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The role of support groups in the management of Parkinson’s disease in Kenya: Sociality, information and legitimacy (2021)
Journal Article
Fothergill-Misbah, N., Moffatt, S., Mwithiga, H., Hampshire, K., & Walker, R. (2022). The role of support groups in the management of Parkinson’s disease in Kenya: Sociality, information and legitimacy. Global Public Health, 17(8), 1773-1783. https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2021.1954227

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disease globally. It is a progressive neurological disorder which can lead to a decline in wellbeing and quality of life for people living with PD (PwP) and their families/caregiver... Read More about The role of support groups in the management of Parkinson’s disease in Kenya: Sociality, information and legitimacy.

“Old people problems”, uncertainty and legitimacy: Challenges with diagnosing Parkinson's disease in Kenya (2021)
Journal Article
Fothergill-Misbah, N., Walker, R., Kwasa, J., Hooker, J., & Hampshire, K. (2021). “Old people problems”, uncertainty and legitimacy: Challenges with diagnosing Parkinson's disease in Kenya. Social Science & Medicine, 282, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114148

Very little is known about the experience of people living with Parkinson's disease (PD) in low- and middle-income countries, such as those in sub-Saharan Africa. The number of specialists in the region is low and awareness is limited among the popul... Read More about “Old people problems”, uncertainty and legitimacy: Challenges with diagnosing Parkinson's disease in Kenya.

Mobile phone use and the welfare of community health nurses in Ghana: An analysis of unintended costs (2021)
Journal Article
Abane, A. M., Mariwah, S., Owusu, S. A., Kasim, A., Robson, E., & Hampshire, K. (2021). Mobile phone use and the welfare of community health nurses in Ghana: An analysis of unintended costs. World Development Perspectives, 23, Article 100317. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wdp.2021.100317

The use of mobile phones is fast transforming the healthcare delivery landscape in Ghana. A substantial number of health facilities are now dependent on mobile phones to facilitate their work. Evidence of the use of mobile phones in Ghana’s healthcar... Read More about Mobile phone use and the welfare of community health nurses in Ghana: An analysis of unintended costs.

Writing at Wearmouth-Jarrow (2021)
Book Chapter
Gameson, R. (2021). Writing at Wearmouth-Jarrow. In C. Breay, & J. Story (Eds.), Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Cultures and connections. Four Courts Press

Regional Performance as Intangible Cultural Heritage (2021)
Book Chapter
Ravelhofer, B. (2021). Regional Performance as Intangible Cultural Heritage. In J. McKinnell, & D. Wyatt (Eds.), Early performers and performance in the Northeast of England (161-182). ARC Humanities Press

Monitoring, reporting and regulating medicine quality: tensions between theory and practice in Tanzania (2021)
Journal Article
Hamill, H., David-Barrett, E., Mwanga, J. R., Mshana, G., & Hampshire, K. (2021). Monitoring, reporting and regulating medicine quality: tensions between theory and practice in Tanzania. BMJ Global Health, 6(Supplement 3), Article e003043. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2020-003043

In 2012, the WHO launched its Global Surveillance and Monitoring System (GSMS) for substandard and falsified medicines, with the aim of improving the quality of reporting and using the data to inform post-market surveillance and build regulatory capa... Read More about Monitoring, reporting and regulating medicine quality: tensions between theory and practice in Tanzania.

Sensation and the Grammar of Life: Anscombe’s Procedure and Her Purpose (2021)
Book Chapter
Mac Cumhaill, C., & Wiseman, R. (2021). Sensation and the Grammar of Life: Anscombe’s Procedure and Her Purpose. In H. Logue, & L. Richardson (Eds.), Purpose and Procedure in Philosophy of Perception (276-294). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198853534.003.0014

Anscombe’s published writings, lectures, and notes on sensation offer material for a sophisticated critique of philosophical theories of perception and a novel analysis of the concept of sensation. Her philosophy of perception begins with the traditi... Read More about Sensation and the Grammar of Life: Anscombe’s Procedure and Her Purpose.

Freeform based hYperspectral imager for MOisture Sensing (FYMOS) (2021)
Journal Article
Graham, C., Girkin, J. M., & Bourgenot, C. (2021). Freeform based hYperspectral imager for MOisture Sensing (FYMOS). Optics Express, 29(11), 16007-16018. https://doi.org/10.1364/oe.425660

We present FYMOS, an all-aluminum, robust, light weight, freeform based, near infrared hYperspectral imager for MOisture Sensing. FYMOS was designed and built to remotely measure moisture content using spectral features from 0.7-1.7µm integrating an... Read More about Freeform based hYperspectral imager for MOisture Sensing (FYMOS).

Ancient genomes reveal structural shifts after the arrival of Steppe-related ancestry in the Italian Peninsula (2021)
Journal Article
Saupe, T., Montinaro, F., Scaggion, C., Carrara, N., Kivisild, T., D’Atanasio, E., Hui, R., Solnik, A., Lebrasseur, O., Larson, G., Alessandri, L., Arienzo, I., De Angelis, F., Rolfo, M. F., Skeates, R., Silvestri, L., Beckett, J., Talamo, S., Dolfini, A., Miari, M., …Scheib, C. L. (2021). Ancient genomes reveal structural shifts after the arrival of Steppe-related ancestry in the Italian Peninsula. Current Biology, 31(12), 2576-2591. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.04.022

Across Europe, the genetics of the Chalcolithic/Bronze Age transition is increasingly characterized in terms of an influx of Steppe-related ancestry. The effect of this major shift on the genetic structure of populations in the Italian Peninsula rema... Read More about Ancient genomes reveal structural shifts after the arrival of Steppe-related ancestry in the Italian Peninsula.

‘Two Great Sexes Animate the World’: Looking Past ‘Milton’s Bogey’ in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein’ (2021)
Book Chapter
Green, M. (2021). ‘Two Great Sexes Animate the World’: Looking Past ‘Milton’s Bogey’ in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein’. In M. Green, & S. Al-Akhras (Eds.), Women (Re)Writing Milton (49-70). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367760205

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is generally acknowledged to be one of the most remarkable readings of Paradise Lost to issue from the Romantic period, and Shelley openly signals the epic’s importance as an interpretative key to her work. It is frequentl... Read More about ‘Two Great Sexes Animate the World’: Looking Past ‘Milton’s Bogey’ in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein’.

Rethinking Collective Burial in Mediterranean Caves: Middle Bronze Age Grotta Regina Margherita, Central Italy (2021)
Journal Article
Skeates, R., Beckett, J., Mancini, D., Cavazzuti, C., Silvestri, L., Hamilton, W. D., Sayle, K. L., Crowder, K. D., Rolfo, M., & Angle, M. (2021). Rethinking Collective Burial in Mediterranean Caves: Middle Bronze Age Grotta Regina Margherita, Central Italy. Journal of Field Archaeology, 46(6), 382-398. https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2021.1917137

Drawing on the results of new multi-method research in Grotta Regina Margherita—the largest known Middle Bronze Age mortuary cave in west-central Italy (ca. 1650–1450 b.c.)—this article helps to replace the generic idea of “collective burial” with a... Read More about Rethinking Collective Burial in Mediterranean Caves: Middle Bronze Age Grotta Regina Margherita, Central Italy.

A history of high-power laser research and development in the United Kingdom (2021)
Journal Article
Danson, C. N., White, M., Barr, J. R., Bett, T., Blyth, P., Bowley, D., Brenner, C., Collins, R. J., Croxford, N., Dangor, A. B., Devereux, L., Dyer, P. E., Dymoke-Bradshaw, A., Edwards, C. B., Ewart, P., Ferguson, A. I., Girkin, J. M., Hall, D. R., Hanna, D. C., Harris, W., …Winstone, T. (2021). A history of high-power laser research and development in the United Kingdom. High Power Laser Science and Engineering, 9, Article e18. https://doi.org/10.1017/hpl.2021.5

The first demonstration of laser action in ruby was made in 1960 by T. H. Maiman of Hughes Research Laboratories, USA. Many laboratories worldwide began the search for lasers using different materials, operating at different wavelengths. In the UK, a... Read More about A history of high-power laser research and development in the United Kingdom.

Histoires de chats ou la création d'un mythe (2021)
Book Chapter
Dousteyssier-Khoze, C. (2021). Histoires de chats ou la création d'un mythe. In C. Crépiat, D. Saint-Amand, & J. Schuch (Eds.), Poétique du Chat Noir (137-154). Presses Universitaires de Paris Nanterre

Introduction (2021)
Book Chapter
Fortis, P., & Kuchler, S. (2021). Introduction. In P. Fortis, & S. Kuchler (Eds.), Time and Its Object: A Perspective from Amerindian and Melanesian Societies on the Temporality of Images (1-20). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003158806