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UK healthcare professionals’ attitudes towards the introduction of varicella vaccine into the routine childhood vaccination schedule and their preferences for administration (2024)
Journal Article
Sherman, S. M., Allerton-Price, C., Lingley-Heath, N., Lai, J., & Bedford, H. (2024). UK healthcare professionals’ attitudes towards the introduction of varicella vaccine into the routine childhood vaccination schedule and their preferences for administration. Vaccine, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2024.03.002

Background
Varicella (chickenpox) is a highly contagious disease caused by the varicella-zoster virus. Although typically mild, varicella can cause complications leading to severe illness and even death. Safe and effective varicella vaccines are ava... Read More about UK healthcare professionals’ attitudes towards the introduction of varicella vaccine into the routine childhood vaccination schedule and their preferences for administration.

Liquid metals for boosting stability of zeolite catalysts in the conversion of methanol to hydrocarbons (2024)
Journal Article
Zhou, Y., Santos, S., Shamzhy, M., Marinova, M., Blanchenet, A., Kolyagin, Y. G., …Ordomsky, V. V. (in press). Liquid metals for boosting stability of zeolite catalysts in the conversion of methanol to hydrocarbons. Nature Communications, 15(1), 2228. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-46232-9

Methanol-to-hydrocarbons (MTH) process has been considered one of the most practical approaches for producing value-added products from methanol. However, the commonly used zeolite catalysts suffer from rapid deactivation due to coke deposition and r... Read More about Liquid metals for boosting stability of zeolite catalysts in the conversion of methanol to hydrocarbons.

Translating microcalcification biomarker information into the laboratory: A preliminary assessment utilizing core biopsies obtained from sites of mammographic calcification (2024)
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Lyburn, I. D., Scott, R., Cornford, E., Bouzy, P., Stone, N., Greenwood, C., …Rogers, K. (2024). Translating microcalcification biomarker information into the laboratory: A preliminary assessment utilizing core biopsies obtained from sites of mammographic calcification. Heliyon, 10(6), Article e27686. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e27686

Rationale and objectives
The potential of breast microcalcification chemistry to provide clinically valuable intelligence is being increasingly studied. However, acquisition of crystallographic details has, to dat... Read More about Translating microcalcification biomarker information into the laboratory: A preliminary assessment utilizing core biopsies obtained from sites of mammographic calcification.

Windows on the Womb and Guiding Trains of Light: Figuring the Real in Plate XXVI of William Hunter's Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus (2024)
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Bruce, S. (2024). Windows on the Womb and Guiding Trains of Light: Figuring the Real in Plate XXVI of William Hunter's Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12923

Eschewing the symbolic in favour of commitment to the unmediated replication of exactly that which is actually observed, Hunter’s attitude to the images in his Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus embraces a juridical ideal of scientific representation... Read More about Windows on the Womb and Guiding Trains of Light: Figuring the Real in Plate XXVI of William Hunter's Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus.

Performance Characteristics and Limitations of the Available Assays for the Detection and Quantitation of Monoclonal Free Light Chains and New Emerging Methodologies (2024)
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Giles, H. V., & Karunanithi, K. (in press). Performance Characteristics and Limitations of the Available Assays for the Detection and Quantitation of Monoclonal Free Light Chains and New Emerging Methodologies. Antibodies, 13(1), Article 19. https://doi.org/10.3390/antib13010019

Light chain measurements form an essential component of the testing strategy for the detection and monitoring of patients with suspected and/or proven plasma cell disorders. Urine-based electrophoretic assays remain at the centre of the international... Read More about Performance Characteristics and Limitations of the Available Assays for the Detection and Quantitation of Monoclonal Free Light Chains and New Emerging Methodologies.

A revisit to the plane problem for low-frequency acoustic scattering by an elastic cylindrical shell (2024)
Journal Article
Yücel, H., Ege, N., Erbaş, B., & Kaplunov, J. (in press). A revisit to the plane problem for low-frequency acoustic scattering by an elastic cylindrical shell. Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, https://doi.org/10.1177/10812865241233737

The proposed revisit to a classical problem in fluid–structure interaction is due to an interest in the analysis of the narrow resonances corresponding to a low-frequency fluid-borne wave, inspired by modeling and design of metamaterials. In this cas... Read More about A revisit to the plane problem for low-frequency acoustic scattering by an elastic cylindrical shell.

Global age-sex-specific mortality, life expectancy, and population estimates in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1950–2021, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic: a comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 (2024)
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Schumacher, A. E., Kyu, H. H., Aali, A., Abbafati, C., Abbas, J., Abbasgholizadeh, R., …Murray, C. J. L. (2024). Global age-sex-specific mortality, life expectancy, and population estimates in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1950–2021, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic: a comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. The Lancet, https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736%2824%2900476-8

Background
Estimates of demographic metrics are crucial to assess levels and trends of population health outcomes. The profound impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on populations worldwide has underscored the need for timely estimates to understand this... Read More about Global age-sex-specific mortality, life expectancy, and population estimates in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1950–2021, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic: a comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021.

Regulatory influence, board characteristics and climate change disclosures: evidence from environmentally sensitive firms in developing economy context (2024)
Journal Article
Saha, A. K., & Khan, I. (in press). Regulatory influence, board characteristics and climate change disclosures: evidence from environmentally sensitive firms in developing economy context. Corporate Governance, https://doi.org/10.1108/cg-06-2023-0262

Purpose
This study aims to examine the impact of board characteristics on climate change disclosures (CCDs) in the context of an emerging economy, with a unique focus on regulatory influences.

Design/methodology/approach
This study analyzes long... Read More about Regulatory influence, board characteristics and climate change disclosures: evidence from environmentally sensitive firms in developing economy context.

SMC-Last Extracted Photometry (2024)
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Kuchar, T. A., Sloan, G. C., Mizuno, D. R., Kraemer, K. E., Boyer, M. L., Groenewegen, M. A. T., …Zijlstra, A. (2024). SMC-Last Extracted Photometry. Astronomical Journal, 167(4), Article 149. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ad2601

We present point-source photometry from the Spitzer Space Telescope's final survey of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). We mapped nearly 30 deg2 in two epochs in 2017, with the second extending to early 2018 at 3.6 and 4.5 μm using the Infrared Array... Read More about SMC-Last Extracted Photometry.

Demographic, health, physical activity, and workplace factors are associated with lower healthy working life expectancy and life expectancy at age 50 (2024)
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Lynch, M., Bucknall, M., Jagger, C., Kingston, A., & Wilkie, R. (2024). Demographic, health, physical activity, and workplace factors are associated with lower healthy working life expectancy and life expectancy at age 50. Scientific Reports, 14(1), Article 5936. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-53095-z

Although retirement ages are rising in the United Kingdom and other countries, the average number of years people in England can expect to spend both healthy and work from age 50 (Healthy Working Life Expectancy; HWLE) is less than the number of year... Read More about Demographic, health, physical activity, and workplace factors are associated with lower healthy working life expectancy and life expectancy at age 50.

Children and adolescents with all forms of shoulder instability demonstrate differences in their movement and muscle activity patterns when compared to age- and sex-matched controls. (2024)
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Seyres, M., Postans, N., Freeman, R., Pandyan, A., Chadwick, E. K., & Philp, F. (in press). Children and adolescents with all forms of shoulder instability demonstrate differences in their movement and muscle activity patterns when compared to age- and sex-matched controls. Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jse.2024.01.043

Shoulder instability is a complex impairment and identifying biomarkers which differentiate subgroups is challenging. There is limited fundamental movement and muscle activity data for identifying different mechanisms for shoulder instability in chil... Read More about Children and adolescents with all forms of shoulder instability demonstrate differences in their movement and muscle activity patterns when compared to age- and sex-matched controls..

Young people's priorities for the self‐management of distress after stoma surgery due to inflammatory bowel disease: A consensus study using online nominal group technique (2024)
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Saunders, B., Polidano, K., Bray, L., Fisher, T., Corp, N., McDermott‐Hughes, M., …Chew‐Graham, C. A. (2024). Young people's priorities for the self‐management of distress after stoma surgery due to inflammatory bowel disease: A consensus study using online nominal group technique. Health Expectations, 27(2), Article e14009. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.14009

Introduction
The aim of this study was to gain consensus among young people with a stoma due to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) on the priorities for the content of an intervention for the self-management of stoma-related distress. The current iden... Read More about Young people's priorities for the self‐management of distress after stoma surgery due to inflammatory bowel disease: A consensus study using online nominal group technique.

Local modification of the crystalline structure due to co-doping with RE3+ in cadmium metasilicate (2024)
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Freire, E. B. V., Santos, A. L. D. S., Bispo, G. F. D. C., Macedo, Z. S., Jackson, R. A., & Valerio, M. E. G. (2024). Local modification of the crystalline structure due to co-doping with RE3+ in cadmium metasilicate. Ceramics International, 50(13), 22534-22543. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceramint.2024.03.355

Persistent emission is a well-known property of cadmium metasilicate (CdSiO3) doped and co-doped with rare earth ions due to the ease of choosing the desired luminescence colour, as well as the possibility of adjusting the emission colour and the lum... Read More about Local modification of the crystalline structure due to co-doping with RE3+ in cadmium metasilicate.

How common are side effects of treatment to prevent gout flares when starting allopurinol? (2024)
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Saul, H., Deeney, B., Swaithes, L., & Roddy, E. (in press). How common are side effects of treatment to prevent gout flares when starting allopurinol?. BMJ, 384, Article q514. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q514

The studyRoddy E, Bajpai R, Forrester H, et al. Safety of colchicine and NSAID prophylaxis when initiating urate-lowering therapy for gout: propensity score-matched cohort studies in the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink. 2023;82:1618-25.To re... Read More about How common are side effects of treatment to prevent gout flares when starting allopurinol?.

Folate supplementation as a beneficial add‐on treatment in relieving depressive symptoms: A meta‐analysis of meta‐analyses (2024)
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Gao, S., Khalid, A., Amini‐Salehi, E., Radkhah, N., Jamilian, P., Badpeyma, M., & Zarezadeh, M. (in press). Folate supplementation as a beneficial add‐on treatment in relieving depressive symptoms: A meta‐analysis of meta‐analyses. Food Science and Nutrition, https://doi.org/10.1002/fsn3.4073

The results of meta‐analyses investigating the role of folate on depression are conflicting. The aim of this umbrella meta‐analysis was to obtain an overall effect and give a concise and resolving conclusion. International scientific databases includ... Read More about Folate supplementation as a beneficial add‐on treatment in relieving depressive symptoms: A meta‐analysis of meta‐analyses.

SVEPM 2023, the annual conference of the Society for Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine: Toulouse finally welcomes us in person (2024)
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Dórea, F. C., Vergne, T., Correia-Gomes, C., Carmo, L. P., Fischer, E. A., Messam, L. L. M., …Robinson, P. A. (2024). SVEPM 2023, the annual conference of the Society for Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine: Toulouse finally welcomes us in person. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 226, Article 106174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prevetmed.2024.106174

Telerehabilitation consultations with a physiotherapist for chronic knee pain versus in-person consultations in Australia: the PEAK non-inferiority randomised controlled trial. (2024)
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Hinman, R. S., Campbell, P. K., Kimp, A. J., Russell, T., Foster, N. E., Kasza, J., …Bennell, K. L. (in press). Telerehabilitation consultations with a physiotherapist for chronic knee pain versus in-person consultations in Australia: the PEAK non-inferiority randomised controlled trial. The Lancet, 403(10433), 1267-1278. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736%2823%2902630-2

Telerehabilitation whether perceived as less effective than in-person care for musculoskeletal problems. We aimed to determine if physiotherapy video conferencing consultations were non-inferior to in-person consultations for chronic knee pain. In th... Read More about Telerehabilitation consultations with a physiotherapist for chronic knee pain versus in-person consultations in Australia: the PEAK non-inferiority randomised controlled trial..

Risk-stratified monitoring for sulfasalazine toxicity: prognostic model development and validation (2024)
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Abhishek, A., Grainge, M., Card, T., Williams, H. C., Taal, M. W., Aithal, G. P., …Riley, R. (2024). Risk-stratified monitoring for sulfasalazine toxicity: prognostic model development and validation. RMD Open, 10(1), Article e003980. https://doi.org/10.1136/rmdopen-2023-003980

Background: Sulfasalazine-induced cytopenia, nephrotoxicity and hepatotoxicity is uncommon during long-term treatment. Some guidelines recommend 3 monthly monitoring blood tests indefinitely during long-term treatment while others recommend stopping... Read More about Risk-stratified monitoring for sulfasalazine toxicity: prognostic model development and validation.

Interkingdom interactions shape the fungal microbiome of mosquitoes (2024)
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Hegde, S., Khanipov, K., Hornett, E. A., Nilyanimit, P., Pimenova, M., Saldaña, M. A., …Hughes, G. L. (2024). Interkingdom interactions shape the fungal microbiome of mosquitoes. Animal Microbiome, 6(1), Article 11. https://doi.org/10.1186/s42523-024-00298-4

Background
The mosquito microbiome is an important modulator of vector competence and vectoral capacity. Unlike the extensively studied bacterial microbiome, fungal communities in the mosquito microbiome (the mycobiome) remain largely unexplored. To... Read More about Interkingdom interactions shape the fungal microbiome of mosquitoes.