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Hope springs eternal in the starfish gonad: preserved potential for sexual reproduction in a single-clone population of a fissiparous starfish (2016)
Journal Article
Garcia-Cisneros, A., Pérez-Portela, R., Wangensteen Fuentes, O., Campos-Canet, M., & Palacín, C. (2017). Hope springs eternal in the starfish gonad: preserved potential for sexual reproduction in a single-clone population of a fissiparous starfish. Hydrobiologia, 787(1), 291-305. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-016-2971-8

Among echinoderms, asexual reproduction by fission occurs in few species. This strategy is considered a temporary response to stressful conditions and usually alternates with sexual reproduction events; thus, monoclonal populations are extremely rare... Read More about Hope springs eternal in the starfish gonad: preserved potential for sexual reproduction in a single-clone population of a fissiparous starfish.

Effect of environmental factors on how older pedestrians detect an upcoming step (2016)
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Cheng, T., Yang, B., Holloway, C., & Tyler, N. (2016). Effect of environmental factors on how older pedestrians detect an upcoming step. Lighting Research and Technology, 50(3), 405-415. https://doi.org/10.1177/1477153516669968

The relationships between environmental features and older people's ability to safely move around a complex pedestrian environment are, as yet, poorly understood. Specifically, the impact of light levels on trip hazard detection during walking has re... Read More about Effect of environmental factors on how older pedestrians detect an upcoming step.

Trehalose, an easy, safe and efficient cryoprotectant for the parasitic protozoan Trypanosoma brucei (2016)
Journal Article
Wen, Y., Su, B., Lyu, S., Hide, G., Lun, Z., & Lai, D. (2016). Trehalose, an easy, safe and efficient cryoprotectant for the parasitic protozoan Trypanosoma brucei. Acta tropica, 164, 297-302. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actatropica.2016.09.024

Trehalose, a non-permeating cryoprotective agent (CPA), has been documented as less toxic and highly efficient at cryopreserving different kinds of cells or organisms. In the present study, trehalose was evaluated for its application in cryopreservat... Read More about Trehalose, an easy, safe and efficient cryoprotectant for the parasitic protozoan Trypanosoma brucei.

Women’s and clinicians perspectives of presentation with reduced fetal movements: a qualitative study (2016)
Journal Article
Smyth, R. M. D., Taylor, W., Heazell, A. E., Furber, C., Whitworth, M., & Lavender, T. (2016). Women’s and clinicians perspectives of presentation with reduced fetal movements: a qualitative study. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 16(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-016-1074-x

Background
Worldwide maternal perception of fetal movements has been used for many years to evaluate fetal wellbeing. It is intuitively regarded as an expression of fetal well-being as pregnancies in which women consistently report regular fetal mov... Read More about Women’s and clinicians perspectives of presentation with reduced fetal movements: a qualitative study.

Robust control and actuator dynamics compensation for railway vehicles (2016)
Journal Article
Bideleh, S., Mei, T., & Berbyuk, V. (2016). Robust control and actuator dynamics compensation for railway vehicles. Vehicle System Dynamics, 54(12), 1762-1784. https://doi.org/10.1080/00423114.2016.1234627

A robust controller is designed for active steering of a high speed train bogie with solid axle wheel sets to reduce track irregularity effects on the vehicle’s dynamics and improve stability and curving performance. A half-car railway vehicle model... Read More about Robust control and actuator dynamics compensation for railway vehicles.

Commuting, transitions and belonging : the experiences of students living at home in their first year at university (2016)
Journal Article
Pokorny, H., Holley, D., & Kane, S. (2017). Commuting, transitions and belonging : the experiences of students living at home in their first year at university. Higher Education, 74(3), 543-558. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-016-0063-3

In this study, our cross-case analysis of students’ lives challenges the conventional home–university model of transition and highlights the importance of acknowledging the influence of this complex symbiotic relationship for students who attend univ... Read More about Commuting, transitions and belonging : the experiences of students living at home in their first year at university.

Medial-lateral centre of mass displacement and base of support are equally good predictors of metabolic cost in amputee walking (2016)
Journal Article
Weinert-Aplin, R., Twiste, M., Jarvis, H., Bennett, A., & Baker, R. (2017). Medial-lateral centre of mass displacement and base of support are equally good predictors of metabolic cost in amputee walking. Gait & Posture, 51, 41-46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gaitpost.2016.09.024

Amputees are known to walk with greater metabolic cost than able-bodied individuals and establishing predictors of metabolic cost from kinematic measures, such as centre of mass (CoM) motion, during walking are important from a rehabilitative perspec... Read More about Medial-lateral centre of mass displacement and base of support are equally good predictors of metabolic cost in amputee walking.

Self-assembling peptide hydrogel for intervertebral disc tissue engineering (2016)
Journal Article
Wan, S., Borland, S., Richardson, S. M., Merry, C. L., Saiani, A., & Gough, J. E. (2016). Self-assembling peptide hydrogel for intervertebral disc tissue engineering. Acta biomaterialia, 46, 29-40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2016.09.033

Cell-based therapies for regeneration of intervertebral discs are regarded to hold promise for
degenerative disc disease treatment, a condition that is strongly linked to lower back pain. A de novo
self-assembling peptide hydrogel (SAPH), chosen fo... Read More about Self-assembling peptide hydrogel for intervertebral disc tissue engineering.

Accommodating the mess : the politics of appropriation in it for others (2016)
Journal Article
Blair, P. (2016). Accommodating the mess : the politics of appropriation in it for others. Acta Universitatis Sapientiae. Social Analysis (Online), 12(1), 149-165. https://doi.org/10.1515/ausfm-2016-0008

In response to Chris Marker and Alain Resnais’s collaborative meditation on art and colonialism in Statues Also Die (1953), Duncan Campbell’s video installation It For Others (2013) takes a complex approach to presenting a Marxist criticism of the co... Read More about Accommodating the mess : the politics of appropriation in it for others.

Computational intelligent hybrid model for detecting disruptive trading activity (2016)
Journal Article
Zhai, J., Cao, Y., Yao, Y., Ding, X., & Li, Y. (2017). Computational intelligent hybrid model for detecting disruptive trading activity. Decision Support Systems, 93, 26-41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2016.09.003

The term “disruptive trading behaviour” was first proposed by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and is now widely used by US and EU regulation (MiFID II) to describe activities that create a misleading appearance of market liquidity or de... Read More about Computational intelligent hybrid model for detecting disruptive trading activity.

Dementia training programmes for staff working in general hospital settings – a systematic review of the literature (2016)
Journal Article
Scerri, A., Innes, A., & Scerri, C. (2017). Dementia training programmes for staff working in general hospital settings – a systematic review of the literature. Aging & mental health, 21(8), 783-796. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2016.1231170

Objectives: There has been an increased interest in dementia training programmes directed to general hospitals, partly due to the reported lack of staff training that may be contributing to poor quality of care. Although literature describing and eva... Read More about Dementia training programmes for staff working in general hospital settings – a systematic review of the literature.

Potential tree species for use in urban areas in temperate and oceanic climates (2016)
Journal Article
Scholz, M., Uzomah, V. C., & Al-Faraj, F. (2016). Potential tree species for use in urban areas in temperate and oceanic climates. Heliyon, 2(9), e00154. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2016.e00154

This study aims to assess the potential of trees for integration in urban development and regeneration by evaluating the damage caused by tree roots in relation to various tree characteristics. Tree damage to permeable pavement systems and other urba... Read More about Potential tree species for use in urban areas in temperate and oceanic climates.

A metric for predicting binaural speech intelligibility in stationary noise and competing speech maskers (2016)
Journal Article
Tang, Y., Cooke, M., Fazenda, B., & Cox, T. (2016). A metric for predicting binaural speech intelligibility in stationary noise and competing speech maskers. ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 140(3), 1858-1870. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4962484

One criterion in the design of binaural sound scenes in audio production is the extent to which the intended speech message is correctly understood. Object-based audio broadcasting systems have permitted sound editors to gain more access to the metad... Read More about A metric for predicting binaural speech intelligibility in stationary noise and competing speech maskers.

HR practice, organisational commitment & citizenship behaviour in Taiwan (2016)
Journal Article
behaviour in Taiwan. Employee Relations, 38(6), https://doi.org/10.1108/ER-12-2015-0218

Purpose (mandatory) The study examines the relationships between HR practice (four aspects),
organisational commitment and citizenship behaviour at primary schools in Taiwan. The four HR
aspects include: (1) recruitment and placement (RP), (2) teac... Read More about HR practice, organisational commitment & citizenship behaviour in Taiwan.

Empirically derived cut-points for sedentary behaviour: are we sitting differently? (2016)
Journal Article
Clarke-Cornwell, A., Farragher, T., Cook, P., & Granat, M. (2016). Empirically derived cut-points for sedentary behaviour: are we sitting differently?. Physiological Measurement, 37(10), 1669-1685. https://doi.org/10.1088/0967-3334/37/10/1669

Sedentary behaviour (SB) is associated with a number of adverse health outcomes. Studies that have used ActiGraph monitors to define sedentary time tend to use a threshold of  <100 counts per minute (cpm) for classifying SB; however, this cut-point w...

A client focused perspective of the effectiveness of Counselling for Depression (CfD) (2016)
Journal Article
Goldman, S., Brettle, A., & McAndrew, S. (2016). A client focused perspective of the effectiveness of Counselling for Depression (CfD). Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 16(4), 288-297. https://doi.org/10.1002/capr.12088

Background

In the UK, only one in four people with a diagnosis of depression receive any form of treatment. To address this, the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme was established with the main therapeutic approach being... Read More about A client focused perspective of the effectiveness of Counselling for Depression (CfD).