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A mental health skills training session for occupational therapy learners using virtual reality to teach about depression and suicide
Get PDFUniPRINT: How to scan and photocopy
No full textThis step-by-step guide shows you how to scan an item at Oxford Brookes and receive the file by email. It also shows you how to photocopy pages
Can Fashion Grow Without Costing the Earth? Rethinking Clothing Through Circular Fashion with Dr Rebecca Beech
No full textRegulating Retired Judges
No full textThe active retired judge is an increasing feature of the legal landscape in many jurisdictions. Changes to demographics and to the nature of the legal profession have given rise to a cohort of former judges who, upon reaching retirement, find their prestige, skills, and opinions in demand. This chapter draws on the results of an empirical study of retired judges in the United Kingdom to explore the implications of this phenomenon. UK judges of the past 20 years are much more likely to be active in retirement, and much more likely to engage in paid legal work, than their predecessors. The chapter notes the need for sensitive regulation of some post-judicial behaviour in some cases and suggests that in the long term a move towards a judicial profession may be required
IPC Getting started with Moodle - student guide
No full textGuide to Moodle, specifically aimed at Institute of Public Care student
Loan size concentration under the UK enterprise finance guarantee scheme and SME access to finance
Get PDFCredit rationing is most severe for young and small firms. Public loan guarantee schemes are explicitly designed to increase the supply of loans to these types of firms. In this article, we explore how the EFG scheme evolved through the lens concentration of the cash volume of loans issued. Adopting the Herfindahl–Hirschman Index (HHI), we find that loan size concentration had increased substantially over time, and there was a smaller number of larger loan sizes issued. In short, we posit that it had less relevance to the most acutely rationed small firms and had transitioned into a less targeted scheme. However, we observe different lending behaviors for lenders of different sizes, as smaller lenders became more focused and targeted in their lending over time. It is evident that increasing the diversity of lenders for such schemes would reinforce the effectiveness and relevance of the scheme
Precarious employment in self-employment : a typology and impact on cardiovascular health conditions in Sweden
Get PDFBackground.
Research on health in self-employment shows mixed findings, partly due to limited focus on heterogeneity within self-employment, physical health outcomes and reliance on self-reported, cross-sectional data. This study addresses these gaps by identifying self-employment types using the ‘precarious employment framework’ and examining their association with cardiovascular health conditions in Sweden.
Methods.
Using the Swedish Work, Illness, and Labour Market Participation (SWIP) cohort, we analyzed individuals born between 1948 and 1968, aged 40–60 in 2008, and living in Sweden in 2005. We identified a typology of precarious self-employment in 2008 (N = 281,251), with cardiovascular health conditions tracked between 2009 and 2020. Latent Class Analysis (LCA) was used to categorize self-employment based on six indicators of precarity: business type, prior unemployment, combined employment, number of employees, income, and income volatility. Cox proportional hazards models estimated the association between the self-employment types and cardiovascular health conditions (diagnoses for myocardial infarction and stroke) compared to waged employment, adjusting for covariates.
Results.
We identified four self-employment types: entrepreneurial employers, precarious solo self-employed, own-account combiners, and small traders. Precarious self-employment among 40-to-60-year-olds was associated with a higher risk of cardiovascular conditions later in life. The ‘precarious employment framework’ effectively captures the heterogeneity of self-employment and highlights its role as a social determinant of cardiovascular health.
Conclusion.
Our findings suggest that precarious self-employment is linked to increased cardiovascular risk. This underscores the importance of considering employment quality and heterogeneity in future research and public policies addressing self-employed populations
Research with a Purpose: How Shape Commercialisation is Changing the Game with Dr Syahirah Abdul Rahman
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Structure–property relationships in fibrous meniscal tissue through image-based augmentation
Get PDFThis study introduces an adaptive three-dimensional (3D) image synthesis technique for creating variational realizations of fibrous meniscal tissue microstructures. The method allows controlled deviation from original geometries by modifying parameters such as porosity, pore size and specific surface area of image patches. The unbiased reconstructed samples matched the morphological and hydraulic properties of original tissues, with relative errors generally below 10%. Additional samples were generated with predefined deviations to increase dataset diversity. Analysis of 1500 synthesized geometries revealed relationships between microstructural features, hydraulic permeability and mechanical properties. Empirical correlations were derived to predict longitudinal and transverse hydraulic permeability as functions of porosity, with R2 values of 0.98 and 0.97, respectively. Finite-element simulations examined mechanical behaviour under compression, showing stress concentrations at fibre cross-links and permeability reductions that varied with porosity and flow direction. These results led to a porosity-dependent model for normalized Young’s modulus (��2=0.687). The proposed correlations and data augmentation technique aid in investigating structure–property relationships in meniscal tissue, potentially benefiting biomimetic implant design. This approach may help bridge data gaps where obtaining numerous real samples is impractical or unethical