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Discourses and practices in teaching methods and assessment: Insights from an early career academic (2015)
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Gopinath, D. (2015). Discourses and practices in teaching methods and assessment: Insights from an early career academic. SAGE Open, 5(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244015573371

© The Author(s) 2015. Translating the purposes of education into practice is particularly challenging for those who are new or have recently entered academia. By reflecting on my first years of teaching in higher education, I discuss two key aspects... Read More about Discourses and practices in teaching methods and assessment: Insights from an early career academic.

Stronger security notions for decentralized traceable attribute-based signatures and more efficient constructions (2015)
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Ghadafi, E. (2015). Stronger security notions for decentralized traceable attribute-based signatures and more efficient constructions. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 9048, 391-409. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16715-2_21

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015. We revisit the notion of Decentralized Traceable Attribute- Based Signatures (DTABS) introduced by El Kaafarani et al. (CT-RSA 2014) and improve the state-of-the-art in three dimensions: Firstly,... Read More about Stronger security notions for decentralized traceable attribute-based signatures and more efficient constructions.

The voltammetric behaviour of lead at a hand drawn pencil electrode and its trace determination in water by stripping voltammetry (2015)
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Honeychurch, K. C. (2015). The voltammetric behaviour of lead at a hand drawn pencil electrode and its trace determination in water by stripping voltammetry. Analytical Methods, 7(6), 2437-2443. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4ay02987a

© The Royal Society of Chemistry 2015. This is the first reported proof of concept application of pencil drawn electrodes (PDEs) for anodic stripping voltammetric determination of Pb2+ or any metal ion. PDEs offer advantages of economics, simplicity... Read More about The voltammetric behaviour of lead at a hand drawn pencil electrode and its trace determination in water by stripping voltammetry.

Efficient Distributed tag-based encryption and its application to group signatures with efficient distributed traceability (2015)
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Ghadafi, E. (2015). Efficient Distributed tag-based encryption and its application to group signatures with efficient distributed traceability. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 8895, 327-347. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16295-9_18

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015. In this work, we first formalize the notion of dynamic group signatures with distributed traceability, where the capability to trace signatures is distributed among n managers without requiring an... Read More about Efficient Distributed tag-based encryption and its application to group signatures with efficient distributed traceability.

The probabilistic approach to limited packings in graphs (2015)
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Zverovich, V., & Gagarin, A. (2015). The probabilistic approach to limited packings in graphs. Discrete Applied Mathematics, 184, 146-153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dam.2014.11.017

© 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. We consider (closed neighbourhood) packings and their generalization in graphs. A vertex set X in a graph G is a k-limited packing if for every vertex vεV(G), |N[v]∩X|≤k, where N[v] is the closed neighbourhoo... Read More about The probabilistic approach to limited packings in graphs.

Assessment of mechanisms driving non-linear dose-response relationships in genotoxicity testing (2015)
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Guérard, M., Baum, M., Bitsch, A., Eisenbrand, G., Elhajouji, A., Epe, B., …Froetschl, R. (2015). Assessment of mechanisms driving non-linear dose-response relationships in genotoxicity testing. Mutation Research - Reviews, 763, 181-201. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mrrev.2014.11.001

© 2014 Elsevier B.V. In genetic toxicology, risk assessment has traditionally adopted linear dose-responses for any compound that causes genotoxic effects. Increasing evidence of non-linear dose-responses, however, suggests potential cellular toleran... Read More about Assessment of mechanisms driving non-linear dose-response relationships in genotoxicity testing.

Towards a model of the intervention process (2015)
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Lewis, M., Piercy, N., Phillips, W., & Palmer, J. (2015). Towards a model of the intervention process. Policy and Politics, 43(2), 255-271. https://doi.org/10.1332/030557312X655927

© Policy Press 2015. This paper explores the challenging circumstances when one part of government decides that the performance of a subsidiary part is unacceptable and arranges some kind of remedial intervention. Following the detailed analysis of a... Read More about Towards a model of the intervention process.

Evidence for improved urban flood resilience by sustainable drainage retrofit (2015)
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Booth, C. A., Rose, C. B., Lamond, J. E., Lamond, J., Rose, C., & Booth, C. (2015). Evidence for improved urban flood resilience by sustainable drainage retrofit. Proceedings of the ICE - Urban Design and Planning, 168(2), 101-111. https://doi.org/10.1680/udap.13.00022

© ICE Publishing: All rights reserved. The rapid growth of cities under modern development pressure has resulted in surface water flooding becoming an increasing hazard and future climate change uncertainties may exacerbate this threat still further:... Read More about Evidence for improved urban flood resilience by sustainable drainage retrofit.

Perspective taking reduces the fundamental attribution error (2015)
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Hooper, N., Erdogan, A., Keen, G., Lawton, K., & McHugh, L. (2015). Perspective taking reduces the fundamental attribution error. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 4(2), 69-72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcbs.2015.02.002

© 2015 Association for Contextual Behavioral Science. The fundamental attribution error (FAE) refers to the predisposition for people to attribute the behavior of others to dispositional characteristics, rather than situational causes external to the... Read More about Perspective taking reduces the fundamental attribution error.

The IMF's Rethink of Global Banks: Critical in Theory, Orthodox in Practice (2015)
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Gabor, D. (2015). The IMF's Rethink of Global Banks: Critical in Theory, Orthodox in Practice. Governance, 28(2), 199-218. https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12107

© 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) new financial interconnectedness agenda, developed in response to postcrisis calls from G20 to better understand systemic financial institutions, deploys a critical approach that... Read More about The IMF's Rethink of Global Banks: Critical in Theory, Orthodox in Practice.

Gender, Risk, and Venture Creation Intentions (2015)
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Dawson, C., & Henley, A. (2015). Gender, Risk, and Venture Creation Intentions. Journal of Small Business Management, 53(2), 501-515. https://doi.org/10.1111/jsbm.12080

© 2013 International Council for Small Business. This paper is concerned with whether women are less likely to express business start-up intentions because of a less favorable attitude to risk. Previous research suggests that attitude to risk differs... Read More about Gender, Risk, and Venture Creation Intentions.

Equations of state implementation for 1-D modelling of performance in ram accelerator thermally choked propulsion mode (2015)
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Bauer, P., Bengherbia, T., Knowlen, C., Bruckner, A., Yao, Y., & Giraud, M. (2015). Equations of state implementation for 1-D modelling of performance in ram accelerator thermally choked propulsion mode. International Journal of Engineering Systems Modelling and Simulation, 7(2), 71-79. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJESMS.2015.068650

© 2015 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. This paper presents advancement on one-dimensional (1-D) unsteady modelling of a ram accelerator (RAMAC) in the sub-detonative velocity regime by including real-gas equations of state (EoS) in order to account for... Read More about Equations of state implementation for 1-D modelling of performance in ram accelerator thermally choked propulsion mode.

Views of newly-qualified GPs about their training and preparedness: Lessons for extended generalist training (2015)
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Sabey, A., & Hardy, H. (2015). Views of newly-qualified GPs about their training and preparedness: Lessons for extended generalist training. British Journal of General Practice, 65(633), e270-e277. https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp15X684445

©British Journal of General Practice. Background: General practice is becoming increasingly complex due to an ageing population with multiple morbidities and the shift of services from secondary to primary care, yet GP training remains largely the sa... Read More about Views of newly-qualified GPs about their training and preparedness: Lessons for extended generalist training.

Improvement in visual search with practice: Mapping learning-related changes in neurocognitive stages of processing (2015)
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Gregory Appelbaum, L., Clark, K., van den Berg, B., Mitroff, S. R., & Woldorff, M. G. (2015). Improvement in visual search with practice: Mapping learning-related changes in neurocognitive stages of processing. Journal of Neuroscience, 35(13), 5351-5359. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1152-14.2015

© 2015 the authors. Practice can improve performance on visual search tasks; the neural mechanisms underlying such improvements, however, are not clear. Response time typically shortens with practice, but which components of the stimulus–response pro... Read More about Improvement in visual search with practice: Mapping learning-related changes in neurocognitive stages of processing.

Psychosocial interventions for adults with visible differences: A systematic review (2015)
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Moss, T. P., Norman, A., & Moss, T. (2015). Psychosocial interventions for adults with visible differences: A systematic review. PeerJ, 2015(4), https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.870

© 2015 Norman and Moss. Background. Some individuals with visible differences have been found to experience psychosocial adjustment problems that can lead to social anxiety and isolation. Various models of psychosocial intervention have been used to... Read More about Psychosocial interventions for adults with visible differences: A systematic review.

Customer, collaborator or co-creator? What is the role of the student in a changing higher education servicescape? (2015)
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Chalcraft, D., Hilton, T., & Hughes, T. (2015). Customer, collaborator or co-creator? What is the role of the student in a changing higher education servicescape?. Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 25(1), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1080/08841241.2015.1044790

Across the globe, higher education (HE) is experiencing ever increasing turbulence. The more established markets are dealing with pressure on budgets, coupled with government intervention to steer HE in particular directions. In contrast, institution... Read More about Customer, collaborator or co-creator? What is the role of the student in a changing higher education servicescape?.

S-nitrosylation of the thioredoxin-like domains of protein disulfide isomerase and its role in neurodegenerative conditions (2015)
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Conway, M. E., & Harris, M. (2015). S-nitrosylation of the thioredoxin-like domains of protein disulfide isomerase and its role in neurodegenerative conditions. Frontiers in Chemistry, 3(APR), https://doi.org/10.3389/fchem.2015.00027

© 2015 Conway and Harris. Correct protein folding and inhibition of protein aggregation is facilitated by a cellular "quality control system" that engages a network of protein interactions including molecular chaperones and the ubiquitin proteasome s... Read More about S-nitrosylation of the thioredoxin-like domains of protein disulfide isomerase and its role in neurodegenerative conditions.

The effectiveness of psychosocial intervention for individuals with cleft lip and/or palate (2015)
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Stock, N., Norman, A., Persson, M., Stock, N. M., Rumsey, N., Sandy, J., …Ness, A. (2015). The effectiveness of psychosocial intervention for individuals with cleft lip and/or palate. Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal, 52(3), 301-310. https://doi.org/10.1597/13-276

© Copyright 2015 American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association. Objective: The aim of this review was to assess the effectiveness of different psychological interventions for children and adults with cleft lip and/or palate and their parents. Design... Read More about The effectiveness of psychosocial intervention for individuals with cleft lip and/or palate.

Open doors: Library cross-sector co-operation in Bristol, UK (2015)
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Chelin, J. A., & Chelin, J. (2015). Open doors: Library cross-sector co-operation in Bristol, UK. Interlending and Document Supply, 43(2), 110-118. https://doi.org/10.1108/ILDS-02-2015-0006

© Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose - This paper outlines the aims, activities and outcomes of a project to pilot a reciprocal borrowing scheme between public and academic libraries using existing cards, i.e. public library cards in the acade... Read More about Open doors: Library cross-sector co-operation in Bristol, UK.