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Clinical and cost-effectiveness of a personalised health promotion intervention enabling independence in older people with mild frailty (‘HomeHealth’) compared to treatment as usual: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
(2022-06-04)
Background: Frailty is clinically associated with multiple adverse outcomes, including reduced quality of life and functioning, falls, hospitalisations, moves to long-term care and mortality. Health services commonly focus ...
C2 by-pass: Cross-talk between the complement classical and alternative pathways
(2022-05-31)
Several disorders associated with the total or partial absence of components of the human complement system are known. Deficiencies of classical pathway (CP) components are generally linked to systemic lupus erythematosus ...
Concussion-Associated Polygenic Profiles of Elite Male Rugby Athletes
(2022-05-04)
Due to the high-velocity collision-based nature of elite rugby league and union, the risk of sustaining a concussion is high. Occurrence of and outcomes following a concussion are probably affected by the interaction of ...
Dementia Friendly Communities: The Involvement of People Living with Dementia
(2022-05)
Background Dementia Friendly Communities (DFCs) offer an approach to community engagement to improve the lives of people living with dementia and their family supporters. The involvement of those living with dementia is ...
The ERP correlates of self-knowledge in ageing
(2022-04-30)
Self-knowledge is a type of personal semantic knowledge that concerns one’s self-image and personal identity. It has most often been operationalized as the summary of one’s personality traits (“I am a stubborn person”). ...
Gambling disorder in the UK: key research priorities and the urgent need for independent research funding
(2022-04-15)
Gambling in the modern era is pervasive owing to the variety of gambling opportunities available, including those that use technology (eg, online applications on smartphones). Although many people gamble recreationally ...
Repo-Man/protein phosphatase 1 SUMOylation mediates binding to lamin A and serine 22 dephosphorylation
(2022-04-13)
Lamin A phosphorylation/de-phosphorylation is an important process during cells division as it allows for nuclear envelope (NE) disassembly at mitotic entry and its re-assembly during mitotic exit. Several kinases have ...
An international cross-sectional investigation on social media, fitspiration content exposure, and related risks during the COVID-19 self-isolation period
(2022-04)
With the global COVID-19 pandemic, governments from many countries in the world implemented various restrictions to prevent the SARS-Cov-2 virus's spread, including social distancing measures, quarantine, in-home lockdown, ...
Individual obsessive-compulsive traits are associated with poorer adjustment to the easing of COVID-19 restrictions
(2022-04-01)
Background: As COVID-19 restrictions ease, the public are expected to relinquish previously enforced safety behaviors and resume a more normal lifestyle. Despite these aims, our recent survey of 438 adults from the general ...
Droplet nuclei caustic formations in exhaled vortex rings
(2022-03-10)
Vortex ring (VR) structures occur in light or hoarse cough configurations. These instances consist of short impulses of exhaled air resulting to a self-contained structure that can travel large distances. The present study ...