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Improving access or denying choice?
(2007)
This paper addresses the ‘Improving Access to Psychological Therapies’ programme and the reports on which it is based. It is suggested that the evidence base favouring particular psychological therapies is not as clear as ...
Localized and non-contact mechanical stimulation of dorsal root ganglion sensory neurons using scanning ion conductance microscopy
(2007)
Mechanosensitive ion channels convert external mechanical force into electrical and chemical signals in cells, but their physiological function in different tissues is not clearly understood. One reason for this is that ...
Representations of Space and Time in the Maximization of Information Flow in the Perception-Action Loop
(2007)
Sensor evolution in nature aims at improving the acquisition of information from the environment and is intimately related with selection pressure toward adaptivity and robustness. Our work in the area indicates that ...
Motivation for change and the pros and cons of smoking in a Spanish population
(2007-01)
Decisional balance and the stage of change have been used to understand the motivation for giving up the habit of smoking. The objective of this study was to find out whether the associations between the pros and the cons ...
Analysing Fictional Television Genres
(SAGE Publications, 2007)
Low Polarization Standards
(Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2007)
There is renewed interest in high sensitivity polarimetry as a means of observing the polarization signal of extra-solar planets. We describe the measurement of low polarized standards at fractional polarizations of parts ...
Robotic etiquette: results from user studies involving a fetch and carry task
(ACM Press, 2007)
This paper presents results, outcomes and conclusions from a series of Human Robot Interaction (HRI) trials which investigated how a robot should approach a human in a fetch and carry task. Two pilot trials were carried ...