All Outputs (96)

Differential expression patterns of sIgA in Human Breast milk (HBM) is dependent on birth outcome (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper

Breast milk is key for the development of newborns, particularly their immune systems and gut microbiota. In times of neonatal care, newborns are often supplemented with donor breast milk for a range of practical and medical reasons. However, we do n... Read More about Differential expression patterns of sIgA in Human Breast milk (HBM) is dependent on birth outcome.

LOad Monitoring and Intervention System (LOMIS) to prevent diabetic foot ulceration: Study protocol for a multi-phased safety and performance evaluation of a novel medical device (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper

Background: Plantar foot pressure is a significant risk factor for ulceration in diabetic feet. However, foot pressure-based ulceration risk prediction has remained confined to the contribution of compressive pressure measured under controlled labora... Read More about LOad Monitoring and Intervention System (LOMIS) to prevent diabetic foot ulceration: Study protocol for a multi-phased safety and performance evaluation of a novel medical device.

The Role of Ethics in Physiotherapy: A Scoping Review Protocol (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper

Background and aims Ethical considerations play a crucial role in physiotherapy, influencing patient care, professional conduct, and clinical decision-making. Despite its significance, there is a limited comprehensive understanding of how ethical pri... Read More about The Role of Ethics in Physiotherapy: A Scoping Review Protocol.

Tracking Persistent Symptoms in Scotland (TraPSS): a longitudinal prospective cohort study of COVID-19 recovery after mild acute infection (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper

Background: COVID-19 disease results in disparate responses between individuals and has led to the emergence of long coronavirus disease (Long-COVID), characterised by persistent and cyclical symptomology. To understand the complexity of Long-COVID,... Read More about Tracking Persistent Symptoms in Scotland (TraPSS): a longitudinal prospective cohort study of COVID-19 recovery after mild acute infection.

Baler -- Machine Learning Based Compression of Scientific Data (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper

Storing and sharing increasingly large datasets is a challenge across scientific research and industry. In this paper, we document the development and applications of Baler - a Machine Learning based data compression tool for use across scientific di... Read More about Baler -- Machine Learning Based Compression of Scientific Data.

Citizen scientists’ motivation to participate in environmental DNA (eDNA) surveys: A case study on monitoring mammals in the UK (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper

1. Citizen scientists have become integral participants in nature conservation projects, and the demand for effective conservation efforts has sparked increasing interest in utilizing environmental DNA (eDNA) for species monitoring, drawing citizen s... Read More about Citizen scientists’ motivation to participate in environmental DNA (eDNA) surveys: A case study on monitoring mammals in the UK.

Joint Parliamentary Briefing: The Illegal Migration Bill and its impact on children (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper

The Secretary of State for the Home Department ("Home Secretary") introduced the
Illegal Migration Bill on 7th March 2023. The Bill moved to the House of Lords, and its
Second Reading took place on Wednesday, 10th May 2023. The Bill will move to th... Read More about Joint Parliamentary Briefing: The Illegal Migration Bill and its impact on children.

The effectiveness and acceptability of physical activity interventions amongst older adults from socioeconomically deprived groups: a mixed methods systematic review (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper

The Impact of Conflict on Energy Poverty: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa (2022)
Preprint / Working Paper

This study uses the actual number of fatalities and influx of refugees as proxies for conflict to empirically investigate the impact of violent events on energy poverty in SSA over 30 years from 1990 to 2019. We use different proxies for energy pover... Read More about The Impact of Conflict on Energy Poverty: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa.

Linguistic validation, validity, and reliability of the British English version of the Workplace Activity Limitations Scale in employed people with rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondyloarthritis, osteoarthritis and fibromyalgia . (2022)
Preprint / Working Paper

Purpose: The Workplace Activity Limitations Scale (WALS) is a patient reported outcome measure of work ability developed in Canada for use in arthritis. The aims of this study were to linguistically validate a British English version of the WALS, and... Read More about Linguistic validation, validity, and reliability of the British English version of the Workplace Activity Limitations Scale in employed people with rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondyloarthritis, osteoarthritis and fibromyalgia ..

The Workwell trial: protocol for the process evaluation of a randomised controlled trial of job retention vocational rehabilitation for employed people with inflammatory arthritis. (2022)
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Background: The Workwell trial is a multi-centre randomised controlled trial with the aims of evaluating the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of job retention vocational rehabilitation for employed people with inflammatory arthritis, who are expe... Read More about The Workwell trial: protocol for the process evaluation of a randomised controlled trial of job retention vocational rehabilitation for employed people with inflammatory arthritis..

Climate anxiety, pro-environmental action and wellbeing: antecedents and outcomes of negative emotional responses to climate change in 28 countries (2022)
Preprint / Working Paper

This study explored the antecedents and outcomes of negative emotional responses to climate change among people from a diverse range of cultural and national contexts. We analysed cross-sectional data gathered in 28 countries (N = 10,963). Our result... Read More about Climate anxiety, pro-environmental action and wellbeing: antecedents and outcomes of negative emotional responses to climate change in 28 countries.

Prevalence of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) in Greater Manchester, UK: an active case ascertainment study (2021)
Preprint / Working Paper

Background Despite high levels of prenatal alcohol exposure in the UK, evidence on the prevalence of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) is lacking. This paper reports on FASD prevalence in a small sample of children in primary school.

Methods... Read More about Prevalence of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) in Greater Manchester, UK: an active case ascertainment study.

What is the evidence on non-pharmacological interventions targeting pre-frail community dwelling older adults aged over 50 years to prevent frailty? Review of reviews (2021)
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Predicting pain and function outcomes in people consulting with shoulder pain: The PANDA-S clinical cohort and qualitative study protocol (ISRCTN 46948079) (2021)
Preprint / Working Paper

Introduction: Shoulder pain is common in primary care but achieving definitive diagnosis is contentious leading to uncertainty in management. To inform optimal primary care for patients with shoulder pain, the study aims to (i) to investigate the sho... Read More about Predicting pain and function outcomes in people consulting with shoulder pain: The PANDA-S clinical cohort and qualitative study protocol (ISRCTN 46948079).

Resilience Potential, Robustness, and Edge of Collapse (2021)
Preprint / Working Paper

Despite a body of work investigating different types of resilience in the contexts of engineering, ecology, disaster risk reduction and social science, there is no simple way of enumerating resilience in these contexts. This working paper attempts to... Read More about Resilience Potential, Robustness, and Edge of Collapse.

Using Twitter to Disseminate: A mixed-methods exploration of the extent and nature of the dissemination of a public health research project via the microblogging platform. (Preprint) (2020)
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Abstract Social media plays an increasing role in the dissemination of public health research. For public health research projects, a Twitter account holds the potential to disseminate research outcomes to other public health academics, professionals... Read More about Using Twitter to Disseminate: A mixed-methods exploration of the extent and nature of the dissemination of a public health research project via the microblogging platform. (Preprint).

Loss of PKCα increases arterial medial calcification in a uremic mouse model of chronic kidney disease (2020)
Preprint / Working Paper

Arterial medial calcification is an independent risk factor for mortality in chronic kidney disease. We previously reported that knock-down of PKCα expression increases high phosphate-induced mineral deposition by vascular smooth muscle cells in vitr... Read More about Loss of PKCα increases arterial medial calcification in a uremic mouse model of chronic kidney disease.

Fat Tony goes to the movies : language and the professions, a guide to the roots of financial crises (2018)
Preprint / Working Paper

This paper challenges the finance profession’s self-proclaimed expertise through an avowedly polemical examination of the most recent financial crisis. It argues that the financial industry projects itself as a profession and, as with all professions... Read More about Fat Tony goes to the movies : language and the professions, a guide to the roots of financial crises.

Growing greener cities
Preprint / Working Paper