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The role of oral language skills in reading and listening comprehension of text: A comparison of monolingual (L1) and bilingual (L2) speakers of English language (2014)
Journal Article

The study examined the role of oral language skills in reading comprehension and listening comprehension levels of 125 monolingual (L1) and bilingual (L2) English-speaking learners (M = 121.5 months, SD = 4.65) in England. All testing was conducted i... Read More about The role of oral language skills in reading and listening comprehension of text: A comparison of monolingual (L1) and bilingual (L2) speakers of English language.

A mixed-method approach to evoke creative and holistic thinking about robots in a home environment (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Discovering older adults' perceptions and expectations of domestic care service robots are vital in informing the design and development of new technologies to ensure acceptability and usability. This paper identifies issues that were elicited from o... Read More about A mixed-method approach to evoke creative and holistic thinking about robots in a home environment.

Artificial vibrissae DEA-based module (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The article presents a working whisker structure based on dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs). This preliminary work aims to exploit the features of the dielectric elastomer technology for use in an effective and reliable robotic application whilst... Read More about Artificial vibrissae DEA-based module.

A Contact-Based Intervention for People Recently Discharged from Inpatient Psychiatric Care: A Pilot Study (2014)
Journal Article

People recently discharged from inpatient psychiatric care are at high risk of suicide and self-harm, with 6% of all suicides in England occurring in the 3 months after discharge. There is some evidence from a randomized trial carried out in the Unit... Read More about A Contact-Based Intervention for People Recently Discharged from Inpatient Psychiatric Care: A Pilot Study.

Elastic properties of thermo-hydro-mechanically modified bamboo (Guadua angustifolia Kunth) measured in tension. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Guadua angustifolia Kunth (Guadua) was subjected to thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) treatments that modified its microstructure and mechanical properties. THM treatment was applied to Guadua with the aim of tackling the difficulties in the fabrication... Read More about Elastic properties of thermo-hydro-mechanically modified bamboo (Guadua angustifolia Kunth) measured in tension..

Shape memory polymer hexachiral auxetic structures with tunable stiffness (2014)
Journal Article

Planar auxetic structures have the potential to impact on a wide range of applications from deployable and morphing structures to space-filling composite and medical treatments. The ability to fabricate auxetics from smart materials greatly enhances... Read More about Shape memory polymer hexachiral auxetic structures with tunable stiffness.

The 3Mg trial: A randomised controlled trial of intravenous or nebulised magnesium sulphate versus placebo in adults with acute severe asthma (2014)
Journal Article

Background: Magnesium sulphate, administered by the intravenous (i.v.) or inhaled (nebulised) route, has been proposed as a treatment for adults with acute severe asthma. Existing trials show mixed results and uncertain evidence of benefit. Objective... Read More about The 3Mg trial: A randomised controlled trial of intravenous or nebulised magnesium sulphate versus placebo in adults with acute severe asthma.

The benefits of fringing mangrove systems to Mumbai (2014)
Journal Article

Mumbai's mangroves have been significantly depleted through historical city development and continuing encroachment. These mangroves are important for production of a range of ecosystem services. Recent conservation-oriented orders in India's courts... Read More about The benefits of fringing mangrove systems to Mumbai.

Integrating Integrated Water Management (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014, Thomas Telford Services Ltd. All rights reserved. The water cycle is a contiguous system interconnected with human activities. Management has tended to be fragmented across anthropocentrically defined disciplines, potentially generating unint... Read More about Integrating Integrated Water Management.

Establishing a core domain set to measure rheumatoid arthritis flares: Report of the OMERACT 11 RA flare workshop (2014)
Journal Article

Objective. The OMERACT Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) Flare Group (FG) is developing a data-driven, patient-inclusive, consensus-based RA flare definition for use in clinical trials, longterm observational studies, and clinical practice. At OMERACT 11, we... Read More about Establishing a core domain set to measure rheumatoid arthritis flares: Report of the OMERACT 11 RA flare workshop.

The secular pilgrim: Are we flogging a dead metaphor? (2014)
Journal Article

The metaphor of the tourist as pilgrim and tourism as a pilgrimage has been an important idea in tourism studies, reproduced in both academic and popular accounts with varying degrees of criticality. This research probe considers a number of differen... Read More about The secular pilgrim: Are we flogging a dead metaphor?.

Confirming nasogastric tube position with electromagnetic tracking versus pH or X-ray and tube radio-opacity (2014)
Journal Article

Recent evidence suggests official statistics greatly underestimate the occurrence of complications from misplaced nasogastric (NG) tubes, even when detected. Current methods of confirming tube position do not provide adequate protection from misplace... Read More about Confirming nasogastric tube position with electromagnetic tracking versus pH or X-ray and tube radio-opacity.

A temporal description logic for resource-bounded rule-based context-aware agents (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014. We propose a logical framework for modelling and verifying context-aware multi-agent systems. We extend CTL* with belief and communication modalities, and the resulting logic LOCRS allows us to de... Read More about A temporal description logic for resource-bounded rule-based context-aware agents.

Age-related macular degeneration patients' awareness of nutritional factors (2014)
Journal Article

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of visual impairment in older adults in the United Kingdom. This study sought to characterise AMD patients who seek the services of the Macular Society, and determine the level and source of... Read More about Age-related macular degeneration patients' awareness of nutritional factors.

Where to park? A behavioural comparison of bus Park and Ride and city centre car park usage in Bath, UK (2014)
Journal Article

Integrating car parking facilities with public transport in Park and Ride (P&R) facilities has the potential to shorten car trips, contributing to more sustainable mobility. There is an ongoing debate about the actual effects of P&R on the transport... Read More about Where to park? A behavioural comparison of bus Park and Ride and city centre car park usage in Bath, UK.

The effect of corrugated skins on aerodynamic performance (2014)
Journal Article

Corrugated skins provide a good solution to morphing wings due to their highly anisotropic behavior. If the low stiffness corrugation plane is aligned in the chordwise direction, the airfoil shape change is possible. In contrast to the traditional sm... Read More about The effect of corrugated skins on aerodynamic performance.

Sensory fusion in Physarum polycephalum and implementing multi-sensory functional computation (2014)
Journal Article

Surface electrical potential and observational growth recordings were made of a protoplasmic tube of the slime mould Physarum polycephalum in response to a multitude of stimuli with regards to sensory fusion or multisensory integration. Each stimulus... Read More about Sensory fusion in Physarum polycephalum and implementing multi-sensory functional computation.

Updating the omeract filter: Discrimination and feasibility (2014)
Journal Article

The " Discrimination" part of the OMERACT Filter asks whether a measure discriminates between situations that are of interest. " Feasibility" in the OMERACT Filter encompasses the practical considerations of using an instrument, including its ease of... Read More about Updating the omeract filter: Discrimination and feasibility.

Updating the omeract filter: Implications of filter 2.0 to select outcome instruments through assessment of "truth": Content, face, and construct validity (2014)
Journal Article

Objective: The Outcome Measures in Rheumatology (OMERACT) Filter provides guidelines for the development and validation of outcome measures for use in clinical research. The "Truth" section of the OMERACT Filter requires that criteria be met to demon... Read More about Updating the omeract filter: Implications of filter 2.0 to select outcome instruments through assessment of "truth": Content, face, and construct validity.

Patient involvement in outcome measures for Psoriatic arthritis (2014)
Journal Article

Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is a heterogeneous inflammatory arthritis with a varied clinical phenotype. There has been considerable international collaboration over recent years to develop and prioritise appropriate disease domains and outcome measures... Read More about Patient involvement in outcome measures for Psoriatic arthritis.