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Drug misuse among the BME community: Prevalence, influences, barriers, and recommendations (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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The long goodbye: An investigation of how personal, professional and social dimensions influence the creation of endings in psychodynamic counselling (2014)
Thesis

This thesis explores the ending stages of psychodynamic counselling. Endings in counselling might be planned from the outset; negotiated through the course of the work; thrust upon participants due to external circumstances; or the work might end if... Read More about The long goodbye: An investigation of how personal, professional and social dimensions influence the creation of endings in psychodynamic counselling.

A logic for context-aware non-monotonic reasoning agents (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 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.

Protein arginine methyltransferase 5 is a key regulator of the MYCN oncoprotein in neuroblastoma cells (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014 The Authors. Approximately half of poor prognosis neuroblastomas (NBs) are characterized by pathognomonic MYCN gene amplification and MYCN over-expression. Here we present data showing that short-interfering RNA mediated depletion of the prote... Read More about Protein arginine methyltransferase 5 is a key regulator of the MYCN oncoprotein in neuroblastoma cells.

The institute: Young people and creative/cultural sector jobs (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Paper presented as part of 'Building a Creative Nation,' Creative and Cultural Skills' South West Conference, Plymouth College of Art, 14 November 2014.

Identification of the underlying factor structure of the Derriford Appearance Scale 24 (2014)
Report

Background. The Derriford Appearance Scale24 (DAS24) is a widely used measure of distress and dysfunction in relation to self-consciousness of appearance. It has been used in clinical and research settings, and translated into numerous European and A... Read More about Identification of the underlying factor structure of the Derriford Appearance Scale 24.

The impact of withdrawing a structured initiative aimed at engaging departments in sustainable activities, at a UK university (2014)
Book Chapter

This paper investigates the impact on departmental engagement in sustainable activities following the withdrawal of a structured campus-wide initiative at a UK university, 20 months after it had been introduced. The research questions included: What... Read More about The impact of withdrawing a structured initiative aimed at engaging departments in sustainable activities, at a UK university.

Disabled children’s childhood studies: A distinct approach? (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014, © 2014 Taylor & Francis. This paper suggests that the emergence of disabled children’s childhood studies as an area of study offers a distinct approach to inquiry; it represents a significant shift away from the long-standing deficit discou... Read More about Disabled children’s childhood studies: A distinct approach?.

Pentecostal churches and homosexuality (2014)
Book Chapter

Torturing terrorists: Exploring the limits of law, human rights and academic freedom (2014)
Book

© 2015 Philip N.S. Rumney. This book considers the theoretical, policy and empirical arguments relevant to the debate concerning the legalisation of interrogational torture. Torturing Terrorists examines, as part of a consequentialist analysis, the n... Read More about Torturing terrorists: Exploring the limits of law, human rights and academic freedom.

Method for memory consistency among heterogeneous computer components (2014)
Patent

A method, computer program product, and system is described that determines the correctness of using memory operations in a computing device with heterogeneous computer components. Embodiments include an optimizer based on the characteristics of a Se... Read More about Method for memory consistency among heterogeneous computer components.

U.S. organized crime control policies exported abroad (2014)
Book Chapter

The conditions of production of video games: The nature and stakes of creative freedom in Stiegler’s philosophy of technicity (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

Bright bricks, dark play: On the impossibility of studying LEGO (2014)
Book Chapter

It is generally recognized that the pleasures of LEGO do not end once the instructions in a particular set have been followed and the model depicted on the box is accurately realized. Generations of children have —just as the manufacturers intended—... Read More about Bright bricks, dark play: On the impossibility of studying LEGO.

Exposure to traumatic perinatal experiences and posttraumatic stress symptoms in midwives: Prevalence and association with burnout (2014)
Journal Article

Background: Midwives provide care in a context where life threatening or stressful events can occur. Little is known about their experiences of traumatic events or the implications for psychological health of this workforce. Objectives: To investigat... Read More about Exposure to traumatic perinatal experiences and posttraumatic stress symptoms in midwives: Prevalence and association with burnout.

Supplier selection based on evidence theory and analytic network process (2014)
Journal Article

© IMechE 2014. The supplier selection is a key component of the supply chain management. Existing methods for the supplier selection are based on analytic network process. They can handle the interdependence of decision attributes; however, these met... Read More about Supplier selection based on evidence theory and analytic network process.

The geometry of r-adaptive meshes generated using optimal transport methods (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014 Elsevier Inc. The principles of mesh equidistribution and alignment play a fundamental role in the design of adaptive methods, and a metric tensor and mesh metric are useful theoretical tools for understanding a method's level of mesh alignmen... Read More about The geometry of r-adaptive meshes generated using optimal transport methods.

Atemporal essence and existential freedom in schelling (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014 BSHP. Although it is clear in Schelling's Freiheitsschrift that he takes an agent's atemporal choice between good and evil to be central to understanding human freedom, there is no consensus in the literature and no adequate account of how to... Read More about Atemporal essence and existential freedom in schelling.

Effect of fibre wrinkling to the spring-in behaviour of L-shaped composite materials (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. To determine the amount of deformation resulting from fibre wrinkling at corner regions, a set of experiments have been conducted. As known in the conventional lay-up method, the prepregs are laid sequentiall... Read More about Effect of fibre wrinkling to the spring-in behaviour of L-shaped composite materials.

What we owe to La Jetée (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Public lecture at BFI’s Sci-Fi – Days of Fear and Wonder/Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival, The Watershed, Bristol, 11 November 2014