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An intelligent load manager for PV powered off-grid residential houses (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 International Energy Initiative. This paper proposes a management system based on certain rule set implemented by Modified Mild Intrusive Genetic Algorithm (MMIGA) that will optimize the load allocation to match the house owner affordable sola... Read More about An intelligent load manager for PV powered off-grid residential houses.

Media, marketing and mass advertising: Managing patient expectations (2015)
Journal Article

The mass media is a very powerful source of influence and plays a key role in promoting and defining cultural standards of beauty (Halliwell and Diedrichs, 2012). Research from the body image literature shows that repeated exposure to media messages... Read More about Media, marketing and mass advertising: Managing patient expectations.

Principles- versus rules-based output statistical disclosure control in remote access environments (2015)
Journal Article

In recent years, the level of detail in confidential data made available to social scientists has increased dramatically. Much of this has been due to the growth in secure data access facilities, which allow access to the most detailed data under str... Read More about Principles- versus rules-based output statistical disclosure control in remote access environments.

Recognising and managing extravasation of contrast media (2015)
Journal Article

Transformation of Thought Suppression Functions Via Same and Opposite Relations (2015)
Journal Article

© 2014, Association for Behavior Analysis International. The aim of this study was to investigate transformation of thought suppression functions via ‘same’ and ‘opposite’ relations. In Experiment 1 participants were given training and testing with t... Read More about Transformation of Thought Suppression Functions Via Same and Opposite Relations.

Living with joint hypermobility syndrome: Patient experiences of diagnosis, referral and self-care (2015)
Journal Article

© The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. Background. Musculoskeletal problems are common reasons for seeking primary health care. It has been suggested that many people with 'everyday' non-inflammatory musculoskel... Read More about Living with joint hypermobility syndrome: Patient experiences of diagnosis, referral and self-care.

Contemporary problems with the GATS and internet gambling (2015)
Journal Article

This article focuses on the issue of enforcement of the WTO rules on international cross-border trade in services. It is argued that the examination of the GATS jurisprudence and state practice reveal that the GATS does not address the needs of the d... Read More about Contemporary problems with the GATS and internet gambling.

Does poor health affect employment transitions? (2015)
Report

The right to be impaired and the legacy of eugenics: A critical reading of the UN convention on ‘disability’ rights (2015)
Book Chapter

This chapter traces the ongoing effects of eugenics on discourses of ‘disability’, analysing in particular the 2006 UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. I use the sociological methodology of grounded theory-building based on live... Read More about The right to be impaired and the legacy of eugenics: A critical reading of the UN convention on ‘disability’ rights.

Will social media make or break medical conferences? (2015)
Journal Article

Bistable minimum energy structures (BiMES) for binary robotics (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 IOP Publishing Ltd. Bistable minimum energy structures (BiMES) are devices derived from the union of the concepts of dielectric elastomer minimum energy structures and bistable systems. This article presents this novel approach to active, elas... Read More about Bistable minimum energy structures (BiMES) for binary robotics.

Attitudes towards and understandings of sexual violence: A study of secondary school students and staff in Bristol (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A research paper looking at work with secondary school students on their attitudes to sex, sexual harm and sexual harm policy.

Slime mould imitates development of Roman roads in the Balkans (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. Due to its unexpected computing abilities, Physarum polycephalum, a vegetative stage of acellular slime, has been repeatedly used during the last decade in order to reproduce transport networks. After conducting a series of biolo... Read More about Slime mould imitates development of Roman roads in the Balkans.

Social constructions and narratives of child sexual abuse (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A paper looking at the social construction of sexual abuse – considering the media and narratives.

The Meckel-Gruber syndrome protein TMEM67 controls basal body positioning and epithelial branching morphogenesis in mice via the non-canonical Wnt pathway (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd. Ciliopathies are a group of developmental disorders that manifest with multi-organ anomalies. Mutations in TMEM67 (MKS3) cause a range of human ciliopathies, including Meckel-Gruber and Joubert synd... Read More about The Meckel-Gruber syndrome protein TMEM67 controls basal body positioning and epithelial branching morphogenesis in mice via the non-canonical Wnt pathway.

Has UK Local Government Action Improved Local Air Quality? A Bristol Case Study (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 WIT Press. In 2013, the UK exceeded the EU limit value for nitrogen dioxide (NO2) annual mean at 31 of its 43 zones and agglomerations. Current government predictions are that full compliance will not be achieved until after 2030, with 65% zon... Read More about Has UK Local Government Action Improved Local Air Quality? A Bristol Case Study.

The construction of complex networks from linear and nonlinear measures - Climate networks (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. During the last decade the techniques of complex network analysis have found application in climate research. The main idea consists in embedding the characteristics of climate variables, e.g., temperature, p... Read More about The construction of complex networks from linear and nonlinear measures - Climate networks.

BCL-3 expression promotes colorectal tumorigenesis through activation of AKT signalling (2015)
Journal Article

Objective Colorectal cancer remains the fourth most common cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide. Here we investigate the role of nuclear factor-?B (NF-?B) co-factor B-cell CLL/lymphoma 3 (BCL-3) in promoting colorectal tumour cell survival. De... Read More about BCL-3 expression promotes colorectal tumorigenesis through activation of AKT signalling.

Scenario planning: ‘Ways of knowing’, methodologies and shifting conceptual landscape (2015)
Journal Article

Scenario planning in recent times has become one of the strategic tools used by organizations to probe their uncertain and fleeting business environment. In this paper, we provide a synthesis of the configuration of knowledge underpinning scenario ge... Read More about Scenario planning: ‘Ways of knowing’, methodologies and shifting conceptual landscape.

Reframing, Realignment and Relationships - Interim evaluation of the first place-based programmes for Systems Leadership: Local Vision (2015)
Report

In Autumn 2014 Bristol Leadership Centre at the University of the West of England was commissioned to undertake evaluation of the Local Vision programme.

The evaluation is designed in two phases. This interim report sets out our findings for Phase... Read More about Reframing, Realignment and Relationships - Interim evaluation of the first place-based programmes for Systems Leadership: Local Vision.