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Impact of body part thickness on AP pelvis radiographic image quality and effective dose (2018)
Journal Article

Introduction: Within medical imaging variations in patient size can generate challenges, especially when selecting appropriate acquisition parameters. This experiment sought to evaluate the impact of increasing body part thickness on image quality (... Read More about Impact of body part thickness on AP pelvis radiographic image quality and effective dose.

Critical exploration of the new NMC future nurse : standards of proficiency for registered nurses (2018)
Journal Article

Introduction
Following a two year process that included consulting and working alongside key stakeholder groups such as students, educators, healthcare professionals, charities and patient groups from across the UK, The Nursing and Midwifery Coun... Read More about Critical exploration of the new NMC future nurse : standards of proficiency for registered nurses.

Defining significant childhood illness and injury in the emergency department : a consensus of UK and Ireland expert opinion (2018)
Journal Article

Background: Clarifying whether paediatric early warning scores (PEWS) accurately predict significant illness is a research priority for UK and Ireland paediatric emergency medicine (EM). However, a standardised list of significant conditions to bench... Read More about Defining significant childhood illness and injury in the emergency department : a consensus of UK and Ireland expert opinion.

Sanctuary to sanction : asylum seekers, refugees and welfare conditionality in the UK (2018)
Journal Article

Successive UK Governments have introduced a raft of legislation that has reduced
the level of support for asylum seekers, whilst simultaneously attaching conditions
to the receipt of this support. While refugee status brings people into the mainstr... Read More about Sanctuary to sanction : asylum seekers, refugees and welfare conditionality in the UK.

The perceived psychological responsibilities of a strength and conditioning coach (2018)
Journal Article
Radcliffe, J., Comfort, P., & Fawcett, T. (2018). The perceived psychological responsibilities of a strength and conditioning coach. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 32(10), 2853-2862. https://doi.org/10.1519/JSC.0000000000001656

Research is limited in exploring the specific psychology-oriented responsibilities of the strength and conditioning professional. The present research explored the psychological responsibilities adopted by accredited strength and conditioning coaches... Read More about The perceived psychological responsibilities of a strength and conditioning coach.

Evaluation of the Everybody Can Programme (Active Tameside) (2018)
Other
Cooper-Ryan, A., Coffey, M., & Lambert, S. (2018). Evaluation of the Everybody Can Programme (Active Tameside). Salford, UK

Trial type mixing substantially reduces the response set effect in the Stroop task (2018)
Journal Article
Hasshim, N., & Parris, B. A. (2018). Trial type mixing substantially reduces the response set effect in the Stroop task. Acta psychologica, 189, 43--53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2017.03.002

The response set effect refers to the finding that an irrelevant incongruent colour-word produces greater interference when it is one of the response options (referred to as a response set trial), compared to when it is not (a non-response set trial)... Read More about Trial type mixing substantially reduces the response set effect in the Stroop task.

Emergent imaginaries : place, struggle and survival (2018)
Book Chapter
Gibbons, A. (2018). Emergent imaginaries : place, struggle and survival. In C. Lindner, & M. Meissner (Eds.), Routledge Companion to Urban Imaginaries. Routledge

This chapter looks at the emergent urban imaginaries implicit and explicit in three national US struggles around place engaged in by poor and working-class communities and communities of color. This examination of key urban movements for survival its... Read More about Emergent imaginaries : place, struggle and survival.

Conversational competence as 'construalistic' activity (2018)
Journal Article
Philburn, R. (2018). Conversational competence as 'construalistic' activity. Journal of International Scientific Publications : Language, Individual & Society (Online), 12, 1-8

This paper builds on the previously advanced notion of the 'conversational construal', that is, the degree to which persons overlap with or differentiate from each other based on their conversational contributions. Specifically, the paper explores th... Read More about Conversational competence as 'construalistic' activity.

Invitation to Chair- Children's Services Briefing: Overcoming Leadership Challenges in Children’s Social Care, 27th September, 2018, Central London (2018)
Other

A novel method for comparing radiation dose and image quality, between and within different X-ray units in a series of hospitals (2018)
Journal Article

Objectives: To develop a novel method for comparing radiation dose and image quality (IQ) to evaluate adult chest X-ray (CXR) imaging among several hospitals.
Methods: CDRAD 2.0 phantom was used to acquire images in eight hospitals (17 digital X-r... Read More about A novel method for comparing radiation dose and image quality, between and within different X-ray units in a series of hospitals.

Liberalism, lack and living the dream : re-considering youth, consumer sovereignty and the attractions of night-time leisure in Magaluf (2018)
Journal Article
Ellis, A., Briggs, D., Winlow, S., Silva Esquinas, A., Cordero Verdugo, R., & Ramiro Perez Suarez, J. (2018). Liberalism, lack and living the dream : re-considering youth, consumer sovereignty and the attractions of night-time leisure in Magaluf. Journal of Extreme Anthropology, 2(2), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.5617/jea.6446

Much of the academic literature on alcohol-based leisure focuses on the pleasures of hedonism and youthful cultural exploration in environments free from the prescriptions, pressures and routines of everyday life. In this article – in which we presen... Read More about Liberalism, lack and living the dream : re-considering youth, consumer sovereignty and the attractions of night-time leisure in Magaluf.

Mobile augmented reality in nursing educational environments (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Quqandi, E., Joy, M., Rushton, M., & Drumm, I. (2018, September). Mobile augmented reality in nursing educational environments. Presented at 10th Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CEEC), Colchester, UK

The possibility of using Augmented Reality (AR) in
learning and training has become more straightforward than
before, as a result of the extensive use of Information and
Communication Technologies (ICT) in the computer and mobile
industries. Even... Read More about Mobile augmented reality in nursing educational environments.

A generalizable methodology for stability assessment of walking aid users (2018)
Thesis
Costamagna, E. (in press). A generalizable methodology for stability assessment of walking aid users. (Thesis). University of Salford

Walking aids (WAs) aim to improve stability and are used by up to 50% of older Europeans. Paradoxically, their use has been linked to a 2-3-fold increase in the risk of falling. The reasons of this association are unknown, indeed WA use remains poorl... Read More about A generalizable methodology for stability assessment of walking aid users.

Refining and testing the diagnostic accuracy of an assessment tool (PAT-POPS) to predict admission and discharge of children and young people who attend an emergency department : protocol for an observational study (2018)
Journal Article
observational study. BMC Pediatrics, 18(303), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12887-018-1268-7

Background: Increasing attendances by children (aged 0–16 years) to United Kingdom Emergency Departments (EDs) challenges patient safety within the National Health Service (NHS) with health professionals required to make complex judgements on whether... Read More about Refining and testing the diagnostic accuracy of an assessment tool (PAT-POPS) to predict admission and discharge of children and young people who attend an emergency department : protocol for an observational study.

Environmental responsibility in hospital care : findings from a qualitative study (2018)
Journal Article
Kallio, H., Pietilä, A., Johnson, M., & Kangasniemi, M. (2018). Environmental responsibility in hospital care : findings from a qualitative study. Journal of Hospital Administration, 7(5), 56. https://doi.org/10.5430/jha.v7n5p56

Objective: To identify the key elements of environmental responsibility in hospital care and the stakeholders involved.
Background: Hospital care causes a significant global environmental burden, which threatens human health and wellbeing. Environm... Read More about Environmental responsibility in hospital care : findings from a qualitative study.

Construction and validation of a low cost paediatric pelvis phantom (2018)
Journal Article
Ali, M., Hogg, P., Johansen, S., & England, A. (2018). Construction and validation of a low cost paediatric pelvis phantom. European Journal of Radiology, 108, 84-91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrad.2018.09.015

PURPOSE: Imaging phantoms can be cost prohibitive, therefore a need exists to produce low cost alternatives which are fit for purpose. This paper describes the development and validation of a low cost paediatric pelvis phantom based on the anatomy o... Read More about Construction and validation of a low cost paediatric pelvis phantom.

A three arm cluster randomised controlled trial to test the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the SMART work & life intervention for reducing daily sitting time in office workers : study protocol (2018)
Journal Article

Background: Office-based workers typically spend 70-85% of working hours, and a large proportion of leisure time, sitting. High levels of sitting have been linked to poor health. There is a need for fully powered randomised controlled trials (RCTs) w... Read More about A three arm cluster randomised controlled trial to test the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the SMART work & life intervention for reducing daily sitting time in office workers : study protocol.

Special theme article : science and sociology of footwear (2018)
Journal Article
Williams, A. (2018). Special theme article : science and sociology of footwear. Journal of Foot and Ankle Research, 11(52), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13047-018-0293-y

Journal editorial.

Parent’s experiences of their child’s withdrawal syndrome: a driver for reciprocal nurse-parent partnership in withdrawal assessment (2018)
Journal Article
reciprocal nurse-parent partnership in withdrawal assessment. Intensive and Critical Care Nursing, 50, 71-78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iccn.2018.09.001

Withdrawal assessment in critically ill children is complicated by the reliance on non-specific behaviours
and compounded when the child’s typical behaviours are unknown. The existing approach to withdrawal
assessment assumes that nurses elicit the... Read More about Parent’s experiences of their child’s withdrawal syndrome: a driver for reciprocal nurse-parent partnership in withdrawal assessment.