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Who should have a pre–discharge home assessment visit after a stroke? A qualitative study of occupational therapists' views (2014)
Journal Article
Whitehead, P. J., Fellows, K. R., Sprigg, N., Walker, M. F., & Drummond, A. E. (2014). Who should have a pre–discharge home assessment visit after a stroke? A qualitative study of occupational therapists' views. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 77(8), https://doi.org/10.4276/030802214X14071472109752

Introduction:
The number of patients who have a pre-discharge home assessment visit following a stroke has been reported to vary nationally. The purpose of this research was to explore the factors influencing occupational therapists' decisions to co... Read More about Who should have a pre–discharge home assessment visit after a stroke? A qualitative study of occupational therapists' views.

Comparison of the benefits of cochlear implantation versus contra-lateral routing of signal hearing aids in adult patients with single-sided deafness: study protocol for a prospective within-subject longitudinal trial (2014)
Journal Article
Kitterick, P. T., O’Donoghue, G. M., Edmondson-Jones, M., Marshall, A., Jeffs, E., Craddock, L., Riley, A., Green, K., O'Driscoll, M., Jiang, D., Nunn, T., Saeed, S., Aleksy, W., & Seeber, B. U. (2014). Comparison of the benefits of cochlear implantation versus contra-lateral routing of signal hearing aids in adult patients with single-sided deafness: study protocol for a prospective within-subject longitudinal trial. BMC Ear, Nose and Throat Disorders, 14, Article 7. https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6815-14-7

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Individuals with a unilateral severe-to-profound hearing loss, or single-sided deafness, report difficulty with listening in many everyday situations despite having access to well-preserved acoustic hearing in one ear. The standard of... Read More about Comparison of the benefits of cochlear implantation versus contra-lateral routing of signal hearing aids in adult patients with single-sided deafness: study protocol for a prospective within-subject longitudinal trial.

The Optimal Study: describing the key components of optimal health care delivery to UK care home residents: a research protocol (2014)
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Gordon, A. L., Goodman, C., Dening, T., Davies, S., Gladman, J. R., Bell, B. G., Zubair, M., Handley, M. J., Meyer, J., Bowman, C., Gage, H., Iliffe, S. R., Martin, F. C., Schneider, J., & Victor, C. (2014). The Optimal Study: describing the key components of optimal health care delivery to UK care home residents: a research protocol. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 15(9), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2014.06.011

Long term institutional care in the UK is provided by care homes. Residents have prevalent cognitive impairment and disability, have multiple diagnoses and are subject to polypharmacy. Prevailing models of healthcare provision - ad hoc, reactive and... Read More about The Optimal Study: describing the key components of optimal health care delivery to UK care home residents: a research protocol.

Temperature-ramped 129Xe spin-exchange optical pumping (2014)
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Nikolaou, P., Coffey, A. M., Barlow, M. J., Rosen, M. S., Goodson, B. M., & Chekmenev, E. Y. (2014). Temperature-ramped 129Xe spin-exchange optical pumping. Analytical Chemistry, 86(16), 8206-8212. https://doi.org/10.1021/ac501537w

We describe temperature-ramped spin-exchange optical pumping (TR-SEOP) in an automated high-throughput batch-mode 129Xe hyperpolarizer utilizing three key temperature regimes: (i) “hot”—where the 129Xe hyperpolarization rate is maximal, (ii) “warm”—w... Read More about Temperature-ramped 129Xe spin-exchange optical pumping.

Expression of Arginase I in Myeloid Cells Limits Control of Residual Disease after Radiation Therapy of Tumors in Mice (2014)
Journal Article
Crittenden, M. R., Savage, T., Cottam, B., Baird, J., Rodriguez, P. C., Newell, P., Young, K., Jackson, A. M., & Gough, M. J. (2014). Expression of Arginase I in Myeloid Cells Limits Control of Residual Disease after Radiation Therapy of Tumors in Mice. Radiation Research, 182(2), 182-190. https://doi.org/10.1667/rr13493.1

An accumulating body of evidence demonstrates that radiation therapy can generate adaptive immune responses that contribute to tumor control. However, in the absence of additional immune therapy, the adaptive immune response is insufficient to preven... Read More about Expression of Arginase I in Myeloid Cells Limits Control of Residual Disease after Radiation Therapy of Tumors in Mice.

The degree of acute descending control of spinal nociception in an area of primary hyperalgesia is dependent on the peripheral domain of afferent input (2014)
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Drake, R. A., Hulse, R. P., Lumb, B. M., & Donaldson, L. F. (2014). The degree of acute descending control of spinal nociception in an area of primary hyperalgesia is dependent on the peripheral domain of afferent input. Journal of Physiology, 592(16), 3611-3624. https://doi.org/10.1113/jphysiol.2013.266494

Descending controls of spinal nociceptive processing play a critical role in the development of inflammatory hyperalgesia. Acute peripheral nociceptor sensitization drives spinal sensitization and activates spino–supraspinal–spinal loops leading to d... Read More about The degree of acute descending control of spinal nociception in an area of primary hyperalgesia is dependent on the peripheral domain of afferent input.

Variations in the slope of the psychometric functions for speech intelligibility: a systematic survey (2014)
Journal Article
MacPherson, A., & Akeroyd, M. A. (2014). Variations in the slope of the psychometric functions for speech intelligibility: a systematic survey. Trends in Hearing, 18, https://doi.org/10.1177/2331216514537722

Although many studies have looked at the effects of different listening conditions on the intelligibility of speech, their analyses have often concentrated on changes to a single value on the psychometric function, namely, the threshold. Far less com... Read More about Variations in the slope of the psychometric functions for speech intelligibility: a systematic survey.

A shortened version of the Dementia Drivers’ Screening Assessment (2014)
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Lincoln, N., & Radford, K. A. (in press). A shortened version of the Dementia Drivers’ Screening Assessment. International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation, 21(6), https://doi.org/10.12968/ijtr.2014.21.6.268

Introduction: Cognitive tests are used to inform recommendations about the safety of people with dementia to continue driving. The Dementia Drivers’ Screening Assessment (DDSA) is a neuropsychological battery designed to assist in this process. Howev... Read More about A shortened version of the Dementia Drivers’ Screening Assessment.