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Quantifying the contribution of riparian soils to the provision of ecosystem services. (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). Quantifying the contribution of riparian soils to the provision of ecosystem services. Science of the Total Environment, 807 - 819. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.12.179

Riparian areas, the interface between land and freshwater ecosystems, are considered to play a pivotal role in the supply of regulating, provisioning, cultural and supporting services. Most previous studies, however, have tended to focus on intensive... Read More about Quantifying the contribution of riparian soils to the provision of ecosystem services..

Therapeutic Benefit for Late, but Not Early, Passage Mesenchymal Stem Cells on Pain Behaviour in an Animal Model of Osteoarthritis. (2017)
Journal Article
Chapman, V., Markides, H., Sagar, D., Xu, L., Kay, A., Burston, J., …El Haj, A. (2017). Therapeutic Benefit for Late, but Not Early, Passage Mesenchymal Stem Cells on Pain Behaviour in an Animal Model of Osteoarthritis. Stem Cells International, 2905104 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/2905104

Background: Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have a therapeutic potential for the treatment of osteoarthritic (OA) joint pathology and pain. The aims of this study were to determine the influence of a passage number on the effects of MSCs on pain behavi... Read More about Therapeutic Benefit for Late, but Not Early, Passage Mesenchymal Stem Cells on Pain Behaviour in an Animal Model of Osteoarthritis..

Insights into Online Reviews of Hotel Service Attributes: A Cross-National Study of Selected Countries in Africa (2017)
Book Chapter
Ukpabi, D., Olaleye, S., Mogaji, E., & Karjaluoto, H. (2018). Insights into Online Reviews of Hotel Service Attributes: A Cross-National Study of Selected Countries in Africa. In Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2018 (243-256). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72923-7_19

Online travel reviews are paramount to trip planning because they help consumers’ form images of destinations. Despite ample studies on hotel service attributes, knowledge is scarce regarding culturally nuanced attributes, including security percepti... Read More about Insights into Online Reviews of Hotel Service Attributes: A Cross-National Study of Selected Countries in Africa.

Polycystic ovarian syndrome: Assessment of approaches to diagnosis and cardiometabolic monitoring in UK primary care (2017)
Journal Article
Heald, A. H., Livingston, M., Holland, D., Robinson, J., Moreno, G. Y., Donnahey, G., …Fryer, A. A. (2018). Polycystic ovarian syndrome: Assessment of approaches to diagnosis and cardiometabolic monitoring in UK primary care. International Journal of Clinical Practice, 72(1), Article ARTN e13046. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijcp.13046

Introduction Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is one of the commonest endocrine disorders affecting women of reproductive age. We examined the specific tests that are done in primary care to lead to the diagnosis of PCOS, and to support the diagno... Read More about Polycystic ovarian syndrome: Assessment of approaches to diagnosis and cardiometabolic monitoring in UK primary care.

Displacement, failure and friction in the media ecologies of radical food activism. (2017)
Book Chapter
(2017). Displacement, failure and friction in the media ecologies of radical food activism. In Digital Food Activism

This chapter conceptualises the dynamics of digital food activism in an anti-capitalist context, and explores the specific frictions surrounding this form of protest. It focuses on autonomous movements: non-hierarchical, leaderless, groups of activis... Read More about Displacement, failure and friction in the media ecologies of radical food activism..

Meta-QSAR: a large-scale application of meta-learning to drug design and discovery. (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). Meta-QSAR: a large-scale application of meta-learning to drug design and discovery. Machine Learning, 285 - 311. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10994-017-5685-x

We investigate the learning of quantitative structure activity relationships (QSARs) as a case-study of meta-learning. This application area is of the highest societal importance, as it is a key step in the development of new medicines. The standard... Read More about Meta-QSAR: a large-scale application of meta-learning to drug design and discovery..

Subgrouping and TargetEd Exercise pRogrammes for knee and hip OsteoArthritis (STEER OA): a systematic review update and individual participant data meta-analysis protocol. (2017)
Journal Article
Van Der Windt, Holden, & Dziedzic. (2017). Subgrouping and TargetEd Exercise pRogrammes for knee and hip OsteoArthritis (STEER OA): a systematic review update and individual participant data meta-analysis protocol. BMJ Open, e018971 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-018971

INTRODUCTION: Knee and hip osteoarthritis (OA) is a leading cause of disability worldwide. Therapeutic exercise is a recommended core treatment for people with knee and hip OA, however, the observed effect sizes for reducing pain and improving physic... Read More about Subgrouping and TargetEd Exercise pRogrammes for knee and hip OsteoArthritis (STEER OA): a systematic review update and individual participant data meta-analysis protocol..

Mesenchymal Stem Cell- Conditioned Medium Reduces Disease Severity and Immune Responses in Inflammatory Arthritis (2017)
Journal Article
Kay, A., Long, G., Broadfoot, S., Piccinini, A., Middleton, J., Kehoe, O., …Stefan, A. (2017). Mesenchymal Stem Cell- Conditioned Medium Reduces Disease Severity and Immune Responses in Inflammatory Arthritis. Scientific reports, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-18144-w

We evaluated the therapeutic potential of mesenchymal stem cell-conditioned medium (CM-MSC) as an alternative to cell therapy in an antigen-induced model of arthritis (AIA). Disease severity and cartilage loss were evaluated by histopathological anal... Read More about Mesenchymal Stem Cell- Conditioned Medium Reduces Disease Severity and Immune Responses in Inflammatory Arthritis.

An Infrared Census of DUST in Nearby Galaxies with Spitzer (DUSTiNGS). IV. Discovery of High-redshift AGB Analogs (2017)
Journal Article
Van Loon. (2017). An Infrared Census of DUST in Nearby Galaxies with Spitzer (DUSTiNGS). IV. Discovery of High-redshift AGB Analogs. Astrophysical Journal, https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa9892

The survey for DUST in Nearby Galaxies with Spitzer (DUSTiNGS) identified several candidate Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) stars in nearby dwarf galaxies and showed that dust can form even in very metal-poor systems (${\boldsymbol{Z}}\sim 0.008\,{Z}_{... Read More about An Infrared Census of DUST in Nearby Galaxies with Spitzer (DUSTiNGS). IV. Discovery of High-redshift AGB Analogs.

The aggregation of an alkyl-C60 derivative as a function of concentration, temperature and solvent type. (2017)
Journal Article
Hollamby, M., Smith, C., Britton, M., Danks, A., Schnepp, Z., Grillo, I., …Nakanishi, T. (2017). The aggregation of an alkyl-C60 derivative as a function of concentration, temperature and solvent type. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 20(5), 3373-3380. https://doi.org/10.1039/C7CP06348B

Contrast-variation small-angle neutron scattering (CV-SANS), small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements of diffusion and isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) are used to gain insight into the aggregation of a... Read More about The aggregation of an alkyl-C60 derivative as a function of concentration, temperature and solvent type..

Geographical epidemiology of health and overall deprivation in England, its changes and persistence from 2004 to 2015: a longitudinal spatial population study (2017)
Journal Article
Mamas. (2017). Geographical epidemiology of health and overall deprivation in England, its changes and persistence from 2004 to 2015: a longitudinal spatial population study. Journal of epidemiology and community health, 140-147. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2017-209999

Background: Socio-economic deprivation is a key determinant for health. In England, the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) is a widely used composite measure of deprivation. However, little is known about its spatial clustering or persistence acros... Read More about Geographical epidemiology of health and overall deprivation in England, its changes and persistence from 2004 to 2015: a longitudinal spatial population study.

Turning Models Inside Out (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). Turning Models Inside Out. CEUR Workshop Proceedings,

We present an approach for change-based (as opposed to state-based) model persistence that can facilitate highperformance incremental model processing (e.g. validation, transformation) by minimising the cost of change identification when models evolv... Read More about Turning Models Inside Out.

GPCR Modulation of Thieno[2,3-b]pyridine Anti-Proliferative Agents. (2017)
Journal Article
Reynisson. (2017). GPCR Modulation of Thieno[2,3-b]pyridine Anti-Proliferative Agents. Molecules, https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules22122254

A panel of docking scaffolds was developed for the known molecular targets of the anticancer agents, thieno[2,3-b]pyridines, in order to glean insight into their mechanism of action. The reported targets are the copper-trafficking antioxidant 1 prote... Read More about GPCR Modulation of Thieno[2,3-b]pyridine Anti-Proliferative Agents..

The limits of austerity: The fiscal multiplier and the ‘debt Laffer curve’ (2017)
Book Chapter
Tsoukis. (2017). The limits of austerity: The fiscal multiplier and the ‘debt Laffer curve’. In Political Economy Perspectives on the Greek Crisis: Debt, Austerity and Unemployment. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63706-8_10

We consider the maximum public debt-GDP ratio that is serviceable when one allows for the fiscal effects of the required primary surpluses (the ‘fiscal multiplier’). This simple but novel approach yields a debt Laffer Curve that defines the debt and... Read More about The limits of austerity: The fiscal multiplier and the ‘debt Laffer curve’.