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    • Workforce views on antibiotic prescribing and stewardship during the COVID-19 pandemic at an NHS Foundation Trust in England: a cross-sectional survey 

      Abdelsalam Elshenawy, Rasha; Umaru, Nikkie; Aslanpour, Zoe (2024-11-08)
      This cross-sectional survey examines the workforce’s views on antibiotic prescribing and antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) at a UK NHS Foundation Trust during the COVID-19 pandemic. Conducted online between June and September ...

    • The FIP Global Roadmap 2030: Sustainable Pharmacy and Antimicrobial Stewardship with a Novel Antibiotic Dashboard 

      Abdelsalam Elshenawy, Rasha; Umaru, Nikkie; Aslanpour, Zoe (2024-11-08)
      This study, aligned with the FIP Global Roadmap 2030 and UN sustainability goals, explores antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) and introduces a novel antibiotic dashboard aimed at combating antimicrobial resistance (AMR). ...

    • Trends in Antibiotic Use in a UK Secondary Care Prior to and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Retrospective Study (poster) 

      Abdelsalam Elshenawy, Rasha; Umaru, Nikkie; Aslanpour, Zoe (2024-11-11)
      This study evaluates antibiotic usage trends in a UK secondary care setting, comparing pre-pandemic (2019) and pandemic (2020) data. The focus is on antibiotic use among adults admitted for respiratory tract infections ...

    • A framework for delivering multimedia assessments in health & social care higher education: empowering university lecturers 

      Matovu, Richard; Herbland, Anthony (2024-08-13)
      This paper presents a comprehensive framework for implementing multimedia assessments in health and social care higher education, aiming to equip university lecturers with practical tools and strategies. Student- generated ...

    • Preparation and properties of phosphogypsum-based calcined coal gangue composite cementitious materials 

      Ren, Haoyun; Mao, Ruiyong; Wu, Hongwei; Liang, Xing; Zhou, Jiri; Zhang, Zujing (2024-12-30)
      Phosphogypsum (PG) and coal gangue (CG), as the largest solid waste today, the effective utilization of this part of the resource can help to alleviate environmental pollution and resource waste. The aim of this study was ...

    • Failure strength of 7075-T6 aluminium alloy: integrating digital image and finite element analysis for static uniaxial and biaxial load scenarios 

      Emmanuel, Ogunjobi Kehinde; Nwawe Tchadeu, Richard; Marashi Najafi, Fatemeh; Madani, Seyed; Chizari, Mahmoud (2024-11-06)
      The objective of this study is to investigate the mechanical properties of 7075-T6 Aluminium (Al) alloy under both uniaxial and biaxial loads. The study will be conducted using a combination of experimental and numerical ...

    • Sustaining and complicating hierarchies of race and class in humanitarian protection 

      Owens, Hannah; Pallister-Wilkins , Polly (2024-10-25)
      Surrounded by friends in the comfort of her living room, Umm Mahmoud recalled going to a workshop designed for women on life skills. On entering the hall, she discovered that the training included information on washing ...

    • Development of an approach to forecast future takeaway outlet growth around schools and population exposure to takeaways in England 

      Liu, Bochu; Mytton, Oliver; Rahilly, John; Amies-Cull, Ben; Rogers, Nina; Bishop, Tom; Chang, Michael; Cummins, Steven; Derbyshire, Daniel; Hassan, Suzan; Huang, Yuru; Medina-Lara, Antonieta; Savory, Bea; Smith, Richard; Thompson, Claire; White, Martin; Adams, Jean; Burgoine, Thomas (2024-11-10)
      Background: Neighbourhood exposure to takeaways can contribute negatively to diet and diet-related health outcomes. Urban planners within local authorities (LAs) in England can modify takeaway exposure through denying ...

    • A Finite Element Based Approach for Nonlocal Stress Analysis for Multi-Phase Materials and Composites 

      Tufekci, Mertol; Dear, John P.; Salles, Loïc (2024-10-28)
      This study proposes a numerical method for calculating the stress fields in nano-scale multi-phase/composite materials, where the classical continuum theory is inadequate due to the small-scale effects, including intermolecular ...

    • UVCANDELS: Catalogs of Photometric Redshifts and Galaxy Physical Properties 

      Mehta, Vihang; Rafelski, Marc; Sunnquist, Ben; Teplitz, Harry I.; Scarlata, Claudia; Wang, Xin; Fontana, Adriano; Hathi, Nimish P.; Iyer, Kartheik G.; Alavi, Anahita; Colbert, James; Grogin, Norman; Koekemoer, Anton; Nedkova, Kalina V.; Hayes, Matthew; Prichard, Laura; Siana, Brian; Smith, Brent M.; Windhorst, Rogier; Ashcraft, Teresa; Bagley, Micaela; Baronchelli, Ivano; Barro, Guillermo; Blanche, Alex; Broussard, Adam; Carleton, Timothy; Chartab, Nima; Codoreanu, Alex; Cohen, Seth; Conselice, Christopher; Dai, Y. Sophia; Darvish, Behnam; Davé, Romeel; DeGroot, Laura; Mello, Duilia De; Dickinson, Mark; Emami, Najmeh; Ferguson, Henry; Ferreira, Leonardo; Finkelstein, Keely; Finkelstein, Steven; Gardner, Jonathan P.; Gawiser, Eric; Gburek, Timothy; Giavalisco, Mauro; Grazian, Andrea; Gronwall, Caryl; Guo, Yicheng; Haro, Pablo Arrabal; Hemmati, Shoubaneh; Howell, Justin; Jansen, Rolf A.; Ji, Zhiyuan; Kaviraj, Sugata; Kim, Keunho J.; Kurczynski, Peter; Lazar, Ilin; Lucas, Ray A.; MacKenty, John; Mantha, Kameswara Bharadwaj; Martin, Alec; Martin, Garreth; McCabe, Tyler; Mobasher, Bahram; Morales, Alexa M.; O’Connell, Robert; Olsen, Charlotte; Otteson, Lillian; Ravindranath, Swara; Redshaw, Caleb; Rutkowski, Michael; Robertson, Brant; Sattari, Zahra; Soto, Emmaris; Sun, Lei; Taamoli, Sina; Vanzella, Eros; Yung, L. Y. Aaron; Zabelle, Bonnabelle; Team), (The UVCANDELS (2024-11-08)
      The UltraViolet imaging of the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey Fields (UVCANDELS) program provides deep Hubble Space Telescope (HST) F275W and F435W imaging over four CANDELS fields (GOODS-N, ...

    • Exploring Human Misuse and Abuse of Veterinary Drugs: A Descriptive Pharmacovigilance Analysis Utilising the Food and Drug Administration’s Adverse Events Reporting System (FAERS) 

      Dunn, Josie; Schifano, Fabrizio; Dudley, Ed; Guirguis, Amira (2024-10-25)
      Introduction: Evidence suggests an increasing misuse of veterinary medicines by humans. This study aims to analyse Adverse Events (AEs) associated with selected veterinary products using the Food and Drug Administration ...

    • Partial Path Overlapping Mitigation: An Initial Stage for Joint Detection and Decoding in Multipath Channels Using the Sum–Product Algorithm 

      Mirbadin, Anoush; Zaraki, Abolfazl (2024-10-10)
      This paper addresses the problem of mitigating unknown partial path overlaps in communication systems. This study demonstrates that by utilizing the front-end insight of communication systems along with the sum–product ...

    • The Outflowing [O ii ] Nebulae of Compact Starburst Galaxies at z ∼ 0.5 

      Perrotta, Serena; Coil, Alison L.; Rupke, David S. N.; Ning, Wenmeng; Duong, Brendan; Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M.; Fielding, Drummond B.; Geach, James E.; Hickox, Ryan C.; Moustakas, John; Rudnick, Gregory H.; Sell, Paul H.; Swiggum, Cameren N.; Tremonti, Christy A. (2024-11-01)
      High-velocity outflows are ubiquitous in compact, massive (M * ∼ 1011 M ⊙), z ∼ 0.5 galaxies with extreme star formation surface densities (ΣSFR ∼ 2000 M ⊙ yr−1 kpc−2). We have previously detected and characterized these ...

    • Quantification of cavitating flows with neutron imaging 

      Karathanassis, I. K.; Heidari-Koochi, M.; Koukouvinis, F.; Weiss, L.; Trtik, P.; Spivey, D.; Wensing, M.; Gavaises, M. (2024-11-06)
      The current experimental investigation demonstrates the capability of neutron imaging to quantify cavitation, in terms of vapour content, within an orifice of an abruptly constricting geometry. The morphology of different ...

    • Neighbourhood Density in Spoken Word Recognition : An eye-tracking study 

      Schelletter, Christina (2024-10-16)
      Bilingual acquisition research has so far focused on comparisons with monolingual children in terms of linguistic features, performance on standardised tests, input, etc. In contrast, new methodologies, such as eye-tracking, ...

    • RFID Tag for Sample Rack 

      School of Physics, Engineering & Computer Science; Centre for Engineering Research; Communications and Intelligent Systems; Department of Engineering and Technology; Centre for Future Societies Research; Gorma, Wael; Simpson, Oluyomi; Sun, Yichuang; Benn, Neil; Terry, Karem; Darlow, Paul (UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO), 2024-06-26)
      A method and device for automatically storing information from a plurality of sample holders held in a sample rack 100. Each of the sample holders has an individual barcode thereon (104). An RFID tag 402 is affixed to the ...

    • A fast-rotator post-starburst galaxy quenched by supermassive black-hole feedback at z = 3 

      D’Eugenio, Francesco; Pérez-González, Pablo G.; Maiolino, Roberto; Scholtz, Jan; Perna, Michele; Circosta, Chiara; Übler, Hannah; Arribas, Santiago; Böker, Torsten; Bunker, Andrew J.; Carniani, Stefano; Charlot, Stephane; Chevallard, Jacopo; Cresci, Giovanni; Curtis-Lake, Emma; Jones, Gareth C.; Kumari, Nimisha; Lamperti, Isabella; Looser, Tobias J.; Parlanti, Eleonora; Rix, Hans-Walter; Robertson, Brant; Rodríguez Del Pino, Bruno; Tacchella, Sandro; Venturi, Giacomo; Willott, Chris J. (2024-09-16)
      The most massive galaxies in the Universe stopped forming stars due to the time-integrated feedback from central supermassive black holes (SMBHs). However, the exact quenching mechanism is not yet understood, because local ...

    • Effect of Channel Aging on Beyond Diagonal Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces 

      Papazafeiropoulos, Anastasios; Kourtessis, Pandelis; Chatzinotas, Symeon (2024-09-13)
      Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has appeared as a revolutionary candidate technology for future sixth-generation (6G) networks, but most works have relied on single-connected reflective RISs, which are mathematically ...

    • Preventing urinary tract infection in older people living in care homes: the ‘StOP UTI’ realist synthesis 

      Prieto, Jacqui; Wilson, Jennie; Tingle, Alison; Cooper, Emily; Handley, Melanie; Rycroft Malone, Jo; Bostock, Jennifer; Loveday, Heather (2024-08-08)
      Background Urinary tract infection (UTI) is the most diagnosed infection in older people living in care homes.Objective To identify interventions for recognising and preventing UTI in older people living in care homes in ...

    • BIANKA : A Balloon Field Campaign to Study Climate Change Uncertainties 

      Geldenhuys, Markus; Blazaki, Kyriaki; Afchine, Armin; Cereceda, Francisco; Groob, Jens-Uwe; Hegglin, Michaela I.; Kloss, Corina; Kuhn, Thomas; Labushagne, Casper; Laube, Johannes C.; MAchinini, Tshidi; Mkololo, Thumeka; Renard, Jean-Baptiste; Rolf, Christian; Steffes, Wilhem; Stopford, Chris; Riese, Martin (2024-10-30)
      Climate change affects our everyday lives and despite a lot of research, many climate uncertainties exist. This work aims to help address some of these uncertainties via the BIANKA (BImodal ANdes KAroo) campaign; a first ...