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Interactive documentary and live performance: From embodied to emplaced interaction (2017)
Book Chapter
Aston, J. (2017). Interactive documentary and live performance: From embodied to emplaced interaction. In M. Rose, S. Gaudenzi, & J. Aston (Eds.), The Evolving Practices of Interactive Documentary (222-237). New York: Wallflower, subsidiary of Columbia University Press

In 2015, I gave a keynote lecture on ‘Interactive Documentary and Live Performance’ (Aston 2015), a subject which has received little attention to date within the field of interactive documentary practice. My argument was that the sense of time, plac... Read More about Interactive documentary and live performance: From embodied to emplaced interaction.

Supporting the library and information needs of UWE health and social care students on placement (2017)
Journal Article
Plaice, C., Lloyd, J., & Shaw, P. (2017). Supporting the library and information needs of UWE health and social care students on placement. Health Information and Libraries Journal, 34(1), 32-44. https://doi.org/10.1111/hir.12171

© 2017 Health Libraries Group Objective: The aim of this research was to explore the library and information needs of health and social care students whilst on placement. Methods: Both desk and primary research were conducted and included an online q... Read More about Supporting the library and information needs of UWE health and social care students on placement.

Psychological Aspects of Bariatric Surgery as a Treatment for Obesity (2017)
Journal Article
Jumbe, S., Hamlet, C., & Meyrick, J. (2017). Psychological Aspects of Bariatric Surgery as a Treatment for Obesity. Current Obesity Reports, 6(1), 71-78. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13679-017-0242-2

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Little is known about the psychological effects on life after bariatric surgery despite the high prevalence of psychological disorders in candidates seeking this procedure. Our review discusses the literature around the psychologic... Read More about Psychological Aspects of Bariatric Surgery as a Treatment for Obesity.

Press accept to update now: Individual differences in susceptibility to malevolent interruptions (2017)
Journal Article
Joinson, A. N., Williams, E. J., & Morgan, P. (2017). Press accept to update now: Individual differences in susceptibility to malevolent interruptions. Decision Support Systems, 96, 119-129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2017.02.014

© 2017 The Authors Increasingly, connected communication technologies have resulted in people being exposed to fraudulent communications by scammers and hackers attempting to gain access to computer systems for malicious purposes. Common influence te... Read More about Press accept to update now: Individual differences in susceptibility to malevolent interruptions.

Systematic review of the effectiveness of prehospital critical care following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (2017)
Journal Article
von Vopelius-Feldt, J., Brandling, J., & Benger, J. (2017). Systematic review of the effectiveness of prehospital critical care following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Resuscitation, 114, 40-46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resuscitation.2017.02.018

© 2017 Background Improving survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is a priority for modern emergency medical services (EMS) and prehospital research. Advanced life support (ALS) is now the standard of care in most EMS. In some EMS, pre... Read More about Systematic review of the effectiveness of prehospital critical care following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

Demographic Change in European Towns 2001–11: A Cross-National Multi-Level Analysis (2017)
Journal Article
Smith, I. (2017). Demographic Change in European Towns 2001–11: A Cross-National Multi-Level Analysis. Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, 108(4), 424-437. https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12255

© 2017 Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG The unique contribution of this paper is to empirically compare and contrast demographic change in settlements with a population between 5,000 and under 50,000 (defined as towns) across different national... Read More about Demographic Change in European Towns 2001–11: A Cross-National Multi-Level Analysis.

Small and Medium-Sized Towns in Europe: Conceptual, Methodological and Policy Issues (2017)
Journal Article
Atkinson, R., Servillo, L., & Hamdouch, A. (2017). Small and Medium-Sized Towns in Europe: Conceptual, Methodological and Policy Issues. Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, 108(4), 365-379. https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12252

© 2017 Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG Despite that small and medium-sized towns (SMSTs) have been, and continue to be, a central part of the history of Europe, these places have largely been neglected by urban research. The ESPON TOWN project,... Read More about Small and Medium-Sized Towns in Europe: Conceptual, Methodological and Policy Issues.

Policies for small and medium-sized towns: European, national and local approaches (2017)
Journal Article
Atkinson, R. (2017). Policies for small and medium-sized towns: European, national and local approaches. Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, 108(4), 472-487. https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12253

© 2017 Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG This paper addresses the ‘policy dimension’ of the TOWN project drawing on the implications of the case studies for policy(ies) for small and medium-sized towns (SMSTs) across Europe. It first considers ap... Read More about Policies for small and medium-sized towns: European, national and local approaches.

MAMADROID: Detecting Android Malware by Building Markov Chains of Behavioral Models (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Mariconti, E., Onwuzurike, L., Andriotis, P., De Cristofaro, E., Ross, G., & Stringhini, G. (2017, February). MAMADROID: Detecting Android Malware by Building Markov Chains of Behavioral Models. Paper presented at NDSS Symposium 2017, San Diego, USA

The rise in popularity of the Android platform has resulted in an explosion of malware threats targeting it. As both Android malware and the operating system itself constantly evolve, it is very challenging to design robust malware mitigation techniq... Read More about MAMADROID: Detecting Android Malware by Building Markov Chains of Behavioral Models.

“You Obviously Just Have to Put on a Brave Face”: A Qualitative Study of the Experiences and Coping Styles of Men With Rheumatoid Arthritis (2017)
Journal Article
Kirwan, J. R., Flurey, C. A., Hewlett, S., Rodham, K., White, A., & Noddings, R. (2017). “You Obviously Just Have to Put on a Brave Face”: A Qualitative Study of the Experiences and Coping Styles of Men With Rheumatoid Arthritis. Arthritis Care and Research, 69(3), 330-337. https://doi.org/10.1002/acr.22951

© 2016, The Authors. Arthritis Care & Research published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of the American College of Rheumatology. Objective: To explore the experiences, coping styles, and support preferences of male rheumatoid arthritis (RA) p... Read More about “You Obviously Just Have to Put on a Brave Face”: A Qualitative Study of the Experiences and Coping Styles of Men With Rheumatoid Arthritis.

Species abundance distributions as a proxy for the niche-neutrality continuum (2017)
Journal Article
Wang, X., Ellwood, M. D. F., Ai, D., Zhang, R., & Wang, G. (2018). Species abundance distributions as a proxy for the niche-neutrality continuum. Journal of Plant Ecology, 11(3), 445-452. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtx013

© The Author(s) 2017. Aims Species abundance distributions (SADs) are often used to verify mechanistic theories underlying community assembly. However, it is now accepted that SADs alone are not sufficient to reveal biological mechanisms. Recent atte... Read More about Species abundance distributions as a proxy for the niche-neutrality continuum.

Moving health upstream in urban development decision-making (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Black, D., Ige, J., Pilkington, P., Williams, B., Prestwood, E., Hunt, A., …Ogilvie, F. (2017, February). Moving health upstream in urban development decision-making. Presented at The Sustainable Transport & Health Summit, Bristol

This document presents an overview of a three-year pilot funded by the Wellcome Trust an initiated in 2016. The project has three main strands of work- systematic reviews of evidence linking the quality of urban form to human health impacts, an econo... Read More about Moving health upstream in urban development decision-making.

Microbial inoculants as a soil remediation tool for extensive green roofs (2017)
Journal Article
Rumble, H., & Gange, A. C. (2017). Microbial inoculants as a soil remediation tool for extensive green roofs. Ecological Engineering, 102, 188-198. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2017.01.025

Green roofs are increasingly used in the urban environment to insulate buildings, reduce stormwater runoff and remediate biodiversity lost in construction. Most common in the Northern Hemisphere are extensive green roofs, due to their low-cost and lo... Read More about Microbial inoculants as a soil remediation tool for extensive green roofs.

Gay fathers’ motivations for and feelings about surrogacy as a path to parenthood (2017)
Journal Article
Blake, L., Carone, N., Raffanello, E., Slutsky, J., Ehrhardt, A. A., & Golombok, S. (2017). Gay fathers’ motivations for and feelings about surrogacy as a path to parenthood. Human Reproduction, 32(4), 860-867. https://doi.org/10.1093/humrep/dex026

STUDY QUESTION Why do gay men choose to start their families through surrogacy? SUMMARY ANSWER Most fathers chose surrogacy because they considered adoption to be a less desirable and/or accessible path to parenthood. WHAT IS KNOWN ALREADY L... Read More about Gay fathers’ motivations for and feelings about surrogacy as a path to parenthood.

Addressing the knowledge gaps in agroecology and identifying guiding principles for transforming conventional agri-food systems (2017)
Journal Article
Sanderson Bellamy, A., & Ioris, A. A. R. (2017). Addressing the knowledge gaps in agroecology and identifying guiding principles for transforming conventional agri-food systems. Sustainability, 9(3), 330. https://doi.org/10.3390/su9030330

Today’s society faces many challenges when it comes to food production: producing food sustainably, producing enough of it, distributing food, consuming enough calories, consuming too many calories, consuming culturally-appropriate foods, and reducin... Read More about Addressing the knowledge gaps in agroecology and identifying guiding principles for transforming conventional agri-food systems.

Reciprocal elucidation: a student-led pedagogy in multidisciplinary undergraduate research conferences (2017)
Journal Article
Kneale, P. E., Walkington, H., Hill, J., & Kneale, P. (2017). Reciprocal elucidation: a student-led pedagogy in multidisciplinary undergraduate research conferences. Higher Education Research and Development, 36(2), 416-429. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2016.1208155

© 2016 HERDSA. There is no previous study of the benefits of attending a national multidisciplinary conference dedicated to undergraduate researchers, despite the growing number of such conferences internationally. This paper addresses the gap in kno... Read More about Reciprocal elucidation: a student-led pedagogy in multidisciplinary undergraduate research conferences.

Secular relics: Narrative objects and material biography in the museums of Darwin, Elgar & Holmes (2017)
Thesis
Morris, C. Secular relics: Narrative objects and material biography in the museums of Darwin, Elgar & Holmes. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/898163

This thesis investigates objects considered to be significant through their association with historically noteworthy persons and how these objects are displayed. Such objects and their related cultural practices are regularly compared to relics. Howe... Read More about Secular relics: Narrative objects and material biography in the museums of Darwin, Elgar & Holmes.

The use of modern building recording techniques in the assessment of industrial archaeology (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Hardwick, D. (2017, February). The use of modern building recording techniques in the assessment of industrial archaeology. Presented at Sustaining Built Heritage, Luxor, Egypt

A review of the current extent of usage of modern building recording techniques in the archaeological appraisal of standing structures using a theme of pumping engines as the subset of industrial archaeology considered. Reference made to recent adva... Read More about The use of modern building recording techniques in the assessment of industrial archaeology.

Time-dependent creep analysis for life assessment of cylindrical vessels using first order shear deformation theory (2017)
Journal Article
Davoudi Kashkoli, M., Naderan Tahan, K., & Nejad, M. Z. (2017). Time-dependent creep analysis for life assessment of cylindrical vessels using first order shear deformation theory. Journal of Mechanics, 33(4), 461-474. https://doi.org/10.1017/jmech.2017.6

In the present study, assuming that the thermo-elastic creep response of the material is governed by Norton's law, an analytical solution has been developed for the purpose of time-dependent creep response for isotropic thick-walled cylindrical press... Read More about Time-dependent creep analysis for life assessment of cylindrical vessels using first order shear deformation theory.

Offshoring of advanced services: A microfoundations perspective (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Gerogiannis, I. (2017, February). Offshoring of advanced services: A microfoundations perspective. Presented at 11th Global Sourcing Workshop 2017, La Thuile, Italy

The objective of this paper is to shed light on the link between services offshoring strategy and its outcomes for the firm by developing a theoretical framework for examining the role of employee motivation in the implementation of services offshor... Read More about Offshoring of advanced services: A microfoundations perspective.