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Oxidative stress in the cyanobacterium microcystis aeruginosa PCC 7813: comparison of different analytical cell stress detection assays. (2020)
Journal Article
MENEZES, I., MAXWELL-MCQUEENEY, D., CAPELO-NETO, J., PESTANA, C.J., EDWARDS, C. and LAWTON, L.A. 2021. Oxidative stress in the cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa PCC 7813: comparison of different analytical cell stress detection assays. Chemosphere [online], 269, article ID 128766. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.128766

Cyanobacterial blooms are observed when high cell densities occur and are often dangerous to human and animal health due to the presence of cyanotoxins. Conventional drinking water treatment technology struggles to efficiently remove cyanobacterial c... Read More about Oxidative stress in the cyanobacterium microcystis aeruginosa PCC 7813: comparison of different analytical cell stress detection assays..

Methodology of exercise resources development for professionals providing services for people with Parkinson’s: a technical report. (2020)
Journal Article
RAMASWAMY, B., JONES, J., BAKER, K. and OLIVER, B. 2021. Methodology of exercise resources development for professionals providing services for people with Parkinson’s: a technical report. Physiotherapy [online], 112, pages 49-54. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physio.2020.10.004

The complexity of motor and non-motor symptoms seen in Parkinson’s, with their variability and progressive nature, have a significant and potentially detrimental effect on mobility and subsequently quality of life for those with Parkinson’s. A consid... Read More about Methodology of exercise resources development for professionals providing services for people with Parkinson’s: a technical report..

Electroanalytical determination of gallic acid in red and white wine samples using cobalt oxide nanoparticles-modified carbon-paste electrodes. (2020)
Journal Article
CHIKERE, C.O., HOBBEN, E., FAISAL, N.H., KONG THOO LIN, P. and FERNANDEZ, C. 2021. Electroanalytical determination of gallic acid in red and white wine samples using cobalt oxide nanoparticles-modified carbon-paste electrodes. Microchemical journal [online], 160(part B), article ID 105668. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.microc.2020.105668

Beverages like wines, have exhibited a high level of antioxidant capacity, specifically from compounds like Gallic acid (GA) and their derivatives. GA has shown great importance in the food industry and pharmaceutical industry as a food additive, ant... Read More about Electroanalytical determination of gallic acid in red and white wine samples using cobalt oxide nanoparticles-modified carbon-paste electrodes..

Conducting high quality scoping reviews: challenges and solutions. (2020)
Journal Article
KHALIL, H., PETERS, M.D.J., TRICCO, A.C., POLLOCK, D., ALEXANDER, L., MCINERNEY, P., GODFREY, C.M. and MUNN, Z. 2021. Conducting high quality scoping reviews-challenges and solutions. Journal of clinical epidemiology [online], 130, pages 156-160. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2020.10.009

Objectives: Scoping reviews are being increasingly used by researchers. The objective of this article was to outline some challenges and potential solutions to improve the conduct and reporting of scoping reviews. Study Design and Setting: The JBI sc... Read More about Conducting high quality scoping reviews: challenges and solutions..

Study of the effect of paracetamol binded in polymeric nanoparticles on dafnia magna. (2020)
Conference Proceeding
HAVELKOVA, B., SEHNAL, K., BANAS, D., KEPINSKA, M., RUTTKAY-NEDECKY, B., STANKOVA, M., FERNANDEZ, C., BEKLOVA, M. and KIZEK, R. 2020. Study of the effect of paracetamol binded in polymeric nanoparticles on dafnia magna. In Proceedings of 12th Nanomaterials international conference (NANOCON 2020): research and application, 21-23 October 2020, [virtual conference]. Ostrava: Tanger Ltd [online], pages 318-323. Available from: https://doi.org/10.37904/nanocon.2020.3747

Drugs are important xenobiotics in the environment. Their use increases with the growth of the human population, but also in agricultural primary production. Paracetamol (PAR) is a widely used analgesic and antipyretic and its production is still gro... Read More about Study of the effect of paracetamol binded in polymeric nanoparticles on dafnia magna..

Ownership of fish. (2020)
Journal Article
ANDERSON, C. 2020. Ownership of fish. Scots law times [online], 2020(33), pages 229-233. Available from: http://westlaw.co.uk

This article considers the issues raised in Borwick Development Solutions Ltd v Clear Water Fisheries Ltd (CA) on whether fish which lived in fishing lakes were the landowner's property, or whether qualified property rights existed over them as wild... Read More about Ownership of fish..

A soft-computing framework for automated optimization of multiple product quality criteria with application to micro-fluidic chip production. (2020)
Journal Article
ZAVOIANU, A.-C., LUGHOFER, E., POLLAK, R., EITZINGER, C. and RADAUER, T. 2021. A soft-computing framework for automated optimization of multiple product quality criteria with application to micro-fluidic chip production. Applied soft computing [online], 98, article ID 106827. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2020.106827

We describe a general strategy for optimizing the quality of products of industrial batch processes that comprise multiple production stages. We focus on the particularities of applying this strategy in the field of micro-fluidic chip production. Our... Read More about A soft-computing framework for automated optimization of multiple product quality criteria with application to micro-fluidic chip production..

Web‐based efficient dual attention networks to detect COVID‐19 from X‐ray images. (2020)
Journal Article
SARKER, M.M.K., MAKHLOUF, Y., BANU, S.F., CHAMBON, S., RADEVA, P. and PUIG, D. 2020. Web-based efficient dual attention networks to detect COVID-19 from X-ray images. Electronics letters [online], 56(24), pages 1298-1301. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1049/el.2020.1962

Rapid and accurate detection of COVID-19 is a crucial step to control the virus. For this purpose, the authors designed a web-based COVID-19 detector using efficient dual attention networks, called ‘EDANet’. The EDANet architecture is based on invert... Read More about Web‐based efficient dual attention networks to detect COVID‐19 from X‐ray images..

Development of a tool to assess core cardiorespiratory physiotherapy skills: a Delphi study. (2020)
Journal Article
ROBERTS, F. and COOPER, K. 2022. Development of a tool to assess core cardiorespiratory physiotherapy skills: a Delphi study. Physiotherapy theory and practice [online], 38(9), pages 1245-1253. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/09593985.2020.1827467

Purpose: This study reports on the development of an outcome measure designed to evaluate pre-registration physiotherapy students' ability in performing core cardiorespiratory skills. Method: A four round, e-Delphi study using an international panel... Read More about Development of a tool to assess core cardiorespiratory physiotherapy skills: a Delphi study..

A design technique for optimizing resonant coils and the energy transfer of inductive links. (2020)
Journal Article
HEIDARIAN, M. and BURGESS, S.J. 2021. A design technique for optimizing resonant coils and the energy transfer of inductive links. IEEE transactions on microwave theory and techniques [online], 69(1), pages 399-408. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/TMTT.2020.3028969

Power transfer efficiency (PTE) is a key performance parameter in development work on resonant inductive power transfer (IPT) systems. Geometrically optimizing the transmitter (Tx) and receiver (Rx) coil pair is a way of improving the IPT system's ef... Read More about A design technique for optimizing resonant coils and the energy transfer of inductive links..

Indies in Scotland: exploring the unique role of independent bookshops in Scotland’s towns and villages. (2020)
Journal Article
LAING, A. 2020. Indies in Scotland: exploring the unique role of independent bookshops in Scotland’s towns and villages. Publishing research quarterly [online], 36(4), pages 585-600. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12109-020-09759-5

This project explores the business practices and cultural place of independent bookshops in Scotland. The research examines the connections that independent bookshops have with their various stakeholders, and investigates the support and policy chang... Read More about Indies in Scotland: exploring the unique role of independent bookshops in Scotland’s towns and villages..

The Harrisons' practice in the context of global environmental policy and politics from the 1960s to 2019: a timeline. (2020)
Book Chapter
FREMANTLE, C., DOUGLAS, A. and PRITCHARD, D. 2020. The Harrisons' practice in the context of global environmental policy and politics from the 1960s to 2019: a timeline. In Cartiere, C. and Tan, L. (eds.). The Routledge companion to art in the public realm. Abingdon: Routledge, chapter 28, pages 314-332. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429450471-28

This chapter complements a previous chapter, 'In the time of art with policy' from the same book. The three authors, Fremantle, Douglas and Pritchard, offer different disciplinary perspectives to this analysis of global environmental policy and the... Read More about The Harrisons' practice in the context of global environmental policy and politics from the 1960s to 2019: a timeline..

In the time of art with policy: the practice of Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison alongside global environmental policy since the 1970s. (2020)
Book Chapter
FREMANTLE, C., DOUGLAS, A. and PRITCHARD, D. 2020. In the time of art with policy: the practice of Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison alongside global environmental policy since the 1970s. In Cartiere, C. and Tan, L. (eds.). The Routledge companion to art in the public realm. Abingdon: Routledge [online], chapter 27, pages 300-314. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429450471-27

From around 1970, the artists Helen Mayer Harrison (1927-2018) and Newton Harrison (b. 1932), known as ‘the Harrisons,’ started to focus on ecology and ecological systems, influenced by amongst other things, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring which had be... Read More about In the time of art with policy: the practice of Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison alongside global environmental policy since the 1970s..

Crisis communications and COVID 19. (2020)
Presentation / Conference
CRAWFORD, I. 2020. Crisis communications and COVID 19. Presented at 2020 RGU Knowledge bites for business, 16 October 2020, [virtual conference]. Aberdeen: Robert Gordon University [online]. Available from: https://tinyurl.com/xs2h89js

With the pandemic entering a second wave across the globe, organisations of all shapes and sizes must ensure they can respond to complex stakeholder demands within a dynamic and uncertain business environment, where the risk of a corporate crisis is... Read More about Crisis communications and COVID 19..

Effectiveness of combined shockwave therapy and plantar fascia stretching interventions in treating plantar heel pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol. [Protocol] (2020)
Other
BURTON, I., COOPER, K., ALEXANDER, L. and SWINTON, P.A. 2021. Effectiveness of combined shockwave therapy and plantar fascia stretching interventions in treating plantar heel pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol. [Protocol]. JBI evidence synthesis [online], 19(5), pages 1186-1192. Available from: https://doi.org/10.11124/JBIES-20-00186

Objective: The objective of this review is to synthesize the best available evidence on the effectiveness of interventions that have used a combination of extracorporeal shockwave therapy and plantar fascia–specific stretching to treat plantar heel p... Read More about Effectiveness of combined shockwave therapy and plantar fascia stretching interventions in treating plantar heel pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol. [Protocol].

The role of telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic across the interdisciplinary cancer team: implications for practice. (2020)
Journal Article
PATERSON, C., BACON, R., DWYER, R., MORRISON, K.S., TOOHEY, K., O'DEA, A., SLADE, J., MORTAZAVI, R., ROBERTS, C., PRANAVAN, G., COONEY, C., NAHON, I. and HAYES, S.C. 2020. The role of telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic across the interdisciplinary cancer team: implications for practice. Seminars in oncology nursing [online], 36(6), article ID 151090. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soncn.2020.151090

Objective: This literature review aims to explore the role of telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic across the interdisciplinary cancer care team. Data Sources: Electronic databases including CINAHL, MEDLINE, PsychINFO, Scopus, and gray literature... Read More about The role of telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic across the interdisciplinary cancer team: implications for practice..

Integrated health and social care in the community: a critical integrative review of the experiences and well-being needs of service users and their families. (2020)
Journal Article
HENDERSON, L., BAIN, H., ALLAN, E. and KENNEDY, C. 2021. Integrated health and social care in the community: a critical integrative review of the experiences and well-being needs of service users and their families. Health and social care in the community [online], 29(4), pages 1145-1168. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.13179

A need for people-centred health and social support systems is acknowledged as a global priority. Most nations face challenges in providing safe, effective, timely, affordable, coordinated care around the needs and preferences of people who access in... Read More about Integrated health and social care in the community: a critical integrative review of the experiences and well-being needs of service users and their families..

Barriers and facilitators to cervical screening among migrant women of African origin: a qualitative study in Finland. (2020)
Journal Article
IDEHEN, E.E., PIETILÄ, A.-M. and KANGASNIEMI, M. 2020. Barriers and facilitators to cervical screening among migrant women of African origin: a qualitative study in Finland. International journal of environmental research and public health [online], 17(20), article number 7473. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17207473

Globally, cervical cancer constitutes a substantial public health concern. Evidence recommends regular cervical cancer screening (CCS) for early detection of "precancerous lesions." Understanding the factors influencing screening participation among... Read More about Barriers and facilitators to cervical screening among migrant women of African origin: a qualitative study in Finland..