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Subjective versus quantitative methods of assessing breast density (2020)
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O'Leary. (2020). Subjective versus quantitative methods of assessing breast density. Diagnostics, https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics10050331

In order to find a consistent, simple and time-effcient method of assessing mammographic breast density (MBD), different methods of assessing density comparing subjective, quantitative, semi-subjective and semi-quantitative methods were investigated.... Read More about Subjective versus quantitative methods of assessing breast density.

Higher Education Marketing in Africa: Explorations into Student Choice (2020)
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Mogaji, E., Maringe, F., & Ebo Hinson, R. (Eds.). (2020). Higher Education Marketing in Africa: Explorations into Student Choice. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39379-3

Explores the key players, challenges, and policies affecting higher education in Africa, as well as marketing strategies, and the students’ selection process Focuses on the competition for students in a market with increasing demands Offers emp... Read More about Higher Education Marketing in Africa: Explorations into Student Choice.

Melanoma Risk in Patients Treated With Biologic Therapy for Common Inflammatory Diseases: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. (2020)
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Esse, S., Mason, K. J., Green, A. C., & Warren, R. B. (2020). Melanoma Risk in Patients Treated With Biologic Therapy for Common Inflammatory Diseases: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. JAMA Dermatology, 156(7), 787-794. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamadermatol.2020.1300

Importance: Biologic therapies are widely prescribed immunomodulatory agents. There are concerns that compared with treatment with conventional systemic therapy, long-term biologic treatment for common immune-mediated inflammatory diseases, namely in... Read More about Melanoma Risk in Patients Treated With Biologic Therapy for Common Inflammatory Diseases: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis..

Analysis of neuronal iron deposits in Parkinson's disease brain tissue by synchrotron x-ray spectromicroscopy. (2020)
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Brooks, J., Everett, J., Lermyte, F., Tjendana Tjhin, V., Sadler, P. J., Telling, N., & Collingwood, J. F. (2020). Analysis of neuronal iron deposits in Parkinson's disease brain tissue by synchrotron x-ray spectromicroscopy. Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology, 62, Article 126555. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtemb.2020.126555

BACKGROUND: Neuromelanin-pigmented neurons, which are highly susceptible to neurodegeneration in the Parkinson's disease substantia nigra, harbour elevated iron levels in the diseased state. Whilst it is widely believed that neuronal iron is stored i... Read More about Analysis of neuronal iron deposits in Parkinson's disease brain tissue by synchrotron x-ray spectromicroscopy..

Balancing connectivity with function in silver(i) networks of pyridyltriazole (tzpa) ligands results in the formation of a metallogel (2020)
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Hegarty, I. N., Dalton, H. L., Lynes, A. D., Haffner, B., Möbius, M. E., Hawes, C. S., & Gunnlaugsson, T. (2020). Balancing connectivity with function in silver(i) networks of pyridyltriazole (tzpa) ligands results in the formation of a metallogel. Dalton Transactions, 7364-7372. https://doi.org/10.1039/D0DT01421D

A new flexible and divergent 1,2,3-triazol-4-yl-picolinamide (tzpa) ligand 2 and the half-equivalent model ligand 1, both functionalised with pendant 3-pyridyl groups, are reported and their coordination behaviour with silver(i) ions is explored, bot... Read More about Balancing connectivity with function in silver(i) networks of pyridyltriazole (tzpa) ligands results in the formation of a metallogel.

Tendon and Cytokine Marker Expression by Human Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells in a Hyaluronate/Poly-Lactic-Co-Glycolic Acid (PLGA)/Fibrin Three-Dimensional (3D) Scaffold. (2020)
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(2020). Tendon and Cytokine Marker Expression by Human Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells in a Hyaluronate/Poly-Lactic-Co-Glycolic Acid (PLGA)/Fibrin Three-Dimensional (3D) Scaffold. Cells, https://doi.org/10.3390/cells9051268

We developed a (three-dimensional) 3D scaffold, we named HY-FIB, incorporating a force-transmission band of braided hyaluronate embedded in a cell localizing fibrin hydrogel and poly-lactic-co-glycolic acid (PLGA) nanocarriers as transient components... Read More about Tendon and Cytokine Marker Expression by Human Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells in a Hyaluronate/Poly-Lactic-Co-Glycolic Acid (PLGA)/Fibrin Three-Dimensional (3D) Scaffold..

From Elective Orthopaedic Centre to a COVID-19 Trauma Unit: Rapid transformation (2020)
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Govilkar, S., Dover, C., Dass, D., Rhind, J., Ramhamadany, E., Ford, D., …Kelly, C. (2020). From Elective Orthopaedic Centre to a COVID-19 Trauma Unit: Rapid transformation. The Transient Journal of Trauma, Orthopaedics and the Coronavirus (TJTO&C),

The medical profession is facing one of its biggest challenges in modern history. Declared as the cause of a global pandemic by the World Health Organisation on 11th March 2020, COVID-19 has now been confirmed in over 3.5 million people worldwide. CO... Read More about From Elective Orthopaedic Centre to a COVID-19 Trauma Unit: Rapid transformation.

A Multitargeted Approach in the Discovery of an Organorhodium Anticancer Agent Based On Vorinostat as a Potent Histone Deacetylase Inhibitor. (2020)
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Reynisson. (2020). A Multitargeted Approach in the Discovery of an Organorhodium Anticancer Agent Based On Vorinostat as a Potent Histone Deacetylase Inhibitor. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202005758

The combination of more than one bioactive moiety in a mulitargeted anticancer agent may result in synergistic activity of its components. Using this concept, bioorganometallic compounds were designed to feature a metal center, a 2-pyridinecarbothioa... Read More about A Multitargeted Approach in the Discovery of an Organorhodium Anticancer Agent Based On Vorinostat as a Potent Histone Deacetylase Inhibitor..

Quantitative proteomic profiling of the rat substantia nigra places glial fibrillary acidic protein at the hub of proteins dysregulated during aging: Implications for idiopathic Parkinson’s disease (2020)
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Gómez-Gálvez, Y., Fuller, H., Synowsky, S., Shirran, L., & Gates, M. (2020). Quantitative proteomic profiling of the rat substantia nigra places glial fibrillary acidic protein at the hub of proteins dysregulated during aging: Implications for idiopathic Parkinson’s disease. Journal of Neuroscience Research, 1417-1432. https://doi.org/10.1002/jnr.24622

There is a strong correlation between aging and onset of idiopathic Parkinson’s disease, but little is known about whether cellular changes occur during normal aging that may explain this association. Here, proteomic and bioinformatic analysis was co... Read More about Quantitative proteomic profiling of the rat substantia nigra places glial fibrillary acidic protein at the hub of proteins dysregulated during aging: Implications for idiopathic Parkinson’s disease.

COVID-19 and reproductive justice in Great Britain and the United States: ensuring access to abortion care during a global pandemic. (2020)
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Parsons. (2020). COVID-19 and reproductive justice in Great Britain and the United States: ensuring access to abortion care during a global pandemic. Journal of Law and the Biosciences, lsaa027 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1093/jlb/lsaa027

In this paper we consider the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic is having on access to abortion care in Great Britain (GB) (England, Wales, and Scotland) and the United States (US). The pandemic has exacerbated problems in access to abortion services... Read More about COVID-19 and reproductive justice in Great Britain and the United States: ensuring access to abortion care during a global pandemic..

Discovery of ß Cep pulsations in the eclipsing binary V453 Cygni (2020)
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Southworth, J., Bowman, D. M., Tkachenko, A., & Pavlovski, K. (2020). Discovery of ß Cep pulsations in the eclipsing binary V453 Cygni. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 497(1), L19–L23. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slaa091

V453 Cyg is an eclipsing binary containing 14 and 11 $\, \rm M_ødot$ stars in an eccentric short-period orbit. We have discovered ß Cep-type pulsations in this system using Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite data. We identify seven significant pul... Read More about Discovery of ß Cep pulsations in the eclipsing binary V453 Cygni.

Prosthesis-Patient Mismatch Increases Early and Late Mortality in Low Risk Aortic Valve Replacement (2020)
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(2020). Prosthesis-Patient Mismatch Increases Early and Late Mortality in Low Risk Aortic Valve Replacement. Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 23-30. https://doi.org/10.1053/j.semtcvs.2020.05.006

The concept of prosthesis-patient mismatch (PPM) has gained much attention since first described 40 years ago. Previous studies have shown conflicting evidence regarding increased early and late morbidity and mortality with PPM after aortic valve rep... Read More about Prosthesis-Patient Mismatch Increases Early and Late Mortality in Low Risk Aortic Valve Replacement.

Large-scale changes of the cloud coverage in the e Indi Ba,Bb system (2020)
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Hitchcock, J. A., Helling, C., Scholz, A., Hodosan, G., Dominik, M., Hundertmark, M., …Collaboration, T. M. (2020). Large-scale changes of the cloud coverage in the e Indi Ba,Bb system. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 495(4), 3881-3899. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa1344

We present the results of 14 nights of I-band photometric monitoring of the nearby brown dwarf binary, e Indi Ba,Bb. Observations were acquired over 2 months, and total close to 42 hours of coverage at a typically high cadence of 1.4 minutes. At a se... Read More about Large-scale changes of the cloud coverage in the e Indi Ba,Bb system.

A Decade On, How Has the Visibility of Energy Changed? Energy Feedback Perceptions from UK Focus Groups (2020)
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Fredericks, D., Fan, Z., Woolley, S., de Quincey, E., & Streeton, M. (2020). A Decade On, How Has the Visibility of Energy Changed? Energy Feedback Perceptions from UK Focus Groups. Energies, 13(10), Article ARTN 2566. https://doi.org/10.3390/en13102566

The Smart Meter Rollout Programme in the UK has required energy suppliers to offer new smart meters to customers to provide near real-time energy use information and enable two-way communication between the meter and the central system. The provision... Read More about A Decade On, How Has the Visibility of Energy Changed? Energy Feedback Perceptions from UK Focus Groups.

Stoichiometric methane conversion to ethane using photochemical looping at ambient temperature (2020)
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Yu, X., Hu, D., Wu, D., Ordomsky, V., Khodakov, A., Zholobenko, V., & Moldovan, S. (2020). Stoichiometric methane conversion to ethane using photochemical looping at ambient temperature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-020-0616-7

Methane activation and utilization are among the major challenges of modern science. Methane is potentially an important feedstock for manufacturing value-added fuels and chemicals. However, most known processes require excessive operating temperatur... Read More about Stoichiometric methane conversion to ethane using photochemical looping at ambient temperature.

States of Exception: Legal Governance of Trans Women in Urban Turkey (2020)
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Tascioglu, E. (2020). States of Exception: Legal Governance of Trans Women in Urban Turkey. Social and Legal Studies, 30(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/0964663920924780

Based on life story narratives of trans women, this article aims to shed light on the role of the law in their exclusion from public spaces in urban Turkey over the last four decades. In light of Giorgio Agamben’s work on the sovereign exception, I a... Read More about States of Exception: Legal Governance of Trans Women in Urban Turkey.

A combined reduced order‐full order methodology for the solution of 3D magneto‐mechanical problems with application to magnetic resonance imaging scanners (2020)
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Seoane, M., Ledger, P. D., Gil, A. J., Zlotnik, S., & Mallett, M. (2020). A combined reduced order‐full order methodology for the solution of 3D magneto‐mechanical problems with application to magnetic resonance imaging scanners. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 121(16), 3529-3559. https://doi.org/10.1002/nme.6369

The design of a new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner requires multiple numerical simulations of the same magneto-mechanical problem for varying model parameters, such as frequency and electric conductivity, in order to ensure that the vibrati... Read More about A combined reduced order‐full order methodology for the solution of 3D magneto‐mechanical problems with application to magnetic resonance imaging scanners.

COBRaS: The e-MERLIN 21 cm Legacy survey of Cygnus OB2 (2020)
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Morford, J. C., Fenech, D. M., Prinja, R. K., Blomme, R., Yates, J. A., Drake, J. J., …Vink, J. S. (2020). COBRaS: The e-MERLIN 21 cm Legacy survey of Cygnus OB2. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 637, Article ARTN A64. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731379

Context. The role of massive stars is central to an understanding of galactic ecology. It is important to establish the details of how massive stars provide radiative, chemical, and mechanical feedback in galaxies. Central to these issues is an under... Read More about COBRaS: The e-MERLIN 21 cm Legacy survey of Cygnus OB2.

The Isaac Newton Telescope Monitoring Survey of Local Group Dwarf Galaxies. I. Survey Overview and First Results for Andromeda I (2020)
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Saremi, E., Javadi, A., Van Loon, J., Khosroshahi, H., Molaeinezhad, A., McDonald, I., …Gozaliasl, G. (2020). The Isaac Newton Telescope Monitoring Survey of Local Group Dwarf Galaxies. I. Survey Overview and First Results for Andromeda I. Astrophysical Journal, 894(2), Article ARTN 135. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab88a2

An optical monitoring survey in nearby dwarf galaxies was carried out with the 2.5 m Isaac Newton Telescope. Fifty-five dwarf galaxies and four isolated globular clusters in the Local Group were observed with the Wide Field Camera. The main aims of t... Read More about The Isaac Newton Telescope Monitoring Survey of Local Group Dwarf Galaxies. I. Survey Overview and First Results for Andromeda I.