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Building with nature - a new benchmark for green infrastructure (2017)
Journal Article
Sinnett, D., Jerome, G., Burgess, S., Smith, N., & Mortlock, R. (2017). Building with nature - a new benchmark for green infrastructure. Town and Country Planning -London- Town and Country Planning Association-, 86(10), 427-431

This paper outlines the aims, development and proposed operation of Building with Nature, a new benchmark for appraising the quality of green infrastructure

Dulltopia (2017)
Journal Article
Bould, M. (2017). Dulltopia

This essay questions Fredric Jameson's and Slavoj Zizek's recent claims that contemporary dystopias are just plain boring. It argues that if they are right, then we must dive deeper into boredom to locate dystopian critique of catastrophic neoliberal... Read More about Dulltopia.

Food for life: Evaluation of the impact of the Hospital Food Programme in England using a case study approach (2017)
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Gray, S., Orme, J., Pitt, H., & Jones, M. (2017). Food for life: Evaluation of the impact of the Hospital Food Programme in England using a case study approach. JRSM Open, 8(10), 205427041771270. https://doi.org/10.1177/2054270417712703

Objectives To evaluate the impact and challenges of implementing a Food for Life approach within three pilot NHS sites in 2014/2015 in England. Food for Life is an initiative led by the Soil Association, a non-governmental organisation in the UK tha... Read More about Food for life: Evaluation of the impact of the Hospital Food Programme in England using a case study approach.

Reflective drawing as a tool for reflection in design research (2017)
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Calvo, M. (2017). Reflective drawing as a tool for reflection in design research. International Journal of Art and Design Education, 36(3), 261-272. https://doi.org/10.1111/jade.12161

This article explores the role of drawing as a tool for reflection. It reports on a PhD research project that aims to identify and analyse the value that co-design processes can bring to participants and their communities. The research is associated... Read More about Reflective drawing as a tool for reflection in design research.

Raising the standard: Developing a benchmark for green infrastructure (2017)
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Sinnett, D., Jerome, G., Smith, N., Burgess, S., & Mortlock, R. (2018). Raising the standard: Developing a benchmark for green infrastructure. International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning, 13(2), 226-236. https://doi.org/10.2495/SDP-V13-N2-226-236

© 2018 WIT Press Green infrastructure (GI) is globally recognised as an essential component of liveable and sustainable places. It is valued for its multifunctionality and the connectedness of the individual features to each other, the surrounding co... Read More about Raising the standard: Developing a benchmark for green infrastructure.

Time-dependent hygro-thermal creep analysis of pressurized FGM rotating thick cylindrical shells subjected to uniform magnetic field (2017)
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Bakhshizadeh, A., Nejad, M. Z., & Davoudi Kashkoli, M. (2017). Time-dependent hygro-thermal creep analysis of pressurized FGM rotating thick cylindrical shells subjected to uniform magnetic field. Journal of Solid Mechanics, 9(3), 663-679

Time-dependent creep analysis is presented for the calculation of stresses and displacements of axisymmetric thick-walled cylindrical pressure vessels made of functionally graded material (FGM). For the purpose of time-dependent stress analysis in an... Read More about Time-dependent hygro-thermal creep analysis of pressurized FGM rotating thick cylindrical shells subjected to uniform magnetic field.

Design Output Control TLB Converter for DC Drive Applications with photovoltaic power supply (2017)
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Samadi, M., & Rakhtala, M. (2017). Design Output Control TLB Converter for DC Drive Applications with photovoltaic power supply. Journal of Solar Energy Research, 2(3), 105-110

Using conventional boost converter in photovoltaic system as the interface between the photovoltaic panel and the consumer is widely practiced. In this paper, instead of using conventional boost converter, the three-level boost converter (TLBC) has b... Read More about Design Output Control TLB Converter for DC Drive Applications with photovoltaic power supply.

The effect of listening to Holy Quran recitation on weaning patients receiving mechanical ventilation in the intensive care unit: A pilot study (2017)
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Yadak, M., Ansari, K. A., Qutub, H., Al-Otaibi, H., Al-Omar, O., Al-Onizi, N., & Farooqi, F. A. (2019). The effect of listening to Holy Quran recitation on weaning patients receiving mechanical ventilation in the intensive care unit: A pilot study. Journal of Religion and Health, 58(1), 64-73. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-017-0500-3

Mechanical ventilation (MV) causes high level of stress in hospitalized patients. Weaning is the gradual process of decreasing ventilator support that in turn lead to termination of MV and increased respiratory effort, which may exacerbate symptoms a... Read More about The effect of listening to Holy Quran recitation on weaning patients receiving mechanical ventilation in the intensive care unit: A pilot study.

Bristol fashion (2017)
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Bodman, S. L. (2017). Bristol fashion. Printmaking Today, 26(3), 17

Sarah Bodman reports on a book project close to home that brings together the entire bookmaking community.

The midwife–woman relationship in a South Wales community: Experiences of midwives and migrant Pakistani women in early pregnancy (2017)
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Goodwin, L., Hunter, B., & Jones, A. (2018). The midwife–woman relationship in a South Wales community: Experiences of midwives and migrant Pakistani women in early pregnancy. Health Expectations, 21(1), 347-357. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.12629

Background: In 2015, 27.5% of births in England and Wales were to mothers born outside of the UK. Compared to their White British peers, minority ethnic and migrant women are at a significantly higher risk of maternal and perinatal mortality, along w... Read More about The midwife–woman relationship in a South Wales community: Experiences of midwives and migrant Pakistani women in early pregnancy.

Energy expenditure estimation using visual and inertial sensors (2017)
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Craddock, I., Paiement, A., Hannuna, S., Camplani, M., Cooper, A., Damen, D., …Tao, L. (2018). Energy expenditure estimation using visual and inertial sensors. IET Computer Vision, 12(1), 36-47. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-cvi.2017.0112

© The Institution of Engineering and Technology 2017. Deriving a person's energy expenditure accurately forms the foundation for tracking physical activity levels across many health and lifestyle monitoring tasks. In this study, the authors present a... Read More about Energy expenditure estimation using visual and inertial sensors.

Frame rate vs resolution: A subjective evaluation of spatiotemporal perceived quality under varying computational budgets (2017)
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Debattista, K., Bugeja, K., Spina, S., Bashford-Rogers, T., & Hulusic, V. (2018). Frame rate vs resolution: A subjective evaluation of spatiotemporal perceived quality under varying computational budgets. Computer Graphics Forum, 37(1), 363-374. https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.13302

© 2017 The Authors and 2017 The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Maximizing performance for rendered content requires making compromises on quality parameters depending on the computational resources available. Yet, it is current... Read More about Frame rate vs resolution: A subjective evaluation of spatiotemporal perceived quality under varying computational budgets.

Does funded research reflect the priorities of people living with type 1 diabetes? A secondary analysis of research questions (2017)
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Boddy, K., Cowan, K., Gibson, A., & Britten, N. (2017). Does funded research reflect the priorities of people living with type 1 diabetes? A secondary analysis of research questions. BMJ Open, 7(9), Article e016540. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-016540

© Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2017. Objectives This study explored the divergence and convergence between funded research about type 1 diabetes and the research agenda of people living w... Read More about Does funded research reflect the priorities of people living with type 1 diabetes? A secondary analysis of research questions.

DIY meteorology: Use of citizen science to monitor snow dynamics in a data-sparse city (2017)
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Appels, W. M., Bradford, L., Chun, K. P., Coles, A. E., & Strickert, G. (2017). DIY meteorology: Use of citizen science to monitor snow dynamics in a data-sparse city. FACETS, 2(2), 734-753. https://doi.org/10.1139/facets-2017-0030

Cities are under pressure to operate their services effectively and project costs of operations across various timeframes. In high-latitude and high-altitude urban centers, snow management is one of the larger unknowns and has both operational and bu... Read More about DIY meteorology: Use of citizen science to monitor snow dynamics in a data-sparse city.

A content analysis of thinspiration, fitspiration, and bonespiration imagery on social media (2017)
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Talbot, C. V., Gavin, J., van Steen, T., & Morey, Y. (2017). A content analysis of thinspiration, fitspiration, and bonespiration imagery on social media. Journal of Eating Disorders, 5(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s40337-017-0170-2

© 2017 The Author(s). Background: On social media, images such as thinspiration, fitspiration, and bonespiration, are shared to inspire certain body ideals. Previous research has demonstrated that exposure to these groups of content is associated wit... Read More about A content analysis of thinspiration, fitspiration, and bonespiration imagery on social media.

Development of cultures of the marine sponge Hymeniacidon perleve for genotoxicity assessment using the alkaline comet assay (2017)
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Akpiri, R. U., Konya, R. S., & Hodges, N. J. (2017). Development of cultures of the marine sponge Hymeniacidon perleve for genotoxicity assessment using the alkaline comet assay. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 36(12), 3314-3323. https://doi.org/10.1002/etc.3907

© 2017 SETAC Sponges are a potential alternative model species to bivalves in pollution biomonitoring and environmental risk assessment in the aquatic ecosystem. In the present study, a novel in vivo exposure sponge culture model was developed from f... Read More about Development of cultures of the marine sponge Hymeniacidon perleve for genotoxicity assessment using the alkaline comet assay.

Development of a core set of outcome measures for OAB treatment (2017)
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Foust-Wright, C., Wissig, S., Stowell, C., Olson, E., Anderson, A., Anger, J., …Milsom, I. (2017). Development of a core set of outcome measures for OAB treatment. International Urogynecology Journal, 28(12), 1785-1793. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00192-017-3481-6

© 2017, The Author(s). Introduction and hypothesis: Standardized measures enable the comparison of outcomes across providers and treatments giving valuable information for improving care quality and efficacy. The aim of this project was to define a m... Read More about Development of a core set of outcome measures for OAB treatment.

Commercialising smallholder agricultural production in Lao People’s Democratic Republic (2017)
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Alexander, K., Case, P., Jones, M., & Connell, J. (2017). Commercialising smallholder agricultural production in Lao People’s Democratic Republic. Development in Practice, 27(7), 965-980. https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2017.1353064

© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Many smallholder farmers in Lao People’s Democratic Republic are transitioning from subsistence to commercial production. This article employs the Agriculture Innovation System (AIS) fra... Read More about Commercialising smallholder agricultural production in Lao People’s Democratic Republic.

Do casual gaming environments evoke stereotype threat? Examining the effects of explicit priming and avatar gender (2017)
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Kaye, L. K., Pennington, C., & McCann, J. J. (2018). Do casual gaming environments evoke stereotype threat? Examining the effects of explicit priming and avatar gender. Computers in Human Behavior, 78, 142-150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2017.09.031

© 2017 Elsevier Ltd Despite relatively equal participation rates between females and males in casual gaming, females often report stigmatisation and prejudice towards their gaming competency within this sub-domain. Applying the theoretical framework... Read More about Do casual gaming environments evoke stereotype threat? Examining the effects of explicit priming and avatar gender.

The Pharmakon of Democracy: General Will and the People in the Context of the Greek Referendum (2017)
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Kivotidis, D. (2018). The Pharmakon of Democracy: General Will and the People in the Context of the Greek Referendum. Social and Legal Studies, 27(6), 755-775. https://doi.org/10.1177/0964663917731615

© The Author(s) 2017. This article examines the role of the Greek referendum of 2015 in the context of the Greek socio-economic and political crisis. The analysis of the mediating role of referendum in the process of class struggle leads to a more ge... Read More about The Pharmakon of Democracy: General Will and the People in the Context of the Greek Referendum.