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Correspondence on “Re-examining remission definitions in rheumatoid arthritis: considering the 28-Joint Disease Activity Score, C-reactive protein level and patient global assessment” by Felson et al. (2022)
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Ferreira, R. J. O., Welsing, P. M. J., Jacobs, J. W. G., Gossec, L., Ndosi, M., Machado, P. M., …Da Silva, J. A. P. (2023). Correspondence on “Re-examining remission definitions in rheumatoid arthritis: considering the 28-Joint Disease Activity Score, C-reactive protein level and patient global assessment” by Felson et al. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 82(8), Article e183. https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2021-221917

Understanding the role of exercise professionals in the delivery of the NHS long term plan within AHP services in England (2022)
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Singh, V., Pollard, K., Okasheh, R., Percival, J., Fordham, C., & Cramp, F. (2022). Understanding the role of exercise professionals in the delivery of the NHS long term plan within AHP services in England. Physiotherapy, 114(Supplement 1), e70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physio.2021.12.329

Keywords: Support worker, Exercise, NHS Long Term Plan Purpose: To explore the use of exercise professionals in AHP services and to understand their current and potential role in AHP NHS commissioned services. Methods: The project had three pha... Read More about Understanding the role of exercise professionals in the delivery of the NHS long term plan within AHP services in England.

The practice of pre-trial detention in England & Wales - Changing law and changing culture (2022)
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Smith, T. (2022). The practice of pre-trial detention in England & Wales - Changing law and changing culture. European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, 28, 435–449. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10610-022-09504-y

Pre-trial detention empowers criminal courts to imprison defendants before they have been convicted of an offence. This is a significant power which should be subject to a rigourous decision-making process. A 2016 study of pre-trial detention practic... Read More about The practice of pre-trial detention in England & Wales - Changing law and changing culture.

Released under investigation: High time to bail out (2022)
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Sosabowski, M. H., & Johnston, E. (2023). Released under investigation: High time to bail out. Journal of Criminal Law, 87(4), 266-280. https://doi.org/10.1177/00220183221078935

Prior to the Policing and Crime Act 2017, the provision of bail was set out by the Bail Act and refined by the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE). Bail provisions changed under the Policing and Crime Act 2017, which created a presumption ag... Read More about Released under investigation: High time to bail out.

Towards machine vision for insect welfare monitoring and behavioural insights (2022)
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Hansen, M. F., Oparaeke, A., Gallagher, R., Karimi, A., Tariq, F., & Smith, M. L. (2022). Towards machine vision for insect welfare monitoring and behavioural insights. Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 9, Article 835529. https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2022.835529

Machine vision has demonstrated its usefulness in the livestock industry in terms of improving welfare in such areas as lameness detection and body condition scoring in dairy cattle. In this article, we present some promising results of applying stat... Read More about Towards machine vision for insect welfare monitoring and behavioural insights.

Microbial fuel cell compared to a chemostat (2022)
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Greenman, J., Mendis, B. A., Gajda, I., & Ieropoulos, I. A. (2022). Microbial fuel cell compared to a chemostat. Chemosphere, 296, Article 133967. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.133967

Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) represent a green and sustainable energy conversion system that integrate bacterial biofilms within an electrochemical two-electrode set-up to produce electricity from organic waste. In this review, we focus on a novel exp... Read More about Microbial fuel cell compared to a chemostat.

Updates to data versions and analytic methods influence the reproducibility of results from epigenome-wide association studies (2022)
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Lussier, A. A., Zhu, Y., Smith, B. J., Simpkin, A. J., Smith, A. D., Suderman, M. J., …Dunn, E. C. (2022). Updates to data versions and analytic methods influence the reproducibility of results from epigenome-wide association studies. Epigenetics, https://doi.org/10.1080/15592294.2022.2028072

Introduction: Biomedical research has grown increasingly cooperative through the sharing of consortia-level epigenetic data. Since consortia preprocess data prior to distribution, new processing pipelines can lead to different versions of the same d... Read More about Updates to data versions and analytic methods influence the reproducibility of results from epigenome-wide association studies.

Frequency-dependent characteristics of nerve-mediated ATP and acetylcholine release from detrusor smooth muscle (2022)
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Chakrabarty, B., Aitchison, K., White, P., McCarthy, C. J., Kanai, A. J., & Fry, C. H. (2022). Frequency-dependent characteristics of nerve-mediated ATP and acetylcholine release from detrusor smooth muscle. Experimental Physiology, 107(4), 350-358. https://doi.org/10.1113/EP090238

New Findings: What is the central question of this study? Is the frequency dependence of co-transmitter release from postganglionic nerve fibres different for each transmitter? What is the main finding and its importance? Release of co-transmitters f... Read More about Frequency-dependent characteristics of nerve-mediated ATP and acetylcholine release from detrusor smooth muscle.

Redesigning traditional linear supply chains into circular supply chains–A study into its challenges (2022)
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Roy, T., Garza-Reyes, J. A., Kumar, V., Kumar, A., & Agrawal, R. (2022). Redesigning traditional linear supply chains into circular supply chains–A study into its challenges. Sustainable Production and Consumption, 31, 113-126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spc.2022.02.004

Transitioning to a Circular Economy (CE) is considered the most promising way to achieve economic and environmental sustainability. However, companies and governments are faced with challenges in redesigning existing linear supply chains (SCs) into c... Read More about Redesigning traditional linear supply chains into circular supply chains–A study into its challenges.

A framework for composite layup skill learning and generalizing through teleoperation (2022)
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Si, W., Wang, N., Li, Q., & Yang, C. (2022). A framework for composite layup skill learning and generalizing through teleoperation. Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 16, Article 840240. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbot.2022.840240

In this article, an impedance control-based framework for human-robot composite layup skill transfer was developed, and the human-in-the-loop mechanism was investigated to achieve human-robot skill transfer. Although there are some works on human-rob... Read More about A framework for composite layup skill learning and generalizing through teleoperation.

Influence of landscape moisture sources and topography on rock weathering patterns associated with wildfire (2022)
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Mol, L., & Grenfell, M. (2022). Influence of landscape moisture sources and topography on rock weathering patterns associated with wildfire. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 47(7), 1761-1777. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5345

From 9 March 2015, a wildfire burned an area of 25.7 km2, or approximately half of the Jonkershoek catchment (Western Cape, South Africa), over the course of 3 days. During this period, large areas of fynbos and commercial forest plantations were raz... Read More about Influence of landscape moisture sources and topography on rock weathering patterns associated with wildfire.

Vocabulary limitations undermine bilingual children’s reading comprehension despite bilingual cognitive strengths (2022)
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Babayiğit, S., Hitch, G. J., Kandru-Pothineni, S., Clarke, A., & Warmington, M. (2022). Vocabulary limitations undermine bilingual children’s reading comprehension despite bilingual cognitive strengths. Reading and Writing, 35(7), 1651-1673. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-021-10240-8

Previous research reported bilingual cognitive strengths in working memory, executive function and novel-word learning skills (Bialystok in Psychol Bull 143:233–262, 2017; Kaushanskaya and Marian in Psychon Bull Rev 16:705–710, 2009). These skills sh... Read More about Vocabulary limitations undermine bilingual children’s reading comprehension despite bilingual cognitive strengths.

Editors' Introduction (2022)
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Stanier, J., Miglio, N., & Dolezal, L. (2022). Editors' Introduction. Puncta: Journal of Critical Phenomenology, 5(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.5399/pjcp.v5i1.1

An introduction to the special issue on 'Pandemic Politics and Phenomenology.'

Using forum theatre to mobilise knowledge and improve NHS care: The Enhancing Post-injury Psychological Intervention and Care (EPPIC) study (2022)
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Beckett, K., Deave, T., McBride, T., le May, A., Gabbay, J., Kapoulas, U., …Kendrick, D. (2022). Using forum theatre to mobilise knowledge and improve NHS care: The Enhancing Post-injury Psychological Intervention and Care (EPPIC) study. Evidence and Policy, 18(2), 236-264. https://doi.org/10.1332/174426421x16420902769508

Background:Evidence regarding the impact of psychological problems on recovery from injury has limited influence on practice. Mindlines show effective practice requires diverse knowledge which is generally socially transmitted. Aims and objective... Read More about Using forum theatre to mobilise knowledge and improve NHS care: The Enhancing Post-injury Psychological Intervention and Care (EPPIC) study.

Working from the inside out: Fostering intrinsic motivation and expanding our criteria for conservation success (2022)
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Cardinal, C., Strubel, M. A., & Oxley, A. S. (2022). Working from the inside out: Fostering intrinsic motivation and expanding our criteria for conservation success. International Journal of Primatology, 43(6), 1177-1202. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10764-022-00280-4

Primatological research is often associated with understanding animals and their habitats, yet practical conservation depends entirely on human actions. This encompasses the activities of Indigenous and local people, conservationists, and NGOs workin... Read More about Working from the inside out: Fostering intrinsic motivation and expanding our criteria for conservation success.

Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies and its risk factors in the north-west of Iran: A population-based cross-sectional study (2022)
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Zandian, H., Moghadam, T. Z., Habibzadeh, S., & Pourfarzi, F. (2022). Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies and its risk factors in the north-west of Iran: A population-based cross-sectional study. The Open Public Health Journal, 15(1), https://doi.org/10.2174/18749445-v15-e2201140

Background: The aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity and to examine the risk factors for seropositivity among the people of Ardabil, in the northwestern part of Iran. Methods: A community-based survey was carr... Read More about Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies and its risk factors in the north-west of Iran: A population-based cross-sectional study.

Early determinants of mortality in hospitalized COVID-19 patients in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia (2022)
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Ansari, K. A., Alwazzeh, M. J., Alkuwaiti, F. A., Farooqi, F. A., Al Khathlan, N., Almutawah, H., …Alkuwaiti, E. (2022). Early determinants of mortality in hospitalized COVID-19 patients in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. International Journal of General Medicine, 15(15), 1689-1701. https://doi.org/10.2147/ijgm.s349598

Purpose: This study investigated the clinical determinants of mortality in hospitalized patients infected with COVID-19. Patients and Methods: A retrospective multicenter large cohort of COVID-19 patients hospitalized between March 2020 and February... Read More about Early determinants of mortality in hospitalized COVID-19 patients in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia.

An on-premise study to investigate the effects of mixing alcohol with caffeinated beverages (2022)
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Johnson, S. J., Verster, J. C., & Alford, C. (2022). An on-premise study to investigate the effects of mixing alcohol with caffeinated beverages. Brain and Behavior, 12(3), Article e2445. https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.2445

Objective: The purpose of this on-premise study was to determine if mixing alcohol with caffeinated mixers had an impact on objective and subjective intoxication. Methods: The study was conducted across eight drinking occasions in the City of Bristol... Read More about An on-premise study to investigate the effects of mixing alcohol with caffeinated beverages.

Opportunities to engage health system leaders in whole systems approaches to physical activity in England (2022)
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Bird, E. L., Evans, D., Gray, S., Atherton, E., Jamie, B., Brannan, M., …Weiner, D. (2022). Opportunities to engage health system leaders in whole systems approaches to physical activity in England. BMC Public Health, 22(1), Article 254. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-12602-5

Background: Physical activity plays an important role in maintaining good health and wellbeing, non-communicable disease prevention and can improve healthcare outcomes. Some progress is being made on incorporating physical activity into routine care,... Read More about Opportunities to engage health system leaders in whole systems approaches to physical activity in England.

Female undergraduates playing it 'safe' to stay 'safe': Further understanding sexual violence against women (2022)
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Bovill, H., McCartan, K., & Waller, R. (2022). Female undergraduates playing it 'safe' to stay 'safe': Further understanding sexual violence against women. Journal of International Women's Studies, 23(1),

Women’s safety from sexual violence whilst at university is a global issue and the UK is no exception. Whilst the authors of this paper acknowledge that sexual violence can occur across the gender spectrum, most sexual violence ‘victims’ are women an... Read More about Female undergraduates playing it 'safe' to stay 'safe': Further understanding sexual violence against women.