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Diabetic retinopathy in patients who do not meet the diagnostic criteria for cystic fibrosis related diabetes (2015)
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Gilchrist, F. (2015). Diabetic retinopathy in patients who do not meet the diagnostic criteria for cystic fibrosis related diabetes. Practical Diabetes, 333-335a. https://doi.org/10.1002/pdi.1984

The UK Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Trust guidelines state that the diagnosis of CF related diabetes (CFRD) should only be made after an oral glucose tolerance test in the diabetic range and hyperglycaemia on serial monitoring. We report three patients with... Read More about Diabetic retinopathy in patients who do not meet the diagnostic criteria for cystic fibrosis related diabetes.

Rotation periods and astrometric motions of the Luhman 16AB brown dwarfs by high-resolution lucky-imaging monitoring (2015)
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Mancini, L., Giacobbe, P., Littlefair, S., Southworth, J., Bozza, V., Damasso, M., …Wertz, O. (2015). Rotation periods and astrometric motions of the Luhman 16AB brown dwarfs by high-resolution lucky-imaging monitoring. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 584, Article A104. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526899

Context. Photometric monitoring of the variability of brown dwarfs can provide useful information about the structure of clouds in their cold atmospheres.The brown-dwarf binary system Luhman?16AB is an interesting target for such a study, because its... Read More about Rotation periods and astrometric motions of the Luhman 16AB brown dwarfs by high-resolution lucky-imaging monitoring.

Celebrating the Centenary of Timoshenko's Study of Effects of Shear Deformation and Rotary Inertia (2015)
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Elishakoff, I., Kaplunov, J., & Nolde, E. (2015). Celebrating the Centenary of Timoshenko's Study of Effects of Shear Deformation and Rotary Inertia. Applied Mechanics Reviews, 67(6), Article ARTN 060802. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4031965

This study revisits Timoshenko beam theory (TBT). It discusses at depth a more consistent and simpler governing differential equation. The so-called second spectrum is also addressed. Then, we provide the asymptotic justification of the aforementione... Read More about Celebrating the Centenary of Timoshenko's Study of Effects of Shear Deformation and Rotary Inertia.

‘I’m managing my diabetes between two worlds’: Beliefs and experiences of diabetes management in British South Asians on holiday in the East: a qualitative study (2015)
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Patel, N. R., Kennedy, A., Blickem, C., Reeves, D., & Chew-Graham, C. (in press). ‘I’m managing my diabetes between two worlds’: Beliefs and experiences of diabetes management in British South Asians on holiday in the East: a qualitative study. Journal of Diabetes Research, Article 5436174. https://doi.org/10.1155/2016/5436174

Background. Diabetes is disproportionately high among British South Asians compared to the general UK population. Whilst the migrant British South Asians group has received most attention on research related to diabetes management, little considerati... Read More about ‘I’m managing my diabetes between two worlds’: Beliefs and experiences of diabetes management in British South Asians on holiday in the East: a qualitative study.

Remarks on explicit strong ellipticity conditions for anisotropic or pre-stressed incompressible solids. (2015)
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Pichugin, A., & Prikazchikov, D. (2016). Remarks on explicit strong ellipticity conditions for anisotropic or pre-stressed incompressible solids. Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics, 69(1), 67-81. https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmam/hbv017

We present a set of explicit conditions, involving the components of the elastic stiffness tensor, which are necessary and sufficient to ensure the strong ellipticity of an orthorhombic incompressible medium. The derivation is based on the procedure... Read More about Remarks on explicit strong ellipticity conditions for anisotropic or pre-stressed incompressible solids..

Outcrop analogue study of Permocarboniferous geothermal sandstone reservoir formations (northern Upper Rhine Graben, Germany): impact of mineral content, depositional environment and diagenesis on petrophysical properties (2015)
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(2015). Outcrop analogue study of Permocarboniferous geothermal sandstone reservoir formations (northern Upper Rhine Graben, Germany): impact of mineral content, depositional environment and diagenesis on petrophysical properties. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 1431-1452. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-015-1263-2

The Permocarboniferous siliciclastic formations represent the largest hydrothermal reservoir in the northern Upper Rhine Graben in SW Germany and have so far been investigated in large-scale studies only. The Cenozoic Upper Rhine Graben crosses the P... Read More about Outcrop analogue study of Permocarboniferous geothermal sandstone reservoir formations (northern Upper Rhine Graben, Germany): impact of mineral content, depositional environment and diagenesis on petrophysical properties.

Guidelines: the do’s, don’ts and don’t knows of feedback for clinical education (2015)
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Lefroy, J. (2015). Guidelines: the do’s, don’ts and don’t knows of feedback for clinical education. Perspectives on Medical Education, 284-299. https://doi.org/10.1007/S40037-015-0231-7

Introduction
The guidelines offered in this paper aim to amalgamate the literature on formative feedback into practical Do’s, Don’ts and Don’t Knows for individual clinical supervisors and for the institutions that support clinical learning.

Meth... Read More about Guidelines: the do’s, don’ts and don’t knows of feedback for clinical education.

Spectroscopic confirmation of M-dwarf candidate members of the Beta Pictoris and AB Doradus Moving Groups (2015)
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Binks, A., & Jeffries, R. (2016). Spectroscopic confirmation of M-dwarf candidate members of the Beta Pictoris and AB Doradus Moving Groups. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 455(3), 3345-3358. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2431

Optical spectroscopic observations are reported for 24 and 23, nearby, proper-motion-selected M-dwarf candidate members of the Beta Pictoris and AB Doradus moving groups (BPMG and ABDMG). Using kinematic criteria, the presence of both Halpha emission... Read More about Spectroscopic confirmation of M-dwarf candidate members of the Beta Pictoris and AB Doradus Moving Groups.

Making sense of the protests in Turkey (and Brazil): contesting neo-liberal urbanism in ‘Rebel Cities’ (2015)
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Gokay, B., & Shain, F. (2015). Making sense of the protests in Turkey (and Brazil): contesting neo-liberal urbanism in ‘Rebel Cities’. Estudos Ibero-Americanos, 41(2), 242 -261. https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-864X.2015.2.21732

The article is organised in five parts: first, we offer a brief overview of the protests and the concept of the ‘right to the city’; second, we discuss arguments about the role of democracy and representation, and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip... Read More about Making sense of the protests in Turkey (and Brazil): contesting neo-liberal urbanism in ‘Rebel Cities’.

Chemical Strategies of the Beetle Metoecus Paradoxus, Social Parasite of the Wasp Vespula Vulgaris (2015)
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Van Oystaeyen, A., van Zweden, J. S., Huyghe, H., Drijfhout, F., Bonckaert, W., & Wenseleers, T. (2015). Chemical Strategies of the Beetle Metoecus Paradoxus, Social Parasite of the Wasp Vespula Vulgaris. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 41(12), 1137-1147. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10886-015-0652-0

The parasitoid beetle Metoecus paradoxus frequently parasitizes colonies of the common wasp, Vespula vulgaris. It penetrates a host colony as a larva that attaches itself onto a foraging wasp’s body and, once inside the nest, it feeds on a wasp larva... Read More about Chemical Strategies of the Beetle Metoecus Paradoxus, Social Parasite of the Wasp Vespula Vulgaris.

The Negative Abyss Surface, Depth, and Violence in Virilio and Stiegler (2015)
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Featherstone. (2015). The Negative Abyss Surface, Depth, and Violence in Virilio and Stiegler. Cultural Politics, 210-221. https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-2895771

This article explores what one might call the dystopia of contemporary screen-based culture through a discussion of the work of Paul Virilio and Bernard Stiegler. Centrally, it explains that the screen might be seen as a negative abyss, where absolut... Read More about The Negative Abyss Surface, Depth, and Violence in Virilio and Stiegler.

Barriers to administering non-oral formulations in a paediatric population: A semi-structured interview study (2015)
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Venables. (2015). Barriers to administering non-oral formulations in a paediatric population: A semi-structured interview study. International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 12 - 17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpharm.2015.11.010

There is a paucity of research exploring barriers to non-oral medicines administration in paediatric patients; however, these undoubtedly influence medicines adherence. Studies conducted with healthcare professionals have identified various issues wi... Read More about Barriers to administering non-oral formulations in a paediatric population: A semi-structured interview study.

How does peer teaching compare to faculty teaching?: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2015)
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Rees. (2015). How does peer teaching compare to faculty teaching?: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Medical Teacher, 829- 837. https://doi.org/10.3109/0142159X.2015.1112888

PURPOSE: In undergraduate medical education, peer-teaching has become an established and common method to enhance student learning. Evidence suggests that peer-teaching provides learning benefits for both learners and tutors. We aimed to describe the... Read More about How does peer teaching compare to faculty teaching?: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Self-renewal of human embryonic stem cells on defined synthetic electrospun nanofibers (2015)
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Kumar, D., Dale, T. P., Yang, Y., & Forsyth, N. R. (2015). Self-renewal of human embryonic stem cells on defined synthetic electrospun nanofibers. Biomedical Materials, 10(6), Article 065017. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-6041/10/6/065017

Human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) are conventionally expanded and maintained in vitro on biological substrates. Synthetic electrospun polymer nanofibers have the potential to act as non-biological substrates in the culture of hESCs. Three synthetic,... Read More about Self-renewal of human embryonic stem cells on defined synthetic electrospun nanofibers.

Preliminary Evaluation of the Values Tracker: A Two-Item Measure of Engagement in Valued Activities in Those With Chronic Pain (2015)
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Pielech, M., Bailey, R. W., McEntee, M. L., Ashworth, J., Levell, J., Sowden, G., & Vowles, K. E. (2016). Preliminary Evaluation of the Values Tracker: A Two-Item Measure of Engagement in Valued Activities in Those With Chronic Pain. Behavior Modification, 40(1-2), 239-256. https://doi.org/10.1177/0145445515616911

Engagement in valued activities is an important outcome, particularly in treatments that aim to enhance quality of life in those with chronic conditions. The present study describes the initial evaluation of the Values Tracker (VT), a two-item measur... Read More about Preliminary Evaluation of the Values Tracker: A Two-Item Measure of Engagement in Valued Activities in Those With Chronic Pain.

Metallosupramolecular architectures based upon new 2-(1-pyrazolyl)-benzimidazole chelating ligands (2015)
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Hawes, C. S., & Kruger, P. E. (2015). Metallosupramolecular architectures based upon new 2-(1-pyrazolyl)-benzimidazole chelating ligands. Supramolecular Chemistry, 27(11-12), 757-771. https://doi.org/10.1080/10610278.2015.1067315

In this article, we report the synthesis and characterisation of five ligands L1–L5 containing the 2-(pyrazol-1-yl)-benzimidazole chelating group, and investigate their structural chemistry when reacted with either Cu(II) or Zn(II) ions. The mononucl... Read More about Metallosupramolecular architectures based upon new 2-(1-pyrazolyl)-benzimidazole chelating ligands.

P2X 7 receptor activity regulation: the role of CD44 proteoglycan GAG chains (2015)
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Moura, G., Lucena, S., Andrade De Lima, M., Nascimento, F., Gesteira, T., Nader, H., …Tersariol, I. (2015). P2X 7 receptor activity regulation: the role of CD44 proteoglycan GAG chains. Cell death and disease, https://doi.org/10.1038/cddis.2015.340

P2X7 receptors have received special attention in the literature for their involvement in several diseases characterized by inflammatory processes such as cancer, arthritis, neurodegenerative pathologies and chronic pains.

Rapid Holocene thinning of an East Antarctic outlet glacier driven by marine ice sheet instability (2015)
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(2015). Rapid Holocene thinning of an East Antarctic outlet glacier driven by marine ice sheet instability. Nature communications, 8910 -?. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9910

Outlet glaciers grounded on a bed that deepens inland and extends below sea level are potentially vulnerable to 'marine ice sheet instability'. This instability, which may lead to runaway ice loss, has been simulated in models, but its consequences h... Read More about Rapid Holocene thinning of an East Antarctic outlet glacier driven by marine ice sheet instability.

Problems of variable biomarker evaluation in stratified medicine research--A case study of ERCC1 in non-small-cell lung cancer. (2015)
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(2015). Problems of variable biomarker evaluation in stratified medicine research--A case study of ERCC1 in non-small-cell lung cancer. Lung Cancer, 1 - 7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lungcan.2015.11.017

OBJECTIVES: Consistency of procedures for the evaluation of a predictive biomarker (including sample collection, processing, assay and scoring system) based on adequate evidence is necessary to implement research findings in clinical practice. As a c... Read More about Problems of variable biomarker evaluation in stratified medicine research--A case study of ERCC1 in non-small-cell lung cancer..