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The views and experiences of nurses and midwives in the provision and management of routine (provider initiated) HIV testing: a systematic review of qualitative evidence (2015)
Journal Article
Evans, C., Nalubega, S., McLuskey, J., Darlington, N., Croston, M., & Bath-Hextall, F. (2015). The views and experiences of nurses and midwives in the provision and management of routine (provider initiated) HIV testing: a systematic review of qualitative evidence. JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports, 13(12), 130-286. doi:10.11124/jbisrir-2015-2345

Background: Global progress towards HIV prevention and care is contingent upon increasing the number of those aware of their status through HIV testing. Provider-initiated HIV testing and counseling is recommended globally as a strategy to enhance up... Read More about The views and experiences of nurses and midwives in the provision and management of routine (provider initiated) HIV testing: a systematic review of qualitative evidence.

The EAP competencies in a group case study project as revealed by a task analysis (2015)
Journal Article
Smith, A. F., & Thondhlana, J. (2015). The EAP competencies in a group case study project as revealed by a task analysis. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 20, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2015.03.001

In EAP in the UK, preparing students for real academic assignments in higher education is a central focus. As assessed group project assignments are becoming increasingly popular in UK universities, this study investigates the demands of a first year... Read More about The EAP competencies in a group case study project as revealed by a task analysis.

Examples of holistic good practices in promoting and protecting mental health in the workplace: current and future challenges (2015)
Journal Article
Sivris, K. C., & Leka, S. (2015). Examples of holistic good practices in promoting and protecting mental health in the workplace: current and future challenges. Safety and Health at Work, 6(4), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shaw.2015.07.002

Background: While attention has been paid to physical risks in the work environment and the promotion of individual employee health, mental health protection and promotion have received much less focus. Psychosocial risk management has not yet been f... Read More about Examples of holistic good practices in promoting and protecting mental health in the workplace: current and future challenges.

Effect of culture medium on propagation and phenotype of corneal stroma-derived stem cells (2015)
Journal Article
Sidney, L. E., Branch, M. J., Dua, H. S., & Hopkinson, A. (2015). Effect of culture medium on propagation and phenotype of corneal stroma-derived stem cells. Cytotherapy, 17(12), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcyt.2015.08.003

Background: The limbal area of the corneal stroma has been identified as a source of mesenchymal-like stem cells, which have potential for exploitation as a cell therapy. However, the optimal culture conditions are disputed and few direct media compa... Read More about Effect of culture medium on propagation and phenotype of corneal stroma-derived stem cells.

The first Facial Landmark Tracking in-the-Wild Challenge: benchmark and results (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Shen, J., Zafeiriou, S., Chrysos, G. G., Kossaifi, J., Tzimiropoulos, G., & Pantic, M. (2015). The first Facial Landmark Tracking in-the-Wild Challenge: benchmark and results.

Detection and tracking of faces in image sequences is among the most well studied problems in the intersection of statistical machine learning and computer vision. Often, tracking and detection methodologies use a rigid representation to describe the... Read More about The first Facial Landmark Tracking in-the-Wild Challenge: benchmark and results.

Response (2015)
Journal Article
Sayers, I., Portelli, M. A., & Siedlinski, M. (2015). Response. FASEB Journal, 29(12), https://doi.org/10.1096/fj.15-1201LTER

We thank Dr. Rasmussen and colleagues for their comments on our work outlined in “Genome-wide protein QTL mapping identifies human plasma kallikrein as a post-translational regulator of serum uPAR levels” (FASEB J. 28, 923–934) and the opportunity to... Read More about Response.

Thin-film transducers for the detection and imaging of Brillouin oscillations in transmission on cultured cells (2015)
Journal Article
Perez-Cota, F., Smith, R. J., Moradi, E., Webb, K. F., & Clark, M. (in press). Thin-film transducers for the detection and imaging of Brillouin oscillations in transmission on cultured cells. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 684(1), https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/684/1/012003

Mechanical imaging and characterisation of biological cells has been a subject of interest for the last twenty years. Ultrasonic imaging based on the scanning acoustic microscope (SAM) and mechanical probing have been extensively reported. Large acou... Read More about Thin-film transducers for the detection and imaging of Brillouin oscillations in transmission on cultured cells.

German as a foreign language in Britain: the history of German as a 'useful' language since 1600 (2015)
Journal Article
McLelland, N. (2015). German as a foreign language in Britain: the history of German as a 'useful' language since 1600. Angermion, 8(1), https://doi.org/10.1515/anger-2015-001

A quarter of a century ago, two essays examined the early history of German as a Foreign Language (GFL) in Britain.2 The present paper revisits the history of GFL at a time of perceived crisis in modern language education, to provide some historical... Read More about German as a foreign language in Britain: the history of German as a 'useful' language since 1600.

‘Promising Spaces’: universities’ critical-moral mission and educative function (2015)
Journal Article
McLean, M. (2015). ‘Promising Spaces’: universities’ critical-moral mission and educative function. Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning, 3(2), https://doi.org/10.14426/cristal.v3i2.52

Attention has been drawn to reduction of universities’ purposes to serve economic interests only. This dissatisfaction has provoked thinking about how to reclaim a critical, moral role for universities in society. Inspired by contemporary utopian stu... Read More about ‘Promising Spaces’: universities’ critical-moral mission and educative function.

Using a central Vehicle Holding Compound (VHC) in an open pipeline automotive order fulfilment system: a simulation study (2015)
Journal Article
MacCarthy, B. L., & Ovutmen, T. (2015). Using a central Vehicle Holding Compound (VHC) in an open pipeline automotive order fulfilment system: a simulation study. International Journal of Production Economics, 170(B), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2015.09.038

Satisfying requests for specific vehicle variants in a timely manner may increase profit margins for the automotive producer and automotive dealers and may reduce the need to incentivise customers financially to make a purchase. Open pipeline order... Read More about Using a central Vehicle Holding Compound (VHC) in an open pipeline automotive order fulfilment system: a simulation study.

Understanding microwave induced sorting of porphyry copper ores (2015)
Journal Article
John, R., Batchelor, A., Ivanov, D., Udoudo, O., Jones, D., Dodds, C., & Kingman, S. (2015). Understanding microwave induced sorting of porphyry copper ores. Minerals Engineering, 84, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mineng.2015.10.006

Global demand for minerals and metals is increasing. It has been established that the impact of mining and mineral processing operations must be reduced to sustainably meet the demands of a low grade future. Successful incorporation of ore sorting in... Read More about Understanding microwave induced sorting of porphyry copper ores.

Online control of reaching and pointing to visual, auditory, and multimodal targets: effects of target modality and method of determining correction latency (2015)
Journal Article
Holmes, N. P., & Dakwar, A. R. (2015). Online control of reaching and pointing to visual, auditory, and multimodal targets: effects of target modality and method of determining correction latency. Vision Research, 117, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2015.08.019

Movements aimed towards objects occasionally have to be adjusted when the object moves. These online adjustments can be very rapid, occurring in as little as 100 ms. More is known about the latency and neural basis of online control of movements to v... Read More about Online control of reaching and pointing to visual, auditory, and multimodal targets: effects of target modality and method of determining correction latency.

Transnational connections, competences and identities: experiences of Chinese international students after their return ‘home’ (2015)
Journal Article
Gu, Q., & Schweisfurth, M. (2015). Transnational connections, competences and identities: experiences of Chinese international students after their return ‘home’. British Educational Research Journal, 41(6), https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3175

International students constitute a substantial and growing mobile population globally. However, as yet, the experiences of returnees and the ways in which their overseas studies impact on their identity and professional and personal lives over time... Read More about Transnational connections, competences and identities: experiences of Chinese international students after their return ‘home’.

Using citizen science data for conservation planning: methods for quality control and downscaling for use in stochastic patch occupancy modelling (2015)
Journal Article
Graham, L. J., Haines-Young, R. H., & Field, R. (2015). Using citizen science data for conservation planning: methods for quality control and downscaling for use in stochastic patch occupancy modelling. Biological Conservation, 192, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2015.09.002

The Incidence Function Model (IFM) has been put forward as a tool for assessing conservation plans. A key benefit of the IFM is low data requirements: widely available species occurrence data and information about land cover. Citizen science is a pro... Read More about Using citizen science data for conservation planning: methods for quality control and downscaling for use in stochastic patch occupancy modelling.

Inter-rater reliability of the AFTD-pitting test among elderly patients in a long-term medical facility (2015)
Journal Article
Dai, M., Sugama, J., Tsuchiya, S., Sato, A., Matsumoto, M., Iuchi, T., …Moffatt, C. J. (2015). Inter-rater reliability of the AFTD-pitting test among elderly patients in a long-term medical facility. https://doi.org/10.15010/LRAP.2015.06.27.02

BACKGROUND and AIM: The pitting test has been reported in various methods as a standard for evaluating chronic oedema, but a unified method has not been determined. This makes it difficult to accurately specify the prevalence of oedema. The present s... Read More about Inter-rater reliability of the AFTD-pitting test among elderly patients in a long-term medical facility.

Impacts of species misidentification on species distribution modeling with presence-only data (2015)
Journal Article
Costa, H., Foody, G. M., Jiménez, S., & Silva, L. (2015). Impacts of species misidentification on species distribution modeling with presence-only data. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 4(4),

Spatial records of species are commonly misidentified, which can change the predicted distribution of a species obtained from a species distribution model (SDM). Experiments were undertaken to predict the distribution of real and simulated species us... Read More about Impacts of species misidentification on species distribution modeling with presence-only data.

A Variable Neighbourhood Search for nurse scheduling with balanced preference satisfaction (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Constantino, A. A., Tozzo, E., Pinheiro, R. L., Landa-Silva, D., & Romão, W. (2015). A Variable Neighbourhood Search for nurse scheduling with balanced preference satisfaction.

The nurse scheduling problem (NSP) is a combinatorial optimisation problem widely tackled in the literature. Recently, a new variant of this problem was proposed, called nurse scheduling problem with balanced preference satisfaction (NSPBPS). This pa... Read More about A Variable Neighbourhood Search for nurse scheduling with balanced preference satisfaction.