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Musculotendinous ruptures of the achilles tendon had greater heel-rise height index compared with mid-substance rupture with non-operative management: a retrospective cohort study (2023)
Journal Article
Carmont, M. R., Gunnarsson, B., Brorsson, A., & Nilsson-Helander, K. (2023). Musculotendinous ruptures of the achilles tendon had greater heel-rise height index compared with mid-substance rupture with non-operative management: a retrospective cohort study. Journal of ISAKOS, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jisako.2023.12.006

Introduction Achilles Tendon Ruptures (ATR) may occur at varying locations with ruptures at the mid-substance (MS) of the tendon most common, followed tears at the musculotendinous (MT) junction. There is scant li... Read More about Musculotendinous ruptures of the achilles tendon had greater heel-rise height index compared with mid-substance rupture with non-operative management: a retrospective cohort study.

Health and skill-related physical fitness of physiotherapy students (2023)
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Al-Khlaifat, L., Al-yahya, E., Qutishat, D., Okasheh, R., Mohammad, M. T., & Muhaidat, J. (2023). Health and skill-related physical fitness of physiotherapy students. Journal of Human Sport and Exercise, 19(2), 461–472. https://doi.org/10.14198/jhse.2024.192.03

Physiotherapy is a physically demanding profession. Health and skill-related physical fitness should be emphasized in physiotherapy students for both the personal benefit on their own health and injury prevention and for the sustainability of their a... Read More about Health and skill-related physical fitness of physiotherapy students.

Patient decision aids for aortic stenosis and chronic coronary artery disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2023)
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Harris, E., Benham, A., Stephenson, J., Conway, D., Chong, A., Curtis, H., & Astin, F. (2023). Patient decision aids for aortic stenosis and chronic coronary artery disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis. European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurjcn/zvad138

Aims Shared decision-making is recommended for patients considering treatment options for severe aortic stenosis (AS) and chronic coronary artery disease (CAD). This review aims to systematically identify and assess patient decision aids (PtDAs) for... Read More about Patient decision aids for aortic stenosis and chronic coronary artery disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Testosterone replacement therapy: association with mortality in high‐risk patient subgroups (2023)
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Mann, A., Strange, R. C., König, C. S., Hackett, G., Haider, A., Haider, K. S., …Ramachandran, S. (in press). Testosterone replacement therapy: association with mortality in high‐risk patient subgroups. Andrology, https://doi.org/10.1111/andr.13582

Objectives We describe studies determining the association between testosterone therapy (TTh) and mortality. Materials & methods We used a registry database of 737 men with adult-onset testosterone deficiency defined as presenting with low serum... Read More about Testosterone replacement therapy: association with mortality in high‐risk patient subgroups.

Sustainable supercapacitor with a natural rubber-based electrolyte and natural graphite-based electrodes (2023)
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Perera, K., Vidanapathirana, K., Adams, L. J., & Balakrishnan, N. (2023). Sustainable supercapacitor with a natural rubber-based electrolyte and natural graphite-based electrodes. Electrochemical Science Advances, Article e2300025. https://doi.org/10.1002/elsa.202300025

Supercapacitors are at the forefront of energy storage devices due to their ability to fulfill quick power requirements. However, safety and cost are important parameters for their real-world applications. Green materials-based electrodes and electro... Read More about Sustainable supercapacitor with a natural rubber-based electrolyte and natural graphite-based electrodes.

Clinical effectiveness of treatments for the management of anxiety in community dwelling people living with dementia: a systematic review and meta‐analysis (2023)
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Nimmons, D., Aker, N., Jordan, K. P., Cooper, C., Davies, N., Manthorpe, J., …Walters, K. (2023). Clinical effectiveness of treatments for the management of anxiety in community dwelling people living with dementia: a systematic review and meta‐analysis. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association, 19(S18), https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.074855

Background People living with dementia commonly experience distress or behavioural and psychological symptoms, such as anxiety, which are associated with worse outcomes in this population. Symptoms of anxiety can be challenging to manage, as there i... Read More about Clinical effectiveness of treatments for the management of anxiety in community dwelling people living with dementia: a systematic review and meta‐analysis.

The membership problem for subsemigroups of GL2(Z) is NP-complete (2023)
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Bell, P. C., Hirvensalo, M., & Potapov, I. (2024). The membership problem for subsemigroups of GL2(Z) is NP-complete. Information and Computation, 296, Article 105132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ic.2023.105132

We show that the problem of determining if the identity matrix belongs to a finitely generated semigroup of 2x2 matrices from the General Linear Group GL(2,Z) is solvable in NP. We extend this to prove that the membership problem is decidable in NP f... Read More about The membership problem for subsemigroups of GL2(Z) is NP-complete.

Currency, Identity and Trust - Cryptocurrencies, Central Bank Digital Currencies, and the case for the Bahamian Sand Dollar (2023)
Book Chapter
Syrrakos, D., Kuehnlenz, S., & Shand, R. (2024). Currency, Identity and Trust - Cryptocurrencies, Central Bank Digital Currencies, and the case for the Bahamian Sand Dollar. In Intercultural Issues in the Workplace. (1). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42320-8_10

The chapter focuses on the intercultural aspects of money and national currencies. It draws on the historical evolution of the use of money during the last three centuries and assesses the major developments since 1945. In doing so, the links between... Read More about Currency, Identity and Trust - Cryptocurrencies, Central Bank Digital Currencies, and the case for the Bahamian Sand Dollar.

‘The world seemed very large around me’: Urban Regeneration and the Sublime in Benjamin Markovits’s You Don’t Have to Live Like This (2023)
Book Chapter
Peacock, J. (2023). ‘The world seemed very large around me’: Urban Regeneration and the Sublime in Benjamin Markovits’s You Don’t Have to Live Like This. In Benjamin Markovits Critical Essays. (1). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032614892-6

Halfway through Markovits’ novel about a scheme to regenerate Detroit’s neighbourhoods, the narrator, Greg Marnier (known as Marny), returns from his girlfriend’s apartment in the snow. On Mack Avenue, he starts to feel “scared” and reflects on “the... Read More about ‘The world seemed very large around me’: Urban Regeneration and the Sublime in Benjamin Markovits’s You Don’t Have to Live Like This.

The EDIBLES survey: VII. A survey of C2 and C3 in interstellar clouds (2023)
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Fan, H., Rocha, C. M. R., Cordiner, M., Linnartz, H., Cox, N. L. J., Farhang, A., …Cami, J. (2024). The EDIBLES survey: VII. A survey of C2 and C3 in interstellar clouds. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 681, Article A6. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202243910

Context. Small linear carbon chain radicals such as C2 and C3 act as both the building blocks and dissociation fragments of larger carbonaceous species. Their rotational excitation traces the temperature and density of local environments. However, th... Read More about The EDIBLES survey: VII. A survey of C2 and C3 in interstellar clouds.

Biopolitics and structure in legal education <b>Biopolitics and structure in legal education</b> , edited by Luca Siliquini-Cinelli and Thomas Giddens, Abingdon and New York, Routledge, 2023, viii + 276 pp., £120.00 (hardback), £38.99 (ebook), ISBN 978-1-032-00692-5 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-003-17519-3 (ebook) (2023)
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Mazhar, A. (in press). Biopolitics and structure in legal education Biopolitics and structure in legal education , edited by Luca Siliquini-Cinelli and Thomas Giddens, Abingdon and New York, Routledge, 2023, viii + 276 pp., £120.00 (hardback), £38.99 (ebook), ISBN 978-1-032-00692-5 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-003-17519-3 (ebook). The Law Teacher, 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1080/03069400.2023.2288414

Frequency of Consumption of Food Groups and Cardio-Metabolic Risk Factors: A Genetically Informative Twin Study in Sri Lanka. (2023)
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Zavos, H. M. S., Riddleston, L., Jayaweera, K., Dissanayake, L., Jabir, S., Pannala, G., …Rijsdijk, F. V. (in press). Frequency of Consumption of Food Groups and Cardio-Metabolic Risk Factors: A Genetically Informative Twin Study in Sri Lanka. Behavior Genetics, 54, 73–85. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10519-023-10165-8

Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) globally have undergone rapid urbanisation, and changes in demography and health behaviours. In Sri Lanka, cardio-vascular disease and diabetes are now leading causes of mortality. High prevalence of their ris... Read More about Frequency of Consumption of Food Groups and Cardio-Metabolic Risk Factors: A Genetically Informative Twin Study in Sri Lanka..

Decision Questions for Probabilistic Automata on Small Alphabets (2023)
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Bell, P. C., & Semukhin, P. (2023). Decision Questions for Probabilistic Automata on Small Alphabets. Logical Methods in Computer Science, 19(4), 1-36. https://doi.org/10.46298/lmcs-19%284%3A36%292023

We study the emptiness and lambda-reachability problems for unary and binary Probabilistic Finite Automata (PFA) and characterise the complexity of these problems in terms of the degree of ambiguity of the automaton and the size of its alphabet. Our... Read More about Decision Questions for Probabilistic Automata on Small Alphabets.

Magnetic Coagulometry: Towards a New Nanotechnological Tool for ex vivo Monitoring Coagulation in Human Whole Blood (2023)
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Santana-Otero, A., Harper, A., Telling, N. D., Ortega, D., & Cabrera, D. (in press). Magnetic Coagulometry: Towards a New Nanotechnological Tool for ex vivo Monitoring Coagulation in Human Whole Blood. Nanoscale, https://doi.org/10.1039/d3nr02593d

Blood clotting disorders consisting of unwanted blood clot formation or excessive bleeding are some of the main causes of death worldwide. However, there are significant limitations in the current methods used to clinically monitoring the dynamics of... Read More about Magnetic Coagulometry: Towards a New Nanotechnological Tool for ex vivo Monitoring Coagulation in Human Whole Blood.

Don’t mind milk? The role of animal suffering, speciesism, and guilt in the denial of mind and moral status of dairy cows (2023)
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Ioannidou, M., Lesk, V., Stewart-Knox, B., & Francis, K. B. (2024). Don’t mind milk? The role of animal suffering, speciesism, and guilt in the denial of mind and moral status of dairy cows. Food Quality and Preference, 114, Article 105082. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2023.105082

Reminding meat-eaters that animals are being harmed for meat production, elicits psychological tension about meat consumption. Individuals deal with this tension by either reducing or stopping meat consumption or by denying the mind of food animals,... Read More about Don’t mind milk? The role of animal suffering, speciesism, and guilt in the denial of mind and moral status of dairy cows.

Effects of participatory ‘A’rt-Based Activity On ‘Health’ of Older Community-Dwellers: results from a randomized control trial of the Singapore A-Health Intervention (2023)
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Ho, A. H. Y., Ma, S. H. X., Tan, M. K. B., Bajpai, R., Goh, S. S. N., Yeo, G., …Beauchet, O. (in press). Effects of participatory ‘A’rt-Based Activity On ‘Health’ of Older Community-Dwellers: results from a randomized control trial of the Singapore A-Health Intervention. Frontiers in Medicine, 10, Article 1238562. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2023.1238562

Introduction: The practice of participatory art has been found to support the promotion, prevention, and management of health across the lifespan. However, clinical trials investigating the benefits of creative activities curated with and conducted i... Read More about Effects of participatory ‘A’rt-Based Activity On ‘Health’ of Older Community-Dwellers: results from a randomized control trial of the Singapore A-Health Intervention.

Groin Pain Syndrome Italian Consensus Conference update 2023. (2023)
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Bisciotti, G. N., Zini, R., Aluigi, M., Aprato, A., Auci, A., Bellinzona, E., …Volpi, P. (in press). Groin Pain Syndrome Italian Consensus Conference update 2023. The Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness, 10.23736/S0022-4707.23.15517-4. https://doi.org/10.23736/S0022-4707.23.15517-4

Groin pain syndrome (GPS) is a controversial topic in Sports Medicine. The GPS Italian Consensus Conference on terminology, clinical evaluation and imaging assessment of groin pain in athletes was organized by the Italian Society of Arthroscopy in Mi... Read More about Groin Pain Syndrome Italian Consensus Conference update 2023..