• How does integrated knowledge translation (IKT) compare to other collaborative research approaches to generating and translating knowledge learning from experts in the field? 

  Nguyen, Tram; Graham, Ian D.; Mrklas, Kelly J.; Bowen, Sarah; Cargo, Margaret; Estabrooks, Carole A.; Kothari, Anita; Lavis, John; Macaulay, Ann C.; MacLeod, Martha; Phipps, David; Ramsden, Vivian R.; Renfrew, Mary J.; Salsberg, Jon; Wallerstein, Nina (BMC, 2020)

  Research funders in Canada and abroad have made substantial investments in supporting collaborative research approaches to generating and translating knowledge as it is believed to increase knowledge use. Canadian health ...
• Designing a national blended learning program for "out-of-field" mathematics teacher professional development 

  Goos, Merrilyn; O'Donoghue, John; Ní Ríordáin, Máire; Faulkner, Fiona; Hall, Tony; O'Meara, Niamh (Springer, 2020)

  "Out-of-field" teaching refers to the practice of assigning secondary school teachers to teach subjects that do not match their training or education. This practice is an issue of concern in many countries around the ...
• Drug repurposing strategies for COVID-19 

  Senanayake, Suranga L (future science group, 2020)

  COVID-19 has now been declared a pandemic and new treatments are urgently needed as we enter a phase beyond containment. Developing new drugs from scratch is a lengthy process, thus impractical to face the immediate global ...
• Mesenteric excision surgery or conservative limited resection in Crohn's disease: study protocol for an international, multicenter, randomized controlled trial 

  Li, Yi; Mohan, Helen; Lan, Nan; Wu, Xiaojian; Gong, Jianfeng; Shen, Bo; Stocchi, Luca; Coffey, Calvin J.; Zhu, Weiming (BMC, 2020)

  BACKGROUND: The structures of the mesentery including adipose tissue, nerves, and lymphatics play an important role in the pathogenesis and disease progression of Crohn's disease (CD). Conventional surgical resection for ...
• Feasibility, acceptability, and clinical effectiveness of a technology-enabled cardiac rehabilitation platform (Physical Activity Toward Health-I): randomized controlled trial 

  Claes, Jomme; Cornelissen, Véronique; McDermott, Clare; Moyna, Niall M.; Pattyn, Nele; Cornelis, Nils; Gallagher, Anne; McCormack, Ciara; Newton, Helen; Gillain, Alexandra; Budts, Werner; Goetschalckx, Kaatje; Woods, Catherine B.; Moran, Kieran A.; Buys, Roselien (JMIR Publications, 2020)

  BACKGROUND: Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is highly effective as secondary prevention for cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). Uptake of CR remains suboptimal (30% of eligible patients), and long-term adherence to a physically ...
• Estimation of body fat percentage in jockeys: implications for a weight category sport 

  Dunne, Arthur; Warrington, Giles D.; McGoldrick, Adrian; Pugh, Jennifer; Harrison, Michael; O'Connor, Siobhan; O'Loughlin, Gillian; Cullen, SarahJane (Berkeley Electronic Press, 2020)

  The assessment of body composition in horse racing, a unique weight-restricted sport, provides an important health and performance indicator. The accuracy of skinfold prediction equations at estimating % body fat (% BF) ...
• Does Lent affect rates of deliberate self-harm? 

  Moloney, N.; Glynn, K.; Harding, E.; Murphy, Valerie; Gulati, Gautam (Cambridge University Press, 2020)

  Background. Research has shown that religious affiliation has a protective effect against deliberate self-harm. This is particularly pronounced in periods of increased religious significance, such as periods of worship, ...
• Do stroke clinical practice guideline recommendations for the intervention of thickened liquids for aspiration support evidence based decision making? A systemetic review and narrative synthesis 

  McCurtin, Arlene; Boland, Pauline; Kavanagh, Maeve; Lisiecka, Dominika; Roche, Caoimhe; Galvin, Rose (Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2020)

  Background Aspiration is a common sequela post stroke as a result of oropharyngeal dysphagia. It is primarily managed by recommending thickened liquids whereby a thickening agent is added to liquids to increase viscosity ...
• Stigma of eating disorders and recovery-related outcomes: a systematic review 

  Foran, Aoife-Marie; O'Donnell, Aisling T.; Muldoon, Orla T. (John Wiley and Sons, 2020)

  People with eating disorders (EDs) tend to engage in behaviours that are ordinarily perceived as normal in society, such as restrictive dieting. However, when people are diagnosed with an ED, they may often feel stigmatised, ...
• Gender-related differences in flood risk perception and behaviours among private groundwater users in the Republic of Ireland 

  McDowell, Cillian P.; Andrade, Luisa; O’Neill, Eoin; O'Malley, Kevin; O’Dwyer, Jean; Hynds, Paul D. (MDPI, 2020)

  Extreme weather events including flooding can have severe personal, infrastructural, and economic consequences, with recent evidence pointing to surface flooding as a pathway for the microbial contamination of private ...
• The effect of whey protein supplementation on myofibrillar protein synthesis and performance recovery in resistance-trained men 

  Davies, Robert W.; Bass, Joseph J.; Carson, Brian P.; Norton, Catherine; Kozior, Marta; Wilkinson, Daniel J.; Brook, Matthew S.; Atherton, Philip J.; Smith, Ken; Jakeman, Philip M. (MDPI, 2020)

  The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of whey protein supplementation on myofibrillar protein synthesis (myoPS) and muscle recovery over a 7-d period of intensified resistance training (RT). Methods: In a ...
• Participatory implementation research in the field of migrant health: sustainable changes and ripple effects over time 

  van den Muijsenbergh, Maria; LeMaster, Joseph W.; Shahiri, Parmida; Brouwer, Michele; Hussain, Mohammed; Dowrick, Chris; Papadakaki, Maria; Lionis, Christo; MacFarlane, Anne E. (Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2020)

  Objective: This study aimed to explore whether positive impacts were sustained and unanticipated ripple effects had occurred four years after the implementation of interventions to improve cross-cultural communication in ...
• NAD+ repletion rescues female fertility during reproductive aging 

  Bertoldo, Michael J.; Listijono, Dave R.; Ho, Wing-Hong Jonathan; Riepsamen, Angelique H.; Goss, Dale M.; Richani, Dulama; Jin, Xing L.; Mahbub, Saabah; Campbell, Jared M.; Habibalahi, Abbas; Loh, Wei-Guo Nicholas; Youngson, Nell A.; Maniam, Jayanthi; Wong, Ashley S.A.; Selesniemi, Kaisa; Bustamante, Sonia; Li, Catherine; Zhao, Yiqing; Marinova, Maria B.; Kim, Lynn-Jee; Lau, Laurin; Wu, Rachael M.; Mikolaizak, Stefanie A.; Araki, Toshiyuki; Le Couteur, David G.; Turner, Nigel; Morris, Margaret J.; Walters, Kirsty A.; Goldys, Ewa; O'Neill, Christopher; Gilchrist, Robert B.; Sinclair, David A.; Homer, Hayden A.; Wu, Lindsay E. (Elsevier, 2020)

  Reproductive aging in female mammals is an irreversible process associated with declining oocyte quality, which is the rate-limiting factor to fertility. Here, we show that this loss of oocyte quality with age accompanies ...
• Management of staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia (SAB) in the oncology patient: further evidence supports prompt removal of central venous catheters and shorter duration of intravenous antimicrobial therapy 

  Dunne, Colum P.; Ryan, Phelim; Connolly, Roisin; Dunne, Suzanne S.; Kaballo, Mohammed A.; Powell, James; Woulfe, Bernie; O'Connell, Nuala H.; Gupta, Rajnish Kumar (Elsevier, 2020)

  Background Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia (SAB) is associated with relatively high risk of complications and high levels of mortality. Internationally, SAB management guidelines lack consensus and especially so regarding ...
• The futile quest for honesty in reflective writing: recognising self-criticism as a form of self-enhancement 

  McGarr, Oliver; O'Gallchóir, Ciarán (Taylor and Francis, 2020)

  Reflective writing tasks are commonly employed across higher education programmes, yet despite their use, they are often accompanied by concerns that students simply performance manage by constructing positive accounts of ...
• The characteristics, life circumstances and self-concept of 13 year olds with and without disabilities in Ireland: A secondary analysis of the Growing Up in Ireland (GUI) study 

  Gallagher, Aoife L.; Galvin, Rose; Robinson, Katie; Murphy, Carol-Anne; Conway, Paul F.; Perry, Alison (Public Library of Science, 2020)

  Background Population-based studies provide important data to inform policy and service planning for vulnerable children in society. The aim of this study was to characterise social and educational circumstances and ...
• Empowering features and outcomes of homeless interventions: a systematic review and narrative synthesis 

  O'Shaughnessy, Branagh R.; Greenwood, Ronni Michelle (Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2020)

  The purpose of this systematic review and narrative synthesis was to identify homeless interventions with empowering features, and evaluate their effectiveness for developing the psychological empowerment of services users. ...
• Europeans’ willingness to pay for ending homelessness: a contingent valuation study 

  Loubière, Sandrine; Taylor, Owen; Tinland, Aurelie; Vargas-Moniz, Maria J.; O'Shaughnessy, Branagh R.; Bokszczanin, Anna; Kallmen, Hakan; Bernad, Roberto; Wolf, Judith R.; Santinello, Massimo; Loundou, Anderson; Ornelas, José; Auquier, Pascal (Elsevier, 2020)

  The purpose of this study is to assess the utility value European citizens put on an innovative social program aimed at reducing homelessness. The Housing First (HF) model involves access to regular, scattered, independent ...
• Relationships between resisted sprint performance and different strength and power measures in rugby players 

  Zabaloy, Santiago; Carlos-Vivas, Jorge; Freitas, Tomás T.; Pareja-Blanco, Fernando; Pereira, Lucas; Loturco, Irineu; Comyns, Thomas M.; Gálvez-González, Javier; Alcaraz, Pedro E. (MDPI, 2020)

  This study aimed to investigate the relationship between a specific isometric-strength sprint test (SIST) and unresisted maximum velocity (Vmax), sprint times across different loading conditions, and the velocity loss ...
• Development of a novel technique to dissect the mesentery that preserves mesenteric continuity and enables characterization of the ex vivo mesentery 

  Kumar, Ashutosh; Faiq, Muneeb A.; Krishna, Hare; Kishan, Vijay; Raj, Gladwin V.; Coffey, Calvin J.; Jacob, Tony George (Frontiers Media, 2020)

  Introduction: The conventional model of abdominal anatomy described multiple mesenteries. Dissection techniques were based on this. Recent studies demonstrate the mesentery is continuous from duodenojejunal flexure to ...

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