An exploration of women’s experiences of cognitive-behaviour therapy for the treatment of bulimia nervosa by Hallikainen, Kati

“…Aims: The study aimed to gain a detailed understanding of women’s experiences of CBT and its impact on their post-therapy lives. It also sought to provide clinicians and other professionals with helpful insights into how best support individuals with bulimic difficulties. …”
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Rewriting history: the information age and the knowable past by Tredinnick, Luke

“…History seems to slip away in the precession of simulacra accompanying mass media and digital computing: ever-present if inauthentic versions of the past overwhelm any sense of historical continuity. Arguably we live in an era of timeless time, or time without chronology in which the very patterns of our daily lives are disrupted. …”
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Maltese children's construction of identities through their engagement with the media by Muscat, Gaetana

“…This research was conducted with ten children who were aged between nine and ten at the start of the study and lived in Malta, a small bilingual island in the Mediterranean. …”
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Return migration and embedding: through the lens of Brexit as an unsettling event by Grabowska, Izabela, Ryan, Louise

“…Moreover, using mixed methods, including longitudinal research, we advance a theoretical framework facilitating an examination of how returnees negotiate their lives in the origin society and whether they intend to stay, or migrate again, through the conceptual lens of embedding. …”
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Dynamic path planning for indoor evacuation routing: a universal planning framework by Djemai, Ramzi, Vassilev, Vassil, Ouazzane, Karim, Dey, Maitreyee

“…Tragic incidents such as Grenfell Tower’s deadly 2017 fire and that of the shopping mall in Russia in 2018 both serve as poignant examples, where sudden and rapidly spreading fires resulted in the loss of +70 and 62 lives respectively. These events highlight the critical need for efficient evacuation plans to ensure quick and safe evacuations. …”
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Everyday streets: inclusive approaches to understanding and designing streets by Clossick, Jane, Hausleitner, Birgit, Martire, Agustina

“…Everyday streets are physically and socially shaped by the lives of the people and things that inhabit them through a reciprocal dance with multiple overlapping temporalities. …”
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'She loved this place': memorial benches as death writing, life writing and life siting by Karpf, Anne

“…So this paper also reflects on the benches as a celebration of seemingly undistinguished lives, as a mode of bringing the private into the public and for its performative aspects. …”
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Triple-band planar dipole antenna for omnidirectional radiation by Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad, Virdee, Bal Singh, Limiti, Ernesto

“…Located under the horizontal rectangular patch are two λ/2 long meander-line stubs symmetrically interfaced to the feedline. …”
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Quad notched-band UWB BPF based on quintuple-mode resonator by Borhani, Seyyed Jamal, Honarvar, M. Amin, Virdee, Bal Singh

“…The MMR is fed through asymmetric interdigital coupled-lines feed to produce controllable notched-band. …”
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Joining the dots: day to day challenges for practitioners in delivering integrated dementia care by Chase, Mike, Lloyd, Christopher E. M., Peters, Benjamin J., Chase, Elaine, Lee, Kellyn

“…In order to more successfully realise integrated dementia pathways, we propose innovative commissioning frameworks which purposefully seek to diffuse power imbalances, encourage inter-provider respect and understanding, and determine clear lines of responsibility. [Abstract copyright: © 2020 The Authors. …”

A microstrip quasi-elliptic bandpass filter implemented using stub loaded resonators by Riaz, Muhammad, Virdee, Bal Singh

“…The resonators are directly loaded with open-circuited inductive stubs and the feed-lines are interdigital coupled to the resonators. …”
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The production and consumption of hospitality space by Lugosi, Peter

“…Drawing on an extended ethnographic case study, and a series of illustrative cases, the thesis develops four lines of inquiry: First, because commercial venues are characterised by fragmentary occupation, the study examines the basis for association and disassociation among hosts and guests through the notion of proximity. …”
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Developing rat testicular organoid models for assessing the reproductive toxicity of antidepression drugs in vitro by Wu, Sixian, Li, Xiaoliang, Li, Peiyu, Li, Tongtong, Huang, Gelin, Sun, Qun, Dinnyés, Andras, Shang, Lijun, Xu, Wenming

“…However, these studies used germ cell lines to determine the phenotype, which limits their potential translational value in toxicity studies in humans. …”
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Hoping that suicide isn't the solution : a moderation and mediation study of optimism, problem-solving and suicidal ideation by Morris-Furman, Amy

“…This approach is more in line with the humanistic principles that underpin counselling psychology. …”
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Critical perspectives on the security and protection of human rights defenders

“…Human rights defenders – who by peaceful means advocate, mobilise and often put their lives at risk to defend the most fundamental freedoms of their fellow citizens – are key agents of change in their own societies and make a significant contribution to the international community's efforts to support democracy and human rights. …”

I teach therefore I dress by Davenport, Emma

“…This paper will highlight these examples in an effort to draw attention to the inherently material and relational aspects of creative dressing practices, and to argue that clothes constitute a critical interface between ourselves and others, making them embody multiple meanings, open-ended explanations and complex social, cultural and political lives.…”
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Variations in the accomplishment of persistent heroin use in Wales: a typology of users’ lifestyles by Morgan, James, Bennett, Trevor

“…We build on this literature by offering a contemporary view of the lives of heroin users in the United Kingdom that examines the role of heroin-using lifestyles in the accomplishment of persistent heroin use. …”
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"I don't mind people hugging me when I'm happy": autistic individuals' experience of emotions on their sensory world: an interpretative phenomenological analysis by Georgiou, Alexia

“…Current literature explored the social, emotional, and physical consequences of unusual sensory experiences on the lives of autistic individuals and gave an insight into the needs of this population. …”
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The formulation of an author's 'other' in late postmodern fiction by Snider, Zachary

“…The novel also details the bizarre misadventures that unravel when three motley siblings launch cataclysmic revenge on their significant others, whom they've learned are leading secret naughty lives. Brigitte Schneider, the eldest sibling, is a vigorous lawyer in Boston who just found out her boyfriend of five years has been sleeping with other women. …”
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Resisting the binary divide in Higher Education: the role of critical pedagogy by Khan, Alya, Gabriel, John

“…Instead, a case is made for a pedagogy that enables students, particularly those from diverse and disadvantaged backgrounds, to use their experiences, values, etc. to exchange and develop ideas in a group context, thereby providing an important means of collective empowerment (intellectual and practical, both at work and in their private lives). In this process students are encouraged to use ethical theories as tools to explain and underpin their understanding of work-based scenarios. …”
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