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Putting diagnosis into brackets : Franco Basaglia, radical psychiatry, and contemporary mental health services (2016)
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Cummins, I. (2016). Putting diagnosis into brackets : Franco Basaglia, radical psychiatry, and contemporary mental health services. Illness, Crisis and Loss, 26(3), 187-199. https://doi.org/10.1177/1054137316659206

Mental health services in England and Wales are facing a crisis. The vision of properly funded, flexible, and service-user focused community-based services, that was one of the key drivers of deinstitutionalization, has never been realized. This arti... Read More about Putting diagnosis into brackets : Franco Basaglia, radical psychiatry, and contemporary mental health services.

The effect of word sense disambiguation accuracy on literature based discovery (2016)
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Preiss, J., & Stevenson, M. (2016). The effect of word sense disambiguation accuracy on literature based discovery. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 16(Sup. 1), 57. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-016-0296-1

Background The volume of research published in the biomedical domain has increasingly lead to researchers focussing on specific areas of interest and connections between findings being missed. Literature based discovery (LBD) attempts to address thi... Read More about The effect of word sense disambiguation accuracy on literature based discovery.

A novel paradigm to achieve sustainable regeneration in historical centres with cultural heritage (2016)
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Trillo, C., & Petti, L. (2016). A novel paradigm to achieve sustainable regeneration in historical centres with cultural heritage. Procedia Technology, 223, 693-697. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2016.05.243

Historical urban centres have particular vulnerabilities both to natural hazards and to extreme climatic events. At the same time, cultural heritage is a significant driving force in the European economy, society and culture. This paper suggests that... Read More about A novel paradigm to achieve sustainable regeneration in historical centres with cultural heritage.

Integrating communities : how spatial patterns matter? (2016)
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Trillo, C., Pizzimenti, P., Bevilacqua, C., & Maione, C. (2016). Integrating communities : how spatial patterns matter?. Procedia Technology, 223, 244-250. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2016.05.358

Social exclusion is a key issue in the European Cohesion Policy 2014-2020. Despite the magnitude of the problem and the importance recognized by the literature to the spatial component of the city in supporting effective inclusion, policy documents s... Read More about Integrating communities : how spatial patterns matter?.

Cranial shape variation and phylogenetic relationships of extinct and extant Old World leaf-nosed bats (2016)
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Wilson, L., Hand, S., López-Aguirre, C., Archer, M., Black, K., Beck, R., …Wroe, S. (2016). Cranial shape variation and phylogenetic relationships of extinct and extant Old World leaf-nosed bats. Alcheringa, 40(4), 509-524. https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2016.1196434

The leaf-nosed bats in Hipposideridae and Rhinonycteridae currently have an Old World tropical to subtropical distribution, with a fossil record extending back to the middle Eocene of Europe. The Riversleigh World Heritage fossil site in northwestern... Read More about Cranial shape variation and phylogenetic relationships of extinct and extant Old World leaf-nosed bats.

Before 1939 : refugee architects to New Zealand (2016)
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Poppelreuter, T. (2016). Before 1939 : refugee architects to New Zealand. Fabrications, 26(2), 180-201. https://doi.org/10.1080/10331867.2016.1173164

In 1939, a number of European architects found refuge in New Zealand from the National Socialist regime. Their subsequent practice led to the notion that their presence had a significant impact on New Zealand architectural culture – especially in tra... Read More about Before 1939 : refugee architects to New Zealand.

Cognitive Therapy for Reducing The Impact of Rheumatoid Arthritis Fatigue: Sucessful Strategies for Meeting Targets in A Complex Health Care Intervention (2016)
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Plummer, Z., Almeida, C., Ambler, N., Blair, P., Choy, E., Dures, E., …Hewlett, S. (2016). Cognitive Therapy for Reducing The Impact of Rheumatoid Arthritis Fatigue: Sucessful Strategies for Meeting Targets in A Complex Health Care Intervention. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, https://doi.org/10.1136/ANNRHEUMDIS-2016-EULAR.1968

Background: Complex interventions are widely used in modern health care practice and are defined as those having potentially interacting components. Evaluation can be challenging due to difficulties in logistics, standardisation, delivery, recruiting... Read More about Cognitive Therapy for Reducing The Impact of Rheumatoid Arthritis Fatigue: Sucessful Strategies for Meeting Targets in A Complex Health Care Intervention.

Psychometric testing of the Dutch evaluation of daily activity questionnaire in rheumatoid arthritis (2016)
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Hammond, A., Meesters, J., Vliet Vlieland, T., Peeters, A., Tennant, A., Tyson, S., …Prior, Y. (2016). Psychometric testing of the Dutch evaluation of daily activity questionnaire in rheumatoid arthritis. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 75(Supp 2), 1263. https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2016-eular.2517

Background: The Evaluation of Daily Activity Questionnaire (EDAQ) is a patient reported measure of activity limitations in Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) and other musculoskeletal conditions, for which there is a Swedish (1) and an updated English version... Read More about Psychometric testing of the Dutch evaluation of daily activity questionnaire in rheumatoid arthritis.

Foot dimensions and morphology in healthy weight, overweight and obese males (2016)
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Price, C., & Nester, C. (2016). Foot dimensions and morphology in healthy weight, overweight and obese males. Clinical Biomechanics, 37, 125-130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2016.07.003

BACKGROUND: Overweight and obesity are increasing in prevalence. However, despite reports of poor foot health, the influence of obesity and overweight on adult foot morphology has received limited attention. The objective of this work is to accur... Read More about Foot dimensions and morphology in healthy weight, overweight and obese males.

Ecogeographical patterns of morphological variation in pygmy shrews Sorex minutus (Soricomorpha: Soricinae) within a phylogeographic and continental-and-island framework (2016)
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framework. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 119(4), 799-815. https://doi.org/10.1111/bij.12858

Ecogeographical patterns of morphological variation were studied in the Eurasian pygmy shrew Sorex minutus to understand the species’ morphological diversity in a continental and island setting, and within the context of previous detailed phylogeogra... Read More about Ecogeographical patterns of morphological variation in pygmy shrews Sorex minutus (Soricomorpha: Soricinae) within a phylogeographic and continental-and-island framework.

Egyptian historical parks, authenticity vs. change in Cairo's cultural landscapes (2016)
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Heysham, N. (2016). Egyptian historical parks, authenticity vs. change in Cairo's cultural landscapes. Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences, 225, 391-409. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2016.06.086

As a historically intense country, Egypt's built environment has always been the focus of plentiful urban research. However, the natural component in the urban fabric of Egyptian cities has been undermined and understudied in between all the numerous... Read More about Egyptian historical parks, authenticity vs. change in Cairo's cultural landscapes.

Establishing a process for handling valuable landscapes : a comparative analysis for managing historical parks in Egypt (2016)
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Heysham, N. (2016). Establishing a process for handling valuable landscapes : a comparative analysis for managing historical parks in Egypt. Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences, 225, 376-390. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2016.06.085

The preservation of Cultural Heritage in historically rich third world countries is a complex issue. Historical urban parks in particular face various challenges relating to management and evaluation. This paper tackles formulating a pragmatic proces... Read More about Establishing a process for handling valuable landscapes : a comparative analysis for managing historical parks in Egypt.

The impact of conservation-driven translocations on blood parasite prevalence in the Seychelles warbler (2016)
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Fairfield, E., Hutchings, K., Gilroy, D., Kingma, S., Burke, T., Komdeur, J., & Richardson, D. (2016). The impact of conservation-driven translocations on blood parasite prevalence in the Seychelles warbler. Scientific reports, 6, 29596. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep29596

Introduced populations often lose the parasites they carried in their native range, but little is known about which processes may cause parasite loss during host movement. Conservation-driven translocations could provide an opportunity to identify th... Read More about The impact of conservation-driven translocations on blood parasite prevalence in the Seychelles warbler.

The effect of microphone wind noise on the amplitude modulation of wind turbine noise and its mitigation (2016)
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Kendrick, P., von Hünerbein, S., & Cox, T. (2016). The effect of microphone wind noise on the amplitude modulation of wind turbine noise and its mitigation. ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 140(1), EL79. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4955010

Microphone wind noise can corrupt outdoor recordings even when wind shields are used. When monitoring wind turbine noise, microphone wind noise is almost inevitable because measurements cannot be made in still conditions. The effect of microphone win... Read More about The effect of microphone wind noise on the amplitude modulation of wind turbine noise and its mitigation.

Implementation of blinded outcome assessment in the Effective Verruca Treatments trial (EverT) – lessons learned (2016)
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Cockayne, S., Hewitt, C., Hashmi, F., Hicks, K., Concannon, M., McIntosh, C., …Watt, I. (2016). Implementation of blinded outcome assessment in the Effective Verruca Treatments trial (EverT) – lessons learned. Journal of Foot and Ankle Research, 9(21), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13047-016-0155-4

Background Trials using inadequate levels of blinding may report larger effect sizes than blinded studies. It has been suggested that blinded outcome assessment in open trials may in some cases be undertaken by assessments of photographs. The aim... Read More about Implementation of blinded outcome assessment in the Effective Verruca Treatments trial (EverT) – lessons learned.

Dementia-friendly communities : challenges and strategies for achieving stakeholder involvement (2016)
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Heward, M., Innes, A., Cutler, C., & Hambidge, S. (2017). Dementia-friendly communities : challenges and strategies for achieving stakeholder involvement. Health and Social Care in the Community, 25(3), 858-867. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.12371

Dementia-friendly communities (DFCs) are a UK policy initiative that aims to enable people with dementia to feel supported and included within their local community. Current approaches to DFC creation rely on stakeholder involvement, often requiring... Read More about Dementia-friendly communities : challenges and strategies for achieving stakeholder involvement.

Integrating crime prevention into urban design and planning (2016)
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Davey, C., & Wootton, A. (2016). Integrating crime prevention into urban design and planning. Journal of Place Management and Development, 9(2), 153-165. https://doi.org/10.1108/JPMD-09-2015-0043

Purpose: This paper aims to understand the delivery of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) across Europe—from European-wide procedures, through national schemes to effective local strategies. Methodology: The findings come from a... Read More about Integrating crime prevention into urban design and planning.

Malaysian experience with Public Private Partnerships (PPP) – managing unsolicited proposals (2016)
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Zin Zawawi, M., Kulatunga, U., & Thayaparan, M. (2016). Malaysian experience with Public Private Partnerships (PPP) – managing unsolicited proposals. Built Environment Project and Asset Management, 6(5), https://doi.org/10.1108/BEPAM-10-2015-0059

Purpose – Lack of competition in procurement processes may affect the sustainable procurement due to overpriced and low quality infrastructure. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the current practices of Malaysia in handling unsolicited prop... Read More about Malaysian experience with Public Private Partnerships (PPP) – managing unsolicited proposals.

NHS market liberalisation and the TTIP agreement (2016)
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Regan, P., & Ball, E. (2016). NHS market liberalisation and the TTIP agreement. British Journal of Community Nursing, 21(7), 356-358. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjcn.2016.21.7.356

Governments over the past three decades have undermined the founding principles of the NHS through reforms and market liberalisation. With greater involvement of commercial interests in health care, the NHS will become less democratic and transparent... Read More about NHS market liberalisation and the TTIP agreement.