Investigating the role of iron status in the development of coeliac disease: a Mendelian randomisation study by Isabel A Hujoel, Margaux Louise Anna Hujoel

“…This consists of 336 638 white British individuals, 1855 with coeliac disease. We performed an MR Egger test for pleiotropy and assessed the plausibility of the assumptions of MR to evaluate for possible causality.Results There were four SNPs strongly associated with systemic iron status. …”
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Clinical Comparison of MEBO and Hyaluronic Acid Gel in the Management of Pain after Free Gingival Graft Harvesting: A Randomized Clinical Trial by Ahmed Hassan, Enji Ahmed, Dalia Ghalwash, Azza Ezz Elarab

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SHOX and sex difference in height: a hypothesis by Tsutomu Ogata, Atsushi Hattori, Maki Fukami

“…In this regard, previous studies have revealed that (1) distribution of the mean adult heights in subjects with disorders accompanied by discordance between sex chromosome complement and bioactive sex steroids and in control subjects (the British height standards) indicates that, of the ~12.5 cm of sex difference in the mean adult height, ~9 cm is accounted for by the difference in the sex chromosome complement and the remaining ~3.5 cm is explained by the dimorphism in sex steroids (primarily due to the growth-promoting effect of gonadal androgens); (2) according to the infancy-childhood-puberty growth model, the sex difference in the childhood growth function produces height differences of ~1 cm in childhood and 8–10 cm at 18–20 years of age, whereas the sex difference in the pubertal growth function yields height difference of ~4.5 cm at 18–20 years of age; and (3) SHOX expression and methylation analyses using knee cartilage tissues and cultured chondrocytes have shown lower SHOX expression levels in female samples than in male samples and methylation patterns consistent with partial spreading of X-inactivation affecting SHOX in female samples. …”
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A Systematic Review of Ethanol and Fomepizole Use in Toxic Alcohol Ingestions by Lorri Beatty, Robert Green, Kirk Magee, Peter Zed

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Micromorphological and Chemical Approaches to Understand Changes in Ecological Functions of Metal-Impacted Soils under Various Land Uses by J. A. Acosta, S. Martinez-Martinez, A. Faz, J. M. Van Mourik, J. M. Arocena

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A novel approach to earlobe reconstruction using the V to Y advancement flap by Laura Allen, Kelti Munroe, S. Mark Taylor

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Seven Guiding Principles for Building Fellowship in SoTL by Anita Acai, Mandy Frake, Melanie Hamilton, Patrick Maher, Roselynn Verwoord, Cherie Woolmer

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Abortion and contraception within prison health care: a qualitative study by Martha J. Paynter, Clare Heggie, Anja Mcleod, Wendy V. Norman

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Super Absorbent Polymers (SAPs) as concentration preservers in brine deicers for enhanced ice melting capacity by Gage Merke, Maedeh Hesami, Ravi Kiran

“…The experimental work includes quantifying swell rates and capacities of each SAP in saline solution employing a tea-bag method, measuring the ice melting capacity of brines with SAP additives using an in-house ice melting test setup, and assessing reduction in skid resistance employing British Pendulum tester. The results showed that the addition of 5% large particle-sized SAPs enhanced the ice melting capacity by up to 80% compared to the brine solution at − 30°C. …”
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Feminism and Faith: Exploring Christian Spaces in the Writing of Sara Maitland and Michèle Roberts by Arina LUNGU-CIRSTEA

“…In 1983, British feminists Sara Maitland and Jo Garcia edited Walking on the Water (London: Virago), a collection of “essays, stories, poems and pictures by women about spirituality”. …”
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The Imprint of the War in Ford Madox Ford’s Critical Writings by Isabelle BRASME

“…Yet when one examines the chronology of Ford’s non-fictional writing, and indeed of his literary work, one can sense a sharp dividing line that coincides with the moment when Ford enrolled in the British army in 1915, and was no longer a spectator from afar, but a direct witness of the unprecedented mass killing that was taking place on the front. …”
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Representation of forced migrants: a case study of the east bengali migrants to West Bengal by Subhasri Ghosh

“…The theme will be studied in the backdrop of the forced migration from East Bengal (present Bangladesh) to West Bengal (in India) following the vivisection of British India into two nation-states—India and Pakistan—in 1947. …”
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Furnishing Nature: Textile Materiality and the Victorian Home in Alfred Hayes’s The Vale of Arden and Other Poems (1895) by Stefanie John

“…This article examines the conjunction of environmental aesthetics, textile materiality, and notions of the home in the work of the British poet and translator Alfred Hayes (1857–1936). …”
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A High-Throughput Size Exclusion Chromatography Method to Determine the Molecular Size Distribution of Meningococcal Polysaccharide Vaccine by Imran Khan, K. M. Taufiqur Rahman, S. M. Saad Us Siraj, Mahbubul Karim, Abdul Muktadir, Arpan Maheshwari, Md Azizul Kabir, Zebun Nahar, Mohammad Mainul Ahasan

“…The calculated distribution coefficient values of serogroups A, C, W, and Y were found to be 0.26±0.16, 0.21±0.11, 0.21±0.11, and 0.14±0.12, respectively, and met the requirements of British Pharmacopeia. The method was proved to be robust for determining the distribution coefficient values which is an obligatory requirement for vaccine lot release.…”
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Competitiveness of Russian Universities in the Global System of Higher Education: Quantitative Analysis by D. A. Endovitsky, V. V. Korotkikh, M. V. Voronova

“…We obtained dataset for the study from the analytical materials of the British consulting company QS, as well as information and analytical materials from the results of monitoring the effectiveness of educational institutions of higher education in the Russian Federation.Conclusions. …”
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Motion-tolerant 3D volumetric multimodality microscopy imaging of human skin with subcellular resolution and extended field-of-view by Zhenguo Wu, Yunxian Tian, Jianhua Zhao, Yimei Huang, Harvey Lui, Sunil Kalia, Haishan Zeng

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Sex Differences in Parent and Child Pain Ratings during an Experimental Child Pain Task by Erin C Moon, Christine T Chambers, Anne-Claire Larochette, Kelly Hayton, Kenneth D Craig, Patrick J McGrath

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Pigs, people, and proximity: a 6000-year isotopic record of pig management in Ireland by Eric Guiry, Fiona Beglane, Finbar McCormick, Eric Tourigny, Michael P. Richards

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The Present and the Future of the Special Relationship: The Debate in the United States and the United Kingdom by A. O. Mamedova

“…As for the current state of the special relationship, the author stresses that the potential decrease in British military capabilities, Britain’s joining the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and Brexit have caused concern in the U.S., but this unique and enduring alliance will remain important for both countries in the coming years. …”
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From European to World War: Dynamics of ‘Totalization’ and ‘Globalization’ of the Warfare in September 1939 — December 1941 by I. E. Magadeev

“…The same dichotomy was evident in the ‘globalization’ of the warfare: though the war was not only European from the beginning, due to the participation of the British and French colonial empires, due to the extension of the warfare to the North and East Africa and the global nature of the naval warfare, there were significant barriers to its extension to the whole world. …”
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