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Paradigm Shift or Paradigm Paralysis? National Mental Health and Capacity Law and Implementing the CRPD in Scotland (2018)
Journal Article
Stavert, J. (2018). Paradigm Shift or Paradigm Paralysis? National Mental Health and Capacity Law and Implementing the CRPD in Scotland. Laws, 7(3), Article 26. https://doi.org/10.3390/laws7030026

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) highlights the need to actively remove obstacles to, and promote, the full and equal enjoyment of human rights by persons with disabilities. This is challenging us to rev... Read More about Paradigm Shift or Paradigm Paralysis? National Mental Health and Capacity Law and Implementing the CRPD in Scotland.

An international recommendation framework of core competencies in health informatics for nurses. (2018)
Journal Article
Hübner, U., Shaw, T., Thye, J., Egbert, N., Marin, H. D. F., Chang, P., O’Connor, S., Day, K., Honey, M., Blake, R., Hovenga, E., Skiba, D., & Ball, M. (2018). An international recommendation framework of core competencies in health informatics for nurses. Methods of Information in Medicine, 57(S01), e30-e42. https://doi.org/10.3414/me17-01-0155

Background: While health informatics recommendations on competencies and education serve as highly desirable corridors for designing curricula and courses, they cannot show how the content should be situated in a specific and local context. Therefore... Read More about An international recommendation framework of core competencies in health informatics for nurses..

Ethnography and Ethics in Your Own Workplace: Reconceptualising Dialysis Care from an Insider Nurse Researcher (2018)
Book Chapter
Wood, A. (2018). Ethnography and Ethics in Your Own Workplace: Reconceptualising Dialysis Care from an Insider Nurse Researcher. In E. Garnett, J. Reynolds, & S. Milton (Eds.), Ethnographies and Health (51-66). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89396-9_4

This chapter presents reflections on the author’s experience in conducting ethnographic research in a setting in which they had an existing professional role as a registered and practising nurse. The position held and how this was negotiated within t... Read More about Ethnography and Ethics in Your Own Workplace: Reconceptualising Dialysis Care from an Insider Nurse Researcher.

Mobile technology utilization among patients from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds attending cardiac rehabilitation. (2018)
Journal Article
Zhang, L., Ding, D., Neubeck, L., Gallagher, P., Paull, G., Gao, Y., & Gallagher, R. (2018). Mobile technology utilization among patients from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds attending cardiac rehabilitation. JMIR Cardio, 2(1), Article e13. https://doi.org/10.2196/cardio.9424

Background: Barriers to attending cardiac rehabilitation (CR), including cultural and linguistic differences, may be addressed
by recent technological developments. However, the feasibility of using these approaches in culturally and linguistically... Read More about Mobile technology utilization among patients from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds attending cardiac rehabilitation..

Older men display elevated levels of senescence-associated exercise-responsive CD28null angiogenic T cells compared with younger men (2018)
Journal Article
Ross, M., Ingram, L., Taylor, G., Malone, E., Simpson, R. J., West, D., & Florida-James, G. (2018). Older men display elevated levels of senescence-associated exercise-responsive CD28null angiogenic T cells compared with younger men. Physiological Reports, 6(12), Article e13697. https://doi.org/10.14814/phy2.13697

Aging is associated with elevated cardiovascular disease risk. As a result of aging, endothelial dysfunction develops, partly due to a reduction in vascular regenerative ability. CD31+ T-cells (angiogenic T-cells; TANG) possess highly angiogenic capa... Read More about Older men display elevated levels of senescence-associated exercise-responsive CD28null angiogenic T cells compared with younger men.

Health Promotion and Wellness Initiatives Targeting Chronic Disease Prevention and Management for Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Recent Advancements in Type 2 Diabetes (2018)
Journal Article
Taggart, L., Truesdale, M., Dunkley, A., House, A., & Russell, A. M. (2018). Health Promotion and Wellness Initiatives Targeting Chronic Disease Prevention and Management for Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Recent Advancements in Type 2 Diabetes. Current Developmental Disorders Reports, 5(3), 132-142. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40474-018-0142-5

Purpose of Review The aim of this paper was to review the recent international developments in health promotion and wellness
initiatives targeting chronic disease prevention and management for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities... Read More about Health Promotion and Wellness Initiatives Targeting Chronic Disease Prevention and Management for Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Recent Advancements in Type 2 Diabetes.

A retrospective medical records review of risk factors for the development of respiratory tract secretions (death rattle) in the dying patient (2018)
Journal Article
Kolb, H., Snowden, A., Stevens, E., & Atherton, I. (2018). A retrospective medical records review of risk factors for the development of respiratory tract secretions (death rattle) in the dying patient. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 74(7), 1639-1648. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.13704

Aim: Identification of risk factors predicting the development of death rattle.
Background: Respiratory tract secretions, often called death rattle, are among the most common symptoms in dying patients around the world. It is unknown whether death r... Read More about A retrospective medical records review of risk factors for the development of respiratory tract secretions (death rattle) in the dying patient.

From child maltreatment to ICD-11 complex post-traumatic stress symptoms: The role of emotion regulation and re-victimisation (2018)
Journal Article
Knefel, M., Lueger-Schuster, B., Karatzias², T., Shevlin, M., & Hyland, P. (2019). From child maltreatment to ICD-11 complex post-traumatic stress symptoms: The role of emotion regulation and re-victimisation. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 75(3), 392-403. https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.22655

Objective: Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD) will be introduced in ICD-11 and comprises symptoms of PTSD and disturbances in self-organisation (DSO). The association of trauma with PTSD and DSO is not yet fully understood. We investigated... Read More about From child maltreatment to ICD-11 complex post-traumatic stress symptoms: The role of emotion regulation and re-victimisation.

Atrial fibrillation: is there enough evidence to recommend opportunistic or systematic screening? (2018)
Journal Article
Orchard, J., Lowres, N., Neubeck, L., & Freedman, B. (2018). Atrial fibrillation: is there enough evidence to recommend opportunistic or systematic screening?. International Journal of Epidemiology, 47(5), 1372-1378. https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyy111

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common heart arrhythmia, the prevalence rising with age to 18% for those aged  ≥85 years. It is associated with a 5-fold higher likelihood of stroke, a doubling of mortality and an increased likelihood of heart fa... Read More about Atrial fibrillation: is there enough evidence to recommend opportunistic or systematic screening?.

The value of participating in British exploring society expeditions: a three year multi-cohort study (2018)
Journal Article
Allison, P., Martindale, R., Stott, T., Gray, S., Nash, C., Fraser, K., & Wang, J. (2018). The value of participating in British exploring society expeditions: a three year multi-cohort study. Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Kinanthropologica, 54(1), 5-15. https://doi.org/10.14712/23366052.2018.1

A primary aim of many expeditions is to facilitate personal development of young people and while there is much anecdotal evidence to support this aim, there is limited empirical work of varied quality that explores the specific nature of such benefi... Read More about The value of participating in British exploring society expeditions: a three year multi-cohort study.

Physical fitness interventions for nonambulatory stroke survivors: A mixed-methods systematic review and meta-analysis (2018)
Journal Article
Lloyd, M., Skelton, D. A., Mead, G. E., Williams, B., & van Wijck, F. (2018). Physical fitness interventions for nonambulatory stroke survivors: A mixed-methods systematic review and meta-analysis. Brain and Behavior, 8(7), Article e01000. https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.1000

Introduction
Physical fitness training after stroke is recommended in guidelines across the world, but evidence pertains mainly to ambulatory stroke
survivors. Non-ambulatory stroke survivors (FAC score ≤2) are at
increased risk of recurrent strok... Read More about Physical fitness interventions for nonambulatory stroke survivors: A mixed-methods systematic review and meta-analysis.

What influences social outcomes among offenders with personality disorder: A systematic review (2018)
Journal Article
Connell, C., Furtado, V., McKay, E. A., & Singh, S. P. (2018). What influences social outcomes among offenders with personality disorder: A systematic review. Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, https://doi.org/10.1002/cbm.2082

Background:
Personality disorder is highly prevalent in offender populations and is associated with poor health, criminal justice and social outcomes. Research has been conducted into factors that influence offending and health, but, in order to im... Read More about What influences social outcomes among offenders with personality disorder: A systematic review.

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.

Changing Stop and Search in Scotland (2018)
Journal Article
O'Neill, M., & Aston, E. (2018). Changing Stop and Search in Scotland. European Journal of Policing Studies, 5(4), 129-154

Compared to other areas in the UK, stop and search in Scotland was on a disproportionately large scale prior to 2015 and targeted children and young people. Scottish police officers conducted more non-statutory searches than statutory, putting into q... Read More about Changing Stop and Search in Scotland.

Diabetes in people with learning disabilities (2018)
Book Chapter
Truesdale, M., & Taggart, L. (2018). Diabetes in people with learning disabilities. In S. Hardy, P. Woodward, & E. Chaplin (Eds.), Supporting the physical health needs of people with learning disabilities, 73-82. Pavilion Publishing & Media Ltd

This book chapter aims to increase awareness and knowledge of how diabetes presents itself, as well as how it can be presented in the first place, in people with a learning disability and best practice in assessment and treatment.

Risky business: HRM implications from pilots' accounts of critical incidents in UK commercial Aviation (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Grant, K., & Maxwell, G. (2018, June). Risky business: HRM implications from pilots' accounts of critical incidents in UK commercial Aviation. Paper presented at International Human Resource Management Conference

Safety is of paramount importance in aviation in first-world countries. Commercial aviation here is highly reliable and ultra-safe, at least technically. However, while technology has significantly improved safety, human error has not decreased at a... Read More about Risky business: HRM implications from pilots' accounts of critical incidents in UK commercial Aviation.

Antiviral therapeutic approaches for human rhinovirus infections (2018)
Journal Article
Casanova, V., Sousa, F. H., Stevens, C., & Barlow, P. G. (2018). Antiviral therapeutic approaches for human rhinovirus infections. Future Virology, https://doi.org/10.2217/fvl-2018-0016

Human rhinoviruses (RV) are the primary etiological agent of the common cold. This infection can be mild and self-limiting in immunocompetent hosts, but can be associated with bronchiolitis in infants, pneumonia in the immunosuppressed, and exacerba... Read More about Antiviral therapeutic approaches for human rhinovirus infections.