Keele University

About: Keele University is a education organization based out in Newcastle-under-Lyme, United Kingdom. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Stars. The organization has 11318 authors who have published 26323 publications receiving 894671 citations. The organization is also known as: Keele University.

Radial Artery Occlusion After Transradial Interventions: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Abstract: Background Radial artery occlusion (RAO) may occur posttransradial intervention and limits the radial artery as a future access site, thus precluding its use as an arterial conduit. In this study, we investigate the incidence and factors influencing the RAO in the current literature. Methods and Results We searched MEDLINE and EMBASE for studies of RAO in transradial access. Relevant studies were identified and data were extracted. Data were synthesized by meta‐analysis, quantitative pooling, graphical representation, or by narrative synthesis. A total of 66 studies with 31 345 participants were included in the analysis. Incident RAO ranged between 1 week follow‐up). The most efficacious measure in reducing RAO was higher dose of heparin, because lower doses of heparin were associated with increased RAO (risk ratio 0.36, 95% CI 0.17–0.76), whereas shorter compression times also reduced RAO (risk ratio 0.28, 95% CI 0.05–1.50). Several factors were found to be associated with RAO including age, sex, sheath size, and diameter of radial artery, but these factors were not consistent across all studies. Conclusions RAO is a common complication of transradial access. Maintenance of radial patency should be an integral part of all procedures undertaken through the radial approach. High‐dose heparin along with shorter compression times and patent hemostasis is recommended in reducing RAO.

A Spitzer view of protoplanetary disks in the γ velorum cluster

Abstract: We present new Spitzer Space Telescope observations of stars in the young (~5 Myr)γ Velorum stellar cluster. Combining optical and 2MASS photometry, we have selected 579 stars as candidate members of the cluster. With the addition of the Spitzer mid-infrared data, we have identified five debris disks around A-type stars and five to six debris disks around solar-type stars, indicating that the strong radiation field in the cluster does not completely suppress the production of planetesimals in the disks of cluster members. However, we find some evidence that the frequency of circumstellar primordial disks is lower, and the infrared flux excesses are smaller than for disks around stellar populations with similar ages. This could be evidence for a relatively fast dissipation of circumstellar dust by the strong radiation field from the highest mass star(s) in the cluster. Another possibility is that γ Velorum stellar cluster is slightly older than reported ages and the low frequency of primordial disks reflects the fast disk dissipation observed at ~5 Myr.

‘It's Taking Me a Long Time but I'll Get There in the End’: Mature students on access courses and higher education choice

Abstract: The UK policy rhetoric of commitment to widening access to higher education has identified mature students as playing a pivotal role in the expansion and reform of higher education The article draws on the experiences of 23 mature access students in an inner London further education college in order to explore the range of opportunities and constraints mature students confront in their efforts to make the transition to higher education In particular, the article focuses on the narratives of the seven students who failed to complete the access course It is argued that complexities of ethnicity, gender and marital status intersect with, and compound, the consequences of class, making the transition process particularly difficult for working-class, lone mothers The article concludes that if the Government's 'New Learning Age' is not to reproduce past educational inequalities, then the rhetoric on widening participation needs to move beyond rhetoric into policies which provide possibilities for realisation