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Objectively-assessed physical activity and self-reported activity pacing in adults with multiple sclerosis: A pilot study (2021)
Journal Article
Abonie, U. S., Saxton, J., Baker, K., & Hettinga, F. J. (2021). Objectively-assessed physical activity and self-reported activity pacing in adults with multiple sclerosis: A pilot study. Clinical Rehabilitation, 35(12), 1781-1788. https://doi.org/10.1177/02692155211024135

Objective: To examine the association between self-reported activity pacing (a strategy to manage fatigue symptoms) and objectively-measured physical activity behaviours in adults with multiple sclerosis. Design: Single cross-sectional study Setting:... Read More about Objectively-assessed physical activity and self-reported activity pacing in adults with multiple sclerosis: A pilot study.

Rapid realist review of the role of community pharmacy in the public health response to COVID-19 (2021)
Journal Article
Maidment, I., Young, E., MacPhee, M., Booth, A., Zaman, H., Breen, J., …Wong, G. (2021). Rapid realist review of the role of community pharmacy in the public health response to COVID-19. BMJ open, 11(6), Article e050043. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-050043

Introduction Community pharmacists and their teams have remained accessible to the public providing essential services despite immense pressures during the COVID-19 pandemic. They have successfully expanded the influenza vaccination programme and are... Read More about Rapid realist review of the role of community pharmacy in the public health response to COVID-19.

High-fidelity simulation and virtual reality: An evaluation of medical students' experiences (2021)
Journal Article
Macnamara, A. F., Bird, K., Rigby, A., Sathyapalan, T., & Hepburn, D. (2021). High-fidelity simulation and virtual reality: An evaluation of medical students' experiences. BMJ Simulation & Technology Enhanced Learning, 7(6), 528-535. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjstel-2020-000625

Background: Simulation technology is widely used in medical education, providing an environment in which students can develop and practise a multitude of skills that are relevant to clinical practice, without the risk of harm to patients. Methods: We... Read More about High-fidelity simulation and virtual reality: An evaluation of medical students' experiences.

Establishing sustainable sediment budgets is critical for climate-resilient mega-deltas (2021)
Journal Article
Vasilopoulos, G., Quan, Q. L., Parsons, D. R., Darby, S. E., Tri, V. P. D., Hung, N. N., …Aalto, R. (2021). Establishing sustainable sediment budgets is critical for climate-resilient mega-deltas. Environmental Research Letters, 16(6), Article 064089. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac06fc

Many of the world's major river deltas face a sustainability crisis, as they come under threat of increases in salinity and the extent of tidal zones forced by combinations of sea-level rise, changes in river discharge and channel geometry. The relat... Read More about Establishing sustainable sediment budgets is critical for climate-resilient mega-deltas.

Consequences of combined exposure to thermal stress and the plasticiser DEHP in Mytilus spp. differ by sex (2021)
Journal Article
Mincarelli, L. F., Rotchell, J. M., Chapman, E. C., Turner, A. P., & Wollenberg Valero, K. C. (2021). Consequences of combined exposure to thermal stress and the plasticiser DEHP in Mytilus spp. differ by sex. Marine pollution bulletin, 170, Article 112624. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112624

Little is known about the combined effect of environmental factors and contaminants on commercially important marine species, and whether this effect differs by sex. In this study, blue mussels were exposed for seven days to both single and combined... Read More about Consequences of combined exposure to thermal stress and the plasticiser DEHP in Mytilus spp. differ by sex.

Biodiversity benefits of coal mine water remediation schemes for bird life (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jaques, R. O., Moorhouse-Parry, A. M. L., Carline, R., Mayes, W. M., & Hull, S. L. (2021). Biodiversity benefits of coal mine water remediation schemes for bird life. In Proceedings of the IMWA Congress “Mine Water Management for Future Generations”. Editors: Peter Stanley, Christian Wolkersdorfer, Karoline Wolkersdorfer

Lagoons and reedbeds are established components of mine water treatment systems for iron-rich coal mine drainage. This study coupled modified British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) Breeding Bird Survey monitoring with habitat survey to assess the presen... Read More about Biodiversity benefits of coal mine water remediation schemes for bird life.

Current understanding of nonsurgical interventions for refractory differentiated thyroid cancer: a systematic review (2021)
Journal Article
Jones, H., Green, V., England, J., & Greenman, J. (2021). Current understanding of nonsurgical interventions for refractory differentiated thyroid cancer: a systematic review. Future Science OA, 7(7), https://doi.org/10.2144/fsoa-2021-0041

Thyroid cancer incidence and related mortality is increasing year-on-year, and although treatment for early disease with surgery and radioiodine results in a 98% 5-year survival rate, recurrence and treatment refractory disease is evident in an unacc... Read More about Current understanding of nonsurgical interventions for refractory differentiated thyroid cancer: a systematic review.

The Making of Frank 'Toronto' Prewett: Poetry, Trauma and Identity (2021)
Exhibition / Performance
Porter, J. (2021). The Making of Frank 'Toronto' Prewett: Poetry, Trauma and Identity. [British Library Player Archive]. Performed at London. 15 June 2021. (Unpublished)

Drawing from her new biography, Trauma, Primitivism, and the First World War: The Making of Frank ‘Toronto’ Prewett, Joy Porter explores the extraordinary life of this Canadian veteran, poet and exceptional man of letters, and the history of trauma,... Read More about The Making of Frank 'Toronto' Prewett: Poetry, Trauma and Identity.

The call is coming from inside the house: researching race after Yugoslavia in ‘post-post-racial’ times (2021)
Book Chapter
Baker, C. (2021). The call is coming from inside the house: researching race after Yugoslavia in ‘post-post-racial’ times. In Researching Yugoslavia and Its Aftermath: Sources, Prejudices and Alternative Solutions (253-272). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70343-1_12

This chapter sets efforts to research race in the (post-)Yugoslav region in the context of what Kimberlé Crenshaw has termed today’s ‘post-post-racial’ times, in which progressives who might have believed that global society was on an inevitable cour... Read More about The call is coming from inside the house: researching race after Yugoslavia in ‘post-post-racial’ times.

Sea-trial verification of a novel system for monitoring biofouling and testing anti-fouling coatings in highly energetic environments targeted by the marine renewable energy industry (2021)
Journal Article
Want, A., Bell, {. C., Harris, {. E., Hull, {. Q., Long, {. R., & Porter, {. S. (2021). Sea-trial verification of a novel system for monitoring biofouling and testing anti-fouling coatings in highly energetic environments targeted by the marine renewable energy industry. Biofouling, 37(4), 433--451. https://doi.org/10.1080/08927014.2021.1928091

A novel system was developed to deploy settlement panels to monitor biofouling growth in situ and evaluate antifouling coatings at depths representative of operational conditions of full-scale marine renewable energy devices. Biofouling loading, spec... Read More about Sea-trial verification of a novel system for monitoring biofouling and testing anti-fouling coatings in highly energetic environments targeted by the marine renewable energy industry.

Roux-en-Y gastric bypass-induced bacterial perturbation contributes to altered host-bacterial co-metabolic phenotype (2021)
Journal Article
Li, J. V., Ashrafian, H., Sarafian, M., Homola, D., Rushton, L., Barker, G., …Holmes, E. (2021). Roux-en-Y gastric bypass-induced bacterial perturbation contributes to altered host-bacterial co-metabolic phenotype. Microbiome, 9(1), Article 139. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-021-01086-x

Background: Bariatric surgery, used to achieve effective weight loss in individuals with severe obesity, modifies the gut microbiota and systemic metabolism in both humans and animal models. The aim of the current study was to understand better the m... Read More about Roux-en-Y gastric bypass-induced bacterial perturbation contributes to altered host-bacterial co-metabolic phenotype.

‘I guess I was surprised by an app telling an adult they had to go to bed before half ten’: a phenomenological exploration of behavioural ‘nudges’ (2021)
Journal Article
Toner, J., Allen-Collinson, J., & Jones, L. (2021). ‘I guess I was surprised by an app telling an adult they had to go to bed before half ten’: a phenomenological exploration of behavioural ‘nudges’. Qualitative research in sport, exercise and health, https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676X.2021.1937296

In recent years, the role of self-tracking technologies has been investigated, debated and critiqued within qualitative research circles. The principal means by which self-tracking technologies seek to promote health-related behaviours and behaviour... Read More about ‘I guess I was surprised by an app telling an adult they had to go to bed before half ten’: a phenomenological exploration of behavioural ‘nudges’.

A lab-on-a-chip platform for integrated extraction and detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in resource-limited settings (2021)
Journal Article
Rodriguez-Mateos, P., Ngamsom, B., Walter, C., Dyer, C. E., Gitaka, J., Iles, A., & Pamme, N. (2021). A lab-on-a-chip platform for integrated extraction and detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in resource-limited settings. Analytica Chimica Acta, 1177, Article 338758. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aca.2021.338758

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused the unprecedented global pandemic of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19). Efforts are needed to develop rapid and accurate diagnostic tools for extensive testing, allowing for ef... Read More about A lab-on-a-chip platform for integrated extraction and detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in resource-limited settings.

Hydroclimate changes in eastern Africa over the past 200,000 years may have influenced early human dispersal (2021)
Journal Article
Schaebitz, F., Asrat, A., Lamb, H. F., Cohen, A. S., Foerster, V., Duesing, W., …Trauth, M. H. (2021). Hydroclimate changes in eastern Africa over the past 200,000 years may have influenced early human dispersal. Communications Earth & Environment, 2(1), Article 123. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00195-7

Reconstructions of climatic and environmental conditions can contribute to current debates about the factors that influenced early human dispersal within and beyond Africa. Here we analyse a 200,000-year multi-proxy paleoclimate record from Chew Bahi... Read More about Hydroclimate changes in eastern Africa over the past 200,000 years may have influenced early human dispersal.

'I guess I was surprised by an app telling an adult they had to go to bed before half ten’: A phenomenological exploration of behavioural ‘nudges’ (2021)
Journal Article
Toner, J., Allen-Collinson, J., & Jones, L. (in press). 'I guess I was surprised by an app telling an adult they had to go to bed before half ten’: A phenomenological exploration of behavioural ‘nudges’. Qualitative research in sport, exercise and health, https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676X.2021.1937296

In recent years, the role of self-tracking technologies has been investigated, debated and critiqued within qualitative research circles. The principal means by which self-tracking technologies seek to promote health-related behaviours and behaviour... Read More about 'I guess I was surprised by an app telling an adult they had to go to bed before half ten’: A phenomenological exploration of behavioural ‘nudges’.

The Impact of COVID-19 on Surgical Training: the Past, the Present and the Future (2021)
Journal Article
Yiasemidou, M. (in press). The Impact of COVID-19 on Surgical Training: the Past, the Present and the Future. Indian Journal of Surgery, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12262-021-02964-2

The COVID-19 pandemic and infection control measures had an unavoidable impact on surgical services. During the first wave of the pandemic, elective surgery, endoscopy, and ‘face-to-face’ clinics were discontinued after recommendations from professio... Read More about The Impact of COVID-19 on Surgical Training: the Past, the Present and the Future.

Quantum marine predators algorithm for addressing multilevel image segmentation (2021)
Journal Article
Abd Elaziz, M., Mohammadi, D., Oliva, D., & Salimifard, K. (2021). Quantum marine predators algorithm for addressing multilevel image segmentation. Applied Soft Computing, 110, Article 107598. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2021.107598

This paper proposes a modified marine predators algorithm based on quantum theory to handle the multilevel image segmentation problem. The main aims of using quantum theory is to enhance the ability of marine predators algorithm to find the optimal t... Read More about Quantum marine predators algorithm for addressing multilevel image segmentation.

Experiences and perceptions of trial participants and healthcare professionals in the UK Frozen Shoulder Trial (UK FROST): a nested qualitative study (2021)
Journal Article
Srikesavan, C., Toye, F., Brealey, S., Goodchild, L., Northgraves, M., Charalambous, C. P., …Lamb, S. (2021). Experiences and perceptions of trial participants and healthcare professionals in the UK Frozen Shoulder Trial (UK FROST): a nested qualitative study. BMJ open, 11(6), Article e040829. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-040829

Objectives To explore the experiences and perceptions of trial participants and healthcare professionals in the UK Frozen Shoulder Trial (UK FROST), a multicentre randomised controlled trial that compared manipulation under anaesthesia (MUA), arthros... Read More about Experiences and perceptions of trial participants and healthcare professionals in the UK Frozen Shoulder Trial (UK FROST): a nested qualitative study.

An integrated decision driven design framework to support the ecological restoration of rivers (2021)
Journal Article
King, M., van Zyll de Jong, M., Piercey, D., Nunn, A. D., & Cowx, I. G. (in press). An integrated decision driven design framework to support the ecological restoration of rivers. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2021.1932772

A structured and collaborative approach to design and decision‐making in the context of ecological restoration of rivers is developed and illustrated using a case study involving the mitigation of physical barriers to fish migration on the River Tren... Read More about An integrated decision driven design framework to support the ecological restoration of rivers.