• Concentrations of alkaline earth elements in hair of a sample of Spanish adults aged 20-24 years from the Region of Madrid. 

  Pena-Fernandez, A. ; Gonzalez-Munoz, M. J. ; Lobo-Bedmar, M. C. (Conference)

  A low intake of alkaline-earth elements (AEEs) has been related with the risk of different syndromes including hypertension. Human hair, despite being controversial sample matrix, could be used as a tool to determine ...
• Creating a reflective pedagogic strategy to enhance human health students’ professional practice at De Montfort University. 

  Pena-Fernandez, A. ; Pena, M. A. ; Evans, M. D. (Conference)

  Reflection is a critical skill for healthcare workers as their professional practice requires undertaking continuous learning for professional development. The aims and objectives of this exercise were to assess and develop ...
• Development of a virtual environment for teaching and learning biomedical techniques and equipment for the study of human pathogens. 

  Pena-Fernandez, A. ; Fenoy, S. ; Evans, M. D. ; Sgamma, Tiziana ; Hurtado, C. ; Izquierdo, F. ; Randles, M. ; Young, C. ; Acosta, L. ; del Aguila, C. (Conference)

  An international innovative teaching group from different EU Universities (De Montfort University, Leicester, UK; University of San Pablo CEU, Madrid, Spain; University of Miguel Hernandez, Elche, Spain) and biomedical ...
• Interventions to enhance the teaching of toxicology at a UK University 

  Pena-Fernandez, A. ; Pena, M. A. ; Lobo-Bedmar, M. C. ; Evans, M. D. (Conference)

  Following the recent communication from the European Societies of Toxicology (EUROTOX) advising that toxicology training and expertise is being eroded in the European Union, we have reviewed the teaching status of this ...
• Two years' analysis of environmental recovery training for biological incidents 

  Pena-Fernandez, A. ; Pena, M. A. ; Lobo-Bedmar, M. C. (Conference)

  Environmental recovery in the aftermath of a biological incident is one of the key areas to consider when tailoring a response to protect human health and minimise the spread of the biological agent(s) involved. However, ...
• Global access to antibiotics without prescription in community pharmacies: A systematic review and meta-analysis 

  Auta, A. ; Hadi, Muhammad Abdul ; Oga, E. ; Adewuyi, E.O. ; Abdu-Aguye, S.N. ; Adeloye, D. ; Strickland-Hodge, B. ; Morgan, D.J. (Article)

  Objective To estimate the proportion of over-the-counter antibiotic requests or consultations that resulted in non-prescription supply of antibiotics in community pharmacies globally. Methods We systematically searched ...
• Can international trip experiences at DMU (#DMUGlobal, UK) provide transversal and work competences? 

  Pena-Fernandez, A. ; Lobo-Bedmar, M. C. ; Pena, M. A. (Conference)

  De Montfort University (DMU, Leicester, UK) is highly committed to promote different strategies to facilitate the acquisition of the key transversal competences and skills recently defined by the European Union for future ...
• The neural correlates of economic value and valuation context: An event-related potentials study 

  Tyson-Carr, J. ; Kokmotou, K. ; Soto, V. ; Cook, Stephanie ; Fallon, N. ; Giesbrecht, T. ; Stancak, A. (Article)

  The value of environmental cues and internal states is continuously evaluated by the human brain, and it is this subjective value that largely guides decision making. The present study aimed to investigate the initial ...
• Stability of isocyanates sampled in fire smokes 

  Bengtstrom, L. ; Salden, M ; Stec, A. (Article)

  Inhalation of airborne isocyanates is associated with acute asthma attacks and inflammation in the respiratory tract as well as cancer. These highly reactive compounds are used as monomers in various applications such as ...
• Presence and distribution of microsporidia, emerging human pathogens, in an English urban environment. 

  Pena-Fernandez, A. ; Izquierdo, F. ; del Águila, C. ; Lobo-Bedmar, M. C. ; Hoosen, H. (Conference)

  The rapid development and expansion of urban environments is occurring on a global scale resulting in new and unprecedented environmental hazards to human populations. Thus, humans are becoming exposed to emerging pathogens ...
• Evaluating human risks to less frequently regulated and monitored metals and metalloids in urban soils. 

  Pena-Fernandez, A. ; Angulo, S. ; Lobo-Bedmar, M. C. (Conference)

  The rapid development and expansion of urban environments is occurring on a global scale resulting in new and unprecedented environmental hazards to human populations. Within these hazards, metal and metalloid topsoil ...
• Learning parasitology through virtual clinical case studies: the DMU e-Parasitology project. 

  Pena-Fernandez, A. ; Bornay, F. ; Fenoy, S. ; Pena, M. A. (Conference)

  A novel online package for teaching and learning human parasitology named DMU e-Parasitology is being co-developed by EU academics at De Montfort University (DMU). Content currently covered includes virtual clinical case ...
• Additional curriculum modifications for enhancing the teaching of parasitology and infectious diseases at an English university. 

  Pena-Fernandez, A. ; Torrado, G. ; Agudo, R. ; Pena, A. (Conference)

  Our teaching innovation group is committed to increasing and enhancing the teaching of parasitology, as recent surveys show an alarming decrease in the teaching of this subject in human health degrees despite recent outbreaks ...
• Focus group to create a virtual case study model unit for the DMU e-Parasitology. 

  Pena-Fernandez, A. ; Magnet, A. ; Pena-Fernandez, M. A. (Conference)

  De Montfort University (DMU, Leicester, UK) is leading a teaching innovation project for the creation of a complete package for teaching and learning human parasitology in collaboration with the Spanish universities: San ...
• Impact of Chronic Pain on Patients’ Quality of Life: A Comparative Mixed-Methods Study 

  Hadi, Muhammad Abdul ; McHugh, Gretal A. ; Closs, S. Jose (Article)

  Background: Chronic pain has become a common problem within primary care and can negatively impact patients’ lives. Objective: To assess and explore the impact of chronic pain on patients’ quality of life (QoL) using ...
• Methodology for researching moral education 

  Bamkin, Sam (Presentation)
• The application of dual-electrode through vial impedance spectroscopy for the determination of ice interface temperatures, primary drying rate and vial heat transfer coefficient in lyophilization process development 

  Smith, Geoff ; Jeeraruangrattana, Yowwares ; Ermolina, I. (Article)

  Through vial impedance spectroscopy (TVIS) is a product non-invasive process analytical technology which exploits the frequency dependence of the complex impedance spectrum of a composite object (i.e. the freeze-drying ...
• Quantitative screening of the pharmaceutical ingredient for the rapid identification of substandard and falsified medicines using reflectance infrared spectroscopy 

  Lawson, Graham ; Ogwu, John ; Tanna, Sangeeta (Article)

  The World Health Organization suggests that approximately 10% of medicines worldwide are either falsified or substandard with higher figures in low and middle income countries. Such poor quality medicines can seriously ...
• Data to support observation of late and ultra-late latency components of cortical laser evoked potentials 

  Stancak, A. ; Cook, Stephanie ; Wright, H. ; Fallon, N. (Article)

  Data are provided to document the presence of late and ultra-late latency components of cortical laser evoked potentials (LEPs) following noxious laser stimulus in Stancak et al. (2015) [3]. The latency components, ...
• Effects of loss aversion on neural responses to loss outcomes: an event-related potential study 

  Kokmotou, K. ; Cook, Stephanie ; Xie, Y. ; Wright, H. ; Soto, V. ; Fallon, N. ; Giesbrecht, T. ; Pantelous, A.A. ; Stancak, A. (Article)

  Loss aversion is the tendency to prefer avoiding losses over acquiring gains of the same amount. To shed light onthe spatio-temporal processes underlying loss aversion, we analysed the associations between individual ...

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