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Randomised evaluation of pre-notification of trial participants before self-report outcome data collection to improve retention: SWAT86 (2022)
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Sutton, C., Cotterill, S., Forshaw, D., Rhodes, S., Haig, A., & Hammond, A. (2022). Randomised evaluation of pre-notification of trial participants before self-report outcome data collection to improve retention: SWAT86. Research Methods in Medicine & Health Sciences, 3(4), 107-115. https://doi.org/10.1177/26320843221098427

Background
Retention is considered the second highest trial methods priority in the UK after recruitment. There is limited evidence on whether notifying trial participants that a follow-up questionnaire will be sent soon (‘pre-notification’) affects... Read More about Randomised evaluation of pre-notification of trial participants before self-report outcome data collection to improve retention: SWAT86.

Characterisation of a Novel Acetyl Xylan Esterase (BaAXE) Screened from the Gut Microbiota of the Common Black Slug (Arion ater) (2022)
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Madubuike, H., & Ferry, N. (2022). Characterisation of a Novel Acetyl Xylan Esterase (BaAXE) Screened from the Gut Microbiota of the Common Black Slug (Arion ater). Molecules, 27(9), 2999. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules27092999

Acetyl xylan esterases (AXEs) are enzymes capable of hydrolysing the acetyl bonds in acetylated xylan, allowing for enhanced activity of backbone-depolymerizing enzymes. Bioprospecting novel AXE is essential in designing enzyme cocktails with desired... Read More about Characterisation of a Novel Acetyl Xylan Esterase (BaAXE) Screened from the Gut Microbiota of the Common Black Slug (Arion ater).

Effectiveness of remote care interventions: a systematic review informing the 2022 EULAR Points to Consider for remote care in rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (2022)
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Objective To perform a systematic literature review (SLR) on different outcomes of remote care compared with face-to-face (F2F) care, its implementation into clinical practice and to identify drivers and barriers in order to inform a task force formu... Read More about Effectiveness of remote care interventions: a systematic review informing the 2022 EULAR Points to Consider for remote care in rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases.

Voluntary and collective employer engagement and agency around the high-skill supply-demand relationship of education & training and VET in England (2022)
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Malik, F. (2022). Voluntary and collective employer engagement and agency around the high-skill supply-demand relationship of education & training and VET in England. Journal of Education and Work, 35(4), 390-404. https://doi.org/10.1080/13639080.2022.2073341

This article explores the underexamined idea of employer engagement as the institutional agency around the supply-demand relationship surrounding education and training (E&T) and VET in England (2012), arguing why VET needs are still likely to be unm... Read More about Voluntary and collective employer engagement and agency around the high-skill supply-demand relationship of education & training and VET in England.

Review of Adrienne Williams Boyarin. The Christian Jew and the Unmarked Jewess: The Polemics of Sameness in Medieval English Anti-Judaism. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. Pp. 352. $79.95 (cloth). (2022)
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Irwin, D. (2022). Review of Adrienne Williams Boyarin. The Christian Jew and the Unmarked Jewess: The Polemics of Sameness in Medieval English Anti-Judaism. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. Pp. 352. $79.95 (cloth). Journal of British Studies, 61(2), 456-458. https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2022.47

Strikers versus scabs: violence in the 1910-1914 British labour revolt (2022)
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Darlington, R. (2022). Strikers versus scabs: violence in the 1910-1914 British labour revolt. Labor History, 63(3), 332-352. https://doi.org/10.1080/0023656x.2022.2103103

Over the last 200 years of British labour history there have been frequent examples of assertive, aggressive and sometimes violent mass picketing aimed at stopping non-striking scab or so-called ‘blackleg’ labour [sic]. Yet remarkably little detailed... Read More about Strikers versus scabs: violence in the 1910-1914 British labour revolt.

Intravenous maintenance fluid therapy practice in the pediatric acute and critical care settings : a European & Middle Eastern survey (2022)
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Background: The ideal fluid for intravenous maintenance fluid therapy (IV-MFT) in acutely and critically ill children is controversial, and evidence based clinical practice guidelines are lacking and current prescribing practices remain unknown.
Aim... Read More about Intravenous maintenance fluid therapy practice in the pediatric acute and critical care settings : a European & Middle Eastern survey.

Ensuring robust radiological risk assessment for wildlife: insights from the International Atomic Energy Agency EMRAS and MODARIA programmes. (2022)
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In response to changing international recommendations and national requirements, a number of assessment approaches, and associated tools and models, have been developed over the last circa 20 years to assess radiological risk to wildlife. In this pap... Read More about Ensuring robust radiological risk assessment for wildlife: insights from the International Atomic Energy Agency EMRAS and MODARIA programmes..

Activity, socket fit, comfort and community participation in lower limb prosthesis users: a Cambodian cohort study. (2022)
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BackgroundAfter amputation, many people become less active, feel lonely and lose independence. Understanding the factors associated with low physical activity levels and participation could contribute to defining key interventions which can support p... Read More about Activity, socket fit, comfort and community participation in lower limb prosthesis users: a Cambodian cohort study..

The agreement between a portable contact-mat and force-plates during bilateral vertical jumps (2022)
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Guppy, S., Kotani, Y., Lake, J., Latella, C., Wilkie, J., Kendall, K., & Haff, G. (2022). The agreement between a portable contact-mat and force-plates during bilateral vertical jumps. International journal of exercise science, 15(1), 632-644

Force plates are commonly used when assessing vertical jumping performance but are not always affordable or practical tools for all testing situations. Twenty-four participants volunteered to take part in a study investigating the agreement between b... Read More about The agreement between a portable contact-mat and force-plates during bilateral vertical jumps.

Mediated forensics and militant evidence: rethinking the camera as weapon (2022)
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Brian Smith, P., & Watson, R. (2023). Mediated forensics and militant evidence: rethinking the camera as weapon. Media, Culture and Society, 45(1), 36-56. https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437221088954

This article focuses on new media technologies and practices that are reshaping how human rights media activism is practiced, disseminated and received. Through an examination of two works by the research agency Forensic Architecture, we examine how... Read More about Mediated forensics and militant evidence: rethinking the camera as weapon.

An Episodic Learning Network for Text Detection on Human Bodies in Sports Images (2022)
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Nath Chowdhury, P., Shivakumara, P., Raghavendra, R., Nag, S., Pal, U., Lu, T., & Lopresti, D. (2022). An Episodic Learning Network for Text Detection on Human Bodies in Sports Images. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 32, 2279 - 2289. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSVT.2021.3092713

Due to the proliferation of sports-related multimedia content on the WWW, effective visual search and retrieval present interesting research challenges. These are caused by poor image quality, a wide range of possible camera points of view, pose vari... Read More about An Episodic Learning Network for Text Detection on Human Bodies in Sports Images.

Environmental enrichment for collared peccaries Dicotyles tajacu, Tayassuidae in managed care: Different items provoke different behavioural responses (2022)
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de Faria, C., Fa, F., Costa, D., da Silva, M., da Silva, B., Young, R., & Azevado, C. (2022). Environmental enrichment for collared peccaries Dicotyles tajacu, Tayassuidae in managed care: Different items provoke different behavioural responses. ˜The œJournal of zoo and aquarium research, 10(2), 82-90. https://doi.org/10.19227/jzar.v10i2.61082OPEN

Being in human care often modifies the behaviour of animals, mainly because of the lack of environmental stimuli, and the ease of finding food and reproductive partners. Animals in human care may have a poorer behavioural repertoire and lower welfare... Read More about Environmental enrichment for collared peccaries Dicotyles tajacu, Tayassuidae in managed care: Different items provoke different behavioural responses.

Modern Optimal Controllers for Hybrid Active Power Filter to Minimize Harmonic Distortion (2022)
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Alasali, F., Nusair, K., Foudeh, H., Holderbaum, W., Vinayagam, A., & Aziz, A. (2022). Modern Optimal Controllers for Hybrid Active Power Filter to Minimize Harmonic Distortion. Electronics, 11(9), 1453. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11091453

Nowadays, AC distributed power networks are facing many challenges in guaranteeing and improving the required level of power quality indices in power networks with increasing nonlinear, time-variable and unbalanced loads. Power networks can benefit f... Read More about Modern Optimal Controllers for Hybrid Active Power Filter to Minimize Harmonic Distortion.

Gender differences in perception and awareness of climate change in the Suru valley of Western Himalayas, India (2022)
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Khan, K., Chattopadhyay, A., & Ali, I. (2022). Gender differences in perception and awareness of climate change in the Suru valley of Western Himalayas, India. Current World Environment Journal, 17(1), 88-98. https://doi.org/10.12944/cwe.17.1.8

The Suru valley of the Ladakh region in the Indian western Himalayas has a cold-arid climate and semi-desert landscape. Any change in climate in this fragile landscape will impact the lives of local communities in the region. The region has limited w... Read More about Gender differences in perception and awareness of climate change in the Suru valley of Western Himalayas, India.

Effects of Vest and Sled Resisted Sprint Training on Sprint Performance in Young Soccer Players: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis (2022)
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Fernández-Galván, L. M., Casado, A., García-Ramos, A., & Haff, G. G. (2022). Effects of Vest and Sled Resisted Sprint Training on Sprint Performance in Young Soccer Players: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 36(7), 2023-2034. https://doi.org/10.1519/jsc.0000000000004255

The aim of the meta-analysis was to determine the effect of resisted sprint training (RST) on sprint performance in young (<20 years) soccer players and to analyze whether the training equipment (sled or vest) and magnitude of the resistive load (abo...