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A pilot study of the association between tobacco use and mid-term outcomes following total hip replacement (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Introduction: Smoking is an important and modifiable risk factor in many disease processes. The detrimental effects of smoking are numerous and well documented with smokers being at increased risk of respiratory disease, cardiovascular disease and ma... Read More about A pilot study of the association between tobacco use and mid-term outcomes following total hip replacement.

Curriculum design in online open education (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

My presentation looked at curriculum design in online open education, asking if learning styles are taken into account and contribute to inclusion?

Talking prints (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Based at the University of the West of England, Bristol, the book arts forms a small part of the Centre for Fine Print Research, where the research focus is on the production and investigation of the physical artefact, primarily predicated in print.... Read More about Talking prints.

Adaptive proportional fair parameterization based LTE scheduling using continuous actor-critic reinforcement learning (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2014 IEEE. Maintaining a desired trade-off performance between system throughput maximization and user fairness satisfaction constitutes a problem that is still far from being solved. In LTE systems, different tradeoff levels can be obtained by usi... Read More about Adaptive proportional fair parameterization based LTE scheduling using continuous actor-critic reinforcement learning.

Health economic assessment of walking and cycling interventions in the physical environment: Interim findings from the iConnect study (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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This study (www.iconnect.ac.uk) used the Health Economic Assessment Tools (HEAT) for walking and cycling to estimate the economic value of health benefits attributable to Connect2, a programme of constructing or improving 84 local walking and... Read More about Health economic assessment of walking and cycling interventions in the physical environment: Interim findings from the iConnect study.

Effect of gender on blood pressure and heart rate variability during increasing intensities of isometric hand grip exercise in untrained adults (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Gender has been shown to affect Blood Pressure (BP) and Heart Rate Variability (HRV) (Winsley et al., 2003). Measures of autonomic neural control of heart rate have indicated that women may have a higher parasympathetic and less sympathetic control o... Read More about Effect of gender on blood pressure and heart rate variability during increasing intensities of isometric hand grip exercise in untrained adults.