Interplay between patient and centre factors in home therapy uptake: A sequences-of-regressions analysis using linked UK Renal Registry to centre survey data (2025)
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Potts, J., M Pearse, C., Lambie, M., Fotheringham, J., Hill, H., Coyle, D., Damery, S., Allen, K., Williams, I., J Davies, S., & Solis-Trapala, I. (2025). Interplay between patient and centre factors in home therapy uptake: A sequences-of-regressions analysis using linked UK Renal Registry to centre survey data

Rationale & Objective Disparities in home dialysis therapy (HT) use may stem from the interplay between dialysis centre services and patient characteristics. We analysed how these factors directly and indirectly affect HT uptake in England.

Study... Read More about Interplay between patient and centre factors in home therapy uptake: A sequences-of-regressions analysis using linked UK Renal Registry to centre survey data.

Diaspora Theoretical Contributors: Reframing Scholarly Identity and Intellectual Remittance (2025)
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Mogaji, E. (2025). Diaspora Theoretical Contributors: Reframing Scholarly Identity and Intellectual Remittance

With the rise of academic mobility and transnational research engagement, many scholars reside outside their countries of origin yet remain deeply connected to them through their scholarly work. This viewpoint introduces the concept of the diaspora t... Read More about Diaspora Theoretical Contributors: Reframing Scholarly Identity and Intellectual Remittance.

Not All Butterflies Are Monarchs: Compass Systems in the Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta), a European Diurnal Migrant (2025)
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Pakhomov, A., Shapoval, N., Shapoval, A., & Kishkinev, D. (2025). Not All Butterflies Are Monarchs: Compass Systems in the Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta), a European Diurnal Migrant

Seasonal migration in animals is a widespread and complex phenomenon, yet the mechanisms underlying orientation and navigation remain poorly understood in many taxa. While significant progress has been made in migratory birds, where multiple compass... Read More about Not All Butterflies Are Monarchs: Compass Systems in the Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta), a European Diurnal Migrant.

Mixed methods evaluation of using the ‘EMPathicO’ communication skills e-learning in primary care: “<i>a super weapon to make the whole experience a bit better”</i> (2025)
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Teasdale, E., Dewar-Haggart, R., Pollet, S., Leydon, G. M., Everitt, H., Cross, N., Atherton, H., Becque, T., Bostock, J., Garfield, K., Herbert, A., Howick, J., Little, P., Mallen, C., Morrison, L., Nuttall, J., Ridd, M. J., Robnson, M. E., Stuart, B., Vennick, J., …Bishop, F. L. (2025). Mixed methods evaluation of using the ‘EMPathicO’ communication skills e-learning in primary care: “a super weapon to make the whole experience a bit better”

Objectives To examine primary care practitioners’ experiences and use of EMPathicO e-learning to enhance communication of clinical empathy and realistic optimism.

Design Mixed methods evaluation incorporating thematic analysis of qualitative inter... Read More about Mixed methods evaluation of using the ‘EMPathicO’ communication skills e-learning in primary care: “<i>a super weapon to make the whole experience a bit better”</i>.

The Michael Mason Prize: Development and feasibility testing of a complex intervention to improve adherence to fracture prevention medicine using a person-centred approach (2025)
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Bullock, L., Tyler, N., Clark, E. M., Thomas, S., Gidlow, C., Bentley, I., Hawarden, A., Peel, N., Gregson, C. L., Ralston, S. H., Protheroe, J., Lefroy, J., O’Neill, T. W., Mallen, C., Clare, J., & Paskins, Z. (in press). The Michael Mason Prize: Development and feasibility testing of a complex intervention to improve adherence to fracture prevention medicine using a person-centred approach

Objectives The improving uptake of Fracture Prevention treatments (iFraP) intervention consists of an osteoporosis decision support tool (DST), clinician skills training, and information resources, to improve shared decision-making (SDM) about, and u... Read More about The Michael Mason Prize: Development and feasibility testing of a complex intervention to improve adherence to fracture prevention medicine using a person-centred approach.

Feasibility and acceptability of implementing the Global Scales for Early Development (GSED) package for children 0–3 years across three countries (2025)
Journal Article
Nizar Merchant, A., Kaur, R., McCray, G., Cavallera, V., Weber, A., Gladstone, M., Janus, M., Nisar, I., Kariger, P., Sazawal, S., Dutta, A., Zhang, Y., Pacifico Mercadante, M., Zongo, A., Schonbeck, Y., Dua, T., Eekhout, I., Tofail, F., Black, M., Baqui, A., …Lancaster, G. (in press). Feasibility and acceptability of implementing the Global Scales for Early Development (GSED) package for children 0–3 years across three countries. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 11(1), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-024-01583-4

Background: To assess the neurodevelopment of children under three years, a multinational team of subject matter experts (SMEs) led by the World Health Organization (WHO) developed the Global Scales for Early Development (GSED). The measures include... Read More about Feasibility and acceptability of implementing the Global Scales for Early Development (GSED) package for children 0–3 years across three countries.

Rising temperatures favour parasite virulence and parallel molecular evolution following a host jump (2025)
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E Hector, T., M Kreiner, J., C Forward, J., L Hoang, K., J Stevens, E., Johnson, S., Li, J., & C King, K. Rising temperatures favour parasite virulence and parallel molecular evolution following a host jump

Climate change is facilitating the poleward emergence of parasites, increasing the risk of jumping into new animal species, including humans. Whether more virulent or transmissible variants will spread during these climate-driven outbreaks is unclear... Read More about Rising temperatures favour parasite virulence and parallel molecular evolution following a host jump.

Digital health interventions to support physical and/or mental rehabilitation of adult patients following hospital discharge: a systematic review of randomised controlled trials protocol (Preprint) (2024)
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Al-Jabr, H., Salt, E., Stephenson, J., Hamdan, E., & Helliwell, T. Digital health interventions to support physical and/or mental rehabilitation of adult patients following hospital discharge: a systematic review of randomised controlled trials protocol (Preprint)

Feasibility trial of a new digital training package to enhance primary care practitioners’ communication of clinical empathy and realistic optimism (2024)
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L Bishop, F., Howick, J., Vennik, J., Bostock, J., Little, P., Mallen, C., Morrison, L., Steele, M., Stuart, B., Hughes, S., Smith, K., Ratnapalan, M., Lyness, E., Dambha-Miller, H., Tiwari, R., Lockyer-Stevens, C., & Everitt, H. Feasibility trial of a new digital training package to enhance primary care practitioners’ communication of clinical empathy and realistic optimism

Background: Patients can benefit when primary care practitioners communicate clinical empathy and optimism during consultations, but previous training interventions for practitioners are overly time-consuming and evidence on patient outcomes is limit... Read More about Feasibility trial of a new digital training package to enhance primary care practitioners’ communication of clinical empathy and realistic optimism.

Association of air pollution from a landfill site with primary care consultation (2024)
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Jordan, K. P., Muller, S., Usman, M., Bailey, J., Burton, C., Lawton, S. A., Mallen, C. D., Mason, K. J., Wathall, S., & van der Windt, D. A. Association of air pollution from a landfill site with primary care consultation

Background Waste landfill sites are associated with gaseous emissions and this air pollution can cause unpleasant smells (“malodour”). This causes concerns about its impact on the health of the local population. This study assessed change in general... Read More about Association of air pollution from a landfill site with primary care consultation.

Protocol for the Work And Vocational advicE (WAVE) randomised controlled trial testing the addition of vocational advice to usual primary care (Clinical Trials: NCT04543097) (2024)
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Wynne-Jones, G., Lewis, M., Sowden, G., Madan, I., Walker-Bone, K., Chew-Graham, C., Bromley, K., Jowett, S., Parsons, V., Mansell, G., Cooke, K., Lawton, S., Saunders, B., Pemberton, J., Cooper, C., & Foster, N. Protocol for the Work And Vocational advicE (WAVE) randomised controlled trial testing the addition of vocational advice to usual primary care (Clinical Trials: NCT04543097)

Objectives To investigate the effectiveness of adding a brief vocational advice intervention to usual care in reducing the number of days absent from work over a period of 6 months in adults given a fit note by their general practice.

Design Multi... Read More about Protocol for the Work And Vocational advicE (WAVE) randomised controlled trial testing the addition of vocational advice to usual primary care (Clinical Trials: NCT04543097).

Extracellular vesicle bioactivity and potential clinical utility is determined by mesenchymal stromal cell clonal subtype (2024)
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Ioannou, S., G Kay, A., P Stone, A., Rand, E., Elberfeld, S., Bolton, W., Larson, T., E Crossland, R., Kehoe, O., A Mentlak, D., Wang, X.-N., MacDonald, C., & Genever, P. Extracellular vesicle bioactivity and potential clinical utility is determined by mesenchymal stromal cell clonal subtype

Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) are a promising source of therapeutic extracellular vesicles (EVs), however it is not clear how heterogeneity within a non-clonal MSC population will affect the collective EV pool. Here we used immortalised clonal MSC... Read More about Extracellular vesicle bioactivity and potential clinical utility is determined by mesenchymal stromal cell clonal subtype.

Within-host competition sparks pathogen molecular evolution and perpetual microbiota dysbiosis (2024)
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Stevens, E., Li, J., Hector, T., Drew, G., Hoang, K., Greenrod, S., Paterson, S., & King, K. Within-host competition sparks pathogen molecular evolution and perpetual microbiota dysbiosis

Pathogens newly invading a host must compete with resident microbiota. This within-host microbial warfare could lead to more severe disease outcomes or constrain the evolution of virulence. Using experimental evolution of a widespread pathogen (Staph... Read More about Within-host competition sparks pathogen molecular evolution and perpetual microbiota dysbiosis.

EWOCS-II: X-ray properties of the Wolf-Rayet stars in the young Galactic super star cluster Westerlund 1 (2024)
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Anastasopoulou, K., Guarcello, M., Flaccomio, E., Sciortino, S., Benatti, S., De Becker, M., Wright, N., Drake, J., Albacete-Colombo, J., Andersen, M., Argiroffi, C., Bayo, A., Castellanos, R., Gennaro, M., Grebel, E., Miceli, M., Najarro, F., Negueruela, I., Prisinzano, L., Ritchie, B., …Zeidler, P. EWOCS-II: X-ray properties of the Wolf-Rayet stars in the young Galactic super star cluster Westerlund 1

We present the most comprehensive and deepest X-ray study to date of the properties of the richest Wolf-Rayet (WR) population observed in a single stellar cluster, Westerlund 1 (Wd1). This work is based on 36 Chandra observations obtained from the "E... Read More about EWOCS-II: X-ray properties of the Wolf-Rayet stars in the young Galactic super star cluster Westerlund 1.

Using Diverse Local Optima for Setting Kernel Parameters in Support Vector Regression: Forecasting Emerging Market Credit Spreads (2024)
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Anderson, G., & Audzeyeva, A. Using Diverse Local Optima for Setting Kernel Parameters in Support Vector Regression: Forecasting Emerging Market Credit Spreads

We propose a novel approach for determining support vector regression (SVR) kernel parameters in the presence of multiple local optima. In contrast to existing approaches focusing on identifying a single "best" tuning parameter setting, an impractica... Read More about Using Diverse Local Optima for Setting Kernel Parameters in Support Vector Regression: Forecasting Emerging Market Credit Spreads.

Diabetes, metabolic health, and the development of frozen shoulder: a cohort study in UK electronic health records (2024)
Working Paper
Dyer, B., Burton, C., Rathod-Mistry, T., Blagojevic-Bucknall, M., & van der Windt, D. Diabetes, metabolic health, and the development of frozen shoulder: a cohort study in UK electronic health records

Objective Estimate the effect of type 2 diabetes on the development of frozen shoulder and investigate whether the effect is mediated by other metabolic factors. Methods Primary care medical record-based cohort study containing 43,977 patients newly... Read More about Diabetes, metabolic health, and the development of frozen shoulder: a cohort study in UK electronic health records.

First Light And Reionisation Epoch Simulations (FLARES) XVI: Size Evolution of Massive Dusty Galaxies at Cosmic Dawn from UV to IR (2024)
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Punyasheel, P., Vijayan, A. P., Greve, T. R., Roper, W. J., Algera, H., Gillman, S., Gullberg, B., Irodotou, D., Lovell, C. C., Seeyave, L. T., Thomas, P. A., & Wilkins, S. M. First Light And Reionisation Epoch Simulations (FLARES) XVI: Size Evolution of Massive Dusty Galaxies at Cosmic Dawn from UV to IR

We use the First Light And Reionisation Epoch Simulations (FLARES) to study the evolution of the rest-frame ultraviolet (UV) and far-infrared (FIR) sizes for a statistical sample of massive ($\gtrsim10^{9}$M$_{\odot}$) high redshift galaxies (z $\in$... Read More about First Light And Reionisation Epoch Simulations (FLARES) XVI: Size Evolution of Massive Dusty Galaxies at Cosmic Dawn from UV to IR.

High prevalence of multi-drug resistant bacteria in faecal samples from UK passerine birds (2024)
Journal Article
Dunn, J. C., & Clegg, S. R. (2024). High prevalence of multi-drug resistant bacteria in faecal samples from UK passerine birds. bioRxiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.07.24.604896

Wild birds are a near ubiquitous sight in gardens, offering pleasure to many people through supplementary feeding, song, or other interactions. However, they are also potential carriers of many pathogens, including Campylobacter, Salmonella, Enteroco... Read More about High prevalence of multi-drug resistant bacteria in faecal samples from UK passerine birds.

Scanning the skies for migrants: Conservation-focused opportunities for a pan-European automated telemetry network (2024)
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Mitchell, L., Brust, V., Karwinkel, T., Åkesson, S., Kishkinev, D., Norevik, G., Szep, T., Hedenström, A., Lagerveld, S., Helm, B., & Schmaljohann, H. Scanning the skies for migrants: Conservation-focused opportunities for a pan-European automated telemetry network

Accelerated biodiversity loss during the Anthropocene has destabilised functional links within and between ecosystems. Migratory species that cross different ecosystems on their repeated journeys between breeding and non-breeding sites are particular... Read More about Scanning the skies for migrants: Conservation-focused opportunities for a pan-European automated telemetry network.

3’-O-β-Glycosylation of nucleoside analogues using a promiscuous bacterial glycosyltransferase (2024)
Working Paper
Dolan, J., Keenan, T., Benckendorff, C., Ní Cheallaigh, A., Fascione, M., & Miller, G. 3’-O-β-Glycosylation of nucleoside analogues using a promiscuous bacterial glycosyltransferase