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In their words : how television and visual media can raise awareness of dementia and other health conditions that carry stigma, including disabilities (2015)
Journal Article
Heward, M., Palfreman-Kay, J., & Innes, A. (2015). In their words : how television and visual media can raise awareness of dementia and other health conditions that carry stigma, including disabilities. Journal of Popular Television, 3(2), 229-242. https://doi.org/10.1386/jptv.3.2.229_1

This article explores the mutual contribution television and disability studies can make to one another, focusing on the role of television and visual media in raising awareness and challenging gaps in understanding of dementia, a health condition th... Read More about In their words : how television and visual media can raise awareness of dementia and other health conditions that carry stigma, including disabilities.

A narrative review of fathers’ involvement during labour and birth and their influence on decision making (2015)
Journal Article
Longworth, M. K., Furber, C., & Kirk, S. (2015). A narrative review of fathers’ involvement during labour and birth and their influence on decision making. Midwifery, 31(9), 844-857. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2015.06.004

Objective
to identify and critically review the research literature that has examined fathers׳ involvement during labour and birth and their influence on decision making.

Design
the review follows the approach of a narrative review. Systematic s... Read More about A narrative review of fathers’ involvement during labour and birth and their influence on decision making.

A novel and simple test of gait adaptability predicts gold standard measures of functional mobility in stroke survivors (2015)
Journal Article
Hollands, K., Pelton, T., van der Veen, S., Alharbi, S., & Hollands, M. (2016). A novel and simple test of gait adaptability predicts gold standard measures of functional mobility in stroke survivors. Gait & Posture, 43, 170-175. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gaitpost.2015.09.018

Background: Although there is evidence that stroke survivors have reduced gait adaptability, the
underlying mechanisms and the relationship to functional recovery are largely unknown. We explored
the relationships between walking adaptability and c... Read More about A novel and simple test of gait adaptability predicts gold standard measures of functional mobility in stroke survivors.

How mobile-based visuals operate as messages of information for different cultures? Action case in the pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia (2015)
Journal Article

Crowd control is a growing problem in the tourism industry that is flourishing in many western and eastern countries. The “pilgrimage” or “Hajj” to Makkah, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), offers the biggest tourism revenues in the world. Regret... Read More about How mobile-based visuals operate as messages of information for different cultures? Action case in the pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.

Assessing the structure of a Neotropical bat community using acoustic monitoring techniques (2015)
Journal Article
Estrada-Villegas, S., Meyer, C., McGill, B., & Kalko, E. (2015). Assessing the structure of a Neotropical bat community using acoustic monitoring techniques. ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 138(3), 1905. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4933991

Determining the structure and composition of tropical communities is challenging because some species are rare or hard to detect. Within Neotropical bats, aerial insectivores have been systematically undersampled because they avoid mist nets, the tra... Read More about Assessing the structure of a Neotropical bat community using acoustic monitoring techniques.

Psychometric testing of the valued life activities questionnaire in people with rheumatoid arthritis in the UK : Rasch Analysis (2015)
Journal Article

Background/Purpose: Developed in the USA, the Valued Life Activities Scale (VLAs) measures participation in daily activities, and the 14 item scale (i.e. short version of VLAs) has been psychometrically tested for use in a population of adults with R... Read More about Psychometric testing of the valued life activities questionnaire in people with rheumatoid arthritis in the UK : Rasch Analysis.

Love, faith and hope – a secondary analysis of prostate cancer survivors and their partners (2015)
Journal Article
O'Shaughnessy, P., Laws, T., & Esterman, A. (2015). Love, faith and hope – a secondary analysis of prostate cancer survivors and their partners. Contemporary Nurse, 50(2-3), 149-168. https://doi.org/10.1080/10376178.2015.1101352

Background: Men's experience of recovery from treatment for prostate cancer has been extensively researched with reports highlighting the physical side effects of treatments such as erectile dysfunction and incontinence. The psychological, emotional... Read More about Love, faith and hope – a secondary analysis of prostate cancer survivors and their partners.

Mitochondrial mass, a new metabolic biomarker for stem-like cancer cells : understanding WNT/FGF-driven anabolic signaling (2015)
Journal Article

Here, we developed an isogenic cell model of “stemness” to facilitate protein biomarker discovery in breast cancer. For this purpose, we used knowledge gained previously from the study of the mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV). MMTV initiates mammary t... Read More about Mitochondrial mass, a new metabolic biomarker for stem-like cancer cells : understanding WNT/FGF-driven anabolic signaling.

Spitalfields Life (2015)
Journal Article
Yates, M. (2015). Spitalfields Life. #Journal not on list, 2, 225-228

Technique determinants of knee abduction moments during pivoting in female soccer players (2015)
Journal Article
Jones, P., Herrington, L., & Graham-Smith, P. (2016). Technique determinants of knee abduction moments during pivoting in female soccer players. Clinical Biomechanics, 31, 107-112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2015.09.012

Background
No previous studies have investigated the optimal technique for pivoting with regard to reducing peak knee abduction moments and potential knee injury risk. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships between technique char... Read More about Technique determinants of knee abduction moments during pivoting in female soccer players.

Predicting the valence of a scene from observers’ eye movements (2015)
Journal Article
observers’ eye movements. PLoS ONE, 10(9), e0138198. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0138198

Multimedia analysis benefits from understanding the emotional content of a scene in a variety of tasks such as video genre classification and content-based image retrieval. Recently, there has been an increasing interest in applying human bio-signals... Read More about Predicting the valence of a scene from observers’ eye movements.

Kidney quality improvement partnership : a sustainable initiative (2015)
Journal Article
Ormandy, P., Wells, L., Cullen, R., Fluck, R., Thomas, K., Bristow, P., & Lipkin, G. (2015). Kidney quality improvement partnership : a sustainable initiative. Journal of Renal Nursing, 7(5), 186-187. https://doi.org/10.12968/jorn.2015.7.5.234

In this article, a group of kidney specialists introduce an innovative national quality improvement project — the Kidney Quality Improvement Partnership (KQuIP). KQuIP is a national partnership of professional and patient groups whose purpose is to f... Read More about Kidney quality improvement partnership : a sustainable initiative.

Transcending borders : social support and resilience, the case of separated children (2015)
Journal Article
Smyth, B., Shannon, M., & Dolan, P. (2015). Transcending borders : social support and resilience, the case of separated children. Transnational social review, 5(3), 274-295. https://doi.org/10.1080/21931674.2015.1074430

The specific support needs of separated children are widely documented, with the additional risks and care concerns making this a particularly complex and vulnerable
group. More recently, researchers have also turned their attention to the strength... Read More about Transcending borders : social support and resilience, the case of separated children.

M0Droid : an android behavioral-based malware detection model (2015)
Journal Article
Damshenas, M., Dehghantanha, A., Choo, K., & Mahmud, R. (2015). M0Droid : an android behavioral-based malware detection model. Journal of information privacy & security, 11(3), 141-157. https://doi.org/10.1080/15536548.2015.1073510

Anti-mobile malware has attracted the attention of the research and security community in recent
years due to the increasing threat of mobile malware and the significant increase in the number of
mobile devices. M0Droid, a novel Android behavioral-... Read More about M0Droid : an android behavioral-based malware detection model.

High prevalence of trypanosomes in European badgers detected using ITS-PCR (2015)
Journal Article
Ideozu, E., Whiteoak, A., Tomlinson, A., Robertson, A., Delahay, R., & Hide, G. (2015). High prevalence of trypanosomes in European badgers detected using ITS-PCR. Parasites and Vectors, 8(480), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-015-1088-7

Background
Wildlife can be important sources and reservoirs for pathogens. Trypanosome infections are common in many mammalian species, and are pathogenic in some. Molecular detection tools were used to measure trypanosome prevalence in a well-stud... Read More about High prevalence of trypanosomes in European badgers detected using ITS-PCR.

Flood-runoff in semi-arid and sub-humid regions, a case study : a simulation of jianghe watershed in Northern China (2015)
Journal Article
study : a simulation of jianghe watershed in Northern China. Water, 7(9), 5155-5172. https://doi.org/10.3390/w7095155

This paper presents a modeling application of surface runoff using the Hydrologic Modelling System (HEC-HMS). A case study was carried out for the Jianghe watershed, a typical semi-arid and sub-humid geo-climatic region in northern China. Two modelin... Read More about Flood-runoff in semi-arid and sub-humid regions, a case study : a simulation of jianghe watershed in Northern China.

Changes in aortic volumes following endovascular sealing of abdominal aortic aneurysms with the nellix endoprosthesis (2015)
Journal Article
Shaikh, U., Chan, T., Oshin, O., McWilliams, R., Fisher, R., England, A., & Torella, F. (2015). Changes in aortic volumes following endovascular sealing of abdominal aortic aneurysms with the nellix endoprosthesis. Journal of Endovascular Therapy, 22(6), 881-885. https://doi.org/10.1177/1526602815607186

PURPOSE:
To investigate the effects on aortic volumes of endovascular aneurysm sealing (EVAS) with the Nellix device.
METHODS:
Twenty-five consecutive patients (mean age 78±7 years; 17 men) with abdominal aortic aneurysms containing thrombus were... Read More about Changes in aortic volumes following endovascular sealing of abdominal aortic aneurysms with the nellix endoprosthesis.

A correction equation for jump height measured using the just jump system (2015)
Journal Article
McMahon, J., Jones, P., & Comfort, P. (2016). A correction equation for jump height measured using the just jump system. International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance, 11(4), 555-557. https://doi.org/10.1123/ijspp.2015-0194

Purpose: To determine the concurrent validity and reliability of the popular Just Jump system (JJS) for determining jump height and, if necessary, provide a correction equation for future reference. Methods: Eighteen male college athletes performed 3... Read More about A correction equation for jump height measured using the just jump system.

Transcribing screen-capture data : the process of developing a transcription system for multi-modal text-based data (2015)
Journal Article
Meredith, J. (2015). Transcribing screen-capture data : the process of developing a transcription system for multi-modal text-based data. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 19(6), 663-676. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2015.1082291

Transcription of audio data is widespread in qualitative research, with transcription of video data also becoming common. Online data is now being collected using screen-capture or video software, which then needs transcribing. This paper draws toget... Read More about Transcribing screen-capture data : the process of developing a transcription system for multi-modal text-based data.