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Economic evaluation of strategies for restarting anticoagulation therapy with warfarin based on Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) risk after an index unprovoked VTE event (2017)
Journal Article
(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.

Writing the scientist: biography and autobiography (2017)
Book Chapter
(2017). Writing the scientist: biography and autobiography. In Ashgate Research Companion to Nineteenth-century Literature and Science

Association of maternal serum PAPP-A levels, nuchal translucency and crown rump length in first trimester with adverse pregnancy outcomes: Retrospective cohort study. (2017)
Journal Article
(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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Patient involvement vs. patient participation in qualitative research in the development of PROMs (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). Patient involvement vs. patient participation in qualitative research in the development of PROMs. Health Expectations, 371 - 372. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.12459

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Patient involvement in research – participants or collaborators? (2017)
Journal Article
Chew-Graham, C. (2017). Patient involvement in research – participants or collaborators?. Health Expectations, 369 - 370. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.12578

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Inverse dynamic modelling of jumping in the red-legged running frog, Kassina maculata. (2017)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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..

Des caractéristiques de la goutte associées à la dépression mais pas à l’anxiété en soins primaires : conclusions initiales d’une étude de cohorte prospective (2017)
Journal Article
Mallen, Prior, Roddy, & Muller. (2017). Des caractéristiques de la goutte associées à la dépression mais pas à l’anxiété en soins primaires : conclusions initiales d’une étude de cohorte prospective. Revue du Rhumatisme, 84(5), 423-429. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rhum.2017.05.004

Objectifs Déterminer la prévalence de l’anxiété et de la dépression dans le contexte de la goutte, examiner les liens entre certaines caractéristiques de la goutte et ces comorbidités et identifier le rôle de l’allopurinol dans ces relations. Mét... Read More about Des caractéristiques de la goutte associées à la dépression mais pas à l’anxiété en soins primaires : conclusions initiales d’une étude de cohorte prospective.

Towards Medical Diagnostics Using Hyperspectral X-ray scatter (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Greenwood, C., Rogers, K., Wilson, M., Lyburn, I., Evans, P., & Davies, G. (2017). Towards Medical Diagnostics Using Hyperspectral X-ray scatter.

This pilot study builds from a recent international, programme that showed, for the first time, the clinical value of new biomarkers to predict fracture risk in osteoporotic patients. The research indicated several potential, high impact routes towar... Read More about Towards Medical Diagnostics Using Hyperspectral X-ray scatter.

The Abortive Inclosure of Needwood Forest in the 1650s (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). The Abortive Inclosure of Needwood Forest in the 1650s

As part of Parliament’s dismemberment of the English monarchy an Act was passed in July 1649 to authorise the sale of Crown lands, including those of held in the right of the duchy of Lancaster.1 In Staffordshire the lands included Needwood forest, w... Read More about The Abortive Inclosure of Needwood Forest in the 1650s.

Predictors of response to prefabricated foot orthoses or rocker-sole footwear in individuals with first metatarsophalangeal joint osteoarthritis (2017)
Journal Article
Roddy. (2017). Predictors of response to prefabricated foot orthoses or rocker-sole footwear in individuals with first metatarsophalangeal joint osteoarthritis. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 185 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12891-017-1558-5

BACKGROUND: Osteoarthritis of the first metatarsophalangeal joint (1st MTPJ OA) is a common and disabling condition commonly managed with footwear and orthotic interventions. The objective of this study was to identify factors associated with a succe... Read More about Predictors of response to prefabricated foot orthoses or rocker-sole footwear in individuals with first metatarsophalangeal joint osteoarthritis.

A preliminary Ground Penetrating Radar study of fluvial architectures at Spireslack, Ayreshire, Scotland (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Pringle. (2017, May). A preliminary Ground Penetrating Radar study of fluvial architectures at Spireslack, Ayreshire, Scotland. Presented at Postgraduate Research Symposium of the Near Surface Geophysics Group, Leicester University

Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) is a near-surface geophysical technique, and has been previously used to obtain 3D sedimentary architectures of both modern and ancient fluvial successions. Obtaining multiple 2D profiles behind outcrop exposures should... Read More about A preliminary Ground Penetrating Radar study of fluvial architectures at Spireslack, Ayreshire, Scotland.

Monitoring subsidence to relict salt mines using long-term time-lapse microgravity, Marston, Cheshire, UK (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Pringle. (2017, May). Monitoring subsidence to relict salt mines using long-term time-lapse microgravity, Marston, Cheshire, UK. Presented at Postgraduate Research Symposium of the Near Surface Geophysics Group, Leicester University

Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) is a near-surface geophysical technique, and has been previously used to obtain 3D sedimentary architectures of both modern and ancient fluvial successions. Obtaining multiple 2D profiles behind outcrop exposures should... Read More about Monitoring subsidence to relict salt mines using long-term time-lapse microgravity, Marston, Cheshire, UK.

The Gaia-ESO Survey: dynamical models of flattened, rotating globular clusters (2017)
Journal Article
Jeffreson, S., Sanders, J., Evans, N., Williams, A., Gilmore, G., Bayo, A., …Zaggia, S. (2017). The Gaia-ESO Survey: dynamical models of flattened, rotating globular clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 469(4), 4740 -4762. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1152

We present a family of self-consistent axisymmetric rotating globular cluster models which are fitted to spectroscopic data for NGC 362, NGC 1851, NGC 2808, NGC 4372, NGC 5927 and NGC 6752 to provide constraints on their physical and kinematic proper... Read More about The Gaia-ESO Survey: dynamical models of flattened, rotating globular clusters.

Psycho-social influences upon older women's decision to attend cervical screening: a review of current evidence (2017)
Journal Article
Hope, K., Moss, E., Redman, C., & Sherman, S. (2017). Psycho-social influences upon older women's decision to attend cervical screening: a review of current evidence. Preventive Medicine, 60-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2017.05.002

Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women worldwide (WHO, 2016). In many developed countries the incidence of cervical cancer has been significantly reduced by the introduction of organised screening programmes however, in the UK, a f... Read More about Psycho-social influences upon older women's decision to attend cervical screening: a review of current evidence.

IL-6 promotes epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition of human peritoneal mesothelial cells possibly through the JAK2/STAT3 signaling pathway. (2017)
Journal Article
Yu. (2017). IL-6 promotes epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition of human peritoneal mesothelial cells possibly through the JAK2/STAT3 signaling pathway. American journal of physiology. Renal physiology, F310 - F318. https://doi.org/10.1152/ajprenal.00428.2016

Long-term peritoneal dialysis (PD) therapy results in functional and structural alteration of the peritoneal membrane, including epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT). Interleukin 6 (IL-6) is a local pleiotropic cytokine, hypothesized to play an... Read More about IL-6 promotes epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition of human peritoneal mesothelial cells possibly through the JAK2/STAT3 signaling pathway..

The Gaia-ESO Survey: Structural and dynamical properties of the young cluster Chamaeleon I (2017)
Journal Article
Sacco, G., Spina, L., Randich, S., Palla, F., Parker, R., Jeffries, R., …Zaggia, S. (2017). The Gaia-ESO Survey: Structural and dynamical properties of the young cluster Chamaeleon I. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 601, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201629698

Investigating the physical mechanisms driving the dynamical evolution of young star clusters is fundamental to our understanding of the star formation process and the properties of the Galactic field stars. The young (~2 Myr) and partially embedded c... Read More about The Gaia-ESO Survey: Structural and dynamical properties of the young cluster Chamaeleon I.