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Co-Production In Crisis? Shared Challenges For Policing And Academia (2020)
Report
Aston, E. (2020). Co-Production In Crisis? Shared Challenges For Policing And Academia. N8 Policing Research Partnership

Published in the N8 PRP Annual Report 2019/20: https://n8prp.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/12455_N8_Policing_Report_2020_WEB-1.pdf

Insect Pollination and Sustainable Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa (2020)
Journal Article
Tolera, K., & Ballantyne, G. (2021). Insect Pollination and Sustainable Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Pollination Ecology, 27(2), 36-46

We are currently seeing an expansion of pollinator-dependent crops in many parts of the world, but also growing evidence for pollinator population declines and loss of pollinator habitat. Climate change and population growth will place additional dem... Read More about Insect Pollination and Sustainable Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Clinical application of physical-activity monitoring in patients with CIEDs (2020)
Journal Article
Callum, K., Muggeridge, D. J., Giggins, O. M., Crabtree, D. R., Gorely, T., & Leslie, S. J. (2020). Clinical application of physical-activity monitoring in patients with CIEDs. British Journal of Cardiology, 27, 115-118. https://doi.org/10.5837/bjc.2020.0

Regular physical activity for secondary prevention in cardiovascular disease has many well-recognised benefits, with declines in physical activity being associated with worsening cardiovascular disease, suboptimal treatment or worsening comorbidities... Read More about Clinical application of physical-activity monitoring in patients with CIEDs.

Design, synthesis and anti-inflammatory activity of imidazol-5-yl pyridine derivatives as p38α/MAPK14 inhibitor (2020)
Journal Article
Ali, E. M., Abdel-Maksoud, M. S., Hassan, R. M., Mersal, K. I., Ammar, U. M., Se-In, C., He-Soo, H., Kim, H., Lee, A., Lee, K., & Oh, C. (2021). Design, synthesis and anti-inflammatory activity of imidazol-5-yl pyridine derivatives as p38α/MAPK14 inhibit

P38α/MAPK14 is intracellular signalling regulator involved in biosynthesis of inflammatory mediator cytokines (TNF-α, IL-1, IL-6, and IL-1b), which induce the production of inflammatory proteins (iNOS, NF-kB, and COX-2). In this study, drug repurposi... Read More about Design, synthesis and anti-inflammatory activity of imidazol-5-yl pyridine derivatives as p38α/MAPK14 inhibitor.

Life course longitudinal growth and risk of knee osteoarthritis at age 53 years: evidence from the 1946 British birth cohort study (2020)
Journal Article
Staines, K. A., Hardy, R., Samvelyan, H. J., Ward, K. A., & Cooper, R. (2021). Life course longitudinal growth and risk of knee osteoarthritis at age 53 years: evidence from the 1946 British birth cohort study. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 29(3), 335-340

Objective To examine the relationship between height gain across childhood and adolescence with knee osteoarthritis in the MRC National Survey of Health and Development (NSHD). Materials and methods Data are from 3035 male and female participant... Read More about Life course longitudinal growth and risk of knee osteoarthritis at age 53 years: evidence from the 1946 British birth cohort study.

The critically endangered flapper skate (Dipturus intermedius): Recommendations from the first flapper skate working group meeting (2020)
Journal Article
Garbett, A., Phillips, N. D., Houghton, J. D., Prodöhl, P., Thorburn, J., Loca, S. L., …Collins, P. C. (2021). The critically endangered flapper skate (Dipturus intermedius): Recommendations from the first flapper skate working group meeting. Marine Po

The flapper skate, Dipturus intermedius (Parnell, 1837), is the largest of all European skate and rays (Superorder: Batoidea). It is found in coastal waters of the European continental shelf and slopes in the North-East (NE) Atlantic. With the 2006 I... Read More about The critically endangered flapper skate (Dipturus intermedius): Recommendations from the first flapper skate working group meeting.

How to become a generalist species? Individual niche variation across habitat transformation gradients (2020)
Journal Article
Liang, D., Yang, S., Pagani-Núñez, E., He, C., Liu, Y., Goodale, E., …Hu, J. (2020). How to become a generalist species? Individual niche variation across habitat transformation gradients. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 8, Article 597450. https:/

Species in transformed habitats, frequently labeled as environmental generalists, tend to show broader niches than species in natural habitats. However, how population niche expansion translates into changes in the niches of individual organisms rema... Read More about How to become a generalist species? Individual niche variation across habitat transformation gradients.

Enduro World Series (EWS) Mountain Biking Injuries: A 2-year Prospective Study of 2010 Riders (2020)
Journal Article
Palmer, D., Florida-James, G., & Ball, C. (2020). Enduro World Series (EWS) Mountain Biking Injuries: A 2-year Prospective Study of 2010 Riders. International Journal of Sports Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1055/a-1320-1116

The sport of Enduro is the newest International Cycling Union sanctioned discipline in mountain biking. There are a number of studies reporting mountain biking injury to date however there are none detailing injuries in Enduro. The aim of the present... Read More about Enduro World Series (EWS) Mountain Biking Injuries: A 2-year Prospective Study of 2010 Riders.

The impact of urbanization on body size of Barn Swallows Hirundo rustica gutturalis (2020)
Journal Article
Zhao, Y., Liu, Y., Scordato, E. S., Lee, M., Xing, X., Pan, X., …Pagani‐Núñez, E. (2021). The impact of urbanization on body size of Barn Swallows Hirundo rustica gutturalis. Ecology and Evolution, 11(1), 612-625. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7088

Urbanization implies a dramatic impact on ecosystems, which may lead to drastic phenotypic differences between urban and nonurban individuals. For instance, urbanization is associated with increased metabolic costs, which may constrain body size, but... Read More about The impact of urbanization on body size of Barn Swallows Hirundo rustica gutturalis.

From Voight-Kampff to Baseline Test: By Way of an Introduction (2020)
Book Chapter
Neill, C. (2021). From Voight-Kampff to Baseline Test: By Way of an Introduction. In C. Neill (Ed.), Lacanian Perspectives on Blade Runner 2049 (1-11). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56754-5_1

Focusing the differences between the famous Voight-Kampff test of the original Blade Runner film and the apparently more straightforward Baseline test of Blade Runner 2049, this essay seeks to draw out some key conceptual shifts in emphasis between t... Read More about From Voight-Kampff to Baseline Test: By Way of an Introduction.

Early pregnancy maternal progesterone administration alters pituitary and testis function and steroid profile in male fetuses (2020)
Journal Article
Siemienowicz, K. J., Wang, Y., Marečková, M., Nio-Kobayashi, J., Fowler, P. A., Rae, M. T., & Duncan, W. C. (2020). Early pregnancy maternal progesterone administration alters pituitary and testis function and steroid profile in male fetuses. Scientific

Maternal exposure to increased steroid hormones, including estrogens, androgens or glucocorticoids during pregnancy results in chronic conditions in offspring that manifest in adulthood. Little is known about effects of progesterone administration in... Read More about Early pregnancy maternal progesterone administration alters pituitary and testis function and steroid profile in male fetuses.

Distribution and thermal niche of the common skate species complex in the north-east Atlantic (2020)
Journal Article
Frost, M., Neat, F. C., Stirling, D., Bendall, V., Noble, L. R., & Jones, C. S. (2020). Distribution and thermal niche of the common skate species complex in the north-east Atlantic. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 656, 65-74. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps

Temperature is one of the most significant variables affecting the geographic distribution and physiology of elasmobranchs. Differing thermal gradients across a species' range can lead to adaptive divergence and differing developmental times, an impo... Read More about Distribution and thermal niche of the common skate species complex in the north-east Atlantic.

The role of MSC therapy in attenuating the damaging effects of the cytokine storm induced by COVID-19 on the heart and cardiovascular system (2020)
Journal Article
Ellison-Hughes, G. M., Colley, L., O'Brien, K. A., Roberts, K. A., Agbaedeng, T. A., & Ross, M. (2020). The role of MSC therapy in attenuating the damaging effects of the cytokine storm induced by COVID-19 on the heart and cardiovascular system. Frontiers

The global pandemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has led to 47m infected cases and 1.2m (2.6%) deaths. A hallmark of more severe cases of SARS-CoV-2 in patients with a... Read More about The role of MSC therapy in attenuating the damaging effects of the cytokine storm induced by COVID-19 on the heart and cardiovascular system.

Molecular detection of Coxiella burnetii infection in small mammals from Moshi Rural and Urban Districts, northern Tanzania (2020)
Journal Article
Theonest, N. O., Carter, R. W., Kasagama, E., Keyyu, J. D., Shirima, G. M., Tarimo, R., Thomas, K. M., Wheelhouse, N., Maro, V. P., Haydon, D. T., Buza, J. J., Allan, K. J., & Halliday, J. E. (2021). Molecular detection of Coxiella burnetii infection in s

Coxiella burnetii is an obligate intracellular bacterium that causes Q fever, a zoonotic disease of public health importance. In northern Tanzania, Q fever is a known cause of human febrile illness, but little is known about its distribution in anima... Read More about Molecular detection of Coxiella burnetii infection in small mammals from Moshi Rural and Urban Districts, northern Tanzania.

Why is mock care not a good proxy for predicting hand contamination during patient care? (2020)
Journal Article
King, M., Wilson, A., López-García, M., Proctor, J., Peckham, D., Clifton, I., …Noakes, C. (2021). Why is mock care not a good proxy for predicting hand contamination during patient care?. Journal of Hospital Infection, 109, 44-51. https://doi.org/10.

Healthcare worker (HCW) behaviours, such as the sequence of their contacts with surfaces and hand hygiene moments, are important for understanding disease transmission. Aim To propose a method for recording sequences of HCW behaviours during mock v... Read More about Why is mock care not a good proxy for predicting hand contamination during patient care?.

The Local Provision of Restorative Justice in Scotland: an Exploratory Empirical Study (2020)
Journal Article
Maglione, G., Buchan, J., & Robertson, L. (2022). The Local Provision of Restorative Justice in Scotland: an Exploratory Empirical Study. European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, 28, 617-640. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10610-020-09470-3

This article presents the results of the first empirical qualitative research on the provision of restorative justice (RJ) in Scotland, based on interviews with 14 practitioners. In Scotland, RJ has attracted the attention of penal reformers and prac... Read More about The Local Provision of Restorative Justice in Scotland: an Exploratory Empirical Study.

Design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of novel imidazole derivatives possessing terminal sulphonamides as potential BRAFV600E inhibitors (2020)
Journal Article
Ali, E. M., Abdel-Maksoud, M. S., Ammar, U. M., Mersal, K. I., Ho Yoo, K., Jooryeong, P., & Oh, C. (2021). Design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of novel imidazole derivatives possessing terminal sulphonamides as potential BRAFV600E inhibitors. Bio

BRAF V600E mutation has been detected in various malignant tumours. Developing of potent BRAF V600E inhibitors is considered a leading step in the way to cure different cancer types. In the current work, a series of 38 4-(1H-imidazol-5-yl)pyridin-2-a... Read More about Design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of novel imidazole derivatives possessing terminal sulphonamides as potential BRAFV600E inhibitors.

Public policy for career guidance: Imagining a more ambitious agenda (2020)
Digital Artefact
Robertson, P. (2020). Public policy for career guidance: Imagining a more ambitious agenda. [Blog]

This short article argues that career development services are relevant to a wider range of public policy objectives than have previously been considered.