All Outputs (394)

Evaluating ERASMUS: learning from the student experience of placement in Europe (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A student exchange programme was established for nursing students at UWE in 2006. The processes involved in setting up Erasmus (part of the EU Lifelong Learning Programme) will be outlined. Since then several students have seized the opportunity for... Read More about Evaluating ERASMUS: learning from the student experience of placement in Europe.

Bottom-up, social innovation for addressing climate change (2010)
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Bilingual language choice: A consequence of language cues? (Invited talk) (2010)
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Conceptual model for determining the effects of built environmental characteristics on children’s quality outdoor play (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The purpose of this paper is to propose a conceptual model to examine the effects of built environmental characteristics on the quality of children’s outdoor play. The proposed conceptual model identifies the predominant research issues, which have s... Read More about Conceptual model for determining the effects of built environmental characteristics on children’s quality outdoor play.

The contribution of construction project features to accident causation: An insight for influencing the health and safety outcomes of projects through pre-construction decision-making (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Health and safety (H&S) studies indicate that pre-construction decision-making has a significant impact on the H&S outcomes of construction projects. To enable project participants involved in pre-construction decision-making to greatly and positivel... Read More about The contribution of construction project features to accident causation: An insight for influencing the health and safety outcomes of projects through pre-construction decision-making.

Transliteracy and polyphonic narrative: a case study (2010)
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This paper will look at the role of transliteracy in the creation of a series of texts relating to a long-term ethnographic study of displacement in the Sudan/Ethiopian borderlands. It will draw on a rich audiovisual archive recorded by the anthropol... Read More about Transliteracy and polyphonic narrative: a case study.

Just how language information aids language choice (Invited talk) (2010)
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Reliability and validity of clinical methods used for the assessment of shoulder subluxation in post-stroke hemiplegia: A systematic literature review (2010)
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Burning velocities of alternative gaseous fuels at elevated temperature and pressure (2010)
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This study has been undertaken to investigate turbulent burning velocities of alternative gaseous fuels at elevated temperature and pressure using the established Bunsen burner method. The experiments were conducted in the industrial scale high-press... Read More about Burning velocities of alternative gaseous fuels at elevated temperature and pressure.

Factors contributing to adjustment to disfiguring conditions (2010)
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Reconfiguring disfigurement: Challenging perceptions of what makes a difference (2010)
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Connecting systems and young people’s lifeworlds: From participation to empowerment? (2010)
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The views of women and key stakeholders on moxibustion for cephalic version in breech presentation (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper presented the findings from a phenomenological research study which aimed to explore women’s and key stakeholders feelings and experiences of using moxibustion for cephalic version in breech presentation.

Pixel and spatial mechanisms of colour constancy (2010)
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Colour constancy remains an important subject of research on colour standards, computer imaging, and human color vision. There are many different theories and algorithms that interpret and predict constancy. This paper analyzes three different approa... Read More about Pixel and spatial mechanisms of colour constancy.

Colour appearance and colour rendering of HDR scenes: an experiment (2010)
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In order to gain a deeper understanding of the appearance of coloured objects in a three-dimensional scene, the research introduces a multidisciplinary experimental approach. The experiment employed two identical 3-D Mondrians, which were viewed and... Read More about Colour appearance and colour rendering of HDR scenes: an experiment.

Artist's colour rendering of HDR scenes in 3D Mondrian colour-constancy experiments (2010)
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The presentation provides an update on ongoing research using three-dimensional Colour Mondrians. Two still life arrangements comprising hand-painted coloured blocks of 11 different colours were subjected to two different lighting conditions of a nea... Read More about Artist's colour rendering of HDR scenes in 3D Mondrian colour-constancy experiments.

The development of artists' novel colour palettes for inkjet printing (2010)
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In this changing environment in which the artist and designer has access to a wide range of digital imaging tools and technologies, that on first glance, are dedicated to the creation of colour mixtures, why is the digital interface and colour outcom... Read More about The development of artists' novel colour palettes for inkjet printing.

Printability beyond the limits: alternative double printing method for inkjet (2010)
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For artists wishing to print onto heavy weight coated and uncoated papers, the opportunity to improve colour density and saturation is always desirable. The paper presents research into methods for mixing and printing colours using the latest multi-p... Read More about Printability beyond the limits: alternative double printing method for inkjet.

The electronic red herring gambit - Selected issues on the misapplication of the copyright amendment act and the new future of software copyright law (2010)
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This paper examines the mistaken classification of computer games as an instance of video games, the difference between computer-generated and computer-assisted work and the impact thereof on South Africa's information technology market. Furthermore,... Read More about The electronic red herring gambit - Selected issues on the misapplication of the copyright amendment act and the new future of software copyright law.

Spatial montage and the enchantment of everyday life: towards the development of fluid interfaces for interactive documentary (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Building on Lev Manovich’s ideas about spatial montage and interactive cinema, this paper will provide examples of the author’s approach to interactive documentary based on an ongoing collaboration between the author and the anthropologist, Wendy Jam... Read More about Spatial montage and the enchantment of everyday life: towards the development of fluid interfaces for interactive documentary.