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Young, gifted and black: the intersectionality of race, intellectual disability and neurodivergence (2022)
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Udonsi, P. (2022). Young, gifted and black: the intersectionality of race, intellectual disability and neurodivergence. Critical and Radical Social Work, 10(2), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1332/204986021x16530492120870

This article critically examines the impact of health and social care provision on separated categories of race, disability and neurodivergence. It deconstructs the racist impacts of the neoliberal individual budgets agenda as experienced by a young... Read More about Young, gifted and black: the intersectionality of race, intellectual disability and neurodivergence.

Providing care to people living with dementia: the views of diagnostic and therapeutic radiographers (2022)
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Higgins, R., Spacey, A., & Innes, A. (2022). Providing care to people living with dementia: the views of diagnostic and therapeutic radiographers. Synergy news, 20-22

In this article, we outline a project undertaken following a successful application for a College of Radiographers Industry Partnership Scheme (CoRIPS) research grant in May 2021. The aim of our research was to explore the views of radiography pra... Read More about Providing care to people living with dementia: the views of diagnostic and therapeutic radiographers.

The diagnostic value and accuracy of ultrasound in diagnosing hydatidiform mole: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature. (2022)
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Newhouse, I., Spacey, A., Scragg, B., & Szczepura, K. (2022). The diagnostic value and accuracy of ultrasound in diagnosing hydatidiform mole: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature. Radiography, 28(4), 897-905. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radi.2022.06.005

Hydatidiform moles are the most common type of gestational trophoblastic disease. Internationally the incidence of hydatidiform moles is 1-2:1000 pregnancies. Early detection of women with hydatidiform moles is preferential, as these women are at a h... Read More about The diagnostic value and accuracy of ultrasound in diagnosing hydatidiform mole: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature..

Experimental and numerical investigation of floating large woody debris impact on a masonry arch bridge (2022)
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Majtan, E., Cunningham, L., & Rogers, B. (2022). Experimental and numerical investigation of floating large woody debris impact on a masonry arch bridge. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 10(7), https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse10070911

Masonry arch bridges form an essential part of existing transport infrastructure around the world, including mainland Europe and the northeastern US. Recent extreme flood events highlight that masonry arch bridges spanning watercourses are vulnerable... Read More about Experimental and numerical investigation of floating large woody debris impact on a masonry arch bridge.

Extent, accuracy and repeatability of bare sand and vegetation cover in dunes mapped from aerial imagery is highly variable (2022)
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Smyth, T. A., Wilson, R., Rooney, P., & Yates, K. L. (2022). Extent, accuracy and repeatability of bare sand and vegetation cover in dunes mapped from aerial imagery is highly variable. Aeolian research, 56, 100799. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aeolia.2022.100799

Vegetation cover on coastal sand dunes has been increasing worldwide since at least the 1940s. Analysis of aerial and satellite imagery has been the principal source used to measure this change, however no studies have systematically evaluated the ac... Read More about Extent, accuracy and repeatability of bare sand and vegetation cover in dunes mapped from aerial imagery is highly variable.

Weed Detection by Faster RCNN Model: An Enhanced Anchor Box Approach (2022)
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Saleem, M. H., Potgieter, J., & Arif, K. M. (in press). Weed Detection by Faster RCNN Model: An Enhanced Anchor Box Approach. Agronomy, 12(7), 1580. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12071580

To apply weed control treatments effectively, the weeds must be accurately detected. Deep learning (DL) has been quite successful in performing the weed identification task. However, various aspects of the DL have not been explored in previous studie... Read More about Weed Detection by Faster RCNN Model: An Enhanced Anchor Box Approach.

Advanced technologies for offering situational intelligence in flood warning and response systems : a literature review (2022)
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Samansiri, S., Fernando, T., & Ingirige, B. (2022). Advanced technologies for offering situational intelligence in flood warning and response systems : a literature review. Water, https://doi.org/10.3390/w14132091

Deaths and property damage from floods have increased drastically in the past two 9 decades due to various reasons such as increased population, unplanned development and climate 10 change. Such losses from floods can be reduced by issuing timely e... Read More about Advanced technologies for offering situational intelligence in flood warning and response systems : a literature review.

Epidemiologically-based strategies for the detection of emerging plant pathogens (2022)
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Mastin, A., van den Bosch, F., Bourhis, Y., & Parnell, S. (2022). Epidemiologically-based strategies for the detection of emerging plant pathogens. Scientific reports, 12(1), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-13553-y

Emerging pests and pathogens of plants are a major threat to natural and managed ecosystems worldwide. Whilst it is well accepted that surveillance activities are key to both the early detection of new incursions and the ability to identify pest-free... Read More about Epidemiologically-based strategies for the detection of emerging plant pathogens.

Circulating and tumor-infiltrating immune checkpoint-xepressing CD8+ Treg/T Cell subsets and their associations with disease-free survival in colorectal cancer patients (2022)
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Alsalman, A., Al-Mterin, M., Murshed, K., Alloush, F., Al-Shouli, S., Toor, S., & Elkord, E. (2022). Circulating and tumor-infiltrating immune checkpoint-xepressing CD8+ Treg/T Cell subsets and their associations with disease-free survival in colorectal cancer patients. Cancers, 14(13), 3194. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers14133194

T cells in the tumor microenvironment (TME) have diverse roles in anti-tumor immunity, including orchestration of immune responses and anti-tumor cytotoxic attack. However, different T cell subsets may have opposing roles in tumor progression, especi... Read More about Circulating and tumor-infiltrating immune checkpoint-xepressing CD8+ Treg/T Cell subsets and their associations with disease-free survival in colorectal cancer patients.

Craniodental morphology and phylogeny of marsupials (2022)
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Beck, R., Voss, R., & Jansa, S. (in press). Craniodental morphology and phylogeny of marsupials. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1-350. https://doi.org/10.1206/0003-0090.457.1.1

The current literature on marsupial phylogenetics includes numerous studies based on analyses of morphological data with limited sampling of Recent and fossil taxa, and many studies based on analyses of molecular data with dense sampling of Recent ta... Read More about Craniodental morphology and phylogeny of marsupials.

Developing a paediatric healthcare research network: key learnings from the 'Starworks' child prosthetics project (2022)
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Needham, A., Wheeler, G., Mills, N., & Head, J. (2022). Developing a paediatric healthcare research network: key learnings from the 'Starworks' child prosthetics project. https://doi.org/10.1080/03091902.2022.2089251

The context of child prosthetics is a complex and important area for research and innovation. Yet, like many areas of paediatric medical technology development, there are several barriers to innovating specifically for the unique needs of children (i... Read More about Developing a paediatric healthcare research network: key learnings from the 'Starworks' child prosthetics project.

Equivocal evidence for a link between megalencephaly-related genes and primate brain size evolution (2022)
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DeCasien, A., Trujillo, A., Janiak, M., Harshaw, E., Caes, Z., Galindo, G., …Higham, J. (2022). Equivocal evidence for a link between megalencephaly-related genes and primate brain size evolution. Scientific reports, 12(1), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-12953-4

A large brain is a defining feature of modern humans, and much work has been dedicated to exploring the molecular underpinnings of this trait. Although numerous studies have focused on genes associated with human microcephaly, no studies have explici... Read More about Equivocal evidence for a link between megalencephaly-related genes and primate brain size evolution.

Effects of exercise prescribed at different levels of claudication pain on walking performance in patients with intermittent claudication: a protocol for a randomised controlled trial. (2022)
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Birkett, S., Sinclair, J., Seed, S., Pymer, S., Caldow, E., Ingle, L., …Egun, A. (2022). Effects of exercise prescribed at different levels of claudication pain on walking performance in patients with intermittent claudication: a protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Therapeutic Advances in Cardiovascular Disease, 16, https://doi.org/10.1177/17539447221108817

Peripheral artery disease affects over 236 million people globally and the classic symptom is intermittent claudication (IC) which is associated with reduction in physical activity. The evidence that supervised exercise programmes (SEPs) improve pain... Read More about Effects of exercise prescribed at different levels of claudication pain on walking performance in patients with intermittent claudication: a protocol for a randomised controlled trial..

Numerical study of natural convection dissipative electro‐magnetic non‐Newtonian flow through a non‐Darcy channel (2022)
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Zhang, L., Bhatti, M. M., Beg, O., Leonard, H. J., & Kuharat, S. (2022). Numerical study of natural convection dissipative electro‐magnetic non‐Newtonian flow through a non‐Darcy channel. ZAMM, 102(10), https://doi.org/10.1002/zamm.202100608

Inspired by simulating duct thermal processing of novel functional polymers, a novel mathematical model is developed for buoyancy-driven heat transfer in non-Newtonian Williamson fluid flow in a vertical parallel plate duct containing a permeable med... Read More about Numerical study of natural convection dissipative electro‐magnetic non‐Newtonian flow through a non‐Darcy channel.

Thermal properties of hydrated lime-modified asphalt concrete and modelling evaluation for their effect on the constructed pavements in service (2022)
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Al Ashaibi, A., Wang, Y., Albayati, A., Byzyka, J., Scholz, M., & Weekes, L. (2022). Thermal properties of hydrated lime-modified asphalt concrete and modelling evaluation for their effect on the constructed pavements in service. Sustainability, 14(13),

Flexible pavements are subjected to three main distress types: fatigue crack, thermal crack, and permanent deformation. Under severe climate conditions, thermal cracking particularly contributes largely to a considerable scale of premature deteriora... Read More about Thermal properties of hydrated lime-modified asphalt concrete and modelling evaluation for their effect on the constructed pavements in service.

Calibration and characterisation of four chlorophyll meters and transmittance spectroscopy for non-destructive estimation of forest leaf chlorophyll concentration (2022)
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Brown, L., Williams, O., & Dash, J. (2022). Calibration and characterisation of four chlorophyll meters and transmittance spectroscopy for non-destructive estimation of forest leaf chlorophyll concentration. Agricultural and forest meteorology, 323, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2022.109059

Chlorophyll meters enable efficient and non-destructive estimation of leaf chlorophyll concentration (LCC), but require calibration against destructively-determined values to provide an absolute quantity that is comparable between different studies a... Read More about Calibration and characterisation of four chlorophyll meters and transmittance spectroscopy for non-destructive estimation of forest leaf chlorophyll concentration.

Electro-osmotic peristaltic flow and heat transfer in an ionic viscoelastic fluid through a curved micro-channel with viscous dissipation (2022)
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Khan, A., Akram, K., Zaman, A., Beg, O., & Bég, T. (2022). Electro-osmotic peristaltic flow and heat transfer in an ionic viscoelastic fluid through a curved micro-channel with viscous dissipation. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine, 236(8), 1080-1092. https://doi.org/10.1177/09544119221105848

Emerging systems in microfluidics are embracing bio-inspired designs in which boundaries are flexible and mimic peristaltic propulsion mechanisms encountered in nature. These devices utilize electro-kinetic body forces to manipulate very precisely io... Read More about Electro-osmotic peristaltic flow and heat transfer in an ionic viscoelastic fluid through a curved micro-channel with viscous dissipation.

Using the TIDieR checklist to describe the intervention of the Sedation and Weaning in Children (SANDWICH) trial (2022)
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Tume, L., Blackwood, B., McAuley, D., Morris, K., Peters, M., Jordan, J., …McIlmurray, L. (2022). Using the TIDieR checklist to describe the intervention of the Sedation and Weaning in Children (SANDWICH) trial. Nursing in Critical Care, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1111/nicc.12810

Aim: The aim of this paper is to describe our experience of the using the TIDieR checklist in reporting a recent trial of sedation and ventilation weaning in critically children (the SANDWICH trial) Methods: The Template for Intervention Descriptio... Read More about Using the TIDieR checklist to describe the intervention of the Sedation and Weaning in Children (SANDWICH) trial.