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Fun with fiction (2013)
Journal Article

Article explains how new fictional texts were used as the inspiration for creating a fresh and successful geography day for Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 pupils at a South Gloucestershire Primary School

What is the role of appearance concerns in exercise participation? (2013)
Journal Article

Despite the several health-related benefits associated with regular exercise, such as improvements in anxiety and depression, individuals who feel uncomfortable with their bodies are likely to avoid physical activity for fear of being judged negative... Read More about What is the role of appearance concerns in exercise participation?.

Federation of law societies of Canada v Canada (attorney general) (2013)
Journal Article

Case comment on money laundering reporting obligations.

The use of MS for the investigation of irritable bowel syndrome and inflammatory bowel disease (2013)
Journal Article

Currently, the diagnosis of bowel diseases such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) relies on invasive and expensive procedures. Identification of biomarker-based tests to aid diagnosis is an important area of resea... Read More about The use of MS for the investigation of irritable bowel syndrome and inflammatory bowel disease.

Cancer-related fatigue and its impact on functioning (2013)
Journal Article

This article presents the contrasting European and American perspectives on cancer-related fatigue (CRF) and its impact on functioning in cancer survivors. The content is presented in 3 sections: state of the art, intervention studies, and future are... Read More about Cancer-related fatigue and its impact on functioning.

Use of whole blood for analysis of disease-associated biomarkers (2013)
Journal Article

Analyses for diagnosis and monitoring of pathological conditions often rely on blood samples, partly due to relative ease of collection. However, many interfering substances largely preclude the use of whole blood itself, necessitating separation of... Read More about Use of whole blood for analysis of disease-associated biomarkers.

Smart integrated biosensor system (2013)
Journal Article

Professor Tony Killard from the University of the West of England is leading a collaborative project to develop and implement smart integrated miniturised sensor systems.

Individual and social information gathering are fine-tuned to the internal state of the group (2013)
Journal Article

It is well known that the environment a group inhabits influences the frequency at which its members use information gained from one another, that is, social information. However, the potential link between internal state (i.e. individual and socia... Read More about Individual and social information gathering are fine-tuned to the internal state of the group.

Funding and Commissioning issues for undergraduate and postgraduate healthcare education from 2013 (2013)
Journal Article

The model of healthcare training whereby the National Health Service (NHS) has responsibility for provision, is disappearing with the future direction being that of education providers needing to respond to commissioners’ requests and being able to e... Read More about Funding and Commissioning issues for undergraduate and postgraduate healthcare education from 2013.

The reality of trafficked people’s access to technology (2013)
Journal Article

Human trafficking is a global phenomenon. The UK is predominantly, although not exclusively, a destination country for trafficked persons. There is a lack of empirical research and data available which addresses the reality of access by trafficked pe... Read More about The reality of trafficked people’s access to technology.

The United Kingdom and its caribbean overseas territories: Present relations and future prospects (2013)
Journal Article

This paper considers the relationship between the UK and its Caribbean Overseas Territories (OTs) since the Conservative-led coalition government won power in May 2010. There is discussion of the UK government’s recent White Paper on the OTs; the bal... Read More about The United Kingdom and its caribbean overseas territories: Present relations and future prospects.

The accuracy of existing prehospital triage tools for injured children in England - An analysis using trauma registry data (2013)
Journal Article

Objectives: To investigate the performance characteristics of prehospital paediatric triage tools for identifying seriously injured children in England. Design: Eight prehospital paediatric triage tools were identified by literature review and by sur... Read More about The accuracy of existing prehospital triage tools for injured children in England - An analysis using trauma registry data.

A novel bioluminescent bacterial biosensor for measurement of Ara-CTP and cytarabine potentiation by fludarabine in seven leukaemic cell lines (2013)
Journal Article

This study evaluates an in vitro biosensor assay capable of detecting the intracellular levels of the tri-phosphorylated form of cytarabine (Ara-CTP) within one working day. The biosensor predicted the response of seven leukaemic cell lines with vary... Read More about A novel bioluminescent bacterial biosensor for measurement of Ara-CTP and cytarabine potentiation by fludarabine in seven leukaemic cell lines.

Cancer-related fatigue and its impact on functioning (2013)
Journal Article

Funding and commissioning issues for undergraduate and postgraduate healthcare education (2013)
Journal Article

Is urban design true? (2013)
Journal Article

Attempting to justify and validate the discipline of urban design

Water-sensitive urban design: Opportunities for the UK (2013)
Journal Article

Water-sensitive urban design (WSUD) is a concept that is gaining support as a means to manage urban water systems in an integrated way through the better positioning of the topic of water in urban planning and design processes. Water-sensitive urban... Read More about Water-sensitive urban design: Opportunities for the UK.

Inferring interdependencies in climate networks constructed at inter-annual, intra-season and longer time scales (2013)
Journal Article

We study global climate networks constructed by means of ordinal time series analysis. Climate interdependencies among the nodes are quantified by the mutual information, computed from time series of monthly-averaged surface air temperature anomalies... Read More about Inferring interdependencies in climate networks constructed at inter-annual, intra-season and longer time scales.

The common law clean up of the 'workshop of the world': More realism about nuisance law's historic environmental achievements (2013)
Journal Article

This article examines the environmental benefits arising from compliance with common law nuisance injunctions during the British industrial revolution. It argues, based on the outcomes of industrial nuisance actions involving allegations of serious a... Read More about The common law clean up of the 'workshop of the world': More realism about nuisance law's historic environmental achievements.

The SYSCILIA gold standard (SCGSv1) of known ciliary components and its applications within a systems biology consortium (2013)
Journal Article

The multinational SYSCILIA consortium aims to gain a mechanistic understanding of the cilium. We utilize multiple parallel high-throughput (HTP) initiatives to develop predictive models of relationships between complex genotypes and variable phenotyp... Read More about The SYSCILIA gold standard (SCGSv1) of known ciliary components and its applications within a systems biology consortium.