Sophia N. Economidou, Cristiane Patricia Pissinato Pere, Andrew Reid, Md Jasim Uddin et al.
3D printed microneedle arrays were fabricated using a biocompatible resin through stereolithography (SLA) for transdermal insulin delivery. Microneedles were built by polymerising consecutive layers of a photopolymeric resin. Thin layers of insulin and sugar alcohol or disaccharide carriers were for...
Sophia N. Economidou, Md Jasim Uddin, Manuel J. Marques, Dennis Douroumis et al.
The advancement of drug delivery devices is critical for the individualization of patient treatment and the improvement of healthcare. Here, we introduce the 3DMNMEMS, a novel device that combines 3D printing, microneedles (MNs) and Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS), allowing versatile and contr...
Claire Palles, Laura Chegwidden, Xinzhong Li, John M. Findlay et al.
BACKGROUND & AIMS: Barrett's esophagus (BE) increases the risk of esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC). We found the risk to be BE has been associated with single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) on chromosome 6p21 (within the HLA region) and on 16q23, where the closest protein-coding gene is FOXF1. Subse...
Andrew Reid Bell, Patrick S. Ward, Md. Ehsanul Haque Tamal, Mary Killilea
A major impediment to understanding human-environment interactions is that data on social systems are not collected in a way that is easily comparable to natural systems data. While many environmental variables are collected with high frequency, gridded in time and space, social data is typically co...
Andrew Reid Bell, David Wrathall, Valerie Mueller, Joyce Chen et al.
To date, projections of human migration induced by sea-level change (SLC) largely suggest large-scale displacement away from vulnerable coastlines. However, results from our model of Bangladesh suggest counterintuitively that people will continue to migrate toward the vulnerable coastline irrespecti...
Matthew A. French, Fiona Barker, Ruzka R. Taruc, Ansariadi Ansariadi et al.
BACKGROUND: The intense interactions between people, animals and environmental systems in urban informal settlements compromise human and environmental health. Inadequate water and sanitation services, compounded by exposure to flooding and climate change risks, expose inhabitants to environmental c...
Quinn Bernier, Parvin Sultana, Andrew Reid Bell, Claudia Ringler
Heidi Reid, Ubydul Haque, Archie Clements, Andrew J. Tatem et al.
Background malaria-control programs are increasingly dependent on accurate risk maps to effectively guide the allocation of interventions and resources. Advances in model-based geostatistics and geographical information systems (GIS) have enabled researchers to better understand factors affecting ma...
Andrew Reid Bell, Elizabeth Bryan, Claudia Ringler, Akhter Ahmed
Andrew Reid Bell, Patrick S. Ward, Mary Killilea, Md. Ehsanul Haque Tamal
The advent of cheap smartphones in rural areas across the globe presents an opportunity to change the mode with which researchers engage hard-to-reach populations. In particular, smartphones allow researchers to connect with respondents more frequently than standard household surveys, opening a new ...
Taj Azarian, Patrick K. Mitchell, Maria Georgieva, Claudette M. Thompson et al.
Abstract Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 3 remains a significant cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, despite inclusion in the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13). Serotype 3 increased in carriage since the implementation of PCV13 in the United States, while invasive disease ra...
Melissa M. Grant, Peter Monksfield, David Proops, Maxine Brine et al.
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of the current study was to determine the presence of biomarkers of tissue and bone metabolism and 10 cytokines within the fluid exudate from around bone anchored hearing aids (BAHAs), with a view to understanding the mechanisms of peri-BAHA inflammation. STUDY DESIGN: Fluid e...
Jacqueline A. McGroarty, David M. Faguy, Andrew W. Bruce, Gregor Reid
Joseph O. Ogutu, Jared A. Stabach, J. Grant C. Hopcraft, Randall B. Boone et al.
Environmental Biology
Jasmeen Randhawa, Mary E. Kim, Ashley Polski, Mark W. Reid et al.
The protective effects of breastfeeding on various childhood malignancies have been established but an association has not yet been determined for retinoblastoma (RB). We aimed to further investigate the role of breastfeeding in the severity of nonhereditary RB development, assessing relationship to...
Andrew Reid Bell, Patrick S. Ward, Md. Ehsanul Haque Tamal, Mary Killilea
Elizabeth Bryan, Claudia Ringler, Akhter Ahmed, Andrew Reid Bell
Agricultural production in South Asia is characterized by intensive use of inputs, such as fertilizers and irrigation water, and by a focus on production of staple crops, especially rice. However, continued growth of the agriculture sector is hampered by a number of challenges. In Bangladesh, these ...
Hugo MacDermott-Opeskin, Jenke Scheen, Cas Wognum, Joshua T. Horton et al.
Computational blind challenges offer critical, unbiased assessment opportunities to assess and accelerate scientific progress, as demonstrated by a breadth of breakthroughs over the last decade. We report the outcomes and key insights from an open science community blind challenge focused on computa...
Md. Ehsanul Haque Tamal, Andrew Reid Bell, Mary Killilea, Patrick S. Ward
High-frequency social data collection may facilitate improved recall, more inclusive reporting, and improved capture of intra-period variability. Although there are examples of small studies collecting particular variables at high frequency in the social science literature, to date there have been n...
Nick Huntington‐Klein, Claus C. Pörtner, Yubraj Acharya, Matúš Adamkovič et al.