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Formalising ‘informal’ mHealth in Ghana: Opportunities and challenges for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) (2021)
Journal Article
Mariwah, S., Machistey Abane, A., Asiedu Owusu, S., Kasim, A., Robson, E., Castelli, M., & Hampshire, K. (in press). Formalising ‘informal’ mHealth in Ghana: Opportunities and challenges for Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Global Public Health, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2021.1874467

While mobile phones promise to be an important tool for bridging the healthcare gaps in resource-poor areas in developing countries, scalability and sustainability of mobile phones for health (mhealth) interventions still remain a major challenge. Me... Read More about Formalising ‘informal’ mHealth in Ghana: Opportunities and challenges for Universal Health Coverage (UHC).

CEO Overconfidence and the Probability of Corporate Failure: Evidence from the United Kingdom (2021)
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Leng, J., Ozkan, A., Ozkan, N., & Trzeciakiewicz, A. (in press). CEO Overconfidence and the Probability of Corporate Failure: Evidence from the United Kingdom. The European journal of finance, https://doi.org/10.1080/1351847X.2021.1876131

This paper investigates the impact of CEO overconfidence on the probability of corporate bankruptcy. Using a large dataset of UK firms, we find that firms with overconfident CEOs face a greater risk of failure. The presence of overconfident CEOs lead... Read More about CEO Overconfidence and the Probability of Corporate Failure: Evidence from the United Kingdom.

Perceived and objective availability of green and blue spaces and quality of life in people with dementia: results from the IDEAL programme (2021)
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Wu, Y. T., Clare, L., Jones, I. R., Nelis, S. M., Quinn, C., Martyr, A., …Matthews, F. E. (2021). Perceived and objective availability of green and blue spaces and quality of life in people with dementia: results from the IDEAL programme. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 56(9), 1601-1610. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-021-02030-y

Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the associations between quality of life and both perceived and objective availability of local green and blue spaces in people with dementia, including potential variation across rural/urban settings... Read More about Perceived and objective availability of green and blue spaces and quality of life in people with dementia: results from the IDEAL programme.

Supported progressive resistance exercise training to counter the adverse side effects of robot-assisted radical prostatectomy: a randomised controlled trial (2021)
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Ashton, R. E., Aning, J. J., Tew, G. A., Robson, W. A., & Saxton, J. M. (2021). Supported progressive resistance exercise training to counter the adverse side effects of robot-assisted radical prostatectomy: a randomised controlled trial. Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer, 29(8), 4595-4605. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-021-06002-5

Purpose: To investigate the effects of a supported home-based progressive resistance exercise training (RET) programme on indices of cardiovascular health, muscular strength and health-related quality of life (HR-QoL) in prostate cancer (PCa) patient... Read More about Supported progressive resistance exercise training to counter the adverse side effects of robot-assisted radical prostatectomy: a randomised controlled trial.

Overcoming Current Challenges for Circular Economy Assessment Implementation in Public Sector Organisations (2021)
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Droege, H., Raggi, A., & Ramos, T. B. (2021). Overcoming Current Challenges for Circular Economy Assessment Implementation in Public Sector Organisations. Sustainability, 13(3), Article 1182. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13031182

Circular Economy (CE) is seen as a key strategy in achieving sustainable development and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). To seize the potential of CE, public and private organisations need to evaluate and communicate their pr... Read More about Overcoming Current Challenges for Circular Economy Assessment Implementation in Public Sector Organisations.

Age related changes of rib cortical bone matrix and the application to forensic age-at-death estimation (2021)
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Bonicelli, A., Zioupos, P., Arnold, E., Rogers, K. D., Xhemali, B., & Kranioti, E. F. (2021). Age related changes of rib cortical bone matrix and the application to forensic age-at-death estimation. Scientific reports, 11(1), Article 2086. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-81342-0

Forensic anthropology includes, amongst other applications, the positive identification of unknown human skeletal remains. The first step in this process is an assessment of the biological profile, that is: sex, age, stature and ancestry. In forensic... Read More about Age related changes of rib cortical bone matrix and the application to forensic age-at-death estimation.

KiDS-1000 cosmology: Cosmic shear constraints and comparison between two point statistics (2021)
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Asgari, M., Lin, C. A., Joachimi, B., Giblin, B., Heymans, C., Hildebrandt, H., …Valentijn, E. (2021). KiDS-1000 cosmology: Cosmic shear constraints and comparison between two point statistics. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 645, Article A104. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202039070

We present cosmological constraints from a cosmic shear analysis of the fourth data release of the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS-1000), which doubles the survey area with nine-band optical and near-infrared photometry with respect to previous KiDS analyse... Read More about KiDS-1000 cosmology: Cosmic shear constraints and comparison between two point statistics.

Distributed Fault-Tolerant Consensus Tracking Control of Multi-Agent Systems under Fixed and Switching Topologies (2021)
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Patton, R. J., Liu, C., Jiang, B., & Zhang, K. (2021). Distributed Fault-Tolerant Consensus Tracking Control of Multi-Agent Systems under Fixed and Switching Topologies. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, 68(4), 1646-1658. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSI.2021.3049347

This paper proposes a novel distributed fault-tolerant consensus tracking control design for multi-agent systems with abrupt and incipient actuator faults under fixed and switching topologies. The fault and state information of each individual agent... Read More about Distributed Fault-Tolerant Consensus Tracking Control of Multi-Agent Systems under Fixed and Switching Topologies.

Brief interventions to prevent excessive alcohol use in adolescents at low-risk presenting to Emergency Departments: Three-arm, randomised trial of effectiveness and cost-effectiveness (2021)
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Deluca, P., Coulton, S., Alam, M. F., Boniface, S., Cohen, D., Donoghue, K., Gilvarry, E., Kaner, E., Maconochie, I., McArdle, P., McGovern, R., Newbury-Birch, D., Patton, R., Pellatt-Higgins, T., Phillips, C., Phillips, T., Pockett, R. D., Russell, I., Strang, J., & Drummond, C. (in press). Brief interventions to prevent excessive alcohol use in adolescents at low-risk presenting to Emergency Departments: Three-arm, randomised trial of effectiveness and cost-effectiveness. International Journal of Drug Policy, Article 103113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2021.103113

© 2021 Background: Alcohol consumption and related harm increase rapidly from the age of 12 years. We evaluated whether alcohol screening and brief intervention is effective and cost-effective in delaying hazardous or harmful drinking amongst low-ris... Read More about Brief interventions to prevent excessive alcohol use in adolescents at low-risk presenting to Emergency Departments: Three-arm, randomised trial of effectiveness and cost-effectiveness.

3D phase field modeling of multi-dendrites evolution in solidification and validation by synchrotron x-ray tomography (2021)
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Wang, S., Guo, Z., Kang, J., Zou, M., Li, X., Zhang, A., Du, W., Zhang, W., Lee, T. L., Xiong, S., & Mi, J. (2021). 3D phase field modeling of multi-dendrites evolution in solidification and validation by synchrotron x-ray tomography. Materials, 14(3), Article 520. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma14030520

© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. In this paper, the dynamics of multi-dendrite concurrent growth and coarsening of an Al-15 wt.% Cu alloy was studied using a highly computationally efficient 3D phase field model and real-time... Read More about 3D phase field modeling of multi-dendrites evolution in solidification and validation by synchrotron x-ray tomography.

A feasibility cluster randomised controlled trial of a paramedic-administered breathlessness management intervention for acute-on-chronic breathlessness (BREATHE): Study protocol (2021)
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Northgraves, M., Cohen, J., Allgar, V., Currow, D., Hart, S., Hird, K., Hodge, A., Johnson, M., Mason, S., Swan, F., & Hutchinson, A. (2021). A feasibility cluster randomised controlled trial of a paramedic-administered breathlessness management intervention for acute-on-chronic breathlessness (BREATHE): Study protocol. ERJ Open Research, 7(1), Article 00955-2020. https://doi.org/10.1183/23120541.00955-2020

Introduction: Chronic breathlessness, persistent and disabling despite optimal treatment of underlying causes, is a prevalent and frightening symptom and is associated with many emergency presentations and admission to hospital. Breathlessness manage... Read More about A feasibility cluster randomised controlled trial of a paramedic-administered breathlessness management intervention for acute-on-chronic breathlessness (BREATHE): Study protocol.

Open group cognitive behaviour therapy on acute in-patient units (2021)
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Boynton, V., & Sanderson, C. (2021). Open group cognitive behaviour therapy on acute in-patient units. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, https://doi.org/10.1017/S1352465821000011

Background: Adult mental health in-patient units primarily provide a service for people deemed to be at significant risk to themselves or others, where treatment cannot be provided safely in the community. Whilst psychological interventions are indic... Read More about Open group cognitive behaviour therapy on acute in-patient units.

Radical Cystectomy Against Intravesical BCG for High-Risk High-Grade Nonmuscle Invasive Bladder Cancer: Results From the Randomized Controlled BRAVO-Feasibility Study (2021)
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Brown, J. M., Croft, J., Poad, H., Bell, R., Collinson, M., Gordon, K., Dooldeniya, M., Conroy, S., Catto, J. W., Noon, A. P., Simms, M., Chahal, R., Jain, S., Koenig, P., Johnson, M., Twiddy, M., & Goodwin, L. (2021). Radical Cystectomy Against Intravesical BCG for High-Risk High-Grade Nonmuscle Invasive Bladder Cancer: Results From the Randomized Controlled BRAVO-Feasibility Study. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 39(3), 202-214. https://doi.org/10.1200/JCO.20.01665

PURPOSE: High-grade nonmuscle invasive bladder cancer (HRNMIBC) is a heterogeneous disease. Treatments include intravesical maintenance Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (mBCG) and radical cystectomy (RC). We wanted to understand whether a randomized trial co... Read More about Radical Cystectomy Against Intravesical BCG for High-Risk High-Grade Nonmuscle Invasive Bladder Cancer: Results From the Randomized Controlled BRAVO-Feasibility Study.

Age dissection of the Milky Way discs: Red giants in the Kepler field (2021)
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Miglio, A., Chiappini, C., Mackereth, J. T., Davies, G. R., Brogaard, K., Casagrande, L., …Mandel, I. (2021). Age dissection of the Milky Way discs: Red giants in the Kepler field. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 645, Article A85. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202038307

Ensemble studies of red-giant stars with exquisite asteroseismic (Kepler), spectroscopic (APOGEE), and astrometric (Gaia) constraints offer a novel opportunity to recast and address long-standing questions concerning the evolution of stars and of the... Read More about Age dissection of the Milky Way discs: Red giants in the Kepler field.

Through-knee versus above-knee amputation for vascular and non-vascular major lower limb amputations (Protocol) (2021)
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Crane, H., Boam, G., Carradice, D., Vanicek, N., Twiddy, M., & Smith, G. E. (2021). Through-knee versus above-knee amputation for vascular and non-vascular major lower limb amputations (Protocol). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2021(1), Article CD013839. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD013839

Objectives: This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (intervention). The objectives are as follows:. To assess the effects of through-knee amputation compared to above-knee amputation on clinical and rehabilitation outcomes and complication rates in... Read More about Through-knee versus above-knee amputation for vascular and non-vascular major lower limb amputations (Protocol).

Multivalency in CXCR4 chemokine receptor targeted iron oxide nanoparticles (2021)
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Baghdadi, N. E., Burke, B. P., Alresheedi, T., Nigam, S., Saeed, A., Almutairi, F., Domarkas, J., Khan, A., & Archibald, S. J. (2021). Multivalency in CXCR4 chemokine receptor targeted iron oxide nanoparticles. Dalton Transactions : an international journal of inorganic chemistry, 50(5), 1599-1603. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0dt02626c

The CXCR4 chemokine receptor is an important biomolecular target in cancer diagnostics and therapeutics. In a new multivalent approach, iron oxide nanoparticles were conjugated with multiple binding units of a low affinity azamacrocylic CXCR4 antagon... Read More about Multivalency in CXCR4 chemokine receptor targeted iron oxide nanoparticles.

Prevalence and factors associated with poor performance in the 5-chair stand test: findings from the Cognitive Function and Ageing Study II and proposed Newcastle protocol for use in the assessment of sarcopenia (2021)
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Dodds, R. M., Murray, J. C., Granic, A., Hurst, C., Uwimpuhwe, G., Richardson, S., Brayne, C., Matthews, F. E., Sayer, A. A., Arthur, A., Baldwin, C., Barnes, L. E., Comas-Herrera, A., Dening, T., Forster, G., Harrison, S., Ince, P. G., Jagger, C., McKeith, I. G., Parry, B., …Woods, B. (2021). Prevalence and factors associated with poor performance in the 5-chair stand test: findings from the Cognitive Function and Ageing Study II and proposed Newcastle protocol for use in the assessment of sarcopenia. Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, 12(2), 308-318. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcsm.12660

Background: Poor performance in the 5-chair stand test (5-CST) indicates reduced lower limb muscle strength. The 5-CST has been recommended for use in the initial assessment of sarcopenia, the accelerated loss of muscle strength and mass. In order to... Read More about Prevalence and factors associated with poor performance in the 5-chair stand test: findings from the Cognitive Function and Ageing Study II and proposed Newcastle protocol for use in the assessment of sarcopenia.

Artificial intelligence-driven music biometrics influencing customers’ retail buying behavior (2021)
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Rodgers, W., Yeung, F., Odindo, C., & Degbey, W. Y. (2021). Artificial intelligence-driven music biometrics influencing customers’ retail buying behavior. Journal of business research, 126, 401-414. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.12.039

This study examines the digital transformation effects of artificial intelligence (AI)-based facial and music biometrics on customers' cognitive and emotional states and how these effects influence their behavioral responses on value creation. Using... Read More about Artificial intelligence-driven music biometrics influencing customers’ retail buying behavior.

Evaluating regional spatial imaginaries: the Oxford–Cambridge Arc (2021)
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Valler, D., Jonas, A. E., & Robinson, L. (in press). Evaluating regional spatial imaginaries: the Oxford–Cambridge Arc. Territory, Politics, Governance, https://doi.org/10.1080/21622671.2020.1851751

© 2020 Regional Studies Association. The process of imagination is central to region formation, underpinning the spatial definition and territorial bounding of areas, the development of spatial identity and institutional capacity, and the cultivation... Read More about Evaluating regional spatial imaginaries: the Oxford–Cambridge Arc.