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Sustainable Blue-Green Infrastructure: A social practice approach to understanding community preferences and stewardship (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019 Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) is an approach to urban flood resilience, recognised globally and in international literature, that capitalises on the benefits of working with urban green-spaces and naturalised water-flows. Literature reveals... Read More about Sustainable Blue-Green Infrastructure: A social practice approach to understanding community preferences and stewardship.

Nature-based solutions for urban development and tourism (2019)
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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine how nature-based solutions (NBS) are being used in city areas to improve environmental conditions and increase tourism. This research examines the drivers behind, and impacts of, the application of NBS... Read More about Nature-based solutions for urban development and tourism.

Non-literal understanding and psychosis: Metaphor comprehension in individuals with a diagnosis of schizophrenia (2019)
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Previous studies suggest that understanding of non-literal expressions, and in particular metaphors, can be impaired in people with schizophrenia; although it is not clear why. We explored metaphor comprehension capacity using a novel picture selecti... Read More about Non-literal understanding and psychosis: Metaphor comprehension in individuals with a diagnosis of schizophrenia.

The adversarial defence lawyer: Myths, disclosure and efficiency—A contemporary analysis of the role in the era of the Criminal Procedure Rules (2019)
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© The Author(s) 2019. This article contends that piecemeal changes to the adversarial process since the dawn of the new millennium have transformed the CJS. The advent of (near) compulsory disclosure means the defendant has to reveal many elements of... Read More about The adversarial defence lawyer: Myths, disclosure and efficiency—A contemporary analysis of the role in the era of the Criminal Procedure Rules.

Diagnosis and initial management in psoriatic arthritis: A qualitative study with patients (2019)
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Objectives. PsA is an inflammatory condition that can cause pain, fatigue, swelling and joint stiffness. The consequences include impaired physical function, a high psychosocial burden, reduced quality of life and work disability. The presenting sym... Read More about Diagnosis and initial management in psoriatic arthritis: A qualitative study with patients.

Deep neural network approach in human-like redundancy optimization for anthropomorphic manipulators (2019)
Journal Article

© 2013 IEEE. Human-like behavior has emerged in the robotics area for improving the quality of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). For the human-like behavior imitation, the kinematic mapping between a human arm and robot manipulator is one of the popular... Read More about Deep neural network approach in human-like redundancy optimization for anthropomorphic manipulators.

Avitourism opportunities as a contribution to conservation and rural livelihoods in the Hindu Kush Himalaya - a field perspective (2019)
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The Hindu Kush Himalaya is a biodiversity hotspot subject to multiple anthropogenic stressors, including hydropower plants, pollution, deforestation and wildlife poaching, in addition to changing climate. Bird photography tourism, as a locally impor... Read More about Avitourism opportunities as a contribution to conservation and rural livelihoods in the Hindu Kush Himalaya - a field perspective.

Facilitating Positive Psychosocial Outcomes in Craniofacial Team Care: Strategies for Medical Providers (2019)
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© 2019, American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association. Objective: Psychosocial issues associated with craniofacial diagnoses and the ongoing burden of care can impact the quality of life of patients and families, as well as treatment adherence and o... Read More about Facilitating Positive Psychosocial Outcomes in Craniofacial Team Care: Strategies for Medical Providers.

Degree outcomes and national calibration: Debating academic standards in UK Geography (2019)
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The information, practices and views in this article are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). © 2019 Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers). In... Read More about Degree outcomes and national calibration: Debating academic standards in UK Geography.

Additive sustainability footprint: Rationale and pilot evaluation of a tool for assessing the sustainable use of PVC additives (2019)
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© 2019 The Authors. Journal of Vinyl and Additive Technology published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Society of Plastics Engineers. PVC compounds contain additives necessary for processing and stability, and to modify the plastic's properti... Read More about Additive sustainability footprint: Rationale and pilot evaluation of a tool for assessing the sustainable use of PVC additives.

Genetic manipulation of cell line derived reticulocytes enables dissection of host malaria invasion requirements (2019)
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Investigating the role that host erythrocyte proteins play in malaria infection is hampered by the genetic intractability of this anucleate cell. Here we report that reticulocytes derived through in vitro differentiation of an enucleation-competent i... Read More about Genetic manipulation of cell line derived reticulocytes enables dissection of host malaria invasion requirements.

Independent reviewing officers’ and social workers’ perceptions of children’s participation in children in care reviews (2019)
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Purpose: The research reported here forms part of a study of children’s participation in children in care reviews and decision making in one local authority in England. The purpose of this paper is to outline the views of 11 social workers and 8 Inde... Read More about Independent reviewing officers’ and social workers’ perceptions of children’s participation in children in care reviews.

Patterns of arterial disease in Takayasu's Arteritis and Giant Cell Arteritis (2019)
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Published 2019. This article is a U.S. Government work and is in the public domain in the USA. Objective: To identify and validate, using computer-driven methods, patterns of arterial disease in Takayasu arteritis (TAK) and giant cell arteritis (GCA)... Read More about Patterns of arterial disease in Takayasu's Arteritis and Giant Cell Arteritis.

MPC-based 3-D trajectory tracking for an autonomous underwater vehicle with constraints in complex ocean environments (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019 Elsevier Ltd This paper presents a novel three-dimension (3-D) underwater trajectory tracking method for an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) using model predictive control (MPC). First, the 6-degrees of freedom (DoF) model of a fully-actuat... Read More about MPC-based 3-D trajectory tracking for an autonomous underwater vehicle with constraints in complex ocean environments.

Onboard Evolution of Understandable Swarm Behaviors (2019)
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Designing the individual robot rules that give rise to desired emergent swarm behaviors is difficult. The common method of running evolutionary algorithms off‐line to automatically discover controllers in simulation suffers from two disadvantages: th... Read More about Onboard Evolution of Understandable Swarm Behaviors.

The effect of a brief mindfulness-based intervention on personal recovery in people with bipolar disorder: A randomized controlled trial (study protocol) (2019)
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Background: With the advent of the recovery movement in mental health, a humanistic paradigm shift has occurred, placing the focus on personal recovery (i.e., hope, identity, and life meaning) instead of functional or clinical recovery only (i.e., sy... Read More about The effect of a brief mindfulness-based intervention on personal recovery in people with bipolar disorder: A randomized controlled trial (study protocol).

Bio-inspired approach for long-range underwater navigation using model predictive control (2019)
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Lots of evidence has indicated that many kinds of animals can achieve goal-oriented navigation by spatial cognition and dead reckoning. The geomagnetic field (GF) is a ubiquitous cue for navigation by these animals. Inspired by the goal-oriented navi... Read More about Bio-inspired approach for long-range underwater navigation using model predictive control.

'A proud history of protecting refugees': Ambivalent responses to refugee integration in government policy documents (2019)
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In recent years asylum seekers arriving in the United Kingdom have been subject to a 'hostile policy environment' (Zetter et al. 2005) initiated by the UK government consisting of dispersal, destitution and detention. At the same time, the UK governm... Read More about 'A proud history of protecting refugees': Ambivalent responses to refugee integration in government policy documents.

Cognitive and affective benefits of coloring: Two randomized controlled crossover studies (2019)
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This research sought to replicate and extend work suggesting that coloring can reduce anxiety, asking whether coloring can improve cognitive performance. In two experiments undergraduates (N = 47; N = 52) colored and participated in a control conditi... Read More about Cognitive and affective benefits of coloring: Two randomized controlled crossover studies.

The two stories of the habitus/structure relation and the riddle of reflexivity: A meta-theoretical reappraisal (2019)
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This article argues that two key puzzles arising from the theories of Bourdieu are inter-related. One is the question of how Bourdieu analyses the relationship between structure and habitus, and the other is the place of reflexivity in Bourdieu's wor... Read More about The two stories of the habitus/structure relation and the riddle of reflexivity: A meta-theoretical reappraisal.