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The role of home adaptations in improving later life (2017)
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Powell, J., Mackintosh, S., Bird, E., Ige, J., Garrett, H., & Roys, M. (2017). The role of home adaptations in improving later life

This report summarises the findings of a systematic review of the best, available scientific evidence on how home adaptations can contribute to improving later life. Living in a suitable home is crucially important to a good later life. The right h... Read More about The role of home adaptations in improving later life.

MOToring along: The lives of cars seen through licensing and test data (2017)
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Cairns, S., Anable, J., Chatterton, T., Wilson, E., & Morton, C. (2017). MOToring along: The lives of cars seen through licensing and test data

For the past few years, the authors of this report have applied their expertise in transport studies, mathematical modelling, emissions analytics, statistics and geography to undertake innovative analysis of a dataset consisting of all registered lig... Read More about MOToring along: The lives of cars seen through licensing and test data.

Heating controls: International evidence base and policy experiences (2017)
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Oliveira, S., Prestwood, E., Chatterton, T., Poghosyan, A., & Gething, B. (2017). Heating controls: International evidence base and policy experiences. Bristol: UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

This report presents a synthesis in the form of narrative summaries of the international evidence base and policy experiences on heating controls in the domestic sector. The research builds on the former Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC)... Read More about Heating controls: International evidence base and policy experiences.

A guide for monitoring the effects of climate change on heritage building materials and elements (2017)
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Mahdjoubi, L., Hawas, S., Fitton, R., Dewidar, K., Nagy, G., Marshall, A., …Abdelhady, E. (2017). A guide for monitoring the effects of climate change on heritage building materials and elements

This report is concerned with advanced tools and methods for monitoring the effects of climate change in buildings. It addresses the expected changes, the effects on the fabric of a heritage building, and the mechanisms of deterioration. This will be... Read More about A guide for monitoring the effects of climate change on heritage building materials and elements.

A review of the evidence assessing impact of social prescribing on healthcare demand and cost implications (2017)
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Kimberlee, R., Polley, M., Bertotti, M., Pilkington, K., & Refsum, C. (2017). A review of the evidence assessing impact of social prescribing on healthcare demand and cost implications

The bio-psycho-social model of illness encourages healthcare practitioners to think beyond anatomy and physiology to consider how the interplay of mind, body and social circumstances affect health and wellbeing. Medicine has much to offer in treating... Read More about A review of the evidence assessing impact of social prescribing on healthcare demand and cost implications.

Ensuring the confidentiality of statistical outputs from the ADRN (2017)
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from the ADRN

This technical report discusses potential risks to confidentiality from publication of statistical results based on confidential data, and what we can do to minimise that risk while still ensuring that useful research gets published.

Annex III - In-depth analysis evaluating the legal, political and institutional framework concerning offshore practices related to tax evasion, money laundering and tax transparency in the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) of the United Kingdom, as defined in Annex II of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), and the relations of the United Kingdom with those OCTs (2017)
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Clegg, P. (2017). Annex III - In-depth analysis evaluating the legal, political and institutional framework concerning offshore practices related to tax evasion, money laundering and tax transparency in the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) of the United Kingdom, as defined in Annex II of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), and the relations of the United Kingdom with those OCTs

This report focuses on the OCTs of the UK; and especially those located within the Caribbean and West Atlantic. Relations between the UK and its so-called Overseas Territories have been shaped by many centuries of history. More contemporary relations... Read More about Annex III - In-depth analysis evaluating the legal, political and institutional framework concerning offshore practices related to tax evasion, money laundering and tax transparency in the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) of the United Kingdom, as defined in Annex II of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), and the relations of the United Kingdom with those OCTs.

Global green infrastructure: How is green infrastructure research translated into practice outside the UK? (2017)
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Sinnett, D., Calvert, T., Burgess, S., & Smith, N. (2017). Global green infrastructure: How is green infrastructure research translated into practice outside the UK?

The Centre for Sustainable Planning and Environments at the University of the West of England, Bristol have been commissioned by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) to conduct a review of how the evidence base for Green Infrastructure (G... Read More about Global green infrastructure: How is green infrastructure research translated into practice outside the UK?.