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Amnesty international? The nature, scale and impact of capital flight from South Africa (2011)
Journal Article
Ashman, S., Fine, B., & Newman, S. (2011). Amnesty international? The nature, scale and impact of capital flight from South Africa. Journal of Southern African Studies, 37(1), 7-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2011.555155

The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) announced in July 2010 its intention to introduce a new amnesty for illegal capital flight. For a flat rate fee of 10 per cent of the value of the assets, corporations and individuals disclosing their illegal exp... Read More about Amnesty international? The nature, scale and impact of capital flight from South Africa.

Anything, anywhere, anytime? Developing indicators to assess the spatial and temporal fragmentation of activities (2011)
Journal Article
Alexander, B., Hubers, C., Schwanen, T., Dijst, M., & Ettema, D. (2011). Anything, anywhere, anytime? Developing indicators to assess the spatial and temporal fragmentation of activities. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 38(4), 678-705. https://doi.org/10.1068/b35132

Developments in transportation and information and communication technologies (ICTs) have facilitated the process labeled activity fragmentation. In this process, the weakened associations between activity, time, and place that ICTs made possible fac... Read More about Anything, anywhere, anytime? Developing indicators to assess the spatial and temporal fragmentation of activities.

Exploring the development of a cultural care framework for European caring science (2011)
Journal Article
Albarran, J., Rosser (nee Girot), E., Bach, S., Uhrenfeldt, L., Lundberg, P., & Law, K. (2011). Exploring the development of a cultural care framework for European caring science. International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being, 6(4), https://doi.org/10.3402/qhw.v6i3

The aim of this paper is to discuss the development of a cultural care framework that seeks to inform and embrace the philosophical ideals of caring science. Following a review of the literature that identified a lack of evidence of an explicit relat... Read More about Exploring the development of a cultural care framework for European caring science.

The Niger Delta wetlands: Threats to ecosystem services, their importance to dependent communities and possible management measures (2011)
Journal Article
Adekola, O., & Mitchell, G. (2011). The Niger Delta wetlands: Threats to ecosystem services, their importance to dependent communities and possible management measures. International Journal of Biodiversity Science Ecosystem Services and Management, 7(1), 50-68. https://doi.org/10.1080/21513732.2011.603138

The Niger Delta wetlands are changing rapidly, raising concern for the wetlands' health and for communities relying upon its ecosystem services. Knowledge on ecosystem service provision is important for effective ecosystem and livelihoods management,... Read More about The Niger Delta wetlands: Threats to ecosystem services, their importance to dependent communities and possible management measures.

Virtual reality in engineering education: The future of creative learning (2011)
Journal Article
Abulrub, A., Attridge, A., & Williams, M. (2011). Virtual reality in engineering education: The future of creative learning. International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning, 6(4), 4-11

Virtual reality has achieved an adequate level of development for it to be considered in innovative applications such as education, training, and research in higher education. Virtual reality offers both opportunities and challenges for the education... Read More about Virtual reality in engineering education: The future of creative learning.

The first earthworm collections from Nicaragua with description of two new species (Oligochaeta) (2011)
Journal Article
Sherlock, E., Lee, S., McPhee, S., Steer, M., Maes, J., & Csuzdi, C. (2011). The first earthworm collections from Nicaragua with description of two new species (Oligochaeta). Zootaxa, 2732, 49-58

In August 2009 the Natural History Museum London, Hungarian Natural History Museum and Systematic Zoology Research group, Entomological Museum in Leon and The Society for Environmental Exploration, mounted the first earthworm collection expedition to... Read More about The first earthworm collections from Nicaragua with description of two new species (Oligochaeta).

Effect of the exposure to metal lead on the regenerative ability of Lumbriculus variegatus (Oligochaeta) (2011)
Journal Article
Sardo, A. M., Pereira, L., Gerhardt, A., & Soares, A. M. (2011). Effect of the exposure to metal lead on the regenerative ability of Lumbriculus variegatus (Oligochaeta). Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology, 31(1), 205-211. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.etap.2010.10.010

Lumbriculus variegatus is a recommended species for use in sediment toxicity tests and is known to have a remarkable power of segmental regeneration. Here, we tested the effects of a chemical stressor on the regenerative ability of L. variegatus and... Read More about Effect of the exposure to metal lead on the regenerative ability of Lumbriculus variegatus (Oligochaeta).

Analysing customer-supplier relationships in the process of innovation: An innovation systems approach (2011)
Journal Article
Phillips, W., Lamming, R., & Caldwell, N. Analysing customer-supplier relationships in the process of innovation: An innovation systems approach. Manuscript submitted for publication

Adopting an innovation systems approach, this paper addresses how institutions in supply markets, in the institutional economics sense of informal constraints and formal rules, influence the innovation process between firms. Within an innovation sys... Read More about Analysing customer-supplier relationships in the process of innovation: An innovation systems approach.

A screen-printed microband glucose biosensor system for real-time monitoring of toxicity in cell culture (2011)
Journal Article
Pemberton, R., Xu, J., Pittson, R., Drago, G., Griffiths, J., Jackson, S. K., & Hart, J. P. (2011). A screen-printed microband glucose biosensor system for real-time monitoring of toxicity in cell culture. Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 26(5), 2448-2453. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2010.10.030

#Microband biosensors, screen-printed from a water-based carbon ink containing cobalt phthalocyanine redox mediator and glucose oxidase (GOD) enzyme, were used to monitor glucose levels continuously in buffer and culture medium. Five biosensors were... Read More about A screen-printed microband glucose biosensor system for real-time monitoring of toxicity in cell culture.

The Bristol bike project: Acting local, going global (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Oldham, A. (2011, January). The Bristol bike project: Acting local, going global. Paper presented at Documentary Now 2011, University of Westminster, University of Westminster, UK

The short documentary film, ‘The Bristol Bike Project’ has had considerable success since its completion in November 2009 and has been screened in a number of prestigious international venues (see attached), as well as being translated into six diffe... Read More about The Bristol bike project: Acting local, going global.

Technology outsourcing in manufacturing small- and medium-sized firms: Another competitive resource? (2011)
Journal Article
O'Regan, N., & Kling, G. (2011). Technology outsourcing in manufacturing small- and medium-sized firms: Another competitive resource?. R&D Management, 41(1), 92-105. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9310.2010.00626.x

Based on a sample of UK manufacturing small- and medium-sized firms in the engineering and electronics industry, the study identifies firm- and industry-specific factors that stimulate R&D outsourcing and assesses the impact of R&D investment and out... Read More about Technology outsourcing in manufacturing small- and medium-sized firms: Another competitive resource?.

"The spirit of America lives here": US pro-wrestling and the post-9/11 "War on Terror" (2011)
Journal Article
Nevitt, L. (2011). "The spirit of America lives here": US pro-wrestling and the post-9/11 "War on Terror". Journal of War and Culture Studies, 3(3), 319-334. https://doi.org/10.1386/jwcs.3.3.319_1

This article argues that the ideological mechanisms and norms used to render the War on Terror both familiar and seemingly inevitable to a wide public have long been present in popular American culture in the form of professional wrestling. The profe... Read More about "The spirit of America lives here": US pro-wrestling and the post-9/11 "War on Terror".

The paradox of intensification (2011)
Journal Article
Melia, S., Parkhurst, G., & Barton, H. (2011). The paradox of intensification. Transport Policy, 18(1), 46-52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2010.05.007

Urban intensification as part of a smart growth strategy can facilitate low-energy transport modes and reduce overall car use, with benefits to the global environment, but evidence suggests the effect will be less than proportional. Hence, in locatio... Read More about The paradox of intensification.

Performance of silica monoliths for basic compounds. Silanol activity (2011)
Book Chapter
McCalley, D. V. (2011). Performance of silica monoliths for basic compounds. Silanol activity. In K. K. Unger, N. Tanaka, & E. Mactejevas (Eds.), Monolithic silicas in separation science (173-188). Weinheim, Germany: Wiley VCH

The large majority of pharmaceuticals, and in addition many compounds of biomedical significance, contain ionisable basic groups. This chapter considers the analysis of these important compounds on silica monolith columns.

Un/imaginable future selves: A discourse analysis of in-patients' talk about recovery from an 'eating disorder' (2011)
Journal Article
Lin, B., Malson, H., Bailey, L., Clarke, S., Treasure, J., Anderson, G., & Kohn, M. (2011). Un/imaginable future selves: A discourse analysis of in-patients' talk about recovery from an 'eating disorder'. European Eating Disorders Review, 19(1), 25-36. https://doi.org/10.1002/erv.1011

Background: The limited efficacy of treatments for eating disorders has been well documented. Yet few studies have explored patients' views about recovery or how culturally dominant ideas might be implicated in recovery or failure to recover. Aims Th... Read More about Un/imaginable future selves: A discourse analysis of in-patients' talk about recovery from an 'eating disorder'.

Challenging the coherence of social justice as a shared nursing value (2011)
Journal Article
Lipscomb, M. (2011). Challenging the coherence of social justice as a shared nursing value. Nursing Philosophy, 12(1), 4-11. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1466-769X.2010.00451.x

Normative and prescriptive claims regarding social justice are often inadequately developed in the nursing literature and, in consequence, they must be rejected in their current form. Thus, claims regarding social justice are frequently presented as... Read More about Challenging the coherence of social justice as a shared nursing value.

Time-course of attentional bias for threat-related cues in patients with chronic daily headache-tension type: Evidence for the role of anger (2011)
Journal Article
Schoth, D. E., Liossi, C., & White, P. (2011). Time-course of attentional bias for threat-related cues in patients with chronic daily headache-tension type: Evidence for the role of anger. European Journal of Pain, 15(1), 92-98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpain.2010.05.008

This study investigated the role of anger in attentional bias for linguistic threat-related stimuli in individuals with chronic daily headache (CDH) tension type and healthy controls. Attentional bias was assessed using a visual probe task which pres... Read More about Time-course of attentional bias for threat-related cues in patients with chronic daily headache-tension type: Evidence for the role of anger.