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Itch, Clap, Pox: Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century Imagination. By Noelle Gallagher. New Haven; London: Yale University Press. 2018. x + 267 p. £46.95 (hb). ISBN 978-0-300-21705-6 (2024)
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Hardiman, E. (in press). Itch, Clap, Pox: Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century Imagination. By Noelle Gallagher. New Haven; London: Yale University Press. 2018. x + 267 p. £46.95 (hb). ISBN 978-0-300-21705-6. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12953

The prescription and monitoring of conventional synthetic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs: British Society for Rheumatology guideline scope (2024)
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Mercer, L., Abhishek, A., Kavirayani, A., Ahmed, A., Davidson, A., Foulkes, A., …Galloway, J. (in press). The prescription and monitoring of conventional synthetic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs: British Society for Rheumatology guideline scope. Rheumatology Advances in Practice, 8(3), Article rkae077. https://doi.org/10.1093/rap/rkae077

Lay Summary: What does this mean for patients? A revised guideline, produced by the British Society for Rheumatology (BSR), will provide up-to-date information about the safe prescribing and monitoring of the effects of non-biologic (or conventional... Read More about The prescription and monitoring of conventional synthetic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs: British Society for Rheumatology guideline scope.

Patient attitudes and experiences towards exercise during oncological treatment. A qualitative systematic review (2024)
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Finch, A., & Benham, A. (2024). Patient attitudes and experiences towards exercise during oncological treatment. A qualitative systematic review. Supportive Care in Cancer, 32(8), Article 509. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-024-08649-2

Purpose: Exercise and physical activity (PA) during oncological treatment have many benefits. However, PA levels and adherence are often low. This systematic review of qualitative literature aims to explore the experience and the perceived barriers a... Read More about Patient attitudes and experiences towards exercise during oncological treatment. A qualitative systematic review.

Response to Shariff’s comments to my paper on his isotropic invariants (Shariff, 2023) (2024)
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Itskov, M. (2024). Response to Shariff’s comments to my paper on his isotropic invariants (Shariff, 2023). Mechanics of soft materials, 6(1), Article 6. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42558-024-00061-4

In the paper by Shariff (Q. J. Mech. Appl. Math. 76, 143–161, 2023) a functional basis of vectors and symmetric tensors based on eigenvectors of the first tensor is proposed. In the paper by Itskov (Mech. Soft Mater. 6(4), 1–3, 2024) a counterexample... Read More about Response to Shariff’s comments to my paper on his isotropic invariants (Shariff, 2023).

Google Internet searches related to inflammatory arthritis: An observational study using Google Trends data (2024)
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Akthar, M., Mason, K. J., & Scott, I. C. (2024). Google Internet searches related to inflammatory arthritis: An observational study using Google Trends data. Musculoskeletal Care, 22(3), Article e1916. https://doi.org/10.1002/msc.1916

Objective: The Internet has transformed how patients access health information. We examined Google search engine data to understand which aspects of health are most often searched for in combination with inflammatory arthritis (IA). Methods: Using Go... Read More about Google Internet searches related to inflammatory arthritis: An observational study using Google Trends data.

Substrate-induced strain in molybdenum disulfide grown by aerosol-assisted chemical vapor deposition (2024)
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Adams, L. J., Matthews, P. D., Morbec, J. M., & Balakrishnan, N. (in press). Substrate-induced strain in molybdenum disulfide grown by aerosol-assisted chemical vapor deposition. Nanotechnology, 35(39), Article 395602. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6528/ad5dc1

Transition metal dichalcogenides have been extensively studied in recent years because of their fascinating optical, electrical, and catalytic properties. However, low-cost, scalable production remains a challenge. Aerosol-assisted chemical vapor dep... Read More about Substrate-induced strain in molybdenum disulfide grown by aerosol-assisted chemical vapor deposition.

Early Results from the HUMDRUM Survey: A Small, Earth-mass Planet Orbits TOI-1450A (2024)
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Brady, M., Bean, J. L., Seifahrt, A., Kasper, D., Luque, R., Stefánsson, G., …Zambelli, R. (2024). Early Results from the HUMDRUM Survey: A Small, Earth-mass Planet Orbits TOI-1450A. Astronomical Journal, 168(2), Article 67. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ad500a

M-dwarf stars provide us with an ideal opportunity to study nearby small planets. The HUnting for M Dwarf Rocky planets Using MAROON-X (HUMDRUM) survey uses the MAROON-X spectrograph, which is ideally suited to studying these stars, to measure precis... Read More about Early Results from the HUMDRUM Survey: A Small, Earth-mass Planet Orbits TOI-1450A.

Symmetric double-layer capacitor with natural rubber and sodium salt-based solid polymer electrolyte and reduced graphene oxide electrodes (2024)
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Perera, K. S., Vidanapathirana, K. P., Adams, L. J., Hawes, C. S., & Balakrishnan, N. (2024). Symmetric double-layer capacitor with natural rubber and sodium salt-based solid polymer electrolyte and reduced graphene oxide electrodes. Journal of Energy Storage, 97, Article 112683. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2024.112683

Solid polymer electrolytes (SPEs) are the key to improving electrochemical devices’ energy density and safety. In recent years, natural polymers have received tremendous attention due to the latest advances in green technology for a sustainable futur... Read More about Symmetric double-layer capacitor with natural rubber and sodium salt-based solid polymer electrolyte and reduced graphene oxide electrodes.

Inter-school variations in the standard of examiners’ graduation-level OSCE judgements (2024)
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Yeates, P., Maluf, A., McCray, G., Kinston, R., Cope, N., Cullen, K., …McKinley, R. (2024). Inter-school variations in the standard of examiners’ graduation-level OSCE judgements. Medical Teacher, https://doi.org/10.1080/0142159X.2024.2372087

Introduction Ensuring equivalence in high-stakes performance exams is important for patient safety and candidate fairness. We compared inter-school examiner differences within a shared OSCE and resulting impact on students’ pass/fail categorisation.... Read More about Inter-school variations in the standard of examiners’ graduation-level OSCE judgements.

Correction: Virtual screening, identification and in vitro validation of small molecule GDP-mannose dehydrogenase inhibitors (2024)
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Dolan, J. P., Ahmadipour, S., Wahart, A. J. C., Cheallaigh, A. N., Sari, S., Eurtivong, C., …Miller, G. J. (in press). Correction: Virtual screening, identification and in vitro validation of small molecule GDP-mannose dehydrogenase inhibitors. RSC Chemical Biology, https://doi.org/10.1039/d4cb90026j

Correction for ‘Virtual screening, identification and in vitro validation of small molecule GDP-mannose dehydrogenase inhibitors’ by Jonathan P. Dolan et al., RSC Chem. Biol., 2023, 4, 865–870, https://doi.org/10.1039/D3CB00126A.

The Changing Moral Environment—A Three-Wave Study Testing Four Moral Theories and the Fear of COVID-19 in Predicting Compliance with Behavioral Guidelines on COVID-19, Moralization Toward Non-Compliance, and Vaccination (2024)
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Kunnari, A., Francis, K. B., Sundvall, J., & Laakasuo, M. (2024). The Changing Moral Environment—A Three-Wave Study Testing Four Moral Theories and the Fear of COVID-19 in Predicting Compliance with Behavioral Guidelines on COVID-19, Moralization Toward Non-Compliance, and Vaccination. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/01973533.2024.2373150

Governments across the globe imposed behavioral restrictions to halt the spread of the COVID-19. These preventive behaviors became a moralized issue and engagement in those behaviors varied. In moral psychology, there are various theoretical framewor... Read More about The Changing Moral Environment—A Three-Wave Study Testing Four Moral Theories and the Fear of COVID-19 in Predicting Compliance with Behavioral Guidelines on COVID-19, Moralization Toward Non-Compliance, and Vaccination.

Using Twitter (X) to mobilise knowledge for First Contact Physiotherapists: A qualitative study (Preprint) (2024)
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Campbell, L., Quicke, J., Stevenson, K., Paskins, Z., Dziedzic, K., & Swaithes, L. (2024). Using Twitter (X) to mobilise knowledge for First Contact Physiotherapists: A qualitative study (Preprint). Journal of Medical Internet Research, 26, Article e55680. https://doi.org/10.2196/55680

Background: Twitter (now X) is a virtual social network commonly used by healthcare professionals. Little is known about whether it helps healthcare professionals to share, mobilise and co-create knowledge, or reduce the time between research know... Read More about Using Twitter (X) to mobilise knowledge for First Contact Physiotherapists: A qualitative study (Preprint).

Molecular and Serological Surveillance for Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium lepromatosis in Wild Red Squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris) from Scotland and Northern England (2024)
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Zhou, Z., van Hooij, A., Wassenaar, G. N., Seed, E., Verhard-Seymonsbergen, E. M., Corstjens, P. L. A. M., …Geluk, A. (2024). Molecular and Serological Surveillance for Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium lepromatosis in Wild Red Squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris) from Scotland and Northern England. Animals, 14(13), Article 2005. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani14132005

Leprosy is a poverty-associated infectious disease in humans caused by Mycobacterium leprae or M. lepromatosis, often resulting in skin and peripheral nerve damage, which remains a significant public health concern in isolated areas of low- and middl... Read More about Molecular and Serological Surveillance for Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium lepromatosis in Wild Red Squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris) from Scotland and Northern England.

The Relationship Between Obesity and Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in People with Polymyalgia Rheumatica (2024)
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Scott, I. C., Bajpai, R., Hider, S. L., Helliwell, T., Mallen, C. D., & Muller, S. (in press). The Relationship Between Obesity and Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in People with Polymyalgia Rheumatica. Rheumatology Advances in Practice, 8(3), Article rkae081. https://doi.org/10.1093/rap/rkae081

Objective To examine the association between obesity and patient-reported outcomes measures (PROMs) in a primary care-based cohort of people with polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR). Methods The PMR Cohort Study recruited people with incident PMR from... Read More about The Relationship Between Obesity and Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in People with Polymyalgia Rheumatica.

Musculoskeletal Health and Work: Development and Internal–External Cross-Validation of a Model to Predict Risk of Work Absence and Presenteeism in People Seeking Primary Healthcare (2024)
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Archer, L., Peat, G., Snell, K. I. E., Hill, J. C., Dunn, K. M., Foster, N. E., …Wynne-Jones, G. (2024). Musculoskeletal Health and Work: Development and Internal–External Cross-Validation of a Model to Predict Risk of Work Absence and Presenteeism in People Seeking Primary Healthcare. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10926-024-10223-w

Purpose To develop and validate prediction models for the risk of future work absence and level of presenteeism, in adults seeking primary healthcare with musculoskeletal disorders (MSD). Methods Six studies from the West-Midlands/Northwest regi... Read More about Musculoskeletal Health and Work: Development and Internal–External Cross-Validation of a Model to Predict Risk of Work Absence and Presenteeism in People Seeking Primary Healthcare.

Automating incidence and prevalence analysis in open cohorts (2024)
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Cockburn, N., Hammond, B., Gani, I., Cusworth, S., Acharya, A., Gokhale, K., …Chandan, J. S. (in press). Automating incidence and prevalence analysis in open cohorts. BMC medical research methodology, 24, Article 144. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-024-02266-7

Motivation: Data is increasingly used for improvement and research in public health, especially administrative data such as that collected in electronic health records. Patients enter and exit these typically open-cohort datasets non-uniformly; this... Read More about Automating incidence and prevalence analysis in open cohorts.

Are the metal identity and stoichiometry of metal complexes important for colchicine site binding and inhibition of tubulin polymerization? † (2024)
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Besleaga, I., Raptová, R., Stoica, A.-C., Milunovic, M. N. M., Zalibera, M., Bai, R., …Arion, V. B. (in press). Are the metal identity and stoichiometry of metal complexes important for colchicine site binding and inhibition of tubulin polymerization? †. Dalton Transactions, https://doi.org/10.1039/d4dt01469c

Quite recently we discovered that copper(ii) complexes with isomeric morpholine-thiosemicarbazone hybrid ligands show good cytotoxicity in cancer cells and that the molecular target responsible for this activity might be tubulin. In order to obtain b... Read More about Are the metal identity and stoichiometry of metal complexes important for colchicine site binding and inhibition of tubulin polymerization? †.

Contextualising and challenging under-representation in research in light of Cultural Trauma: a qualitative focus group and interview study (2024)
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Fryer, K., Hutt, I., Aminu, H., Linton, E., White, J., Reynolds, J., & Mitchell, C. (in press). Contextualising and challenging under-representation in research in light of Cultural Trauma: a qualitative focus group and interview study. Research Involvement and Engagement, 10(1), Article 69. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40900-024-00600-3

Background: Although underserved populations— including those from ethnic minority communities and those living in poverty—have worse health and poorer healthcare experiences, most primary care research does not fairly reflect these groups. Patient a... Read More about Contextualising and challenging under-representation in research in light of Cultural Trauma: a qualitative focus group and interview study.

Proverbial teachings on sustainability: critical dialogues on traditional proverbs and zine-making in higher education (2024)
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Anuar, A. M., & Mun, O. (2024). Proverbial teachings on sustainability: critical dialogues on traditional proverbs and zine-making in higher education. Teaching in Higher Education, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2024.2366916

What ethical and political considerations does zine-making raise in teaching and learning across knowledge systems and artful expression? This question guides the critical dialogue about a research project on teaching sustainability through tradition... Read More about Proverbial teachings on sustainability: critical dialogues on traditional proverbs and zine-making in higher education.

Understanding the preferences of young adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus with regard to diabetes self-management education: a qualitative study (2024)
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Sim, R. R. J., Soon, W., Smith, H. E., Griva, K., & Wong, S. K. W. (2024). Understanding the preferences of young adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus with regard to diabetes self-management education: a qualitative study. BMJ Open, 14(7), Article e086133. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-086133

Aim: Young-onset type 2 diabetes (YOD) is associated with poorer clinical outcomes. To support the development of more effective diabetes self-management education (DSME) programmes, this study aimed to understand the preferences of young adults with... Read More about Understanding the preferences of young adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus with regard to diabetes self-management education: a qualitative study.