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Cultural artefacts in education: Analysis, ontologies and implementation (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Stewart, C., Chandramouli, K., Cristea, A., Brailsford, T., & Izquierdo, E. (2008, December). Cultural artefacts in education: Analysis, ontologies and implementation. Paper presented at 2008 International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering, Wuhan, China

Adaptive web technologies are often used in distance learning scenarios with little regard for learners’ cultural background. The CAE questionnaire determines the cultural artefacts that influence a learners behaviour within an educational environmen... Read More about Cultural artefacts in education: Analysis, ontologies and implementation.

Sensitivity to change of the Rheumatoid Arthritis Self-Efficacy scale (RASE) and predictors of change in self-efficacy (2008)
Journal Article
Unsworth, H., Spicer, J., Seaman, N., Read, E., McEachern, C., Maggs, F., …Kirwan, J. (2008). Sensitivity to change of the Rheumatoid Arthritis Self-Efficacy scale (RASE) and predictors of change in self-efficacy. Musculoskeletal Care, 6(1), 49-67. https://doi.org/10.1002/msc.125

Objectives: Patient education in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) aims to improve health outcomes by prompting people to adopt self-management behaviours. One precursor for initiating behaviour change is self-efficacy (SE), a belief that you can do a task.... Read More about Sensitivity to change of the Rheumatoid Arthritis Self-Efficacy scale (RASE) and predictors of change in self-efficacy.

Nursing support at the onset of rheumatoid arthritis: Time and space for emotions, practicalities and self-management (2008)
Journal Article
Carr, M., Hehir, M., Carr, M., Davis, B., Radford, S., Robertson, L., …Hewlett, S. (2008). Nursing support at the onset of rheumatoid arthritis: Time and space for emotions, practicalities and self-management. Musculoskeletal Care, 6(2), 124-134. https://doi.org/10.1002/msc.115

Background: Following a diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), patients have to adapt to lifelong, unpredictable but repeated episodes of pain and disability, potentially leading to permanent loss of function and its consequences on their lives. We... Read More about Nursing support at the onset of rheumatoid arthritis: Time and space for emotions, practicalities and self-management.

Repeatability of joint proprioception and muscle torque assessment in healthy children and in children diagnosed with hypermobility syndrome (2008)
Journal Article
van der Linden, M. L., Rowe, P. J., Palmer, S. T., Fatoye, F. A., Palmer, S., & Macmillan, F. (2008). Repeatability of joint proprioception and muscle torque assessment in healthy children and in children diagnosed with hypermobility syndrome. Musculoskeletal Care, 6(2), 108-123. https://doi.org/10.1002/msc.127

Background: Impairment of joint proprioception in patients with hypermobility syndrome (HMS) has been well documented. Both joint proprioception and muscle torque are commonly assessed in patients with musculoskeletal complaints. It is unknown, howev... Read More about Repeatability of joint proprioception and muscle torque assessment in healthy children and in children diagnosed with hypermobility syndrome.

'It's quite hard to grasp the enormity of it': Perceived needs of people upon diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis (2008)
Journal Article
Radford, S., Carr, M., Hehir, M., Davis, B., Robertson, L., Cockshott, Z., …Hewlett, S. (2008). 'It's quite hard to grasp the enormity of it': Perceived needs of people upon diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis. Musculoskeletal Care, 6(3), 155-167. https://doi.org/10.1002/msc.132

Objectives: The diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) brings rapid pharmacological and multidisciplinary team interventions to address inflammatory processes and symptom management. However, people may also need support on the journey to self-manage... Read More about 'It's quite hard to grasp the enormity of it': Perceived needs of people upon diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis.

On human-machine interaction during online image classifier training (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Lughofer, E., Smith, J., Tahir, M., Caleb-Solly, P., Eitzinger, C., Sannen, D., & van Brussels, H. (2008, December). On human-machine interaction during online image classifier training. Paper presented at Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation (CIMCA), Vienna, Austria

The funding of credit unions - Where has all the money gone? (2008)
Journal Article
Chambers, C., & Ryder, N. (2008). The funding of credit unions - Where has all the money gone?. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 30(3), 243-252. https://doi.org/10.1080/09649060802550717

The aim of this article is to critically assess the impact of government funding upon the growth of credit unions in the United Kingdom (UK) in light of the unprecedented level of financial support provided by the Labour government since 1997. The ar... Read More about The funding of credit unions - Where has all the money gone?.

There is no such thing as science fiction (2008)
Book Chapter
Bould, M., & Vint, S. (2008). There is no such thing as science fiction. In J. Gunn, M. S. Barr, & M. Candelaria (Eds.), Reading Science Fiction (43-51). Palgrave Macmillan

Taking Tom Godwin’s classic – and controversial – sf short story ‘The Cold Equations’ as its starting point, this essay draws on contemporary genre theory and Bruno Latour’s science studies model of enrolment to argue that there is no such thing as s... Read More about There is no such thing as science fiction.

Co-production and co-creation using self-service technology: the application of service dominant logic (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Hilton, T., & Hughes, T. (2008, December). Co-production and co-creation using self-service technology: the application of service dominant logic. Paper presented at The Otago Forum 2, Dunedin, New Zealand

Research on how customers engage in the co-creation processes envisaged by the Servicedominant logic paradigm is currently limited and even less work has been published on frameworks for organizations to manage the co-creation process. This conceptua... Read More about Co-production and co-creation using self-service technology: the application of service dominant logic.

On eliminating packet droppers in MANET: A modular solution (2008)
Journal Article
Djenouri, D., & Badache, N. (2009). On eliminating packet droppers in MANET: A modular solution. Ad Hoc Networks, 7(6), 1243-1258. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adhoc.2008.11.003

In this paper we deal with misbehaving nodes in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) that drop packets supposed to be relayed, whose purpose may be either saving their resources or launching a DoS attack. We propose a new solution to monitor, detect, and... Read More about On eliminating packet droppers in MANET: A modular solution.

The evolving role of union learning representatives (2008)
Journal Article
Ross, C., & Moore, S. (2008). The evolving role of union learning representatives. Journal of in Service Education, 34(4), 423-440. https://doi.org/10.1080/13674580802386861

This article suggests that the union learning representative (ULR) is increasingly situated at the heart of trade union activity. The paper draws upon recent research based on interviews with national trade union officers and case studies of union le... Read More about The evolving role of union learning representatives.

Politics and prospects for health promotion in England: Mainstreamed or marginalised? (2008)
Journal Article
Samuel, A. S., Wills, J., Evans, D., & Scott-Samuel, A. (2008). Politics and prospects for health promotion in England: Mainstreamed or marginalised?. Critical Public Health, 18(4), 521-531. https://doi.org/10.1080/09581590802543775

This paper critically examines the public policy environment that underpins the politics of health promotion in England. English health policy from the late 1970s to the mid 1990s was not receptive to health promotion. The new Labour government elect... Read More about Politics and prospects for health promotion in England: Mainstreamed or marginalised?.

Gender, alcohol, drugs, and health: A comparison of the Isle of Man and the UK (2008)
Journal Article
Miller, P., Plant, M., Plant, M., Ozenturk, T., Doyle, D., Fong, J., & Mylchreest, K. (2008). Gender, alcohol, drugs, and health: A comparison of the Isle of Man and the UK. Journal of Substance Use, 13(6), 389-403. https://doi.org/10.1080/14659890802211762

This paper describes findings from a survey of alcohol consumption among a general population sample of 1000 adults living on the Isle of Man. This survey was conducted in 2005. It is part of the large scale epidemiological venture entitled 'Gender,... Read More about Gender, alcohol, drugs, and health: A comparison of the Isle of Man and the UK.

"It's not going to be like this is it?": Celebrating age festival 2008 (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Dolan, J. (2008, December). "It's not going to be like this is it?": Celebrating age festival 2008. Paper presented at Crossing Cultures: Woman, Aging and Media AHRC International Conference, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, UK

Employing participant observation, the paper offers analysis of Bristol’s Festival of Age, 2008 and traces the ways in which participants are positioned within a configuration of nostalgic, regulatory regimes that position them as a) passive bodies b... Read More about "It's not going to be like this is it?": Celebrating age festival 2008.

Genetic algorithms with dynamic mutation rates and their industrial applications (2008)
Journal Article
Chan, K. Y., Fogarty, T. C., Aydin, M. E., Ling, S. H., & Iu, H. H. (2008). Genetic algorithms with dynamic mutation rates and their industrial applications. International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications, 7(2), 103-128. https://doi.org/10.1142/S1469026808002211

This paper presents a method on how to estimate main effects of gene representation. This estimate can be used not only to understand the domination of genes in the representation but also to design the mutation rate in genetic algorithms (GAs). A ne... Read More about Genetic algorithms with dynamic mutation rates and their industrial applications.