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Appraisal of the Nigerian Credit Reporting Act 2017 (2020)
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Credit reporting is the act of gathering information about the behaviour of borrowers and making such information available whenever a decision is to be made regarding a borrower's application for new credit. Following the introduction of credit bure... Read More about Appraisal of the Nigerian Credit Reporting Act 2017.

A systematic review of effectiveness of interventions applicable to radiotherapy that are administered to improve patient comfort, increase patient compliance, and reduce patient distress or anxiety (2020)
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Objectives: The aim of this review was to search existing literature to identify comfort interventions that can be used to assist an adult patient to undergo complex radiotherapy requiring positional stability for periods greater than 10 min. The obj... Read More about A systematic review of effectiveness of interventions applicable to radiotherapy that are administered to improve patient comfort, increase patient compliance, and reduce patient distress or anxiety.

Psychological factors involved in adherence to sport injury rehabilitation: A systematic review (2020)
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The objective of this article is to review the extant literature on the psychological factors related to adherence to sport injury rehabilitation among athletes. Published English language articles were identified using electronic databases. The qual... Read More about Psychological factors involved in adherence to sport injury rehabilitation: A systematic review.

Working-class studies: Beyond the heartlands, WCSA conference, University of Kent, Canterbury, 3‐6 September 2019 (2020)
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French hash? Southey's editing of the Annual Anthology (2020)
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Robert Southey’s Annual Anthology, which aimed to present a selection of current poetry and drew largely on his own friends and acquaintances, ran for just two volumes between 1799 and 1800. Although critics have shed light on individual poems and re... Read More about French hash? Southey's editing of the Annual Anthology.

Treat-to-target in PsA: methods and necessity (2020)
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© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. With increasing recognition of the high burden and impact of psoriatic arthritis (PsA) and the growing numbe... Read More about Treat-to-target in PsA: methods and necessity.

The relationship between feeding and non-nutritive sucking behaviours and speech sound development: A systematic review (2020)
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Background Children with and without Speech Sound Disorders (SSD) are exposed to different patterns of infant feeding (breast/bottle feeding) and may or may not engage in non-nutritive sucking (NNS) (pacifier/digit sucking). Sucking and speech use... Read More about The relationship between feeding and non-nutritive sucking behaviours and speech sound development: A systematic review.

ICI-RS 2019 nocturia think tank: How can experimental science guide us in understanding the pathophysiology of nocturia? (2020)
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Introduction: The following is a report on the proceedings of the 2019 International Consultation on Incontinence-Research Society nocturia think tank (NTT). Objectives: The objectives of the 2019 NTT were as follows: (a) to evaluate the role of urot... Read More about ICI-RS 2019 nocturia think tank: How can experimental science guide us in understanding the pathophysiology of nocturia?.

Is glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase a central redox mediator? (2020)
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D-Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) is an immensely important enzyme carrying out a vital step in glycolysis and is found in all living organisms. Although there are several isoforms identified in many species, it is now recognized tha... Read More about Is glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase a central redox mediator?.

Quantitative measures of tissue mechanics to detect hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and hypermobility syndrome disorders: a systematic review (2020)
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© 2020, The Author(s). Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (hEDS) and hypermobility spectrum disorders (HSD) are heritable connective tissue disorders associated with pain, activity limitations and participation restrictions. A key feature is reported... Read More about Quantitative measures of tissue mechanics to detect hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and hypermobility syndrome disorders: a systematic review.

To saturate or not to saturate? Questioning data saturation as a useful concept for thematic analysis and sample-size rationales (2019)
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The concept of data saturation, defined as ‘information redundancy’ or the point at which no new themes or codes ‘emerge’ from data, is widely referenced in thematic analysis (TA) research in sport and exercise, and beyond. Several researchers have s... Read More about To saturate or not to saturate? Questioning data saturation as a useful concept for thematic analysis and sample-size rationales.

Pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for transformative change (2019)
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The human impact on life on Earth has increased sharply since the 1970s, driven by the demands of a growing population with rising average per capita income. Nature is currently supplying more materials than ever before, but this has come at the high... Read More about Pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for transformative change.

Status and trends of e-Health tools in Kuwait: A narrative review (2019)
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Background: Kuwait is witnessing an alarming increase in diabetes and high prevalence of multi-drug resistant strains. E-Health solutions have the potential to deliver timely, quality and cost-effective solutions to these public health challenges. Ho... Read More about Status and trends of e-Health tools in Kuwait: A narrative review.

Challenges facing the implementation of Pico-hydropower technologies (2019)
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840 million people living in rural areas across the world lack access to electricity, creating a large imbalance in the development potential between urban and rural areas. Pico-hydropower offers a cost-effective way of accessing electricity, where t... Read More about Challenges facing the implementation of Pico-hydropower technologies.

Transdisciplinarity in energy retrofit. A conceptual framework (2019)
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This study explores the role of Energy Retrofit (ER) in Low Carbon Transition (LCT). The literature recognises the need to move towards a transdisciplinary approach in ER, which encompasses multidisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity. However, the fr... Read More about Transdisciplinarity in energy retrofit. A conceptual framework.

Review of electroanalytical-based approaches for the determination of benzodiazepines (2019)
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The benzodiazepine class of drugs are characterised by a readily electrochemically reducible azomethine group. A number are also substituted by other electrochemically active nitro, N-oxide, and carbonyl groups, making them readily accessible to elec... Read More about Review of electroanalytical-based approaches for the determination of benzodiazepines.

Combination of bioelectrochemical systems and electrochemical capacitors: Principles, analysis and opportunities (2019)
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© 2019 The Authors Bioelectrochemical systems combine electrodes and reactions driven by microorganisms for many different applications. The conversion of organic material in wastewater into electricity occurs in microbial fuel cells (MFCs). The powe... Read More about Combination of bioelectrochemical systems and electrochemical capacitors: Principles, analysis and opportunities.

A forty year journey: The generation and roles of NO in plants (2019)
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In this year there is the 40th anniversary of the first publication of plant nitric oxide (NO) emission by Lowell Klepper. In the decades since then numerous milestone discoveries have revealed that NO is a multifunctional molecule in plant cells reg... Read More about A forty year journey: The generation and roles of NO in plants.

Cognitive-behavioral roots of body image therapy and prevention (2019)
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The existing array of evidence-based body image prevention and intervention approaches has evolvedover time. However, the majority originated directly or indirectly from a cognitive-behavioral conceptu-alisation of body image pioneered by Thomas F. C... Read More about Cognitive-behavioral roots of body image therapy and prevention.

Food addiction: Implications for the diagnosis and treatment of overeating (2019)
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With the obesity epidemic being largely attributed to overeating, much research has been aimed at understanding the psychological causes of overeating and using this knowledge to develop targeted interventions. Here, we review this literature under a... Read More about Food addiction: Implications for the diagnosis and treatment of overeating.