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  1. Article ; Online: Between everyday politics and political elites: transmission and coupling within Westminster's parliamentary e-petitions system.

    Matthews, Felicity

    British politics

    2022  Volume 18, Issue 2, Page(s) 279–299

    Abstract: Popular dissatisfaction with representative democracy has encouraged governments and legislatures worldwide to experiment with democratic innovations. However, despite calls for a 'systemic' approach to the study of democratic engagement and ... ...

    Abstract Popular dissatisfaction with representative democracy has encouraged governments and legislatures worldwide to experiment with democratic innovations. However, despite calls for a 'systemic' approach to the study of democratic engagement and participation, empirical knowledge is limited about the diffusion of democratic innovations within civil society, and, in particular, about the connective mechanisms that bring the 'voice' of citizens to the 'ears' of political elites. This article responds to this gap, presenting original empirical research examining the UK House of Commons' e-petitions system. This research maps public engagement with parliamentary e-petitions across a range of expressive spaces, and highlights the facilitative role of non-institutional intermediaries. However, it also underlines the predominant role of institutional actors in structuring public participation, and shows that effective transmission between the informal public and formal political spheres remains contingent on both 'designed-in powers' of institutional coupling and 'developed practices' of public engagement. Through this analysis, the article makes an important contribution to debates concerning democratic innovations, political participation, and institutional design.
    Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1057/s41293-022-00208-9.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-05-21
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2230729-1
    ISSN 1746-9198 ; 1746-918X
    ISSN (online) 1746-9198
    ISSN 1746-918X
    DOI 10.1057/s41293-022-00208-9
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  2. Book ; Thesis: Peripheral database module for clinical management and research in sleep medicine

    Matthews, Felix

    2001  

    Author's details vorgelegt von Felix Matthews
    Language German
    Size 331-342 S. : Ill., graph. Darst.
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Book ; Thesis
    Thesis / German Habilitation thesis Zürich, Univ., Diss., 2001
    Note Aus: Technology and health care ; 7 (1999)
    HBZ-ID HT013290958
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  3. Article ; Online: Inequalities in the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic: an ecological study of inequalities in mortality in the first wave and the effects of the first national lockdown in England.

    Welsh, Claire / Albani, Viviana / Matthews, Fiona / Bambra, Clare

    BMJ open

    2022  Volume 12, Issue 8, Page(s) e058658

    Abstract: Objectives: To examine how ecological inequalities in COVID-19 mortality rates evolved in England, and whether the first national lockdown impacted them. This analysis aimed to provide evidence for important lessons to inform public health planning to ... ...

    Abstract Objectives: To examine how ecological inequalities in COVID-19 mortality rates evolved in England, and whether the first national lockdown impacted them. This analysis aimed to provide evidence for important lessons to inform public health planning to reduce inequalities in any future pandemics.
    Design: Longitudinal ecological study.
    Setting: 307 lower-tier local authorities in England.
    Primary outcome measure: Age-standardised COVID-19 mortality rates by local authority, regressed on Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) and relevant epidemic dynamics.
    Results: Local authorities that started recording COVID-19 deaths earlier were more deprived, and more deprived authorities saw faster increases in their death rates. By 6 April 2020 (week 15, the earliest time that the 23 March lockdown could have begun affecting death rates) the cumulative death rate in local authorities in the two most deprived deciles of IMD was 54% higher than the rate in the two least deprived deciles. By 4 July 2020 (week 27), this gap had narrowed to 29%. Thus, inequalities in mortality rates by decile of deprivation persisted throughout the first wave, but reduced during the lockdown.
    Conclusions: This study found significant differences in the dynamics of COVID-19 mortality at the local authority level, resulting in inequalities in cumulative mortality rates during the first wave of the pandemic. The first lockdown in England was fairly strict-and the study found that it particularly benefited those living in more deprived local authorities. Care should be taken to implement lockdowns early enough, in the right places-and at a sufficiently strict level-to maximally benefit all communities, and reduce inequalities.
    MeSH term(s) COVID-19 ; Communicable Disease Control ; England/epidemiology ; Health Status Disparities ; Humans ; Pandemics
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-08-10
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 2599832-8
    ISSN 2044-6055 ; 2044-6055
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    DOI 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-058658
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  4. Article: The availability of local primary care services, satisfaction with health services and self-rated health in older English adults: A population-based study.

    Wu, Yu-Tzu / Prina, Matthew / Matthews, Fiona

    Preventive medicine reports

    2022  Volume 27, Page(s) 101786

    Abstract: Primary care services can play an important role in addressing health inequalities and challenges of population ageing. The aim of this study is to investigate whether the availability of local primary care services can support satisfaction with health ... ...

    Abstract Primary care services can play an important role in addressing health inequalities and challenges of population ageing. The aim of this study is to investigate whether the availability of local primary care services can support satisfaction with health services and self-rated health in older people. This study was based on a population-based cohort study, Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study, focusing on people aged ≥ 50 at Wave 3 (2011-2013; N = 14498) and Wave 6 (2014-2016; N = 13025) in England. Locations of primary care services, including general practitioner (GP) practices and other community health services, were identified from National Health Service Digital and linked to residential areas of the study participants. Multilevel Poisson regression modelling was used to investigate the associations between the availability of local primary care services, satisfaction with health services and self-rated health adjusting for sociodemographic factors, deprivation and urban/rural settings. Participants who had more GP practices in local areas were less likely to report dissatisfaction with health services in Wave 3 (IRR: 0.67; 95% CI: 0.52, 0.85) and Wave 6 (IRR: 0.74; 95% CI: 0.59, 0.92). No associations with self-rated health were found in both waves. These associations were similar across deprivation levels and urban/rural settings. The results suggest that increasing availability of local primary care services may improve satisfaction but not health in older people. To optimise the supportive role of primary care services in healthy ageing, future research should identify complex needs of health and social care in older people and their experience of using the services.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-04-05
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2785569-7
    ISSN 2211-3355
    ISSN 2211-3355
    DOI 10.1016/j.pmedr.2022.101786
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  5. Article ; Online: A field parcel-oriented approach to evaluate the crop cover-management factor and time-distributed erosion risk in Europe

    Matthews, Francis / Verstraeten, Gert / Borrelli, Pasquale / Panagos, Panos

    International Research and Training Center on Erosion and Sedimentation, China Water and Power Press, and China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research International Soil and Water Conservation Research. 2022 Sept. 26,

    2022  

    Abstract: The crop cover-management (C-) factor in arable landscapes describes the soil erosion susceptibility associated with seasonally cultivated crops. Previous informatic and computational limitations have led many modelling studies to prescribe C-factor ... ...

    Abstract The crop cover-management (C-) factor in arable landscapes describes the soil erosion susceptibility associated with seasonally cultivated crops. Previous informatic and computational limitations have led many modelling studies to prescribe C-factor values and assume spatial and temporal stationarity. However, the multiple influencing factors ranging from parcel-scale crop cultivation and management to regional-scale rainfall regimes motivates new methods to capture this variation when identifying at-risk areas. Here, we define a multi-component method to derive the C-factor by associating time series of canopy and residue surface cover from Sentinel-2 and climate-specific rainfall erosivity with Integrated Administration and Control System (IACS) field parcel data from European Union member states. A scalable and standardised method is emphasised to increase the future interoperability and inter-comparability of soil erosion modelling studies deploying the C-factor. Additionally, field parcel simulation units with associated crop declarations provide a new reference scale to link predictions of soil erosion risk with specific management decisions and declarations by farmers. After implementing the method on a homogenised subsample of 8600 field parcels covering available IACS regions, several key findings are outlined: 1) time series information provides new opportunities to predict the time-criticality of erosion in specific crop cultivations, 2) the varying (a-)synchronicity between seasonal crop canopy cover and heavy rainstorms means that spatial variability is inherent within the C-factor across Europe, and 3) the addition of agricultural management practices (e.g. tillage practice descriptions) to open-access IACS repositories can facilitate more comprehensive evaluations of the C-factor and soil erosion risk.
    Keywords European Union ; agricultural management ; canopy ; rain ; research ; risk ; soil ; soil erosion ; tillage ; time series analysis ; water conservation ; Europe ; C-factor ; Modelling ; Remote sensing ; Crop-phenology ; IACS data ; Soil conservation
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2022-0926
    Publishing place Elsevier B.V.
    Document type Article ; Online
    Note Pre-press version ; Use and reproduction
    ZDB-ID 2835330-4
    ISSN 2095-6339
    ISSN 2095-6339
    DOI 10.1016/j.iswcr.2022.09.005
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  6. Article: Simulating event-scale rainfall erosivity across European climatic regions

    Matthews, Francis / Panagos, Panos / Verstraeten, Gert

    Catena. 2022 June, v. 213

    2022  

    Abstract: Soil erosion is time compressed into a number of episodic erosive rainfall events with an associated potential to detach and transport soil particles (rainfall erosivity), each possessing unique spatial and temporal characteristics. Rainfall erosivity ... ...

    Abstract Soil erosion is time compressed into a number of episodic erosive rainfall events with an associated potential to detach and transport soil particles (rainfall erosivity), each possessing unique spatial and temporal characteristics. Rainfall erosivity events in Europe follow extreme value distributions in which a limited number of rainstorms dominate the long-term budget of available erosive energy. To combat soil erosion in Europe in a targeted manor, timely erosion mitigation measures should derive from dynamic model simulations that incorporate spatially and temporally distributed estimations of rainfall erosivity. Rain gauge measurements from singular points are typically used to quantify rainfall erosivity, however the spatial uniqueness of rainfall presents a key limitation to dynamically model rainfall across broad spatial scales with a limited number of point measurements. Discretised gridded precipitation datasets with a widespread (e.g. continental) spatial coverage potentially offer an opportunity to adequately replicate the dynamics of rainfall erosivity events, however their performance remains poorly tested in the pan-European context. This study builds upon the comprehensive Rainfall Erosivity Database at European Scale (REDES) archive of over 300,000 events from 1181 gauge stations to develop a two-step modelling process: 1) firstly, optimal monthly models were fitted and evaluated between gauge-recorded rainfall depth and rainfall erosivity (EI₃₀) across European climatic regions to develop a European-scale parameter surface, 2) secondly, three datasets (EMO-5 (6-hr), E-OBS (24-hr), UERRA MESCAN-SURFEX (24hr)) were directly evaluated via a grid-to-point analysis based on their ability to simulate the station-specific event rainfall erosivity timeseries at a random selection of 32 locations. EMO-5 (Nash-Sutcliffe model efficiency mean = 0.24) outperformed other tested gridded datasets, showing the capability to adequately replicate the event number, timing, and their average magnitude. A higher model performance in Northern compared with Southern European climatic regions, in which characteristically higher and spatially-complex event rainfall erosivity magnitudes are found, was symptomatic of a poor ability of grid-based simulations to replicate the magnitudes of events in the outer extents of the frequency-magnitude spectrum. The absence of a clear global systematic predictive bias amongst simulated locations suggests the need for future upscaling of this analysis to the entire European REDES dataset to fully understand and correct for the method-derived bias in a climate region-specific way.
    Keywords catenas ; data collection ; databases ; dynamic models ; energy ; model validation ; rain ; rain gauges ; soil ; soil erosion ; time series analysis ; Europe
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2022-06
    Publishing place Elsevier B.V.
    Document type Article
    ZDB-ID 519608-5
    ISSN 1872-6887 ; 0008-7769 ; 0341-8162
    ISSN (online) 1872-6887 ; 0008-7769
    ISSN 0341-8162
    DOI 10.1016/j.catena.2022.106157
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  7. Conference proceedings: On the distinction between inclusion and exclusion criteria

    Vonthein, Reinhard / Matthews, Felix

    2022  , Page(s) Abstr. 123

    Event/congress 67. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie e. V. (GMDS), 13. Jahreskongress der Technologie- und Methodenplattform für die vernetzte medizinische Forschung e.V. (TMF); sine loco [digital]; Deutsche Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie; 2022
    Keywords Medizin, Gesundheit ; eligibility ; inclusion criteria ; exclusion criteria ; screening
    Publishing date 2022-08-19
    Publisher German Medical Science GMS Publishing House; Düsseldorf
    Document type Conference proceedings
    DOI 10.3205/22gmds013
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  8. Article ; Online: How should a physician assess medication burden and polypharmacy?

    Iqbal, Anum / Matthews, Fiona / Hanratty, Barbara / Todd, Adam

    Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy

    2021  Volume 23, Issue 1, Page(s) 1–4

    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Physicians ; Polypharmacy
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-10-07
    Publishing country England
    Document type Editorial
    ZDB-ID 2001535-5
    ISSN 1744-7666 ; 1465-6566
    ISSN (online) 1744-7666
    ISSN 1465-6566
    DOI 10.1080/14656566.2021.1978977
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  9. Article ; Online: The COVID-19 pandemic and health inequalities.

    Bambra, Clare / Riordan, Ryan / Ford, John / Matthews, Fiona

    Journal of epidemiology and community health

    2020  Volume 74, Issue 11, Page(s) 964–968

    Abstract: This essay examines the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for health inequalities. It outlines historical and contemporary evidence of inequalities in pandemics-drawing on international research into the Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918, the H1N1 ... ...

    Abstract This essay examines the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for health inequalities. It outlines historical and contemporary evidence of inequalities in pandemics-drawing on international research into the Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918, the H1N1 outbreak of 2009 and the emerging international estimates of socio-economic, ethnic and geographical inequalities in COVID-19 infection and mortality rates. It then examines how these inequalities in COVID-19 are related to existing inequalities in chronic diseases and the social determinants of health, arguing that we are experiencing a
    MeSH term(s) Betacoronavirus ; COVID-19 ; Coronavirus Infections/epidemiology ; Coronavirus Infections/mortality ; Health Status Disparities ; Healthcare Disparities ; Humans ; Pandemics ; Pneumonia, Viral/epidemiology ; Pneumonia, Viral/mortality ; SARS-CoV-2 ; Social Determinants of Health ; Socioeconomic Factors
    Keywords covid19
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-06-13
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 391868-3
    ISSN 1470-2738 ; 0142-467X ; 0141-7681 ; 0143-005X
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    ISSN 0142-467X ; 0141-7681 ; 0143-005X
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  10. Article: The Utopia of human relations: the conflict-free family in American social thought, 1930-1960.

    Matthews, F

    Journal of the history of the behavioral sciences

    2001  Volume 24, Issue 4, Page(s) 343–362

    MeSH term(s) History, Modern 1601- ; Psychology/history ; United States
    Language English
    Publishing date 2001-09-11
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Historical Article ; Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 6868-8
    ISSN 1520-6696 ; 0022-5061
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