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Characteristics and outcomes of COVID-19 associated stroke: a UK multicentre case-control study (2020)
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Perry, R. J., Smith, C. J., Roffe, C., Simister, R., Narayanamoorthi, S., Marigold, R., …Werring, D. J. (2021). Characteristics and outcomes of COVID-19 associated stroke: a UK multicentre case-control study. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 92(3), 242-248. https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp-2020-324927

Objective We set out to determine which characteristics and outcomes of stroke are associated with COVID-19. Methods This case-control study included patients admitted with stroke to 13 hospitals in England and Scotland between 9 March and 5 July... Read More about Characteristics and outcomes of COVID-19 associated stroke: a UK multicentre case-control study.

Psychosocial determinants of adherence with oral anticancer treatment: 'we don't need no education' (2020)
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(2020). Psychosocial determinants of adherence with oral anticancer treatment: 'we don't need no education'. Acta oncologica, 1 - 9. https://doi.org/10.1080/0284186x.2020.1843190

INTRODUCTION: Given the potentially fatal consequences of inadequate adherence with oral anticancer treatment in persons with cancer, understanding the determinants of adherence is vital. This paper aims at identifying psychosocial determinants of ad... Read More about Psychosocial determinants of adherence with oral anticancer treatment: 'we don't need no education'.

On Axel Honneth's Cosmopolitanism: The 'Forgetting' of Global Poverty as a Form of Reification (2020)
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Mookherjee. (2020). On Axel Honneth's Cosmopolitanism: The 'Forgetting' of Global Poverty as a Form of Reification. Social Theory and Practice, 46(4), https://doi.org/10.5840/soctheorpract20201029105

Amid now extensive debates about cosmopolitanism in political theory, this article explores the implications of Axel Honneth’s recognition theory for issues in international justice, not least the dire situation of poverty in the world. In contrast w... Read More about On Axel Honneth's Cosmopolitanism: The 'Forgetting' of Global Poverty as a Form of Reification.

Moderators of the effects of therapeutic exercise for people with knee and hip osteoarthritis: A systematic review of sub-group analyses from randomised controlled trials (2020)
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Quicke, J., Runhaar, J., Van Der Windt, D., Healey, E., Foster, N., & Holden, M. (2020). Moderators of the effects of therapeutic exercise for people with knee and hip osteoarthritis: A systematic review of sub-group analyses from randomised controlled trials. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Open, 2(4), Article 100113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocarto.2020.100113

Objective 1) To identify potential moderators of the effect of therapeutic exercise explored in randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of knee and hip osteoarthritis (OA); 2) summarise the extent, strength and quality of evidence reported for moderator... Read More about Moderators of the effects of therapeutic exercise for people with knee and hip osteoarthritis: A systematic review of sub-group analyses from randomised controlled trials.

Minimum sample size for external validation of a clinical prediction model with a continuous outcome. (2020)
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(2020). Minimum sample size for external validation of a clinical prediction model with a continuous outcome. Statistics in Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1002/sim.8766

Clinical prediction models provide individualized outcome predictions to inform patient counseling and clinical decision making. External validation is the process of examining a prediction model's performance in data independent to that used for mod... Read More about Minimum sample size for external validation of a clinical prediction model with a continuous outcome..

Book review: The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Violence (2020)
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Adams, F. (2020). Book review: The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Violence. Social and Legal Studies, 30(2), 096466392097178 - 096466392097178. https://doi.org/10.1177/0964663920971781

The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Violence (Levine and Meiners, 2020) is a powerful, reflexive and much needed abolition feminist critique of carceral responses to sexual and gender violence and how feminism sho... Read More about Book review: The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Violence.

Islam and Mental Disorders of the Older Adults: Religious Text, Belief System and Caregiving Practices (2020)
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Daher-Nashif, S., Hammad, S. H., Kane, T., & Al-Wattary, N. (2021). Islam and Mental Disorders of the Older Adults: Religious Text, Belief System and Caregiving Practices. Journal of Religion and Health, 60(3), 2051-2065. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-020-01094-5

This paper illustrates the impact of Islamic religious texts on dementia care in the Middle East. It examines how old age and older adults mental disorders are framed in the Quran and Hadith, and how these texts are transformed to belief ideologies a... Read More about Islam and Mental Disorders of the Older Adults: Religious Text, Belief System and Caregiving Practices.

A Secure Integrated Framework for Fog-Assisted Internet-of-Things Systems (2020)
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Junejo, A. K., Komninos, N., & McCann, J. A. (2021). A Secure Integrated Framework for Fog-Assisted Internet-of-Things Systems. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 8(8), 6840-6852. https://doi.org/10.1109/jiot.2020.3035474

Fog-assisted Internet-of-Things (Fog-IoT) systems are deployed in remote and unprotected environments, making them vulnerable to security, privacy, and trust challenges. Existing studies propose security schemes and trust models for these systems. Ho... Read More about A Secure Integrated Framework for Fog-Assisted Internet-of-Things Systems.

Demographic, Regional, and State-Level Trends of Mortality in Patients With Aortic Stenosis in United States, 2008 to 2018. (2020)
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Mamas. (2020). Demographic, Regional, and State-Level Trends of Mortality in Patients With Aortic Stenosis in United States, 2008 to 2018. Journal of the American Heart Association Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, e017433 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.120.017433

Background Aortic stenosis-related mortality might vary across demographic subsets, regions, and states in the United States. Methods and Results We reviewed the death certificate data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wide-Ranging... Read More about Demographic, Regional, and State-Level Trends of Mortality in Patients With Aortic Stenosis in United States, 2008 to 2018..

Acceptability of bisphosphonates among patients, clinicians and managers: a systematic review and framework synthesis (2020)
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Paskins, Z., Crawford-Manning, F., Cottrell, E., Corp, N., Wright, J., Jinks, C., …Sahota, O. (2020). Acceptability of bisphosphonates among patients, clinicians and managers: a systematic review and framework synthesis. BMJ Open, 10(11), https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-040634

OBJECTIVE: To explore the acceptability of different bisphosphonate regimens for the treatment of osteoporosis among patients, clinicians and managers, payers and academics. DESIGN: A systematic review of primary qualitative studies. Seven databases... Read More about Acceptability of bisphosphonates among patients, clinicians and managers: a systematic review and framework synthesis.

A single amino acid residue regulates PTEN-binding and stability of the Spinal Muscular Atrophy protein SMN (2020)
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Rademacher, S., Detering, N. . T., Schüning, T., Lindner, R., Santonicola, P., Wefel, I., …Claus, P. (2020). A single amino acid residue regulates PTEN-binding and stability of the Spinal Muscular Atrophy protein SMN. Cells, 9(11), Article 2405. https://doi.org/10.3390/cells9112405

Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) is a neuromuscular disease caused by decreased levels of the survival of motoneuron (SMN) protein. Post-translational mechanisms for regulation of its stability are still elusive. Thus, we aimed to identify regulatory ph... Read More about A single amino acid residue regulates PTEN-binding and stability of the Spinal Muscular Atrophy protein SMN.

Developmental Modulation of Root Cell Wall Architecture Confers Resistance to an Oomycete Pathogen (2020)
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Gavrin, A., Rey, T., Torode, T. A., Toulotte, J., Chatterjee, A., Louis Kaplan, J., …Schornack, S. (2020). Developmental Modulation of Root Cell Wall Architecture Confers Resistance to an Oomycete Pathogen. Current Biology, 4165 - 4176.e5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.08.011

The cell wall is the primary interface between plant cells and their immediate environment and must balance multiple functionalities, including the regulation of growth, the entry of beneficial microbes, and protection against pathogens. Here, we dem... Read More about Developmental Modulation of Root Cell Wall Architecture Confers Resistance to an Oomycete Pathogen.

An empirical model to evaluate the effects of environmental humidity on the formation of wrinkled, creased and porous fibre morphology from electrospinning. (2020)
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Zhang, D., Davoodi, P., Li, X., Liu, Y., Wang, W., & Yan Shery Huang, Y. (2020). An empirical model to evaluate the effects of environmental humidity on the formation of wrinkled, creased and porous fibre morphology from electrospinning. Scientific reports, 18783 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-74542-7

Controlling environmental humidity level and thus moisture interaction with an electrospinning solution jet has led to a fascinating range of polymer fibre morphological features; these include surface wrinkles, creases and surface/internal porosity... Read More about An empirical model to evaluate the effects of environmental humidity on the formation of wrinkled, creased and porous fibre morphology from electrospinning..

Tell me what you are like and I will tell you what you believe in: Social representations of COVID-19 in the Americas, Europe and Asia (2020)
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Cakal. (2020). Tell me what you are like and I will tell you what you believe in: Social representations of COVID-19 in the Americas, Europe and Asia

This study analyzes the range and content of Social Representations (SRs) about the COVID-19 pandemic in 21 geographical zones from 17 countries in the Americas, Europe and Asia (N = 4430). Based on Social Representations Theory, as well as the psych... Read More about Tell me what you are like and I will tell you what you believe in: Social representations of COVID-19 in the Americas, Europe and Asia.

External validation of prognostic models predicting pre-eclampsia: individual participant data meta-analysis (2020)
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(2020). External validation of prognostic models predicting pre-eclampsia: individual participant data meta-analysis. BMC Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-020-01766-9

BACKGROUND: Pre-eclampsia is a leading cause of maternal and perinatal mortality and morbidity. Early identification of women at risk during pregnancy is required to plan management. Although there are many published prediction models for pre-eclamps... Read More about External validation of prognostic models predicting pre-eclampsia: individual participant data meta-analysis.