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Biohybrid control of general linear systems using the adaptive filter model of cerebellum (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 Wilson, Assaf, Pearson, Rossiter, Dean, Anderson and Porrill. The adaptive filter model of the cerebellar microcircuit has been successfully applied to biological motor control problems, such as the vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR), and to sensor... Read More about Biohybrid control of general linear systems using the adaptive filter model of cerebellum.

Reducing floodwater ingress rates through an exterior masonry wall of a domestic building: A pilot investigation (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015, Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose – Experimental field test apparatus has been used to determine the inter-variability and intra-variability floodwater ingress rates of the masonry wall of a domestic building, before and after prepara... Read More about Reducing floodwater ingress rates through an exterior masonry wall of a domestic building: A pilot investigation.

Networks of value in electronic music: SoundCloud, London, and the importance of place (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 Taylor & Francis. While recent debate has often focused on a reified “cultural value” (whether opposed to or aligned with monetary value), this article treats “value” as a verb and investigates the acts of valuing in which people engage. Thr... Read More about Networks of value in electronic music: SoundCloud, London, and the importance of place.

Cross-cultural validation of the Portuguese version of the educational needs assessment tool (PORTENAT) (2015)
Journal Article

Objectives: To undertake a cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the educational needs assessment tool (ENAT) into Portuguese. Methods: The first phase of this research (cross-cultural adaptation) utilised a well-established translation method... Read More about Cross-cultural validation of the Portuguese version of the educational needs assessment tool (PORTENAT).

Political Not Generational: Getting Real About Contemporary UK Radical Feminism (2015)
Journal Article

© 2014 Taylor & Francis. In this article, I present data from qualitative research with 30 self-identified radical feminists who are currently active in the British feminist movement. I explore how participants defined their feminism, and threats t... Read More about Political Not Generational: Getting Real About Contemporary UK Radical Feminism.

Biomimetic tactile sensing capsule (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015. Here we present a tactile sensing capsule endoscopy system. Whilst current capsule endoscopy utilises cameras to diagnose lesions on the surface of the gastrointestinal tract lumen, this proposal... Read More about Biomimetic tactile sensing capsule.

Financial literacy and student attitudes to debt: A cross national study examining the influence of gender on personal finance concepts (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. This study found a similar result in samples of university students from England and New Zealand to other countries, that males outperform females on financial literacy quizzes. While males outperformed females on a simple compou... Read More about Financial literacy and student attitudes to debt: A cross national study examining the influence of gender on personal finance concepts.

A critical overview of the current myofascial pain literature - July 2015 (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. The current overview includes thirty articles published in the recent past about myofascial pain, trigger points (TrPs) and related topics. In the Basic Research section, several interesting new studies are reviewed addressing th... Read More about A critical overview of the current myofascial pain literature - July 2015.

How is men's conformity to masculine norms related to their body image? Masculinity and muscularity across Western Countries (2015)
Journal Article

© 2014 American Psychological Association. Previous research has suggested that men's conformity to masculine norms (CMN) is an important correlate of men's drive for muscularity. The present study aimed to further delineate the relationship between... Read More about How is men's conformity to masculine norms related to their body image? Masculinity and muscularity across Western Countries.

Interpreting and inverting with less cursing: A guide to interpreting IRAP data (2015)
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© 2015 Association for Contextual Behavioral Science. This Professional Interest Brief seeks to provide a clear guide to interpreting data generated by Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP). The interpretation of IRAP data is not immediatel... Read More about Interpreting and inverting with less cursing: A guide to interpreting IRAP data.

Virtual patients: Development in cancer nursing education (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. Background: The number of men diagnosed with prostate cancer is increasing and internationally there are high incidence rates. It is important that nurses and healthcare professionals are enabled to provide appropriate care to th... Read More about Virtual patients: Development in cancer nursing education.

Starting a family: The experience of parents with cleft lip and/or palate (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association. Background: One of the key challenges facing young adults with cleft lip and/or palate is making decisions about starting a family, because there is an increased likelihood of their own child bei... Read More about Starting a family: The experience of parents with cleft lip and/or palate.

Improving the effectiveness of Ugandan water user committees (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 Taylor & Francis. This article outlines issues affecting the functionality of Ugandan water user committees responsible for managing communal water and sanitation (WASH) services. Research undertaken demonstrated that their effectiveness is... Read More about Improving the effectiveness of Ugandan water user committees.

An ontological approach for knowledge modeling and reasoning over heterogeneous crop data sources (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015. The past two decades have seen a remarkable shift in the knowledge-and information-sharing paradigm. In the crops domain, for example, the amount of information currently known about underutilized... Read More about An ontological approach for knowledge modeling and reasoning over heterogeneous crop data sources.

Realizing the value of fluvial geomorphology (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research. Fluvial geomorphological forms and processes exert a fundamental influence on riverine processes and functions. They thereby contribute significantly to beneficial servi... Read More about Realizing the value of fluvial geomorphology.

UNderstanding uptake of Immunisations in TravellIng aNd Gypsy communities (UNITING): Protocol for an exploratory, qualitative study (2015)
Journal Article

© BMJ Open 2015. Introduction: Gypsies, Travellers and Roma (referred to here as Travellers) experience significantly poorer health and have shorter life expectancy than the general population. They are also less likely to access health services incl... Read More about UNderstanding uptake of Immunisations in TravellIng aNd Gypsy communities (UNITING): Protocol for an exploratory, qualitative study.

Play-Based Science Learning Activities: Engaging Adults and Children With Informal Science Learning for Preschoolers (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 SAGE Publications Informal science learning opportunities for preschool children are relatively rare in the United Kingdom. An outreach project was set up to provide accessible, public science-based play learning activity sessions for preschoo... Read More about Play-Based Science Learning Activities: Engaging Adults and Children With Informal Science Learning for Preschoolers.

Regional Increase in the Expression of the BCAT Proteins in Alzheimer's Disease Brain: Implications in Glutamate Toxicity (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 - IOS Press and the authors. All rights reserved. Background: The human branched chain aminotransferases (hBCATm, mitochondrial and hBCATc, cytosolic) are major contributors to brain glutamate production. This excitatory neurotransmitter is th... Read More about Regional Increase in the Expression of the BCAT Proteins in Alzheimer's Disease Brain: Implications in Glutamate Toxicity.

Prediction of delamination growth in carbon/epoxy composites using a novel acoustic emission-based approach (2015)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2015 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav. Delamination is the most common failure mode in laminated composites and it leads to loss of structural strength and stiffness. In this paper, acoustic emission mon... Read More about Prediction of delamination growth in carbon/epoxy composites using a novel acoustic emission-based approach.

Network coarsening dynamics in a plasmodial slime mould: Modelling and experiments (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015, Jagellonian University. All rights reserved. The giant unicellular slime mould Physarum polycephalum forms an extended network of stands (veins) that provide for an effective intracellular transportation system, which coarsens in time. The ne... Read More about Network coarsening dynamics in a plasmodial slime mould: Modelling and experiments.