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Looking 'the same': Experiences of women who have had corrective surgery for breast asymmetry (2013)
Journal Article

Qualitative interviews with ten women found that following corrective surgery for congenital breast asymmetry, women were still concerned with the symmetry of their breasts and expressed high ideals regarding symmetry. Although women found an improve... Read More about Looking 'the same': Experiences of women who have had corrective surgery for breast asymmetry.

Dendritic cell migration assay: A potential prediction model for identification of contact allergens (2013)
Journal Article

This manuscript describes methodology and a prediction model for the MUTZ-LC migration assay. The assay represents the physiological change in Langerhans cell (LC) behavior after exposure to a sensitizing chemical, resulting in LC migration from the... Read More about Dendritic cell migration assay: A potential prediction model for identification of contact allergens.

Investigation on Cacao swollen shoot virus (CSSV) pollen transmission through cross-pollination (2013)
Journal Article

DNA- and RNA-based polymerase chain reaction (PCR) systems were used with Cacao swollen shoot virus (CSSV) primers designed from conserved regions of the six published genomic sequences of CSSV to investigate whether the virus is transmissible from i... Read More about Investigation on Cacao swollen shoot virus (CSSV) pollen transmission through cross-pollination.

Clinical evidence of parietal cortex dysfunction and correlation with extent of allodynia in CRPS type 1 (2013)
Journal Article

Background: Unusual symptoms such as digit misidentification and neglect-like phenomena have been reported in complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), which we hypothesized could be explained by parietal lobe dysfunction. Methods: Twenty-two patients w... Read More about Clinical evidence of parietal cortex dysfunction and correlation with extent of allodynia in CRPS type 1.

On A. D. Smith's constancy based defence of direct realism (2013)
Journal Article

This paper presents an argument against A D Smith's Direct Realist theory of perception, which attempts to defend Direct Realism against the argument from illusion by appealing to conscious perceptual states that are structured by the perceptual cons... Read More about On A. D. Smith's constancy based defence of direct realism.

Act like a designer, think like a strategist’ - Platform model conceptualization and the engineer's approach as a platform architect: evidence from Turkey (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Viscount Hastings: Radical aristocrat (2013)
Journal Article

An approach to managing the complexity of knowledge intensive business processes (2013)
Thesis

Organisations face ever growing complexity in the business environment and use processes to deliver value in a stable, sustainable and controllable way. However complexity in the business environment is threatening the stability of processes and forc... Read More about An approach to managing the complexity of knowledge intensive business processes.

Trainer communication style and training outcomes (2013)
Book Chapter

The chapter summarizes key issues in trainer communication style for improving training outcomes

Computation and universality: Class IV versus Class III cellular automata (2013)
Journal Article

This paper examines the claim that cellular automata (CA) belonging to Class III (in Wolfram’s classification) are capable of (Turing universal) computation. We explore some chaotic CA (believed to belong to Class III) reported over the course of the... Read More about Computation and universality: Class IV versus Class III cellular automata.

Parenting interventions for the prevention of unintentional injuries in childhood (2013)
Journal Article

© 2013 The Cochrane Collaboration. Background: Parent education and training programmes can improve maternal psychosocial health, child behavioural problems and parenting practices. This review assesses the effects of parenting interventions for redu... Read More about Parenting interventions for the prevention of unintentional injuries in childhood.

Self-preservation (2013)
Book Chapter

The play's the thing: A [mini-]phenomenology of fashion (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Drawing on literature from play studies, developmental psychology, gender studies and phenomenology, this paper will argue for a conception of fashion as an extension of the play behaviours key to a child's psychosocial development and mental health.... Read More about The play's the thing: A [mini-]phenomenology of fashion.

Working age dementia (2013)
Digital Artefact

Working Age Dementia is increasing. Two young couples share their experience of being diagnosed with dementia with Syncopate TV on BBC Inside Out.

A concurrent-choice analysis of amount-dependent temporal discounting (2013)
Journal Article

Amount-dependent temporal discounting refers to the differential rates at which the values of large and small rewards are discounted over time. A lower rate of discounting of larger rewards is known as the magnitude effect. The present study aimed to... Read More about A concurrent-choice analysis of amount-dependent temporal discounting.

Will traditional knowledge ever be protected? (2013)
Digital Artefact

A review of the development of the Traditional Knowledge Bill seeking the introduction of legal protection for indigenous cultural expressions and traditional knowledge as forms of intellectual property.

Making the business case, female quotas in Business: Discourses and logics (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The recent review conducted by Lord Davies (BIS, 2011) on Women on Boards received over 2,654 responses to the call for evidence from a broad range of academic, corporate and practitioners sources. The report whilst stressing that boards be made of... Read More about Making the business case, female quotas in Business: Discourses and logics.

The accuracy of students' predictions of their GCSE grades (2013)
Journal Article

The paper reports a study that investigated the relationship between students' self-predicted and actual General Certificate of Secondary Education results in order to establish the extent of over- and under-prediction and whether this varies by subj... Read More about The accuracy of students' predictions of their GCSE grades.

The carrot or the stick: Finding a balance in the regulatory conundrum (2013)
Journal Article

The financial crisis has attracted comment from a wide variety of academics; Niall Ferguson is one such example, a historian commenting on a legal issue. Ferguson called for the jailing of bankers in his Reith lecturers for Radio 4 in 2012; such a me... Read More about The carrot or the stick: Finding a balance in the regulatory conundrum.

Creative exploration of local, national and global links (2013)
Journal Article