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What's in a name? Is district nursing in danger of extinction? (2017)
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Green. (2017). What's in a name? Is district nursing in danger of extinction?. British Journal of Community Nursing, 547 - 549. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjcn.2017.22.11.547

District Nurses have been delivering care at home for over 150 years. Their role is appreciated by colleagues, patients and carers alike and can often make the difference between remaining in a preferred location of care or a preferred place of death... Read More about What's in a name? Is district nursing in danger of extinction?.

Project Ponder - using clicker technology to encourage in-class engagement (2017)
Journal Article
Pearson, R. (2017). Project Ponder - using clicker technology to encourage in-class engagement. Pharmacy Education,

Background: ‘Project Ponder’ was created to help pharmacy students think more deeply about their chemistry knowledge through the promotion of peer instruction and debate. This work used the author’s past expe... Read More about Project Ponder - using clicker technology to encourage in-class engagement.

Factors Influencing Allopurinol Initiation in Primary Care. (2017)
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Roddy, Mallen, Clarson, Belcher, & Hider. (2017). Factors Influencing Allopurinol Initiation in Primary Care. Annals of Family Medicine, 15(6), 557 - 560. https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.213

Despite guidance on appropriate initiation, urate-lowering therapy is prescribed for only a minority of patients with gout. Electronic health records for 8,142 patients with gout were used to investigate the effect of age, sex, comorbidities, number... Read More about Factors Influencing Allopurinol Initiation in Primary Care..

Serological evidence of hepatitis E virus infection in pigs and jaundice among pig handlers in Bangladesh (2017)
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Haider, N., Khan, M., Hossain, M., Sazzad, H., Rahman, M., Ahmed, F., & Zeidner, N. (2017). Serological evidence of hepatitis E virus infection in pigs and jaundice among pig handlers in Bangladesh. Zoonoses and Public Health, 572 - 577. https://doi.org/10.1111/zph.12372

Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is the most common cause of viral hepatitis in humans. Pigs may act as a reservoir of HEV, and pig handlers were frequently identified with a higher prevalence of antibodies to HEV. The objectives of this study were to identif... Read More about Serological evidence of hepatitis E virus infection in pigs and jaundice among pig handlers in Bangladesh.

Economic Crisis and Youth Unemployment: The Greek case (2017)
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(2017). Economic Crisis and Youth Unemployment: The Greek case. Science and Society, 145-172. https://doi.org/10.12681/sas.10779

Young people have been hard hit by the crisis and the austerity measures implemented in Greece since 2010. After six years of significant changes in the Greek employment and social system young people face burgeoning difficulties to find quality and... Read More about Economic Crisis and Youth Unemployment: The Greek case.

The SuperWASP catalogue of 4963 RR Lyr stars: identification of 983 Blazhko effect candidates (2017)
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(2017). The SuperWASP catalogue of 4963 RR Lyr stars: identification of 983 Blazhko effect candidates. Astronomy & Astrophysics, A11 -?. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201630296

We set out to compile a catalogue of RRab pulsating variables in the SuperWASP archive and identify candidate Blazhko effect objects within this catalogue. We analysed their light curves and power spectra for correlations in their common characterist... Read More about The SuperWASP catalogue of 4963 RR Lyr stars: identification of 983 Blazhko effect candidates.

Green marketing orientation: Conceptualization, scale development and validation (2017)
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(2017). Green marketing orientation: Conceptualization, scale development and validation. Journal of Business Research, 236 -246. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2017.05.024

As green marketing becomes an essential tool for sustainable business strategy, companies are adopting green marketing practices to achieve better business performance. However, no research has yet operationalized all the organizational facets that a... Read More about Green marketing orientation: Conceptualization, scale development and validation.

Analysis of XFEL serial diffraction data from individual crystalline fibrils (2017)
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(2017). Analysis of XFEL serial diffraction data from individual crystalline fibrils. IUCrJ, 795 -811. https://doi.org/10.1107/S2052252517014324

Serial diffraction data collected at the Linac Coherent Light Source from crystalline amyloid fibrils delivered in a liquid jet show that the fibrils are well oriented in the jet. At low fibril concentrations, diffraction patterns are recorded from s... Read More about Analysis of XFEL serial diffraction data from individual crystalline fibrils.

In vivo analysis of the Escherichia coli ultrastructure by small-angle scattering (2017)
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(2017). In vivo analysis of the Escherichia coli ultrastructure by small-angle scattering. IUCrJ, 751 -757. https://doi.org/10.1107/S2052252517013008

The flagellated Gram-negative bacterium Escherichia coli is one of the most studied microorganisms. Despite extensive studies as a model prokaryotic cell, the ultrastructure of the cell envelope at the nanometre scale has not been fully elucidated. H... Read More about In vivo analysis of the Escherichia coli ultrastructure by small-angle scattering.

Urinary Excretion of Aluminium and Silicon in Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis (2017)
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(2017). Urinary Excretion of Aluminium and Silicon in Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis. EBioMedicine, 60-67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ebiom.2017.10.028

AbstractBackground Progressive multiple sclerosis is a chronic autoimmune condition of unknown aetiology and few therapeutic options. Human exposure to aluminium has been linked with multiple sclerosis and affected individuals are known to excrete un... Read More about Urinary Excretion of Aluminium and Silicon in Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis.

The Teaching Excellence Framework in the UK: an opportunity to include international students as ‘equals’? (2017)
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Hayes. (2017). The Teaching Excellence Framework in the UK: an opportunity to include international students as ‘equals’?. Journal of Studies in International Education, 21(5), 483-497. https://doi.org/10.1177/1028315317720768

Research on international students in British higher education points to marginalization of their unique perspectives in university classrooms. The aim of the article is to consider how the most recent policy changes, particularly the teaching excell... Read More about The Teaching Excellence Framework in the UK: an opportunity to include international students as ‘equals’?.

Parenting agendas: an empirical study of intensive mothering and infant cognitive development (2017)
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(2017). Parenting agendas: an empirical study of intensive mothering and infant cognitive development. Sociological Review, 336-352. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038026116672812

Intensive parenting debates reflect the critical importance of a child’s early years, and parents’ roles in determining later developmental outcomes. Mothers are usually assigned primary responsibility for facilitating their infants’ cognitive develo... Read More about Parenting agendas: an empirical study of intensive mothering and infant cognitive development.

Solitude in NYC (2017)
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Loewenthal, J. (2017). Solitude in NYC. North American Dialogue, 20(2), 31-31. https://doi.org/10.1111/nad.12061

Conducting an ethnography of university graduates in New York City, it has emerged that many lack a sense of group belonging. The relationship between individualism as a cultural trait, solitude as an aspect of social organization, and loneliness as... Read More about Solitude in NYC.

TCT-606 Operator volume is not associated with mortality following Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: insights from the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society registry (2017)
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Hulme, W., Sperrin, M., Curzen, N., Kinnaird, T., de Belder, M., Ludman, P., …Mamas, M. (2017). TCT-606 Operator volume is not associated with mortality following Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: insights from the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society registry. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 70(18), B250. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2017.09.795

TCT-434 Economic benefits of transradial percutaneous coronary intervention; a national analysis from the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society database (2017)
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Mamas, M., Tosh, J., Hulme, W., Nolan, J., Bungey, G., Ludman, P., …Kontopantelis, E. (2017). TCT-434 Economic benefits of transradial percutaneous coronary intervention; a national analysis from the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society database. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 70(18), B178. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2017.09.539

Subcutaneous Injection of Adalimumab Trial compared with Control (SCIATiC): a randomised controlled trial of adalimumab injection compared with placebo for patients receiving physiotherapy treatment for sciatica (2017)
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Williams, N. H., Jenkins, A., Goulden, N., Hoare, Z., Hughes, D. A., Wood, E., …Wilkinson, C. Subcutaneous Injection of Adalimumab Trial compared with Control (SCIATiC): a randomised controlled trial of adalimumab injection compared with placebo for patients receiving physiotherapy treatment for sciatica. Health Technology Assessment, 21(60), 1-180. https://doi.org/10.3310/hta21600

Engagement in an e-Health Tool (ORION) predicts opioid-dependent patient likelihood of behavioural change (2017)
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Humphris, G., Carra, G., Frisher, M., Neufeind, J., Cecil, J., Scherbaum, N., …Baldacchino, A. (2017). Engagement in an e-Health Tool (ORION) predicts opioid-dependent patient likelihood of behavioural change. Heroin Addiction And Related Clinical Problems, 19(5), 35-44

Background: An eHealth computer-based tool named ORION was constructed to assist patients in the clinic to appreciate the factors responsible for risks of drug overdose. The aim of this study was to investigate the associations between risk perceptio... Read More about Engagement in an e-Health Tool (ORION) predicts opioid-dependent patient likelihood of behavioural change.