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Enclosing a pen to improve response rate to postal questionnaire: an embedded randomised controlled trial (2020)
Journal Article
Cunningham-Burley, R., Roche, J., Fairhurst, C., Cockayne, S., Hewitt, C., Iles-Smith, H., & Torgerson, D. (2020). Enclosing a pen to improve response rate to postal questionnaire: an embedded randomised controlled trial. F1000Research, 9, 577. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.23651.1

Background: Poor response to questionnaires collecting outcome data in randomised controlled trials (RCTs) can affect the validity of trial results. The aim of this study within a trial (SWAT) was to evaluate the effectiveness of including a pen with... Read More about Enclosing a pen to improve response rate to postal questionnaire: an embedded randomised controlled trial.

Barriers & facilitators to extended working life : a focus on a predominately female ageing workforce (2020)
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Edge, C., Coffey, M., Cook, P., & Weinberg, A. (2021). Barriers & facilitators to extended working life : a focus on a predominately female ageing workforce. Ageing and society, 41(12), 2867-2887. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X2000063X

Many countries are reforming their pension systems so people stay in work for longer to improve the long-term sustainability of public finances to support an increasing older population. This research aimed to explore the factors that enable or inh... Read More about Barriers & facilitators to extended working life : a focus on a predominately female ageing workforce.

Supporting children's resettlement ('reentry') after custody : beyond the risk paradigm (2020)
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Hazel, N., & Bateman, T. (2021). Supporting children's resettlement ('reentry') after custody : beyond the risk paradigm. Youth Justice, 21(1), 71-89. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473225420923761

In response to policy concerns in England and Wales and internationally, a considerable knowledge-base has identified factors statistically associated with reduced recidivism for children leaving custody. However, despite resulting guidance on how t... Read More about Supporting children's resettlement ('reentry') after custody : beyond the risk paradigm.

Which firms do prefer Islamic debt? An analysis and evidence from global sukuk and bonds issuing firms (2020)
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Uddin, M., Kabir, S., Hossain, M., Wahab, N., & Liu, J. (2020). Which firms do prefer Islamic debt? An analysis and evidence from global sukuk and bonds issuing firms. Emerging Markets Review, 44, 100712. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ememar.2020.100712

The Islamic debt instrument sukuk has been in the market for two decades; still, we do not know why a firm prefers an Islamic debt over conventional debt, set aside religiosity issue. We argue there is a genuine reason to choose Islamic debt because... Read More about Which firms do prefer Islamic debt? An analysis and evidence from global sukuk and bonds issuing firms.

Response of eutrophication development to variations in nutrients and hydrological regime : a case study in the Changjiang River (Yangtze) Basin (2020)
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Tang, X., Li, R., Han, D., & Scholz, M. (2020). Response of eutrophication development to variations in nutrients and hydrological regime : a case study in the Changjiang River (Yangtze) Basin. Water, 12(6), e1634. https://doi.org/10.3390/w12061634

Data and literature related to water quality as well as nutrient loads were used to evaluate the Changjiang River (also Yangtze or Yangzi) Basin with respect to its hydrological regime, sediment transport, and eutrophication status. Waterbodies exhib... Read More about Response of eutrophication development to variations in nutrients and hydrological regime : a case study in the Changjiang River (Yangtze) Basin.

Case report : autism spectrum disorder symptomology and child pornography (2020)
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Allely, C. (2020). Case report : autism spectrum disorder symptomology and child pornography. Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour, 11(3), 171-189. https://doi.org/10.1108/JIDOB-11-2019-0026

Purpose: Allely and Dubin (2018) and Allely et al. (2019) have emphasised that there are a range of innate vulnerabilities in many individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) who are charged with the viewing of indecent images of children (IIOC).... Read More about Case report : autism spectrum disorder symptomology and child pornography.

Editorial (2020)
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Sirkeci, I. (2020). Editorial. Border Crossing, 10(1), https://doi.org/10.33182/bc.v10i1.1045

On behalf of the editorial team of Border Crossing journal, I am pleased to introduce the first issue of the tenth volume. Border Crossing aims to offer a multidisciplinary venue for sharing interesting and novel research from any fields of Social Sc... Read More about Editorial.

A call for responsible innovation in mobile mental health : content analysis of the depression app marketplace (2020)
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Bowie-DaBreo, D., Sas, C., Sünram-Lea, S., & Iles-Smith, H. (2020). A call for responsible innovation in mobile mental health : content analysis of the depression app marketplace. Annual review of cybertherapy and telemedicine (Print), 18, 11-15

Mobile mental health presents many ethical challenges in the wild. These ethical issues and associated values were explored through a content analysis and ethical review of the depression app marketplace. App search and data collection was performed... Read More about A call for responsible innovation in mobile mental health : content analysis of the depression app marketplace.

MHD free convection-radiation interaction in a porous medium - part II : Soret/Dufour effects (2020)
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Vasu, B., Gorla, R., Murthy, P., Prasad, V., Beg, O., & Siddiqa, S. (2020). MHD free convection-radiation interaction in a porous medium - part II : Soret/Dufour effects. International Journal of Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 25(2), 157-175. https://doi.org/10.2478/ijame-2020-0027

This paper is focused on the study of two dimensional steady magnetohydrodynamics heat and mass transfer by laminar free convection from a radiative horizontal circular cylinder in a nonDarcy porous medium by taking account the Soret/Dufour effects.... Read More about MHD free convection-radiation interaction in a porous medium - part II : Soret/Dufour effects.

Efficient performative actions for e-commerce agents (2020)
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Qasim, A., Amin, H., Aziz, Z., & Khalid, A. (2020). Efficient performative actions for e-commerce agents. Applied Computer Systems, 25(1), 19-32. https://doi.org/10.2478/acss-2020-0003

The foundational features of multi-agent systems are communication and interaction with other agents. To achieve these features, agents have to transfer messages in the predefined format and semantics. The communication among these agents takes place... Read More about Efficient performative actions for e-commerce agents.

A narrative review on pressure ulcer (PU) studies relevant to medical imaging (2020)
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Angmorterh, S., England, A., Anaman-Torgbor, J., Korley Kortei, N., Alidu, H., Yarfi, C., …Hogg, P. (2020). A narrative review on pressure ulcer (PU) studies relevant to medical imaging. ˜The œPan African medical journal, 36, 66. https://doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2020.36.66.19431

Pressure ulcers (PUs) are defined as localised injuries to the skin and/or underlying tissue as a result of pressure or pressure together with shear. PUs present significant health implications to patients; costing billions to manage and/or treat. Th... Read More about A narrative review on pressure ulcer (PU) studies relevant to medical imaging.

Estimates of patient doses and kerma-area product monitoring in digital radiography (2020)
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Kaushik, C., Singh Sandhu, I., & Srivastava, A. K. (2020). Estimates of patient doses and kerma-area product monitoring in digital radiography. Radiation Protection Dosimetry, 190(1), 22-30. https://doi.org/10.1093/rpd/ncaa072

The application of the kerma-area product (PKA) meter is increased rapidly in dosimetry. This study presents measurements of PKA in adherence to the International Atomic Energy Agency protocol for 300 adult patients in digital radiographic procedures... Read More about Estimates of patient doses and kerma-area product monitoring in digital radiography.

A phantom-based method to assess X-ray table mattress interface pressures (2020)
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Alresheedi, N., Walton, A., Tootell, A., Webb, J., & Hogg, P. (2020). A phantom-based method to assess X-ray table mattress interface pressures. Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences, 51(3), 417-424. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmir.2020.04.007

Background Pressure redistribution performance of X-ray table mattresses can influence the development of pressure ulcers in at risk populations. Interface pressure analysis, with human participants, is a common method to assess mattresses. This... Read More about A phantom-based method to assess X-ray table mattress interface pressures.

Segmenting excessive alcohol consumers : implications for social marketing (2020)
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Sahadev, S., Malhotra, N., & Mukherjee, A. (2020). Segmenting excessive alcohol consumers : implications for social marketing. IIM Kozhikode Society & Management Review, 9(2), 213-225. https://doi.org/10.1177/2277975220913366

While extant studies have mainly investigated differences between drinkers and non-drinkers, the literature on segmenting heavy drinkers and profiling them is surprisingly scarce. This study makes a significant contribution to the social marketing li... Read More about Segmenting excessive alcohol consumers : implications for social marketing.

International consensus on terminology to be used in the field of echinococcoses (2020)
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Vuitton, D., McManus, D., Rogan, M., Romig, T., Gottstein, B., Naidich, A., …Menezes da Silva, A. (2020). International consensus on terminology to be used in the field of echinococcoses. Parasite, 27, 41. https://doi.org/10.1051/parasite/2020024

Echinococcoses require the involvement of specialists from nearly all disciplines; standardization of the terminology used in the field is thus crucial. To harmonize echinococcosis terminology on sound scientific and linguistic grounds, the World Ass... Read More about International consensus on terminology to be used in the field of echinococcoses.

Tip dating supports novel resolutions of controversial relationships among early mammals (2020)
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King, B., & Beck, R. (2020). Tip dating supports novel resolutions of controversial relationships among early mammals. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 287(1928), https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.0943

The estimation of the timing of major divergences in early mammal evolution is challenging due to conflicting interpretations of key fossil taxa. One contentious group is Haramiyida, the earliest members of which are from the Late Triassic. Many phyl... Read More about Tip dating supports novel resolutions of controversial relationships among early mammals.

Human brain shows recurrent non-canonical microRNA editing events enriched for seed sequence with possible functional consequence (2020)
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Paul, D., Ansari, A., Lal, M., & Mukhopadhyay, A. (2020). Human brain shows recurrent non-canonical microRNA editing events enriched for seed sequence with possible functional consequence. Non-Coding RNA, 6(2), e21. https://doi.org/10.3390/ncrna6020021

RNA editing is a post-transcriptional modification, which can provide tissue-specific functions not encoded in DNA. Adenosine-to-inosine is the predominant editing event and, along with cytosine-to-uracil changes, constitutes canonical editing. The r... Read More about Human brain shows recurrent non-canonical microRNA editing events enriched for seed sequence with possible functional consequence.

Social prescribing : a ‘natural’ community-based solution (2020)
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Howarth, M., Griffiths, A., da Silva, A., & Green, R. (2020). Social prescribing : a ‘natural’ community-based solution. British Journal of Community Nursing, 25(6), 294-298. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjcn.2020.25.6.294

This paper discusses social prescribing as part of the wider NHS England universal personalised care model, and it describes how community nurses can engage with social prescribing systems to support community resilience. A case study based on the ex... Read More about Social prescribing : a ‘natural’ community-based solution.

Detection of Moku virus and replication in honey bees and social wasps (2020)
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Highfield, A., Kevill, J., Mordecai, G., Hunt, J., Henderson, S., Sauvard, D., …Schroeder, D. (2020). Detection of Moku virus and replication in honey bees and social wasps. Viruses, 12(6), 607. https://doi.org/10.3390/v12060607

Transmission of honey bee viruses to other insects, and vice versa, has previously been reported and the true ecological importance of this phenomenon is still being realized. Members of the family Vespidae interact with honey bees via predation or t... Read More about Detection of Moku virus and replication in honey bees and social wasps.

A framework for resource recovery from wastewater treatment plants in megacities of developing countries (2020)
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Chrispim, M., Scholz, M., & Nolasco, M. (2020). A framework for resource recovery from wastewater treatment plants in megacities of developing countries. Environmental Research, 188, 109745. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2020.109745

In developing countries, there is often a lack of a comprehensive data set that supports the development of coherent policies on resource recovery from wastewater treatment. This paper aims to contribute to the elaboration of resource recovery projec... Read More about A framework for resource recovery from wastewater treatment plants in megacities of developing countries.