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Clinical measures of static foot posture do not agree (2016)
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Morrison, S. C., Langley, B., Cramp, M., & Morrison, S. (2016). Clinical measures of static foot posture do not agree. Journal of Foot and Ankle Research, 9(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13047-016-0180-3

© 2016 The Author(s). Background: The aim of this study was to determine the level of agreement between common clinical foot classification measures. Methods: Static foot assessment was undertaken using the Foot Posture Index (FPI-6), rearfoot angle... Read More about Clinical measures of static foot posture do not agree.

Desperate father or murderous fool? The genesis of one migratory legend of poverty, fecundity and multiple birth (2016)
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Davies, S. J. (2016). Desperate father or murderous fool? The genesis of one migratory legend of poverty, fecundity and multiple birth. Folk Life, 54(2), 81-97. https://doi.org/10.1080/04308778.2016.1227663

© 2016, © The Society for Folk Life Studies 2016. This study explores attitudes expressed in one specific Devon legend, concerning the multiple birth of seven children, as it was told in early seventeenth-century England. A diachronic study of relate... Read More about Desperate father or murderous fool? The genesis of one migratory legend of poverty, fecundity and multiple birth.

Examination of the association of sex and race/ethnicity with appearance concerns: A Scleroderma Patient-centered Intervention Network (SPIN) cohort study (2016)
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Jewett, L. R., Kwakkenbos, L., Carrier, M., Malcarne, V. L., Bartlett, S. J., Furst, D. E., …Thombs, B. D. (2016). Examination of the association of sex and race/ethnicity with appearance concerns: A Scleroderma Patient-centered Intervention Network (SPIN) cohort study. Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology, 34(S100),

Objective: Appearance concerns are common in systemic sclerosis (SSc) and have been linked to younger age and more severe disease. No study has examined their association with sex or race/ethnicity. Methods: SSc patients were sampled from the Scl... Read More about Examination of the association of sex and race/ethnicity with appearance concerns: A Scleroderma Patient-centered Intervention Network (SPIN) cohort study.

Dual Action Additives for Jet A-1: Fuel Dehydrating Icing Inhibitors (2016)
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Lam, J. K., Repetto, S. L., Repetto, S., Patel, R., Johnson, T., Costello, J. F., …Chuck, C. J. (2016). Dual Action Additives for Jet A-1: Fuel Dehydrating Icing Inhibitors. Energy and Fuels, 30(11), 9080-9088. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.6b01727

© 2016 American Chemical Society. A novel approach for protecting jet fuel against the effects of water contamination based upon Fuel Dehydrating Icing Inhibitors (FDII) is presented. This dual-action strategy is predicated on the addition of a fuel-... Read More about Dual Action Additives for Jet A-1: Fuel Dehydrating Icing Inhibitors.

Labels, identity and narratives in children with primary speech and language impairments (2016)
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Lyons, R., & Roulstone, S. (2017). Labels, identity and narratives in children with primary speech and language impairments. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 19(5), 503-518. https://doi.org/10.1080/17549507.2016.1221455

© 2016 The Speech Pathology Association of Australia Limited. Purpose: There has been debate about labels in relation to speech and language impairments. However, children’s views are missing from this debate, which is risky considering that labels w... Read More about Labels, identity and narratives in children with primary speech and language impairments.

Prevalence and predictors of persistent speech sound disorder at eight years old: Findings from a population cohort study (2016)
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Peters, T. J., Miller, L. L., Miller, L., Peters, T., Emond, A., Roulstone, S., & Wren, Y. (2016). Prevalence and predictors of persistent speech sound disorder at eight years old: Findings from a population cohort study. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 59(4), 647-673. https://doi.org/10.1044/2015_JSLHR-S-14-0282

© 2016 The Authors. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine prevalence and predictors of persistent speech sound disorder (SSD) in children aged 8 years after disregarding children presenting solely with common clinical distortions (i.e.,... Read More about Prevalence and predictors of persistent speech sound disorder at eight years old: Findings from a population cohort study.

Corrado Alvaro and the Calabrian mafia: A critical case study of the use of literary and journalistic texts in research on Italian organized crime (2016)
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Phillips, A. (2017). Corrado Alvaro and the Calabrian mafia: A critical case study of the use of literary and journalistic texts in research on Italian organized crime. Trends in Organized Crime, 20(1-2), 179-195. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12117-016-9285-0

The Calabrian mafia, or ‘Ndrangheta, is a hugely powerful international crime syndicate, with origins that can be traced back to the late nineteenth century. By far the least studied of Italy’s ‘big three’ mafias, socio-historical research on the ear... Read More about Corrado Alvaro and the Calabrian mafia: A critical case study of the use of literary and journalistic texts in research on Italian organized crime.

Increasing survival after admission to UK critical care units following cardiopulmonary resuscitation (2016)
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Nolan, J. P., Ferrando, P., Soar, J., Benger, J., Thomas, M., Harrison, D. A., & Perkins, G. D. (2016). Increasing survival after admission to UK critical care units following cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Critical Care, 20(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13054-016-1390-6

© 2016 The Author(s). Background: In recent years there have been many developments in post-resuscitation care. We have investigated trends in patient characteristics and outcome following admission to UK critical care units following cardiopulmonary... Read More about Increasing survival after admission to UK critical care units following cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Volcano experiments (2016)
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Hobbs, L. (2016). Volcano experiments

Guest Post - Volcano Experiments by Laura Hobbs

Family presence during resuscitation: Validation of the risk–benefit and self-confidence scales for student nurses (2016)
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Bray, I., Kenny, G., Pontin, D., Williams, R., & Albarran, J. (2016). Family presence during resuscitation: Validation of the risk–benefit and self-confidence scales for student nurses. Journal of Research in Nursing, 21(4), 306-322. https://doi.org/10.1177/1744987116645838

© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. Background. There is increasing debate about the advantages and disadvantages of family-witnessed resuscitation. Research about the views of healthcare providers depends upon reliable tools to measure their perceptions.... Read More about Family presence during resuscitation: Validation of the risk–benefit and self-confidence scales for student nurses.

Does mindfulness have potential in eating disorders prevention? A preliminary controlled trial with young adult women (2016)
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Atkinson, M. J., & Wade, T. D. (2016). Does mindfulness have potential in eating disorders prevention? A preliminary controlled trial with young adult women. Early Intervention in Psychiatry, 10(3), 234-245. https://doi.org/10.1111/eip.12160

© 2016 John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd. Aim: This preliminary randomized controlled trial assessed the feasibility of a pilot mindfulness-based intervention with respect to reducing the risk of eating disorders in young women. Methods: Forty-four... Read More about Does mindfulness have potential in eating disorders prevention? A preliminary controlled trial with young adult women.

Letter: Faecal volatile organic metabolites, promising biomarkers in inflammatory bowel disease and Letter: Faecal volatile organic metabolites as novel diagnostic biomarkers in inflammatory bowel disease. Authors' reply (2016)
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Ratcliffe, N., Ahmed, I., Greenwood, R., Costello, B., Ratcliffe, N. M., & Probert, C. (2016). Letter: Faecal volatile organic metabolites, promising biomarkers in inflammatory bowel disease and Letter: Faecal volatile organic metabolites as novel diagnostic biomarkers in inflammatory bowel disease. Authors' reply. Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 43(11), 1241-1242. https://doi.org/10.1111/apt.13617

The aetiology of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) remains poorly understood. Recent evidence suggests an important role of gut microbial dysbiosis in IBD, and this may be associated with changes in faecal volatile organic metabolites (VOMs).To descri... Read More about Letter: Faecal volatile organic metabolites, promising biomarkers in inflammatory bowel disease and Letter: Faecal volatile organic metabolites as novel diagnostic biomarkers in inflammatory bowel disease. Authors' reply.

Double-diffusive Hadley-Prats flow in a porous medium subject to gravitational variation (2016)
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Matta, A., Narayana, P. A., & Hill, A. A. (2016). Double-diffusive Hadley-Prats flow in a porous medium subject to gravitational variation. International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 102, 300-307. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2015.10.034

© 2015 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved. A model for double-diffusive porous Hadley-Prats flow under the effect of a variable gravity field is explored. Both linear instability and nonlinear stability analyses are performed to assess the suit... Read More about Double-diffusive Hadley-Prats flow in a porous medium subject to gravitational variation.

'But isn't it the baby that decides when it will be born?': Temporality and women's embodied experiences of giving birth (2016)
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White, J. (2016). 'But isn't it the baby that decides when it will be born?': Temporality and women's embodied experiences of giving birth. Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, 34(1), 72-86. https://doi.org/10.3167/ca.2016.340108

Drawing on primary ethnographic research, this paper explores the intermeshing of different forms of time in contemporary childbirth, including the ways in which pregnant women are embedded within, informed by, and resist institutional categorization... Read More about 'But isn't it the baby that decides when it will be born?': Temporality and women's embodied experiences of giving birth.

Freeze-drying: An alternative method for the analysis of volatile organic compounds in the headspace of urine samples using solid phase micro-extraction coupled to gas chromatography - mass spectrometry (2016)
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Probert, C. S., Aggio, R. B., Aggio, R. B. M., Mayor, A., Coyle, S., Reade, S., …Probert, C. S. J. (2016). Freeze-drying: An alternative method for the analysis of volatile organic compounds in the headspace of urine samples using solid phase micro-extraction coupled to gas chromatography - mass spectrometry. Chemistry Central Journal, 10(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13065-016-0155-2

© 2016 Aggio et al. Background: Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) can be intermediates of metabolic pathways and their levels in biological samples may provide a better understanding about diseases in addition to potential methods for diagnosis. Head... Read More about Freeze-drying: An alternative method for the analysis of volatile organic compounds in the headspace of urine samples using solid phase micro-extraction coupled to gas chromatography - mass spectrometry.

The use of a gas chromatography-sensor system combined with advanced statistical methods, towards the diagnosis of urological malignancies (2016)
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Aggio, R. B. M., De Lacy Costello, B., White, P., Khalid, T., Ratcliffe, N. M., Persad, R., & Probert, C. S. J. (2016). The use of a gas chromatography-sensor system combined with advanced statistical methods, towards the diagnosis of urological malignancies. Journal of Breath Research, 10(1), https://doi.org/10.1088/1752-7155/10/1/017106

© 2016 IOP Publishing Ltd. Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers. Serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) is used to aid the selection of men undergoing biopsies. Its use remains controversial. We propose a GC-sensor algorithm system for cl... Read More about The use of a gas chromatography-sensor system combined with advanced statistical methods, towards the diagnosis of urological malignancies.