Open Research Exeter (ORE): Recent submissions
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A research agenda on patient safety in primary care. Recommendations by the LINNEAUS collaboration on patient safety in primary care
(Taylor & Francis for WONCA Europe (the European Society of General Practice/Family Medicine), 2015-09-04)BACKGROUND: Healthcare can cause avoidable serious harm to patients. Primary care is not an exception, and the relative lack of research in this area lends urgency to a better understanding of patient safety, the future ... -
Functional metagenomic analysis reveals rivers are a reservoir for diverse antibiotic resistance genes
(Elsevier, 2014-02-16)The environment harbours a significant diversity of uncultured bacteria and a potential source of novel and extant resistance genes which may recombine with clinically important bacteria disseminated into environmental ... -
Learning-based Network Path Planning for Traffic Engineering
(Elsevier, 2018)Recent advances in traffic engineering offer a series of techniques to address the network problems due to the explosive growth of Internet traffic. In traffic engineering, dynamic path planning is essential for prevalent ... -
Landscape Analysis of a Class of NP-Hard Binary Packing Problems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press), 2019)This paper presents an exploratory landscape analysis of three NP-hard combinatorial optimisation problems: the number partitioning problem, the binary knapsack problem, and the quadratic binary knapsack problem. In the ... -
Psychotic, acritical and precarious? A Lacanian exploration of the neoliberal consumer subject
(SAGE Publications, 2018-09-10)Extending the critical project of interrogating the consumer subject form, in this study, the consumer subject is read as potentially acritical, precarious and psychotic through Dufour’s Lacanian-inspired analysis of ... -
Impact of recent life events on the health related quality of life of adolescents and youths: the role of gender and life events typologies in a follow-up study
(BMC, 2010-07-19)BACKGROUND: Most studies on the effect of life events (LEs) have been carried out in convenience samples which cannot be considered representative of the general population. In addition, recent studies have observed that ... -
Effect on health-related quality of life of changes in mental health in children and adolescents
(BMC, 2009-12-23)BACKGROUND: The objective of the study was to assess the effect of changes in mental health status on health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in children and adolescents aged 8 - 18 years. METHODS: A representative sample ... -
Undiagnosed diabetes in breast, colorectal, lung, and prostate cancer: incidence and risk factors
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2014-03-04)Our study describes the incidence and risk factors for undiagnosed diabetes in elderly cancer patients. Using Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results-Medicare data, we followed patients with breast, colorectal, lung, ... -
Assessing quality of life in patients with prostate cancer: a systematic and standardized comparison of available instruments
(Springer Verlag for International Society of Quality of Life Research, 2014-04-19)PURPOSE: The objective was to obtain a standardized evaluation of available prostate cancer-specific quality of life instruments used in patients with early-stage disease. METHODS: We carried out systematic literature ... -
Developing a patient safety incident classification system for primary care. A literature review and Delphi-survey by the LINNEAUS collaboration on patient safety in primary care
(Taylor & Francis for WONCA Europe (the European Society of General Practice/Family Medicine), 2015-09-04)BACKGROUND: Despite awareness that comparative analysis of patient safety data from several data sources would promote risk reduction, there has been little effort to establish an incident classification system that is ... -
Involving patients in patient safety programmes: A scoping review and consensus procedure by the LINNEAUS collaboration on patient safety in primary care
(Taylor & Francis for WONCA Europe (the European Society of General Practice/Family Medicine), 2015-09-04)BACKGROUND: Patient involvement has only recently received attention as a potentially useful approach to patient safety in primary care. OBJECTIVE: To summarize work conducted on a scoping review of interventions focussing ... -
Carbapenem resistance in bacteria isolated from soil and water environments in Algeria.
(Elsevier, 2018-07-30)OBJECTIVES: Recent research has demonstrated that natural populations of bacteria carry large numbers of mobile genetic elements which may harbour antibiotic resistance determinants. The aim of this study was to investigate ... -
Improving reporting of Meta-Ethnography: The eMERGe Reporting Guidance
(Wiley, 2018)Aims To provide guidance to improve the completeness and clarity of meta-ethnography reporting. Background Evidence-based policy and practice require robust evidence syntheses which can further understanding of people’s ... -
A proof of Hadjicostas's conjecture
(arXiv, 2004-06-15)We prove a recent conjecture of Hadjicostas concerning a double integral formula involving the zeta and the gamma functions. -
Recursions associated to trapezoid, symmetric and rotation symmetric functions over Galois fields
(Elsevier, 2018-04-14)Rotation symmetric Boolean functions are invariant under circular translation of indices. These functions have very rich cryptographic properties and have been used in different cryptosystems. Recently, Thomas Cusick proved ... -
AMP-activated protein kinase activator A-769662 increases intracellular calcium and ATP release from astrocytes in an AMPK-independent manner
(Wiley, 2017-02-17)Aim To test the hypothesis that, given the role of AMP‐activated protein kinase (AMPK) in regulating intracellular ATP levels, AMPK may alter ATP release from astrocytes, the main sources of extracellular ATP (eATP) within ... -
Basal fatty acid oxidation increases after recurrent low glucose in human primary astrocytes
(Springer Verlag, 2018)Aims/hypothesis Hypoglycaemia is a major barrier to good glucose control in type 1 diabetes. Frequent hypoglycaemic episodes impair awareness of subsequent hypoglycaemic bouts. Neural changes underpinning awareness of ... -
On the Learnability of Programming Language Semantics
(Interaction and Concurrency Experience, 2017-06)Game semantics is a powerful method of semantic analysis for programming languages. It gives mathematically accurate models ("fully abstract") for a wide variety of programming languages. Game semantic models are combinatorial ... -
How political are national identities? A comparison of the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany in the 2010s
(SAGE Publications, 2018-09-19)Research demonstrates the multi-dimensional nature of American identity arguing that the normative content of American identity relates to political ideologies in the United States, but the sense of belonging to the nation ...