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Stroke awareness and knowledge in an Urban New Zealand population (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 National Stroke Association. Background Stroke is the third most common cause of death and a major cause of chronic disability in New Zealand. Linked to risk factors that develop across the life-course, stroke is considered to be largely preve... Read More about Stroke awareness and knowledge in an Urban New Zealand population.

How effective is media self-regulation? Results from a comparative survey of European journalists (2015)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2015 This article presents key results of a comparative journalists’ survey on media accountability, for which 1762 journalists in 14 countries had been interrogated online. The article explores how European journalists perceive the i... Read More about How effective is media self-regulation? Results from a comparative survey of European journalists.

European Healthy City Network Phase V: Patterns emerging for healthy urban planning (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. There is a tradition of planning cities and their infrastructure to successfully tackle communicable disease arising from urban development. Non-communicable disease follow... Read More about European Healthy City Network Phase V: Patterns emerging for healthy urban planning.

Future directions for positive body image research (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. The emergence of positive body image research during the last 10 years represents an important shift in the body image literature. The existing evidence provides a strong empirical basis for the study of positive body image and r... Read More about Future directions for positive body image research.

Editorial: Special issue on ground robots operating in dynamic, unstructured and large-scale outdoor environments (2015)
Journal Article

Real-world outdoor applications of ground robots have, to date, been limited primarily to remote inspection of suspected explosive devices and, with less success, to the broader domain of remote survey and inspection in hazardous environments. Such r... Read More about Editorial: Special issue on ground robots operating in dynamic, unstructured and large-scale outdoor environments.

Café sci East Africa: Talking with young people about science and technology (2015)
Journal Article

When Café Sci started in Ugandan schools in 2009, it was rare for scientists to visit schools to talk about their research. Former students might speak at career days and the National Council for Science and Technology set up occasional school visits... Read More about Café sci East Africa: Talking with young people about science and technology.

Diagnosis, Management and Assessment of Adults with Joint Hypermobility Syndrome: A UK-Wide Survey of Physiotherapy Practice (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Joint hypermobility syndrome (JHS) is a heritable disorder associated with excessive joint range of motion and pain in the absence of inflammatory joint disease. It is a relatively common cause of musculoskeletal pain... Read More about Diagnosis, Management and Assessment of Adults with Joint Hypermobility Syndrome: A UK-Wide Survey of Physiotherapy Practice.

Editorial for themed issue on 'Managing the business of cycling' (2015)
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Cycling is receiving increased attention as a means of addressing urban transport problems. The integration of cycling as a more frequently used mode for all types of trip purpose requires skills in a range of disciplines, including engineering for i... Read More about Editorial for themed issue on 'Managing the business of cycling'.

A photometric stereo approach for chronic wound measurement (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose-This paper aims to review state of the art of techniques for dimensioning chronic wounds, and validate the possibilities of employing a new proposed optical imaging approach for general task of wound... Read More about A photometric stereo approach for chronic wound measurement.

Efficiency of speech and iconic gesture integration for robotic and human communicators - A direct comparison (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2015 IEEE. Co-verbal gestures are an important part of human communication, improving its efficiency for information conveyance. A key component of such improvement is the observer's ability to integrate information from the two communication chann... Read More about Efficiency of speech and iconic gesture integration for robotic and human communicators - A direct comparison.

Input-to-state stable approach to release the conservatism of passivity-based stable haptic interaction (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2015 IEEE. Passivity has been a major criterion on designing a stable haptic interface due to many advantages. However, passivity has been suffering from its intrinsic conservatism since it only represents a small set of the whole stable region. Th... Read More about Input-to-state stable approach to release the conservatism of passivity-based stable haptic interaction.

A 9.8 Gbps, 6.5 mW forwarded-clock receiver with phase interpolator and equalized current sampler in 65 nm CMOS (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2015 IEEE. A full-rate energy-efficient forwarded-clock (FC) receiver is demonstrated in this paper. A current sampler with continuous-time equalization is realized with 20 GHz bandwidth in sampling for data recovery. Moreover, a phase interpolator... Read More about A 9.8 Gbps, 6.5 mW forwarded-clock receiver with phase interpolator and equalized current sampler in 65 nm CMOS.

How can the nursing profession alleviate the burden of chronic pain? (2015)
Journal Article

Investigation of the damage mechanisms for mode I delamination growth in foam core sandwich composites using acoustic emission (2015)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2015 In this article, acoustic emission monitoring was used to identify different types of damage mechanisms which occur during delamination of sandwich structures. Features of the obtained acoustic emission signals and wavelet-based... Read More about Investigation of the damage mechanisms for mode I delamination growth in foam core sandwich composites using acoustic emission.

BOB CAT: A large-scale review and delphi consensus for management of Barrett's esophagus with no dysplasia, indefinite for, or low-grade dysplasia (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 by the American College of Gastroenterology. OBJECTIVES:Barrett's esophagus (BE) is a common premalignant lesion for which surveillance is recommended. This strategy is limited by considerable variations in clinical practice. We conducted an i... Read More about BOB CAT: A large-scale review and delphi consensus for management of Barrett's esophagus with no dysplasia, indefinite for, or low-grade dysplasia.

Outcomes of treatment targeting syntax production in people with Broca's-type aphasia: Evidence from psycholinguistic assessment tasks and everyday conversation (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. Background Capturing evidence of the effects of therapy within everyday communication is the holy grail of aphasia treatment design and evaluation. Whilst impaired sentence production is a predo... Read More about Outcomes of treatment targeting syntax production in people with Broca's-type aphasia: Evidence from psycholinguistic assessment tasks and everyday conversation.

Open doors: Library cross-sector co-operation in Bristol, UK (2015)
Journal Article

© Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose - This paper outlines the aims, activities and outcomes of a project to pilot a reciprocal borrowing scheme between public and academic libraries using existing cards, i.e. public library cards in the acade... Read More about Open doors: Library cross-sector co-operation in Bristol, UK.

The effectiveness of psychosocial intervention for individuals with cleft lip and/or palate (2015)
Journal Article

© Copyright 2015 American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association. Objective: The aim of this review was to assess the effectiveness of different psychological interventions for children and adults with cleft lip and/or palate and their parents. Design... Read More about The effectiveness of psychosocial intervention for individuals with cleft lip and/or palate.

S-nitrosylation of the thioredoxin-like domains of protein disulfide isomerase and its role in neurodegenerative conditions (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 Conway and Harris. Correct protein folding and inhibition of protein aggregation is facilitated by a cellular "quality control system" that engages a network of protein interactions including molecular chaperones and the ubiquitin proteasome s... Read More about S-nitrosylation of the thioredoxin-like domains of protein disulfide isomerase and its role in neurodegenerative conditions.

Customer, collaborator or co-creator? What is the role of the student in a changing higher education servicescape? (2015)
Journal Article

Across the globe, higher education (HE) is experiencing ever increasing turbulence. The more established markets are dealing with pressure on budgets, coupled with government intervention to steer HE in particular directions. In contrast, institution... Read More about Customer, collaborator or co-creator? What is the role of the student in a changing higher education servicescape?.