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Are Yawns really Contagious? A Critique and Quantification of Yawn Contagion (2017)
Journal Article
Kapitany. (2017). Are Yawns really Contagious? A Critique and Quantification of Yawn Contagion. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 134 - 155. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40750-017-0059-y

Many diverse species yawn, suggesting ancient evolutionary roots. While yawning is widespread, the observation of contagious yawning is most often limited to apes and other mammals with sophisticated social cognition. This has led to speculation on t... Read More about Are Yawns really Contagious? A Critique and Quantification of Yawn Contagion.

Variation in emergency percutaneous coronary intervention in ventilated patients in the UK: insights from a national database (2017)
Journal Article
Mamas. (2017). Variation in emergency percutaneous coronary intervention in ventilated patients in the UK: insights from a national database. Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine, 250-254. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carrev.2017.02.005

Aims Pre-procedural ventilation is a marker of high risk in PCI patients. Causes include out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) and cardiogenic shock. OHCA occurs in approximately 60,000 patients in the UK per annum. No consensus exists regarding the... Read More about Variation in emergency percutaneous coronary intervention in ventilated patients in the UK: insights from a national database.

Benzene-1,3,5-tricarboxamide n-alkyl ester and carboxylic acid derivatives: tuneable structural, morphological and thermal properties (2017)
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Lynes, A. D., Hawes, C. S., Ward, E. N., Haffner, B., Möbius, M. E., Byrne, K., …Gunnlaugsson, T. (in press). Benzene-1,3,5-tricarboxamide n-alkyl ester and carboxylic acid derivatives: tuneable structural, morphological and thermal properties. CrystEngComm, 19(10), 1427-1438. https://doi.org/10.1039/c7ce00206h

A family of five benzene-1,3,5-tricarboxamide (BTA) compounds with varied side arm functionality [alkyl: n = 3, 4 and 5 chains; and ester and carboyxic acids] is reported. Investigations into their self-assembly behaviour revealed the extent to which... Read More about Benzene-1,3,5-tricarboxamide n-alkyl ester and carboxylic acid derivatives: tuneable structural, morphological and thermal properties.

Influence of Additive Manufactured Scaffold Architecture on the Distribution of Surface Strains and Fluid Flow Shear Stresses and Expected Osteochondral Cell Differentiation (2017)
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Yang, Y. (2017). Influence of Additive Manufactured Scaffold Architecture on the Distribution of Surface Strains and Fluid Flow Shear Stresses and Expected Osteochondral Cell Differentiation. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2017.00006

Scaffolds for regenerative medicine applications should instruct cells with the appropriate signals, including biophysical stimuli such as stress and strain, to form the desired tissue. Apart from that, scaffolds, especially for load-bearing applicat... Read More about Influence of Additive Manufactured Scaffold Architecture on the Distribution of Surface Strains and Fluid Flow Shear Stresses and Expected Osteochondral Cell Differentiation.

The Non-Identical Twins in UK Public Law: Reasonableness and Proportionality (2017)
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(2017). The Non-Identical Twins in UK Public Law: Reasonableness and Proportionality. Israel Law Review, 1 - 18. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021223716000261

Ever since the Wednesbury decision in 1947 UK courts and UK public law scholars have been struggling to comprehend the meaning of ‘reasonableness’ and its relation to ‘proportionality’. The main purpose of this article is to promote conceptual clarit... Read More about The Non-Identical Twins in UK Public Law: Reasonableness and Proportionality.

Contact, welfare and children in care: Revisiting the significance of harm after finding significant harm. (2017)
Journal Article
Brammer. (2017). Contact, welfare and children in care: Revisiting the significance of harm after finding significant harm. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 67-82. https://doi.org/10.1080/09649069.2016.1275124

The focus of this paper is the issue of continuing birth family involvement in the child’s life once the child is living in care. Drawing on a psychosocial study and free association narrative interviews with care leavers it focuses on the harm to a... Read More about Contact, welfare and children in care: Revisiting the significance of harm after finding significant harm..

Can we identify who gets benefit or harm from mycophenolate mofetil in systemic lupus erythematosus? a systematic review (2017)
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Van Der Windt. (2017). Can we identify who gets benefit or harm from mycophenolate mofetil in systemic lupus erythematosus? a systematic review. Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism, 65-78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.semarthrit.2017.01.009

AbstractObjectives We aimed to summarize the evidence examining factors that predict differential response to mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Methods Systematic searches of randomized clinical trials (RCT) to identi... Read More about Can we identify who gets benefit or harm from mycophenolate mofetil in systemic lupus erythematosus? a systematic review.

Does formal workplace based assessment add value to informal feedback? (2017)
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Lefroy, J., Hawarden, A., Gay, S., & McKinley, R. (2017). Does formal workplace based assessment add value to informal feedback?. MedEdPublish, 27-27. https://doi.org/10.15694/mep.2017.000027

Feedback is a key component of learning but effective feedback is a complex process with many aspects. One aspect may be a written summary which is passed to the learner but this may not be valued by learners. We examined the role of written feedback... Read More about Does formal workplace based assessment add value to informal feedback?.

The Non-Identical Twins in UK Public Law: Reasonableness and Proportionality (2017)
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Nehushtan, Y. (2017). The Non-Identical Twins in UK Public Law: Reasonableness and Proportionality. Israel Law Review, 69-86. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021223716000261

Ever since the Wednesbury decision in 1947 UK courts and UK public law scholars have been struggling to comprehend the meaning of ‘reasonableness’ and its relation to ‘proportionality’. The main purpose of this article is to promote conceptual clarit... Read More about The Non-Identical Twins in UK Public Law: Reasonableness and Proportionality.

The structural linguistic complexity of lawyers’ questions and children’s responses in Scottish criminal courts (2017)
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Andrews, S. J., & Lamb, M. E. (2017). The structural linguistic complexity of lawyers’ questions and children’s responses in Scottish criminal courts. Child Abuse and Neglect, 65, 182-193. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2017.01.022

In the first study to systematically assess the structural linguistic complexity of lawyers’ questions of children in Scotland, we examined 56 trial transcripts of 5- to 17-year-old children testifying as alleged victims of sexual abuse. Complexity w... Read More about The structural linguistic complexity of lawyers’ questions and children’s responses in Scottish criminal courts.

Alarm Pheromone Composition and Behavioral Activity in Fungus-Growing Ants. (2017)
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Drijfhout. (2017). Alarm Pheromone Composition and Behavioral Activity in Fungus-Growing Ants. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 225 - 235. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10886-017-0821-4

Chemical communication is a dominant method of communication throughout the animal kingdom and can be especially important in group-living animals in which communicating threats, either from predation or other dangers, can have large impacts on group... Read More about Alarm Pheromone Composition and Behavioral Activity in Fungus-Growing Ants..

The Green Shoots of Recovery: a realist evaluation of a team to support change in general practice (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). The Green Shoots of Recovery: a realist evaluation of a team to support change in general practice. BMJ Open, https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-014165

Objective: A multidisciplinary support team for general practice was established in April 2014 by a local National Health Service (NHS) England management team. This work evaluates the team’s effectiveness in supporting and promoting change in its fi... Read More about The Green Shoots of Recovery: a realist evaluation of a team to support change in general practice.

Protests, Terrorism, and Development: On Ethiopia’s State of Emergency (2017)
Journal Article
Allo, A. (2017). Protests, Terrorism, and Development: On Ethiopia’s State of Emergency. Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal,

On October 8, 2016, the Ethiopian government officially declared a nationwide state of emergency in response to a year-long protest by members of Ethiopia's two largest ethnic groups, the Oromo and the Amhara. The Directive issued to implement the st... Read More about Protests, Terrorism, and Development: On Ethiopia’s State of Emergency.

Music in advertising and consumer identity: The search for Heideggerian authenticity (2017)
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(2017). Music in advertising and consumer identity: The search for Heideggerian authenticity. Marketing Theory, 473-490. https://doi.org/10.1177/1470593117692021

This study discusses netnographic findings involving 472 YouTube postings categorized to identify themes regarding consumers’ experience of music in advertisements. Key themes relate to musical taste, musical indexicality, musical repetition and musi... Read More about Music in advertising and consumer identity: The search for Heideggerian authenticity.

The delights, discomforts, and downright furies of the manuscript submission process (2017)
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(2017). The delights, discomforts, and downright furies of the manuscript submission process. Learned Publishing, 162-172. https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1092

Instructions to authors about submitting papers for publication vary hugely – from none at all to whole handbooks. Online submission systems have not reduced the complexity of submission and may have increased the work of authors. Electronic su... Read More about The delights, discomforts, and downright furies of the manuscript submission process.

Brutal Visability: Framing Majid's Suicide in Michael Haneke's Cache (2005) (2017)
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(2017). Brutal Visability: Framing Majid's Suicide in Michael Haneke's Cache (2005). Nottingham French Studies, 82-97. https://doi.org/10.3366/nfs.2017.0169

This article considers the figure of Majid in Michael Haneke's Caché (2005) and the cinematic structures that influence both the spectator's and the other protagonists’ ability to place his life within the sphere of the visible and the grievable. The... Read More about Brutal Visability: Framing Majid's Suicide in Michael Haneke's Cache (2005).

Prognosis research ideally should measure time-varying predictors at their intended moment of use (2017)
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Whittle, R., Royle, K., Jordan, K. P., Riley, R. D., Mallen, C. D., & Peat, G. (2017). Prognosis research ideally should measure time-varying predictors at their intended moment of use. Diagnostic and Prognostic Research, 1, Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41512-016-0006-6

Background Prognosis research studies (e.g. those deriving prognostic models or examining potential predictors of outcome) often collect information on time-varying predictors after their intended moment of use, sometimes using a measurement method... Read More about Prognosis research ideally should measure time-varying predictors at their intended moment of use.

Music in advertising and consumer identity: The search for Heideggerian authenticity (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). Music in advertising and consumer identity: The search for Heideggerian authenticity. Marketing Theory, 473-490. https://doi.org/10.1177/1470593117692021

This study discusses netnographic findings involving 472 YouTube postings categorized to identify themes regarding consumers’ experience of music in advertisements. Key themes relate to musical taste, musical indexicality, musical repetition and musi... Read More about Music in advertising and consumer identity: The search for Heideggerian authenticity.