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Roundtable - John Herbert, Trevor McCrisken, and Andrew Wroe, The Ordinary Presidency of Donald J. Trump (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, £22.99, $29.99). Pp. 222. isbn 978 3 0300 4942 3 (2020)
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HARRINGTON, C., ASHBEE, E., ANGELO, N., HERBERT, J., MCCRISKEN, T., & WROE, A. (2020). Roundtable - John Herbert, Trevor McCrisken, and Andrew Wroe, The Ordinary Presidency of Donald J. Trump (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, £22.99, $29.99). Pp. 222. isbn 978 3 0300 4942 3. Journal of American Studies, 54(5), 1032-1048. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021875820001103

Distribution of contemporary sensitivity troponin in the emergency department and relationship to 30-day mortality: The CHARIOT-ED substudy. (2020)
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Mamas. (2020). Distribution of contemporary sensitivity troponin in the emergency department and relationship to 30-day mortality: The CHARIOT-ED substudy. Clinical Medicine, 528 - 534. https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmed.2020-0267

BACKGROUND: Contemporary sensitivity troponin (cs-cTn) concentrations above the upper limit of normal (ULN) are seen in a wide range of clinical conditions and evidence is growing that suggests cs-cTn may be a biomarker of future morbidity and mortal... Read More about Distribution of contemporary sensitivity troponin in the emergency department and relationship to 30-day mortality: The CHARIOT-ED substudy..

Exercise/physical activity and health outcomes: an overview of Cochrane systematic reviews (2020)
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Pieper, D., Bajpai, R., Posadzki, P., Makaruk, H., Könsgen, N., Neuhaus, A. L., & Semwal, M. (2020). Exercise/physical activity and health outcomes: an overview of Cochrane systematic reviews. BMC Public Health, 20(1), Article ARTN 1724. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09855-3

BACKGROUND: Sedentary lifestyle is a major risk factor for noncommunicable diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer and diabetes. It has been estimated that approximately 3.2 million deaths each year are attributable to insufficient levels of... Read More about Exercise/physical activity and health outcomes: an overview of Cochrane systematic reviews.

A family of languages for trustworthy agent-based simulation (2020)
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(2020). A family of languages for trustworthy agent-based simulation. https://doi.org/10.1145/3426425.3426929

Simulation is a key tool for researching complex system behaviour. Agent-based simulation has been applied across domains, such as biology, health, economics and urban sciences. However, engineering robust, efficient, maintainable, and reliable agent... Read More about A family of languages for trustworthy agent-based simulation.

Exploring classroom willingness to communicate: the role of motivating future L2 selves (2020)
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Shen, S., Mazgutova, D., & McCray, G. (2020). Exploring classroom willingness to communicate: the role of motivating future L2 selves. International Journal of Educational Methodology, 6(4), 729-743

This study investigated the link between future L2 selves and Willingness to Communicate (WTC) in the classroom in the UK university context. We applied a mixed methods approach to collect data from 121 Chinese overseas students where a questionnaire... Read More about Exploring classroom willingness to communicate: the role of motivating future L2 selves.

What Proportion of Patients with Bone and Soft Tissue Tumors Contracted Coronavirus-19 and Died From Surgical Procedures During the Initial Period of the COVID-19 Pandemic? Results From the Multicenter British Orthopaedic Oncology Society Observational Study (2020)
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Rajasekaran, R. B., Ashford, R. U., Cosker, T. D. A., Stevenson, J. D., Jeys, L., Pollock, R., …Cool, W. (2021). What Proportion of Patients with Bone and Soft Tissue Tumors Contracted Coronavirus-19 and Died From Surgical Procedures During the Initial Period of the COVID-19 Pandemic? Results From the Multicenter British Orthopaedic Oncology Society Observational Study. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, 479(5), 1158-1166. https://doi.org/10.1097/corr.0000000000001568

Delivering uninterrupted cancer treatment to patients with musculoskeletal tumors has been essential during the rapidly evolving coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, as delays in management can be detrimental. Currently, the risk of contracting COVI... Read More about What Proportion of Patients with Bone and Soft Tissue Tumors Contracted Coronavirus-19 and Died From Surgical Procedures During the Initial Period of the COVID-19 Pandemic? Results From the Multicenter British Orthopaedic Oncology Society Observational Study.

Cryopreservation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells Using Medical Grade Ice Nucleation Inducer. (2020)
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Wragg. (2020). Cryopreservation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells Using Medical Grade Ice Nucleation Inducer. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms21228579

Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) can differentiate into multiple different tissue lineages and have favourable immunogenic potential making them an attractive prospect for regenerative medicine. As an essential part of the manufacturing process, preserv... Read More about Cryopreservation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells Using Medical Grade Ice Nucleation Inducer..

Abstract 15368: Index Admission and Thirty-day Readmission Outcomes of Cancer Patients Presenting With Stemi (2020)
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Osman, M., Benjamin, M. M., Balla, S., Kheiri, B., Bianco, C., sengupta, P., …Patel, B. (2020). Abstract 15368: Index Admission and Thirty-day Readmission Outcomes of Cancer Patients Presenting With Stemi. Circulation, 142(Suppl_3), https://doi.org/10.1161/circ.142.suppl_3.15368

Introduction: National-level data of cancer patients’ readmissions after a ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) are lacking. Objectives: The primary aim of this study was to describe rates and causes of 30-day readmissions in this po... Read More about Abstract 15368: Index Admission and Thirty-day Readmission Outcomes of Cancer Patients Presenting With Stemi.

Barriers to access and ways to improve dementia services for a minority ethnic group in England (2020)
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(2020). Barriers to access and ways to improve dementia services for a minority ethnic group in England. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 1629-1637. https://doi.org/10.1111/jep.13361

Rationale, aims and objectives: Much emphasis has been placed on the lack of awareness and understanding of dementia that exist within the ethnic minority groups in the UK. There has been a continual dearth of research, however, among the ethnic mino... Read More about Barriers to access and ways to improve dementia services for a minority ethnic group in England.

Human exposures to by-products from animals suspected to have died of anthrax in Bangladesh: An exploratory study (2020)
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Islam, M., Haider, N., Hossain, M., Hasan, S., Salzer, J., Kadzik, M., …Gurley, E. (2021). Human exposures to by-products from animals suspected to have died of anthrax in Bangladesh: An exploratory study. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 68(4), 2514-2520. https://doi.org/10.1111/tbed.13921

Anthrax is a zoonotic disease caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis that is considered endemic in Bangladesh, where cases among animals and people have been reported almost annually since 2009. Contaminated by-products from animals are suspected... Read More about Human exposures to by-products from animals suspected to have died of anthrax in Bangladesh: An exploratory study.

Molecular Changes in Dengue Envelope Protein Domain III upon Interaction with Glycosaminoglycans. (2020)
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Hyatt, J. G., Prévost, S., Devos, J. M., Mycroft-West, C. J., Skidmore, M. A., & Winter, A. (2020). Molecular Changes in Dengue Envelope Protein Domain III upon Interaction with Glycosaminoglycans. Pathogens an international, open access journal of pathogens and pathogen-host interactions, 9(11), Article 935. https://doi.org/10.3390/pathogens9110935

Dengue fever is a rapidly emerging vector-borne viral disease with a growing global burden of approximately 390 million new infections per annum. The Dengue virus (DENV) is a flavivirus spread by female mosquitos of the aedes genus, but the mechanism... Read More about Molecular Changes in Dengue Envelope Protein Domain III upon Interaction with Glycosaminoglycans..

Protocol for a systematic review on the methodological and reporting quality of prediction model studies using machine learning techniques (2020)
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Andaur Navarro, C. L., Damen, J. A. A. G., Takada, T., Nijman, S. W. J., Dhiman, P., Ma, J., …Hooft, L. (2020). Protocol for a systematic review on the methodological and reporting quality of prediction model studies using machine learning techniques. BMJ Open, 10(11), Article e038832. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-038832

INTRODUCTION: Studies addressing the development and/or validation of diagnostic and prognostic prediction models are abundant in most clinical domains. Systematic reviews have shown that the methodological and reporting quality of prediction model s... Read More about Protocol for a systematic review on the methodological and reporting quality of prediction model studies using machine learning techniques.

Development of a nano-luciferase based assay to measure the binding of SARS-CoV-2 spike receptor binding domain to ACE-2 (2020)
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Andrade De Lima, M., Skidmore, M., Khanim, F., & Richardson, A. (2020). Development of a nano-luciferase based assay to measure the binding of SARS-CoV-2 spike receptor binding domain to ACE-2. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 534, 485--490. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2020.11.055

To identify drugs that could potentially be used to treat infection with SARS-CoV-2, a high throughput 384-well assay was developed to measure the binding of the receptor binding domain (RBD) of the viral S1 protein to its main receptor, angiotensin... Read More about Development of a nano-luciferase based assay to measure the binding of SARS-CoV-2 spike receptor binding domain to ACE-2.

New insights into the application of pair distribution function studies to biogenic and synthetic hydroxyapatites (2020)
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Arnold, E., Keeble, D., Greenwood, C., & Rogers, K. (2020). New insights into the application of pair distribution function studies to biogenic and synthetic hydroxyapatites. Scientific reports, 10, Article 19597. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-73200-2

Biogenic and synthetic hydroxyapatites are confounding materials whose properties remain uncertain, even after years of study. Pair distribution function (PDF) analysis was applied to hydroxyapatites in the 1970’s and 1980’s, but this area of researc... Read More about New insights into the application of pair distribution function studies to biogenic and synthetic hydroxyapatites.

Maximising the acceptability of extended time intervals between screens in the NHS Cervical Screening Programme: An online experimental study (2020)
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Hill, E., Nemec, M., Marlow, L., Sherman, S., & Waller, J. (2020). Maximising the acceptability of extended time intervals between screens in the NHS Cervical Screening Programme: An online experimental study. Journal of Medical Screening, 28(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/0969141320970591

Objective: The NHS Cervical Screening Programme plans to increase the screening interval for women aged 25-49 years who test negative for human papillomavirus (HPV) from 3 to 5 years. This exploratory cross-sectional online survey tested the impact o... Read More about Maximising the acceptability of extended time intervals between screens in the NHS Cervical Screening Programme: An online experimental study.

Disciplinary Power and Impression Management in the Trials of the Stansted 15 (2020)
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Doherty. (2020). Disciplinary Power and Impression Management in the Trials of the Stansted 15. Sociology, 561-581. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038520954318

We bring Foucauldian and Goffmanian frameworks into dialogue to show how repressive and disciplinary power operate in the criminal trials of social movement activists. We do so through an ethnographic account of the trials on terrorism-related charge... Read More about Disciplinary Power and Impression Management in the Trials of the Stansted 15.

Orbital and physical parameters of eclipsing binaries from the ASAS catalogue – XI. CHIRON investigation of long-period binaries* (2020)
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Hellier. (2020). Orbital and physical parameters of eclipsing binaries from the ASAS catalogue – XI. CHIRON investigation of long-period binaries*. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa3488

We present the results of a spectroscopic campaign on eclipsing binaries with long orbital period (P = 20 - 75 d) carried out with the CHIRON spectrograph. Physical and orbital solutions for seven systems were derived from the V-band, and I-band ASAS... Read More about Orbital and physical parameters of eclipsing binaries from the ASAS catalogue – XI. CHIRON investigation of long-period binaries*.