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Anthropometric and Metabolic Responses in FTO rs9939609 Gene Polymorphism after a Multidisciplinary Lifestyle Intervention in Overweight and Obese Adolescents (2019)
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Barbian, C. D., Reuter, C. P., Renner, J. D. P., da Silva, P. T., Klinger, E. I., Hobkirk, J. P., de Moura Valim, A. R., & Burgos, M. S. (2020). Anthropometric and Metabolic Responses in FTO rs9939609 Gene Polymorphism after a Multidisciplinary Lifestyle Intervention in Overweight and Obese Adolescents. Journal of Pediatric Genetics, 9(1), 019-026. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0039-3399511

Few studies show the potential changing effect of fat-mass and obesity-associated (FTO) rs9939609 gene on cardiometabolic risk after a lifestyle intervention. This study aims to evaluate whether overweight and obese adolescents, carriers of the risk... Read More about Anthropometric and Metabolic Responses in FTO rs9939609 Gene Polymorphism after a Multidisciplinary Lifestyle Intervention in Overweight and Obese Adolescents.

Operational performance of a novel fast-responsive heat storage/exchanging unit (HSEU) for solar heating systems (2019)
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Fan, Y., Zhao, X., Li, J., Cheng, Y., Zhou, J., Yu, M., Li, G., Badiei, A., Du, Z., Ji, J., Zhu, Z., Ma, X., Bai, H., & Myers, S. (2020). Operational performance of a novel fast-responsive heat storage/exchanging unit (HSEU) for solar heating systems. Renewable energy, 151, 137-151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2019.11.007

In order for a solar heating system to provide heat immediately after sunrise, a fast response is needed to the heat demand of a serviced space. The majority of existing solar heating systems have a slow response time due to the large volume of water... Read More about Operational performance of a novel fast-responsive heat storage/exchanging unit (HSEU) for solar heating systems.

Locating climate adaptation in urban and regional studies (2019)
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Kythreotis, A. P., Jonas, A. E., & Howarth, C. (2020). Locating climate adaptation in urban and regional studies. Regional studies, 54(4), 576-588. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2019.1678744

This paper adds new insights to the relationship between city-regionalism, the territorial logics of the competition state and how climate adaptation is located in state spaces. Whilst climate adaptation governance is positioned within national econo... Read More about Locating climate adaptation in urban and regional studies.

Unsteady draining of reservoirs over weirs and through constrictions (2019)
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Skevington, E. W. G., & Hogg, A. J. (2020). Unsteady draining of reservoirs over weirs and through constrictions. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 882, Article A9. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2019.808

The gravitationally driven flow of fluid from a reservoir following the partial collapse of its confining dam, or the partial opening of its confining lock, is modelled using the nonlinear shallow water equations, coupled to outflow conditions, in wh... Read More about Unsteady draining of reservoirs over weirs and through constrictions.

The CAREGIVERSPRO-MMD Platform as an Online Informational and Social Support Tool for People Living With Memory Problems and Their Carers: An Evaluation of User Engagement, Usability and Usefulness (2019)
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Howe, D., Thorpe, J., Dunn, R., White, C., Cunnah, K., Platt, R., Paulson, K., & Wolverson, E. (2019). The CAREGIVERSPRO-MMD Platform as an Online Informational and Social Support Tool for People Living With Memory Problems and Their Carers: An Evaluation of User Engagement, Usability and Usefulness. Journal of applied gerontology, 39(12), 1303-1312. https://doi.org/10.1177/0733464819885326

People living with dementia or cognitive impairment (PwD) and their carers often have unmet needs for informational and social support postdiagnosis. Web-based platforms have the potential to address these needs, although few have been developed for... Read More about The CAREGIVERSPRO-MMD Platform as an Online Informational and Social Support Tool for People Living With Memory Problems and Their Carers: An Evaluation of User Engagement, Usability and Usefulness.

The impact of social media on consumer acculturation: Current challenges, opportunities, and an agenda for research and practice (2019)
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Kizgin, H., Dey, B. L., Dwivedi, Y. K., Hughes, L., Jamal, A., Jones, P., Kronemann, B., Laroche, M., Peñaloza, L., Richard, M. O., Rana, N. P., Romer, R., Tamilmani, K., & Williams, M. D. (2020). The impact of social media on consumer acculturation: Current challenges, opportunities, and an agenda for research and practice. International journal of information management, 51, Article 102026. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2019.10.011

The concept of acculturation has been based on the assumption of an adaptation process, whereby immigrants lose aspects of their heritage cultures in favour of aspects of a host culture (i.e. assimilation). Past research has shown that acculturation... Read More about The impact of social media on consumer acculturation: Current challenges, opportunities, and an agenda for research and practice.

Interdisciplinary science to support North Sea marine management: lessons learned and future demands (2019)
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Degraer, S., Van Lancker, V., Van Dijk, T. A., Birchenough, S. N., De Witte, B., Elliott, M., Le Bot, S., Reiss, H., Stelzenmüller, V., Van Gaever, S., Balian, E., Cox, D., Hernandez, F., Lacroix, G., Lindeboom, H., Reubens, J., & Soetaert, K. (2019). Interdisciplinary science to support North Sea marine management: lessons learned and future demands. Hydrobiologia, 845, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-019-04109-9

© 2019, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. The expected increase of maritime activities in the North Sea and the growing awareness of its natural environmental value require enhanced science-based environmental advice for more efficient and effective ma... Read More about Interdisciplinary science to support North Sea marine management: lessons learned and future demands.

Stakeholder identification and engagement in problem structuring interventions (2019)
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Gregory, A. J., Atkins, J. P., Midgley, G., & Hodgson, A. (2020). Stakeholder identification and engagement in problem structuring interventions. European journal of operational research, 283(1), 321-340. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2019.10.044

© 2019 The Authors This paper addresses the under-researched issue of stakeholder identification and engagement in problem structuring interventions. A concise framework is proposed to aid critical reflection in the design and reporting of stakeholde... Read More about Stakeholder identification and engagement in problem structuring interventions.

A pulsar-based time-scale from the International Pulsar Timing Array (2019)
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Hobbs, G., Guo, L., Caballero, R. N., Coles, W., Lee, K. J., Manchester, R. N., Reardon, D. J., Matsakis, D., Tong, M. L., Arzoumanian, Z., Bailes, M., Bassa, C. G., Bhat, N. D., Brazier, A., Burke-Spolaor, S., Champion, D. J., Chatterjee, S., Cognard, I., Dai, S., Desvignes, G., …Zhu, X. J. (2020). A pulsar-based time-scale from the International Pulsar Timing Array. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 491(4), 5951-5965. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz3071

We have constructed a new time-scale, TT(IPTA16), based on observations of radio pulsars presented in the first data release from the International Pulsar Timing Array (IPTA). We used two analysis techniques with independent estimates of the noise mo... Read More about A pulsar-based time-scale from the International Pulsar Timing Array.

Becoming chapels and everyday congregations: How the repair and maintenance of London's wesleyan chapels illustrates their communities' everyday practices and experiences (1851-1932) (2019)
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Slatter, R. (2020). Becoming chapels and everyday congregations: How the repair and maintenance of London's wesleyan chapels illustrates their communities' everyday practices and experiences (1851-1932). Journal of Design History, 33(1), 34-49. https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epz032

This article uses archival references to maintenance and repair to approach nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Wesleyan chapels and their material contents as ‘becoming’ things. Reflecting on the material changes that made the maintenance or rep... Read More about Becoming chapels and everyday congregations: How the repair and maintenance of London's wesleyan chapels illustrates their communities' everyday practices and experiences (1851-1932).

CXCR4 and ACKR3 binding agents for imaging applications in cancer (2019)
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Renard, I. (2019). CXCR4 and ACKR3 binding agents for imaging applications in cancer. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4912463

The chemokine receptors CXCR4 and ACKR3 have been shown to be over-expressed in multiple types of cancer and are usually associated with aggressive phenotypes and poor prognosis. Successfully targeting and imaging the expression levels of these recep... Read More about CXCR4 and ACKR3 binding agents for imaging applications in cancer.

Neratinib protects pancreatic beta cells in diabetes (2019)
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Ardestani, A., Li, S., Annamalai, K., Lupse, B., Geravandi, S., Dobrowolski, A., Yu, S., Zhu, S., Baguley, T. D., Surakattula, M., Oetjen, J., Hauberg-Lotte, L., Herranz, R., Awal, S., Altenhofen, D., Nguyen-Tran, V., Joseph, S., Schultz, P. G., Chatterjee, A. K., Rogers, N., …Maedler, K. (2019). Neratinib protects pancreatic beta cells in diabetes. Nature communications, 10(1), Article 5015. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12880-5

The loss of functional insulin-producing β-cells is a hallmark of diabetes. Mammalian sterile 20-like kinase 1 (MST1) is a key regulator of pancreatic β-cell death and dysfunction; its deficiency restores functional β-cells and normoglycemia. The ide... Read More about Neratinib protects pancreatic beta cells in diabetes.

Two-decade change in prevalence of cognitive impairment in the UK (2019)
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Richardson, C., Stephan, B. C., Robinson, L., Brayne, C., & Matthews, F. E. (2019). Two-decade change in prevalence of cognitive impairment in the UK. European Journal of Epidemiology, 34(11), 1085-1092. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-019-00554-x

Identification of individuals at high risk of dementia has usually focused attention on the clinical concept of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), which captures an intermediate state between normal cognitive ageing and dementia. In many countries age... Read More about Two-decade change in prevalence of cognitive impairment in the UK.

Student perceptions of feedback in higher education (2019)
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Glazzard, J., & Stones, S. (2019). Student perceptions of feedback in higher education. International Journal of Learning, Teaching and Educational Research, 18(11), 38-52. https://doi.org/10.26803/ijlter.18.11.3

Text Feedback is critical to students’ academic development in higher education. Despite this, evidence suggests that students do not consistently engage with feedback or recognise the value of it. This study explored student perceptions of feedback... Read More about Student perceptions of feedback in higher education.

Case Report of Exercise to Attenuate Side Effects of Treatment for Pancreatic Cancer (2019)
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McLaughlin, M., Christie, A., & Campbell, A. (2020). Case Report of Exercise to Attenuate Side Effects of Treatment for Pancreatic Cancer. Case Reports in Oncology, 12(3), 845-854. https://doi.org/10.1159/000503815

Treatments for pancreatic cancer can have debilitating side effects including fatigue, weight loss, and cardiac toxicity, resulting in functional loss and psychological distress. Exercise has been proposed as a therapy to counteract physical and psyc... Read More about Case Report of Exercise to Attenuate Side Effects of Treatment for Pancreatic Cancer.

Relational and psychological aspects of the experience of chronic fatigue syndrome for patients and their significant others : a grounded theory study (2019)
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Cunnah, K. J. Relational and psychological aspects of the experience of chronic fatigue syndrome for patients and their significant others : a grounded theory study. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4223559

Social processes have been investigated as a maintaining factor in chronic fatigue syndrome, also known as myalgic encephamyelitis (CFS/ME), and the responses of the significant others (SOs) of people with CFS/ME (PwCFS/ME) have been shown to be asso... Read More about Relational and psychological aspects of the experience of chronic fatigue syndrome for patients and their significant others : a grounded theory study.

Investigating domestic violence through human rights lens in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (2019)
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Alosaimi, S. E. Investigating domestic violence through human rights lens in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4222930

Domestic violence can happen to anyone, but women and children in most cases of abuse are the victims. Despite considerable scholarship on domestic violence, Saudi Arabia remains an anomaly in terms of the Kingdom’s approach to domestic violence from... Read More about Investigating domestic violence through human rights lens in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Evaluation of the use of ICT to support students’ learning and communication in a Saudi Arabian higher education institution : conflicts, contrasts and tensions in lecturers’ perspectives (2019)
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Alabadi, N. Evaluation of the use of ICT to support students’ learning and communication in a Saudi Arabian higher education institution : conflicts, contrasts and tensions in lecturers’ perspectives. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4222810

This thesis explores lecturers’ views on the main issues surrounding their use of information and communications technology (ICT) to support students’ learning and communication in Jeddah University. It also identifies lecturers’ pedagogical beliefs... Read More about Evaluation of the use of ICT to support students’ learning and communication in a Saudi Arabian higher education institution : conflicts, contrasts and tensions in lecturers’ perspectives.

Examining the role of digital mediation in women’s sexual identity : a constructivist grounded theory study (2019)
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MacRae, S. E. Examining the role of digital mediation in women’s sexual identity : a constructivist grounded theory study. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4222729

This thesis outlines findings from a study exploring how women over 35 conceptualise their sexual identities in the digital age. As the literature lacked qualitative analysis of this aspect of adult women’s lives the research was designed using princ... Read More about Examining the role of digital mediation in women’s sexual identity : a constructivist grounded theory study.