All Outputs (40668)

Evaluating the potential of new technological tools for safety critical work (2011)
Journal Article

Defining user requirements of complex human-system interaction technologies and testing the fulfilment of these requirements in the end-product are issues of design practice that are currently not solved in an optimal way. In the current paper severa... Read More about Evaluating the potential of new technological tools for safety critical work.

Toilet Talk (2011)
Digital Artefact

Contribution to the video on women's toilet needs, commissioned by the Women's Design Service and produced by Marie Lenclos.

APMoodle: Adaptive and personalised e-Learning system (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Due to the diversity of e-learning usage in different disciplines (practical or theoretical, lifelong learning, formal versus informal education, etc) There are different and multipurpose platforms available in the market and in the educational secto... Read More about APMoodle: Adaptive and personalised e-Learning system.

The Active for Life Year 5 (AFLY5) school based cluster randomised controlled trial: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial (2011)
Journal Article

Background: Low levels of physical activity, high levels of sedentary behaviour and low levels of fruit and vegetable consumption are common in children and are associated with adverse health outcomes. The aim of this paper is to describe the protoco... Read More about The Active for Life Year 5 (AFLY5) school based cluster randomised controlled trial: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

Insights into British art today (2011)
Exhibition / Performance

Introduction: Parish histories of Marston Meysey and Purton (2011)
Book Chapter

Parish histories of Broadwell, Filkins and Holwell (2011)
Book Chapter

Parish history of Kelmscott (2011)
Book Chapter

Victoria county history of Wiltshire XVIII: Cricklade and Environs (2011)
Book

Your loving friend, Stanley (2011)
Book

Snippet lession plan: Harmonic motion using Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2011)
Other

Snippet lesson plan: Parallel universes using film clips from The One (2011)
Other

Snippet lesson plan: Refraction and the green flash using Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2011)
Other

Exploiting the soft constraints hypothesis to mitigate interruption effects (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The soft constraints hypothesis (Gray et al., 2006) posits that a more memory-based strategy is induced
with increasing costs of accessing goal-state information. This relationship was used advantageously to reduce forgetting in an interrupted visuo... Read More about Exploiting the soft constraints hypothesis to mitigate interruption effects.

Towards a mapping of modern AIS and LCS (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

For many years correlations between aspects of Artificial Immune Systems (AIS) and Learning Classifier Systems (LCS) have been highlighted. However, neither field appears to have benefitted from such work not least since the differences between the t... Read More about Towards a mapping of modern AIS and LCS.

Memes of propaganda: Birth of the citizen propagandist (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A discussion of internet memes as a propaganda tool and the implications for democratic discourse.

Public trust and public bodies: The regulation of the use of human tissue for research in the United Kingdom (2011)
Book Chapter

A primary purpose of regulation is to secure public trust. In the United Kingdom in the 1990s public trust in those who procured, stored and used human tissues for research or other purposes was severely damaged following controversies about the rete... Read More about Public trust and public bodies: The regulation of the use of human tissue for research in the United Kingdom.

Mind the gap: the impertinent predicates (and subjects) of King Rat and Looking for Jake and other stories (2011)
Journal Article

A critical account of China Miéville’s King Rat and the stories in Looking for Jake, which considers contemporary attempts to anatomise the fantastic and draws on the theorisations of metaphor to open up a new approach to fantastic texts.

Effect of oil coating on steel bar on the strength of reinforced concrete (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The strength of steel-reinforced concrete greatly depends on the adequacy of the bond between concrete and steel reinforcement and this can be impaired by the surface condition of reinforcing steel. Oil on the surface of steel reinforcement has been... Read More about Effect of oil coating on steel bar on the strength of reinforced concrete.

Child support reform in the UK: 3 years on (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The Child Maintenance and Other Payments Act 2008 which received Royal Assent on 5 June 2008 aims to re-design the child support system as established in 1993 by the conservative government and amended under the Blair government. Both the original an... Read More about Child support reform in the UK: 3 years on.