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Transformative processes of agency: Information technologies and the production of digitally mediated selves (2012)
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New media technologies are becoming an increasingly prominent constituent of everyday living, with their proliferation presenting new challenges to key aspects of the self, namely agency and identity. The potential recalibration of these notions come... Read More about Transformative processes of agency: Information technologies and the production of digitally mediated selves.

Towards the cybernetic mind (2012)
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Humans naturally interface transparently with tools, thus extending through them. Advancing technology has finally produced tools that begin to match our capacities, integrating them more transparently with our minds. We move from tool users towards... Read More about Towards the cybernetic mind.

An extreme analysis for the 2010 precipitation event at the south of Saskatchewan prairie (2012)
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After a prolonged drought period in the early 2000s, the Canadian prairie experienced a remarkably wet year in 2010. Five stations near the edge of the Saskatchewan boreal forest recorded historically high cumulative precipitation (from April to Sept... Read More about An extreme analysis for the 2010 precipitation event at the south of Saskatchewan prairie.

Surrogacy families 10 years on: Relationship with the surrogate, decisions over disclosure and children's understanding of their surrogacy origins (2012)
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BACKGROUND This study aimed to prospectively examine families created using surrogacy over a 10-year period in the UK with respect to intending parents' and children's relationship with the surrogate mother, parents' decisions over disclosure and chi... Read More about Surrogacy families 10 years on: Relationship with the surrogate, decisions over disclosure and children's understanding of their surrogacy origins.

Apparent height and body mass index influence perceived leadership ability in three-dimensional faces (2012)
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Facial appearance has a well-documented effect on perceived leadership ability. Face judgments of leadership ability predict political election outcomes across the world, and similar judgments of business CEOs predict company profits. Body height is... Read More about Apparent height and body mass index influence perceived leadership ability in three-dimensional faces.

The origin of maltreatment: An exploratory study on the intergenerational transmission of child abuse typologies (2012)
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Complex dynamics of elementary cellular automata emerging from chaotic rules (2012)
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We show techniques of analyzing complex dynamics of cellular automata (CA) with chaotic behavior. CA are well-known computational substrates for studying emergent collective behavior, complexity, randomness and interaction between order and chaotic s... Read More about Complex dynamics of elementary cellular automata emerging from chaotic rules.

Evaluation of global registry of acute cardiac events and thrombolysis in myocardial infarction scores in patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome (2012)
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Purposes: We aimed to evaluate the Global Registry of Acute Cardiac Events (GRACE) and Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) scores in patients with suspected but not proven acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Basic procedures: We conducted a secon... Read More about Evaluation of global registry of acute cardiac events and thrombolysis in myocardial infarction scores in patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome.

Not all lies are spontaneous: An examination of deception across different modes of communication (2012)
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An online diary study was performed to investigate deception across different media. One hundred and four individuals participated in the study, with 76 completing the diaries. Individuals were most likely to lie on the telephone. Planned lies, which... Read More about Not all lies are spontaneous: An examination of deception across different modes of communication.

Deconstructing Health and the Un/Healthy Fat Woman (2012)
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Dominant discourses represent body weight as a consequence of lifestyle, equating 'fatness' with 'disease' and 'thinness' with 'health'. Consequently, fat subjects become framed as lazy and not willing to follow a 'healthy' lifestyle. In neoliberal s... Read More about Deconstructing Health and the Un/Healthy Fat Woman.

A long term analysis of the mechanisms underlying children's activity-travel engagements in the Osaka metropolitan area (2012)
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Using a series of conventional large-scale household travel surveys conducted in the Osaka metropolitan area of Japan in 1980, 1990 and 2000 this study examines the mechanisms underlying children's activity and travel engagements and how these mechan... Read More about A long term analysis of the mechanisms underlying children's activity-travel engagements in the Osaka metropolitan area.

Effects of four commercially available factor Xa proteins on the fluorogenic anti-factor Xa assay when monitoring unfractionated heparin (2012)
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Four commercially available factor Xa (FXa) reagents were evaluated in a fluorogenic anti-FXa assay. The four reagents - of which three were of human origin and the fourth was bovine - were compared in terms of the resulting assay dynamic ranges, lag... Read More about Effects of four commercially available factor Xa proteins on the fluorogenic anti-factor Xa assay when monitoring unfractionated heparin.

A genetic approach to statistical disclosure control (2012)
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Statistical disclosure control is the collective name for a range of tools used by data providers such as government departments to protect the confidentiality of individuals or organizations. When the published tables contain magnitude data such as... Read More about A genetic approach to statistical disclosure control.

The marine and coastal access act-A hornets' nest? (2012)
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The Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 is now enacted into law. This paper looks at predictions made about new law by one of the authors, Peter Jones, in his paper The Marine Bill: Cornucopia or Pandora's Box [1] and assesses how successful the Act h... Read More about The marine and coastal access act-A hornets' nest?.

'I'm hurting, I want to kill myself': Rheumatoid arthritis flare is more than a high joint count-an international patient perspective on flare where medical help is sought (2012)
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Objective: People with RA have episodes of worsening disease activity (flares) that prompt them to seek clinical review or medication change. This study explored patients' perspectives of flare that prompts them to seek medication review. Methods: Fo... Read More about 'I'm hurting, I want to kill myself': Rheumatoid arthritis flare is more than a high joint count-an international patient perspective on flare where medical help is sought.

Ban happy sheets! - Understanding and using evaluation (2012)
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Evaluating learning in the complex environments of health and education can be fraught with difficulties. Teaching sessions are customarily 'qualitatively' evaluated by participants filling in simple forms which indicate how they found a course - col... Read More about Ban happy sheets! - Understanding and using evaluation.

Molecular mechanism of Myosin Va recruitment to dense core secretory granules (2012)
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The brain-spliced isoform of Myosin Va (BR-MyoVa) plays an important role in the transport of dense core secretory granules (SGs) to the plasma membrane in hormone and neuropeptide-producing cells. The molecular composition of the protein complex tha... Read More about Molecular mechanism of Myosin Va recruitment to dense core secretory granules.

Intermittent fault location in distribution feeders (2012)
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Due to the utilization of fundamental frequency, current impedance-based fault-location methods are able to locate only permanent and linear faults. The duration of the arc in low- and medium-voltage systems can be as short as a quarter of a cycle. T... Read More about Intermittent fault location in distribution feeders.

Rage against the market: Bristol's tesco riot (2012)
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In April 2011, in the inner-city Stokes Croft area of Bristol, a riot broke out triggered by the heavy-handed policing of a sustained campaign opposed to the building of a Tesco store in the area. Stokes Croft is adjacent to the St Paul's area where,... Read More about Rage against the market: Bristol's tesco riot.

Experiences of qualified GPs and GP speciality trainees learning together: A mixed methods study (2012)
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