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What are the barriers prison governors and staff face in implementing the Healthy Prisons Agenda? (2018)
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Aim: This research investigated the barriers faced by prison governors and staff in implementing the Healthy Prisons Agenda in England. It focused on prisons as a workplace, since prison governors and staff spend more time in prisons than the prisone... Read More about What are the barriers prison governors and staff face in implementing the Healthy Prisons Agenda?.

The South Gloucestershire Diabetes Prevention Pilot Project (SGDPP) (2018)
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Aim: This pilot study examined the impact, implementation, and delivery costs of a group-based diabetes prevention education programme for participants at risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

Background: NICE recommends intensive lifestyle change... Read More about The South Gloucestershire Diabetes Prevention Pilot Project (SGDPP).

Putting people at the heart of air quality management (2018)
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One of the key reasons why efforts to improve air quality have not been more successful across Europe has been the failure to elicit more political support at both national and local levels. This can be seen as being due, in no small part, to a failu... Read More about Putting people at the heart of air quality management.

Trans-Atlantic partnership working in developing a UK physician associate programme: Reflections and lessons learnt (2018)
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The role of crowdsourcing in healthcare education (2018)
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Introduction: Crowdsourcing works through an institution outsourcing a function normally performed by an employee or group of individuals. Within a crowdsource users, known as the crowd, form a community who voluntarily undertake a task which typic... Read More about The role of crowdsourcing in healthcare education.

Evaluation or ‘anecdote’? Understanding the impact of design (2018)
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Designers are increasingly engaging in participatory co-design approaches to understand the needs and wants of the people who will engage with the artefacts produced. These approaches are particularly relevant for design that focuses on social change... Read More about Evaluation or ‘anecdote’? Understanding the impact of design.

Developing an injury prevention photosphere (2018)
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Background
Burn and scald injuries in children are common in the UK; 50,000 children under 14 years old attend emergency departments (EDs) annually. Approximately 70% of these children are under three years old, injuries are likely to occur in the... Read More about Developing an injury prevention photosphere.

Entrepreneurship education and human capital pathways to Africa’s global competitiveness, at the Transformational Entrepreneurship Think Tank (2018)
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The “Open Typology” as “Heterotopia.” a Comparative. Analysis between the Gojikara Mura© in Nagakute (JP) and the Humanitas© in Deventer (NL). (2018)
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Social robots for engagement in rehabilitative therapies: Design implications from a study with therapists (2018)
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In this paper we present the results of a qualitative study with therapists to inform social robotics and human robot interaction (HRI) for engagement in rehabilitative therapies. Our results add to growing evidence that socially assistive robots (SA... Read More about Social robots for engagement in rehabilitative therapies: Design implications from a study with therapists.

A partnership approach to carbon neutral Bristol 2050 (2018)
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Presentation on the Urban ID project and Bristol Green Capital Partnership sustainability community case study in the "Governing climate change in complex urban settings" session at the IPCC Climate Change Science and Cites Conference.

Healthy architectural ecology: Designing and constructing healthier built environments (2018)
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The built environment is the location where the majority of the world’s population resides. Urban residents spend over 90% of their time indoors. Yet the design of the built environment is also linked to unhealthy lifestyles. How we design cities and... Read More about Healthy architectural ecology: Designing and constructing healthier built environments.

De colonising knowledge: Biomedical beliefs and indigenous medical practice (2018)
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Medical traditions and practices go back to antiquity and are defined by the cultures in which they emerge. We may regard these practices (health care systems) as profoundly personal and ethnocentric, tied to such things as religion and belief system... Read More about De colonising knowledge: Biomedical beliefs and indigenous medical practice.

Exploration of the impact of the Penny Brohn UK Living Well Course on Cancer Survivors' employment and active community role status (2018)
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Background: Over 750,000 people of working age in the UK are estimated to live with or beyond cancer, with 63,000 wishing to, but not working. Penny Brohn UK is a leading cancer support charity, offering the Living Well Course (LWC) which supports th... Read More about Exploration of the impact of the Penny Brohn UK Living Well Course on Cancer Survivors' employment and active community role status.

The effectiveness of electronic cigarettes compared with recommended methods for smoking cessation: A systematic literature review (2018)
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Social Psychology and Human-Robot Interaction: An Uneasy Marriage (2018)
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© 2018 ACM. The field of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) lies at the intersection of several disciplines, and is rightfully perceived as a prime interface between engineering and the social sciences. In particular, our field entertains close ties with... Read More about Social Psychology and Human-Robot Interaction: An Uneasy Marriage.

qvm: A command line tool for the provisioning of virtual machines (2018)
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The purpose of this paper is to create and demonstrate a command line utility that uses freely available cloud images—typically intended for deployment within public and private cloud environments—to rapidly provision virtual machines on a local serv... Read More about qvm: A command line tool for the provisioning of virtual machines.

Viability of small-scale HPC cloud infrastructures (2018)
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RDMA networking has historically been linked closely and almost exclusively with HPC infrastructures. However, as demand for RDMA networking increases in fields outside of HPC, such as with Hadoop in the Big Data space, an increasing number of organi... Read More about Viability of small-scale HPC cloud infrastructures.

Developing a power efficient private cloud ready infrastructure for small-medium sized enterprises (2018)
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Digital technology is advancing and the means of powering it so. For small-medium enterprise (SME) to remain competitive in today’s economic climate it is paramount they can respond to business challenges with agility and efficiency. Despite knowing... Read More about Developing a power efficient private cloud ready infrastructure for small-medium sized enterprises.

Visual search alpha: A novel window into lateralized visual attentional processes (2018)
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Visual search paradigms evoke the attentional processes used in the identification and processing of a target stimulus in an array of distracting items. A widely studied ERP component elicited in visual search is the N2pc, which is thought to reflect... Read More about Visual search alpha: A novel window into lateralized visual attentional processes.