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Robots with internal models: A route to self-aware and hence safer robots (2014)
Book Chapter

The aim of this chapter is to set out the case for building robots with internal models as a possible route toward achieving a level of functional self-awareness that would usefully extend the capabilities of autonomous robots. The chapter argues tha... Read More about Robots with internal models: A route to self-aware and hence safer robots.

Keeping children safe at home: protocol for a case-control study of modifiable risk factors for scalds (2014)
Journal Article

Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions. BACKGROUND: Scalds are one of the most common forms of thermal inju... Read More about Keeping children safe at home: protocol for a case-control study of modifiable risk factors for scalds.

The ethical and social implications of personalization technologies for e-learning (2014)
Journal Article

Personalization in information systems can be considered beneficial but also ethically and socially harmful. Like many other technologies, the uptake of personalization has been rapid, with inadequate consideration given to its effects. Personalizati... Read More about The ethical and social implications of personalization technologies for e-learning.

Open innovation and knowledge integration. A comparative study in the cosmetics sector in Brazil (2014)
Journal Article

This article is based on a PhD thesis that examined open innovation in the Brazilian cosmetics sector
a nd its relationship with knowledge integration, comparing less open and more open firms. The ability to
integrate knowledge is related to compet... Read More about Open innovation and knowledge integration. A comparative study in the cosmetics sector in Brazil.

Prone belly board device training improves geometric setup accuracy in lower GI radiotherapy (2013)
Journal Article

Background Patients having a course of radiotherapy (RT) must be appropriately immobilised for stability and accuracy. Having opened a new cancer service in June 2009 and commenced treating lower gastrointestinal cancers in 2010, a prone belly board... Read More about Prone belly board device training improves geometric setup accuracy in lower GI radiotherapy.

Yes, the CAPM is testable (2014)
Journal Article

It is well-known that cross-sectional tests of the CAPM are problematic. The market indexes used in empirical tests are likely to be inefficient ex ante, which could lead to spurious results even in the absence of sampling errors. This problem has le... Read More about Yes, the CAPM is testable.

Action recognition using ensemble weighted multi-instance learning (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2014 IEEE. This paper deals with recognizing human actions in depth video data. Current state-of-the-art action recognition methods use hand-designed features, which are difficult to produce and time-consuming to extend to new modalities. In this p... Read More about Action recognition using ensemble weighted multi-instance learning.

Visitor motivations, expectations and satisfaction in a rainforest context: Implications for tourism management (2014)
Book Chapter

This chapter addresses five objectives related to nature-based tourism in the Wet Tropics rainforests of Australia. It aims to:

1 determine the socio-demographic characteristics of visitors to a rainforest site;
2 examine visitor motivations for... Read More about Visitor motivations, expectations and satisfaction in a rainforest context: Implications for tourism management.

Enabling ecotourism: Principles, challenges and achievements from Tambopata, Peru (2014)
Book Chapter

This chapter presents a case study of a single ecotourism initiative in Amazonian south-eastern Peru, analysing the operation of one of its lodges in detail (Posada Amazonas Lodge), and reflecting on the extent to which it can be considered a success... Read More about Enabling ecotourism: Principles, challenges and achievements from Tambopata, Peru.

Using social practice theory to frame the contribution of social marketing in the multidisciplinary future of ‘behaviour change’ (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Background
The 2011 House of Lords Behaviour Change report concluded that ‘behaviour change’ must become multi-disciplinary, criticising the government’s myopic commitment to ‘nudge’. It emphasised that any single-approach strategy will fail to tac... Read More about Using social practice theory to frame the contribution of social marketing in the multidisciplinary future of ‘behaviour change’.

A hospice in change: Applied social realist theory
Book

A Hospice in Change: Applied Social Realist Theory reports upon a study into aspects of the ways in which structural and organisational developments, professional cultures and ‘bedside’ or patient focused clinical practice interact within a single UK... Read More about A hospice in change: Applied social realist theory.

Visual data in qualitative research: The contribution of photography to understanding the mental health hospital environment (2014)
Thesis

This thesis presents an in-depth investigation of the use of participatory photography in qualitative research in a mental health setting in one regional area of England, UK. Whilst the field of visual methods has been growing for several years, ther... Read More about Visual data in qualitative research: The contribution of photography to understanding the mental health hospital environment.

Learning through simulation (2014)
Journal Article

An important element of nursing students’ learning experience is the way they gain confidence and competence in delivering care to patients and service users.


As with many universities, at the University of the West of England some of these ski... Read More about Learning through simulation.

Project competencies of Podlasie companies (2014)
Journal Article

Building and strengthening the project’ competencies is one of the key aspects that determine the efficiency of the implementation of innovation projects in enterprises and thus achieve and maintain the company's competitive advantage. Development of... Read More about Project competencies of Podlasie companies.

Agencies and clients – a very special relationship 2
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Presentation of research findings to client practitioners and workshop on implications.

Room to breathe: Insights from pre-service teachers and NQTs on professional development through informal complementary placements overseas (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Teaching is a complex affair in which teachers manage a range of classroom variables and dynamics in the pursuit of pupil learning. Teacher education and NQT probationary monitoring tends to focus attention on systems and protocols such as planning,... Read More about Room to breathe: Insights from pre-service teachers and NQTs on professional development through informal complementary placements overseas.

Aerodynamic design of a multi-point operational high-speed inlet (2014)
Thesis

In air-breathing supersonic transport aircraft the efficiency of the engine inlet has a huge influence on the engine and the aircraft performance. Nowadays, variable inlet geometries allow optimised inlet geometries and by this also maximum performan... Read More about Aerodynamic design of a multi-point operational high-speed inlet.

Scotland headed towards "Independence-Lite"? (2014)
Journal Article

The only certainty is that we do not know what the future holds for the UK, except that there will be radical changes in its relationship with Scotland, with unknown consequences for the country’s future.

Transitional and generational justice: Children involved in armed conflicts (2015)
Book Chapter

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015. The debate between restorative and retributive justice has never been felt so strongly than in relation to the crimes perpetrated by children in armed conflicts in Africa. The society in which the... Read More about Transitional and generational justice: Children involved in armed conflicts.

The transformational role of University in regional innovation system: The case of Zhengzhou University in China (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Special Issue-Applications of reference models for supply-chain integration (2014)
Journal Article

The Special Issue of Production Planning & Control, 2014 reflects the most recent advances on reference models in industrial and supply-chain applications. Liu and co-researchers study the impact of additive manufacturing (AM) in the aircraft spare p... Read More about Special Issue-Applications of reference models for supply-chain integration.

Direct numerical simulation of supersonic flows passing a backward step (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The Mach 2.9 supersonic turbulent flow over an expansion-compression corner with a sharp deflection angle of 25° at three Reynolds numbers Re_δ=20000, Re_δ=40000 and Re_δ=80000 were studied by using a recently developed direct numerical simulation (... Read More about Direct numerical simulation of supersonic flows passing a backward step.

On the roles of scientists, press officers and journalists (2014)
Journal Article

This issue of the Journal of Science Communication raises a number
of questions about the ways that new scientific research emerges from research
institutions and in particular the role played by scientists, press officers and
journalists in this... Read More about On the roles of scientists, press officers and journalists.

Creative citizens: Researching the value of creative citizenship through co-creative action research (A ‘transmedia’ case study) (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This session shares the work of the Creative Citizens strand that set out to investigate the impact of informal creative networks on their communities. In Bristol we worked with the network of young people that work around the very informal South Ble... Read More about Creative citizens: Researching the value of creative citizenship through co-creative action research (A ‘transmedia’ case study).

The impact of managing a child’s chronic fatigue syndrome/ myalgic encephalopathy (CFS/ME) on family relationships (2014)
Thesis

Although there is a large body of research literature concerning the impact of childhood chronic illness on family relationships, very little of this has specifically focussed on the impact of childhood Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalopath... Read More about The impact of managing a child’s chronic fatigue syndrome/ myalgic encephalopathy (CFS/ME) on family relationships.

Knowledge Integration and Open Innovation in the Brazilian Cosmetics Industry (2014)
Journal Article

© Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Facultad de Economía y Negocios. This article is based on a thesis that examined open innovation in the Brazilian cosmetics sector and its relationship with knowledge integration, comparing less open and more open firms... Read More about Knowledge Integration and Open Innovation in the Brazilian Cosmetics Industry.

Written submission to the National Assembly for Wales on the Gender-Based Violence Bill September 2014 (2014)
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Assessing the directly elected mayoral model in Bristol: An empirical investigation of the contrasting definitions of the role of a directly elected mayor (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

When Bristol’s first directly elected mayor Independent George Ferguson was sworn in during a ceremony at Brunel’s historic Temple Meads station he asserted “I believe today we have voted for a new way of doing things.” Now into second year of his te... Read More about Assessing the directly elected mayoral model in Bristol: An empirical investigation of the contrasting definitions of the role of a directly elected mayor.

Use of recycled products in UK construction industry: An empirical investigation into critical impediments and strategies for improvement (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Construction industry consumes about half of all material resources taken from nature, and generates a large portion of waste to landfill. A way of tackling negative environmental impacts impending from conti... Read More about Use of recycled products in UK construction industry: An empirical investigation into critical impediments and strategies for improvement.

Locating the 'Bristol sound': Archiving music as everyday life (2014)
Book Chapter

Trends in hydrological intensification in the UK: Implications for flood risk management (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Analysing Finance and Production in the Contemporary Capitalist Era
Preprint / Working Paper

here has been a dramatic restructuring of the global economy as the dictates of neoliberalism have reconfigured the contemporary capitalist system of accumulation which has involved a seismic shift from industrial to finance capital. There have been... Read More about Analysing Finance and Production in the Contemporary Capitalist Era.

Agencies and clients: Co-creation in a key B2B relationship (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This is an empirical study of co-creation in the context of the relationship between clients and their advertising agencies. This is the first study to conduct dyadic interviews with a number of clients and their agencies in examining the co-creation... Read More about Agencies and clients: Co-creation in a key B2B relationship.

The international dimensions of sexual abuse (2014)
Journal Article

Randomised feasibility trial of a teaching assistant led extracurricular physical activity intervention for 9 to 11year olds: Action 3:30 (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014 Jago et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. Background: Extracurricular programmes could provide a mechanism to increase the physical activity (PA) of primary-school-aged children. The aim of this feasibility study was to examine whether the Act... Read More about Randomised feasibility trial of a teaching assistant led extracurricular physical activity intervention for 9 to 11year olds: Action 3:30.

Joint modelling compared with two stage methods for analysing longitudinal data and prospective outcomes: A simulation study of childhood growth and BP (2017)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2014. There is a growing debate with regards to the appropriate methods of analysis of growth trajectories and their association with prospective dependent outcomes. Using the example of childhood growth and adult BP, we conducted an... Read More about Joint modelling compared with two stage methods for analysing longitudinal data and prospective outcomes: A simulation study of childhood growth and BP.

Using liminality, stigma and taboo to understand mother's experiences of long-term breastfeeding (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN XIII) 13th International Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 13-17, 2014. Proceedings (2014)
Book

A New Dynamic Rule Activation Method for Extended Belief Rule-Based Systems (2015)
Journal Article

© 2014 IEEE. Data incompleteness and inconsistency are common issues in data-driven decision models. To some extend, they can be considered as two opposite circumstances, since the former occurs due to lack of information and the latter can be regard... Read More about A New Dynamic Rule Activation Method for Extended Belief Rule-Based Systems.

Poverty and place through the eyes of the poor: Lessons from developing a conceptual framework, D-SPACE in southern India (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Paper read at the UK Ireland Planning Research Conference, 9-11 September 2014, Oxford Brookes University.

Institutional trust and the financial adviser (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This explorative qualitative study examines and identifies the components and structure of ‘institution based’ or ‘system’ trust in the context of the relationship between a UK consumer and their financial adviser against the background of the 2008 f... Read More about Institutional trust and the financial adviser.

The Baldwin effect hinders self-adaptation (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The “end-game” of evolutionary optimisation is often largely governed by the efficiency and effectiveness of searching regions of space known to contain high quality solutions. In a traditional EA this role is done via mutation, which creates a tensi... Read More about The Baldwin effect hinders self-adaptation.

Historical construction of heroin withdrawal: A work in progress (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Hermeneutics and risk assessment (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Reviewing clinical notes for discourse on risk

How should we search ‘the literature’? Evidence based practice and nurse education (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Nursing dissertations often take the form of a literature review and post registration/licensure, it can be argued that search and assessment skills are necessary prerequisites for the successful performance of evidence based practice. To meet academ... Read More about How should we search ‘the literature’? Evidence based practice and nurse education.

Sexual abuse as a public health issue (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A research paper looking at current thinking and practices around the engagement of communities in preventing sexual harm – especially public health and innovative approaches.

Developing a methodology for appraising rainwater harvesting with integrated source control using a case study from South-West England (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A methodology has been developed to design and evaluate rainwater harvesting (RWH) systems incorporating “retention and throttle” passive control. Two drainage design options were developed and assessed using hydraulic models for a case study site in... Read More about Developing a methodology for appraising rainwater harvesting with integrated source control using a case study from South-West England.

Multi-modality gesture detection and recognition with un-supervision, randomization and discrimination (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015. We describe in this paper our gesture detection and recognition system for the 2014 ChaLearn Looking at People (Track 3: Gesture Recognition) organized by ChaLearn in conjunction with the ECCV 201... Read More about Multi-modality gesture detection and recognition with un-supervision, randomization and discrimination.

Developing an evidence base for sex offenders as a “service user” (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A research paper, based on work with CoSA, looking at the relevance of the service user voice.

Pentecostals and planning in the UK (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution