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Physiotherapist-led exercise versus usual care (waiting-list) control for patients awaiting rotator cuff repair surgery: A pilot randomised controlled trial (POWER). (2023)
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Littlewood, C., Moffatt, M., Beckhelling, J., Davis, D., Burden, A., Pitt, L., …Foster, N. E. (in press). Physiotherapist-led exercise versus usual care (waiting-list) control for patients awaiting rotator cuff repair surgery: A pilot randomised controlled trial (POWER). Musculoskeletal Science and Practice, 68, Article 102874. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msksp.2023.102874

Once a decision to undergo rotator cuff repair surgery is made, patients are placed on the waiting list. It can take weeks or months to receive surgery. There has been a call to move from waiting lists to 'preparation' lists to better prepare patient... Read More about Physiotherapist-led exercise versus usual care (waiting-list) control for patients awaiting rotator cuff repair surgery: A pilot randomised controlled trial (POWER)..

Development of the Preferred Components for Co-Design in Research Guideline and Checklist: Protocol for a Scoping Review and a Modified Delphi Process. (2023)
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Munce, S. E., Steele Gray, C., Pomeroy, B. C., Bayley, M., Kokorelias, K. M., Luong, D., …Kuluski, K. (in press). Development of the Preferred Components for Co-Design in Research Guideline and Checklist: Protocol for a Scoping Review and a Modified Delphi Process. JMIR Research Protocols, 12, Article e50463. https://doi.org/10.2196/50463

Background: There is increasing evidence that co-design can lead to more engaging, acceptable, relevant, feasible, and even effective interventions. However, no guidance is provided on the specific designs and associated methods or methodologies inv... Read More about Development of the Preferred Components for Co-Design in Research Guideline and Checklist: Protocol for a Scoping Review and a Modified Delphi Process..

Role of pan-national associations such as the European College of Sports and Exercise Physicians (ECOSEP) in advancing the specialty of sports and exercise medicine in the 21st century. (2023)
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Scheer, V., Lohrer, H., Pakravan, A., Tsapralis, K., Valle, X., Ghrairi, M., …Bueno Padilla, J. M. (in press). Role of pan-national associations such as the European College of Sports and Exercise Physicians (ECOSEP) in advancing the specialty of sports and exercise medicine in the 21st century. BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine, 9(4), Article e001703. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjsem-2023-001703

Refining the properties of the TOI-178 system with CHEOPS and TESS (2023)
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Delrez, L., Leleu, A., Brandeker, A., Gillon, M., Hooton, M. J., Collier Cameron, A., …Winn, J. N. (2023). Refining the properties of the TOI-178 system with CHEOPS and TESS. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 678, Article A200. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202245479

Context. The TOI-178 system consists of a nearby late K-dwarf transited by six planets in the super-Earth to mini-Neptune regime, with radii ranging from ~1.1 to 2.9 R⊕ and orbital periods between 1.9 and 20.7 days. All planets but the innermost one... Read More about Refining the properties of the TOI-178 system with CHEOPS and TESS.

ATCA Study of Small Magellanic Cloud Supernova Remnant 1E 0102.2–7219 (2023)
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Alsaberi, R. Z. E., Filipović, M. D., Dai, S., Sano, H., Kothes, R., Payne, J. L., …Vogt, F. P. A. (2024). ATCA Study of Small Magellanic Cloud Supernova Remnant 1E 0102.2–7219. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527(1), 1444-1460. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad3300

We present new and archival Australia Telescope Compact Array and Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array data of the Small Magellanic Cloud supernova remnant 1E 0102.2–7219 at 2100, 5500, 9000, and 108000 MHz; as well as H i data provided by th... Read More about ATCA Study of Small Magellanic Cloud Supernova Remnant 1E 0102.2–7219.

Comorbidity clusters and in-hospital outcomes in patients admitted with acute myocardial infarction in the USA: A national population-based study (2023)
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Zghebi, S. S., Rutter, M. K., Sun, L. Y., Ullah, W., Rashid, M., Ashcroft, D. M., …Mamas, M. A. (in press). Comorbidity clusters and in-hospital outcomes in patients admitted with acute myocardial infarction in the USA: A national population-based study. PloS one, 18(10), e0293314. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0293314

Background: The prevalence of multimorbidity in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is increasing. It is unclear whether comorbidities cluster into distinct phenogroups and whether are associated with clinical trajectories. Methods: Surve... Read More about Comorbidity clusters and in-hospital outcomes in patients admitted with acute myocardial infarction in the USA: A national population-based study.

Using video-based examiner score comparison and adjustment (VESCA) to compare the influence of examiners at different sites in a distributed objective structured clinical exam (OSCE) (2023)
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Yeates, P., Maluf, A., Cope, N., McCray, G., McBain, S., Beardow, D., …McKinley, R. B. (2023). Using video-based examiner score comparison and adjustment (VESCA) to compare the influence of examiners at different sites in a distributed objective structured clinical exam (OSCE). BMC Medical Education, 23(1), Article 803. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-023-04774-4

Purpose: Ensuring equivalence of examiners’ judgements within distributed objective structured clinical exams (OSCEs) is key to both fairness and validity but is hampered by lack of cross-over in the performances which different groups of examiners o... Read More about Using video-based examiner score comparison and adjustment (VESCA) to compare the influence of examiners at different sites in a distributed objective structured clinical exam (OSCE).

Estimating the association between systemic Interleukin-6 and mortality in the dialysis population. Re-analysis of the global fluid study, systematic review and meta-analysis (2023)
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Istanbuly, O., Belcher, J., Tabinor, M., Solis-Trapala, I., Lambie, M., & Davies, S. J. (in press). Estimating the association between systemic Interleukin-6 and mortality in the dialysis population. Re-analysis of the global fluid study, systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Nephrology, 24(1), Article 312. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12882-023-03370-4

Background: Systemic inflammation, measured as circulating Interleukin-6 (IL-6) levels, is associated with cardiovascular and all-cause mortality in chronic kidney disease. However, this has not been convincingly demonstrated in a systematic review o... Read More about Estimating the association between systemic Interleukin-6 and mortality in the dialysis population. Re-analysis of the global fluid study, systematic review and meta-analysis.

A hot mini-Neptune and a temperate, highly eccentric sub-Saturn around the bright K-dwarf TOI-2134 (2023)
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Rescigno, F., Hébrard, G., Vanderburg, A., Mann, A. W., Mortier, A., Morrell, S., …Forés-Toribio, R. (in press). A hot mini-Neptune and a temperate, highly eccentric sub-Saturn around the bright K-dwarf TOI-2134. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527(3), 5385-5407. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad3255

We present the characterisation of an inner mini-Neptune in a 9.2292005±0.0000063 day orbit and an outer mono-transiting sub-Saturn planet in a 95.50$^{+0.36}_{-0.25}$ day orbit around the moderately active, bright (mv = 8.9 mag) K5V star TOI-2134. B... Read More about A hot mini-Neptune and a temperate, highly eccentric sub-Saturn around the bright K-dwarf TOI-2134.

The Statistical Uncertainties on X-Ray Flux and Spectral Parameters from Chandra ACIS-I Observations of Faint Sources: Application to the Cygnus OB2 Association (2023)
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Albacete-Colombo, J. F., Flaccomio, E., Drake, J. J., Wright, N. J., Guarcello, M., & Kashyap, V. (2023). The Statistical Uncertainties on X-Ray Flux and Spectral Parameters from Chandra ACIS-I Observations of Faint Sources: Application to the Cygnus OB2 Association. Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 269(1), 11. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/acdd69

We investigate the uncertainties of fitted X-ray model parameters and fluxes for relatively faint Chandra ACIS-I source spectra. Monte Carlo (MC) simulations are employed to construct a large set of 150,000 fake X-ray spectra in the low photon count... Read More about The Statistical Uncertainties on X-Ray Flux and Spectral Parameters from Chandra ACIS-I Observations of Faint Sources: Application to the Cygnus OB2 Association.

Classification of Chandra X-Ray Sources in Cygnus OB2 (2023)
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Kashyap, V. L., Guarcello, M. G., Wright, N. J., Drake, J. J., Flaccomio, E., Aldcroft, T. L., …Sciortino, S. (2023). Classification of Chandra X-Ray Sources in Cygnus OB2. Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 269(1), Article 10. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/acdd68

We have devised a predominantly Naive Bayes−based method to classify X-ray sources detected by Chandra in the Cygnus OB2 association into members, foreground objects, and background objects. We employ a variety of X-ray, optical, and infrared charact... Read More about Classification of Chandra X-Ray Sources in Cygnus OB2.

Photoevaporation and Close Encounters: How the Environment around Cygnus OB2 Affects the Evolution of Protoplanetary Disks (2023)
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Guarcello, M. G., Drake, J. J., Wright, N. J., Albacete-Colombo, J. F., Clarke, C., Ercolano, B., …Vink, J. S. (2023). Photoevaporation and Close Encounters: How the Environment around Cygnus OB2 Affects the Evolution of Protoplanetary Disks. Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 269(1), Article 13. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/acdd67

In our Galaxy, star formation occurs in a variety of environments, with a large fraction of stars formed in clusters hosting massive stars. OB stars have an important feedback on the evolution of protoplanetary disks orbiting around nearby young star... Read More about Photoevaporation and Close Encounters: How the Environment around Cygnus OB2 Affects the Evolution of Protoplanetary Disks.

X-Ray Spectral Characterization of the Young Cygnus OB2 Population (2023)
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Flaccomio, E., Albacete-Colombo, J. F., Drake, J. J., Guarcello, M. G., Kashyap, V., Wright, N. J., …Sciortino, S. (2023). X-Ray Spectral Characterization of the Young Cygnus OB2 Population. Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 269(1), Article 12. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/acdd66

We analyze the X-ray spectra of the ∼8000 sources detected in the Cygnus OB2 Chandra Legacy Survey (this focus issue), with the goals of characterizing the coronal plasma of the young low-mass stars in the region and estimating their intrinsic X-ray... Read More about X-Ray Spectral Characterization of the Young Cygnus OB2 Population.