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Are there patients missing from community heart failure registers? An audit of clinical practice (2018)
Journal Article
Cuthbert, J. J., Gopal, J., Crundall-Goode, A., & Clark, A. L. (2019). Are there patients missing from community heart failure registers? An audit of clinical practice. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, 26(3), 291-298. https://doi.org/10.1177/2047487318810839

Background: General practitioners in the UK are financially incentivised, via the Quality Outcomes Framework, to maintain a record of all patients at their practice with heart failure and manage them appropriately. The prevalence of heart failure rec... Read More about Are there patients missing from community heart failure registers? An audit of clinical practice.

Muscle mass measures and incident osteoporosis in a large cohort of postmenopausal women (2018)
Journal Article
Papageorgiou, M., Sathyapalan, T., & Schutte, R. (2019). Muscle mass measures and incident osteoporosis in a large cohort of postmenopausal women. Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, 10(1), 131-139. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcsm.12359

© 2018 The Authors. Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of the Society on Sarcopenia, Cachexia and Wasting Disorders Background: Despite several muscle mass measures being used in the current defi... Read More about Muscle mass measures and incident osteoporosis in a large cohort of postmenopausal women.

Association between somatosensory, visual and vestibular contributions to postural control, reactive balance capacity and healthy ageing in older women (2018)
Journal Article
Alcock, L., O’Brien, T. D., & Vanicek, N. (2018). Association between somatosensory, visual and vestibular contributions to postural control, reactive balance capacity and healthy ageing in older women. Health care for women international, 39(12), 1366-1380. https://doi.org/10.1080/07399332.2018.1499106

We investigated the biological systems involved in maintaining equilibrium during unstable and perturbed conditions in 39 healthy older women and estimated the annual difference in performance across the older age spectrum using regression. The large... Read More about Association between somatosensory, visual and vestibular contributions to postural control, reactive balance capacity and healthy ageing in older women.

Space, Scholarship and Skills: Building Library Strategy on New and Emerging Needs of the Academic Community (2018)
Journal Article
Blake, M., Gallimore, V., & Radford, K. (2018). Space, Scholarship and Skills: Building Library Strategy on New and Emerging Needs of the Academic Community. LIBER Quarterly, 28(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.18352/lq.10254

This article follows the publication of a previous article which discussed the outcomes of the Understanding Academics research project (2016-2017) which sought to better understand academic staff at the University of York. The project centred around... Read More about Space, Scholarship and Skills: Building Library Strategy on New and Emerging Needs of the Academic Community.

Feminist historical geographies: doing and being (2018)
Journal Article
McDonagh, B. (2018). Feminist historical geographies: doing and being. Gender, Place and Culture, 25(11), 1563-1578. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2018.1552122

As part of GPC’s 25-year anniversary celebrations, this article explores possibilities and prospects for feminist historical geographies and geographers. Here I define feminist historical geography as scholarship which asks geographical questions of... Read More about Feminist historical geographies: doing and being.

Migrants' healthcare experience: a meta-ethnography review of the literature (2018)
Journal Article
Luiking, M.-L., Heckemann, B., Ali, P., Dekker-van Doorn, C., Ghosh, S., Kydd, A., Watson, R., & Patel, H. (2018). Migrants' healthcare experience: a meta-ethnography review of the literature. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 51(1), 58-67. https://doi.org/10.1111/jnu.12442

Purpose. Worldwide, more than 214 million people have left their country of origin. This unprecedented mass migration impacts on healthcare in host countries. This paper explores and synthesizes literature on the healthcare experiences of migrants. D... Read More about Migrants' healthcare experience: a meta-ethnography review of the literature.

Metallothionein-I/II expression associates with the astrocyte DNA damage response and not Alzheimer-type pathology in the aging brain (2018)
Journal Article
Waller, R., Murphy, M., Garwood, C. J., Jennings, L., Heath, P. R., Chambers, A., …Simpson, J. E. (2018). Metallothionein-I/II expression associates with the astrocyte DNA damage response and not Alzheimer-type pathology in the aging brain. Glia, 66(11), 2316-2323. https://doi.org/10.1002/glia.23465

Oxidative stress and oxidative DNA damage are early features of mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease (AD), occurring before the formation of classical AD neuropathology, and resulting from an imbalance between pro- and anti-oxidants. Ast... Read More about Metallothionein-I/II expression associates with the astrocyte DNA damage response and not Alzheimer-type pathology in the aging brain.

Understanding the relationship between cognition and death: a within cohort examination of cognitive measures and mortality (2018)
Journal Article
Hayat, S. A., Luben, R., Dalzell, N., Moore, S., Hogervorst, E., Matthews, F. E., …Khaw, K. T. (2018). Understanding the relationship between cognition and death: a within cohort examination of cognitive measures and mortality. European Journal of Epidemiology, 33(11), 1049-1062. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-018-0439-z

Despite several studies demonstrating an independent and inverse association between cognition and mortality, the nature of this association still remains unclear. To examine the association of cognition and mortality after accounting for sociodemogr... Read More about Understanding the relationship between cognition and death: a within cohort examination of cognitive measures and mortality.

Loneliness as a risk factor for care home admission in the english longitudinal study of ageing (2018)
Journal Article
Hanratty, B., Stow, D., Moore, D. C., Valtorta, N. K., & Matthews, F. (2018). Loneliness as a risk factor for care home admission in the english longitudinal study of ageing. Age and ageing, 47(6), 896-900. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afy095

Background: loneliness has an adverse effect on health and well-being, and is common at older ages. Evidence that it is a risk factor for care home admission is sparse. Objective: to investigate the association between loneliness and care home admiss... Read More about Loneliness as a risk factor for care home admission in the english longitudinal study of ageing.

'It feels like its sink or swim': Newly qualified teachers' experiences of their induction year (2018)
Journal Article
Glazzard, J., & Coverdale, L. (2018). 'It feels like its sink or swim': Newly qualified teachers' experiences of their induction year. International Journal of Learning, Teaching and Educational Research, 17(11), 89-101. https://doi.org/10.26803/ijlter.17.11.7

This study examined the experiences of a small group of Newly Qualified Teachers (NQTs) during their NQT year. A focus group was used to explore the NQTs' understandings of their role and the influence of the NQT year on the development of their prof... Read More about 'It feels like its sink or swim': Newly qualified teachers' experiences of their induction year.

Ultra-violet body painting: A new tool in the spectrum of anatomy education (2018)
Journal Article
Finn, G. M., Bazira, P. J., Bateman, J., & Sanders, K. A. (2018). Ultra-violet body painting: A new tool in the spectrum of anatomy education. European Journal of Anatomy, 22(6), 521-527

This descriptive article explores the use of ultraviolet (UV) body painting within anatomy education. Whilst the use of body painting is not new, UV paint has not previously been used within medical education. It is well documented that body painting... Read More about Ultra-violet body painting: A new tool in the spectrum of anatomy education.

Dickens’s gothic double: A tale of two cities and Watts Phillips’s The dead heart (2018)
Journal Article
Crofts, M. (2018). Dickens’s gothic double: A tale of two cities and Watts Phillips’s The dead heart. Victoriographies, 8(3), 290-306. https://doi.org/10.3366/vic.2018.0319

Dickens’s extraordinary literary reputation and close associations with the Victorian period can be seen in action through the lasting comparisons between his most read novel, A Tale of Two Cities (1859), and a now obscure play by the writer Watts Ph... Read More about Dickens’s gothic double: A tale of two cities and Watts Phillips’s The dead heart.

Organisational change from the perspectives of translation : a case study of transformation in the Libyan banking system (2018)
Thesis
Alzawawi, B. S. (2018). Organisational change from the perspectives of translation : a case study of transformation in the Libyan banking system. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4227278

This study examines an organisational change process in its real-time. Two theoretical approaches have inspired a search for explanations to the process of change occurring as part of large transforming the Libyan banking sector to become compliant w... Read More about Organisational change from the perspectives of translation : a case study of transformation in the Libyan banking system.

An empirical analysis of top management team strategic cognition, managerial attributes, audit committee effectiveness and their implications for corporate risk and performance (2018)
Thesis
Attah-Boakye, R. (2018). An empirical analysis of top management team strategic cognition, managerial attributes, audit committee effectiveness and their implications for corporate risk and performance. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4223366

The events of the global financial crisis have hastened the refinement of existing corporate governance regulations and the development of new ones to strengthen corporate governance mechanisms. However, critics of this approach argue that strengthen... Read More about An empirical analysis of top management team strategic cognition, managerial attributes, audit committee effectiveness and their implications for corporate risk and performance.

Thermal chemical conversion of plastics waste for production of carbon nanotubes (2018)
Thesis
Liu, X. (2018). Thermal chemical conversion of plastics waste for production of carbon nanotubes. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4223301

With continuous growth for more than 50 years, global plastics production increased to 336 million tonnes in 2016, and over 27 million tonnes of post-consumer plastic wastes were produced. Waste management is necessary to minimise the plastic waste i... Read More about Thermal chemical conversion of plastics waste for production of carbon nanotubes.

Exercise in heart failure (2018)
Thesis
Shah, P. (2018). Exercise in heart failure. (Thesis). Hull York Medical School, the University of Hull and the University of York. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4222393

Introduction In ambulatory patients with chronic stable heart failure, the cardinal symptom of exercise intolerance is not fully resolved despite optimal medical treatment. Identifying other treatments to improve exercise intolerance may improve qua... Read More about Exercise in heart failure.

How successful were President Obama’s efforts in climate diplomacy? (2018)
Thesis
Samoraj, J. L. (2018). How successful were President Obama’s efforts in climate diplomacy?. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4222045

This thesis explores the possibility of combating climate change as a result of climate diplomacy exercised by President Obama. The aim is to examine President Obama’s actions through a method of norm-centred constructivism. This thesis’ core researc... Read More about How successful were President Obama’s efforts in climate diplomacy?.

A positive psychology approach to understanding psychological experiences of adolescent mothers : what effect does intervention have and how does resilience contribute to their psychological wellbeing (2018)
Thesis
Edlington, B. L. (2018). A positive psychology approach to understanding psychological experiences of adolescent mothers : what effect does intervention have and how does resilience contribute to their psychological wellbeing. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4221647

This portfolio thesis has three parts: a systematic literature review, an empirical paper, and appendices. Part one is a systematic literature review in which the empirical literature relating to interventions to improve psychological wellbeing in... Read More about A positive psychology approach to understanding psychological experiences of adolescent mothers : what effect does intervention have and how does resilience contribute to their psychological wellbeing.