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A new perspective on customer satisfaction and service quality measurement using service-dominant logic (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Service-based performance measures assess discreet service encounters, rather than value-in-use. However, service-dominant logic suggests a longer term focus is more appropriate, offering businesses the chance to build relationships and customer loya... Read More about A new perspective on customer satisfaction and service quality measurement using service-dominant logic.

Restorative outcomes of walking in different urban settings (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A recent “affective turn” in the social sciences has given new emphasis to the role of affect and emotions in influencing human behaviours (Damasio 2006). According to extensive research, walking in some settings can promote positive affect, includin... Read More about Restorative outcomes of walking in different urban settings.

Competition can lead to unexpected patterns in tropical ant communities (2016)
Journal Article

Ecological communities are structured by competitive, predatory, mutualistic and parasitic interactions combined with chance events. Separating deterministic from stochastic processes is possible, but finding statistical evidence for specific biologi... Read More about Competition can lead to unexpected patterns in tropical ant communities.

Design of a multi-DOF cable-driven mechanism of a miniature serial manipulator for robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

While multi-fingered robotic hands have been developed for decades, none has been used for surgical operations. MicroAngelo is an anthropomorphic master-slave system for tele-operated robot-assisted surgery. As part of this system, this paper focuses... Read More about Design of a multi-DOF cable-driven mechanism of a miniature serial manipulator for robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery.

Overcoming liabilities in internationalization process through co-location and social capital (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Overcoming liabilities in internationalization process through co-location and social capital

Predicting debonding and delamination in adhesively bonded T-joints (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Causal factors of anxiety symptoms in children (2016)
Journal Article

Aim: The present work aimed to investigate the impact of the child's cognitions associated with ambiguous stimuli that refer to anxiety, both parents' fears and anxiety, and parents' attributions to the child's interpretations of ambiguous stimuli on... Read More about Causal factors of anxiety symptoms in children.

Beyond food provision: Understanding community growing in the context of food poverty (2016)
Journal Article

Bristol and the end of empire: The consequences of the fall of Gascony (2016)
Book Chapter

A discussion of the economic, social and political consequences to Bristol of the final English loss of Gascony in 1453. The discussion considers the possibility that this event encouraged Bristol-based exploration of the Mediterranean and the Atlant... Read More about Bristol and the end of empire: The consequences of the fall of Gascony.

Investigation of zeolite supported platinum electrocatalyst for electrochemical oxidation of small organic species (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Hydrogen Energy Publications LLC Zeolite supported Pt electrocatalysts, made by ion exchange method using Pt/Y type zeolite, have been investigated to determine Pt electrochemical activity of HCOOH and CH3OH oxidation using the cyclic voltamme... Read More about Investigation of zeolite supported platinum electrocatalyst for electrochemical oxidation of small organic species.

Nursing informatics research priorities for the future: Recommendations from an international survey (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

We present one part of the results of an international survey exploring current and future nursing informatics (NI) research trends. The study was conducted by the International Medical Informatics Association Nursing Informatics Special Interest Gro... Read More about Nursing informatics research priorities for the future: Recommendations from an international survey.

Q Art Presents: Professional Practice: 20 Questions (2016)
Book Chapter

How are students prepared for life after their course? How might attitudes and approaches be shaped by factors such as location, the wider course philosophy, and the cultural and political climate?

As Senior Lecturer in Fine Art and Module Leader... Read More about Q Art Presents: Professional Practice: 20 Questions.

Transitions out of Fine Art Education (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In-conjunction with the publication ‘Q Art Presents: Professional Practice: 20 Questions’, Senior Lecturer in Fine Art and Module Leader for undergraduate Professional Practice and Work Experience Modules Sophie Hayes discusses UWE Fine Art’s approac... Read More about Transitions out of Fine Art Education.

The Bride of Frankenstein: Race and hybridity (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In August 1816, Matthew “Monk” Lewis arrived at Villa Diodati after having narrowly escaped being massacred in a slave riot in Jamaica where he owned two plantations. Shortly after his departure, Mary Shelley started writing about the monster. His co... Read More about The Bride of Frankenstein: Race and hybridity.

Student Capital: The role of students in city transformation (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Student Capital is a huge and unique collaborative project aimed at creating, promoting, and celebrating student sustainability engagement at Bristol’s two universities – The University of the West of England, Bristol, and the University of Bristol.... Read More about Student Capital: The role of students in city transformation.

Learning from the Avebury landscape in virtual and augmented realities (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This workshop will describe and demonstrate the reconstruction of an ancient landscape in a virtual environment as a means to facilitate collaborative learning. The virtual landscape, a reconstruction of Avebury Henge in Wiltshire circa 2,300 BCE, wi... Read More about Learning from the Avebury landscape in virtual and augmented realities.

How training can fix the existential crisis in science journalism (2016)
Journal Article

Science Journalism has been through a huge transition period in the past two decades as digital outlets compete with print media — and that transition is continuing. It’s left many science journalists unsure of their place in this new ecosystem and u... Read More about How training can fix the existential crisis in science journalism.

Augmented reality: Can it enhance the student learning experience? (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In 2013 the Horizon Report produced by Educause featured six educational technologies to watch in the coming years. One of these was wearable technology that would enable Augmented Reality (AR) to reach its potential and seamlessly integrating digita... Read More about Augmented reality: Can it enhance the student learning experience?.

Drone avionics (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

MAVs, UAVs, Drones, Quads, call them what you will. These machines are in the news a lot at the moment, and usually for all the wrong reasons. However, one thing is clear: a set of technologies have converged to cause a breakthrough in capability and... Read More about Drone avionics.

What’s in a “research passport”? A collaborative autoethnography of institutional approvals in public involvement in research (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Laterza et al. Background In the growing literature on public involvement in research (PIR), very few works analyse PIR organizational and institutional dimensions in depth. We explore the complex interactions of PIR with institutions and bure... Read More about What’s in a “research passport”? A collaborative autoethnography of institutional approvals in public involvement in research.