All Outputs (913)

The evolution of an asset-based community led alcohol harm intervention in the North West England (2020)
Journal Article
Cook, P., Ure, C., Hargreaves, S., Burns, E., Coffey, M., & Audrey, S. (2020). The evolution of an asset-based community led alcohol harm intervention in the North West England. European Journal of Public Health, 30(Sup. 5), v690. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckaa166.434

Background

Communities in Charge of Alcohol (CICA) is an Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) place-based approach to reducing alcohol harm. Local volunteers, from areas with multiple indicators of deprivation, train to become accredited 'Alc... Read More about The evolution of an asset-based community led alcohol harm intervention in the North West England.

Urban green infrastructure size, quality and proximity and health outcomes in older populations (2020)
Journal Article
Cook, P., Dennis, M., Wheater, C., James, P., & Lindley, S. (2020). Urban green infrastructure size, quality and proximity and health outcomes in older populations. European Journal of Public Health, 30(Sup. 5), v88-v89. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckaa165.232

Background

A city's multi-functional network of green and blue spaces has an important role underpinning the health and wellbeing of its residents. Although evidence of positive links between nature and health is plentiful, little is known about... Read More about Urban green infrastructure size, quality and proximity and health outcomes in older populations.

Differential gene expression of tumor-infiltrating CD33 + myeloid cells in advanced- versus early-stage colorectal cancer (2020)
Journal Article
Toor, S., Taha, R., Sasidharan Nair, V., Saleh, R., Murshed, K., Abu Nada, M., & Elkord, E. (2021). Differential gene expression of tumor-infiltrating CD33 + myeloid cells in advanced- versus early-stage colorectal cancer. Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy, 70(3), 803-815. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00262-020-02727-0

Abstract: Colorectal cancer (CRC) has high mortality rates, especially in patients with advanced disease stages, who often do not respond to therapy. The cellular components of the tumor microenvironment are essentially responsible for dictating dise... Read More about Differential gene expression of tumor-infiltrating CD33 + myeloid cells in advanced- versus early-stage colorectal cancer.

Psychological impact of COVID-19 pandemic: Protocol and results of first three weeks from an international cross-section survey - focus on health professionals (2020)
Journal Article
Rathod, S., Pallikadavath, S., Rahman, M., Young, A. H., Graves, L., Brooks, A., …Phiri, P. (2020). Psychological impact of COVID-19 pandemic: Protocol and results of first three weeks from an international cross-section survey - focus on health professionals. Journal of Affective Disorders Reports, 1, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadr.2020.100005

Background
The psychological impact of COVID-19, resultant measures and future consequences to life will be unveiled in time.

Aim
To investigate the psychological impact of COVID-19, resultant restrictions, impact on behaviours and mental wellbe... Read More about Psychological impact of COVID-19 pandemic: Protocol and results of first three weeks from an international cross-section survey - focus on health professionals.

Caring for critically ill children with suspected or proven COVID-19 infection : recommendations by the scientific sections' collaborative of the European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (2020)
Journal Article
Rimmensberger, P., Knebjer, M., Deep, A., Bansal, M., Hoskote, A., Javouhey, E., …Brierley, J. (2021). Caring for critically ill children with suspected or proven COVID-19 infection : recommendations by the scientific sections' collaborative of the European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 22(1), 56-67. https://doi.org/10.1097/PCC.0000000000002599

Objective: In children Coronavirus Disease 2019 is usually mild but can develop to severe hypoxemic failure or a severe multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS), the latter considered to be a post-infectious syndrome, with cardiac involvement alone or... Read More about Caring for critically ill children with suspected or proven COVID-19 infection : recommendations by the scientific sections' collaborative of the European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care.

Low-cost unmanned aerial vehicle-based digital hemispherical photography for estimating leaf area index: a feasibility assessment (2020)
Journal Article
Brown, L., Sutherland, D., & Dash, J. (2020). Low-cost unmanned aerial vehicle-based digital hemispherical photography for estimating leaf area index: a feasibility assessment. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 41(23), 9064-9074. https://doi.org/10.1080/2150704X.2020.1802527

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have the potential to provide highly detailed information on vegetation status useful in precision agriculture. However, challenges are associated with existing techniques for UAV-based retrieval of vegetation biophysi... Read More about Low-cost unmanned aerial vehicle-based digital hemispherical photography for estimating leaf area index: a feasibility assessment.

Inter-rater reliability of paediatric emergency assessment : physiological and clinical features (2020)
Journal Article
Heal, C., Cotterill, S., Rowland, A., Garratt, N., Long, T., Brown, S., …Roland, D. (2021). Inter-rater reliability of paediatric emergency assessment : physiological and clinical features. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 106(2), 149-153. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2019-318664

Objective
The Paediatric Admission Guidance in the Emergency Department (PAGE) score is an assessment tool currently in development that helps predict hospital admission using components including patient characteristics, vital signs (heart rate, te... Read More about Inter-rater reliability of paediatric emergency assessment : physiological and clinical features.

Intranasal delivery of polymer-anchored lipid nanoconstructs of artemether-lumefantrine in plasmodium berghei ANKA murine model (2020)
Journal Article
Kaur, R., Gorki, V., Singh, G., Kaur, R., Katare, O., Nirmalan, N., & Singh, B. (2021). Intranasal delivery of polymer-anchored lipid nanoconstructs of artemether-lumefantrine in plasmodium berghei ANKA murine model. Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology, 61, 102114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jddst.2020.102114

Cerebral malaria is a serious plasmodial infection that calls for immediate treatment for parasitic clearance from brain. Oral regimen of cerebral malaria is an impracticable option, it being often associated with problems like impaired consciousness... Read More about Intranasal delivery of polymer-anchored lipid nanoconstructs of artemether-lumefantrine in plasmodium berghei ANKA murine model.

Habitat suitability for primate conservation in north-east Brazil (2020)
Journal Article
Moraes, B., Razgour, O., Souza-Alves, J., Boubli, J., & Bezerra, B. (2020). Habitat suitability for primate conservation in north-east Brazil. Oryx, 54(6), 803-813. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605319001388

Brazil has a high diversity of primates, but increasing anthropogenic pressures and climate change could influence forest cover in the country and cause future changes in the distribution of primate populations. Here we aim to assess the long-term su... Read More about Habitat suitability for primate conservation in north-east Brazil.

Increased perceptual distraction and task demand enhances gaze and non-biological cuing effects (2020)
Journal Article
Gregory, S., & Jackson, M. (2021). Increased perceptual distraction and task demand enhances gaze and non-biological cuing effects. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 74(2), 221-240. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021820959633

This study aims to improve understanding of how distracting information and target task demands influence the strength of gaze and non-biological (arrow and moving line) cuing effects. Using known non-predictive central cues, we manipulated the degre... Read More about Increased perceptual distraction and task demand enhances gaze and non-biological cuing effects.

The effects of port water injection on spark ignition engine performance and emissions fueled by pure gasoline, E5 and E10 (2020)
Journal Article
Salek, F., Babaie, M., Redel-Macias, M., Ghodsi, A., Hosseini, S., Nourian, A., …Zare, A. (2020). The effects of port water injection on spark ignition engine performance and emissions fueled by pure gasoline, E5 and E10. Processes, 8(10), e1214. https://doi.org/10.3390/pr8101214

It has been proven that vehicle emissions such as oxides of nitrogen (NOx) are negatively affecting the health of human beings as well as the environment. In addition, it was recently highlighted that air pollution may result in people being more vul... Read More about The effects of port water injection on spark ignition engine performance and emissions fueled by pure gasoline, E5 and E10.

Conservative treatment for acute ankle sprain : a systematic review (2020)
Journal Article
Ortega-Avila, A., Cervera-Garvi, P., Marchena-Rodriguez, A., Chicharro-Luna, E., Nester, C., Starbuck, C., & Gijon-Nogueron, G. (2020). Conservative treatment for acute ankle sprain : a systematic review. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 9(10), e3128. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm9103128

The aim was to identify conservative treatments available for acute ankle sprain and to evaluate their effectiveness with respect to pain relief and short-term recovery of functional capacity. A systematic review of the relevant literature was conduc... Read More about Conservative treatment for acute ankle sprain : a systematic review.

Toward Kinecting cognition by behaviour recognition-based deep learning and big data (2020)
Journal Article
Soufian, M., Nefti-Meziani, S., & Drake, J. (2020). Toward Kinecting cognition by behaviour recognition-based deep learning and big data. Universal Access in the Information Society, 21, 33-51. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10209-020-00744-5

The majority of older people wish to live independently at home as long as possible despite having a range of age-related conditions including cognitive impairment. To facilitate this, there has been an extensive focus on exploring the capability of... Read More about Toward Kinecting cognition by behaviour recognition-based deep learning and big data.

Terrestrial laser scanning in forest ecology : expanding the horizon (2020)
Journal Article
Calders, K., Adams, J., Armston, J., Bartholomeus, H., Bauwens, S., Patrick Bentley, L., …Verbeeck, H. (2020). Terrestrial laser scanning in forest ecology : expanding the horizon. Remote Sensing of Environment, 251, 112102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.112102

Terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) was introduced for basic forest measurements, such as tree height and diameter, in the early 2000s. Recent advances in sensor and algorithm development have allowed us to assess in situ 3D forest structure explicitly... Read More about Terrestrial laser scanning in forest ecology : expanding the horizon.

The relationship between sensory processing sensitivity and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder traits : a spectrum approach (2020)
Journal Article
Panagiotidi, M., Overton, P., & Stafford, T. (2020). The relationship between sensory processing sensitivity and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder traits : a spectrum approach. Psychiatry Research, 293, 113477. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113477

The aim of the present study was to examine the relationship between sensory processing sensitivity (SPS) and symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in adults. The Highly Sensitive Person Scale (HSPS) scale and the Adult ADHD Sel... Read More about The relationship between sensory processing sensitivity and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder traits : a spectrum approach.

Why organizations fail to share knowledge : an empirical investigation and opportunities for improvement (2020)
Journal Article
Kelly, S., Israilidis, J., & Siachou, E. (2020). Why organizations fail to share knowledge : an empirical investigation and opportunities for improvement. Information Technology and People, 34(5), 1513-1539. https://doi.org/10.1108/ITP-02-2019-0058

Purpose – This paper explores critical failure factors (CFFs) in the context of knowledge sharing. It provides
further insights into what can cause knowledge- sharing failures, inflexible knowledge-sharing strategies and
ineffective knowledge- shar... Read More about Why organizations fail to share knowledge : an empirical investigation and opportunities for improvement.

Convective fluid flow and heat transfer in a vertical rectangular duct containing a horizontal porous medium and fluid layer (2020)
Journal Article
Umavathi, J., & Beg, O. (2021). Convective fluid flow and heat transfer in a vertical rectangular duct containing a horizontal porous medium and fluid layer. International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow, 31(4), 1320-1344. https://doi.org/10.1108/HFF-06-2020-0373

Purpose-A numerical analysis is presented to investigate thermally and
hydrodynamically fully developed convection in a duct of rectangular cross-section
containing a porous medium and fluid layer.
Design/methodology/approach-The Darcy-Brinkman-Fo... Read More about Convective fluid flow and heat transfer in a vertical rectangular duct containing a horizontal porous medium and fluid layer.

Hall current, viscous and Joule heating effects on steady radiative 2-D magneto-power-law polymer dynamics from an exponentially stretching sheet with power-law slip velocity : a numerical study (2020)
Journal Article
Shamshuddin, M., Khan, S., Beg, O., & Beg, T. (2020). Hall current, viscous and Joule heating effects on steady radiative 2-D magneto-power-law polymer dynamics from an exponentially stretching sheet with power-law slip velocity : a numerical study. Thermal Science and Engineering Progress, 20, 100732. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsep.2020.100732

A mathematical model is developed for 2-D laminar, incompressible, electrically conducting
non-Newtonian (Power-law) fluid boundary layer flow along an exponentially stretching
sheet with power-law slip velocity conditions in the presence of Hall c... Read More about Hall current, viscous and Joule heating effects on steady radiative 2-D magneto-power-law polymer dynamics from an exponentially stretching sheet with power-law slip velocity : a numerical study.

From bad to worse? The media and the 2019 election campaign (2020)
Journal Article
Wring, D., & Ward, S. (2020). From bad to worse? The media and the 2019 election campaign. Parliamentary Affairs, 73(Sup. 1), 272-287. https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsaa033

From Twitter to the BBC, media platforms were perceived as having had ‘a bad election’. The story of the 2019 media campaign focussed primarily on the negative. There were continual claims of misinformation and deliberate disinformation spread via so... Read More about From bad to worse? The media and the 2019 election campaign.

Energy pathology : measuring a dwellings energy performance using smart meter and IoT data (2020)
Journal Article
Fitton, R. (2020). Energy pathology : measuring a dwellings energy performance using smart meter and IoT data. Journal of Building Survey, Appraisal and Valuation, 9(2), 181-190

This paper aims to introduce and give an understanding of the process of determining a building’s energy performance using smart meters and ‘on-board’ equipment such as sensors found in smart thermostats or even low-cost sensing equipment. The ration... Read More about Energy pathology : measuring a dwellings energy performance using smart meter and IoT data.