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Richard Nixon’s Road to Tehran: The Making of the U.S.–Iran Arms Agreement of May 1972 (2013)
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In May 1972, Richard Nixon travelled to Tehran and signed a deal with the shah of Iran that allowed the Iranian monarch to purchase any U.S. weapons system he desired, in any quantity, short of nuclear weapons. This so-called 'blank cheque' was a hig... Read More about Richard Nixon’s Road to Tehran: The Making of the U.S.–Iran Arms Agreement of May 1972.

Do conversations about our appearance do us more harm than good? (2013)
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Research has shown that appearance conversations are commonly associated with increased body image concerns and anxiety about ageing. In this article, Research Health Psychologist and Senior Research Fellow Phillippa Diedrichs explores where these is... Read More about Do conversations about our appearance do us more harm than good?.

The Development of Novel Fuel Dehydrating Icing Inhibitors (2013)
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Dissolved water is a normal component of jet fuel which is vapourised during combustion; however, free water is a contaminant that can starve engines, freeze to form ice crystals capable of blocking fuel feeds, support microbial growth, and contribut... Read More about The Development of Novel Fuel Dehydrating Icing Inhibitors.

The dynamics of impersonal trust and distrust in surveillance systems (2013)
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Empirical research concerned with the trust that individuals may or may not have in surveillance systems has largely been gauged through opinion poll and survey type research. Although these may be useful in augmenting broad patterns of trust based a... Read More about The dynamics of impersonal trust and distrust in surveillance systems.

Visible lesbians and invisible bisexuals: Appearance and visual identities among bisexual women (2013)
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A number of feminist scholars have argued that dress and appearance can be used to critique the dominant culture and explore alternative subjectivities. Research on non-heterosexual visual identities has explored the role that appearance and clothing... Read More about Visible lesbians and invisible bisexuals: Appearance and visual identities among bisexual women.

Context matters: The structure of task goals affects accuracy in multiple-target visual search (2013)
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Career visual searchers such as radiologists and airport security screeners strive to conduct accurate visual searches, but despite extensive training, errors still occur. A key difference between searches in radiology and airport security is the str... Read More about Context matters: The structure of task goals affects accuracy in multiple-target visual search.

The effect of beverages varying in glycaemic load on postprandial glucose responses, appetite and cognition in 10-12-year-old school children (2013)
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Reducing glycaemic index (GI) and glycaemic load (GL) inconsistently improves aspects of cognitive function and appetite in children. Whether altering the GL by lowering carbohydrate relative to protein and fat has a role in these effects is unknown.... Read More about The effect of beverages varying in glycaemic load on postprandial glucose responses, appetite and cognition in 10-12-year-old school children.

Evidence for working memory deficits in chronic pain: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2013)
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People with chronic pain commonly report impaired cognitive function. However, to date, there has been no systematic evaluation of the body of literature concerning cognitive impairment and pain. Nor have modern meta-analytical methods been used to v... Read More about Evidence for working memory deficits in chronic pain: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Behavior change techniques used to promote walking and cycling: A systematic review (2013)
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Objective: Evidence on the effectiveness of walking and cycling interventions is mixed. This may be partly attributable to differences in intervention content, such as the cognitive and behavioral techniques (BCTs) used. Adopting a taxonomy of BCTs,... Read More about Behavior change techniques used to promote walking and cycling: A systematic review.

Collective rights and personal freedoms: A discursive analysis of participant accounts of authoritarianism (2013)
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This article presents a discursive analysis of participant accounts of authoritarianism, with the aim of understanding how participants construct accounts about authority, when, and for what purposes. Participants completed a 30-item Right-Wing Autho... Read More about Collective rights and personal freedoms: A discursive analysis of participant accounts of authoritarianism.

Enhanced facial symmetry assessment in orthodontists (2013)
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Assessing facial symmetry is an evolutionarily important process, which suggests that individual differences in this ability should exist. As existing data are inconclusive, the current study explored whether a group trained in facial symmetry assess... Read More about Enhanced facial symmetry assessment in orthodontists.

How the Shah entangled America (2013)
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Mohammed Reza Shah’s rule of Iran spanned eight U.S. presidents. His desire for military supremacy over his neighbours and his distrust of the Soviets led him to seek a military relationship with the US following the end of the Second World War. As t... Read More about How the Shah entangled America.

A five year follow-up study of the Bristol pregnancy domestic violence programme to promote routine enquiry (2013)
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Objective: a follow-up study to evaluate the degree to which practice changes identified in the 2004/2005 evaluation of the Bristol Pregnancy Domestic Violence Programme (BPDVP) for routine enquiry for domestic abuse have been maintained. Methods: a... Read More about A five year follow-up study of the Bristol pregnancy domestic violence programme to promote routine enquiry.

What goes without saying: Husserl's concept of style (2013)
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The idea of "style" emerges at several important points throughout Husserl's oeuvre: in the second part of the Crisis of the European Sciences, the lectures on intersubjectivity published in Husserliana XV, and in the analyses of transcendental chara... Read More about What goes without saying: Husserl's concept of style.

Use of an in vitro flat-bed biofilm model to measure biologically active anti-odour compounds (2013)
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The objective of this study was to demonstrate the utility of a modified flat-bed perfusion biofilm matrix system for testing toothpaste formulations directly, without dilution, as a layer in direct contact with the biofilm matrix surface. Final biof... Read More about Use of an in vitro flat-bed biofilm model to measure biologically active anti-odour compounds.

Wie viel Gewicht liegt im Gesicht?: Wahrnehmungsschwellen für körpergewichtsassoziierte Veränderungen der dreidimensionalen Gesichtsform (2013)
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Facial shape is a reliable correlate of body mass index (BMI) and facial correlates of weight predict both actual and perceived health. Previous studies have found that facial shape cues to weight are strongly related to attractiveness independent of... Read More about Wie viel Gewicht liegt im Gesicht?: Wahrnehmungsschwellen für körpergewichtsassoziierte Veränderungen der dreidimensionalen Gesichtsform.

Assessing visual search performance differences between Transportation Security Administration Officers and nonprofessional visual searchers (2013)
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Some visual searches depend upon accuracy (e.g., radiology, airport security screening), and it is important for both theoretical and applied reasons to understand what factors best predict performance. The current study administered a visual search... Read More about Assessing visual search performance differences between Transportation Security Administration Officers and nonprofessional visual searchers.

WTAF is intersectionality? (2013)
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What on earth does the term intersectionality mean, where does it come from and what can we do with it?

Fairness and the politics of resentment (2013)
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The role of the emotions in the framing of welfare policies is still relatively underexplored. This article examines the role of resentment in the construction of a particular form of 'anti-welfare populism' advanced by the Coalition Government in th... Read More about Fairness and the politics of resentment.

Below the surface: Managing the life of collaborative research projects (2013)
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