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Foot and ankle characteristics associated with falls in adults with established rheumatoid arthritis: a cross-sectional study. (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Foot and ankle characteristics associated with falls in adults with established rheumatoid arthritis: a cross-sectional study. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 22 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12891-016-0888-z

BACKGROUND: People with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have an increased risk of falls. The foot is a common site of pathology in RA and foot problems are reported in up to 90 % of patients with established disease. The aim of this study was to determine... Read More about Foot and ankle characteristics associated with falls in adults with established rheumatoid arthritis: a cross-sectional study..

Radial artery occlusion after transradial interventions: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2016)
Journal Article
Rashid, M., Shing Kwok, C., Pancholy, S., Chugh, S., Kedev, S. A., Bernat, I., Ratib, K., Large, A., Fraser, D., Nolan, J., & Mamas, M. (2016). Radial artery occlusion after transradial interventions: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of the American Heart Association Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 51(1), https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.115.002686

Abstract Objectives: To investigate the incidence and factors influencing radial artery occlusion (RAO) post trans-radial access (TRA) for cardiac catheterization. Background: RAO may occur post trans-radial intervention and limits the radial artery... Read More about Radial artery occlusion after transradial interventions: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Care, laboratory beagles and affective utopia (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Care, laboratory beagles and affective utopia. Theory, Culture and Society, 27-49. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276415619685

A caring approach to knowledge production has been portrayed as epistemologically radical, ethically vital and as fostering continuous responsibility between researchers and research-subjects. This article examines these arguments through focusing on... Read More about Care, laboratory beagles and affective utopia.

Masculinity, Subjectivities, and caregiving in the British press: The case of the stay-at-home father (2016)
Book Chapter
Locke, A. (2016). Masculinity, Subjectivities, and caregiving in the British press: The case of the stay-at-home father. In Pops in Pop Culture. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-57767-2_11

On February 17, 2009, the then leader of one of the opposition parties in the United Kingdom, Nick Clegg, was quoted as saying that the recession—the “mancession” as it has been called in some quarters—and the resulting large-scale unemployment, gave... Read More about Masculinity, Subjectivities, and caregiving in the British press: The case of the stay-at-home father.

Conceptual Change in Science Is Facilitated Through Peer Collaboration for Boys but Not for Girls (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Conceptual Change in Science Is Facilitated Through Peer Collaboration for Boys but Not for Girls. Child Development, 176 -183. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12481

Three hundred and forty-one children (Mage  = 9,0 years) engaged in a series of science tasks in collaborative, same-sex pairs or did not interact. All children who collaborated on the science tasks advanced in basic-level understanding of the releva... Read More about Conceptual Change in Science Is Facilitated Through Peer Collaboration for Boys but Not for Girls.

Revascularization for Left Anterior Descending Artery Stenosis: A Review of the Evidence That Supports Practice (2016)
Journal Article
Mamas. (2016). Revascularization for Left Anterior Descending Artery Stenosis: A Review of the Evidence That Supports Practice. Cardiology in Review, https://doi.org/10.1097/CRD.0000000000000097

Disease of the proximal left anterior descending (LAD) artery is a common pathological finding often combined with disease in other coronary arteries. In this article we review specifically the evidence (and the guidelines arising from the data) for... Read More about Revascularization for Left Anterior Descending Artery Stenosis: A Review of the Evidence That Supports Practice.

Impact of operator volume for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) on clinical outcomes: what do the numbers say? (2016)
Journal Article
Mamas, M., & Rashid, M. (2016). Impact of operator volume for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) on clinical outcomes: what do the numbers say?. European Heart Journal, 16-22. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjqcco/qcv030

The impact of operator and centre volume on clinical outcomes and quality of care has been of considerable debate in recent years in a number of surgical- and procedural-based specialities. A relationship between higher volumes at both the institutio... Read More about Impact of operator volume for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) on clinical outcomes: what do the numbers say?.

Risk Related to Pre–Diabetes Mellitus and Diabetes Mellitus in Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction (2016)
Journal Article
Mamas. (2016). Risk Related to Pre–Diabetes Mellitus and Diabetes Mellitus in Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction. Circulation: Heart Failure, https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.115.002560

Background—
The prevalence of pre–diabetes mellitus and its consequences in patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction are not known. We investigated these in the Prospective Comparison of ARNI With ACEI to Determine Impact on Global... Read More about Risk Related to Pre–Diabetes Mellitus and Diabetes Mellitus in Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction.

Non-European nurses’ perceived barriers to UK nurse registration (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Non-European nurses’ perceived barriers to UK nurse registration. Nursing Standard, 45 -51. https://doi.org/10.7748/ns.30.37.45.s41

Aim
To conduct a scoping project to identify perceived barriers to UK nurse registration as experienced by internationally educated nurses working as healthcare assistants in the UK.

Method
Eleven internationally educated nurses working as healt... Read More about Non-European nurses’ perceived barriers to UK nurse registration.

Support vector regression to estimate the permeability enhancement of potential transdermal enhancers (2016)
Journal Article
Moss. (2016). Support vector regression to estimate the permeability enhancement of potential transdermal enhancers. Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, 170-184. https://doi.org/10.1111/jphp.12508

Objectives
Searching for chemicals that will safely enhance transdermal drug delivery is a significant challenge. This study applies support vector regression (SVR) for the first time to estimating the optimal formulation design of transdermal hydro... Read More about Support vector regression to estimate the permeability enhancement of potential transdermal enhancers.

'Stealth' nanoparticles evade neural immune cells but also evade all major brain cell populations: Implications for PEG-based neurotherapeutics (2016)
Journal Article
Jenkins, S., Weinberg, D., Al-Shakli, A., Fernandes, A., Yiu, H., Telling, N., Roach, P., & Chari, D. (2016). 'Stealth' nanoparticles evade neural immune cells but also evade all major brain cell populations: Implications for PEG-based neurotherapeutics. Journal of Controlled Release, 224, 136-145. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jconrel.2016.01.013

Surface engineering to control cell behavior is of high interest across the chemical engineering, drug delivery and biomaterial communities. Defined chemical strategies are necessary to tailor nanoscale protein interactions/adsorption, enabling contr... Read More about 'Stealth' nanoparticles evade neural immune cells but also evade all major brain cell populations: Implications for PEG-based neurotherapeutics.

Spinal muscular atrophy patient iPSC-derived motor neurons have reduced expression of proteins important in neuronal development (2016)
Journal Article
Fuller, H., Mandefro, B., Shirran, S., Gross, A., Kaus, A., Botting, C., Morris, G., & Sareen, S. (2016). Spinal muscular atrophy patient iPSC-derived motor neurons have reduced expression of proteins important in neuronal development. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, https://doi.org/10.3389/fncel.2015.00506

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is an inherited neuromuscular disease primarily characterized by degeneration of spinal motor neurons, and caused by reduced levels of the SMN protein. Previous studies to understand the proteomic consequences of reduced... Read More about Spinal muscular atrophy patient iPSC-derived motor neurons have reduced expression of proteins important in neuronal development.

From Stock Bottle to Vaccine: Elucidating the Particle Size Distributions of Aluminum Adjuvants Using Dynamic Light Scattering. (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). From Stock Bottle to Vaccine: Elucidating the Particle Size Distributions of Aluminum Adjuvants Using Dynamic Light Scattering. Frontiers in Chemistry, 48 - ?. https://doi.org/10.3389/fchem.2016.00048

The physicochemical properties of aluminum salts are key determinants of their resultant adjuvanticity in vivo when administered as part of a vaccine. While there are links between particle size and the efficacy of the immune response, the limited li... Read More about From Stock Bottle to Vaccine: Elucidating the Particle Size Distributions of Aluminum Adjuvants Using Dynamic Light Scattering..

Succeeding against the odds: can schools ‘compensate for society’? (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Succeeding against the odds: can schools ‘compensate for society’?. Education 3-13, 8-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/03004279.2015.1122318

Education researchers, policy-makers and practitioners in the UK have debated the question of what, and how much, schools can do to mitigate the effects of parental background on educational outcomes over the last half a century. A range of programme... Read More about Succeeding against the odds: can schools ‘compensate for society’?.

High-precision photometry by telescope defocussing - VIII. WASP-22, WASP-41, WASP-42 and WASP-55 (2016)
Journal Article
Southworth, J., Tregloan-Reed, J., Andersen, M., Calchi Novati, S., Ciceri, S., Colque, J., D'Ago, G., Dominik, M., Evans, D., Gu, S.-H., Herrera-Cordova, A., Hinse, T., Jørgensen, U., Juncher, D., Kuffmeier, M., Mancini, L., Peixinho, N., Popovas, A., Rabus, M., Skottfelt, J., …Wang, Y. (2016). High-precision photometry by telescope defocussing - VIII. WASP-22, WASP-41, WASP-42 and WASP-55. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 457(4), 4205 - 4217. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw279

We present 13 high-precision and four additional light curves of four bright southern-hemisphere transiting planetary systems: WASP-22, WASP-41, WASP-42 and WASP-55. In the cases of WASP-42 and WASP-55, these are the first follow-up observations sinc... Read More about High-precision photometry by telescope defocussing - VIII. WASP-22, WASP-41, WASP-42 and WASP-55.

In Vivo Deep Tissue Fluorescence and Magnetic Imaging Employing Hybrid Nanostructures (2016)
Journal Article
Ortgies, D. H., de la Cueva, L., del Rosal, B., Sanz-Rodríguez, F., Fernández, N., Iglesias-de la Cruz, M. C., Salas, G., Cabrera, D., Teran, F. J., Jaque, D., & Martín Rodríguez, E. (2016). In Vivo Deep Tissue Fluorescence and Magnetic Imaging Employing Hybrid Nanostructures. ACS applied materials & interfaces, 8(2), 1406-1414. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.5b10617

Breakthroughs in nanotechnology have made it possible to integrate different nanoparticles in one single hybrid nanostructure (HNS), constituting multifunctional nanosized sensors, carriers, and probes with great potential in the life sciences. In ad... Read More about In Vivo Deep Tissue Fluorescence and Magnetic Imaging Employing Hybrid Nanostructures.

Water Dynamics in Shewanella oneidensis at Ambient and High Pressure using Quasi-Elastic Neutron Scattering (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Water Dynamics in Shewanella oneidensis at Ambient and High Pressure using Quasi-Elastic Neutron Scattering. Scientific reports, 18862 -?. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep18862

Quasielastic neutron scattering (QENS) is an ideal technique for studying water transport and relaxation dynamics at pico- to nanosecond timescales and at length scales relevant to cellular dimensions. Studies of high pressure dynamic effects in live... Read More about Water Dynamics in Shewanella oneidensis at Ambient and High Pressure using Quasi-Elastic Neutron Scattering.

Lessons learnt from a primary care asthma improvement project. (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Lessons learnt from a primary care asthma improvement project. npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine, 15075 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1038/npjpcrm.2015.75

Asthma is a very common disease that can occur at any age. In the UK and in many other countries it is mainly managed in primary care. The published evidence suggests that the key to improving diagnosis and management lies in better training and educ... Read More about Lessons learnt from a primary care asthma improvement project..

Charge transport properties of bulk Ta3N5 from first principles (2016)
Journal Article
Morbec, J. M., & Galli, G. (2016). Charge transport properties of bulk Ta3N5 from first principles. Physical Review B, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.93.035201

Tantalum nitride is considered a promising material for photoelectrochemical water splitting, however, its charge transport properties remain poorly understood. We investigated polaronic and band transport in Ta3N5
using first-principles calculatio... Read More about Charge transport properties of bulk Ta3N5 from first principles.