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Interference-aware congestion control protocol for wireless sensor networks (2014)
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© 2014 The Authors. This paper deals with congestion and interference control in wireless sensor networks (WSN), which is essential for improving the throughput and saving the scarce energy in networks where nodes have different capacities and traffi... Read More about Interference-aware congestion control protocol for wireless sensor networks.

Congestion detection strategies in wireless sensor networks: A comparative study with testbed experiments (2014)
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© 2014 The Authors. Event based applications of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are prone to traffic congestion, where unpredicted event detection yields simultaneous generation of traffic at spatially co-related nodes, and its propagation towards th... Read More about Congestion detection strategies in wireless sensor networks: A comparative study with testbed experiments.

Trends in hydrological intensification in the UK: Implications for flood risk management (2014)
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Assessing the directly elected mayoral model in Bristol: An empirical investigation of the contrasting definitions of the role of a directly elected mayor (2014)
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When Bristol’s first directly elected mayor Independent George Ferguson was sworn in during a ceremony at Brunel’s historic Temple Meads station he asserted “I believe today we have voted for a new way of doing things.” Now into second year of his te... Read More about Assessing the directly elected mayoral model in Bristol: An empirical investigation of the contrasting definitions of the role of a directly elected mayor.

‘Words’ are bandied about but what do they mean?’ An exploration of project constructions in Foundation Phase classrooms (2014)
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Turnector: Tangible control widgets for capacitive touchscreen devices (2014)
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This paper details the development of Turnector, a control system based upon tangible widgets that are manipulated on the touchscreen of a capacitive touch device. Turnector widgets are modelled on rotary faders and aim to connect the user to paramet... Read More about Turnector: Tangible control widgets for capacitive touchscreen devices.

Research into 3D printed glass investment casting moulds (2014)
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This paper concerns a research project research undertaken at Falmouth University into the use of emerging 3D printing technology in glass investment casting. This project, which has now been on going for over 4 years, has successfully developed an e... Read More about Research into 3D printed glass investment casting moulds.

Clinicians experience of using a digital media tool in rehabilitation services to help patients communicate the nature of pain and body perception disturbances (2014)
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Using liminality, stigma and taboo to understand mother's experiences of long-term breastfeeding (2014)
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Ansiedade e Cognição: Análise dos pensamentos das crianças sobre histórias que remetem para situações de ansiedade [Anxiety and Cognition: Analysis of children's thoughts based on stories about potentially anxious situations]. (2014)
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The cultural ecosystem services of waste repositories (2014)
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This paper presents a new typology of waste repositories as a means of assessing the cultural ecosystem services of such sites in the United Kingdom. The potential ecosystem services provided by waste repositories are dependent on many factors includ... Read More about The cultural ecosystem services of waste repositories.

Socio-economic complexities of flood memory in building resilience: An overview of research (2014)
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Shocks such as flooding are sudden events that can affect the well-being of people, whether it's a single household or business or the entire community. Repeated flood shocks is one of the least researched phenomena associated with understanding the... Read More about Socio-economic complexities of flood memory in building resilience: An overview of research.

Towards the ensuring state: Integrated governance and sustainable urban development in the European Union (2014)
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Historical construction of heroin withdrawal: A work in progress (2014)
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The Baldwin effect hinders self-adaptation (2014)
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The “end-game” of evolutionary optimisation is often largely governed by the efficiency and effectiveness of searching regions of space known to contain high quality solutions. In a traditional EA this role is done via mutation, which creates a tensi... Read More about The Baldwin effect hinders self-adaptation.

Institutional trust and the financial adviser (2014)
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This explorative qualitative study examines and identifies the components and structure of ‘institution based’ or ‘system’ trust in the context of the relationship between a UK consumer and their financial adviser against the background of the 2008 f... Read More about Institutional trust and the financial adviser.

Poverty and place through the eyes of the poor: Lessons from developing a conceptual framework, D-SPACE in southern India (2014)
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Paper read at the UK Ireland Planning Research Conference, 9-11 September 2014, Oxford Brookes University.

How should we search ‘the literature’? Evidence based practice and nurse education (2014)
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Nursing dissertations often take the form of a literature review and post registration/licensure, it can be argued that search and assessment skills are necessary prerequisites for the successful performance of evidence based practice. To meet academ... Read More about How should we search ‘the literature’? Evidence based practice and nurse education.

Agencies and clients: Co-creation in a key B2B relationship (2014)
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This is an empirical study of co-creation in the context of the relationship between clients and their advertising agencies. This is the first study to conduct dyadic interviews with a number of clients and their agencies in examining the co-creation... Read More about Agencies and clients: Co-creation in a key B2B relationship.

Developing a methodology for appraising rainwater harvesting with integrated source control using a case study from South-West England (2014)
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A methodology has been developed to design and evaluate rainwater harvesting (RWH) systems incorporating “retention and throttle” passive control. Two drainage design options were developed and assessed using hydraulic models for a case study site in... Read More about Developing a methodology for appraising rainwater harvesting with integrated source control using a case study from South-West England.