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Comparison of single- and dual-monitor approaches to differentiate sitting from lying in free-living conditions (2018)
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Smits, E., Winkler, E., Healy, G., Dall, P., Granat, M., & Hodges, P. (2018). Comparison of single- and dual-monitor approaches to differentiate sitting from lying in free-living conditions. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports, 28(8), 1888-1896. https://doi.org/10.1111/sms.13203

High levels of sedentary time have been detrimentally linked to health outcomes. Differentiating sitting from lying may help to further understand the mechanisms associated with these health impacts. This study compares the inter‐method agreement bet... Read More about Comparison of single- and dual-monitor approaches to differentiate sitting from lying in free-living conditions.

Big Data, Method and the Ethics of Location: A Case Study of a Hookup App for Men Who Have Sex with Men (2018)
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Light, B., Mitchell, P., & Wikström, P. (2018). Big Data, Method and the Ethics of Location: A Case Study of a Hookup App for Men Who Have Sex with Men. Social Media + Society, 4(2), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305118768299

With the rise of geo-social media, location is emerging as a particularly sensitive data point for big data and digital media research. To explore this area, we reflect on our ethics for a study in which we analyze data generated via an app that faci... Read More about Big Data, Method and the Ethics of Location: A Case Study of a Hookup App for Men Who Have Sex with Men.

Interactive sonification exploring emergent behavior applying models for biological information and listening (2018)
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Choi, I. (2018). Interactive sonification exploring emergent behavior applying models for biological information and listening. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 12, 197. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2018.00197

Sonification is an open-ended design task to construct sound informing a listener of data. Understanding application context is critical for shaping design requirements for data translation into sound. Sonification requires methodology to maintain re... Read More about Interactive sonification exploring emergent behavior applying models for biological information and listening.

Type D personality, stress, coping and performance on a novel sport task (2018)
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Borkoles, E., Kaiseler, M., Evans, A., Ski, C., Thompson, D., & Polman, R. (2018). Type D personality, stress, coping and performance on a novel sport task. PLoS ONE, 13(4), e0196692. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0196692

We investigated (1) the relationship between Type D personality, stress intensity appraisal of a self-selected stressor, coping, and perceived coping effectiveness and (2) the relationship between Type D personality and performance. In study one, 482... Read More about Type D personality, stress, coping and performance on a novel sport task.

Eye of sustainable planning : a conceptual heritage-led urban regeneration planning framework (2018)
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Dogruyol, K., Aziz, Z., & Arayici, Y. (2018). Eye of sustainable planning : a conceptual heritage-led urban regeneration planning framework. Sustainability, 10(5), no.1343. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10051343

Implementation and integration of sustainable development within a management framework is the main problem of urban regeneration projects. Therefore, this paper aims to develop a sustainable heritage-led urban regeneration planning framework, which... Read More about Eye of sustainable planning : a conceptual heritage-led urban regeneration planning framework.

A risk-based maintenance decision-making approach for railway asset management (2018)
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Wang, L., An, M., Qin, Y., & Jia, L. (2018). A risk-based maintenance decision-making approach for railway asset management. International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, 28(4), 453-483. https://doi.org/10.1142/s0218194018400065

This paper presents a risk-based maintenance decision making modeling methodology for railway asset maintenance optimization, which takes risk and maintenance cost objectives into consideration in the decision making process. A bottom-up risk analysi... Read More about A risk-based maintenance decision-making approach for railway asset management.

Stagger Lee : how violent nostalgia created an American folk song standard (2018)
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Williams, D. (2018). Stagger Lee : how violent nostalgia created an American folk song standard. Journal of Extreme Anthropology, 2(1), 89-97. https://doi.org/10.5617/jea.5546

“Stagger” Lee Shelton (1865-1912) was an African-American carriage driver and sometime-pimp from Missouri. He became immortalized in song as a folklore antihero after murdering a drinking partner following a political argument gone bad in a St Louis... Read More about Stagger Lee : how violent nostalgia created an American folk song standard.

Non-pharmacological interventions for people with fibromyalgia : a systematic review (2018)
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Rolls, C., & Prior, Y. (2018). Non-pharmacological interventions for people with fibromyalgia : a systematic review. Rheumatology, 57(Supl.3), https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/key075.509

Background: Fibromyalgia (FM) affects approximately 2% of the population and characterised by chronic widespread pain, fatigue, sleep and cognitive problems. The revised European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) recommendations for the management of... Read More about Non-pharmacological interventions for people with fibromyalgia : a systematic review.

The contribution of occupational therapy in the care of people with musculoskeletal diseases (2018)
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Prior, Y. (2018). The contribution of occupational therapy in the care of people with musculoskeletal diseases. Rheumatology, 57(Supl.3), https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/key075.072

Musculoskeletal conditions (MSCs) are a heterogeneous group of conditions, which affect the musculoskeletal system and are linked to bodily pain, impaired physical function and lead to decline in the performance of activities of daily living (ADLs).... Read More about The contribution of occupational therapy in the care of people with musculoskeletal diseases.

As a practitioner I feel enriched : rheumatology tutors’ experiences of delivering a manualised group cognitive-behavioural fatigue programme to patients with rheumatoid arthritis (2018)
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Dures, E., Hammond, A., & Hewlett, S. (2018). As a practitioner I feel enriched : rheumatology tutors’ experiences of delivering a manualised group cognitive-behavioural fatigue programme to patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatology, 57(Supl.3), https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/key075.500

Background: Reducing Arthritis Fatigue by clinical Teams using cognitive-behavioural approaches (RAFT) is a seven-centre RCT of a manualised group cognitive-behavioural (CB) programme to reduce fatigue impact. After four days training plus a delivery... Read More about As a practitioner I feel enriched : rheumatology tutors’ experiences of delivering a manualised group cognitive-behavioural fatigue programme to patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

Urban social-ecological innovation : implications for adaptive natural resource management (2018)
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Dennis, M., & James, P. (2018). Urban social-ecological innovation : implications for adaptive natural resource management. Ecological Economics, 150, 153-164. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.04.005

The urban landscape, as home to the majority of the global population, has been the scene of significant and lasting ecological degradation. Consequently, modern cities rely on distant and geographically vast areas for the provision of a range of imp... Read More about Urban social-ecological innovation : implications for adaptive natural resource management.

How do high-performance work system affect individual outcomes? A multilevel perspective (2018)
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Zhang, J., Naseer Akhtar, M., Matthijs Bal, P., Zhang, Y., & Talat, U. (2018). How do high-performance work system affect individual outcomes? A multilevel perspective. Frontiers in Psychology, 9(586), https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00586

Research on high-performance work systems (HPWS) has suggested that a potential disconnection may exist between organizational-level HPWS and employee experienced HPWS. However, few studies have identified factors that are implied within such a re... Read More about How do high-performance work system affect individual outcomes? A multilevel perspective.

The functional response and resilience in small waterbodies along land-use and environmental gradients (2018)
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Thornhill, I., Biggs, J., Hill, M., Briers, R., Gledhill, D., Wood, P., …Hassall, C. (2018). The functional response and resilience in small waterbodies along land-use and environmental gradients. Global Change Biology, 24(7), 3079-3092. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14149

There is growing recognition of the essential services provided to humanity by functionally intact ecosystems. Freshwater ecosystems are found throughout agricultural and urban landscapes and provide a wide range of ecosystem services, but globally t... Read More about The functional response and resilience in small waterbodies along land-use and environmental gradients.

Active soft end effectors for efficient grasping and safe handling (2018)
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Al-Ibadi, A., Nefti-Meziani, S., & Davis, S. (2018). Active soft end effectors for efficient grasping and safe handling. IEEE Access, 6, 23591-23601. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2829351

The end effector is a major part of a robot system and it defines the task the robot can perform. However, typically, a gripper is suited to grasping only a single or relatively small number of different objects. Dexterous grippers offer greater gras... Read More about Active soft end effectors for efficient grasping and safe handling.

Saving the girl : a creative reading of Alice Sebold’s Lucky and The Lovely Bones (2018)
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Kilby, J. (2018). Saving the girl : a creative reading of Alice Sebold’s Lucky and The Lovely Bones. Feminist Theory, 19(3), 323-343. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464700117752773

Although Alice Sebold abandoned the writing of what would turn out to be her phenomenally successful novel The Lovely Bones in order to write her 1999 rape memoir Lucky, it is not possible to separate them, and thereby split fact from fiction, as, in... Read More about Saving the girl : a creative reading of Alice Sebold’s Lucky and The Lovely Bones.

Integrated knowledge translation strategies that enhance the lives of persons with dementia and their family caregivers (2018)
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Forbes,, D., Blake, C., Peacock, S., Bayly, M., Hawranik, P., & Innes, A. (2018). Integrated knowledge translation strategies that enhance the lives of persons with dementia and their family caregivers. Online journal of rural nursing and health care, 18(1), https://doi.org/10.14574/ojrnhc.v18i1.512

Purpose: To understand the lived experience of persons with dementia and their family caregivers who receive home care in northern Alberta, Canada, and to reveal how integrated knowledge translation (iKT) strategies influence the uptake of best avail... Read More about Integrated knowledge translation strategies that enhance the lives of persons with dementia and their family caregivers.

Active experiencing in postdramatic performance : affective memory and quarantine theatre’s wallflower (2018)
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Crossley, T. (2018). Active experiencing in postdramatic performance : affective memory and quarantine theatre’s wallflower. New Theatre Quarterly, 34(2), 145-159. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X18000052

Postdramatic approaches to performance and Stanislavsky’s methodology seemingly occupy divergent performance traditions. Nonetheless, both traditions often require performers to mine their own lives (albeit to different ends) and operate in an experi... Read More about Active experiencing in postdramatic performance : affective memory and quarantine theatre’s wallflower.

Communities in charge of alcohol (CICA) : a protocol for a stepped-wedge randomised control trial of an alcohol health champions programme (2018)
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Cook, P., Hargreaves, S., Burns, E., de Vocht, F., Parrott, S., Coffey, M., …Ardern, K. (2018). Communities in charge of alcohol (CICA) : a protocol for a stepped-wedge randomised control trial of an alcohol health champions programme. BMC Public Health, 18(522), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5410-0

Background Communities In Charge of Alcohol (CICA) takes an Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) approach to reducing alcohol harm. Through a cascade training model, supported by a designated local co-ordinator, local volunteers are trained t... Read More about Communities in charge of alcohol (CICA) : a protocol for a stepped-wedge randomised control trial of an alcohol health champions programme.