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Design and application of liquid chromatography dual electrode detection (2015)
Book Chapter
Liquid chromatography with electrochemical detection has been shown to be both highly sensitive and selective. Initially electrochemical detection in this approach has utilised single electrode based electrochemical detector systems, where the compou... Read More about Design and application of liquid chromatography dual electrode detection.
Travel writing: Reception and readership (2015)
Book Chapter
Strategic factors of servitization in the pharmaceutical industry and the impact on performance (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
This study reflects the results from an ongoing research project that is currently being conducted in different countries. The strategic vision of the pharmaceutical service providers (distributors) should be clearly improved with the findings from t... Read More about Strategic factors of servitization in the pharmaceutical industry and the impact on performance.
Live-birth rate associated with repeat in vitro fertilization treatment cycles (2015)
Journal Article
© 2015 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. Importance The likelihood of achieving a live birth with repeat in vitro fertilization (IVF) is unclear, yet treatment is commonly limited to 3 or 4 embryo transfers. Objective To determine th... Read More about Live-birth rate associated with repeat in vitro fertilization treatment cycles.
Air quality, cars and health in Bristol (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stability and reliability of anodic biofilms under different feedstock conditions: Towards microbial fuel cell sensors (2015)
Journal Article
© 2015 The Authors. Stability and reliability of microbial fuel cell anodic biofilms, consisting of mixed cultures, were investigated in a continuously fed system. Two groups of anodic biofilm matured with different substrates, acetate and casein for... Read More about Stability and reliability of anodic biofilms under different feedstock conditions: Towards microbial fuel cell sensors.
Swarm of robots simulator (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
If a robot can perform a specific task by itself... Can you imagine the work that can be done by hundreds of robots working all together?. Swarms have emerged as a way to assimilate the behavior of nature like insects, school of fish or flocks; becau... Read More about Swarm of robots simulator.
Transition dynamics to complex rules in elementary cellular automata from Wolfram classes (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
We overview the basis of Elementary Cellular Automata and Wolfram’s Classes, subsequently we show a technique known as Memory Based Rule Analysis, to extract complex systems from a family of chaotic discrete dynamical system. Cases of study rules 30... Read More about Transition dynamics to complex rules in elementary cellular automata from Wolfram classes.
Intellectual capital and its determinants in Italian listed companies (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
PURPOSE: The purpose of the paper is to match the intellectual capital (IC) measurement methods and the reporting practices of a group of Italian listed firms, in order to examine potential convergence in practice. The study applies a holistic market... Read More about Intellectual capital and its determinants in Italian listed companies.
A psychosocial exploration of the lifelong impact of being in care as a child and resilience over a life span (2015)
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Care experienced adults (adults who were in foster care, kinship care, residential care or were adopted) are assumed to be more vulnerable than the general population across numerous domains: educational underachievement, unemployment, po... Read More about A psychosocial exploration of the lifelong impact of being in care as a child and resilience over a life span.
Making sense of academic life in the UK: The voice of the direct entry student at UWE (2015)
Journal Article
The academic experiences of a small group of direct entry international students were recorded by a cross-service/faculty project group at the University of the West of England. Findings showed that more could be done to inform prospective students a... Read More about Making sense of academic life in the UK: The voice of the direct entry student at UWE.
The intention of this thesis is to explore the role of emotions and beliefs from pre-diagnosis of inflammatory arthritis through the first 12 months. Inflammatory arthritis (IA) is an umbrella term for chronic, progressive and systemic auto-immune di... Read More about Journeys toward adjustment: Exploring the role of emotions and beliefs from pre-diagnosis of inflammatory arthritis through the first 12 months.
From "fun science" to seductive science (2015)
Journal Article
Science centers and museums have undergone a great evolution in recent decades although it seems that, lately, the science museum model has been somewhat stagnant. Since the radical changes of the mid-twentieth century, it has developed towards strat... Read More about From "fun science" to seductive science.
Centralization of cleft care in the UK. Part 6: A tale of two studies (2015)
Journal Article
© 2015 John Wiley & Sons A/S. Objectives: We summarize and critique the methodology and outcomes from a substantial study which has investigated the impact of reconfigured cleft care in the United Kingdom (UK) 15 years after the UK government start... Read More about Centralization of cleft care in the UK. Part 6: A tale of two studies.
A cross-sectional survey of 5-year-old children with non-syndromic unilateral cleft lip and palate: The Cleft Care UK study. Part 1: Background and methodology (2015)
Journal Article
© 2015 John Wiley & Sons A/S. Objectives: We describe the methodology for a major study investigating the impact of reconfigured cleft care in the United Kingdom (UK) 15 years after an initial survey, detailed in the Clinical Standards Advisory Gro... Read More about A cross-sectional survey of 5-year-old children with non-syndromic unilateral cleft lip and palate: The Cleft Care UK study. Part 1: Background and methodology.
Functional outcomes in the Cleft Care UK study - Part 3: Oral health and audiology (2015)
Journal Article
© 2015 John Wiley & Sons A/S. Objectives: To compare oral health and hearing outcomes from the Clinical Standards Advisory Group (CSAG, 1998) and the Cleft Care UK (CCUK, 2013) studies. Setting and sample population: Two UK-based cross-sectional st... Read More about Functional outcomes in the Cleft Care UK study - Part 3: Oral health and audiology.
Psychological adjustment in cleft lip and/or palate: Outcomes, methods and neglected groups (2015)
Thesis
To date, research examining psychological adjustment to cleft lip and/or palate (CL/P) has produced conflicting findings. As a consequence, large gaps in our understanding of CL/P remain, ultimately impacting the ability to implement and evaluate ps... Read More about Psychological adjustment in cleft lip and/or palate: Outcomes, methods and neglected groups.
Cleft Care UK study. Part 5: Child psychosocial outcomes and satisfaction with cleft services (2015)
Journal Article
© 2015 John Wiley & Sons A/S. Objectives: To describe the impact of cleft service centralization on parental perceptions of child outcomes and satisfaction with care from the Cleft Care UK (CCUK) study and compare them to the Clinical Standards Adv... Read More about Cleft Care UK study. Part 5: Child psychosocial outcomes and satisfaction with cleft services.
Self-powered supercapacitive microbial fuel cell: The ultimate way of boosting and harvesting power (2016)
Journal Article
© 2015 Elsevier B.V. In this work, for the first time, we demonstrate a supercapacitive microbial fuel cell which integrates the energy harvesting function of a microbial fuel cell (MFC) with the high-power operation of an internal supercapacitor. Th... Read More about Self-powered supercapacitive microbial fuel cell: The ultimate way of boosting and harvesting power.
High catalytic activity and pollutants resistivity using Fe-AAPyr cathode catalyst for microbial fuel cell application (2015)
Journal Article
© 2015, Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved. For the first time, a new generation of innovative non-platinum group metal catalysts based on iron and aminoantipyrine as precursor (Fe-AAPyr) has been utilized in a membraneless single-cham... Read More about High catalytic activity and pollutants resistivity using Fe-AAPyr cathode catalyst for microbial fuel cell application.
Determination of Malachite Green in Aquaculture Water by Adsorptive Stripping Voltammetry (2016)
Journal Article
© 2016, Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. An adsorptive stripping voltammetric method for the determination of malachite green in aquaculture water has been developed. Initial studies were made using the cyclic voltammetry of malachite green... Read More about Determination of Malachite Green in Aquaculture Water by Adsorptive Stripping Voltammetry.
Hand layup: understanding the manual process (2015)
Journal Article
© 2015, © 2015 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis. The hand layup of pre-impregnated woven materials is still a large part of the composite manufacturing industry, requiring the skills and experience of a human workforce to form flat plie... Read More about Hand layup: understanding the manual process.
The Molecular Biology of RNA (2015)
Book
Comparative study of arc-to-glow transition efficiency when use multilayer condensed materials in electric contacts (2016)
Journal Article
The paper presents and discusses results of the study of arc to glow transformation at breaking of DC inductive load of a low power (less than 10 J) and low voltage (about 250 V). The ratio in duration of arcing and glowing is investigated in depende... Read More about Comparative study of arc-to-glow transition efficiency when use multilayer condensed materials in electric contacts.
UWE response to the Defra Air Quality Plan consultation (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Management of cardiac arrest survivors in UK intensive care units: a survey of practice (2016)
Journal Article
© 2015, © The Intensive Care Society 2015. Background: Cardiac arrest is a common presentation to intensive care units. There is evidence that management protocols between hospitals differ and that this variation is mirrored in patient outcomes betwe... Read More about Management of cardiac arrest survivors in UK intensive care units: a survey of practice.
Differentiated anti-predation responses in a superorganism (2015)
Journal Article
© 2015 O'Shea-Wheller et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source... Read More about Differentiated anti-predation responses in a superorganism.
The impact of analyst sentiment on UK stock recommendations and target prices (2015)
Journal Article
© 2015 Taylor & Francis. The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between narrative sentiment in analysts' company reports and their recommendation and target price outputs. We study an industry-balanced sample of 275 UK quoted comp... Read More about The impact of analyst sentiment on UK stock recommendations and target prices.
MyGeo-Explorer: A semantic search tool for querying geospatial information (2015)
Journal Article
We propose a semantic search approach for geospatial information systems to resolve the issue of semantic heterogeneity in metadata catalogues. Using the Malaysian geospatial data infrastructure service portal, MyGDI Explorer, as a comparative case s... Read More about MyGeo-Explorer: A semantic search tool for querying geospatial information.
Market manipulation: Regulatory and enforcement responses in the United Kingdom and United States of America (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
The aim of this conference paper is to provide a critical assessment of the response to market manipulation in the United Kingdom and the United States of America following the 2007/2008 financial crisis. The paper concentrates on the imposition of f... Read More about Market manipulation: Regulatory and enforcement responses in the United Kingdom and United States of America.
Ceramic MFCs with internal cathode producing sufficient power for practical applications (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
© 2015, Hydrogen Energy Publications, LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This communication reports on the potential of using MFCs for powering real world applications, whereby three interconnected MFCs directly energise an external... Read More about Ceramic MFCs with internal cathode producing sufficient power for practical applications.
What difference do directly elected mayors make? A panel discussion (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Thinking Futures festival discussion (part of ESRC Festival of Social Science), convened by the University of Bristol exploring the success of the Directly Elected Mayor model.
Panel Abstract:
Strengthening city leadership by introducing directly... Read More about What difference do directly elected mayors make? A panel discussion.
Cathode materials for ceramic based microbial fuel cells (MFCs) (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
© 2015, Hydrogen Energy Publications, LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This study showed the electrochemical performance of different cathode electrodes tested on a ceramic separator functioning as a cation exchange membrane. Part... Read More about Cathode materials for ceramic based microbial fuel cells (MFCs).
Inter-Taxa differences in iodine uptake by plants: Implications for food quality and contamination (2015)
Journal Article
© 2015 by the authors. Although iodine is not essential for plants, they take it up readily and, in foodchains, are significant sources of iodine for organisms with an essential requirement for it. During several nuclear accidents radioiodine has bee... Read More about Inter-Taxa differences in iodine uptake by plants: Implications for food quality and contamination.
Leadership insights from the top: Exploring leadership through the narratives of CEOs in India (2015)
Journal Article
This paper highlights the corporate and non-corporate leadership practices in India, the effect of culture on such practices and how these drive management philosophies. Semi structured interviews were conducted with CEOs from India. The findings pro... Read More about Leadership insights from the top: Exploring leadership through the narratives of CEOs in India.
BACKGROUND: There is a mismatch between health recommendations that babies are breastfed for up to 2 years or beyond, and UK employment law provisions, in which maternity leave is commonly up to one year with maternity employment protections normall... Read More about Managers' perspectives of lactation breaks: The context of infant feeding decisions among staff in one public sector organisation.
Bone marrow and myeloma cellular communication protects from genotoxicity in a drug-specific manner (2015)
Journal Article
Multiple myeloma (MM) is an incurable haematological malignancy with most patients eventually developing ad- vanced, relapsing disease and drug resistance (1,2). This may result from protection by BM mesenchymal cells (BM— MSC) interacting with MM ce... Read More about Bone marrow and myeloma cellular communication protects from genotoxicity in a drug-specific manner.
Determination of the appropriate gene for real-time PCR analysis of the immotalized stromal cell line HS-5 in 2D and 3D culture following melphalan exposure (2015)
Journal Article
Although gene expression analysis using real-time quan- titative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) is an accurate method to evaluate cell activi- ties and phenotypes, the reliability of the analysis depends on the selection of... Read More about Determination of the appropriate gene for real-time PCR analysis of the immotalized stromal cell line HS-5 in 2D and 3D culture following melphalan exposure.
The stromal cell line HS-5 is an alternative mesenchymal stem cell source for the development of a 3D bone marrow model (2015)
Journal Article
Developing a novel three-dimensional (3D) in vitro model of the bone marrow microenvironment using bone mar- row mesenchymal stem cells (BM-MSCs) in commercial matrices involves a series of distinct processes. This starts with selecting an appropriat... Read More about The stromal cell line HS-5 is an alternative mesenchymal stem cell source for the development of a 3D bone marrow model.
A novel biosensor for prediction of global hypomethylation by decitabine and azacytadine in leukaemic cells (2015)
Journal Article
Decitabine (DAC) and azacytidine (AZA) are cytidine ana- logues and hypomethylating agents used in the manage- ment of patients with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), where the main goal is to prevent transformation to acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), wh... Read More about A novel biosensor for prediction of global hypomethylation by decitabine and azacytadine in leukaemic cells.
On general frameworks and threshold functions for multiple domination (2015)
Journal Article
© 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. We consider two general frameworks for multiple domination, which are called (r,s)-domination and parametric domination. They generalise and unify {k}-domination, k-domination, total k-domination and k-tuple... Read More about On general frameworks and threshold functions for multiple domination.
The efficacy of “busyness” as a measure for behaviour pattern analysis using unlabelled sensor data: A case study (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
The integration of Internet of Things (IoT) into our daily lives has the potential to significantly improve the quality of life and well-being of citizens, especially older adults who want to continue to live independently in their own home. In order... Read More about The efficacy of “busyness” as a measure for behaviour pattern analysis using unlabelled sensor data: A case study.
Illustrator as detective: Discovery through drawing (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
For the many visitors coming to the Museum of East Asian Art, objects in the museum’s collection may appear exotic and unfamiliar. It is nevertheless possible to appreciate the beauty of foreign objects without knowing much about their history or cu... Read More about Illustrator as detective: Discovery through drawing.
Absorptive capacity in the Brazilian cosmetics industry (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
There is currently a growing interest in two concepts and practices related to open innovation and absorptive capacity, in particular with regard to the role played by individuals. This requires a deeper understanding of these concepts because the fu... Read More about Absorptive capacity in the Brazilian cosmetics industry.
Developing patient reported outcomes measures (PROMs) in child, adolescent and adult burn care (2015)
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Long-range concealed object detection through active covert illumination (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
© 2015 SPIE. When capturing a scene for surveillance, the addition of rich 3D data can dramatically improve the accuracy of object detection or face recognition. Traditional 3D techniques, such as geometric stereo, only provide a coarse grained recon... Read More about Long-range concealed object detection through active covert illumination.
Ghost-in-the-Machine reveals human social signals for human-robot interaction (2015)
Journal Article
© 2015 Loth, Jettka, Giuliani and de Ruiter. We used a new method called "Ghost-in-the-Machine" (GiM) to investigate social interactions with a robotic bartender taking orders for drinks and serving them. Using the GiM paradigm allowed us to identify... Read More about Ghost-in-the-Machine reveals human social signals for human-robot interaction.
The role of fine urban grain in securing the diversity of the urban centre (2016)
Thesis
Diversity is a key concept in urban and planning theory and policy with important physical,social and economic dimensions. It is also central to the sustainable city and a key component of vital and viable urban centres. Urban form plays a key role i... Read More about The role of fine urban grain in securing the diversity of the urban centre.
Effective emotion regulation strategies improve fMRI and ECG markers of psychopathology in panic disorder: Implications for psychological treatment action (2015)
Journal Article
© 2015 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved. Impairments in emotion regulation are thought to have a key role in the pathogenesis of anxiety disorders, but the neurobiological underpinnings contributing to vulnerability remain poorly und... Read More about Effective emotion regulation strategies improve fMRI and ECG markers of psychopathology in panic disorder: Implications for psychological treatment action.