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"All the corridors are the same” : a qualitative study of the orientation experiences and design preferences of UK older adults living in a communal retirement development (2017)
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O'Malley, M., Innes, A., Muir, S., & Wiener, J. (2018). "All the corridors are the same” : a qualitative study of the orientation experiences and design preferences of UK older adults living in a communal retirement development. Ageing and society, 38(9), 1791-1816. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X17000277

Environments need to be designed such that they support successful orientation for older adults and those with dementia who often experience marked difficulties in their orientation abilities. To better understand how environments can compensate for... Read More about "All the corridors are the same” : a qualitative study of the orientation experiences and design preferences of UK older adults living in a communal retirement development.

Maturity Matrix Assessment: evaluation of energy efficiency strategies in Brussels historic residential stock (2017)
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Gonzalez, A., Zotano, M., Swan, W., Bouillard, P., & Elkadi, H. (2017). Maturity Matrix Assessment: evaluation of energy efficiency strategies in Brussels historic residential stock. Energy Procedia, 1(111), 407-416. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2017.03.202

Energy retrofitting of historic or existing buildings is a challenge that it has not yet been properly fully addressed. Multiple projects and methodologies are published every day but neither of them with the holistic approach that will assure comple... Read More about Maturity Matrix Assessment: evaluation of energy efficiency strategies in Brussels historic residential stock.

Risk-based management of invading plant disease (2017)
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Hyatt-Twynam, S., Parnell, S., Stutt, R., Gottwald, T., Gilligan, C., & Cunniffe, N. (2017). Risk-based management of invading plant disease. New Phytologist, 214(3), 1317-1329. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.14488

Effective control of plant disease remains a key challenge. Eradication attempts often involve removal of host plants within a certain radius of detection, targeting asymptomatic infection. Here we develop and test potentially more effective, epidemi... Read More about Risk-based management of invading plant disease.

Toll-like receptor variation in the bottlenecked population of the Seychelles warbler : computer simulations see the ‘ghost of selection past’ and quantify the ‘drift debt’ (2017)
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Gilroy, D., Phillips, K., Richardson, D., & van Oosterhout, C. (2017). Toll-like receptor variation in the bottlenecked population of the Seychelles warbler : computer simulations see the ‘ghost of selection past’ and quantify the ‘drift debt’. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 30(7), 1276-1287. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13077

Balancing selection can maintain immunogenetic variation within host populations, but detecting its signal in a postbottlenecked population is challenging due to the potentially overriding effects of drift. Toll-like receptor genes (TLRs) play a fund... Read More about Toll-like receptor variation in the bottlenecked population of the Seychelles warbler : computer simulations see the ‘ghost of selection past’ and quantify the ‘drift debt’.

Patterns of change and stability in caregiver burden and life satisfaction from 1 to 2 years after severe traumatic brain injury : a Norwegian longitudinal study (2017)
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Manskow, U., Friborg, O., Roe, C., Braine, M., Damsgard, E., & Anke, A. (2017). Patterns of change and stability in caregiver burden and life satisfaction from 1 to 2 years after severe traumatic brain injury : a Norwegian longitudinal study. NeuroRehabilitation, 40(2), 211-222. https://doi.org/10.3233/NRE-161406

Objectives: To assess burden and life satisfaction in caregivers of patients with severe traumatic brain injury (sTBI) at 1 and 2 years post-injury, to examine if change in burden can be predicted by caregiver and patient demographics, patient’s func... Read More about Patterns of change and stability in caregiver burden and life satisfaction from 1 to 2 years after severe traumatic brain injury : a Norwegian longitudinal study.

Quantifying pigment cover to assess variation in animal colouration (2017)
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Siegenthaler, A., Mondal, D., & Benvenuto, C. (2017). Quantifying pigment cover to assess variation in animal colouration. Biology Methods and Protocols, 2(1), bpx003. https://doi.org/10.1093/biomethods/bpx003

The study of animal colouration addresses fundamental and applied aspects relevant to a wide range of fields, including behavioural ecology, environmental adaptation and visual ecology. Although a variety of methods are available to measure animal... Read More about Quantifying pigment cover to assess variation in animal colouration.

The Delphi technique in radiography education research (2017)
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St John-Matthews, J., Robinson, L., & Wallace, M. (2017). The Delphi technique in radiography education research. Radiography, 23(Sup. 1), S53-S57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radi.2017.03.007

Objectives: To describe and review the Delphi technique as a tool for radiographers engaged in mixed-methods research whereby agreement is required on the proficiencies needed by educational programmes for pre- and post- registration radiographers. T... Read More about The Delphi technique in radiography education research.

Clinical supervision : an important part of every nurse's practice (2017)
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Stonehouse, D., & Bifarin, O. (2017). Clinical supervision : an important part of every nurse's practice. British Journal of Nursing, 26(6), 331-335. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2017.26.6.331

Clinical supervision involves a supportive relationship between supervisor and supervisee that facilitates reflective learning and is part of professional socialisation. Clinical supervision can take many different forms and may be adapted to suit lo... Read More about Clinical supervision : an important part of every nurse's practice.

Greening cloud-enabled big data storage forensics : Syncany as a case study (2017)
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Teing, Y., Dehghantanha, A., Raymond Choo, K., Abdullah, M., & Muda, Z. (2019). Greening cloud-enabled big data storage forensics : Syncany as a case study. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, 4(2), 204-216. https://doi.org/10.1109/TSUSC.2017.2687103

The pervasive nature of cloud-enabled big data storage solutions introduces new challenges in the identification, collection, analysis, preservation and archiving of digital evidences. Investigation of such complex platforms to locate and recover tra... Read More about Greening cloud-enabled big data storage forensics : Syncany as a case study.

Mathematical model for ciliary-induced transport in MHD flow of Cu-H2O nanoßuids with magnetic induction (2017)
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Akbar, N., Tripathi, D., Khan, Z., & Beg, O. (2017). Mathematical model for ciliary-induced transport in MHD flow of Cu-H2O nanoßuids with magnetic induction. Chinese Journal of Physics, 55(3), 947-962. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cjph.2017.03.005

Motivated by novel developments in surface-modified, nanoscale, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) biomedical devices, we study theoretically the ciliary induced transport by metachronal wave propagation in hydromagnetic flow of copper-water nanofluids throu... Read More about Mathematical model for ciliary-induced transport in MHD flow of Cu-H2O nanoßuids with magnetic induction.

Effective geometric restoration of distorted historical documents for large-scale digitization (2017)
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Yang, P., Antonacopoulos, A., Clausner, C., Pletschacher, S., & Qi, J. (2017). Effective geometric restoration of distorted historical documents for large-scale digitization. IET Image Processing, 11(10), 841-853. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-ipr.2016.0973

Due to storage conditions and material’s non-planar shape, geometric distortion of the 2-D content is widely present in scanned document images. Effective geometric restoration of these distorted document images considerably increases character recog... Read More about Effective geometric restoration of distorted historical documents for large-scale digitization.

Street trees reduce the negative effects of urbanization on birds (2017)
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urbanization on birds. PLoS ONE, 12(e01744), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0174484

The effects of streets on biodiversity is an important aspect of urban ecology, but it has been neglected worldwide. Several vegetation attributes (e.g. street tree density and diversity) have important effects on biodiversity and ecological proces... Read More about Street trees reduce the negative effects of urbanization on birds.

A JAFROC study of nodule detection performance in CT images of a thorax acquired during PET/CT (2017)
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Thompson, J., Wareing, A., Szczepura, K., Vinjamuri, S., & Hogg, P. (2017). A JAFROC study of nodule detection performance in CT images of a thorax acquired during PET/CT. Radiography, 23(3), 191-196. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radi.2017.03.001

Purpose Two types of CT images (modalities) are acquired in PET/CT: for attenuation correction (AC) and diagnosis. The purpose of the study was to compare nodule detection and localization performance between these two modalities. Methods CT... Read More about A JAFROC study of nodule detection performance in CT images of a thorax acquired during PET/CT.

Effect of cavities on the behaviour of laterally loaded pile in sand (2017)
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Al-Jazaairry, A., & Toma-Sabbagh, T. (2017). Effect of cavities on the behaviour of laterally loaded pile in sand. International Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, 12(6), 567-577. https://doi.org/10.1080/19386362.2017.1305137

This paper sheds the light on the interaction between piles under lateral loading conditions embedded in sandy soils and adjacent to cavities. The experimental study comprised a full laboratory testing programme carried out on small scale piles embed... Read More about Effect of cavities on the behaviour of laterally loaded pile in sand.

Nursing judgement and decision-making using the Sedation Withdrawal Score (SWS) in children (2017)
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Withdrawal Score (SWS) in children. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 73(10), 2327-2338. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.13305

Aims: The aim of the study was to evaluate registered children’s nurses’ approaches to the assessment and management of withdrawal syndrome in children. Background: Assessment of withdrawal syndrome is undertaken following critical illness when th... Read More about Nursing judgement and decision-making using the Sedation Withdrawal Score (SWS) in children.

Extra care : viable for couples living with dementia? (2017)
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Poyner, C., Innes, A., & Dekker, F. (2017). Extra care : viable for couples living with dementia?. Housing, Care and Support, 20(1), 8-18. https://doi.org/10.1108/HCS-12-2016-0018

Purpose: The perspectives of people with dementia and their care partners regarding ‘extra care’ housing are currently unknown. This paper will report findings of a consultation study exploring the perceived barriers and facilitators of a relocation... Read More about Extra care : viable for couples living with dementia?.

Formulation of Biocides Increases Antimicrobial Potency and Mitigates the Enrichment of Nonsusceptible Bacteria in Multispecies Biofilms (2017)
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Forbes, S., Cowley, N., Humphreys, G., Mistry, H., Amézquita, A., & McBain, A. J. (2017). Formulation of Biocides Increases Antimicrobial Potency and Mitigates the Enrichment of Nonsusceptible Bacteria in Multispecies Biofilms. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 83(7), https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.03054-16

The current investigation aimed to generate data to inform the development of risk assessments of biocide usage. Stabilized domestic drain biofilm microcosms were exposed daily over 6 months to increasing concentrations (0.01% to 1%) of the biocide b... Read More about Formulation of Biocides Increases Antimicrobial Potency and Mitigates the Enrichment of Nonsusceptible Bacteria in Multispecies Biofilms.

Eosinophils are key regulators of perivascular adipose tissue and vascular functionality (2017)
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vascular functionality. Scientific reports, 7, 44571. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep44571

Obesity impairs the relaxant capacity of adipose tissue surrounding the vasculature (PVAT) and has been implicated in resultant obesity-related hypertension and impaired glucose intolerance. Resident immune cells are thought to regulate adipocyte a... Read More about Eosinophils are key regulators of perivascular adipose tissue and vascular functionality.

Psychological contract violation and customer intention to reuse online retailers: exploring mediating and moderating mechanisms (2017)
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Neeru, M., Sahadev, S., & Purani, K. (2017). Psychological contract violation and customer intention to reuse online retailers: exploring mediating and moderating mechanisms. Journal of Business Research, 75, 17-28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2017.01.013

This study examines the impact of psychological contract violation (PCV) on customer intentions to reuse online retailer websites via the mediating mechanisms of trust and satisfaction. The moderating role of perceived structural assurance (SA) is al... Read More about Psychological contract violation and customer intention to reuse online retailers: exploring mediating and moderating mechanisms.