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Mindfulness and Behavioural Insights: Reflections on the Meditative Brain, Systems Theory and Organisational Change (2022)
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Lilley, R., Whitehead, M., & Midgley, G. (2022). Mindfulness and Behavioural Insights: Reflections on the Meditative Brain, Systems Theory and Organisational Change. Journal of Awareness-Based Systems Change, 2(2), 29-57. https://doi.org/10.47061/jasc.v2i2.3857

This paper explores the impacts of the Mindfulness-Based Behavioural Insights and Decision-Making (MBBI) programme. Combining mindfulness with behavioural insights instruction, the authors have developed the MBBI programme through a series of iterati... Read More about Mindfulness and Behavioural Insights: Reflections on the Meditative Brain, Systems Theory and Organisational Change.

Provision of NICE-recommended varicose vein treatment in the NHS (2022)
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Hitchman, L., Mohamed, A., Smith, G. E., Pymer, S., Chetter, I. C., Forsyth, J., & Carradice, D. (2023). Provision of NICE-recommended varicose vein treatment in the NHS. British journal of surgery, 110(2), 225-232. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjs/znac392

BACKGROUND: Standardization of access to treatment and compliance with clinical guidelines are important to ensure the delivery of high-quality care to people with varicose veins. In the National Health Service (NHS) in England, commissioning of care... Read More about Provision of NICE-recommended varicose vein treatment in the NHS.

What China’s Environmental Policy Means for PV Solar, Electric Vehicles, and Carbon Capture and Storage Technologies (2022)
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Pouran, H. M., Karimi, S. M., Padilha Campos Lopes, M., & Sheng, Y. (2022). What China’s Environmental Policy Means for PV Solar, Electric Vehicles, and Carbon Capture and Storage Technologies. Energies, 15(23), Article 9037. https://doi.org/10.3390/en15239037

This perspective paper elaborates on how the burden of environmental issues on public health and the economy led China’s government to declare its revised environmental policies or “war on pollution”. It explains the importance of photovoltaic solar... Read More about What China’s Environmental Policy Means for PV Solar, Electric Vehicles, and Carbon Capture and Storage Technologies.

Mid-crustal reactivation processes linked to frictional melting and deep void development during seismogenic slip: examples from the Lewisian Complex, NW Scotland (2022)
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Hardman, K., Holdsworth, R. E., Scott, L., Dempsey, E., & McCaffrey, K. J. W. (in press). Mid-crustal reactivation processes linked to frictional melting and deep void development during seismogenic slip: examples from the Lewisian Complex, NW Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2022-037

Exhumed examples of ancient fault voids formed during seismic slip at depths > 10 km are well preserved in the Assynt Terrane of the Lewisian Complex, NW Scotland. They are interpreted to have formed during regional Mesoproterozoic (ca 1.55 Ga; ‘Assy... Read More about Mid-crustal reactivation processes linked to frictional melting and deep void development during seismogenic slip: examples from the Lewisian Complex, NW Scotland.

Looking Forward to the Centenary of the Second World War: Lessons from 2014-2018 (2022)
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Macleod, J. (2022). Looking Forward to the Centenary of the Second World War: Lessons from 2014-2018. British Journal for Military History, 8(3), 2-16. https://doi.org/10.25602/GOLD.bjmh.v8i3.1641

This is the text of a keynote presentation to the Second World War Research Group's Annual Conference in 2019. It reflects on the centenary commemorations for 1914-1918 from the perspective of a First World War historian to suggest some lessons for t... Read More about Looking Forward to the Centenary of the Second World War: Lessons from 2014-2018.

Caledonian hot zone magmatism in the ‘Newer Granites’: insight from the Cluanie and Clunes plutons, Northern Scottish Highlands (2022)
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Milne, E. J., Neill, I., Bird, A. F., Millar, I. L., McDonald, I., Dempsey, E. D., …Waters, E. C. (2023). Caledonian hot zone magmatism in the ‘Newer Granites’: insight from the Cluanie and Clunes plutons, Northern Scottish Highlands. Journal of the Geological Society, 180(2), Article jgs2022-076. https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2022-076

Scottish ‘Newer Granites’ record the evolution of the Caledonides resulting from Iapetus subduction and slab breakoff during the Silurian–Devonian Scandian Orogeny, but relationships between geodynamics, petrogenesis and emplacement are incomplete. L... Read More about Caledonian hot zone magmatism in the ‘Newer Granites’: insight from the Cluanie and Clunes plutons, Northern Scottish Highlands.

Airborne transmission of biological agents within the indoor built environment: a multidisciplinary review (2022)
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Argyropoulos, C. D., Skoulou, V., Efthimiou, G., & Michopoulos, A. K. (2022). Airborne transmission of biological agents within the indoor built environment: a multidisciplinary review. Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11869-022-01286-w

The nature and airborne dispersion of the underestimated biological agents, monitoring, analysis and transmission among the human occupants into building environment is a major challenge of today. Those agents play a crucial role in ensuring comforta... Read More about Airborne transmission of biological agents within the indoor built environment: a multidisciplinary review.

Caring from a distance: carers’ experiences of keeping in touch with care home residents during COVID-19 closures (2022)
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White, C., Whitfield, C., Wolverson, E., & Wray, J. (2024). Caring from a distance: carers’ experiences of keeping in touch with care home residents during COVID-19 closures. International Journal of Care and Caring, 8(2), 264-286. https://doi.org/10.1332/239788221X16666566787347

In response to COVID-19, many care homes closed to visitors and new ways for carers and residents to stay in touch were tried. This UK study employed an online survey to explore carer experiences of staying in touch from a distance. The research high... Read More about Caring from a distance: carers’ experiences of keeping in touch with care home residents during COVID-19 closures.

What is spatial planning saying? A conceptual and methodological framework to assess the institutionalization of nature using critical discourse analysis (2022)
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Mendes, R., Fidélis, T., Roebling, P., Teles, F., & Farrelly, M. (in press). What is spatial planning saying? A conceptual and methodological framework to assess the institutionalization of nature using critical discourse analysis. Critical Discourse Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2022.2150668

Spatial planning policies are fundamental blocks for the implementation of sustainable development goals. Still, despite the growing adoption of environmental proxies, as it is nature-based solutions, the study of their institutionalization in policy... Read More about What is spatial planning saying? A conceptual and methodological framework to assess the institutionalization of nature using critical discourse analysis.

Deep reinforcement learning-based long-range autonomous valet parking for smart cities (2022)
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Khalid, M., Wang, L., Wang, K., Aslam, N., Pan, C., & Cao, Y. (2023). Deep reinforcement learning-based long-range autonomous valet parking for smart cities. Sustainable Cities and Society SCC, 89, Article 104311. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2022.104311

In this paper, to reduce the congestion rate at the city center and increase the traveling quality of experience (QoE) of each user, the framework of long-range autonomous valet parking is presented. Here, an Autonomous Vehicle (AV) is deployed to pi... Read More about Deep reinforcement learning-based long-range autonomous valet parking for smart cities.

Pillared MOFs: structure and ring opening polymerization of cyclic esters (2022)
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Gong, Y., Cheng, F., Chen, F., Beamish-Cook, J., Elsegood, M. R., Elsegood, M. R. J., Derbyshire, M., Rowe, O., & Redshaw, C. (2023). Pillared MOFs: structure and ring opening polymerization of cyclic esters. CrystEngComm, 25(2), 267-283. https://doi.org/10.1039/d2ce01317g

The solvothermal reaction of Zn(NO3)2·6H2O with 5-aminoisophthalic acid and 4,4′-bipyridyl (4,4′-bipy) led to the self-assembly of the known 3-D hybrid H-bonded/covalent structure {[Zn(5-AIP)(4,4′-bipy)0.5]·DMF}n (1·DMF), but with DMF here (rather th... Read More about Pillared MOFs: structure and ring opening polymerization of cyclic esters.

MicroRNA Changes Up to 24 h following Induced Hypoglycemia in Type 2 Diabetes (2022)
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Ramanjaneya, M., Bettahi, I., Pawar, K., Halabi, N. M., Moin, A. S. M., Sathyapalan, T., …Butler, A. E. (2022). MicroRNA Changes Up to 24 h following Induced Hypoglycemia in Type 2 Diabetes. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 23(23), Article 14696. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms232314696

Hypoglycemia, as a complication of type 2 diabetes (T2D), causes increased morbidity and mortality but the physiological response underlying hypoglycemia has not been fully elucidated. Small noncoding microRNA (miRNA) have multiple downstream biologi... Read More about MicroRNA Changes Up to 24 h following Induced Hypoglycemia in Type 2 Diabetes.

Challenges and opportunities for cervical screening in women over the age of 50 years: a qualitative study (2022)
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Bravington, A., Chen, H., Dyson, J., Jones, L., Dalgliesh, C., Bryan, A., Patnick, J., & Macleod, U. (2022). Challenges and opportunities for cervical screening in women over the age of 50 years: a qualitative study. The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 72(725), e873-e881. https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2022.0036

BACKGROUND: Cervical cancer is a preventable disease. Cases in women age >50 years are predicted to rise by 60% in the next two decades, yet this group are less likely to attend for screening than younger women. AIM: To seek novel solutions to the ch... Read More about Challenges and opportunities for cervical screening in women over the age of 50 years: a qualitative study.

Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): Extended intragroup light in a group at z = 0.2 from deep Hyper Suprime-Cam images (2022)
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Pimbblet, K. A., Martínez-Lombilla, C., Brough, S., Montes, M., Baena-Gallé, R., Akhlaghi, M., …Robotham, A. S. (2023). Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): Extended intragroup light in a group at z = 0.2 from deep Hyper Suprime-Cam images. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 518(1), 1195-1213. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac3119

We present a pilot study to assess the potential of Hyper Suprime-Cam Public Data Release 2 (HSC-PDR2) images for the analysis of extended faint structures within groups of galaxies. We examine the intragroup light (IGL) of the group 400138 (Mdyn = 1... Read More about Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): Extended intragroup light in a group at z = 0.2 from deep Hyper Suprime-Cam images.

Group-based pulmonary telerehabilitation is feasible, safe, beneficial and well-received in patients who have been hospitalised with COVID-19 (2022)
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Simpson, A. J., Green, A., Nettleton, M., Hyde, L., Shepherdson, J., Killingback, C., …Crooks, M. G. (2023). Group-based pulmonary telerehabilitation is feasible, safe, beneficial and well-received in patients who have been hospitalised with COVID-19. ERJ Open Research, 9(2), Article 00373-2022. https://doi.org/10.1183/23120541.00373-2022

Introduction Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused worldwide mass hospitalisation. The need for multidisciplinary post-hospitalisation rehabilitation is becoming increasingly apparent, and telerehabilitation has been endorsed. The aim of stu... Read More about Group-based pulmonary telerehabilitation is feasible, safe, beneficial and well-received in patients who have been hospitalised with COVID-19.

Managing groundwater demand through surface water and reuse strategies in an overexploited aquifer of Indian Punjab (2022)
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Kaur, N., Kaur, S., Tsolakis, N., Mishra, N., & Srai, J. S. (2023). Managing groundwater demand through surface water and reuse strategies in an overexploited aquifer of Indian Punjab. Modeling Earth Systems and Environment, 9, 2009–2026. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40808-022-01602-4

Groundwater sustainability is one of the most critical issues to the State of Punjab, India. In this research, a numerical groundwater flow model (MODFLOW) was employed to simulate flow and groundwater levels in the Sirhind Canal Tract of Punjab betw... Read More about Managing groundwater demand through surface water and reuse strategies in an overexploited aquifer of Indian Punjab.

Individual, sexual and temporal variation in the winter home range sizes of GPS-tagged Eurasian Curlews Numenius arquata (2022)
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Mander, L., Nicholson, I., Green, R. M., Dodd, S. G., Forster, R. M., & Burton, N. H. (2022). Individual, sexual and temporal variation in the winter home range sizes of GPS-tagged Eurasian Curlews Numenius arquata. Bird Study, 69(1-2), 39-52. https://doi.org/10.1080/00063657.2022.2144129

Capsule: Eurasian Curlews Numenius arquata were faithful to foraging and roosting areas on their coastal wintering grounds, including a habitat creation site. Home range sizes were greater at night than during the day, and showed high inter-individua... Read More about Individual, sexual and temporal variation in the winter home range sizes of GPS-tagged Eurasian Curlews Numenius arquata.

Mathematical modeling in the health risk assessment of air pollution-related disease burden in China: A review (2022)
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Chung, C. Y., Yang, J., Yang, X., & He, J. (2022). Mathematical modeling in the health risk assessment of air pollution-related disease burden in China: A review. Frontiers in public health, 10, Article 1060153. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1060153

This review paper covers an overview of air pollution-related disease burden in China and a literature review on the previous studies which have recently adopted a mathematical modeling approach to demonstrate the relative risk (RR) of air pollution-... Read More about Mathematical modeling in the health risk assessment of air pollution-related disease burden in China: A review.

Local Thermoelectric Response from a Single Néel Domain Wall (2022)
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Puttock, R., Barton, C., Saugar, E., Klapetek, P., Fernández-Scarioni, A., Freitas, P., Schumacher, H. W., Ostler, T., & Kazakova, O. (2022). Local Thermoelectric Response from a Single Néel Domain Wall. Science Advances, 8(47), https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adc9798

Spatially resolved thermoelectric detection of magnetic systems provides a unique platform for the investigation of spintronic and spin caloritronic effects. Hitherto, these investigations have been resolution limited, confining analysis of the therm... Read More about Local Thermoelectric Response from a Single Néel Domain Wall.