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- Welcome to QMU Data Repository - eData is a data repository where QMU researchers can store finished project data that, where appropriate, can be accessed and potentially re-used by other researchers.
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- Welcome to QMU eTheses Repository - eTheses is an online collection of PhD theses and selected undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations written by QMU students and researchers. QMU users login to access full text undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations.
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The Confidence of White Eyewitnesses is Better Calibrated with White Targets than Asian Targets
(MDPI, 2026) Töredi, Dilhan; Mansour, Jamal K.; Jones, Sian; Skelton, Faye; McIntyre, Alex
After making a lineup decision, eyewitnesses may be asked to indicate their confidence in their decision. Eyewitness confidence is considered an important reflector of accuracy. Previous studies have considered the confidence-accuracy (CA) relationship—that is, the relationship between participants’ confidence in their lineup decision and the accuracy of that decision. However, the literature is limited and mixed concerning the CA relationship in cross-race scenarios. We considered the CA relationship for White and Asian participants and targets (fully-crossed) using sequential lineups. Participants completed four trials (two White targets and two Asian targets). For each trial, they watched a mock-crime video, performed a distractor task, made a sequential lineup decision (target-present or target-absent), and indicated confidence in their lineup decision. White participants had higher identification accuracy with White than Asian targets, while Asian participants were similarly accurate with White and Asian targets. White participants’ confidence was better calibrated for White than Asian targets, except for when they had medium-high confidence (no difference). This finding is not only theoretically relevant—showing support for the optimality hypothesis— but also practically relevant—suggesting that the CA relationship may differ for target races at some levels of confidence.
Does Research Soothe You? Audiovisual Experimentation, Traumatic Memory, and the Question of the Senses
(Tallinn University Baltic Film, Media, Arts and Communication School, 2025-12-23) Mosch, Regina
This article examines how audiovisual artistic research can generate sensorial, inter-relational forms of impact when dealing with trauma and vulnerable bodies. Drawing on the film series what it felt like to dream fire I–III and the co-creative exhibition over/exposed, it proposes touch and breath – as theorised by Butler, Irigaray, Quinlivan and Marks – as conceptual and methodological lenses for understanding how bodies engage with research processes. Through phenomenological analysis, the article shows how artistic research practices can unsettle traditional separations between researcher and researched, instead foregrounding intertwined bodily relations that emerge during creation, collaboration and exhibition. While not therapeutic in intent, these practices can produce moments of soothing, connection and shared vulnerability, particularly in contexts of trauma and queerness. The article argues that such sensorial, affective encounters expand prevailing notions of impact and reciprocity in artistic research, highlighting how research processes themselves may provide a ground for collectivity and shared affects between participants, researchers and viewers alike.
Why not use personal norms in message framing?: Understanding the importance of self-consciousness and green preference when promoting pro-environmental behaviour
(Elsevier BV, 2026-01-31) Zhou, Yuanyuan; Wilson, Juliette; Karampela, Maria; de Groot, Judith
Normative messages are an established way to promote pro-environmental behaviour. However, research examining the conditions under which such messages are effective predominantly focus on social rather than personal norms. As personal norms have been identified as a much stronger predictor of pro-environmental behaviour, the present study examined the mechanisms through which personal rather than social normative messages enable people to act in line with these norms. In two experimental studies (N=200 and N=249), in which normative messages and self-consciousness were manipulated, findings reveal that personal normative messages positively impact intentions to re-use hotel towels indirectly through one’s green preference on both studies, and directly as well in Study 2. Furthermore, these (in)direct effects are negatively moderated through one’s self-consciousness. These mechanisms through which personal normative messages vary in their effectiveness in promoting re-using towels, advances our understanding of how personal rather than social normative messages can be used to promote pro-environmental behaviour change.
Short-Term Effects of Manual Therapy Combined with Functional Magnetic Stimulation in Individuals with Lumbar Disk Herniation with Radiculopathy: A Randomized Clinical Trial
(MDPI AG, 2026-01-24) Lytras, Dimitrios; Iakovidis, Paris; Kasimis, Konstantinos; Georgoulas, Vasileios; Algiounidis, Ioannis; Kamparoudi, Georgia Maria; Tsigaras, Georgios; Tarfali, Georgia; Vergidou, Georgia; Sidiropoulos, Nikolaos; Zerva, Eleftheria; Kallistratos, Ilias
Background and Objectives: Lumbar disk herniation with radiculopathy (LDHR) is a prevalent neuromusculoskeletal condition characterized by nociceptive and neuropathic pain components. Manual therapy (MT) is commonly used in its management, whereas Functional Magnetic Stimulation (FMS) represents an emerging modality with limited evidence in radiculopathy. The aim of this study was to examine the short-term effects of combining MT with FMS compared with MT alone on pain intensity, neuropathic pain features, neural mechanosensitivity, and functional disability in individuals with chronic LDHR. Materials and Methods: Forty adults with MRI-confirmed unilateral LDHR were randomly allocated to an MT + FMS group or an MT-only group. Both groups received ten treatment sessions over three weeks. Outcomes included lumbar and leg pain intensity (NPRS), functional disability (RMDQ), neuropathic pain symptoms (S-LANSS), and straight leg raise (SLR) range of motion. Measurements were obtained at baseline and at week 3. Group and time effects were examined using a two-way mixed ANOVA with significance set at p < 0.05. Results: Significant group × time interactions were observed for all outcomes (p < 0.01), indicating greater improvements in the MT + FMS group. Reductions in lumbar and leg pain, disability, and S-LANSS scores exceeded established MCID thresholds, while SLR gains surpassed published MDC values, reflecting both statistical and clinical relevance. Only the MT + FMS group improved below the neuropathic pain diagnostic cutoff (S-LANSS < 12). Conclusions: The findings of this trial suggest that incorporating FMS into a manual therapy program may provide additional short-term clinical benefits for individuals with chronic LDHR. Further research with larger samples, longer follow-up periods, and mechanistic assessments is needed to confirm these preliminary results and to better understand the underlying mechanisms.
Mapping resilience in conflict and recovery: A systems analysis of the health sector in Ethiopia’s Tigray region (2020-2025)
(Elsevier BV, 2026-01-29) Tequare, Mengistu Hagazi; Bou-Orm, Ibrahim; Gebreslassie, Fana; Witter, Sophie; Bertone, Maria Paola
This study explores the resilience of the health system in Tigray (Ethiopia) in the period during and following the most recent conflict (2020-2025). The aim is to gain an understanding of the dynamic ways in which the health system has responded to the crisis and early recovery, highlighting elements of its resilience, including the resilience strategies (adaptation, absorption and transformation), resilience capacities (i.e., underlying broader capacities that the health system must have in place in order to deploy specific approaches) and resilience pathways. The study is grounded in a resilience framework and adopts a systems thinking approach, drawing on data from a documentary review, key informant interviews and focus groups in Tigray. The findings illustrate the impact of the war on elements of the health system, and the resilience strategies adopted within each element to sustain some extent the health system functionality during the conflict as well as the (longer-term) health system recovery. Based on the findings, a Causal Loop Diagram is developed, which helps to identify key emerging resilience capacities (the motivation, dedication and individual coping strategies of health workers; community trust in healthcare providers; and the regional health authority’s leadership), highlighting causal, balancing or reinforcing loops and pathways between elements, and critically exploring how resilience strategies, capacities and pathways connect and interrelate, sustaining some elements of the health system, preventing collapse and potentially supporting a return to a fully functioning healthcare system. Findings provide evidence that could support the reconstruction and recovery efforts in Tigray, and might inform recovery planning in other settings post-conflict.