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Realizing the value of fluvial geomorphology (2015)
Journal Article
Everard, M., & Quinn, N. (2015). Realizing the value of fluvial geomorphology. International Journal of River Basin Management, 13(4), 487-500. https://doi.org/10.1080/15715124.2015.1048457

© 2015 International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research. Fluvial geomorphological forms and processes exert a fundamental influence on riverine processes and functions. They thereby contribute significantly to beneficial servi... Read More about Realizing the value of fluvial geomorphology.

An ontological approach for knowledge modeling and reasoning over heterogeneous crop data sources (2015)
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Rakib, A., Lawan, A., & Walker, S. (2015). An ontological approach for knowledge modeling and reasoning over heterogeneous crop data sources. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 355, 35-47. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17398-6_4

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015. The past two decades have seen a remarkable shift in the knowledge-and information-sharing paradigm. In the crops domain, for example, the amount of information currently known about underutilized... Read More about An ontological approach for knowledge modeling and reasoning over heterogeneous crop data sources.

Improving the effectiveness of Ugandan water user committees (2015)
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Terry, A., McLaughlin, O., & Kazooba, F. (2015). Improving the effectiveness of Ugandan water user committees. Development in Practice, 25(5), 715-727. https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2015.1046421

© 2015 Taylor & Francis. This article outlines issues affecting the functionality of Ugandan water user committees responsible for managing communal water and sanitation (WASH) services. Research undertaken demonstrated that their effectiveness is... Read More about Improving the effectiveness of Ugandan water user committees.

Starting a family: The experience of parents with cleft lip and/or palate (2015)
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Stock, N. M., & Rumsey, N. (2015). Starting a family: The experience of parents with cleft lip and/or palate. Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal, 52(4), 425-436. https://doi.org/10.1597/13-314

© 2015 American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association. Background: One of the key challenges facing young adults with cleft lip and/or palate is making decisions about starting a family, because there is an increased likelihood of their own child bei... Read More about Starting a family: The experience of parents with cleft lip and/or palate.

Virtual patients: Development in cancer nursing education (2015)
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Moule, P., Pollard, K., Armoogum, J., & Messer, S. (2015). Virtual patients: Development in cancer nursing education. Nurse Education Today, 35(7), 875-880. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2015.02.009

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. Background: The number of men diagnosed with prostate cancer is increasing and internationally there are high incidence rates. It is important that nurses and healthcare professionals are enabled to provide appropriate care to th... Read More about Virtual patients: Development in cancer nursing education.

Interpreting and inverting with less cursing: A guide to interpreting IRAP data (2015)
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Hussey, I., Thompson, M., McEnteggart, C., Barnes-Holmes, D., & Barnes-Holmes, Y. (2015). Interpreting and inverting with less cursing: A guide to interpreting IRAP data. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 4(3), 157-162. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcbs.2015.05.001

© 2015 Association for Contextual Behavioral Science. This Professional Interest Brief seeks to provide a clear guide to interpreting data generated by Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP). The interpretation of IRAP data is not immediatel... Read More about Interpreting and inverting with less cursing: A guide to interpreting IRAP data.

How is men's conformity to masculine norms related to their body image? Masculinity and muscularity across Western Countries (2015)
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Franko, D. L., Diedrichs, P. C., Ricciardelli, L. A., Frisén, A., Gattario, K. H., Frisen, A., …Smolak, L. (2015). How is men's conformity to masculine norms related to their body image? Masculinity and muscularity across Western Countries. Psychology of Men and Masculinity, 16(3), 337-347. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0038494

© 2014 American Psychological Association. Previous research has suggested that men's conformity to masculine norms (CMN) is an important correlate of men's drive for muscularity. The present study aimed to further delineate the relationship between... Read More about How is men's conformity to masculine norms related to their body image? Masculinity and muscularity across Western Countries.

A critical overview of the current myofascial pain literature - July 2015 (2015)
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Grieve, R., Layton, M., Dommerholt, J., Hooks, T., Grieve, R., & Leyton, M. (2015). A critical overview of the current myofascial pain literature - July 2015. Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies, 19(3), 482-493. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbmt.2015.05.003

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. The current overview includes thirty articles published in the recent past about myofascial pain, trigger points (TrPs) and related topics. In the Basic Research section, several interesting new studies are reviewed addressing th... Read More about A critical overview of the current myofascial pain literature - July 2015.

Financial literacy and student attitudes to debt: A cross national study examining the influence of gender on personal finance concepts (2015)
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Agnew, S., & Harrison, N. (2015). Financial literacy and student attitudes to debt: A cross national study examining the influence of gender on personal finance concepts. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 25, 122-129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jretconser.2015.04.006

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. This study found a similar result in samples of university students from England and New Zealand to other countries, that males outperform females on financial literacy quizzes. While males outperformed females on a simple compou... Read More about Financial literacy and student attitudes to debt: A cross national study examining the influence of gender on personal finance concepts.

Biomimetic tactile sensing capsule (2015)
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Pipe, T., Winstone, B., Pipe, A. G., Melhuish, C., Dogramadzi, S., & Callaway, M. (2015). Biomimetic tactile sensing capsule. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 9222, 113-122. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22979-9_12

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015. Here we present a tactile sensing capsule endoscopy system. Whilst current capsule endoscopy utilises cameras to diagnose lesions on the surface of the gastrointestinal tract lumen, this proposal... Read More about Biomimetic tactile sensing capsule.

Political Not Generational: Getting Real About Contemporary UK Radical Feminism (2015)
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Mackay, F. (2015). Political Not Generational: Getting Real About Contemporary UK Radical Feminism. Social Movement Studies, 14(4), 427-442. https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2014.963545

© 2014 Taylor & Francis. In this article, I present data from qualitative research with 30 self-identified radical feminists who are currently active in the British feminist movement. I explore how participants defined their feminism, and threats t... Read More about Political Not Generational: Getting Real About Contemporary UK Radical Feminism.

Cross-cultural validation of the Portuguese version of the educational needs assessment tool (PORTENAT) (2015)
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Cruz, A., Machado, P., Hill, J., Campos, M., Apóstolo, J., Marques, A., …Ndosi, M. (2015). Cross-cultural validation of the Portuguese version of the educational needs assessment tool (PORTENAT). Acta Reumatologica Portuguesa, 2015(3), 242-253

Objectives: To undertake a cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the educational needs assessment tool (ENAT) into Portuguese. Methods: The first phase of this research (cross-cultural adaptation) utilised a well-established translation method... Read More about Cross-cultural validation of the Portuguese version of the educational needs assessment tool (PORTENAT).

Networks of value in electronic music: SoundCloud, London, and the importance of place (2015)
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Allington, D., Dueck, B., & Jordanous, A. (2015). Networks of value in electronic music: SoundCloud, London, and the importance of place. Cultural Trends, 24(3), 211-222. https://doi.org/10.1080/09548963.2015.1066073

© 2015 Taylor & Francis. While recent debate has often focused on a reified “cultural value” (whether opposed to or aligned with monetary value), this article treats “value” as a verb and investigates the acts of valuing in which people engage. Thr... Read More about Networks of value in electronic music: SoundCloud, London, and the importance of place.

Reducing floodwater ingress rates through an exterior masonry wall of a domestic building: A pilot investigation (2015)
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Beddoes, D. W., & Booth, C. A. (2015). Reducing floodwater ingress rates through an exterior masonry wall of a domestic building: A pilot investigation. Structural Survey, 33(3), 196-209. https://doi.org/10.1108/SS-01-2013-0003

© 2015, Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose – Experimental field test apparatus has been used to determine the inter-variability and intra-variability floodwater ingress rates of the masonry wall of a domestic building, before and after prepara... Read More about Reducing floodwater ingress rates through an exterior masonry wall of a domestic building: A pilot investigation.

Biohybrid control of general linear systems using the adaptive filter model of cerebellum (2015)
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Wilson, E. D., Assaf, T., Pearson, M. J., Rossiter, J. M., Dean, P., Anderson, S. R., & Porrill, J. (2015). Biohybrid control of general linear systems using the adaptive filter model of cerebellum. Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 9(JUL), https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbot.2015.00005

© 2015 Wilson, Assaf, Pearson, Rossiter, Dean, Anderson and Porrill. The adaptive filter model of the cerebellar microcircuit has been successfully applied to biological motor control problems, such as the vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR), and to sensor... Read More about Biohybrid control of general linear systems using the adaptive filter model of cerebellum.

Measuring the local viscosity and velocity of fluids using a biomimetic tactile whisker (2015)
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Pipe, T., Rooney, T., Pearson, M. J., & Pipe, A. G. (2015). Measuring the local viscosity and velocity of fluids using a biomimetic tactile whisker. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 9222, 75-85. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22979-9_7

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015. A novel technique for determining the relative visco-density of fluids using an actuated flexible beam inspired by the tactile whiskers of marine mammals is presented. This was developed for the i... Read More about Measuring the local viscosity and velocity of fluids using a biomimetic tactile whisker.

Application of Hidden Markov Model to locate soccer robots (2015)
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Qiu, J., Zhu, Q., & Zhao, D. (2015). Application of Hidden Markov Model to locate soccer robots. https://doi.org/10.1109/ChiCC.2015.7259895

© 2015 Technical Committee on Control Theory, Chinese Association of Automation. This paper adopts a Hidden Markov Model as a basis for predicting the probabilities in location of soccer robot's trajectories, develops the corresponding algorithms, an... Read More about Application of Hidden Markov Model to locate soccer robots.

Modeling the Effect of Asymmetric Rolling on Mechanical Properties of Al-Mg Alloys (2015)
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Cardoso, R. P. R., De Almeida Grácio, J. J., Vincze, G., Yoon, J. W., Cardoso, R. P., Rauch, E. F., & Barlat, F. G. (2015). Modeling the Effect of Asymmetric Rolling on Mechanical Properties of Al-Mg Alloys. Steel Research International, 86(8), 922-931. https://doi.org/10.1002/srin.201500024

© 2015 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. The mechanical behavior under uniaxial tension of Al-Mg alloy 5182 pre-deformed in conventional rolling (CR), asymmetric rolling-continuous (ASRC), and asymmetric rolling-reversed (ASRR) was invest... Read More about Modeling the Effect of Asymmetric Rolling on Mechanical Properties of Al-Mg Alloys.