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Smoke-free legislation and paediatric hospitalisations for acute respiratory tract infections: national quasi-experimental study with unexpected findings and important methodological implications (2017)
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Been, J. V., Mackay, D. F., Millett, C., Soyiri, I., van Schayck, C. P., Pell, J. P., & Sheikh, A. (2018). Smoke-free legislation and paediatric hospitalisations for acute respiratory tract infections: national quasi-experimental study with unexpected findings and important methodological implications. Tobacco Control, 27(e2), e160-e166. https://doi.org/10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2017-053801

Objectives We investigated whether Scottish implementation of smoke-free legislation was associated with a reduction in unplanned hospitalisations or deaths (‘events’) due to respiratory tract infections (RTIs) among children.

Design Interrupted tim... Read More about Smoke-free legislation and paediatric hospitalisations for acute respiratory tract infections: national quasi-experimental study with unexpected findings and important methodological implications.

The 2013 February 17 sunquake in the context of the active region's magnetic field configuration (2017)
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Green, L. M., Valori, G., Zuccarello, F. P., Zharkov, S., Matthews, S. A., & Guglielmino, S. L. (2017). The 2013 February 17 sunquake in the context of the active region's magnetic field configuration. The Astrophysical journal, 849(1), Article 40. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa8db6

© 2017. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. Sunquakes are created by the hydrodynamic response of the lower atmosphere to a sudden deposition of energy and momentum. In this study, we investigate a sunquake that occurred in NOAA a... Read More about The 2013 February 17 sunquake in the context of the active region's magnetic field configuration.

Care and self-reported outcomes of care experienced by women with mental health problems in pregnancy: findings from a national survey (2017)
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Henderson, J., Jomeen, J., & Redshaw, M. (2018). Care and self-reported outcomes of care experienced by women with mental health problems in pregnancy: findings from a national survey. Midwifery, 56, 171-178. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2017.10.020

Background mental health problems in pregnancy and the postnatal period are relatively common and, in pregnancy, are associated with an increase in adverse outcome. It is recommended that all women are asked about their emotional and mental health an... Read More about Care and self-reported outcomes of care experienced by women with mental health problems in pregnancy: findings from a national survey.

Risk factors for negative experiences during psychotherapy (2017)
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Hardy, G. E., Bishop-Edwards, L., Chambers, E., Connell, J., Dent-Brown, K., Kothari, G., O’Hara, R., & Parry, G. D. (2017). Risk factors for negative experiences during psychotherapy. Psychotherapy Research, 29(3), 404-414. https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2017.1393575

Background: It is estimated that between 3% and 15% of patients have a negative experience of psychotherapy, but little is understood about this. Aims: The aim of this study was to investigate the factors associated with patients’ negative therapy ex... Read More about Risk factors for negative experiences during psychotherapy.

Reasoning with BDI robots: from simulation to physical environment – implementations and limitations (2017)
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Davis, D. N., & Ramulu, S. K. (2017). Reasoning with BDI robots: from simulation to physical environment – implementations and limitations. Paladyn journal of behavioural robotics, 8(1), 39-57. https://doi.org/10.1515/pjbr-2017-0003

In this paper an overview of the state of research into cognitive robots is given. This is driven by insights arising from research that has moved from simulation to physical robots over the course of a number of sub-projects. A number of major issue... Read More about Reasoning with BDI robots: from simulation to physical environment – implementations and limitations.

A brighter future : the effect of positive episodic simulation on future predictions in non-depressed, moderately dysphoric & highly dysphoric individuals (2017)
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Boland, J., Riggs, K. J., & Anderson, R. J. (2018). A brighter future : the effect of positive episodic simulation on future predictions in non-depressed, moderately dysphoric & highly dysphoric individuals. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 100, 7-16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2017.10.010

Previous research suggests depressed individuals have difficulties with future directed cognitions. For instance, compared with non-depressed individuals, they predict positive events are less likely to occur. Recent work suggests that episodic simul... Read More about A brighter future : the effect of positive episodic simulation on future predictions in non-depressed, moderately dysphoric & highly dysphoric individuals.

Performing rurality. But who? (2017)
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Dymitrow, M., & Brauer, R. (2017). Performing rurality. But who?. Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series, 38(38), 27-45. https://doi.org/10.1515/bog-2017-0032

Reflective inquiries to better understand ‘the rural’ have tried to embed rural research within the notion of performativity. Performativity assumes that the capacity of language is not simply to communicate but also to consummate action, whereupon c... Read More about Performing rurality. But who?.

RN4CAST@IT-Ped: Nurse staffing and children's safety (2017)
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Sasso, L., Bagnasco, A., Petralia, P., Scelsi, S., Zanini, M., Catania, G., Aleo, G., Dasso, N., Rossi, S., Watson, R., Sermeus, W., Icardi, G., & Aiken, L. H. (2018). RN4CAST@IT-Ped: Nurse staffing and children's safety. Journal of advanced nursing, 74(6), 1223-1225. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.13462

Some authors argue that it is not longer ethically correct to expose hospitalized patients to death risks associated with understaffing (Nickitas, 2014). Also the Care Quality Commission (CQC, an independent regulator of all health and social care se... Read More about RN4CAST@IT-Ped: Nurse staffing and children's safety.

Reversible optical switching memristors with tunable STDP synaptic plasticity: a route to hierarchical control in artificial intelligent systems (2017)
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Jaafar, A. H., Gray, R. J., Verrelli, E., O'Neill, M., Kelly, S. M., & Kemp, N. T. (2017). Reversible optical switching memristors with tunable STDP synaptic plasticity: a route to hierarchical control in artificial intelligent systems. Nanoscale, 9(43), 17091-17098. https://doi.org/10.1039/c7nr06138b

© 2017 The Royal Society of Chemistry. Optical control of memristors opens the route to new applications in optoelectronic switching and neuromorphic computing. Motivated by the need for reversible and latched optical switching we report on the devel... Read More about Reversible optical switching memristors with tunable STDP synaptic plasticity: a route to hierarchical control in artificial intelligent systems.

The Taipan Galaxy Survey: Scientific Goals and Observing Strategy (2017)
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Driver, S. P., Taylor, E. N., Lagos, C., White, M., Bilicki, M., Brown, M. J. I., Bryant, J., Croom, S., Jones, D. H., Koribalski, B., Lorente, N., Tinney, C. G., Tothill, N. F. H., Koribalski, B., Lima Da Cunha, E., Hopkins, A. M., Colless, M., Taylor, E. N. C., Blake, C., Howlett, C., …Watson, F. (2017). The Taipan Galaxy Survey: Scientific Goals and Observing Strategy. Publications / Astronomical Society of Australia, 34, Article ARTN e047. https://doi.org/10.1017/pasa.2017.41

© Astronomical Society of Australia 2017; published by Cambridge University Press. The Taipan galaxy survey (hereafter simply 'Taipan') is a multi-object spectroscopic survey starting in 2017 that will cover 2π steradians over the southern sky (δ ≲ 1... Read More about The Taipan Galaxy Survey: Scientific Goals and Observing Strategy.

High throughput fabrication of cell spheroids by templating water-in-water Pickering emulsions (2017)
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Das, A. A. K., Filby, B. W., Geddes, D. A., Legrande, D., & Paunov, V. N. (2017). High throughput fabrication of cell spheroids by templating water-in-water Pickering emulsions. Materials Horizons, 4(6), 1196-1200. https://doi.org/10.1039/c7mh00677b

© The Royal Society of Chemistry 2017. We report a simple technique for the high throughput generation of tissue spheroids based on the encapsulation of dispersed adherent cells in particle-stabilised water-in-water emulsions. We demonstrate cell enc... Read More about High throughput fabrication of cell spheroids by templating water-in-water Pickering emulsions.

T-spline based unifying registration procedure for free-form surface workpieces in intelligent CMM (2017)
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Han, Z., Wang, Y., Ma, X., Liu, S., Zhang, X., & Zhang, G. (2017). T-spline based unifying registration procedure for free-form surface workpieces in intelligent CMM. Applied Sciences, 7(10), 1092. https://doi.org/10.3390/app7101092

With the development of the modern manufacturing industry, the free-form surface is widely used in various fields, and the automatic detection of a free-form surface is an important function of future intelligent three-coordinate measuring machines (... Read More about T-spline based unifying registration procedure for free-form surface workpieces in intelligent CMM.

Do universal school-based mental health promotion programmes improve the mental health and emotional well-being of young people? : a literature review (2017)
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O'Connor, C. A., Dyson, J., Cowdell, F., & Watson, R. (2018). Do universal school-based mental health promotion programmes improve the mental health and emotional well-being of young people? : a literature review. Journal of clinical nursing, 27(3-4), e412-e426. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.14078

Aim To examine evidence—using a range of outcomes— for the effectiveness of school-based mental health and emotional well-being programmes. Background It is estimated that 20% of young people experience mental health difficulties every year. Schools... Read More about Do universal school-based mental health promotion programmes improve the mental health and emotional well-being of young people? : a literature review.

Service multinational enterprises and linkages development in Pakistan (2017)
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Khan, Z., Park, J.-Y., & Akhtar, P. (2018). Service multinational enterprises and linkages development in Pakistan. Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences / Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l'Administration, 35(3), 473-487. https://doi.org/10.1002/cjas.1457

The development of various types of linkages is key for understanding the impact of multinational enterprises (MNEs) on the economic development of host markets. By utilizing qualitative research approach, this paper investigates the linkages creatio... Read More about Service multinational enterprises and linkages development in Pakistan.

Association between diet quality and adiposity in the Atlantic PATH cohort (2017)
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DeClercq, V., Cui, Y., Forbes, C., Grandy, S. A., Keats, M., Parker, L., Sweeney, E., Yu, Z. M., & Dummer, T. J. (2017). Association between diet quality and adiposity in the Atlantic PATH cohort. Nutrients, 9(10), 1155. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu9101155

The aim of this study was to examine diet quality among participants in the Atlantic Partnership for Tomorrow’s Health (PATH) cohort and to assess the association with adiposity. Data were collected from participants (n = 23,768) aged 35–69 years tha... Read More about Association between diet quality and adiposity in the Atlantic PATH cohort.

Sound transmission loss of hierarchically porous composites produced by hydrogel templating and viscous trapping techniques (2017)
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Thompson, B. R., Taylor, B. L., Qin, Q., Stoyanov, S. D., Horozov, T. S., & Paunov, V. N. (2017). Sound transmission loss of hierarchically porous composites produced by hydrogel templating and viscous trapping techniques. Materials Chemistry Frontiers, 1(12), 2627-2637. https://doi.org/10.1039/c7qm00371d

© 2017 the Partner Organisations. We have developed two different methods for fabrication of hierarchically porous composites which are environmentally friendly, inexpensive and give a large amount of control over the composite microstructure. The hy... Read More about Sound transmission loss of hierarchically porous composites produced by hydrogel templating and viscous trapping techniques.

Genetic variants associated with susceptibility to idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in people of European ancestry: a genome-wide association study (2017)
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Allen, R. J., Porte, J., Braybrooke, R., Flores, C., Fingerlin, T. E., Oldham, J. M., Guillen-Guio, B., Ma, S.-F., Okamoto, T., John, A. E., Obeidat, M., Yang, I. V., Henry, A., Hubbard, R. B., Navaratnam, V., Saini, G., Thompson, N., Booth, H. L., Hart, S. P., Hill, M. R., …Jenkins, R. . G. (2017). Genetic variants associated with susceptibility to idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in people of European ancestry: a genome-wide association study. The lancet. Respiratory medicine, 5(11), 869-880. https://doi.org/10.1016/s2213-2600%2817%2930387-9

Background: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic progressive lung disease with high mortality, uncertain cause and limited treatment options. Recent studies have identified a significant genetic risk associated with the development of IPF... Read More about Genetic variants associated with susceptibility to idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in people of European ancestry: a genome-wide association study.

Fighting over burrows : the emergence of dominance hierarchies in the Norway lobster (Nephrops norvegicus) (2017)
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Sbragaglia, V., Leiva, D., Arias, A., Garcia, J. A., Aguzzi, J., & Breithaupt, T. (2017). Fighting over burrows : the emergence of dominance hierarchies in the Norway lobster (Nephrops norvegicus). The journal of experimental biology, 220(24), 4624-4633. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.165969

Animals fight over resources such as mating partners, territory, food or shelter and repeated contests lead to stable social hierarchies in different phyla. The group dynamics of hierarchy formation are not characterized in the Norway lobsters (Nephr... Read More about Fighting over burrows : the emergence of dominance hierarchies in the Norway lobster (Nephrops norvegicus).

Habitual reflexivity and skilled action (2017)
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Toner, J. (2017). Habitual reflexivity and skilled action. Body and Society, 23(4), 3-26. https://doi.org/10.1177/1357034X17736371

Theorists have used the concept habitus to explain how skilled agents are capable of responding in an infinite number of ways to the infinite number of possible situations that they encounter in their field of practice. According to some perspectives... Read More about Habitual reflexivity and skilled action.