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The Role Of The Creative In Addressing The Political (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cauchi, C. (2023, March). The Role Of The Creative In Addressing The Political. Presented at Craft, Creativity, Critique: A Department of English Postgraduate Symposium, University of Malta

This lecture considers the question of creativity as a form of political and ethical discourse. In it, I focus on my latest novel – Mrs van Gogh (Cauchi, 2023) – which voices the role Vincent van Gogh’s sister-in-law played in his rise to fame. Thus,... Read More about The Role Of The Creative In Addressing The Political.

Patient Self-Testing of Kidney Function at Home, a Prospective Clinical Feasibility Study in Kidney Transplant Recipients (2023)
Journal Article
Murray, J. S., Williams, C. J., Lendrem, C., Smithson, J., Allinson, C., Robinson, J., …Jones, W. S. (2023). Patient Self-Testing of Kidney Function at Home, a Prospective Clinical Feasibility Study in Kidney Transplant Recipients. Kidney International Reports, 8(6), 1170-1182. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ekir.2023.03.003

Introduction
People with long-term health conditions often attend clinics for kidney function tests. The Self-Testing Own Kidneys (STOK) study assessed feasibility of kidney transplant recipients using hand-held devices to self-test kidney function... Read More about Patient Self-Testing of Kidney Function at Home, a Prospective Clinical Feasibility Study in Kidney Transplant Recipients.

Mathematical Model of Clonal Evolution Proposes a Personalised Multi-Modal Therapy for High-Risk Neuroblastoma (2023)
Journal Article
Italia, M., Wertheim, K. Y., Taschner-Mandl, S., Walker, D., & Dercole, F. (2023). Mathematical Model of Clonal Evolution Proposes a Personalised Multi-Modal Therapy for High-Risk Neuroblastoma. Cancers, 15(7), Article 1986. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers15071986

Neuroblastoma is the most common extra-cranial solid tumour in children. Despite multi-modal therapy, over half of the high-risk patients will succumb. One contributing factor is the one-size-fits-all nature of multi-modal therapy. For example, durin... Read More about Mathematical Model of Clonal Evolution Proposes a Personalised Multi-Modal Therapy for High-Risk Neuroblastoma.

Adaptation and multicentre validation of a patient-centred outcome scale for people severely ill with COVID (IPOS-COV) (2023)
Journal Article
Hocaoglu, M. B., Murtagh, F. E., Walshe, C., Chambers, R. L., Maddocks, M., Sleeman, K. E., …the CovPall study team. (2023). Adaptation and multicentre validation of a patient-centred outcome scale for people severely ill with COVID (IPOS-COV). Health and quality of life outcomes, 21(1), Article 29. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12955-023-02102-4

Background: Patient-centred measures to capture symptoms and concerns have rarely been reported in severe COVID. We adapted and tested the measurement properties of the proxy version of the Integrated Palliative care Outcome Scale–IPOS-COV for severe... Read More about Adaptation and multicentre validation of a patient-centred outcome scale for people severely ill with COVID (IPOS-COV).

Organic copolymer lasing from single defect microcavity fabricated using laser patterning (2023)
Journal Article
Claronino, P., Jayaprakash, R., Jessewitsch, T., Kilbride, R. C., Thornber, T., Muravitskaya, A., …Lidzey, D. G. (2023). Organic copolymer lasing from single defect microcavity fabricated using laser patterning. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, https://doi.org/10.1039/d2tc05360h

Reducing the lasing threshold in optically pumped organic lasers is a necessary component of the drive to develop an organic laser diode, as this may help mitigate the losses associated with electrical contacts and charge injection. In this study we... Read More about Organic copolymer lasing from single defect microcavity fabricated using laser patterning.

Faculty Development: Equipping teachers with the skills to assist students to develop their clinical reasoning and communication skills in patient consultations - an integrated approach (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hammond, A., & Lillicrap, M. (2023, March). Faculty Development: Equipping teachers with the skills to assist students to develop their clinical reasoning and communication skills in patient consultations - an integrated approach. Presented at UK Council of Clinical Communication National Conference, Manchester

This interactive and multimedia workshop will showcase an approach that integrates the teaching of communication and clinical reasoning skills, through observation and discussion.

· To consider the challenges teachers/tutors (experts) might face i... Read More about Faculty Development: Equipping teachers with the skills to assist students to develop their clinical reasoning and communication skills in patient consultations - an integrated approach.

Keynote - Integration of communication and clinical reasoning skills: Evolution of a medical school curriculum and reflections of a GP (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hammond, A. (2023, March). Keynote - Integration of communication and clinical reasoning skills: Evolution of a medical school curriculum and reflections of a GP. Presented at UK Conference for Clinical Communication in Undergraduate Medical Education: Developing the clinical communication curriculum, Manchester

Conference programme:
Anna will discuss the evolution of the HYMS curriculum (including the explicit teaching of clinical reasoning, and integration of the communication and clinical reasoning curricula) and reflect on the impact of her own practice... Read More about Keynote - Integration of communication and clinical reasoning skills: Evolution of a medical school curriculum and reflections of a GP.

Thermo-economic analysis of a novel partial cascade organic-steam Rankine cycle (2023)
Journal Article
Li, P., Qian, T., Li, J., Lin, H., Wang, Y., Pei, G., …Liu, D. (2023). Thermo-economic analysis of a novel partial cascade organic-steam Rankine cycle. Energy Conversion and Management, 283, Article 116941. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2023.116941

Conventional heat batteries and concentrated solar power systems adopt subcritical steam Rankine cycles (SRCs) to avoid the technical challenges of supercritical cycles. The water evaporation temperature of 310–337 °C and live steam pressure of 10–14... Read More about Thermo-economic analysis of a novel partial cascade organic-steam Rankine cycle.

Middle Jurassic terrestrial environmental and floral changes linked to volcanism: Evidence from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China (2023)
Journal Article
Zhang, P., Yang, M., Lu, J., Jiang, Z., Zhou, K., Liu, H., He, Z., Wang, Y., Bian, X., Shao, L., Hilton, J., & Bond, D. P. (2023). Middle Jurassic terrestrial environmental and floral changes linked to volcanism: Evidence from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China. Global and planetary change, 223, Article 104094. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2023.104094

The breakup of Pangaea and the rapid opening of the Ligurian and Central Atlantic oceans during the Middle Jurassic resulted in widespread volcanism accompanied by significant shifts in global environments, climates, and floras. Although major volcan... Read More about Middle Jurassic terrestrial environmental and floral changes linked to volcanism: Evidence from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China.

Nonpharmacological management of psychological distress in people with COPD (2023)
Journal Article
Volpato, E., Farver-Vestergaard, I., Brighton, L. J., Peters, J., Verkleij, M., Hutchinson, A., …von Leupoldt, A. (2023). Nonpharmacological management of psychological distress in people with COPD. European Respiratory Review, 32(167), Article 220170. https://doi.org/10.1183/16000617.0170-2022

Psychological distress is prevalent in people with COPD and relates to a worse course of disease. It often remains unrecognised and untreated, intensifying the burden on patients, carers and healthcare systems. Nonpharmacological management strategie... Read More about Nonpharmacological management of psychological distress in people with COPD.

Understanding sporting brands and entrepreneurship using netnography and social network analysis (2023)
Journal Article
Fenton, A., Parry, K. D., Ahmed, W., & Chadwick, S. (2023). Understanding sporting brands and entrepreneurship using netnography and social network analysis. International Journal of Technology Transfer and Commercialisation, 20(1), 141-162. https://doi.org/10.1504/ijttc.2023.129707

Social media offers a wealth of data to help inform and enlighten SMEs on a global scale. This study aims to demonstrate that data derived from social media networks can enhance entrepreneurship in SMEs, providing tools and guidance for entrepreneurs... Read More about Understanding sporting brands and entrepreneurship using netnography and social network analysis.

Organised crime - the cyber dimension (2023)
Book Chapter
Demetis, D. (2023). Organised crime - the cyber dimension. In B. Rider (Ed.), A Research Agenda for Organised Crime (177-194). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802201369.00014

This chapter reviews a few critical technological developments and reflects both on their trajectory and on the opportunities they harbour for novel forms of cyber-enabled criminality. While the future of organised crime remains forever out of grasp,... Read More about Organised crime - the cyber dimension.

Searching for continuous Gravitational Waves in the second data release of the International Pulsar Timing Array (2023)
Journal Article
Falxa, M., Babak, S., Baker, P. T., Bécsy, B., Chalumeau, A., Chen, S., …Collaboration, I. (2023). Searching for continuous Gravitational Waves in the second data release of the International Pulsar Timing Array. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 521(4), 5077-5086. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad812

The International Pulsar Timing Array 2nd data release is the combination of data sets from worldwide collaborations. In this study, we search for continuous waves: gravitational wave signals produced by individual supermassive black hole binaries in... Read More about Searching for continuous Gravitational Waves in the second data release of the International Pulsar Timing Array.

A discursive psychological examination of educators’ experiences of children with disabilities accessing the Internet: a role for digital resilience (2023)
Journal Article
Hammond, S. P., D'Arcy, J., Minott, M., & Krasniqi, E. (2023). A discursive psychological examination of educators’ experiences of children with disabilities accessing the Internet: a role for digital resilience. Information, Communication and Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118x.2023.2185103

Educators have an increasingly important role in supporting children with disabilities to connect with and through the Internet. Children with disabilities encounter more risks in connected environments than their peers. These risk experiences are li... Read More about A discursive psychological examination of educators’ experiences of children with disabilities accessing the Internet: a role for digital resilience.

The relationship between depressive symptoms and positive emotional anticipation of goal achievement (2023)
Journal Article
Anderson, R. J., Clayton McClure, J. H., Boland, J., Howe, D., Riggs, K. J., & Dewhurst, S. A. (2023). The relationship between depressive symptoms and positive emotional anticipation of goal achievement. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 14(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/20438087231164963

Depression is associated with difficulties in goal pursuit which could be related to deficits in emotional anticipation regarding goal success. Therefore, the reported study investigated emotional anticipation for personal goals and whether this diff... Read More about The relationship between depressive symptoms and positive emotional anticipation of goal achievement.

Searching for Supernovae in HETDEX Data Release 3 (2023)
Journal Article
Vinkó, J., Thomas, B. P., Wheeler, J. C., Ho, A. Y., Cooper, E. M., Gebhardt, K., …Sárneczky, K. (2023). Searching for Supernovae in HETDEX Data Release 3. The Astrophysical journal, 946(1), Article 31. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acbfa8

We have extracted 636 spectra taken at the positions of 583 transient sources from the third data release of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy eXperiment (HETDEX). The transients were discovered by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) during 2018... Read More about Searching for Supernovae in HETDEX Data Release 3.

Cognitive Benefits of Sodium-Glucose Co-Transporters-2 Inhibitors in the Diabetic Milieu (2023)
Journal Article
Yaribeygi, H., Maleki, M., Sathyapalan, T., Rizzo, M., & Sahebkar, A. (2024). Cognitive Benefits of Sodium-Glucose Co-Transporters-2 Inhibitors in the Diabetic Milieu. Current medicinal chemistry, 31(2), 138-151. https://doi.org/10.2174/0929867330666230202163513

Patients with diabetes are at higher risk of cognitive impairment and memory loss than the normal population. Thus, using hypoglycemic agents to improve brain function is important for diabetic patients. Sodium-glucose cotransporters-2 inhibitors (S-... Read More about Cognitive Benefits of Sodium-Glucose Co-Transporters-2 Inhibitors in the Diabetic Milieu.

A dynamic dendritic connectivity assessment tool for the planning and design of barrier mitigation strategies in river networks (2023)
Journal Article
King, M., van Zyll de Jong, M., & Cowx, I. G. (2023). A dynamic dendritic connectivity assessment tool for the planning and design of barrier mitigation strategies in river networks. Landscape Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-023-01627-9

Context: Increasing fragmentation of rivers caused by barriers continues to impact watersheds, especially disruption of fish migration patterns and loss of access to spawning and nursery habitats. Infrastructure expansion and ageing installations exa... Read More about A dynamic dendritic connectivity assessment tool for the planning and design of barrier mitigation strategies in river networks.

What are the information needs of people with dementia and their family caregivers when they are admitted to a mental health ward and do current ward patient information leaflets meet their needs? (2023)
Journal Article
Wolverson, E., Harrison Dening, K., Gower, Z., Brown, P., Cox, J., McGrath, V., …Prichard, J. (in press). What are the information needs of people with dementia and their family caregivers when they are admitted to a mental health ward and do current ward patient information leaflets meet their needs?. Health Expectations,

Introduction: An admission to a mental health ward is an uncertain and unexpected part of a person’s journey with dementia and consequently, families require information about what to expect and how to prepare. This study aimed to establish the infor... Read More about What are the information needs of people with dementia and their family caregivers when they are admitted to a mental health ward and do current ward patient information leaflets meet their needs?.