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Implementation and evaluation of the Breaking Free Online and Pillars of Recovery treatment programs for substance-involved offenders (2017)
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(2017). Implementation and evaluation of the Breaking Free Online and Pillars of Recovery treatment programs for substance-involved offenders

In 2013, Breaking Free Group, a digital healthcare company based in Manchester, developed two accredited substance misuse treatment and recovery programmes for offenders within the criminal justice system. Based on community-setting versions of Break... Read More about Implementation and evaluation of the Breaking Free Online and Pillars of Recovery treatment programs for substance-involved offenders.

Assessing knowledge and attitudes about end of life: Evaluation of three instruments designed for adults with intellectual disability (2017)
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(2017). Assessing knowledge and attitudes about end of life: Evaluation of three instruments designed for adults with intellectual disability. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 1076-1088. https://doi.org/10.1111/jar.12358

Background This paper examines the development and psychometric characteristics of three instruments about end of life, designed for use with adults with intellectual disability (ID). Respectively, the instruments assess understanding of the concept... Read More about Assessing knowledge and attitudes about end of life: Evaluation of three instruments designed for adults with intellectual disability.

A folded [2 x 2] metallo-supramolecular grid from a bis-tridentate (1,2,3-triazol-4-yl)-picolinamide (tzpa) ligand (2017)
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Barry, D. E., Hawes, C. S., Byrne, J. P., la Cour Poulsen, B., Ruether, M., O'Brien, J. E., & Gunnlaugsson, T. (2017). A folded [2 x 2] metallo-supramolecular grid from a bis-tridentate (1,2,3-triazol-4-yl)-picolinamide (tzpa) ligand. Dalton Transactions, 6464 -6472. https://doi.org/10.1039/C7DT01533J

A flexible ditopic ligand 1 containing two N,N,O-tridentate (1,2,3-triazol-4-yl)-picolinamide chelating pockets is reported and the formation of multimetallic architectures is explored in the solid and the solution phase. The self-assembled ZnII comp... Read More about A folded [2 x 2] metallo-supramolecular grid from a bis-tridentate (1,2,3-triazol-4-yl)-picolinamide (tzpa) ligand.

The diagnosis and management of a vertebral artery loop causing cervical radiculopathy (2017)
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(2017). The diagnosis and management of a vertebral artery loop causing cervical radiculopathy. European Spine Journal, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00586-017-5123-6

Background Cervical radiculopathies are rarely caused by vertebral artery loop formation, which is estimated to be present in less than 3% of patients. It is uncertain what causes the loop formation: some propose an association with spondylotic chan... Read More about The diagnosis and management of a vertebral artery loop causing cervical radiculopathy.

Are sleep problems a risk factor for the onset of musculoskeletal pain in children and adolescents? A systematic review (2017)
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Dunn, K., Andreucci, A., & Campbell, P. (2017). Are sleep problems a risk factor for the onset of musculoskeletal pain in children and adolescents? A systematic review. SLEEP, https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsx093

Study Objectives: Musculoskeletal pain is a major burden on the society. Adults with sleep problems are at higher risk of musculoskeletal pain onset, but there is no evidence for this relationship in children and adolescents. This study aimed to sys... Read More about Are sleep problems a risk factor for the onset of musculoskeletal pain in children and adolescents? A systematic review.

Affective concordance in couples: a cross-sectional analysis of depression and anxiety consultations within a population of 13,507 couples in primary care. (2017)
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Walker, J., Liddle, J., Jordan, K., & Campbell, P. (2017). Affective concordance in couples: a cross-sectional analysis of depression and anxiety consultations within a population of 13,507 couples in primary care. BMC Psychiatry, 17, Article 190. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-017-1354-7

Background Depression and anxiety are common and have a significant impact on the individual and wider society. One theory proposed to explain a heightened risk for depression and anxiety is affective concordance in couples (e.g. influence of shared... Read More about Affective concordance in couples: a cross-sectional analysis of depression and anxiety consultations within a population of 13,507 couples in primary care..

Patient experiences, attitudes and expectations towards receiving information about anti-TNF medication: a quantitative study (2017)
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(2017). Patient experiences, attitudes and expectations towards receiving information about anti-TNF medication: a quantitative study. Clinical Rheumatology, 2595-2600. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10067-017-3642-5

The objective of the study was to measure patient attitudes and experience of information received during drug counselling for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) medications. This is a cross-sectional UK postal questionnaire study. Three RA patient groups—dis... Read More about Patient experiences, attitudes and expectations towards receiving information about anti-TNF medication: a quantitative study.

Affective concordance in couples: a cross-sectional analysis of depression and anxiety consultations within a population of 13,507 couples in primary care (2017)
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Walker, J., Liddle, J., Jordan, K., & Campbell, P. (2017). Affective concordance in couples: a cross-sectional analysis of depression and anxiety consultations within a population of 13,507 couples in primary care. BMC Psychiatry, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-017-1354-7

Background Depression and anxiety are common and have a significant impact on the individual and wider society. One theory proposed to explain a heightened risk for depression and anxiety is affective concordance in couples (e.g. influence of shared... Read More about Affective concordance in couples: a cross-sectional analysis of depression and anxiety consultations within a population of 13,507 couples in primary care.

Economic evaluation of strategies for restarting anticoagulation therapy after a first event of unprovoked venous thromboembolism. (2017)
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(2017). Economic evaluation of strategies for restarting anticoagulation therapy after a first event of unprovoked venous thromboembolism. Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 1591-1600. https://doi.org/10.1111/jth.13739

BACKGROUND: Following at least three months of anticoagulation therapy after a first unprovoked Venous Thromboembolism (VTE), there is uncertainty about the duration of therapy. Further anticoagulation therapy reduces the risk of having a potentially... Read More about Economic evaluation of strategies for restarting anticoagulation therapy after a first event of unprovoked venous thromboembolism..

Economic evaluation of strategies for restarting anticoagulation therapy with warfarin based on Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) risk after an index unprovoked VTE event (2017)
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(2017). Economic evaluation of strategies for restarting anticoagulation therapy with warfarin based on Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) risk after an index unprovoked VTE event. Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 1591-1600. https://doi.org/10.1111/jth.13739

Background Following at least 3 months of anticoagulation therapy after a first unprovoked venous thromboembolism (VTE), there is uncertainty about the duration of therapy. Further anticoagulation therapy reduces the risk of having a potentially fat... Read More about Economic evaluation of strategies for restarting anticoagulation therapy with warfarin based on Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) risk after an index unprovoked VTE event.

Association of maternal serum PAPP-A levels, nuchal translucency and crown rump length in first trimester with adverse pregnancy outcomes: Retrospective cohort study. (2017)
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(2017). Association of maternal serum PAPP-A levels, nuchal translucency and crown rump length in first trimester with adverse pregnancy outcomes: Retrospective cohort study. Prenatal Diagnosis, 705-711. https://doi.org/10.1002/pd.5069

OBJECTIVE: Are first trimester serum pregnancy-associated plasma protein-A (PAPP-A), nuchal translucency (NT) and crown rump length (CRL) prognostic factors for adverse pregnancy outcomes? METHOD: Retrospective cohort women, singleton pregnancies (UK... Read More about Association of maternal serum PAPP-A levels, nuchal translucency and crown rump length in first trimester with adverse pregnancy outcomes: Retrospective cohort study..

Development of an international comorbidity education framework (2017)
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Lawson, C., Pati, S., Green, J., Messina, G., Strömberg, A., Nante, N., …Kadam, U. (2017). Development of an international comorbidity education framework. Nurse Education Today, 55, 82-89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2017.05.011

Context The increasing number of people living with multiple chronic conditions in addition to an index condition has become an international healthcare priority. Health education curricula have been developed alongside single condition frameworks i... Read More about Development of an international comorbidity education framework.

Understanding infant feeding decisions and practices: the contributions of social research (2017)
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Head. (2017). Understanding infant feeding decisions and practices: the contributions of social research. Social Sciences, 6(2), Article 50. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci6020050

This paper begins with a discussion of social research which seeks to critique the emphasis on breastfeeding in infant feeding health promotion. The key themes of this research center on science, risk, and morality but other factors can also shape mo... Read More about Understanding infant feeding decisions and practices: the contributions of social research.

The potential use of cuticular hydrocarbons and multivariate analysis to age empty puparial cases of Calliphora vicina and Lucilia sericata (2017)
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Drijfhout. (2017). The potential use of cuticular hydrocarbons and multivariate analysis to age empty puparial cases of Calliphora vicina and Lucilia sericata. Scientific reports, 1933 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-01667-7

Cuticular hydrocarbons (CHC) have been successfully used in the field of forensic entomology for identifying and ageing forensically important blowfly species, primarily in the larval stages. However in older scenes where all other entomological evid... Read More about The potential use of cuticular hydrocarbons and multivariate analysis to age empty puparial cases of Calliphora vicina and Lucilia sericata.

Inverse dynamic modelling of jumping in the red-legged running frog, Kassina maculata. (2017)
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Collings. (2017). Inverse dynamic modelling of jumping in the red-legged running frog, Kassina maculata. Journal of Experimental Biology, 1882 - 1893. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.155416

Although the red-legged running frog, Kassina maculata, is secondarily a walker/runner, it retains the capacity for multiple locomotor modes, including jumping at a wide range of angles (nearly 70 deg). Using simultaneous hind limb kinematics and sin... Read More about Inverse dynamic modelling of jumping in the red-legged running frog, Kassina maculata..

Kinematic control of extreme jump angles in the red-legged running frog, Kassina maculata. (2017)
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Collings. (2017). Kinematic control of extreme jump angles in the red-legged running frog, Kassina maculata. Journal of Experimental Biology, 1894 - 1904. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.144279

The kinematic flexibility of frog hindlimbs enables multiple locomotor modes within a single species. Prior work has extensively explored maximum performance capacity in frogs; however, the mechanisms by which anurans modulate performance within loco... Read More about Kinematic control of extreme jump angles in the red-legged running frog, Kassina maculata..