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Teaching decolonization beyond the nation: The case of West Africa (2016)
Journal Article
How should we teach the history of decolonization, especially in a wide-ranging survey course? Debate has typically raged over whether we should emphasize the actions of imperial governments over independence movements, and vice versa. However, yet... Read More about Teaching decolonization beyond the nation: The case of West Africa.
Understanding sex offenders (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
A research update on current sex offender research, treatment and policy
Effects of needs-based patient education on self-efficacy and health outcomes in people with rheumatoid arthritis: A multicentre, single blind, randomised controlled trial (2016)
Journal Article
Objectives The Educational Needs Assessment Tool (ENAT) is a self-completed questionnaire, which allows patients with arthritis to prioritise their educational needs. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of needs-based patient education... Read More about Effects of needs-based patient education on self-efficacy and health outcomes in people with rheumatoid arthritis: A multicentre, single blind, randomised controlled trial.
Physarum in silicon: the Greek motorways study (2016)
Journal Article
© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. Physarum polycephalum has repeatedly, during the last decade, demonstrated that has unexpected computing abilities. While the plasmodium of P. polycephalum can effectively solve several geographical... Read More about Physarum in silicon: the Greek motorways study.
A case study in estimating avionics availability from field reliability data (2016)
Journal Article
Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Under incentivized contractual mechanisms such as availability-based contracts, the support service provider and its customer must share a common understanding of equipment reliability baselines. Emphasis is... Read More about A case study in estimating avionics availability from field reliability data.
Soil reaction to lateral harmonic pile motion (2016)
Journal Article
© 2016. The analytical representation of dynamic soil reaction to a laterally-loaded pile using 3D continuum modeling is revisited. The governing elastodynamic Navier equations are simplified by setting the dynamic vertical normal stresses in the soi... Read More about Soil reaction to lateral harmonic pile motion.
Welcome to the pedagogic borderlands (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
This paper will invite you to let go of the familiar and to consider how learning spaces in higher education might be used creatively for pedagogic practice as ‘borderlands’. The borderland concept allows a re-conceptualisation of pedagogic spaces, i... Read More about Welcome to the pedagogic borderlands.
Win! Win! Win! Win! A case study of student / tutor / researcher / technician collaboration in teaching & research integration (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Researchers at the Centre for Floods, Communities and Resilience and academics in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management have involved undergraduate students in the activities of the research centre. Researchers needed ways of encou... Read More about Win! Win! Win! Win! A case study of student / tutor / researcher / technician collaboration in teaching & research integration.
Does mindfulness have potential in eating disorders prevention? A preliminary controlled trial with young adult women (2016)
Journal Article
© 2016 John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd. Aim: This preliminary randomized controlled trial assessed the feasibility of a pilot mindfulness-based intervention with respect to reducing the risk of eating disorders in young women. Methods: Forty-four... Read More about Does mindfulness have potential in eating disorders prevention? A preliminary controlled trial with young adult women.
Evaluation of Easton and Lawrence Hill neighbourhood management (2016)
Report
This evaluation was commissioned by Easton and Lawrence Hill Neighbourhood Management (ELH NM) to provide an evidence base to inform their priorities and business plan for the next five years. It reports on ELH NM’s achievements since 1 April 2010;... Read More about Evaluation of Easton and Lawrence Hill neighbourhood management.
Uncertain information combination for decision making in smart grid BDI agent systems (2016)
Journal Article
In a smart grid SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) system, sensor information (e.g. temperature, voltage, frequency, etc.) from heterogeneous sources can be used to reason about the true system state (e.g. faults, attacks, etc.). Before... Read More about Uncertain information combination for decision making in smart grid BDI agent systems.
The City is a Thinking Machine: Patrick Geddes and Cities in Evolution: Volume 4: The Talks (2016)
Book
Volume 4 The Talks - documents the program of public lectures that contextualised the exhibition. The contributors were chosen because each – in different ways – has been an activist for change in the social and material environments of the city. Ged... Read More about The City is a Thinking Machine: Patrick Geddes and Cities in Evolution: Volume 4: The Talks.
An existential hermeneutic philosophical approach to project management (2016)
Journal Article
The philosophies of Martin Heidegger and Richard Rorty are used to redescribe the fundamental assumptions underpinning project management. Rather than viewing project management as merely a science, the significance and value of philosophy for projec... Read More about An existential hermeneutic philosophical approach to project management.
Impact of intangible cultural capital on regional economic development: A study on culture-based development in Greece (2016)
Journal Article
The main aim of the paper is to explore the nature and consequences of intangible cultural capital, i.e., the local 'milieu' comprising inter alia attitudes and preferences, for the case study of Greece, 2002-2009. To pursue this study empirically, w... Read More about Impact of intangible cultural capital on regional economic development: A study on culture-based development in Greece.
Barry Unsworth's Morality Play: Narrative, detection, history (2016)
Journal Article
© 2016 Macmillan Publishers Ltd. Morality Play is a historical detective novel set in the late fourteenth century and published in 1995, at a time of flourishing for historical fiction in Britain. This article argues that the novel shares some of the... Read More about Barry Unsworth's Morality Play: Narrative, detection, history.
GIFT: I Made This For You (2016)
Physical Artefact
A book inspired by the Angel of Bremen (serial poisoner Gesche Gottfried), produced to resemble the type of pamphlet publication / recipe book given away with newly purchased gas cookers in the 1940s-50s. It contains 14 ‘recipes’ for 15 people. Each... Read More about GIFT: I Made This For You.
The science of climate change (2016)
Book Chapter
A legal perspective on the IPCC
E-voting versus e-trust: A case for e-democracy in Palestine (2016)
Journal Article
The world at present is facing a number of real challenges in the face of persistent economic crisis, local conflicts and huge waves of refugees. All of the above are affecting secure access to and completion of peoples voting rights. The relevant te... Read More about E-voting versus e-trust: A case for e-democracy in Palestine.
HyDRA Hybrid workflow Design Recommender Architecture (2016)
Thesis
Workflows are a way to describe a series of computations on raw e-Science data. These data may be MRI brain scans, data from a high energy physics detector or metric data from an earth observation project. In order to derive meaningful knowledge from... Read More about HyDRA Hybrid workflow Design Recommender Architecture.