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Approaches to the identification and management of depression in people living with chronic kidney disease: A scoping review of 860 papers
Pearce, Christina J.; Hall, Natalie; Hudson, Joanna L.; Farrington, Ken; Tucker, Madeleine J. Ryan; Wellsted, David; Jones, Julia; Sharma, Shivani; Norton, Sam; Ormandy, Paula; Palmer, Nick; Quinnell, Anthony; Fitzgerald, Lauren; Griffiths, Sophie; Chilcot, Joseph (2023-01-16)Background: Depression is prevalent across the spectrum of Chronic Kidney Disease and associated with poorer outcomes. There is limited evidence regarding the most effective interventions and care pathways for depression ... -
The appropriateness of the helical axis technique and six available cardan sequences for the representation of 3-d lead leg kinematics during the fencing lunge
Sinclair, Jonathan; Taylor, Paul J.; Bottoms, Lindsay (2013-07)Cardan/Euler angles represent the most common technique for the quantification of segmental rotations. Cardan angles are influenced by their ordered sequence, and sensitive to planar-cross talk from the dominant rotation ... -
Are Older Citizens Using the E-MOI portal in Saudi Arabia, Hail City: A Quantitative Study : Older Adults, web portals and Saudi Arabia
Choudrie, Jyoti; Alfalah, Adel; Spencer, Neil; Sundaram, David (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2017-10-06)ICT has been widely exploited as a powerful tool of development and prosperity. Therefore, Governments are increasingly moving their civil products and services online. However, there are several groups within societies ... -
Are physical activity interventions for healthy inactive adults effective in promoting behavior change and maintenance, and which behavior change techniques are effective? A systematic review and meta-analysis
Howlett, Neil; Trivedi, Daksha; Troop, Nicholas; Chater, Angel (2019-01-01)Physical inactivity and sedentary behavior relate to poor health outcomes independently. Healthy inactive adults are a key target population for prevention. This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to evaluate the ... -
Are Population-Level Approaches to Dementia Risk Reduction UnderResearched? A Rapid Review of the Dementia Prevention Literature
Walsh, Sebastian; Wallace, Lindsay; Kuhn, I; Mytton, Oliver; la Fortune, Louise; Wills, Wendy; Mukadam, N; Brayne, Carol (2023-05-15)Dementia is forecast to become increasingly prevalent, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, and is associated with high human and economic costs. Primary prevention of dementia -preventing risk factors leading ... -
An aromatherapy massage intervention on sleep in the ICU: a randomised feasibility study
Pattison, Natalie; O'Gara, Geraldine; Wigmore, Timothy; Dyer, Jeannie (2023-08-02)We conducted a feasibility randomised controlled trial exploring the effect of aromatherapy massage on sleep in critically ill patients. Patients were randomised to receive aromatherapy massage or usual care, and feasibility ... -
Art Therapy’s contribution to alleviating the HIV burden in South Africa
Berman, Hayley; Woollett, Nataly (Taylor & Francis Group, 2019-06-12)South Africa carries one of the world’s most prevalent burdens of disease, HIV. Living surrounded by so much illness and death and against an historical backdrop of violence and poverty, many young people have had multiple ... -
Art, Aesthetics and Innovations in The Built Environment: Beyond Theory into Practice
Wusu, Godoyon; Alaka, Hafiz (Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, 2021-07-08)The way and manner in which construction development occurs within an environmentcharacterize the overall look of the neighbourhood and consequently the locality, city orcountry. Therefore, Art, Town and City planning, ... -
Artificial Intelligence in the Construction Industry: A Systematic Review of the Entire Construction Value Chain Lifecycle
Egwim, Christian Nnaemeka; Alaka, Hafiz; Demir, Eren; Balogun, Habeeb; Olu-Ajayi, Razak; Sulaimon, Ismail; Wusu, Godoyon; Yusuf, Wasiu; Muideen, Adegoke A. (2023-12-28)In recent years, there has been a surge in the global digitization of corporate processes and concepts such as digital technology development which is growing at such a quick pace that the construction industry is struggling ... -
Assessing deprescribing tools for implementation in care homes: A qualitative study of the views of care home staff
Warmoth, Krystal; Rees, Jessica; Day, Jo; Cockcroft, Emma; Aylward, Alex; Pollock, Lucy; Coxon, George; Craig, Trudy; Walton, Bridget; Stein, Ken (2023-12-16)BACKGROUND: Care home residents often experience polypharmacy (defined as taking five or more regular medicines). Therefore, we need to ensure that residents only take the medications that are appropriate or provide value ... -
Assessing problematic use of social media: where do we stand and what can be improved?
Cataldo, Ilaria; Billieux, Joël; Esposito, Gianluca; Corazza, Ornella (2022-06-01)The increased popularity of social media has brought clinicians and researchers to question the potential problematic outcomes of such Internet-based applications. Over the past two decades, an increasing number of studies ... -
Assessing the impact of COVID-19 measures on COPD management and patients: A simulation-based decision support tool for COPD services in the UK
Yakutcan, Usame; Hurst, John R.; Lebcir, Reda M.; Demir, Eren (2022-10-07)Objectives To develop a computer-based decision support tool (DST) for key decision makers to safely explore the impact on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) care of service changes driven by restrictions to ... -
Assessing the role of biomarker feedback in a 12-week community weight management programme among overweight men: a pilot study
Grant, Daniel; Smith, Joshua; Bottoms, Lindsay (2024-03-28)Background The primary objective of this study was to examine the feasibility of recruitment, retention, and delivery of biomarker feedback among men partaking in Shape Up, a physical activity for health programme. ... -
Assessment of effectiveness of hollow fins for performance enhancement of solar still device using simulation approach
Ullah, Hafiz Khadim; Ismail, Sikiru O.; Prasad, Kumar Shantanu (2022-09-08)Unavailability of relatively clean water for several industrial, domestic and agricultural purposes is a serious concern to many regions of the world today. This challenge is growing worse with the increasing world global ... -
Assessment of the sensitivity of model responses to urban emission changes in support of emission reduction strategies
Bessagnet, Bertrand; Cuvelier, Kees; de Meij, Alexander; Monteiro, Alexandra; Pisoni, Enrico; Thunis, Philippe; Violaris, Angelos; Kushta, Jonilda; Denby, Bruce R.; Mu, Qing; Wærsted, Eivind G.; Vivanco, Marta G.; Theobald, Mark R.; Gil, Victoria; Sokhi, Ranjeet; Momoh, John-Kester; Alyuz Ozdemir, Ummugulsum; VPM, Rajasree; Kumar, Saurabh; Bossioli, Elissavet; Methymaki, Georgia; Brzoja, Darijo; Milić, Velimir; Cholakian, Arineh; Pennel, Romain; Mailler, Sylvain; Menut, Laurent; Briganti, Gino; Mircea, Mihaela; Flandorfer, Claudia; Baumann-Stanzer, Kathrin; Hutsemékers, Virginie; Trimpeneers, Elke (2023-12-26)The sensitivity of air quality model responses to modifications in input data (e.g. emissions, meteorology and boundary conditions) or model configurations is recognized as an important issue for air quality modelling ... -
Assessment on hybrid jute/coir fibers reinforced polyester composite with hybrid fillers under different environmental conditions
Ganesan, K.; Kailasanathan, C.; Rajini, N.; Ismail, Sikiru O.; Ayrilmis, Nadir; Mohammad, Faruq; Al-Lohedan, Hamad A.; Tawfeek, Ahmed M.; Issa, Zuheir A.; Aldhayan, Daifallah M. (2021-09-27)In this work, synergistic impact of hybrid fibers and hybrid fillers on mechanical, moisture absorption and morphological properties of polyester matrix composites at dry and wet conditions was examined. The hybrid composite ... -
The AtCathB3 gene, encoding a cathepsin B-like protease, is expressed during germination of Arabidopsis thaliana and transcriptionally repressed by the basic leucine zipper protein GBF1
Iglesias-Fernández, Raquel; Wozny, Dorothee; Iriondo-De Hond, Maite; Oñate-Sánchez, Luis; Carbonero, Pilar; Barrero-Sicilia, Cristina (2014-05-01)Protein hydrolysis plays an important role during seed germination and post-germination seedling establishment. In Arabidopsis thaliana, cathepsin B-like proteases are encoded by a gene family of three members, but only ... -
ATMP-CA: Optimising Mixed-Criticality Systems Considering Criticality Arithmetic
Fadlelseed, Sajid; Kirner, Raimund; Menon, Catherine (2021-06-06)Many safety-critical systems use criticality arithmetic, an informal practice of implementing a higher-criticality function by combining several lower-criticality redundant components or tasks. This lowers the cost of ... -
Attending to political conflict in social work today and in the near future : Focus on European social work
Ramon, Shulamit (2021-04-30)This paper is aimed at looking at how social workers in Europe tackle the inevitable political issues embedded in their work as intermediaries between political authorities (governments and local authorities) and social ... -
Attitudes to cardiopulmonary resuscitation and defibrillator use: a survey of UK adults in 2017
Hawkes, Claire; Brown, T.P.; Booth, S; Fothergill, Rachael; Siriwardena, A. Niroshan; Zakaria, S; Askew, S; Williams, Julia; Rees, Nigel; Ji, C; Perkins, Gavin (2019-04-02)Background-Bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and public access defibrillator (PAD) use can save the lives of people who experience out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Little is known about the proportions of UK ...