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Perceived comfort and adaptive process of passivhaus 'participants' (2015)
Journal Article

Passivhaus methodology leads to buildings with very high thermal efficiency and high levels of airtightness. The focus of research in Passivhaus is energy performance. The experience of occupying a Passivhaus is often overlooked. This research takes... Read More about Perceived comfort and adaptive process of passivhaus 'participants'.

Employability, a topic for knowledge exchange to strategically positioning higher education institutions (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Over the last 2 decades employability has worldwide become a key item on the public agenda due to changing labour market requirements and changing career perspectives. This has sparked a strong debate around Higher Educational Institutions’ (HEIs) fi... Read More about Employability, a topic for knowledge exchange to strategically positioning higher education institutions.

Representations of politicians in contemporary Ghanaian hiplife music (2015)
Journal Article

In his article "Representations of Politicians in Contemporary Ghanaian Hiplife Music" Mark Nartey argues that in Asare Obeng's music politicians in Ghana are depicted as self-seeking, self-serving, and self-centered. Further, he argues that since it... Read More about Representations of politicians in contemporary Ghanaian hiplife music.

A step at a time: The resettlement needs of Irish people returning from prison overseas (2015)
Report

On release from prison, ex-prisoners require a range of supports in order to successfully resettle back into the community and avoid re-offending. First and foremost, they will require access to accommodation and money, for example through the social... Read More about A step at a time: The resettlement needs of Irish people returning from prison overseas.

Space, place and pace (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

An invited experiential lecture at the University of South Wales Department of Social Geography

Update on outcome measure development for large vessel vasculitis: Report from OMERACT 12 (2015)
Journal Article

© Copyright 2015 The Journal of Rheumatology. All rights reserved. Objective. The rarity of large vessel vasculitis (LVV) is a major factor limiting randomized controlled trials in LVV, resulting in treatment choices in these diseases that are guided... Read More about Update on outcome measure development for large vessel vasculitis: Report from OMERACT 12.

Toward ensuring health equity: Readability and cultural equivalence of OMERACT patient-reported outcome measures (2015)
Journal Article

© Copyright 2015 The Journal of Rheumatology. All rights reserved. Objective. The goal of the Outcome Measures in Rheumatology (OMERACT) 12 (2014) equity working group was to determine whether and how comprehensibility of patient-reported outcome mea... Read More about Toward ensuring health equity: Readability and cultural equivalence of OMERACT patient-reported outcome measures.

Public health approaches to sexual harm (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A research paper discussing current approaches to public health interventions in the sexual abuse field

Effectiveness of lycra sleeve for the management of glenohumeral subluxation in people with stroke – A feasibility study (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Introduction: Glenohumeral subluxation (GHS) is reported to occur in 81% of patients post stroke. The aims of the study were to assess the effectiveness of Lycra sleeves on GHS and explore patients’ perceptions regarding the practicality of applying... Read More about Effectiveness of lycra sleeve for the management of glenohumeral subluxation in people with stroke – A feasibility study.

Risk and protective factors for falls on one level in young children: Multicentre case–control study (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015, BMJ. All rights reserved. Background Childhood falls are an important global public health problem, but there is lack of evidence about their prevention. Falls on one level result in considerable morbidity and they are costly to health servic... Read More about Risk and protective factors for falls on one level in young children: Multicentre case–control study.

Psychological impact of visible differences in patients with congenital craniofacial anomalies (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015, Singh and Moss; licensee Springer. Background: Patients with craniofacial anomalies often have appearance concerns and related social anxiety which can affect their quality of life. This study assessed the psychological impact of facial and d... Read More about Psychological impact of visible differences in patients with congenital craniofacial anomalies.

The feasibility of community mobilisation for child injury prevention in rural Nepal: A programme for female community health volunteers (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 Pant et al.; licensee BioMed Central. Abstract Background Injuries accounted for 23% of all deaths in children and adolescents in Nepal during 2010 (n = 3,700). Despite this, there is no national death registration or injury surveillance syste... Read More about The feasibility of community mobilisation for child injury prevention in rural Nepal: A programme for female community health volunteers.

Stability and reliability of anodic biofilms under different feedstock conditions: Towards microbial fuel cell sensors (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 The Authors. Stability and reliability of microbial fuel cell anodic biofilms, consisting of mixed cultures, were investigated in a continuously fed system. Two groups of anodic biofilm matured with different substrates, acetate and casein for... Read More about Stability and reliability of anodic biofilms under different feedstock conditions: Towards microbial fuel cell sensors.

Mental health stigmatisation in deployed UK Armed Forces: A principal components analysis (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015, Royal Army Medical College. All rights reserved. Introduction UK military research suggests that there is a significant link between current psychological symptoms, mental health stigmatisation and perceived barriers to care (stigma/BTC). Few... Read More about Mental health stigmatisation in deployed UK Armed Forces: A principal components analysis.

The Risk of Freedom: Ethics, Phenomenology, and Politics in Jan Patočka (2015)
Book

he Risk of Freedom presents an in-depth analysis of the philosophy of Jan Patočka, one of the most influential Central European thinkers of the twentieth century, examining both the phenomenological and ethical-political aspects of his work. In parti... Read More about The Risk of Freedom: Ethics, Phenomenology, and Politics in Jan Patočka.

The contributions of stereotype threat research to social psychology (2015)
Journal Article

Stereotype threat describes the experience of being viewed through the lens of a negative stereotype. This social psychological phenomenon demonstrates the deleterious effects that negative societal stereotypes can exert on performance. The current a... Read More about The contributions of stereotype threat research to social psychology.

Ensuring green infrastructure for all (2015)
Book Chapter

The city [within] the drawing: The urban in the space of representation (2015)
Journal Article

This paper presents the installation The City [within] The Drawing, the conclusive piece in a series of four installations that engage in exploring the material and temporal limits of architectural drawing conventions. Consisting of both drawn and mo... Read More about The city [within] the drawing: The urban in the space of representation.

Impact of board independence on the quality of community disclosures in annual reports (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. This study investigates the link between board independence and the quality of community disclosures in annual reports. Using content analysis and a panel dataset from UK FTSE 350 companies the results indicate a statistically si... Read More about Impact of board independence on the quality of community disclosures in annual reports.

Trends in admission and death rates due to paediatric head injury in England, 2000-2011 (2015)
Journal Article

Background The number of children admitted to hospital is increasing year on year, with very short-stay admissions doubling in the last decade. Childhood head injury accounts for half a million emergency department attendances in the UK every year. T... Read More about Trends in admission and death rates due to paediatric head injury in England, 2000-2011.