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Equality in cleft and craniofacial care (2020)
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Sharratt, N. D., Agius, J. C., Davies, G., Mehendale, F. V., Hagell, P., & Persson, M. (2020). Equality in cleft and craniofacial care. Plastic and Aesthetic Research, 7(35), https://doi.org/10.20517/2347-9264.2020.99

This review examines the issue of equality of care amongst those with cleft lip and/or palate in the European Union (EU) and beyond. Issues of equality both between and within national populations are considered, and it is argued that those from coun... Read More about Equality in cleft and craniofacial care.

The effectiveness of psychosocial interventions to support psychological well-being in post-operative bariatric patients: A systematic review of evidence (2020)
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Van Zyl, N., Andrews, L., Williamson, H., & Meyrick, J. (2020). The effectiveness of psychosocial interventions to support psychological well-being in post-operative bariatric patients: A systematic review of evidence. Obesity Research and Clinical Practice, 14(5), 404-420. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orcp.2020.05.005

Background: Bariatric surgery is considered an effective obesity management intervention for individuals with a BMI greater than 40, or 35 with co-morbidities. However, research documents that psychological difficulties prevalent amongst individuals... Read More about The effectiveness of psychosocial interventions to support psychological well-being in post-operative bariatric patients: A systematic review of evidence.

An overview of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) infection and the importance of molecular hydrogen as an adjunctive therapy (2020)
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Russell, G., Rehman, M., LeBaron, T. W., Veal, D., Adukwu, E., & Hancock, J. (2020). An overview of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) infection and the importance of molecular hydrogen as an adjunctive therapy. Reactive Oxygen Species, 10(28), 150–165

SARS-CoV-2 is an emerging β-coronavirus that causes COVID-19 disease that manifests primarily as a pulmonary infection that can rapidly progress into severe and acute respiratory distress in susceptible patients. Initial reports of severe pulmonary i... Read More about An overview of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) infection and the importance of molecular hydrogen as an adjunctive therapy.

Environmental change interventions to prevent unintentional home injuries among children in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2020)
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Bhatta, S., Mytton, J., & Deave, T. (2020). Environmental change interventions to prevent unintentional home injuries among children in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Child: Care, Health and Development, 46(5), 537-551. https://doi.org/10.1111/cch.12772

Introduction: Unintentional home injury is an important cause of death and disability among children, especially those living in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This systematic review aimed to synthesize evidence about the effectiveness of... Read More about Environmental change interventions to prevent unintentional home injuries among children in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Safety climate factors in construction - A literature review (2020)
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Umar, T. (2020). Safety climate factors in construction - A literature review. Policy and Practice in Health and Safety, 18(2), 80-99. https://doi.org/10.1080/14773996.2020.1777799

It is an established fact that a mature safety climate and a rich safety culture contribute to achieving a safe workplace. This paper aims to explore and to make explicit the existing safety climate assessment tools and dimensions and suggests the le... Read More about Safety climate factors in construction - A literature review.

Are social costs the outcome of struggles over truth? (2020)
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Berger, S. (2020). Are social costs the outcome of struggles over truth?. Journal of Economic Issues, 54(2), 525-534. https://doi.org/10.1080/00213624.2020.1759021

© 2020, © 2020, Journal of Economic Issues / Association for Evolutionary Economics. Abstract: This article critically examines the institutional economics theory of social costs by way of reviewing The Dark Places of Business Enterprise: Reinstating... Read More about Are social costs the outcome of struggles over truth?.

Regulating the regulator: nitric oxide control of post-translational modifications (2020)
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Gupta, K. J., Kolbert, Z., Durner, J., Lindermayr, C., Corpas, F. J., Brouquisse, R., …Loake, G. J. (2020). Regulating the regulator: nitric oxide control of post-translational modifications. New Phytologist, 227(5), 1319-1325. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16622

Nitric oxide (NO) is perfectly suited for the role of a redox signalling molecule. A key route for NO bioactivity occurs via protein S-nitrosation, and involves the addition of a NO moiety to a protein cysteine (Cys) thiol (–SH) to form an S-nitrosot... Read More about Regulating the regulator: nitric oxide control of post-translational modifications.

How is extraversion related to social media use? A literature review (2020)
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Bowden-Green, T., Hinds, J., & Joinson, A. (2020). How is extraversion related to social media use? A literature review. Personality and Individual Differences, 164, Article 110040. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.110040

With nearly 3.5 billion people now using some form of social media, understanding its relationship with personality has become a crucial focus of psychological research. As such, research linking personality traits to social media behaviour has proli... Read More about How is extraversion related to social media use? A literature review.

Against austerity and repression: Historical and contemporary manifestations of progressive politicisation in Turkey (2020)
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Dönmez, P. E. (2021). Against austerity and repression: Historical and contemporary manifestations of progressive politicisation in Turkey. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 39(3), 512-535. https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654420920291

This paper aims to explore the growing and deepening trend of politics of repression coupled with prolonged crisis and austerity politics, reflecting on the potentials as well as limitations of progressive politics in such a constrained context. Aust... Read More about Against austerity and repression: Historical and contemporary manifestations of progressive politicisation in Turkey.

“Tourism, water, and gender”—An international review of an unexplored nexus (2020)
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Cole, S. K. G., Mullor, E. C., Ma, Y., & Sandang, Y. (2020). “Tourism, water, and gender”—An international review of an unexplored nexus. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 7(4), Article e1442. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1442

This international literature review of the tourism–water nexus identifies a gender gap. Tourism development can affect water supply both quantitatively and qualitatively. Many regions will face considerable problems of water availability and quality... Read More about “Tourism, water, and gender”—An international review of an unexplored nexus.

Screen-printed carbon based biosensors and their applications in agri-food safety (2020)
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Smart, A., Crew, A., Pemberton, R., Hughes, G., Doran, O., & Hart, J. P. (2020). Screen-printed carbon based biosensors and their applications in agri-food safety. Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 127, Article 115898. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trac.2020.115898

This review focuses on the ways in which screen-printed carbon electrodes have been tailored with different biorecognition elements, including enzymes, antibodies, and aptamers, often with other modifiers, such as mediators and nanoparticles, to prod... Read More about Screen-printed carbon based biosensors and their applications in agri-food safety.

Appraisal of the Nigerian Credit Reporting Act 2017 (2020)
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Monye, F. N., Nwafor, N., & Mukoro, B. (2020). Appraisal of the Nigerian Credit Reporting Act 2017. Journal of African Law, 64(2), 229-243. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021855320000091

Credit reporting is the act of gathering information about the behaviour of borrowers and making such information available whenever a decision is to be made regarding a borrower's application for new credit. Following the introduction of credit bure... Read More about Appraisal of the Nigerian Credit Reporting Act 2017.

A systematic review of effectiveness of interventions applicable to radiotherapy that are administered to improve patient comfort, increase patient compliance, and reduce patient distress or anxiety (2020)
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Goldsworthy, S., Palmer, S., Latour, J. M., McNair, H., & Cramp, M. (2020). A systematic review of effectiveness of interventions applicable to radiotherapy that are administered to improve patient comfort, increase patient compliance, and reduce patient distress or anxiety. Radiography, 26(4), 314-324. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radi.2020.03.002

Objectives: The aim of this review was to search existing literature to identify comfort interventions that can be used to assist an adult patient to undergo complex radiotherapy requiring positional stability for periods greater than 10 min. The obj... Read More about A systematic review of effectiveness of interventions applicable to radiotherapy that are administered to improve patient comfort, increase patient compliance, and reduce patient distress or anxiety.

Psychological factors involved in adherence to sport injury rehabilitation: A systematic review (2020)
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Goddard, K., Roberts, C., Byron-Daniel, J., & Woodford, L. (2021). Psychological factors involved in adherence to sport injury rehabilitation: A systematic review. International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 14(1), 51-73. https://doi.org/10.1080/1750984x.2020.1744179

The objective of this article is to review the extant literature on the psychological factors related to adherence to sport injury rehabilitation among athletes. Published English language articles were identified using electronic databases. The qual... Read More about Psychological factors involved in adherence to sport injury rehabilitation: A systematic review.

French hash? Southey's editing of the Annual Anthology (2020)
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Jarvis, R. (2020). French hash? Southey's editing of the Annual Anthology. Romanticism, 26(1), 75-88. https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2020.0449

Robert Southey’s Annual Anthology, which aimed to present a selection of current poetry and drew largely on his own friends and acquaintances, ran for just two volumes between 1799 and 1800. Although critics have shed light on individual poems and re... Read More about French hash? Southey's editing of the Annual Anthology.

Treat-to-target in PsA: methods and necessity (2020)
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Dures, E., Shepperd, S., Mukherjee, S., Robson, J., Vlaev, I., Walsh, N., & Coates, L. C. (2020). Treat-to-target in PsA: methods and necessity. RMD Open, 6(1), Article e001083. https://doi.org/10.1136/rmdopen-2019-001083

© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. With increasing recognition of the high burden and impact of psoriatic arthritis (PsA) and the growing numbe... Read More about Treat-to-target in PsA: methods and necessity.

The relationship between feeding and non-nutritive sucking behaviours and speech sound development: A systematic review (2020)
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Burr, S., Harding, S., Wren, Y., & Deave, T. (2021). The relationship between feeding and non-nutritive sucking behaviours and speech sound development: A systematic review. Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica, 73(2), 75-88. https://doi.org/10.1159/000505266

Background Children with and without Speech Sound Disorders (SSD) are exposed to different patterns of infant feeding (breast/bottle feeding) and may or may not engage in non-nutritive sucking (NNS) (pacifier/digit sucking). Sucking and speech use... Read More about The relationship between feeding and non-nutritive sucking behaviours and speech sound development: A systematic review.

ICI-RS 2019 nocturia think tank: How can experimental science guide us in understanding the pathophysiology of nocturia? (2020)
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Vahabi, B., Jabr, R., Fry, C., McCloskey, K., Everaert, K., Agudelo, C. W., …Weiss, J. P. (2020). ICI-RS 2019 nocturia think tank: How can experimental science guide us in understanding the pathophysiology of nocturia?. Neurourology and Urodynamics, 39(S3 Supplement: ICI‐RS 2019), S88-S95. https://doi.org/10.1002/nau.24274

Introduction: The following is a report on the proceedings of the 2019 International Consultation on Incontinence-Research Society nocturia think tank (NTT). Objectives: The objectives of the 2019 NTT were as follows: (a) to evaluate the role of urot... Read More about ICI-RS 2019 nocturia think tank: How can experimental science guide us in understanding the pathophysiology of nocturia?.

Is glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase a central redox mediator? (2020)
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Russell, G., Veal, D., & Hancock, J. T. (2020). Is glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase a central redox mediator?. Reactive Oxygen Species, 9(26), 48-69

D-Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) is an immensely important enzyme carrying out a vital step in glycolysis and is found in all living organisms. Although there are several isoforms identified in many species, it is now recognized tha... Read More about Is glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase a central redox mediator?.