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'Stressed out of my box': Employee experience of lean working and occupational ill-health in clerical work in the UK public sector (2013)
Journal Article

Occupational health and safety (OHS) is under-researched in the sociology of work and employment. This deficit is most pronounced for white-collar occupations. Despite growing awareness of the significance of psychosocial conditions - notably stress... Read More about 'Stressed out of my box': Employee experience of lean working and occupational ill-health in clerical work in the UK public sector.

Scared stiff? The effectiveness of threat appeals in counseling services advertising to high-anxiety students (2013)
Journal Article

This exploratory study proposes and tests a theoretical model that analyzes threat appeals in regard to their effectiveness for high-anxiety students, one of the major target groups for counseling services. In particular, affective and cognitive resp... Read More about Scared stiff? The effectiveness of threat appeals in counseling services advertising to high-anxiety students.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Modelling the demand for higher education by local authority area in England using academic, economic and social data (2013)
Journal Article

Managing the demand for higher education has been a major concern of successive UK governments over the last 30 years. While initially they sought to increase demand, latterly the emphasis has been on widening participation to include demographic gro... Read More about Modelling the demand for higher education by local authority area in England using academic, economic and social data.