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Selectivity differences of coordination compound stationary phases for polyaromatic hydrocarbons and polar analytes in gas and liquid phases (2017)
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Nolvachai, Y., Kulsing, C., Hawes, C. S., Batten, S. R., Turner, D. R., & Marriott, P. J. (2017). Selectivity differences of coordination compound stationary phases for polyaromatic hydrocarbons and polar analytes in gas and liquid phases. Journal of Chromatography A, 1500, 167-171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chroma.2017.04.037

A precursor solution to the metal–organic framework (MOF), Cd(1,4,7,10-tetrakis(4-carboxybenzyl)-1,4,7,10-tetraazacyclododecane), was aged in a surface-functionalised 250 μm-diameter capillary, to generate a film containing the constituents of the bu... Read More about Selectivity differences of coordination compound stationary phases for polyaromatic hydrocarbons and polar analytes in gas and liquid phases.

Diagnostic delay for giant cell arteritis – a systematic review and meta-analysis (2017)
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Prior, J. A., Ranjbar, H., Belcher, J., Mackie, S. L., Helliwell, T., Liddle, J., & Mallen, C. D. (2017). Diagnostic delay for giant cell arteritis – a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Medicine, 15, Article 120. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-017-0871-z

BACKGROUND: Giant cell arteritis (GCA), if untreated, can lead to blindness and stroke. The study's objectives were to (1) determine a new evidence-based benchmark of the extent of diagnostic delay for GCA and (2) examine the role of GCA-specific cha... Read More about Diagnostic delay for giant cell arteritis – a systematic review and meta-analysis.

The role of environmental factors for the onset of restricted mobility outside the home among older adults with osteoarthritis: a prospective cohort study (2017)
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Rantakokko, M., & Wilkie, R. (2017). The role of environmental factors for the onset of restricted mobility outside the home among older adults with osteoarthritis: a prospective cohort study. BMJ Open, 7(6), e012826 -?. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012826

OBJECTIVES: The study examines how environmental factors contribute to the onset of restricted mobility outside the home among older adults with osteoarthritis. METHODS: This is a prospective cohort study of adults aged 50 years and older with osteoa... Read More about The role of environmental factors for the onset of restricted mobility outside the home among older adults with osteoarthritis: a prospective cohort study.

Autologous chondrocyte implantation- derived synovial fluids display distinct responder and non-responder proteomic profiles (2017)
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Hulme, C., Wilson, E., Fuller, H., Roberts, S., Richardson, J., Gallacher, P., …Wright, K. (2017). Autologous chondrocyte implantation- derived synovial fluids display distinct responder and non-responder proteomic profiles. Arthritis Research and Therapy, 19, Article 150. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13075-017-1336-7

Background Autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI) can be used in the treatment of focal cartilage injuries to prevent the onset of osteoarthritis (OA). However, we are yet to understand fully why some individuals do not respond well to this interv... Read More about Autologous chondrocyte implantation- derived synovial fluids display distinct responder and non-responder proteomic profiles.

Structural Health Monitoring of a Footbridge using Echo State Networks and NARMAX (2017)
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Wootton, A. J., Butcher, J. B., Kyriacou, T., Day, C. R., & Haycock, P. W. (2017). Structural Health Monitoring of a Footbridge using Echo State Networks and NARMAX. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 64, 152-163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2017.05.014

Echo State Networks (ESNs) and a Nonlinear Auto-Regressive Moving Average model with eXogenous inputs (NARMAX) have been applied to multi-sensor time-series data arising from a test footbridge which has been subjected to multiple potentially damaging... Read More about Structural Health Monitoring of a Footbridge using Echo State Networks and NARMAX.

Medical students' perceptions of bedside teaching (2017)
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Gray, D., Cozar, O., & Lefroy, J. (2017). Medical students' perceptions of bedside teaching. Clinical Teacher, 14(3), 205-210. https://doi.org/10.1111/tct.12532

Background Bedside teaching is recognised as a valuable tool in medical education by both students and faculty members. Bedside teaching is frequently delivered by consultants; however, junior doctors are increasingly engaging in this form of clinic... Read More about Medical students' perceptions of bedside teaching.

A New Approach to Modelling the Relationship Between Annual Population Abundance Indices and Weather Data (2017)
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Elston, D., Brewer, M., Martay, B., Johnston, A., Henrys, P., Bell, J., …Pearce-Higgins, J. (2017). A New Approach to Modelling the Relationship Between Annual Population Abundance Indices and Weather Data. Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13253-017-0287-4

Weather has often been associated with fluctuations in population sizes of species; however, it can be difficult to estimate the effects satisfactorily because population size is naturally measured by annual abundance indices whilst weather varies on... Read More about A New Approach to Modelling the Relationship Between Annual Population Abundance Indices and Weather Data.

Structural organization in the trimethylamine iodine monochloride complex (2017)
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Marshall, W. G., Jones, R. H., Knight, K. S., Clews, J., Darton, R. J., Miller, W., …Pitak, M. B. (in press). Structural organization in the trimethylamine iodine monochloride complex. CrystEngComm, 19(35), 5194-5201. https://doi.org/10.1039/c7ce00869d

The structure of the complex formed between trimethylamine and iodine monochloride had been redetermined by a combination of neutron powder diffraction and X-ray single crystal diffraction techniques. The structure determined using NPD shows that the... Read More about Structural organization in the trimethylamine iodine monochloride complex.

Crystal Engineering of 6-Carboxy-4-aryl-2,2′-bipyridine Complexes: Potent Chelators with Intrinsic Intermolecular Affinity (2017)
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Dalton, H. L., Hawes, C. S., & Gunnlaugsson, T. (2017). Crystal Engineering of 6-Carboxy-4-aryl-2,2′-bipyridine Complexes: Potent Chelators with Intrinsic Intermolecular Affinity. Crystal Growth and Design, 17(8), 4365-4376. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.7b00683

Herein we report the coordination chemistry and structural properties of two multifunctional terdentate 2,2′-bipyridine derivatives 4- and 3-(4-nitrophenyl)-2,2′-bipyridine-6-carboxylate, L1/L2, respectively. We report eight new coordination complexe... Read More about Crystal Engineering of 6-Carboxy-4-aryl-2,2′-bipyridine Complexes: Potent Chelators with Intrinsic Intermolecular Affinity.

Localized Bulging Of Rotating Elastic Cylinders And Tubes (2017)
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Fu, Y. (2017). Localized Bulging Of Rotating Elastic Cylinders And Tubes. Journal of Mechanics of Materials and Structures, 545 - 561. https://doi.org/10.2140/jomms.2017.12.545

We investigate axially symmetric localized bulging of an incompressible hyperelastic circular solid cylinder or tube that is rotating about its axis of symmetry with angular velocity ?. For such a solid cylinder, the homogeneous primary deformation i... Read More about Localized Bulging Of Rotating Elastic Cylinders And Tubes.

Modelling slight compressibility for hyperelastic anisotropic materials (2017)
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(2017). Modelling slight compressibility for hyperelastic anisotropic materials. Journal of Elasticity, 171-181. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10659-017-9650-5

In order to avoid the numerical difficulties in locally enforcing the incompressibility constraint using the displacement formulation of the Finite Element Method, slight compressibility is typically assumed when simulating the mechanical response of... Read More about Modelling slight compressibility for hyperelastic anisotropic materials.

Horizontal respect distance for hydraulic fracturing in the vicinity of existing faults in deep geological reservoirs: A review and modelling study (2017)
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(2017). Horizontal respect distance for hydraulic fracturing in the vicinity of existing faults in deep geological reservoirs: A review and modelling study. Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-Resources, 379-391. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40948-017-0065-3

Hydraulic fracturing is widely used in the petroleum industry to enhance oil and gas production, especially for the extraction of shale gas from unconventional reservoirs. A good understanding of the vertical distance which should be preserved betwee... Read More about Horizontal respect distance for hydraulic fracturing in the vicinity of existing faults in deep geological reservoirs: A review and modelling study.

Arcuate Nucleus Homeostatic Systems Reflect Blood Leptin Concentration but not Feeding Behaviour during Scheduled Feeding on a High Fat Diet in Mice (2017)
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Bake, T., Baron, J., Duncan, J. S., Morgan, D. G. A., & Mercer, J. G. (2017). Arcuate Nucleus Homeostatic Systems Reflect Blood Leptin Concentration but not Feeding Behaviour during Scheduled Feeding on a High Fat Diet in Mice. Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 29(8), Article ARTN e12498. https://doi.org/10.1111/jne.12498

Hypothalamic homeostatic and forebrain reward-related genes were examined in the context of scheduled meal feeding without caloric restriction in C57BL/6 mice. Mice fed ad libitum but allowed access to a palatable high-fat (HF) diet for 2 hours a day... Read More about Arcuate Nucleus Homeostatic Systems Reflect Blood Leptin Concentration but not Feeding Behaviour during Scheduled Feeding on a High Fat Diet in Mice.

Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation With or Without Percutaneous Coronary Artery Revascularization Strategy: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis (2017)
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Mamas. (2017). Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation With or Without Percutaneous Coronary Artery Revascularization Strategy: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Journal of the American Heart Association Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.117.005960

Background Recent recommendations suggest that in patients with severe aortic stenosis undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation and coexistent significant coronary artery disease, the latter should be treated before the index procedure; ho... Read More about Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation With or Without Percutaneous Coronary Artery Revascularization Strategy: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Effective co-delivery of nutlin-3a and p53 genes via core–shell microparticles for disruption of MDM2–p53 interaction and reactivation of p53 in hepatocellular carcinoma (2017)
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Davoodi, P., Srinivasan, M. P., & Wang, C. (in press). Effective co-delivery of nutlin-3a and p53 genes via core–shell microparticles for disruption of MDM2–p53 interaction and reactivation of p53 in hepatocellular carcinoma. Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 5(29), 5816-5834. https://doi.org/10.1039/c7tb00481h

The tumor suppressor protein p53 is the most frequently inactivated, mutated, or deleted transcriptional factor in tumor cells. Recent studies have shown that the negative regulation of p53 by the murine double minute 2 (MDM2) protein in human cells... Read More about Effective co-delivery of nutlin-3a and p53 genes via core–shell microparticles for disruption of MDM2–p53 interaction and reactivation of p53 in hepatocellular carcinoma.

Deglaciation and ice shelf development at the northeast margin of the Laurentide Ice Sheet during the Younger Dryas chronozone (2017)
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Furze, M., Pienkowski, A., McNeely, M., Bennett, R., & Cage, A. (2017). Deglaciation and ice shelf development at the northeast margin of the Laurentide Ice Sheet during the Younger Dryas chronozone. Boreas, 271-296. https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.12265

Core 2011804-0010 from easternmost Lancaster Sound provides important insights into deglacial timing and style at the marine margin of the NE Laurentide Ice Sheet (LIS). Spanning 13.2–11.0 cal. ka BP and investigated for ice-rafted debris (IRD), fora... Read More about Deglaciation and ice shelf development at the northeast margin of the Laurentide Ice Sheet during the Younger Dryas chronozone.