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An assessment of current regulation of GMOs in the EU and proposals for amending it (2016)
Report
Paskalev, V. (2016). An assessment of current regulation of GMOs in the EU and proposals for amending it. Weymouth, Dorset: Green House

Vesco Paskalev argues that the regulation of GMOs in the EU is a shambles. The main problem lies in a very narrow conception of risk and safety. All the emphasis is wrongly on laboratory tests, and evidence on the wider environmental effects is sca... Read More about An assessment of current regulation of GMOs in the EU and proposals for amending it.

Weaving the past in a fabric: Old Believers' traditional costume (2016)
Journal Article
Clopot, C. (2016). Weaving the past in a fabric: Old Believers' traditional costume. Folklore, 66, 115-132. https://doi.org/10.7592/FEJF2016.66.clopot

© 2016, FB and Media Group of Estonian Literary Museum. All rights reserved. Costume plays an important part in expressing ethnic identity. This article develops an analysis of the Old Believers’ traditional costume in its current usage. To different... Read More about Weaving the past in a fabric: Old Believers' traditional costume.

The effectiveness of different health education strategies in people with pre-diabetes: A randomized controlled trial (2016)
Journal Article
Chang, S., Hayter, M., Yeh, H., Hsieh, T., & Kuo, Y. (2016). The effectiveness of different health education strategies in people with pre-diabetes: A randomized controlled trial. Journal of Health Science, 6(2), 22-29. https://doi.org/10.5923/j.health.20160602.02

Background. People with pre-diabetes often lack knowledge of their risks of developing diabetes. In one of our previous study, Multi-Approach Health Education was shown evidence to be effective on health behavior of reducing risks of developing diabe... Read More about The effectiveness of different health education strategies in people with pre-diabetes: A randomized controlled trial.

Can cognitive biases in robots make more "likeable" human-robot interactions than the robots without such biases : case studies using five biases on humanoid robot (2016)
Journal Article
Biswas, M., & Murray, J. (2016). Can cognitive biases in robots make more "likeable" human-robot interactions than the robots without such biases : case studies using five biases on humanoid robot. International journal of artificial life research, 6(1), 1-29. https://doi.org/10.4018/ijalr.2016010101

The research presented in the paper aims to develop long-term companionship between cognitively imperfect robots and humans. In order to develop cognitively imperfect robot, the research suggests to implement various cognitive biases in a robot's int... Read More about Can cognitive biases in robots make more "likeable" human-robot interactions than the robots without such biases : case studies using five biases on humanoid robot.

How to get the most from a business intelligence application during the post implementation phase? Deep structure transformation at a U.K. retail bank (2016)
Journal Article
Audzeyeva, A., & Hudson, R. (2016). How to get the most from a business intelligence application during the post implementation phase? Deep structure transformation at a U.K. retail bank. European Journal of Information Systems, 25(1), 29-46. https://doi.org/10.1057/ejis.2014.44

© 2016 Operational Research Society Ltd. This paper focuses on the process of maximizing the benefits from a business intelligence (BI) application. A general theoretical framework of analysis is formulated based on previous research into organizatio... Read More about How to get the most from a business intelligence application during the post implementation phase? Deep structure transformation at a U.K. retail bank.

Watching jazz: Encounters with jazz performance on screen (2016)
Book
Elsdon, P. (2016). B. Heile, P. Elsdon, & J. Doctor (Eds.). Watching jazz: Encounters with jazz performance on screen. New York: Oxford University Press

Watching Jazz: Encounters with Jazz Performance on Screen is the first systematic study of jazz on screen media. Where earlier studies have focused almost entirely on the role and portrayal of jazz in Hollywood film, the present book engages with a p... Read More about Watching jazz: Encounters with jazz performance on screen.

Book review: 3x on new dramaturgy and adaptation at Bloomsbury Methuen Drama (2016)
Journal Article
Drabek, P., & Drábek, P. (2016). Book review: 3x on new dramaturgy and adaptation at Bloomsbury Methuen Drama. Theatralia, 19(2), 156-159

Reviews of Margherita LAERA (ed.). Theatre and Adaptation: Return, Rewrite, Repeat. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2014. 284pp. Katalin TRENCSÉNYI and Bernadette COCHRANE (eds.). New Dramaturgy: International Perspectives on Theory and Practice. Lo... Read More about Book review: 3x on new dramaturgy and adaptation at Bloomsbury Methuen Drama.

Bakhtin and theatre? (2016)
Journal Article
Drabek, P., & Drábek, P. (2016). Bakhtin and theatre?. Theatralia, 19(2), 152-155

Review of Dick McCaw. Bakhtin and Theatre: Dialogues with Stanislavsky, Meyerhold and Grotowski. London and New York: Routledge, 2016. 247pp.

Sládkova strukturalistická smršť (2016)
Journal Article
Drabek, P., & Drábek, P. (2016). Sládkova strukturalistická smršť. Theatralia, 19(1), 282-289. https://doi.org/10.5817/TY2016-1-12

Reviewed works: Sládek, Ondřej. Jan Mukařovský: život a dílo. První vydání. Brno: Host, 2015. 446 s. ISBN 978-80-7491-531-4. Sládek, Ondřej. The metamorphoses of Prague School structural poetics. Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, 2015. 196 s. Travaux linguistiq... Read More about Sládkova strukturalistická smršť.

Unfalsified visual servoing for simultaneous object recognition and pose tracking (2016)
Journal Article
Jiang, P., Cheng, Y., Wang, X., & Feng, Z. (2016). Unfalsified visual servoing for simultaneous object recognition and pose tracking. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 46(12), 3032-3046. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCYB.2015.2495157

In a complex environment, simultaneous object recognition and tracking has been one of the challenging topics in computer vision and robotics. Current approaches are usually fragile due to spurious feature matching and local convergence for pose dete... Read More about Unfalsified visual servoing for simultaneous object recognition and pose tracking.

Using microtechnology to evaluate the between and within match variability of professional Twenty20 cricket fast bowlers (2016)
Journal Article
Abt, G., Bray, J., & Fogarty, M. (2016). Using microtechnology to evaluate the between and within match variability of professional Twenty20 cricket fast bowlers. Professional strength and conditioning, 43(December), 19-26

This study assessed the between- and within-match variability of external training load measures during two consecutive Twenty20 cricket seasons in professional fast bowlers. Global positioning system (GPS) and accelerometer data (PlayerLoad™) were c... Read More about Using microtechnology to evaluate the between and within match variability of professional Twenty20 cricket fast bowlers.

Validity of telemetric-derived measures of heart rate variability: a systematic review (2016)
Journal Article
Board, E. M., Ispoglou, T., & Ingle, L. (2016). Validity of telemetric-derived measures of heart rate variability: a systematic review. Journal of exercise physiology online / American Society of Exercise Physiologists, 19(6), 64-84

Heart rate variability (HRV) is a widely accepted indirect measure of autonomic function with widespread application across many settings. Although traditionally measured from the 'gold standard' criterion electrocardiography (ECG), the development o... Read More about Validity of telemetric-derived measures of heart rate variability: a systematic review.

Using statutes and cases in common and civil law (2016)
Journal Article
Lundmark, T., & Waller, H. (2016). Using statutes and cases in common and civil law. Transnational Legal Theory, 7(4), 429-469. https://doi.org/10.1080/20414005.2016.1275590

This paper demonstrates that reasoning with statutes and reasoning with cases are actually one and the same intellectual activity. Further, the reasoning practice of the courts in Germany, California, and England and Wales is identical. This finding... Read More about Using statutes and cases in common and civil law.

Editorial: Bridging the gap between policy and science in assessing the health status of marine ecosystems (2016)
Book Chapter
Elliott, M., Austen, M., Berg, T., Borja, A., Carstensen, J., Cochrane, S., …Snelgrove, P. (in press). Editorial: Bridging the gap between policy and science in assessing the health status of marine ecosystems. In A. Borja, M. Elliott, M. C. Uyarra, J. Carstensen, & M. Mea (Eds.), . https://doi.org/10.3389/978-2-88945-004-6

Human activities,both established and emerging, increasingly affect the provision of marine ecosystem services that deliver societal and economic benefits. Monitoring the status of marine ecosystems and determining how human activities change their c... Read More about Editorial: Bridging the gap between policy and science in assessing the health status of marine ecosystems.

Turf wars : conflict and cooperation in the management of Wallingfen (East Yorkshire), 1281-1781 (2016)
Journal Article
Crouch, D., & McDonagh, B. (2016). Turf wars : conflict and cooperation in the management of Wallingfen (East Yorkshire), 1281-1781. The Agricultural history review, 64(2), 133-156

This paper explores the origins and management of Wallingfen, a large tract of waterlogged marshes and carrs near Howden in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Subject to annual flooding throughout much of its history, the area was utilized by the surround... Read More about Turf wars : conflict and cooperation in the management of Wallingfen (East Yorkshire), 1281-1781.

Postgraduate research students' and their supervisors' attitudes towards supervision (2016)
Journal Article
Ali, P., Watson, R., & Dhingra, K. (2016). Postgraduate research students' and their supervisors' attitudes towards supervision. International Journal of Doctoral Studies, 11, 227-241. https://doi.org/10.28945/3541

There is a need for research exploring postgraduate research students’ expectations from research supervisors, the characteristics of effective student-supervisor relationships, and the opinions of students and supervisors about research supervision.... Read More about Postgraduate research students' and their supervisors' attitudes towards supervision.

Contradiction and radical hope : exploring lived love (2016)
Journal Article
Vulliamy, C. (2016). Contradiction and radical hope : exploring lived love. LIR.journal, 7(16), 74-96

In this article, I explore the contradictions, tensions and hopefulness of love. Participants in my research shared accounts of love that acknowledged the anguish, loss and pain of love in uneven political worlds marked by patriarchal power structure... Read More about Contradiction and radical hope : exploring lived love.