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Parents and GPs' understandings and beliefs about food allergy testing in children with eczema: Qualitative interview study within the Trial of Eczema allergy Screening Tests (TEST) feasibility trial (2020)
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Aim To explore parent and general practitioner (GP) understanding and beliefs about food allergy testing for children with eczema. Design and setting Qualitative interview study in UK primary care within the Trial of Eczema allergy Screening Tests fe... Read More about Parents and GPs' understandings and beliefs about food allergy testing in children with eczema: Qualitative interview study within the Trial of Eczema allergy Screening Tests (TEST) feasibility trial.

Tokophobia and fear of birth: A workshop consensus statement on current issues and recommendations for future research (2020)
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Objective: To discuss and develop a statement on the current state of the evidence and opinion in Fear of Childbirth (FoC) and Tokophobia (Tocophobia), and to provide recommendations. Background: A group met in 2019 to discuss the state of clinical a... Read More about Tokophobia and fear of birth: A workshop consensus statement on current issues and recommendations for future research.

Acceptability and feasibility of early identification of mental health difficulties in primary schools: A qualitative exploration of UK school staff and parents’ perceptions (2020)
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© 2020, The Author(s). One in eight children aged 5–19years in the UK suffer from a psychiatric disorder, while fewer than 35% are identified and only 25% of children access mental health services. Whilst government policy states that primary schools... Read More about Acceptability and feasibility of early identification of mental health difficulties in primary schools: A qualitative exploration of UK school staff and parents’ perceptions.

Estimating occupancy levels in enclosed spaces using environmental variables: A fitness gym and living room as evaluation scenarios (2020)
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The understanding of occupancy patterns has been identified as a key contributor to achieve improvements in energy efficiency in buildings since occupancy information can benefit different systems, such as HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditio... Read More about Estimating occupancy levels in enclosed spaces using environmental variables: A fitness gym and living room as evaluation scenarios.

Deep learning vs. traditional solutions for group trajectory outliers (2020)
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This article introduces a new model to identify a group of trajectory outliers from a large trajectory database and proposes several algorithms. These can be split into three categories: 1) algorithms based on data mining and knowledge discovery, whi... Read More about Deep learning vs. traditional solutions for group trajectory outliers.

Harnessing adaptive novelty for automated generation of cancer treatments (2020)
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© 2020 The Authors Nanoparticles have the potential to modulate both the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic profiles of drugs, thereby enhancing their therapeutic effect. The versatility of nanoparticles allows for a wide range of customization poss... Read More about Harnessing adaptive novelty for automated generation of cancer treatments.

Why protect ancient woodland in the UK? Rethinking the ecosystem approach (2020)
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Sites of ancient woodland in the United Kingdom (UK) are diminishing rapidly and the multi-functional forest management system with its fragmented approach fails effectively to protect such woodland. In the face of reports on the destruction of ancie... Read More about Why protect ancient woodland in the UK? Rethinking the ecosystem approach.

Systems leadership in practice: Thematic insights from three public health case studies (2020)
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Background: ‘Systems leadership’ has emerged as a key concept in global public health alongside such related concepts as ‘systems thinking’ and ‘whole systems approaches.’ It is an approach that is well suited to issues that require collective actio... Read More about Systems leadership in practice: Thematic insights from three public health case studies.

Rapid ‘fingerprinting’ of potential sources of plastics in river systems: An example from the River Wye, UK (2020)
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Literature review identified seven principal pathways of plastic debris entry into river systems: waste water treatment plants; combined sewer overflows; on-site wastewater treatment systems; road and rail transport systems; agriculture; industrial s... Read More about Rapid ‘fingerprinting’ of potential sources of plastics in river systems: An example from the River Wye, UK.

Nonlinear frequency domain solution method for aerodynamic and aeromechanical analysis of wind turbines (2020)
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The aerodynamic simulations of wind turbines are typically carried out using a steady inflow condition. However, the aerodynamics and aeroelasticity of wind turbine blades can be significantly affected by inflow wakes due to the environmental conditi... Read More about Nonlinear frequency domain solution method for aerodynamic and aeromechanical analysis of wind turbines.

Public transport use and health status in later life: Which relationship? (2020)
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In many developed countries, ageing trends have called for mobility policies oriented to active travels for older adults, preventing some diseases. As a result, in the transport and health literature, the elderly's psycho-physical health is growingly... Read More about Public transport use and health status in later life: Which relationship?.

When the decomposition meets the constraint satisfaction problem (2020)
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This paper explores the joint use of decomposition methods and parallel computing for solving constraint satisfaction problems and introduces a framework called Parallel Decomposition for Constraint Satisfaction Problems (PD-CSP). The main idea is th... Read More about When the decomposition meets the constraint satisfaction problem.

The dying patient: Taboo, controversy and missing terms of reference for designers—an architectural perspective (2020)
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Contemporary society has grown seemingly detached from the realities of growing old and subsequently, dying. A consequence, perhaps, of death becoming increasingly overmedicalised, nearly one in two UK nationals die institutional deaths. In this arti... Read More about The dying patient: Taboo, controversy and missing terms of reference for designers—an architectural perspective.

Shared special interest play in a specific extra-curricular group setting: A Minecraft Club for children with Special Educational Needs (2020)
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The relationship between housing created through Permitted Development Rights and health: A systematic review (2020)
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Permitted Development Rights are a regulatory mechanism in the English planning system where the use of a building can be changed bypassing the standard planning process. Other countries have similar arrangements. In England, no assessment of the hea... Read More about The relationship between housing created through Permitted Development Rights and health: A systematic review.

Nitric oxide signaling in plants (2020)
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Nitric oxide (NO) is an integral part of cell signaling mechanisms in animals and plants. In plants, its enzymatic generation is still controversial. Evidence points to nitrate reductase being important, but the presence of a nitric oxide synthase-li... Read More about Nitric oxide signaling in plants.

Towards the identification of antibiotic-resistant bacteria causing urinary tract infections using volatile organic compounds analysis—a pilot study (2020)
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Antibiotic resistance is an unprecedented threat to modern medicine. The analysis of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from bacteria potentially offers a rapid way to determine antibiotic susceptibility in bacteria. This study aimed to find the optim... Read More about Towards the identification of antibiotic-resistant bacteria causing urinary tract infections using volatile organic compounds analysis—a pilot study.

Leverage and performance: Do size and crisis matter? (2020)
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Purpose: This paper contributes to the capital structure literature by examining the impact of financial leverage on firm performance and also the extent to which firm size and crisis matter in the leverage -performance relationship. Design/methodolo... Read More about Leverage and performance: Do size and crisis matter?.

Widescreen melodrama and the American home (2020)
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After Covid-19: Urban design as spatial medicine (2020)
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This article draws out key implications for urban designers from the Covid-19 pandemic, particularly the relation between urban design and health. The entire world is facing the same acute health emergency of Covid-19 which is already impacting half... Read More about After Covid-19: Urban design as spatial medicine.