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Environmental protection in armed conflict: Filling the gaps with sustainable development (2013)
Journal Article
Das, O. (2013). Environmental protection in armed conflict: Filling the gaps with sustainable development. Nordic Journal of International Law, 82(1), 103-128. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718107-08201006

Recent years have witnessed growing concern over the ever more increasing urgent and pervasive global environmental problems. Environmental problems and challenges in relation to armed conflict are amongst them. Such environmental pressures can cause... Read More about Environmental protection in armed conflict: Filling the gaps with sustainable development.

The effects of verb retrieval therapy for people with non-fluent aphasia: Evidence from assessment tasks and conversation (2013)
Journal Article
Carragher, M., Sage, K., & Conroy, P. (2013). The effects of verb retrieval therapy for people with non-fluent aphasia: Evidence from assessment tasks and conversation. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 23(6), 846-887. https://doi.org/10.1080/09602011.2013.832335

Despite often impressive improvements on linguistic assessments, there is a lack of evidence of significant generalisation from impairment-focused aphasia therapy to everyday communication. The aim of the current study was to investigate the effect o... Read More about The effects of verb retrieval therapy for people with non-fluent aphasia: Evidence from assessment tasks and conversation.

Ex-military personnel in the criminal justice system: A cross-sectional study (2013)
Journal Article
Bray, I., O'Malley, P., Ashcroft, S., Adedeji, L., & Spriggs, A. (2013). Ex-military personnel in the criminal justice system: A cross-sectional study. Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 52(5), 516-526. https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12027

The aim of this article is to estimate the proportion of Regular veterans in England and Wales who are in prison or supervised by a Probation Trust. A cross-sectional data linkage approach was taken, matching a database of Service leavers with prison... Read More about Ex-military personnel in the criminal justice system: A cross-sectional study.

Different Wording of the Patient Global Visual Analogue Scale (PG-VAS) Affects Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients' Scoring and the Overall Disease Activity Score (DAS28): A Cross-Sectional Study (2013)
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French, T., Hewlett, S., Kirwan, J., & Sanderson, T. (2013). Different Wording of the Patient Global Visual Analogue Scale (PG-VAS) Affects Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients' Scoring and the Overall Disease Activity Score (DAS28): A Cross-Sectional Study. Musculoskeletal Care, 11(4), 229-237. https://doi.org/10.1002/msc.1046

Objective: The Disease Activity Score in 28 joints (DAS28) is a key measure in clinical practice and clinical trials. There are at least five different versions of the 'Patient Global' Visual Analogue Scale (PG-VAS) being used in the DAS28. The devel... Read More about Different Wording of the Patient Global Visual Analogue Scale (PG-VAS) Affects Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients' Scoring and the Overall Disease Activity Score (DAS28): A Cross-Sectional Study.

Recording therapy sessions: What do clients and therapists really think? (2013)
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Moller, N., Brown, E., Moller, N. P., & Ramsey-Wade, C. (2013). Recording therapy sessions: What do clients and therapists really think?. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 13(4), 254-262. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733145.2013.768286

Aims: Recording therapy sessions has become part of routine practice amongst trainee psychotherapists. To date most research has focused on the benefits of recording sessions to support clinical supervision. There are few data about the benefits or r... Read More about Recording therapy sessions: What do clients and therapists really think?.

Does increase in DNA repair allow "Tolerance-to-Insult" in chemical carcinogenesis? Skin tumor experiments with MGMT-overexpressing mice (2013)
Journal Article
Becker, K., Thomas, A. D., & Kaina, B. (2014). Does increase in DNA repair allow "Tolerance-to-Insult" in chemical carcinogenesis? Skin tumor experiments with MGMT-overexpressing mice. Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis, 55(2), 145-150. https://doi.org/10.1002/em.21834

Several genotoxicity endpoints have been evaluated to define nonlinear dose-responses for S N 1 and S N 2 alkylating genotoxicants. Dose-response studies acknowledging the process of multistage tumorigenesis are important; however, data pertaining no... Read More about Does increase in DNA repair allow "Tolerance-to-Insult" in chemical carcinogenesis? Skin tumor experiments with MGMT-overexpressing mice.

A matter of foresight: How practices enable (or impede) organizational foresightfulness (2013)
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Sarpong, D., Maclean, M., & Davies, C. (2013). A matter of foresight: How practices enable (or impede) organizational foresightfulness. European Management Journal, 31(6), 613-625. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2013.03.004

Emphasizing practice as the site of the emergence of strategic foresight, this paper draws on the contemporary turn to 'practice' to examine how the organizing practices of members positioned further down the organization may facilitate (or constrain... Read More about A matter of foresight: How practices enable (or impede) organizational foresightfulness.

Speculative and critical realism (2013)
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Assiter, A. (2013). Speculative and critical realism. Journal of Critical Realism, 12(3), 283-300. https://doi.org/10.1179/1476743013Z.0000000002

This is a contribution to the debate on speculative realism deriving from the book The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism, eds Levi Bryant, Nick Srnicek and Graham Harman (Melbourne: re.press, 2011). It is also in part a response t... Read More about Speculative and critical realism.

Appearance distress and dysfunction in the elderly: International contrasts across italy and the UK using DAS59 (2013)
Journal Article
Moss, T. P., Moss, T., Cogliandro, A., Persichetti, P., Pennacchini, M., & Tambone, V. (2013). Appearance distress and dysfunction in the elderly: International contrasts across italy and the UK using DAS59. Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, 37(6), 1187-1193. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00266-013-0209-y

Background: As the global population grows, the percentage of those over 60 will escalate disproportionately. Their needs will become an ever more dominant feature of public policy and healthcare provision. Older adults' appearance is often removed f... Read More about Appearance distress and dysfunction in the elderly: International contrasts across italy and the UK using DAS59.

Negotiating equality in the equality act 2010 (United Kingdom): Church-state relations in a post-Christian society (2013)
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Hunt, S., & Hunt, S. E. (2013). Negotiating equality in the equality act 2010 (United Kingdom): Church-state relations in a post-Christian society. Journal of Church and State, 55(4), 690-711. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/css078

Few recent legislative enactments in the United Kingdom have wrought so much controversy as the Equality Act 2010. The far-ranging legislation, aiming to enhance civil rights and social inclusion, provides a unique opportunity to analyze how equality... Read More about Negotiating equality in the equality act 2010 (United Kingdom): Church-state relations in a post-Christian society.

Unsupervised learning spatio-temporal features for human activity recognition from RGB-D video data (2013)
Journal Article
Chen, G., Zhang, F., Giuliani, M., Buckl, C., & Knoll, A. (2013). Unsupervised learning spatio-temporal features for human activity recognition from RGB-D video data. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 8239 LNAI, 341-350. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02675-6_34

Being able to recognize human activities is essential for several applications, including social robotics. The recently developed commodity depth sensors open up newpossibilities of dealingwith this problem. Existing techniques extract hand-tuned fea... Read More about Unsupervised learning spatio-temporal features for human activity recognition from RGB-D video data.

Artificial heartbeat: Design and fabrication of a biologically inspired pump (2013)
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Walters, P., Lewis, A., Stinchcombe, A., Stephenson, R., & Ieropoulos, I. (2013). Artificial heartbeat: Design and fabrication of a biologically inspired pump. Bioinspiration and Biomimetics, 8(4), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-3182/8/4/046012

We present a biologically inspired actuator exhibiting a novel pumping action. The design of the 'artificial heartbeat' actuator is inspired by physical principles derived from the structure and function of the human heart. The actuator employs NiTi... Read More about Artificial heartbeat: Design and fabrication of a biologically inspired pump.

Prehospital anaesthesia by a physician and paramedic critical care team in Southwest England (2013)
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Benger, J. R., Von Vopelius-Feldt, J., & Benger, J. (2013). Prehospital anaesthesia by a physician and paramedic critical care team in Southwest England. European Journal of Emergency Medicine, 20(6), 382-386. https://doi.org/10.1097/MEJ.0b013e32835b08b7

OBJECTIVES: Prehospital anaesthesia using rapid sequence induction (RSI) is carried out internationally and in the UK despite equivocal evidence of clinical benefit. It is a core skill of the prehospital critical care service established by the Great... Read More about Prehospital anaesthesia by a physician and paramedic critical care team in Southwest England.

Holding up the mirror: How to use quality assurance, peer review to improve sexual health (2013)
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Womack, J., Kell, P., & Scally, G. (2013). Holding up the mirror: How to use quality assurance, peer review to improve sexual health. Sexually Transmitted Infections, 89(8), 616-619. https://doi.org/10.1136/sextrans-2012-050864

The Office for Sexual Health was established in the southwest of England in January 2010 as a Department of Health pilot to bring together all elements of sexual health policy to address the fragmentation of effort created by having separate national... Read More about Holding up the mirror: How to use quality assurance, peer review to improve sexual health.

The struggle against denationalisation: The Russian emigration in Europe and education in the 1920s (2013)
Journal Article
White, E. (2013). The struggle against denationalisation: The Russian emigration in Europe and education in the 1920s. Revolutionary Russia, 26(2), 128-146. https://doi.org/10.1080/09546545.2013.856076

This article examines the attempts made by Russian émigré activists in inter-war Europe to educate Russian refugee children in a network of national Russian schools. This formed an important aspect of the émigré elite's mission of saving Russian cult... Read More about The struggle against denationalisation: The Russian emigration in Europe and education in the 1920s.

The application of technology acceptance and diffusion of innovation models in healthcare informatics (2013)
Journal Article
Ward, R. (2013). The application of technology acceptance and diffusion of innovation models in healthcare informatics. Health Policy and Technology, 2(4), 222-228. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hlpt.2013.07.002

There have been many attempts to apply previously developed models of technology acceptance and the diffusion of innovations; however the models have weaknesses in predicting the behaviour of individuals and organisations, particularly within the com... Read More about The application of technology acceptance and diffusion of innovation models in healthcare informatics.

Exercise and self-management for people with chronic knee, hip or lower back pain: A cluster randomised controlled trial of clinical and cost-effectiveness. Study protocol (2013)
Journal Article
Gooberman-Hill, R., Hampson, L., Cramp, F., Walsh, N., Cramp, F. (., Palmer, S., …Hurley, M. (2013). Exercise and self-management for people with chronic knee, hip or lower back pain: A cluster randomised controlled trial of clinical and cost-effectiveness. Study protocol. Physiotherapy, 99(4), 352-357. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physio.2012.09.002

Objectives: Chronic musculoskeletal pain and osteoarthritis can significantly limit the functional independence of individuals, and given that 25% of the population experience these problems, the socioeconomic impact is immense. Exercise and self-man... Read More about Exercise and self-management for people with chronic knee, hip or lower back pain: A cluster randomised controlled trial of clinical and cost-effectiveness. Study protocol.

Attitudes Toward, and Use of, Textbooks Among Marketing Undergraduates: An Exploratory Study (2013)
Journal Article
Vafeas, M. (2013). Attitudes Toward, and Use of, Textbooks Among Marketing Undergraduates: An Exploratory Study. Journal of Marketing Education, 35(3), 245-258. https://doi.org/10.1177/0273475313482927

While textbooks remain a key part of the teaching and learning process, evidence suggests that student completion of reading assignments is lower than teacher expectations. Although there is a small body of literature examining textbook use, studies... Read More about Attitudes Toward, and Use of, Textbooks Among Marketing Undergraduates: An Exploratory Study.

Bristol girls dance project feasibility study: Using a pilot economic evaluation to inform design of a full trial (2013)
Journal Article
Haase, A. M., Powell, J. E., Powell, J., Carroll, F. E., Sebire, S. J., Haase, A., & Jago, R. (2013). Bristol girls dance project feasibility study: Using a pilot economic evaluation to inform design of a full trial. BMJ Open, 3(12), e003726-e003726. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2013-003726

Background: There is currently little guidance for pilot trial economic evaluation where health outcomes and costs are influenced by a range of wider determinants and factors. Objectives: This article presents the findings of a pilot economic evaluat... Read More about Bristol girls dance project feasibility study: Using a pilot economic evaluation to inform design of a full trial.