Towards understanding a distinct hydrogen peroxide
electrocatalytic enhancement using surfactant-based coatings on silver
(2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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Environmental protection in armed conflict: Filling the gaps with sustainable development (2013)
Journal Article
Recent years have witnessed growing concern over the ever more increasing urgent and pervasive global environmental problems. Environmental problems and challenges in relation to armed conflict are amongst them. Such environmental pressures can cause... Read More about Environmental protection in armed conflict: Filling the gaps with sustainable development.
The effects of verb retrieval therapy for people with non-fluent aphasia: Evidence from assessment tasks and conversation (2013)
Journal Article
Despite often impressive improvements on linguistic assessments, there is a lack of evidence of significant generalisation from impairment-focused aphasia therapy to everyday communication. The aim of the current study was to investigate the effect o... Read More about The effects of verb retrieval therapy for people with non-fluent aphasia: Evidence from assessment tasks and conversation.
Ex-military personnel in the criminal justice system: A cross-sectional study (2013)
Journal Article
The aim of this article is to estimate the proportion of Regular veterans in England and Wales who are in prison or supervised by a Probation Trust. A cross-sectional data linkage approach was taken, matching a database of Service leavers with prison... Read More about Ex-military personnel in the criminal justice system: A cross-sectional study.
Database narrative, spatial montage, and the cultural transmission of memory: An anthropological perspective (2013)
Book Chapter
This chapter discusses ways in which the database narrative techniques of virtual media can be used to explore the relationship between real-world oral storytelling and embodied performance in the cultural transmission of memory. It is based on an on... Read More about Database narrative, spatial montage, and the cultural transmission of memory: An anthropological perspective.
Different Wording of the Patient Global Visual Analogue Scale (PG-VAS) Affects Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients' Scoring and the Overall Disease Activity Score (DAS28): A Cross-Sectional Study (2013)
Journal Article
Objective: The Disease Activity Score in 28 joints (DAS28) is a key measure in clinical practice and clinical trials. There are at least five different versions of the 'Patient Global' Visual Analogue Scale (PG-VAS) being used in the DAS28. The devel... Read More about Different Wording of the Patient Global Visual Analogue Scale (PG-VAS) Affects Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients' Scoring and the Overall Disease Activity Score (DAS28): A Cross-Sectional Study.
Recording therapy sessions: What do clients and therapists really think? (2013)
Journal Article
Aims: Recording therapy sessions has become part of routine practice amongst trainee psychotherapists. To date most research has focused on the benefits of recording sessions to support clinical supervision. There are few data about the benefits or r... Read More about Recording therapy sessions: What do clients and therapists really think?.
Does increase in DNA repair allow "Tolerance-to-Insult" in chemical carcinogenesis? Skin tumor experiments with MGMT-overexpressing mice (2013)
Journal Article
Several genotoxicity endpoints have been evaluated to define nonlinear dose-responses for S N 1 and S N 2 alkylating genotoxicants. Dose-response studies acknowledging the process of multistage tumorigenesis are important; however, data pertaining no... Read More about Does increase in DNA repair allow "Tolerance-to-Insult" in chemical carcinogenesis? Skin tumor experiments with MGMT-overexpressing mice.
Dynamically integrated project portfolio planning to accommodate asset management plan cycles in the UK water industry (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Project Portfolio Planning (PPP) is a hierarchical decision-making process that has been frequently studied in a number of sequential phases such as Project selection, contractor/resource selection, Project scheduling and rescheduling and Supply chai... Read More about Dynamically integrated project portfolio planning to accommodate asset management plan cycles in the UK water industry.
A matter of foresight: How practices enable (or impede) organizational foresightfulness (2013)
Journal Article
Emphasizing practice as the site of the emergence of strategic foresight, this paper draws on the contemporary turn to 'practice' to examine how the organizing practices of members positioned further down the organization may facilitate (or constrain... Read More about A matter of foresight: How practices enable (or impede) organizational foresightfulness.
Speculative and critical realism (2013)
Journal Article
This is a contribution to the debate on speculative realism deriving from the book The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism, eds Levi Bryant, Nick Srnicek and Graham Harman (Melbourne: re.press, 2011). It is also in part a response t... Read More about Speculative and critical realism.
Appearance distress and dysfunction in the elderly: International contrasts across italy and the UK using DAS59 (2013)
Journal Article
Background: As the global population grows, the percentage of those over 60 will escalate disproportionately. Their needs will become an ever more dominant feature of public policy and healthcare provision. Older adults' appearance is often removed f... Read More about Appearance distress and dysfunction in the elderly: International contrasts across italy and the UK using DAS59.
Negotiating equality in the equality act 2010 (United Kingdom): Church-state relations in a post-Christian society (2013)
Journal Article
Few recent legislative enactments in the United Kingdom have wrought so much controversy as the Equality Act 2010. The far-ranging legislation, aiming to enhance civil rights and social inclusion, provides a unique opportunity to analyze how equality... Read More about Negotiating equality in the equality act 2010 (United Kingdom): Church-state relations in a post-Christian society.
Unsupervised learning spatio-temporal features for human activity recognition from RGB-D video data (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Being able to recognize human activities is essential for several applications, including social robotics. The recently developed commodity depth sensors open up newpossibilities of dealingwith this problem. Existing techniques extract hand-tuned fea... Read More about Unsupervised learning spatio-temporal features for human activity recognition from RGB-D video data.
Artificial heartbeat: Design and fabrication of a biologically inspired pump (2013)
Journal Article
We present a biologically inspired actuator exhibiting a novel pumping action. The design of the 'artificial heartbeat' actuator is inspired by physical principles derived from the structure and function of the human heart. The actuator employs NiTi... Read More about Artificial heartbeat: Design and fabrication of a biologically inspired pump.
Prehospital anaesthesia by a physician and paramedic critical care team in Southwest England (2013)
Journal Article
OBJECTIVES: Prehospital anaesthesia using rapid sequence induction (RSI) is carried out internationally and in the UK despite equivocal evidence of clinical benefit. It is a core skill of the prehospital critical care service established by the Great... Read More about Prehospital anaesthesia by a physician and paramedic critical care team in Southwest England.
Holding up the mirror: How to use quality assurance, peer review to improve sexual health (2013)
Journal Article
The Office for Sexual Health was established in the southwest of England in January 2010 as a Department of Health pilot to bring together all elements of sexual health policy to address the fragmentation of effort created by having separate national... Read More about Holding up the mirror: How to use quality assurance, peer review to improve sexual health.
Geographies of tourism: European research perspectives (2013)
Book
Geographies of Tourism: European Research Perspectives maps out the past and present of the tourism geography (geographies of tourism) field in different European contexts by moving beyond the most visible English-language contributions in the Anglo-... Read More about Geographies of tourism: European research perspectives.
The struggle against denationalisation: The Russian emigration in Europe and education in the 1920s (2013)
Journal Article
This article examines the attempts made by Russian émigré activists in inter-war Europe to educate Russian refugee children in a network of national Russian schools. This formed an important aspect of the émigré elite's mission of saving Russian cult... Read More about The struggle against denationalisation: The Russian emigration in Europe and education in the 1920s.
The application of technology acceptance and diffusion of innovation models in healthcare informatics (2013)
Journal Article
There have been many attempts to apply previously developed models of technology acceptance and the diffusion of innovations; however the models have weaknesses in predicting the behaviour of individuals and organisations, particularly within the com... Read More about The application of technology acceptance and diffusion of innovation models in healthcare informatics.