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2% chlorhexidine gluconate aqueous versus 2% chlorhexidine gluconate in 70% isopropyl alcohol for skin disinfection prior to percutaneous central venous catheterisation: the ARCTIC randomised controlled feasibility trial (2023)
Journal Article
Clarke, P., Soe, A., Nichols, A., Harizaj, H., Webber, M. A., Linsell, L., …Heath, P. T. (2023). 2% chlorhexidine gluconate aqueous versus 2% chlorhexidine gluconate in 70% isopropyl alcohol for skin disinfection prior to percutaneous central venous catheterisation: the ARCTIC randomised controlled feasibility trial. Archives of Disease in Childhood. Fetal and Neonatal Edition, https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2023-325871

Objective: Catheter-related sepsis (CRS) is a major complication with significant morbidity and mortality. Evidence is lacking regarding the most appropriate antiseptic for skin disinfection before percutaneous central venous catheter (PCVC) insertio... Read More about 2% chlorhexidine gluconate aqueous versus 2% chlorhexidine gluconate in 70% isopropyl alcohol for skin disinfection prior to percutaneous central venous catheterisation: the ARCTIC randomised controlled feasibility trial.

Cost of the COVID-19 pandemic versus the cost-effectiveness of mitigation strategies in EU/UK/OECD: a systematic review (2023)
Journal Article
Vardavas, C., Zisis, K., Nikitara, K., Lagou, I., Marou, V., Aslanoglou, K., …Suk, J. E. (2023). Cost of the COVID-19 pandemic versus the cost-effectiveness of mitigation strategies in EU/UK/OECD: a systematic review. BMJ Open, 13(10), Article e077602. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-077602

OBJECTIVES: The economic burden of COVID-19 pandemic is substantial, with both direct and indirect costs playing a significant role. DESIGN: A systematic literature review was conducted to estimate the cost of the COVID-19 pandemic and the cost-effec... Read More about Cost of the COVID-19 pandemic versus the cost-effectiveness of mitigation strategies in EU/UK/OECD: a systematic review.

Spatial contextual cues that help predict how a target will accelerate can be used to guide interception (2023)
Journal Article
Crowe, E. M., Smeets, J. B., & Brenner, E. (2023). Spatial contextual cues that help predict how a target will accelerate can be used to guide interception. Journal of Vision, 23(12), Article 7. https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.23.12.7

Objects in one's environment do not always move at a constant velocity but often accelerate or decelerate. People are very poor at visually judging acceleration and normally make systematic errors when trying to intercept accelerating objects. If the... Read More about Spatial contextual cues that help predict how a target will accelerate can be used to guide interception.

The economic origins of government (2023)
Journal Article
Allen, R. C., Bertazzini, M. C., & Heldring, L. (2023). The economic origins of government. American Economic Review, 113(10), 2507-2545

We test between cooperative and extractive theories of the origins of government. We use river shifts in southern Iraq as a natural experiment, in a new archeological panel dataset. A shift away creates a local demand for a government to coordinate b... Read More about The economic origins of government.

“I got confused when they said ‘you’re a girl’”: Trans men’s life histories and the regulation of gender (2023)
Book Chapter
Zottola, A., Jones, L., Mullany, L., & Pilnick, A. (2023). “I got confused when they said ‘you’re a girl’”: Trans men’s life histories and the regulation of gender. In G. Brookes, & M. Chałupnik (Eds.), Masculinities and Discourses of Men's Health (249-271). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38407-3_10

In this chapter, we analyse autobiographical narratives written by young transgender men who were patients at a British gender identity clinic. The narratives were part of a clinical diagnostic process in which participants were asked by clinicians t... Read More about “I got confused when they said ‘you’re a girl’”: Trans men’s life histories and the regulation of gender.

Refugee education: a critical visual analysis (2023)
Journal Article
Mcintyre, J., Dixon, K., & Walton, E. (2023). Refugee education: a critical visual analysis. International Journal of Inclusive Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/13603116.2023.2274111

Refugee education has become an issue of national and international concern as the numbers of refugees rise globally. In a world where global issues such as forced migration are communicated and consumed through the visual mode, understanding how dis... Read More about Refugee education: a critical visual analysis.

Masculinities and Discourses of Men's Health (2023)
Book
Brookes, G., & Chałupnik, M. (Eds.). (2023). Masculinities and Discourses of Men's Health. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38407-3

This book brings together a collection of case studies that explore the relationship between health and masculinity. It covers various topics related to health, such as mental health, sexual health, eating disorders and coronavirus, and offers health... Read More about Masculinities and Discourses of Men's Health.

An analytical differential kinematics-based method for controlling tendon-driven continuum robots (2023)
Journal Article
Ba, W., Chang, J. C., Liu, J., Wang, X., Dong, X., & Axinte, D. (2024). An analytical differential kinematics-based method for controlling tendon-driven continuum robots. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 171, Article 104562. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2023.104562

Generic and high-performance feedback control is still challenging for tendon-driven continuum robots. Conventional model-based controllers, based on the piecewise constant curvature (PCC) assumption, explicitly require the arc parameters (bending an... Read More about An analytical differential kinematics-based method for controlling tendon-driven continuum robots.

How Supervisors Can Support Doctoral Students to Publish and Not Perish in Academia (2023)
Journal Article
Marson, J., & Ferris, K. (2023). How Supervisors Can Support Doctoral Students to Publish and Not Perish in Academia. Encyclopedia, 3(4), 1358-1372. https://doi.org/10.3390/encyclopedia3040097

“Publish or perish” is a term used for the culture adopted in universities, whereby academic members of staff, typically although not exclusively on research and teaching contracts, are re-quired to publish research. Minimum levels of quantity and qu... Read More about How Supervisors Can Support Doctoral Students to Publish and Not Perish in Academia.

Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of novel indanones derivatives as potent acetylcholinesterase/monoamine oxidase B inhibitors (2023)
Journal Article
Hu, Z., Zhou, S., Li, J., Li, X., Zhou, Y., Zhu, Z., …Liu, J. (2023). Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of novel indanones derivatives as potent acetylcholinesterase/monoamine oxidase B inhibitors. Future Medicinal Chemistry, 15(20), 1823-1841. https://doi.org/10.4155/fmc-2023-0206

Aim: Based on a multitarget design strategy, a series of novel indanone-1-benzyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridin hybrids were identified for the potential treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Results: These compounds exhibited significant inhibitory acti... Read More about Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of novel indanones derivatives as potent acetylcholinesterase/monoamine oxidase B inhibitors.

How Supervisors Can Support Doctoral Students to Publish and Not Perish in Academia (2023)
Journal Article
Marson, J., & Ferris, K. (2023). How Supervisors Can Support Doctoral Students to Publish and Not Perish in Academia. Encyclopedia, 3(4), 1358-1372. https://doi.org/10.3390/encyclopedia3040097

Definition
“Publish or perish” is a term used for the culture adopted in universities, whereby academic members of staff, typically although not exclusively on research and teaching contracts, are required to publish research. Minimum levels of quan... Read More about How Supervisors Can Support Doctoral Students to Publish and Not Perish in Academia.

Ethical challenges experienced by veterinary practitioners in relation to adverse events: Insights from a qualitative study (2023)
Journal Article
Gibson, J., Brennan, M. L., Oxtoby, C., Mossop, L., & White, K. (2023). Ethical challenges experienced by veterinary practitioners in relation to adverse events: Insights from a qualitative study. Veterinary Record, 193(12), Article e3601. https://doi.org/10.1002/vetr.3601

Background
Understanding ethical challenges experienced in relation to adverse events is necessary to inform strategies that optimise patient safety and practitioner wellbeing.

Methods
A qualitative exploration of UK veterinary practitioners’ ex... Read More about Ethical challenges experienced by veterinary practitioners in relation to adverse events: Insights from a qualitative study.

Death from mantle cell lymphoma limits sequential therapy, particularly after first relapse: Patterns of care and outcomes in a series from Australia and the United Kingdom (2023)
Journal Article
Minson, A., Hamad, N., Di Ciaccio, P., Talaulikar, D., Ku, M., Ratnasingam, S., Cheah, C., Yannakou, C. K., Bishton, M., Ng, Z. Y., Agrawal, S., McQuillan, A., Johnston, A., Choong, E., Wong, K., McQuillan, J., Beekman, A., Hawkes, E., & Dickinson, M. (2024). Death from mantle cell lymphoma limits sequential therapy, particularly after first relapse: Patterns of care and outcomes in a series from Australia and the United Kingdom. British Journal of Haematology, 204(2), 548-554. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjh.19179

Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) is a B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma characterised by a heterogeneous clinical course. Patients can often receive sequential treatments, yet these typically yield diminishing periods of disease control, raising questions about... Read More about Death from mantle cell lymphoma limits sequential therapy, particularly after first relapse: Patterns of care and outcomes in a series from Australia and the United Kingdom.

Applying regression tree analysis to explore willingness to reduce meat and adopt protein alternatives among Australia, China and the UK (2023)
Journal Article
Ford, H., Zhang, Y., Gould, J., Danner, L., Bastian, S. E., Ford, R., & Yang, Q. (2023). Applying regression tree analysis to explore willingness to reduce meat and adopt protein alternatives among Australia, China and the UK. Food Quality and Preference, 112, Article 105034. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2023.105034

The increasing global demand for meat causes additional environmental and food security issues. Adoption of a healthy and sustainable diet through the reduction of meat consumption may represent one approach to tackle these problems. An online survey... Read More about Applying regression tree analysis to explore willingness to reduce meat and adopt protein alternatives among Australia, China and the UK.

A particle-scale analysis of unload-reload hysteresis for normally consolidated kaolin (2023)
Journal Article
de Bono, J., & McDowell, G. (2023). A particle-scale analysis of unload-reload hysteresis for normally consolidated kaolin. Applied Clay Science, 246, Article 107190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clay.2023.107190

The mechanical behaviour of sands and clays subject to “normal” (plastic) compression are very similar, albeit at different stress levels, despite the differences in inter-particle interactions (Hertzian normal contact forces or similar for sand) and... Read More about A particle-scale analysis of unload-reload hysteresis for normally consolidated kaolin.

An integrated gene-to-outcome multimodal database for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (2023)
Journal Article
Kendall, T. J., Jimenez-Ramos, M., Turner, F., Ramachandran, P., Minnier, J., McColgan, M. D., …Fallowfield, J. A. (2023). An integrated gene-to-outcome multimodal database for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease. Nature Medicine, 29, 2939–2953. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-023-02602-2

Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is the commonest cause of chronic liver disease worldwide and represents an unmet precision medicine challenge. We established a retrospective national cohort of 940 histologically defi... Read More about An integrated gene-to-outcome multimodal database for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease.

A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY TO EXPLORE THE PRESCRIBING OF DRUGS WITH POTENTIAL DRUG GENE INTERACTIONS IN IRISH PRIMARY CARE (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Johnson, L., Youssef, E., O'Shea, J., Ledwidge, M., Thornley, T., Gallagher, J., & Ryan, C. (2023, October). A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY TO EXPLORE THE PRESCRIBING OF DRUGS WITH POTENTIAL DRUG GENE INTERACTIONS IN IRISH PRIMARY CARE. Poster presented at ESCP Aberdeen Symposium 2023: Innovations in Clinical Pharmacy Practice, Education and Research, Aberdeen, UK

Background and Objective: Pharmacogenetics (PGx) is being increasingly recognised as a strategy for medicines optimisation and prevention of adverse drug reactions. According to guidelines produced by the Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Cons... Read More about A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY TO EXPLORE THE PRESCRIBING OF DRUGS WITH POTENTIAL DRUG GENE INTERACTIONS IN IRISH PRIMARY CARE.

Applied Scenarios: Embedding Psychological Literacy in Assessment (2023)
Journal Article
Einav, S., Spence, A., Blackie, L. E., Cassidy, S., & Allen, H. A. (2024). Applied Scenarios: Embedding Psychological Literacy in Assessment. Psychology Learning and Teaching, 23(2), 224 - 234. https://doi.org/10.1177/14757257231209178

Psychological literacy refers to the ability of a psychology student to use psychological knowledge, rather than merely learn it, in the context of personal, social, and organizational issues. Embedding psychological literacy in assessment is a criti... Read More about Applied Scenarios: Embedding Psychological Literacy in Assessment.