The burdens by Jessica Noske-Turner

“…Because over the years we’ve been adding things to our agenda, for example recently I’ve heard about climate change and mental health, and so we take it on.This object is part of the Metaphors for Un/Making CSC Collection.Created in Zomba, Malawi, 2023…”
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Dietetic characteristics of a sample of Mayan dual burden households in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico by Hugo Azcorra, Hannah J. Wilson, Barry Bogin, Maria Ines Varela Silva, Adriana Vazquez-Vazquez, Federico Dickinson

“…The frequencies of consumption were classified in four levels: 1) no consumption, 2) low (1-2 days/week), 3) medium (3-4 days/week), high (5-7 days/week). …”
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Health indicators in double burdened urban Maya children and mothers by Hannah J. Wilson

“…Child stunting rates were between 15.5% and 37.9% when using -2 z-scores of Frisancho s Comprehensive (created using NHANES data) reference versus the 5th percentile of the WHO reference, respectively. …”
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Costs of urban utility water connections: excessive burden to the poor by Sam Kayaga, Richard Franceys

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Model predictive control of nonlinear systems: computational burden and stability by Wen-Hua Chen, Donald J. Ballance, John O'Reilly

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Burden of injury of serious road injuries in six EU countries by Wendy Weijermars, Niels Bos, Ashleigh Filtness, Laurie Brown, Robert Bauer, Emmanuelle Dupont, Jean-Louis Martin, Katherine Perez, Pete Thomas

“…RESULTS: The average burden per MAIS3+ casualty varies between 2.4 YLD and 3.2 YLD per casualty. …”
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Patient burden during appointment-making telephone calls to GP practices by Rein Sikveland, Elizabeth Stokoe, Jon Symonds

“…Results: We demonstrate how ‘patient burden’ unfolds in two phases of the telephone calls: (i) following an initial rejection of a patient’s request; and (ii) following a receptionist’s initiation of call closing. …”
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Calling the GP surgery: patient burden, patient satisfaction, and implications for training by Elizabeth Stokoe, Rein Sikveland, Jon Symonds

“…‘Patient burden’ occurred when receptionists failed to offer alternatives to patients whose initial requests could not be met, or to summarize relevant next actions (e.g., appointment, call-back, etc.) at the end of calls. …”
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Benefit or burden? How English schools responded to the duty to promote community cohesion by Don Rowe, Nicola Horsley, Tony Breslin, Tony Thorpe

“…Overall, the respondents in this study felt that the imposition of the duty and its inspection had been more of a benefit than a burden.…”
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Bonus or burden? Care work, inequality, and job satisfaction in eighteen European countries by Naomi Lightman, Anthony Kevins

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The nutritional dual-burden in developing countries - how is it assessed and what are the health implications? by Maria Ines Varela Silva, Federico Dickinson, Hannah J. Wilson, Hugo Azcorra, Paula Griffiths, Barry Bogin

“…In this paper we aim: a) to describe the different types of nutritional dual-burden, b) to identify the anthropometric indicators generally used to classify the nutritional dual-burden, c) to focus our attention on a dual-burden group (the Maya from Merida, Yucatan, Mexico), d) to illustrate problems in the categorization of the dual-burden, and e) to suggest possible health implications. …”
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Piling on the pressure? Negotiating burden/benefit dynamics in social research during times of crisis by Oliver Hooper, Rachel Sandford, Thomas Quarmby

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Maternal short stature does not predict their children's fatness indicators in a nutritional dual-burden sample of urban Mexican Maya by Hannah J. Wilson, Federico Dickinson, Paula Griffiths, Barry Bogin, Matthew Hobbs, Maria Ines Varela Silva

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Can different primary care databases produce comparable estimates of burden of disease: results of a study exploring venous leg ulceration by Emily Petherick, Kate E. Pickett, Nicky A. Cullum

“…Primary care databases from the UK have been widely used to produce evidence on the epidemiology and health service usage of a wide range of conditions. …”
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Nitrate contamination in drinking water and colorectal cancer: exposure assessment and estimated health burden in New Zealand by Jayne Richards, Tim Chambers, Simon Hales, Mike Joy, Tanja Radu, Alistair Woodward, Alistair Humphrey, Edward Randal, Michael G Baker

“…When combining registered and unregistered supplies, we estimated 3.26% (95%CI 0.84, 5.57) of CRC cases were attributable to nitrates, resulting in 100 cases (95%CI 25.7, 171.3) and 41 deaths (95%CI 10.5, 69.7) at a cost of 43.2 million USD (95%CI 10.9, 73.4).ConclusionA substantial minority of New Zealanders are exposed to high or unknown levels of nitrates in their drinking water. …”
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Intergenerational factors that shape the nutritional status of urban Maya households in Merida, Mexico. A 3-generations study. by Hugo Azcorra

“…The birth weight of the children was positively associated with maternal head circumference and negatively associated with the absence of a toilet at home during maternal childhood (i.e. when the mother was growing up). …”
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Magnitude, trends and drivers of the coexistence of maternal overweight/obesity and childhood undernutrition in Ethiopia: Evidence from Demographic and Health Surveys (2005-2016) by Rebecca Pradeilles, Ana Irache, Tom Norris, Stanley Chitekwe, Arnaud Laillou, Kaleab Baye

“…This masks important within-country variability, with substantially higher prevalence in Addis Ababa (22.8%). Factors positively associated with DBM were maternal age (odds ratio [OR] = 1.04 [1.02, 1.06]), urban residence (OR = 3.12 [2.24, 4.36]), wealth (OR = 1.14 [1.06, 1.24]) and the number of children …”
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Four decades of socio-economic inequality and secular change in the physical growth of Guatemalans by Liina Mansukoski, Will Johnson, Katherine Brooke-Wavell, J Andres Galvez-Sobral, Luis Furlán, Tim J Cole, Barry Bogin

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The Body Mass Index: the good, the bad, and the horrid by Barry Bogin, Maria Ines Varela Silva

“…The BMI was never intended to be used for individual diagnosis. The BMI becomes a horrid tool to estimate fatness or health risk when used in some groups of people, such as high-level athletes, body building enthusiasts, people engaged in jobs with strenuous physical activity, and in groups suffering from the nutritional double-burden of very short stature with high body fatness.…”
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Fat free mass explains the relationship between stunting and energy expenditure in urban Mexican Maya children by Hannah J. Wilson, Federico Dickinson, Daniel J. Hoffman, Paula Griffiths, Barry Bogin, Maria Ines Varela Silva

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Neuromechanics of middle-distance running fatigue: a key role of the plantar flexors? by Jasmin Willer, Sam Allen, Richard Burden, Jonathan Folland

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"Am I doing it right?": a discursive analysis of cancer narratives by Rosemary Chapman

“…It is proposed that not only do they have to contend with managing to live with a life threatening illness but the metaphorical descriptions attributed to cancer, the 'heroic model' and its accompanying discourses and expectations construct the ill person as being morally accountable. …”
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The provision of nutritional advice and care for cancer patients: a UK national survey of healthcare professionals by Jane L Murphy, Fehmidah Munir, Fiona Davey, Laura Miller, Ramsey Cutress, Rhys White, Megan Lloyd, Justin Roe, Carol Granger, Sorrel Burden, Lesley Turner

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Do exercise-based prevention programs reduce injury in endurance runners? A systematic review and meta-analysis by Han Wu, Katherine Brooke-Wavell, Daniel Fong, Max R Paquette, Richard Blagrove

“…Overall pooled results showed no significant differences between intervention and control groups in injury risk (z = − 1.60; p = 0.110) and injury rate (z = − 0.98; p = 0.329), while a post hoc analysis evaluating supervised interventions only showed that injury risk was significantly lower in the intervention group compared to the control group (z = − 3.75, p …”
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Where do EU missions come from? A Discursive and Institutionalist Analysis of the European Union's Engagement in the Horn of Africa by Nikola Tomic

“…The EUTM Somalia mission was primarily deployed due to a convincing strategy from the strategic planners at the EEAS, as well as the commitment of the United States (US) to a partnership with the EU to train recruits of the Somali Security Forces (SSF). …”
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How do food safety concerns affect consumer behaviors and diets in low- and middle-income countries? A systematic review by Julia Liguori, Ursula Trübswasser, Rebecca Pradeilles, Agnès Le Port, Edwige Landais, Elise F Talsma, Mark Lundy, Christophe Béné, Nicolas Bricas, Amos Laar, Marie Josèphe Amiot, Inge D Brouwer, Michelle Holdsworth

“…A systematic review identified 46 relevant studies from 20 LMICs for inclusion. …”
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Exploring affordability: what can housing associations do to better support their tenants? by Katherine Hill, Matt Padley, Juliet Stone

“…Furthermore, the lack of affordable housing due to the shortage of social housing, and a growing gap between frozen Local Housing Allowance rates (Housing Benefit in the Private Rented Sector (PRS)) and rents mean that many low income households face significant rent shortfalls. …”
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Do workers with long-term health conditions need self-management support at work? by Sally Hemming

“…Participants without LTCs (n = 409) reported more people to turn to at work for support [F(1, 730) = 9.67, p = 0.002], better manager [F(1, 729) = 14.2, p = 0.001] and peer support [F(1, 729) = 12.1, p = 0.001], better current workability [F(1, 730) = 58.9, p = 0.001] and less stress about control [F(1, 729) = 5.21, p = 0.023] and change [F(1, 729) = 5.18, p = 0.009]. …”
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Assessment of body composition in spinal cord injury: A scoping review by Jan Van-Der-Scheer, Julia Totosy de Zepetnek, Cheri Blauwet, Katherine Brooke-Wavell, Terri Graham Paulson, Amber Leonard, Nick Webborn, Vicky Goosey-Tolfrey

“…The only tool supported by studies showing both acceptable test-retest reliability and convergent validity was whole-body dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA). The survey/workshop participants considered the measurement burden of DXA acceptable as long as it was reliable, valid and would do no harm (e.g. radiation, skin damage). …”
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Corruption, transparency and a role for ICT? by R. Paul Sturges

“…Nevertheless, campaigning organisations in developing countries see transparency as an important component of a process of empowering the poor to shake off the burden of illegal financial demands. …”
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A combined D-optimal and estimability model-based design of experiments of a batch cooling crystallization process by Xuming Yuan, Brahim Benyahia

“…The approach is also critical to determine the minimum set of required observable outputs and help discriminate model candidates. A novel Model-Based Design of Experiments (MBDoE) is then proposed based on the combination of the D-optimality criterion and the estimability analysis. …”
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'It's a huge maze, the system, it's a terrible maze': dementia carers' constructions of navigating health and social care services by Elizabeth Peel, Rosie Harding

“…Three themes are discussed: (1) services as a 'maze'; (2) services as overly limited - 'beyond our remit'; and (3) the battle and fighting discourse deployed by these carers. …”
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Natural personalised ventilation: a novel approach by Zulfikar Adamu, Malcolm Cook, Andrew Price

“…However, contemporary PV techniques are based on mechanical ventilation, which adds to the energy burden of healthcare buildings. …”
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Information needs of children of a parent with cancer by Suzanie Mat Saat

“…Three bilingual (English and Bahasa Malaysia) instruments were developed; 1) An Inquiry to Participate Form to select participants who had dependent children, 2) Three opened-ended questions to obtain children s cancer experience and information needs where drawing was used to encourage children s responses and, 3) A 15-question questionnaire to understand children s experience and information preference. …”
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OFSTED: 'brief encounters of a second kind'?! by Lorraine Cale, Jo Harris

“…ITT staff kept journals for a period of 7 months leading up to, during, and following the inspection in which they detailed their Ofsted activities, experiences and reflections. …”
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Evaluating differences in the clinical impact of a free online weight loss programme, a resource-intensive commercial weight loss programme and an active control condition: a paral... by Aidan Innes, Greg Thomson, Mary Cotter, James King, Niels Vollaard, Ben Kelly

“…Results The overall follow-up rate was 83%. Body mass was significantly reduced at post-intervention in all groups (HWP: N=18, -5.17±4.22 kg, NHS: N=21 -4.19±5.49 kg; GYM: N=24 - 1.17±3.00 kg; p < 0.001) with greater reductions observed in HWP and NHS groups compared to GYM (p…”
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Drag levels and energy requirements on a SCUBA diver by Martin Passmore, G. Rickers

“…This amounts to 16% at 5 degrees and 49% at 15 degrees. Estimates of the effect of the drag changes on bottom time show that particularly at the higher speeds the drag increases result in approximately similar percentage reductions in bottom time. …”
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The sustainability of fiscal policies : a study of the European Union by Carlos M.R. Vieira

“…However, unsustainable fiscal policies do not seem to have imposed an excessive burden on monetary policies, as predicted by the conventional economic theory. …”
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A case-based system for lesson plan construction by Aslina Saad

“…The inputs are the requirements and constraints of the curriculum and the student facilities available, and the output is the solution, i.e. appropriate elements of a lesson plan. The retrieval module consists of five types of search advanced search, hierarchical, Boolean, basic and browsing. …”
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A technical perspective on ASAP – Automated System for Assessment of Programming by Christopher Douce, David Livingstone, James Orwell, Steve Grindle, Justin Cobb

“…This paper reviews the previous work on automatic programming assessment, and then presents a technical review of ASAP, discussing its architecture and standards. …”
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Using hands-on project with Lego Mindstorms in a graduate course by Seungkeun Kim, Hd Oh, Jiyoung Choi, Antonios Tsourdos

“…The experimental results from a short-term group project verify that the proposed hands-on work is an efficient educational tool for learning vision processing and estimation as well as guidance and control with a low-level burden of time and cost.…”
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Protocol for a feasibility trial to inform the development of a breathlessness rehabilitation programme for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and chronic heart failure (the COH... by Amy Jones, Rachael Evans, Dale Esliger, Lauren Sherar, Sally Singh

“…Methods and analysis The rehabilitation programme consists of 12 sessions, twice weekly, over a 6-week period. …”
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Exploring digital identities in the automotive space: a study of digital variability and implications for user experience design, with a focus on the future automotive environment by Lexy Martin

“…This dichotomy predicated digital variability on the user’s age, sparking debate since it was first introduced. While its original ties to age have been largely refuted (Adams & Pente, 2011; Akçayır et al., 2016; Bakla, 2019; Bennett et al., 2008; Teo, 2013), there have been no studies outside of education age participants (Akçayır et al., 2016; Huang et al., 2019; Teo, 2016; Yong & Gates, 2014) testing the conjecture. …”
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High-volume image-guided injections in Achilles and patellar tendinopathy in a young active military population: a double-blind randomized controlled trial by Robert Barker-Davies, Polly Baker, James Watson, Duncan Goodall, Patrick Wheeler, Alastair M. Nicol, Daniel Fong, Mark Lewis, Alexander Bennett

“…The main outcome measures were the Victoria Institute of Sport Assessments (VISA) for Achilles and patellar tendinopathy and the visual analog scale (VAS) for pain at 6 months postinjection. Results: The VISA score improved by a mean of 22.8 points (95% CI, 10.4-35.3 points; effect size [ES], 1.51) in the control group (n = 21), 18.6 points (95% CI, 9.1-28.0 points; ES, 1.31) in the HVIGI group (n = 21), and 18.5 points (95% CI, 3.4-33.6 points; ES, 0.88) in the HVIGIwSteroid group (n = 20). …”
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A ‘crisis of identity’? Palestinian Christian contributions to Amman’s modern urbanity by Annabel Evans

“…As it has become the destination of multiple refugee and migrant communities seeking safety in Jordan, Amman’s subsequent migrant make-up has been primarily narrated as a burden – on space, on resources and on understandings of the Jordanian national self-preventing a sense of national unity being found within its capital. …”
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Circular economy for medical devices: a case study of syringes by Bana Quronfuleh, Denis Sleath, Shahin Rahimifard

“…While in many sectors, the shift to a circular economy has become more prevalent, in the healthcare sector, the linear cradle-to-grave model seems to still be a common approach despite growing concerns over the environmental burdens. …”
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A simple approach to improving email communication: going back to basics by Tom Jackson, Anthony K. Burgess, Janet Edwards

“…Email communication is becoming a burden for many employees and the way email is handled is far from efficient [5]. …”
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Effects of exercise and sport in solid organ transplant recipients: a review by Jill Neale, Alice C. Smith, Nicolette Bishop

“…Solid organ transplantation is the gold-standard treatment for many with end-organ failure and can offer a new independence from the burden of disease. …”
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