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Open AccessA Comparison of Internal Mandrel Designs for Rotary Draw Bend Forming of Carbon-fibre/Thermoplastic (PA6) Tubular Structures
Carbon fibre reinforced thermoplastic tubular structures can be post-formed into desired curvatures via rotary draw bending (RDB) at elevated temperatures. During this process, a rigid internal mandrel is requ...
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A Revised Moral Appraisal of Early Induction of Labor in Cases of Anencephaly
The central concern of this article is whether early induction of labor for an anencephalic fetus can ever be morally justified, particularly by a Catholic healthcare ethics committee. By revisiting and refini...
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Open AccessYoung people’s explanations for the decline in youth drinking in England
Youth alcohol consumption has fallen markedly over the last twenty years in England. This paper explores the drivers of the decline from the perspectives of young people.
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Open AccessFactors contributing to vaccine hesitancy and reduced vaccine confidence in rural underserved populations
Vaccination remains one of the most effective ways to limit the spread of infectious diseases, and reduce mortality and morbidity in rural areas. Waning public confidence in vaccines, especially the COVID-19 v...
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Weak Diffeomorphisms and Solutions to Conservation Laws
Evolution equations which describe the changes in a velocity field over time have been classically studied within the Eulerian or Lagrangian frame of reference. Classically, these frameworks are equivalent des...
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Open AccessClustering of health-related behaviours within children aged 11–16: a systematic review
We aimed to systematically review and synthesise evidence on the clustering of a broad range of health-related behaviours amongst 11–16 year olds.
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Evaluating and improving heritability models using summary statistics
There is currently much debate regarding the best model for how heritability varies across the genome. The authors of GCTA recommend the GCTA-LDMS-I model, the authors of LD Score Regression recommend the Base...
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Open AccessHow averse are the UK general public to inequalities in health between socioeconomic groups? A systematic review
There is growing interest in the use of “distributionally-sensitive” forms of economic evaluation that capture both the impact of an intervention upon average population health and the distribution of that hea...
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Open AccessBenefits of temporary alcohol restriction: a feasibility randomized trial
Participation in temporary alcohol abstinence campaigns such as ‘Dry January’ may prompt enduring reductions in alcohol consumption. A randomized controlled trial (RCT) is required to establish any long-term b...
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Open AccessReweighting national survey data for small area behaviour estimates: modelling alcohol consumption in Local Authorities in England
There are likely to be differences in alcohol consumption levels and patterns across local areas within a country, yet survey data is often collected at the national or sub-national/regional level and is not r...
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Investigating Intersexuality: Pre-Raphaelite Poetics and the Hermaphrodite Self
John Holmes demonstrates the Pre-Raphaelites’ intersexual affinity through a close reading of three main texts: “Viola and Olivia,” published in The Germ in 1850, “Hand and Soul,” Rossetti’s famous short story or...
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Building Trajectories Over Topology with TDA-PTS: An Application in Modelling Temporal Phenotypes of Disease
Being able to better understand the underlying structure of clinical data is a topic of growing importance. Topological data analysis enables data scientists to uncover the “shape” of data by extracting the un...
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Agent-Based Models and Spatial Enablement: A Simulation Tool to Improve Health and Wellbeing in Big Cities
As the percentage of the population living in urban areas is constantly increasing throughout the world, big cities’ municipalities and public health policy makers have to deal with raising socioeconomic disp...
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Open AccessEstimating the public health impact of disbanding a government alcohol monopoly: application of new methods to the case of Sweden
Government alcohol monopolies were created in North America and Scandinavia to limit health and social problems. The Swedish monopoly, Systembolaget, reports to a health ministry and controls the sale of all a...
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Non-uniform dependence of the data-to-solution map for the Hunter–Saxton equation in Besov spaces
The Cauchy problem for the Hunter–Saxton equation is known to be locally well posed in Besov spaces \(B^s_{2,r} \) ...
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Open AccessAwareness of alcohol as a risk factor for cancer is associated with public support for alcohol policies
Globally, alcohol is causally related to 2.5 million deaths per year and 12.5% of these are due to cancer. Previous research has indicated that public awareness of alcohol as a risk factor for cancer is low an...
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Open AccessExposure to revised drinking guidelines and ‘COM-B’ determinants of behaviour change: descriptive analysis of a monthly cross-sectional survey in England
January 2016 saw the publication of proposed revisions to the UK’s lower risk drinking guidelines but no sustained promotional activity. This paper aims to explore the impact of publishing guidelines without s...
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Open AccessInvestigating local policy drivers for alcohol harm prevention: a comparative case study of two local authorities in England
The considerable challenges associated with implementing national level alcohol policies have encouraged a renewed focus on the prospects for local-level policies in the UK and elsewhere. We adopted a case stu...
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Open AccessProceedings of the 14th annual conference of INEBRIA
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The Other as Kolbítr: Tolkien’s Faramir and Éowyn as Alfred and Æthelflæd
The character type of the kolbtr, “coal-biter‚” is marked in Old Icelandic saga literature as “other‚” an unregarded misfit who surprises society by rising to do great deeds. Reading the characters of Faramir and...
