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Utilizing Seismic Station Internal GPS for Tracking Surging Glacier Sliding Velocity
Get PDFWe would like to acknowledge Heidi Sevestre and Gabrielle Kleber for fieldwork assistance, Eirik Hellerud, Piotr Kupiszewski and Einar Berntson from the Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI), and CHC pilots for their help in planning and executing the fieldwork. Also, we acknowledge Shad O’Neel, Hester Jiskoot, and Frank Pattyn for constructive comments which substantially improved this paper.Peer reviewe
Evaluation of parenting interventions for those with additional health and social care needs during pregnancy : THRIVE a multi-arm RCT with embedded economic and process components
Get PDFThere are many people and organisations to thank for THRIVE Phase III being able to happen: The THRIVE participants ‒ without them we would have no data to present or discuss! Our conscientious and dedicated THRIVE research nurses who travelled to hospitals and participants’ homes to recruit, get consent, collect the data and support our THRIVE participants The managers and staff of NHS GGC and NHS A&A maternity services for supporting the trial by referring women to the trial and welcoming the THRIVE team and research nurses into their clinics The developers of ETPB and MB for developing their programmes and for agreeing to them being rigorously evaluated The funders of our scoping and feasibility to pilot trial, namely, Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research and Policy, Medical Research Council (MRC) and the Chief Scientists Office (CSO). Then the National Institute for Health Research Public Health Research for funding the THRIVE Phase III Trial The Scottish government for supporting the funding of the THRIVE interventions The THRIVE intervention facilitators (employed via NHS A&A and NHS GGC using Scottish government subvention funding), who delivered ETPB and MB to our participants NHS GGC for sponsoring us NHS A&A and NHS GGC for employing our THRIVE intervention facilitators, supporting and enabling recruitment, offering venues for intervention delivery, and sharing advice and expertise generally Social Services for also supporting recruitment to THRIVE ASDA and Tesco for their social corporate responsibility policies, offering venues for ETPB and MB and offering a range of drinks and biscuits to THRIVE participants University of Manchester research team, for supporting the blind coding of THRIVE mother–infant videos Dr Jane White, who was the researcher on the THRIVE pilot study and the first project manager of THRIVE (until summer 2017) Dr Caoimhe Clarke, who was an investigator scientist with THRIVE until summer 2017 Dr John O’Dowd (NHS consultant), who supported our NHS partnership working and facilitated our recruitment activities Our THRIVE-linked PhD students: Dr Karen Maxwell and Dr Simon Barrett, both of whom also made valuable contributions to the main study The Public Health Research Facility, currently based at MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit (SPHSU). Its staff supported everything from artwork, questionnaire design, production, barcoding, logging questionnaires out and in, their transfer to the Robertson Centre for Biostatistics (Clinical Trials Unit), data entry of personal information and textual data, online questionnaires, day-to-day management of our THRIVE research nurses and support with scheduling and Communicare. In particular, Marcela Gavigan, Ross Forsyth, Elaine Hindle, Kate Campbell, Sharon Mitchell, Julie Watson, Andrew Jackson, Matthew Tolan, John Kelly and John Gibbons The MRC/CSO SPHSU, University of Glasgow (UoG) for creating a supportive and conducive working environment for conducting our research. In particular, Professor Laurence Moore, Professor Kate Hunt, Professor Dame Sally Macintyre, Professor Lisa McDaid, Carol Nicol, Crawford Nelson, Enni Pukkinen, Iain Taylor, Brenda Butler and Susan Wilkie The Robertson Centre for Biostatistics (Clinical Trials Unit), UoG for working with us on our statistical analysis plan, project and data management, data entry, and data analysis of our outcome evaluation. Particularly, Dr Sarah Weeden and John McHugh The Scottish Mental Health Research Network for its valued support with recruitment to THRIVE Dr Tony Axon for his support with proofreading, EndNote and long-document challenges in Word Our THRIVE Steering Committee, who provided expert advice and feedback and chaired very effectively by Professor Rudi Dallos (University of Plymouth). Members were: Linda De Caestecker (Director of Public Health: Greater Glasgow Health Board), Anne Clarke (Senior Manger Public Health for NHS Ayrshire and Arran), Professor David Conway (University of Glasgow), Mary Glasgow (Children 1st), Dr Mary Hepburn (NHS GGC, headed SNIP group), Matt Forde (NSPCC Scotland), Evelyn Frame (NHS GGC), Professor Ruth Freeman (University of Dundee), Elaine Moore (NHS Ayrshire and Arran), Professor David Tappin and two very valued patient representatives (not named for reasons of confidentiality) Our THRIVE Data Monitoring and Ethics Committee, which took great care in assessing our data, progress, and direction, chaired by Professor John Norrie (University of Aberdeen). Members were: Professor Lawrie Elliot (Glasgow Caledonian University, was at Napier University when his membership commenced); Dr Michael Smith (NHS GGC); and Professor Alex McConnachie (Roberson Centre for Biostats, Clinical Trials Unit, who provided the data to inform the meetings) We are hugely grateful to our anonymous peer reviewers. Their attention to detail and insightful comments have helped to strengthen the final report.Peer reviewe
Infant mental health services for birth and foster families of maltreated pre-school children in foster care (BeST?) : a phase 3 clinical effectiveness trial
Get PDFThanks to the children, and their birth and foster families, who took part in this study. Thanks to Cathie Greig, Adelle Neave, Anni Molloy and Juliana Lovato for recruitment and retention; Sharon Graham, Anne Swartz and Fiona Lettice for offering their expertise by experience; Udita Iyengar and Lynn McMahon for Trial Management; Irene O’Neill, for trial administration; David Walker, John McHugh and Mairi Warren for data management; Jaycee Pownall for Figure design; our Trial Steering Committee (Professor David Cottrell, Dr Christine Puckering, Ms Fiona Lettice and Professor Stavros Petrou), our Data Monitoring and Ethics Committee (Professor Sheila Bird, OBE; Dr Shubulade Smith, CBE, Dr Helen McTier), our research nurses (Efisia Sais, Caroline Carlisle, Charlotte Mceleney, Kirsteen Paterson and Nadia Palma) for persistent and supportive data collection and to our social work and judicial colleagues for their strong partnership throughout. We are grateful to both the Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Government and NSPCC for funding the feasibility phase of the study. The funder of this definitive RCT (National Institute for Health Research, PHR 12/211/54) had no role in trial design, implementation, data analysis, data interpretation, or publication of findings. This paper represents independent research in part funded by the NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College London. The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care. We are very grateful to NIHR for continuing to support the study through many challenges.Peer reviewe
Feasibility of Using Polymers to Improve Foam Flow Performance in Vertical Pipes : Application to Liquid Unloading in Gas Wells
Get PDFAuthors would like to thank the School of Engineering at the University of Aberdeen for providing required consumables and facilities to complete this research.Peer reviewe
I am Robot, Your Health Adviser for Older Adults : Do You Trust My Advice?
Get PDFThe work described in this paper was funded by the Interreg 2 Seas Mers Zeeën AGE’In project (2S05-014).Peer reviewe
Childhood maltreatment and chronic ‘all over’ body pain in adulthood : a counterfactual analysis using UK Biobank
Get PDFThe investigators on the CAPE consortium are: Tim Hales, Lesley Colvin, Douglas Steele, 11 Andrew Brown (University of Dundee), Gary Macfarlane (University of Aberdeen), Bhuvaneish Selvaraj, Colin Smith (University of Edinburgh), Line Caes (Stirling University), Reecha Sofat, Suellen Walker, Debajit Sen, Madeleine Verriotis (University College London) while the Chronic Pain Advisory Group includes Carolyn Graham, Maureen O’Reilly and Debs Smith, among others. We thank Jisha Babu (University of Aberdeen) for her work involved in administration in relation to access to data as part of this programme of work. Thanks also to Marcus Beasley and John McBeth for advice on analyses. The authors do not report any conflicts of interest. For the purpose of open access, the authors have applied a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission.Peer reviewe
Capacity for recovery in Bornean orangutan populations when limiting offtake and retaining forest
Get PDFThe analysis would not have been possible without the Specialist and High-Performance Computing systems provided by Information Services at the University of Kent.Peer reviewe
ESPClust : unsupervised identification of modifiers for the effect size profile in omics association studies
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