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Addressing Obesity in Stevenage, Hertfordshire: A Consultation with Young People
Hamilton, Laura; Hamlyn Williams, Charlotte; Wills, Wendy; Mathie, Elspeth; Beer, Jen (University of Hertfordshire, 2019-12-13)Public Health England have identified that almost a quarter of children are overweight when they start primary school, which increases to a third when they leave in year 6 aged 10-11 years. This has implications for young ... -
Advances in Problematic Usage of the Internet Research – A Narrative Review by Experts from the European Network for Problematic Usage of the Internet
Fineberg, Naomi; Menchon, Josè M; Hall, Natalie; Dell'Osso, Bernardo; Brand, Matthias; Potenza, Marc; Chamberlain, Samuel R; Cirnigliaro, Giovanna; Lochner, Christine; Billieux, Joël; Demetrovics, Zsolt; Rumpf, Hans Jürgen; Muller, Astrid; Castro-Calvo, Jesús; Hollander, Eric; Burkauskas, Julius; Grünblatt, Edna; Walitza, Susanne; Corazza, Ornella; King, Daniel L; Stein, Dan J.; Grant, Jon E; Pallanti, Stefano; Bowden-Jones, Henrietta; Van Ameringen, Michael; Ioannidis, Konstantinos; Carmi, Lior; Goudriaan, Anna E; Martinotti, Giovanni; Sales, Celia M; Jones, Julia; Gjoneska, Biljiana; Király, Orsolya; Benatti, Beatrice; Vismara, Matteo; Pellegrini, Lucas; Conti, Dario; Cataldo, Ilaria; Riva, Gianluigi M; Yücel, Murat; Flayelle, Maèva; Hall, Thomas; Griffiths, Morgan; Zohar, Joseph (2022-10-30)Global concern about problematic usage of the internet (PUI), and its public health and societal costs, continues to grow, sharpened in focus under the privations of the COVID-19 pandemic. This narrative review reports the ... -
Affective and Enjoyment Responses to 12 weeks of High Intensity Interval Training and Moderate Continuous Training in Adults with Crohn’s Disease : Enjoyment Responses to Exercise Training in Adults with Crohn’s Disease
Bottoms, Lindsay; Leighton, Dean; Carpenter, Roger; Anderson, Simon; Langmead, Louise; Ramage, John; Faulkner, James; Coleman, Elizabeth; Fairhurst, Caroline; Seed, Michael; Tew, Garry (2019-09-20)The aim was to undertake secondary data analysis from a three-arm randomised feasibility trial of high intensity interval training (HIIT), moderate intensity continuous training (MICT), and usual care control in adults ... -
Affordable robot mapping using omnidirectional vision
Bamorovat Abadi, Mohammad; Shahabian Alashti, Mohamad Reza; Holthaus, Patrick; Menon, Catherine; Amirabdollahian, Farshid (EPSRC UK-RAS Network, 2021-07-15)Mapping is a fundamental requirement for robot navigation.In this paper, we introduce a novel visual mapping method that relies solely on a single omnidirectional camera.We present a metric that allows us to generate a map ... -
After critical care : patient support after critical care. A mixed method longitudinal study using email interviews and questionnaires
Pattison, Natalie; O'Gara, Geraldine; Rattray, Janice (2015-08-01)PURPOSE: To explore experiences and needs over time, of patients discharged from ICU using the Intensive Care Experience (ICE-q) questionnaire, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and EuroQoL (EQ-5D), associated ... -
The Aftermath of Death in the Continuing Lives of the Living: Extending ‘Bereavement’ Paradigms through Family and Relational Perspectives
Ribbens McCarthy, Jane; Woodthorpe, Kate; Almack, Kathryn (2023-02-02)While there is a significant interdisciplinary and international literature available on death, dying and bereavement, literature addressing responses to death is dominated by assumptions about individuality, framing ... -
Age-appropriate services for people diagnosed with young onset dementia (YOD): a systematic review
Mayrhofer, Andrea; Mathie, Elspeth; McKeown, Jane; Bunn, Frances; Goodman, Claire (2017-06-16)Background: Literature agrees that post-diagnostic services for people living with young onset dementia (YOD) need to be age-appropriate, but there is insufficient evidence of ‘what works’ to inform service design and ... -
AGN candidates in the VVV near-IR galaxy catalogue
Baravalle, Laura D.; Schmidt, Eduardo O.; Alonso, M. Victoria; Pichel, Ana; Minniti, Dante; Rodríguez-Kamenetzky, Adriana R.; Masetti, Nicola; Villalon, Carolina; Smith, Leigh C.; Lucas, Philip W. (2023-04-30)The goal of this work is to search for Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in the Galactic disc at very low latitudes with |b|< 2°. For this, we studied the five sources from the VVV near-infrared (IR) galaxy catalogue that have ... -
Air Pollution Prediction using Machine Learning: A Review
Sulaimon, Ismail; Alaka, Hafiz; Olu-Ajayi, Razak; Ahmad, Mubashir; Sunmola, Funlade; Ajayi, Saheed; Hye, Abdul (Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, 2021-07-08)In the effort to achieve accurate air pollution predictions, researchers have contributedvarious methodologies with varying data and different approaches that can be judgedaccurate in their respective contexts. Diverse ... -
All Else Being Equal Be Empowered
Klyubin, A.S.; Polani, D.; Nehaniv, C.L. (2005)The classical approach to using utility functions suffers from the drawback of having to design and tweak the functions on a case by case basis. Inspired by examples from the animal kingdom, social sciences and games we ... -
Ambulance clinician use of capillary blood ketone meters to improve emergency hyperglycaemia care: A stepped‐wedged controlled, mixed‐methods feasibility study
Prothero, Larissa Stella; Strudwick, Thomas; Foster, Theresa; Lake, Andrea Kathleen; Boyle, Adrian; Clark, Allan; Williams, Julia; Rayman, Gerry; Dhatariya, Ketan (2024-06-09)Aim: To determine whether it was feasible, safe and acceptable for ambulance clinicians to use capillary blood ketone meters for ‘high‐risk’ diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) recognition and fluid initiation, to inform the need ... -
Ambulance clinicians’ attitudes to older patients’ self‐determination when the patient has impaired decision‐making ability: A Delphi study
Svensson, Anders; Bremer, Anders; Rantala, Andreas; Andersson, Henrik; Devenish, Scott; Williams, Julia; Holmberg, Mats (2021-09-12)Abstract: Objective: The proportion of older people is increasing and reflects in the demand on ambulance services (AS). Patients can be more vulnerable and increasingly dependent, especially when their decision‐making ... -
Analysing the experiences of undergraduate physiotherapy students transitioning from conventional to e-learning: A phenomenological study
Eccott, Laura; Moulson, Andrea; Atkinson, Karen Ann; Livatino, Salvatore; Lewis, Jeremy; Cairns, Mindy (2023-11-08) -
Analysis and implementation of semi-automatic model for vulnerability exploitations of threat agents in NIST databases
Sharma, Gaurav; Vidalis, Stilianos; Menon, Catherine; Anand, Niharika (2023-05-30)Proactive security plays a vital role in preventing the attack before entering active mode. In the modern information environment, it depends on the vulnerability management practitioners of an organization in which the ... -
Analysis of biofilm production and expression of adhesion structures of circulating Clostridioides difficile strains from Mexico
Adrian Martinez-Melendez, Adrian; Morfin-Otero, Rayo; Villarreal-Trevino, Licet; Baines, Simon; Camacho-Ortiz, Adrian; Garza-Gonzalez, Elvira (2021-03-10)Introduction Clostridioides difficile biofilms are believed to protect the pathogen from antibiotics, in addition to potentially contributing to recurrent infections. Methodology: Biofilm production of 102 C. difficile ... -
Analysis of EEG Microstates During Execution of a Nine Hole Peg Test
Alingal Meethal, Shadiya; Steuber, Volker; Amirabdollahian, Farshid (2023-04-28)Abstract—EEG microstates are brief periods of time during which the brain’s electrical activity remains stable. The analysis of EEG microstates can help to identify the background neuronal activity at the millisecond level. ... -
Analysis of FDA warning letters issued to US medical device companies for CAPA related issues between 2013 and 2019
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Analysis of SIGLEC12 expression, IMMUNOMODULATION and prognostic value in RENAL cancer using multiomic databases
Ogbodo, Amobichukwu K.; Mustafov, Denis; Arora, Mohit; Lambrou, George I.; Braoudaki, Maria; Siddiqui, Shoib (2024-01-30)Siglecs belong to a family of immune regulatory receptors predominantly found on hematopoietic cells. They interact with Sia, resulting in the activation or inhibition of the immune response. Previous reports have suggested ... -
Analysis of the Fugl-Meyer outcome measures assessing the effectiveness of robot-mediated stroke therapy
Amirabdollahian, Farshid; Harwin, William S.; Loureiro, Rui C. V. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2008-04)Robot-mediated therapies offer a new approach to neurorehabilitation. This paper analyses the Fugl-Meyer data from the Gentle/S project and finds that the two intervention phases (sling suspension and robot mediated therapy) ... -
Analysis of the influence of outdoor surface heat flux on the inlet water and the exhaust air temperature of the wetting pad of a direct evaporative cooling system
M.C., Ndukwu; Imagwuike Ibeh, Mathew; Edem Akpan, Godwin; Elijah, Ugwu; Akuwueke, Leonard; Oriaku, Linus; Ihediwa, Victor.E.; F. I., Abam; Wu, Hongwei; Kalu, C.A.; Edet Ben, Augustine; Mbanasor, Jude (2023-03-01)The study investigates the interconnectivity between the inlet water temperature, wind flow rate, and storage water heat flux with the performance of biomass wetting pads in direct evaporative cooling under the external ...