Multimorbidity clusters and their associations with health-related quality of life in two UK cohorts by Lewis Steell, Stefanie J. Krauth, Sayem Ahmed, Grace O. Dibben, Emma McIntosh, Peter Hanlon, Jim Lewsey, Barbara I. Nicholl, David A. McAllister, Susan M. Smith, Rachael Evans, Zahira Ahmed, Sarah Dean, Colin Greaves, Shaun Barber, Patrick Doherty, Nikki Gardiner, Tracy Ibbotson, Kate Jolly, Paula Ormandy, Sharon A. Simpson, Rod S. Taylor, Sally J. Singh, Frances S. Mair, Bhautesh D. Jani, the PERFORM research team

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Strategies adopted by men to deal with uncertainty and anxiety when following an active surveillance/monitoring protocol for localised prostate cancer and implications for care: a... by Chris Metcalfe, Jenny Donovan, Julia Wade, Vincent J Gnanapragasam, Michael Davis, David Neal, Richard Martin, Athene Lane, Edward Rowe, Freddie Hamdy, James Catto, Emma Turner, David Gillatt, Eleanor Walsh, Derek Rosario, Tim Peters, Roger Kockelbergh, Alan Paul, Peter Holding, Howard Kynaston, Owen Hughes, Prasad Bollina, Alan Doherty, Edgar Paez

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Endothelial-secreted Endocan activates PDGFRA and regulates vascularity and spatial phenotype in glioblastoma by Soniya Bastola, Marat S. Pavlyukov, Neel Sharma, Yasmin Ghochani, Mayu A. Nakano, Sree Deepthi Muthukrishnan, Sang Yul Yu, Min Soo Kim, Alireza Sohrabi, Natalia P. Biscola, Daisuke Yamashita, Ksenia S. Anufrieva, Tatyana F. Kovalenko, Grace Jung, Tomas Ganz, Beatrice O’Brien, Riki Kawaguchi, Yue Qin, Stephanie K. Seidlits, Alma L. Burlingame, Juan A. Oses-Prieto, Leif A. Havton, Steven A. Goldman, Anita B. Hjelmeland, Ichiro Nakano, Harley I. Kornblum

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Synchronization and Rebound Effects in Residential Loads by Nora Agah, Eve Tsybina, Viswadeep Lebakula, Justin Hill, Jeff Munk, Helia Zandi

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Attending to adolescent experience: Tragic drama as a stimulus and a model by Lucy Elvis, Michela Dianetti

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Free Open Access Medical Education (FOAMed) use in medical students: a literature review by Jacqueline Morgan

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Enhancing students’ L2 writing skills online: a case study of an introductory English literature course for ESL students by Shi Huiwen, Chan Ka-ling Zoe, Wu Wenli, Cheung Lok-ming Eric

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An Inductive Link-Based Wireless Power Transfer System for Biomedical Applications by M. A. Adeeb, A. B. Islam, M. R. Haider, F. S. Tulip, M. N. Ericson, S. K. Islam

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Cover it up! Visual euphemisation strategies for transforming non-religious songs into Islamic songs in music videos by Ikke Dewi Pratama, SF Luthfie Arguby Purnomo, Arina Rohmatika, Nestiani Hutami

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An intrusion detection model based on Convolutional Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks by Zhen Wang, Anazida Zainal, Maheyzah Md Siraj, Fuad A. Ghaleb, Xue Hao, Shaoyong Han

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Using guest lectures to enhance student employability: pedagogical considerations by Dennis Gabriel Pepple, Godbless Onoriode Akaighe, Aliyu Sambo, Ololade George-Aremu, Genevieve Bosah, Hana Trollman

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Comparison of Risk Scores for Predicting Adverse Outcomes in Acute Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding by Chenyang Li, Enqiang Linghu, Chao Chen

“…We calculated six risk scores at admission (Oakland, Birmingham, SHA2PE, Ramaekers, SALGIB, and CNUH-5). …”
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Experimental and analytical study of the residual performance of reinforced concrete deep beams with circular web openings by Mohammad Shabanlou, Zeinab Meghdadi, Seyed Hamidreza Ghaffar

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Outcomes Following Pars Plana Vitrectomy for Severe Ocular Trauma by Natalia K. Bober, Neruban Kumaran, Tom H. Williamson

“…Data were collected on age, gender, initial and final visual acuity (LogMAR), mode of injury, type of injury, number of surgeries performed, follow-up duration, type of tamponade, presence of phthisis, and retinal detachment. The Birmingham Eye Trauma Terminology System (BETTS) was employed. …”
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Modelling convective cell life cycles with a copula-based approach by C.-Y. Tseng, L.-P. Wang, L.-P. Wang, C. Onof

“…To develop the algorithm, 165 effective convective storm events occurring between 2005 and 2017 in Birmingham, UK, were selected. A state-of-the-art storm tracking algorithm was employed to reconstruct convective cell life cycles within each selected event. …”
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LOS ESTUDIOS CULTURALES EN AMÉRICA LATINA: INTERCULTURALIDAD, ACCIONES AFIRMATIVAS Y ENCUENTRO DE SABERES by José Jorge de Carvalho

“…El artículo ofrece una propuesta de refundación de los Estudios Culturales en América Latina, retomando el ideario y la postura política crítica que ha sido constitutiva de esa área de estudios desde su creación en los años sesenta en Birmingham. Esa postura crítica fundante se actualiza ahora en el proyecto de un Doctorado en Estudios Culturales en la Universidad de Brasilia, basado en tres ejes: la lucha por cuotas para negros e indígenas en las universidades; la superación del dualismo dominante entre las Humanidades y las Ciencias Exactas a través de las teorías de la complejidad; c) el Encuentro de Saberes. …”
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Micro-vibration assisted dual-layer spiral microneedles to rapidly extract dermal interstitial fluid for minimally invasive detection of glucose by Khaled Mohammed Saifullah, Asim Mushtaq, Pouria Azarikhah, Philip D. Prewett, Graham J. Davies, Zahra Faraji Rad

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Establishing a model of peer support for pregnant persons with a substance use disorder as an innovative approach for engaging participants in the healthy brain and child developme... by Florence Hilliard, Holly Horan, Aleksandra E. Zgierska, Renee C. Edwards

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Re-Structuring Evaluation Findings into Useful Knowledge by Danielle Houston, Bernadette Wright, Steven E. Wallis

“…Purpose: Demonstrate an innovative method to rigorously integrate and strengthen knowledge gained from evaluation and to encourage discussion of future directions for developing stronger theories for more effective evaluation and more effective action. Setting: Birmingham, Alabama Intervention: A project to identify local strategies for community-based organizations and community health centers that serve African American and Latinx gay and bisexual men and transgender women to collaboratively meet HIV-related community needs. …”
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Impact of Baseline BMI upon the Success of Latina Participants Enrolled in a 6-Month Physical Activity Intervention by Sheri J. Hartman, Shira I. Dunsiger, Dori W. Pekmezi, Brooke Barbera, Charles J. Neighbors, Becky Marquez, Bess H. Marcus

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