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A survey on media independent handover (MIH) and IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) in heterogeneous wireless networks (2013)
Journal Article
Khattab, O., & Alani, O. (2013). A survey on media independent handover (MIH) and IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) in heterogeneous wireless networks. International Journal of Wireless Information Networks, 20(3), 215-228. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10776-013-0213-9

One challenge of wireless networks integration is to provide ubiquitous wireless access abilities and seamless handover for mobile communication devices between different types of technologies (3GPP and non-3GPP), such as Global System for Mobile Com... Read More about A survey on media independent handover (MIH) and IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) in heterogeneous wireless networks.

Uses, interactions and side effects of aspirin in older people (2013)
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Robertson, D. (2013). Uses, interactions and side effects of aspirin in older people. Nursing and Residential Care, 15(5), 263-266. https://doi.org/10.12968/nrec.2013.15.5.263

Aspirin's longevity as a therapeutic medicine can be attributed to its effectiveness and multiplicity of uses. Deborah Robertson advises that this drug, despite its versatility, must be used with caution, particularly in the elderly population

What can qualitative studies tell us about the experiences of women who are pregnant that have an eating disorder? (2013)
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Tierney, S., McGlone, C., & Furber, C. (2013). What can qualitative studies tell us about the experiences of women who are pregnant that have an eating disorder?. Midwifery, 29(5), 542-549. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2012.04.013

Objective pregnancy is a life-stage during which women undergo significant changes to their body and can feel acute responsibility for the development and well-being of the fetus. A synthesis of qualitative studies was conducted to increase our unde... Read More about What can qualitative studies tell us about the experiences of women who are pregnant that have an eating disorder?.

Meeting the demands of a podiatry service for patients with arthritis (2013)
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Rome, K., Erikson, K., Ng, A., Gow, P., Sahid, H., & Williams, A. (2013). Meeting the demands of a podiatry service for patients with arthritis. Journal of Foot and Ankle Research, 6(S1), O32-O32. https://doi.org/10.1186/1757-1146-6-S1-O32

Despite evidence for the need of podiatry services, podiatry is frequently an underused and under-resourced service and in many areas in New Zealand there is no specialist podiatry service. In support of specialist foot care, a new podiatric rheumato... Read More about Meeting the demands of a podiatry service for patients with arthritis.

The construction of identities in narratives about serious leisure occupations (2013)
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Taylor, J., & Kay, S. (2015). The construction of identities in narratives about serious leisure occupations. Journal of Occupational Science, 22(3), 260-276. https://doi.org/10.1080/14427591.2013.803298

Engagement in occupation contributes to the shaping of identity throughout the human life. The act of telling about such engagement involves interaction based on symbolic meaning; the speaker constructing an identity by conveying how the occupation i... Read More about The construction of identities in narratives about serious leisure occupations.

Can captive-bred American bullfrogs learn to avoid a model avian predator? (2013)
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Teixeira, B., & Young, R. (2013). Can captive-bred American bullfrogs learn to avoid a model avian predator?. Acta ethologica, 17(1), 15-22. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10211-013-0150-8

Animals that are isolated from their natural predators may lose the ability to express antipredator behavior. The aim of this study was to test whether it would be possible to train captive-bred North American bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana) to avoid a... Read More about Can captive-bred American bullfrogs learn to avoid a model avian predator?.

A time dependent kinetic small angle neutron scattering study of a novel YFe phase (2013)
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Simmons, L., Bentley, P., Al-Jawad, M., & Kilcoyne, S. (2013). A time dependent kinetic small angle neutron scattering study of a novel YFe phase. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 25(25), https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/25/25/255401

Crystallization of amorphous Y67Fe33 into the YFe2 C15 Laves phase via a novel 'YFe' intermediate phase has been observed through to completion using time-resolved small angle neutron scattering (SANS). The nucleation and growth kinetics of the phase... Read More about A time dependent kinetic small angle neutron scattering study of a novel YFe phase.

Storyboarding for visual analytics (2013)
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Walker, R., Cenydd, L., Pop, S., Miles, H., Hughes, C., Teahan, W., & Roberts, J. (2015). Storyboarding for visual analytics. Information Visualization, 14(1), 27-50. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473871613487089

Analysts wish to explore different hypotheses, organize their thoughts into visual narratives and present their findings. Some developers have used algorithms to ascertain key events from their data, while others have visualized different states of... Read More about Storyboarding for visual analytics.

'RUSSIA WINS SPACE RACE' : The British press and the Sputnik moment, 1957 (2013)
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Barnett, N. (2013). 'RUSSIA WINS SPACE RACE' : The British press and the Sputnik moment, 1957. Media History, 19(2), 182-195. https://doi.org/10.1080/13688804.2013.791419

This article traces the development of the British press narrative from the launching of Sputnik in October 1957 to the Soviets’ second satellite, containing a dog, in early November. It argues there was an initial outpouring of surprise, combined w... Read More about 'RUSSIA WINS SPACE RACE' : The British press and the Sputnik moment, 1957.

Involving a young person in the development of a digital resource in nurse education (2013)
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Fenton, G. (2014). Involving a young person in the development of a digital resource in nurse education. Nurse Education in Practice, 14(1), 49-54. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2013.04.014

Health policies across western societies have embedded the need for service user and carer perspectives in service design and delivery of educational programmes. There is a growing recognition of the need to include the perspectives of children and y... Read More about Involving a young person in the development of a digital resource in nurse education.

Remembering the past, looking to the future : Christmas as a symbol of change in later life widowhood (2013)
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Collins, T. (2014). Remembering the past, looking to the future : Christmas as a symbol of change in later life widowhood. Ageing and society, 34(9), 1525-1549. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X13000329

Many older women experience the loss of a spouse or partner in later life. This paper explores older women's experiences of Christmas in order to locate process and meaning in relation to the transition of later life widowhood. Drawing on longitudina... Read More about Remembering the past, looking to the future : Christmas as a symbol of change in later life widowhood.

A mixed effects model for identifying goal scoring ability of footballers (2013)
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ability of footballers. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 177(2), 397-417. https://doi.org/10.1111/rssa.12015

The paper presents a model that can be used to identify the goal scoring ability of footballers. By decomposing the scoring process into the generation of shots and the conversion of shots to goals, abilities can be estimated from two mixed effects m... Read More about A mixed effects model for identifying goal scoring ability of footballers.

Black minority ethnic communities and levels of satisfaction with policing : findings from a study in the north of England (2013)
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Barrett, G., Fletcher, S., & Patel, T. (2014). Black minority ethnic communities and levels of satisfaction with policing : findings from a study in the north of England. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 14(2), 196-215. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895813483760

Using data from an original qualitative study carried out during 2009–10 with a sample located in the north of England (NES), this article considers the satisfaction levels of black minority ethnic (BME) groups with a north of England police force (N... Read More about Black minority ethnic communities and levels of satisfaction with policing : findings from a study in the north of England.

Next generation network environments in Europe — The significance of the EU as a policy actor (2013)
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Simpson, J. (2014). Next generation network environments in Europe — The significance of the EU as a policy actor. Government Information Quarterly, 31(1), 100-107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2012.08.008

The relatively new topic of Next Generation Networks (NGN) is one which is ascending rapidly communications policy agendas in Europe and beyond. How these networks might be created and, beyond that, how they might function in a sustained and broadly... Read More about Next generation network environments in Europe — The significance of the EU as a policy actor.

Labour ministers, intelligence and domestic anti-Communism, 1945–1951 (2013)
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Lomas, D. (2013). Labour ministers, intelligence and domestic anti-Communism, 1945–1951. Journal of Intelligence History, 12(2), 113-133

Relations between the post-war Labour Government and Britain's Security Service (MI5) have often been seen as strained. Utilising recently released material, the article argues that, rather than view the Service with disdain, Labour Ministers saw MI5... Read More about Labour ministers, intelligence and domestic anti-Communism, 1945–1951.

Lower expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase and higher expression of arginase in rat alveolar macrophages are linked to their susceptibility to Toxoplasma gondii infection. (2013)
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ZJ, Z., J, Z., J, W., Z, L., T, W., SQ, Y., …ZR, L. (2013). Lower expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase and higher expression of arginase in rat alveolar macrophages are linked to their susceptibility to Toxoplasma gondii infection. PLoS ONE, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0063650

Rats are naturally resistant to Toxoplasma gondii infection, particularly the RH strain, while mice are not. Previous studies have demonstrated that inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) and arginase-1 of rodent peritoneal macrophages are linked to... Read More about Lower expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase and higher expression of arginase in rat alveolar macrophages are linked to their susceptibility to Toxoplasma gondii infection..

The potential of dual-wavelength laser scanning for estimating vegetation moisture content (2013)
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Gaulton, R., Danson, F., Ramirez Cardozo, F., & Gunawan, O. (2013). The potential of dual-wavelength laser scanning for estimating vegetation moisture content. Remote Sensing of Environment, 132, 32-39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2013.01.001

Vegetation moisture content is an important early indicator of forest drought stress, disease and fire risk. Existing remote sensing techniques to measure biochemical properties of vegetation, such as Equivalent Water Thickness (EWT), are limited by... Read More about The potential of dual-wavelength laser scanning for estimating vegetation moisture content.

Local political marketing in the context of the conservative party (2013)
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Reeves, P. (2013). Local political marketing in the context of the conservative party. Journal of Nonprofit and Public Sector Marketing, 25(2), 127-163. https://doi.org/10.1080/10495142.2013.760990

Local political marketing can be defined as marketing related strategy, activities, and tactics implemented by a political party in a local geographic constituency, in order to attempt to maximise aggregate potential voter satisfaction, and therefo... Read More about Local political marketing in the context of the conservative party.

Obedience : defying the crowd in midwifery practice (2013)
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Hollins Martin, C. (2013). Obedience : defying the crowd in midwifery practice. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 31(2), 105-108. https://doi.org/10.1080/02646838.2013.798166

Most people will have observed the often impressive synchrony of the behavior of fish in a school or birds in a flock. The fact that the behavior of a fish is so well matched to that of the behavior of others is straightforward: Perception directly a... Read More about Obedience : defying the crowd in midwifery practice.

‘Each fantasy chosen begin’: the music of The Divine Comedy (2013)
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Magennis, C. (2013). ‘Each fantasy chosen begin’: the music of The Divine Comedy. Irish Studies Review, 21(2), 178-187. https://doi.org/10.1080/09670882.2013.774229

This article considers the cultural and social context for the music of the Northern Irish band The Divine Comedy. It focuses on three mid-1990s albums – Liberation (1993), Promenade (1994) and Casanova (1996) – and debates the significance of this p... Read More about ‘Each fantasy chosen begin’: the music of The Divine Comedy.