Synthesising practice guidelines for the development of community-based exercise programmes after stroke

This is a freely-available open access publication. Please cite the published version which is available via the DOI link in this record.Multiple guidelines are often available to inform practice in complex interventions. Guidance implementation may be facilitated if it is tailored to particular clinical issues and contexts. It should also aim to specify all elements of interventions that may mediate and modify effectiveness, including both their content and delivery. We conducted a focused synthesis of recommendations from stroke practice guidelines to produce a structured and comprehensive account to facilitate the development of community-based exercise programmes after stroke.National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) for the South West Peninsul

Two-phase flow studies in large diameter horizontal tubes

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Mixed Small-Molecule Matrices Improve Nanoparticle Dispersibility in Organic Semiconductor-Nanoparticle Films.

Controlling the dispersibility of nanocrystalline inorganic quantum dots (QDs) within organic semiconductor (OSC):QD nanocomposite films is critical for a wide range of optoelectronic devices. This work demonstrates how small changes to the OSC host molecule can have a dramatic detrimental effect on QD dispersibility within the host organic semiconductor matrix as quantified by grazing incidence X-ray scattering. It is commonplace to modify QD surface chemistry to enhance QD dispersibility within an OSC host. Here, an alternative route toward optimizing QD dispersibilities is demonstrated, which dramatically improves QD dispersibilities through blending two different OSCs to form a fully mixed OSC matrix phase

Developmental outcome in children with intrauterine exposure to substances

The developmental outcome of children born to Swiss substance-dependent mothers in a residential treatment program was studied in a sample of 61 children ranging from infancy to preadolescence (mean age = 5.10, SD = 3.10 years) by use of age-appropriate tests of intelligence. A large list of biological and psychosocial risk factors was tested for associations with outcome in the children. The mean profile of test findings across all age ranges was significantly lower than population norms and there was an excess of children with subnormal intellectual functioning. Performance IQ was associated negatively only with intrauterine substance exposure, but with none of the other risk factors. Among the various substances, predominantly heroin or methadone were responsible for this association when controls for nicotine or cannabis consumption were made. The study provides further evidence that intrauterine exposure to heroin and methadone negatively affects the developmental outcome in the offspring of substance-dependent mothers