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The serious mental illness health improvement profile [HIP]: Study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial (2011)
Journal Article

Background: The serious mental illness Health Improvement Profile [HIP] is a brief pragmatic tool, which enables mental health nurses to work together with patients to screen physical health and take evidence-based action when variables are identifie... Read More about The serious mental illness health improvement profile [HIP]: Study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial.

Health integrated planning: Impediments and opportunities (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This article examines the degree to which health is incorporated in planning systems through plan preparation and appraisal. It identifies the key barriers to health-integration, examples of good practice, and opportunities for improvement. It is bas... Read More about Health integrated planning: Impediments and opportunities.

Neighbourhood design and quality influences the likelihood of residents to use public open space (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Good quality public open space (POS) is an essential component of neighbourhood design and planning. The impact of the quality, design and maintenance of POS on their use has been documented. However, the role that the characteristics of the surround... Read More about Neighbourhood design and quality influences the likelihood of residents to use public open space.

The management of sexual offenders in the community: Austerity, engagement, interaction and the ‘big society’ (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Mobile phone technology and sexual abuse (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The English patient experience (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Understanding the interaction between performance measurement, quality of care and patient satisfaction is important in managing healthcare. The family doctor is typically the first point of contact for patients and the gatekeeper for most treatments... Read More about The English patient experience.

Upper bounds for the bondage number of graphs on topological surfaces (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Is the use of symphysis-fundal height measurement and ultrasound examination effective in detecting small or large fetuses? (2011)
Journal Article

We investigated the accuracy of using symphysis pubis-fundal height measurement and ultrasonically derived estimation of fetal weight for identifying small-for-gestational-age (SGA) and large-for-gestational-age (LGA) fetuses. A retrospective cohort... Read More about Is the use of symphysis-fundal height measurement and ultrasound examination effective in detecting small or large fetuses?.

Parents, partners and peers: Bearing the hidden costs of lifelong learning (2011)
Journal Article

This paper examines data from three projects to explore the 'hidden costs' of participating in lifelong learning. Whilst other potential risks (financial for instance) are anticipated, those around family and friendship ties are usually not. Adult re... Read More about Parents, partners and peers: Bearing the hidden costs of lifelong learning.

U-model-based adaptive control for a class of stochastic non-linear dynamic plants with unknown parameters (2011)
Journal Article

In this paper, an adaptive control algorithm within a U-model framework is developed for controlling a class of stochastic non-linear discrete-time models with unknown parameters. With the authors' previous justification, the control-oriented model n... Read More about U-model-based adaptive control for a class of stochastic non-linear dynamic plants with unknown parameters.

Leadership course evaluation with patient and public involvement (2011)
Report

Executive Summary
1. This project had two components, the evaluation of a Developing and Enhancing Leadership and Management Skills programme delivered to 150 frontline supervisory and senior managers in North Bristol NHS Trust and the implementatio... Read More about Leadership course evaluation with patient and public involvement.

Pervasive screens: Transforming the consumption of cinema history with the Curzon Heritage App (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper presents a practice-based research project based at the Curzon Community Cinema, Clevedon, home of the Curzon Collection, an archive of cinema projectors donated by the Projected Picture Trust. The original cinema was built in 1912 and is... Read More about Pervasive screens: Transforming the consumption of cinema history with the Curzon Heritage App.

St. Pauls young people in 2011: Aspirations and challenges (2011)
Report

This report discusses the aspirations and challenges of Black and Minority Ethnic young people living in the St. Pauls ward of Bristol in the UK. It shows that the young people have high aspirations and concrete goals but face many external challenge... Read More about St. Pauls young people in 2011: Aspirations and challenges.

A socialist path to sustainability (2011)
Journal Article

In its 2006 Sustainability Index Report, the World Wildlife Fund determined that there is only one nation in the world that is currently living sustainably - and that nation is Cuba. This assessment was based on Cuba’s high levels of social developme... Read More about A socialist path to sustainability.

Optimal models of human multiple-target visual search (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Unlike laboratory experiments, real-world visual search can contain multiple targets. Searching for an unknown number of targets creates a unique set of challenges for the observer, and often produces serious errors. We propose a Bayesian optimal for... Read More about Optimal models of human multiple-target visual search.

Whose Antigone? The tragic marginalization of slavery (2011)
Book

Argues for the importance of the neglected theme of slavery in Antigone.

In this groundbreaking book, Tina Chanter challenges the philosophical and psychoanalytic reception of Sophocles’ Antigone, which has largely ignored the issue of slavery. Dr... Read More about Whose Antigone? The tragic marginalization of slavery.

Sir gerald campbell and the british high commission in Wartime Ottawa, 1938-1940 (2011)
Journal Article

In 1938 Sir Gerald campbell arrived in Ottawa to take up the position as the United Kingdom's high commissioner. Not much has been written about the man or his period in office (1938-41). Indeed, the sketchy and simplistic assessments of campbell, wh... Read More about Sir gerald campbell and the british high commission in Wartime Ottawa, 1938-1940.

An interview with former CSIR Director General Raghunath Anant Mashelkar (2011)
Journal Article

For 11 years, Dr. Mashelkar served as the Director General of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), which is a premier industrial R&D organization in India. He has been bestowed with Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan awards by the governme... Read More about An interview with former CSIR Director General Raghunath Anant Mashelkar.

Suburban solutions: The other side of the story (2011)
Journal Article

How much does urban form affect levels of active travel and transport carbon emissions? It is all too easy for policy-makers to jump to simple conclusions, but the answer is both complex and contested. Here Hugh Barton, Marcus Grant and Michael Horsw... Read More about Suburban solutions: The other side of the story.

Numerical study of gaseous reactive flow over a ram accelerator projectile in subdetonative velocity regime (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Computational fluid dynamics solutions of the Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes equations have been used to numerically predict the thrust of a thermally choked ram accelerator in subdetonative velocity regime. Studies were focused on a projectile oper... Read More about Numerical study of gaseous reactive flow over a ram accelerator projectile in subdetonative velocity regime.