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Is religiosity in a prospective partner always desirable?: The moderating roles of shared social identity and medium of communication when choosing interaction partners (2017)
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Stiff, C. (2017). Is religiosity in a prospective partner always desirable?: The moderating roles of shared social identity and medium of communication when choosing interaction partners. Current Psychology, 494-503. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-016-9437-z

The profession of religion gives rise to myriad inferences and connotations, yet surprisingly little research has examined how it may influence with whom we choose to work. Two experiments conducted at a UK university investigated how religiosity by... Read More about Is religiosity in a prospective partner always desirable?: The moderating roles of shared social identity and medium of communication when choosing interaction partners.

Iodoarene-catalyzed cyclizations of N-propargylamides and β-amidoketones: synthesis of 2-oxazolines (2017)
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Kamouka, S., & Moran, W. J. (2017). Iodoarene-catalyzed cyclizations of N-propargylamides and β-amidoketones: synthesis of 2-oxazolines. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, 13, 1823–1827. https://doi.org/10.3762/bjoc.13.177

Two complementary iodoarene-catalyzed methods for the preparation of 2-oxazolines are presented. The first involves the cyclization of N-propargylamides and the second involves the cyclization of β-amidoketones. These are proposed to proceed through... Read More about Iodoarene-catalyzed cyclizations of N-propargylamides and β-amidoketones: synthesis of 2-oxazolines.

Job insecurity and employee outcomes: the moderating role of collective trust in management (2017)
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Wang, W., Mather, K., & Seifert, R. (2017). Job insecurity and employee outcomes: the moderating role of collective trust in management. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2017(1), 14355. https://doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2017.14355abstract

Contextualized within the widespread cynicism and employment insecurity of the modern British workplace, this article intends to examine the moderating effect of collective trust on the correlation of job insecurity (both subjective and actual) and e... Read More about Job insecurity and employee outcomes: the moderating role of collective trust in management.

Mental health, coercion and family caregiving: issues from the international literature. (2017)
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Rugkåsa, J., & Can, K. (2017). Mental health, coercion and family caregiving: issues from the international literature. BJPsych International, 14(3), 56-58. https://doi.org/10.1192/s2056474000001902

This article summarises current knowledge about two aspects of family care for people with mental illness: potentially pressurising or coercive aspects of family life; and family carers' experiences of being involved in coercive service interventions... Read More about Mental health, coercion and family caregiving: issues from the international literature..

Cross-Species Y Chromosome Function Between Malaria Vectors of the Anopheles gambiae Species Complex (2017)
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Bernardini, F., Galizi, R., Wunderlich, M., Taxiarchi, C., Kranjc, N., Kyrou, K., …Windbichler, N. (2017). Cross-Species Y Chromosome Function Between Malaria Vectors of the Anopheles gambiae Species Complex. Genetics, 729 - 740. https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.117.300221

Y chromosome function, structure and evolution is poorly understood in many species, including the Anopheles genus of mosquitoes-an emerging model system for studying speciation that also represents the major vectors of malaria. While the Anopheline... Read More about Cross-Species Y Chromosome Function Between Malaria Vectors of the Anopheles gambiae Species Complex.

Oral Secretions Affect HIPVs Induced by Generalist (Mythimna loreyi) and Specialist (Parnara guttata) Herbivores in Rice (2017)
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(2017). Oral Secretions Affect HIPVs Induced by Generalist (Mythimna loreyi) and Specialist (Parnara guttata) Herbivores in Rice. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 929 - 943. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10886-017-0882-4

Plants synthesize variable mixtures of herbivore-induced plant volatiles (HIPVs) as part of their evolutionary conserved defense. To elucidate the impact of chewing herbivores with different level of adaptation on HIPV profiles in rice, we measured H... Read More about Oral Secretions Affect HIPVs Induced by Generalist (Mythimna loreyi) and Specialist (Parnara guttata) Herbivores in Rice.

Small is Beautiful? Exploring the Challenges Faced by Trade Union Supported Credit Unions (2017)
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(2017). Small is Beautiful? Exploring the Challenges Faced by Trade Union Supported Credit Unions

The consequences of the financial crisis and successive UK governments’ austerity programmes include the growth of precarious employment, in-work poverty, and financial exclusion. Credit unions have been identified as a solution to the problem of acc... Read More about Small is Beautiful? Exploring the Challenges Faced by Trade Union Supported Credit Unions.

Value of physical tests in diagnosing cervical radiculopathy: a systematic review (2017)
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Thoomes, E. J., van Geest, S., van der Windt, D. A., Falla, D., Verhagen, A. P., Koes, B. W., …Vleggeert-Lankamp, C. L. (2017). Value of physical tests in diagnosing cervical radiculopathy: a systematic review. Spine Journal, 18(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spinee.2017.08.241

Background context In clinical practice, the diagnosis of cervical radiculopathy is based on information from the patient history, physical examination and diagnostic imaging. Various physical tests may be performed, but their diagnostic accuracy is... Read More about Value of physical tests in diagnosing cervical radiculopathy: a systematic review.

Improving recognition of anxiety and depression in rheumatoid arthritis: a qualitative study in a community clinic (2017)
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Machin, A., Hider, S., Dale, N., & Chew-Graham, C. (2017). Improving recognition of anxiety and depression in rheumatoid arthritis: a qualitative study in a community clinic. British Journal of General Practice (BJGP), 67(661), E531-E537. https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp17X691877

BACKGROUND: Comorbid anxiety and depression are common in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) but are often under-recognised and treated, contributing to worse outcomes. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommends that pat... Read More about Improving recognition of anxiety and depression in rheumatoid arthritis: a qualitative study in a community clinic.

The Letting Go: The Horror of Being Orphaned in Nicolas Winding Refn's Cinema (2017)
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featherstone. (2017). The Letting Go: The Horror of Being Orphaned in Nicolas Winding Refn's Cinema. https://doi.org/10.1080/14797585.2017.1369686

In this article, I read the recent cinema of the Danish-American Director Nicolas Winding Refn through a contradictory complex of Freudian–Jungian psychoanalysis, Bataillean philosophy and Buddhist thought. By focusing on Winding Refn’s three most re... Read More about The Letting Go: The Horror of Being Orphaned in Nicolas Winding Refn's Cinema.

Redefining Contractual Capacity?: The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Incapacity Defence in English Contract Law (2017)
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(2017). Redefining Contractual Capacity?: The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Incapacity Defence in English Contract Law. Legal Studies, 493-519. https://doi.org/10.1111/lest.12166

How can the incapacity defence in contract law coexist with the concept of universal legal capacity advanced by the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)? In the absence of clear guidance from the CRPD on the link between le... Read More about Redefining Contractual Capacity?: The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Incapacity Defence in English Contract Law.

'Scary Monsters: The Hopeful Undecidability of David Bowie (1947-2016)' (2017)
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(2017). 'Scary Monsters: The Hopeful Undecidability of David Bowie (1947-2016)'. Law and Humanities, 228-244. https://doi.org/10.1080/17521483.2017.1344478

This article considers, and renders more accessible, the figure of the Monster. It will first provide a theoretical framework for understanding this historical legal category and contemporary social theory template for the outsider. In doing so, it w... Read More about 'Scary Monsters: The Hopeful Undecidability of David Bowie (1947-2016)'.

We may not be buying what the label says on the tin: a cautionary tale from a study of the influence of proteoglycans on nerve growth (2017)
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Owen, S., Fuller, H., Jones, P., Caterson, B., Shirran, S., Botting, C., & Roberts, S. (2017). We may not be buying what the label says on the tin: a cautionary tale from a study of the influence of proteoglycans on nerve growth. International Journal of Experimental Pathology, 98(3), A4

Introduction Commercially sourced preparations of reagents are an essential tool for all our laboratory studies and are assumed to have a certain degree of purity. During a study to determine how different proteoglycan substrates might control ner... Read More about We may not be buying what the label says on the tin: a cautionary tale from a study of the influence of proteoglycans on nerve growth.

Lawyers’ question repetition and children’s responses in Scottish criminal courts (2017)
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Andrews, S. J., & Lamb, M. E. (2017). Lawyers’ question repetition and children’s responses in Scottish criminal courts. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36(1-2), 276-296. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260517725739

This study examined the effects of repeated questions (n = 7,968) on fifty-six 5- to 17-year-olds’ testimony in child sexual abuse cases in Scottish criminal courts. We examined transcripts of direct- and cross-examinations, categorizing how lawyers... Read More about Lawyers’ question repetition and children’s responses in Scottish criminal courts.

The EBLM Project: IV. Spectroscopic orbits of over 100 eclipsing M dwarfs masquerading as transiting hot Jupiters (2017)
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Smalley, Hellier, & Maxted. (2017). The EBLM Project: IV. Spectroscopic orbits of over 100 eclipsing M dwarfs masquerading as transiting hot Jupiters. Astronomy and Astrophysics, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201730993

We present 2271 radial velocity measurements taken on 118 single-line binary stars, taken over eight years with the CORALIE spectrograph. The binaries consist of F/G/K primaries and M dwarf secondaries. They were initially discovered photometrically... Read More about The EBLM Project: IV. Spectroscopic orbits of over 100 eclipsing M dwarfs masquerading as transiting hot Jupiters.

A bone of contention: reflections on the experiences of mature learners in social work education (2017)
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Machin. (2017). A bone of contention: reflections on the experiences of mature learners in social work education. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/KEELE-0000013

Research has found that mature, female social work learners often face barriers to achievement in higher education due to the demands of managing practice placements and classroom learning around caring responsibilities (Lister, 2003). This paper, or... Read More about A bone of contention: reflections on the experiences of mature learners in social work education.