Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

All Outputs (1243)

Ownership of contactless data in urban transportation systems (2024)
Journal Article
Farinloye, T., Alimo, P. K., Bhatt, S., Fwangwen, T., & Mogaji, E. (in press). Ownership of contactless data in urban transportation systems. Discover Cities, 1(1), Article 32. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44327-024-00034-2

This paper examines the landscape of contactless transport payment systems in developing countries, focusing on data ownership, regulatory challenges, advantages, disadvantages, and implications. It explores the roles of city authorities, contractors... Read More about Ownership of contactless data in urban transportation systems.

‘Part of the team as opposed to watching from the outside’: Critical incident study of autistic veterinary surgeons’ workdays (2024)
Journal Article
Pickles, K., Houdmont, J., Smits, F., & Hill, B. (in press). ‘Part of the team as opposed to watching from the outside’: Critical incident study of autistic veterinary surgeons’ workdays. Veterinary Record, Article e4957. https://doi.org/10.1002/vetr.4957

Background: Autistic individuals experience differences in sensory processing, communication and executive function, which may affect their experience of the workplace. We investigated UK‐based autistic clinical veterinary surgeons’ experiences to es... Read More about ‘Part of the team as opposed to watching from the outside’: Critical incident study of autistic veterinary surgeons’ workdays.

Involving People With Lived Experience in Electronic Health Record Database Studies Reflections and Learning From the CHOOSE Study (2024)
Journal Article
Cockcroft, E., Bassi, V., Mok, P. L. H., Adams, A., Claro, A. A., Trafford, A. M., Carr, M. J., Ashcroft, D. M., Garavini, E., Temple, R., Webb, R. T., Garg, S., & Chew‐Graham, C. A. (2024). Involving People With Lived Experience in Electronic Health Record Database Studies Reflections and Learning From the CHOOSE Study. Health Expectations, 27(6), Article e70131. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.70131

Background: Patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE) is integral to health research. Reporting of PPIE methods and impact is becoming increasingly common in health research. However, reporting on PPIE in studies using large, routinely col... Read More about Involving People With Lived Experience in Electronic Health Record Database Studies Reflections and Learning From the CHOOSE Study.

The Value of Clinical Prediction Models in General Practice: A Qualitative Study Exploring the Perspectives of People With Lived Experience of Depression and General Practitioners (2024)
Journal Article
Moriarty, A. S., Castleton, J., McMillan, D., Riley, R. D., Snell, K. I. E., Archer, L., Paton, L. W., Gilbody, S., & Chew‐Graham, C. A. (2024). The Value of Clinical Prediction Models in General Practice: A Qualitative Study Exploring the Perspectives of People With Lived Experience of Depression and General Practitioners. Health Expectations, 27(6), Article e70059. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.70059

Introduction: Prediction models are increasingly being used to guide clinical decision making in primary care. There is a lack of evidence exploring the views of patients and general practitioners (GPs) in primary care around their use and implementa... Read More about The Value of Clinical Prediction Models in General Practice: A Qualitative Study Exploring the Perspectives of People With Lived Experience of Depression and General Practitioners.

Impact of polyvascular disease severity on acute heart failure prognosis. (2024)
Journal Article
Gatuz, M. V., Abu-Fanne, R., Abramov, D., Mamas, M. A., Roguin, A., & Kobo, O. (in press). Impact of polyvascular disease severity on acute heart failure prognosis. Heart and Vessels, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00380-024-02496-1

Polyvascular disease, is a prevalent comorbidity among patients with acute heart failure (AHF). Previous research has shown that polyvascular disease is a poor prognostic factor in patients with heart failure. However, data on the relationship betwee... Read More about Impact of polyvascular disease severity on acute heart failure prognosis..

Temporal Trends in Mortality Related to Stroke and Atrial Fibrillation in the United States: A 21‐Year Retrospective Analysis of CDC‐WONDER Database (2024)
Journal Article
Ahmad, O., Farooqi, H. A., Ahmed, I., Jamil, A., Nabi, R., Ullah, I., Khan, A. W., Ahmed, R., Alam, M., Cortese, B., & Mamas, M. A. (2024). Temporal Trends in Mortality Related to Stroke and Atrial Fibrillation in the United States: A 21‐Year Retrospective Analysis of CDC‐WONDER Database. Clinical Cardiology, 47(12), e70058. https://doi.org/10.1002/clc.70058

Aims: Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is one of the most strongly associated risk factors for stroke. Our study aims to analyze changes in mortality from 1999 to 2020 in patients with AF and stroke. Methods: Using the Centre for Disease Control and Preventi... Read More about Temporal Trends in Mortality Related to Stroke and Atrial Fibrillation in the United States: A 21‐Year Retrospective Analysis of CDC‐WONDER Database.

Comparative risk of type 2 diabetes development between women with gestational diabetes and women with impaired glucose tolerance over two decades: a multiethnic prospective cohort in New Zealand (2024)
Journal Article
Yu, D., Fu, H., Zhao, Z., Pickering, K., Baker, J., Cutfield, R., Orr-Walker, B. J., Sundborn, G., Cai, Y., Wang, Z., Wang, C., & Simmons, D. (2024). Comparative risk of type 2 diabetes development between women with gestational diabetes and women with impaired glucose tolerance over two decades: a multiethnic prospective cohort in New Zealand. BMJ Open Diabetes Research and Care, 12(6), https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjdrc-2024-004210

Introduction: To evaluate the long-term risk of developing type 2 diabetes (T2D) among women with a history of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) compared with those with impaired glucose tolerance (IGT). Research design and methods: Using data from... Read More about Comparative risk of type 2 diabetes development between women with gestational diabetes and women with impaired glucose tolerance over two decades: a multiethnic prospective cohort in New Zealand.

Global, regional, and national stillbirths at 20 weeks' gestation or longer in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2021: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 (2024)
Journal Article
Comfort, H., McHugh, T. A., Schumacher, A. E., Harris, A., May, E. A., Paulson, K. R., Gardner, W. M., Fuller, J. E., Frisch, M. E., Taylor, H. J., Leever, A. T., Teply, C., Verghese, N. A., Alam, T., Abate, Y. H., Abbastabar, H., Abd ElHafeez, S., Abdelmasseh, M., Abd-Elsalam, S., Abdissa, D., …Kassebaum, N. J. (2024). Global, regional, and national stillbirths at 20 weeks' gestation or longer in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2021: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. The Lancet, 404(10466), 1955-1988. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736%2824%2901925-1

Processing of GASKAP-Hi pilot survey data using a commercial supercomputer (2024)
Journal Article
Kemp, I., Pingel, N., Worth, R., Wake, J., Mitchell, D., Midgely, S., Tingay, S., Dempsey, J., Dénes, H., Dickey, J., Gibson, S., Jameson, K., Lynn, C., Ma, Y., Marchal, A., McClure-Griffiths, N., Stanimirović, S., & van Loon, J. T. (2025). Processing of GASKAP-Hi pilot survey data using a commercial supercomputer. Astronomy and Computing, 51, Article 100901. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ascom.2024.100901

Modern radio telescopes generate large amounts of data, with the next generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) and the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) expected to feed up to 292 GB of visibilities per second to the science data processor (SDP). However, the... Read More about Processing of GASKAP-Hi pilot survey data using a commercial supercomputer.

Neural Cell Interactions with a Surgical Grade Biomaterial Using a Simulated Injury in Brain Organotypic Slices (2024)
Journal Article
Wiseman, J. P., & Chari, D. M. (in press). Neural Cell Interactions with a Surgical Grade Biomaterial Using a Simulated Injury in Brain Organotypic Slices. Journal of Functional Biomaterials, 15(12), Article 362. https://doi.org/10.3390/jfb15120362

Tissue engineering research for neurological applications has demonstrated that biomaterial-based structural bridges present a promising approach for promoting regeneration. This is particularly relevant for penetrating traumatic brain injuries, wher... Read More about Neural Cell Interactions with a Surgical Grade Biomaterial Using a Simulated Injury in Brain Organotypic Slices.

Prediction of Distant Metastasis of Lymph-Node-Negative Primary Breast Cancer From Gene Expression Profiling Using Cox-Boost Regression Model (2024)
Journal Article
Hamidi, O., Amini, P., Tapak, L., Zohrab Beigi, Y., Afshar, S., & Dinu, I. (in press). Prediction of Distant Metastasis of Lymph-Node-Negative Primary Breast Cancer From Gene Expression Profiling Using Cox-Boost Regression Model. Cancer Informatics, 23, https://doi.org/10.1177/11769351241297493

Backgrounds:: Distant metastasis in breast cancer patients contributes to increased breast cancer mortality, highlighting the urgent need for effective predictive strategies. Understanding metastasis mechanisms and identifying relevant biomarkers are... Read More about Prediction of Distant Metastasis of Lymph-Node-Negative Primary Breast Cancer From Gene Expression Profiling Using Cox-Boost Regression Model.

Understanding and improving the quality of primary care for people in prison: a mixed-methods study (2024)
Journal Article
Bellass, S., Canvin, K., Farragher, T., McLintock, K., Wright, N., Hearty, P., Seanor, N., Cunningham, M., Foy, R., & Sheard, L. (2024). Understanding and improving the quality of primary care for people in prison: a mixed-methods study. Health and Social Care Delivery Research, 12(46), https://doi.org/10.3310/GRFV4068

Background
People in prison are generally in poorer health than their peers in the community, often living with chronic illness and multimorbidity. Healthcare research in prisons has largely focused on specific problems, such as substance use; less... Read More about Understanding and improving the quality of primary care for people in prison: a mixed-methods study.

Towards the synthesis of a 2-deoxy-2-fluoro-d-mannose building block and characterisation of an unusual 2-S-phenyl anomeric pyridinium triflate salt via 1 → 2 S-migration (2024)
Journal Article
Evans, S. T., Tizzard, G. J., Field, R. A., & Miller, G. J. (2024). Towards the synthesis of a 2-deoxy-2-fluoro-d-mannose building block and characterisation of an unusual 2-S-phenyl anomeric pyridinium triflate salt via 1 → 2 S-migration. Carbohydrate Research, 545, Article 109275. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carres.2024.109275

Regio- and stereo-selective synthetic routes to 2-deoxy-2-fluoro-d-mannose building blocks are often experimentally challenging when using Selectfluor with the corresponding glycal. We targeted a late-stage method to introduce fluorine in a stereospe... Read More about Towards the synthesis of a 2-deoxy-2-fluoro-d-mannose building block and characterisation of an unusual 2-S-phenyl anomeric pyridinium triflate salt via 1 → 2 S-migration.

Percutaneous repair of the Achilles tendon with one knot offers equivalent results as the same procedure with two knots. A comparative prospective study. (2024)
Journal Article
Maffulli, N., Christidis, G., Gougoulias, N., Christidis, P., Poku, D., Hassan, R., Migliorini, F., & Oliva, F. (in press). Percutaneous repair of the Achilles tendon with one knot offers equivalent results as the same procedure with two knots. A comparative prospective study. British Medical Bulletin, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1093/bmb/ldae019

The present prospective comparative study included patients with acute Achilles tendon rupture (ATR) who underwent percutaneous repair with one knot compared to percutaneous repair with two knots. All patients underwent the procedure under local anes... Read More about Percutaneous repair of the Achilles tendon with one knot offers equivalent results as the same procedure with two knots. A comparative prospective study..

Clot-in-transit and pulmonary embolism: an urgent call for awareness and action. (2024)
Journal Article
Di Marino, M., Cicchitti, V., Ianni, U., Ricci, F., Mantini, C., Niccoli, G., Pelliccia, F., Gallina, S., De Caterina, R., Kaski, J.-C., Mamas, M. A., & Zimarino, M. (in press). Clot-in-transit and pulmonary embolism: an urgent call for awareness and action. Heart, https://doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2024-324747

Patients with acute pulmonary embolism (PE) have a wide spectrum of clinical presentations, from incidental findings to sudden cardiac death. Management and treatment recommendations in currently available guidelines vary according to patient risk an... Read More about Clot-in-transit and pulmonary embolism: an urgent call for awareness and action..

Enhancing comparability in early child development assessment with the D-score (2024)
Journal Article
van Buuren, S., Eekhout, I., McCray, G., Lancaster, G. A., Waldman, M. R., McCoy, D. C., Gladstone, M., Cavallera, V., Dua, T., Black, M. M., & Team, G. (2024). Enhancing comparability in early child development assessment with the D-score. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 17. https://doi.org/10.1177/01650254241294033

The lack of a valid and interpretable score to track early child development over time is a primary reason for neglecting child development in policymaking. Many instruments exist, but there is no accepted method for comparing their scores across dif... Read More about Enhancing comparability in early child development assessment with the D-score.

Effects of employees living with an ‘arthritis’ on sickness absence and transitions out of employment: a comparative observational study in the UK (2024)
Journal Article
Whittaker, W., Higgerson, J., Eden, M., Payne, K., Wilkie, R., & Verstappen, S. M. (2024). Effects of employees living with an ‘arthritis’ on sickness absence and transitions out of employment: a comparative observational study in the UK. RMD Open, 10(4), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1136/rmdopen-2024-004817

Purpose: To assess sickness absence and transitions from employment for employees with arthritis compared with employees without arthritis over time. Methods: We use 10 waves of the UK Household Longitudinal Survey (2009–2019). The sample (n=38 928)... Read More about Effects of employees living with an ‘arthritis’ on sickness absence and transitions out of employment: a comparative observational study in the UK.

Everyday living with osteoarthritis in the global South: A qualitative focus group inquiry in Nigeria. (2024)
Journal Article
Owoyemi, T., Alonge, I., Adetunji, O., Ogbu, E., Ogunbanjo, A., White, S., Adebajo, A., Mallen, C., Babatunde, O. O., & Dziedzic, K. (2025). Everyday living with osteoarthritis in the global South: A qualitative focus group inquiry in Nigeria. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Open, 7(1), Article 100555. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocarto.2024.100555

Objective
Africa contributes significantly to the increasing global prevalence (>37%), unmet need and treatment burden for people with osteoarthritis. Despite this, little research has examined the expressed needs of patients with osteoarthritis (OA... Read More about Everyday living with osteoarthritis in the global South: A qualitative focus group inquiry in Nigeria..

An outbreak of carbapenemase producing Enterobacterales – importance of thorough decontamination of beds (2024)
Journal Article
Puleston, R., Morgan, K., Asanthi, I., Bucior, H., Rawlin, K., Orendi, J., Snape, J., Bourne, S., Riley, A.-M., Whitehead, L., O'Leary, T., Phillips, E., Alves, C., & Knock, M. (2025). An outbreak of carbapenemase producing Enterobacterales – importance of thorough decontamination of beds. Infection Prevention in Practice, 7(1), Article 100422. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infpip.2024.100422