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Plant gathering and people-environment interactions at Epipalaeolithic Kharaneh IV, Jordan (2021)
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Bode, L. J. K., Livarda, A., & Jones, M. D. (2021). Plant gathering and people-environment interactions at Epipalaeolithic Kharaneh IV, Jordan. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-021-00839-w

This paper presents the first archaeobotanical results on plant macroremains other than charcoal from the Early and Middle Epipalaeolithic site of Kharaneh IV in the Azraq basin, one of the largest Epipalaeolithic sites in the southern Levant and one... Read More about Plant gathering and people-environment interactions at Epipalaeolithic Kharaneh IV, Jordan.

Climatic and environmental change in the western Tibetan Plateau during the Holocene, recorded by lake sediments from Aweng Co (2021)
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Zhang, Y., Zhang, J., McGowan, S., Metcalfe, S., Jones, M., Leng, M. J., & Hou, J. (2021). Climatic and environmental change in the western Tibetan Plateau during the Holocene, recorded by lake sediments from Aweng Co. Quaternary Science Reviews, 259, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.106889

Understanding the strength and extent of the Asian summer monsoon (including the East Asian summer monsoon and the Indian summer monsoon) in the Tibetan Plateau (TP) region is crucial for predicting possible changes in the regional eco-environment an... Read More about Climatic and environmental change in the western Tibetan Plateau during the Holocene, recorded by lake sediments from Aweng Co.

Can ?18O help indicate the causes of recent lake area expansion on the western Tibetan Plateau? A case study from Aweng Co (2020)
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Zhang, Y., Jones, M., Zhang, J., McGowan, S., & Metcalfe, S. (2020). Can ?18O help indicate the causes of recent lake area expansion on the western Tibetan Plateau? A case study from Aweng Co. Journal of Paleolimnology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-020-00158-6

© 2020, Springer Nature B.V. Glacier-fed lakes on the Tibetan Plateau (TP) have undergone rapid expansions since the late 1990s, concurrent with the changing climate. However, the dominant cause(s) of lake area increases is still debated. To identify... Read More about Can ?18O help indicate the causes of recent lake area expansion on the western Tibetan Plateau? A case study from Aweng Co.

Evaluation of the effectiveness, implementation and cost-effectiveness of the Stay One Step Ahead home safety promotion intervention for pre-school children: a study protocol (2020)
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Orton, E., Watson, M., Hayes, M., Patel, T., Jones, M., Coupland, C., …Kendrick, D. (2020). Evaluation of the effectiveness, implementation and cost-effectiveness of the Stay One Step Ahead home safety promotion intervention for pre-school children: a study protocol. Injury Prevention, 26(6), 573-580. https://doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2020-043877

Background: Unintentional injuries in children under the age of 5 years commonly occur in the home and disproportionately affect those living in disadvantaged circumstances. Targeted home safety promotion should be offered to families most at risk bu... Read More about Evaluation of the effectiveness, implementation and cost-effectiveness of the Stay One Step Ahead home safety promotion intervention for pre-school children: a study protocol.

A randomised feasibility study assessing an intervention to keep adults physically active after falls management exercise programmes end (2020)
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Audsley, S., Kendrick, D., Logan, P., Jones, M., & Orton, E. (2020). A randomised feasibility study assessing an intervention to keep adults physically active after falls management exercise programmes end. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 6, Article 37. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-020-00570-9

Background: Physical inactivity contributes to disability and falls in older adults. Falls prevention exercise (FaME) programmes improve physical activity, physical function and reduce falling rates. Improvements in physical function reduce, and fall... Read More about A randomised feasibility study assessing an intervention to keep adults physically active after falls management exercise programmes end.

A major hydrobiological change in Dasht-e Arjan Wetland (SW Iran) during the late glacial-early Holocene transition revealed by subfossil chironomids (2019)
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Aubert, C., Djamali, M., Jones, M., Lahijani, H., Marriner, N., Naderi-Beni, A., …Gandouin, E. (2019). A major hydrobiological change in Dasht-e Arjan Wetland (SW Iran) during the late glacial-early Holocene transition revealed by subfossil chironomids. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 56(8), 848-856. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2018-0256

The late glacial-early Holocene transition is a key period in the Earth’s history. However, although this transition is well studied in Europe, it is not well constrained in the Middle East and palaeohydrological records with robust chronologies rema... Read More about A major hydrobiological change in Dasht-e Arjan Wetland (SW Iran) during the late glacial-early Holocene transition revealed by subfossil chironomids.

20,000 years of societal vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in southwest Asia (2019)
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Jones, M., Abu-Jaber, N., AlShdaifat, A., Baird, D., Cook, B. I., Cuthbert, M. O., …Weeks, L. (2019). 20,000 years of societal vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in southwest Asia. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 6(2), https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1330

The Fertile Crescent, its hilly flanks and surrounding drylands has been a critical region for studying how climate has influenced societal change, and this review focuses on the region over the last 20,000 years. The complex social, economic and env... Read More about 20,000 years of societal vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in southwest Asia.

A 6,000-year record of environmental change from the eastern Pacific margin of central Mexico (2018)
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Davies, S. J., Metcalfe, S. E., Aston, B. J., Byrne, A. R., Champagne, M. R., Jones, M. D., …Noren, A. (2018). A 6,000-year record of environmental change from the eastern Pacific margin of central Mexico. Quaternary Science Reviews, 202, 211-224. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.11.008

The transition from the mid- to late-Holocene in MesoAmerica saw increasing complexity in spatial patterns of change. Records from the western part of the region are sparse, with lacustrine sequences affected by long term anthropogenic disturbance or... Read More about A 6,000-year record of environmental change from the eastern Pacific margin of central Mexico.

Global-scale proxy system modeling of oxygen isotopes in lacustrine carbonates: 2 new insights from isotope-enabled-model proxy-data comparison (2018)
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Jones, M. D., & Dee, S. G. (2018). Global-scale proxy system modeling of oxygen isotopes in lacustrine carbonates: 2 new insights from isotope-enabled-model proxy-data comparison. Quaternary Science Reviews, 202, 19-29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.09.009

Proxy System Modelling (PSM) is now recognised as a crucial step in comparing climate model output with proxy records of past environmental change. PSMs filter the climate signal from the model, or from meteorological data, based on the physical, che... Read More about Global-scale proxy system modeling of oxygen isotopes in lacustrine carbonates: 2 new insights from isotope-enabled-model proxy-data comparison.

A dynamic, modifiable model for estimating cost-effectiveness of smoking cessation interventions in pregnancy: application to an RCT of self-help delivered by text message (2018)
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Jones, M., Smith, M., Lewis, S., Parrott, S., & Coleman, T. (2019). A dynamic, modifiable model for estimating cost-effectiveness of smoking cessation interventions in pregnancy: application to an RCT of self-help delivered by text message. Addiction, 114(2), 353-365. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.14476

Background/Aims: Previous evaluations of smoking cessation interventions in pregnancy have several limitations. Our solution to these limitations is the Economics of Smoking in Pregnancy (ESIP) model which estimates the lifetime cost-effectiveness of... Read More about A dynamic, modifiable model for estimating cost-effectiveness of smoking cessation interventions in pregnancy: application to an RCT of self-help delivered by text message.

Quantitative reconstruction of early Holocene ad last glacial climate on the Balkan Peninsula using coupled hydrlogical and isotope mass balance modelling (2018)
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Lacey, J. H., & Jones, M. D. (2018). Quantitative reconstruction of early Holocene ad last glacial climate on the Balkan Peninsula using coupled hydrlogical and isotope mass balance modelling. Quaternary Science Reviews, 202, 109-121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.09.007

We investigate the modern hydrology of Lake Ohrid (Macedonia/Albania) using a combined hydrological and isotope-based modelling approach and present a new evaluation of contemporary water balance and palaeoclimate estimates. The combined model is ab... Read More about Quantitative reconstruction of early Holocene ad last glacial climate on the Balkan Peninsula using coupled hydrlogical and isotope mass balance modelling.

Regional versus local drivers of water quality in the Windermere catchment, Lake District, United Kingdom: The dominant influence of wastewater pollution over the past 200 years (2018)
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Moorhouse, H. L., McGowan, S., Taranu, Z. E., Gregory-Eaves, I., Leavitt, P. R., Jones, M. D., …Brayshaw, S. A. (2018). Regional versus local drivers of water quality in the Windermere catchment, Lake District, United Kingdom: The dominant influence of wastewater pollution over the past 200 years. Global Change Biology, 24(9), 4009-4022. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14299

© 2018 The Authors. Global Change Biology Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd Freshwater ecosystems are threatened by multiple anthropogenic stressors acting over different spatial and temporal scales, resulting in toxic algal blooms, reduced water... Read More about Regional versus local drivers of water quality in the Windermere catchment, Lake District, United Kingdom: The dominant influence of wastewater pollution over the past 200 years.

Lake Baikal isotope records of Holocene Central Asian precipitation (2018)
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Swann, G. E., Mackay, A. W., Vologina, E., Jones, M. D., Panizzo, V., Leng, M. J., …Sturm, M. (2018). Lake Baikal isotope records of Holocene Central Asian precipitation. Quaternary Science Reviews, 189, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.04.013

Climate models currently provide conflicting predictions of future climate change across Central Asia. With concern over the potential for a change in water availability to impact communities and ecosystems across the region, an understanding of hist... Read More about Lake Baikal isotope records of Holocene Central Asian precipitation.

Uptake of Tailored Text Message Smoking Cessation Support in Pregnancy When Advertised on the Internet (MiQuit): Observational Study (2018)
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Emery, J., Coleman, T., Sutton, S., Cooper, S., Leonardi-Bee, J., Jones, M. D., & Naughton, F. (2018). Uptake of Tailored Text Message Smoking Cessation Support in Pregnancy When Advertised on the Internet (MiQuit): Observational Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 20(4), Article e146. https://doi.org/10.2196/jmir.8525

Background: Smoking in pregnancy is a major public health concern. Pregnant smokers are particularly difficult to reach, with low uptake of support options and few effective interventions. Text message–based self-help is a promising, low-cost interve... Read More about Uptake of Tailored Text Message Smoking Cessation Support in Pregnancy When Advertised on the Internet (MiQuit): Observational Study.

Systematic review and meta-analysis to assess the safety of Buproprion and Varenicline in pregnancy (2018)
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Turner, E., Coleman, T., Jones, M., & Vaz, L. (2018). Systematic review and meta-analysis to assess the safety of Buproprion and Varenicline in pregnancy. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 21(8), 1001–1010. https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/nty055

Introduction: Smoking in pregnancy is a substantial public health issue, but, apart from nicotine replacement therapy (NRT), pharmacological therapies are not generally used to promote cessation. Bupropion and varenicline are effective cessation meth... Read More about Systematic review and meta-analysis to assess the safety of Buproprion and Varenicline in pregnancy.

Estimating the healthcare costs of children born to pregnant smokers in England: cohort study using primary and secondary healthcare data (2018)
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Vaz, L. R., Jones, M. J., Szatkowski, L., Tata, L. J., Petrou, S., & Coleman, T. (2018). Estimating the healthcare costs of children born to pregnant smokers in England: cohort study using primary and secondary healthcare data. Addiction, 113(7), 1305-1316. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.14183

Background and aims: Little is known about the long term economic consequences of smoking during pregnancy. We estimated the association between smoking in pregnancy and the costs of delivering healthcare to infants and children in England, and inves... Read More about Estimating the healthcare costs of children born to pregnant smokers in England: cohort study using primary and secondary healthcare data.

Seasonality of Holocene hydroclimate in the Eastern Mediterranean reconstructed using the oxygen isotope composition of carbonates and diatoms from Lake Nar, central Turkey (2017)
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Dean, J. R., Jones, M. D., Leng, M. J., Metcalfe, S. E., Sloane, H. J., Eastwood, W. J., & Roberts, C. N. (2018). Seasonality of Holocene hydroclimate in the Eastern Mediterranean reconstructed using the oxygen isotope composition of carbonates and diatoms from Lake Nar, central Turkey. Holocene, 28(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683617721326

A positive shift in the oxygen isotope composition (?18O) of lake carbonates in the Eastern Mediterranean from the early to late Holocene is usually interpreted as a change to drier (reduced P/E) conditions. However, it has also been suggested that c... Read More about Seasonality of Holocene hydroclimate in the Eastern Mediterranean reconstructed using the oxygen isotope composition of carbonates and diatoms from Lake Nar, central Turkey.