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Women in senior post-graduate medicine career roles in the UK: a qualitative study (2016)
Journal Article

Objectives:

This qualitative study sought to elicit the views, experiences, career journeys and aspirations of women in senior post-graduate medical education roles to identify steps needed to help support career progression.

Design:

In-dept... Read More about Women in senior post-graduate medicine career roles in the UK: a qualitative study.

The effects of over-education on returns in the graduate labour market (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Using a Household Income Survey (HIS), this study examines the private returns to education in Malaysian
financial sector. First, we estimate the private returns to education using the highest certificate qualification or
“sheepskin effects". Sec... Read More about The effects of over-education on returns in the graduate labour market.

What do people expect from a financial awareness platform? Insights from an online survey (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The aim of this study is to present the analysis of an online survey that was conducted in order to investigate individual attitudes and requirements from an online financial awareness platform. The survey aimed to elicit users’ self-assessed financi... Read More about What do people expect from a financial awareness platform? Insights from an online survey.

Visual search performance is predicted by both prestimulus and poststimulus electrical brain activity (2016)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2016. An individual's performance on cognitive and perceptual tasks varies considerably across time and circumstances. We investigated neural mechanisms underlying such performance variability using regression-based analyses to examin... Read More about Visual search performance is predicted by both prestimulus and poststimulus electrical brain activity.

Abuse is abuse (2016)
Digital Artefact

A piece discussing the complexity of sexual abuse in modern society and our reaction to it.

Whole life costing and multiple benefits of sustainable drainage (2016)
Book Chapter

This chapter explored relevant literature and touched on a variety of tools that can contribute to the estimation of the costs of implementing and maintaining SuDS, and the evaluation of flood damage reduction, stormwater management and other benefit... Read More about Whole life costing and multiple benefits of sustainable drainage.

Renewing acquaintance with James Britton (2016)
Journal Article

John Hodgson reports on LATE’s celebration of the work of one of NATE’s founding figures, James Britton, and explains the crucial importance of his work for contemporary English teaching.

Insolvency of small civil engineering firms: Critical strategic factors (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 American Society of Civil Engineers. Construction industry insolvency studies have failed to stem the industry's high insolvency tide because many focus on big civil engineering firms (CEF) when over 90% of firms in the industry are small or m... Read More about Insolvency of small civil engineering firms: Critical strategic factors.

Parameter sensitivity of a surface water quality model of the lower South Saskatchewan River—Comparison between ice-on and ice-off periods (2016)
Journal Article

Little is known about seasonal differences (ice-on vs. ice-off periods) and the sensitivity of in-stream processes to surface water quality constituents in rivers that have a persistent ice cover in winter. The goal of this study is to investigate th... Read More about Parameter sensitivity of a surface water quality model of the lower South Saskatchewan River—Comparison between ice-on and ice-off periods.

Multi degree-of-freedom successive stiffness increment approach for high stiffness haptic interaction (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In haptic interaction, stability and the object’s hardness perception are of great significance. Although numerous studies have been done for stable haptic interaction, however, most of them sacrifice the actual displayed stiffness as a cost of stabi... Read More about Multi degree-of-freedom successive stiffness increment approach for high stiffness haptic interaction.

Schmidt-hammer exposure ages from periglacial patterned ground (sorted circles) in Jotunheimen, Norway, and their interpretative problems (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography Periglacial patterned ground (sorted circles and polygons) along an altitudinal profile at Juvflya in central Jotunheimen, southern Norway, is investigated using Schmidt-hammer exposure-age dating... Read More about Schmidt-hammer exposure ages from periglacial patterned ground (sorted circles) in Jotunheimen, Norway, and their interpretative problems.

Hard, soft and now smart Brexit? Leaving the EU but not the EEA, is it that simple? (2016)
Journal Article

On 28 November 2016 the think tank British Influence announced that it will write to the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, Rt Hon David Davis MP, to find out what is the position of the UK government regarding its membership to the A... Read More about Hard, soft and now smart Brexit? Leaving the EU but not the EEA, is it that simple?.

Integrating Critical and Contextual Studies in Art and Design: Possibilities for Post-Compulsory Education (2016)
Book

Integrating Critical and Contextual Studies in Art and Design examines the relationship between two aspects of art education that appear at times inseparable or even indistinguishable, and at others isolated and in conflict: Critical and Contextual S... Read More about Integrating Critical and Contextual Studies in Art and Design: Possibilities for Post-Compulsory Education.

Design of sliding-mode observer for a class of uncertain neutral stochastic systems (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The problem of robust H∞ control for a class of uncertain neutral stochastic systems (NSS) is investigated by utilising the sliding-mode observer (SMO) technique. This paper presents a n... Read More about Design of sliding-mode observer for a class of uncertain neutral stochastic systems.

Introduction to special issue on the material cultures of financialisation (2016)
Journal Article

This paper offers a wide-ranging introduction to the symposium on the material culture of financialisation. It begins by addressing the nature of financialisation itself, drawing on a tight definition in order to distinguish the phenomenon of financi... Read More about Introduction to special issue on the material cultures of financialisation.

New methodology for the prediction of motor starting effect on bus voltages of interconnected power systems (2016)
Journal Article

A new methodology is proposed in this paper capable of predicting the impact of induction motor load starting on the bus voltages of an interconnected power system. The profile of the voltage sag is predicted for each bus, which is used to improve t... Read More about New methodology for the prediction of motor starting effect on bus voltages of interconnected power systems.

The digital revolution in financial inclusion: international development in the fintech era (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper examines the growing importance of digital-based financial inclusion as a form of organising development interventions through networks of state institutions, international de... Read More about The digital revolution in financial inclusion: international development in the fintech era.

Green Online vs Green Offline preferences on local public goods trade-offs and house prices (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd This paper focuses on the relationship between (i) house prices and (ii) local green public goods. The main objective of the paper is to analyse a specific house-pricing mechanism which reflects the utility of being Green Offline,... Read More about Green Online vs Green Offline preferences on local public goods trade-offs and house prices.

Management of structural monitoring data of bridges using BIM (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2016 Published with permission by the ICE under the CC-BY licence. In addition to the traditional benefits associated with the installation of structural health monitoring systems, reductions in construction, operational and maintenance costs, and... Read More about Management of structural monitoring data of bridges using BIM.

Early and non-intrusive lameness detection in dairy cows using 3-dimensional video (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 IAgrE Lameness is a major issue in dairy herds and its early and automated detection offers animal welfare benefits together with potentially high commercial savings for farmers. Current advancements in automated detection have not achieved a... Read More about Early and non-intrusive lameness detection in dairy cows using 3-dimensional video.