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Backtesting trading risk of commercial banks using expected shortfall (2008)
Journal Article

This paper uses saddlepoint technique to backtest the trading risk of commercial banks using expected shortfall. It is found that four out of six US commercial banks have excessive trading risks. Monte Carlo simulation studies show that the proposed... Read More about Backtesting trading risk of commercial banks using expected shortfall.

The CFD modelling of water injection flow in turbocharger (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Bridging the gaps in Global Ethics: grounded cosmopolitan praxis (2008)
Book Chapter

This chapter discusses Global Ethics as a new field of enquiry and illustrates the need for a strong link between theoretical reflection and practical learning.I first investigate the role of universalist and contextual theories in Global ethics and... Read More about Bridging the gaps in Global Ethics: grounded cosmopolitan praxis.

Acute impact of agriculture on high-affinity methanotrophic bacterial populations (2008)
Journal Article

Exposure of mineral soils to atmospherically relevant concentrations of 13CH4 (2 ppmv) followed by 13C-phospholipid fatty acid stable isotope probing allows assessment of the high-affinity methanotrophic bacterial sink in hitherto unattainable detail... Read More about Acute impact of agriculture on high-affinity methanotrophic bacterial populations.

New insights into the function of the Wilms tumor suppressor gene WT1 in podocytes (2008)
Journal Article

The Wilms tumor suppressor gene WT1 is essential for early urogenital development: homozygous mutations in WT1 result in embryonic lethality due to a failure in the development of kidneys and gonads. In the adult kidney, WT1 expression is limited to... Read More about New insights into the function of the Wilms tumor suppressor gene WT1 in podocytes.

Performing tourism: Exploring the productive consumption of tourism in enclavic spaces (2008)
Journal Article

In this paper the interactive nature of touristic encounters in enclavic spaces is explored. Drawing on concepts of tourism as performative practice, it examines tourist experience as a form of productive consumption in which holidays are shaped by i... Read More about Performing tourism: Exploring the productive consumption of tourism in enclavic spaces.

Devensian Late-glacial environmental change in the Gordano Valley, North Somerset, England: A rare archive for southwest Britain (2008)
Journal Article

The Late-glacial and Holocene environmental history of the Gordano Valley, North Somerset, UK has been reconstructed using pollen, sediment particle size and mineralogical analyses and radiocarbon dating. A Devensian sediment ridge across the valley... Read More about Devensian Late-glacial environmental change in the Gordano Valley, North Somerset, England: A rare archive for southwest Britain.

Decision-making at the Bank of England: A critical appraisal (2008)
Journal Article

This paper investigates the process of decision-making within the Bank of England and the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC): specifically, the extent of triangulation in the process. Triangulation is the mixing of two or more methods, investigators, th... Read More about Decision-making at the Bank of England: A critical appraisal.

Lysophospholipid metabolism facilitates Toll-like receptor 4 membrane translocation to regulate the inflammatory response (2008)
Journal Article

Sepsis, an overwhelming inflammatory response to infection, is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide and has no specific therapy. Phospholipid metabolites, such as lysophospholipids, have been shown to regulate inflammatory responses in... Read More about Lysophospholipid metabolism facilitates Toll-like receptor 4 membrane translocation to regulate the inflammatory response.

Stepping from the wreckage: Geography, pragmatism and anti-representational theory (2008)
Journal Article

This paper draws out linkages between non-representational theory (NRT) and pragmatism. In doing so it sets NRT in a much wider, historical anti-representational movement. This should add momentum to its progress, and open up the considerable pragmat... Read More about Stepping from the wreckage: Geography, pragmatism and anti-representational theory.

Growth in mobile air-conditioning: A socio-technical research agenda (2008)
Journal Article

The recent growth in European use of mobile air-conditioning (MAC) in transport is examined with reference to the experience of the longer-established trend in the buildings sector and to experience in the US. Air-conditioning is identified as signif... Read More about Growth in mobile air-conditioning: A socio-technical research agenda.

Identifying factors and processes contributing to disfiguring conditions in a community sample (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Donor behavior: Lessons from research (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Children's participation: Learning from and for community development (2008)
Journal Article

Interest in children's participation has in the main come about as a result of the UNCRC. However, children's participation is also relevant to a wider global interest in citizen and community participation more generally. But there is surprisingly l... Read More about Children's participation: Learning from and for community development.

Planning for the end of children's lives -the lifetime framework (2008)
Journal Article

Aim: This paper describes the development of 'a best practice framework', following review of a sample of notes of children known to the Lifetime Service, where the child has a non-malignant life limiting condition, to improve child and family engage... Read More about Planning for the end of children's lives -the lifetime framework.

Evaluation of a computer based psychosocial intervention for individuals with visible differences (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

How ATP inhibits the open KATP channel (2008)
Journal Article

ATP-sensitive potassium (KATP) channels are composed of four pore-forming Kir6.2 subunits and four regulatory SUR1 subunits. Binding of ATP to Kir6.2 leads to inhibition of channel activity. Because there are four subunits and thus four ATP-binding s... Read More about How ATP inhibits the open KATP channel.

Variable phenotypic spectrum of diabetes mellitus in a family carrying a novel KCNJ11 gene mutation (2008)
Journal Article

Aims: Heterozygous activating mutations in KCNJ11, which encodes the Kir6.2 subunit of the pancreatic ATP-sensitive potassium (K(ATP)) channel, cause both permanent and transient neonatal diabetes. Identification of KCNJ11 mutations has important the... Read More about Variable phenotypic spectrum of diabetes mellitus in a family carrying a novel KCNJ11 gene mutation.

Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy - by PETER DICKEN (2008)
Journal Article

Analysing migration on television news: Limits and possibilities of a media studies approach (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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