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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.

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.

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.

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.