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Physiotherapy for plantar fasciitis: a UK-wide survey of current practice (2016)
Journal Article
Grieve, R., & Palmer, S. (2017). Physiotherapy for plantar fasciitis: a UK-wide survey of current practice. Physiotherapy, 103(2), 193-200. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physio.2016.02.002

© 2016 Chartered Society of Physiotherapy Objectives To identify how United Kingdom (UK) physiotherapists currently diagnose, assess and manage plantar fasciitis in routine practice. Design Online questionnaire survey. Participants Practising physiot... Read More about Physiotherapy for plantar fasciitis: a UK-wide survey of current practice.

The Changing Influence of Societal Culture on Job Satisfaction across Europe (2016)
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Pacheco, G., van der Westhuizen, D. W., Ghobadian, A., Webber, D. J., & O'Regan, N. (2016). The Changing Influence of Societal Culture on Job Satisfaction across Europe. British Journal of Management, 27(3), 606-627. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12150

© 2016 British Academy of Management This paper contributes to the growing multidisciplinary body of literature on subjective well-being by investigating the longitudinal stability and impact of societal cultural values (SCVs) – as opposed to the mor... Read More about The Changing Influence of Societal Culture on Job Satisfaction across Europe.

The use of a gas chromatography-sensor system combined with advanced statistical methods, towards the diagnosis of urological malignancies (2016)
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Aggio, R. B. M., De Lacy Costello, B., White, P., Khalid, T., Ratcliffe, N. M., Persad, R., & Probert, C. S. J. (2016). The use of a gas chromatography-sensor system combined with advanced statistical methods, towards the diagnosis of urological malignancies. Journal of Breath Research, 10(1), https://doi.org/10.1088/1752-7155/10/1/017106

© 2016 IOP Publishing Ltd. Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers. Serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) is used to aid the selection of men undergoing biopsies. Its use remains controversial. We propose a GC-sensor algorithm system for cl... Read More about The use of a gas chromatography-sensor system combined with advanced statistical methods, towards the diagnosis of urological malignancies.

High frequency haplotypes are expected events, not historical figures (2016)
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Guillot, E. G., Guillot, E., & Cox, M. P. (2016). High frequency haplotypes are expected events, not historical figures. F1000Research, 4, https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.7023.2

Cultural transmission of reproductive success states that successful men have more children and pass this raised fecundity to their offspring. Balaresque and colleagues found high frequency haplotypes in a Central Asian Y chromosome dataset, which th... Read More about High frequency haplotypes are expected events, not historical figures.

Exploring the Concepts of Recognition and Shame for Social Work (2016)
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Frost, L. (2016). Exploring the Concepts of Recognition and Shame for Social Work. Journal of Social Work Practice, 30(4), 431-446. https://doi.org/10.1080/02650533.2015.1132689

© 2016 GAPS. Recognition and shame are both concepts that potentially offer social workers a structure to build practice on; two states experienced by both social workers and service users. ‘Recognition’, within social, political and economic thought... Read More about Exploring the Concepts of Recognition and Shame for Social Work.

Made in India: An interview with Mr Vimal Mahendru, CEO, Indo-Asian Fusegear Ltd. (2016)
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Prabhakar, G. P., & Saran, P. (2016). Made in India: An interview with Mr Vimal Mahendru, CEO, Indo-Asian Fusegear Ltd. Strategic Direction, 32(2), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1108/SD-09-2015-0137

© 2016, © Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose – This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach – This br... Read More about Made in India: An interview with Mr Vimal Mahendru, CEO, Indo-Asian Fusegear Ltd..

Sustainable travel and team dynamics among mobile health professionals (2016)
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Melia, S. (2016). Sustainable travel and team dynamics among mobile health professionals. International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, 10(2), 131-138. https://doi.org/10.1080/15568318.2013.869705

© 2016 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This study explores the potential for more sustainable patterns of travel by mobile health professionals. It also explores the relationships between their travel for work and their modal choices in commuting and... Read More about Sustainable travel and team dynamics among mobile health professionals.

Hemispheric reconfigurations in Northern Amazonia: The ‘Three Guianas’ amid regional change and Brazilian hegemony (2016)
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Bishop, M. L., Clegg, P., & Hoefte, R. (2017). Hemispheric reconfigurations in Northern Amazonia: The ‘Three Guianas’ amid regional change and Brazilian hegemony. Third World Quarterly, 38(2), 356-378. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2015.1135397

© 2016 Southseries Inc., www.thirdworldquarterly.com. Regional and hemispheric reconfigurations in Latin America and the Caribbean are increasingly mediated by Brazilian power, and the engagement of Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana with this emergi... Read More about Hemispheric reconfigurations in Northern Amazonia: The ‘Three Guianas’ amid regional change and Brazilian hegemony.

Applying the verifiability approach to insurance claims settings: Exploring the effect of the information protocol (2016)
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Harvey, A. C., Vrij, A., Nahari, G., & Ludwig, K. (2017). Applying the verifiability approach to insurance claims settings: Exploring the effect of the information protocol. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 22(1), 47-59. https://doi.org/10.1111/lcrp.12092

Purpose Lie detection in insurance claim settings is difficult as liars can easily incorporate deceptive statements within descriptions of otherwise truthful events. We examined whether the Verifiability Approach (VA) could be used effectively in in... Read More about Applying the verifiability approach to insurance claims settings: Exploring the effect of the information protocol.

Early Pleistocene climate in western arid central Asia inferred from loess-palaeosol sequences (2016)
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Wang, X., Wei, H., Taheri, M., Khormali, F., Danukalova, G., & Chen, F. (2016). Early Pleistocene climate in western arid central Asia inferred from loess-palaeosol sequences. Scientific Reports, 6, Article 20560. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep20560

Arid central Asia (ACA) is one of the most arid regions in the mid-latitudes and one of the main potential dust sources for the northern hemisphere. The lack of in situ early Pleistocene loess/dust records from ACA hinders our comprehensive understan... Read More about Early Pleistocene climate in western arid central Asia inferred from loess-palaeosol sequences.

Towards a Physarum learning chip (2016)
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Whiting, J. G. H., Jones, J., Bull, L., Levin, M., & Adamatzky, A. (2016). Towards a Physarum learning chip. Scientific Reports, 6, Article 19948. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep19948

Networks of protoplasmic tubes of organism Physarum polycehpalum are macro-scale structures which optimally span multiple food sources to avoid repellents yet maximize coverage of attractants. When data are presented by configurations of attractants... Read More about Towards a Physarum learning chip.

Evaluation of liquid-based swab transport systems against the new approved CLSI M40-A2 standard (2016)
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Gizzie, N., & Adukwu, E. (2016). Evaluation of liquid-based swab transport systems against the new approved CLSI M40-A2 standard. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 54(4), 1152-1156. https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.03337-15

© Copyright 2016, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved. Following revised information pertaining to newer swab types and testing protocols in the new CLSI M40-A2 standard, we evaluated three liquid swab transport systems for the rec... Read More about Evaluation of liquid-based swab transport systems against the new approved CLSI M40-A2 standard.

Assessing the effectiveness of enhanced psychological care for patients with depressive symptoms attending cardiac rehabilitation compared with treatment as usual (CADENCE): Study protocol for a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial (2016)
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Gibson, A., Richards, S. H., Dickens, C., Anderson, R., Richards, D. A., Taylor, R. S., …Campbell, J. (2016). Assessing the effectiveness of enhanced psychological care for patients with depressive symptoms attending cardiac rehabilitation compared with treatment as usual (CADENCE): Study protocol for a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial. Trials, 17(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-016-1184-9

© 2016 Richards et al. Background: Around 17 % of people eligible for UK cardiac rehabilitation programmes following an acute coronary syndrome report moderate or severe depressive symptoms. While maximising psychological health is a core goal of car... Read More about Assessing the effectiveness of enhanced psychological care for patients with depressive symptoms attending cardiac rehabilitation compared with treatment as usual (CADENCE): Study protocol for a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial.

Memory palaces within the space of architectural production (2016)
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Burch, J. (2016). Memory palaces within the space of architectural production. Architecture and Culture, 3(3), 327-335. https://doi.org/10.1080/20507828.2015.1082062

© Taylor & Francis 2016. A model of the space of architectural production is proposed where the building is imagined as a memory palace. In this model, building work is understood to be foreshadowed by an imaginary architecture that both predicts t... Read More about Memory palaces within the space of architectural production.

Microbial profiling of dental plaque from mechanically ventilated patients (2016)
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Williams, D. W., Wilson, M. J., Marchesi, J. R., Wise, M. P., Lewis, M. A., Twigg, J. A., …Smith, A. (2016). Microbial profiling of dental plaque from mechanically ventilated patients. Journal of Medical Microbiology, 65(2), 147-159. https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.000212

© 2015 The Authors. Micro-organisms isolated from the oral cavity may translocate to the lower airways during mechanical ventilation (MV) leading to ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). Changes within the dental plaque microbiome during MV have bee... Read More about Microbial profiling of dental plaque from mechanically ventilated patients.

The National Referral Mechanism: Querying the response of 'first responders' and the competence of 'competent authorities' (2016)
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Elliott, J. (2016). The National Referral Mechanism: Querying the response of 'first responders' and the competence of 'competent authorities'. Tottels Journal of Immigration Asylum and Nationality Law, 30(1), 9-30

The National Referral Mechanism (NRM) – the process by which putatively trafficked persons are identified as 'trafficked' or 'not trafficked' – has been subject to widespread criticism since its inception in 2009. In late 2014, the Home Office publis... Read More about The National Referral Mechanism: Querying the response of 'first responders' and the competence of 'competent authorities'.

The dual half-edge-a topological primal/dual data structure and construction operators for modelling and manipulating cell complexes (2016)
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Boguslawski, P., & Gold, C. (2016). The dual half-edge-a topological primal/dual data structure and construction operators for modelling and manipulating cell complexes. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 5(2), 19. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi5020019

© 2016 by the authors. There is an increasing need for building models that permit interior navigation, e.g., for escape route analysis. This paper presents a non-manifold Computer-Aided Design (CAD) data structure, the dual half-edge based on the Po... Read More about The dual half-edge-a topological primal/dual data structure and construction operators for modelling and manipulating cell complexes.