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What we owe to La Jetée (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Public lecture at BFI’s Sci-Fi – Days of Fear and Wonder/Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival, The Watershed, Bristol, 11 November 2014

Post-noir: Getting back to business (2014)
Book Chapter

‘Post-noir’ is, like all noir labels, heavily contested; even the need for it is open to question. Drawing on Fredric Jameson, Anne McClintock, Jean-François Lyotard and Kwame Anthony Appiah, this essay examines several specific – and contradictory –... Read More about Post-noir: Getting back to business.

Corporate ownership and control in Victorian Britain (2014)
Journal Article

© Economic History Society 2014. Using ownership and control data for 890 firm-years, this article examines the concentration of capital and voting rights in British companies in the second half of the nineteenth century. We find that both capital an... Read More about Corporate ownership and control in Victorian Britain.

Serine-arginine protein kinase 1 (SRPK1) inhibition as a potential novel targeted therapeutic strategy in prostate cancer (2014)
Journal Article

© 2015 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved. Angiogenesis is required for tumour growth and is induced principally by vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGF-A). VEGF-A pre-mRNA is alternatively spliced at the terminal exon to produce... Read More about Serine-arginine protein kinase 1 (SRPK1) inhibition as a potential novel targeted therapeutic strategy in prostate cancer.

Predictive validity of recruitment into public health specialist training in the UK (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Background: In 2009 an assessment centre, looking at critical thinking (Watson Glaser Critical thinking Appraisal ) and numerical reasoning numeracy (Rust Advanced Numerical Reasoning Appraisal t) was introduced to identify candidates to invite to a... Read More about Predictive validity of recruitment into public health specialist training in the UK.

Music in 3D virtual environments: Exploring learning affordances (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper discusses the current research and understanding of the effects of music on learning, with a particular focus on the affordances of the effects of music in computer-generated, 3D virtual environments and virtual worlds. Music has different... Read More about Music in 3D virtual environments: Exploring learning affordances.

Privacy-aware IoT cloud survivability for future connected home ecosystem (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Cloud services can greatly enhance the capabilities of mobile and smart devices, particularly within the ecosystem of connected home futures. A single device now performs multiple functions: organizing contacts and calendars, playing games, storing s... Read More about Privacy-aware IoT cloud survivability for future connected home ecosystem.

Mental health consequences of overstretch in the UK Armed Forces, 2007-09: A population-based cohort study (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014 Elsevier Ltd. Background: Concerns have been raised about the effect of tour length on the mental health of the UK armed forces. In 2007, we reported that cumulative length of deployment was associated with mental illness in military personnel... Read More about Mental health consequences of overstretch in the UK Armed Forces, 2007-09: A population-based cohort study.

Visions of the future: African science fiction shorts (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Discussion with Shola Amoo, Glasgow Film Theatre/Africa in Motion, 9 November 2014

Advancing underutilized crops knowledge using SWRL-enabled ontologies - A survey and early experiment (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Due to their powerful knowledge representation formalism and associated inference mechanisms, ontology-based approaches have been increasingly adopted to formally represent domain knowledge. We propose the use of ontologies to advance knowledge-shari... Read More about Advancing underutilized crops knowledge using SWRL-enabled ontologies - A survey and early experiment.

Scaling of fracture response in over-height compact tension tests (2014)
Journal Article

An experimental investigation into in-plane scaled Over-height Compact Tension (OCT) [45/90/-45/0]4s carbon/epoxy laminates was carried out to study the scaling of fracture response. The dimensions of the baseline specimens were scaled up and down by... Read More about Scaling of fracture response in over-height compact tension tests.

Capability-oriented robot architecture for maritime autonomy (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Advanced ocean systems are increasing their capabilities and the degree of autonomy more and more in order to perform more sophisticated maritime missions. Remotely operated vehicles are no longer cost-effect... Read More about Capability-oriented robot architecture for maritime autonomy.

Interlaminar Fracture Toughness Evaluation in Glass/Epoxy Composites Using Acoustic Emission and Finite Element Methods (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014, ASM International. Delamination is one of the most common modes of failure in laminated composites and it leads to the loss of structural strength and stiffness. In this paper, mode I, mode II, and mixed of these pure modes were investigated... Read More about Interlaminar Fracture Toughness Evaluation in Glass/Epoxy Composites Using Acoustic Emission and Finite Element Methods.

Therapeutic exercise for joint hypermobility syndrome (JHS) (2014)
Digital Artefact

Lecture given by Professor Shea Palmer to the North British Pain Association on the diagnosis, management and current research of joint hypermobility syndrome. www.nbpa.org.uk

Children's participation in LAC reviews: A study in one English local authority (2014)
Journal Article

Although the law in England and Wales requires a child's wishes and feelings to be heard in LAC (Looked After Children) reviews, there remains limited research into how far this is achieved. This study interviewed 25 children and 16 foster carers to... Read More about Children's participation in LAC reviews: A study in one English local authority.

Graphics RCA (2014)
Exhibition / Performance

Research and co-curation of GraphicsRCA, an exhibition and publication, showcasing major developments in graphic communication and how the discipline continues to be shaped by students of the Royal College of Art.

Collaboration with Natasha Trotma... Read More about Graphics RCA.

A longitudinal study of entrepreneurial activities in the UK higher education sector (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Whilst the roles of institutional and locational characteristics of a university in determining its entrepreneurial performance level has been examined in prior research studies, they are not fully acknowledged in current UK policies facilitating lin... Read More about A longitudinal study of entrepreneurial activities in the UK higher education sector.

Access to finance for SMEs at a regional level: The case for a development bank for Wales? (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In 2013, the Welsh Government announced an independent review into access to finance in Wales. Its aim was to examine how effectively SMEs in Wales are served by existing sources of funding, identify areas of particular challenge and provide recommen... Read More about Access to finance for SMEs at a regional level: The case for a development bank for Wales?.

Ashby’s mobile homeostat (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In Design for a Brain, W. Ross Ashby speculates about the possibility of creating a mobile homeostat " with its critical states set so that it seeks situations of high illumination. " This paper explores an embedding of Ashby's homeostat within a sim... Read More about Ashby’s mobile homeostat.

Breastfeeding peer support in Wiltshire: An evaluation (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This presentation will discuss issues involved in undertaking an evaluation of breastfeeding peer support, commissioned by NHS Wiltshire to consider how the implementation of breastfeeding peer support in Wiltshire might be improved. The focus was th... Read More about Breastfeeding peer support in Wiltshire: An evaluation.