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Application of the concept of cost benefits analysis (CBA) to property level flood risk adaptation measures: A conceptual framework for residential (2014)
Journal Article

Purpose: There has been a significant increase in flooding in the UK over the past ten years. During this time, Government policy has moved from investment in flood defences towards encouraging property owners to take responsibility for reducing the... Read More about Application of the concept of cost benefits analysis (CBA) to property level flood risk adaptation measures: A conceptual framework for residential.

Health promotion in the age of social media: Evaluation of Word Press as a platform for developing postgraduate student skills (2014)
Journal Article

Aims: The present study reports on the evaluation of a postgraduate assignment in which students produced a health promotion website. The aim of the study was to examine the application of WordPress as a platform for developing contemporary skills in... Read More about Health promotion in the age of social media: Evaluation of Word Press as a platform for developing postgraduate student skills.

Grey pin bowl at the "British Design: From William Morris to the Digital Revolution" exhibition (2014)
Physical Artefact

Glass Bowls featured at “British Design: from William Morris to the Digital Revolution”

The exhibition was a participant of Russian-British 2014 Bilateral Year and took place in the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. Intimate yet fundamental, this... Read More about Grey pin bowl at the "British Design: From William Morris to the Digital Revolution" exhibition.

Effect of forming conditions on mechanical properties of rheoformed thin plates with microchannels using electromagnetic stirring (2014)
Journal Article

Rheoforming is a near net-shape manufacturing technology for fabricating components from light alloys in their semisolid states with improved mechanical properties. In this work, a feasibility study on the fabrication of Silafont 36 aluminum thin pla... Read More about Effect of forming conditions on mechanical properties of rheoformed thin plates with microchannels using electromagnetic stirring.

Narratives of fate and misfortune in organizational life: Stories of success and failure (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014 Taylor & Francis. In this paper, we discuss how both success and failure induce anxiety, and how narratives help defend against it. We argue, using a psychoanalytic approach, that these narratives become culturally embedded through sharing a... Read More about Narratives of fate and misfortune in organizational life: Stories of success and failure.

The importance of communication in fulfilling the strategic role of HRM (2014)
Book Chapter

This chapter considers communication as an integral part of the HRM strategy making process, and focuses on the role of line managers, the HR department and e-HRM.

Flexible working (2014)
Book Chapter

Chapter in book which critically evaluates the arguments for and against flexible working from both the employers and workers' perspective

3D printing of self-glazing ceramics: An investigation into Egyptian faience (2014)
Book Chapter

The Centre for Fine Print Research at the University of the West of England has recently been awarded funding from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council for a three year research project entitled “Can Egyptian Paste Techniques (Faience) be used... Read More about 3D printing of self-glazing ceramics: An investigation into Egyptian faience.

The investigation of the hBCAT proteins in control and diseased human brains: Implications for glutamate toxicity in Alzheimer’s disease (2014)
Thesis

Introduction & Aims: The distribution of the BCAT proteins has been extensively mapped in rodent models, and metabolic studies have established that BCAT transamination in the rodent brain is responsible for 30% of de novo glutamate synthesis. Howeve... Read More about The investigation of the hBCAT proteins in control and diseased human brains: Implications for glutamate toxicity in Alzheimer’s disease.

Global development and diffusion of outcome evaluation research for interpersonal and self-directed violence prevention from 2007 to 2013: A systematic review (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Through a global review, we identified gaps in the geographical distribution of violence prevention evidence outcome evaluation studies and the types of violence addressed. Systematic literature searches... Read More about Global development and diffusion of outcome evaluation research for interpersonal and self-directed violence prevention from 2007 to 2013: A systematic review.

‘A very English process’ Underglaze tissue printing for ceramics - a collaboration to retain 19th century printing skills in a commercial environment (2014)
Book Chapter

The standard text ‘Penny Plain and Twopence coloured’ regarding Blue and White underglaze ceramic transfer printing begins: ‘Transfer printing is a particularly English form of ceramic decoration’ (Halfpenny, Pat. 1994).
Underglaze tissue ceramic tr... Read More about ‘A very English process’ Underglaze tissue printing for ceramics - a collaboration to retain 19th century printing skills in a commercial environment.

3D printing for the visual arts an overview of current practice and its historical context (2014)
Book Chapter

Rapidly gaining popular attention, 3D printing is viewed as the next life changing technology. This talk explains how the creative industries are directly interfacing with this new technology and how it is changing the practices of many artists and... Read More about 3D printing for the visual arts an overview of current practice and its historical context.

Clinical consistency of vibration sense testing: Development of a manikin great toe with embedded accelerometer for testing and training (2014)
Journal Article

Diabetes is the most common cause of peripheral nerve damage and vibration perception is the first sensory modality affected. A standard tuning fork remains the most widely used tool for assessing vibration perception in clinical practice, however in... Read More about Clinical consistency of vibration sense testing: Development of a manikin great toe with embedded accelerometer for testing and training.

Music therapy in children's hospices: An evaluative survey of provision (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014 Elsevier Ltd. This paper presents the results of a survey of the range of music therapy practice in children's hospices in the UK. Music therapists are challenged to work with children with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions during... Read More about Music therapy in children's hospices: An evaluative survey of provision.

The role of cold supraglacial volcanic deposits in influencing glacial ablation (2014)
Thesis

An often overlooked factor in glacial ablation is the influence of supraglacial debris deposits, which can have both positive and negative effects. A critical thickness exists at which sub-debris ablation is equal to that of bare ice; debris will hin... Read More about The role of cold supraglacial volcanic deposits in influencing glacial ablation.

Trying to fall asleep while catastrophising: What sleep-disordered adolescents think and feel (2014)
Journal Article

Objective: Catastrophising is a repetitive cognitive process related to sleep disturbance in adult insomnia patients. More recently catastrophising has been associated with increased sleep disturbances in community samples of children and adolescents... Read More about Trying to fall asleep while catastrophising: What sleep-disordered adolescents think and feel.

Using student evaluations to improve individual and departmental teaching qualities (2014)
Journal Article

Student evaluations can be seen as an opportunity for students to vent their views on the quality of teaching that they receive, and sometimes instructors trivialise the importance of this opportunity for dialogue with students and colleagues and ref... Read More about Using student evaluations to improve individual and departmental teaching qualities.

Reflective Supervision for Child Protection Practice - Reaching Beneath the Surface (2014)
Journal Article

This paper describes a model of reflective supervision for child protection practice that is informed by psychoanalytic theory. Eileen Munro promotes the idea of depth in practice, referring to the skills and knowledge required to undertake the work.... Read More about Reflective Supervision for Child Protection Practice - Reaching Beneath the Surface.

Active and passive physicality: Making the most of low fidelity physical interactive prototypes (2014)
Journal Article

Copyright © 2014 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. This paper presents three case-studies which comprise a systematic investigation into the use of low fidelity physical interactive prototyping techniques to form a design principle based on the construct... Read More about Active and passive physicality: Making the most of low fidelity physical interactive prototypes.

Hydrogen sulfide and cell signaling: Team player or referee? (2014)
Journal Article

Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) has been postulated to be the third gasotransmitter, and along with other reactive compounds such as reactive oxygen species (ROS) and nitric oxide (NO) it is thought to be a key signalling molecule. Enzymes which generate H2S,... Read More about Hydrogen sulfide and cell signaling: Team player or referee?.