Walking online: A netnography of China's emerging hiking communities
Book Chapter
Witte, A., & Hannam, K. (2017)
Walking online: A netnography of China's emerging hiking communities. In C. Michael Hall, Y. Ram, & N. Shoval (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Walking. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315638461-15
This chapter is based on a netnographic approach that was chosen due to the development of Chinese online communities dedicated to specific leisure and tourism pursuits. In Ch...
Texting and walking: a controlled field study of crossing behaviours and inattentional blindness in Taiwan.
Journal Article
Chen, P., Saleh, W., & Pai, C. (2017)
Texting and walking: a controlled field study of crossing behaviours and inattentional blindness in Taiwan. Behaviour and Information Technology, 36(4), 435-445. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144929x.2016.1240234
The paper investigates the effects of phone use (talking, texting, and listening to music) on the street-crossing behaviours of pedestrians and their inattentional blindness i...
A Randomized Controlled Evaluation of the Efficacy of an Ankle-Foot Cast on Walking Recovery Early After Stroke: SWIFT Cast Trial
Journal Article
Pomeroy, V. M., Rowe, P., Clark, A., Walker, A., Kerr, A., Chandler, E., …Ugboule, U. C. (2016)
A Randomized Controlled Evaluation of the Efficacy of an Ankle-Foot Cast on Walking Recovery Early After Stroke: SWIFT Cast Trial. Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, 30(1), 40-48. doi:10.1177/1545968315583724
Background. Timely provision of an ankle-foot orthosis (AFO) orthotist customized for individuals early after stroke can be problematic. Objective. To evaluate the efficacy of...
Pilot feasibility study of the Walking Away from Diabetes programme for adults with intellectual disabilities in two further education colleges: Process evaluation findings
Journal Article
Maine, A., Brown, M. J., Dickson, A., & Truesdale, M. (2019)
Pilot feasibility study of the Walking Away from Diabetes programme for adults with intellectual disabilities in two further education colleges: Process evaluation findings. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 32(5), 1034-1046. https://doi.org/10.1111/jar.12593
Background: People with intellectual disabilities (ID) remain at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes (T2D) due to lifestyle associated risk factors. Educational programs ...
Application of context-mediated behavior to a multi-agent pedestrian flow model (PEDFLOW).
Conference Proceeding
Kukla, R., Willis, A. & Kerridge, J. (2001)
Application of context-mediated behavior to a multi-agent pedestrian flow model (PEDFLOW
Developers of pedestrian models often overlook the fact that pedestrians are subjected to a multitude of influences when walking. The majority of existing models only focus on...
Selection methods and diversity preservation in many-objective evolutionary algorithms
Journal Article
Martí, L., Segredo, E., Sánchez-Pi, N., & Hart, E. (2018)
Selection methods and diversity preservation in many-objective evolutionary algorithms. Data Technologies and Applications, https://doi.org/10.1108/dta-01-2018-0009
Purpose – One of the main components of multi-objective, and therefore, many-objective evolutionary algorithms is the selection mechanism. It is responsible for performing two...
Validity of the iPhone M7 Motion Coprocessor to Estimate Physical Activity During Structured and Free-Living Activities in Healthy Adults
Journal Article
Thomson, N. K., McMichan, L., Macrae, E., Baker, J. S., Muggeridge, D. J., & Easton, C. (2021)
Validity of the iPhone M7 Motion Coprocessor to Estimate Physical Activity During Structured and Free-Living Activities in Healthy Adults. Journal for the Measurement of Physical Behaviour, 4(3), 212-219. https://doi.org/10.1123/jmpb.2020-0067
Modern smartphones such as the iPhone contain an integrated accelerometer, which can be used to measure body movement and estimate the volume and intensity of physical activit...
Walking to heal or walking to heel? Contesting cultural narratives about fat women who hike and camp alone
Book Chapter
Stanley, P. (2018)
Walking to heal or walking to heel? Contesting cultural narratives about fat women who hike and camp alone. In P. Stanley, & G. Vass (Eds.), Questions of culture in autoethnography, 129-141. Taylor & Francis
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Sagittal joint kinematics, moments, and powers are predominantly characterized by speed of progression, not age, in normal children.
Journal Article
Stansfield, B., Hillman, S., Hazlewood, M., Lawson, A., Mann, A. M., Loudon, I. R. & Robb, J. E. (2001)
Sagittal joint kinematics, moments, and powers are predominantly characterized by speed of progression, not age, in normal children. Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics. 21, 403-411. ISSN 0271-6798
Twenty-six healthy 7-year-old children were enrolled in a 5-year longitudinal study to examine the importance of age and speed in the characterization of sagittal joint angles...
Densification and urban compaction: reinforcing the drive for sustainability.
Journal Article
Cooper, J. A., Donegan, K. S., Ryley, T. J., Smyth, A. & Granzow, E. (2002)
Densification and urban compaction: reinforcing the drive for sustainability. Transportation research record. 1817, 102-109. doi:10.3141/1817-13. ISSN 0361-1981
The consumer response to sustainable development initiatives provided the focus for a series of research projects undertaken at the Transport Research Institute at Napier Univ...