Middlesex University London

Expression Analysis of microRNAs in Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells in Type 2 Diabetes

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are involved in the regulation of glucose metabolism and inflammatory processes associated with type 2 diabetes (T2D) and have potential as biomarkers and therapeutic targets. We analysed the expression of miR-155-5p, miR-141-3p, miR-15b-5p, miR-18a-5p, and miR...

Structure-aware feature-to-image encoding with convolutional neural networks improves peer-to-peer credit default prediction compared with conventional tabular models

Abstract Background Peer-to-peer (P2P) lending has expanded rapidly, exposing individual investors to credit default risk typically absorbed by traditional bank intermediation. Methods This study proposes a hybrid deep learning framework for credit default prediction using 1,335,...

Innovative pedagogies for responsible management education: advancing the i5 framework and UKPSF across PRME business schools in the UK and Kazakhstan

Purpose This study investigates how the integration of the UN Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) Impactful Five (i5) framework and the UK Professional Standards Framework (UKPSF) can advance responsible management education in higher education. Drawing on PRME...

The Impact of Heterogeneity in Individual Characteristics and Motivation to Quit Heroin Use on Contingency Management and Opioid Agonist Treatment Response: A Latent Class Analysis

ABSTRACT Introduction Contingency Management (CM) involves the systematic application of positive reinforcement (financial incentives) to promote behaviour change, to improve treatment outcomes for individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD). To better understand patient heterogen...

Sport-Specific Assessment for Change of Direction Ability in Taekwondo: A Brief Review with Guidelines for Testing

In taekwondo combat, agility is essential for rapid movement and maintaining match pace, as well as for executing unilateral technical actions swiftly in multidirectional planes. Furthermore, it is also required to dodge and block opponents’ repeated attacks and to handle clinch...

Beyond alignment: understanding, resistance, and participation in classroom interaction

Abstract Classroom interactions are routinely organised around ideals of dialogue, participation, and inclusion. Interactional research, however, has shown that such ideals are not simply implemented in practice but are transformed through sequential organisation, role-based expe...

The Africana Critical Race Framework: Relocating Qualitative Method Under Conditions of Anti-Blackness

This article advances an Africana Critical Race Framework (ACRF) as a reconstructive methodological intervention that relocates qualitative inquiry under conditions of anti-Blackness. While Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) is widely used for structured analytic proc...

When nationalism meets environmentalism: an inverted U-curve linking national sentiment to carbon emission intensity through an institutional lens

Against the backdrop of rising corporate carbon emissions, managerial attributes are garnering increasing scholarly scrutiny. Utilizing a panel dataset from China’s A-share market between 2010 and 2023, this paper employs an institutional theory perspective to examine the relatio...

Legal Professionals Use an Implicit Checklist to Assess Expert Witness Credibility

In a court of law, some forms of evidence are too technical to interpret without the help of an expert witness. However, expert testimony sometimes leads to wrongful conviction. We used an online survey to quantitatively compare how legal professionals (n = 122) and lay people (n...

From disclosure to impact: How board diversity and independence drive corporate environmental performance under provincial corruption pressure?

Purpose This study aims to investigate how corporate boards shape environmental performance in Vietnamese manufacturing firms and examines whether province-level environmental corruption attenuates or amplifies these governance effects. Design/methodology/approach We manually con...

Objective Evidence for Mind–body Interventions: Selective Modulation of Meridian-wise Bioelectrical Conductance by Yogic Practices

Abstract Introduction: Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) describes meridians as channels through which vital energy (Qi) flows, with disturbances in this flow associated with disease. Contemporary research has demonstrated that classical meridian points possess distinctive elect...

Implementation of minimum unit pricing for alcohol in Scotland and subsequent rates of hospital-admitted self-harm: controlled interrupted time series analysis

BACKGROUND: Harmful alcohol use is a major modifiable risk factor for self-harm. We aimed to examine associations between minimum unit pricing for alcohol, introduced in Scotland in 2018, and rates of hospital-admitted self-harm. METHODS: Data were obtained from Public Health Sco...