Does appearance matter?
(2014)
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A pilot study of the association between tobacco use and mid-term outcomes following total hip replacement (2014)
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Introduction: Smoking is an important and modifiable risk factor in many disease processes. The detrimental effects of smoking are numerous and well documented with smokers being at increased risk of respiratory disease, cardiovascular disease and ma... Read More about A pilot study of the association between tobacco use and mid-term outcomes following total hip replacement.
Delivering a mentorship conference: An evaluation (2014)
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The challenges of partnership working between higher education institutions and healthcare organisations have been well documented within the literature. Suggestions have been made that competing demands brought about by policy changes in both nurse... Read More about Delivering a mentorship conference: An evaluation.
Continuous tone printing in silicone from CNC milled matrices (2014)
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Current research at the Centre for Fine Print Research (CFPR) at the University of the West of England, Bristol, is exploring the potential of creating coloured pictorial imagery from a continuous tone relief surface. To create the printing matrices... Read More about Continuous tone printing in silicone from CNC milled matrices.
Blue cards, green cards: The Contest to attract highly skilled migrants (2014)
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Highly skilled immigrants are considered to be “sort after” individuals. They provide countries with skilled labour often, if they originate from developing or least developed countries, with significantly less wage demands than similarly skilled dom... Read More about Blue cards, green cards: The Contest to attract highly skilled migrants.
Towards a remote medical diagnostician for medical examination (2014)
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Remotely deployable aerial inspection using tactile sensors (2014)
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For structural monitoring applications, the use of remotely deployable Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE) inspection platforms offer many advantages, including improved accessibility, greater safety and reduced cost, when compared to traditional manual... Read More about Remotely deployable aerial inspection using tactile sensors.
Curriculum design in online open education (2014)
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My presentation looked at curriculum design in online open education, asking if learning styles are taken into account and contribute to inclusion?
Talking prints (2014)
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Based at the University of the West of England, Bristol, the book arts forms a small part of the Centre for Fine Print Research, where the research focus is on the production and investigation of the physical artefact, primarily predicated in print.... Read More about Talking prints.
Adaptive proportional fair parameterization based LTE scheduling using continuous actor-critic reinforcement learning (2014)
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© 2014 IEEE. Maintaining a desired trade-off performance between system throughput maximization and user fairness satisfaction constitutes a problem that is still far from being solved. In LTE systems, different tradeoff levels can be obtained by usi... Read More about Adaptive proportional fair parameterization based LTE scheduling using continuous actor-critic reinforcement learning.
Consumo de alcool em funcionários de penitenciárias [Alcohol consumption in penitentiary employees] (2014)
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Síndrome de burnout e consumo de álcool em funcionários de penitenciárias [Burnout Syndrome and Alcohol Consumption in Prison Employees] (2014)
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Características ocupacionais e síndrome de burnout em funcionários penitenciários [Occupational Characteristics and Burnout Syndrome in Prison Employees] (2014)
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Delivering community based child injury prevention in Nepal: A feasibility study (2014)
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Aim: To develop and evaluate an educational programme of child injury prevention and first-aid for dissemination through women’s groups in a rural district of Nepal and determine the feasibility of conducting a cluster randomised controlled trial of... Read More about Delivering community based child injury prevention in Nepal: A feasibility study.
Use Of The Warwick-Edinburgh mental wellbeing scale in a survey study of self-reported self-harm amongst 13 – 18 year olds across England (2014)
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Health economic assessment of walking and cycling interventions in the physical environment: Interim findings from the iConnect study (2014)
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This study (www.iconnect.ac.uk) used the Health Economic Assessment Tools (HEAT) for walking and cycling to estimate the economic value of health benefits attributable to Connect2, a programme of constructing or improving 84 local walking and... Read More about Health economic assessment of walking and cycling interventions in the physical environment: Interim findings from the iConnect study.
Effect of gender on blood pressure and heart rate variability during increasing intensities of isometric hand grip exercise in untrained adults (2014)
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Gender has been shown to affect Blood Pressure (BP) and Heart Rate Variability (HRV) (Winsley et al., 2003). Measures of autonomic neural control of heart rate have indicated that women may have a higher parasympathetic and less sympathetic control o... Read More about Effect of gender on blood pressure and heart rate variability during increasing intensities of isometric hand grip exercise in untrained adults.
I don’t like the way I look: Psychological consequences of appearance norms (2014)
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The psychological impacts of looking different (2014)
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Blitz resurrection: Re-creating a classic 80’s video game in Processing 2.0 (2014)
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The Blitz video game was released in 1981 by Commodore for the VIC-20 and later the Commodore-64 personal computers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitz_(video_game). We will re-create this classic game in the Processing 2.0 language as a way of teachi... Read More about Blitz resurrection: Re-creating a classic 80’s video game in Processing 2.0.