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Re-thinking destitution in the UK: Typologies, spaces and transitions (2014)
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Destitution, a severe form of poverty still persists in modern, industrialised nations such as the UK despite a robust, social security system in place. Increased use of food banks, inadequate housing provisions, etc., point to evidence that there ar... Read More about Re-thinking destitution in the UK: Typologies, spaces and transitions.

Fuzzy graphs: Algebraic structure and syntactic recognition (2013)
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© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013. Directed fuzzy hypergraphs are introduced as a generalization of both crisp directed hypergraphs and directed fuzzy graphs. It is proved that the set of all directed fuzzy hypergraphs can be structure... Read More about Fuzzy graphs: Algebraic structure and syntactic recognition.

Control of the interaction of a gantry robot end effector with the environment by the adaptive behaviour of its joint drive actuators (2014)
Thesis

The thesis examines a way in which the performance of the robot electric actuators can be precisely and accurately force controlled where there is a need for maintaining a stable specified contact force with an external environment. It describes the... Read More about Control of the interaction of a gantry robot end effector with the environment by the adaptive behaviour of its joint drive actuators.

UWE Research Repository annual report Sept 2013 - Aug 2014 (2014)
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The nature of society: Enmapping nature, space and society into a town-green hybrid (2014)
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The paper describes the transformation of derelict land into a ‘town-green’ and the role legislation played in transforming social and natural relationships. Town-green denotes a legal status under the Great Britain Commons Act (2006) that protects c... Read More about The nature of society: Enmapping nature, space and society into a town-green hybrid.

Transgression: Towards an expanded field of architecture (2014)
Book

The potency of the word “transgress” is hardly reflected in its Latin etymology – to go or walk across. The language is benign, but symbolically loaded: to violate, to infringe, to go beyond the boundaries. To transgress is to break, violate, infring... Read More about Transgression: Towards an expanded field of architecture.

Perceptions of the impact a military career has on children (2014)
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© The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society of Occupational Medicine. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com. BACKGROUND: The perceived effects of a military career on ser... Read More about Perceptions of the impact a military career has on children.

Perceptions of quality of life in people with mild and borderline learning disability and the autism diagnostic process (2014)
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This study used mixed methods to gather multidimensional quality of life perceptions from a small group of adults (n = 20) who have mild or borderline learning disabilities and have been referred to a local diagnostic process. The methods were develo... Read More about Perceptions of quality of life in people with mild and borderline learning disability and the autism diagnostic process.

Urban water security as a function of the 'urban hydrosocial transition' (2014)
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Should we take patients to hospital in cardiac arrest? (2014)
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Patients' perspectives on the educational preparation of cardiac nurses (2014)
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© The European Society of Cardiology 2013. Background: Over the last two decades the UK health service has endeavoured to place patient and public involvement at the heart of its modernisation agenda. Despite these aspirations the role of patients in... Read More about Patients' perspectives on the educational preparation of cardiac nurses.

Return to Eden: Management of an inshore and intertidal marine environment (2014)
Journal Article

Thematic analysis (2014)
Book Chapter

Thematic analysis (TA) is a method for identifying, analysing and interpreting patterned meanings or ‘themes’ in qualitative data. In this chapter we outline our approach to TA (Braun & Clarke, 2006, 2012, 2013) and demonstrate core processes of codi... Read More about Thematic analysis.

Water security and shale gas exploration in the UK (2014)
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Psychosocial predictors, assessment, and outcomes of cosmetic procedures: A systematic rapid evidence assessment (2014)
Journal Article

Background: Recent breast implant complications led to a UK government policy review of the evidence concerning cosmetic interventions. We synthesised cosmetic intervention research evidence covering psychosocial factors associated with requesting pr... Read More about Psychosocial predictors, assessment, and outcomes of cosmetic procedures: A systematic rapid evidence assessment.

Evolving functional and structural dynamism in coupled boolean networks (2014)
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© 2014 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This article uses a recently presented abstract, tunable Boolean regulatory network model to further explore aspects of mobile DNA, such as transposons. The significant role of mobile DNA in the evolution... Read More about Evolving functional and structural dynamism in coupled boolean networks.

Psychology and poverty reduction: A global special issue (2014)
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A “global special issue” on poverty brought together 9 international psychology journals during 2010 through 2013. The purpose was to highlight psychology’s contribution toward the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). These goals are rooted in the “c... Read More about Psychology and poverty reduction: A global special issue.

Responsible management of projects in the context of international development: A critical overview of governance, leadership and power (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Water security through integrated local delivery (2014)
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Prevention and first aid for child thermal injuries: What is new, what is possible? (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

User responses to information systems change: The place of negative capability (2014)
Thesis

This study explores the place of the notion of negative capability in user responses to information systems change. Much has been written about information systems change, significantly less about negative capability, and there has been no research,... Read More about User responses to information systems change: The place of negative capability.

Sustainable drainage: Overcoming the challenges to a more secure future (2014)
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Parental behaviour in paediatric chronic pain: A qualitative observational study (2014)
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Objectives: Parental behaviour appears to influence the adjustment of children with chronic pain. However, research in this area has failed to produce consistent evidence. Studies have tended to rely on self-report measures derived from adult pain po... Read More about Parental behaviour in paediatric chronic pain: A qualitative observational study.

The role of consent in human trafficking (2014)
Book

Human trafficking is consistently featured on the global political agenda. This book examines the trafficking of female victims for sexual exploitation, and specifically the understanding of consent and its influence in the identification and treatme... Read More about The role of consent in human trafficking.

Public involvement in research: Assessing impact through a realist evaluation (2014)
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This study was concerned with developing the evidence base for public involvement in research in health and social care. There now is significant support for public involvement within the National Institute for Health Research, and resear... Read More about Public involvement in research: Assessing impact through a realist evaluation.

Water security for nature and people (2014)
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The effect of self myofascial release on hamstring and lumbar spine flexibility (2014)
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Urban water security: LCA and sanitary waste management (2014)
Journal Article

The hypothesis of nature's logic in Schelling's Naturphilosophie (2014)
Book Chapter

Schelling’s Naturphilosophie is either considered one of several phases through which his philosophy passed or, as Schelling repeatedly states, it is “one side of philosophy” until at least 1830 and, since he wrote his last work on the subject in 184... Read More about The hypothesis of nature's logic in Schelling's Naturphilosophie.

Physiotherapy for plantar fasciitis: A UK-wide survey of current practice (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A systematic review of patient reported outcome measures used in child and adolescent burn care (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Quantitative analysis of ERG expression and its splice isoforms in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded prostate cancer samples: Association with seminal vesicle invasion and biochemical recurrence (2014)
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© American Society for Clinical Pathology. Objectives: The proto-oncogene ETS-related gene (ERG) is consistently overexpressed in prostate cancer. Alternatively spliced isoforms of ERG have variable biological activities; inclusion of exon 11 (72 bas... Read More about Quantitative analysis of ERG expression and its splice isoforms in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded prostate cancer samples: Association with seminal vesicle invasion and biochemical recurrence.

The water—energy—food nexus— balancing our (in)securities (2014)
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Reflecting on a research seminar - Qualitative research in an age of austerity: Exploring the pitfalls and possibilities of ‘resource-lite’ methods one-day seminar (2014)
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Personal birth preferences and actual mode of delivery outcomes of obstetricians and gynaecologists in South West England; With comparison to regional and national birth statistics (2014)
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© 2014 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved. Objective: To determine personal birth preferences of obstetricians in various clinical scenarios, in particular elective caesarean section for maternal request. To determine actual rates of modes of... Read More about Personal birth preferences and actual mode of delivery outcomes of obstetricians and gynaecologists in South West England; With comparison to regional and national birth statistics.

Helping improve community-led management of water resources in Uganda (2014)
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Sex offending and sex tourism: Problems, policy and challenges (2014)
Book Chapter

Maconochie at Birmingham prison, 1849-1851: Reformative rhetoric and corporal practice (2014)
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Both Alexander Maconochie and Birmingham prison feature prominently in the historiography of mid nineteenth-century punishment. Maconochie is portrayed as a benevolent reformer who invented the ‘mark system’; an innovative contribution to penal theor... Read More about Maconochie at Birmingham prison, 1849-1851: Reformative rhetoric and corporal practice.

Festivals 2.0: Consuming, producing and participating in the extended festival experience (2014)
Book Chapter

Deconstructing digital printing technologies: Towards reinstating artistic ingenuity in the production of digital colour prints (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This research proposes an alternative perspective to conventional printing workflows. Such workflows are restrictive when standard interfaces conceal self-contained systems, limited by manufacturers’ parameters. This has been observed to inhibit the... Read More about Deconstructing digital printing technologies: Towards reinstating artistic ingenuity in the production of digital colour prints.

Look at those two!: The precuneus role in unattended third-person perspective of social interactions (2014)
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© 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.. Human beings often observe other people's social interactions without being a part of them. Whereas the implications of some brain regions (e.g. amygdala) have been extensively examined, the implication of the precuneu... Read More about Look at those two!: The precuneus role in unattended third-person perspective of social interactions.

Progress through collaboration (2014)
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Informal credit institutions in transition countries: A study of urban money lenders in post-communist Uzbekistan (2014)
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Research on informal financial institutions in transition economies is scant. This study investigates behaviour of urban money lenders in Uzbekistan. Money lending in Uzbekistan is a relatively new business which emerged mostly in response to targete... Read More about Informal credit institutions in transition countries: A study of urban money lenders in post-communist Uzbekistan.

An exploration of the importance of social influence in the decision to start bicycling in England (2014)
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© 2014 Elsevier Ltd. The purpose of this paper is to gain a better understanding, through qualitative exploration, of the ways in which social influence affects the decision to start bicycling in England. 'Social influence' is defined as the process... Read More about An exploration of the importance of social influence in the decision to start bicycling in England.

Using evolutionary computation to shed light on the effect of scale and complexity on object-orientedsoftware design (2014)
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Early lifecycle software design is an intensely human
activity in which design scale and complexity can place a
high cognitive load on the software designer. Recently, the use of evolutionary search has been suggested to yield insights in the natur... Read More about Using evolutionary computation to shed light on the effect of scale and complexity on object-orientedsoftware design.

Abstraction reform and water security: The view from England and Wales (2014)
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Sociological Imagination as Social Critique: Interrogating the ‘Global Economic Crisis’ (2014)
Journal Article

How to use t-tests to explore pre-post change (2014)
Book Chapter

Validation of a home safety questionnaire used in a series of case-control studies (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014 BMJ Publishing Group. All rights reserved. Conclusions This study found that the validity of selfreports varied with safety practice. Questions with a high specificity will be useful for practitioners for identifying households who may benefit... Read More about Validation of a home safety questionnaire used in a series of case-control studies.

Decentred autonomy and authenticity in Honneth (2014)
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Axel Honneth proposes a recognition theoretical approach to justice, where justice is a matter of the recognition of individuals in the three spheres of ethical life he identifies. The value of recognition is based on the value of “self-realization”.... Read More about Decentred autonomy and authenticity in Honneth.