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An intervention to support stroke survivors and their carers in the longer term: results of a cluster randomised controlled feasibility trial (LoTS2Care) (2023)
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Forster, A., Ozer, S., Brindle, R., Barnard, L., Hardicre, N., Crocker, T. F., …on behalf of the LoTS2Care Programme Team. (2023). An intervention to support stroke survivors and their carers in the longer term: results of a cluster randomised controlled feasibility trial (LoTS2Care). Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 9(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-023-01258-6

To address the limited provision of longer-term stroke care, we conducted a programme of research (LoTS2Care) to develop and test an intervention to form part of a replicable longer-term care strategy. New Start, a programme of facilitated self-manag... Read More about An intervention to support stroke survivors and their carers in the longer term: results of a cluster randomised controlled feasibility trial (LoTS2Care).

Outcomes of ST elevation myocardial infarction in patients with cancer: a nationwide study (2023)
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Dafaalla, M., Abdel-Qadir, H., Gale, C. P., Sun, L., López-Fernández, T., Miller, R. J. H., …Mamas, M. A. (2023). Outcomes of ST elevation myocardial infarction in patients with cancer: a nationwide study. European Heart Journal - Quality of Care and Clinical Outcomes, 9(8), 806-817. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjqcco/qcad012

AIMS: To assess processes of care and clinical outcomes in cancer patients with ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) according to cancer type. METHODS: This is a national population-based study of patients admitted with STEMI in England and Wal... Read More about Outcomes of ST elevation myocardial infarction in patients with cancer: a nationwide study.

A Wearable Insole System to Measure Plantar Pressure and Shear for People with Diabetes (2023)
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Tang, J., Bader, D. L., Jiang, L., Moser, D., Parker, D. J., Forghany, S., & Nester, C. J. (2023). A Wearable Insole System to Measure Plantar Pressure and Shear for People with Diabetes. Sensors, 23(6), Article 3126. https://doi.org/10.3390/s23063126

Pressure coupled with shear stresses are the critical external factors for diabetic foot ulceration assessment and prevention. To date, a wearable system capable of measuring in-shoe multi-directional stresses for out-of-lab analysis has been elusive... Read More about A Wearable Insole System to Measure Plantar Pressure and Shear for People with Diabetes.

Gamification as an innovation: a tool to improve organizational marketing performance and sustainability of international firms (2023)
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Behl, A., Pereira, V., Jayawardena, N., Nigam, A., & Mangla, S. (2024). Gamification as an innovation: a tool to improve organizational marketing performance and sustainability of international firms. International Marketing Review, 41(1), https://doi.org/10.1108/IMR-05-2022-0113

Purpose This study aims to investigate an under-researched area, an international marketing perspective, based on international dynamic capability, environmental sustainability and organizational marketing performance in gamification and non-gamific... Read More about Gamification as an innovation: a tool to improve organizational marketing performance and sustainability of international firms.

Management of systemic sclerosis: British Society for Rheumatology guideline scope (2023)
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Denton, C. P., De Lorenzis, E., Roblin, E., Goldman, N., Alcacer-Pitarch, B., Blamont, E., …Ong, V. (2023). Management of systemic sclerosis: British Society for Rheumatology guideline scope. Rheumatology Advances in Practice, 7(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/rap/rkad022

AbstractThis guideline will provide a practical roadmap for management of SSc that builds upon the previous treatment guideline to incorporate advances in evidence-based treatment and increased knowledge about assessment, classification and managemen... Read More about Management of systemic sclerosis: British Society for Rheumatology guideline scope.

Factors associated with infertility among the Lebanese population: a cross-sectional study (2023)
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Dia, N., Mansour, S., Kharaba, Z., Malaeb, B., Sarray El Dine, A., Kokash, S., …Malaeb, D. (2023). Factors associated with infertility among the Lebanese population: a cross-sectional study. International Journal of Environmental Health Research, 34(2), 934-942. https://doi.org/10.1080/09603123.2023.2190084

The incidence of female infertility is growing worldwide and its rate varies across countries. . The goal of this study is to assess the rate of female infertility and identify its associated factors among Lebanese women. This cross-sectional study w... Read More about Factors associated with infertility among the Lebanese population: a cross-sectional study.

Assessing the Anti-Corruption Disclosure Practices in the UK FTSE 100 Extractive Firms (2023)
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Ghazwani, M., Whittington, M., & Helfaya, A. (in press). Assessing the Anti-Corruption Disclosure Practices in the UK FTSE 100 Extractive Firms. Sustainability, 15(6), Article 5155. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15065155

This paper considers the anti-corruption disclosure reporting of the large UK-quoted extractive companies from 2003 to 2019. This period includes the introduction of the 2010 UK Bribery Act, which might be expected to influence corporate disclosure.... Read More about Assessing the Anti-Corruption Disclosure Practices in the UK FTSE 100 Extractive Firms.

Primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in women with a Mediterranean diet: systematic review and meta-analysis. (2023)
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Mamas. (2023). Primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in women with a Mediterranean diet: systematic review and meta-analysis. Heart, https://doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2022-321930

BACKGROUND: Dietary modification is a cornerstone of cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention. A Mediterranean diet has been associated with a lower risk of CVD but no systematic reviews have evaluated this relationship specifically in women. OBJECTIV... Read More about Primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in women with a Mediterranean diet: systematic review and meta-analysis..

Ivermectin Augments the Anti-Cancer Activity of Pitavastatin in Ovarian Cancer Cells (2023)
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Jawad, M., & Richardson, A. (2023). Ivermectin Augments the Anti-Cancer Activity of Pitavastatin in Ovarian Cancer Cells. Diseases, 11(1), 49 - 49. https://doi.org/10.3390/diseases11010049

We have previously shown that pitavastatin has the potential to be used to treat ovarian cancer, although relatively high doses are likely to be necessary. One solution to this problem is to identify drugs that are synergistic with pitavastatin, ther... Read More about Ivermectin Augments the Anti-Cancer Activity of Pitavastatin in Ovarian Cancer Cells.

Tidally perturbed gravity-mode pulsations in a sample of close eclipsing binaries (2023)
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Van Reeth, T., Johnston, C., Southworth, J., Fuller, J., Bowman, D., Poniatowski, L., & Van Beeck, J. (2023). Tidally perturbed gravity-mode pulsations in a sample of close eclipsing binaries. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 671, Article A121. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202245460

Context. Thanks to the high-precision photometry from space missions such as Kepler and TESS, tidal perturbations and tilting of pulsations have been detected in more than a dozen binary systems. However, only two of these were gravity-mode (g-mode)... Read More about Tidally perturbed gravity-mode pulsations in a sample of close eclipsing binaries.

Synthetic biology open language (SBOL) version 3.1.0 (2023)
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Buecherl, L., Mitchell, T., Scott-Brown, J., Vaidyanathan, P., Vidal, G., Baig, H., …Beal, J. (2023). Synthetic biology open language (SBOL) version 3.1.0. Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics, 20(1), 20220058. https://doi.org/10.1515/jib-2022-0058

Synthetic biology builds upon genetics, molecular biology, and metabolic engineering by applying engineering principles to the design of biological systems. When designing a synthetic system, synthetic biologists need to exchange information about mu... Read More about Synthetic biology open language (SBOL) version 3.1.0.

Acceptability of a behavioural intervention to mitigate the psychological impacts of COVID-19 restrictions in older people with long-term conditions: a qualitative study. (2023)
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Chew-Graham. (2023). Acceptability of a behavioural intervention to mitigate the psychological impacts of COVID-19 restrictions in older people with long-term conditions: a qualitative study. BMJ Open, 13(3), Article e064694. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-064694

Objectives The COVID-19 pandemic heightened the need to address loneliness, social isolation and associated incidence of depression among older adults. Between June and October 2020, the Behavioural Activation in Social IsoLation (BASIL) pilot stud... Read More about Acceptability of a behavioural intervention to mitigate the psychological impacts of COVID-19 restrictions in older people with long-term conditions: a qualitative study..

The wide-field, multiplexed, spectroscopic facility WEAVE: Survey design, overview, and simulated implementation (2023)
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Jin, S., Trager, S. C., Dalton, G. B., Aguerri, J. A. L., Drew, J. E., Falcón-Barroso, J., …Zurita, C. (2024). The wide-field, multiplexed, spectroscopic facility WEAVE: Survey design, overview, and simulated implementation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 530(3), 2688-2730. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad557

WEAVE, the new wide-field, massively multiplexed spectroscopic survey facility for the William Herschel Telescope, saw first light in late 2022. WEAVE comprises a new 2-deg field-of-view prime-focus corrector system, a nearly 1000-multiplex fibre pos... Read More about The wide-field, multiplexed, spectroscopic facility WEAVE: Survey design, overview, and simulated implementation.

“So what if ChatGPT wrote it?” Multidisciplinary perspectives on opportunities, challenges and implications of generative conversational AI for research, practice and policy (2023)
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Dwivedi, Y. K., Kshetri, N., Hughes, L., Slade, E. L., Jeyaraj, A., Kar, A. K., …Wright, R. (2023). “So what if ChatGPT wrote it?” Multidisciplinary perspectives on opportunities, challenges and implications of generative conversational AI for research, practice and policy. International Journal of Information Management, 71, Article 102642. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2023.102642

Determining cardiovascular risk in patients with unattributed chest pain in UK primary care: an electronic health record study (2023)
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Jordan, K. P., Rathod-Mistry, T., van der Windt, D. A., Bailey, J., Chen, Y., Clarson, L., …Mamas, M. A. (2023). Determining cardiovascular risk in patients with unattributed chest pain in UK primary care: an electronic health record study. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, 30(11), 1151-1161. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurjpc/zwad055

BACKGROUND: Most adults presenting in primary care with chest pain symptoms will not receive a diagnosis ("unattributed" chest pain) but are at increased risk of cardiovascular events. AIM: To assess within patients with unattributed chest pain, risk... Read More about Determining cardiovascular risk in patients with unattributed chest pain in UK primary care: an electronic health record study.

The role of sibling aggression during childhood in decision-making during adulthood (2023)
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Bedwell, S. A., Harrison, N., Fradley, S., & Brooks, M. (2024). The role of sibling aggression during childhood in decision-making during adulthood. Current Psychology, 43(3), 2264-2276. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-04475-7

Research shows sibling relationships can influence cognitive development, specifically in terms of high-order processes involved in social functioning. These high-order processes take place in the human prefrontal cortex. While prefrontal connectivit... Read More about The role of sibling aggression during childhood in decision-making during adulthood.