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Just how wide should 'wide reading' be? (2015)
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Lipscomb, M. (2015). Just how wide should 'wide reading' be?. Nursing Philosophy, 16(4), 187-202. https://doi.org/10.1111/nup.12095

© 2015 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Educationalists introduce students to literature search strategies that, with rare exceptions, focus chiefly on the location of primary research reports and systematic reviews of those reports. These sources are, howev... Read More about Just how wide should 'wide reading' be?.

Land grabbing, sustainable development and human rights (2015)
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Grant, E., & Das, O. (2015). Land grabbing, sustainable development and human rights. Transnational Environmental Law, 4(2), 289-317. https://doi.org/10.1017/S2047102515000023

© 2015 Cambridge University Press. Increasing investment in agricultural land by global corporations and investors from wealthy developed nations in poorer, less developed countries has significant human rights and environmental impacts. Proponents o... Read More about Land grabbing, sustainable development and human rights.

The spirit of OMERACT: Q methodology analysis of conference characteristics valued by delegates (2015)
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Flurey, C. A., Kirwan, J. R., Hadridge, P., Richards, P., Grosskleg, S., & Tugwell, P. (2015). The spirit of OMERACT: Q methodology analysis of conference characteristics valued by delegates. Journal of Rheumatology, 42(10), 1982-1992. https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.150113

Copyright © 2015. All rights reserved. Objective. To identify the major features of OMERACT meetings as valued by frequent participants and to explore whether there are groups of participants with different opinions. Methods. Using Q methodology (a q... Read More about The spirit of OMERACT: Q methodology analysis of conference characteristics valued by delegates.

'You likes your way, we got our own way': Gypsies and Travellers' views on infant feeding and health professional support (2015)
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Condon, L., & Salmon, D. (2015). 'You likes your way, we got our own way': Gypsies and Travellers' views on infant feeding and health professional support. Health Expectations, 18(5), 784-795. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.12214

© 2015 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Background: Gypsies and Travellers are known to have poor health status and access to health services, even in comparison with other ethnic minority groups. People from this stigmatized ethnic group are rarely consulte... Read More about 'You likes your way, we got our own way': Gypsies and Travellers' views on infant feeding and health professional support.

How men manage bulbar urethral stricture by concealing urinary symptoms (2015)
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Whybrow, P., Rapley, T., Pickard, R., & Hrisos, S. (2015). How men manage bulbar urethral stricture by concealing urinary symptoms. Qualitative Health Research, 25(10), 1435-1442. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732315573208

© 2015 SAGE Publications. In this article, we present findings from research conducted as part of a multi-center surgical trial. Bulbar urethral stricture, a narrowing of the middle urethra, is a common cause of urinary problems in men that can have... Read More about How men manage bulbar urethral stricture by concealing urinary symptoms.

At the borders of political theory: Carens and the ethics of immigration 1 (2015)
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Cole, P. (2015). At the borders of political theory: Carens and the ethics of immigration 1. European Journal of Political Theory, 14(4), 501-510. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474885115594283

© 2015, © The Author(s) 2015. Carens’ book covers a wide range of issues concerning the ethics of immigration, and although he is best known as a theorist of open borders that argument takes up a relatively small part of the book, and is indeed a sma... Read More about At the borders of political theory: Carens and the ethics of immigration 1.

Coevolutionary and genetic algorithm based building spatial and structural design (2015)
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Hofmeyer, H., & Davila Delgado, J. M. (2015). Coevolutionary and genetic algorithm based building spatial and structural design. AI EDAM, 29(04), 351-370. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0890060415000384

© Cambridge University Press 2015. In this article, two methods to develop and optimize accompanying building spatial and structural designs are compared. The first, a coevolutionary method, applies deterministic procedures, inspired by realistic des... Read More about Coevolutionary and genetic algorithm based building spatial and structural design.

Sustainable packaging: Regulations and operational challenges in a manufacturing SME (2015)
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White, G., Sarpong, D., & Ndrecaj, V. (2015). Sustainable packaging: Regulations and operational challenges in a manufacturing SME. International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development, 6(3), 31-40. https://doi.org/10.4018/IJSESD.2015070103

Copyright © 2015, IGI Global. The issue of sustainability has attracted considerable attention over the last decade and has been accompanied by the development of stringent packaging material legislation for firms. Drawing on a single case approach,... Read More about Sustainable packaging: Regulations and operational challenges in a manufacturing SME.

An Archaeology of Adam Smith‘s Epistemic Context (2015)
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Vigo de Lima, I., & Guizzo, D. (2015). An Archaeology of Adam Smith‘s Epistemic Context. Review of Political Economy, 27(4), 585-605. https://doi.org/10.1080/09538259.2015.1082819

© 2015 Taylor & Francis. Adam Smith played a key role in Foucault‘s archaeology of political economy. This archaeology, which Foucault accomplished in The Order of Things, is the focus of this article. Foucault may have disagreed with the writings... Read More about An Archaeology of Adam Smith‘s Epistemic Context.

Direct and indirect benefits reported by users of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation for chronic musculoskeletal pain: Qualitative exploration using patient interviews (2015)
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Gladwell, P. W., Badlan, K., Cramp, F. (., & Palmer, S. (2015). Direct and indirect benefits reported by users of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation for chronic musculoskeletal pain: Qualitative exploration using patient interviews. Physical Therapy, 95(11), 1518-1528. https://doi.org/10.2522/ptj.20140120

© 2015 American Physical Therapy Association. Background. There is no consensus regarding the effectiveness of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) for management of chronic musculoskeletal pain or chronic low back pain. A recent review... Read More about Direct and indirect benefits reported by users of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation for chronic musculoskeletal pain: Qualitative exploration using patient interviews.

Mindfulness-based prevention for eating disorders: A school-based cluster randomized controlled study (2015)
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Atkinson, M. J., & Wade, T. (2015). Mindfulness-based prevention for eating disorders: A school-based cluster randomized controlled study. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 48(7), 1024-1037. https://doi.org/10.1002/eat.22416

© 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Objective Successful prevention of eating disorders represents an important goal due to damaging long-term impacts on health and well-being, modest treatment outcomes, and low treatment seeking among individuals at risk... Read More about Mindfulness-based prevention for eating disorders: A school-based cluster randomized controlled study.

Clinical evaluation of a prototype underwear designed to detect urine leakage from continence pads (2015)
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Long, A., Edwards, J., Worthington, J., Cotterill, N., Weir, I., Drake, M. J., & Van Den Heuvel, E. (2015). Clinical evaluation of a prototype underwear designed to detect urine leakage from continence pads. Journal of Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing, 42(6), 632-639. https://doi.org/10.1097/WON.0000000000000178

Copyright © 2015 by the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society. PURPOSE: We evaluated the performance of prototype underwear designed to detect urine leakage from continence pads, their acceptability to users, and their effect on health-related... Read More about Clinical evaluation of a prototype underwear designed to detect urine leakage from continence pads.

The assessment of dementia in primary care (2015)
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Dodd, E., Cheston, R., & Ivanecka, A. (2015). The assessment of dementia in primary care. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 22(9), 731-737. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpm.12250

Dementia is an irreversible and progressive condition characterized by a global deterioration of a person’s cognitive abilities. With an ageing population, the number of people diagnosed with dementia is expected to rise both in the UK and abroad. Co... Read More about The assessment of dementia in primary care.

Rethinking environmental leadership: The social construction of leaders and leadership in discourses of ecological crisis, development, and conservation (2015)
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Case, P., Evans, L., Fabinyi, M., Cohen, P., Hicks, C., Prideaux, M., & Mills, D. (2015). Rethinking environmental leadership: The social construction of leaders and leadership in discourses of ecological crisis, development, and conservation. Leadership, 11(4), 396-423. https://doi.org/10.1177/1742715015577887

© 2015, © The Author(s) 2015. Leadership is heralded as being critical to addressing the “crisis of governance” facing the Earth's natural systems. While political, economic, and corporate discourses of leadership have been widely and critically inte... Read More about Rethinking environmental leadership: The social construction of leaders and leadership in discourses of ecological crisis, development, and conservation.

Multimodal neurophysiological evaluation of primary progressive multiple sclerosis - An increasingly valid biomarker, with limits (2015)
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Canham, L. J., Kane, N., Oware, A., Walsh, P., Blake, K., Inglis, K., …Cottrell, D. A. (2015). Multimodal neurophysiological evaluation of primary progressive multiple sclerosis - An increasingly valid biomarker, with limits. Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders, 4(6), 607-613. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msard.2015.07.009

© 2015 Elsevier B.V. Background The promising utility of multi-modality evoked potential batteries to objectively measure multi-tract dysfunction has been evaluated by several groups using different methods. Objective To independently evaluate the us... Read More about Multimodal neurophysiological evaluation of primary progressive multiple sclerosis - An increasingly valid biomarker, with limits.

The Chagos marine protected arbitration-A battle of four losers? (2015)
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Appleby, T. (2015). The Chagos marine protected arbitration-A battle of four losers?. Journal of Environmental Law, 27(3), 529-540. https://doi.org/10.1093/jel/eqv027

© The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. The proclamation of a marine protected area by David Miliband in the Chagos Archipelago in 2010 triggered a complaint of infringement of sovereignty by Mauritius and a huma... Read More about The Chagos marine protected arbitration-A battle of four losers?.

Ghost-in-the-Machine reveals human social signals for human-robot interaction (2015)
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Loth, S., Jettka, K., Giuliani, M., & De Ruiter, J. P. (2015). Ghost-in-the-Machine reveals human social signals for human-robot interaction. Frontiers in Psychology, 6(NOV), https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01641

© 2015 Loth, Jettka, Giuliani and de Ruiter. We used a new method called "Ghost-in-the-Machine" (GiM) to investigate social interactions with a robotic bartender taking orders for drinks and serving them. Using the GiM paradigm allowed us to identify... Read More about Ghost-in-the-Machine reveals human social signals for human-robot interaction.

Long-range concealed object detection through active covert illumination (2015)
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Williamson, D. R., Hales, I. J., Hansen, M. F., Broadbent, L., & Smith, M. (2015). Long-range concealed object detection through active covert illumination. Proceedings of SPIE, 9648, https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2190194

© 2015 SPIE. When capturing a scene for surveillance, the addition of rich 3D data can dramatically improve the accuracy of object detection or face recognition. Traditional 3D techniques, such as geometric stereo, only provide a coarse grained recon... Read More about Long-range concealed object detection through active covert illumination.

Cathode materials for ceramic based microbial fuel cells (MFCs) (2015)
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Santoro, C., Artyushkova, K., Gajda, I., Babanova, S., Serov, A., Atanassov, P., …Cristiani, P. (2015). Cathode materials for ceramic based microbial fuel cells (MFCs). International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 40(42), 14706-14715. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2015.07.054

© 2015, Hydrogen Energy Publications, LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This study showed the electrochemical performance of different cathode electrodes tested on a ceramic separator functioning as a cation exchange membrane. Part... Read More about Cathode materials for ceramic based microbial fuel cells (MFCs).