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Dietary patterns and changes in body composition in children between 9 and 11 years (2014)
Journal Article

Objective: Childhood obesity is rising and dietary intake is a potentially modifiable factor that plays an important role in its development. We aim to investigate the association between dietary patterns, obtained through principal components analys... Read More about Dietary patterns and changes in body composition in children between 9 and 11 years.

Time-dependent thermo-creep analysis of rotating FGM thick-walled cylindrical pressure vessels under heat flux (2014)
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In the present study, time-dependent thermoelastic creep response for isotropic rotating thick-walled cylindrical pressure vessels made of functionally graded material (FGM) has been investigated, taking into account the creep behavior of the FGM pre... Read More about Time-dependent thermo-creep analysis of rotating FGM thick-walled cylindrical pressure vessels under heat flux.

No place for children: A case for the abolition of child imprisonment in England and Wales (2014)
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This paper provides an argument for the abolition of child imprisonment in England and Wales. England and Wales is not Ireland, but the cultural and social similarities suggest that children face a great deal of the same pressures, difficulties, tria... Read More about No place for children: A case for the abolition of child imprisonment in England and Wales.

Face recognition via edge-based Gabor feature representation for plastic surgery-altered images (2014)
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Plastic surgery procedures on the face introduce skin texture variations between images of the same person (intra-subject), thereby making the task of face recognition more difficult than in normal scenario. Usually, in contemporary face recognition... Read More about Face recognition via edge-based Gabor feature representation for plastic surgery-altered images.

Study on dimensional and corrosion properties of thixoformed A356 and AA7075 aluminum bipolar plates for proton exchange membrane fuel cells (2014)
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Metallic bipolar plates for polymer exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells are currently manufactured by stamping of thin sheets. However, there are dimensional and shape errors of microchannels because of forming limitation such as spring back of thin s... Read More about Study on dimensional and corrosion properties of thixoformed A356 and AA7075 aluminum bipolar plates for proton exchange membrane fuel cells.

Detection of three closely located single nucleotide polymorphisms in the EAAT2 promoter: Comparison of single-strand conformational polymorphism (SSCP), pyrosequencing and Sanger sequencing (2014)
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Background: Single-strand conformational polymorphism (SSCP) is still a frequently used genotyping method across different fields for the detection of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) due to its simplicity, requirement for basic equipment acces... Read More about Detection of three closely located single nucleotide polymorphisms in the EAAT2 promoter: Comparison of single-strand conformational polymorphism (SSCP), pyrosequencing and Sanger sequencing.

Membrane-wrapping contributions to malaria parasite invasion of the human erythrocyte (2014)
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The blood stage malaria parasite, the merozoite, has a small window of opportunity during which it must successfully target and invade a human erythrocyte. The process of invasion is nonetheless remarkably rapid. To date, mechanistic models of invasi... Read More about Membrane-wrapping contributions to malaria parasite invasion of the human erythrocyte.

Diagnóstico capital: O Capital no século XXI (2014)
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Why doesn't the client listen to me? Challenging ethnocentricities through clinical supervision to promote cultural competencies. (2014)
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This paper aims to argue how developing self-awareness through clinical supervision may promote nurses’ cultural competencies in inpatient mental health care. Such capabilities include the ability to effectively work with those who may have differenc... Read More about Why doesn't the client listen to me? Challenging ethnocentricities through clinical supervision to promote cultural competencies..

"It feels so good it almost hurts": Young adults' experiences of orgasm and sexual pleasure (2014)
Journal Article

Orgasm is a "goal" of much sexual activity, and a source of potentially intense pleasure and fulfillment, yet can be fraught with difficulty or distress. Relatively little social science research has explored people's experiences around, and their me... Read More about "It feels so good it almost hurts": Young adults' experiences of orgasm and sexual pleasure.

New approaches in glass investment casting: Creative practitioners researching and innovating in the field of digital fabrication (2014)
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© 2014, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC. This paper describes a research project aimed at delivering innovation in a combined sphere of digital fabrication and glass investment casting. The project has established an entirely new method for creating glass... Read More about New approaches in glass investment casting: Creative practitioners researching and innovating in the field of digital fabrication.

Click, swipe, download, share: Digital artists’ publishing (2014)
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In this article, the British artist Tom Sowden looks at some of the ways in which other artists are publishing their books digitally. From hypertext works to ebooks to blogging; artists are beginning to utilize purely digital publishing tools as a me... Read More about Click, swipe, download, share: Digital artists’ publishing.

Welcome to the European Union: Visit to Moria first reception centre, Moria, nr. Mytilini, Lesvos, Greece 11th May 2014 (2014)
Journal Article

In April 2013 we visited the “open” Pikpa camp that was provided by the municipality and run by volunteers on the Greek island of Lesvos. Just over a year later, on Sunday 11th May 2014, we went in search of the new ‘closed’ detention centre. We wer... Read More about Welcome to the European Union: Visit to Moria first reception centre, Moria, nr. Mytilini, Lesvos, Greece 11th May 2014.

'The global financial crisis and mortgage fraud – the untold story' (2014)
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The aim of this article is to review and highlight the contribution of mortgage fraud to the 2008 financial crisis.

Environmental auditing of a packaging system for redesign: A case study exploration (2014)
Journal Article

Within the United Kingdom a significant portion of the energy consumed each year is done so through industry. It is therefore desirable to take measures that reduce this consumption. A process common to all manufacturing sectors is that of packaging,... Read More about Environmental auditing of a packaging system for redesign: A case study exploration.

Attachment and coping of dementia care staff: The role of staff attachment style, geriatric nursing self-efficacy, and approaches to dementia in burnout (2014)
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© The Author(s) 2013. Past research suggests that dementia care staff are vulnerable to the development of burnout, which has implications for staff well-being and hence the quality of care for people with dementia. Studying personal vulnerability fa... Read More about Attachment and coping of dementia care staff: The role of staff attachment style, geriatric nursing self-efficacy, and approaches to dementia in burnout.

'One media – three screens' – Convergence and interactivity at its full potential? ARTE: French-German experiments in 'crossing the borders' (2014)
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This contribution is aimed at discussing different current policies of convergence as well as questioning whether these exploit the opportunities of digital media to their full potential, especially with regard to transmedia storytelling, interactivi... Read More about 'One media – three screens' – Convergence and interactivity at its full potential? ARTE: French-German experiments in 'crossing the borders'.

RIBA Forgotten Spaces 2013 exhibition (Somerset House, London) (2014)
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Exhibition review

Peter Cushing (2014)
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Entry in 'The Many Doctors Symposium'

Of eight oscillations and several messages carved in flesh: Spectacle, spectatorship, cognition, and affect in Dredd and Looper (2014)
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Both popular and academic criticism tend to decry sf cinema’s commitment to spectacle and special effects as intellectually stultifying and thus politically narcotizing. This article challenges the class politics of taste and the crude models of inte... Read More about Of eight oscillations and several messages carved in flesh: Spectacle, spectatorship, cognition, and affect in Dredd and Looper.