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    • The blue straggler stars of galactic clusters 

      Schonberner, D.; Napiwotzki, R. (Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1993)
      The origin and evolution of blue straggler stars (BS) in clusters is still an unsolved problem for our understanding of stellar evolution. Several rivalling theories exist, of which that of Saio & Wheeler (1980) is the ...

    • Bluetooth low energy for autonomous human-robot interaction 

      Scheunemann, Marcus M.; Dautenhahn, Kerstin (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2017-03-06)
      This demonstration shows how inexpensive, off-the-shelf, and unobtrusive Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) devices can be utilized for enabling robots to recognize touch gestures, to perceive proximity information, and to distinguish ...

    • Bluetooth-Based Sensor Networks for Remotely Monitoring the Physiological Signals of a Patient 

      Zhang, Ying; Xiao, Hannan (2009)
      Integrating intelligent medical microsensors into a wireless communication network makes it possible to remotely collect physiological signals of a patient, release the patient from being tethered to monitoring medical ...

    • The (Blum)House Found Footage Horror Built 

      McMurdo, Shellie (University of Wales Press, 2022-05-15)

    • Blunting EU Regulation 1107/2009 : Following a regulation into a system of agricultural innovation 

      Payne-Gifford, Sophie; Srinivasan, C.S.; Dorward, Peter (2020-12-06)
      This paper explores the role of regulation and legislation on influencing the development and diffusion of technologies and methods of crop production. To do this, the change in pesticide registration under European ...

    • “Blurred boundaries”: When nurses and midwives give anti-vaccination advice on Facebook 

      Green, Janet; Petty, Julia; Whiting, Lisa; Orr, Fiona; Brown, Anne-Marie; Smart, Larissa; Jones, Linda; Kearney, Matthew (2022-02-10)
      Background: Nurses and midwives have a professional obligation to promote health and prevent disease, and therefore they have an essential role to play in vaccination. Despite this, some nurses and midwives have been found ...

    • Board characteristics and board committees in the Greek corporate governance framework 

      Grose, Chris; Koufopoulos, Dimitrios; Gkliatis, Ioannis; Athanassiadis, Konstantinos; Fygkioris, Michalis (2021-05-16)
      The paper investigates board characteristics and committees’ structure in the Athens Stock Exchange (ATHEX) using unique data culled from the database of the Hellenic Observatory of Corporate Governance. The current corporate ...

    • Board Characteristics and the Presence of Women on the Board of Directors: The Case of the Greek Shipping Sector 

      Gkliatis, Ioannis; Koufopoulos, Dimitrios; Pastra, Aspasia (Springer Nature, 2015)
      Shipping is a vital sector of the Greek economy. According to the Foundation for Economic & Industrial Research (2013), more than 52 % of the shipping companies listed in the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the NASDAQ ...

    • Board Diving Regulations in Public Swimming Pools and Risk of Injury 

      Williams, Dave; Odin, Louise (2015-11-17)
      Public session access to diving boards is one of the stepping stones for those wishing to develop their skills in the sport of diving. The extent to which certain dive forms are considered risky (forward/backward/rotations) ...

    • Bodies that (Don't) Matter : Regulating Race on the Toilet in Kathryn Stockett's The Help 

      Lloyd, Christopher (2016-11-01)

    • Bodily Pleasure and the Self: Experimental, Pharmacological and Clinical Studies on Affective Touch 

      Crucianelli, Laura (2016-09-27)
      In the last decade, neuroscience and psychology alike have paid increasing attention to the study of affective touch, which refers to the emotional and motivational facets of tactile sensation. Some aspects of affective ...

    • Bodily pleasure matters : velocity of touch modulates body ownership during the rubber hand illusion 

      Crucianelli, Laura; Metcalf, Nicola K.; Fotopoulou, Aikaterini Katerina; Jenkinson, Paul M. (2013)
      The sense of body ownership represents a fundamental aspect of our self-consciousness. Influential experimental paradigms, such as the rubber hand illusion (RHI), in which a seen rubber hand is experienced as part of one's ...

    • Body appreciation around the world: Measurement invariance of the Body Appreciation Scale-2 (BAS-2) across 65 nations, 40 languages, gender identities, and age 

      Swami, Viren; Tran, Ulrich S.; Stieger, Stefan; Aavik, Toivo; Ranjbar, Hamed Abdollahpour; Adebayo, Sulaiman Olanrewaju; Afhami, Reza; Ahmed, Oli; Aimé, Annie; Akel, Marwan; Halbusi, Hussam Al; Alexias, George; Ali, Khawla F.; Alp-Dal, Nursel; Alsalhani, Anas B.; Álvares-Solas, Sara; Amaral, Ana Carolina Soares; Andrianto, Sonny; Aspden, Trefor; Argyrides, Marios; Aruta, John Jamir Benzon R.; Atkin, Stephen; Ayandele, Olusola; Baceviciene, Migle; Bahbouh, Radvan; Ballesio, Andrea; Barron, David; Bellard, Ashleigh; Bender, Sóley Sesselja; Beydağ, Kerime Derya; Birovljević, Gorana; Blackburn, Marie-Ève; Borja-Alvarez, Teresita; Borowiec, Joanna; Bozogáňová, Miroslava; Bratland-Sanda, Solfrid; Browning, Matthew H.E.M.; Brytek-Matera, Anna; Burakova, Marina; Çakır-Koçak, Yeliz; Camacho, Pablo; Camilleri, Vittorio Emanuele; Cazzato, Valentina; Cerea, Silvia; Chaiwutikornwanich, Apitchaya; Chaleeraktrakoon, Trawin; Chambers, Tim; Chen, Qing-Wei; Chen, Xin; Chien, Chin-Lung; Chobthamkit, Phatthanakit; Choompunuch, Bovornpot; Compte, Emilio J.; Corrigan, Jennifer; Cosmas, Getrude; Cowden, Richard G.; Czepczor-Bernat, Kamila; Czub, Marcin; da Silva, Wanderson Roberto; Dadfar, Mahboubeh; Dalley, Simon E.; Dany, Lionel; Datu, Jesus Alfonso D.; Berbert de Carvalho, Pedro Henrique; Coelho, Gabriel Lins de Holanda; De Jesus, Avila Odia S.; Debbabi, Sonia Harzallah; Dhakal, Sandesh; Di Bernardo, Francesca; Dimitrova, Donka D.; Dion, Jacinthe; Dixson, Barnaby; Donofrio, Stacey M.; Drysch, Marius; Du, Hongfei; Dzhambov, Angel M.; El-Jor, Claire; Enea, Violeta; Eskin, Mehmet; Farbod, Farinaz; Farrugia, Lorleen; Fian, Leonie; Fisher, Maryanne L.; Folwarczny, Michał; Frederick, David A.; Fuller-Tyszkiewicz, Matthew; Furnham, Adrian; García, Antonio Alías; Geller, Shulamit; Ghisi, Marta; Ghorbani, Alireza; Martinez-Banfi, Martha; Gradidge, Sarah; Graf, Sylvie; Grano, Caterina; Gyene, Gyöngyvér; Hallit, Souheil; Hamdan, Motasem; Handelzalts, Jonathan E.; Hanel, Paul H.P.; Hawks, Steven R.; Hekmati, Issa; Helmy, Mai; Hill, Tetiana; Hina, Farah; Holenweger, Geraldine; Hřebíčková, Martina; Ijabadeniyi, Olasupo Augustine; Imam, Asma; İnce, Başak; Irrazabal, Natalia; Jankauskiene, Rasa; Jiang, Ding-Yu; Jiménez-Borja, Micaela; Jiménez-Borja, Verónica; Johnson, Evan M.; Jovanović, Veljko; Jović, Marija; Jović, Marko; Junqueira, Alessandra Costa Pereira; Kahle, Lisa-Marie; Kantanista, Adam; Karakiraz, Ahmet; Karkin, Ayşe Nur; Kasten, Erich; Khatib, Salam; Khieowan, Nuannut; Kimong, Patricia Joseph; Kiropoulos, Litza; Knittel, Joshua; Kohli, Neena; Koprivnik, Mirjam; Kospakov, Aituar; Król-Zielińska, Magdalena; Krug, Isabel; Kuan, Garry; Kueh, Yee Cheng; Kujan, Omar; Kukić, Miljana; Kumar, Sanjay; Kumar, Vipul; Lamba, Nishtha; Lauri, Mary Anne; Laus, Maria Fernanda; LeBlanc, Liza April; Lee, Hyejoo J.; Lipowska, Małgorzata; Lipowski, Mariusz; Lombardo, Caterina; Lukács, Andrea; Maïano, Christophe; Malik, Sadia; Manjary, Mandar; Baldó, Lidia Márquez; Martinez-Banfi, Martha; Massar, Karlijn; Matera, Camila; McAnirlin, Olivia; Mebarak, Moisés Roberto; Mechri, Anwar; Meireles, Juliana Fernandes Filgueiras; Mesko, Norbert; Mills, Jacqueline; Miyairi, Maya; Modi, Ritu; Modrzejewska, Adriana; Modrzejewska, Justyna; Mulgrew, Kate E.; Myers, Taryn A.; Namatame, Hikari; Nassani, Mohammad Zakaria; Nerini, Amanda; Neto, Félix; Neto, Joana; Neves, Angela Noguiera; Ng, Siu-Kuen; Nithiya, Devi; O, Jiaqing; Obeid, Sahar; Oda-Montecinos, Camila; Olapegba, Peter Olamakinde; Olonisakin, Tosin Tunrayo; Omar, Salma Samir; Örlygsdóttir, Brynja; Özsoy, Emrah; Otterbring, Tobias; Pahl, Sabine; Panasiti, Maria Serena; Park, Yonguk; Patwary, Muhammad Mainuddin; Pethö, Tatiana; Petrova, Nadezhda; Pietschnig, Jakob; Pourmahmoud, Sadaf; Prabhu, Vishnunarayan Girishan; Poštuvan, Vita; Prokop, Pavol; Ramseyer Winter, Virginia L.; Razmus, Magdalena; Ru, Taotao; Rupar, Mirjana; Sahlan, Reza N.; Hassan, Mohammad Salah; Šalov, Anđela; Sapkota, Saphal; Sarfo, Jacob Owusu; Sawamiya, Yoko; Schaefer, Katrin; Schulte-Mecklenbeck, Michael; Seekis, Veya; Selvi, Kerim; Sharifi, Mehdi; Shrivastava, Anita; Siddique, Rumana Ferdousi; Sigurdsson, Valdimar; Silkane, Vineta; Šimunić, Ana; Singh, Govind; Slezáčková, Alena; Sundgot-Borgen, Christine; Ten Hoor, Gill; Tevichapong, Passagorn; Tipandjan, Arun; Todd, Jennifer; Togas, Constantinos; Tonini, Fernando; Tovar-Castro, Juan Camilo; Trangsrud, Lise Katrine Jepsen; Tripathi, Pankaj; Tudorel, Otilia; Tylka, Tracy L.; Uyzbayeva, Anar; Vally, Zahir; Vanags, Edmunds; Vega, Luis Diego; Vicente-Arruebarrena, Aitor; Vidal-Mollón, Jose; Vilar, Roosevelt; Villegas, Hyxia; Vintilă, Mona; Wallner, Christoph; White, Mathew P.; Whitebridge, Simon; Windhager, Sonja; Wong, Kah Yan; Yau, Eric Kenson; Yamamiya, Yuko; Yeung, Victoria Wai Lan; Zanetti, Marcelo Callegari; Zawisza, Magdalena; Zeeni, Nadine; Zvaríková, Martina; Voracek, Martin (2023-09-30)
      The Body Appreciation Scale-2 (BAS-2) is a widely used measure of a core facet of the positive body image construct. However, extant research concerning measurement invariance of the BAS-2 across a large number of nations ...

    • Body composition and functional assessment of nutritional status in adults: a narrative review of imaging, impedance, strength and functional techniques 

      Smith, Sara; Madden, Angela (2016-11-15)
      The accurate and valid assessment of body composition is essential for the diagnostic evaluation of nutritional status, identifying relevant outcome measures, and determining the effectiveness of current and future nutritional ...

    • Body composition and morphological assessment of nutritional status in adults : a review of anthropometric variables 

      Madden, Angela; Smith, Sara (2016-01-27)
      Evaluation of body composition is an important part of assessing nutritional status and provides prognostically useful data and opportunity to monitor the effects of nutrition-related disease progression and nutritional ...

    • Body dysmorphic disorder: a treatment synthesis and consensus on behalf of the International College of Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders (ICOCS) and the Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders Network (OCRN) of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) 

      Castle, David; Beilharz, Francesca; Phillips, Katharine A; Brakoulias, Vlasios; Drummond, Lynne M; Hollander, Eric; Ioannidis, Konstantinos; Pallanti, Stefano; Chamberlain, Samuel R.; Rossell, Susan L; Veale, David; Wilhelm, Sabine; Van Ameringen, Michael; Dell'Osso, Bernardo; Menchon, Jose M.; Fineberg, Naomi (2021-03-30)
      Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is characterised by a preoccupation with a perceived appearance flaw or flaws that are not observable to others. BDD is associated with distress and impairment of functioning. Psychiatric ...

    • Body Image, Disordered Eating and Emotional Processing in Adolescent Females 

      Eracleous, Eleni (2008-10-20)
      Eating disorders can be viewed on a continuum, with disordered eating not reaching clinical diagnostic criteria but having potentially negative effects including increasing the risk of an eating disorder or obesity. This ...

    • Body image, mood and quality of life in young burn survivors 

      Pope, S. J.; Solomons, W. R.; Done, D.J.; Cohn, N.; Possamai, A. M. (2007-09)
      This study looks at the body image, mood and quality of life of a group of 36 young people aged between 11 and 19 years who had burns as children, compared with an age-matched control group of 41 young people who had not ...

    • Body image, mood and quality of life in young people burned in childhood 

      Pope, Selina Jane (University of Hertfordshire, 2005)
      Little is known about how young people who survived burn injuries as children cope when they reach adolescence. This study looked at the body image, mood and quality of life of a group of young people who had burn injuries ...

    • The body in social context : Some qualifications on the ‘warmth and intimacy’ of bodily self-consciousness 

      Gallagher, Shaun (2012)
      In this paper I examine William James’ concept of the ‘warmth and intimacy’ of bodily self-consciousness and relate it to recent attempts to recast bodily selfconsciousness in strictly neural terms. James takes bodily ...