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Impact of current steel lintels on the thermal performance of cavity wall buildings under the elemental recipe of Part L1A 2013 (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This study investigates the impact of current steel lintels on the CO2 emissions of a notional building when trying to comply with the new PART L1A 2013 of the Building Regulations of England and Wales. For this purpose different families of lintels... Read More about Impact of current steel lintels on the thermal performance of cavity wall buildings under the elemental recipe of Part L1A 2013.

Dynamic electrical reconfiguration for improved capacitor charging in microbial fuel cell stacks (2014)
Journal Article

A microbial fuel cell (MFC) is a bioelectrochemical device that uses anaerobic bacteria to convert chemical energy locked in biomass into small amounts of electricity. One viable way of increasing energy extraction is by stacking multiple MFC units a... Read More about Dynamic electrical reconfiguration for improved capacitor charging in microbial fuel cell stacks.

Quantitative conversations: the importance of developing rapport in standardised interviewing (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014, The Author(s). When developing household surveys, much emphasis is understandably placed on developing survey instruments that can elicit accurate and comparable responses. In order to ensure that carefully crafted questions are not undermine... Read More about Quantitative conversations: the importance of developing rapport in standardised interviewing.

Feature Neighbourhood Mutual Information for multi-modal image registration: An application to eye fundus imaging (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Multi-modal image registration is becoming an increasingly powerful tool for medical diagnosis and treatment. The combination of different image modalities facilitates much greater understanding of the underl... Read More about Feature Neighbourhood Mutual Information for multi-modal image registration: An application to eye fundus imaging.

The relations between word reading, oral language, and reading comprehension in children who speak English as a first (L1) and second language (L2): a multigroup structural analysis (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. This study compared the reading and oral language skills of children who speak English as a first (L1) and second language (L2), and examined whether the strength of the relationship between word rea... Read More about The relations between word reading, oral language, and reading comprehension in children who speak English as a first (L1) and second language (L2): a multigroup structural analysis.

The european parliament in the external dimension of EU counter-terrorism: More actorness, accountability and oversight 10 years on? (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014 Taylor & Francis. The Lisbon Treaty, which entered into force in 2009, considerably reinforced the powers of the European Parliament. This article examines towhat extent the European Parliament has become an important actor in EU counter-ter... Read More about The european parliament in the external dimension of EU counter-terrorism: More actorness, accountability and oversight 10 years on?.

Robotic hand posture and compliant grasping control using operational space and integral sliding mode control (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014 Cambridge University Press. This paper establishes a novel approach of robotic hand posture and grasping control. For this purpose, the control uses the operational space approach. This permits the consideration of the shape of the object to b... Read More about Robotic hand posture and compliant grasping control using operational space and integral sliding mode control.

In vitro studies comparing activities of antimicrobial photodynamic therapy and electrochemically activated solutions (2014)
Thesis

Abstract
There is a need for alternative “treatments” for killing microbes in wound and other body surfaces. Antimicrobial Photodynamic Therapy (APDT) and Electrochemically Activated Solutions (ECAS) are two recent developments in the field of bioci... Read More about In vitro studies comparing activities of antimicrobial photodynamic therapy and electrochemically activated solutions.

‘Words are bandied about but what do they mean?’: An exploration of the meaning of the pedagogical term “project” in historical and contemporary contexts (2014)
Thesis

This thesis explores the pedagogical practices signified by the pedagogical term ‘project;’ which have traditionally been associated with enquiry based progressive ways of working with young children aimed at facilitating levels of both child and te... Read More about ‘Words are bandied about but what do they mean?’: An exploration of the meaning of the pedagogical term “project” in historical and contemporary contexts.

All the voices: Diversity in the media (2014)
Book

Commentary on the importance of inclusive coverage, representation and employment in the news media

Exploring serendipitous dialogue (2014)
Journal Article

Over the past decades there has been an increasing recognition of the
need to promote dialogue between science and society. Often this takes the form
of formal processes, such as citizen’s juries, that are designed to allow the public
to contribut... Read More about Exploring serendipitous dialogue.

DRM and modchips: Time for the Court of Justice to do the "right" thing (2014)
Journal Article

This paper looks at three key cases; UsedSoft (C-458/13), PC Box (C-355/12) and Grund (C-458/13), on the topic of the extent and nature of a copyright holders abilityto constrain future uses of their copyrighted works in the field of software and cri... Read More about DRM and modchips: Time for the Court of Justice to do the "right" thing.

Foreword: The three dogmas of transcendentalism (2014)
Book Chapter

Osborne's devo deals disguise centralisation (2014)
Journal Article

Transnational organised crime monthly briefing 18 December 2014: Spotlight on the Americas (2014)
Journal Article

Dr Mary Young is a contributing analyst at Open Briefing.

The Gothicisation of World War I (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

What is the state of play? (2014)
Journal Article

Invited contribution to special issue on the work of Iona and Peter Opie.

Email counselling and the therapeutic relationship: A grounded theory analysis of therapists' experiences (2014)
Thesis

Provision of online counselling in its many forms has increased dramatically over the last 10 years, however research findings suggest that many therapists have concerns about whether a therapeutic relationship can be successfully engendered online,... Read More about Email counselling and the therapeutic relationship: A grounded theory analysis of therapists' experiences.

Public toilet provision, gender and menstruation (2014)
Journal Article

Molecular music: Repurposing a mixed quantum-classical atomic dynamics model as an audiovisual instrument (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Molecular Music is an offshoot of a long-term collaborative project, the multi- award winning danceroom Spectroscopy (dS)[1]. dS has its roots in computational molecular dynamics, and was originally conceived to serve as an interactive platform for m... Read More about Molecular music: Repurposing a mixed quantum-classical atomic dynamics model as an audiovisual instrument.