All Outputs (41382)

Visualising love: Family migration, separation and communication (2018)
Exhibition / Performance

This exhibition shares the outcomes of a research project by Dr Emma Agusita exploring the impacts of UK family immigration policies and rules on relationships between British and non-EU partners and families.

Online archive featuring materials fr... Read More about Visualising love: Family migration, separation and communication.

Developing a Community of Practice to support the space engineering higher education community (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The UK-based “Space Universities Network” (SUN) was formed in 2016 with the aim of enhancing the quality of learning and teaching by providing support and resources to the space science and engineering higher education community. The goal of this res... Read More about Developing a Community of Practice to support the space engineering higher education community.

2D and 3D face analysis for ticketless rail travel (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Research is reported into the design, implementation and functionalities of a vision system that employs the human face as a biometric for enabling ticketless rail travel. The system has been developed to optimise performance in the relatively unstru... Read More about 2D and 3D face analysis for ticketless rail travel.

Biomechanical properties and microstructure of neonatal porcine ventricles (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd Neonatal heart disorders represent a major clinical challenge, with congenital heart disease alone affecting 36,000 new-borns annually within the European Union. Surgical intervention to restore normal function includes the implan... Read More about Biomechanical properties and microstructure of neonatal porcine ventricles.

Built and natural environment planning principles for promoting health: An umbrella review (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 The Author(s). Background: The built and natural environment and health are inextricably linked. However, there is considerable debate surrounding the strength and quality of the evidence base underpinning principles of good practice for built... Read More about Built and natural environment planning principles for promoting health: An umbrella review.

A novel genotyping approach to improve transfusion support for patients with HLA and/or HPA alloantibodies (2018)
Thesis

Patients who require platelet transfusion support but have become sensitised to Human Leucocyte Antigens (HLA) or Human Platelet Antigens (HPA) require suitably matched or selected products to avoid adverse transfusion reactions resulting from antibo... Read More about A novel genotyping approach to improve transfusion support for patients with HLA and/or HPA alloantibodies.

Affect and social media: Emotion, mediation, anxiety and contagion (2018)
Book

Affect and Social Media is an edited collection of twenty bite sized articles by leading scholars from across disciplinary boundaries. It is comprised of four distinct but related sections which are interspersed with artistic illustrations, depicting... Read More about Affect and social media: Emotion, mediation, anxiety and contagion.

Time to Initial Debridement and wound Excision (TIDE) in severe open tibial fractures and related clinical outcome: A multi-centre study (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd Background: Recent national (NICE) guidelines in England recommend that initial debridement and wound excision of open tibial fractures take place within 12 h of the time of injury, a change from the previous target of 24 h. This... Read More about Time to Initial Debridement and wound Excision (TIDE) in severe open tibial fractures and related clinical outcome: A multi-centre study.

Managing Congestion in Vehicular Networks Using Tabu Search (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2018, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. In this era of communication, exponentially growing networks bring a lot of challenges to address for smoother network functionalities. Among them is efficiency in handling packet traffic to avoid and control c... Read More about Managing Congestion in Vehicular Networks Using Tabu Search.

Exploring the way sexually explicit material informs sexual beliefs, understanding and practices of young men: A qualitative survey (2018)
Journal Article

Little research has examined how exposure to sexually explicit material may affect beliefs, attitudes and actions of young men. This study explored self-reported effects on young males. A ‘snowballed’ sample of males aged 18–25 years was recruited wi... Read More about Exploring the way sexually explicit material informs sexual beliefs, understanding and practices of young men: A qualitative survey.

Filming the plurality of the Black British experience across two generations (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The paper analyses two generations’ experiences of being Black in Britain comparing the social and political contexts that determined their life chances. Both generations experienced early adulthood with a Conservative government in power, an unstabl... Read More about Filming the plurality of the Black British experience across two generations.

A framework for semi-supervised adaptive learning for activity recognition in healthcare applications (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

With the growing popularity of the Internet of Things and connected home products, potential healthcare applications in a smart-home context for assisted living are becoming increasingly apparent. However, challenges in performing real-time human act... Read More about A framework for semi-supervised adaptive learning for activity recognition in healthcare applications.

Chemotherapy-induced genotoxic damage to bone marrow cells: Long-term implications (2018)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the UK Environmental Mutagen Society. Mesenchymal stem/stromal cells (MSCs) within the bone marrow (BM) are vitally important in forming the micro-environment supporting haematop... Read More about Chemotherapy-induced genotoxic damage to bone marrow cells: Long-term implications.

Pectobacterium atrosepticum phage vB_PatP_CB5: A member of the proposed genus ‘Phimunavirus’ (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Pectobacterium atrosepticum is a phytopathogen of economic importance as it is the causative agent of potato blackleg and soft rot. Here we describe the Pectobacterium phage vB_PatP_CB5 (abbre... Read More about Pectobacterium atrosepticum phage vB_PatP_CB5: A member of the proposed genus ‘Phimunavirus’.

Reflections on researcher positionality when using multiple techniques of qualitative data collection to facilitate participation in research focusing on a sensitive subject (2018)
Book Chapter

Within qualitative research, it is increasingly common for a variety of interview methods to be employed within a project in order to seek engagement from participants. But how do these methods affect the participants, the research process, the data,... Read More about Reflections on researcher positionality when using multiple techniques of qualitative data collection to facilitate participation in research focusing on a sensitive subject.

An auto-ethnographic dialogue with archive (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This provocation offered an analysis of a piece of photographic artwork I produced, a self-portrait inbetween two enslaved Africans. The Africans portrayed are named Jack and Delia, enslaved on a South Carolina plantation, photographed by Joseph T. Z... Read More about An auto-ethnographic dialogue with archive.

No compelling evidence that more physically attractive young adult women have higher estradiol or progesterone (2018)
Journal Article

Putative associations between sex hormones and attractive physical characteristics in women are central to many theories of human physical attractiveness and mate choice. Although such theories have become very influential, evidence that physically a... Read More about No compelling evidence that more physically attractive young adult women have higher estradiol or progesterone.

A bio-inspired grasp stiffness control for robotic hands (2018)
Journal Article

This work presents a bio-inspired grasp stiffness control for robotic hands based on the concepts of Common Mode Stiffness (CMS) and Configuration Dependent Stiffness (CDS). Using an ellipsoid representation of the desired grasp stiffness, the algori... Read More about A bio-inspired grasp stiffness control for robotic hands.

Creative clusters, social inclusion, and sustainability: The case of Hackney Wick and Fish Island (2018)
Report

This report emerges from a research project jointly commissioned by Hackney Council, Tower Hamlets Council and the London Legacy Development Corporation. It was created to inform the local authorities’ bid to the Mayor of London’s Creative Enterprise... Read More about Creative clusters, social inclusion, and sustainability: The case of Hackney Wick and Fish Island.

Effect of varying skin surface electrode position on electroretinogram responses recorded using a handheld stimulating and recording system (2018)
Journal Article

Purpose: A handheld device (the RETeval system, LKC Technologies) aims to increase the ease of electroretinogram (ERG) recording by using specially designed skin electrodes, rather than corneal electrodes. We explored effects of electrode position on... Read More about Effect of varying skin surface electrode position on electroretinogram responses recorded using a handheld stimulating and recording system.