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Critical buckling of delaminated composite plates using exact stiffness analysis (2011)
Journal Article

The critical buckling of composite plates with through-the-length delaminations is studied using exact stiffness analysis and the Wittrick-Williams algorithm. Computational efficiency is achieved by avoiding discretisation into elements, making the m... Read More about Critical buckling of delaminated composite plates using exact stiffness analysis.

'All they lack is a chain': Lean and the new performance management in the British civil service (2011)
Journal Article

The adaptation of lean techniques in public services is viewed as an innovative managerialist response to government demands for more efficient services amidst large reductions in public spending. This paper explores workers' experiences of the impac... Read More about 'All they lack is a chain': Lean and the new performance management in the British civil service.

Early voting and informed voters in America (2011)
Journal Article

Exploiting the brachypodium tool box in cereal and grass research (2011)
Journal Article

It is now a decade since Brachypodium distachyon (Brachypodium) was suggested as a model species for temperate grasses and cereals. Since then transformation protocols, large expressed sequence tag (EST) databases, tools for forward and reverse genet... Read More about Exploiting the brachypodium tool box in cereal and grass research.

Public procurement of innovations, diffusion and endogenous institutions (2011)
Journal Article

Purpose: Public procurement has been increasingly seen as an important innovation policy tool. One neglected aspect of the public procurement of innovation is, however, diffusion. The purpose of this paper is to counter this neglect by exploring how... Read More about Public procurement of innovations, diffusion and endogenous institutions.

Propriety, process and purpose: Considerations of the use of the telephone interview method in an educational research study (2011)
Journal Article

While the use of the telephone has increased as a means of collecting research data in a range of areas, there are few examples of studies where telephone interviews have been conducted to collect qualitative data. The field of educational research i... Read More about Propriety, process and purpose: Considerations of the use of the telephone interview method in an educational research study.

New leadership for democratic urban space (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Aluminium electrodes effect the operation of titanium oxide sol-gel memristors (2011)
Preprint / Working Paper

By a comparison between memristors made with aluminium and gold electrodes, this letter demonstrates that aluminium electrodes are an essential component of the TiO$_2$ sol-gel flexible memristor . Both slow varying `analogue' and sudden switching `d... Read More about Aluminium electrodes effect the operation of titanium oxide sol-gel memristors.

Comparison of people's responses to real and virtual handshakes within a virtual environment (2011)
Journal Article

In this paper we present a method for evaluating a haptic device which simulates human handshakes interfaced via a metal rod. We provide an overview of the haptic demonstrator and the control algorithm used for delivering realistic handshakes. For th... Read More about Comparison of people's responses to real and virtual handshakes within a virtual environment.

Abductive inference the research process and mixed method studies (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Based upon a reading of the work of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) this presentation introduces and examines the role of abductive inference in the research process. It is proposed that qualitative research employs or embodies abductive forms of... Read More about Abductive inference the research process and mixed method studies.

A study on semisolid processing of A356 aluminum alloy through vacuum-assisted electromagnetic stirring (2011)
Journal Article

In this study, a vacuum-assisted electromagnetic stirring system was designed and manufactured in order to minimize the defects such as porosities in the semisolid processing A356 aluminum alloy by electromagnetic stirring (EMS). A sleeve cooling sys... Read More about A study on semisolid processing of A356 aluminum alloy through vacuum-assisted electromagnetic stirring.

Detection of high resistive ground faults in MV mining networks basing on a phase relationship of selected current harmonics (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

To succeed or not to succeed: A multiple perspectives literature review of research in family business succession (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The literature on family owned businesses (FOBs) has highlighted the unique challenges that face this form of organisation, and one of the most important issues concerning the FOB is the challenge of management succession. According to a survey of 2... Read More about To succeed or not to succeed: A multiple perspectives literature review of research in family business succession.

Harmonizing geospaatial data at the local level for global benefit: HUMBOLDT Urban Atlas – a case study (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

One of the major requirements for the realization of an integrated environmental monitoring system is the availability of tools and services to harmonize and integrate environmental spatial data, originating from various governmental and other agenci... Read More about Harmonizing geospaatial data at the local level for global benefit: HUMBOLDT Urban Atlas – a case study.

An online educational simulation: Investigating student motivational orientation (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Educational simulations allow students to experience events or situations that are vocationally relevant but would not normally be possible to replicate in the classroom. This paper considers the findings of a research study that investigated the mot... Read More about An online educational simulation: Investigating student motivational orientation.

Phasic activity of urinary bladder smooth muscle in the streptozotocin-induced diabetic rat: Effect of potassium channel modulators (2011)
Journal Article

Increased phasic activity in the bladder smooth muscle of animal models and patients with detrusor overactivity has been suggested to underlie the pathophysiology of overactive bladder. Potassium (K+) channels are key regulators of bladder smooth mus... Read More about Phasic activity of urinary bladder smooth muscle in the streptozotocin-induced diabetic rat: Effect of potassium channel modulators.

Determination of catecholamines in urine using hydrophilic interaction chromatography with electrochemical detection (2011)
Journal Article

The determination of catecholamines in urine was investigated using hydrophilic interaction chromatography (HILIC) as an alternative to the commonly used reversed-phase (RP) method. A number of different approaches were explored, including per-aqueou... Read More about Determination of catecholamines in urine using hydrophilic interaction chromatography with electrochemical detection.

Enhancing task classification in human-machine collaborative teleoperation systems by real-time evaluation of an agreement criterion (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Towards real-time haptic assistance adaptation optimizing task performance and human effort (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Test retests reliability and discriminant validity of ultrasonographic measurements of acromion-greater tuberosity distance in patients with stroke (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution