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Effect of Polyphenol Supplementation on Memory Functioning in Overweight and Obese Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Get PDFCatherine Tsang - ORCID: 0000-0003-3102-0373
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3102-0373Negative health consequences of obesity include impaired neuronal functioning and cell death, thus bringing the risk of impaired cognitive functioning. Antioxidant properties of polyphenols offer a possible intervention for overweight people, but evidence for their effectiveness in supporting cognitive functioning is mixed. This review examined evidence from randomized controlled trials concerning the effect of polyphenols on tasks requiring either immediate or delayed retrieval of learned information, respectively, thus controlling for differences in cognitive processes and related neural substrates supporting respective task demands. Searches of the PubMed/Medline, PsycInfo, and Scopus databases identified 24 relevant primary studies with N = 2336 participants having a BMI ≥ 25.0 kg/m2. The participants’ mean age for the 24 studies exceeded 60 years. Respective meta-analyses produced a significant summary effect for immediate retrieval but not for delayed retrieval. The present findings support a potential positive effect of chronic supplementation with polyphenols, most notably flavonoids, on immediate retrieval in participants aged over 60 years with obesity being a risk factor for cognitive impairment. We recommend further investigation of this potential positive effect in participants with such risk factors. Future research on all populations should report the phenolic content of the supplementation administered and be specific regarding the cognitive processes tested.https://doi.org/10.3390/nu1604047416pubpub
Pairwise lingual differences in tongue shape-location
No full textJames M Scobbie - ORCID: 0000-0003-4509-6782 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4509-6782Vowel and consonant phoneme inventories have been structured into multidimensional systems using a relatively consistent range of factors since the 19th century. For consonants these include primary place of articulation, degree of constriction, and voicing. For vowels these include the dimensions close-open, front-back, and rounded vs. unrounded. Secondary dimensions encode airstream, source characteristics or other aspects. Detailed impressionistic and instrumental research can be used to group phonetically-similar phonemes into natural classes (e.g. “alveolars” or “close-front vowels”). Phonological allophony, morphophonemic alternation and patterns of phonetic variation within and across speakers support more phonetically-heterogenous (aka “abstract”) classes.
But if two contrasting phonemes are phonetically almost identical for some phonetic property, such as lingual shape and place, it is straightforward to argue that they share whichever phonological features are used in the analysis of that property. For example, if two vowels contrast, but their midsagittal tongue profiles are identical (or close enough), then we would be highly likely to analyse them with the same lingual features. For a specific example, consider two vowels [i] and [y]. They would probably both be phonologized as /i/ and /y/, i.e. both /+HIGH/ and /+FRONT/, and contrast in /ROUND/.https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.12578650pubpu
Companionship [Editorial]
No full textGiorgos Tsiris - ORCID: 0000-0001-9421-412X
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9421-412Xhttps://doi.org/10.56883/aijmt.2024.56316pubpub
‘A TWITCHY AND PUGNACIOUS MALE CULTURE’: Women and Scottish Theatre, 1900–1950
No full textItem is not available in this repository.In 1986, the Scottish theatre critic Joyce McMillan attributed the under-representation of women in Scottish theatre to a pervasive national cultural attitude which prioritised ‘a twitchy and pugnacious male culture’. Taking that observation as a starting point and considering the extent to which the working lives and creative contribution of women to developments in Scottish theatre in the first half of the twentieth century have been virtually erased, this chapter attempts to recuperate these women as actors, entertainers, managers and dramatists. By exploring women’s lives across a 50-year span, it’s possible to see how their career trajectories reflected trends in Scottish theatre as a whole: the continuing buoyancy of urban variety entertainment and old-style actor-manager-led touring companies promoting traditional concepts of Scottish identity compared with the modernist initiatives which tried to establish a more artistically ambitious and distinctively Scottish theatre. We show how women were central to the strength of the amateur movement and the ways in which amateur enthusiasm intersected with would-be professionalism. The chapter also interrogates the societal codes and gendered biases which obstructed women’s progress together with the complex relationship with a British unitary system which drew artists away from Scotland to the metropolitan centres of power. © 2025 selection and editorial matter, Claire Cochrane, Lynette Goddard, Catherine Hindson and Trish Reid. All rights reserved.https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003042853-17pubpu
‘GRESCO Agape’ – An international songwriting project for hospice patients and school children
No full textGiorgos Tsiris - ORCID: 0000-0001-9421-412X https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9421-412XItem is not available in this repository.pubpu
An investigation of the interventional role of perceived norms on greener choice
No full textItem is not available in this repository.https://doi.org/10.48730/8SQ3-9G2
Mentoring programs for PhD nursing students [Editorial]
No full textItem is not available in this repository.Fiona Gilmour - ORCID: 0000-0002-9106-3618
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9106-3618https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2024.103940inpressinpres
Decision-making accuracy of soccer referees in relation to markers of internal and external load
No full textData related to the paper: McEwan, G.P., Unnithan, V.B., Easton, C., Glover, A. J., and Arthur, R (2024). Decision-making accuracy of soccer referees in relation to markers of internal and external load. European Journal of Sport Science. (preprint) https://eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.500.12289/1368
Nature connection in adulthood: The role of childhood nature experiences
Get PDFAlexia Barrable - ORCID: 0000-0002-5352-8330
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5352-8330AM replaced with VoR 27/05/20241) Context: Nature connection describes our relationship with the rest of the natural world. Promoting nature connection in children and adults has been identified as a worthwhile focus for education and public health, given the positive associations between nature connection, wellbeing and pro-environmental behaviours. Prior research has looked at activities that promote an individual’s connection to nature, reporting that a variety of interventions can be effective. Particular emphasis has been placed on positive childhood nature experiences due to their effects on adult nature connection. Research from varied places such as New Zealand, Australia, the USA and Brazil suggest that an individual’s childhood nature experiences can play a positive role on their adult connection to nature.
2) Approach: This paper is the first of its kind to explore the associations between childhood nature activities, both their type and frequency, and adult nature connection in a Greek sample (n=401). We gathered the perspectives of Greek-speaking adults using quantitative measures in an online survey.
3) Results: Our results suggest that, in line with previous research, childhood nature experiences were significantly and positively correlated with adult nature connectedness. However, contrary to previous research, analysis suggested that adult nature experiences did not mediate the relationship between childhood nature experience and adult nature connection. Age was positively correlated with less structured childhood nature experiences such that older adults were more likely to have participated in unstructured outdoor activities like flower picking and general alone time outside during childhood.
4) Synthesis and applications: Capturing retrospective self-reports on the frequency and type of childhood nature experiences in this Greek sample helps us understand how these experiences may predict engagement and relationships with nature in adulthood. In turn, these findings inform context-specific recommendations for encouraging nature contact in childhood. For instance, this may have implications for nature-based learning in Greece, as well as the provision of urban green and blue spaces.6pubpub
Creative Research Methods for Critical Event Studies: Introduction
No full textRebecca Finkel - ORCID: 0000-0003-2120-6211 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2120-6211This chapter provides a broad overview of creative methods and their application in the social sciences before examining the value for events and festivals research. It will provide a summary of the book’s contents to follow.https://www.routledge.com/Creative-Research-Methods-for-Critical-Event-Studies/Platt-Finkel-Sharp/p/book/978103268640
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