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... This paper provides an international perspective on visual resource stewardship. It examines the long history of Britain’s love affair with its landscapes and its abandonment of measuring the subjective element of landscape quality, focusing instead on landscape character, which could be objectively assessed. This paper summarises the development of the European Landscape Convention, which has bee ...
UnitedKingdom, etc ; environmental knowledge; landscapes; physical health; recreation; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Protected areas (PAs) deliver a wide variety of benefits to visitors including mental and physical health, environmental knowledge, and a sense of community. Unfortunately, many barriers have led to the underrepresentation of several socio-demographic groups within PAs (e.g., minority ethnic groups, those with disabilities). In the UK, a clear national mandate exists for designing more accessible ...
UnitedKingdom, etc ; Internet; genomics; health services; labor force; literacy; Show all 6 Subjects
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... The disruptive advances in genomics contributed to achieve higher levels of precision in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. This scientific advance entails the need for greater literacy for all healthcare professionals. Our study summarizes the training initiatives conducted worldwide in cancer genomics field for healthcare professionals. We conducted a web search of the training initiatives a ...
UnitedKingdom, etc ; food quality; healthy diet; obesity; systematic review; Show all 5 Subjects
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... BACKGROUND: Existing research suggests that physical access to food can affect diet quality and thus obesity rates. When defining retail food environment (RFE) quantitatively, there is a little agreement on how to measure “lack of healthy food” and what parameters to use, resulting in a heterogeneity of study designs and outcome measures. In turn, this leads to a conflicting evidence base being on ...
UnitedKingdom, etc ; European Union; unmanned aerial vehicles; Australia; Canada; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Recent public discourse regarding unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) usage and regulation is focused around public privacy and safety. Most authorities have employed key guidelines and licensing procedures for piloting UAVs, however there is marginal consensus amongst regulators and a limited view towards unified procedures. This paper aims to analyze the key challenges that affect the use of UAVs and ...
UnitedKingdom, etc ; Weibull statistics; data collection; geophysics; models; research; Show all 6 Subjects
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... The short‐term statistics of wave conditions in coastal waters around the United Kingdom have been investigated using over 40,000 half‐hour long sea state records with significant wave height greater than 3 m. The extensive data set facilitates an assessment of various wave height and period distribution models in shallow and intermediate waters. The results reveal that the relative wave height Hₛ ...
UnitedKingdom, etc ; childhood; cross-sectional studies; dietetics; questionnaires; satiety; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Children’s tendency to eat while they are emotional, irrespective of satiety, is termed emotional eating (EE). EE develops early in childhood and has been associated with maternal modelling of EE and food parenting practices. In addition, individual differences in a child’s appetitive traits (ie, food approach behaviors) are related to the development of EE. The objective of this study was to exam ...
N. Rivers; H.J. Truter; M. Strand; S. Jay; M. Portman; A.T. Lombard; D. Amir; A. Boyd; R.L. Brown; H.C. Cawthra; N. Faure Beaulieu; K. Findlay; G. Gal; Y. Grossmark; M.J. Perschke; T. Pillay; O. Pyrgies; M. Ramakulukusha; K.P. Smit; V. Stockdale; J. Stockill; I. Schwartz; T. Treibitz; O.A. Vargas-Fonseca; E.A. Vermeulen (Miltz)
UnitedKingdom, etc ; coastal zone management; stakeholders; Israel; South Africa; Show all 5 Subjects
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... The online symposium Shared Visions for Marine Spatial Planning: Insights from Israel, South Africa and the United Kingdom was held from 9–10 March 2021. Insights from this multi-disciplinary and international symposium included 1) current states of marine spatial planning (MSP) in the three countries, 2) how MSP can be a helpful tool to advance marine conservation, 3) the use and challenges of ge ...
UnitedKingdom, etc ; Singapore; case studies; food quality; Australia; Germany; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Text highlighting is a novel method for measuring consumer attitudes where participants read information about a focal topic and use highlighting functions to select aspects of the text that they like and dislike. The present research contributed methodological knowledge about text highlighting by investigating how responses are influenced by two aspects of the texts — length and degree of reading ...
UnitedKingdom, etc ; energy; energy policy; markets; probability; social benefit; wind; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Our paper examines the social benefit of energy storage in terms of smoothing the intermittent output of wind in Britain in the context of a significant wind generation presence. The resultant price smoothing creates benefits as follows: grid scale storage has a price suppressing effect, decreasing the probability of remaining in the high price and high volatility regime during peak hours, and it ...
UnitedKingdom, etc ; horses; insulin; laminitis; prognosis; surveys; veterinary medicine; North America; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Endocrinopathic laminitis is the most common cause of laminitis in the field. Insulin has recently been implicated as a key factor in development of endocrinopathic laminitis; however, it is unclear whether diagnostic, and treatment approaches reflect insights derived from recent research. This study sought to evaluate North American veterinary practitioners’ approach to endocrinopathic laminitis ...
Christos Kontovas; Ana Armada Bras; Chia-Hsun Chang; Abbie Romano; Mark Ching-Pong Poo; Jin Wang; Helen McCormack; Zhuohua Qu; Dimitrios Paraskevadakis; Lucy Lamb; Zaili Yang
UnitedKingdom, etc ; coastal zone management; commercialization; industry; questionnaires; stakeholders; technology transfer; Show all 7 Subjects
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... In a 2019 European Commission report, the Blue Economy (BE) within the United Kingdom (UK) represented 22% of the European Union's (EU) BE Gross Value Added (GVA) at approximately €39 billion. Coupled with the clear value of the BE to the UK, there is an urgent need to innovate and develop technologies to decarbonise and advance the sector. A deeper understanding of the current position for multip ...
UnitedKingdom, etc ; Chordata; biodiversity; habitat connectivity; plant communities; systematic review; vegetation; Show all 7 Subjects
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... As a form of green infrastructure, green roofs can enhance urban biodiversity by providing complex vegetation structures, supplying increased foraging and roosting opportunities for animals and increasing habitat connectivity. Although it is widely believed that green roofs can promote urban biodiversity, this idea has not been widely studied on an empirical scale. Therefore, a systematic understa ...
UnitedKingdom, etc ; food security; public policy; risk; socioeconomics; surveys; Germany; Netherlands; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Food insecurity among adults age 65 and older is a growing public policy concern in European countries, but the extent of the problem and the related financial stressors are unclear. The purpose of this paper is to measure the percent of food insecure individuals in a targeted sample of financially fragile older adults, and to identify associated financial stressors and socio-economic characterist ...
Michael Bradshaw; Patrick Devine-Wright; Darrick Evensen; Owen King; Abigail Martin; Stacia Ryder; Damien Short; Benjamin K. Sovacool; Paul Stretesky; Anna Szolucha; Laurence Williams
UnitedKingdom, etc ; energy; energy policy; industry; landscapes; politics; shale; shale gas; Show all 8 Subjects
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... In January 2014, then British Prime Minister David Cameron declared that his government was ‘Going all out for Shale.’ In November 2019, during an election campaign, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Government imposed a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing bringing to a halt industry hopes of developing shale gas in the UK. This paper explores what happened, integrating research employing ...
UnitedKingdom, etc ; data collection; hydrologic models; model validation; motivation; runoff; summer; watersheds; Show all 8 Subjects
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... The choice of hydrological model, especially on the catchment scale, is never an easy one. This of course is dependent on the problem under consideration and the end user requirement. The continued development in data acquisition and its availability has taken us in the direction of more complex model development and application. Yet, it remains critical to identify a model that is not only parsim ...
UnitedKingdom, etc ; agricultural land; butterflies; chalk grasslands; road construction; species richness; surveys; Show all 7 Subjects
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... The design of new roads has the potential to provide new habitats and increase biodiversity value. The cutting and verges of the Weymouth Relief Road, Dorset, completed in 2011, replicate low‐fertility chalk grassland in an area previously occupied by arable farmland and improved grassland. We examine the results of post‐construction butterfly surveys carried out in 2012–2020 to test whether butte ...
UnitedKingdom, etc ; Testudo; gardens; hibernation; morbidity; mortality; regression analysis; surveys; temperature; tortoises; Show all 10 Subjects
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... BACKGROUND: This survey of tortoise owners was performed to investigate the factors contributing to morbidity and mortality during and post‐brumation in captive Testudo species in the United Kingdom. METHODS: Information regarding a total of 270 tortoises was included in the study, from 252 completed surveys. Binary logistic regression and multivariate modelling were used to evaluate the potential ...
Jozef Hooson (Jzh); Jayne Hutchinson (Jyh); Marisol Warthon-Medina; Neil Hancock; Katharine Greathead; Bethany Knowles; Elisa Vargas-Garcia; Lauren E. Gibson; Linda A. Bush; Barrie Margetts; Sian Robinson; Andy Ness; Nisreen A. Alwan; Petra A. Wark; Mark Roe; Paul Finglas; Toni Steer; Polly Page; Laura Johnson; Katharine Roberts; Birdem Amoutzopoulos; Victoria J. Burley; Darren C. Greenwood; Janet E. Cade
UnitedKingdom, etc ; Internet; adolescents; biomarkers; children; nutrients; nutrition assessment; sample size; systematic review; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Health researchers may struggle to choose suitable validated dietary assessment tools (DATs) for their target population. The aim of this review was to identify and collate information on validated UK DATs and validation studies for inclusion on a website to support researchers to choose appropriate DATs. A systematic review of reviews of DATs was undertaken. DATs validated in UK populations were ...
UnitedKingdom, etc ; Japan; bibliometric analysis; bone metabolism; databases; evolution; osteoporosis; vitamin D; China; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Vitamin D has long been known for preserving bone and non-skeletal health. Despite its magnitude of impact, scarce literature has explored the evolution of the relevant published literature. This study aimed at evaluating the trends and performance of Vitamin D and bone metabolism-related publications (2001–2020). All pertinent English language 16,887 articles were searched and extracted from the ...