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Living in an Age-Friendly Community: Evidence from a Masterplanned Development in Southwest Sydney
(2023-01-11)
This paper is situated at the interface of a growing urban studies literature concerned with ‘masterplanning’ practices in urban planning and another, hitherto relatively discrete, body of research concerned with age-friendly ...
Skilled motor control of an inverted pendulum implies low entropy of states but high entropy of actions
(2023-01-06)
The mastery of skills, such as balancing an inverted pendulum, implies a very accurate control of movements to achieve the task goals. Traditional accounts of skilled action control that focus on either routinization or ...
Quality improvement tools to manage emergency callbacks from patients with diabetes in a prehospital setting
(2023-01-04)
Diabetes is rising at an alarming rate, as 1 in 10 adults worldwide now lives with the disease. In Qatar, a middle eastern Arab country, diabetes prevalence is equally concerning and is predicted to increase from 17% to ...
Mating Performance and Singlehood Across 14 Nations
(2023-01-03)
Adult individuals frequently face difficulties in attracting and keeping mates, which is an important driver of singlehood. In the current research, we investigated the mating performance (i.e., how well people do in ...
The role of comorbidities alongside patient and disease characteristics in long-term disease activity in RA using UK inception cohort data
(2022-11-30)
Objectives Control of disease activity in RA is a crucial part of its management to prevent long-term joint damage and disability. This study aimed to identify early predictors of poor disease activity at 5 and 10 years, ...
Changes to household food shopping practices during the COVID-19 restrictions: Evidence from the East of England
(2022-11-30)
Measures to control the spread of COVID-19 have changed the way we shop for food and interact with food environments. This qualitative study explored food shopping practices in the East of England, a large diverse region ...
A suite of evaluation resources for Dementia Friendly Communities: Development and guidance for use
(2022-11-30)
Objectives: In the context of a growing number of dementia friendly communities (DFCs) globally, a need remains for robust evaluation, and for tools to capture relevant evidence. This paper reports the development of a ...
Maximal Fat Oxidation during Incremental Upper and Lower Body Exercise in Healthy Young Males
(2022-11-19)
The aim of this study is to determine the magnitude of maximal fat oxidation (MFO) during incremental upper and lower body exercise. Thirteen non-specifically trained male participants (19.3 ± 0.5 y, 78.1 ± 9.1 kg body ...
Sense of Control and Depression during Public Health Restrictions and the COVID-19 Pandemic
(2022-11-03)
Depression rates have increased significantly since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, with a number of factors implicated in this increase, including stress, fear, social isolation and the psychological impact of public ...