Content with content: A content-based instruction approach to curriculum design and course assessment in academic English for business by Deak Kirkham

“… This article reports on the successful implementation of a content-based instruction (CBI) approach to a 6-month pre-sessional academic English for business and management course at a UK university. While recognising that CBI is not a ‘cure-all’ and indeed that the approach brings with it particular issues, such as instructor competence in the content, the article argues CBI offers both significant and wide-ranging benefits as a language teaching approach and as such should be given greater prominence in the language teaching industry. …”
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The Battle of Stalingrad and the Second Front Problem by V. O. Pechatnov

“…Using less-known documents from American and British archives the article examines the impact of developments on Soviet-German front in late 1942 on military-political planning in U.S. and U.K. with a special emphasis on the second front problem. …”
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FE or not FE? A Play in Two Acts by Gary Husband, Paul Murphy, Joel Petrie

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Development of measures to assess listening-related effort and fatigue in daily life among hearing aid users: protocol for a quantitative field trial by Trine Flensborg-Madsen, Andreea Micula, Jeppe Høy Konvalinka Christensen, Dorothea Wendt, Hamish Innes-Brown, Ingrid Johnsrude, Matthew Apps, Torsten Dau

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Assessing the Clinical and Functional Status of COPD Patients Using Speech Analysis During and After Exacerbation by Mayr W, Triantafyllopoulos A, Batliner A, Schuller BW, Berghaus TM

“…Wolfgang Mayr,1,* Andreas Triantafyllopoulos,2,3,* Anton Batliner,2,3 Björn W Schuller,2– 5 Thomas M Berghaus1,6 1Department of Cardiology, Respiratory Medicine and Intensive Care, University Hospital Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany; 2Chair of Health Informatics (CHI), Department of Clinical Medicine, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany; 3Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML), Munich, Germany; 4Group on Language Audio, & Music (GLAM), Imperial College, London, UK; 5Munich Data Science Institute (MDSI), Munich, Germany; 6Medical Faculty, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Munich, Germany*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Wolfgang Mayr, Department of Cardiology, Respiratory Medicine and Intensive Care, University Hospital Augsburg, Stenglinstrasse 2, Augsburg, D-86156, Germany, Email wolfgang.mayr@uk-augsburg.de Andreas Triantafyllopoulos, Chair of Health Informatics, Department of Clinical Medicine, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Ismaninger Straße 22, Munich, 81675, Germany, Email andreas.triantafyllopoulos@tum.deBackground: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) affects breathing, speech production, and coughing. …”
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Adapting to ulcerative colitis to try to live a ‘normal’ life: a qualitative study of patients’ experiences in the Midlands region of England by Rachel Cooney, Christel McMullan, Dmitri Nepogodiev, Laura Magill, Thomas D Pinkney, Jonathan M Mathers, Laura L Jones, Shri Pathmakanthan

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Simultaneous Inference of Past Demography and Selection from the Ancestral Recombination Graph under the Beta Coalescent by Korfmann, Kevin, Sellinger, Thibaut Paul Patrick, Freund, Fabian, Fumagalli, Matteo, Tellier, Aurélien

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Exploring the relationship between dissociative experiences and recovery in psychosis: cross-sectional study by Claudia Calciu, Rob Macpherson, Kerry J. Rees, Sui Yung Chen, Sarah Ruxton, Rhiannon White, Mazen Almaskati, Francesca Hill, Anca Vasilis-Peter, Sebastian Desando, Oliver Pennell, Carolyn Nasubuga, Jackie Webb, Mark Walker, Camelia Soponaru

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Are free school meals failing families? Exploring the relationship between child food insecurity, child mental health and free school meal status during COVID-19: national cross-se... by Maria Bryant, Tiffany C Yang, Madeleine Power, Bridget Lockyer, Rachael H Moss, Wendy Burton, Bob Doherty

“…This study examined levels of food security and FSM status to support decision-making regarding increasing the current eligibility criteria.Design Two cross-sectional national surveys administered in August–September 2020 and January–February 2021 were used to examine the impact of COVID-19 on the food experiences of children and young people.Setting UK.Participants 2166 children (aged 7–17 years) and parents/guardians.Main outcome measures Participant characteristics were described by food security and FSM status; estimated marginal means were calculated to obtain the probability of poor mental health, expressed as children reporting feeling stressed or worried in the past month, by food security status and FSM status.Results We observed food insecurity among both children who did and did not receive of FSM: 23% of children not receiving FSM were food insecure. …”
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Molecular evidence for the efficacy of PBM therapy in the treatment of oral lichen planus by Maria Zaharieva Mutafchieva, Milena Nenkova Draganova, Plamen Ivanov Zagorchev, Reem Hanna, Georgi Tomchev Tomov

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What are the expectations and experiences of a GMH research programme delivered in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Colombia and Uganda? A prospective longitudinal qualitative study by Stefan Priebe, Vian Rajabzadeh, Victoria Jane Bird, Francois van Loggerenberg, Michael McGrath

“…Around equity of partnership and ownership of research the views of participants in the UK tended to be more critical than those of partners in LMICs.Conclusions The findings suggest that global health research programmes can achieve several of their aims, and that partners in LMICs feel equity has been established in the partnership despite the imbalance of the funding arrangement. …”
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Classifications of haemodialysis vascular access stenosis: a scoping review by Petr Waldauf, Michael Corr, Stephen O’neill, Katerina Lawrie, Jan Malik, Libor Janousek, Stepan Maly, Jaroslav Chlupac

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Impact of electronic AKI alert/care bundle on AKI inpatient outcomes: a retrospective single-center cohort study by Michael Chen-Xu, Christopher Kassam, Emma Cameron, Szymon Ryba, Vivian Yiu

“…Background Outcomes among acute kidney injury (AKI) patients are poor in United Kingdom (UK) hospitals, and electronic alerts and care bundles may improve them. …”
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Spatial scales matter in designing buffer zones for coastal protected areas along the East Asian-Australasian Flyway by Roger H. Lee, Ivan H.Y. Kwong, Tom C.H. Li, Paulina P.Y. Wong, Yik-Hei Sung, Yat-Tung Yu

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Implementation of Uterine Artery Doppler Scanning: Improving the Care of Women and Babies High Risk for Fetal Growth Restriction by Emmanuel Ekanem, Faris Karouni, Emmanuoil Katsanevakis, Habiba Kapaya

“…While stillbirth rates have declined in many countries, these declines are less marked in the UK. Fetal growth restriction (FGR) affects about 3% to 7% of all pregnancies and is by far the single strongest risk factor for stillbirth. …”
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Systematic review of spontaneous reports of myocarditis and pericarditis in transplant recipients and immunocompromised patients following COVID-19 mRNA vaccination by Saad Shakir, Samantha Lane, Alison Yeomans

“…Objectives To determine whether spontaneous reporting rates of myocarditis and pericarditis differed in immunocompromised patients compared with the whole population overall, and in terms of demographics, vaccine dose and time-to-onset.Design Systematic review of spontaneously reported data from the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA), the USA and the UK.Data sources EudraVigilance (EU/EEA), Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS; USA) and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (UK) spontaneous reporting databases were searched from date of vaccine launch to 1 December 2021.Eligibility criteria Publicly available spontaneous reporting data for ‘myocarditis’ and ‘pericarditis’ from EU/EEA and USA following COVID-19 messenger RNA vaccines. …”
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Can GastroPanel be used as a triage tool to select patients with advanced atrophic gastritis for gastroscopy? A prospective clinical validation study by Eleanor Wood, Marco Novelli, Laura Marelli, Roger Feakins, Cinzia Papadia, Ray Shidrawi, Kari Juhani Syrjänen

“…Objective Gastric adenocarcinoma (GAC) is the 17th most common cancer in the UK with a 5-year survival rate of 22%. GastroPanel (Biohit Oyj; Helsinki, Finland) is an ELISA kit that measures pepsinogen I (PGI); pepsinogen II (PGII); gastrin-17 (G-17); and Helicobacter pylori IgG antibodies (Hp IgG). …”
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ADAPTATION OF INTERPERSONAL COUNSELLING FOR ADOLESCENTS (IPC-A) FOR FINNISH STUDENT WELFARE SERVICES – RETROSPECTIVE EVALUATION BY USING AN EXPANDED FRAMEWORK FOR REPORTING ADAPTAT... by NOORA SEILO, KRISTIINA MÄMMI, OUTI LINNARANTA

“…It has been adapted from IPC for adults in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2015. IPC-A was first adapted to Finnish student welfare services in a pilot study, conducted in 2016-2018. …”
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Identifying enablers for a circular healthcare supply chain: An integrated fuzzy DEMATEL-MMDE approach with hesitant information by Deepak Agrawal, Sumit Gupta, Chandni Dusad, M.L. Meena, G.S. Dangayach, Sandeep Jagtap

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Establishing consensus on nutrition competencies for medicine: a Delphi study by Sumantra Ray, Breanna Lepre, Kylie J Mansfield, Eleanor J Beck

“…Participants included medical professionals, dietitians, academics working in health professions education and policymakers from Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Northern Ireland. Twenty-seven service users (57.5% response rate) completed the Round 1 questionnaire, 19 completed Round 2 and 16 completed Round 3. …”
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