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Landform transitions from pronival ramparts to moraines and rock glaciers: A case study from the Smørbotn cirque, Romsdalsalpane, southern Norway (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography. Landform transitions are defined as intermediate forms that represent transient developmental stages between conventional landform types. This study evaluates possible cases of landform transitio... Read More about Landform transitions from pronival ramparts to moraines and rock glaciers: A case study from the Smørbotn cirque, Romsdalsalpane, southern Norway.

Locomotion traits of dairy cows from overhead three-dimensional video (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

We investigate two locomotion traits in dairy cows from overhead 3D video to observe lameness trends. Detecting lameness -particularly at an early stage- is important in order to allow early treatment which maximizes detection benefits. The proposed... Read More about Locomotion traits of dairy cows from overhead three-dimensional video.

Advancing whisker based navigation through the implementation of bio-inspired whisking strategies (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

An active whisking tactile sensor array has been
successfully integrated with the RatSLAM algorithm and
demonstrated as capable of reducing error in pose estimates of a mobile robot. A new metric for evaluating the performance of RatSLAM is introdu... Read More about Advancing whisker based navigation through the implementation of bio-inspired whisking strategies.

Panel Discussion at 'Learning on screen audiovisual in education – what’s possible and what’s legal?' (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The great British housing crisis (2016)
Journal Article

Noting the recent resurgence of housing as a political issue, this article takes a historic view of the origins of the current housing crisis. While the foundations of the contemporary housing system were laid in the period following the First World... Read More about The great British housing crisis.

The role of age of disclosure of biological origins in the psychological wellbeing of adolescents conceived by reproductive donation: A longitudinal study from age 1 to age 14 (2016)
Journal Article

Background
The question of whether children should be told of their biological origins is one of the most controversial issues regarding the birth of children through donated eggs, sperm, embryos or surrogacy.

Methods
In the sixth phase of this... Read More about The role of age of disclosure of biological origins in the psychological wellbeing of adolescents conceived by reproductive donation: A longitudinal study from age 1 to age 14.

Women fleeing armed conflict in their home countries continue to face disproportionate threats to their safety in Europe (2016)
Other

This is a blog piece.

Bladder diary and symptom scores (2016)
Book Chapter

A summary of the use of bladder diaries and symptom scores for the evaluation of lower urinary tract symptoms.

International consultation on incontinence modular questionnaire (2016)
Book Chapter

A summary of the International Consultation on Incontinence Modular Questionnaire and its use in female urology and urogynaecology.

Transforming strategic outlook on sustainability: The case of higher education institutions in the gulf cooperation council (GCC) countries (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The role of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) has always been linked to developing human capital and maintaining the sustainability of societies (Wasiluk, 2013). However, globalization has fundamentally changed what is expected of HEIs. In the con... Read More about Transforming strategic outlook on sustainability: The case of higher education institutions in the gulf cooperation council (GCC) countries.

Muslims and Jews in France: History of a conflict (2016)
Journal Article

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been, to a certain extent, shaping not just the relations between Israel and Muslim-majority countries but also the nature of the relationship between Jews and Muslims in the diaspora. In fact, many people tend to... Read More about Muslims and Jews in France: History of a conflict.

How does age-related macular degeneration affect real-world visual ability and quality of life? A systematic review (2016)
Journal Article

Objectives: To review systematically the evidence of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) affecting realworld visual ability and quality of life (QoL). To explore trends in specific topics within this body of the literature. Design: Systematic revi... Read More about How does age-related macular degeneration affect real-world visual ability and quality of life? A systematic review.

Identifying and analyzing the transient and permanent barriers for big data (2016)
Journal Article

Auspiciously, big data analytics had made it possible to generate value from immense amounts of raw data. Organizations are able to seek incredible insights which assist them in effective decision making and providing quality of service by establishi... Read More about Identifying and analyzing the transient and permanent barriers for big data.

Resting serum concentration of high-sensitivity c-reactive protein (hs-CRP) in sportsmen and untrained male adults (2016)
Journal Article

There is an inverse relationship between regular physical activity and concentration of serum inflammatory markers, with variations in resting CRP in trained and untrained subjects. The effect of acute and prolonged exercises has been studied on infl... Read More about Resting serum concentration of high-sensitivity c-reactive protein (hs-CRP) in sportsmen and untrained male adults.

Para enfrentar el fracaso del capitalismo (2016)
Newspaper / Magazine

The role of expansive minerals in the autogenous and autonomic self-healing of cement based materials (2016)
Thesis

Portland Cement (PC) based concrete has been popular in construction for over a century, yet concrete structures such as dams, roads, bridges and tunnels require considerable repair and maintenance during their service lifespan. The adoption of self-... Read More about The role of expansive minerals in the autogenous and autonomic self-healing of cement based materials.

Identity Formation: The Wake of UK Public Sector Reform and Organisational 'Spin-out' (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Concrete and desert islands: Proto-posthuman crusoes in Daniel Defoe and J. G. Ballard (2016)
Journal Article

This article will argue that J. G. Ballard’s Concrete Island can be productively read as a narrative that engages some of the central ideas of posthumanism and that from this reading one can then re read its source text, Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Cruso... Read More about Concrete and desert islands: Proto-posthuman crusoes in Daniel Defoe and J. G. Ballard.

The techno-economic feasibility of providing solar photovoltaic backup power (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2016 IEEE. The availability of energy is a key factor affecting sustainable development. Consumers losing electricity supply due to constraints on electrical power utilities is very common in developing countries. In this paper, the technical and e... Read More about The techno-economic feasibility of providing solar photovoltaic backup power.

How low can you go? Bioenactivism, cognitive biology and Umwelt ontology (2016)
Journal Article

The viability of enactivist philosophy in providing descriptions of biological phenomena (bioenactivism) across the phylogenetic spectrum relies in large part on the scalability of its central concepts, i.e. whether they remain operative at varying l... Read More about How low can you go? Bioenactivism, cognitive biology and Umwelt ontology.