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An empirical approach for automatic face clustering on personal lifelogging images (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Subbaraju, V., Xu, Q., Mandal, B., Li, L., & Lim, J. (2017). An empirical approach for automatic face clustering on personal lifelogging images. . https://doi.org/10.1109/siprocess.2017.8124519

Life-logging applications generate a vast amount of personalized data that provides vital insights into the user's daily life. One such key insight is the people whom the user has come across/interacted with during regular life. This can be obtained... Read More about An empirical approach for automatic face clustering on personal lifelogging images.

Mental health, coercion and family caregiving: issues from the international literature. (2017)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
(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)
Journal Article
(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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
(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)
Journal Article
(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)
Journal Article
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.

Completeness of reporting of overnight hospitalisations to a psoriasis pharmacovigilance register and the National Health Service Wales Informatics Service (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Mason, K. J., Ali, H., Reynolds, N. J., Burden, A. D., Smith, C. H., Evans, I., …Griffiths, C. E. . M. (2017, August). Completeness of reporting of overnight hospitalisations to a psoriasis pharmacovigilance register and the National Health Service Wales Informatics Service. Paper presented at 33rd International Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology & Therapeutic Risk Management, Palais de Congres de Montreal, Montreal, Canada

Background: The British Association of Dermatologists Biologic Interventions Register (BADBIR) is a longitudinal, observational, web-based pharmacovigilance register of patients with moderate-to-severe psoriasis. Patients are currently recruited from... Read More about Completeness of reporting of overnight hospitalisations to a psoriasis pharmacovigilance register and the National Health Service Wales Informatics Service.

Lawyers’ question repetition and children’s responses in Scottish criminal courts (2017)
Journal Article
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.