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Intelligent contracts and the construction industry (2017)
Journal Article

Advances in technology have resulted in a fast changing landscape for construction contracts. Lawyers struggle to keep up with the pace of innovation and the need to provide legal solutions and accommodate new approaches. Building Information Modelli... Read More about Intelligent contracts and the construction industry.

Annex III - In-depth analysis evaluating the legal, political and institutional framework concerning offshore practices related to tax evasion, money laundering and tax transparency in the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) of the United Kingdom, as defined in Annex II of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), and the relations of the United Kingdom with those OCTs (2017)
Report

This report focuses on the OCTs of the UK; and especially those located within the Caribbean and West Atlantic. Relations between the UK and its so-called Overseas Territories have been shaped by many centuries of history. More contemporary relations... Read More about Annex III - In-depth analysis evaluating the legal, political and institutional framework concerning offshore practices related to tax evasion, money laundering and tax transparency in the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) of the United Kingdom, as defined in Annex II of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), and the relations of the United Kingdom with those OCTs.

Filling the Void: Emotion, Capitalism and Social Media (2017)
Book

This book demonstrates that, far from the rational, information-driven account of digital media that is often presumed to be a primary determinant of social media usage, particularly by those in the journalism industry and other industries concerned... Read More about Filling the Void: Emotion, Capitalism and Social Media.

Nonhumans in participatory design (2017)
Journal Article

© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article examines the role that nonhumans play in participatory design. Research and practice concerned with participatory design mostly focuses on human participants, howeve... Read More about Nonhumans in participatory design.

Macrocognition: The science and engineering of sociotechnical work systems (2017)
Journal Article

The increasing complexity of work systems and changes in the nature of workplace technology over the past century have resulted in a substantial shift in the nature of work activities, from those predominated by physical labor toward more cognitively... Read More about Macrocognition: The science and engineering of sociotechnical work systems.

Cary comes home: The highs and lows of the Cary Grant festival (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Part of a panel on festivals and the academy, this talk critically reflects on directing the Cary comes home festival.

The antimicrobial activity of various essential oils against gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Aims

The aim of this study is to assess the in vitro antimicrobial activity of several essential oils against Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria.

Methods and results

Disc diffusion, microdilution, and disc volatilisation assays, are me... Read More about The antimicrobial activity of various essential oils against gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria.

Australian Islamic Centre: Glenn Murcutt’s ‘Magnum opus’ (2017)
Journal Article

A review of Murcutt's Melbourne Mosque in the context of his practice output

Uniting public purpose in a city: Insights from progressive urban leadership in Bristol, UK (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The new, directly elected mayor of Bristol, Marvin Rees, has set out a vision for a new kind of civic leadership for a progressive city. Launched at a citywide event, in September 2016, Mayor Rees’s ‘City Office’ concept brings together most of the... Read More about Uniting public purpose in a city: Insights from progressive urban leadership in Bristol, UK.

Pioneers of public health (2017)
Book Chapter

Written

Influence of patient global assessment on the disease activity assessment in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: A meteor cross-sectional study (2017)
Journal Article

Background
Disease activity indices (DAI) are used to guide immunosuppressive therapy in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The inclusion of patient global assessment (PGA) in these indices has been questioned as it conveys mainly disease impact rather tha... Read More about Influence of patient global assessment on the disease activity assessment in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: A meteor cross-sectional study.

Haploid-diploid evolutionary algorithms: The Baldwin effect and recombination nature’s way (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper uses the recent idea that the fundamental haploid-diploid lifecycle of eukaryotic organisms implements a rudimentary form of learning within evolution. A general approach for evolutionary computation is here derived that differs from all p... Read More about Haploid-diploid evolutionary algorithms: The Baldwin effect and recombination nature’s way.

Relief, reconstruction and the rights of the child: The case of Russian displaced children in Constantinople, 1920-22 (2017)
Book Chapter

This chapter examines the displacement and resettlement of the Russian children who were evacuated across the Black Sea from Ukraine, southern Russia and Crimea in 1920 at the end of the Russian Civil War.2 Their displacement had begun long before th... Read More about Relief, reconstruction and the rights of the child: The case of Russian displaced children in Constantinople, 1920-22.

Understanding learning strategy as conversation (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The goal of this research is to understand the learning strategies employed by students using so called Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS), with the aim of supporting efforts to improve the effectiveness of this type of educational technology. An exp... Read More about Understanding learning strategy as conversation.

Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte-binding antigen 175 triggers a biophysical change in the red blood cell that facilitates invasion (2017)
Journal Article

Invasion of the red blood cell (RBC) by the Plasmodium parasite defines the start of malaria disease pathogenesis. To date, experimental investigations into invasion have focused predominantly on the role of parasite adhesins or signaling pathways an... Read More about Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte-binding antigen 175 triggers a biophysical change in the red blood cell that facilitates invasion.

On plant roots logical gates (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Elsevier B.V. Theoretical constructs of logical gates implemented with plant roots are morphological computing asynchronous devices. Values of Boolean variables are represented by plant roots. A presence of a plant root at a given site symboli... Read More about On plant roots logical gates.

Cellular non-linear network model of microbial fuel cell (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Elsevier B.V. A cellular non-linear network (CNN) is a uniform regular array of locally connected continuous-state machines, or nodes, which update their states simultaneously in discrete time. A microbial fuel cell (MFC) is an electro-chemica... Read More about Cellular non-linear network model of microbial fuel cell.

A randomised controlled trial to determine the clinical and cost effectiveness of thulium laser transurethral vaporesection of the prostate (ThuVARP) versus transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) in the National Health Service (NHS) - the UNBLOCS trial: A study protocol for a randomised controlled trial (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 The Author(s). Background: Transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) has been the standard operation for benign prostatic obstruction (BPO) for 40 years, with approximately 25,000 procedures performed annually, and has remained largely un... Read More about A randomised controlled trial to determine the clinical and cost effectiveness of thulium laser transurethral vaporesection of the prostate (ThuVARP) versus transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) in the National Health Service (NHS) - the UNBLOCS trial: A study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.

S-nitrosoglutathione spraying improves stomatal conductance, Rubisco activity and antioxidant defense in both leaves and roots of sugarcane plants under water deficit (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society Water deficit is a major environmental constraint on crop productivity and performance and nitric oxide (NO) is an important signaling molecule associated with many biochemical and physiological processes... Read More about S-nitrosoglutathione spraying improves stomatal conductance, Rubisco activity and antioxidant defense in both leaves and roots of sugarcane plants under water deficit.

Extended state observer-based integral sliding mode control for an underwater robot with unknown disturbances and uncertain nonlinearities (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 IEEE. This paper develops a novel integral sliding mode controller (ISMC) for a general type of underwater robots based on multiple-input and multiple-output extended-state-observer (MIMO-ESO). The difficulties associated with the unmeasured v... Read More about Extended state observer-based integral sliding mode control for an underwater robot with unknown disturbances and uncertain nonlinearities.