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Telephone advice lines for adults with advanced illness and their family carers: a qualitative analysis and novel practical framework (2024)
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Pask, S., Omoruyi, A., Mohamed, A., Chambers, R. L., McFarlane, P. G., Johansson, T., …Murtagh, F. E. (2024). Telephone advice lines for adults with advanced illness and their family carers: a qualitative analysis and novel practical framework. Palliative medicine, https://doi.org/10.1177/02692163241242329

Background Telephone advice lines have been recommended internationally to support around-the-clock care for people living at home with advanced illness. While they undoubtedly support care, there is little evidence about what elements are needed fo... Read More about Telephone advice lines for adults with advanced illness and their family carers: a qualitative analysis and novel practical framework.

Extracorporeal Shockwave for Intermittent Claudication and Quality of Life: A Randomized Clinical Trial (2024)
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Cai, P., Pymer, S., Raza, A., Ibeggazene, S., Ibeggazene, S., Hitchman, L., …Smith, G. (2024). Extracorporeal Shockwave for Intermittent Claudication and Quality of Life: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Surgery, https://doi.org/10.1001/jamasurg.2024.0625

Importance Intermittent lower limb claudication limits function and quality of life. Supervised exercise programs are not readily available, and a noninvasive alternative is needed. Objective To assess extracorporeal corporeal shockwave ther... Read More about Extracorporeal Shockwave for Intermittent Claudication and Quality of Life: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Financial literacy and household financial resilience (2024)
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Liu, T., Fan, M., Li, Y., & Yue, P. (2024). Financial literacy and household financial resilience. Finance research letters, 63, Article 105378. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2024.105378

Rising uncertainty has drawn researchers’ attention towards households’ anti-risk capacities. Using data from the China Household Finance Survey covering 2019 to 2021, this study investigates the impact of financial literacy on household financial re... Read More about Financial literacy and household financial resilience.

Social prescribing for people living with dementia (PLWD) and their carers: what works, for whom, under what circumstances and why – protocol for a complex intervention systematic review (2024)
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Marshall, J., Papavasiliou, E., Fox, C., Hawkes, M., Irvine, A., Moniz-Cook, E., …Cross, J. L. (2024). Social prescribing for people living with dementia (PLWD) and their carers: what works, for whom, under what circumstances and why – protocol for a complex intervention systematic review. BMJ open, 14(4), Article e080551. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-080551

Introduction Dementia is a complex medical condition that poses significant challenges to healthcare systems and support services. People living with dementia (PLWD) and their carers experience complex needs often exacerbated by social isolation an... Read More about Social prescribing for people living with dementia (PLWD) and their carers: what works, for whom, under what circumstances and why – protocol for a complex intervention systematic review.

An options-pricing approach to forecasting the French presidential election (2024)
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Fry, J., Hastings, T., & Binner, J. (in press). An options-pricing approach to forecasting the French presidential election. Journal of the Operational Research Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/01605682.2024.2334339

A subjective probability argument suggests vote-share estimates from polling companies can be interpreted as market prices. The corresponding election constitutes the price at a known future date. This makes an options-pricing approach particularly a... Read More about An options-pricing approach to forecasting the French presidential election.

Associations between multimorbidity and neuropathology in dementia: a case for considering functional cognitive disorders, psychiatric illness, and dementia mimics (2024)
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Hamilton, C. A., Matthews, F. E., Attems, J., Donaghy, P. C., Taylor, J., & Thomas, A. J. (in press). Associations between multimorbidity and neuropathology in dementia: a case for considering functional cognitive disorders, psychiatric illness, and dementia mimics. British Journal of Psychiatry, https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2024.25

Cognitive impairment in older people has a variety of underlying causes. In addition to neurodegenerative causes such as Alzheimer's disease, a dementia-like cognitive disorder may appear due to non-degenerative factors. Multimorbidity has been previ... Read More about Associations between multimorbidity and neuropathology in dementia: a case for considering functional cognitive disorders, psychiatric illness, and dementia mimics.

Immersed in the transitioning HE sector: the impact of transitions in the higher education sector in England on staff and students (2024)
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Glazzard, J., & Tate, A. (2024). Immersed in the transitioning HE sector: the impact of transitions in the higher education sector in England on staff and students. International Journal of Educational and Life Transitions, 3(1), https://doi.org/10.5334/ijelt.77

The increasing marketisation of the UK higher education sector in recent years has resulted in multiple transitions for universities. Student evaluations of teaching and university league tables have placed greater importance on both the quality of t... Read More about Immersed in the transitioning HE sector: the impact of transitions in the higher education sector in England on staff and students.

Immersed in the Transitioning Higher Education Sector: The Impact of Transitions in the Higher Education Sector in England on Staff and Students. (2024)
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Tate, A., & Glazzard, J. (2024). Immersed in the Transitioning Higher Education Sector: The Impact of Transitions in the Higher Education Sector in England on Staff and Students. International Journal of Educational and Life Transitions, 3(1), 3. https://doi.org/10.5334/ijelt.77

The increasing marketisation of the UK higher education sector in recent years has resulted in multiple transitions for universities. Student evaluations of teaching and university league tables have placed greater importance on both the quality of t... Read More about Immersed in the Transitioning Higher Education Sector: The Impact of Transitions in the Higher Education Sector in England on Staff and Students..

Aquatic connectivity: challenges and solutions in a changing climate (2024)
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Franklin, P. A., Bašić, T., Davison, P. I., Dunkley, K., Ellis, J., Gangal, M., …Gutowsky, L. F. G. (2024). Aquatic connectivity: challenges and solutions in a changing climate. Journal of fish biology, https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15727

The challenge of managing aquatic connectivity in a changing climate is exacerbated in the presence of additional anthropogenic stressors, social factors, and economic drivers. Here we discuss these issues in the context of structural and functional... Read More about Aquatic connectivity: challenges and solutions in a changing climate.

Do We Listen to What Makes Children Happy? A Systematic Literature Review of Voices of Children Aged 3-7 Years in Educational Research (2024)
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Urbina-Garcia, A. (2024). Do We Listen to What Makes Children Happy? A Systematic Literature Review of Voices of Children Aged 3-7 Years in Educational Research. Journal of Happiness and Health, 4(2), 46-62. https://doi.org/10.47602/johah.v4i2.74

Research shows that children's views and experiences are usually overlooked in discussions related to their own happiness and wellbeing. In fact, the largest international study to date on children's wellbeing only included children aged 8-12. A revi... Read More about Do We Listen to What Makes Children Happy? A Systematic Literature Review of Voices of Children Aged 3-7 Years in Educational Research.

Health and Lifestyle Advisors in Support of Primary Care: An Evaluation of an Innovative Pilot Service in a Region of High Health Inequality (2024)
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Ingle, L., Martindale, R., Salami, B., Fakorede, I., Harvey, K., Capes, S., …Chipperfield, S. (2024). Health and Lifestyle Advisors in Support of Primary Care: An Evaluation of an Innovative Pilot Service in a Region of High Health Inequality. PLoS ONE, 19(4), Article e0298955. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0298955

Introduction: A health and lifestyle advisor service embedded within primary care was piloted in Kingston-upon-Hull from January 2021. We aimed to evaluate the first two years of service delivery by identifying patient demographics referred to the se... Read More about Health and Lifestyle Advisors in Support of Primary Care: An Evaluation of an Innovative Pilot Service in a Region of High Health Inequality.

Distributed Event-triggered Fault-tolerant Consensus Control of Multi-agent Systems under DoS Attacks (2024)
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Liu, C., Jiang, B., Li, Y., & Patton, R. J. (2024). Distributed Event-triggered Fault-tolerant Consensus Control of Multi-agent Systems under DoS Attacks. IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks, 10, 390-402. https://doi.org/10.1109/TSIPN.2024.3384814

This study investigates the distributed fault-tolerant consensus issue of multi-agent systems subject to complicated abrupt and incipient time-varying actuator faults in physical hierarchy and aperiodic denial-of-service (DoS) attacks in networked hi... Read More about Distributed Event-triggered Fault-tolerant Consensus Control of Multi-agent Systems under DoS Attacks.

Youth sport during the COVID-19 pandemic: The influence of race and affluence on parents’ perspectives of youth participation (2024)
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Hardiman, A. L., Fleming, D. J., Dorsch, T. E., Blazo, J. A., Farrey, T., Lerner, J. B., & Solomon, J. (2024). Youth sport during the COVID-19 pandemic: The influence of race and affluence on parents’ perspectives of youth participation. Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 10, Article 100907. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2024.100907

COVID-19 restrictions led to a nearly 50% decline in youth sport participation across the United States (Dorsch et al., 2021). Today, communities and sport organizations have resumed sport. However, research has yet to fully elucidate how COVID-19 re... Read More about Youth sport during the COVID-19 pandemic: The influence of race and affluence on parents’ perspectives of youth participation.

Assessment of the locational potential of floating offshore wind energy in South Africa (2024)
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Umoh, K., Hasan, A., Kenjegaliev, A., & Al-Qattan, A. (2024). Assessment of the locational potential of floating offshore wind energy in South Africa. Sustainable Energy Research, 11, Article 12. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40807-024-00104-4

Expanding floating wind into new markets could support emission reduction targets in several national contexts. It furthers the need for adequate assessments to gain a full understanding of the technology’s potential in future markets. South Africa i... Read More about Assessment of the locational potential of floating offshore wind energy in South Africa.

In Situ Photogenerated Radicals of Hydroxyl Substituted Pyrene-Based Triphenylamines with Enhanced Transport and Free Doping/Post-Oxidation for Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells (2024)
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Wang, X., Xie, Z., Wang, R., Xiao, Y., Yan, K., Zhao, Y., …Feng, X. (in press). In Situ Photogenerated Radicals of Hydroxyl Substituted Pyrene-Based Triphenylamines with Enhanced Transport and Free Doping/Post-Oxidation for Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells. Small, https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202311914

The high-performance hole transporting material (HTM) is one of the most important components for the perovskite solar cells (PSCs) in promoting power conversion efficiency (PCE). However, the low conductivity of HTMs and their additional requirement... Read More about In Situ Photogenerated Radicals of Hydroxyl Substituted Pyrene-Based Triphenylamines with Enhanced Transport and Free Doping/Post-Oxidation for Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells.

Enhancing forensic science communication through the jigsaw method (2024)
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Preece, D. (2024). Enhancing forensic science communication through the jigsaw method. International Journal of Didactical Studies, 5(1), Article 27538. https://doi.org/10.33902/ijods.202427538

Traditional didactic approaches often fall short in preparing students for real-world minutiae, such as scientific communication. After the pandemic, it is evident students are struggling with communication skills. However, the vital skill of communi... Read More about Enhancing forensic science communication through the jigsaw method.

The fossil insect assemblage associated with the Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) oceanic anoxic event from Alderton Hill, Gloucestershire, UK (2024)
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Swaby, E. J., Coe, A. L., Ansorge, J., Caswell, B. A., Hayward, S. A., Mander, L., …McArdle, A. (2024). The fossil insect assemblage associated with the Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) oceanic anoxic event from Alderton Hill, Gloucestershire, UK. PLoS ONE, 19(4 April), Article e0299551. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0299551

Extreme global warming and environmental changes associated with the Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) Oceanic Anoxic Event (T-OAE, ∼183 Mya) profoundly impacted marine organisms and terrestrial plants. Despite the exceptionally elevated abundances of fossil... Read More about The fossil insect assemblage associated with the Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) oceanic anoxic event from Alderton Hill, Gloucestershire, UK.

Sex ratio distorting microbes exacerbate arthropod extinction risk in variable environments (2024)
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Fisher, A. M., Knell, R. J., Price, T. A., & Bonsall, M. B. (2024). Sex ratio distorting microbes exacerbate arthropod extinction risk in variable environments. Ecology and Evolution, 14(4), Article e11216. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.11216

Maternally-inherited sex ratio distorting microbes (SRDMs) are common among arthropod species. Typically, these microbes cause female-biased sex ratios in host broods, either by; killing male offspring, feminising male offspring, or inducing partheno... Read More about Sex ratio distorting microbes exacerbate arthropod extinction risk in variable environments.

The Microglial Transcriptome of Age-Associated Deep Subcortical White Matter Lesions Suggests a Neuroprotective Response to Blood–Brain Barrier Dysfunction (2024)
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Almansouri, T., Waller, R., Wharton, S. B., Heath, P. R., Matthews, F. E., Brayne, C., …Simpson, J. E. (2024). The Microglial Transcriptome of Age-Associated Deep Subcortical White Matter Lesions Suggests a Neuroprotective Response to Blood–Brain Barrier Dysfunction. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 25(8), Article 4445. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms25084445

Age-associated deep-subcortical white matter lesions (DSCLs) are an independent risk factor for dementia, displaying high levels of CD68+ microglia. This study aimed to characterize the transcriptomic profile of microglia in DSCLs and surrounding rad... Read More about The Microglial Transcriptome of Age-Associated Deep Subcortical White Matter Lesions Suggests a Neuroprotective Response to Blood–Brain Barrier Dysfunction.