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Collaborative state estimation of lithium‐ion battery based on multi‐time scale low‐pass filter forgetting factor recursive least squares ‐ double extended Kalman filtering algorithm. (2022)
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LONG, T., WANG, S., CAO, W., REN, P., HE, M. and FERNANDEZ, C. 2022. Collaborative state estimation of lithium-ion battery based on multi-time scale low-pass filter forgetting factor recursive least squares - double extended Kalman filtering algorithm. International journal of circuit theory and applications [online], 50(6), pages 2108-2127. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/cta.3250

For the lithium battery management system and real-time safety monitoring, two issues are of great significance, namely, the ability to accurately update the model parameters in real time and to accurately estimate the state of charge and health. In... Read More about Collaborative state estimation of lithium‐ion battery based on multi‐time scale low‐pass filter forgetting factor recursive least squares ‐ double extended Kalman filtering algorithm..

Occurrence and fate of chiral and achiral drugs in estuarine water: a case study of the Clyde estuary, Scotland. (2022)
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PETRIE, B. and MOFFAT, C.F. 2022. Occurrence and fate of chiral and achiral drugs in estuarine water: a case study of the Clyde estuary, Scotland. Environmental science process and impacts [online], 24(4), pages 547-556. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1039/D1EM00500F

There is currently a lack of enantiospecific studies on chiral drugs in estuarine environments. In this study, the occurrence and fate of 20 prescription and illicit drugs, metabolites and associated contaminants were investigated in the Clyde Estuar... Read More about Occurrence and fate of chiral and achiral drugs in estuarine water: a case study of the Clyde estuary, Scotland..

Enhanced desorption of fluoxetine from polyethylene terephthalate microplastics in gastric fluid and sea water. (2022)
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WAGSTAFF, A. and PETRIE, B. 2022. Enhanced desorption of fluoxetine from polyethylene terephthalate microplastics in gastric fluid and sea water. Environmental chemistry letters [online], 20(2), pages 975-982. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10311-022-01405-0

There are concerns that microplastics act as a vector of pharmaceuticals in the aquatic environment. Most studies have focussed on pharmaceutical adsorption and have not investigated desorption in the various matrices that microplastics enter. Theref... Read More about Enhanced desorption of fluoxetine from polyethylene terephthalate microplastics in gastric fluid and sea water..

A novel feedback correction-adaptive Kalman filtering method for the whole-life-cycle state of charge and closed-circuit voltage prediction of lithium-ion batteries based on the second-order electrical equivalent circuit model. (2022)
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WANG, S., TAKYI-ANINAKWA, P., FAN, Y., YU, C., JIN, S., FERNANDEZ, C. and STROE, D.-I. 2022. A novel feedback correction-adaptive Kalman filtering method for the whole-life-cycle state of charge and closed-circuit voltage prediction of lithium-ion batteries based on the second-order electrical equivalent circuit model. International journal of electrical power and energy systems [online], 139, article 108020. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijepes.2022.108020

Accurate state of charge (SOC) and closed-circuit voltage (CCV) prediction is essential for lithium-ion batteries and their model performance. In this study, a novel feedback correction-adaptive Kalman filtering (FC-AKF) method is proposed for the on... Read More about A novel feedback correction-adaptive Kalman filtering method for the whole-life-cycle state of charge and closed-circuit voltage prediction of lithium-ion batteries based on the second-order electrical equivalent circuit model..

A novel collaborative multiscale weighting factor‐adaptive Kalman filtering method for the time‐varying whole‐life‐cycle state of charge estimation of lithium‐ion batteries. (2022)
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WANG, S., FAN, Y., YU, C., JIN, S., TAKYI-ANINAKWA, P., FERNANDEZ, C. and STROE, D.-I. 2022. A novel collaborative multiscale weighting factor-adaptive Kalman filtering method for the time-varying whole-life-cycle state of charge estimation of lithium-ion batteries. International journal of energy research [online], 46(6), pages 7704-7721. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/er.7672

Accurate state of charge (SOC) estimation is essential for the whole-life-cycle safety guarantee and protection of lithium-ion batteries, which is quite difficult to realize. In this study, a novel weighting factor-adaptive Kalman filtering (WF-AKF)... Read More about A novel collaborative multiscale weighting factor‐adaptive Kalman filtering method for the time‐varying whole‐life‐cycle state of charge estimation of lithium‐ion batteries..

Investigating clinicians’ determinants of antimicrobial prescribing behaviour using the theoretical domains framework. (2022)
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TALKHAN, H., STEWART, D., MCINTOSH, T., ZIGLAM, H., ABDULROUF, P.V., AL-HAIL, M., DIAB, M. and CUNNINGHAM, S. 2022. Investigating clinicians' determinants of antimicrobial prescribing behaviour using the theoretical domains framework. Journal of hospital infection [online], 122, pages 72-83. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2022.01.007

Aim: To identify and quantify potential determinants of antimicrobial prescribing behaviour, using the Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF). Methods: A cross-sectional survey involving doctors (∼4000) and pharmacists (∼400) working within Hamad Medica... Read More about Investigating clinicians’ determinants of antimicrobial prescribing behaviour using the theoretical domains framework..

Future directions for the discovery of natural product-derived immunomodulating drugs: an IUPHAR positional review. (2022)
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WAINWRIGHT, C.L., TEIXEIRA, M.M., ADELSON, D.L. et al. 2022. Future directions for the discovery of natural product-derived immunomodulating drugs: an IUPHAR positional review. Pharmacological research [online], 177, article 106076. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phrs.2022.106076

Drug discovery from natural sources is going through a renaissance, having spent many decades in the shadow of synthetic molecule drug discovery, despite the fact that natural product-derived compounds occupy a much greater chemical space than those... Read More about Future directions for the discovery of natural product-derived immunomodulating drugs: an IUPHAR positional review..

Biological activity and stability of aeruginosamides from cyanobacteria. (2022)
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CEGLOWSKA, M., KWIECIEŃ, P., SZUBERT, K., BRZUZAN, P., FLORCZYK, M., EDWARDS, C., KOSAKOWSKA, A. and MAZUR-MARZEC, H. 2022. Biological activity and stability of aeruginosamides from cyanobacteria. Marine drugs [online], 20(2): pharmaceutical potential of marine microorganisms, article 93. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/md20020093

Aeruginosamides (AEGs) are classified as cyanobactins, ribosomally synthesized peptides with post-translational modifications. They have been identified in cyanobacteria of genera Microcystis, Oscillatoria, and Limnoraphis. In this work, the new data... Read More about Biological activity and stability of aeruginosamides from cyanobacteria..

Student pharmacist practice-based interprofessional education in Scotland: a qualitative study of stakeholders' views and experiences. (2022)
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JEBARA, T., POWER, A., BOYTER, A., JACOB, S.A., PORTLOCK, J. and CUNNINGHAM, S. 2023. Student pharmacist practice-based interprofessional education in Scotland: a qualitative study of stakeholders' views and experiences. Journal of interprofessional care [online], 37(1), pages 73-82. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/13561820.2021.2011843

Scottish Government funding supports practice-based experiential learning (EL) for student pharmacists. We explored views and experiences of key stakeholders on current practice and future development of interprofessional education (IPE) in EL includ... Read More about Student pharmacist practice-based interprofessional education in Scotland: a qualitative study of stakeholders' views and experiences..

The fate of waste drilling fluids from oil and gas industry activities in the exploration and production operations. (2022)
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NJUGUNA, J., SIDDIQUE, S., KWROFFIE, L.B., PIROMRAT, S., ADDAE-AFOAKWA, K., EKEH-ADEGBOTOLU, U., OLUYEMI, G., YATES, K., MISHRA, A.K. and MOLLER, L. 2022. The fate of waste drilling fluids from oil and gas industry activities in the exploration and production. Waste management [online], 139, pages 362-380. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2021.12.025

Operational discharges from oil and gas exploration industry, accidental spillage, or improperly disposed drilling wastes has serious detrimental effects on human and the environment. The water- and oil-based fluids wastes are generated every year al... Read More about The fate of waste drilling fluids from oil and gas industry activities in the exploration and production operations..

Molecular fluorinated cobalt phthalocyanine immobilized on ordered mesoporous carbon as an electrochemical sensing platform for sensitive detection of hydrogen peroxide and hydrazine in alkaline medium. (2022)
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YUAN, B., SUN, P., FERNANDEZ, C., WANG, H., GUAN, P., XU, H. and NIU, Y. 2022. Molecular fluorinated cobalt phthalocyanine immobilized on ordered mesoporous carbon as an electrochemical sensing platform for sensitive detection of hydrogen peroxide and hydrazine in alkaline medium. Journal of electroanalytical chemistry [online], 906, article 116019. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jelechem.2022.116019

Non-precious molecular cobalt phthalocyanine (CoPc) complexes have been considered to be promising electrocatalysts due to diversity of substituents and carbon supporting matrixes. Here, we report a highly dispersed fluorinated CoPc (CoPcF16) molecul... Read More about Molecular fluorinated cobalt phthalocyanine immobilized on ordered mesoporous carbon as an electrochemical sensing platform for sensitive detection of hydrogen peroxide and hydrazine in alkaline medium..

Pharmacy and medical student interprofessional education placement week. (2022)
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JEBARA, T., THOMAS, I., CUNNINGHAM, S. and RUSHWORTH, G.F. 2022. Pharmacy and medical student interprofessional education placement week. Clinical teacher [online], 19(2), pages 143-149. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/tct.13450

Developing collaborative practice through interprofessional education (IPE) activities in undergraduate healthcare curricula is advocated by the World Health Organisation and the regulatory bodies for Medicine and Pharmacy within the UK. Our local fa... Read More about Pharmacy and medical student interprofessional education placement week..

Patients’ experiences of medicines on initiation of antineoplastic agents for the treatment of colorectal cancer: a qualitative study. (2021)
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BRINCAT, A., VELLA BONANNO, P., STEWART, D. and WEIDMANN, A.E. 2021. Patients' experiences of medicines on initiation of antineoplastic agents for the treatment of colorectal cancer: a qualitative study. BMJ open [online], 11(12), article e047749. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-047749

Objective To explore the patients' experiences on initiation of treatment with antineoplastic medicines for colorectal cancer. Design A qualitative study using semistructured, face-to-face interviews based on the adapted patients' lived experience wi... Read More about Patients’ experiences of medicines on initiation of antineoplastic agents for the treatment of colorectal cancer: a qualitative study..

A novel intelligent weight decreasing firefly–particle filtering method for accurate state‐of‐charge estimation of lithium‐ion batteries. (2021)
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QIAO, J., WANG, S., YU, C., YANG, X. and FERNANDEZ, C. 2022. A novel intelligent weight decreasing firefly-particle filtering method for accurate state-of-charge estimation of lithium-ion batteries. International journal of energy research [online], 46(5), pages 6613-6622Early View. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/er.7596

Accurate state-of-charge estimation plays an extremely crucial role in battery management systems. To realize the real-time and precise state-of-charge estimation, an intelligent weight decreasing firefly–particle filtering algorithm is proposed. In... Read More about A novel intelligent weight decreasing firefly–particle filtering method for accurate state‐of‐charge estimation of lithium‐ion batteries..

The incidence and determinants of metabolic syndrome amongst a group of migrants to Qatar: a prospective longitudinal observational cohort study 24-months post-migration. (2021)
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AL-ADAWI, R.M., PRABHU, K.S., STEWART, D., RYAN, C., ABDELAZIZ, H., ELEDRISI, M., IBRAHIM, M.I.M., UDDIN, S. and TONNA, A.P. 2022. The incidence and determinants of metabolic syndrome amongst a group of migrants to Qatar: a prospective longitudinal observational cohort study 24-months post-migration. Journal of clinical medicine [online], 11(1), article 34. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm11010034

While there is some evidence that migration to Western countries increases metabolic syndrome (MetS) risk, there is a lack of data pertaining to migration to the Middle East. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between migration and MetS... Read More about The incidence and determinants of metabolic syndrome amongst a group of migrants to Qatar: a prospective longitudinal observational cohort study 24-months post-migration..

Recoverable resources from pot ale and spent wash from Scotch whisky production. (2021)
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EDWARDS, C., MCNERNEY, C.C., LAWTON, L.A., PALMER, J., MACGREGOR, K., JACK, F., COCKBURN, P., PLUMMER, A., LOVEGROVE, A. and WOOD, A. 2022. Recoverable resources from pot ale and spent wash from Scotch whisky production. Resources, conservation and recycling [online], 179, article number 106114. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.106114

Scotch Whisky is an important global commodity which generates extensive co-product known as pot ale or spent wash (> 10 L co-product per L whisky). Whilst this is often used as fertiliser or animal feed, a proportion requires disposal resulting in c... Read More about Recoverable resources from pot ale and spent wash from Scotch whisky production..

Consumption of a recommended serving of wheat bran cereals significantly increases human faecal butyrate levels in healthy volunteers and reduces markers of inflammation ex vivo. (2021)
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NEACSU, M., ANDERSON, S.E., VERSCHOOR, P., VAUGHAN, N.J., HORGAN, G.W., HULSHOF, T., DUNCAN, S.H., DUTHIE, S. and RUSSELL, W.R. 2021. Consumption of a recommended serving of wheat bran cereals significantly increases human faecal butyrate levels in healthy volunteers and reduces markers of inflammation ex vivo. Recent progress in nutrition [online], 1(4), article number 2104002. Available from: https://doi.org/10.21926/rpn.2104002

Wheat bran cereals are an important source of dietary fibre. The aim of the study was to investigate if a high intake (120 g) of fibre rich breakfast cereal (which delivers the UK Government guidelines for fibre intake in one serving but is three-fol... Read More about Consumption of a recommended serving of wheat bran cereals significantly increases human faecal butyrate levels in healthy volunteers and reduces markers of inflammation ex vivo..

Staff and student experiences and attitudes towards smoking and smoking cessation, University of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. (2021)
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TOBAIQY, M., THOMAS, D., MACLURE, A., STEWART, D. and MACLURE, K. 2022. Staff and student experiences and attitudes towards smoking and smoking cessation, University of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Tobacco prevention and cessation [online], 7(December), article 73. Available from: https://doi.org/10.18332/tpc/144178

Introduction: Tobacco smoking causes an estimated 7 million deaths per annum with 70 thousand of those occurring in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) where the National Transformation Program highlights the need to prioritize smoking cessation. The o... Read More about Staff and student experiences and attitudes towards smoking and smoking cessation, University of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia..

Competency-based assessment of practice-based experiential learning in undergraduate pharmacy programmes. (2021)
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JACOB, S.A., POWER, A., PORTLOCK, J., JEBARA, T., CUNNINGHAM, S. and BOYTER, A.C. 2021. Competency-based assessment of practice-based experiential learning in undergraduate pharmacy programmes. Pharmacy practice [online], 19(4), article 2482. Available from: https://doi.org/10.18549/PharmPract.2021.4.2482

Objective: To obtain feedback from experiential leaning (EL) leads about how competency-based assessments could be undertaken by EL facilitators, and to scope existing EL assessment structures in undergraduate Masters in Pharmacy (MPharm) programmes... Read More about Competency-based assessment of practice-based experiential learning in undergraduate pharmacy programmes..

A novel state of charge estimation method of lithium‐ion batteries based on the IWOA‐AdaBoost‐Elman algorithm. (2021)
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LI, H., WANG, S, ISLAM, M., BOBOBEE, E.D., ZOU, C. and FERNANDEZ, C. 2022. A novel state of charge estimation method of lithium-ion batteries based on the IWOA-AdaBoost-Elman algorithm. International journal of energy research [online], 46(4), pages 5134-5151. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/er.7505

Lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery is a very complex nonlinear system. The data-driven state of charge (SOC) estimation method of Li-ion battery avoids complex equivalent circuit modeling and parameter identification, which can describe the nonlinearity of... Read More about A novel state of charge estimation method of lithium‐ion batteries based on the IWOA‐AdaBoost‐Elman algorithm..