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Cary Grant: Acting style and genre in classical Hollywood cinema (2012)
Book Chapter

This is part of a larger project on Cary Grant and film acting. This particular essay focuses on the relationships between acting style, genre and star persona, using close textual analysis alongside archival research and industrial contextualisation... Read More about Cary Grant: Acting style and genre in classical Hollywood cinema.

Does More Schooling Make You Run for the Border? Evidence from Post-Independence Kosovo (2012)
Journal Article

Does an extra year of schooling augment one's propensity to migrate? In a naive regression, which does not account for the potential reverse causality and omitted variables, the coefficient of education is likely to be biased. To deal with the proble... Read More about Does More Schooling Make You Run for the Border? Evidence from Post-Independence Kosovo.

Maximising electricity production by controlling the biofilm specific growth rate in microbial fuel cells (2012)
Journal Article

The aim of this work is to study the relationship between growth rate and electricity production in perfusion-electrode microbial fuel cells (MFCs), across a wide range of flow rates by co-measurement of electrical output and changes in population nu... Read More about Maximising electricity production by controlling the biofilm specific growth rate in microbial fuel cells.

Effects of multimedia characteristics on novice CAD learners practice performance (2012)
Journal Article

Based on the assumption that providing information using multiple modalities improves learners' performance, the teaching of computer-aided design (CAD) in the built environment is increasingly shifting from printed material to a multimedia approach.... Read More about Effects of multimedia characteristics on novice CAD learners practice performance.

Examining a typology of fire service-related anti-social behaviour (2012)
Journal Article

The Fire and Rescue Service (FRS) in England and Wales increasingly works alongside the police and other partners to promote safer communities-a key part of which involves tackling anti-social behaviour (ASB). Although definitions of ASB differ and a... Read More about Examining a typology of fire service-related anti-social behaviour.

An engineering systems approach to strategic change: The case of the European Automotive Industry (2012)
Journal Article

Build to Order [BTO] refers to a demand driven production approach where the majority of products and components are scheduled and built in response to a confirmed order received for it from a final customer. A £23m EU project involving leading auto... Read More about An engineering systems approach to strategic change: The case of the European Automotive Industry.

The impact of social anxiety on student learning and well-being in higher education (2012)
Journal Article

Background This paper reports findings from two complementary web-surveys conducted in the UK, in which 787 university students described their experiences of social anxiety.Aims The aim was to explore the impact of social anxiety on student learning... Read More about The impact of social anxiety on student learning and well-being in higher education.

A robust multi-scale integration method to obtain the depth from gradient maps (2012)
Journal Article

We describe a robust method for the recovery of the depth map (or height map) from a gradient map (or normal map) of a scene, such as would be obtained by photometric stereo or interferometry. Our method allows for uncertain or missing samples, which... Read More about A robust multi-scale integration method to obtain the depth from gradient maps.

Sunderland (2012)
Journal Article

Sunderland, lying on the north east coast of England, is the largest city in the north east of England. Having historically suffered from its proximity to the Tyneside conurbation centred around Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Sunderland has a long and illustri... Read More about Sunderland.

The impact of work placements on skills development and career outcomes for business and management graduates (2012)
Journal Article

It has become a received wisdom that the completion of a work placement as part of a sandwich undergraduate degree is of positive benefit both to graduates and employers, particularly in an era that stresses the economic contribution of higher educat... Read More about The impact of work placements on skills development and career outcomes for business and management graduates.

Redeveloping the research section of Meningitis UK’s website: A case study report (2012)
Journal Article

Trying to be Something You Are Not: Masculine Performances within a Prison Setting (2012)
Journal Article

Prisons are social communities where people commonly conform to normative institutional and cultural values and ideologies. Conforming as a man in prison may involve performing or projecting prison masculinities to ensure emotional, psychological, an... Read More about Trying to be Something You Are Not: Masculine Performances within a Prison Setting.

'Stuff it': Respectability and the voice of resistance in letter to brezhnev (2012)
Journal Article

Exploring Letter to Brezhnev through concepts of respectability as feminine cultural capital this article suggests that the film’s affective impulse stems from its representation of a female, working class experience under Thatcherism. This experienc... Read More about 'Stuff it': Respectability and the voice of resistance in letter to brezhnev.

The effects of energy drink in combination with alcohol on performance and subjective awareness (2012)
Journal Article

Rationale This study investigated the coadministration of an energy drink with alcohol to study the effects on subjective intoxication and objective performance. Objectives This study aims to evaluate the objective and subjective effects of alcohol v... Read More about The effects of energy drink in combination with alcohol on performance and subjective awareness.

Integrating Podcast Technology Effectively into Student Learning: A Reflexive Examination (2012)
Journal Article

This paper examines undergraduate student perceptions of the learning utility of video podcasts. The perceived and actual effectiveness of the technology was assessed by written questionnaire, focus groups and assessment results. The podcasts were pe... Read More about Integrating Podcast Technology Effectively into Student Learning: A Reflexive Examination.

Making connections: A review of supply chain management and sustainability literature (2012)
Journal Article

Purpose: The objective of this paper is to investigate systematically the discipline of supply chain management (SCM) within the context of sustainability. The two concepts are increasingly aligned, and sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) repr... Read More about Making connections: A review of supply chain management and sustainability literature.

Assessment of policies and legislation that affect management of Wetlands in Nigeria (2012)
Journal Article

The beneficial ecosystem services provided by wetlands in Nigeria are continuously subjected to considerable stress that has consequences for human wellbeing. An understanding of the policies and legislation governing wetland can help enhance their m... Read More about Assessment of policies and legislation that affect management of Wetlands in Nigeria.

Low priority? A cross sectional study of appearance anxiety in 500 consecutive referrals for cosmetic surgery (2012)
Journal Article

Low priority treatment guidance is used in the National Health Service to manage requests for cosmetic surgery where there is no associated functional impairment. Provision is made in this guidance to provide surgery on exceptional grounds, and this... Read More about Low priority? A cross sectional study of appearance anxiety in 500 consecutive referrals for cosmetic surgery.

Role of splice variants in the metastatic progression of prostate cancer (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

AS (alternative splicing) and its role in disease, especially cancer, has come to forefront in research over the last few years. Alterations in the ratio of splice variants have been widely observed in cancer. Splice variants of cancer-associated gen... Read More about Role of splice variants in the metastatic progression of prostate cancer.

Real wages, inflation and labour productivity in Australia (2012)
Journal Article

This article presents an analysis of real wages, inflation and labour productivity interrelationships using cointegration, Granger causality and, most importantly, structural change tests. Applications of tests to Australian data over the 1965 to 200... Read More about Real wages, inflation and labour productivity in Australia.