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Variations in car type, size, usage and emissions across Great Britain and relationships with socio-demographic characteristics (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper is an early output from the EPSRC/RCUK Energy Programme project, MOT (Motoring and vehicle Ownership Trends in the UK). The MOT test record dataset recently released by the Department for Transport provides the ability to estimate annual m... Read More about Variations in car type, size, usage and emissions across Great Britain and relationships with socio-demographic characteristics.

Locking and its treatment for nonlinear isogeometric analysis (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Examining the relationship between life transitions and travel behaviour change: New insights from the UK household longitudinal study (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Recent research has indicated that changes in travel behaviour are more likely at the time of major life events. However, there remains much to learn about the extent to which different life events trigger behavioural change and the conditions under... Read More about Examining the relationship between life transitions and travel behaviour change: New insights from the UK household longitudinal study.

Benchmark 4: Wrinkling during cup drawing (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Increasing physical activity through motivational interviewing with adult forensic psychiatric inpatients (2014)
Thesis

The treatment and recovery of forensic psychiatric inpatients can take many months and often years, within which time health issues such as obesity and diabetes can develop. Encouraging beneficial health behaviours with this client group is notorious... Read More about Increasing physical activity through motivational interviewing with adult forensic psychiatric inpatients.

The impact of vibration on comfort and bodily stress while cycling (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper reports preliminary work to understand the nature of vibrations from riding a bicycle and how these may impact on human comfort and bodily stress.

There are two parts to the study. The first part comprises results from a survey of cycle... Read More about The impact of vibration on comfort and bodily stress while cycling.

Drawing the sociolinguist profile of bilingual Albanian students through the view of their teachers (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Social implications of bilingualism in primary schools (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Macroprudential regulations as counter-cyclical tools: The case of Turkey (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper analyzes the effectiveness of macroprudential regulations adopted by the Central Bank of Turkey in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. In particular, we examine the effects of the domestic policy rate and the reserve requirements... Read More about Macroprudential regulations as counter-cyclical tools: The case of Turkey.

Agenda building in media coverage of food research (2014)
Journal Article

Concern has been raised about the rising influence of public relations on scientific news coverage and the potential role of institutional sources in shaping news reports. This study uses quantitative content analysis and qualitative interviews to ex... Read More about Agenda building in media coverage of food research.

Gentrification and the artistic dividend: The role of the arts in neighborhood change (2014)
Journal Article

Problem, research strategy, and findings: There is a conflict between recent creative placemaking policies intended to promote positive neighborhood development through the arts and the fact that the arts have long been cited as contributing to gentr... Read More about Gentrification and the artistic dividend: The role of the arts in neighborhood change.

Christian lobbyist groups and the negotiation of sexual rights in the UK (2014)
Journal Article

Although sexual minority rights have not necessarily generated polarised views within Christian churches and organisations, the subject has tended to forge an arena of contestation between liberal and conservative constituencies. Theological differen... Read More about Christian lobbyist groups and the negotiation of sexual rights in the UK.

Clustering analysis of water distribution systems: Identifying critical components and community impacts (2014)
Journal Article

© IWA Publishing 2014 Large water distribution systems (WDSs) are networks with both topological and behavioural complexity. Thereby, it is usually difficult to identify the key features of the properties of the system, and subsequently all the criti... Read More about Clustering analysis of water distribution systems: Identifying critical components and community impacts.

Damage Classification of Sandwich Composites Using Acoustic Emission Technique and k-means Genetic Algorithm (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media New York. In this study acoustic emission (AE) technique was used for monitoring mode I delamination test of sandwich composites. Since, during mode I delamination test various damage mechanisms appear, their c... Read More about Damage Classification of Sandwich Composites Using Acoustic Emission Technique and k-means Genetic Algorithm.

Comparison of the kinetic performance and retentivity of sub-2μm core-shell, hybrid and conventional bare silica phases in hydrophilic interaction chromatography (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014 Elsevier B.V. The separation performance and retention properties of four sub-2μm underivatised silica materials were evaluated in the hydrophilic interaction chromatography (HILIC) mode. These included an organic/inorganic hybrid silica, conv... Read More about Comparison of the kinetic performance and retentivity of sub-2μm core-shell, hybrid and conventional bare silica phases in hydrophilic interaction chromatography.

Reproductive characteristics of wild Sanje mangabeys (Cercocebus sanjei) (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. An accurate description of reproductive characteristics and ovarian endocrinology is necessary to address questions about the reproductive strategies and life history of a species and for meaningful, cross species analy... Read More about Reproductive characteristics of wild Sanje mangabeys (Cercocebus sanjei).

Peering over the shoulders of giants? (2014)
Journal Article

‘Open’ is a highly-visible cultural trend of the early twenty-first century. A brief scan of a
newspaper or quick Internet search reveals it as a prefix to learning, source, standard, data,
knowledge, democracy, access, repository, innovation, gove... Read More about Peering over the shoulders of giants?.

Securing Circulation Through Mobility: Milieu and Emergency Response in the British Fire and Rescue Service (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014 Taylor & Francis. Abstract: A growing body of literature draws upon Foucault’s security oeuvre in examining how societies are secured at the level of circulation. Although demonstrating the strength of Foucault’s contribution to debates abou... Read More about Securing Circulation Through Mobility: Milieu and Emergency Response in the British Fire and Rescue Service.

Online child exploitation: Challenges and future research directions (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014 Henry Hillman, Christopher Hooper, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo. Given the relatively new phenomenon of online child exploitation-an important area of criminological and policy concern-it is difficult to obtain long term trend data on reported convi... Read More about Online child exploitation: Challenges and future research directions.

Entrepreneurship: Cause and Consequence of Financial Optimism (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Extant evidence that the self-employed overestimate their returns by a greater margin than employees is consistent with two mutually inclusive possibilities. Self-employment may foster optimism or intrinsic optimists ma... Read More about Entrepreneurship: Cause and Consequence of Financial Optimism.