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Background: Emergency admissions in England for alcohol-related liver disease(ArLD) have increased steadily for decades. Statistics based on administrative datatypically focus on the ArLD-specific code as the primary diagnosis and are thereforeat risk of excluding ArLD admissions defined by other coding combinations.Aim: To deploy the Liverpool ArLD Algorithm (LAA), which accounts for alternativecoding patterns (e.g., ArLD secondary diagnosis with alcohol/liver-related primarydiagnosis), to n...

Participation in contact sports has been under scrutiny as former contact sport athletes have been found at increased risk of adverse brain health, raising concern about the safety of routine head impacts in contact sports. Studying the acute effects of such impacts has proved difficult due to the subtleness of the brain’s response to subconcussive impacts. The aim of this thesis was to investigate variables, that may be sensitive to the effects of subconcussive impacts in order to find ways ...

Background: Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women around the world, with an estimated 660,000 newly identified cases in 2022 (WHO, 2024). A group where cervical cancer screening attendance has consistently been the lowest at around 30% is those with intellectual disabilities (ID). Screening for cervical cancer in Scotland checks for high-risk Human Papillomavirus (HPV) and cervical cell changes to enable early detection and prevention. HPV self-sampling could provide an ea...

This report provides an overview of key transnational networks, trends and challenges in the provision of care for cultural heritage in Ukraine between the 2022 Russian full-scale invasion and February 2025. Approaches to heritage protection in war have developed considerably over the last 20 years, as have the range of actors involved, extending beyond state administration and public bodies to diverse INGOs and NGOs. However, the complex networks and political economies involved in this crow...