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Gyroscope sensor based in vivo finger axes of rotation identification using screw displacement (2021)
Journal Article
Zhu, Y., Wei, G., Ren, L., Luo, Z., & Shang, J. (2021). Gyroscope sensor based in vivo finger axes of rotation identification using screw displacement. Applied Bionics and Biomechanics, 2021, 8871593. https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/8871593

This paper presents a low-cost, efficient, and portable in vivo method for identifying axes of rotation of the proximal interphalangeal and distal interphalangeal joints in an index finger. The approach is associated with the screw displacement repre... Read More about Gyroscope sensor based in vivo finger axes of rotation identification using screw displacement.

The genomics of ecological flexibility, large brains, and long lives in capuchin monkeys revealed with fecalFACS (2021)
Journal Article
Orkin, J., Montague, M., Tejada-Martinez, D., de Manuel, M., Del Campo, J., Cheves Hernandez, S., …Melin, A. (2021). The genomics of ecological flexibility, large brains, and long lives in capuchin monkeys revealed with fecalFACS. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(7), e2010632118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2010632118

Ecological flexibility, extended lifespans, and large brains have long intrigued evolutionary biologists, and comparative genomics offers an efficient and effective tool for generating new insights into the evolution of such traits. Studies of capuch... Read More about The genomics of ecological flexibility, large brains, and long lives in capuchin monkeys revealed with fecalFACS.

Comparing fine-scale temporal environmental DNA (eDNA) sampling to camera trapping for detecting mammalian carnivores (2021)
Thesis
Bolton, P. Comparing fine-scale temporal environmental DNA (eDNA) sampling to camera trapping for detecting mammalian carnivores. (Dissertation). University of Salford

Anthropogenic pressures have caused global species declines, making accurate biodiversity monitoring essential in providing data to help avert extinctions. One-fifth of mammalian species globally are classed as under threat which means a rapid, relia... Read More about Comparing fine-scale temporal environmental DNA (eDNA) sampling to camera trapping for detecting mammalian carnivores.

Caça de Vertebrados no Parque Nacional da Serra do Divisor, Acre (2021)
Journal Article
Lemos, L., Rocha El Bizri, H., Valsecchi, J., Santos, A., Koga, D., & Silva, F. (2021). Caça de Vertebrados no Parque Nacional da Serra do Divisor, Acre

Apesar de a caça de animais silvestres garantir a segurança alimentar de populações rurais e indígenas na Amazônia, a atividade representa um desafio para a conservação da biodiversidade. Mesmo em unidades de conservação (UCs), o impacto da extração... Read More about Caça de Vertebrados no Parque Nacional da Serra do Divisor, Acre.

The knowledge and skills required of advanced level practitioners for accreditation and safe practice (2021)
Journal Article
Gloster, A., & Leigh, J. (2021). The knowledge and skills required of advanced level practitioners for accreditation and safe practice. British Journal of Nursing, 30(3), 168-171. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2021.30.3.168

Change, for better or worse, seems to be endemic in western societies, and in the past two decades advanced practice has not been exempt. Healthcare leaders and lecturers in the UK have adapted education programmes that are preparing for increasing n... Read More about The knowledge and skills required of advanced level practitioners for accreditation and safe practice.

Stress and worry in the 2020 coronavirus pandemic : relationships to trust and compliance with preventive measures across 48 countries in the COVIDiSTRESS global survey (2021)
Journal Article
Lieberoth, A., Lin, S., Stöckli, S., Han, H., Kowal, M., Gelpi, R., …Vestergren, S. (2021). Stress and worry in the 2020 coronavirus pandemic : relationships to trust and compliance with preventive measures across 48 countries in the COVIDiSTRESS global survey. Royal Society Open Science, 8(2), 200589. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.200589

The COVIDiSTRESS global survey collects data on early human responses to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic from 173 429 respondents in 48 countries. The open science study was co-designed by an international consortium of researchers to investigate how psyc... Read More about Stress and worry in the 2020 coronavirus pandemic : relationships to trust and compliance with preventive measures across 48 countries in the COVIDiSTRESS global survey.

Analyzing and comparing the impacts and outcomes of two different types of surgeries - Minimally Invasive Surgeries (MIS) and Conventional Surgeries (CVS) on patients suffering from Degenerative Mitral Valve Diseases (2021)
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Halim, M., AlSayegh, M., Umenne, C., Vadithya, P., Panicker, S., Israel, K., & Halim, A. (2021). Analyzing and comparing the impacts and outcomes of two different types of surgeries - Minimally Invasive Surgeries (MIS) and Conventional Surgeries (CVS) on patients suffering from Degenerative Mitral Valve Diseases. https://doi.org/10.36502/2021/hcr.6186

Background: Degenerative Mitral Valve Disease (DMVD) is the most common cause of Mitral Regurgitation (MR) and the main reason for surgical intervention in patients with heart diseases. Traditionally, open-heart surgery or else sternotomy was the mai... Read More about Analyzing and comparing the impacts and outcomes of two different types of surgeries - Minimally Invasive Surgeries (MIS) and Conventional Surgeries (CVS) on patients suffering from Degenerative Mitral Valve Diseases.

A qualitative study exploring the experiences and perceptions of patients with rheumatoid arthritis before and after wearing foot orthoses for 6 months (2021)
Journal Article
Ramos-Petersen, L., Nester, C., Ortega-Avila, A., Skidmore, S., & Gijon-Nogueron, G. (2021). A qualitative study exploring the experiences and perceptions of patients with rheumatoid arthritis before and after wearing foot orthoses for 6 months. Health and Social Care in the Community, 29(3), 829-836. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.13316

Foot pathology in people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) can have a psychosocial impact, but interventions such as foot orthoses can reduce foot pain, improving physical activity and quality of life. A previous meta-analysis concluded that foot orthos... Read More about A qualitative study exploring the experiences and perceptions of patients with rheumatoid arthritis before and after wearing foot orthoses for 6 months.

Mathematical modelling of unsteady solute dispersion in two-fluid (micropolar-Newtonian) blood flow with bulk reaction (2021)
Journal Article
Roy, A., & Beg, O. (2021). Mathematical modelling of unsteady solute dispersion in two-fluid (micropolar-Newtonian) blood flow with bulk reaction. International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, 122, 105169. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2021.105169

A mathematical model is developed for axisymmetric, incompressible, and fully developed hemodynamic transport of a reactive diffusing species, e. g. oxygen, in a rigid, impermeable artery under constant axial pressure gradient which undergoes a fir... Read More about Mathematical modelling of unsteady solute dispersion in two-fluid (micropolar-Newtonian) blood flow with bulk reaction.

Chinese Fans’ Engagement with Football: Transnationalism, Authenticity and Identity (2021)
Journal Article
Sullivan, J., Zhao, Y., Chadwick, S., & Gow, M. (2022). Chinese Fans’ Engagement with Football: Transnationalism, Authenticity and Identity. Journal of Global Sport Management, 7(3), 427-445. https://doi.org/10.1080/24704067.2021.1871855

Football in China is undergoing an unprecedented expansion, the result of targeted industrial policy, private sector investment, and the increased popularity of the world’s most popular game in the world’s most populous nation. Yet, as China’s own fo... Read More about Chinese Fans’ Engagement with Football: Transnationalism, Authenticity and Identity.

An asset-based community development approach to reducing alcohol harm : exploring barriers and facilitators to community mobilisation at initial implementation stage (2021)
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Ure, C., Hargreaves, S., Burns, E., Coffey, M., Audrey, S., Ardern, K., & Cook, P. (2021). An asset-based community development approach to reducing alcohol harm : exploring barriers and facilitators to community mobilisation at initial implementation stage. Health and Place, 68, 102504. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2020.102504

Globally there is a need to engage communities in actions to reduce alcohol harm. This paper reports on the initial implementation phase of an asset-based community development (ABCD) approach to reducing alcohol harm in ten pre-identified areas acro... Read More about An asset-based community development approach to reducing alcohol harm : exploring barriers and facilitators to community mobilisation at initial implementation stage.

Addressing unpredictability may be the key to improving performance with current clinically prescribed myoelectric prostheses (2021)
Journal Article
Chadwell, A., Kenney, L., Thies, S., Head, J., Galpin, A., & Baker, R. (2021). Addressing unpredictability may be the key to improving performance with current clinically prescribed myoelectric prostheses. Scientific reports, 11, 3300. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-82764-6

The efferent control chain for an upper-limb myoelectric prosthesis can be separated into 3 key areas: signal generation, signal acquisition, and device response. Data were collected from twenty trans-radial myoelectric prosthesis users using their o... Read More about Addressing unpredictability may be the key to improving performance with current clinically prescribed myoelectric prostheses.

Evaluating cognitive processing and preferences through brain responses towards country of origin for wines: the role of gender and involvement (2021)
Journal Article
Pagan, K., Giraldi, J., Maheshwari, V., Paula, A., & Oliveira, J. (2021). Evaluating cognitive processing and preferences through brain responses towards country of origin for wines: the role of gender and involvement. International Journal of Wine Business Research, 33(4), 481-501. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijwbr-08-2020-0043

Purpose This study aims to analyse the impact of the country of origin of wines on cognitive processing and preferences through brain responses for consumers from the perspective of gender and the level of involvement. Design/methodology/approach... Read More about Evaluating cognitive processing and preferences through brain responses towards country of origin for wines: the role of gender and involvement.

Pathways linking biodiversity to human health : a conceptual framework (2021)
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conceptual framework. Environment International, 150, 106420. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2021.106420

Biodiversity is a cornerstone of human health and well-being. However, while evidence of the contributions of nature to human health is rapidly building, research into how biodiversity relates to human health remains limited in important respects. In... Read More about Pathways linking biodiversity to human health : a conceptual framework.

Numerical study of engine performance and emissions for port injection of ammonia into a gasoline\ethanol dual-fuel spark ignition engine (2021)
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Salek, F., Babaie, M., Shakeri, A., Hosseini, S., Bodisco, T., & Zare, A. (2021). Numerical study of engine performance and emissions for port injection of ammonia into a gasoline\ethanol dual-fuel spark ignition engine. Applied Sciences, 11(4), 1441. https://doi.org/10.3390/app11041441

This study aims to investigate the effect of the port injection of ammonia on performance, knock and NOx emission across a range of engine speeds in a gasoline/ethanol dual-fuel engine. An experimentally validated numerical model of a naturally aspir... Read More about Numerical study of engine performance and emissions for port injection of ammonia into a gasoline\ethanol dual-fuel spark ignition engine.

Role of circular RNAs in colorectal tumor microenvironment (2021)
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Viralippurath Ashraf, J., Sasidharan Nair, V., Saleh, R., & Elkord, E. (2021). Role of circular RNAs in colorectal tumor microenvironment. Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy, 137, 111351. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopha.2021.111351

Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are a class of endogenous noncoding RNA, which were previously considered as a byproduct of RNA splicing error. Numerous studies have demonstrated the altered expression of circRNAs in organ tissues during pathological condit... Read More about Role of circular RNAs in colorectal tumor microenvironment.

Infection with Trypanosoma lewisi or Trypanosoma musculi may promote the spread of Toxoplasma gondii (2021)
Journal Article
Gao, J., Yi, S., Geng, G., Xu, Z., Hide, G., Lun, Z., & Lai, D. (2021). Infection with Trypanosoma lewisi or Trypanosoma musculi may promote the spread of Toxoplasma gondii. Parasitology, 148(6), 703-711. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031182021000196

Toxoplasma gondii can infect almost all warm-blooded vertebrates with pathogensis being largely influenced by the host immune status. As important epidemiological hosts, rodents are globally distributed and are also commonly found infected with ha... Read More about Infection with Trypanosoma lewisi or Trypanosoma musculi may promote the spread of Toxoplasma gondii.

Coronavirus disease 2019 ( COVID ‐19) and individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Nigeria (2021)
Journal Article
Ijezie, O., Okagbue, H., Oloyede, O., Heaslip, V., Davies, P., & Healy, J. (2021). Coronavirus disease 2019 ( COVID ‐19) and individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Nigeria. Journal of Public Affairs, 21(4), https://doi.org/10.1002/pa.2601

This article chronicles the present situation of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) in Nigeria. A systematic search was conducted on three bibliographic databases: MEDLINE Complet... Read More about Coronavirus disease 2019 ( COVID ‐19) and individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Nigeria.