernandes, A., Yiu, H., Telling, N., …Chari, D. (2016). 'Stealth' nanoparticles evade neural immune cells but also evade all major brain cell populations: Implications for PEG-based neurotherapeutics. Journal of Controlled Release, 224, 136-145. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jconrel.2016.01.013

Surface engineering to control cell behavior is of high interest across the chemical engineering, drug delivery and biomaterial communities. Defined chemical strategies are necessary to tailor nanoscale protein interactions/adsorption, enabling contr... Read More about 'Stealth' nanoparticles evade neural immune cells but also evade all major brain cell populations: Implications for PEG-based neurotherapeutics.

Spinal muscular atrophy patient iPSC-derived motor neurons have reduced expression of proteins important in neuronal development (2016)
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Fuller, H., Mandefro, B., Shirran, S., Gross, A., Kaus, A., Botting, C., …Sareen, S. (2016). Spinal muscular atrophy patient iPSC-derived motor neurons have reduced expression of proteins important in neuronal development. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, https://doi.org/10.3389/fncel.2015.00506

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is an inherited neuromuscular disease primarily characterized by degeneration of spinal motor neurons, and caused by reduced levels of the SMN protein. Previous studies to understand the proteomic consequences of reduced... Read More about Spinal muscular atrophy patient iPSC-derived motor neurons have reduced expression of proteins important in neuronal development.

From Stock Bottle to Vaccine: Elucidating the Particle Size Distributions of Aluminum Adjuvants Using Dynamic Light Scattering. (2016)
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(2016). From Stock Bottle to Vaccine: Elucidating the Particle Size Distributions of Aluminum Adjuvants Using Dynamic Light Scattering. Frontiers in Chemistry, 48 - ?. https://doi.org/10.3389/fchem.2016.00048

The physicochemical properties of aluminum salts are key determinants of their resultant adjuvanticity in vivo when administered as part of a vaccine. While there are links between particle size and the efficacy of the immune response, the limited li... Read More about From Stock Bottle to Vaccine: Elucidating the Particle Size Distributions of Aluminum Adjuvants Using Dynamic Light Scattering..

Succeeding against the odds: can schools ‘compensate for society’? (2016)
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(2016). Succeeding against the odds: can schools ‘compensate for society’?. Education 3-13, 8-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/03004279.2015.1122318

Education researchers, policy-makers and practitioners in the UK have debated the question of what, and how much, schools can do to mitigate the effects of parental background on educational outcomes over the last half a century. A range of programme... Read More about Succeeding against the odds: can schools ‘compensate for society’?.

High-precision photometry by telescope defocussing - VIII. WASP-22, WASP-41, WASP-42 and WASP-55 (2016)
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Southworth, J., Tregloan-Reed, J., Andersen, M., Calchi Novati, S., Ciceri, S., Colque, J., …Wang, Y. (2016). High-precision photometry by telescope defocussing - VIII. WASP-22, WASP-41, WASP-42 and WASP-55. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 457(4), 4205 - 4217. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw279

We present 13 high-precision and four additional light curves of four bright southern-hemisphere transiting planetary systems: WASP-22, WASP-41, WASP-42 and WASP-55. In the cases of WASP-42 and WASP-55, these are the first follow-up observations sinc... Read More about High-precision photometry by telescope defocussing - VIII. WASP-22, WASP-41, WASP-42 and WASP-55.

In Vivo Deep Tissue Fluorescence and Magnetic Imaging Employing Hybrid Nanostructures (2016)
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Ortgies, D. H., de la Cueva, L., del Rosal, B., Sanz-Rodríguez, F., Fernández, N., Iglesias-de la Cruz, M. C., …Martín Rodríguez, E. (2016). In Vivo Deep Tissue Fluorescence and Magnetic Imaging Employing Hybrid Nanostructures. ACS applied materials & interfaces, 8(2), 1406-1414. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.5b10617

Breakthroughs in nanotechnology have made it possible to integrate different nanoparticles in one single hybrid nanostructure (HNS), constituting multifunctional nanosized sensors, carriers, and probes with great potential in the life sciences. In ad... Read More about In Vivo Deep Tissue Fluorescence and Magnetic Imaging Employing Hybrid Nanostructures.

Water Dynamics in Shewanella oneidensis at Ambient and High Pressure using Quasi-Elastic Neutron Scattering (2016)
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(2016). Water Dynamics in Shewanella oneidensis at Ambient and High Pressure using Quasi-Elastic Neutron Scattering. Scientific reports, 18862 -?. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep18862

Quasielastic neutron scattering (QENS) is an ideal technique for studying water transport and relaxation dynamics at pico- to nanosecond timescales and at length scales relevant to cellular dimensions. Studies of high pressure dynamic effects in live... Read More about Water Dynamics in Shewanella oneidensis at Ambient and High Pressure using Quasi-Elastic Neutron Scattering.

Lessons learnt from a primary care asthma improvement project. (2016)
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(2016). Lessons learnt from a primary care asthma improvement project. npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine, 15075 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1038/npjpcrm.2015.75

Asthma is a very common disease that can occur at any age. In the UK and in many other countries it is mainly managed in primary care. The published evidence suggests that the key to improving diagnosis and management lies in better training and educ... Read More about Lessons learnt from a primary care asthma improvement project..

Charge transport properties of bulk Ta3N5 from first principles (2016)
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Morbec, J. M., & Galli, G. (2016). Charge transport properties of bulk Ta3N5 from first principles. Physical Review B, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.93.035201

Tantalum nitride is considered a promising material for photoelectrochemical water splitting, however, its charge transport properties remain poorly understood. We investigated polaronic and band transport in Ta3N5
using first-principles calculatio... Read More about Charge transport properties of bulk Ta3N5 from first principles.

Highly efficient delivery of functional cargoes by the synergistic effect of GAG binding motifs and cell-penetrating peptides (2016)
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(2016). Highly efficient delivery of functional cargoes by the synergistic effect of GAG binding motifs and cell-penetrating peptides. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, E291 - E299. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1518634113

Protein transduction domains (PTDs) are powerful nongenetic tools that allow intracellular delivery of conjugated cargoes to modify cell behavior. Their use in biomedicine has been hampered by inefficient delivery to nuclear and cytoplasmic targets.... Read More about Highly efficient delivery of functional cargoes by the synergistic effect of GAG binding motifs and cell-penetrating peptides.

ESCAPS study protocol: a feasibility randomised controlled trial of 'Early electrical stimulation to the wrist extensors and wrist flexors to prevent the post-stroke complications of pain and contractures in the paretic arm'. (2016)
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(2016). ESCAPS study protocol: a feasibility randomised controlled trial of 'Early electrical stimulation to the wrist extensors and wrist flexors to prevent the post-stroke complications of pain and contractures in the paretic arm'. BMJ Open, e010079 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-010079

INTRODUCTION: Approximately 70% of patients with stroke experience impaired arm function, which is persistent and disabling for an estimated 40%. Loss of function reduces independence in daily activities and impacts on quality of life. Muscles in tho... Read More about ESCAPS study protocol: a feasibility randomised controlled trial of 'Early electrical stimulation to the wrist extensors and wrist flexors to prevent the post-stroke complications of pain and contractures in the paretic arm'..

Soliciting additional concerns in the primary care consultation and the utility of a brief communication intervention to aid solicitation: a qualitative study (2016)
Journal Article
Chew-Graham. (2016). Soliciting additional concerns in the primary care consultation and the utility of a brief communication intervention to aid solicitation: a qualitative study. Patient Education and Counseling, 724-732. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2015.12.005

Objective
To investigate the perspectives of general practitioners (GPs) on the practice of soliciting additional concerns (ACs) and the acceptability and utility of two brief interventions (prompts) designed to aid the solicitation.

Methods
Eig... Read More about Soliciting additional concerns in the primary care consultation and the utility of a brief communication intervention to aid solicitation: a qualitative study.

Long-term Geophysical Monitoring of Simulated Clandestine Graves using Electrical and Ground Penetrating Radar Methods: 4–6 Years After Burial (2016)
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Pringle, J. K., Jervis, J. R., Roberts, D., Dick, H. C., Wisniewski, K. D., Cassidy, N. J., & Cassella, J. P. (2016). Long-term Geophysical Monitoring of Simulated Clandestine Graves using Electrical and Ground Penetrating Radar Methods: 4–6 Years After Burial. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 61(2), 309-321. https://doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.13009

This ongoing monitoring study provides forensic search teams with systematic geophysical data over simulated clandestine graves for comparison to active cases. Simulated ‘wrapped’, ‘naked’ and ‘control’ burials were created. Multiple geophysical surv... Read More about Long-term Geophysical Monitoring of Simulated Clandestine Graves using Electrical and Ground Penetrating Radar Methods: 4–6 Years After Burial.