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Finding and engaging patients and the public to work collaboratively on an acute infection microbiology research public panel (2018)
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Grier, S., Evans, D., Gibson, A., Chin, T. L., Stoddart, M., Kok, M., …Macgowan, A. (2018). Finding and engaging patients and the public to work collaboratively on an acute infection microbiology research public panel. Research Involvement and Engagement, 4(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s40900-018-0083-5

© The Author(s). Background In 2015 the microbiology research team became involved in a large European programme of research aiming to bring new antimicrobial drugs onto the market to combat the increasing problem of multi-drug resistant infection. W... Read More about Finding and engaging patients and the public to work collaboratively on an acute infection microbiology research public panel.

The effects of composite laminate stiffness and loading on stress resultant concentration factor around a hole (2018)
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Damghani, M., Harrison, C., & Kennedy, D. (2018). The effects of composite laminate stiffness and loading on stress resultant concentration factor around a hole. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, 232(6), 1033-1049. https://doi.org/10.1177/0954406218755187

© 2018, © IMechE 2018. An analytical tool is developed using conformal mapping and the complex variable method for determining the stress resultant concentration factor in an infinite plate with a circular or elliptical hole. This tool is validated a... Read More about The effects of composite laminate stiffness and loading on stress resultant concentration factor around a hole.

GIS has changed! Exploring the potential of ArcGIS online (2018)
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West, H., & Horswell, M. (2018). GIS has changed! Exploring the potential of ArcGIS online. Teaching Geography, 43(1), 22-24

In this article, we aim to briefly introduce you to Eris’s ArcGIS Online platform. Online GIS platforms are typically far removed from the highly specialist desktop software that many teachers today trained on. ArcGIS Online is an effective and effic... Read More about GIS has changed! Exploring the potential of ArcGIS online.

Understanding hepatitis C intervention success - Qualitative findings from the HepCATT study (2018)
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Harris, M., Bonnington, O., Harrison, G., Hickman, M., Irving, W., Roberts, K., …Foster, G. (2018). Understanding hepatitis C intervention success - Qualitative findings from the HepCATT study. Journal of Viral Hepatitis, 25(7), 762-770. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvh.12869

The United Kingdom has committed to eliminating viral hepatitis as a public health threat. Innovative interventions for marginalized populations are required to realize this goal. In 2016, the HepCATT study team implemented a complex hepatitis C (HCV... Read More about Understanding hepatitis C intervention success - Qualitative findings from the HepCATT study.

Relating to the speaker behind the voice: What is changing? (2018)
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Deamer, F., & Hayward, M. (2018). Relating to the speaker behind the voice: What is changing?. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, Article 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00011

We introduce therapeutic techniques that encourage voice hearers to view their voices as coming from intentional agents whose behavior may be dependent on how the voice hearer relates to and interacts with them. We suggest that this approach is effec... Read More about Relating to the speaker behind the voice: What is changing?.

Understanding customer satisfaction in the UK quick service restaurant industry: The influence of the tangible attributes of perceived service quality (2018)
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Nguyen, Q., Nisar, T., Knox, D., & Prabhakar, G. P. (2018). Understanding customer satisfaction in the UK quick service restaurant industry: The influence of the tangible attributes of perceived service quality. British Food Journal, 120(6), 1207-1222. https://doi.org/10.1108/BFJ-08-2017-0449

© 2018, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of the five dimensions of service quality on customer satisfaction in the UK fast food market and to indicate which factors among the five dimensions have... Read More about Understanding customer satisfaction in the UK quick service restaurant industry: The influence of the tangible attributes of perceived service quality.

Vaginal dysbiosis increases risk of preterm fetal membrane rupture, neonatal sepsis and is exacerbated by erythromycin (2018)
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Kindinger, L. M., Brown, R. G., Terzidou, V., Marchesi, J. R., Lee, Y. S., Holmes, E., …MacIntyre, D. A. (2018). Vaginal dysbiosis increases risk of preterm fetal membrane rupture, neonatal sepsis and is exacerbated by erythromycin. BMC Medicine, 16(1), Article 9. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-017-0999-x

© 2018 The Author(s). Background: Preterm prelabour rupture of the fetal membranes (PPROM) precedes 30% of preterm births and is a risk factor for early onset neonatal sepsis. As PPROM is strongly associated with ascending vaginal infection, prophyla... Read More about Vaginal dysbiosis increases risk of preterm fetal membrane rupture, neonatal sepsis and is exacerbated by erythromycin.

Skin color, cultural capital, and beauty products: An investigation of the use of skin fairness products in Mumbai, India (2018)
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Shroff, H., Diedrichs, P. C., & Craddock, N. (2018). Skin color, cultural capital, and beauty products: An investigation of the use of skin fairness products in Mumbai, India. Frontiers in Public Health, 5, Article 365. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2017.00365

The use of skin fairness products that frequently contain toxic ingredients is associated with significant adverse health side effects. Due to the high prevalence of use in Asian and African countries, skin fairness product use is recognized as a gro... Read More about Skin color, cultural capital, and beauty products: An investigation of the use of skin fairness products in Mumbai, India.

Evaporation, lifetime, and robustness studies of liquid marbles for collision-based computing (2018)
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Fullarton, C., Draper, T., Phillips, N., Mayne, R., de Lacy Costello, B., & Adamatzky, A. (2018). Evaporation, lifetime, and robustness studies of liquid marbles for collision-based computing. Langmuir, 34(7), 2573-2580. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b04196

© 2018 American Chemical Society. Liquid marbles (LMs) have recently attracted interest for use as cargo carriers in digital microfluidics and have successfully been implemented as signal carriers in collision-based unconventional computing circuits.... Read More about Evaporation, lifetime, and robustness studies of liquid marbles for collision-based computing.

Centralization of cleft lip and palate services in the united kingdom: The views of adult “returners” (2018)
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Stock, N. M., Anwar, H., Sandy, J., & Rumsey, N. (2018). Centralization of cleft lip and palate services in the united kingdom: The views of adult “returners”. Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal, 55(5), 676-681. https://doi.org/10.1177/1055665617744064

© The Author(s) 2018. Background: Since the implementation of centralized services in the United Kingdom for those affected by cleft lip and/or palate (CL/P), several studies have investigated the impact of service rationalization on the delivery of... Read More about Centralization of cleft lip and palate services in the united kingdom: The views of adult “returners”.

Taxonomy of prokaryotic viruses: 2017 update from the ICTV Bacterial and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee (2018)
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Adriaenssens, E. M., Wittmann, J., Kuhn, J. H., Turner, D., Sullivan, M. B., Dutilh, B. E., …Rodney Brister, J. (2018). Taxonomy of prokaryotic viruses: 2017 update from the ICTV Bacterial and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee. Archives of Virology, 163(4), 1125-1129. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-018-3723-z

The prokaryotic virus community is represented at the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) by the Bacterial and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee. Since our last report, the committee composition has changed, and a large number of taxono... Read More about Taxonomy of prokaryotic viruses: 2017 update from the ICTV Bacterial and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee.

Holding children for procedures: An international survey of health professionals (2018)
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Bray, L., Carter, B., Ford, K., Dickinson, A., Water, T., & Blake, L. (2018). Holding children for procedures: An international survey of health professionals. Journal of Child Health Care, 22(2), 205-215. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367493517752499

Children undergoing clinical procedures can experience pain and/or anxiety. This may result in them being unwilling to cooperate and being held still by parents or health professionals. This study aimed to capture an international perspective of heal... Read More about Holding children for procedures: An international survey of health professionals.

Complex genetic patterns in human arise from a simple range-expansion model over continental landmasses (2018)
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Kanitz, R., Guillot, E., Antoniazza, S., Neuenschwander, S., & Goudet, J. (2018). Complex genetic patterns in human arise from a simple range-expansion model over continental landmasses. PLoS ONE, 13(2), Article e0192460. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0192460

© 2018 Kanitz et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are cre... Read More about Complex genetic patterns in human arise from a simple range-expansion model over continental landmasses.

Crisis of Capitalism and (De-)Politicisation of Monetary Policymaking: Reflections from Hungary and Turkey (2018)
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Dönmez, P. E., & Zemandl, E. J. (2019). Crisis of Capitalism and (De-)Politicisation of Monetary Policymaking: Reflections from Hungary and Turkey. New Political Economy, 24(1), 125-143. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2017.1421624

© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article explores the changes in monetary policymaking in Hungary and Turkey in the context of the post-2008 global financial crisis and restructuring. Both countries went th... Read More about Crisis of Capitalism and (De-)Politicisation of Monetary Policymaking: Reflections from Hungary and Turkey.

Network as an intangible resource: an evolutionary approach within Indonesian shipbuilding industry (2018)
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Minayora, A., Zhang, Y., & Bryson, J. (2018). Network as an intangible resource: an evolutionary approach within Indonesian shipbuilding industry. Applied Mechanics and Materials, 874, 181-188. https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.874.181

Shipbuilding as a megaproject has many uncertainties due to the overlapping design and construction activity. It is primarily driven by the substantial time and complexity involved in designing a ship and by the irregular pattern of demand from ship-... Read More about Network as an intangible resource: an evolutionary approach within Indonesian shipbuilding industry.

Geothermal energy resources in Oman (2018)
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Umar, T. (2018). Geothermal energy resources in Oman. Proceedings of the ICE - Energy, 171(1), 37-43. https://doi.org/10.1680/jener.17.00001

Oman's oil and gas reserves are comparatively low relative to those of other Gulf Co-operation Council member countries. This article explores the potential of using geothermal energy resources for electricity generation in Oman. Geothermal energy is... Read More about Geothermal energy resources in Oman.

Ligand binding dynamics for pre-dimerised G protein-coupled receptor homodimers: Linear models and analytical solutions (2018)
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White, C., & Bridge, L. (2019). Ligand binding dynamics for pre-dimerised G protein-coupled receptor homodimers: Linear models and analytical solutions. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 81(9), 3542-3574. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11538-017-0387-x

Evidence suggests that many G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are bound together forming dimers. The implications of dimerisation for cellular signalling outcomes, and ultimately drug discovery and therapeutics, remain unclear. Consideration of lig... Read More about Ligand binding dynamics for pre-dimerised G protein-coupled receptor homodimers: Linear models and analytical solutions.

7-Hydroxylation of warfarin is strongly inhibited by sesamin, but not by episesamin, caffeic and ferulic acids in human hepatic microsomes (2018)
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Pilipenko, N., Rasmussen, M. K., Doran, O., & Zamaratskaia, G. (2018). 7-Hydroxylation of warfarin is strongly inhibited by sesamin, but not by episesamin, caffeic and ferulic acids in human hepatic microsomes. Food and Chemical Toxicology, 113, 14-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fct.2018.01.020

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd Warfarin is a commonly used anticoagulant drug and is a derivate of coumarin. Cytochrome P450 2C9 (CYP2C9) plays the key role in transformation of coumarin and thus, influences determination of warfarin dosage. A number of factors... Read More about 7-Hydroxylation of warfarin is strongly inhibited by sesamin, but not by episesamin, caffeic and ferulic acids in human hepatic microsomes.

A review and reflection on inventory management of perishable products in a single-echelon model (2018)
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Duong, L. N. K., Wood, L. C., & Wang, W. Y. C. (2018). A review and reflection on inventory management of perishable products in a single-echelon model. International Journal of Operational Research, 31(3), 313-329. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJOR.2018.089734

This paper reviews research on single-echelon inventory management of perishable products using the continuous review model. A steady progression of research in this area has included of a range of parameters and is reaching a saturation point where... Read More about A review and reflection on inventory management of perishable products in a single-echelon model.

Does personal experience of dementia change attitudes? The Bristol and South Gloucestershire survey of dementia attitudes (2018)
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Cheston, R., Hancock, J., & White, P. (2019). Does personal experience of dementia change attitudes? The Bristol and South Gloucestershire survey of dementia attitudes. Dementia, 18(7-8), 2596-2608. https://doi.org/10.1177/1471301217752707

Background: it is unclear how attitudes towards people with dementia are formed and whether, for instance, increased contact with people with dementia, either through work or personal experience alters attitudes. This study used a validated questionn... Read More about Does personal experience of dementia change attitudes? The Bristol and South Gloucestershire survey of dementia attitudes.