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Long-term health effects of flooding (2008)
Journal Article

Local Management in a Global Era (2008)
Journal Article

Ansel Adams and Georgia O'Keeffe: On the intangible in art and nature (2008)
Journal Article

Ansel Adams and Georgia O'Keeffe, although committed realist artists using straightforward photographic technique and an objective style of painting, transfigured the natural scene artistically to express profoundly metaphysical responses to nature.... Read More about Ansel Adams and Georgia O'Keeffe: On the intangible in art and nature.

Fostering deeper engagement between industry and HEI: towards a CKE approach (2008)
Journal Article

Review of 'Material and Visual Cultures Beyond Male Bonding, 1870-1914: Bodies, Bounderies and Intimacy', by John Potvin (2008)
Journal Article

Potvin's book was a study of how male homosociality in late-nineteenth century British design cultures produced new dynamics of vision and touching, which became medicated through workshop practice and specific artefacts.

ICT and temporal fragmentation of activities: An analytical framework and initial empirical finding (2008)
Journal Article

It is commonly believed that the widespread use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) facilitates the fragmentation of daily activities across times and spaces. However, a clear conceptualisation of what fragmentation is and how it can... Read More about ICT and temporal fragmentation of activities: An analytical framework and initial empirical finding.

Rapid reform and unfinished business: The development of education in independent Latvia 1991-2007 (2008)
Journal Article

Education in Latvia has changed a great deal in the last 15 years. The development of an independent and democratic state system has creatively combined elements of foreign experience and influence with the enrichment and further development of featu... Read More about Rapid reform and unfinished business: The development of education in independent Latvia 1991-2007.

The fetal tissue economy: From the abortion clinic to the stem cell laboratory (2008)
Journal Article

This paper examines the exchange relationships between women undergoing abortion, the clinicians who procure fetal tissue and stem cell scientists in Britain, and argues that the fetal tissue economy is an important dimension of the gendered bioecono... Read More about The fetal tissue economy: From the abortion clinic to the stem cell laboratory.

The substitution of communications for travel? (2008)
Book Chapter

Beyond these voices: M. E. Braddon and the ghost of sensationalism (2008)
Journal Article

This article engages with Braddon's use of the supernatural to argue that her images of spiritualism reveal connections between theatricality, writing and her popular reputation.

Real-time ultrasound measurements of changes in suboccipital vertebral artery diameter and blood flow velocity associated with cervical spine rotation (2008)
Journal Article

Background and Purpose. The vulnerability of the vertebral artery (VA) to distortion with sustained, full-range cervical spine rotation, resulting in compromised blood flow and possible vertebrobasilar ischaemia, is well recognized. However, few stud... Read More about Real-time ultrasound measurements of changes in suboccipital vertebral artery diameter and blood flow velocity associated with cervical spine rotation.

A non-randomized comparison of e-learning and classroom delivery of basic life support with automated external defibrillator use: A pilot study (2008)
Journal Article

This pilot study investigated whether computer-based learning package followed by practical instruction and traditional classroom methods were comparable in developing knowledge and skills in basic life support with automated external defibrillator.... Read More about A non-randomized comparison of e-learning and classroom delivery of basic life support with automated external defibrillator use: A pilot study.

The history of this community: Documentary theatre with "deliberately local motives" (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Paper exploring the local and community documentary theatre work of Peter Cheeseman at the Victoria and New Vic Theatres in Stoke-on-Trent, and the Living Archive Project/Stantonbury Drama Group in Milton Keynes, from the 1960s to the 1990s. Particul... Read More about The history of this community: Documentary theatre with "deliberately local motives".

In from the margins and back again: 25 years of policy. Young people, sexuality and gender (2008)
Journal Article

Reforming the children and young people's workforce: A Higher Education response (2008)
Journal Article

The Every Child Matters change agenda is leading to the creation of new services and new working practices across the children and young people’s sectors. These new configurations are leading to the development of new roles that do not necessarily fi... Read More about Reforming the children and young people's workforce: A Higher Education response.

Alcohol and older people: A review of issues and response (2008)
Report

E card for Crown Pet Foods, James Wellbeloved (2008)
Other

A Christmas e card for pet food brand James Wellbeloved for customers to forward to friends and family.

Class, nationalism and the BBC's reporting of Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian revolution (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This confernece paper is based on a large research project on the reporting of Venezuela on the BBC News web site. We looked at years of coverage - 304 articles - and analysed the coverage. We found a heavy bias against Chevez and the Bolivarian Revo... Read More about Class, nationalism and the BBC's reporting of Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian revolution.

Modelling donor attrition (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Phase clustering in globally coupled photochemical oscillators (2008)
Journal Article

We experimentally investigate the formation of clusters in a population of globally coupled photochemical oscillators. The system consists of catalytic micro-particles in Belousov-Zhabotinsky solution and the coupling exploits the excitatory properti... Read More about Phase clustering in globally coupled photochemical oscillators.