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Leimu: Gloveless music interaction using a wrist mounted leap motion (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Camera-based motion tracking has become a popular enabling technology for gestural human-computer interaction. However, the approach suffers from several limitations, which have been shown to be particularly problematic when employed within musical c... Read More about Leimu: Gloveless music interaction using a wrist mounted leap motion.

The potential of inclined walls to reduce overheating risk: A Passivhaus case study for UK current and future climates (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This study used probabilistic climate change scenarios from the UK Climate Change Projections to determine the future overheating risk in an existing Passivhaus dwelling under a high emission 50 percentile scenario in London. Dynamic thermal simulati... Read More about The potential of inclined walls to reduce overheating risk: A Passivhaus case study for UK current and future climates.

Vicious or virtuous circles? Exploring the vulnerability of drivers to break low urban speed limits (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd Levels of support for 20mph limits in Great Britain are consistently high. However, these positive attitudes are not translating into similarly positive behaviour changes in terms of complying with these new speed limits. Recent r... Read More about Vicious or virtuous circles? Exploring the vulnerability of drivers to break low urban speed limits.

Using a head camera to measure room search performance before and after training in occupational therapy (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Background
People with visual field deficits and poor spatial attention after stroke often receive search training as part of Occupational Therapy. However, satisfactory methods for measuring search performance in the real world are lacking. This s... Read More about Using a head camera to measure room search performance before and after training in occupational therapy.

Corrado Alvaro and the Calabrian mafia: A critical case study of the use of literary and journalistic texts in research on Italian organized crime (2016)
Journal Article

The Calabrian mafia, or ‘Ndrangheta, is a hugely powerful international crime syndicate, with origins that can be traced back to the late nineteenth century. By far the least studied of Italy’s ‘big three’ mafias, socio-historical research on the ear... Read More about Corrado Alvaro and the Calabrian mafia: A critical case study of the use of literary and journalistic texts in research on Italian organized crime.

An architectural approach to the Soundwalk method (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A series of on-site surveys are conducted to observe possible qualitative aural pattern formations by using spatial measurements as fundamental parameters. The method assimilates the Soundwalk technique and the Relative Approach from the fields of so... Read More about An architectural approach to the Soundwalk method.

Disabled children's childhoods: What are the research priorities? (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper discusses the discourses of childhood and disability to develop research questions that are concerned with disabled children's childhoods. The three principles proposed focus on the views of disabled children; discuss the ethics involved a... Read More about Disabled children's childhoods: What are the research priorities?.

Leverhulme online debate 5 (2016)
Digital Artefact

A discussion of the work and practices of an international network.

Key events and multimodality: A life course approach (2016)
Journal Article

Since the large majority of households have access to one or more cars in the developed world, encouraging multimodal travel behaviours has become a goal for many cities. Multimodality refers to the use of more than one transport mode within a given... Read More about Key events and multimodality: A life course approach.

Visibly ageing: Online clothing consumption and the older woman (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper will outline the findings of the author's 2016 study examining the online clothes shopping practices of female consumers aged 65+ in the UK; this age group is one which is growing significantly in the UK [1] but remains at best largely ove... Read More about Visibly ageing: Online clothing consumption and the older woman.

Increasing survival after admission to UK critical care units following cardiopulmonary resuscitation (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 The Author(s). Background: In recent years there have been many developments in post-resuscitation care. We have investigated trends in patient characteristics and outcome following admission to UK critical care units following cardiopulmonary... Read More about Increasing survival after admission to UK critical care units following cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Effect of formulation variables on oral grittiness and preferences of multiparticulate formulations in adult volunteers (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 The Authors Multiparticulate formulations are composed of multiple solid dosage units which can be administered directly to the mouth or sprinkled on food. Oral grittiness (i.e. rough mouthfeel) may arise from the presence of particles in the... Read More about Effect of formulation variables on oral grittiness and preferences of multiparticulate formulations in adult volunteers.

What are the characteristics of perinatal events perceived to be traumatic by midwives? (2016)
Journal Article

Objective: there is potential for midwives to indirectly experience events whilst providing clinical care that fulfil criteria for trauma. This research aimed to investigate the characteristics of events perceived as traumatic by UK midwives. Methods... Read More about What are the characteristics of perinatal events perceived to be traumatic by midwives?.

Atmospheres of stillness in Bristol’s Bearpit (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. This paper studies atmospheres of stillness in a contested urban public space known as the ‘Bearpit’. The purpose is to provide a nuanced account of stillness and its relationship to atmosphere. Drawing on an ethnographi... Read More about Atmospheres of stillness in Bristol’s Bearpit.

Individual and group psychotherapy with people diagnosed with dementia: a systematic review of the literature (2016)
Journal Article

Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Objectives: Psychotherapy provides a means of helping participants to resolve emotional threats and play an active role in their lives. Consequently, psychotherapy is increasingly used within dementia care.... Read More about Individual and group psychotherapy with people diagnosed with dementia: a systematic review of the literature.

A new junctional hierarchy (2016)
Journal Article

In this issue of Blood, Lu et al report on the generation and characterization of erythrocytes from a dematin knockout mouse and demonstrate the previously unrecognized centrality of this protein to the junctional protein complex-mediated maintenance... Read More about A new junctional hierarchy.

Modelling air and water two-phase annular flow in small horizontal pipe (2016)
Journal Article

Numerical study using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has been carried out to investigate flow behaviours and underlying physical phenomena associated with air/water two-phase flow inside a small horizontal tube of an inner diameter 8.8mm. The bas... Read More about Modelling air and water two-phase annular flow in small horizontal pipe.

Exploring childhood cognitions through the contents of childrens thoughts related to anxiety: A qualitative approach (2016)
Journal Article

Positioning entrepreneurship education as a force for regional development in East Africa – Higher Education and Private Sector Collaboration (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Personal filmmaking and social change (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The speech introduces the importance of personal expression through film and how the individual viewpoint can influence how others see and think, sometimes leading to social change.