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Negative pressure wound therapy for surgical wounds healing by secondary intention is not cost-effective (2025)
Journal Article
Saramago, P., Gkekas, A., Arundel, C. E., Chetter, I. C., SWHSI-2 Trial Investigators, Martin, B. C., Hewitt, C., Mott, A., Swan, S., Torgerson, D., Wilkinson, J., Zahra, S., Blazeby, J., Macefield, R., Dixon, S., Hatfield, J., Oswald, A., Dumville, J., Lee, M., Pinkney, T., …Wilson, L. (2025). Negative pressure wound therapy for surgical wounds healing by secondary intention is not cost-effective. British journal of surgery, 112(5), Article znaf077. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjs/znaf077

Background: Negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) has been used in clinical practice for surgical wounds healing by secondary intention (SWHSI), despite limited evidence regarding its clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness. The aim of this st... Read More about Negative pressure wound therapy for surgical wounds healing by secondary intention is not cost-effective.

CHANCES, the Chilean Cluster Galaxy Evolution Survey: Selection and initial characterisation of clusters and superclusters (2025)
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Sifón, C., Finoguenov, A., Haines, C. P., Jaffé, Y., Amrutha, B. M., Demarco, R., Lima, E. V. R., Lima-Dias, C., Méndez-Hernández, H., Merluzzi, P., Monachesi, A., Teixeira, G. S. M., Tejos, N., Almeida-Fernandes, F., Araya-Araya, P., Argudo-Fernández, M., Baier-Soto, R., Bilton, L. E., Bom, C. R., Calderón, J. P., …Tempel, E. (2025). CHANCES, the Chilean Cluster Galaxy Evolution Survey: Selection and initial characterisation of clusters and superclusters. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 697, Article A92. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202452710

CHANCES, the CHileAN Cluster galaxy Evolution Survey, will study the evolution of galaxies in and around 100 massive galaxy clusters from the local Universe out to z = 0.45, and two superclusters at z ∼ 0.05 that contain roughly 25 Abell clusters eac... Read More about CHANCES, the Chilean Cluster Galaxy Evolution Survey: Selection and initial characterisation of clusters and superclusters.

Organising general practice for care homes: a multi-method study (2025)
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Hanratty, B., Stocker, R., Sinclair, D., Brittain, K., Spilsbury, K., Stow, D., Robinson, L., & Matthews, F. E. (2025). Organising general practice for care homes: a multi-method study. Health and Social Care Delivery Research, 13(11), https://doi.org/10.3310/YNDV6358

Background: General practice provides first-line National Health Service care for around 400,000 care home residents. Good primary care can enhance residents' health and well-being and optimise use of hospital services.
Objectives: This study aimed... Read More about Organising general practice for care homes: a multi-method study.

Towards an ecological systems approach to doctoral student resilience: qualitative evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic (2025)
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Celbis, O., van de Laar, M., Windsor, W. L., Papatsiba, V., Ofosu-Ampong, K., Kurawa, G., Sadat Bole, A., Ani-Amponsah, M., & Xu, L. (online). Towards an ecological systems approach to doctoral student resilience: qualitative evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic. Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, https://doi.org/10.1108/SGPE-06-2024-0065

Purpose
This study aims to contribute to the growing body of literature documenting responses to short- and long-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on doctoral students. This study examines support practices at different levels of the education s... Read More about Towards an ecological systems approach to doctoral student resilience: qualitative evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic.

Area-level socioeconomic inequalities in activities of daily living disability-free life expectancy in England: a modelling study (2025)
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Davies, L. E., Sinclair, D. R., Todd, C., Hanratty, B., Matthews, F. E., & Kingston, A. (in press). Area-level socioeconomic inequalities in activities of daily living disability-free life expectancy in England: a modelling study. The Lancet Healthy Longevity, 6(4), Article 100700. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanhl.2025.100700

Background: More evidence of socioeconomic inequalities in disability-free life expectancy (DFLE) is needed to help develop approaches to narrow the gap between the most and least socioeconomically deprived people. Activities of daily living (ADL) di... Read More about Area-level socioeconomic inequalities in activities of daily living disability-free life expectancy in England: a modelling study.

Domestic abuse in later life: A secondary analysis of the crime survey for England and Wales (2025)
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Bows, H., Pullerits, M., & Brennan, I. (2025). Domestic abuse in later life: A secondary analysis of the crime survey for England and Wales. European Journal of Criminology, https://doi.org/10.1177/14773708251335388

Until recently, older victims – and perpetrators – of domestic abuse were largely absent from both research and policy, leaving a lacuna of empirical and theoretical understandings of abuse in later life. This article presents the findings from the f... Read More about Domestic abuse in later life: A secondary analysis of the crime survey for England and Wales.

Fixed Duration Ibrutinib-Venetoclax, a Redefinition of the CLL Treatment Landscape (2025)
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Molica, S., & Allsup, D. (2025). Fixed Duration Ibrutinib-Venetoclax, a Redefinition of the CLL Treatment Landscape. Hematological Oncology, 43(3), Article e70088. https://doi.org/10.1002/hon.70088

The fixed-duration combination of ibrutinib and venetoclax (IV) has emerged as a highly effective therapeutic strategy for treating chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), marking a significant shift in the treatment paradigm for this disease. Preclinica... Read More about Fixed Duration Ibrutinib-Venetoclax, a Redefinition of the CLL Treatment Landscape.

‘You teach it, and then I go off and try to soak it all up’: A qualitative investigation of first year student expectations during transition (2025)
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Tomlinson, A., & Killingback, C. (2025). ‘You teach it, and then I go off and try to soak it all up’: A qualitative investigation of first year student expectations during transition. Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice, 22(2), https://doi.org/10.53761/y4j1wm14

Student expectations are an important factor affecting successful transition to higher education. Expectations of the wider university experience have been well researched, however learning and teaching specific expectations require further explorati... Read More about ‘You teach it, and then I go off and try to soak it all up’: A qualitative investigation of first year student expectations during transition.

The Application of Human Rights Treaties as Domestic Law in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2025)
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Piri, H., & Shah, N. A. (2025). The Application of Human Rights Treaties as Domestic Law in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Human rights quarterly, 47(2), 282-307. https://doi.org/10.1353/hrq.2025.a958152

The reading of the post-revolution 1979 Constitution of Iran gives the im pression that Iran is a dualist state, but this article argues that, on its proper analysis together with Article 9 of the Civil Code 1928, Iran is a monist state and human rig... Read More about The Application of Human Rights Treaties as Domestic Law in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Demographic engineering: Population resettlement in the ethnoterritory of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh (2025)
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Chakma, B. (2025). Demographic engineering: Population resettlement in the ethnoterritory of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh. Modern Asian Studies, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X25000010

Population resettlement in contested ethnoterritories is an old practice which states have pursued for centuries. A nascent theory of demographic engineering can be discerned to explain the phenomenon although a robust theory on the issue is yet to b... Read More about Demographic engineering: Population resettlement in the ethnoterritory of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh.

PD-type iterative learning consensus control approach for an electromechanical actuator-based multiagent system (2025)
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Li, B., Riaz, S., Saleem, O., Zhao, Y., & Iqbal, J. (2025). PD-type iterative learning consensus control approach for an electromechanical actuator-based multiagent system. Applied Intelligence, 55(7), Article 684. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-025-06559-2

Achieving consensus tracking control of a multiagent system (MAS) is challenging. This article proposes an innovative consensus control scheme of a MAS that is composed of electromechanical actuators. The open-loop derivative-type iterative learning... Read More about PD-type iterative learning consensus control approach for an electromechanical actuator-based multiagent system.

Social context prevents heat hormetic effects against mutagens during fish development (2025)
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Feugere, L., Silva De Freitas, C., Bates, A., Storey, K. B., Beltran-Alvarez, P., & Wollenberg Valero, K. C. (2025). Social context prevents heat hormetic effects against mutagens during fish development. FEBS Letters, https://doi.org/10.1002/1873-3468.70047

Since stress can be transmitted to congeners via social metabolites, it is paramount to understand how the social context of abiotic stress influences aquatic organisms' responses to global changes. Here, we integrated the transcriptomic and phenotyp... Read More about Social context prevents heat hormetic effects against mutagens during fish development.

Enhancing preceptorship to mitigate transition shock among newly registered nurses working in primary care (2025)
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Butler, S. (in press). Enhancing preceptorship to mitigate transition shock among newly registered nurses working in primary care. Primary Health Care, https://doi.org/10.7748/phc.2025.e1854

Transition shock is a relatively new concept that describes the challenges of moving from the familiar role of preregistration nursing student to that of registered nurse. Newly registered nurses have to assume a new professional identity and meet th... Read More about Enhancing preceptorship to mitigate transition shock among newly registered nurses working in primary care.

Adult B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia Antigens and Enriched Pathways Identify New Targets for Therapy (2025)
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Mohamed, E., Goodman, S., Cooksey, L., Fletcher, D. M., Dean, O., Boncheva, V. B., Mills, K. I., Orchard, K. H., & Guinn, B.-A. (2025). Adult B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia Antigens and Enriched Pathways Identify New Targets for Therapy. Onco, 5(2), Article 19. https://doi.org/10.3390/onco5020019

Background: Adult B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (aB-ALL) is charac-terised by abnormal differentiation and proliferation of lymphoid progenitors. Despite a significant improvement in relapse-free and overall survival for children with BALL , a... Read More about Adult B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia Antigens and Enriched Pathways Identify New Targets for Therapy.

A novel child-centred core palliative care outcome measure for use in clinical practice and research: findings from a multinational validation study (2025)
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Namisango, E., Murtagh, F. E., Bristowe, K., Downing, J., Powell, R. A., Atieno, M., Sandham, M., Ali, Z., Meiring, M., Mwangi-Powell, F. N., Abbas, M., Fraser, L. K., Higginson, I. J., & Harding, R. (2025). A novel child-centred core palliative care outcome measure for use in clinical practice and research: findings from a multinational validation study. Health and quality of life outcomes, 23, Article 41. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12955-025-02346-2

Background: Outcome measurement is pivotal to person-centred assessment, quality improvement and research. Children and young people with life-limiting and -threatening illness have high needs and service use, yet there is a lack of evidence for inte... Read More about A novel child-centred core palliative care outcome measure for use in clinical practice and research: findings from a multinational validation study.

Unravelling the Sequence and Timing of Fault-Related Deformation in Superimposed Rift Basins, Inner Moray Firth, NE Scotland (2025)
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Tamas, A., Holdsworth, R. E., Tamas, D. M., Dempsey, E. D., Hardman, K., Bird, A., Underhill, J. R., McCarthy, D., McCaffrey, K. J. W., & Selby, D. (2025). Unravelling the Sequence and Timing of Fault-Related Deformation in Superimposed Rift Basins, Inner Moray Firth, NE Scotland. Lithosphere, 2024(Special15), Article 183. https://doi.org/10.2113/2024/lithosphere_2024_183

Devonian rocks of the Palaeozoic Orcadian Basin are well exposed along the northern flanks of the younger Mesozoic to Cenozoic Inner Moray Firth Basin in Scotland. These rocks preserve a succession of structures related to superimposed rifting and in... Read More about Unravelling the Sequence and Timing of Fault-Related Deformation in Superimposed Rift Basins, Inner Moray Firth, NE Scotland.

Brain network connectivity underlying neuropsychiatric symptoms in prodromal Lewy body dementia (2025)
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Wright, L. M., Donaghy, P. C., Burn, D. J., Taylor, J. P., O'Brien, J. T., Yarnall, A. J., Matthews, F. E., Firbank, M. J., Sigurdsson, H. P., Schumacher, J., Thomas, A. J., & Lawson, R. A. (2025). Brain network connectivity underlying neuropsychiatric symptoms in prodromal Lewy body dementia. Neurobiology of Aging, 151, 95-106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2025.04.007

Neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) are prevalent, emerge early, and are associated with poorer outcomes in Lewy body dementia (LBD). Research suggests NPS may reflect LBD-related dysfunction in distributed neuronal networks. This study investigated NPS... Read More about Brain network connectivity underlying neuropsychiatric symptoms in prodromal Lewy body dementia.

Negative pressure wound therapy versus usual care in patients with surgical wound healing by secondary intention in the UK (SWHSI-2): an open-label, multicentre, parallel-group, randomised controlled trial (2025)
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Arundel, C., Mandefield, L., Fairhurst, C., Baird, K., Gkekas, A., Saramago, P., & Chetter, I. (in press). Negative pressure wound therapy versus usual care in patients with surgical wound healing by secondary intention in the UK (SWHSI-2): an open-label, multicentre, parallel-group, randomised controlled trial. Lancet, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736%2825%2900143-6

Background: Surgical wound healing by secondary intention (SWHSI) presents a substantial management and financial challenge. Negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) has increasingly been used as a treatment despite an absence of comparative evidence o... Read More about Negative pressure wound therapy versus usual care in patients with surgical wound healing by secondary intention in the UK (SWHSI-2): an open-label, multicentre, parallel-group, randomised controlled trial.

Addressing Underachievement in Nursing Students: The Role of Assessors and Supervisors (2025)
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Butler, S. (in press). Addressing Underachievement in Nursing Students: The Role of Assessors and Supervisors. British Journal of Nursing,

The role of nursing practice assessors and supervisors is pivotal in guiding students through clinical practice, ensuring they attain the necessary competencies and professionalism to deliver safe and effective patient care. However, underachievement... Read More about Addressing Underachievement in Nursing Students: The Role of Assessors and Supervisors.