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Psychological adjustment to craniofacial conditions (excluding oral clefts): A review of the literature (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Objective: A congenital craniofacial anomaly (CFA) is expected to impact upon several domains of psychological, emotional and social functioning, yet no recent reviews have comprehensive... Read More about Psychological adjustment to craniofacial conditions (excluding oral clefts): A review of the literature.

The transcription factor PPARα is overexpressed and is associated with a favourable prognosis in IDH-wildtype primary glioblastoma (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Aims: PPARα agonists are in current clinical use as hypolipidaemic agents and show significant antineoplastic effects in human glioblastoma models. To date however, the expression of PPARα in large-scale glioblastoma da... Read More about The transcription factor PPARα is overexpressed and is associated with a favourable prognosis in IDH-wildtype primary glioblastoma.

Round table on academic filmmaking at AHRC Filmmaking Research Network Workshop, 2016 (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Trend analysis of nutrient loadings in a large prairie catchment (2016)
Journal Article

Nutrient loadings in many river catchments continue to increase due to rapid expansion of agriculture, urban and industrial development, and population growth. Nutrient enrichment of water bodies has intensified eutrophication which degrades water qu... Read More about Trend analysis of nutrient loadings in a large prairie catchment.

Towards provisioning of real-time smart city services using clouds (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

ICT is becoming an enabler for smart city applications by making effective use of various data resources generated daily in an urban environment. Mostly this data is utilised by city authorities for city planning purposes and often citi- zens become... Read More about Towards provisioning of real-time smart city services using clouds.

Gentrification, displacement and the arts: Untangling the relationship between arts industries and place change (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, © Urban Studies Journal Limited 2016. The arts have long played a role in debates around gentrification and displacement, yet their roles and impacts as change agents are not clear-cut. According to the standard account, artists facilitate ge... Read More about Gentrification, displacement and the arts: Untangling the relationship between arts industries and place change.

Wound art: Exploring the use of medical and decorative tattooing to disguise scars (2016)
Journal Article

Scars are part of life; they show where we have been and can be a reminder of our strength. However,
sometimes they can be an all too powerful reminder of pain and suffering. When someone is dissatisfied
with the appearance of their scar, covering... Read More about Wound art: Exploring the use of medical and decorative tattooing to disguise scars.

Ethnic profiling: Afrophobia, IDPAD, and the 2030 Agenda (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This research poster was exhibited and distributed at the Roundtable on Ethnic Profiling cohosted by the European Network Against Racism , Open Society Justice Initiative and the Anti Racism & Diversity Intergroup of the European parliament, on 6 Dec... Read More about Ethnic profiling: Afrophobia, IDPAD, and the 2030 Agenda.

Evaluation of the change in parking policy on Frenchay campus (2016)
Report

In 2013 UWE implemented a radical change in parking policy at Frenchay campus, removing the right to park from undergraduates living in an ‘Exclusion Zone’ (with a few exceptions) covering the areas where most students live. The change was applied t... Read More about Evaluation of the change in parking policy on Frenchay campus.

Online science videos: An exploratory study with major professional content providers in the United Kingdom (2016)
Journal Article

We present an exploratory study of science communication via online video through various UK-based YouTube science content providers. We interviewed five people responsible for eight of the most viewed and subscribed professionally generated content... Read More about Online science videos: An exploratory study with major professional content providers in the United Kingdom.

eLearner experience model (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In literature, there have been many e-learning artefacts developed and promoted based on their ability to enhance learning and e-learner experience. However, there is lack of a precise definition of e-learner experience in literature. This paper disc... Read More about eLearner experience model.

Towards a smart learning environment for smart city governance (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Copyright © 2016 ACM. Educational services provided to various stakeholders need to be actively developed to accommodate the diversity of learning models and to get the advantages of available resources (e.g. data) in smart cities governance. Despite... Read More about Towards a smart learning environment for smart city governance.

Participant and Public Involvement in Refining a Peer-Volunteering Active Aging Intervention: Project ACE (Active, Connected, Engaged) (2016)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2016. Background Evidence for the health benefits of a physically active lifestyle among older adults is strong, yet only a small proportion of older people meet physical activity recommendations. A synthesis of evidence identified "b... Read More about Participant and Public Involvement in Refining a Peer-Volunteering Active Aging Intervention: Project ACE (Active, Connected, Engaged).

EphA2 Drives the Segregation of Ras-Transformed Epithelial Cells from Normal Neighbors (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd In epithelial tissues, cells expressing oncogenic Ras (hereafter RasV12 cells) are detected by normal neighbors and as a result are often extruded from the tissue [1–6]. RasV12 cells are eliminated apically, suggesting that extrus... Read More about EphA2 Drives the Segregation of Ras-Transformed Epithelial Cells from Normal Neighbors.

Caution: examinations in progress - the operation of neighbourhood plan examinations in England (2016)
Journal Article

Gavin Parker, Kat Salter and Hannah Hickman look at what experience to date tells us about how the examination stage in the neighbourhood plan production process is being undertaken, and the issues and associated questions emerging from that experien... Read More about Caution: examinations in progress - the operation of neighbourhood plan examinations in England.

Apologies made at the Leveson Inquiry: Triggers and responses (2016)
Journal Article

This paper discusses apologies made by politicians at a recent UK public inquiry, The Leveson Inquiry into the Culture, Practices and Ethics of the Press. I use the freely available data from the Inquiry to explore how politicians apologise in this i... Read More about Apologies made at the Leveson Inquiry: Triggers and responses.

Evaluating outreach activities: overcoming challenges through a realist ‘small steps’ approach (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Practitioners are being placed under increasing pressure to evaluate the success of their outreach activities, both by government and by their own universities. Based in a reductionist d... Read More about Evaluating outreach activities: overcoming challenges through a realist ‘small steps’ approach.

Landform transitions from pronival ramparts to moraines and rock glaciers: A case study from the Smørbotn cirque, Romsdalsalpane, southern Norway (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography. Landform transitions are defined as intermediate forms that represent transient developmental stages between conventional landform types. This study evaluates possible cases of landform transitio... Read More about Landform transitions from pronival ramparts to moraines and rock glaciers: A case study from the Smørbotn cirque, Romsdalsalpane, southern Norway.

Locomotion traits of dairy cows from overhead three-dimensional video (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

We investigate two locomotion traits in dairy cows from overhead 3D video to observe lameness trends. Detecting lameness -particularly at an early stage- is important in order to allow early treatment which maximizes detection benefits. The proposed... Read More about Locomotion traits of dairy cows from overhead three-dimensional video.

Advancing whisker based navigation through the implementation of bio-inspired whisking strategies (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

An active whisking tactile sensor array has been
successfully integrated with the RatSLAM algorithm and
demonstrated as capable of reducing error in pose estimates of a mobile robot. A new metric for evaluating the performance of RatSLAM is introdu... Read More about Advancing whisker based navigation through the implementation of bio-inspired whisking strategies.