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A mixed study systematic review of social media in nursing and midwifery education: Protocol (2017)
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O'Connor, S., Jolliffe, S., Stanmore, E., Renwick, L., Schmitt, T., & Booth, R. (2017). A mixed study systematic review of social media in nursing and midwifery education: Protocol. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 73(8), 1989-1996. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.13310

Aim: To synthesize evidence on the use of social media in nursing and midwifery education. Background: Social media is one type of online platform that is being explored to determine if there is value in using interactive, digital communication tool... Read More about A mixed study systematic review of social media in nursing and midwifery education: Protocol.

Screening for atrial fibrillation: a report of the AF-screen international collaboration. (2017)
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Freedman, B., Camm, J., Calkins, H., Healey, J. S., Rosenqvist, M., Wang, J., Albert, C. M., Anderson, C. S., Antoniou, S., Benjamin, E. J., Boriani, G., Brachmann, J., Brandes, A., Chao, T., Conen, D., Engdahl, J., Fauchier, L., Fitzmaurice, D. A., Friberg, L., Gersh, B. J., …Yan, B. P. (2017). Screening for atrial fibrillation: a report of the AF-screen international collaboration. Circulation, 135(19), 1851-1867. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.116.026693

Approximately 10% of ischemic strokes are associated with atrial fibrillation (AF) first diagnosed at the time of stroke. Detecting asymptomatic AF would provide an opportunity to prevent these strokes by instituting appropriate anticoagulation. The... Read More about Screening for atrial fibrillation: a report of the AF-screen international collaboration..

A screening tool for predicting gatekeeping behaviour (2017)
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Snowden, A., & Young, J. (2017). A screening tool for predicting gatekeeping behaviour. Nursing Open, 4(4), 187-199. https://doi.org/10.1002/nop2.83

Aim: To develop a typology and screening tool for gatekeeping behaviours by nurses responsible for recruitment in palliative care research. Design: Concurrent analysis. Method: Two focus groups were conducted in 2015 with nine qualified hospice commu... Read More about A screening tool for predicting gatekeeping behaviour.

Insights from measuring pollen deposition: quantifying the pre-eminence of bees as flower visitors and effective pollinators (2017)
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Willmer, P. G., Cunnold, H., & Ballantyne, G. (2017). Insights from measuring pollen deposition: quantifying the pre-eminence of bees as flower visitors and effective pollinators. Arthropod-Plant Interactions, 11(3), 411-425. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11829-017-9528-2

Using our accumulated datasets from Kenyan savanna, Mediterranean garigue, UK gardens and heathland, involving 76 plants from 30 families, we present detailed data to quantify the superiority of bees as pollinators of most flowering plants when compa... Read More about Insights from measuring pollen deposition: quantifying the pre-eminence of bees as flower visitors and effective pollinators.

Police custody delivery in the twenty-first century in England and Wales: current arrangements and their implications for patterns of policing. (2017)
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Skinns, L., Sprawson, A., Sorsby, A., Smith, R., & Wooff, A. (2017). Police custody delivery in the twenty-first century in England and Wales: current arrangements and their implications for patterns of policing. European Journal of Policing Studies, 4(3), 325-348

Since the 1980s, police custody in England and Wales has experienced civilianization and privatization of roles once performed by the police. The purposes of this paper are to explore these organisational arrangements and to reflect on what they reve... Read More about Police custody delivery in the twenty-first century in England and Wales: current arrangements and their implications for patterns of policing..

A Normalization Mechanism for Estimating Visual Motion across Speeds and Scales (2017)
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Gekas, N., Meso, A. I., Masson, G. S., & Mamassian, P. (2017). A Normalization Mechanism for Estimating Visual Motion across Speeds and Scales. Current Biology, 27(10), 1514-1520.e3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.04.022

Interacting with the natural environment leads to complex stimulations of our senses. Here we focus on the estimation of visual speed, a critical source of information for the survival of many animal species as they monitor moving prey or approaching... Read More about A Normalization Mechanism for Estimating Visual Motion across Speeds and Scales.

Learning and unlearning dignity in care: Experiential and experimental educational approaches (2017)
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Kyle, R. G., Medford, W., Blundell, J., Webster, E., Munoz, S., & Macaden, L. (2017). Learning and unlearning dignity in care: Experiential and experimental educational approaches. Nurse Education in Practice, 25, 50-56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2017.05.001

Guarding against loss of human dignity is fundamental to nursing practice. It is assumed in the existing literature that ‘dignity’ as a concept and ‘dignity in care’ as a practice in amenable to education. Building on this assumption, a range of expe... Read More about Learning and unlearning dignity in care: Experiential and experimental educational approaches.

Travel plans for new developments: a global review (2017)
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De Gruyter, C., Rose, G., Currie, G., Rye, T., & van de Graaff, E. (2017). Travel plans for new developments: a global review. Transport Reviews, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/01441647.2017.1322643

A travel plan is a mechanism for delivering a package of transport measures at a site to manage car use and encourage the use of more sustainable forms of transport. In recent years, travel plans have been required for new infill and greenfield devel... Read More about Travel plans for new developments: a global review.

Biased escorts: offspring sex, not relatedness explains alloparental care patterns in a cooperative breeder (2017)
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Vitikainen, E. I. K., Marshall, H. H., Thompson, F. J., Sanderson, J. L., Bell, M. B. V., Gilchrist, J. S., Hodge, S. J., Nichols, H. J., & Cant, M. A. (2017). Biased escorts: offspring sex, not relatedness explains alloparental care patterns in a cooperative breeder. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 284(1854), 20162384. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.2384

Kin selection theory predicts that animals should direct costly care where inclusive fitness gains are highest. Individuals may achieve this by directing care at closer relatives, yet evidence for such discrimination in vertebrates is equivocal. We i... Read More about Biased escorts: offspring sex, not relatedness explains alloparental care patterns in a cooperative breeder.

From cooperative practice to research and back: Learning from the emotional experience of ethnography with two social enterprises (2017)
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Langmead, K. (2017). From cooperative practice to research and back: Learning from the emotional experience of ethnography with two social enterprises. Social enterprise journal, 13(2), 194-212. https://doi.org/10.1108/sej-07-2016-0028

Purpose This paper aims to explore how experiences and emotions arising from the performance of ethnography shape the construction of knowledge about democratic practice in two social enterprises. It argues that ethnographers can develop a more nuan... Read More about From cooperative practice to research and back: Learning from the emotional experience of ethnography with two social enterprises.

Tracking the imagined audience: A case study on Nike’s use of Twitter for B2C interaction (2017)
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Au Duong, J., & Zeller, F. (2017). Tracking the imagined audience: A case study on Nike’s use of Twitter for B2C interaction. First Monday, 22(5), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v22i5.6607

Social media platforms have become the new centre of attention in business-to-consumer (B2C) communication. These interactions provide a rich source of information for businesses in terms of their customers’ preferences, backgrounds and behaviour. We... Read More about Tracking the imagined audience: A case study on Nike’s use of Twitter for B2C interaction.

A Design of an Agent Based System for Timetabling (2017)
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Babaagba, K., & Arekete, S. (2017). A Design of an Agent Based System for Timetabling. International Journal of Engineering Development and Research, 5(2), 1168-1175

Time tabling forms an important part of most educational systems. This is because most educational institutes largely rely on time tables for their day to day activities. A number of these institutions rather use the very strenuous and slow manual ti... Read More about A Design of an Agent Based System for Timetabling.

A Review of Agent Based University Course Time Tabling Systems (2017)
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Babaagba, K., & Arekete, S. (2017). A Review of Agent Based University Course Time Tabling Systems. International Journal of Engineering Development and Research, 5(2), 566-568

In this paper, we carry out an extensive survey of various mobile agent systems that have been utilized in solving university course time tabling problem. University time tabling is an NP-hard problem which has been researched by vast amount of resea... Read More about A Review of Agent Based University Course Time Tabling Systems.

Pacing Strategy During 24-Hour Ultramarathon-Distance Running (2017)
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Bossi, A. H., Matta, G. G., Millet, G. Y., Lima, P., Pertence, L. C., de Lima, J. P., & Hopker, J. G. (2017). Pacing Strategy During 24-Hour Ultramarathon-Distance Running. International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance, 12(5), 590-596. https://doi.org/10.1123/ijspp.2016-0237

Purpose: To describe pacing strategy in a 24-h running race and its interaction with sex, age group, athletes’ performance group, and race edition. Methods: Data from 398 male and 103 female participants of 5 editions were obtained based on a mi... Read More about Pacing Strategy During 24-Hour Ultramarathon-Distance Running.

Motion correlation: selecting objects by matching their movement (2017)
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Velloso, E., Carter, M., Newn, J., Esteves, A., Gellersen, H., & Clarke, C. (2017). Motion correlation: selecting objects by matching their movement. ACM transactions on computer-human interaction, 24(3), Article 22. https://doi.org/10.1145/3064937

Selection is a canonical task in user interfaces, commonly supported by presenting objects for acquisition by pointing. In this article, we consider motion correlation as an alternative for selection. The principle is to represent available objects b... Read More about Motion correlation: selecting objects by matching their movement.

Microblog Retrieval Using Ensemble of Feature Sets through Supervised Feature Selection (2017)
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Chy, A. N., Ullah, M. Z., & Aono, M. (2017). Microblog Retrieval Using Ensemble of Feature Sets through Supervised Feature Selection. IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, 100(4), 793-806. https://doi.org/10.1587/transinf.2016DAP0032

Microblog, especially twitter, has become an integral part of our daily life for searching latest news and events information. Due to the short length characteristics of tweets and frequent use of unconventional abbreviations, content-relevance based... Read More about Microblog Retrieval Using Ensemble of Feature Sets through Supervised Feature Selection.

SCIPS: Using Experiential Learning to Raise Cyber Situational Awareness in Industrial Control System (2017)
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Cook, A., Smith, R. G., Maglaras, L., & Janicke, H. (2017). SCIPS: Using Experiential Learning to Raise Cyber Situational Awareness in Industrial Control System. International Journal of Cyber Warfare and Terrorism, 7(2), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.4018/ijcwt.2017040101

The cyber threat to industrial control systems is an acknowledged security issue, but a qualified dataset to quantify the risk remains largely unavailable. Senior executives of facilities that operate these systems face competing requirements for inv... Read More about SCIPS: Using Experiential Learning to Raise Cyber Situational Awareness in Industrial Control System.

Guidelines, law, and governance: disconnects in the global control of airline-associated infectious diseases (2017)
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Grout, A., Howard, N., Coker, R., & Speakman, E. M. (2017). Guidelines, law, and governance: disconnects in the global control of airline-associated infectious diseases. Lancet Infectious Diseases, 17(4), e118-e122. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099%2816%2930476-5

International air travel is increasingly affecting the epidemiology of infectious diseases. A particular public health, economic, and political concern is the role of air travel in bringing infectious passengers or vectors to previously non-endemic a... Read More about Guidelines, law, and governance: disconnects in the global control of airline-associated infectious diseases.

If not now, when? Time for the European Union to define a global health strategy (2017)
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Speakman, E. M., McKee, M., & Coker, R. (2017). If not now, when? Time for the European Union to define a global health strategy. Lancet Global Health, 5(4), e392-e393. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X%2817%2930085-2

Speakman, E. M., McKee, M., & Coker, R. (2017). If not now, when? Time for the European Union to define a global health strategy. Lancet Global Health, 5(4), e392-e393. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X%2817%2930085-2