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Vaginal dysbiosis increases risk of preterm fetal membrane rupture, neonatal sepsis and is exacerbated by erythromycin (2018)
Journal Article
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.

UK coastal governance: Signs of collaborative governance and stewardship? (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Bradshaw, N. (2018, January). UK coastal governance: Signs of collaborative governance and stewardship?. Presented at International Water Security Network Seminar, Bristol, UK

This research was part of a PhD supervised by Dr Thomas Appleby and Dr Enda Hayes at the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol, UK, members of the International Water Security Network: www.watersecuritynetwork.org/uk-coastal-governance/... Read More about UK coastal governance: Signs of collaborative governance and stewardship?.

Skin color, cultural capital, and beauty products: An investigation of the use of skin fairness products in Mumbai, India (2018)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Young people’s travel – What’s changed and why? Review and analysis (2018)
Report
Chatterjee, K., Goodwin, P., Schwanen, T., Clark, B., Jain, J., Melia, S., …Stokes, G. (2018). Young people’s travel – What’s changed and why? Review and analysis. Bristol: Department for Transport

Young adults in Great Britain and other countries are driving less now than young adults did in the early 1990s. The Department for Transport (DfT) commissioned the Centre for Transport and Society (UWE, Bristol) and the Transport Studies Unit (Unive... Read More about Young people’s travel – What’s changed and why? Review and analysis.

Centralization of cleft lip and palate services in the united kingdom: The views of adult “returners” (2018)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Developing a framework for integrating disaster resilience and healthy cities (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Rice, L. (2018, January). Developing a framework for integrating disaster resilience and healthy cities. Presented at Localising Strategies for Making Cities Resilient to Disasters Workshop, Philippines

In 2015, the UN adopted the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR 2015-2030) with the goal of reducing disaster risks and the consequent loss of life and livelihoods. As part of this goal, the UNISDR produced the framework ‘Ten Essenti... Read More about Developing a framework for integrating disaster resilience and healthy cities.

Holding children for procedures: An international survey of health professionals (2018)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Composing with crystallography (2018)
Exhibition / Performance
Lloyd, O. Composing with crystallography. [Generative digital composition]. 19 January 2018 - 26 January 2018. (Unpublished)

Collaborative project with Architects and Crystallographers from Cardiff University to explore creative opportunities within crystallographic data-sets and modelling algorithms. This composition research developed and extended their Leverhulme funded... Read More about Composing with crystallography.

Crisis of Capitalism and (De-)Politicisation of Monetary Policymaking: Reflections from Hungary and Turkey (2018)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Re: An investigation of public attitudes towards dementia in Bristol and South Gloucestershire using an online version of the Approaches to Dementia Questionnaire (2018)
Journal Article
Cheston, R., Hancock, J., & White, P. (2018). Re: An investigation of public attitudes towards dementia in Bristol and South Gloucestershire using an online version of the Approaches to Dementia Questionnaire. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 33(2), 433-434. https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.4740

Letter accepted for publication in the International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Redistributed manufacturing in healthcare: Creating new value through disruptive innovation (2018)
Report
Phillips, W., Medcalf, N., Dalgarno, K., Makatoris, H., Sharples, S., Srai, J., …Kapletia, D. Redistributed manufacturing in healthcare: Creating new value through disruptive innovation

The RiHN White Paper is the first serious attempt to gather expertise and to explore applications in promising areas of healthcare that could benefit from RDM and covers early-stage user needs, challenges and priorities. The UK has an opportunity to... Read More about Redistributed manufacturing in healthcare: Creating new value through disruptive innovation.

7-Hydroxylation of warfarin is strongly inhibited by sesamin, but not by episesamin, caffeic and ferulic acids in human hepatic microsomes (2018)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.