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Using the Theory of Planned Behaviour to Explain Use of Traditional Chinese Medicine among Hong Kong Chinese in Britain (2015)
Journal Article
Rochelle, T., Shardlow, S., & Ng, S. (2015). Using the Theory of Planned Behaviour to Explain Use of Traditional Chinese Medicine among Hong Kong Chinese in Britain. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 2015, 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/564648

The UK Chinese are known for their underutilisation of western healthcare services. Reasons for this underutilisation are complex. The Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) is a widely used model of social cognition, which in the present study is being a... Read More about Using the Theory of Planned Behaviour to Explain Use of Traditional Chinese Medicine among Hong Kong Chinese in Britain.

Echinococcus multilocularis in Kyrgyzstan: similarity in the Asian EmsB genotypic profiles from village populations of Eastern mole voles (Ellobius tancrei) and dogs in the Alay valley (2015)
Journal Article
Afonso, E., Knapp, J., Tête, N., Umhang, G., Rieffel, D., van Kesteren, F., …Giraudoux, P. (2015). Echinococcus multilocularis in Kyrgyzstan: similarity in the Asian EmsB genotypic profiles from village populations of Eastern mole voles (Ellobius tancrei) and dogs in the Alay valley. Journal of Helminthology, 89(06), 664-670. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022149X15000474

Echinococcus multilocularis is a cestode that causes human alveolar echinococcosis, a lethal zoonosis of public health concern in central Asia and western China. In the present study, one of 42 Eastern mole voles (Ellobius tancrei) caught in Sary Mog... Read More about Echinococcus multilocularis in Kyrgyzstan: similarity in the Asian EmsB genotypic profiles from village populations of Eastern mole voles (Ellobius tancrei) and dogs in the Alay valley.

Laughter as the best medicine : exploring humour-mediated health applications (2015)
Journal Article
Dormann, C. (2015). Laughter as the best medicine : exploring humour-mediated health applications. Lecture notes in computer science, 9189, 639-650. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20804-6_58

Despite the physiological and psychological benefits of humour on health, many health applications for aging hold very little humour. We investigate the potential of humour in health for aging, reviewing studies from humour therapy. To show the poten... Read More about Laughter as the best medicine : exploring humour-mediated health applications.

The influence of trunk extension in using advanced reciprocating gait orthosis on walking in spinal cord injury patients : a pilot study (2015)
Journal Article
Arazpour, M., Gharib, M., Hutchins, S., Bani, M., Curran, S., Mousavi, M., & Saberi, H. (2015). The influence of trunk extension in using advanced reciprocating gait orthosis on walking in spinal cord injury patients : a pilot study. Prosthetics and Orthotics International, 39(4), 286-292. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309364614531010

Background: Spinal cord injury patients walk with a flexed trunk when using reciprocating gait orthoses. Reduction of trunk flexion during ambulation may produce an improvement in gait parameters for reciprocating gait orthosis users.


Objective... Read More about The influence of trunk extension in using advanced reciprocating gait orthosis on walking in spinal cord injury patients : a pilot study.

Does the use of a university lecturer as a visiting tutor support learning and assessment during physiotherapy students’ clinical placements? A survey of higher education institution providers (2015)
Journal Article
Dean, M., & Levis, A. (2015). Does the use of a university lecturer as a visiting tutor support learning and assessment during physiotherapy students’ clinical placements? A survey of higher education institution providers. Physiotherapy, 102(4), 365-370. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physio.2015.08.010

Objectives

To establish the rationale for using a lecturer as a visiting tutor, and to identify the activities undertaken during clinical placements to support student learning and assessment in practice.

Design

A secure electronic survey wa... Read More about Does the use of a university lecturer as a visiting tutor support learning and assessment during physiotherapy students’ clinical placements? A survey of higher education institution providers.

The efficacy of foot orthoses on alteration to center of pressure displacement in subjects with flat and normal feet : a literature review (2015)
Journal Article
Aboutorabi, A., Arazpour, M., Hutchins, S., Curran, S., & Maleki, M. (2015). The efficacy of foot orthoses on alteration to center of pressure displacement in subjects with flat and normal feet : a literature review. Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, 10(6), 439-444. https://doi.org/10.3109/17483107.2014.913716

Purpose: The aim of this review was to evaluate and compare the effect of foot orthoses on center of pressure (CoP) displacement in healthy patients and those with flat foot. Method: The search strategy was based on the Population Intervention Compar... Read More about The efficacy of foot orthoses on alteration to center of pressure displacement in subjects with flat and normal feet : a literature review.

Re-writing the city (2015)
Book Chapter
Abel, P., Schliwa, G., Lindley, J., Turner, S., Devitt, J., MacDonald, J., …Barraclough, R. (2015). Re-writing the city. In Proceedings of the 2015 British HCI Conference on - British HCI '15 (147-156). ACM Digital Library. https://doi.org/10.1145/2783446.2783562

This paper is an output of a two day 'Festival Lab' held at the Future Everything Festival, Manchester, UK, March 2015. The Festival Lab invited a team of academic researchers to develop a model of public engagement during the festival that would exp... Read More about Re-writing the city.

Framework for cloud computing adoption : a roadmap for SMEs to cloud migration (2015)
Journal Article
Khan, N., & Al-Yasiri, A. (2015). Framework for cloud computing adoption : a roadmap for SMEs to cloud migration. International journal of cloud computing : service and architecture (Print), 5(5/6), 01-15. https://doi.org/10.5121/ijccsa.2015.5601

Small and Medium size Enterprises (SME) are considered as a backbone of many developing and developed economies of the world; they are the driving force to any major economy across the globe. Through Cloud Computing firms outsource their entire infor... Read More about Framework for cloud computing adoption : a roadmap for SMEs to cloud migration.

Drawing from the well of community participation: an evaluation of the utility of local knowledge in the health impact assessment process (2015)
Journal Article
Chilaka, M. (2015). Drawing from the well of community participation: an evaluation of the utility of local knowledge in the health impact assessment process. Community Development, 46(2), 100-110. https://doi.org/10.1080/15575330.2015.1014060

Engagement with local residents is increasingly being used as a source of evidence for making health impact assessment (HIA) predictions. However, there have been criticisms about the community engagement process and the value of evidence derived fro... Read More about Drawing from the well of community participation: an evaluation of the utility of local knowledge in the health impact assessment process.

Thank You! [Editorial] (2015)
Journal Article
McLaughlin, H., & Scholar, H. (2015). Thank You! [Editorial]. Social Work Education, 34(2), 137-137. https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2014.997914

Dispersion phenomena in symmetric pre-stressed layered elastic structures (2015)
Journal Article
Lashhab, M., Rogerson, G., & Sandiford, K. (2015). Dispersion phenomena in symmetric pre-stressed layered elastic structures. International Journal of Solids and Structures, 58, 220-232. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2015.01.006

The dispersion relation associated with a symmetric three layer structure, composed of compressible, pre-stressed elastic layers, is derived. This mathematically elaborate transcendental equation gives phase speed as an implicit function of wave numb... Read More about Dispersion phenomena in symmetric pre-stressed layered elastic structures.

Learning patient safety in academic settings : a comparative study of Finnish and British nursing students’ perceptions (2015)
Journal Article
Tella, S., Smith, N., Partanen, P., & Turunen, H. (2015). Learning patient safety in academic settings : a comparative study of Finnish and British nursing students’ perceptions. Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing, 12(3), 154-164. https://doi.org/10.1111/wvn.12088

Background: Globalization of health care demands nursing education programs that equip students with evidence-based patient safety competences in the global context. Nursing students' entrance into clinical placements requires professional readiness.... Read More about Learning patient safety in academic settings : a comparative study of Finnish and British nursing students’ perceptions.

Strategies and incentives for enhancing the application of health impact assessment (HIA) in Nigeria: a view from those who should know (2015)
Journal Article
Chilaka, M., & Ndioho, I. (2015). Strategies and incentives for enhancing the application of health impact assessment (HIA) in Nigeria: a view from those who should know. International Journal of Health Promotion and Education, 53(4), 172-179. https://doi.org/10.1080/14635240.2014.983276

In consonance with the paradigm shift from curative to more preventive healthcare, there has been an increasing application of health impact assessment (HIA) in many developed countries. However, progress towards the integration of HIA into public po... Read More about Strategies and incentives for enhancing the application of health impact assessment (HIA) in Nigeria: a view from those who should know.