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Perceptions of socio-ethical stances surrounding massive online open courses (2014)
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Open education provides opportunities for anyone with digital access to engage in learning far beyond the classroom and throughout their lives, although this notion is not without challenges. When learners formally enrol on a course with an instituti... Read More about Perceptions of socio-ethical stances surrounding massive online open courses.

An integrated framework for innovation management in cyber security and privacy (2014)
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This paper is concerned with increasing the impact of publicly funded research and development (R&D) in cyber security and privacy. In the context of a high level of threat, there is a pressing need for firms and institutions to implement innovative... Read More about An integrated framework for innovation management in cyber security and privacy.

Socialism, capitalism and environmental justice (2014)
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Disussion of different approaches to achieving environmental justice in 6 countries.

Managing sex offenders in the UK: Challenges for policy and practice (2014)
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Responding to sexual offending: Perceptions, risk management and public protection (2014)
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Drug misuse among the BME community: Prevalence, influences, barriers, and recommendations (2014)
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A logic for context-aware non-monotonic reasoning agents (2014)
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© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014. We develop a logical model for resource-bounded contextaware multi-agent systems which handles inconsistent context information using non-monotonic reasoning. We extend the temporal logic CTL* wit... Read More about A logic for context-aware non-monotonic reasoning agents.

The institute: Young people and creative/cultural sector jobs (2014)
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Paper presented as part of 'Building a Creative Nation,' Creative and Cultural Skills' South West Conference, Plymouth College of Art, 14 November 2014.

The conditions of production of video games: The nature and stakes of creative freedom in Stiegler’s philosophy of technicity (2014)
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This is the text of a keynote presentation at the Philsophy of Computer Games 8: Freedom in Play conference held at Bilgi University, Istanbul in November 2014. It considers the implications of Bernard Stiegler's philosophy of technology for a critic... Read More about The conditions of production of video games: The nature and stakes of creative freedom in Stiegler’s philosophy of technicity.

What we owe to La Jetée (2014)
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Public lecture at BFI’s Sci-Fi – Days of Fear and Wonder/Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival, The Watershed, Bristol, 11 November 2014

Predictive validity of recruitment into public health specialist training in the UK (2014)
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Background: In 2009 an assessment centre, looking at critical thinking (Watson Glaser Critical thinking Appraisal ) and numerical reasoning numeracy (Rust Advanced Numerical Reasoning Appraisal t) was introduced to identify candidates to invite to a... Read More about Predictive validity of recruitment into public health specialist training in the UK.

Music in 3D virtual environments: Exploring learning affordances (2014)
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This paper discusses the current research and understanding of the effects of music on learning, with a particular focus on the affordances of the effects of music in computer-generated, 3D virtual environments and virtual worlds. Music has different... Read More about Music in 3D virtual environments: Exploring learning affordances.

Privacy-aware IoT cloud survivability for future connected home ecosystem (2014)
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Cloud services can greatly enhance the capabilities of mobile and smart devices, particularly within the ecosystem of connected home futures. A single device now performs multiple functions: organizing contacts and calendars, playing games, storing s... Read More about Privacy-aware IoT cloud survivability for future connected home ecosystem.

Visions of the future: African science fiction shorts (2014)
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Discussion with Shola Amoo, Glasgow Film Theatre/Africa in Motion, 9 November 2014

Advancing underutilized crops knowledge using SWRL-enabled ontologies - A survey and early experiment (2014)
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Due to their powerful knowledge representation formalism and associated inference mechanisms, ontology-based approaches have been increasingly adopted to formally represent domain knowledge. We propose the use of ontologies to advance knowledge-shari... Read More about Advancing underutilized crops knowledge using SWRL-enabled ontologies - A survey and early experiment.

A longitudinal study of entrepreneurial activities in the UK higher education sector (2014)
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Whilst the roles of institutional and locational characteristics of a university in determining its entrepreneurial performance level has been examined in prior research studies, they are not fully acknowledged in current UK policies facilitating lin... Read More about A longitudinal study of entrepreneurial activities in the UK higher education sector.

Access to finance for SMEs at a regional level: The case for a development bank for Wales? (2014)
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In 2013, the Welsh Government announced an independent review into access to finance in Wales. Its aim was to examine how effectively SMEs in Wales are served by existing sources of funding, identify areas of particular challenge and provide recommen... Read More about Access to finance for SMEs at a regional level: The case for a development bank for Wales?.

Ashby’s mobile homeostat (2014)
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In Design for a Brain, W. Ross Ashby speculates about the possibility of creating a mobile homeostat " with its critical states set so that it seeks situations of high illumination. " This paper explores an embedding of Ashby's homeostat within a sim... Read More about Ashby’s mobile homeostat.

Breastfeeding peer support in Wiltshire: An evaluation (2014)
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This presentation will discuss issues involved in undertaking an evaluation of breastfeeding peer support, commissioned by NHS Wiltshire to consider how the implementation of breastfeeding peer support in Wiltshire might be improved. The focus was th... Read More about Breastfeeding peer support in Wiltshire: An evaluation.

Towards an integrated framework for building resilience using flood memory in built environment (2014)
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The complexity of repeated changes in natural environment and their impact on the dynamic urban built environment setting, whether it is the primary physical impact by means of ingress of water to normally dry areas or evacuation from the forces of h... Read More about Towards an integrated framework for building resilience using flood memory in built environment.