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G-quadruplex DNA motifs in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum and their potential as novel antimalarial drug targets (2018)
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Horrocks. (2018). G-quadruplex DNA motifs in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum and their potential as novel antimalarial drug targets. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, https://doi.org/10.1128/AAC.01828-17

G-quadruplexes are DNA or RNA secondary structures that can be formed from guanine-rich nucleic acids. These four-stranded structures, composed of stacked quartets of guanine bases, can be highly stable and have been demonstrated to occur in vivo in... Read More about G-quadruplex DNA motifs in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum and their potential as novel antimalarial drug targets.

Development and external validation of risk scores for cardiovascular hospitalisation and rehospitalisation in diabetes patients (2018)
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Yu. (2018). Development and external validation of risk scores for cardiovascular hospitalisation and rehospitalisation in diabetes patients. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 1122-1129. https://doi.org/10.1210/jc.2017-02293

Context: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a common and costly reason for hospitalization and rehospitalization among patients with type 2 diabetes. Objective: This study aimed to develop and externally validate two risk- prediction models for cardi... Read More about Development and external validation of risk scores for cardiovascular hospitalisation and rehospitalisation in diabetes patients.

Delineating and mapping riparian areas for ecosystem service assessment (2018)
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(2018). Delineating and mapping riparian areas for ecosystem service assessment. Ecohydrology, https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.1928

Riparian buffers, the interface between terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems, have the potential to protect water bodies from land-based pollution, and also for enhancing the delivery of a range of ecosystem services. The UK currently has no defined... Read More about Delineating and mapping riparian areas for ecosystem service assessment.

The Cosmology of Economy: West African Witchcraft, Finance and the Futures Market (2018)
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Parish, J. (2018). The Cosmology of Economy: West African Witchcraft, Finance and the Futures Market. Culture and Religion, 19(1), 113-126. https://doi.org/10.1080/14755610.2017.1416646

In this article, the relationship between cosmology and financial transactions via the sacred and deeply secret discourses of West African traditional priests in Europe is explored, who believe that they can spiritually manipulate the monetary pricin... Read More about The Cosmology of Economy: West African Witchcraft, Finance and the Futures Market.

Aluminium in brain tissue in autism (2018)
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(2018). Aluminium in brain tissue in autism. Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology, 76 - 82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtemb.2017.11.012

Autism spectrum disorder is a neurodevelopmental disorder of unknown aetiology. It is suggested to involve both genetic susceptibility and environmental factors including in the latter environmental toxins. Human exposure to the environmental toxin a... Read More about Aluminium in brain tissue in autism.

Effect of swearing on strength and power performance (2018)
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Stephens, R., Spierer, D., & Katehis, E. (2018). Effect of swearing on strength and power performance. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 111-117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2017.11.014

Objectives: Swearing aloud increases pain tolerance. The hypothesis that this response may be owed to an increase in sympathetic drive raises the intriguing question as to whether swearing results in an improvement in strength and power. Design:... Read More about Effect of swearing on strength and power performance.

The biological challenges and pharmacological opportunities of orally administered nanomedicine delivery (2018)
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(2018). The biological challenges and pharmacological opportunities of orally administered nanomedicine delivery. Expert Review of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 223-236. https://doi.org/10.1080/17474124.2018.1399794

Introduction Nano-scale formulations are being developed to improve the delivery of orally administered medicines, and the interactions between nanoformulations and the gastrointestinal luminal, mucosal and epithelial environment is currently being... Read More about The biological challenges and pharmacological opportunities of orally administered nanomedicine delivery.

Meta-analysis of test accuracy studies using imputation for partial reporting of multiple thresholds (2018)
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(2018). Meta-analysis of test accuracy studies using imputation for partial reporting of multiple thresholds. Research Synthesis Methods, 100-115. https://doi.org/10.1002/jrsm.1276

INTRODUCTION: For tests reporting continuous results, primary studies usually provide test performance at multiple but often different thresholds. This creates missing data when performing a meta-analysis at each threshold. A standard meta-analysis (... Read More about Meta-analysis of test accuracy studies using imputation for partial reporting of multiple thresholds.

The effect of pre-procedure sublingual nitroglycerin on radial artery diameter and Allen’s test outcome - relevance to transradial catheterization (2018)
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Chong, A., Lo, T., George, S., Ratib, K., Mamas, M., & Nolan, J. (2018). The effect of pre-procedure sublingual nitroglycerin on radial artery diameter and Allen’s test outcome - relevance to transradial catheterization. Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine, 19(2), 163-167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carrev.2017.07.016

Background The radial artery is increasingly used for cardiac procedures, but is a relatively small vessel that is prone to spasm when instrumented. Intra-arterial nitroglycerine has been shown to reduce radial spasm but first requires arterial acce... Read More about The effect of pre-procedure sublingual nitroglycerin on radial artery diameter and Allen’s test outcome - relevance to transradial catheterization.

Tenogenic differentiation of human embryonic stem cells (2018)
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Dale, T. P., Mazher, S., Webb, W. R., Zhou, J., Maffulli, N., Chen, G., …Forsyth, N. R. (2018). Tenogenic differentiation of human embryonic stem cells. Tissue engineering. Part A, 24(5-6), 361-368. https://doi.org/10.1089/ten.TEA.2017.0017

Tendon healing is complex to manage because of the limited regeneration capacity of tendon tissue; stem cell-based tissue engineering approaches may provide alternative healing strategies. We sought to determine whether human embryonic stem cells (hE... Read More about Tenogenic differentiation of human embryonic stem cells.

Affect as Methodology: Feminism and the politics of emotion (2018)
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(2018). Affect as Methodology: Feminism and the politics of emotion. International Political Sociology, 36-52. https://doi.org/10.1093/ips/olx024

International relations scholars are increasingly paying attention to “the emotional” as a way to understand global politics. What is often missing from these conversations is feminist knowledge on affect, and also discussions about methodology. By p... Read More about Affect as Methodology: Feminism and the politics of emotion.

Consumer segmentation and time interval between types of hospital admission: a clinical linkage database study (2018)
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(2018). Consumer segmentation and time interval between types of hospital admission: a clinical linkage database study. Journal of Public Health, 154-162. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdx028

Background: Healthcare policies target unplanned hospital admissions and 30-day re-admission as key measures of efficiency, but do not focus on factors that influence trajectories of different types of admissions in the same patient over time. Object... Read More about Consumer segmentation and time interval between types of hospital admission: a clinical linkage database study.

Reporting Systematic Reviews: Some Lessons from a Tertiary Study (2018)
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(2018). Reporting Systematic Reviews: Some Lessons from a Tertiary Study. Information and Software Technology, 62-74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2017.10.017

Context: Many of the systematic reviews published in software engineering are related to research or methodological issues and hence are unlikely to be of direct benefit to practitioners or teachers. Those that are relevant to practice and teaching n... Read More about Reporting Systematic Reviews: Some Lessons from a Tertiary Study.

Tacit rejection of policy and teacher ambivalence – insights into English language teaching in Bahrain through actors’ perceptions (2018)
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Hayes. (2018). Tacit rejection of policy and teacher ambivalence – insights into English language teaching in Bahrain through actors’ perceptions. TESOL Journal, 9(1), 114-137. https://doi.org/10.1002/tesj.310

This article develops Phillips and Ochs's (2003) framework for policy borrowing, particularly their theorisations about indigenisation of international programmes. It uses the example of communicative language teaching (CLT) in Bahrain, exploring tea... Read More about Tacit rejection of policy and teacher ambivalence – insights into English language teaching in Bahrain through actors’ perceptions.

Puzzling global stochastic trends in growth, interest and inflation and the Volcker disinflation (2018)
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(2018). Puzzling global stochastic trends in growth, interest and inflation and the Volcker disinflation. https://doi.org/10.1111/manc.12175

This paper aims to identify the stable long-run relationships as well as unstable driving forces of the world economy using a small aggregated cointegrated VAR model encompassing quarterly US, UK, Japanese and Euro Area data for the post-Bretton-Wood... Read More about Puzzling global stochastic trends in growth, interest and inflation and the Volcker disinflation.

Migrant place-making in super-diverse neighbourhoods: moving beyond ethno-national approaches (2018)
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Pemberton, S., & Phillimore, J. (2018). Migrant place-making in super-diverse neighbourhoods: moving beyond ethno-national approaches. Urban Studies, 733-750. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098016656988

Whilst attention has previously focused on the importance of monolithic ethnic identities on migrant place-making, less attention has been paid to how place-making proceeds in super-diverse urban neighbourhoods where no single ethnic group predominat... Read More about Migrant place-making in super-diverse neighbourhoods: moving beyond ethno-national approaches.

Post-9/11 re-orientalism: Confrontation and conciliation in Mohsin Hamid’s and Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2018)
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Mendes, A., & Lau, L. (2018). Post-9/11 re-orientalism: Confrontation and conciliation in Mohsin Hamid’s and Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 78-91. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021989416631791

This article offers a comparative reading of the novel and film adaptation of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, looking at the ways these texts represent changing Western public perceptions towards Pakistan and vice-versa along the temporal axis 2001–200... Read More about Post-9/11 re-orientalism: Confrontation and conciliation in Mohsin Hamid’s and Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist.

The Model EU Citizen? Explaining Irish Attitudes towards the EU (2018)
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Simpson, K. (2018). The Model EU Citizen? Explaining Irish Attitudes towards the EU. Political Insight, 9(1), 16-19. https://doi.org/10.1177/2041905818764701

From trade to the Irish border, Brexit could have major repercussions for Britain’s nearest neighbour. There has even been talk of an ‘Irexit’. But Irish public opinion firmly believes that the national interest is best served inside the European Uni... Read More about The Model EU Citizen? Explaining Irish Attitudes towards the EU.