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Board Diving Regulations in Public Swimming Pools and Risk of Injury
(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) ...
A Wii Bit of Fun: A Novel Platform to Deliver Effective Balance Training to Older Adults
(2015-10-28)
BACKGROUND: Falls and fall-related injuries are symptomatic of an aging population. This study aimed to design, develop, and deliver a novel method of balance training, using an interactive game-based system to promote ...
NHS ethics : Shoe-bombers and why ‘less needs to be more'
(2015-10)
Neuropsychological research poses several challenges. Some of these, such as developing new ideas and conducting innovative studies, are approached with great enthusiasm, and are an integral and motivating part of academic ...
Detecting a signal in the noise : Monitoring the global spread of novel psychoactive substances using media and other open source information
(2015-07)
To determine the feasibility and utility of using media reports and other open-source information collected by the Global Public Health Intelligence Network (GPHIN), an event-based surveillance system operated by the Public ...
Endogenous Fibrinolysis : An Important Mediator of Thrombus Formation and Cardiovascular Risk
(2015-04-28)
Most acute cardiovascular events are attributable to arterial thrombosis. Plaque rupture or erosion stimulates platelet activation, aggregation, and thrombosis, whilst simultaneously activating enzymatic processes that ...
Social Anxiety and Response to Touch : a preliminary exploration of broader autism phenotype in females
(2015-04-08)
Subclinical autism-related traits have been shown in the general population to be independently related to both social anxiety and sensory sensitivity. The present study examined the relationship between autistic traits ...
Disorders of compulsivity : A common bias towards learning habits
(2015-03-12)
Why do we repeat choices that we know are bad for us? Decision making is characterized by the parallel engagement of two distinct systems, goal-directed and habitual, thought to arise from two computational learning ...
Patients’ preferences for nutrition-related health outcomes in liver disease : a preliminary study using an electronic questionnaire
(2015-01-27)
Background: Patients with liver disease frequently have nutritional problems but intervening to improve these is challenging. Healthcare interventions that respond to patients’ needs are associated with better health ...
The “Eyeballing” technique : an emerging and alerting trend of alcohol misuse
(2015)
Alternative methods of alcohol consumption have recently emerged among adolescents and young adults, including the alcohol “eyeballing”, which consist in the direct pouring of alcoholic substances on the ocular surface ...