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Is regular systemic opioid analgesia associated with shorter survival in adult patients with cancer? : a systematic literature review (2015)
Journal Article
Boland, J. W., Ziegler, L., Boland, E. G., McDermid, K., & Bennett, M. I. (2015). Is regular systemic opioid analgesia associated with shorter survival in adult patients with cancer? : a systematic literature review. Pain, 156(11), 2152-2163. https://doi.org/10.1097/j.pain.0000000000000306

© 2015 International Association for the Study of Pain. Opioids are important in the management of pain in patients with cancer. Clinicians and patients are sometimes concerned about the effect of opioids on survival, which might decrease opioid pres... Read More about Is regular systemic opioid analgesia associated with shorter survival in adult patients with cancer? : a systematic literature review.

Noise control of dipole source by using micro-perforated panel housing (2015)
Journal Article
Xi, Q., Choy, Y. S., Cheng, L., & Tang, S. K. (2016). Noise control of dipole source by using micro-perforated panel housing. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 362, 39-55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsv.2015.09.047

Mitigating low-frequency noise in a small ducted fan system such as hairdryer is still a technical challenge. Traditional duct lining with porous materials work ineffectively due to the limitation of its thickness and length of small domestic product... Read More about Noise control of dipole source by using micro-perforated panel housing.

The concept of non-international armed conflict (2015)
Book Chapter
Moir, L. (2015). The concept of non-international armed conflict. In A. Clapham, P. Gaeta, & M. Sassòli (Eds.), The 1949 Geneva Conventions: A Commentary (391-414). Oxford University Press

Gestire la popolazione detenuta: mutamenti e continuità nelle politiche di governo dei flussi carcerari (2015)
Journal Article
Santorso, S. (2015). Gestire la popolazione detenuta: mutamenti e continuità nelle politiche di governo dei flussi carcerari. Sociologia del diritto, 147-182. https://doi.org/10.3280/sd2015-002006

L'intento di questo scritto è fornire una panoramica sui mutamenti della popolazione detenuta e sulle politiche di gestione dei flussi carcerari. A tal fine sono stati analizzati, attraverso una comparazione diacronica, dati e politiche relativi alle... Read More about Gestire la popolazione detenuta: mutamenti e continuità nelle politiche di governo dei flussi carcerari.

Effects of exercise dose on endogenous estrogens in postmenopausal women: A randomized trial (2015)
Journal Article
Friedenreich, C. M., Neilson, H. K., Wang, Q., Stanczyk, F. Z., Yasui, Y., Duha, A., MacLaughlin, S., Kallal, C., Forbes, C. C., & Courneya, K. S. (2015). Effects of exercise dose on endogenous estrogens in postmenopausal women: A randomized trial. Endocrine-Related Cancer, 22(5), 863-876. https://doi.org/10.1530/ERC-15-0243

Exercise dose comparison trials with biomarker outcomes can identify the amount of exercise required to reduce breast cancer risk and also strengthen the causal inference between physical activity and breast cancer. The Breast Cancer and Exercise Tri... Read More about Effects of exercise dose on endogenous estrogens in postmenopausal women: A randomized trial.

Self-reported symptoms after induced and inhibited bronchoconstriction in athletes (2015)
Journal Article
Simpson, A. J., Romer, L. M., & Kippelen, P. (2015). Self-reported symptoms after induced and inhibited bronchoconstriction in athletes. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 47(10), 2005-2013. https://doi.org/10.1249/mss.0000000000000646

Purpose: A change in the perception of respiratory symptoms
after treatment with inhaled beta2 agonists is often used to aid diagnosis of exercise-induced bronchoconstriction (EIB). Our aim was to test the association between subjective ratings of r... Read More about Self-reported symptoms after induced and inhibited bronchoconstriction in athletes.

An argument for physician-assisted suicide and against euthanasia (2015)
Journal Article
Cohen-Almagor, R. (2015). An argument for physician-assisted suicide and against euthanasia. Ethics, Medicine and Public Health, 1(4), 431-441. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jemep.2015.10.011

The article opens with the hypothesis that the default position that should guide healthcare providers when treating patients at the end-of-life is that patients opt for life. In the absence of an explicit request to die, we may assume that patients... Read More about An argument for physician-assisted suicide and against euthanasia.

Barriers and solutions to innovation in teacher education (2015)
Journal Article
Burden, K., & Jones, S. (2015). Barriers and solutions to innovation in teacher education. Elearning papers, 60-63

This article proposes how mobile technologies are being employed innovatively in teacher education across the European Union, contributing to an adjustment in teacher training models. It identifies various barriers and challenges to innovation and il... Read More about Barriers and solutions to innovation in teacher education.

A test of the biogenicity criteria established for microfossils and stromatolites on quaternary tufa and speleothem materials formed in the “Twilight zone” at Caerwys, UK (2015)
Journal Article
Brasier, A. T., Rogerson, M. R., Mercedes-Martin, R., Vonhof, H. B., & Reijmer, J. J. G. (2015). A test of the biogenicity criteria established for microfossils and stromatolites on quaternary tufa and speleothem materials formed in the “Twilight zone” at Caerwys, UK. Astrobiology, 15(10), 883-900. https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2015.1293

© 2015, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. The ability to distinguish the features of a chemical sedimentary rock that can only be attributed to biology is a challenge relevant to both geobiology and astrobiology. This study aimed to test criteria for recognizin... Read More about A test of the biogenicity criteria established for microfossils and stromatolites on quaternary tufa and speleothem materials formed in the “Twilight zone” at Caerwys, UK.

UK-China collaboration for industrial symbiosis: A multi-level approach to policy transfer analysis (2015)
Book Chapter
Wang, Q., Deutz, P., & Gibbs, D. (2015). UK-China collaboration for industrial symbiosis: A multi-level approach to policy transfer analysis. In P. Deutz, D. I. Lyons, & J. Bi (Eds.), International Perspectives on Industrial Ecology (89-107). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781003572.00014

6. UK-China collaboration for industrial symbiosis: a multi--level approach to policy transfer analysis Qiaozhi Wang, Pauline Deutz and David Gibbs INTRODUCTION Over the last two decades there has been substantial research on both the potential a….

Selective oxidation of cyclohexene through gold functionalized silica monolith microreactors (2015)
Journal Article
Alotaibi, M. T., Taylor, M. J., Liu, D., Beaumont, S. K., & Kyriakou, G. (2016). Selective oxidation of cyclohexene through gold functionalized silica monolith microreactors. Surface science, 646, 179-185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.susc.2015.10.039

Two simple, reproducible methods of preparing evenly distributed Au nanoparticle containing mesoporous silica monoliths are investigated. These Au nanoparticle containing monoliths are subsequently investigated as flow reactors for the selective oxid... Read More about Selective oxidation of cyclohexene through gold functionalized silica monolith microreactors.

Introducing an international perspective on industrial ecology (2015)
Book Chapter
Deutz, P., & Lyons, D. I. (2015). Introducing an international perspective on industrial ecology. In P. Deutz, D. I. Lyons, & J. Bi (Eds.), International Perspectives on Industrial Ecology (1-11). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781003572.00009

Abstract: The aim of this book is to promote a debate about the relationship between industrial ecology (IE), as a business, community and academic endeavour, and the places in the world where examples of industrial ecology can be found. We present a... Read More about Introducing an international perspective on industrial ecology.

Hayton, East Yorkshire: Archaeological Studies of the Iron Age and Roman Landscapes (2015)
Book
Woodhouse, H., Millett, M., & Halkon, P. (Eds.). (2015). Hayton, East Yorkshire: Archaeological Studies of the Iron Age and Roman Landscapes. Leeds: Yorkshire Archaeological Society

This volume presents the results of fieldwork and artefact research that began in 1993 and continued until 2011. It is the third volume from a long term research programme focussed on East Yorkshire that has also produced two other major publications... Read More about Hayton, East Yorkshire: Archaeological Studies of the Iron Age and Roman Landscapes.

Measuring performance of non-profit organisations: evidence from large charities (2015)
Journal Article
Boateng, A., Akamavi, R. K., & Ndoro, G. (2016). Measuring performance of non-profit organisations: evidence from large charities. Business ethics : a European review, 25(1), 59-74. https://doi.org/10.1111/beer.12108

How to measure performance in charitable organisations continues to excite interest among academics and practitioners. Despite the intellectual interest, little consensus has emerged as to what are the best measures of performance in charities. This... Read More about Measuring performance of non-profit organisations: evidence from large charities.

The behaviour and recovery of juvenile lemon sharks Negaprion brevirostris in response to external accelerometer tag attachment (2015)
Journal Article
Bullock, R. W., Guttridge, T. L., Cowx, I. G., Elliott, M., & Gruber, S. H. (2015). The behaviour and recovery of juvenile lemon sharks Negaprion brevirostris in response to external accelerometer tag attachment. Journal of fish biology, 87(6), 1342-1354. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.12808

© 2015 The Fisheries Society of the British Isles. Behavioural responses of lemon sharks Negaprion brevirostris to a fin-mounted tag package (CEFAS G6A tri-axial accelerometer with epoxied Sonotronics PT4 acoustic transmitter) were measured in a cont... Read More about The behaviour and recovery of juvenile lemon sharks Negaprion brevirostris in response to external accelerometer tag attachment.

Heartbeat of the Sun from principal component analysis and prediction of solar activity on a millenium timescale (2015)
Journal Article
Zharkova, V. V., Shepherd, S. J., Popova, E., & Zharkov, S. I. (2015). Heartbeat of the Sun from principal component analysis and prediction of solar activity on a millenium timescale. Scientific reports, 5(1), Article ARTN 15689. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep15689

We derive two principal components (PCs) of temporal magnetic field variations over the solar cycles 21–24 from full disk magnetograms covering about 39% of data variance, with σ = 0.67. These PCs are attributed to two main magnetic waves travelling... Read More about Heartbeat of the Sun from principal component analysis and prediction of solar activity on a millenium timescale.

Spatiotemporal data mining: A computational perspective (2015)
Journal Article
Shekhar, S., Jiang, Z., Ali, R. Y., Eftelioglu, E., Tang, X., Gunturi, V. M., & Zhou, X. (2015). Spatiotemporal data mining: A computational perspective. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 4(4), 2306-2338. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi4042306

Explosive growth in geospatial and temporal data as well as the emergence of new technologies emphasize the need for automated discovery of spatiotemporal knowledge. Spatiotemporal data mining studies the process of discovering interesting and previo... Read More about Spatiotemporal data mining: A computational perspective.

Implementing health promotion programmes in schools: A realist systematic review of research and experience in the United Kingdom (2015)
Journal Article
Pearson, M., Chilton, R., Wyatt, K., Abraham, C., Ford, T., Woods, H., & Anderson, R. (2015). Implementing health promotion programmes in schools: A realist systematic review of research and experience in the United Kingdom. Implementation Science, 10(1), Article 149. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-015-0338-6

Background
Schools have long been viewed as a good setting in which to encourage healthy lifestyles amongst children, and schools in many countries aspire to more comprehensive, integrated approaches to health promotion. Recent reviews have identifie... Read More about Implementing health promotion programmes in schools: A realist systematic review of research and experience in the United Kingdom.

Bodily crises in skilled performance: Considering the need for artistic habits (2015)
Journal Article
Toner, J., Jones, L., & Moran, A. (2016). Bodily crises in skilled performance: Considering the need for artistic habits. Performance enhancement & health, 4(1-2), 50-57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.peh.2015.10.001

Empirical evidence demonstrates that performing artists are confronted by a variety of ‘bodily crises’ (e.g., injury, attrition of habits induced by ageing) over the course of their careers (Wainwright, Williams, & Turner, 2005). Such crises may pres... Read More about Bodily crises in skilled performance: Considering the need for artistic habits.