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Councils, consultations and community: Rethinking the spaces for children and young people's participation (2010)
Journal Article

The participation of children and young people in decisions that affect them is now mainstream in social and public policy in the UK. Yet for many young people formal participation opportunities are abstracted from everyday lives and concerns. Childr... Read More about Councils, consultations and community: Rethinking the spaces for children and young people's participation.

Training in SMEs and its relationship to profitability (2010)
Journal Article

The continuous development of employee potential is dependent on training at every level to acquire improved skills. While attention has been devoted to its contribution within organisations, there is a dearth of research on its effectiveness within... Read More about Training in SMEs and its relationship to profitability.

A novel hydrogen sulfide donor causes stomatal opening and reduces nitric oxide accumulation (2010)
Journal Article

Effects of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) on plant physiology have been previously studied, but such studies have relied on the use of NaSH as a method for supplying H2S to tissues. Now new compounds which give a less severe H2S shock and a more prolonged ex... Read More about A novel hydrogen sulfide donor causes stomatal opening and reduces nitric oxide accumulation.

Eurozone crisis: Beggar thyself and thy neighbour (2010)
Journal Article

Small scale microbial fuel cells and different ways of reporting output (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The present study, reports on the findings of connecting 2 stacks of 48 MFCs and the importance of maturity and acclimation for the anodic biofilms. Furthermore, an attempt is made to emphasize the importance of a universal unit for quantifying power... Read More about Small scale microbial fuel cells and different ways of reporting output.

Use of a connection-selection scheme in neural XCSF (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

XCSF is a modern form of Learning Classifier System (LCS) that has proven successful in a number of problem domains. In this paper we exploit the modular nature of XCSF to include a number of extensions, namely a neural classifier representation, sel... Read More about Use of a connection-selection scheme in neural XCSF.

Foreword (2010)
Journal Article

Very few studies of senior female scientists have been conducted in the UK. This chapter explores the careers of thirteen senior female scientists in a UK public sector organisation where men dominate. These women operate within a context which reinf... Read More about Foreword.

The impact of addiction on the family: Estimates of prevalence and costs (2010)
Journal Article

The negative impact of alcohol or drug misuse on the family has been well documented. However, the predominantly individualistic approach to treatment and policy has led to lack of accurate calculations of the numbers of affected family members and t... Read More about The impact of addiction on the family: Estimates of prevalence and costs.

The spiritual organization: Critical reflections on the instrumentality of workplace spirituality (2010)
Journal Article

This article offers a theoretical contribution to the current debate on workplace spirituality by: (a) providing a selective critical review of scholarship, research and corporate practices which treat workplace spirituality in performative terms, th... Read More about The spiritual organization: Critical reflections on the instrumentality of workplace spirituality.

Artificial symbiogenesis and differing reproduction rates (2010)
Journal Article

Symbiosis is the phenomenon in which organisms of different species live together in close association. Symbiogenesis is the name given to the process by which symbiotic partners combine and unify. This letter reconsiders previous work using the NKCS... Read More about Artificial symbiogenesis and differing reproduction rates.

Towards sustainable energy: Are there lessons from the history of the early factory system? (2010)
Journal Article

Development of sustainable energy has been slow. We compare it with a historical example of rapid innovation - the first factory system. The first factory system in the English Derwent Valley mills in the eighteenth century was based not on new techn... Read More about Towards sustainable energy: Are there lessons from the history of the early factory system?.

Groth-Sahai proofs revisited (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Since their introduction in 2008, the non-interactive zero-knowledge (NIZK) and non-interactive witness indistinguishable (NIWI) proofs designed by Groth and Sahai have been used in numerous applications. In this paper, we offer two contributions to... Read More about Groth-Sahai proofs revisited.

Development of non-destructive heat resistance evaluation system for TBC on gas turbine blade (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The use of thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) is the key technique for realizing high-efficiency gas turbine combined cycles. Hence, TBCs are applied to various hot gas path components such as combustors, blades, and vanes. The application of a TBC caus... Read More about Development of non-destructive heat resistance evaluation system for TBC on gas turbine blade.

Persuading young consumers to make healthy nutritional decisions (2010)
Journal Article

There is widespread concern that consumers are making inappropriate decisions about what they eat, leading to a growing incidence of obesity and chronic illness, which will strain public-health budgets and damage economic competitiveness. Inappropria... Read More about Persuading young consumers to make healthy nutritional decisions.

A spiking neural representation for XCSF (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper presents a Learning Classifier System (LCS) where each traditional rule is represented by a spiking neural network, a type of network with dynamic internal state. The evolutionary design process exploits parameter self-adaptation and a con... Read More about A spiking neural representation for XCSF.

Boundary spanner turnover in professional services: Exploring the outcomes of client retention strategies (2010)
Journal Article

Studies suggest that the termination of the interpersonal relationship between boundary spanners at buyer and seller firms can have a damaging effect on the inter organisational relationship. Few studies have addressed this issue in detail, but those... Read More about Boundary spanner turnover in professional services: Exploring the outcomes of client retention strategies.

Facing the past, transforming the future: history education in conflict and post-conflict societies (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Female part-time managers: Networks and career mobility (2010)
Journal Article

The promotional prospects, career mobility and networking experiences of 16 female part-time managers are explored in this article. It attempts to explain the labour market position of female part-time managers, comparing their employment experiences... Read More about Female part-time managers: Networks and career mobility.

Investigations of e-learning patterns: Context factors, problems and solutions (2010)
Book

Design Patterns have become popular in the domains of architecture, software design, human computer interaction, Web 2.0, organizational structures, and pedagogy as a way to communicate successful practical knowledge. Patterns capture proven solution... Read More about Investigations of e-learning patterns: Context factors, problems and solutions.

Clustering ensembles based on multi-classifier fusion (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Clustering ensembles can combine multiple partitions generated by different clustering methods into a final superior clustering result. Compared to single clustering algorithm, it can provide better solutions in terms of robustness, novelty and stabi... Read More about Clustering ensembles based on multi-classifier fusion.