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Using conceptual developments in RFT to direct case formulation and clinical intervention: Two case summaries (2017)
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The current paper is part of an ongoing effort to better connect RFT with the complexities of clinical phenomena. The paper outlines two broad areas, referred to as ‘verbal functional analysis’ and the ‘drill-down’, in which we believe the basic theo... Read More about Using conceptual developments in RFT to direct case formulation and clinical intervention: Two case summaries.

Enhancing Local Air Quality Management to maximise public health integration, collaboration and impact in Wales, UK: A Delphi study (2017)
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© 2017 Elsevier Ltd Background Outdoor air pollution is a significant public health problem. The UK Local Air Quality Management (LAQM) regime is intended to protect public health through a prescribed process of assessment and collaborative action. D... Read More about Enhancing Local Air Quality Management to maximise public health integration, collaboration and impact in Wales, UK: A Delphi study.

Are you better? A multi-centre study of patient-defined recovery from Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (2017)
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© 2017 European Pain Federation - EFIC® Background: Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) symptoms can significantly differ between patients, fluctuate over time, disappear or persist. This leads to problems in defining recovery and in evaluating the... Read More about Are you better? A multi-centre study of patient-defined recovery from Complex Regional Pain Syndrome.

Fashion, sustainability, and the anthropocene (2017)
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The unbridled consumption of clothing threatens the environment. A discussion is developing around the adoption of new materials and economic models to reduce the impacts of clothing production and use. We discuss these emergent technologies in the w... Read More about Fashion, sustainability, and the anthropocene.

Adaptation of the ASSIST peer-led smoking intervention to deliver information from the Talk to FRANK drug education website (ASSIST+FRANK): a pilot cluster-randomised controlled trial (2017)
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Background Illicit drug use increases the risk of poor physical and mental health. Few effective school-based drug prevention interventions are available. We adapted an effective school-based peer-led smoking prevention intervention (ASSIST) to de... Read More about Adaptation of the ASSIST peer-led smoking intervention to deliver information from the Talk to FRANK drug education website (ASSIST+FRANK): a pilot cluster-randomised controlled trial.

Engineering properties of tropical clay and bentonite modified with sawdust (2017)
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Construction Engineers typically avoid the use of expansive soils as construction materials because they are usually difficult to work on and can cause structural failure. This research work investigates how the application of sawdust to tropical cla... Read More about Engineering properties of tropical clay and bentonite modified with sawdust.

Mothers in children's and young adult literature: From the eighteenth century to postfeminsim. Eds Lisa Rowe Fraustino and Karen Coats (2017)
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Modeling of oblique load test on batter pile group based on support vector machines and gaussian regression (2017)
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This paper evaluates the potential of two machine learning approaches i.e. Support vector machine (SVR) and Gaussian processes (GP) regression to model the oblique load capacity of batter pile groups. Linear regression was used to compare the perform... Read More about Modeling of oblique load test on batter pile group based on support vector machines and gaussian regression.

Bee swarm optimization for solving the MAXSAT problem using prior knowledge (2017)
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This paper explores rule decomposition for solving the MAXSAT problem. Four approaches are proposed to steer a bee swarm optimization metaheuristic. Two decomposition methods are proposed: direct and indirect. The first one applies the Kmeans algorit... Read More about Bee swarm optimization for solving the MAXSAT problem using prior knowledge.

Scalable Production of Graphene-Based Wearable E-Textiles (2017)
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© 2017 American Chemical Society. Graphene-based wearable e-textiles are considered to be promising due to their advantages over traditional metal-based technology. However, the manufacturing process is complex and currently not suitable for industri... Read More about Scalable Production of Graphene-Based Wearable E-Textiles.

Recruiting to cohort studies in specialist healthcare services: Lessons learned from clinical research nurses in UK cleft services (2017)
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© 2017 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Aims and objectives: To explore the experiences of clinical research nurses recruiting patients in a large specialist care-based cohort study. Background: Longitudinal studies are vital to better understand the aetiolog... Read More about Recruiting to cohort studies in specialist healthcare services: Lessons learned from clinical research nurses in UK cleft services.

Large-Scale Streamwise Vortices in Turbulent Channel Flow Induced by Active Wall Actuations (2017)
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© 2017, Springer Science+Business Media B.V., part of Springer Nature. Direct numerical simulations of turbulent flow in a plane channel using spanwise alternatively distributed strips (SADS) are performed to investigate the characteristics of large-... Read More about Large-Scale Streamwise Vortices in Turbulent Channel Flow Induced by Active Wall Actuations.

Thermal comfort and energy performance of public rental housing under typical and near-extreme weather conditions in Hong Kong (2017)
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© 2017 Elsevier B.V. Building performance evaluation is crucial for sustainable urban developments. In high-density cities, occupants suffer from poor living conditions due to building overheating, especially during increasingly frequent near-extreme... Read More about Thermal comfort and energy performance of public rental housing under typical and near-extreme weather conditions in Hong Kong.

Developing a toolkit for patient and public involvement in antimicrobial medicines development research: Breaking new ground (2017)
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Abstract from the NIHR INVOLVE Conference 2017

Discovering the role of public co-applicant on a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Programme grant (2017)
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All abstracts from the NIHR INVOLVE Conference 2017. Poster 27 - P27 Discovering the role of public co-applicant on a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Programme grant Research Involvement and Engagement 2017, 3(Suppl 1):P27

Performance assessment and life cycle analysis of potable water production from harvested rainwater by a decentralized system (2017)
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© 2017 The Authors Decentralized rainwater harvesting (RWH) from roof runoff can complement the centralized supply of mains (drinking) water for a range of contexts, to assist in alleviating issues of water security. However, treatment to potable sta... Read More about Performance assessment and life cycle analysis of potable water production from harvested rainwater by a decentralized system.

Ensemble-Empirical-Mode-Decomposition based micro-Doppler signal separation and classification (2017)
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The target echo signals obtained by Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and Ground Moving Target Indicator (GMTI platforms are mainly composed of two parts, the micro-Doppler signal and the target body part signal. The wheeled vehicle and the track vehicl... Read More about Ensemble-Empirical-Mode-Decomposition based micro-Doppler signal separation and classification.

Improved power and long term performance of microbial fuel cell with Fe-N-C catalyst in air-breathing cathode (2017)
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© 2017 Power output limitation is one of the main challenges that needs to be addressed for full-scale applications of the Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC) technology. Previous studies have examined electrochemical performance of different cathode electrode... Read More about Improved power and long term performance of microbial fuel cell with Fe-N-C catalyst in air-breathing cathode.

Conductive composites for oligonucleotide detection (2017)
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© 2017 The Authors A new method for oligonucleotide detection is presented based on oligonucleotide cross-linked polymer composites. Conductive carbon nanoparticles are incorporated into a DNA-functionalised polymer, containing partially complementar... Read More about Conductive composites for oligonucleotide detection.

Experimental–numerical study on minimizing impact induced damage in laminated composites under low-velocity impact (2017)
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© 2017, © The Author(s) 2017. In this study, an experimentally validated numerical analysis was performed toward optimization of stacking sequence in multidirectional laminated composites subjected to low-velocity impact. For this purpose, an optimiz... Read More about Experimental–numerical study on minimizing impact induced damage in laminated composites under low-velocity impact.