All Outputs (2313)

Akutno odumiranje hrastova (AOH) – nova kompleksna bolest na hrastu crniki (Quercus ilex L.) i mogućnosti širenja na ostale vrste hrastova u Hrvatskoj (2022)
Journal Article
Pernek, M., Brady, C., Lacković, N., Dubravac, T., Jukić, A., & Kovač, M. (2022). Akutno odumiranje hrastova (AOH) – nova kompleksna bolest na hrastu crniki (Quercus ilex L.) i mogućnosti širenja na ostale vrste hrastova u Hrvatskoj. Šumarski list, 146(9-10), 439-446. https://doi.org/10.31298/sl.146.9-10.5

U radu se prikazuje pregled dosadašnjih saznanja o Akutnom odumiranju hrastova (AOH), u svijetu opisanom kao AOD (Acute oak decline). Ova polimikrobna bolest je nedavno otkrivena u Hrvatskoj (2021. godine) na poluotoku Pelegrin (otok Hvar), gdje se n... Read More about Akutno odumiranje hrastova (AOH) – nova kompleksna bolest na hrastu crniki (Quercus ilex L.) i mogućnosti širenja na ostale vrste hrastova u Hrvatskoj.

Towards a rapid diagnostic method to identify bacteria associated with AOD (2022)
Thesis
Bueno Gonzalez, V. Towards a rapid diagnostic method to identify bacteria associated with AOD. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/7717906

British oaks, Quercus robur and Q. petraea are threatened by Acute Oak Decline (AOD). Severe cases are lethal within five years. Symptoms include bleeding, longitudinal, necrotic cracks in the bark, from which a dark fluid emanates. AOD is caused by... Read More about Towards a rapid diagnostic method to identify bacteria associated with AOD.

Environmental assessment of coal mine drainage from historical mining in Bristol and South Gloucestershire (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Crew, A., O'Neill, K., & Hogg, R. (2022, October). Environmental assessment of coal mine drainage from historical mining in Bristol and South Gloucestershire. Presented at South Gloucestershire Mines Research Group Meeting, Coalpit Heath, South Gloucestershire, UK

Celebrating Excellence (2022)
Physical Artefact
Adukwu, E., Airey, A., Sanderson Bellamy, A., Okeyoyin, O., & Savvantoglou, A. Celebrating Excellence. [Booklet constructed using the 'Canva' software]. UWE Bristol

Inspiring Stories of Excellence: A Showcase of Black Heritage Professionals in the College of Health, Science & Society at UWE Bristol Black History Month (BHM) presents an opportunity to celebrate the achievements and history of Black people and... Read More about Celebrating Excellence.

Barriers and facilitators to physical activity engagement for people with musculoskeletal conditions from minority ethnic communities in the UK: A realist synthesis (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Berry, A., & Niyi-Odumosu, F. (2022, October). Barriers and facilitators to physical activity engagement for people with musculoskeletal conditions from minority ethnic communities in the UK: A realist synthesis. Presented at International Society for Physical Activity and Health Congress 2022, Abu Dhabi, UAE

As part of symposia (with Dr Faatihah Niyi-Odumosu from Centre for Public Health, UWE) Symposia title: Ethnic and cultural influences on making every move count in varied clinical conditions: knowledge, attitudes, perceptions, and practices

Molecular Hydrogen: The postharvest use in fruits, vegetables and the floriculture industry (2022)
Journal Article
Hancock, J. T., Russell, G., & Stratakos, A. (2022). Molecular Hydrogen: The postharvest use in fruits, vegetables and the floriculture industry. Applied Sciences, 12(20), Article 10448. https://doi.org/10.3390/app122010448

Featured Application: It is proposed here that the use of molecular hydrogen should be considered more widely for the treatment of post-harvest fruits, vegetables and flowers. This can be applied as a gas, or in solution, and costs associated with it... Read More about Molecular Hydrogen: The postharvest use in fruits, vegetables and the floriculture industry.

Systematic review of surveillance systems for AMR in Africa (2022)
Journal Article
Okolie, O., Igwe, U., Ismail, S., Uzairue, L., & Adukwu, E. C. (2022). Systematic review of surveillance systems for AMR in Africa. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 78(1), 31-51. https://doi.org/10.1093/jac/dkac342

AIMS: Surveillance is a useful tool for tracking antimicrobial resistance (AMR) trends, patterns, therapeutic and policy interventions. Proper correlation of surveillance data gives meaningful insight into the underlying epidemiology and facilitates... Read More about Systematic review of surveillance systems for AMR in Africa.

Complete genome sequence of Pseudomonas Phage Motto (2022)
Journal Article
Manohar, P., Loganathan, A., Nachimuthu, R., Loh, B., Ma, L., Turner, D., & Leptihn, S. (2022). Complete genome sequence of Pseudomonas Phage Motto. Microbiology Resource Announcements, 11(11), https://doi.org/10.1128/mra.00740-22

We describe the complete genome sequence of bacteriophage Motto, which infects clinical strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Motto is a T1-like siphovirus related to members of the family Drexlerviridae and has a capsid width of;57 nm and a tail length... Read More about Complete genome sequence of Pseudomonas Phage Motto.

Description of three novel species of Scandinavium: Scandinavium hiltneri sp. nov., Scandinavium manionii sp. nov. and Scandinavium tedordense sp. nov., isolated from the oak rhizosphere and bleeding cankers of broadleaf hosts (2022)
Journal Article
Maddock, D., Brady, C., Kile, H., Denman, S., & Arnold, D. (2022). Description of three novel species of Scandinavium: Scandinavium hiltneri sp. nov., Scandinavium manionii sp. nov. and Scandinavium tedordense sp. nov., isolated from the oak rhizosphere and bleeding cankers of broadleaf hosts. Frontiers in Microbiology, 13, 1011653. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.1011653

While investigating the bacterial populations of environmental samples taken from a mix of healthy and Acute Oak Decline afflicted Quercus robur (pedunculate or English oak) rhizosphere soil samples and swabs of bleeding lesions on Tilia spp. (lime)... Read More about Description of three novel species of Scandinavium: Scandinavium hiltneri sp. nov., Scandinavium manionii sp. nov. and Scandinavium tedordense sp. nov., isolated from the oak rhizosphere and bleeding cankers of broadleaf hosts.

Brenneria tiliae sp. nov., isolated from symptomatic Tilia × moltkei and Tilia × europaea trees in the UK (2022)
Journal Article
Kile, H., Arnold, D., Allainguillaume, J., Denman, S., & Brady, C. (2022). Brenneria tiliae sp. nov., isolated from symptomatic Tilia × moltkei and Tilia × europaea trees in the UK. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 72(10), https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.005515

Several strains of a previously undescribed bacterial species were isolated from mature Tilia hybrid trees suffering from bleed-ing cankers at various geographic locations in the UK. The strains were Gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, and partia... Read More about Brenneria tiliae sp. nov., isolated from symptomatic Tilia × moltkei and Tilia × europaea trees in the UK.

Immobilised teicoplanin does not demonstrate antimicrobial activity against Staphylococcus aureus (2022)
Journal Article
Britton, S., Lee, K., Azizova, L., Shaw, G., Ayre, W. N., & Mansell, J. P. (2022). Immobilised teicoplanin does not demonstrate antimicrobial activity against Staphylococcus aureus. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 16661. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-20310-8

Antibacterial bone biomaterial coatings appeal to orthopaedics, dentistry and veterinary medicine. Achieving the successful, stable conjugation of suitable compounds to biomaterial surfaces is a major challenge. A pragmatic starting point is to make... Read More about Immobilised teicoplanin does not demonstrate antimicrobial activity against Staphylococcus aureus.

Rapid identification of foodborne pathogens in limited resources settings using a handheld Raman spectroscopy device (2022)
Journal Article
Stratakos, A., & Hansen, M. (2022). Rapid identification of foodborne pathogens in limited resources settings using a handheld Raman spectroscopy device. Applied Sciences, 12(19), Article 9909. https://doi.org/10.3390/app12199909

Featured Application: Here, we report a practical and precise method for the identification of foodborne pathogenic bacteria using a Raman handheld device equipped with an orbital raster scan (ORS) technology that enables the system to generate a dis... Read More about Rapid identification of foodborne pathogens in limited resources settings using a handheld Raman spectroscopy device.

Sexual segregation occurs in bats within fragmented remnant woodlands in an agricultural landscape (2022)
Journal Article
Fialas, P. C., Gilmour, L. R. V., Vickress, S., Underwood, E., Williams, C. A., Miller, H., & Lintott, P. R. (2022). Sexual segregation occurs in bats within fragmented remnant woodlands in an agricultural landscape. Ecology and Evolution, 12(10), e9350. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9350

Species-specific responses to landscape configuration and landscape composition have been studied extensively. However, little work has been done to compare intraspecific differences in habitat preferences. Bats have potential as good bioindicator ta... Read More about Sexual segregation occurs in bats within fragmented remnant woodlands in an agricultural landscape.

The influence of molecular Hydrogen therapies in managing the symptoms of acute and chronic COVID-19 (2022)
Journal Article
Russell, G., Thomas, A., Nenov, A., & Hancock, J. (2022). The influence of molecular Hydrogen therapies in managing the symptoms of acute and chronic COVID-19. Medical Research Archives, 10(9), https://doi.org/10.18103/mra.v10i9.3036

Coronavirus Infectious Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS CoV-2) that emerged as a novel pathogen of global concern in the latter stages of 2019. COVID-19 is a highly contagio... Read More about The influence of molecular Hydrogen therapies in managing the symptoms of acute and chronic COVID-19.

User requirements for a robot teleoperation system for general medical examination (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Chirapornchai, C., Niyi-Odumosu, F., Giuliani, M., & Bremner, P. (2022). User requirements for a robot teleoperation system for general medical examination. In 2022 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) (858-863). https://doi.org/10.1109/RO-MAN53752.2022.9900855

Thailand, as well as many other countries world-wide, is facing a shortage of medical staff. We purpose a solution to improve medical services in health centres: a robot teleoperation system to allow patients to consult with doctors from public hospi... Read More about User requirements for a robot teleoperation system for general medical examination.

The indirect impact of COVID-19 on the life of animals (2022)
Digital Artefact
Rana, M., Rouse, R., Craig, T. J., Macdonald, H., & Hancock, J. T. (2022). The indirect impact of COVID-19 on the life of animals. [website]

The COVID-19 pandemic is an ongoing major health crisis that is the result of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The virus was first identified in Wuhan, China during December 2019; many patients were initially reported with pneumonia and later the cause was foun... Read More about The indirect impact of COVID-19 on the life of animals.

Modelling a dynamic magneto-agglutination bioassay (2022)
Journal Article
Hughes, R., Fishman, A., Lamb-Riddell, K., Sleigh Muñoz, V., Champneys, A., Kiely, J., & Luxton, R. (2023). Modelling a dynamic magneto-agglutination bioassay. Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 222, 114745. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2022.114745

The process of developing an end-to-end model of a magneto-immunoassay is described, simulating the agglutination effect due to the specific binding of bacteria to paramagnetic particles. After establishing the properties of the dose-specific aggluti... Read More about Modelling a dynamic magneto-agglutination bioassay.

Applications of nanosensor technology for the plant sciences (2022)
Digital Artefact
Shaw, D. S., & Honeychurch, K. C. (2022). Applications of nanosensor technology for the plant sciences

The detection of analytes is optically difficult in planta due to tissue thickness and the presence of photosynthetic pigments in plant tissues. Nanosensors are well-suited for the detection of analytes as they are easily embedded in plant tissues. T... Read More about Applications of nanosensor technology for the plant sciences.

Global prevalence of Colistin resistance in Klebsiella Pneumoniae from bloodstream infection: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2022)
Journal Article
Uzairue, L. I., Rabaan, A. A., Adewumi, F. A., Okolie, O. J., Folorunso, J. B., Bakhrebah, M. A., …Uwaezuoke, N. S. (2022). Global prevalence of Colistin resistance in Klebsiella Pneumoniae from bloodstream infection: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Pathogens, 11(10), 1092. https://doi.org/10.3390/pathogens11101092

Background: Among gram-negative bacteria, Klebsiella pneumoniae is one of the most common causes of healthcare-related infection. Bloodstream infections (BSIs) caused by Klebsiella pneumoniae are notorious for being difficult to treat due to resistan... Read More about Global prevalence of Colistin resistance in Klebsiella Pneumoniae from bloodstream infection: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Application of head space gas chromatography mass spectrometry (HS-GCMS) to determine fragrances transferred between fabrics with varying force of contact (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Honeychurch, K. (2022). Application of head space gas chromatography mass spectrometry (HS-GCMS) to determine fragrances transferred between fabrics with varying force of contact. In S. Urban, V. Skerikova, P. Pouzarova, & T. Uhlikova (Eds.), Book of abstracts of the First International workshop on Chemical Analysis of Human Scent for Forensic Purposes (30)

In recent years, offenders have become more forensically aware; leading to the need for the development of new and novel evidence types. One such potential evidence type that we believe deserves further investigation is that of fragrance transfer. Lo... Read More about Application of head space gas chromatography mass spectrometry (HS-GCMS) to determine fragrances transferred between fabrics with varying force of contact.