Postural stability in cyclists by Preece, Mia, Grainger, Karl, Starrs, Paul

“…Conclusion: MTB balance was worse than RC balance, but both cycling groups were found to have better balance scores than the control. …”
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Culinary civilization: the representation of food culture in Ford Madox Ford, Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolf by O'Brien, N

“…My original archival research shows that in <em>A Room of One’s Own</em> Woolf’s representation of the financial and culinary difference between men’s and women's dining in colleges at the University of Cambridge is justified and the material inequality was in fact worse than previously understood. I argue that the disparity in institutional food intensifies Woolf’s later reimagining of the term ‘civilization’ in <em>Three Guineas</em>. …”

When a test is more than just a test: findings from patient interviews and survey in the trial of a technology to measure antidepressant medication response (the PReDicT Trial) by Brown, S, Ploeger, C, Guo, B, Petersen, JJ, Beckenstrom, AC, Browning, M, Dawson, GR, Deckert, J, Dias, R, Dourish, CT, Gorwood, P, Kingslake, J, Menke, A, Sola, VP, Reif, A, Ruhe, H, Simon, J, Stäblein, M, van Schaik, A, Veltman, DJ, Morriss, R, PReDicT Group

“…</p> <br> <p><strong>Outcomes:</strong> Survey results showed the intervention was well received, with a majority of participants indicating they would use it again, and it gave them helpful extra information; a small minority indicated the Test made them feel worse. Qualitative data showed the Test had unexpected properties, including: instigating a process of reflection, giving participants feedback on progress and new understanding about their illness, and making participants feel supported and more engaged in treatment.…”

Clinical sub-phenotypes of Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia by Swets, MC, Bakk, Z, Westgeest, AC, Berry, K, Cooper, G, Sim, W, Lee, RS, Gan, TY, Donlon, W, Besu, A, Heppenstall, E, Tysall, L, Dewar, S, de Boer, M, Fowler, VG, Dockrell, DH, Thwaites, GE, Pujol, M, Pallarès, N, Tebé, C, Carratalà, J, Szubert, A, Groeneveld, GH, Russell, CD

“…Microbiologic outcomes were worse in sub-phenotype C. In a secondary analysis of the ARREST trial, adjunctive rifampicin was associated with increased 84-day mortality in sub-phenotype B and improved microbiologic outcomes in sub-phenotype C.…”

Differences between neonatal units with high and low rates of breast milk feeding for very preterm babies at discharge: a qualitative study of staff experiences by McLeish, J, Aloysius, A, Gale, C, Quigley, M, Kurinczuk, JJ, Alderdice, F

“…The feeding challenges faced by mothers of very preterm babies could be made worse where there was no joined-up working between neonatal and postnatal staff; inadequate facilities for mothers to stay with their babies; and when opportunities were missed to give information about the importance of early initiation of expressing and to support mothers’ confidence during the transition to direct breastfeeding. …”

Association of Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (ido) activity with outcome after cardiac surgery in adult patients by Stieger, A, Huber, M, Yu, Z, Kessler, BM, Fischer, R, Andereggen, L, Kobel, B, Stueber, F, Luedi, MM, Filipovic, MG

“…Increased IDO activity has been observed in various diseases and is associated with worse clinical outcomes. However, comprehensive research regarding its role in cardiac surgery remains limited. …”

Performance and validation of a digital memory test across the Alzheimer’s disease continuum by Toniolo, S, Attaallah, B, Maio, MR, Tabi, YA, Slavkova, E, Klar, VS, Saleh, Y, Idris, MI, Turner, V, Preul, C, Srowig, A, Butler, C, Thompson, S, Manohar, SG, Finke, K, Husain, M

“…A linear support vector model combining digital metrics achieved high accuracy and performed at par with standard testing in discriminating between elderly healthy controls and subjective cognitive decline (area under the curve 0.82) and between subjective cognitive decline and mild cognitive impairment (area under the curve 0.92), while performing worse in classifying between mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease patients (area under the curve 0.75). …”

Immune checkpoint blockade sensitivity and progression-free survival associates with baseline CD8+ T cell clone size and cytotoxicity by Watson, RA, Tong, O, Cooper, R, Taylor, CA, Sharma, PK, de Los Aires, AV, Mahé, EA, Ruffieux, H, Nassiri, I, Middleton, MR, Fairfax, BP

“…Last, we demonstrated that individuals whose CD8⁺&nbsp;T cell pretreatment showed low cytotoxicity and had fewer expanded clones typically had worse outcomes after ICB treatment. This work further advances understanding of the molecular determinants of ICB response, assisting in the search for peripheral prognostic biomarkers and highlighting the importance of the baseline CD8⁺&nbsp;immune landscape in determining ICB response in metastatic melanoma.…”

Pre-shift anxiety and its factors influencing among nursing students during clinical placement in Universiti Sains Malaysia Health Campus by Ting, Veronica Lim Mei

“…Pre-shift anxiety can cause the healthcare students or healthcare professionals to feel anxious and panic right before starting their work and eventually negatively affect their performance. In a worse-case scenario, this can in turn negatively affect the patient care and patient outcomes. …”
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An Optimal Tradeoff between Entanglement and Copy Complexity for State Tomography by Chen, Sitan, Li, Jerry, Liu, Allen

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High-throughput quantification of quasistatic, dynamic and spall strength of materials across 10 orders of strain rates by Eswarappa Prameela, Suhas, Walker, Christopher C, DiMarco, Christopher S, Mallick, Debjoy D, Sun, Xingsheng, Hernandez, Stephanie, Sasaki, Taisuke, Wilkerson, Justin W, Ramesh, KT, Pharr, George M, Weihs, Timothy P

“…Peak aging, considered to be a standard method to strengthen metallic alloys, causes catastrophic failure, faring much worse than solutionized alloys. Our high-throughput testing framework not only quantifies strength but also teases out unexplored failure mechanisms at extreme strain rates, providing valuable insights for the rapid design and improvement of materials for extreme environments.…”
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Immediate test or delayed test : evidence of primary Mathematics learning by Arunachalam Thannimalai

“…Another preliminary aim is to examine whether conducting a test right after learning would yield worse learning outcomes compared to conducting the test after a break from learning. …”
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Clinical outcomes of patients with unsuccessful mechanical thrombectomy versus best medical management of medium vessel occlusion stroke in the middle cerebral artery territory by Faizy, TD, Yedavalli, V, Salim, HA, Lakhani, DA, Musmar, B, Adeeb, N, Essibayi, MA, Daraghma, M, El Naamani, K, Henninger, N, Sundararajan, SH, Kuhn, AL, Khalife, J, Ghozy, S, Scarcia, L, Yeo, LL, Tan, BY, Regenhardt, RW, Heit, JJ, Cancelliere, NM, Rouchaud, A, Fiehler, J, Sheth, SA, Puri, AS, Dmytriw, AA

“…Conclusion: Unsuccessful MT for MeVO was linked to worse outcomes than best MM. These findings highlight the risks of prolonged attempts and emphasize the importance of efficient procedural decision-making to reduce complications and improve patient outcomes.…”

Quality and outcomes of diabetes care in patients diagnosed with cancer by Griffiths, R

“…Of these 88, 47 (53%; 95% Confidence Interval [CI], 43%-64%) were no different, 12 (14%; 95% CI, 6%-21%) were better, and 29 (33%; 95% CI, 23%-43%) were worse in cancer patients. <b>Results of the Primary Research</b>: The primary research included 3,382 diabetic cancer patients and 11,135 matched, diabetic, non-cancer controls, who were followed from two years before, up to 10 years after, cancer or a matched date in controls. …”

“Encouraged to be your true self”: an interpretative phenomenological study of medical students’ experiences of role models in shaping sexual minority identity at medical school... by Zacharias, A, Aitken, D

“…Sexual and gender minority (SGM) identifying individuals experience worse health outcomes compared to non-SGM identifying counterparts. …”

Evaluating the generalisability of region-naïve machine learning algorithms for the identification of epilepsy in low-resource settings by Duta, I, Kariuki, SM, Ngugi, AK, Mwesige, AK, Masanja, H, Mwanga, DM, Owusu-Agyei, S, Wagner, R, Cross, JH, Sander, JW, Newton, CR, Sen, A, Jones, GD

“…Results: Single-site clinical models performed well within their own regions, but generally worse when evaluated in other regions (p&lt;0.05). …”

Aerodynamic Effects of High-Speed Train Positions During Tunnel Exit Under Crosswind Conditions Using Computational Fluid Dynamics by Rajendran, S, Ishak, I. A, Arafat, M, Mohammad, A. F, Salleh, Z. M, Samiran, N. A, Ja’a, M. N. M, Sulaiman, S

“…The higher crosswind angles including ψ = 45° and ψ = 60° cases produced the worse results of aerodynamic load coefficients compared to the lower crosswind angles of ψ = 15° and ψ = 30°. …”
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The determinants of COVID-19 morbidity and mortality across countries by Chang, Dianna, Chang, Xin, He, Yu, Tan, Kelvin Jui Keng

“…In terms of socio-economic aspects, GDP per capita, income inequality, and happiness (i.e., life satisfaction) lead to worse COVID-19 outcomes. Interestingly, technology advancement increases morbidity but reduces mortality. …”
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Development of a vision-based gesture human-computer interface by Lim, Chun Ping.

“…As images are represented as structures of numbers, extracting accurate information about the hand from the data captured is a daunting task. To make matters worse, attaching meaning to the hand sign and hand motion detected involves high level intelligence which is still elusive to computers. …”
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The outcomes, burdens and experiences of patients receiving immunotherapy for cancer by Wiltshire, R

“…Correlations between outcomes, burdens and experiences, indicating that participants with worse experiences of healthcare, and greater treatment burden also had poorer quality of life.…”