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EULAR recommendations for the non-pharmacological core management of hip and knee osteoarthritis (2024)
Journal Article
Moseng, T., P M Vliet Vlieland, T., Battista, S., Beckwée, D., Boyadzhieva, V., G Conaghan, P., …Østerås, N. (2024). EULAR recommendations for the non-pharmacological core management of hip and knee osteoarthritis. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 83, 730-740. https://doi.org/10.1136/ard-2023-225041

Introduction: Hip and knee osteoarthritis (OA) are increasingly common with a significant impact on individuals and society. Non-pharmacological treatments are considered essential to reduce pain and improve function and quality of life. EULAR recomm... Read More about EULAR recommendations for the non-pharmacological core management of hip and knee osteoarthritis.

International Public Health Communication Design (2024)
Book Chapter
Tsekleves, E., Fonseca Braga, M., & Moreno Rangel, A. (2024). International Public Health Communication Design. In Design and Covid-19. From Reaction to Resilience. Bloomsbury Publishing

Do extreme temperatures affect cognition? A short review of the impact of acute heat stress on cognitive performance of firefighters (2024)
Journal Article
Thompson, C., Ferrie, L., Pearson, S. J., Highlands, B., & Matthews, M. J. (in press). Do extreme temperatures affect cognition? A short review of the impact of acute heat stress on cognitive performance of firefighters. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1270898. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1270898

Research shows that exposure to high environmental temperatures can affect task performance. Theoretical explanations outline that heat is a source of stress that competes for limited-capacity resources, therefore if a task is resource-intensive, and... Read More about Do extreme temperatures affect cognition? A short review of the impact of acute heat stress on cognitive performance of firefighters.

Jews and Labour in Medieval England: Episcopal Theory and Legislative Reality (2024)
Presentation / Conference
Irwin, D. (2024, January). Jews and Labour in Medieval England: Episcopal Theory and Legislative Reality. Paper presented at Religious Minorities and Labour: Towards a New Paradigm, Queen Mary University of London

This was an invited presentation to a workshop feeding into the MIREL project, which is exploring Religious Minorities and Labour Specialization.

My paper took, as it's starting point, Robert Grosseteste's letter to Margaret de Quincy (1231-2), an... Read More about Jews and Labour in Medieval England: Episcopal Theory and Legislative Reality.

Use of removable support boot versus cast for early mobilisation after ankle fracture surgery: cost-effectiveness analysis and qualitative findings of the Ankle Recovery Trial (ART). (2024)
Journal Article
Baji, P., Barbosa, E. C., Heaslip, V., Sangar, B., Tbaily, L., Martin, R., …Marques, E. M. R. (2024). Use of removable support boot versus cast for early mobilisation after ankle fracture surgery: cost-effectiveness analysis and qualitative findings of the Ankle Recovery Trial (ART). BMJ Open, 14(1), e073542. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-073542

To estimate the cost-effectiveness of using a removable boot versus a cast following ankle fracture from the National Health Service and Personal Social Services (NHS+PSS) payer and societal perspectives and explore the impact of both treatments on p... Read More about Use of removable support boot versus cast for early mobilisation after ankle fracture surgery: cost-effectiveness analysis and qualitative findings of the Ankle Recovery Trial (ART)..

Modern welfare in the United Kingdom is a universal (dis)credit to Beveridge. Is it time for a basic income? (2024)
Journal Article
Beck, D., Peters, R., Bridge, G., Poitier, F., & Pearson, B. (2024). Modern welfare in the United Kingdom is a universal (dis)credit to Beveridge. Is it time for a basic income?. Social Policy and Administration, https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.13002

Universal Credit signalled a revolution in the delivery and costs of welfare provisioning. UC aimed to reduce spending on welfare, but in doing so now threatens the stability of a functioning and cohesive society. Over recent years, and most notably... Read More about Modern welfare in the United Kingdom is a universal (dis)credit to Beveridge. Is it time for a basic income?.

Student midwives' lived experiences of caring for bereaved parents following perinatal loss using actor-based simulation: A phenomenological study. (2024)
Journal Article
Leyland, A., & Choucri, L. (in press). Student midwives' lived experiences of caring for bereaved parents following perinatal loss using actor-based simulation: A phenomenological study. Midwifery, 130, 103913. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2023.103913

Student midwives frequently encounter bereaved parents in clinical practice; however, the experience of caring for bereaved parents can be a significant source of traumatic stress. Although the use of simulation to teach bereavement care is considere... Read More about Student midwives' lived experiences of caring for bereaved parents following perinatal loss using actor-based simulation: A phenomenological study..

An artificial intelligence-based decision support system for early and accurate diagnosis of Parkinson’s Disease (2024)
Journal Article
T.R., M., V., V. K., Bhardwaj, R., Khan, S. B., Alkhaldi, N., Victor, N., & Verma, A. (2024). An artificial intelligence-based decision support system for early and accurate diagnosis of Parkinson’s Disease. #Journal not on list, 10, 100381. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dajour.2023.100381

People with Parkinson’s Disease (PD) might struggle with sadness, restlessness, or difficulty speaking, chewing, or swallowing. A diagnosis can be challenging because there is no specific PD test. It is diagnosed by doctors using a... Read More about An artificial intelligence-based decision support system for early and accurate diagnosis of Parkinson’s Disease.

Neoclassical influences in the Architectural Language of the Greek Church of the Annunciation, Manchester (2024)
Journal Article
Yioutani-Iacovides, M., & Moustaka-Kampouri, A. (2024). Neoclassical influences in the Architectural Language of the Greek Church of the Annunciation, Manchester. #Journal not on list, 1(10 (2023)), 44-49. https://doi.org/10.26234/HEAL.IHU.BXNV-8P30

The Greek Church in Manchester stands as a unique
sample of 19th‐century Neoclassical architecture, created by the
cityʹs Greek community. This paper focuses on its design concept
and features, the architectural expression, ornamentation, and
fi... Read More about Neoclassical influences in the Architectural Language of the Greek Church of the Annunciation, Manchester.

Midwives’ experiences of discussing health behaviour change within routine maternity care: A qualitative systematic review and meta-synthesis (2024)
Journal Article
Talbot, H., Peters, S., Furber, C., & Smith, D. M. (2024). Midwives’ experiences of discussing health behaviour change within routine maternity care: A qualitative systematic review and meta-synthesis. Women and Birth, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wombi.2024.01.002

Problem
Behaviours, such as smoking, alcohol use, unhealthy diet, lack of physical activity and vaccination non-adherence may lead to adverse pregnancy outcomes.

Background
Pregnancy has been identified as an opportune time for midwives to suppo... Read More about Midwives’ experiences of discussing health behaviour change within routine maternity care: A qualitative systematic review and meta-synthesis.

Secondary forest buffers the effects of fragmentation on aerial insectivorous bat species following 30 years of passive forest restoration (2024)
Journal Article
Rowley, S., López-Baucells, A., Rocha, R., Bobrowiec, P. E. D., & Meyer, C. F. J. (2024). Secondary forest buffers the effects of fragmentation on aerial insectivorous bat species following 30 years of passive forest restoration. Restoration Ecology, e14093. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.14093

Passive forest restoration can buffer the effects of habitat loss on biodiversity. We acoustically surveyed aerial insectivorous bats in a whole‐ecosystem fragmentation experiment in the Brazilian Amazon over a 2‐year period, across 33 sites, compris... Read More about Secondary forest buffers the effects of fragmentation on aerial insectivorous bat species following 30 years of passive forest restoration.

Bellway Homes "The Future Home" Baseline Performance Report (2024)
Report
Fitton, R., Diaz, H., Farmer, D., Henshaw, G., Sitmalidis, A., & Swan, W. (2024). Bellway Homes "The Future Home" Baseline Performance Report. Salford: ERDF & Innovate UK

This report examines the fabric thermal performance of a prototype home (The Future Home, or TFH) built by Bellway Homes. The home was designed and built to meet the anticipated Future Homes Standard in terms of fabric performance. The research was c... Read More about Bellway Homes "The Future Home" Baseline Performance Report.

The four-day working week (2024)
Book Chapter
Frayne, D., Kamerade, D., & Burchell, B. (in press). The four-day working week. In Elgar Encyclopedia of Occupational Health Psychology. Edward Elgar Publishing

The four-day working week is an organisational practice that involves reducing the standard full-time working week by the equivalent of one working day, usually with no reduction in pay. The policy has been tested across a number of national pilots,... Read More about The four-day working week.

Calcification and trophic responses of mesophotic reefs to carbonate chemistry variability (2024)
Journal Article
Noyes, T. J., Garley, R., & Bates, N. R. (in press). Calcification and trophic responses of mesophotic reefs to carbonate chemistry variability. Frontiers in Marine Science, 10, 1274915. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1274915

Mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs) are extensions of adjacent shallow water coral reefs. Accessibility to these ecosystems is challenging due to their depth limits (~ 30 – 150 m) and as a result, scientific knowledge of these reef systems is limited.... Read More about Calcification and trophic responses of mesophotic reefs to carbonate chemistry variability.

Aedes aegypti gut transcriptomes respond differently to microbiome transplants from field‐caught or laboratory‐reared mosquitoes (2024)
Journal Article
Hegde, S., Brettell, L. E., Quek, S., Etebari, K., Saldaña, M. A., Asgari, S., …Hughes, G. L. (2024). Aedes aegypti gut transcriptomes respond differently to microbiome transplants from field‐caught or laboratory‐reared mosquitoes. Environmental Microbiology, e16576. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.16576

The mosquito microbiome is critical for host development and plays a major role in many aspects of mosquito biology. While the microbiome is commonly dominated by a small number of genera, there is considerable variation in composition among mosquito... Read More about Aedes aegypti gut transcriptomes respond differently to microbiome transplants from field‐caught or laboratory‐reared mosquitoes.

Meta-Analysis of Biochar as an Amendment for Arsenic Mitigation in Paddy Soils (2024)
Journal Article
Mandal, J., Sharma, P. K., Mondal, D., Wood, M. D., Hutchinson, S. M., Kirby, J., & Srivastava, P. (2024). Meta-Analysis of Biochar as an Amendment for Arsenic Mitigation in Paddy Soils. Current Pollution Reports, 10(1), 105-118. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40726-023-00288-1

Purpose of Review: The purpose of this review is to evaluate the effectiveness of biochar in immobilizing arsenic (As) in contaminated paddy soils and its impact on As availability and bioaccumulation in rice, as well as rice plant biomass. Recent Fi... Read More about Meta-Analysis of Biochar as an Amendment for Arsenic Mitigation in Paddy Soils.

Respeaking as a Form of Intralingual Translation: Intersections between linguistics and respeaking in the live subtitling of parliamentary debates (2024)
Book Chapter
McIntyre, D., Moores, Z., Price, H., & Vice, J. Respeaking as a Form of Intralingual Translation: Intersections between linguistics and respeaking in the live subtitling of parliamentary debates. In L. Pillière, & Ö. Berk Albachten (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Intralingual Translation (411-433). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003188872

This chapter reports on a project to identify and resolve genre-specific issues in producing subtitles of parliamentary debates for d/Deaf, deafened, and hard-of-hearing viewers/audience members/users. The aims of the project were (i) to use linguist... Read More about Respeaking as a Form of Intralingual Translation: Intersections between linguistics and respeaking in the live subtitling of parliamentary debates.

Using Voice Technologies to Support Disabled People (2024)
Journal Article
Semary, H. E., Al-Karawi, K. A., & Abdelwahab, M. M. (in press). Using Voice Technologies to Support Disabled People. #Journal not on list, 3(1), https://doi.org/10.57197/jdr-2023-0063

In recent years, significant strides have been made in speech and speaker recognition systems, owing to the rapid evolution of data processing capabilities. Utilizing a speech recognition system facilitates straightforward and efficient interaction,... Read More about Using Voice Technologies to Support Disabled People.