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Putting policy initiatives into practice : adopting an “honest broker” approach to adapting small businesses against flooding (2014)
Journal Article
Ingirige, B., & Wedawatta, H. (2014). Putting policy initiatives into practice : adopting an “honest broker” approach to adapting small businesses against flooding. Structural survey, 32(2), 123-139. https://doi.org/10.1108/SS-01-2013-0011

Purpose: Amidst the current economic climate, which places many constraints on expensive flood defence schemes, the policy makers tend to favour schemes that are sympathetic to the needs of small and medium -sized enterprises (SMEs) and which prom... Read More about Putting policy initiatives into practice : adopting an “honest broker” approach to adapting small businesses against flooding.

Low cost (audio) recording (LCR) for advancing soundscape ecology towards the conservation of sonic complexity and biodiversity in natural and urban landscapes (2014)
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Farina, A., James, P., Bobryk, C., Pieretti, N., Lattanzi, E., & McWilliam, J. (2014). Low cost (audio) recording (LCR) for advancing soundscape ecology towards the conservation of sonic complexity and biodiversity in natural and urban landscapes. Urban Ecosystems, 17(4), 923-944. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-014-0365-0

Low cost (audio) recorders (LCRs) represent a new opportunity to investigate the sonic complexity of both natural and urban ecosystems. LCRs are inexpensive sampling audio recorders which have the external shape of a universal serial bus (USB) flash... Read More about Low cost (audio) recording (LCR) for advancing soundscape ecology towards the conservation of sonic complexity and biodiversity in natural and urban landscapes.

A method of teaching critical care skills to undergraduate student midwives using the maternal-acute illness management (M-AIM)training day (2014)
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McCarthy, R., Nuttall, J., Smith, J., & Hollins-Martin, C. (2014). A method of teaching critical care skills to undergraduate student midwives using the maternal-acute illness management (M-AIM)training day. Nurse Education in Practice, 14(6), 747-751. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2014.04.001

The most recent Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths (CMACE, 2011) identified human errors, specifically those of midwives and obstetricians/doctors as a fundamental component in contributing to maternal death in the UK. This paper discusses t... Read More about A method of teaching critical care skills to undergraduate student midwives using the maternal-acute illness management (M-AIM)training day.

Effects of kilovoltage, milliampere seconds, and focal spot size on image quality (2014)
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Ma, W., Norton, S., & Hogg, P. (2014). Effects of kilovoltage, milliampere seconds, and focal spot size on image quality. Radiologic technology, 85(5), 479-485

Purpose To determine how kilovoltage (kV), milliampere seconds (mAs), and focal spot size affect perceptual image quality using a hand phantom. Methods Using computed radiography, 70 images of a posteroanterior (PA) oblique hand phantom were acquir... Read More about Effects of kilovoltage, milliampere seconds, and focal spot size on image quality.

An assessment of the causes and effects of abandonment of development projects on real property values in Nigeria (2014)
Journal Article
development projects on real property values in Nigeria. Impact : international journal of research in applied, natural and social sciences, Vol 2(5), 25-36

The prevalent and incessant abandonment of development projects are alarming that it creates several negative effects to real property values, as well as, to the owners, residents, the built environment and the economy as a whole. The purpose of th... Read More about An assessment of the causes and effects of abandonment of development projects on real property values in Nigeria.

Intrapartum Acupuncture (2014)
Journal Article
Carr, D., & Lythgoe, J. (2014). Intrapartum Acupuncture. Practising Midwife, May, 10-14

Acupuncture is becoming widely recognised as an effective method of pain relief and is being increasingly integrated within the NHS, particularly for the treatment of tension-type headache, migraine and low back pain. Acupuncture during labour has... Read More about Intrapartum Acupuncture.

Double cation formation from the Photo-Fragmentation of the closo-Carboranes (2014)
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Liu, J., Ruhl, E., Hitchcock, A., McIlroy, D., Bozek, J., Tyliszczak, T., …Dowben, P. (2014). Double cation formation from the Photo-Fragmentation of the closo-Carboranes. Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie, 228(4-5), 421-436. https://doi.org/10.1515/zpch-2014-0447

Time-of-flight mass analysis with multi-stop coincidence detection has been used to study the multi-cation ionic fragmentation via fission of three isomeric carborane icosahedral cage compounds closo-1,2-orthocarborane, closo-1,7-metacarborane, closo... Read More about Double cation formation from the Photo-Fragmentation of the closo-Carboranes.

Chinese, Russian, and Turkish policies in the Iranian nuclear dossier : between resistance to hegemony and hegemonic accommodation (2014)
Journal Article
Pieper, M. (2014). Chinese, Russian, and Turkish policies in the Iranian nuclear dossier : between resistance to hegemony and hegemonic accommodation. Asian journal of peacebuilding, 2(1), 17-36

This article sheds light on the foreign policies of China, Russia, and Turkey towards the controversial Iranian nuclear program and analyzes to what extent their policies are indicative of a security culture that resists hegemony. While advocating a... Read More about Chinese, Russian, and Turkish policies in the Iranian nuclear dossier : between resistance to hegemony and hegemonic accommodation.

Infant and adult visual attention during an imitation demonstration (2014)
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Taylor, G., & Herbert, J. (2014). Infant and adult visual attention during an imitation demonstration. Developmental Psychobiology, 56(4), 770-782. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.21147

Deferred imitation tasks have shown that manipulations at encoding can enhance infant learning and memory performance within an age, suggesting that brain maturation alone cannot fully account for all developmental changes in early memory abilities.... Read More about Infant and adult visual attention during an imitation demonstration.

Gene-rich large deletions are overrepresented in POAG patients of Indian and Caucasian origins (2014)
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Kaurani, L., Vishal, M., Kumar, D., Sharma, A., Mehani, B., Sharma, C., …Mukhopadhyay, A. (2014). Gene-rich large deletions are overrepresented in POAG patients of Indian and Caucasian origins. https://doi.org/10.1167/iovs.14-14339

PURPOSE: Large copy number variations (CNV) can contribute to increased burden for neurodegenerative diseases. In this study, we analyzed the genome-wide burden of large CNVs > 100 kb in primary open angle glaucoma (POAG), a neurodegenerative diseas... Read More about Gene-rich large deletions are overrepresented in POAG patients of Indian and Caucasian origins.

Validity and reliability of 3D marker based scapular motion analysis : a systematic review (2014)
Journal Article
Lempereur, M., Brochard, S., Leboeuf, F., & Rémy-Néris, O. (2014). Validity and reliability of 3D marker based scapular motion analysis : a systematic review. Journal of Biomechanics, 18, 2219-30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiomech.2014.04.028

Methods based on cutaneous markers are the most popular for the recording of three dimensional scapular motion analysis. Numerous methods have been evaluated, each showing different levels of accuracy and reliability. The aim of this review was to re... Read More about Validity and reliability of 3D marker based scapular motion analysis : a systematic review.

Wearside pottery : a 20th-century potworks in Sunderland (2014)
Journal Article
Miller, I. (2014). Wearside pottery : a 20th-century potworks in Sunderland. Industrial Archaeology Review, 36(1), 24-31. https://doi.org/10.1179/0309072814Z.00000000027

This article summarises the findings from a recent archaeological excavation of the former Wearside Pottery in Sunderland, which provided a valuable opportunity to study the buried remains of a 20th-century potworks. Sunderland has a rich heritage of... Read More about Wearside pottery : a 20th-century potworks in Sunderland.

An electronic Delphi study to establish pediatric intensive care nursing research priorities in 20 European countries (2014)
Journal Article
European countries. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 15(5), e206-e213. https://doi.org/10.1097/PCC.0000000000000109

Objectives: To identify and to establish research priorities for pediatric intensive care nursing science across Europe. Design: A modified three-round electronic Delphi technique was applied. Questionnaires were translated into seven different la... Read More about An electronic Delphi study to establish pediatric intensive care nursing research priorities in 20 European countries.

Priority index on road sections for noise action plan (Índice para determinación de la prioridad de actuación en los tramos de carretera de un plan de acción contra el ruido) (2014)
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Ruiz-Padillo, A., Ramos-Ridao, A., Torija Martinez, A., & Ruiz, D. (2014). Priority index on road sections for noise action plan (Índice para determinación de la prioridad de actuación en los tramos de carretera de un plan de acción contra el ruido)

It is well known that the road traffic noise is one of the most important contributors to the environmental impact generated by roads. There no exists hitherto any regulated guidance or procedure that establishes how to undertake a well-founded pri... Read More about Priority index on road sections for noise action plan (Índice para determinación de la prioridad de actuación en los tramos de carretera de un plan de acción contra el ruido).

Fluorescent nanothermometers for intracellular thermal sensing (2014)
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Martinez Maestro, L., Jaque, D., del Rosal, B., Martin Rodriguez, E., Haro-Gonzalez, H., & Garcia Sole, J. (2014). Fluorescent nanothermometers for intracellular thermal sensing. Nanomedicine, 9(7), 1047-1062. https://doi.org/10.2217/nnm.14.59

The importance of high-resolution intracellular thermal sensing and imaging in the field of modern biomedicine has boosted the development of novel nanosized fluorescent systems (fluorescent nanothermometers) as the next generation of probes for intr... Read More about Fluorescent nanothermometers for intracellular thermal sensing.

Healing the wounds of trauma shame and grief (2014)
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Beaumont, E. (2014). Healing the wounds of trauma shame and grief. Healthcare counselling and psychotherapy journal, 14(2), 14-19

Compassion-focused eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) can play a role in healing the wounds of repressed trauma memories, shame and grief. No one therapy is a panacea for all, and the developments of approaches such as compassi... Read More about Healing the wounds of trauma shame and grief.

Revisiting the phylogeography and demography of European badgers (Meles meles) based on broad sampling, multiple markers and simulations (2014)
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Frantz, A., McDevitt, A., Pope, L., Kochan, J., Davison, J., Clements, C., …Burke, T. (2014). Revisiting the phylogeography and demography of European badgers (Meles meles) based on broad sampling, multiple markers and simulations. Heredity, 113(5), 443-453. https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.2014.45

Although the phylogeography of European mammals has been extensively investigated since the 1990s, many studies were limited in terms of sampling distribution, the number of molecular markers used and the analytical techniques employed, frequently le... Read More about Revisiting the phylogeography and demography of European badgers (Meles meles) based on broad sampling, multiple markers and simulations.

Nanoparticles for photothermal therapies (2014)
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Martinez Maestro, L., Jaque, D., del Rosal, B., Haro-Gonzalez, P., Benayas, A., Plaza, J. L., …Garcia Sole, J. (2014). Nanoparticles for photothermal therapies. Nanoscale, 6(16), https://doi.org/10.1039/c4nr00708e

The current status of the use of nanoparticles for photothermal treatments is reviewed in detail. The different families of heating nanoparticles are described paying special attention to the physical mechanisms at the root of the light-to-heat conve... Read More about Nanoparticles for photothermal therapies.