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Analysis of the profile, characteristics, patient experience and community value of community hospitals : a multimethod study (2019)
Journal Article

Background: Community hospitals have been part of England’s health-care landscape since the mid-nineteenth century. Evidence on them has not kept pace with their development.
Aim: To provide a comprehensive analysis of the profile, characteristics,... Read More about Analysis of the profile, characteristics, patient experience and community value of community hospitals : a multimethod study.

Smart tattoo : technology for monitoring blood glucose in the future (2019)
Journal Article
Meetoo, D., Wong, L., & Ochieng, B. (2019). Smart tattoo : technology for monitoring blood glucose in the future. British Journal of Nursing, 28(2), 110-115. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2019.28.2.110

New ways of measuring blood glucose bring hope of easing the burden of diabetes management for patients living with the conditions. The smart tattoo is an innovation that represents a nascent nanotechnology, which is designed to be implanted within t... Read More about Smart tattoo : technology for monitoring blood glucose in the future.

The conventional gait model, an open-source implementation that reproduces the past but prepares for the future (2019)
Journal Article
Leboeuf, F., Baker, R., Barré, A., Reay, J., Jones, R., & Sangeux, M. (2019). The conventional gait model, an open-source implementation that reproduces the past but prepares for the future. Gait & Posture, 69(Mar 19), 126-129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gaitpost.2019.01.034

Background: The Conventional Gait Model (CGM), known by a variety of different names, is widely used in clinical gait analysis. We present pyCGM2, an open-source implementation of the CGM with two versions. The first, CGM1.0, is a clone of Vicon Plug... Read More about The conventional gait model, an open-source implementation that reproduces the past but prepares for the future.

The consistency of superior face recognition skills in police officers (2019)
Journal Article
Bate, S., Frowd, C., Bennetts, R., Hasshim, N., Portch, E., Murray, E., & Dudfield, G. (2019). The consistency of superior face recognition skills in police officers. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 33(5), 828--842. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3525

In recent years, there has been increasing interest in people with superior face recognition skills. Yet identification of these individuals has mostly relied on criterion performance on a single attempt at a single measure of face memory. The curren... Read More about The consistency of superior face recognition skills in police officers.

The use of the political categories of Brexiter and Remainer in online comments about the EU referendum (2019)
Journal Article

In June 2016, the UK held a referendum on EU membership; 52% of those who voted, voted to leave, and 48% voted to remain. During the referendum campaign two identities emerged: ‘Brexiter’ and ‘Remainer’, which remained salient post-referendum. This s... Read More about The use of the political categories of Brexiter and Remainer in online comments about the EU referendum.

Cognitive factors are associated with disability and pain, but not fatigue among physiotherapy attendees with persistent pain and fatigue (2019)
Journal Article
Thompson, D., Antcliff, D., & Woby, S. (2020). Cognitive factors are associated with disability and pain, but not fatigue among physiotherapy attendees with persistent pain and fatigue. Physiotherapy, 106, 94-100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physio.2019.01.006

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Most research exploring the relationship between cognitive factors and pain, disability and fatigue in patients with persistent pain/fatigue has been performed in multi disciplinary environments. It is unclear whether these associations a... Read More about Cognitive factors are associated with disability and pain, but not fatigue among physiotherapy attendees with persistent pain and fatigue.

The Healthy Immigrant Effect: The role of educational selectivity in the good health of migrants (2019)
Journal Article
Ichou, M., & Wallace, M. (2019). The Healthy Immigrant Effect: The role of educational selectivity in the good health of migrants. #Journal not on list, 40, Article 4. https://doi.org/10.4054/demres.2019.40.4

Background: The Healthy Immigrant Effect (HIE) refers to the fact that recent migrants are in better health than the nonmigrant population in the host country. Central to explaining the HIE is the idea that migrants are positively selected in terms... Read More about The Healthy Immigrant Effect: The role of educational selectivity in the good health of migrants.

Coping with extremes, creating comfort: user experiences of ‘low-energy’ homes in Australia (2019)
Journal Article
Sherriff, G., Moore, T., Berry, S., Ambrose, A., Goodchild, B., & Maye-Banbury, A. (2019). Coping with extremes, creating comfort: user experiences of ‘low-energy’ homes in Australia. Energy Research and Social Science, 51, 44-54. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2018.12.008

Low- and zero-energy homes are core elements in transitioning the housing stock towards a more environmentally sustainable model that responds to concerns about climate change and the need for energy demand reduction. Whilst there is a growing body o... Read More about Coping with extremes, creating comfort: user experiences of ‘low-energy’ homes in Australia.