Publications by authors named "Senior C"

Purpose: To implement a job retention vocational rehabilitation (VR) intervention (MSVR) for people with multiple sclerosis (MS) and their employers in the UK National Health Service (NHS).

Methods: Multicentre, single-arm feasibility study with post-intervention interviews. MSVR was delivered by an occupational therapist (OT).

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Objective: Monolingual Spanish speakers-many of whom identify as Hispanic/Latine-often experience barriers to accessing psychology services, including language access. Integrated primary care (IPC) clinics, where individuals receive psychological services within primary care, aim to improve service accessibility. However, minoritized populations are less likely to engage with these services than non-Hispanic/Latine White individuals.

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  • Rodenticides are important for managing rodent populations, but they also pose a risk to birds of prey, like buzzards, which can be unintentionally poisoned.
  • In the UK, a stewardship scheme was introduced in 2016 to reduce the risk of bird exposure to second generation anticoagulant rodenticides (SGARs), but a study found no significant decrease in SGAR exposure among buzzards after this change.
  • The study revealed a troubling increase in brodifacoum exposure and multiple SGARs in buzzards post-stewardship, suggesting that the current measures may not be effective and further revisions may be needed.
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The human smile can convey both rewarding and affiliative social intent and thus has significant utility in politics, where the ability to bond with and reassure voters is vital to electoral success. We examine experimental evidence from the 2019 UK general election to investigate the influence of a politician's reward or affiliative smile on voter emotions. It was hypothesised that the winner's affiliative smile would engender positive affect across all partisan groups compared to the winner's reward smile display.

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Former United States President Ronald Reagan's use of media and his charismatic connection with viewers earned him the moniker "the great communicator". One aspect of his charisma, the influence of elicited laughter, during a highly critical 5-minute news story by CBS reporter Leslie Stahl during the 1984 US presidential election is examined here. Two experiments examining the effects of audience laughter on perceptions of charismatic leadership are reported.

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  • Radiographer-led reporting was introduced in the UK to tackle reporting backlogs, but motivations for pursuing postgraduate education in this field are not well understood.
  • An online survey involving 239 radiographers from several European countries showed that factors like increased knowledge and job satisfaction were key motivators, while concerns like reduced patient contact were less influential.
  • The results indicate that motivations can vary by gender and country, highlighting the need for more research, as the sample size may not fully represent all reporting radiographers.
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  • A growing number of radiographers across Europe are engaging in image reporting, yet practices and experiences vary significantly among different countries.
  • A survey conducted with 345 reporting radiographers identified key support needs, including backing from radiologists, management, and protected time for their roles, with most respondents expressing satisfaction in their work.
  • The study found common ground in educational and managerial duties among radiographers, but notable differences in research involvement, suggesting a need for enhanced opportunities in that area.
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Introduction: Reporting radiographers undertake an important role in healthcare and for the radiographer profession in general. First introduced in the United Kingdom, reporting radiographers are now practicing in several other European countries. Our objective was to investigate the workforce of reporting radiographers across the European Federation of Radiographer Societies (EFRS) community.

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Verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia patients might be seen as internal verbal productions mistaken for perceptions as a result of over-salient inner speech and/or defective self-monitoring processes. Similar cognitive mechanisms might underpin verbal hallucination proneness in the general population. We investigated, in a non-clinical sample, the cerebral activity associated with verbal hallucinatory predisposition during false recognition of familiar words -assumed to stem from poor monitoring of inner speech-vs.

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Objective: To explore relevant literature and policy around the role of the radiographer working within osteoporosis services. Discussion will examine the value of radiographers in these services, as well as current limitations and future opportunities for advancing practice in these domains.

Key Findings: Osteoporosis and fracture prevention are a public health issue that must be addressed to improve patient outcomes following fractures.

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Background: Depressive symptoms are known to affect memory efficiency in various populations. More specifically, several studies conducted in patients suffering from schizophrenia have indicated that memory efficiency is affected by depressed mood in female patients and by anxiety in male patients. We investigated, using neuroimaging techniques, whether similar gender-specific associations with subclinical depression and anxiety could be observed in a non-clinical sample.

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Coal fueled the Industrial Revolution and the global expansion of electrification in the 20 century. In the 21st century, coal use has declined in North America and Europe, but continues to increase in Asia. Coal contains many of the elements of the Periodic Table, in percent-levels or in trace amounts (ppm, ppb).

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Climate projections at very high resolution (kilometre-scale grid spacing) are becoming affordable. These 'convection-permitting' models (CPMs), commonly used for weather forecasting, better represent land-surface characteristics and small-scale processes in the atmosphere such as convection. They provide a step change in our understanding of future changes at local scales and for extreme weather events.

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We describe the approach taken to develop the United Kingdom's first community Earth system model, UKESM1. This is a joint effort involving the Met Office and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), representing the U.K.

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For the current generation of earth system models participating in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6), the range of equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS, a hypothetical value of global warming at equilibrium for a doubling of CO) is 1.8°C to 5.6°C, the largest of any generation of models dating to the 1990s.

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There is a growing literature suggesting disgust plays a major role in religiosity. However, the relationships between specific domains of disgust sensitivity and general religious fundamentalism or religious scrupulosity remains unknown and a lack of experimental data prevents the drawing of causal inferences about the potential effects of disgust on religiosity. Two studies are reported that examined the relationship between specific types of disgust sensitivity (i.

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Fluctuating asymmetry represents the degree to which the right and left side of the body are asymmetrical, and is a sign of developmental instability. Higher levels of fluctuating asymmetry have been observed in individuals within the schizophrenia spectrum. We aimed to explore the associations of fluctuating asymmetry with psychotic and affective symptoms in schizophrenia patients, as well as with propensity to these symptoms in non-clinical individuals.

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The aim of this cross-sectional study was to examine the faculty mentoring practices in seven dental schools in the U.S. A 34-item survey was administered electronically to dental faculty members of all ranks, tracks, and job categories in seven dental schools using faculty listservs.

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African society is particularly vulnerable to climate change. The representation of convection in climate models has so far restricted our ability to accurately simulate African weather extremes, limiting climate change predictions. Here we show results from climate change experiments with a convection-permitting (4.

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Anticoagulant rodenticide (AR) products are used globally to control rodent pests in domestic, urban, agricultural and industrial environments. However, there is a substantial volume of evidence that non-target vertebrate wildlife i.e.

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