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Lessons learnt from the Bristol Girls Dance Project cluster RCT: Implications for designing and implementing after-school physical activity interventions (2016)
Journal Article
Edwards, M. J., May, T., Kesten, J. M., Banfield, K., Bird, E. L., Powell, J. E., …Jago, R. (2016). Lessons learnt from the Bristol Girls Dance Project cluster RCT: Implications for designing and implementing after-school physical activity interventions. BMJ Open, 6(1), e010036. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-010036

Objective: To consider implementation issues associated with the delivery of Bristol Girls Dance Project (BGDP) and to identify improvements that may aid the design of after-school physical activity (PA) interventions. Design: Two-armed cluster rando... Read More about Lessons learnt from the Bristol Girls Dance Project cluster RCT: Implications for designing and implementing after-school physical activity interventions.

Ants determine their next move at rest: Motor planning and causality in complex systems (2016)
Journal Article
Hunt, E. R., Baddeley, R. J., Worley, A., Sendova-Franks, A. B., & Franks, N. R. (2016). Ants determine their next move at rest: Motor planning and causality in complex systems. Royal Society Open Science, 3(1), 150534. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.150534

© 2016 The Authors. To find useful work to do for their colony, individual eusocial animals have to move, somehow staying attentive to relevant social information. Recent research on individual Temnothorax albipennis ants moving inside their colony’s... Read More about Ants determine their next move at rest: Motor planning and causality in complex systems.

Mitigating the impact of Bats in historic churches: The response of Natterer's Bats Myotis nattereri to artificial roosts and deterrence (2016)
Journal Article
Zeale, M. R., Russo, D., Zeale, M. R. K., Bennitt, E., Newson, S. E., Packman, C., …Stone, E. (2016). Mitigating the impact of Bats in historic churches: The response of Natterer's Bats Myotis nattereri to artificial roosts and deterrence. PLoS ONE, 11(1), e0146782. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0146782

© 2016 Zeale et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are cred... Read More about Mitigating the impact of Bats in historic churches: The response of Natterer's Bats Myotis nattereri to artificial roosts and deterrence.

Undergraduate research: Supporting teaching & learning & developing graduate attributes (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hill, J., West, H., & Usmari Moraes, M. (2016, January). Undergraduate research: Supporting teaching & learning & developing graduate attributes. Paper presented at UWE Teaching & Learning Best Practice Conference, Bristol, England

In this paper academic staff and undergraduate students will encourage you to consider the relevance of undergraduate research within and beyond the curriculum.We will showcase UWE participation in the British Conference of Undergraduate Research and... Read More about Undergraduate research: Supporting teaching & learning & developing graduate attributes.

Theory-driven group-based complex intervention to support self-management of osteoarthritis and low back pain in primary care physiotherapy: Protocol for a cluster randomised controlled feasibility trial (SOLAS) (2016)
Journal Article
Hurley, D. A., Hall, A. M., Currie-Murphy, L., Pincus, T., Kamper, S., Maher, C., …Matthews, J. (2016). Theory-driven group-based complex intervention to support self-management of osteoarthritis and low back pain in primary care physiotherapy: Protocol for a cluster randomised controlled feasibility trial (SOLAS). BMJ Open, 6(1), https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-010728

Introduction: International clinical guidelines consistently endorse the promotion of selfmanagement (SM), including physical activity for patients with chronic low back pain (CLBP) and osteoarthritis (OA). Patients frequently receive individual trea... Read More about Theory-driven group-based complex intervention to support self-management of osteoarthritis and low back pain in primary care physiotherapy: Protocol for a cluster randomised controlled feasibility trial (SOLAS).

Climate change, the Great Barrier Reef and the response of Australians (2016)
Journal Article
Pert, P., Goldberg, J., Marshall, N., Birtles, A., Case, P., Bohensky, E., …Visperas, B. (2016). Climate change, the Great Barrier Reef and the response of Australians. Palgrave Communications, 2, 15046. https://doi.org/10.1057/palcomms.2015.46

© 2016, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. All rights reserved. Inspiration, aspirations, attitudes, and perception of threats play a pivotal role in the way that individuals associate themselves with natural environments. These sentiments affect how people con... Read More about Climate change, the Great Barrier Reef and the response of Australians.

Exploration adjustment by ant colonies (2016)
Journal Article
Sendova-Franks, A., Stumpe, M. C., Doran, C., Stumpe, M., Sendova-Franks, A. B., & Franks, N. R. (2016). Exploration adjustment by ant colonies. Royal Society Open Science, 3(1), 150533. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.150533

© 2016 The Authors. How do animals in groups organize their work? Division of labour, i.e. the process by which individuals within a group choose which tasks to perform, has been extensively studied in social insects. Variability among individuals wi... Read More about Exploration adjustment by ant colonies.

Probabilistic planning in agentspeak using the POMDP framework (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Godo, L., Bauters, K., McAreavey, K., Hong, J., Chen, Y., Liu, W., …Sierra, C. (2016). Probabilistic planning in agentspeak using the POMDP framework. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26860-6_2

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016. AgentSpeak is a logic-based programming language, based on the Belief- Desire-Intention paradigm, suitable for building complex agent-based systems. To limit the computational complexity, agents i... Read More about Probabilistic planning in agentspeak using the POMDP framework.

Human-Inspired Neurorobotic System for Classifying Surface Textures by Touch (2016)
Journal Article
Voelker, A. R., Friedl, K. E., Friedl, K., Voelker, A., Peer, A., & Eliasmith, C. (2016). Human-Inspired Neurorobotic System for Classifying Surface Textures by Touch. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 1(1), 516-523. https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2016.2517213

© 2016 IEEE. Giving robots the ability to classify surface textures requires appropriate sensors and algorithms. Inspired by the biology of human tactile perception, we implement a neurorobotic texture classifier with a recurrent spiking neural netwo... Read More about Human-Inspired Neurorobotic System for Classifying Surface Textures by Touch.

Short structure-preserving signatures (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ghadafi, E. (2016). Short structure-preserving signatures. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 9610, 305-321. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29485-8_18

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016. We construct a new structure-preserving signature scheme in the efficient Type-III asymmetric bilinear group setting with signatures shorter than all existing schemes. Our signatures consist of 3... Read More about Short structure-preserving signatures.

Breaking new grounds: Deployment of electronic data capture (EDC) for clinical trials in China (2016)
Journal Article
Sarpong, D., Tjong-A-Hung, I., & Botchie, D. (2016). Breaking new grounds: Deployment of electronic data capture (EDC) for clinical trials in China. Strategic Change,

Automated data capture has become a dominant logic in organizing clinical trial management. This research examines the deployment of electronic data capture (EDC) in clinical trials in China and the potential for Chinese firms to capture value from E... Read More about Breaking new grounds: Deployment of electronic data capture (EDC) for clinical trials in China.

Development and initial validation of a disease-specific bowel continence questionnaire for inflammatory bowel disease patients: The ICIQ-IBD (2016)
Journal Article
Bassett, P., Dibley, L., Norton, C., Cotterill, N., & Basssett, P. (2016). Development and initial validation of a disease-specific bowel continence questionnaire for inflammatory bowel disease patients: The ICIQ-IBD. European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 28(2), 233-239. https://doi.org/10.1097/MEG.0000000000000513

© 2016 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved. Background and aims Faecal incontinence (FI) related to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) affects up to 74% of patients and is often under-reported in clinical encounters. A previous study found... Read More about Development and initial validation of a disease-specific bowel continence questionnaire for inflammatory bowel disease patients: The ICIQ-IBD.

The 'Cambridge Phenomenon' and the challenge of planning reform (2016)
Journal Article
Boddy, M., & Hickman, H. (2016). The 'Cambridge Phenomenon' and the challenge of planning reform. Town Planning Review, 87(1), 31-52. https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2016.6

The 'Cambridge Phenomenon' has achieved global recognition as an exemplar of economic success. After decades of post-war planning restraint, a major shift in the strategic planning framework saw the city region enthusiastically backing future growth.... Read More about The 'Cambridge Phenomenon' and the challenge of planning reform.

Looking age-appropriate while growing old gracefully: A qualitative study of ageing and body image among older adults (2016)
Journal Article
Jankowski, G. S., Diedrichs, P. C., Williamson, H., Harcourt, D., & Christopher, G. (2016). Looking age-appropriate while growing old gracefully: A qualitative study of ageing and body image among older adults. Journal of Health Psychology, 21(4), 550-561. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105314531468

© SAGE Publications. Body dissatisfaction can be significantly detrimental to wellbeing. Little is known about older adults' body image, despite the fact that ageing causes unique bodily changes and that sociocultural pressures to resist these change... Read More about Looking age-appropriate while growing old gracefully: A qualitative study of ageing and body image among older adults.

Dynamic soaring mechanisms in the ocean boundary layer (2016)
Journal Article
Toomer, C. A., Bonnin, V., Benard, E., Toomer, C., & Moschetta, J. M. (2016). Dynamic soaring mechanisms in the ocean boundary layer. International Journal of Engineering Systems Modelling and Simulation, 8(2), 136-148. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJESMS.2016.075550

Copyright © 2016 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Dynamic soaring is a flying technique which extracts energy from an environment where wind gradients form, such as the air-sea interface above oceans that sees such gradients developing through multiple... Read More about Dynamic soaring mechanisms in the ocean boundary layer.

Rainwater harvesting typologies for UK houses: A multi criteria analysis of system configurations (2016)
Journal Article
Melville-Shreeve, P., Ward, S., & Butler, D. (2016). Rainwater harvesting typologies for UK houses: A multi criteria analysis of system configurations. Water, 8(4), 129-129. https://doi.org/10.3390/w8040129

© 2016 by the authors. Academic research and technological innovation associated with rainwater harvesting (RWH) systems in the UK has seen a shift of emphasis in recent years. Traditional design approaches use whole life cost assessments that priori... Read More about Rainwater harvesting typologies for UK houses: A multi criteria analysis of system configurations.

Here today, gone tomorrow: Biodegradable soft robots (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rossiter, J., Winfield, J., & Ieropoulos, I. (2016). Here today, gone tomorrow: Biodegradable soft robots. Proceedings of SPIE, 9798, 97981S. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2220611

© 2016 SPIE. One of the greatest challenges to modern technologies is what to do with them when they go irreparably wrong or come to the end of their productive lives. The convention, since the development of modern civilisation, is to discard a brok... Read More about Here today, gone tomorrow: Biodegradable soft robots.

The Onto-CropBase – A semantic web application for querying crops linked-data (2016)
Journal Article
Lawan, A., Rakib, A., Alechina, N., & Karunaratne, A. (2016). The Onto-CropBase – A semantic web application for querying crops linked-data. Communications in Computer and Information Science, 613, 384-399. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-34099-9_30

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016. The lack of formal technical knowledge has been identified as one of the constraints to research and development on a group of crops collectively referred to as underutilized crops. Some informati... Read More about The Onto-CropBase – A semantic web application for querying crops linked-data.

Social anxiety in learning: Stages of change in a sample of UK undergraduates (2016)
Journal Article
Moller, N., Topham, P., Moller, N. P., & Davies, H. (2016). Social anxiety in learning: Stages of change in a sample of UK undergraduates. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 40(1), 125-145. https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877X.2014.895307

© 2014 UCU. Social anxiety in learning is prevalent amongst traditional-age students and has a marked effect on their engagement with higher education. It receives little attention from academic or support services and there is a presumption that stu... Read More about Social anxiety in learning: Stages of change in a sample of UK undergraduates.

euRathlon 2015: A multi-domain multi-robot grand challenge for search and rescue robots (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Winfield, A. F., Franco, M. P., Brueggemann, B., Castro, A., Limon, M. C., Ferri, G., …Viguria, A. (2016). euRathlon 2015: A multi-domain multi-robot grand challenge for search and rescue robots. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 9716, 351-363. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40379-3_36

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016. Staged at Piombino, Italy in September 2015, euRathlon 2015 was the world’s first multi-domain (air, land and sea) multi-robot search and rescue competition. In a mock-disaster scenario inspired b... Read More about euRathlon 2015: A multi-domain multi-robot grand challenge for search and rescue robots.