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Future for offshore wind energy in the United Kingdom: The way forward (2014)
Journal Article
Melaine, Y., Ochieng, E. G., Melaine, T., Potts, S. J., Zuofa, T., Egbu, C. O., …Ruan, X. (2014). Future for offshore wind energy in the United Kingdom: The way forward. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 39, 655-666. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2014.07.105

The majority of our energy demand is satisfied by the combustion of fossil fuels, such as coal, oil and gas. This has resulted in our fossil fuel resources being vastly reduced and has increased the carbon dioxide content in the atmosphere which is c... Read More about Future for offshore wind energy in the United Kingdom: The way forward.

Self-directed learning on a full-time MBA - A cautionary tale (2014)
Journal Article
Schedlitzki, D., & Witney, D. (2014). Self-directed learning on a full-time MBA - A cautionary tale. International Journal of Management Education, 12(3), 203-211. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijme.2014.05.001

This article provides a cautionary tale of the complexities of implementing peer learning groups (PLG's) and blended learning approaches for promoting self-directed learning (SDL) in the context of competing objectives for staff and students on a ful... Read More about Self-directed learning on a full-time MBA - A cautionary tale.

Anti-leaders(hip) in Social Movement Organizations: The case of autonomous grassroots groups (2014)
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Sutherland, N., Land, C., & Böhm, S. (2014). Anti-leaders(hip) in Social Movement Organizations: The case of autonomous grassroots groups. Organization, 21(6), 759-781. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508413480254

© The Author(s) 2013. Through the Arab Spring and the Occupy movement, the idea of horizontal, leaderless organization has come to the attention of the mass media. In this article we explore radical, participative-democratic alternatives to leadershi... Read More about Anti-leaders(hip) in Social Movement Organizations: The case of autonomous grassroots groups.

Moth species richness, abundance and diversity in fragmented urban woodlands: Implications for conservation and management strategies (2014)
Journal Article
Park, K. J., Blackmore, L. M., Lintott, P., Bunnefeld, N., Fuentes-Montemayor, E., Minderman, J., & Goulson, D. (2014). Moth species richness, abundance and diversity in fragmented urban woodlands: Implications for conservation and management strategies. Biodiversity and Conservation, 23(11), 2875-2901. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-014-0753-z

Urban expansion threatens global biodiversity through the destruction of natural and semi-natural habitats and increased levels of disturbance. Whilst woodlands in urban areas may reduce the impact of urbanisation on biodiversity, they are often subj... Read More about Moth species richness, abundance and diversity in fragmented urban woodlands: Implications for conservation and management strategies.

Hybrid force-motion control of coordinated robots interacting with unknown environments (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jafari, A., & Ryu, J. H. (2014). Hybrid force-motion control of coordinated robots interacting with unknown environments. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCAS.2014.6987966

© 2014 Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems (ICROS). This paper presents a unified framework for system design and control in cooperative robotic systems. It introduces a highly general cooperative system configuration involving any number of m... Read More about Hybrid force-motion control of coordinated robots interacting with unknown environments.

Towards collaborative approach? Investigating the regeneration of urban village in Guangzhou, China (2014)
Journal Article
Zhou, Z. (2014). Towards collaborative approach? Investigating the regeneration of urban village in Guangzhou, China. Habitat International, 44, 297-305. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2014.07.011

Along with the green-land shortage and the low use efficiency of urban land as a result of rapid urban sprawl in the past three decades, the issue of urban regeneration has been recently brought to the governance agenda by the new leadership in China... Read More about Towards collaborative approach? Investigating the regeneration of urban village in Guangzhou, China.

Developing public support for human rights in the United Kingdom: Reasserting the importance of socio-economic rights (2014)
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Bell, K., & Cemlyn, S. (2014). Developing public support for human rights in the United Kingdom: Reasserting the importance of socio-economic rights. International Journal of Human Rights, 18(7-8), 822-841. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2014.951339

© 2014 Taylor & Francis. Public support for human rights in the UK remains limited, partly as a result of misleading media coverage, as well as political hostility. The UK Human Rights Act, in particular, has been under sustained attack and is now... Read More about Developing public support for human rights in the United Kingdom: Reasserting the importance of socio-economic rights.

Investigation of the mixed-mode delamination in polymer-matrix composites using acoustic emission technique (2014)
Journal Article
Fotouhi, M., & Ahmadi Najafabadi, M. (2014). Investigation of the mixed-mode delamination in polymer-matrix composites using acoustic emission technique. Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites, 33(19), 1767-1782. https://doi.org/10.1177/0731684414544391

© The Author(s) 2014 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav. This paper is a novel application of acoustic emission (AE) technique to investigate the actual occurring modes of delamination damage (i.e. mode I, mode II and the... Read More about Investigation of the mixed-mode delamination in polymer-matrix composites using acoustic emission technique.

Patients' perspectives on the educational preparation of cardiac nurses (2014)
Journal Article
Thompson, D. R., Albarran, J., Jones, I., Lockyer, L., Manns, S., & Cox, H. (2014). Patients' perspectives on the educational preparation of cardiac nurses. European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 13(5), 451-458. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474515113507166

© The European Society of Cardiology 2013. Background: Over the last two decades the UK health service has endeavoured to place patient and public involvement at the heart of its modernisation agenda. Despite these aspirations the role of patients in... Read More about Patients' perspectives on the educational preparation of cardiac nurses.

Evolving functional and structural dynamism in coupled boolean networks (2014)
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Bull, L. (2014). Evolving functional and structural dynamism in coupled boolean networks. Artificial Life, 20(4), 441-455. https://doi.org/10.1162/ARTL_a_00137

© 2014 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This article uses a recently presented abstract, tunable Boolean regulatory network model to further explore aspects of mobile DNA, such as transposons. The significant role of mobile DNA in the evolution... Read More about Evolving functional and structural dynamism in coupled boolean networks.

Parental behaviour in paediatric chronic pain: A qualitative observational study (2014)
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Dunford, E., Thompson, M., & Gauntlett-Gilbert, J. (2014). Parental behaviour in paediatric chronic pain: A qualitative observational study. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 19(4), 561-575. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359104513492347

Objectives: Parental behaviour appears to influence the adjustment of children with chronic pain. However, research in this area has failed to produce consistent evidence. Studies have tended to rely on self-report measures derived from adult pain po... Read More about Parental behaviour in paediatric chronic pain: A qualitative observational study.

Look at those two!: The precuneus role in unattended third-person perspective of social interactions (2014)
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Petrini, K., Piwek, L., Crabbe, F., Pollick, F. E., & Garrod, S. (2014). Look at those two!: The precuneus role in unattended third-person perspective of social interactions. Human Brain Mapping, 35(10), 5190-5203. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.22543

© 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.. Human beings often observe other people's social interactions without being a part of them. Whereas the implications of some brain regions (e.g. amygdala) have been extensively examined, the implication of the precuneu... Read More about Look at those two!: The precuneus role in unattended third-person perspective of social interactions.

Informal credit institutions in transition countries: A study of urban money lenders in post-communist Uzbekistan (2014)
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Ruziev, K., & Midmore, P. (2014). Informal credit institutions in transition countries: A study of urban money lenders in post-communist Uzbekistan. Post-Communist Economies, 26(3), 415-435. https://doi.org/10.1080/14631377.2014.937107

Research on informal financial institutions in transition economies is scant. This study investigates behaviour of urban money lenders in Uzbekistan. Money lending in Uzbekistan is a relatively new business which emerged mostly in response to targete... Read More about Informal credit institutions in transition countries: A study of urban money lenders in post-communist Uzbekistan.

Validation of a home safety questionnaire used in a series of case-control studies (2014)
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Watson, M., Benford, P., Coupland, C., Clacy, R., Hindmarch, P., Majsak-Newman, G., …Kendrick, D. (2014). Validation of a home safety questionnaire used in a series of case-control studies. Injury Prevention, 20(5), 336-342. https://doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2013-041006

© 2014 BMJ Publishing Group. All rights reserved. Conclusions This study found that the validity of selfreports varied with safety practice. Questions with a high specificity will be useful for practitioners for identifying households who may benefit... Read More about Validation of a home safety questionnaire used in a series of case-control studies.

The ethical and social implications of personalization technologies for e-learning (2014)
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Toms, E. G., Sheng, Q. Z., Cristea, A. I., Ashman, H., Brailsford, T., Stewart, C., …Wade, V. (2014). The ethical and social implications of personalization technologies for e-learning. Information and Management, 51(6), 819-832. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.im.2014.04.003

Personalization in information systems can be considered beneficial but also ethically and socially harmful. Like many other technologies, the uptake of personalization has been rapid, with inadequate consideration given to its effects. Personalizati... Read More about The ethical and social implications of personalization technologies for e-learning.

Action recognition using ensemble weighted multi-instance learning (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chen, G., Giuliani, M., Clarke, D., Gaschler, A., & Knoll, A. (2014). Action recognition using ensemble weighted multi-instance learning. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 4520-4525. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907519

© 2014 IEEE. This paper deals with recognizing human actions in depth video data. Current state-of-the-art action recognition methods use hand-designed features, which are difficult to produce and time-consuming to extend to new modalities. In this p... Read More about Action recognition using ensemble weighted multi-instance learning.