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Wake up and search for coffee: Considering the circadian rhythm of consumers on online marketplaces (2024)
Journal Article
Liang, Z., Angelopoulos, S., Zuo, M., & Ou, C. X. J. (in press). Wake up and search for coffee: Considering the circadian rhythm of consumers on online marketplaces. Journal of Business Research,

Online marketplaces are characterised by rapid product updates and understanding consumer variety-seeking behaviour (VSB) is paramount for brands operating in this landscape. The literature, however, has fallen short of considering that consumers' op... Read More about Wake up and search for coffee: Considering the circadian rhythm of consumers on online marketplaces.

Relationships between media influence, body image and sociocultural appearance ideals in Latin America: A systematic literature review (2024)
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Andres, F. E., Boothroyd, L. G., Thornborrow, T., Chamorro, A. M., Dutra, N. B., Brar, M., Woodward, R., Malik, N., Sawhney, M., & Evans, E. H. (2024). Relationships between media influence, body image and sociocultural appearance ideals in Latin America: A systematic literature review. Body Image, 51, Article 101774. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2024.101774

The rapidly growing body of research investigating media influence on body image in Latin America has not been previously comprehensively synthesised. We systematically reviewed studies of the relationships between media use/influen... Read More about Relationships between media influence, body image and sociocultural appearance ideals in Latin America: A systematic literature review.

Young people’s views and experience of diet-related inequalities in England (UK): a qualitative study (2024)
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Er, V., Crowder, M., Holding, E., Woodrow, N., Griffin, N., Summerbell, C., Egan, M., & Fairbrother, H. (2024). Young people’s views and experience of diet-related inequalities in England (UK): a qualitative study. Health Promotion International, 39(4), Article daae107. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daae107

Inequalities in diets contribute to overall inequalities in health. Economic inequality and inequalities in access to healthy food are key drivers of poor diet and ill health among young people (YP). Despite mounting evidence of structural barriers t... Read More about Young people’s views and experience of diet-related inequalities in England (UK): a qualitative study.

Examining body appreciation in six countries: The impact of age and sociocultural pressure (2024)
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Hanson, L. N., Gott, A., Tomsett, M., Useh, E., Yeadon-Caiger, E., Clay, R., Fan, J., Hui, K., Wang, H., Evans, E. H., Cowie, D., & Boothroyd, L. G. (2024). Examining body appreciation in six countries: The impact of age and sociocultural pressure. PLoS ONE, 19(7), Article e0306913. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0306913

Previous research on body appreciation across the lifespan has produced conflicting results that it increases with age, decreases with age, or is generally stable with an increase in women over 50-years-old. Furthermore, most of the research has been... Read More about Examining body appreciation in six countries: The impact of age and sociocultural pressure.

‘Relocating Adolescents’: The Costs of Out-of-Area Placements as a Response to Extra-Familial Risk/Harm (2024)
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Holmes, L., Pinto, V. S., Wroe, L. E., Peace, D., & Firmin, C. (online). ‘Relocating Adolescents’: The Costs of Out-of-Area Placements as a Response to Extra-Familial Risk/Harm. The British Journal of Social Work, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcae109

In the UK, there has been increased awareness of the harm adolescents face beyond their families. There is no national strategy for safeguarding adolescents. One intervention that comes with particularly high costs is relocation placements by childre... Read More about ‘Relocating Adolescents’: The Costs of Out-of-Area Placements as a Response to Extra-Familial Risk/Harm.

Discrimination of multiple sclerosis using scanning laser ophthalmoscopy images with autoencoder-based feature extraction (2024)
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Aghababaei, A., Arian, R., Soltanipour, A., Ashtari, F., Rabbani, H., & Kafieh, R. (2024). Discrimination of multiple sclerosis using scanning laser ophthalmoscopy images with autoencoder-based feature extraction. Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders, 88, Article 105743. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msard.2024.105743

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) investigations have revealed that the thickness of inner retinal layers becomes decreased in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients, compared to healthy control (HC) individuals. To date, a number of studies have applied... Read More about Discrimination of multiple sclerosis using scanning laser ophthalmoscopy images with autoencoder-based feature extraction.

Death from Failed Protection? An Evolutionary-Developmental Theory of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (2024)
Journal Article
Renz-Polster, H., Blair, P. S., Ball, H. L., Jenni, O. G., & De Bock, F. (2024). Death from Failed Protection? An Evolutionary-Developmental Theory of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Human Nature, 35(2), 153-196. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-024-09474-6

Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) has been mainly described from a risk perspective, with a focus on endogenous, exogenous, and temporal risk factors that can interact to facilitate lethal outcomes. Here we discuss the limitations that this risk-ba... Read More about Death from Failed Protection? An Evolutionary-Developmental Theory of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

Environmental Materialities and the History of Pandemics. (2024)
Journal Article
Webster, E. (online). Environmental Materialities and the History of Pandemics. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Article jrae007. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrae007

Over the last several decades, a growing group of environmental and medical historians have argued that engagement with the materiality of disease is critical to eroding the false boundaries between environment and health, and especially to the histo... Read More about Environmental Materialities and the History of Pandemics..

Diagnosis of multiple sclerosis by detecting asymmetry within the retina using a similarity-based neural network (2024)
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Bolton, R. C., Kafieh, R., Ashtari, F., & Atapour-Abarghouei, A. (2024). Diagnosis of multiple sclerosis by detecting asymmetry within the retina using a similarity-based neural network. IEEE Access, 12, 62975-62985. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2024.3395995

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic neurological disorder that targets the central nervous system, causing demyelination and neural disruption, which can include retinal nerve damage leading to visual disturbances. The purpose of this study is to de... Read More about Diagnosis of multiple sclerosis by detecting asymmetry within the retina using a similarity-based neural network.

Deep learning for discrimination of active and inactive lesions in multiple sclerosis using non-contrast FLAIR MRI: A multicenter study. (2024)
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Amini, A., Shayganfar, A., Amini, Z., Ostovar, L., HajiAhmadi, S., Chitsaz, N., Rabbani, M., & Kafieh, R. (2024). Deep learning for discrimination of active and inactive lesions in multiple sclerosis using non-contrast FLAIR MRI: A multicenter study. Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders, 87, Article 105642. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msard.2024.105642

Within the domain of multiple sclerosis (MS), the precise discrimination between active and inactive lesions bears immense significance. Active lesions are enhanced on T1-weighted MRI images after administration of gadolinium-based contrast agents, w... Read More about Deep learning for discrimination of active and inactive lesions in multiple sclerosis using non-contrast FLAIR MRI: A multicenter study..

Exercise as Medicine for People with a Substance Use Disorder: An ACSM Call to Action Statement (2024)
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Nock, N. L., Stoutenberg, M., Cook, D. B., Whitworth, J. W., Janke, E. A., & Gordon, A. J. (2024). Exercise as Medicine for People with a Substance Use Disorder: An ACSM Call to Action Statement. Current Sports Medicine Reports, 23(2), 53-57. https://doi.org/10.1249/jsr.0000000000001140

Over 20 million Americans are living with a substance use disorder (SUD) and nearly 100,000 die annually from drug overdoses, with a majority involving an opioid. Many people with SUD have co-occurring chronic pain and/or a mental health disorder. Ex... Read More about Exercise as Medicine for People with a Substance Use Disorder: An ACSM Call to Action Statement.

Biased Deep Learning Methods in Detection of COVID-19 Using CT Images: A Challenge Mounted by Subject-Wise-Split ISFCT Dataset (2023)
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Parsarad, S., Saeedizadeh, N., Soufi, G. J., Shafieyoon, S., Hekmatnia, F., Zarei, A. P., Soleimany, S., Yousefi, A., Nazari, H., Torabi, P., S. Milani, A., Madani Tonekaboni, S. A., Rabbani, H., Hekmatnia, A., & Kafieh, R. (2023). Biased Deep Learning Methods in Detection of COVID-19 Using CT Images: A Challenge Mounted by Subject-Wise-Split ISFCT Dataset. Journal of Imaging, 9(8), Article 159. https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging9080159

Accurate detection of respiratory system damage including COVID-19 is considered one of the crucial applications of deep learning (DL) models using CT images. However, the main shortcoming of the published works has been unreliable reported accuracy... Read More about Biased Deep Learning Methods in Detection of COVID-19 Using CT Images: A Challenge Mounted by Subject-Wise-Split ISFCT Dataset.

Differentiating Glaucomatous Optic Neuropathy from Non-Glaucomatous Optic Neuropathies Using Deep Learning Algorithms (2023)
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Vali, M., Mohammadi, M., Zarei, N., Samadi, M., Atapour-Abarghouei, A., Supakontanasan, W., Suwan, Y., Subramanian, P. S., Miller, N. R., Kafieh, R., & Fard, M. A. (2023). Differentiating Glaucomatous Optic Neuropathy from Non-Glaucomatous Optic Neuropathies Using Deep Learning Algorithms. American Journal of Ophthalmology, 252, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajo.2023.02.016

Purpose : A deep learning framework to differentiate glaucomatous optic disc changes (GON) from non-glaucomatous optic neuropathy-related disc changes (NGON). Design : Cross-sectional study. Method : A deep-learning system was trained, validated, and... Read More about Differentiating Glaucomatous Optic Neuropathy from Non-Glaucomatous Optic Neuropathies Using Deep Learning Algorithms.

Sociocultural drivers of body image and eating disorder risk in rural Nicaraguan women (2022)
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Thornborrow, T., Evans, E., Tovee, M., & Boothroyd, L. (2022). Sociocultural drivers of body image and eating disorder risk in rural Nicaraguan women. Journal of eating disorders, 10(1), Article 133. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40337-022-00656-0

Objective: Technological and economic globalisation has been suggested as a cause of increasing rates of body dissatisfaction and eating disorders globally, especially as regards the impact of mass media on internalised body ideals. This process is r... Read More about Sociocultural drivers of body image and eating disorder risk in rural Nicaraguan women.

Parapapillary choroidal microvascular density in acute primary angle-closure and primary open-angle glaucoma: an optical coherence tomography angiography study (2022)
Journal Article
Suwan, Y., Aghsaei Fard, M., Vilainerun, N., Petpiroon, P., Tantraworasin, A., Teekhasaenee, C., Ritch, R., Kafieh, R., Hojati, S., & Supakontanasan, W. (2023). Parapapillary choroidal microvascular density in acute primary angle-closure and primary open-angle glaucoma: an optical coherence tomography angiography study. British Journal of Ophthalmology, 107(10), 1438-1443. https://doi.org/10.1136/bjo-2021-321022

Back ground/aims To determine whether parapapillary choroidal microvasculature (PPCMv) density, measured by optical coherence tomography angiography, differed between acute primary angle-closure (APAC), primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) and controls... Read More about Parapapillary choroidal microvascular density in acute primary angle-closure and primary open-angle glaucoma: an optical coherence tomography angiography study.

The Child of the North: Building a fairer future after COVID-19 (2021)
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Pickett, K., & Taylor-Robinson, D. (2021). The Child of the North: Building a fairer future after COVID-19. London: Northern Health Science Alliance and N8 Research Partnership

Children in the North are more likely to live in poverty than those in the rest of England – and increasingly so. Poverty is the lead driver of inequalities between children in the North and their counterparts in the rest of the country, leading to w... Read More about The Child of the North: Building a fairer future after COVID-19.

#gainingweightiscool: The use of transformation photos on Instagram among female weightlifters in recovery from eating disorders (2020)
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Hockin-Boyers, H., Pope, S., & Jamie, K. (2020). #gainingweightiscool: The use of transformation photos on Instagram among female weightlifters in recovery from eating disorders. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 13(1), 94-112. https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676x.2020.1836511

In this article, we explore transformation photos on Instagram as ‘digital artefacts’ that can inform understandings of eating disorder recovery in the context of sport, exercise and health. Transformation photos are two images (from different time p... Read More about #gainingweightiscool: The use of transformation photos on Instagram among female weightlifters in recovery from eating disorders.

Television Consumption Drives Perceptions of Female Body Attractiveness in a Population Undergoing Technological Transition (2019)
Journal Article
Boothroyd, L., Jucker, J.-L., Thornborrow, T., Barton, R., Burt, D., Evans, E., Jamieson, M., & Tovee, M. (2020). Television Consumption Drives Perceptions of Female Body Attractiveness in a Population Undergoing Technological Transition. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 119(4), 839-860. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000224

Perceptions of physical attractiveness vary across cultural groups, particularly for female body size and shape. It has been hypothesised that visual media propagates Western ‘thin ideals’. However, because cross-cultural studies typically consider g... Read More about Television Consumption Drives Perceptions of Female Body Attractiveness in a Population Undergoing Technological Transition.