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Institutionalizing undergraduate research: Bottom up, top down and inside out (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Blackhurst, A., Hart, M., & Albertson, D. (2010, November). Institutionalizing undergraduate research: Bottom up, top down and inside out. Presented at Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) conference’s Creativity, Inquiry and Discovery: Undergraduate Research In and Across the Disciplines, Duke University, NC, USA

Oral Presentation and Facilitated Workshop Session on building grassroots efforts into coordinated, institutionalised research activity for institutional gain and recognition (100 participants)

Identifying and reducing satisfaction of search errors: How to alleviate dual-target search costs (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Mitroff, S. R., Clark, K., & Cain, M. S. (2010, November). Identifying and reducing satisfaction of search errors: How to alleviate dual-target search costs. Paper presented at Psychonomic Society, St Louis, Missouri, United States

Some occupations (e.g., airport luggage screeners, military personnel, radiologists) require highly accurate visual searches. To maximize performance it is important to identify factors that decrease accuracy and then identify means to alleviate thei... Read More about Identifying and reducing satisfaction of search errors: How to alleviate dual-target search costs.

Revealing individual differences in visual search: ADHD leads to see too little and anorexia nervosa leads to seeing too much (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Clark, K., Watson, K. K., Zucker, N. L., & Mitroff, S. R. (2010, November). Revealing individual differences in visual search: ADHD leads to see too little and anorexia nervosa leads to seeing too much. Poster presented at Object Perception, Attention, and Memory, St Louis, Missouri, United States

In understanding the nature of visual cognition, it is important to determine how individual differences affect performance. We have found relationships between symptoms of both ADHD and anorexia nervosa and performance on a simple visual search tas... Read More about Revealing individual differences in visual search: ADHD leads to see too little and anorexia nervosa leads to seeing too much.

Human search strategies are informed by complex target distribution statistics (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Cain, M. S., Vul, E., Clark, K., & Mitroff, S. R. (2010, November). Human search strategies are informed by complex target distribution statistics. Paper presented at Object Perception, Attention, and Memory, St Louis, Missouri, United States

Many real-world visual searches contain multiple targets in one display and such searches can be especially error prone. We investigated whether searchers adapt their strategies based on complex statistics of target distributions in multiple-target s... Read More about Human search strategies are informed by complex target distribution statistics.

Debates and issues around public disclosure in the UK (2010)
Presentation / Conference
McCartan, K. (2010, October). Debates and issues around public disclosure in the UK. Paper presented at Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers Conference, Phoenix, Arizona, USA

12 steps to recovery for penal reformers (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Moore, J. (2010, September). 12 steps to recovery for penal reformers. Paper presented at British Society of Criminology (NW branch) Symposium on controversial issues in prisons, University of Central Lancashire

Epidemiology of unintentional injuries in children in South East Asian countries: A systematic review (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Pant, P. R., Towner, E., Ellis, M., & Pilkington, P. (2010, September). Epidemiology of unintentional injuries in children in South East Asian countries: A systematic review. Poster presented at Safety 2010: World Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion Conference, Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Westminster, London, UK

Aim To perform a systematic review of community-based studies on unintentional injuries in children in WHO's South-East Asian countries to summarise and compare rates of and risk factors for injuries. Background Globally, injuries are among the le... Read More about Epidemiology of unintentional injuries in children in South East Asian countries: A systematic review.

Promoting healthy and sustainable environments: opportunities for injury prevention (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Pilkington, P. (2010, September). Promoting healthy and sustainable environments: opportunities for injury prevention. Paper presented at Safety 2010: World Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion Conference, Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Westminster, London, UK

There is a renewed emphasis on the importance of place as a major health determinant, including the need to promote healthier and more sustainable environments and communities. This is in the main a response to two of the most pressing public health... Read More about Promoting healthy and sustainable environments: opportunities for injury prevention.