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"Who Milks the Cows at Maesgwyn?" The Animality of UK Rural Landscapes in Affective Registers (2013)
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Landscapes are complex outplays of intersecting flows of agency in which humans and non-humans combine in a series of registers, and in cycles of comings and goings to make meshworks of life in place. The presence of animals in some landscapes can be... Read More about "Who Milks the Cows at Maesgwyn?" The Animality of UK Rural Landscapes in Affective Registers.

Usability of virtual-reality simulation training in obstetric ultrasonography: A prospective cohort study (2013)
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Objective To assess the usability of virtual-reality (VR) simulation for obstetric ultrasound trainees. Methods Twenty-six participants were recruited: 18 obstetric ultrasound trainees (with little formal ultrasonography training) and eight certified... Read More about Usability of virtual-reality simulation training in obstetric ultrasonography: A prospective cohort study.

Impact of plant shoot architecture on leaf cooling: A coupled heat and mass transfer model (2013)
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Plants display a range of striking architectural adaptations when grown at elevated temperatures. In the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, these include elongation of petioles, and increased petiole and leaf angles from the soil surface. The potentia... Read More about Impact of plant shoot architecture on leaf cooling: A coupled heat and mass transfer model.

Behavior change techniques used to promote walking and cycling: A systematic review (2013)
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Objective: Evidence on the effectiveness of walking and cycling interventions is mixed. This may be partly attributable to differences in intervention content, such as the cognitive and behavioral techniques (BCTs) used. Adopting a taxonomy of BCTs,... Read More about Behavior change techniques used to promote walking and cycling: A systematic review.

Industrial closure, regional development and local planning: Multiple narratives of change from the experience of Longbridge, Birmingham (2013)
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This article provides a critique of the policy response to the closure, in 2005, of the MG Rover factory in Longbridge, Birmingham. To date, the Longbridge 'narrative' has been dominated by the work of the Labour Government's MG Rover Task Force to s... Read More about Industrial closure, regional development and local planning: Multiple narratives of change from the experience of Longbridge, Birmingham.

Teaching Theory of Mind (2013)
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Research Findings: An understanding of another's mental state, beliefs, or desires is often referred to as theory of mind (ToM). Pretence has been shown to be a precursor to ToM (Leslie, 1987; Lillard, 1999, 2001), and thus ToM could potentially be d... Read More about Teaching Theory of Mind.

An evaluation of the impact and costs of three strategies used to recruit acutely unwell young children to a randomised controlled trial in primary care (2013)
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Background Recruitment to primary care trials, particularly those involving young children, is known to be difficult. There are limited data available to inform researchers about the effectiveness of different trial recruitment strategies and their a... Read More about An evaluation of the impact and costs of three strategies used to recruit acutely unwell young children to a randomised controlled trial in primary care.

Midwifery staffing: Variation and mismatch in demand and capacity (2013)
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Some compressibility effects on the lee side flow structures of cruciform wing-body configurations with very low aspect ratio wings (2013)
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A series of validated numerical simulations of a tangent ogive circular body in combination with very low aspect ratio cruciform wings at supersonic Mach numbers and angles of attack up 25 have been performed. Inspection of the flow in the cross flow... Read More about Some compressibility effects on the lee side flow structures of cruciform wing-body configurations with very low aspect ratio wings.

Short run reaction to news announcements: UK evidence (2013)
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In this paper we aim to investigate the behaviour of returns around corporate news announcements. The motivation of the paper is that neither the broad classification of news into “good” and “bad” in many previous studies, nor the focus on only one n... Read More about Short run reaction to news announcements: UK evidence.

How the Shah entangled America (2013)
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Mohammed Reza Shah’s rule of Iran spanned eight U.S. presidents. His desire for military supremacy over his neighbours and his distrust of the Soviets led him to seek a military relationship with the US following the end of the Second World War. As t... Read More about How the Shah entangled America.

The motor age and the information age collide (2013)
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Its hard to be visionary. Its easy to be too far-fetched in looking to the future. Its even easier to lack imagination. “Computers in the future may weigh no more than one and a half tons” – so goes the popularised version of the quote from Popular M... Read More about The motor age and the information age collide.

The strategic implication of monetary control: An empirical investigation of the Indian economy (2013)
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Emerging economies have struggled hard to keep inflation low at the same time as facilitating high economic growth. These economies always attempt to execute strategic policy framework to curb inflation which in-turn affect the growth rate. This pape... Read More about The strategic implication of monetary control: An empirical investigation of the Indian economy.

The independent group looks at London's west end (2013)
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In the early 1950s, British culture was dominated by welfare-state visions of urban reconstruction. These projections of a stable civic society were premised on a particular way of looking at and reading the metropolitan environment. At odds with thi... Read More about The independent group looks at London's west end.

Sustainability narratives and planning agendas: Charting the influence of the sustainable development discourse on planning policy in Western Australia (2013)
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A five year follow-up study of the Bristol pregnancy domestic violence programme to promote routine enquiry (2013)
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Objective: a follow-up study to evaluate the degree to which practice changes identified in the 2004/2005 evaluation of the Bristol Pregnancy Domestic Violence Programme (BPDVP) for routine enquiry for domestic abuse have been maintained. Methods: a... Read More about A five year follow-up study of the Bristol pregnancy domestic violence programme to promote routine enquiry.

Leaving behind a turbulent past: Insights of divestments from China (2013)
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Although western multinational enterprises have increasingly gravitated towards the fast- growing Chinese market, many have often faltered and subsequently exited the market. Drawing on insight from four international firms (Best Buy, Bertelsman, Lio... Read More about Leaving behind a turbulent past: Insights of divestments from China.

Time for a real shift to relations: Appraisal of social network analysis applications in the UK construction industry (2013)
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The Social Network Analysis (SNA) has been adopted in the UK construction management research and generated meaningful insights in analysing project management organisations from network perspectives. As an effective tool, social network analysis has... Read More about Time for a real shift to relations: Appraisal of social network analysis applications in the UK construction industry.

Editorial – Special issue on planning and sustainability (2013)
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Guest Editors: Deepak Gopinath, Paola Gazzola, Tony Jackson

Enhanced facial symmetry assessment in orthodontists (2013)
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Assessing facial symmetry is an evolutionarily important process, which suggests that individual differences in this ability should exist. As existing data are inconclusive, the current study explored whether a group trained in facial symmetry assess... Read More about Enhanced facial symmetry assessment in orthodontists.