Purpose: The paper delves into the intricate and often contradictory nature of consumer identities in our modern landscape, where the rise of digital platforms reshapes how we engage with the world. It explores the implications of this dynamic environment on marketing strategies, reveal...

Background and Objectives: Existing literature highlights notable health and social inequalities for people aging with a lifelong disability and the need for research to better understand how we can support this group to age well. This scoping review mapped existing literature re...

Aim: To explore the experiences of mental health difficulties and access to mental health support among young people with cerebral palsy (CP). Method: We used a qualitative descriptive design. Participants were young people with CP aged 13 to 25 years and ...

Introduction: Positive airway pressure (PAP) therapy is the recognised treatment for sleep disordered breathing (SDB), delivered via a tight-fitting face mask (interface). Conventional interfaces do not consider facial geometries, often resulting in poor fit and ineffective therapy. Three-dimensional (3D)&...

Background: Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common lifelong physical disability in the UK and is linked to multiple social, psychological and health inequalities which are often amplified as this group ages. Most middle-aged and older people with CP are supported in their&#x...

<jats:p>ERK is a key signaling mediator controlling both proliferation and lineage specification during embryo development. How ERK choreographs differentiation and proliferation to achieve balanced developmental outcomes in lineages with variable ERK activities remains unclear. To investigate this, we&#x...

Wastewater-based epidemiology has been used extensively throughout the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 19) pandemic to detect and monitor the spread and prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) and its variants. It has proven an excellent, complementary tool to cli...

Bactenecin (Bac) 5 is a bovine antimicrobial peptide (AMP) capable of killing some species of bacteria through the inhibition of protein synthesis. Bac5 and other AMPs have also been shown to have chemotactic properties and can induce inflammatory cytokine expression by innate immune&#x...

The primary reason for residual stresses in the wind turbine blade during the repair process is mismatch between the chemical shrinkage and thermal expansion coefficients of the base composite (blade) and the patch. These residual stresses have the potential to compromise structural int...