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Mobile GPGPU acceleration of embodied robot simulation (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015. It is desirable for a robot to be able to run on-board simulations of itself in a model of the world to evaluate action consequences and test new controller solutions, but simulation is computatio... Read More about Mobile GPGPU acceleration of embodied robot simulation.

Transitional and generational justice: Children involved in armed conflicts (2015)
Book Chapter

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015. The debate between restorative and retributive justice has never been felt so strongly than in relation to the crimes perpetrated by children in armed conflicts in Africa. The society in which the... Read More about Transitional and generational justice: Children involved in armed conflicts.

Multi-modality gesture detection and recognition with un-supervision, randomization and discrimination (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015. We describe in this paper our gesture detection and recognition system for the 2014 ChaLearn Looking at People (Track 3: Gesture Recognition) organized by ChaLearn in conjunction with the ECCV 201... Read More about Multi-modality gesture detection and recognition with un-supervision, randomization and discrimination.

Assessing the accessibility of the Wolverhampton interchange, UK (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015, Thomas Telford Services Ltd. All rights reserved. The UK Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) of 2005 requires transport service providers and local authorities to make reasonable infrastructure adjustments to accommodate the needs of disabled... Read More about Assessing the accessibility of the Wolverhampton interchange, UK.

Evidence-based policymaking and the public interest: Lessons in legitimacy (2015)
Journal Article

This paper draws upon an analysis of operational planning to highlight the centrality of ethics in praxis. In this context, political liberalism is particularly helpful in developing a deeper understanding of the activities of those engaged in planni... Read More about Evidence-based policymaking and the public interest: Lessons in legitimacy.

Preliminary analysis from a novel treatment targeting the exchange of new information within storytelling for people with nonfluent aphasia and their partners (2015)
Journal Article

© 2014 Taylor & Francis. Background: Therapy for people with aphasia (PWA) can encompass a wide range of aims and methodologies from targeting the linguistic impairment to strategic compensation to optimise communication, interaction, and vocationa... Read More about Preliminary analysis from a novel treatment targeting the exchange of new information within storytelling for people with nonfluent aphasia and their partners.

The epistemological foundations of music piracy in the digital marketplace (2015)
Journal Article

This paper examines the fundamental epistemological gap between the consumers and producers of digitally based products. Using the music industry and the significance of digital products in this arena as a case study of evolving relationships between... Read More about The epistemological foundations of music piracy in the digital marketplace.

The contribution of early language development to children's emotional and behavioural functioning at 6 years: An analysis of data from the Children in Focus sample from the ALSPAC birth cohort (2015)
Journal Article

© 2014 Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health. Background: An association between children's early language development and their emotional and behavioural functioning is reported in the literature. The nature of the association remains u... Read More about The contribution of early language development to children's emotional and behavioural functioning at 6 years: An analysis of data from the Children in Focus sample from the ALSPAC birth cohort.

Outcasts on the inside: academics reinventing themselves online (2015)
Journal Article

© 2014 Taylor & Francis. Recent developments in digital scholarship point out that academic practices supported by technologies may not only be transformed through the obvious process of digitization, but also renovated through distributed knowledg... Read More about Outcasts on the inside: academics reinventing themselves online.

'The distance between us': A comparative examination of the technical, spatial and temporal dimensions of the transnational social relationships of highly skilled migrants (2015)
Journal Article

© 2014 Global Networks Partnership & John Wiley & Sons Ltd. In this article, through comparing two highly skilled migrant groups in London, we explore how new types of information and communication technologies (ICTs) shape the form and content o... Read More about 'The distance between us': A comparative examination of the technical, spatial and temporal dimensions of the transnational social relationships of highly skilled migrants.

The “Finger Puppets”: Examining the Use of Artifacts to Create Liminal Moments in Management Education (2015)
Journal Article

The resource review we examine here is provided by the Unemployed Philosophers Guild http://www.philosophersguild.com/Finger-Puppets/). On the company’s website they comment: “. . . we have discovered that people seem to really like the giants of our... Read More about The “Finger Puppets”: Examining the Use of Artifacts to Create Liminal Moments in Management Education.

Poetic Economics and Experiential Knowledge, or How the Economist K. William Kapp Was Inspired by the Poet Ernst Wiechert (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 Journal of Economics Issues/Association for Evolutionary Economics. In the first part of this article, I analyze the phenomenon of the "double truth" in economics, which suppresses experiential knowledge and leads to the destruction of the nat... Read More about Poetic Economics and Experiential Knowledge, or How the Economist K. William Kapp Was Inspired by the Poet Ernst Wiechert.

BRAF Fusion Analysis in Pilocytic Astrocytomas: KIAA1549-BRAF 15-9 Fusions Are More Frequent in the Midline Than Within the Cerebellum (2015)
Journal Article

Copyright © 2015 by the American Association of Neuropathologists, Inc. Pilocytic astrocytomas (PAs) are increasingly tested for KIAA1549-BRAF fusions. We used reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction for the 3 most common KIAA1549-BRAF fusion... Read More about BRAF Fusion Analysis in Pilocytic Astrocytomas: KIAA1549-BRAF 15-9 Fusions Are More Frequent in the Midline Than Within the Cerebellum.

An artificial immune system for self-healing in swarm robotic systems (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015. Swarm robotics is concerned with the decentralised coordination of multiple robots having only limited communication and interaction abilities. Although fault tolerance and robustness to individua... Read More about An artificial immune system for self-healing in swarm robotic systems.

Homeowners' perceptions of property-level flood risk adaptation (PLFRA) measures: The case of the summer 2007 flood event in England (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 WIT Press. Flood events have far-reaching consequences, not only in economic or financial terms but also in social and health-related impacts. There is a growing body of research that suggests that property-level flood risk adaptation (PLFRA)... Read More about Homeowners' perceptions of property-level flood risk adaptation (PLFRA) measures: The case of the summer 2007 flood event in England.

Price based demand side management: A persuasive smart energy management system for low/medium income earners (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This paper presents a persuasive smart energy management system (PSEMS) which incorporates the peculiarities of the developing economies, for low/medium income earners, under the flat pricing regime. The PSEM... Read More about Price based demand side management: A persuasive smart energy management system for low/medium income earners.

Randomised trial of the fascia iliaca block versus the '3-in-1' block for femoral neck fractures in the emergency department (2015)
Journal Article

Introduction Femoral neck fractures are a common and painful injury. Femoral nerve blocks, and a variant of this technique termed the '3-in-1' block, are often used in this patient group, but their effect is variable. The fascia iliaca compartment bl... Read More about Randomised trial of the fascia iliaca block versus the '3-in-1' block for femoral neck fractures in the emergency department.

Leadership development: A place for storytelling and Greek mythology? (2015)
Journal Article

© 2014, © The Author(s) 2014. This article explores how storytelling and Greek mythology within classroom-based leadership development may facilitate learning to deal with ambiguity and social construction in leadership practice. We aim to show how u... Read More about Leadership development: A place for storytelling and Greek mythology?.

Search-based refactoring: Metrics are not enough (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015. Search-based Software Engineering (SBSE) techniques have been applied extensively to refactor software, often based on metrics that describe the object-oriented structure of an application. Recent... Read More about Search-based refactoring: Metrics are not enough.

"It doesn't all just stop at 18": Psychological adjustment and support needs of adults born with cleft lip and/or palate (2015)
Journal Article

© Copyright 2015 American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association. Background: Cleft in the lip and/or the palate (CL/P) is considered to be a lifelong condition, yet relatively little is known about the long-term outcomes for patients. Existing litera... Read More about "It doesn't all just stop at 18": Psychological adjustment and support needs of adults born with cleft lip and/or palate.