All Outputs (348)

Reporting on negotiated boundaries (2012)
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Illuminated by the smog: Exploring the readability of political websites during the 2010 UK general election (2012)
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The 59% turnout in the 2001 UK General Election raised serious concerns about democratic legitimacy and resulted in a concerted effort to re-engage citizens’ in electoral participation. Whilst explanations for the decline are many and disparate, ther... Read More about Illuminated by the smog: Exploring the readability of political websites during the 2010 UK general election.

Talking the talk: Evidence of the adoption of a consumer identity? (2012)
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The UK’s first climate change risk assessment and the implications for the coast (2012)
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In 2008 the Climate Change Act was passed into law in the UK. This provides a legally binding framework for reducing carbon emissions. Much of the focus of the Act is on reducing emissions and hence on mitigation measures, however, the Act also req... Read More about The UK’s first climate change risk assessment and the implications for the coast.

Challenging attitudes and creating a healthy culture (2012)
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Do psychosocial specialists find CBT an acceptable approach to working therapeutically with people with visible differences? (2012)
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The emergence of action sequences from spatial attention: Insight from rodent-like robots (2012)
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Animal behaviour is rich, varied, and smoothly integrated. One plausible model of its generation is that behavioural sub-systems compete to command effectors. In small terrestrial mammals, many behaviours are underpinned by foveation, since important... Read More about The emergence of action sequences from spatial attention: Insight from rodent-like robots.

The unimaginable journey: Time and spatial boundaries in Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Zinnie Harris’ The Wheel (2012)
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This paper considers the respective journeys of the central female protagonist in Brecht’s Mother Courage and Zinnie Harris’ more recent The Wheel (Traverse Theatre, 2011). Both plays trace the experience of war on ordinary working women as they ass... Read More about The unimaginable journey: Time and spatial boundaries in Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Zinnie Harris’ The Wheel.

The codex conspiracy: Globalized conspiracy theories, social movements and food in-security (2012)
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Low carbon construction using Guadua Bamboo in Colombia (2012)
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Guadua Angustifolia Kunth (Guadua) is a tropical species of bamboo endemic to South and Central America and widely used as a mainstream material for construction in Colombia. Its rapid rate of biomass production, renewability, high level of CO2 fixat... Read More about Low carbon construction using Guadua Bamboo in Colombia.

Model driven engineering for science gateways (2012)
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From n-Tier client/server applications, to more complex academic Grids, or even the most recent and promising industrial Clouds, the last decade has witnessed significant developments in distributed computing. In spite of this conceptual heterogeneit... Read More about Model driven engineering for science gateways.

Tactile SLAM with a biomimetic whiskered robot (2012)
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Future robots may need to navigate where visual sensors fail. Touch sensors provide an alternative modality, largely unexplored in the context of robotic map building. We present the first results in grid based simultaneous localisation and mapping (... Read More about Tactile SLAM with a biomimetic whiskered robot.

Coroners’ records for Action on Road Safety (CARS) in Wiltshire (2012)
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Behaviour change techniques used to promote walking and cycling: A systematic review (2012)
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Sex offender disclosure: Knowledge exchange and practice (2012)
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Family witnessed resuscitation; whose autonomy is it anyway? (2012)
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In most cultures, it is largely uncontentious that when a person is expected to die, that their end is made as comfortable and peaceful as possible, and that loved ones* should be permitted to be present at their death. In such cases, family presence... Read More about Family witnessed resuscitation; whose autonomy is it anyway?.

Learning style, humour style and personality as predictors of academic performance (2012)
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Use of the isolated perfused whole pig bladder for investigating spontaneous contractions (2012)
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Exploring the complexity of understanding, managing and marketing codes for sustainability in the current economic climate-issues for the small builder (2012)
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In the UK the Code for Sustainable Homes (CSH) is set to become mandatory in 2016. However current attitudinal research highlights unwillingness within the major construction industry although there is some promising research regarding occupier aware... Read More about Exploring the complexity of understanding, managing and marketing codes for sustainability in the current economic climate-issues for the small builder.

An experimental and numerical investigation of the interaction between splits and edge delaminations in [+20m/-20m]ns carbon/epoxy laminates (2012)
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