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Midwife-moderated social media groups as a validated information source for women during pregnancy (2020)
Journal Article
McCarthy, R., Byrne, G., Brettle, A., Choucri, L., Ormandy, P., & Chatwin, J. (2020). Midwife-moderated social media groups as a validated information source for women during pregnancy. Midwifery, 88, 102710. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2020.102710

Background Widespread use of the internet has fundamentally altered the way people access health information and communicate with health providers. Pregnant women are a group who are particularly highly motivated to seek out information online. H... Read More about Midwife-moderated social media groups as a validated information source for women during pregnancy.

Practice improves court-mobility and self-efficacy in tennis-specific wheelchair propulsion (2020)
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Sindall, P., Lenton, J., Mason, B., Tolfrey, K., Cooper, R., Martin Ginis, K., & Goosey-Tolfrey, V. (2021). Practice improves court-mobility and self-efficacy in tennis-specific wheelchair propulsion. Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, 16(4), 398-406. https://doi.org/10.1080/17483107.2020.1761892

Purpose: Wheelchair tennis (WT) chair propulsion is uniquely characterised by the requirement for racket-holding coupled with effective hand-rim contact. Thus, investigations involving strategies to enhance chair mobility skills are merited. The aim... Read More about Practice improves court-mobility and self-efficacy in tennis-specific wheelchair propulsion.

Larger portions make me eat more : awareness of the external factors that influence food intake (2020)
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that influence food intake. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/8befm

There is consistent evidence that the amount of food people consume can be influenced by external factors, such as food portion size or the amount of food others are eating. However research studies to date have suggested that people are generally un... Read More about Larger portions make me eat more : awareness of the external factors that influence food intake.

Disentangling syntactic, semantic and pragmatic impairments in ASD : elicited production of passives (2020)
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Ambridge, B., Bidgood, A., & Thomas, K. (2021). Disentangling syntactic, semantic and pragmatic impairments in ASD : elicited production of passives. Journal of Child Language, 48(1), 184-201. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000920000215

Children with ASD and an IQ-matched control group of typically developing (TD) children completed an elicited-production task which encouraged the production of reversible passive sentences (e.g., “Bob was hit by Wendy”). Although the two groups show... Read More about Disentangling syntactic, semantic and pragmatic impairments in ASD : elicited production of passives.

Effect of biomechanical footwear on knee pain in people with knee osteoarthritis : the BIOTOK randomized clinical trial (2020)
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Reichenbach, S., Felson, D., Hincapié, C., Heldner, S., Bütikofer, L., Lenz, A., …Jüni, P. (2020). Effect of biomechanical footwear on knee pain in people with knee osteoarthritis : the BIOTOK randomized clinical trial. Journal of the American Medical Association, 323(18), 1802-1812. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2020.3565

Importance: Individually calibrated biomechanical footwear therapy may improve pain and physical function in people with symptomatic knee osteoarthritis, but the benefits of this therapy are unclear. Objective: To assess the effect of a biomechan... Read More about Effect of biomechanical footwear on knee pain in people with knee osteoarthritis : the BIOTOK randomized clinical trial.

Using e-cigarettes for smoking cessation : evaluation of a pilot project in the North West of England (2020)
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Coffey, M., Cooper-Ryan, A., Houston, L., Thompson, K., & Cook, P. (2020). Using e-cigarettes for smoking cessation : evaluation of a pilot project in the North West of England. Perspectives in Public Health, 140(6), 351-361. https://doi.org/10.1177/1757913920912436

Aims: E-cigarettes have been advocated as an effective smoking cessation intervention, with evidence indicating that they are substantially less harmful than conventional cigarettes. As a result, a pilot to encourage people to swap from conventional... Read More about Using e-cigarettes for smoking cessation : evaluation of a pilot project in the North West of England.

Stuck at home in a cold home : the implications of Covid-19 for the fuel poor (2020)
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Aimee, A., Baker, W., Brierley, J., Butler, D., Marchand, R., & Sherriff, A. (2020). Stuck at home in a cold home : the implications of Covid-19 for the fuel poor. People, Place and Policy, 14(1), 2-5. https://doi.org/10.3351/ppp.2020.3447683949

Policies to address the impact of Covid-19 on low income energy consumers have rightly focussed on energy bills, particularly in the context of home confinement and increased energy consumption. In the longer term, however, we need policies to improv... Read More about Stuck at home in a cold home : the implications of Covid-19 for the fuel poor.

The contribution of commuting to total daily moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (2020)
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Gbadamosi, A., Clarke-Cornwell, A., Sindall, P., & Granat, M. (2020). The contribution of commuting to total daily moderate-to-vigorous physical activity. Journal for the Measurement of Physical Behaviour, 3(3), 189-196. https://doi.org/10.1123/jmpb.2019-0027

Background: Actively commuting to and from work can increase moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) and increase adherence to physical activity (PA) guidelines; however, there is a lack of evidence on the contribution of mixed-mode commutes an... Read More about The contribution of commuting to total daily moderate-to-vigorous physical activity.

Training with weightlifting derivatives : the effects of force and velocity overload stimuli (2020)
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Suchomel, T., McKeever, S., & Comfort, P. (2020). Training with weightlifting derivatives : the effects of force and velocity overload stimuli. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 34(7), 1808-1818. https://doi.org/10.1519/JSC.0000000000003639

The purposes of this study were to compare the training effects of weightlifting movements performed with (CATCH) or without (PULL) the catch phase of clean derivatives performed at the same relative loads or training without the catch phase using a... Read More about Training with weightlifting derivatives : the effects of force and velocity overload stimuli.

Mass incarceration and neoliberal penality : a response to Lloyd and Whitehead’s Kicked to the Curb (2020)
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Cummins, I. (2020). Mass incarceration and neoliberal penality : a response to Lloyd and Whitehead’s Kicked to the Curb. International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice, 62, 100408. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlcj.2020.100408

This paper is written in response to Lloyd and Whitehead’s (2018) Kicked to the Curb: The triangular trade of neoliberal polity, social insecurity, and penal expul-sion. Using the “triangular trade” that underpinned chattel slavery as an analytical m... Read More about Mass incarceration and neoliberal penality : a response to Lloyd and Whitehead’s Kicked to the Curb.

Effects of metatarsal domes on plantar pressures in older people with a history of forefoot pain (2020)
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Landorf, K., Ackland, C., Bonanno, D., Menz, H., & Forghany, S. (2020). Effects of metatarsal domes on plantar pressures in older people with a history of forefoot pain. Journal of Foot and Ankle Research, 13(1), 18. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13047-020-00388-x

Background: Forefoot pads such as metatarsal domes are commonly used in clinical practice for the treatment of pressure-related forefoot pain, however evidence for their effects is inconsistent. This study aimed to evaluate the effects on plantar pre... Read More about Effects of metatarsal domes on plantar pressures in older people with a history of forefoot pain.

Comparison of two Meglumine-Diatrizoate based bowel preparations for computed tomography colonography : comparison of patient symptoms and bowel preparation quality (2020)
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Wilson, S., & Thompson, J. (2020). Comparison of two Meglumine-Diatrizoate based bowel preparations for computed tomography colonography : comparison of patient symptoms and bowel preparation quality. Radiography, 26(4), e290-e296. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radi.2020.04.007

Introduction To investigate the impact of two Meglumine-Diatrizoate based bowel preparation regimes for computed tomography colonography (CTC) on the patient experience and image quality. Methods 100 patients consumed Meglumine-Diatrizoate at 2... Read More about Comparison of two Meglumine-Diatrizoate based bowel preparations for computed tomography colonography : comparison of patient symptoms and bowel preparation quality.

Time does tell : an analysis of observable audience responses from the 2016 American presidential campaigns (2020)
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Goode, E., & Bull, P. (2020). Time does tell : an analysis of observable audience responses from the 2016 American presidential campaigns. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 8(1), 368-387. https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v8i1.953

In this study a microanalysis of OAR (Observable Audience Responses) in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election was conducted. OAR were coded into dimensions including response rate (frequency per minute), response type, and categorised as either a unita... Read More about Time does tell : an analysis of observable audience responses from the 2016 American presidential campaigns.

Supportive strategies for men who perform a care role : an occupational perspective (2020)
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Davys, D., & Collins, T. (2020). Supportive strategies for men who perform a care role : an occupational perspective. International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation, 27(5), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.12968/ijtr.2018.0133

Background/Aim: Health and social care practitioners often work alongside care givers. The aim of this study is consider commonality in the experience of being a male caregiver from specific perspectives utilising secondary analysis of research relat... Read More about Supportive strategies for men who perform a care role : an occupational perspective.

Consideration of the ‘cooling off period’ as part of the consent process (2020)
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Kelso, K. (2020). Consideration of the ‘cooling off period’ as part of the consent process. Journal of Aesthetic Nursing, 9(4), 166-167. https://doi.org/10.12968/joan.2020.9.4.166

Kate Kelso, in conjunction with Tracey Bell Education and ICE Postgraduate Dental Institute, provides an insight into the cooling off period and what the guidance regarding this suggests in regard to non-surgical aesthetic treatments

The effect of training with weightlifting catching or pulling derivatives on squat jump and countermovement jump force–time adaptations (2020)
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Suchomel, T., McKeever, S., McMahon, J., & Comfort, P. (2020). The effect of training with weightlifting catching or pulling derivatives on squat jump and countermovement jump force–time adaptations. Journal of Functional Morphology and Kinesiology, 5(2), 28. https://doi.org/10.3390/jfmk5020028

The purpose of this study was to examine the changes in squat jump (SJ) and countermovement jump (CMJ) force−time curve characteristics following 10 weeks of training with either load-matched weightlifting catching (CATCH) or pulling derivatives (PUL... Read More about The effect of training with weightlifting catching or pulling derivatives on squat jump and countermovement jump force–time adaptations.

The confluence of us : creative-relational (love) making of gay men's identities (2020)
Journal Article
Rodriguez-Dorans, E. (2020). The confluence of us : creative-relational (love) making of gay men's identities. Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, 9(2), 103-113. https://doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2020.9.2.103

This essay explores gay men's identities as processes of creative-relational construction of the self. I problematize the common sex-centered conception of being gay as “I am gay because I have sex with men.” Bringing together Paul Ricœur's work on i... Read More about The confluence of us : creative-relational (love) making of gay men's identities.

A comparison of kinetic and kinematic variables during the midthigh pull and countermovement shrug, across loads (2020)
Journal Article
Meechan, D., Suchomel, T., McMahon, J., & Comfort, P. (2020). A comparison of kinetic and kinematic variables during the midthigh pull and countermovement shrug, across loads. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 34(7), 1830-1841. https://doi.org/10.1519/JSC.0000000000003288

This study compared kinetic and kinematic variables during the midthigh pull (MTP) and countermovement shrug (CMS). Eighteen men (age: 29.43 ± 3.95 years, height: 1.77 ± 0.08 m, body mass: 84.65 ± 18.79 kg, and 1 repetition maximum [1RM] power clean:... Read More about A comparison of kinetic and kinematic variables during the midthigh pull and countermovement shrug, across loads.