Chickenpox at Ninety Four: A Case for Extending the Use of Varicella Vaccine in the UK by Justin Bendig, Fiona Sindall

“…The same recommendation should be made in the UK.…”
Get full text

Calogero Giametta. 2017. The Sexual Politics of Asylum. Sexual Orientations and Gender Identity in the UK Asylum System & Thibaut Raboin. 2017. Discourses on LGBT Asylum in the UK.... by Charlotte Thevenet

Get full text

Defining Human Rights in Times of Covid: Human Rights Discourse in the UK and Devolved Legislatures by Anne Cousson

“…The British government’s reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic has meant wide-ranging restrictions imposed on people living in the UK with minimal parliamentary oversight. Thus, human rights and civil liberties were affected, as far as both individual freedoms and constitutional guarantees are concerned. …”
Get full text

Creating pathways for collaboration between Argentina and the UK to utilise microbial biofilms in sustainable agriculture by Patricia L. Abdian, Miguel Cámara, Fabricio D. Cassan, Gabriel Castrillo, Marisa Díaz, Gustavo Gonzalez Anta, Claire Hodge, Jo Slater-Jefferies, Cait E. MacPhee, Enzo Moriconi, Paulina D. Rakowska, Rasmita Raval, Duncan Ross, Juan F. Sandoval, Diego O. Serra, Claudio Valverde, Jeremy Webb, Ana Winters

“…Despite ongoing research, there are still large knowledge gaps in the understanding of the mechanisms governing interaction between biofilms and plants, and how these can be manipulated to promote sustainable agriculture. The UK’s National Biofilms Innovation Centre [NBIC] and Argentine researchers have established a dialogue aimed at addressing these gaps and improving agricultural productivity through the integration of new technologies that can promote soil health whilst reducing environmental impact. …”
Get full text

Stretched at Both Ends: Pressure on Student Services and the Impact on Academic Staff at UK Universities by Gareth Hughes, Michael Priestley, Leigh Spanner

“…Thus, precisely as sectoral debate around UK universities’ legal duty of care intensifies, the role and responsibility of university services and academic staff in relation to other institutional and external stakeholders is becoming increasingly indeterminate. …”
Get full text

Evaluation of routinely collected records for dementia outcomes in UK: a prospective cohort study by Kay-Tee Khaw, Carol Brayne, Robert Luben, Shabina Hayat, Nicholas Wareham

“…We also observed discrepancies with primary care records for the subset and report on potential linkage-related selection bias.Conclusions Use of different types of record linkage from varying parts of the UK’s health system reveals differences in recorded dementia diagnosis, indicating that dementia can be identified to varying extents in different parts of the NHS system. …”
Get full text

Incidence of shoulder dislocations in the UK, 1995–2015: a population-based cohort study by Gary S Collins, Sarah E Lamb, Sally Hopewell, Daniel Prieto-Alhambra, Andrew Judge, Amar Rangan, Andrew J Carr, Jonathan L Rees, Nigel K Arden, Katherine Edwards, Tim A Holt, Anjali Shah, Antonella Delmestri, Rafael A Pinedo-Villanueva

“…Objective This cohort study evaluates the unknown age-specific and gender-specific incidence of primary shoulder dislocations in the UK.Setting UK primary care data from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) were used to identify patients aged 16–70 years with a shoulder dislocation during 1995–2015. …”
Get full text

Cluster Analysis of Daily Cycling Flow Profiles during COVID-19 Lockdown in the UK by Matthew Burke, Dilum Dissanayake, Margaret Bell

“…An inductive loop network in Tyne and Wear, the UK provided cycle flow data from 25 sites. A paired sample t-test was carried out between the “Pre-COVID-19” baseline year and 2020 to determine how cycling volumes changed at each site. …”
Get full text

The Solid Phase Distribution and Bioaccessibility of Arsenic, Chromium, and Nickel in Natural Ironstone Soils in the UK by Joanna Wragg, Mark Cave, Sean Gregory

Get full text

Wastewater-based analysis of antimicrobial resistance at UK airports: Evaluating the potential opportunities and challenges by Margaret E. Knight, Kata Farkas, Matthew Wade, Gordon Webster, Daniel A. Pass, William Perry, Peter Kille, Andrew Singer, Davey L. Jones

“…This study investigates the abundance and diversity of antimicrobial resistance genes (ARGs) in wastewater samples collected from airport terminals (n = 132), aircraft (n = 25), and a connected wastewater treatment plant (n = 11) at three international airports in the UK (London Heathrow, Edinburgh and Bristol). A total of 76 ARGs were quantified using high throughput qPCR (HT-qPCR) while a subset of samples (n = 30) was further analysed by metagenomic sequencing. …”
Get full text

Impact of Duodopa on Quality of Life in Advanced Parkinson's Disease: A UK Case Series by T. Foltynie, C. Magee, C. James, G. J. M. Webster, A. J. Lees, P. Limousin

Get full text

Association of ultra-processed food-related metabolites with selected biochemical markers in the UK Biobank by Anthony Kityo, Byeonggeun Choi, Jung-Eun Lee, Chulho Kim, Sang-Ah Lee

Subjects: Get full text

Space Weather Forecasts of Ground Level Space Weather in the UK: Evaluating Performance and Limitations by A. W. Smith, I. J. Rae, C. Forsyth, J. C. Coxon, M.‐T. Walach, C. J. Lao, D. S. Bloomfield, S. A. Reddy, M. K. Coughlan, A. Keesee, S. Bentley

Get full text

Forecasting the Probability of Large Rates of Change of the Geomagnetic Field in the UK: Timescales, Horizons, and Thresholds by A. W. Smith, C. Forsyth, I. J. Rae, T. M. Garton, T. Bloch, C. M. Jackman, M. Bakrania

“…We assess the ability of three different machine learning model architectures to process the time history of the incoming solar wind and provide a probabilistic forecast as to whether the rate of change of the ground magnetic field will exceed specific high thresholds at a location in the UK. The three models tested represent feed forward, convolutional and recurrent neural networks. …”
Get full text

The interplay of sex and genotype in disease associations: a comprehensive network analysis in the UK Biobank by Vivek Sriram, Jakob Woerner, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Dokyoon Kim

“…Through comparison of sex-stratified disease-disease networks (DDNs)—where nodes represent diseases and edges represent their relationships—we investigate sex differences in patterns of polygenicity and pleiotropy between diseases. Results Using UK Biobank summary statistics, we built male- and female-specific DDNs for 103 diseases. …”
Get full text

Meeting the Challenge of Diabetes in Ageing and Diverse Populations: A Review of the Literature from the UK by Emma Wilkinson, Muhammad Waqar, Alan Sinclair, Gurch Randhawa

“…Complications of diabetes unequally affect particular groups in the UK older people, and people with a South Asian background are two population groups with increased risk whose numbers will grow in the future. …”
Get full text

How is suicide risk assessed in healthcare settings in the UK? A systematic scoping review. by Sophia E Fedorowicz, Robert C Dempsey, Naomi Ellis, Elliott Phillips, Christopher Gidlow

“…Eligible for inclusion were original research, written in English, exploring how suicide risk is assessed in the UK, related to administering or undergoing risk assessment for suicide, key concepts relating to those experiences, or directly exploring the experiences of administering or undergoing assessment. …”
Get full text

Development of Space Weather Reasonable Worst‐Case Scenarios for the UK National Risk Assessment by Mike Hapgood, Matthew J. Angling, Gemma Attrill, Mario Bisi, Paul S. Cannon, Clive Dyer, Jonathan P. Eastwood, Sean Elvidge, Mark Gibbs, Richard A. Harrison, Colin Hord, Richard B. Horne, David R. Jackson, Bryn Jones, Simon Machin, Cathryn N. Mitchell, John Preston, John Rees, Neil C. Rogers, Graham Routledge, Keith Ryden, Rick Tanner, Alan W. P. Thomson, James A. Wild, Mike Willis

“…Abstract Severe space weather was identified as a risk to the UK in 2010 as part of a wider review of natural hazards triggered by the societal disruption caused by the eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in April of that year. …”
Get full text

Characteristics of suicide prevention apps: a content analysis of apps available in Canada and the UK by Lydia Sequeira, Gillian Strudwick, Karen Lascelles, Hwayeon Danielle Shin, Laura Bennett-Poynter, Samantha Groves, Jessica Kemp

“…Objectives We aimed to examine the characteristics, features and content of suicide prevention mobile apps available in app stores in Canada and the UK.Design Suicide prevention apps were identified from Apple and Android app stores between March and April 2023. …”
Get full text

Teaching, assessment and best practice in undergraduate psychiatry education in the UK: cross-sectional survey by Deepika Sharma, Thomas Hewson, Sridevi Sira Mahalingappa, James Fallon, Declan Hyland, Seri Abraham, Alexa Sidwell, Subodh Dave

“…Aims and method We conducted a cross-sectional survey to examine how undergraduate psychiatry is taught and assessed across medical schools in the UK that have at least one cohort of graduated students. …”
Get full text