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Low temperature hydrothermal synthesis of ZnO nanowires for nanogenerator: Effect of gold electrode on the output voltage of nanogenerator (2014)
Journal Article
Mansoor, A., Iqbal, M., Kiely, J., & Luxton, R. (2014). Low temperature hydrothermal synthesis of ZnO nanowires for nanogenerator: Effect of gold electrode on the output voltage of nanogenerator. Indian Journal of Engineering and Materials Sciences, 21(6), 672-676

A low temperature hydrothermal technique is developed to grow ZnO (diameter 100 nm) nanowires for high output nanogenerator. Vertically aligned ZnO nanowires are grown on indium tin oxide (ITO) coated poly ethylene terephthalate (PET) substrate. Morp... Read More about Low temperature hydrothermal synthesis of ZnO nanowires for nanogenerator: Effect of gold electrode on the output voltage of nanogenerator.

Feasibility of using Duraform® flex lattice structures and additive manufacturing for optimising bicycle helmet design safety (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Soe, S., Robinson, M. R., Martin, P. S., Jones, M. D., & Theobald, P. (2014). Feasibility of using Duraform® flex lattice structures and additive manufacturing for optimising bicycle helmet design safety. In Sustainable Design and Manufacturing: SDM-14: Pre-Proceedings, 278-291

Bicycle helmets are designed to attenuate forces and accelerations experienced by the head during cycling accidents. An essential element of bicycle helmet design is, therefore, the appropriate manufacturing of energy dissipating components. The focu... Read More about Feasibility of using Duraform® flex lattice structures and additive manufacturing for optimising bicycle helmet design safety.

The effect of CO2 laser irradiation on surface and dyeing properties of wool for textile design (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Morgan, L., Tyrer, J., & Kane, F. (2014). The effect of CO2 laser irradiation on surface and dyeing properties of wool for textile design. https://doi.org/10.2351/1.5063061

The consumption of water and energy used in current dyeing and finishing processes in the textile industry pose significant environmental concern. By offering alternative solutions to traditional textile wet processing through laser technology, there... Read More about The effect of CO2 laser irradiation on surface and dyeing properties of wool for textile design.

Frustration (2014)
Digital Artefact
Grant, D. (2014). Frustration. [Breaths, electronic frequencies]

Contemporary dance commission 2014

Introduction - SF Now (2014)
Journal Article
Bould, M., & Williams, R. (2014). Introduction - SF Now

Collection of 14 essays (including Graeme MacDonald's Pioneer Award-winning 'Improbability Drives: The Energy of SF'), 5 interview (with Junot Diaz, Steve Fuller, Kij Johnson, Stephen Graham Jones, Nnedi Okorafor) and 2 reviews, developed from the SF... Read More about Introduction - SF Now.

Popular Culture, Hybridity and Hip-Hop (2014)
Book Chapter
Webb, P. (2014). Popular Culture, Hybridity and Hip-Hop. In A. Brooks (Ed.), Popular Culture: Global Intercultural Perspectives, (88 -106). Basingstoke: Macmillan Education UK. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-42672-7

Chapter on Hip-Hop, hybridity and globalisation. Examines the theoretical approaches to hybridity and cultural processes. Looks at examples of hip-hop in Germany and hip-hop in the UK but specifically in Bristol.

Fairing well: The university publisher and its emerging artists (2014)
Journal Article
Laidler, P., & Super, A. (2014). Fairing well: The university publisher and its emerging artists

The university as a producer and publisher of prints is not a new concept when we consider established US-based institutes such as Graphicstudio in Tampa, Florida, (part of the University of Southern Florida) and the Tamarind Institute, which is part... Read More about Fairing well: The university publisher and its emerging artists.

Prenatal exposure to maternal smoking and offspring DNA methylation across the lifecourse: Findings from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) (2014)
Journal Article
Smith, G. D., Smith, A. D., Richmond, R. C., Simpkin, A. J., Woodward, G., Gaunt, T. R., …Relton, C. L. (2015). Prenatal exposure to maternal smoking and offspring DNA methylation across the lifecourse: Findings from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC). Human Molecular Genetics, 24(8), 2201-2217. https://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddu739

© The Author 2014. Maternal smoking during pregnancy has been found to influence newborn DNA methylation in genes involved in fundamental developmental processes. It is pertinent to understand the degree to which the offspring methylomeis sensitive t... Read More about Prenatal exposure to maternal smoking and offspring DNA methylation across the lifecourse: Findings from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC).

Quantitative conversations: the importance of developing rapport in standardised interviewing (2014)
Journal Article
Bell, K., Fahmy, E., & Gordon, D. (2016). Quantitative conversations: the importance of developing rapport in standardised interviewing. Quality and Quantity, 50(1), 193-212. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-014-0144-2

© 2014, The Author(s). When developing household surveys, much emphasis is understandably placed on developing survey instruments that can elicit accurate and comparable responses. In order to ensure that carefully crafted questions are not undermine... Read More about Quantitative conversations: the importance of developing rapport in standardised interviewing.

Dynamic electrical reconfiguration for improved capacitor charging in microbial fuel cell stacks (2014)
Journal Article
Papaharalabos, G., Greenman, J., Stinchcombe, A., Horsfield, I., Melhuish, C., & Ieropoulos, I. (2014). Dynamic electrical reconfiguration for improved capacitor charging in microbial fuel cell stacks. Journal of Power Sources, 272, 34-38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2014.07.187

A microbial fuel cell (MFC) is a bioelectrochemical device that uses anaerobic bacteria to convert chemical energy locked in biomass into small amounts of electricity. One viable way of increasing energy extraction is by stacking multiple MFC units a... Read More about Dynamic electrical reconfiguration for improved capacitor charging in microbial fuel cell stacks.

Feature Neighbourhood Mutual Information for multi-modal image registration: An application to eye fundus imaging (2014)
Journal Article
Legg, P., Rosin, P., Marshall, D., & Morgan, J. E. (2015). Feature Neighbourhood Mutual Information for multi-modal image registration: An application to eye fundus imaging. Pattern Recognition, 48(6), 1937-1946. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2014.12.014

© 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Multi-modal image registration is becoming an increasingly powerful tool for medical diagnosis and treatment. The combination of different image modalities facilitates much greater understanding of the underl... Read More about Feature Neighbourhood Mutual Information for multi-modal image registration: An application to eye fundus imaging.

The european parliament in the external dimension of EU counter-terrorism: More actorness, accountability and oversight 10 years on? (2014)
Journal Article
Kaunert, C., Leonard, S., & Mackenzie, A. (2015). The european parliament in the external dimension of EU counter-terrorism: More actorness, accountability and oversight 10 years on?. Intelligence and National Security, 30(2-3), 357-376. https://doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2014.988446

© 2014 Taylor & Francis. The Lisbon Treaty, which entered into force in 2009, considerably reinforced the powers of the European Parliament. This article examines towhat extent the European Parliament has become an important actor in EU counter-ter... Read More about The european parliament in the external dimension of EU counter-terrorism: More actorness, accountability and oversight 10 years on?.

Robotic hand posture and compliant grasping control using operational space and integral sliding mode control (2014)
Journal Article
Khan, S. G., Herrmann, G., Jalani, J., Mahyuddin, M. N., Khan, S. G., & Melhuish, C. (2016). Robotic hand posture and compliant grasping control using operational space and integral sliding mode control. Robotica, 34(10), 2163-2185. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263574714002811

© 2014 Cambridge University Press. This paper establishes a novel approach of robotic hand posture and grasping control. For this purpose, the control uses the operational space approach. This permits the consideration of the shape of the object to b... Read More about Robotic hand posture and compliant grasping control using operational space and integral sliding mode control.

In vitro studies comparing activities of antimicrobial photodynamic therapy and electrochemically activated solutions (2014)
Thesis
Kamil, Z. In vitro studies comparing activities of antimicrobial photodynamic therapy and electrochemically activated solutions. (Thesis). University of the West of England

Abstract There is a need for alternative “treatments” for killing microbes in wound and other body surfaces. Antimicrobial Photodynamic Therapy (APDT) and Electrochemically Activated Solutions (ECAS) are two recent developments in the field of bioci... Read More about In vitro studies comparing activities of antimicrobial photodynamic therapy and electrochemically activated solutions.