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Exploring the ways environmental science is used and valued by policy-makers in Portugal: A case study (2012)
Journal Article

Policymakers, researchers and the general public seem to agree that there is a need for evidence based policies. Here we report on a case study which explores environmental policy making at the national and local levels in one European country, Portu... Read More about Exploring the ways environmental science is used and valued by policy-makers in Portugal: A case study.

Cycle Mapping in the UK and the ‘London Cycle Map’ (2012)
Report

This scoping report explores issues around cycle mapping and the use of maps by cyclists, potential cyclists and organisations seeking to promote cycling, including particularly, local authorities. It also seeks to evaluate the experience of an indi... Read More about Cycle Mapping in the UK and the ‘London Cycle Map’.

Characterization of the Salmonella bacteriophage vB_SenS-Ent1 (2012)
Journal Article

The bacteriophage vB_SenS-Ent1 (Ent1) is a member of the family Siphoviridae of tailed bacteriophages and infects a broad range of serovars of the enteric pathogen Salmonella enterica. The virion particle is composed of an icosahedral head 64 nm in d... Read More about Characterization of the Salmonella bacteriophage vB_SenS-Ent1.

The Re-Emerging Role of the State in Contemporary Russia (2012)
Journal Article

I examine ownership structure of Russian firms during the 1998-2006 period, where a greater emphasis is placed on motivations behind increased government ownership in the latter years, when oligarchs' opportunistic influence on the firm diminished as... Read More about The Re-Emerging Role of the State in Contemporary Russia.

The quantitative and qualitative impacts of brownfield policies in England (2012)
Book Chapter

Combinatorial photometric stereo and its application in 3D modeling of melanoma (2012)
Journal Article

This article concerns a new type of photometric stereo algorithm for which outliers such as highlights and shadows, including attached and cast shadow, are mixed with Lambertian data. The underlying motivation behind this algorithm is very simple: an... Read More about Combinatorial photometric stereo and its application in 3D modeling of melanoma.

Integrated quality enhancement and review of higher education in Further Education Colleges (2012)
Journal Article

Integrated Quality Enhancement and Review (IQER) was introduced as quality assurance designed specifically for Higher Education (HE) in Further Education Colleges (FEC) in 2008. Following a historical account of the quality assurance systems applied... Read More about Integrated quality enhancement and review of higher education in Further Education Colleges.

Adrenomedullin receptors on human T cells are glucocorticoid-sensitive (2012)
Journal Article

Adrenomedullin (AM) is a novel vasodilatatory peptide which acts primarily through the calcitonin receptor-like receptor (CLR) in combination with either receptor-activity-modifying-protein (RAMP) 2 or 3 (forming receptors, AM 1 and AM2 respectively)... Read More about Adrenomedullin receptors on human T cells are glucocorticoid-sensitive.

Transaction Cost Economics and Open Innovation: Implications for Theory and Practice (2012)
Journal Article

Transaction cost economics (TCE) has had a strong impact on theories of economic exchange but also on open innovation, even though the relationship is often implicit rather than explicit. In this paper, we highlight what we consider to be the problem... Read More about Transaction Cost Economics and Open Innovation: Implications for Theory and Practice.

Rapidly diffusing innovation: Whether the history of the Internet points the way for hydrogen energy (2012)
Journal Article

This paper identifies conditions for the rapid diffusion of what may be part of the solution for global sustainable energy - hydrogen - by drawing a comparison with the contemporary history of the Internet. The Cold War drove the take-off of the Inte... Read More about Rapidly diffusing innovation: Whether the history of the Internet points the way for hydrogen energy.

Theoretical directions for an emancipatory concept of patient and public involvement (2012)
Journal Article

Patient and public involvement (PPI) is now firmly embedded in the policies of the Department of Health in England. This article commences with a review of the changing structures of PPI in English health and social care, largely in terms of their ow... Read More about Theoretical directions for an emancipatory concept of patient and public involvement.

Contribution of provisioning services of the Ga-Mampa wetland, South Africa, to local livelihoods (2012)
Journal Article

This article describes an assessment of the contribution of provisioning services provided by the Ga-Mampa wetland (1 km2) to the livelihoods of local stakeholders, including monetary values for some services. The study used a combination of data col... Read More about Contribution of provisioning services of the Ga-Mampa wetland, South Africa, to local livelihoods.

Online people tagging: Social (mobile) network(ing) services and work-based learning (2012)
Journal Article

Social and mobile technologies offer users unprecedented opportunities for communicating, interacting, sharing, meaning-making, content and context generation. And, these affordances are in constant flux driven by a powerful interplay between technol... Read More about Online people tagging: Social (mobile) network(ing) services and work-based learning.

Transactions costs in rural decision-making: The cases of funding and monitoring in rural development in England (2012)
Journal Article

Public domain decisions in rural England have become more complex as the number of stakeholders having a say in them has increased. Transactions costs can be used to explore this increasing complexity. The size and distribution of these costs are hig... Read More about Transactions costs in rural decision-making: The cases of funding and monitoring in rural development in England.

"Push" versus "pull" entrepreneurship: An ambiguous distinction? (2012)
Journal Article

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to reassess whether individuals choose to become self-employed for "pull" or "push" reasons, to discuss and describe ambiguities in this distinction, with focus on differences between men and women, and draw conc... Read More about "Push" versus "pull" entrepreneurship: An ambiguous distinction?.

Prospects for a heterodox economics of the environment and sustainability (2012)
Journal Article

Cognitiveg-behavioural approaches to self-management in rheumatic disease (2012)
Journal Article

Patients with rheumatic disease must adjust psychosocially and behaviourally in order to manage the impact of symptoms and treatment on their daily lives, and the emotional consequences of the disease. However, patients can improve their well-being b... Read More about Cognitiveg-behavioural approaches to self-management in rheumatic disease.

Expensive and failing? The role of student bursaries in widening participation and fair access in England (2012)
Journal Article

English universities currently spend £355m each year on bursaries to student groups who are under-represented in higher education. However, there is little evidence to suggest that this investment has had any meaningful impact on patterns of student... Read More about Expensive and failing? The role of student bursaries in widening participation and fair access in England.

Furthering our understanding of fatigue in rheumatoid arthritis (2012)
Journal Article

Development of a sandwich format, amperometric screen-printed uric acid biosensor for urine analysis (2012)
Journal Article

A screen-printed carbon electrode (SPCE) incorporating the electrocatalyst cobalt phthalocyanine (CoPC), fabricated using a water-based ink formulation, has been investigated as the base transducer for a uric acid biosensor. A sandwich biosensor was... Read More about Development of a sandwich format, amperometric screen-printed uric acid biosensor for urine analysis.