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Triggers for changes in cycling: The role of life events and modifications to the external environment (2013)
Journal Article

There is surprising little research that directly investigates the reasons why people change their cycling behaviour. This paper presents findings from in-depth interviews that sought to understand the circumstances and factors that influenced people... Read More about Triggers for changes in cycling: The role of life events and modifications to the external environment.

Client employment of previous auditors: Shareholders views on auditor independence (2013)
Journal Article

The role of auditors is to add credibility to financial information and to reduce the risk of management manipulation or concealment. It is vital that auditors be independent of company management. In practice, however, various circumstances may pose... Read More about Client employment of previous auditors: Shareholders views on auditor independence.

Assessing future travel demand: A need to account for non-transport technologies? (2013)
Journal Article

Purpose: Travel is usually not valued in and of itself, but for the activities it allows people to partake in. Therefore, if change occurs in either the activities people perform, or in the means they use to perform them, the demand for travel is lik... Read More about Assessing future travel demand: A need to account for non-transport technologies?.

Discussion: The adverse health and safety influence of subcontracting (2013)
Journal Article

Avoiding performance failure payment deductions in PFI/PPP projects: Model of critical success factors (2013)
Journal Article

The overall aim of this paper is to identify critical success factors that would help Private Finance Initiative/facility management (PFI/FM) contractors to avoid performance failure payment deductions in Public Private Partnership/PFI (PPP/PFI) proj... Read More about Avoiding performance failure payment deductions in PFI/PPP projects: Model of critical success factors.

Differing Effects of the Global Financial Crisis on the Central Asian Countries: Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic and Uzbekistan (2013)
Journal Article

Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic and Uzbekistan are neighbouring countries in post-Soviet Central Asia which share similar culture and language. Their economic structures were similar under central planning: they provided the agricultural basis to the... Read More about Differing Effects of the Global Financial Crisis on the Central Asian Countries: Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic and Uzbekistan.

Fear and institutions (2013)
Journal Article

Fear allowed early humans to adapt, evolve, and survive. When humans moved into settled communities, with more advanced means of production, the nature of fear-much like the nature of social relationships-changed. Once the means of social reproductio... Read More about Fear and institutions.

Imaging and clinical evidence of sensorimotor problems in CRPS: Utilizing novel treatment approaches (2013)
Journal Article

Inflammation and altered autonomic function are diagnostic signs and symptoms of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. In the acute stages these are commonly at their most florid accompanied by severe pain and reduced function. Understandably this has dire... Read More about Imaging and clinical evidence of sensorimotor problems in CRPS: Utilizing novel treatment approaches.

Music making for health, well-being and behaviour change in youth justice settings: A systematic review (2013)
Journal Article

Youth justice is an important public health issue. There is growing recognition of the need to adopt effective, evidence-based strategies for working with young offenders. Music interventions may be particularly well suited to addressing risk factors... Read More about Music making for health, well-being and behaviour change in youth justice settings: A systematic review.

Promoting Effective Consultation? Assessing the Impact of the ICE Regulations (2013)
Journal Article

Drawing on evidence from longitudinal case studies in 25 organizations, this article examines whether information and consultation (I&C) bodies established in the context of the UK's Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations 2004 have bee... Read More about Promoting Effective Consultation? Assessing the Impact of the ICE Regulations.

Thixoforming A356 aluminum bipolar plates at high solid fractions (2013)
Journal Article

Thixoforming investigations have been developed primarily for the manufacturing of bulk components, and the current knowledge is very limited with respect to the fabrication of thin cross sections of alloys. We studied the effectiveness of thixoformi... Read More about Thixoforming A356 aluminum bipolar plates at high solid fractions.

The SYSCILIA gold standard (SCGSv1) of known ciliary components and its applications within a systems biology consortium (2013)
Journal Article

The multinational SYSCILIA consortium aims to gain a mechanistic understanding of the cilium. We utilize multiple parallel high-throughput (HTP) initiatives to develop predictive models of relationships between complex genotypes and variable phenotyp... Read More about The SYSCILIA gold standard (SCGSv1) of known ciliary components and its applications within a systems biology consortium.

Prediction of the impact of climate change on drought: an evaluation of six UK catchments using two stochastic approaches (2013)
Journal Article

Under future climate scenarios, possible changes of drought patterns pose new challenges for water resources management. For quantifying and qualifying drought characteristics in the UK, the drought severity indices of six catchments are investigated... Read More about Prediction of the impact of climate change on drought: an evaluation of six UK catchments using two stochastic approaches.

ZAP-70 Phosphorylation and other prognostic factors in adult B-chronic lymphocytic leukaemia patients (2013)
Thesis

Abstract
B chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (B-CLL) is a disease with an enormously heterogeneous prognosis. Due to lack of effective treatments and the heterogeneity in its course, B-CLL has remained largely incurable. In the last two decades a number... Read More about ZAP-70 Phosphorylation and other prognostic factors in adult B-chronic lymphocytic leukaemia patients.

Task specific home based training to improve balance and mobility in patient with chronic stroke: A case report (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Food hygiene challenges in older people: Intergenerational learning as a health asset (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Older people are more at risk of contracting foodborne infections; however the majority remain well despite the physical, social and cognitive challenges of older age. Future healthcare strategies targeting older people can be informed by exploring t... Read More about Food hygiene challenges in older people: Intergenerational learning as a health asset.

The preparation of auxetic foams by three-dimensional printing and their characteristics (2013)
Journal Article

Repeatable auxetic foams are produced using three‐dimensional printing technologies. This methodology is applied here for the first time to produce playable polymeric auxetic foams with an idealized re‐entrant cellular structure. During uniaxial tens... Read More about The preparation of auxetic foams by three-dimensional printing and their characteristics.

AlphaSphere (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The AlphaSphere is an electronic musical instrument featuring a series of tactile, pressure sensitive touch pads arranged in a spherical form. It is designed to offer a new playing style, while allowing for the expressive real-time modulation of soun... Read More about AlphaSphere.

Domain-specific languages for agile urban policy modelling (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Residential-source emission inventory for the Niger delta: A methodological approach (2013)
Journal Article

This paper describes the methods applied to construct a GIS-based emission inventory infrastructure for specific air pollutants and greenhouse gases released from domestic cooking and lighting in the Niger Delta using publicly accessible data. The pu... Read More about Residential-source emission inventory for the Niger delta: A methodological approach.