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Breast cancer or chest cancer? The impact of living with a ‘woman’s disease' (2016)
Journal Article

Breast cancer in men is rare. Diagnostic methods and treatment are the same as for women, but awareness of male breast cancer is low, as breast cancer is often perceived as a disease specific to women. This can delay diagnosis and cause psychological... Read More about Breast cancer or chest cancer? The impact of living with a ‘woman’s disease'.

The EVIDENCE project: Measure no.23 - Inclusive urban design (2016)
Journal Article

This article summarises a review of the literature on 'inclusive urban design', Enhancements and alterations to the public realm to help to manage the presence of motorised traffic. Key messages: • These measures can reduce vehicle speeds, fatali... Read More about The EVIDENCE project: Measure no.23 - Inclusive urban design.

The EVIDENCE project: Measure no.4 - Access restrictions (2016)
Journal Article

This article draws on a review of literature on 'access restrictions': removing, filtering or controlling the flow of vehicles in a street or part of a city with the intention of encouraging other modes (public transport, cycling and walking) and imp... Read More about The EVIDENCE project: Measure no.4 - Access restrictions.

The EVIDENCE project: Measure no.20 - Cycling (2016)
Journal Article

Positive Benefit-Cost-Ratios (BCRs) are seen for networks of cycle paths, based on journey time savings and lower health and fuel costs. Positive BCRs at the lower end of the scale derive benefits mainly from the value of time; health benefits contri... Read More about The EVIDENCE project: Measure no.20 - Cycling.

The EVIDENCE project: Measure no.12 - Public transport enhancements (2016)
Journal Article

One of twenty two reviews of the economic benefits of different types of sustainable mobility intervention produced for the EU-funded EVIDENCE research project. This review, No12, focusses on the possible economic benefits of making improvements to e... Read More about The EVIDENCE project: Measure no.12 - Public transport enhancements.

The EVIDENCE project: Measure no.15: E-ticketing (2016)
Journal Article

One of twenty two reviews of the economic benefits of different types of sustainable mobility intervention produced for the EU-funded EVIDENCE research project. This review, No15, focusses on the possible economic benefits of implementing a range of... Read More about The EVIDENCE project: Measure no.15: E-ticketing.

A critical review of the robustness of the UK government’s air quality plan and expected compliance dates (2016)
Journal Article

Globally, poor air quality is the most significant environmental health concern. Across Europe, 400,000 deaths were attributed to air pollution in 2012, whilst in the UK over 50,000 deaths per year are due to a combination of gaseous and particulate... Read More about A critical review of the robustness of the UK government’s air quality plan and expected compliance dates.

Leading in turbulent times: Learning to live with paradox (2016)
Journal Article

In the late 1990s the U.S. Army War College developed the acronym VUCA to refer to the volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous nature of political relations in the post- cold war era. It did not take long, however, for people to realize that thes... Read More about Leading in turbulent times: Learning to live with paradox.

Service nepotism in cosmopolitan transient social spaces (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. This article examines service nepotism, the practice of bestowing gifts or benefits on customers by frontline service staff based on a perceived shared socio-collective identity. Adopting a micro-sociological approach, i... Read More about Service nepotism in cosmopolitan transient social spaces.

Study of the effects of ionic liquid-modified cathodes and ceramic separators on MFC performance (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Elsevier B.V. Ceramic-based MFC designs have proven to be a low cost alternative for power production and wastewater treatment. The use of ionic liquids in ceramic MFCs is explored for the first time in the present work in order to improve pow... Read More about Study of the effects of ionic liquid-modified cathodes and ceramic separators on MFC performance.

On modulating the Physarum polycephalum plasmodium's electrical resistance, resting membrane potential and capacitance by application of nanoparticles and nanostructures (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Physarum polycephalum is a model organism used in the creation of hybrid artificial-biological devices. Among its demonstrated uses in biocomputing it is able to grow self healing 'wires' which can be used to... Read More about On modulating the Physarum polycephalum plasmodium's electrical resistance, resting membrane potential and capacitance by application of nanoparticles and nanostructures.

Religion and Sustainable Urban Planning: ‘If you can't count it, or won't count it, it doesn't count’ (2016)
Journal Article

Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment Sustainability objectives are central to modern urban planning. Originally, sustainability had three components, environmental sustainability, economic well-being and social equality: plan... Read More about Religion and Sustainable Urban Planning: ‘If you can't count it, or won't count it, it doesn't count’.

Simulation in Nursing Education-International Perspectives and Contemporary Scope of Practice (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Sigma Theta Tau International. Purpose: This article provides insights and perspectives from four experienced educators about their approaches to developing, delivering, and evaluating impactful simulation learning experiences for undergraduat... Read More about Simulation in Nursing Education-International Perspectives and Contemporary Scope of Practice.

Opportunities and challenges in establishing a cohort study: An example from cleft lip/palate research in the United Kingdom (2016)
Journal Article

© Copyright 2016 American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association. Background: Cleft lip and/or palate (CL/P) is one of the most common birth conditions in the world, but little is known about its causes. Professional opinion remains divided as to whic... Read More about Opportunities and challenges in establishing a cohort study: An example from cleft lip/palate research in the United Kingdom.

The Effect of State-Private Co-partnership System on Russian Industry (2016)
Journal Article

© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media New York. In Russia at the turn of the new millennium, the Putin regime introduced a system of state-private co-partnership with corporate private investors. We argue that this policy had the effect of reducing... Read More about The Effect of State-Private Co-partnership System on Russian Industry.

A category "Easy to Liquidate": The League of Nations, Russian refugee children in the 1920s and the history of humanitarianism (2016)
Book Chapter

This chapter examines the work of the High Commission for Russian Refugees of the League of Nations. It analyses their approach to solving the issue of child refugees and places this in debates around the historical development of human rights and hu... Read More about A category "Easy to Liquidate": The League of Nations, Russian refugee children in the 1920s and the history of humanitarianism.

Practical circuits with Physarum Wires (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, Korean Society of Medical and Biological Engineering and Springer. Purpose: Protoplasmic tubes of Physarum polycephalum, also know as Physarum Wires (PW), have been previously suggested as novel bio-electronic components. Until recently, prac... Read More about Practical circuits with Physarum Wires.

A fuzzy rule induction algorithm for discovering classification rules (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 - IOS Press and the authors. All rights reserved. Recently, the topic of data mining has attracted considerable attention from both academia and industry. Data mining is the process of extracting useful knowledge from large amounts of data. Am... Read More about A fuzzy rule induction algorithm for discovering classification rules.

We heard you: Analysis of the service users' feedback of the adult substance misuse services in South Gloucestershire (2016)
Report

A qualitative analysis on service users’ feedback of the adult Substance Misuse Services in South Gloucestershire to understand the service users’ stories behind their recovery journey and to determine their level of engagement with the treatment sys... Read More about We heard you: Analysis of the service users' feedback of the adult substance misuse services in South Gloucestershire.

Transportation disadvantage and activity participation in the cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad, Pakistan (2016)
Journal Article

This paper explores public transport related issues and their impact on activity participation in everyday life in the Pakistani urban context. The study is based on primary data collected through questionnaire survey from four case study communities... Read More about Transportation disadvantage and activity participation in the cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad, Pakistan.