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Health literacy as a predictor of emergency department visit and self-rated health among Chinese immigrants: findings from an Australian survey (2020)
Journal Article
Zhang, L., Ding, D., Neubeck, L., & Gallagher, R. (2020). Health literacy as a predictor of emergency department visit and self-rated health among Chinese immigrants: findings from an Australian survey. Patient Education and Counseling, 103(11), 2353-2360. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2020.04.017

Objectives Our objectives were to examine health literacy among first-generation Chinese immigrants living in Australia, identifying health literacy domains associated with emergency department (ED) visits and self-rated health (SRH). Methods Ch... Read More about Health literacy as a predictor of emergency department visit and self-rated health among Chinese immigrants: findings from an Australian survey.

Smoking cessation programmes for women living in disadvantaged communities, “We Can Quit 2”: A systematic review protocol [version 3] (2019)
Journal Article
Burke, E., Dobbie, F., Dougall, N., Adebolu Oluwaseun, M., Mockler, D., Vance, J., O'Connell, N., Darker, C., Bauld, L., & Hayes, C. (2019). Smoking cessation programmes for women living in disadvantaged communities, “We Can Quit 2”: A systematic review protocol [version 3]. HRB Open Research, 2, Article 10. https://doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.12901.3

Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death in Ireland with almost 6,000 smokers dying each year from smoking-related diseases. Amongst younger Irish women, smoking rates are considerably higher in those from socially disadvantaged areas co... Read More about Smoking cessation programmes for women living in disadvantaged communities, “We Can Quit 2”: A systematic review protocol [version 3].

Exploring the epistemology of utility function in Islamic economics: Foundation of Islamic finance (2020)
Book Chapter
Avdukic, A., & Khaleel, F. (2020). Exploring the epistemology of utility function in Islamic economics: Foundation of Islamic finance. In V. Efendic (Ed.), Islamic Finance Practices: Experiences from South Eastern Europe. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34420-7

An opinion held by the majority of Muslims scholars, such as, Ibn Tamiyah, supports the contention that each thing or act has an ethical value that can be comprehended through reason. Two different methodologies are used for applying reason onto mora... Read More about Exploring the epistemology of utility function in Islamic economics: Foundation of Islamic finance.

History of economic thoughts hidden within the archives of Abrahamic religions (2020)
Book Chapter
Khaleel, F., & Avdukic, A. (2020). History of economic thoughts hidden within the archives of Abrahamic religions. In V. Efendic (Ed.), Islamic Finance Practices: Experiences from South Eastern Europe. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34420-7

The Ibrahimic religions in spite of their theological differences, share many common grounds in their view of right and wrong within relation to persuasion of market regulations and orthology of governing the market. This research focuses on these co... Read More about History of economic thoughts hidden within the archives of Abrahamic religions.

Engaging young working class men in the delivery of sex and relationships education (2019)
Journal Article
Brown, S., & McQueen, F. (2020). Engaging young working class men in the delivery of sex and relationships education. Sex Education, 20(2), 186-201. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681811.2019.1636780

Despite a substantial body of research on young people’s wishes about the content and delivery of sex and relationships education (SRE), studies still indicate dissatisfaction with the way lessons are provided. This discussion takes place in a public... Read More about Engaging young working class men in the delivery of sex and relationships education.

The accelerated urban growth in Mexico City. Figures and future scenarios (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Karen Hernandez Garcia, A. (2019, June). The accelerated urban growth in Mexico City. Figures and future scenarios. Paper presented at XVII Symposium of Mexican students and studies in the UK, Cambridge UK

Mexico City has experienced an accelerated and disorganised urban growth over time, triggering a deficit of housing stock, job opportunities, public transport and infrastructure services, in addition to environmental impacts related to construction o... Read More about The accelerated urban growth in Mexico City. Figures and future scenarios.

Co-authoring desistance narratives: Analysing interactions in groupwork for addressing sexual offending (2019)
Journal Article
Mullins, E., & Kirkwood, S. (2021). Co-authoring desistance narratives: Analysing interactions in groupwork for addressing sexual offending. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 21(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895819863101

Research and theory suggest desistance narratives and pro-social identities are key to the process of desistance from crime. However, little research has examined how desistance narratives and related identities are produced in contexts other than re... Read More about Co-authoring desistance narratives: Analysing interactions in groupwork for addressing sexual offending.

Health professionals' lack of knowledge of central venous access devices: the impact on patients (2019)
Journal Article
Kelly, L. J., Snowden, A., Paterson, R., & Campbell, K. (2019). Health professionals' lack of knowledge of central venous access devices: the impact on patients. British Journal of Nursing, 28(14), https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2019.28.14.S4

Background The literature on patient experience of living with a central venous access device (CVAD) is growing, but remains sparse. It suggests that patients accept CVADs as should reduce episodes of repeated cannulations. However, a recent doctor... Read More about Health professionals' lack of knowledge of central venous access devices: the impact on patients.

Assessing job quality within the Scottish microbrewing sector (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ellis, V., & Richards, J. (2019, July). Assessing job quality within the Scottish microbrewing sector. Paper presented at Centre for Beer Research and Enterprise (CBREW) Workshop

Abstract not available.

Childhood adversity and psychosis in detained inpatients from medium to high secured units: Results from the Scottish census survey (2019)
Journal Article
Karatzias, T., Shevlin, M., Pitcairn, J., Thomson, L., Mahoney, A., & Hyland, P. (2019). Childhood adversity and psychosis in detained inpatients from medium to high secured units: Results from the Scottish census survey. Child Abuse and Neglect, 96, Article 104094. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2019.104094

Background There is limited data available regarding the most common forms of psychiatric illness, the occurrence of childhood adversity, and the link between childhood adversity and criminal and psychiatric outcomes amongst forensic inpatients.... Read More about Childhood adversity and psychosis in detained inpatients from medium to high secured units: Results from the Scottish census survey.

An Exploratory Study of Designing and Developing Core Physiology Curriculum for Pre-registration Nursing Education (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wood, A. (2019, July). An Exploratory Study of Designing and Developing Core Physiology Curriculum for Pre-registration Nursing Education. Paper presented at Physiology 2019

Physiology is considered a core component for all nursing and midwifery courses, however there is a lack of clarity on content across higher education on what is included in this core component. Physiology is part of ‘bioscience’ education, within pr... Read More about An Exploratory Study of Designing and Developing Core Physiology Curriculum for Pre-registration Nursing Education.

Uptake of a primary care atrial fibrillation screening program (AF-SMART): a realist evaluation of implementation in metropolitan and rural general practice (2019)
Journal Article
Orchard, J., Li, J., Gallagher, R., Freedman, B., Lowres, N., & Neubeck, L. (2019). Uptake of a primary care atrial fibrillation screening program (AF-SMART): a realist evaluation of implementation in metropolitan and rural general practice. BMC Family Practice, 20, Article 170 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-019-1058-9

Background Screening for atrial fibrillation (AF) in people aged ≥65 years is recommended by international guidelines. The Atrial Fibrillation Screen, Management And guideline-Recommended Therapy (AF-SMART) studies of opportunistic AF screening in... Read More about Uptake of a primary care atrial fibrillation screening program (AF-SMART): a realist evaluation of implementation in metropolitan and rural general practice.

Changes in lactate kinetics underpin soccer performance adaptations to cycling-based sprint interval training (2019)
Journal Article
Thom, G., Kavaliauskas, M., & Babraj, J. (2019). Changes in lactate kinetics underpin soccer performance adaptations to cycling-based sprint interval training. European Journal of Sport Science, 20(4), 486-494. https://doi.org/10.1080/17461391.2019.1635650

In adolescent soccer, 23% of the distance covers happens at speeds above onset of blood lactate accumulation which suggests that lactate kinetics may be important for soccer performance. We sought to determine the effectiveness of sprint interval tra... Read More about Changes in lactate kinetics underpin soccer performance adaptations to cycling-based sprint interval training.

Conditional deletion of E11/podoplanin in bone protects against load-induced osteoarthritis (2019)
Journal Article
Staines, K., Ikpegbu, E., Törnqvist, A., Dillon, S., Javaheri, B., Amin, A. K., Clements, D. N., Buttle, D. J., Pitsillides, A. A., & Farquharson, C. (2019). Conditional deletion of E11/podoplanin in bone protects against load-induced osteoarthritis. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 20, Article 344 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12891-019-2731-9

Background: Subchondral bone (SCB) thickening is one of the earliest detectable changes in osteoarthritic joints and is considered a potential trigger for subsequent articular cartilage degeneration. In this manuscript, we examine whether disruption... Read More about Conditional deletion of E11/podoplanin in bone protects against load-induced osteoarthritis.

Multiple and interpersonal trauma are risk factors for both post‐traumatic stress disorder and borderline personality disorder: A systematic review on the traumatic backgrounds and clinical characteristics of comorbid post‐traumatic stress disorder/borderline personality disorder groups versus single‐disorder groups (2019)
Journal Article
Jowett, S., Karatzias, T., & Albert, I. (2020). Multiple and interpersonal trauma are risk factors for both post‐traumatic stress disorder and borderline personality disorder: A systematic review on the traumatic backgrounds and clinical characteristics of comorbid post‐traumatic stress disorder/borderline personality disorder groups versus single‐disorder groups. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 93(3), 621-638. https://doi.org/10.1111/papt.12248

Background: Both BPD and PTSD are associated with exposure to traumatic events and are highly comorbid. No review to date has addressed the clinical presentations and traumatic backgrounds associated with these disorders although this work is essenti... Read More about Multiple and interpersonal trauma are risk factors for both post‐traumatic stress disorder and borderline personality disorder: A systematic review on the traumatic backgrounds and clinical characteristics of comorbid post‐traumatic stress disorder/borderline personality disorder groups versus single‐disorder groups.

In situ characterization of nanoscale strains in loaded whole joints via synchrotron X-ray tomography (2019)
Journal Article
Madi, K., Staines, K., Bay, B., Javaheri, B., Geng, H., Bodey, A., Cartmell, S., Pitsillides, A., & Lee, P. (2020). In situ characterization of nanoscale strains in loaded whole joints via synchrotron X-ray tomography. Nature Biomedical Engineering, 4(3), 343-354. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-019-0477-1

Imaging techniques for quantifying changes in the hierarchical structure of deforming joints are constrained by destructive sample treatments, sample-size restrictions and lengthy scan times. Here, we report the use of fast low-dose pink-beam synchro... Read More about In situ characterization of nanoscale strains in loaded whole joints via synchrotron X-ray tomography.

Scalable training of artificial neural networks with adaptive sparse connectivity inspired by network science (2018)
Journal Article
Mocanu, D. C., Mocanu, E., Stone, P., Nguyen, P. H., Gibescu, M., & Liotta, A. (2018). Scalable training of artificial neural networks with adaptive sparse connectivity inspired by network science. Nature Communications, 9(1), Article 2383. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04316-3

Through the success of deep learning in various domains, artificial neural networks are currently among the most used artificial intelligence methods. Taking inspiration from the network properties of biological neural networks (e.g. sparsity, scale-... Read More about Scalable training of artificial neural networks with adaptive sparse connectivity inspired by network science.

Fast Millimeter Wave Assisted Beam-Steering for Passive Indoor Optical Wireless Networks (2017)
Journal Article
Torres Vega, M., Koonen, A. M. J., Liotta, A., & Famaey, J. (2018). Fast Millimeter Wave Assisted Beam-Steering for Passive Indoor Optical Wireless Networks. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 7(2), 278-281. https://doi.org/10.1109/lwc.2017.2771771

In light of the extreme radio congestion, the time has come to consider the upper parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. Optical beam-steered wireless communications offer great potential for future indoor short-range connectivity, due to virtually u... Read More about Fast Millimeter Wave Assisted Beam-Steering for Passive Indoor Optical Wireless Networks.