Urban Big Data Centre

Online vs. In Person Gambling: Does Exposure to Brick-and-Mortar Gambling Shops Lead to Increased Online Gambling?

Abstract The rise of online gambling in Great Britain in the past two decades has caused increased public health concerns. This study adds to existing evidence on physical gambling environment as a driver of gambling participation, using a 2022 national survey. With respect to ga...

Reducing demographic inequality in emergency medical service: two bi-objective spatial optimization approaches

Abstract Background Population demographic structures have become increasingly complex worldwide, posing new challenges for planning Emergency Medical Services (EMS) in ways to improve equality. Existing geographical studies have mainly focused on EMS equality in geographic acces...

Bifurcated professionalisation: the conceptual, strategic, and practical limitations of the Scottish Government’s policies to ‘professionalise’ the private rented sector

Over the last decade, the Scottish Government has pursued the professionalisation of the Private Rented Sector (PRS) through a bifurcated model. One branch promotes ‘facilitated professionalisation’ by courting Build-to-Rent (BTR) investment through policy incentives. The other i...

Prognostic Role of Adverse Events in a Worldwide Population of Patients with Biliary Tract Cancer Treated with Chemo-Immunotherapy

Background: Biliary tract cancers (BTCs) are aggressive malignancies with limited treatment options. The addition of durvalumab or pembrolizumab to cisplatin–gemcitabine improves overall survival (OS), but validated biomarkers of benefit remain limited. Immune-mediated adverse ev...

Exploring Transitions to Adulthood for Young Disabled People: Personalisation and the Quiet Dismantling of Social Care

ABSTRACT Across OECD countries, policy frameworks to support disabled young people in their transition to adulthood remain fragmented, under‐resourced and poorly aligned. This article examines how these longstanding weaknesses have been exacerbated by the shift towards personalis...