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Social comparisons on social media: THE impact of Facebook on young women's body image concerns and mood (2015)
Journal Article

© 2014 Elsevier Ltd. The present study experimentally investigated the effect of Facebook usage on women's mood and body image, whether these effects differ from an online fashion magazine, and whether appearance comparison tendency moderates any of... Read More about Social comparisons on social media: THE impact of Facebook on young women's body image concerns and mood.

Objectively assessed physical activity and lower limb function and prospective associations with mortality and newly diagnosed disease in UK older adults: An OPAL four-year follow-up study (2015)
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Background: objective measures of physical activity and function with a diverse cohort of UK adults in their 70s and 80s were used to investigate relative risk of all-cause mortality and diagnoses of new diseases over a 4-year period. Participants... Read More about Objectively assessed physical activity and lower limb function and prospective associations with mortality and newly diagnosed disease in UK older adults: An OPAL four-year follow-up study.

Institutional entrepreneurship, governance, and poverty: Insights from emergency medical response servicesin India (2015)
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© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media New York. We present an in-depth case study of GVK Emergency Management and Research Institute, an Indian public–private partnership (PPP), which successfully brought emergency medical response to remote and ur... Read More about Institutional entrepreneurship, governance, and poverty: Insights from emergency medical response servicesin India.

Power, place and the New Civic Leadership (2015)
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© The Author(s) 2015 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav. In the years since Local Economy was launched in 1986, globalisation has diminished the power of place-based leaders. Place-less actors, meaning people who are not... Read More about Power, place and the New Civic Leadership.

Older adults' experiences of living with cleft lip and palate: A qualitative study exploring aging and appearance (2015)
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© Copyright 2015 American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association. Objective: To explore older adults' experiences of living with cleft lip and/or palate (CL/P), focusing on aging and appearance. Design: An exploratory-descriptive qualitative study. Pa... Read More about Older adults' experiences of living with cleft lip and palate: A qualitative study exploring aging and appearance.

Using poetry in a critically reflexive action research co-inquiry with nurses (2015)
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© The Author(s) 2015 Reprints and permissions sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav There are few reports of healthcare action research using collaborative or co-operative inquiry (co-inquiry) while research featuring poetry is also rare. This paper... Read More about Using poetry in a critically reflexive action research co-inquiry with nurses.

A pilot randomized controlled trial comparing bismuth iodine paraffin paste external ear pack and no ear pack after middle ear surgery (2015)
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© 2013, The Author(s). To pilot a substantive randomized control trial comparing post-operative external ear canal pack with no ear pack after middle ear surgery, 32 adults undergoing primary posterior bony canal wall preserving middle ear surgery we... Read More about A pilot randomized controlled trial comparing bismuth iodine paraffin paste external ear pack and no ear pack after middle ear surgery.

Mechanisms inducing parallel computation in a model of physarum polycephalum transport networks (2015)
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© 2015 World Scientific Publishing Company. The giant amoeboid organism true slime mould Physarum polycephalum dynamically adapts its body plan in response to changing environmental conditions and its protoplasmic transport network is used to distrib... Read More about Mechanisms inducing parallel computation in a model of physarum polycephalum transport networks.

How was the activity? A visualization support for a case of location-based learning design (2015)
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© 2014 British Educational Research Association. Over the last few years, the use of mobile technologies has brought the formulation of location-based learning approaches shaping new or enhanced educational activities. Involving teachers in the desig... Read More about How was the activity? A visualization support for a case of location-based learning design.

On showing and being shown plants: A guide to methods for more-than-human geography (2015)
Journal Article

© 2014 Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers). More-than-human geography challenges researchers to attend to all kinds of beings, including the unique facets and actions of plants. Attention to plants' agency is in its... Read More about On showing and being shown plants: A guide to methods for more-than-human geography.

Future mobility in an ageing society - Where are we heading? (2015)
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The demographic profile of UK society is changing as people live longer. Maintaining the wellbeing and quality of life of an ageing society is set to be extremely challenging. To what extent can the state afford to meet a potentially burgeoning deman... Read More about Future mobility in an ageing society - Where are we heading?.

Physiological and pathophysiological implications of micromotion activity in urinary bladder function (2015)
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© 2014 Scandinavian Physiological Society. 'Micromotions' is a term signifying the presence of localized microcontractions and microelongations, alongside non-motile areas. The motile areas tend to shift over the bladder surface with time, and the in... Read More about Physiological and pathophysiological implications of micromotion activity in urinary bladder function.

Measurement bias in activation-recovery intervals from unipolar electrograms (2015)
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© the American Physiological Society. The activation-recovery interval (ARI) calculated from unipolar electrograms is regularly used as a convenient surrogate measure of local cardiac action potential durations (APD). This method enables important re... Read More about Measurement bias in activation-recovery intervals from unipolar electrograms.

Epidemiology, management and outcome of paracetamol poisoning in an inner city emergency department (2015)
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Background: Paracetamol poisoning accounts for just under half of all self-poisoning cases that present to hospitals in England. Treatment with acetylcysteine is routine, yet recommendations regarding its use vary internationally and have recently be... Read More about Epidemiology, management and outcome of paracetamol poisoning in an inner city emergency department.

A GIS-based assessment of the suitability of SCIAMACHY satellite sensor measurements for estimating reliable CO concentrations in a low-latitude climate (2015)
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© 2015, Springer International Publishing Switzerland. An assessment of the reliability of the Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Cartography (SCIAMACHY) satellite sensor measurements to interpolate tropospheric concentrations o... Read More about A GIS-based assessment of the suitability of SCIAMACHY satellite sensor measurements for estimating reliable CO concentrations in a low-latitude climate.

Circulating prostaglandins as biomarkers for colorectal cancer? (2015)
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Despite increases in our understanding of intestinal tumour biology, colorectal cancer remains a leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Most colorectal cancers develop from benign adenomas, presenting an opportunity for early detection and... Read More about Circulating prostaglandins as biomarkers for colorectal cancer?.

Managing the monsters of doubt: Liminality, threshold concepts and leadership learning (2015)
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© The Author(s) 2013. In this article, we argue that management and business undergraduate students who are engaged in learning about leadership occupy a liminal space or state of between-ness. Drawing on anthropological conceptualisations of liminal... Read More about Managing the monsters of doubt: Liminality, threshold concepts and leadership learning.

Quality of reporting on patient and public involvement within surgical research a systematic review (2015)
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Copyright © 2014 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved. Background: Recruitment difficulties are a well-reported concern in surgical literature, which may be improved by patient and public involvement (PPI). PPI within research has been def... Read More about Quality of reporting on patient and public involvement within surgical research a systematic review.

Risk and protective factors for falls from furniture in young children multicenter case-control study (2015)
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© Copyright 2015 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. IMPORTANCE: Falls from furniture are common in young children but there is little evidence on protective factors for these falls. OBJECTIVE: To estimate associations for risk and pro... Read More about Risk and protective factors for falls from furniture in young children multicenter case-control study.

Radical feminism: Feminist activism in movement (2015)
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© Finn Mackay 2015. Feminist activism is enjoying a global resurgence. A new wave of feminists is taking to the streets in protest against rape, abuse, prostitution and inequality, and asserting a powerful new vision for women's liberation. The futur... Read More about Radical feminism: Feminist activism in movement.