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University of Westminster
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About: University of Westminster is a education organization based out in London, United Kingdom. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Context (language use). The organization has 2944 authors who have published 8426 publications receiving 200236 citations. The organization is also known as: Westminster University & Royal Polytechnic Institution.
Topics: Population, Context (language use), Politics, Tourism, European union
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TL;DR: The results revealed that children aged 6 years onwards showed the classic inversion effect, and the youngest children, aged 2 to 4 years, were faster at recognising the target face in the inverted condition than in the upright condition.
Abstract: A novel child-oriented procedure was used to examine the face-recognition abilities of children as young as 2 years. A recognition task was embedded in a picture book containing a story about two boys and a witch. The story and the task were designed to be entertaining for children of a wide age range. In eight trials, the children were asked to pick out one of the boys from amongst eight distractors as quickly as possible. Response-time data to both upright and inverted conditions were analysed. The results revealed that children aged 6 years onwards showed the classic inversion effect. By contrast, the youngest children, aged 2 to 4 years, were faster at recognising the target face in the inverted condition than in the upright condition. Several possible explanations for this 'inverted inversion effect' are discussed.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined whether there were differences in positive body image among 131 Caucasian, 122 South Asian, 67 African Caribbean, and 67 Hispanic female undergraduates in Britain.
Abstract: Numerous studies have examined ethnic differences in body image, although the literature has tended to focus on a negative orientation toward one’s body. The present study examined whether there were differences in positive body image among 131 Caucasian, 122 South Asian, 67 African Caribbean, and 67 Hispanic female undergraduates in Britain. Participants completed several scales measuring body appreciation, societal influence on body image, and self-esteem. Results showed that, after controlling for age, Hispanic women had the highest body appreciation scores, followed by African Caribbean, Caucasian, and South Asian women, respectively. Results also showed that Hispanics had the lowest score on media influence and the highest self-esteem. Finally, regressional analyses showed that self-esteem was a strong predictor of body appreciation, over-and-above ethnic affiliation. These results are discussed in relation to the extant literature on ethnic differences in body image.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a methodology to increase the consistency with which urban good innovations and projects are evaluated is discussed, based on a detailed examination of 15 projects comparing the wide range of criteria used in their evaluation.
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TL;DR: The identification of localized functional heterogeneity in tensile properties is particularly important in understanding normal dynamic nerve physiology, provides clues to why peripheral nerve repair outcomes are variable, and suggests potential novel therapeutic targets.
Abstract: Peripheral nerves in the limbs stretch to accommodate changes in length during normal movement. The aim of this study was to determine how stretch is distributed along the nerve relative to local variations in mechanical properties. Deformation (strain) in joint and non-joint regions of rat median and sciatic nerves was measured in situ during limb movement using optical image analysis. In each nerve the strain was significantly greater in the joint rather than the non-joint regions (2-fold in the median nerve, 5- to 10-fold in the sciatic). In addition, this difference in strain was conserved in the median nerve ex vivo, demonstrating an in-built longitudinal heterogeneity of mechanical properties. Tensile testing of isolated samples of joint and non-joint regions of both nerves showed that joint regions were less stiff (more compliant) than their non-joint counterparts with joint: non-joint stiffness ratios of 0.5 ± 0.07 in the median nerve, and 0.8 ± 0.02 in the sciatic. However, no structural differences identified at the light microscope level in fascicular/non-fascicular tissue architecture between these two nerve regions could explain the observed tensile heterogeneity. This identification of localized functional heterogeneity in tensile properties is particularly important in understanding normal dynamic nerve physiology, provides clues to why peripheral nerve repair outcomes are variable, and suggests potential novel therapeutic targets.
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TL;DR: TRIC as discussed by the authors is a 3-node shear-deformable isotropic and composite flat shell element suitable for large-scale linear and nonlinear engineering computations of thin and thick anisotropic plate and complex shell structures.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Barbara J. Sahakian | 145 | 612 | 69190 |
Peter B. Jones | 145 | 1857 | 94641 |
Andrew Steptoe | 137 | 1003 | 73431 |
Robert West | 112 | 1061 | 53904 |
Aldo R. Boccaccini | 103 | 1234 | 54155 |
Kevin Morgan | 95 | 655 | 49644 |
Shaogang Gong | 92 | 430 | 31444 |
Thomas A. Buchanan | 91 | 349 | 48865 |
Mauro Perretti | 90 | 497 | 28463 |
Jimmy D. Bell | 88 | 589 | 25983 |
Andrew D. McCulloch | 75 | 358 | 19319 |
Mark S. Goldberg | 73 | 235 | 18067 |
Dimitrios Buhalis | 72 | 316 | 23830 |
Ali Mobasheri | 69 | 370 | 14642 |
Michael E. Boulton | 69 | 331 | 23747 |