All Outputs (1301)

Sharing, supporting and sobriety: A qualitative analysis of messages posted to alcohol-related online discussion forums in the United Kingdom (2013)
Journal Article
Coulson, N. S. (2014). Sharing, supporting and sobriety: A qualitative analysis of messages posted to alcohol-related online discussion forums in the United Kingdom. Journal of Substance Use, 19(1-2), 176-180. https://doi.org/10.3109/14659891.2013.765516

Background: In recent years there has been an exponential growth in the number of people accessing online discussion forums for information, advice and support in relation to a range of both acute and chronic health issues. However, there has been li... Read More about Sharing, supporting and sobriety: A qualitative analysis of messages posted to alcohol-related online discussion forums in the United Kingdom.

Medicines use reviews: a potential resource or lost opportunity for general practice? (2013)
Journal Article
Latif, A., Pollock, K., & Boardman, H. F. (2013). Medicines use reviews: a potential resource or lost opportunity for general practice?. BMC Family Practice, 14, Article 57. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2296-14-57

Background: Patient non-adherence to medicines represents a significant waste of health resource and lost opportunity for health gain. Medicine management services are a key health policy strategy to encourage patients to take medicines as they are p... Read More about Medicines use reviews: a potential resource or lost opportunity for general practice?.

The forgotten smoker: a qualitative study of attitudes towards smoking, quitting, and tobacco control policies among continuing smokers (2013)
Journal Article
Uppal, N., Shahab, L., Britton, J., & Ratschen, E. (2013). The forgotten smoker: a qualitative study of attitudes towards smoking, quitting, and tobacco control policies among continuing smokers. BMC Public Health, 13(May), Article 9. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-13-432

Background: Although research suggests that the majority of smokers want to quit smoking, the uptake of Stop Smoking Services, designed to assist smokers with quitting, remains low. Little is known about continuing smokers who do not access these ser... Read More about The forgotten smoker: a qualitative study of attitudes towards smoking, quitting, and tobacco control policies among continuing smokers.

Providing activity for people with dementia in care homes: A cluster randomised controlled trial (2013)
Journal Article
Wenborn, J., Challis, D., Head, J., Miranda-Castillo, C., Popham, C., Thakur, R., …Orrell, M. (2013). Providing activity for people with dementia in care homes: A cluster randomised controlled trial. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 28(12), 1296-1304. https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.3960

Background: Activity levels remain low in care homes, but activity engagement can enhance residents' quality of life. Aim: This study aimed to assess an occupational therapy programme designed to enable care home staff to increase activity provision.... Read More about Providing activity for people with dementia in care homes: A cluster randomised controlled trial.

Inclusion or outcomes? Tensions in the involvement of people with learning disabilities in strategic planning (2013)
Journal Article
Fyson, R., & Fox, L. (2014). Inclusion or outcomes? Tensions in the involvement of people with learning disabilities in strategic planning. Disability and Society, 29(2), 239-254. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2013.776491

Social inclusion is a key principle that underpins the provision of services for people with learning disabilities in England. Learning Disability Partnership Boards, which are responsible for local strategic planning of learning disability services,... Read More about Inclusion or outcomes? Tensions in the involvement of people with learning disabilities in strategic planning.

Do spillovers matter when estimating private returns to R&D? (2013)
Journal Article
Eberhardt, M., Helmers, C., & Strauss, H. (2013). Do spillovers matter when estimating private returns to R&D?. Review of Economics and Statistics, 95(2), 436-448. https://doi.org/10.1162/REST_a_00272

A large body of literature estimates private returns to R&D adopting the Griliches knowledge production framework, which ignores the potential impact of spillovers on consistent estimation. Using a panel of twelve manufacturing industries across ten... Read More about Do spillovers matter when estimating private returns to R&D?.

Am I still not a man and a brother?: protest memory in contemporary antislavery visual culture (2013)
Journal Article
Trodd, Z. (2013). Am I still not a man and a brother?: protest memory in contemporary antislavery visual culture. Slavery and Abolition, 34(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/0144039X.2013.791172

This article examines the visual culture of the twenty-first century antislavery movement,
arguing that it adapts four main icons of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century abolitionism
for its contemporary campaigns against global slavery and human tra... Read More about Am I still not a man and a brother?: protest memory in contemporary antislavery visual culture.

Communication and Low Mood (CALM): a randomized controlled trial of behavioural therapy for stroke patients with aphasia (2013)
Journal Article
Thomas, S. A., Walker, M. F., Macniven, J. A., Haworth, H., & Lincoln, N. (2013). Communication and Low Mood (CALM): a randomized controlled trial of behavioural therapy for stroke patients with aphasia. Clinical Rehabilitation, 27(5), https://doi.org/10.1177/0269215512462227

Objective:
The aim was to evaluate behavioural therapy as a treatment for low mood in people with aphasia.

Design:
A randomized controlled trial comparing behavioural therapy plus usual care with a usual care control. Potential participants with... Read More about Communication and Low Mood (CALM): a randomized controlled trial of behavioural therapy for stroke patients with aphasia.

Talking about obesity with clients: preferred terms and communication styles of UK pre-registration dieticians, doctors and nurses (2013)
Journal Article
Swift, J. A., Choi, E., Puhl, R. M., & Glazebrook, C. (2013). Talking about obesity with clients: preferred terms and communication styles of UK pre-registration dieticians, doctors and nurses. Patient Education and Counseling, 91(2), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2012.12.008

Objective
To describe trainee healthcare professionals’ preferred terms when talking about obesity, their beliefs about initiating discussions about weight, and their confidence about consulting with obese people.

Methods
A self-completed questi... Read More about Talking about obesity with clients: preferred terms and communication styles of UK pre-registration dieticians, doctors and nurses.

Reconstructing the origin and dispersal patterns of village chickens across East Africa: insights from autosomal markers (2013)
Journal Article
Mwacharo, J., Nomura, K., Hanada, H., Han, J., Amano, T., & Hanotte, O. (2013). Reconstructing the origin and dispersal patterns of village chickens across East Africa: insights from autosomal markers. Molecular Ecology, 22(10), https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.12294

Unravelling the genetic history of any livestock species is central to understanding the origin, development and expansion of agricultural societies and economies. Domestic village chickens are widespread in Africa. Their close association with, and... Read More about Reconstructing the origin and dispersal patterns of village chickens across East Africa: insights from autosomal markers.

TEM study on the electrical discharge machined surface of single-crystal silicon (2013)
Journal Article
Murray, J., Fay, M., Kunieda, M., & Clare, A. (2013). TEM study on the electrical discharge machined surface of single-crystal silicon. Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 213(5), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmatprotec.2012.11.028

EDM is a useful process for machining high-aspect ratio features with good accuracy in electrically conductive materials irrespective of their mechanical properties. With the ability of micro-EDM to compete with the resolution of conventional semi-co... Read More about TEM study on the electrical discharge machined surface of single-crystal silicon.

Identifying the sources of the pulse artefact in EEG recordings made inside an MR scanner (2013)
Journal Article
Mullinger, K. J., Havenhand, J., & Bowtell, R. W. (2013). Identifying the sources of the pulse artefact in EEG recordings made inside an MR scanner. NeuroImage, 71(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.12.070

EEG recordings made during concurrent fMRI are confounded by the pulse artefact (PA), which although smaller than the gradient artefact is often more problematic because of its variability over multiple cardiac cycles. A better understanding of the P... Read More about Identifying the sources of the pulse artefact in EEG recordings made inside an MR scanner.

Classification tree for risk assessment in patients suffering from congestive heart failure via long-term heart rate variability (2013)
Journal Article
Melillo, P., De Luca, N., Bracale, M., & Pecchia, L. (2013). Classification tree for risk assessment in patients suffering from congestive heart failure via long-term heart rate variability. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 17(3), https://doi.org/10.1109/JBHI.2013.2244902

This study aims to develop an automatic classifier for risk assessment in patients suffering from congestive heart failure (CHF). The proposed classifier separates lower risk patients from higher risk ones, using standard long-term heart rate variabi... Read More about Classification tree for risk assessment in patients suffering from congestive heart failure via long-term heart rate variability.

Why do people fitted with hearing aids not wear them? (2013)
Journal Article
McCormack, A., & Fortnum, H. (2013). Why do people fitted with hearing aids not wear them?. International Journal of Audiology, 52(5), https://doi.org/10.3109/14992027.2013.769066

Objective: Age-related hearing loss is an increasingly important public health problem affecting approximately 40% of 55–74 year olds. The primary clinical management intervention for people with hearing loss is hearing aids, however, the majority (8... Read More about Why do people fitted with hearing aids not wear them?.

Occupational therapy predischarge home visits for patients with a stroke (HOVIS): results of a feasibility randomized controlled trial (2013)
Journal Article
Drummond, A., Whitehead, P., Fellows, K., Sprigg, N., Sampson, C. J., Edwards, C., & Lincoln, N. (2013). Occupational therapy predischarge home visits for patients with a stroke (HOVIS): results of a feasibility randomized controlled trial. Clinical Rehabilitation, 27(5), https://doi.org/10.1177/0269215512462145

Objective: To assess the feasibility of conducting a randomized controlled trial of occupational therapy predischarge home visits for people after stroke.
Design: Randomized controlled trial and cohort study. We randomized eligible patients for whom... Read More about Occupational therapy predischarge home visits for patients with a stroke (HOVIS): results of a feasibility randomized controlled trial.

The role of proton dynamics in the development and maintenance of multidrug resistance in cancer (2013)
Journal Article
Daniel, C., Bell, C., Burton, C., Harguindey, S., Reshkinc, S. J., & Rauch, C. (2013). The role of proton dynamics in the development and maintenance of multidrug resistance in cancer. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids, 1832(5), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbadis.2013.01.020

With a projected 382.4 per 100,000 people expected to suffer from some form of malignant neoplasm in 2015, improving treatment is an essential focus of cancer research today. Multi-drug resistance (MDR) is the leading cause of chemotherapeutic failur... Read More about The role of proton dynamics in the development and maintenance of multidrug resistance in cancer.

The communication of a secondary care diagnosis of autoimmune hepatitis to primary care practitioners: a population-based study (2013)
Journal Article
Varyani, F., Card, T. R., Kaye, P., Aithal, G. P., & West, J. (2013). The communication of a secondary care diagnosis of autoimmune hepatitis to primary care practitioners: a population-based study. BMC Health Services Research, 13(161), Article 161. https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-13-161

Background
Autoimmune Hepatitis is a chronic liver disease which affects young people and can result in liver failure leading to death or transplantation yet there is a lack of information on the incidence and prevalence of this disease and its natu... Read More about The communication of a secondary care diagnosis of autoimmune hepatitis to primary care practitioners: a population-based study.

Functional interplay of DnaE polymerase, DnaG primase and DnaC helicase within a ternary complex, and primase to polymerase hand-off during lagging strand DNA replication in Bacillus subtilis (2013)
Journal Article
Rannou, O., Le Chatelier, E., Larson, M. A., Nouri, H., Dalmais, B., Laughton, C., …Soultanas, P. (2013). Functional interplay of DnaE polymerase, DnaG primase and DnaC helicase within a ternary complex, and primase to polymerase hand-off during lagging strand DNA replication in Bacillus subtilis. Nucleic Acids Research, 41(10), https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkt207

Bacillus subtilis has two replicative DNA polymerases.
PolC is a processive high-fidelity replicative
polymerase, while the error-prone DnaEBs extends
RNA primers before hand-off to PolC at the lagging
strand. We show that DnaEBs interacts with t... Read More about Functional interplay of DnaE polymerase, DnaG primase and DnaC helicase within a ternary complex, and primase to polymerase hand-off during lagging strand DNA replication in Bacillus subtilis.

Baseline factors predicting change from the initial DMARD treatment during the first 2 years of rheumatoid arthritis: experience in the ERAN inception cohort (2013)
Journal Article
McWilliams, D. F., Kiely, P. D., Young, A., & Walsh, D. A. (2013). Baseline factors predicting change from the initial DMARD treatment during the first 2 years of rheumatoid arthritis: experience in the ERAN inception cohort. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 14(May), Article 7. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-14-153

Background
Outcomes in early Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) may be improved by rapidly establishing a stable and effective disease modifying anti-rheumatic drug (DMARD) treatment regimen. We aimed to investigate whether baseline factors and initial treat... Read More about Baseline factors predicting change from the initial DMARD treatment during the first 2 years of rheumatoid arthritis: experience in the ERAN inception cohort.

On the stress–force–fabric relationship for granular materials (2013)
Journal Article
Li, X., & Yu, H.-S. (2013). On the stress–force–fabric relationship for granular materials. International Journal of Solids and Structures, 50(9), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2012.12.023

This paper employed the theory of directional statistics to study the stress state of granular materials
from the particle scale. The work was inspired by the stress–force–fabric relationship proposed by Rothenburg
and Bathurst (1989), which repres... Read More about On the stress–force–fabric relationship for granular materials.