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PrEP in Prisons: HIV prevention in incarcerated populations. (2019)
Journal Article
Parsons, J. A. (2019). PrEP in Prisons: HIV prevention in incarcerated populations. International Journal of Prisoner Health, 199 - 206. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJPH-09-2019-0053

PURPOSE: The purpose of this paper is to discuss the possibility of using pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) as an HIV harm reduction intervention in prisons. PrEP is primarily discussed in relation to men who have sex with men (MSM), meaning other high... Read More about PrEP in Prisons: HIV prevention in incarcerated populations..

Volatiles of bacteria associated with parasitoid habitats elicit distinct olfactory responses in an aphid parasitoid and its hyperparasitoid (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Volatiles of bacteria associated with parasitoid habitats elicit distinct olfactory responses in an aphid parasitoid and its hyperparasitoid. Functional Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13503

To locate mating partners and essential resources such as food, oviposition sites and shelter, insects rely to a large extent on chemical cues. While most research has focused on cues derived from plants and insects, there is mounting evidence that i... Read More about Volatiles of bacteria associated with parasitoid habitats elicit distinct olfactory responses in an aphid parasitoid and its hyperparasitoid.

Novel Cell-Penetrating Peptide Conjugated Proteasome Inhibitors: Anticancer and Antifungal Investigations. (2019)
Journal Article
Reynisson. (2019). Novel Cell-Penetrating Peptide Conjugated Proteasome Inhibitors: Anticancer and Antifungal Investigations. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 334-348. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jmedchem.9b01694

Cell-penetrating peptide conjugated peptide aldehydes Tat-A and Tat-B showed low micromolar anticancer and antifungal activities and synergistic action in combination with cisplatin and amphotericin B against cancer and fungal cells, respectively. Ta... Read More about Novel Cell-Penetrating Peptide Conjugated Proteasome Inhibitors: Anticancer and Antifungal Investigations..

Identifying Prognostic Groups Using Machine Learning Tools in Patients Undergoing Chemoradiation for Inoperable Locally Advanced Nonsmall Cell Lung Carcinoma (2019)
Journal Article
Pahuja, A., Chufal, K., Ahmad, I., Bajpai, R., Singh, R., Chowdhary, R., & Sharma, M. (2019). Identifying Prognostic Groups Using Machine Learning Tools in Patients Undergoing Chemoradiation for Inoperable Locally Advanced Nonsmall Cell Lung Carcinoma. Asian Journal of Oncology, 5(2), 56-63. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0039-3401437

Introduction
Unresectable stage III nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC) continues to have dismal 5-year overall survival (OS) rate. However, a subset of the patients treated with chemoradiation show significantly better outcome. Prediction of treatmen... Read More about Identifying Prognostic Groups Using Machine Learning Tools in Patients Undergoing Chemoradiation for Inoperable Locally Advanced Nonsmall Cell Lung Carcinoma.

Naproxen or low-dose colchicine for gout flares in primary care? Response to: 'Open-label randomised pragmatic trial (CONTACT) comparing naproxen and low-dose colchicine for the treatment of gout flares in primary care' by Parperis et al. (2019)
Journal Article
Roddy, E., & Mallen, C. (2019). Naproxen or low-dose colchicine for gout flares in primary care? Response to: 'Open-label randomised pragmatic trial (CONTACT) comparing naproxen and low-dose colchicine for the treatment of gout flares in primary care' by Parperis et al. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2019-216671

Correspondence response.

Acute myocardial infarction treatments and outcomes in 6.5 million patients with a current or historical diagnosis of cancer in the USA (2019)
Journal Article
Bharadwaj, A., Potts, J., Mohamed, M. O., Parwani, P., Swamy, P., Lopez-Mattei, J. C., Rashid, M., Kwok, C. S., Fischman, D. L., Vassiliou, V. S., Freeman, P., Michos, E. D., & Mamas, M. A. (2020). Acute myocardial infarction treatments and outcomes in 6.5 million patients with a current or historical diagnosis of cancer in the USA. European Heart Journal, 41(23), 2183-2193. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehz851

Aim:
The aim of this study is to evaluate temporal trends, treatment and clinical outcomes of patients who present with an acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and have a current or historical diagnosis of cancer, according to cancer type and presence... Read More about Acute myocardial infarction treatments and outcomes in 6.5 million patients with a current or historical diagnosis of cancer in the USA.

Patterns of symptoms before a diagnosis of first episode psychosis: a latent class analysis of UK primary care electronic health records. (2019)
Journal Article
Chen, Y., Farooq, S., Edwards, J., Chew-Graham, C. A., Shiers, D., Frisher, M., Hayward, R., Sumathipala, A., & Jordan, K. P. (2019). Patterns of symptoms before a diagnosis of first episode psychosis: a latent class analysis of UK primary care electronic health records. BMC Medicine, 17, Article 227. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-019-1462-y

Background: The nature of symptoms in the prodromal period of first episode psychosis (FEP) remains unclear. The objective was to determine patterns of symptoms recorded in primary care in the 5-years before FEP diagnosis.

Methods: The study was s... Read More about Patterns of symptoms before a diagnosis of first episode psychosis: a latent class analysis of UK primary care electronic health records..

Intergroup contact and endorsement of social change motivations: The mediating role of intergroup trust, perspective-taking, and intergroup anxiety among three advantaged groups in Northern Cyprus, Romania, and Israel (2019)
Journal Article
Cakal, H. (2019). Intergroup contact and endorsement of social change motivations: The mediating role of intergroup trust, perspective-taking, and intergroup anxiety among three advantaged groups in Northern Cyprus, Romania, and Israel. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 136843021988516 - 136843021988516. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430219885163

Three studies investigated the effect of intergroup contact and social identification on social change among three advantaged groups in Cyprus, Romania, and Israel. In Study 1 (n = 340, Turkish Cypriots), intergroup contact with disadvantaged immigra... Read More about Intergroup contact and endorsement of social change motivations: The mediating role of intergroup trust, perspective-taking, and intergroup anxiety among three advantaged groups in Northern Cyprus, Romania, and Israel.

A low-cost laboratory-based method for predicting newly diagnosed biopsy-proven diabetic nephropathy in people with type 2 diabetes (2019)
Journal Article
Yu, D., Shang, J., Cai, Y., Wang, Z., Zhao, B., Zhao, Z., & Simmons, D. (2020). A low-cost laboratory-based method for predicting newly diagnosed biopsy-proven diabetic nephropathy in people with type 2 diabetes. Diabetic Medicine, 37(10), 1728-1736. https://doi.org/10.1111/dme.14195

Aims

To identify significant prognostic factors for newly diagnosed biopsy-proven diabetic nephropathy using routine laboratory measures, from which to derive a low-cost explanatory model, and to use this model to examine associations between the... Read More about A low-cost laboratory-based method for predicting newly diagnosed biopsy-proven diabetic nephropathy in people with type 2 diabetes.

Enhancement of Deep Learning in Image Classification Performance Using Xception with the Swish Activation Function for Colorectal Polyp Preliminary Screening (2019)
Journal Article
Jinsakul, N., Tsai, C., Tsai, C., & Wu, P. (2019). Enhancement of Deep Learning in Image Classification Performance Using Xception with the Swish Activation Function for Colorectal Polyp Preliminary Screening. Mathematics, 7(12), Article 1170. https://doi.org/10.3390/math7121170

One of the leading forms of cancer is colorectal cancer (CRC), which is responsible for increasing mortality in young people. The aim of this paper is to provide an experimental modification of deep learning of Xception with Swish and assess the poss... Read More about Enhancement of Deep Learning in Image Classification Performance Using Xception with the Swish Activation Function for Colorectal Polyp Preliminary Screening.

Epoxyeicosatrienoic acids protect pancreatic beta cells against pro-inflammatory cytokine toxicity (2019)
Journal Article
Watson. (2019). Epoxyeicosatrienoic acids protect pancreatic beta cells against pro-inflammatory cytokine toxicity. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 231-236. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2019.09.124

Pro-inflammatory cytokines contribute to pancreatic beta cell death in the pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM). Cytochrome P450-derived epoxyeicosatrienoic acids (EETs), produced by selective epoxidation of arachidonic acid, display anti-in... Read More about Epoxyeicosatrienoic acids protect pancreatic beta cells against pro-inflammatory cytokine toxicity.

CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene deletion of the ompA gene in symbiotic Cedecea neteri impairs biofilm formation and reduces gut colonization of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes (2019)
Journal Article
Hegde, S., Nilyanimit, P., Kozlova, E., Anderson, E. R., Narra, H. P., Sahni, S. K., Heinz, E., & Hughes, G. L. (2019). CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene deletion of the ompA gene in symbiotic Cedecea neteri impairs biofilm formation and reduces gut colonization of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 13(12), e0007883. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0007883

What Motivates Chinese Young Adults to Use mHealth? (2019)
Journal Article
To, W., Lee, P. K. C., Lu, J., Wang, J., Yang, Y., & Yu, Q. (in press). What Motivates Chinese Young Adults to Use mHealth?. Healthcare, 7(4), 156. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare7040156

mHealth is one of China’s national strategies that brings affordable, accessible, and convenient health care to its entire population, may they be in cities or rural areas. Although Chinese young adults are among the first to adopt mHealth, the facto... Read More about What Motivates Chinese Young Adults to Use mHealth?.

A social identity model of riot diffusion: From injustice to empowerment in the 2011 London riots (2019)
Journal Article
Stott. (2019). A social identity model of riot diffusion: From injustice to empowerment in the 2011 London riots. European Journal of Social Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2650

Previous research has shown that riots spread across multiple locations, but has not explained underlying psychological processes. We examined rioting in three locations during the August 2011 disorders in England to test a social identity model of r... Read More about A social identity model of riot diffusion: From injustice to empowerment in the 2011 London riots.

P1 Biomechanical Properties of the Aortic Dissection Flap in Chronic Aortic Dissection (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Panpho, P., Davies, H., Field, M., Madine, J., Yang, Y., & Akhtar, R. P1 Biomechanical Properties of the Aortic Dissection Flap in Chronic Aortic Dissection

Background: Aortic dissection is a devastating condition, beginning with a tear through from intima to the medial layer, leading to splitting of aortic layers and creating the false and true lumen with a septum (or flap). Little is known about the pr... Read More about P1 Biomechanical Properties of the Aortic Dissection Flap in Chronic Aortic Dissection.

Dedicated Bifurcation Stents for Coronary Bifurcation Lesions: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized-Controlled Trials. (2019)
Journal Article
Mamas. (2019). Dedicated Bifurcation Stents for Coronary Bifurcation Lesions: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized-Controlled Trials

BACKGROUND: Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) of coronary bifurcation lesions (CBL) remains a challenge in contemporary practice due to the procedural and technical difficulties involved. We sought to review the current evidence on the safety... Read More about Dedicated Bifurcation Stents for Coronary Bifurcation Lesions: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized-Controlled Trials..

Everyday justice at the courthouse? Governing lay participation in Argentina's criminal trials (2019)
Book Chapter
Amietta. (2019). Everyday justice at the courthouse? Governing lay participation in Argentina's criminal trials. In Everyday Justice Law, Ethnography, Injustice (161 - 181). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108763530.010

Lay participation in state judicial procedures has been championed, in Argentina and elsewhere, as embodying new ways of making justice – imbued with the experiences and sentiments of ordinary people and carrying into courthouses the quotidien’s roma... Read More about Everyday justice at the courthouse? Governing lay participation in Argentina's criminal trials.

A standardization approach to compare treatment safety and effectiveness outcomes between clinical trials and real-world populations in psoriasis. (2019)
Journal Article
Yiu, Z., Mason, K., Barker, J., Hampton, P., McElhone, K., Smith, C., Warren, R., Griffiths, C., Lunt, M., & Burden, A. (in press). A standardization approach to compare treatment safety and effectiveness outcomes between clinical trials and real-world populations in psoriasis. British Journal of Dermatology, 181(6), 1265 - 1271. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjd.17849

BACKGROUND: Patients recruited in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) for biologic therapies in psoriasis are not fully representative of the real-world psoriasis population. OBJECTIVES: Firstly, to investigate whether patient characteristics are ass... Read More about A standardization approach to compare treatment safety and effectiveness outcomes between clinical trials and real-world populations in psoriasis..