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The hedgehog inhibitor cyclopamine reduces β-catenin-Tcf transcriptional activity, induces E-cadherin expression, and reduces invasion in colorectal cancer cells (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Colorectal cancer is a major global health problem resulting in over 600,000 deaths world-wide every year with the majority of these due to metastatic disease. Wnt signalling, and more specifi... Read More about The hedgehog inhibitor cyclopamine reduces β-catenin-Tcf transcriptional activity, induces E-cadherin expression, and reduces invasion in colorectal cancer cells.

Community-based Prevention of Diabetes (ComPoD): A randomised, waiting list controlled trial of the voluntary sector-led Living Well, Taking Control programme (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Type 2 diabetes is a serious, expensive and growing public health challenge. NICE guidance recommends diabetes prevention in people at high risk via intensive lifestyle interventions promoting weight loss. There are few robustly evaluated ‘real-world... Read More about Community-based Prevention of Diabetes (ComPoD): A randomised, waiting list controlled trial of the voluntary sector-led Living Well, Taking Control programme.

A pilot study of a peer volunteering intervention for promoting active ageing in the community: Project ACE (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Project ACE (Active, Connected and Engaged) is a theory-informed, pragmatic intervention using peer volunteering support to promote active ageing.
The ACE intervention was one of the outcomes of a 12–month collaborative network, AVONet, that used a... Read More about A pilot study of a peer volunteering intervention for promoting active ageing in the community: Project ACE.

Beyond the techno-thriller: Michael Crichton and societal issues in science and technology (2015)
Journal Article

Michael Crichton is primarily known for being an outstanding writer of techno-thrillers and co-creator of the genre. In this paper I suggest that his fictional works can and should be considered under the deeper and wider perspective of his concern f... Read More about Beyond the techno-thriller: Michael Crichton and societal issues in science and technology.

Modelling and assessment of repairs conducted on composite materials (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Over the last few decades there has been an increased adoption of composite materials into engineering systems. This mainly to reduce weight, resulting in lowered energy and fuel consumption. At present, unlike its metallic counterparts, composites m... Read More about Modelling and assessment of repairs conducted on composite materials.

Bristol international festival of cinematography September 2015 (The creation of immersive learning and advanced innovation environments)
Digital Artefact

From staging previous events (CML Tests, HDR Innovation Laboratory with UoB Fac of Engineering) CMIR had learned that an important issue within engagement between industry and academic disciplines is the osmotic learning process where both learn from... Read More about Bristol international festival of cinematography September 2015 (The creation of immersive learning and advanced innovation environments).

Stable bilateral teleoperation with input-to-state stable approach (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Passivity has been the most often used constraint for the controller design of bilateral teleoperation systems. However passivity has been suffering from its own design conservatism since this is a sufficient condition for stability and representing... Read More about Stable bilateral teleoperation with input-to-state stable approach.

A new procedure for analysis and modelling of male urine flow rate (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In the first stage studies, this paper proposes a new piecewise linear discrete time dynamic model for describing global urine flow rate profiles against time sequence. The establishment of model has been guided by physician meaningful principles and... Read More about A new procedure for analysis and modelling of male urine flow rate.

Housing – nationally significant infrastructure? (2015)
Other

Research report commissioned by law firm Bond Dickinson and Quod Planning to explore the potential role of the consenting regime for National Infrastructure Planning to deliver large scale housing schemes.

A case study of teaching assistants’ conditions of employment and workload: Reliance upon teaching assistants’ goodwill and ad hoc systems of preparation time. (2015)
Journal Article

This paper will draw upon research with a group of work-based students studying for a Foundation Degree in Educational Support. Case studies of these work-based students highlight levels of goodwill evident within their day to day planning and prepar... Read More about A case study of teaching assistants’ conditions of employment and workload: Reliance upon teaching assistants’ goodwill and ad hoc systems of preparation time..

Can a PRO be adequate without assessing quality of life? (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A think tank discussion regarding the adequacy of patient reported outcomes when quality of life is excluded.

Evolving unipolar memristor spiking neural networks (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 Taylor & Francis. Neuromorphic computing – brain-like computing in hardware – typically requires myriad complimentary metal oxide semiconductor spiking neurons interconnected by a dense mesh of nanoscale plastic synapses. Memristors are freq... Read More about Evolving unipolar memristor spiking neural networks.

Study of retention and peak shape in hydrophilic interaction chromatography over a wide pH range (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 Elsevier B.V. Retention factor and column efficiency measurements were made for 14 test compounds comprising acids, bases and neutrals on two pairs of amide and bare silica HILIC columns, each pair obtained from a different manufacturer. The c... Read More about Study of retention and peak shape in hydrophilic interaction chromatography over a wide pH range.

Energy-harvesting mechanisms for UAV flight by dynamic soaring (2015)
Journal Article

Dynamic Soaring is a flying technique which extracts energy from an environment where wind gradients form, with the potential to increase the endurance of small unmanned vehicles. The feasibility to use dynamic soaring flight is questioned here; it r... Read More about Energy-harvesting mechanisms for UAV flight by dynamic soaring.

The impacts of mayoral governance in Bristol (2015)
Report

In 2012 the citizens of Bristol voted in favour of the introduction of a mayoral form of governance. This report, which stems from the Bristol Civic Leadership Project, provides a 'before' and 'after' evaluation of this change, and it identifies str... Read More about The impacts of mayoral governance in Bristol.

Three-dimensional X-ray microcomputed tomography of carbonates and biofilm on operated cathode in single chamber microbial fuel cell (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 American Vacuum Society. Power output limitation is one of the main concerns that need to be addressed for full-scale applications of the microbial fuel cell technology. Fouling and biofilm growth on the cathode of single chamber microbial fue... Read More about Three-dimensional X-ray microcomputed tomography of carbonates and biofilm on operated cathode in single chamber microbial fuel cell.

The availability of brownfield land for housing (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Brownfield, or ‘previously developed land’, offers the opportunity for redevelopment and regeneration in areas with existing infrastructure, access to local amenities and proximity to existing communities. They are valuable for urban regeneration and... Read More about The availability of brownfield land for housing.

A mobile homeostat with three degrees of freedom (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In the foundational cybernetics text, Design for a Brain, W. Ross Ashby introduces an adaptive system called the homeostat, and speculates about the possibility of creating a mobile homeostat “with its critical states set so that it seeks situations... Read More about A mobile homeostat with three degrees of freedom.

Debt cycles, instability and fiscal rules: A Godley-Minsky model
Preprint / Working Paper

Wynne Godley and Hyman Minsky were two macroeconomists who ‘saw the crisis coming’. This paper develops a simple macrodynamic model that synthesises some key perspectives of their analytical frameworks. The model incorporates Godley’s financial balan... Read More about Debt cycles, instability and fiscal rules: A Godley-Minsky model.

Co-creation of impact in marketing management: Agency and client research (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The creation of wider social and economic impact from academic research is an important policy issue and a priority for BAM. This paper presents a case study of efforts to create practitioner impact from research into the co-creation of marketing co... Read More about Co-creation of impact in marketing management: Agency and client research.

Primary pre-service teachers and engineering students learning to teach science - A match made in heaven or hell? (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The ‘Children as Engineers’ project brought together 10 primary Initial Teacher Training students and 10 Under-Graduate Engineering students to teach one of ten design challenges to 300 children in classrooms using the European ‘Engineer’ materials.... Read More about Primary pre-service teachers and engineering students learning to teach science - A match made in heaven or hell?.

Building information modelling (BIM) in design, construction and operations (2015)
Book

Building Information Modelling (BIM) in Design, Construction, and Operations contains the proceedings of the first in a planned series of conferences dealing with design coordination, construction, maintenance, operation and decommissioning. The book... Read More about Building information modelling (BIM) in design, construction and operations.

Power and personality in linguistic style accommodation (2015)
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Background

People often mimic each other’s communication behaviours, and this is associated with positive social outcomes. This extends to linguistic style accommodation, which refers to synchronisation in an individual’s use of function words.... Read More about Power and personality in linguistic style accommodation.

An examination of clients and project teams developing information requirements for the Asset Information Model (AIM) (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The client brief not being met by the final construction project could be due to a lack of clarity and collaboration causing substantial difficulties. As the final end-product on a construction project is most heavily influenced by decisions made in... Read More about An examination of clients and project teams developing information requirements for the Asset Information Model (AIM).

Silence is golden: Learning from introversion to broaden teaching and learning experiences in management (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The project “Silence is Golden – Learning from Introversion to Broaden Teaching and Learning Experiences in Management and Business”, was awarded a Researcher Development Grant by The British Academy of Management in 2014. The grant supported a perio... Read More about Silence is golden: Learning from introversion to broaden teaching and learning experiences in management.

Using simulation pedagogy in nursing to enhance learning through assessment (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Engagement with professional practice learning introduced through simulation, which includes peer and formative assessment and builds towards summative assessment in clinical practice, is central to the undergraduate nursing curriculum at UWE and at... Read More about Using simulation pedagogy in nursing to enhance learning through assessment.

Hierarchical rank-based veiling light estimation for underwater dehazing (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Current dehazing approaches are often hindered when scenes contain bright objects which can cause veiling light and transmission estimation methods to fail. This paper introduces a single image dehazing approach for underwater images with novel veili... Read More about Hierarchical rank-based veiling light estimation for underwater dehazing.

Comportamiento colectivo no trivial en sistemas complejos con mini-robots (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Se discutirá el problema del fenómeno "comportamiento colectivo no trivial", frecuentemente referido como auto-organización, en sistemas complejos analizado a través de mini-robots. Durante la conferencia se presentarán algunos prototipos desarrollad... Read More about Comportamiento colectivo no trivial en sistemas complejos con mini-robots.

Red moon diaries (2016)
Digital Artefact

Red Moon Diaries is a collaborative community art film project that explores the everyday lives of women experiencing the menopause through personal diary writing and performance. Made with financial assistance from the Centre for Moving Image Resear... Read More about Red moon diaries.

(Re)writing women in organization: Portraits of affliction, tales of resistances, hopes for living differently (2018)
Thesis

(Re)Writing Women: A Call to Activism NOW!

This study argues that the time has come to DEMASCULINIZE our organizations and our Academy. As a qualitative study conducted in hypermasculine organizations it paints portraits of the HARM done to our bo... Read More about (Re)writing women in organization: Portraits of affliction, tales of resistances, hopes for living differently.

Towards a critical edition of the short fiction of Sarah Grand (2014)
Thesis

Introduction - SF Now (2014)
Journal Article

Collection of 14 essays (including Graeme MacDonald's Pioneer Award-winning 'Improbability Drives: The Energy of SF'), 5 interview (with Junot Diaz, Steve Fuller, Kij Johnson, Stephen Graham Jones, Nnedi Okorafor) and 2 reviews, developed from the SF... Read More about Introduction - SF Now.

Clustering analysis of water distribution systems: Identifying critical components and community impacts (2014)
Journal Article

© IWA Publishing 2014 Large water distribution systems (WDSs) are networks with both topological and behavioural complexity. Thereby, it is usually difficult to identify the key features of the properties of the system, and subsequently all the criti... Read More about Clustering analysis of water distribution systems: Identifying critical components and community impacts.

The troubled families programme: A process, impact and social return on investment analysis
Report

This project was developed by a research team at the University of the West of England (UWE) under the direction of the Principal Investigator (PI) Dr. James Hoggett to evaluate aspects of a troubled families programme in the South West of England.... Read More about The troubled families programme: A process, impact and social return on investment analysis.

Low temperature hydrothermal synthesis of ZnO nanowires for nanogenerator: Effect of gold electrode on the output voltage of nanogenerator (2014)
Journal Article

A low temperature hydrothermal technique is developed to grow ZnO (diameter 100 nm) nanowires for high output nanogenerator. Vertically aligned ZnO nanowires are grown on indium tin oxide (ITO) coated poly ethylene terephthalate (PET) substrate. Morp... Read More about Low temperature hydrothermal synthesis of ZnO nanowires for nanogenerator: Effect of gold electrode on the output voltage of nanogenerator.

Damage Classification of Sandwich Composites Using Acoustic Emission Technique and k-means Genetic Algorithm (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media New York. In this study acoustic emission (AE) technique was used for monitoring mode I delamination test of sandwich composites. Since, during mode I delamination test various damage mechanisms appear, their c... Read More about Damage Classification of Sandwich Composites Using Acoustic Emission Technique and k-means Genetic Algorithm.

Fairing well: The university publisher and its emerging artists (2014)
Journal Article

The university as a producer and publisher of prints is not a new concept when we consider established US-based institutes such as Graphicstudio in Tampa, Florida, (part of the University of Southern Florida) and the Tamarind Institute, which is part... Read More about Fairing well: The university publisher and its emerging artists.

Fairing well redux: Pu(bli)shing for profit (2014)
Journal Article

Continuing on the last installment’s theme of folk emerging from the Multiplied Art Fair at Christie’s we’ll turn our sights away from the students and not-for-profits, and towards the ‘may-or-may-not-have-gone-to-school-onces’ and ‘yeah-we’d-really-... Read More about Fairing well redux: Pu(bli)shing for profit.

In vitro studies comparing activities of antimicrobial photodynamic therapy and electrochemically activated solutions (2014)
Thesis

Abstract
There is a need for alternative “treatments” for killing microbes in wound and other body surfaces. Antimicrobial Photodynamic Therapy (APDT) and Electrochemically Activated Solutions (ECAS) are two recent developments in the field of bioci... Read More about In vitro studies comparing activities of antimicrobial photodynamic therapy and electrochemically activated solutions.

‘Words are bandied about but what do they mean?’: An exploration of the meaning of the pedagogical term “project” in historical and contemporary contexts (2014)
Thesis

This thesis explores the pedagogical practices signified by the pedagogical term ‘project;’ which have traditionally been associated with enquiry based progressive ways of working with young children aimed at facilitating levels of both child and te... Read More about ‘Words are bandied about but what do they mean?’: An exploration of the meaning of the pedagogical term “project” in historical and contemporary contexts.

All the voices: Diversity in the media (2014)
Book

Commentary on the importance of inclusive coverage, representation and employment in the news media

Exploring serendipitous dialogue (2014)
Journal Article

Over the past decades there has been an increasing recognition of the
need to promote dialogue between science and society. Often this takes the form
of formal processes, such as citizen’s juries, that are designed to allow the public
to contribut... Read More about Exploring serendipitous dialogue.

DRM and modchips: Time for the Court of Justice to do the "right" thing (2014)
Journal Article

This paper looks at three key cases; UsedSoft (C-458/13), PC Box (C-355/12) and Grund (C-458/13), on the topic of the extent and nature of a copyright holders abilityto constrain future uses of their copyrighted works in the field of software and cri... Read More about DRM and modchips: Time for the Court of Justice to do the "right" thing.

Foreword: The three dogmas of transcendentalism (2014)
Book Chapter

Osborne's devo deals disguise centralisation (2014)
Journal Article

Transnational organised crime monthly briefing 18 December 2014: Spotlight on the Americas (2014)
Journal Article

Dr Mary Young is a contributing analyst at Open Briefing.

An RGB-D based social behavior interpretation system for a humanoid social robot (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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 how human participants recognize the intenti... Read More about An RGB-D based social behavior interpretation system for a humanoid social robot.

Email counselling and the therapeutic relationship: A grounded theory analysis of therapists' experiences (2014)
Thesis

Provision of online counselling in its many forms has increased dramatically over the last 10 years, however research findings suggest that many therapists have concerns about whether a therapeutic relationship can be successfully engendered online,... Read More about Email counselling and the therapeutic relationship: A grounded theory analysis of therapists' experiences.

Public toilet provision, gender and menstruation (2014)
Journal Article

Molecular music: Repurposing a mixed quantum-classical atomic dynamics model as an audiovisual instrument (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Molecular Music is an offshoot of a long-term collaborative project, the multi- award winning danceroom Spectroscopy (dS)[1]. dS has its roots in computational molecular dynamics, and was originally conceived to serve as an interactive platform for m... Read More about Molecular music: Repurposing a mixed quantum-classical atomic dynamics model as an audiovisual instrument.