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Endoscopic debridement for non-insertional Achilles tendinopathy with and without platelet-rich plasma. (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). Endoscopic debridement for non-insertional Achilles tendinopathy with and without platelet-rich plasma. Journal of Sport and Health Science, 12(2), 275-280. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jshs.2020.06.012

BACKGROUND: When non-operative management fails to improve symptoms in patients with non-insertional Achilles tendinopathy, surgery may be required. Various open and endoscopic techniques have been proposed, and platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injections... Read More about Endoscopic debridement for non-insertional Achilles tendinopathy with and without platelet-rich plasma..

Breast Cancer Management Guidelines During COVID-19 Pandemic (2020)
Journal Article
Gowda S, M., Katherine Kabeer, K., Jafferbhoy, S., Marla, S., Soumian, S., Misra, V., …Brunt, A. M. (2020). Breast Cancer Management Guidelines During COVID-19 Pandemic. Indian Journal of Surgery, 82, 251-258. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12262-020-02466-7

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in 2020 has brought about complex challenges in healthcare delivery. With the new rules of lockdown and social distancing and with resources diverted to the management of COVID-19, there are difficulties in... Read More about Breast Cancer Management Guidelines During COVID-19 Pandemic.

Population-based estimates of healthy working life expectancy in England at age 50 years: analysis of data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. (2020)
Journal Article
Bucknall, M., & Wilkie, R. (2020). Population-based estimates of healthy working life expectancy in England at age 50 years: analysis of data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. The Lancet Public Health, 5(7), e395 - e403. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667%2820%2930114-6

BACKGROUND: Retirement ages are rising in many countries to offset the challenges of population ageing, but people's capacity to work for more years in their later working life (>50 years) is unclear. We aimed to estimate healthy working life expecta... Read More about Population-based estimates of healthy working life expectancy in England at age 50 years: analysis of data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing..

Digital technologies and parental involvement in education: the experiences of mothers of primary school-aged children (2020)
Journal Article
Head. (2020). Digital technologies and parental involvement in education: the experiences of mothers of primary school-aged children. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 41(5), https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2020.1776594

This paper makes a contribution to the developing field of the political economy of educational technology and to an understanding of the significance of digital technologies for home-school relations. The digitalisation of social life is increasing... Read More about Digital technologies and parental involvement in education: the experiences of mothers of primary school-aged children.

Human cell therapies in preclinical and clinical studies of cartilage repair (2020)
Thesis
Perry, J. K. L. (2020). Human cell therapies in preclinical and clinical studies of cartilage repair. (Thesis). Keele University

Cell therapy offers potential to repair and regenerate damaged tissues. An established example of its use in the clinic is for treating cartilage defects. This thesis addresses this topic, both studying the use of imaging in such patients having had... Read More about Human cell therapies in preclinical and clinical studies of cartilage repair.

Bioimpedance as a predictor of survival in renal failure and associated comorbidities. (2020)
Thesis
Dudson, M. L. (2020). Bioimpedance as a predictor of survival in renal failure and associated comorbidities. (Thesis). Keele University

Background: Renal failure requiring dialysis is associated with a high mortality. One of the contributing causes is overhydration. Overhydration can be assessed by bioimpedance analysis (BIA)– the non-invasive electrical measure of small current thro... Read More about Bioimpedance as a predictor of survival in renal failure and associated comorbidities..

The impact of host stress on virulence phenotypes in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum (2020)
Thesis
Anagu, L. O. (2020). The impact of host stress on virulence phenotypes in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. (Thesis). Keele University

Plasmodium falciparum encodes a family of key virulence genes called var genes. These encode adhesive proteins that are expressed on infected erythrocytes in a mutually exclusive manner. The parasite’s sirtuins have been implicated in epigenetic sele... Read More about The impact of host stress on virulence phenotypes in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.

An exploration of hospital pharmacists’ attitudes and opinions towards undertaking research (2020)
Thesis
Shenton, J. J. L. (2020). An exploration of hospital pharmacists’ attitudes and opinions towards undertaking research. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/417292

Background Research in the NHS is essential to provide evidence to improve services and patient outcomes. The Government’s continued commitment to research has been made clear through the inclusion of research in key NHS policy documents including t... Read More about An exploration of hospital pharmacists’ attitudes and opinions towards undertaking research.

Hopf-Galois module structure of a class of tame quaternionic fields (2020)
Thesis
Taylor, S. J. (2020). Hopf-Galois module structure of a class of tame quaternionic fields. (Thesis). Keele University

We study the Hopf-Galois module structure of rings of integers in tame Galois extensions L=F of global fields with Galois group isomorphic to the quaternion group of order 8. We determine explicitly the Hopf algebras giving Hopf-Galois structures on... Read More about Hopf-Galois module structure of a class of tame quaternionic fields.

Confirmation of exoplanet candidates in the Wide-Angle Search for Planets survey via Doppler tomography (2020)
Thesis
Temple, L. Y. (2020). Confirmation of exoplanet candidates in the Wide-Angle Search for Planets survey via Doppler tomography. (Thesis). Keele University

This work reports the discovery of four new exoplanets, with host stars in the relatively sparse spectral type range mid-F–A. The planets were discovered using the transit method and confirmed via Doppler tomography. The first is WASP-167b/KELT-13b,... Read More about Confirmation of exoplanet candidates in the Wide-Angle Search for Planets survey via Doppler tomography.

Exploration of the use of decision analytic modelling in low back pain and sciatica (2020)
Thesis
Ashwell Hall, J. (2020). Exploration of the use of decision analytic modelling in low back pain and sciatica. (Thesis). Keele University

Low back pain (LBP) is a global public health problem. Keele University developed the STarT Back tool to stratify LBP patients according to their risk of persistent disability, matching treatments to individual risk. A 12-month trial-based economic e... Read More about Exploration of the use of decision analytic modelling in low back pain and sciatica.

Control and suppression of elastic waves using periodic metasurfaces and bridges (2020)
Thesis
Wootton, P. T. (2020). Control and suppression of elastic waves using periodic metasurfaces and bridges. (Thesis). Keele University

This thesis discusses how wave propagation in continuous linearly elastic media can be controlled or suppressed using periodic structures. This involves controlling 2D waves on a membrane, 3D longitudinal and transverse waves in a linearly elastic bu... Read More about Control and suppression of elastic waves using periodic metasurfaces and bridges.

Chemical synthesis of modified D-mannuronate building blocks: prospects for modified alginates (2020)
Thesis
Dimitriou, E. (2020). Chemical synthesis of modified D-mannuronate building blocks: prospects for modified alginates. (Thesis). Keele University

Alginate is an anionic polysaccharide comprised of β˗1,4˗linked D˗mannuronic acid (M) and L˗guluronic acid (G). The polymer is naturally harvested from seaweed and is widely exploited in various biotechnological and biomedical applications, due to th... Read More about Chemical synthesis of modified D-mannuronate building blocks: prospects for modified alginates.

The effects of increased atmospheric reactive nitrogen deposition upon rates of biological nitrogen fixation in peatlands and temperate forests (2020)
Thesis
Saiz Val, E. (2020). The effects of increased atmospheric reactive nitrogen deposition upon rates of biological nitrogen fixation in peatlands and temperate forests. (Thesis). Keele University

Biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) is a microbial process that fixes atmospheric nitrogen (N2) gas into reactive, bioavailable forms (Nr). Naturally, lightning and BNF accounted for the entire Nr available for plant and microbial metabolic demands. H... Read More about The effects of increased atmospheric reactive nitrogen deposition upon rates of biological nitrogen fixation in peatlands and temperate forests.

Acute flares in knee osteoarthritis (2020)
Thesis
Parry, E. (2020). Acute flares in knee osteoarthritis. (Thesis). Keele University

Osteoarthritis affects 8.75 million people in the United Kingdom. Acute episodes of pain (“acute flares”) may be an important, although poorly understood, part of its natural history. This thesis is a mixed methods study of acute flares in knee osteo... Read More about Acute flares in knee osteoarthritis.

Localized bulging in an inflated hyperelastic tube: the effects of rotation, multi-layering and torsion (2020)
Thesis
Althobaiti, A. A. K. (2020). Localized bulging in an inflated hyperelastic tube: the effects of rotation, multi-layering and torsion. (Thesis). Keele University

In this thesis, we start by considering a hyperelastic circular solid cylinder or tube that is rotating about its axis of symmetry with angular velocity ω. If the resultant axial force F is fixed, it is shown that the bifurcation condition for a soli... Read More about Localized bulging in an inflated hyperelastic tube: the effects of rotation, multi-layering and torsion.

Blowing in the Wind? An investigation into the effect of advertising music on consumer habitus (2020)
Thesis
Wright, C. W. (2020). Blowing in the Wind? An investigation into the effect of advertising music on consumer habitus. (Thesis). Keele University

The potential rewards of utilising music within an industrial environment has gained a good level of academic traction within recent years with studies exploring music as a potential facilitator in consumer experience, creating first impressions and... Read More about Blowing in the Wind? An investigation into the effect of advertising music on consumer habitus.

An observational evaluation of 30-day unplanned readmissions after percutaneous coronary intervention in the United States (2020)
Thesis
Kwok, C. S. (2020). An observational evaluation of 30-day unplanned readmissions after percutaneous coronary intervention in the United States. (Thesis). Keele University

Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has become one of the most commonly performed procedures in hospital used to treat coronary heart disease. As PCI has evolved into a safe procedure with low mortality rates, however, there is now a growing pop... Read More about An observational evaluation of 30-day unplanned readmissions after percutaneous coronary intervention in the United States.

ARF regulating proteins as novel drug targets in Trypanosoma brucei (2020)
Thesis
Chandrathas, J. P. (2020). ARF regulating proteins as novel drug targets in Trypanosoma brucei. (Thesis). Keele University

Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) and Animal African Trypanosomiasis (AAT) are neglected tropical diseases that pose a huge socioeconomic and health burden in poorer countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The causative agents of these diseases are the Tr... Read More about ARF regulating proteins as novel drug targets in Trypanosoma brucei.