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Advancing underutilized crops knowledge using SWRL-enabled ontologies - A survey and early experiment (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Due to their powerful knowledge representation formalism and associated inference mechanisms, ontology-based approaches have been increasingly adopted to formally represent domain knowledge. We propose the use of ontologies to advance knowledge-shari... Read More about Advancing underutilized crops knowledge using SWRL-enabled ontologies - A survey and early experiment.

Performance evaluation of activated carbon-based electrodes with novel power management system for long-term benthic microbial fuel cells (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014, Hydrogen Energy Publications, LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Underwater benthic microbial fuel cell (BMFC) systems were studied as a long-term sustainable power source for low-energy aquatic instruments (e.g. sensors). D... Read More about Performance evaluation of activated carbon-based electrodes with novel power management system for long-term benthic microbial fuel cells.

Army, police and society in Ireland: Civil, military and police relations in King's County and County Donegal c1870-1902 (2014)
Thesis

This thesis makes a detailed contribution to the study of social relations between tenantry, landowners, police and the military, and reveals continuities and complexities often missing from more generalised accounts. It begins by arguing that the p... Read More about Army, police and society in Ireland: Civil, military and police relations in King's County and County Donegal c1870-1902.

An exploration of the urban pedestrian experience, including how it is affected by the presence of motor traffic (2014)
Thesis

The experience of urban walking is one that can form an important package of time in people’s daily routine, with 8 million hours being spent daily walking in urban areas in the UK. This study explores urban walking experience as a holistic and multi... Read More about An exploration of the urban pedestrian experience, including how it is affected by the presence of motor traffic.

Social practice theory and sustainable mobility: An analysis of the English local transport planning as a system of provision (2014)
Thesis

The UK Government is committed to reducing Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions by 80% from 1990 levels by 2050. Reducing emissions from motorised transport and changing travel behaviour of people wishing to travel are two possible means of achieving this.... Read More about Social practice theory and sustainable mobility: An analysis of the English local transport planning as a system of provision.

Comparison of the kinetic performance and retentivity of sub-2μm core-shell, hybrid and conventional bare silica phases in hydrophilic interaction chromatography (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014 Elsevier B.V. The separation performance and retention properties of four sub-2μm underivatised silica materials were evaluated in the hydrophilic interaction chromatography (HILIC) mode. These included an organic/inorganic hybrid silica, conv... Read More about Comparison of the kinetic performance and retentivity of sub-2μm core-shell, hybrid and conventional bare silica phases in hydrophilic interaction chromatography.

Towards understandings of visitor experiences and practices that shape new meanings of place at National Trust sites (2014)
Thesis

The National Trust face a new set of challenges in recent years; as one of the most influential heritage bodies in the UK, it is responsible for the preservation and protection of a large number of diverse sites from historic buildings to woodland.... Read More about Towards understandings of visitor experiences and practices that shape new meanings of place at National Trust sites.

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

This presentation shares the approach and findings of a case study that explored how ‘South Blessed’, an informal youth network of creative citizens in Bristol, generates value through its activities. South Blessed showcases a diversity of young, cre... Read More about Creative citizens: Researching the value of creative citizenship through co-creative action research (A ‘transmedia’ case study).

Costing the invisible: A review of the evidence examining the links between body image, aspirations, education and workplace confidence
Preprint / Working Paper

Throughout the world, girls and women are interested in their looks. What has been perceived as an enjoyable part of life is however imbued with negative economic and psychological costs which are rarely calculated. International studies confirm the... Read More about Costing the invisible: A review of the evidence examining the links between body image, aspirations, education and workplace confidence.

An improved photometric stereo through distance estimation and light vector optimization from diffused maxima region (2014)
Journal Article

© 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Although photometric stereo offers an attractive technique for acquiring 3D data using low-cost equipment, inherent limitations in the methodology have served to limit its practical application, particularly... Read More about An improved photometric stereo through distance estimation and light vector optimization from diffused maxima region.

Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss and the troubled symbolic production of a Man Booker prizewinner (2014)
Book Chapter

Extract in lieu of an abstract:

Kiran Desai’s second novel, The Inheritance of Loss, was published by Penguin subsidiaries in India and North America in January 2006, and seven months later in the UK by Hamish Hamilton, a Penguin imprint. That sam... Read More about Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss and the troubled symbolic production of a Man Booker prizewinner.

Update on open access and the HEFCE requirements for the REF (2014)
Other

A presentation on UWE's response to the post 2014 HEFCE requirements for the Research Excellence Framework (REF). This presentation gives researchers the information needed to ensure their research is eligible for consideration for the next REF.

Validation of the educational needs assessment tool as a generic instrument for rheumatic diseases in seven European countries (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014, BMJ Publishing Group. All rights reserved. Objectives: To validate the educational needs assessment tool (ENAT) as a generic tool for assessing the educational needs of patients with rheumatic diseases in European Countries. Methods: A conven... Read More about Validation of the educational needs assessment tool as a generic instrument for rheumatic diseases in seven European countries.

Securing Circulation Through Mobility: Milieu and Emergency Response in the British Fire and Rescue Service (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014 Taylor & Francis. Abstract: A growing body of literature draws upon Foucault’s security oeuvre in examining how societies are secured at the level of circulation. Although demonstrating the strength of Foucault’s contribution to debates abou... Read More about Securing Circulation Through Mobility: Milieu and Emergency Response in the British Fire and Rescue Service.

Mental health consequences of overstretch in the UK Armed Forces, 2007-09: A population-based cohort study (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014 Elsevier Ltd. Background: Concerns have been raised about the effect of tour length on the mental health of the UK armed forces. In 2007, we reported that cumulative length of deployment was associated with mental illness in military personnel... Read More about Mental health consequences of overstretch in the UK Armed Forces, 2007-09: A population-based cohort study.

Road wars? The role of language in perceptions of bikes and cars sharing the road: Possible implications for social marketing interventions (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In ‘(re)emerging cycling regions’ such as Australia and the United Kingdom, cycling has experienced increased interest as a viable form of everyday transport as an alternative to cars and public transport, as well as growing popularity as leisure or... Read More about Road wars? The role of language in perceptions of bikes and cars sharing the road: Possible implications for social marketing interventions.

Applying the contact hypothesis to anti-fat attitudes: Contact with overweight people is related to how we interact with our bodies and those of others (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014 Elsevier Ltd. This paper is the first to apply the contact hypothesis, a social psychological theory of prejudice reduction, to the field of weight bias. It aims to investigate whether contact with overweight people is associated with the exte... Read More about Applying the contact hypothesis to anti-fat attitudes: Contact with overweight people is related to how we interact with our bodies and those of others.

Implementing an Injury Prevention Briefing to aid delivery of key fire safety messages in UK children's centres: Qualitative study nested within a multi-centre randomised controlled trial (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014 Beckett et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. Background: To improve the translation of public health evidence into practice, there is a need to increase practitioner involvement in initiative development, to place greater emphasis on contextua... Read More about Implementing an Injury Prevention Briefing to aid delivery of key fire safety messages in UK children's centres: Qualitative study nested within a multi-centre randomised controlled trial.

SF Now (Paradoxa 26) (2014)
Book

Special issue of annual journal also published as a book, co-edited by Mark Bould and Rhys Williams, collecting an array of articles, interviews and reviews on the intersections of contemporary sf and contemporary critical theory.

Rahnella victoriana sp. nov., Rahnella bruchi sp. nov., Rahnella woolbedingensis sp. nov., classification of Rahnella genomospecies 2 and 3 as Rahnella variigena sp. nov. and Rahnella inusitata sp. nov., respectively and emended description of the genus Rahnella (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014 Published by Elsevier GmbH. Isolations from oak symptomatic of Acute Oak Decline, alder and walnut log tissue, and buprestid beetles in 2009-2012 yielded 32 Gram-negative bacterial strains showing highest gyrB sequence similarity to Rahnella a... Read More about Rahnella victoriana sp. nov., Rahnella bruchi sp. nov., Rahnella woolbedingensis sp. nov., classification of Rahnella genomospecies 2 and 3 as Rahnella variigena sp. nov. and Rahnella inusitata sp. nov., respectively and emended description of the genus Rahnella.

The right of access to a lawyer at police stations: Making the European Union directive work in practice (2014)
Journal Article

Drawing on recent empirical research, the article examines the necessary conditions for effective implementation of the European Union Directive on the right of access to a lawyer. It discusses the range of complex and often inter-related factors tha... Read More about The right of access to a lawyer at police stations: Making the European Union directive work in practice.

Adaptive proportional fair parameterization based LTE scheduling using continuous actor-critic reinforcement learning (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2014 IEEE. Maintaining a desired trade-off performance between system throughput maximization and user fairness satisfaction constitutes a problem that is still far from being solved. In LTE systems, different tradeoff levels can be obtained by usi... Read More about Adaptive proportional fair parameterization based LTE scheduling using continuous actor-critic reinforcement learning.