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Response to Mobilisation and Tactile Stimulation (MTS) applied to the hemiplegic left upper limb in a stroke survivor with unilateral hemineglect (ABSTRACT) (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Response to Mobilisation and Tactile Stimulation (MTS) applied to the hemiplegic left upper limb in a stroke survivor with unilateral hemineglect (ABSTRACT). International Journal of Stroke, 53 -53

Introduction: Case: 64-year old male with right Total Anterior Circulation Stroke, presenting with increased tone in left upper limb (UL) held in a typical adducted posture, with elbow flexed, forearm
pronated, wrist joint and digits held in flexion... Read More about Response to Mobilisation and Tactile Stimulation (MTS) applied to the hemiplegic left upper limb in a stroke survivor with unilateral hemineglect (ABSTRACT).

Normalizing the peritoneal dialysis dose-have we got it right? (2016)
Journal Article
Davies, S. J. (2016). Normalizing the peritoneal dialysis dose-have we got it right?. Kidney International, 90(6), 1162 -1163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.kint.2016.09.020

How the dialysis dose is normalized is just one of several assumptions that clinicians need to take into account when prescribing peritoneal dialysis. El-Kateb et al. confirm that estimating the volume of urea distribution is associated with signific... Read More about Normalizing the peritoneal dialysis dose-have we got it right?.

Real-time simulation of hand motion for prosthesis control (2016)
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(2016). Real-time simulation of hand motion for prosthesis control. Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, 540-549. https://doi.org/10.1080/10255842.2016.1255943

Individuals with hand amputation suffer substantial loss of independence. Performance of sophisticated prostheses is limited by the ability to control them. To achieve natural and simultaneous control of all wrist and hand motions, we propose to use... Read More about Real-time simulation of hand motion for prosthesis control.

Relationship Between Anemia and Mortality Outcomes in a National Acute Coronary Syndrome Cohort: Insights from the UK Myocardial Ischemia National Audit Project Registry (2016)
Journal Article
Mamas, M. A., Shing Kwok, C., Kontopantelis, E., Fryer, A. A., Buchan, I., Bachmann, M. O., …Myint, P. K. (2016). Relationship Between Anemia and Mortality Outcomes in a National Acute Coronary Syndrome Cohort: Insights from the UK Myocardial Ischemia National Audit Project Registry. Journal of the American Heart Association, 5(11), https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.116.003348

BACKGROUND: We aim to determine the prevalence of anemia in acute coronary syndrome (ACS) patients and compare their clinical characteristics, management, and clinical outcomes to those without anemia in an unselected national ACS cohort. METHODS AND... Read More about Relationship Between Anemia and Mortality Outcomes in a National Acute Coronary Syndrome Cohort: Insights from the UK Myocardial Ischemia National Audit Project Registry.

Relationship between anemia and mortality outcomes in a national ACS cohort: insights from the UK MINAP registry (2016)
Journal Article
Mamas. (2016). Relationship between anemia and mortality outcomes in a national ACS cohort: insights from the UK MINAP registry. Journal of the American Heart Association Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.116.003348

Background
We aim to determine the prevalence of anemia in acute coronary syndrome (ACS) patients and compare their clinical characteristics, management, and clinical outcomes to those without anemia in an unselected national ACS cohort.

Methods... Read More about Relationship between anemia and mortality outcomes in a national ACS cohort: insights from the UK MINAP registry.

Omega-3 fatty acid EPA improves regenerative capacity of mouse skeletal muscle cells exposed to saturated fat and inflammation (2016)
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(2016). Omega-3 fatty acid EPA improves regenerative capacity of mouse skeletal muscle cells exposed to saturated fat and inflammation. Biogerontology, 109 - 129. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10522-016-9667-3

Sarcopenic obesity is characterised by high fat mass, low muscle mass and an elevated inflammatory environmental milieu. We therefore investigated the effects of elevated inflammatory cytokine TNF-a (aging/obesity) and saturated fatty acid, palmitate... Read More about Omega-3 fatty acid EPA improves regenerative capacity of mouse skeletal muscle cells exposed to saturated fat and inflammation.

Prevalence, incidence, and risk factors for shoulder and neck dysfunction after neck dissection: a systematic review (2016)
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(2016). Prevalence, incidence, and risk factors for shoulder and neck dysfunction after neck dissection: a systematic review. EJSO - European Journal of Surgical Oncology, 1199-1218. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejso.2016.10.026

Introduction
Shoulder pain and dysfunction may occur following neck dissection among people being treated for head and neck cancer. This systematic review aims to examine the prevalence and incidence of shoulder and neck dysfunction after neck disse... Read More about Prevalence, incidence, and risk factors for shoulder and neck dysfunction after neck dissection: a systematic review.

Patient experiences of a bariatric group programme for managing obesity: A qualitative interview study (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Patient experiences of a bariatric group programme for managing obesity: A qualitative interview study. British Journal of Health Psychology, 77-93. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjhp.12218

Objectives
People with obesity experience a range of physical and psychological ill-health outcomes. This study examined patients’ experiences of a group-based programme for the management of morbid obesity delivered within the UK National Health Se... Read More about Patient experiences of a bariatric group programme for managing obesity: A qualitative interview study.

Consumption-based carbon accounting: does it have a future? (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Consumption-based carbon accounting: does it have a future?. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.438

Internationally, allocation of responsibility for reducing greenhouse gas emissions is currently based on the production-based (PB) accounting method, which measures emissions generated in the place where goods and services are produced. However, the... Read More about Consumption-based carbon accounting: does it have a future?.

LEVELS OF SALIVARY C-REACTIVE PROTEIN, PROCALCITONIN AND NEUTROPHIL ELASTASE CAN PREDICT EXACERBATIONS IN COPD AND DETERMINE THOSE PATIENTS AT HIGH RISK OF RE-EXACERBATION (2016)
Journal Article
Patel, N., Thorpe, G., Jones, P., Adamson, V., Belcher, J., & Spiteri, M. A. (2016). LEVELS OF SALIVARY C-REACTIVE PROTEIN, PROCALCITONIN AND NEUTROPHIL ELASTASE CAN PREDICT EXACERBATIONS IN COPD AND DETERMINE THOSE PATIENTS AT HIGH RISK OF RE-EXACERBATION. Thorax, 71(S3), A39-A40. https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2016-209333.72

Saliva has numerous practical advantages as a diagnostic bio-sample for management of long term conditions. We have previously demonstrated that C-reactive protein (CRP), procalcitonin (PCT) and neutrophil elastase (NE) can be reliably and reproducib... Read More about LEVELS OF SALIVARY C-REACTIVE PROTEIN, PROCALCITONIN AND NEUTROPHIL ELASTASE CAN PREDICT EXACERBATIONS IN COPD AND DETERMINE THOSE PATIENTS AT HIGH RISK OF RE-EXACERBATION.

Vaccinia Virus Uses Retromer-Independent Cellular Retrograde Transport Pathways To Facilitate the Wrapping of Intracellular Mature Virions during Virus Morphogenesis (2016)
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Harrison, K., Haga, I. R., Pechenick Jowers, T., Jasim, S., Cintrat, J., Gillet, D., …Beard, P. M. (2016). Vaccinia Virus Uses Retromer-Independent Cellular Retrograde Transport Pathways To Facilitate the Wrapping of Intracellular Mature Virions during Virus Morphogenesis. Journal of Virology, 90(22), 10120-10132. https://doi.org/10.1128/jvi.01464-16

Matchout deuterium labelling of proteins for small-angle neutron scattering studies using prokaryotic and eukaryotic expression systems and high cell-density culture (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Matchout deuterium labelling of proteins for small-angle neutron scattering studies using prokaryotic and eukaryotic expression systems and high cell-density culture. European Biophysics Journal, 425-432. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00249-016-1186-2

Small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) is a powerful technique for the characterisation of macromolecular structures and interactions. Its main advantage over other solution state approaches is the ability to use D2O/H2O solvent contrast variation to... Read More about Matchout deuterium labelling of proteins for small-angle neutron scattering studies using prokaryotic and eukaryotic expression systems and high cell-density culture.

Brief Communication: Evidence of a developing Polynya off Commonwealth Bay, East Antarctica, triggered by grounding of iceberg (2016)
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(2016). Brief Communication: Evidence of a developing Polynya off Commonwealth Bay, East Antarctica, triggered by grounding of iceberg. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2603-2016

The dramatic calving of the Mertz Glacier tongue in 2010, precipitated by the movement of iceberg B09B, reshaped the oceanographic regime across the Mertz Polynya and Commonwealth Bay, regions where high-salinity shelf water (HSSW) – the precursor to... Read More about Brief Communication: Evidence of a developing Polynya off Commonwealth Bay, East Antarctica, triggered by grounding of iceberg.

Synthetic routes to iron chalcogenide nanoparticles and thin films (2016)
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Matthews, P., Akhtar, M., Malik, M., Revaprasadu, N., & O'Brien, P. (2016). Synthetic routes to iron chalcogenide nanoparticles and thin films. Dalton Transactions, 18803-18812. https://doi.org/10.1039/C6DT03486A

Iron chalcogenides are earth abundant, cheap and environmentally benign materials that have seen extensive research directed toward a range of applications, most notably for photovoltaics. The most common forms of materials for these applications are... Read More about Synthetic routes to iron chalcogenide nanoparticles and thin films.

Asset price formation and behavioral biases (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Asset price formation and behavioral biases. Review of Behavioural Finance, 137 -155. https://doi.org/10.1108/RBF-05-2015-0020

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine the debate on whether psychology affects asset prices using agent-based modeling.

Design/methodology/approach
The authors set up three simulation regimes where the first regime contains fundamental... Read More about Asset price formation and behavioral biases.

Matchout deuterium labelling of proteins for small-angle neutron scattering studies using prokaryotic and eukaryotic expression systems and high cell-density cultures. (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Matchout deuterium labelling of proteins for small-angle neutron scattering studies using prokaryotic and eukaryotic expression systems and high cell-density cultures. European Biophysics Journal, 425-432. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00249-016-1186-2

Small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) is a powerful technique for the characterisation of macromolecular structures and interactions. Its main advantage over other solution state approaches is the ability to use D2O/H2O solvent contrast variation to... Read More about Matchout deuterium labelling of proteins for small-angle neutron scattering studies using prokaryotic and eukaryotic expression systems and high cell-density cultures..