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Estimating the Impact of Relative Financial Circumstances in Childhood on Adult Mental Wellbeing: a Mediation Analysis
Previous research has indicated that the role of childhood circumstances on adult mental health is primarily mediated through adult socioeconomic circumstances. Using linear regression models and mediation ana...
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Open AccessBuilding local capacity for managing environmental risk: a transferable framework for participatory, place-based, narrative-science knowledge exchange
This paper evaluates a unique, transdisciplinary participatory research and knowledge exchange methodology developed in the Drought Risk and You (DRY) project and offers it as a transferable framework for othe...
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Open AccessDeterminants of Volunteering Within a Social Housing Community
In general, research demonstrates that deprivation, education, health, and well-being are determinants of volunteering, and that volunteering can play an important role in building stronger communities and pro...
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Competition and pollen wars: simulations reveal the dynamics of competition mediated through heterospecific pollen transfer by non-flower constant insects
Heterospecific pollen transfer by insect pollinators has the potential to drive inter-species competition between flowering plants. This phenomenon may newly arise in a region if insect pollinator or flowering...
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Open AccessThe health and well-being effects of drought: assessing multi-stakeholder perspectives through narratives from the UK
The global literature on drought and health highlights a variety of health effects for people in develo** countries where certain prevailing social, economic and environmental conditions increase their vulne...
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Open AccessSocial cohesion, mental wellbeing and health-related quality of life among a cohort of social housing residents in Cornwall: a cross sectional study
Research and policy have identified social cohesion as a potentially modifiable determinant of health and wellbeing that could contribute to more sustainable development. However, the function of social cohesi...
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Open AccessValuing the Relationship Between Drug and Alcohol Use and Life Satisfaction: Findings from the Crime Survey for England and Wales
We analysed the relationship between drug use and wellbeing using data from the Crime Survey for England and Wales. We focused on cannabis use, the most commonly used drug, but also controlled for use of other...
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Self-Reproducing Machines: The Evolution of an Idea
Within the next century we will likely witness the introduction on earth of living organisms originally designed in large part by humans, but with the capability to reproduce and evolve just as natural organis...
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Animals and Machines: Changing Relationships in the 17th & 18th Centuries
We begin our journey by looking at the early intellectual precursors to the idea of self-reproducing machines, dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
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Robot Evolution and the Fate of Humanity: Pop Culture and Futurology in the Early 20th Century
By the turn of the twentieth century, the pace of technological development had created a more pressing need for considering where such progress might ultimately lead us. During this period, the exploration of...
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Babbage Meets Darwin: Mechanisation and Evolution in the 19th Century
By the climax of the British Industrial Revolution in the 1840s, the idea of machines making other machines was no longer quite such an “unexpected property” as it was when Paley wrote Natural Theology just decad...
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From Idea to Reality: Designing and Building Self-Reproducing Machines in the Mid-20th Century
Alan Turing’s development of a theory of universal computation in the 1930s [293], followed by the appearance of the first digital computers in the 1940s, allowed people to experiment with processes of logical se...
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The Next Evolution: Reflection and Outlook
Having reached the end of our review, we now take a step back to assess the implications of the work we have described, the issues that remain unresolved, and the likely directions of future research. Later in...
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More Recent Developments: Signposts to Work from the 1960s to the Present
The blossoming of theoretical and practical work from the late 1940s to the early 1960s, described in Chap. 5, continued to gather pace as the 1960s progressed. The period from the 1960s to the present day has...
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Open AccessWellbeing and Society: Towards Quantification of the Co-benefits of Wellbeing
The objectives of this paper are twofold. First, it reviews the empirical evidence showing the existence of linkage between wellbeing and possible co-benefits, investigating in particular the positive effect ...
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Open AccessSocial determinants of male health: a case study of Leeds, UK
The social determinants of health have a disproportionate impact on mortality in men. A study into the state of health of the male population in Leeds was undertaken to guide public health commissioning decisi...
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Preservation of cultural heritage: the design of low-energy archival storage
The preservation of important cultural collections in museums, galleries, libraries etc. provides a legacy for future generations to research and experience their heritage. Guidance and standards for the desig...
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Evaluating Business Intelligence Gathering Techniques for Horizon Scanning Applications
Business intelligence systems exploit futures and foresight techniques to assist decision makers in complex and rapidly changing environments. Such systems combine elements of text and data mining, forecasting...
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Tools for Modelling and Assessing Peri-Urban Land Use Futures
Chapters 1 and 2 set the scene for the scenarios of possible futures, presented modelling results and identifie...
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In-Construction Testing of the Thermal Performance of Dwellings Using Thermography
If the UK target for all new homes to be zero carbon by 2016 is to be achieved in practice, and not just in theory, considerable attention will need to be paid to closing the gap between designed and built per...
