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A new approach to predicting environmental transfer of radionuclides to wildlife: A demonstration for freshwater fish and caesium (2013)
Journal Article

The application of the concentration ratio (CR) to predict radionuclide activity concentrations in wildlife from those in soil or water has become the widely accepted approach for environmental assessments. Recently both the ICRP and IAEA have produc... Read More about A new approach to predicting environmental transfer of radionuclides to wildlife: A demonstration for freshwater fish and caesium.

Breath volatile analysis from patients diagnosed with harmful drinking, cirrhosis and hepatic encephalopathy: A pilot study (2013)
Journal Article

Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is a neuropsychiatric state potentially complicating cirrhosis following the accumulation of toxic compounds that cross the blood-brain barrier and affect brain function; the compounds may undergo alveolar gas exchange and... Read More about Breath volatile analysis from patients diagnosed with harmful drinking, cirrhosis and hepatic encephalopathy: A pilot study.

The role of haptic feedback for the integration of intentions in shared task execution (2013)
Journal Article

Recent developments strive for realizing robotic systems that not only interact, but closely collaborate with humans in performing everyday manipulation tasks. Successful collaboration requires the integration of the individual partner's intentions i... Read More about The role of haptic feedback for the integration of intentions in shared task execution.

Some may beg to differ: Individual beliefs and group political claims (2013)
Journal Article

While nurses can and do behave as intentional political agents, claims that nurses collectively do (empiric), should (normative) or must (regulatory) act to advance political objectives lack credibility. This paper challenges the coherence and legiti... Read More about Some may beg to differ: Individual beliefs and group political claims.

Osteoarthritis and exercise: An interview with Dr Nicola Walsh, associate professor at the University of the West of England (2013)
Journal Article

Dowagers, debs, nuns and babies: The politics of Nostalgia and the older woman in the British sunday night television serial (2013)
Journal Article

The extensive commercial success of two well-made popular television drama serials screened in the UK at prime time on Sunday evenings during the winter of 2011-12, Downton Abbey (ITV, 2010-) and Call the Midwife (BBC, 2012-), has appeared to consoli... Read More about Dowagers, debs, nuns and babies: The politics of Nostalgia and the older woman in the British sunday night television serial.

Study skills for town and country planning (2013)
Book

Towards provenance and traceability in CRISTAL for HEP (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper discusses the CRISTAL object lifecycle management system and its use in provenance data management and the traceability of system events. This software was initially used to capture the construction and calibration of the CMS ECAL detector... Read More about Towards provenance and traceability in CRISTAL for HEP.

To confiscate or not to confiscate? A comparative analysis of the confiscation of the proceeds of crime legislation in the United States of America and the United Kingdom (2013)
Journal Article

The origins of the international community’s policy and legislative measures towards confiscating the proceeds of crime can be traced back to the instigation of the ‘War on Drugs’. The scope and remit of these confiscation powers were extended follo... Read More about To confiscate or not to confiscate? A comparative analysis of the confiscation of the proceeds of crime legislation in the United States of America and the United Kingdom.

Electrophysiology correlates of successful and impaired auditory discrimination in acquired comprehension impairments (2013)
Journal Article

Wernicke's aphasia is a condition which results in severely disrupted language comprehension following a lesion to the left temporo-parietal region. A phonological analysis deficit has traditionally been held to be at the root of the comprehension im... Read More about Electrophysiology correlates of successful and impaired auditory discrimination in acquired comprehension impairments.

Exploring the design space of haptic assistants: The assistance policy module (2013)
Journal Article

Haptic assistants augment user commands to facilitate manipulation and to increase task performance. The strength of assistance, also referred to as assistance level, is one of the main design factors. While existing implementations mainly realize fi... Read More about Exploring the design space of haptic assistants: The assistance policy module.

Northern Ireland in the Second World War: Politics, economic mobilisation and society, 1939-45 (2013)
Book

An empirical investigation into the influence of sealing crimp geometry and process settings on the seal integrity of traditional and biopolymer packaging materials (2013)
Journal Article

This article presents the results of investigations to determine how process settings and crimp geometry affect the seal strength and integrity of traditional polyolefin and biopolymer flexible packaging materials. The results show agreement with pre... Read More about An empirical investigation into the influence of sealing crimp geometry and process settings on the seal integrity of traditional and biopolymer packaging materials.

Living with the deceased: Absence, presence and absence-presence (2013)
Journal Article

In this paper I build on my previous case-study focused research on memorialization to develop a thesis for absence-presence evidenced in vernacular memorial artifacts, spaces and performances at a variety of scales and locations across the British I... Read More about Living with the deceased: Absence, presence and absence-presence.

Installation and performance (2013)
Book Chapter

This chapter addresses the ways in which spaces can be considered as frames for human occupancy - and, conversely, the ways in which the manner of occupancy can frame the space itself. Further, the chapter considers art, film and performance with ref... Read More about Installation and performance.

Improving accuracy and efficiency of mutual information for multi-modal retinal image registration using adaptive probability density estimation (2013)
Journal Article

Mutual information (MI) is a popular similarity measure for performing image registration between different modalities. MI makes a statistical comparison between two images by computing the entropy from the probability distribution of the data. There... Read More about Improving accuracy and efficiency of mutual information for multi-modal retinal image registration using adaptive probability density estimation.

Developing a social prescribing approach for Bristol (2013)
Report

This report will outline three different models of Social Prescribing (SP) to help to describe the types of SP practice provided across the city: Light, Medium and Holistic. It briefly outlines local examples of each. All of the Holistic projects id... Read More about Developing a social prescribing approach for Bristol.

Evaluating a collaborative IT based research and development project (2013)
Journal Article

In common with all projects, evaluating an Information Technology (IT) based research and development project is necessary in order to discover whether or not the outcomes of the project are successful. However, evaluating large-scale collaborative p... Read More about Evaluating a collaborative IT based research and development project.

Developing self-care at work (2013)
Thesis

Phd Title: Developing self-care at work

ABSTRACT

This PhD Study explored the practical development of self-care at work. The study enabled an understanding of self-care at work as a phenomena, and enabled the practitioners involved to free them... Read More about Developing self-care at work.

Lesbians and body image: Anorexia, bulimia and constructions of thinness (2013)
Journal Article

Not only is being thin linked to femininity, but it is also significantly associated with heterosexuality. Although much research has been undertaken on the subject of women with eating disorders, the effect of these conditions on women with alternat... Read More about Lesbians and body image: Anorexia, bulimia and constructions of thinness.