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DRM and modchips: Time for the Court of Justice to do the "right" thing (2014)
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Gillen, M. C. (2014). DRM and modchips: Time for the Court of Justice to do the "right" thing. SCRIPTed: A Journal of Law, Technology and Society, 11(3), 229-244. https://doi.org/10.2966/scrip.110314.229

This paper looks at three key cases; UsedSoft (C-458/13), PC Box (C-355/12) and Grund (C-458/13), on the topic of the extent and nature of a copyright holders abilityto constrain future uses of their copyrighted works in the field of software and cri... Read More about DRM and modchips: Time for the Court of Justice to do the "right" thing.

Temporary employment, job satisfaction and subjective well-being (2014)
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Dawson, C., Veliziotis, M., & Hopkins, B. (2017). Temporary employment, job satisfaction and subjective well-being. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 38(1), 69-98. https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831X14559781

© 2014, © The Author(s) 2014. This article is concerned with whether employees on temporary contracts in Britain report lower well-being than those on permanent contracts, and whether this relationship is mediated by differences in dimensions of job... Read More about Temporary employment, job satisfaction and subjective well-being.

Electricity generation and struvite recovery from human urine using microbial fuel cells (2014)
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You, J., Greenman, J., Melhuish, C., & Ieropoulos, I. (2016). Electricity generation and struvite recovery from human urine using microbial fuel cells. Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology, 91(3), 647-654. https://doi.org/10.1002/jctb.4617

BACKGROUND: Urine is an abundant waste product which requires energy intensive treatment processes in modern wastewater treatment plants. However urine can be utilised as fertiliser in the form of struvite. Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are a promising... Read More about Electricity generation and struvite recovery from human urine using microbial fuel cells.

A small-scale air-cathode microbial fuel cell for on-line monitoring of water quality (2014)
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Di Lorenzo, M., Thomson, A. R., Schneider, K., Cameron, P. J., & Ieropoulos, I. (2014). A small-scale air-cathode microbial fuel cell for on-line monitoring of water quality. Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 62, 182-188. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2014.06.050

The heavy use of chemicals for agricultural, industrial and domestic purposes has increased the risk of freshwater contamination worldwide. Consequently, the demand for efficient new analytical tools for on-line and on-site water quality monitoring h... Read More about A small-scale air-cathode microbial fuel cell for on-line monitoring of water quality.

“Take That, Bitches!” Refiguring Lara Croft in Feminist game narratives (2014)
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MacCallum-Stewart, E. (2014). “Take That, Bitches!” Refiguring Lara Croft in Feminist game narratives

Since Lara first “bust” onto our screens in 1996 in Tomb Raider (Edios Interactive), she has been a focal point for critical debate surrounding the representation of the female protagonist and the gendered body in games. Nearly twenty years after her... Read More about “Take That, Bitches!” Refiguring Lara Croft in Feminist game narratives.

Stiffness is more than just duration and severity: A qualitative exploration in people with rheumatoid arthritis (2014)
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Kirwan, J., Halls, S., Dures, E., Kirwan, J. R., Pollock, J., Baker, G., …Hewlett, S. (2014). Stiffness is more than just duration and severity: A qualitative exploration in people with rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatology, 54(4), 615-622. https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/keu379

© The Author 2014. Objective. Stiffness is internationally recognized as an important indicator of inflammatory activity in RA but is poorly understood and difficult to measure. The aim of this study was to explore the experience of stiffness from th... Read More about Stiffness is more than just duration and severity: A qualitative exploration in people with rheumatoid arthritis.

Pd-Ir alloy as an anode material for borohydride oxidation (2014)
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Merino-Jimenez, I., Janik, M. J., Ponce De Leon, C., & Walsh, F. C. (2014). Pd-Ir alloy as an anode material for borohydride oxidation. Journal of Power Sources, 269, 498-508. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2014.06.140

A Pd-Ir alloy (1:1) coated on microfibrous carbon (11 μm diameter) supported on a titanium plate was evaluated as an electrode for the anodic oxidation of borohydride. The hydrogen generated, due to the parallel reaction of borohydride hydrolysis, wa... Read More about Pd-Ir alloy as an anode material for borohydride oxidation.

Controlling for peak power extraction from microbial fuel cells can increase stack voltage and avoid cell reversal (2014)
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Boghani, H. C., Papaharalabos, G., Michie, I., Fradler, K. R., Dinsdale, R. M., Guwy, A. J., …Premier, G. C. (2014). Controlling for peak power extraction from microbial fuel cells can increase stack voltage and avoid cell reversal. Journal of Power Sources, 269, 363-369. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2014.06.059

Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are bioelectrochemical systems which can degrade organic materials and are increasingly seen as potential contributors to low carbon technologies, particularly in energy recovery from and treatment of wastewaters. The theo... Read More about Controlling for peak power extraction from microbial fuel cells can increase stack voltage and avoid cell reversal.

Critical observations on financialization and the financial process (2014)
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Michell, J., & Toporowski, J. (2014). Critical observations on financialization and the financial process. International Journal of Political Economy, 42(4), 67-82. https://doi.org/10.2753/IJP0891-1916420404

© 2013, Copyright Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. The term "financialization" is a recognition that finance has come to play a key role on the modern capitalist economy. But users of the term do not agree on its meaning and recognition of the growing... Read More about Critical observations on financialization and the financial process.

Implementing an Injury Prevention Briefing to aid delivery of key fire safety messages in UK children's centres: Qualitative study nested within a multi-centre randomised controlled trial (2014)
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Beckett, K., Goodenough, T., Deave, T., Jaeckle, S., McDaid, L., Benford, P., …Kendrick, D. (2014). Implementing an Injury Prevention Briefing to aid delivery of key fire safety messages in UK children's centres: Qualitative study nested within a multi-centre randomised controlled trial. BMC Public Health, 14(1), 1256-1569. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-1256

© 2014 Beckett et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. Background: To improve the translation of public health evidence into practice, there is a need to increase practitioner involvement in initiative development, to place greater emphasis on contextua... Read More about Implementing an Injury Prevention Briefing to aid delivery of key fire safety messages in UK children's centres: Qualitative study nested within a multi-centre randomised controlled trial.

Synergism between high-pressure processing and active packaging against Listeria monocytogenes in ready-to-eat chicken breast (2014)
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Stratakos, A. C., Delgado-Pando, G., Linton, M., Patterson, M. F., & Koidis, A. (2015). Synergism between high-pressure processing and active packaging against Listeria monocytogenes in ready-to-eat chicken breast. Innovative Food Science and Emerging Technologies, 27, 41-47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifset.2014.11.005

© 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. The effects of high-pressure processing (HPP) in conjunction with an essential oil-based active packaging on the surface of ready-to-eat (RTE) chicken breast were investigated as post-processing listericidal... Read More about Synergism between high-pressure processing and active packaging against Listeria monocytogenes in ready-to-eat chicken breast.

Temporal trends in δ18O composition of precipitation in Germany: Insights from time series modelling and trend analysis (2014)
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Klaus, J., Chun, K. P., & Stumpp, C. (2015). Temporal trends in δ18O composition of precipitation in Germany: Insights from time series modelling and trend analysis. Hydrological Processes, 29(12), 2668-2680. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.10395

Temporal and spatial variations of stable oxygen (18O) and hydrogen (2H) isotope measurements in precipitation act as important proxies for changing hydro-meteorological and regional and global climate patterns. Temporal trends in time series of the... Read More about Temporal trends in δ18O composition of precipitation in Germany: Insights from time series modelling and trend analysis.

The Music Therapist in School as Outsider (2014)
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Annesley, L. (2014). The Music Therapist in School as Outsider. British Journal of Music Therapy, 28(2), 36-43. https://doi.org/10.1177/135945751402800207

This essay examines the institutional commonalities among several schools in which I have worked as a music therapist, illustrating how thinking about my role as an outsider has informed my therapeutic approach. I refer to the broader concept of the... Read More about The Music Therapist in School as Outsider.

A bio-inspired algorithm for identification of critical components in the transportation networks (2014)
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Zhang, X., Adamatzky, A., Yang, H., Mahadaven, S., Yang, X. S., Wang, Q., & Deng, Y. (2014). A bio-inspired algorithm for identification of critical components in the transportation networks. Applied Mathematics and Computation, 248, 18-27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amc.2014.09.055

© 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Critical components in a transportation or communication network are those which should be better protected or secured because their removal has a significant impact on the whole network. In such networks, th... Read More about A bio-inspired algorithm for identification of critical components in the transportation networks.

The effects of wastewater types on power generation and phosphorus removal of microbial fuel cells (MFCs) with activated carbon (AC) cathodes (2014)
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Santoro, C., Babanova, S., Artyushkova, K., Atanassov, P., Greenman, J., Cristiani, P., …Ieropoulos, I. (2014). The effects of wastewater types on power generation and phosphorus removal of microbial fuel cells (MFCs) with activated carbon (AC) cathodes. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 39(36), 21796-21802. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2014.09.167

© 2014 Cost-effective activated carbon (AC) material was investigated for the development of gas-diffusion cathode employed in membraneless single chamber microbial fuel cells (SCMFCs) treating different feeding solutions. The electrocatalytic activi... Read More about The effects of wastewater types on power generation and phosphorus removal of microbial fuel cells (MFCs) with activated carbon (AC) cathodes.

Characterisation of the Quaternary eruption record: Analysis of the Large Magnitude Explosive Volcanic Eruptions (LaMEVE) database (2014)
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Guerrero, N. O., Crosweller, H. S., Brown, S. K., Sparks, R. S. J., Cottrell, E., Deligne, N. I., …Takarada, S. (2014). Characterisation of the Quaternary eruption record: Analysis of the Large Magnitude Explosive Volcanic Eruptions (LaMEVE) database. Journal of Applied Volcanology, 3(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/2191-5040-3-5

© 2015 Brown et al. The Large Magnitude Explosive Volcanic Eruptions (LaMEVE) database contains data on 1,883 Quaternary eruption records of magnitude (M) 4 and above and is publically accessible online via the British Geological Survey. Spatial and... Read More about Characterisation of the Quaternary eruption record: Analysis of the Large Magnitude Explosive Volcanic Eruptions (LaMEVE) database.

Robust rainwater harvesting: Probabilistic tank sizing for climate change adaptation (2014)
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Lash, D., Ward, S., Kershaw, T., Butler, D., & Eames, M. (2014). Robust rainwater harvesting: Probabilistic tank sizing for climate change adaptation. Journal of Water and Climate Change, 5(4), 526-539. https://doi.org/10.2166/wcc.2014.080

© IWA Publishing 2014. Rainwater harvesting (RWH) systems are increasingly being implemented in buildings. It is common in the UK for simple RWH tank sizing methods to be utilised, and these do not consider future climate change. This paper describes... Read More about Robust rainwater harvesting: Probabilistic tank sizing for climate change adaptation.

Ecosystem services assessment at Steart Peninsula, Somerset, UK (2014)
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Vieira da Silva, L., Everard, M., & Shore, R. G. (2014). Ecosystem services assessment at Steart Peninsula, Somerset, UK. Ecosystem Services, 10, 19-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2014.07.008

© 2014 Elsevier B.V. A systemic valuation was undertaken of marginal changes in ecosystem services assessed as likely to result from the Steart Coastal Management project, some in monetary terms and others semi-quantified. The Steart Coastal Manageme... Read More about Ecosystem services assessment at Steart Peninsula, Somerset, UK.