Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

All Outputs (456)

The 'novelty' of Sarkozy's foreign policy towards NATO and the US : the long view (2010)
Journal Article
Keiger, J. (2010). The 'novelty' of Sarkozy's foreign policy towards NATO and the US : the long view. European Political Science, 9(2), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1057/eps.2010.7

Nicolas Sarkozy's reintegration of NATO's military command in 2009 has been presented as radical, given the traditional Gaullist stance of an arm's length relationship with NATO and the US. This article argues first, the difficulty for any French po... Read More about The 'novelty' of Sarkozy's foreign policy towards NATO and the US : the long view.

Zen and the art of film narrative: Towards a transcendental realism in film (2010)
Journal Article
Knudsen, E. (2010). Zen and the art of film narrative: Towards a transcendental realism in film. Journal of Screenwriting, 1(2), 343-355. https://doi.org/10.1386/josc.1.2.343/1

Nations and peoples are largely the stories they feed themselves. If they tell themselves stories that are lies, they will suffer the consequences of those lies. If they tell themselves stories that face their own truths, they will free their histori... Read More about Zen and the art of film narrative: Towards a transcendental realism in film.

Exploring the issues of men and self injury (2010)
Journal Article
Hogg, C. (2010). Exploring the issues of men and self injury. Mental Health Practice, 13(9), 16-20. https://doi.org/10.7748/mhp2010.06.13.9.16.c7804

The issues raised by self-harm in men are under-considered and under-researched.
This article explores these issues from the perspective of ‘Andy’, whose name has
been changed to protect his identity, who self-harms. It explores some of the issues... Read More about Exploring the issues of men and self injury.

Fitness test profiles as determined by the eurofit test battery in elite female gaelic football players (2010)
Journal Article
Keane, A., Scott, M., Dugdill, L., & Reilly, T. (2010). Fitness test profiles as determined by the eurofit test battery in elite female gaelic football players. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 24(6), 1502-1506. https://doi.org/10.1519/JSC.0b013e3181dc44a8

Gaelic Football is the main sport in Ireland and has potential for use as a means of fitness in health promotion
contexts. The present study entailed a cross-sectional comparison of performances in a motor test battery between elite female players a... Read More about Fitness test profiles as determined by the eurofit test battery in elite female gaelic football players.

A comparison of isokinetic and functional methods of assessing bilateral strength imbalance (2010)
Journal Article
Jones, P., & Bampouras, T. (2010). A comparison of isokinetic and functional methods of assessing bilateral strength imbalance. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 24(6), 1553-1558. https://doi.org/10.1519/JSC.0b013e3181dc4392

Muscle strength imbalances have been linked with poor agility performance and higher injury risk. Isokinetic dynamometry has been used to investigate such imbalances; however, this method is impractical and inaccessible for most strength and conditio... Read More about A comparison of isokinetic and functional methods of assessing bilateral strength imbalance.

Keeping information centre stage amid changing scenery (2010)
Journal Article
Grant, M. (2010). Keeping information centre stage amid changing scenery. Health Information and Libraries Journal, 27(2), 91-92. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-1842.2010.00892.x

With conference season upon us, consideration is given to the importance of subject-specific and library association conferences. The biennial Health Libraries Group (HLG) conference meets both these criteria and takes place in Greater Manchester in... Read More about Keeping information centre stage amid changing scenery.

Social networking approach for building trust in e-commerce (2010)
Journal Article
Saraee, M., Shahghlian, A., & Mazrooei, P. (2010). Social networking approach for building trust in e-commerce. Journal of communication and computer, 7(6), 49-53

E-commerce has played a major role for most business functions in today's competitive enterprises. In general, E-commerce has enabled online transactions while the most important factor in a transaction between two individuals is the degree of trust... Read More about Social networking approach for building trust in e-commerce.

Design of a magnetorheological robot gripper for handling of delicate food products with varying shapes (2010)
Journal Article
Pettersson, A., Davis, S., Gray, J., & Ohlsson, T. (2010). Design of a magnetorheological robot gripper for handling of delicate food products with varying shapes. Journal of Food Engineering, 98(3), 332-338. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfoodeng.2009.11.020

Natural food products are often variable in shape and easily bruised, making them difficult to handle for a
robot. In this paper, a novel robot gripper that utilizes the effects of a magnetorheological (MR) fluid is
described and evaluated. In the... Read More about Design of a magnetorheological robot gripper for handling of delicate food products with varying shapes.

Capital structure and earnings manipulation (2010)
Journal Article
Miglo, A. (2010). Capital structure and earnings manipulation. Journal of Economics and Business, 62(5), 367-382. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconbus.2010.05.001

We consider an optimal contract between an entrepreneur and an investor, where the entrepreneur is subject to a double-moral hazard problem (one being the choice of production effort and the other being earnings manipulation). Since the entrepreneur... Read More about Capital structure and earnings manipulation.

ARO: a new model-free optimization algorithm inspired from asexual reproduction (2010)
Journal Article
Farasat, A., Menhaj, M., Mansouri, T., & Moghadam, M. (2010). ARO: a new model-free optimization algorithm inspired from asexual reproduction. Applied Soft Computing, 10(4), 1284-1292. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2010.05.011

This paper proposes a new individual based optimization algorithm, which is inspired from asexual reproduction known as a remarkable biological phenomenon, called as Asexual Reproduction Optimization (ARO). ARO can be essentially considered as an evo... Read More about ARO: a new model-free optimization algorithm inspired from asexual reproduction.

Forecasting and stock control : a study in a wholesaling context (2010)
Journal Article
Syntetos, A., Babai, M., Davies, J., & Stephenson, D. (2010). Forecasting and stock control : a study in a wholesaling context. International Journal of Production Economics, 127(1), 103-111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2010.05.001

Wholesalers add value to the products they deal with by essentially bringing them closer to the end consumers. In that respect, the effective control of stock levels becomes an important measure of operational performance especially in the context of... Read More about Forecasting and stock control : a study in a wholesaling context.

Synthesis and characterisation of mesoporous silica phases containing heteroatoms, and their cation exchange properties. Part 3. Measurement of distribution coefficients for uptake of 137-Cs, 89-Sr and 57-Co radioisotopes (2010)
Journal Article
Dyer, A., Newton, J., & Pillinger, M. (2010). Synthesis and characterisation of mesoporous silica phases containing heteroatoms, and their cation exchange properties. Part 3. Measurement of distribution coefficients for uptake of 137-Cs, 89-Sr and 57-Co radioisotopes. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 130(1-3), 56-62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micromeso.2009.10.013

Well characterised tunable [1] MCM-41 phases with differing pore structures and containing aluminium, boron and zinc heteroatoms were described in Part 1 [2] to this series. Part 2 [3] illustrated that representative phases exhibited cation exchange... Read More about Synthesis and characterisation of mesoporous silica phases containing heteroatoms, and their cation exchange properties. Part 3. Measurement of distribution coefficients for uptake of 137-Cs, 89-Sr and 57-Co radioisotopes.

Synthesis and characterisation of mesoporous silica phases containing heteroatoms, and their cation exchange properties. Part 4. Measurement of distribution coefficients for 241-Am, 51-Cr, 59-Fe, 54-Mn, 63-Ni, 236-Pu and 65-Zn (2010)
Journal Article
Dyer, A., Newton, J., Pillinger, M., & Harjula, R. (2010). Synthesis and characterisation of mesoporous silica phases containing heteroatoms, and their cation exchange properties. Part 4. Measurement of distribution coefficients for 241-Am, 51-Cr, 59-Fe, 54-Mn, 63-Ni, 236-Pu and 65-Zn. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 130(1-3), 63-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micromeso.2009.06.012

Previous papers in this series have described the synthesis and characterisation of a series of MCM-41 phases of differing pore structure and framework compositions [1], isotherm studies designed to illustrate their cation selectivity [2], and their... Read More about Synthesis and characterisation of mesoporous silica phases containing heteroatoms, and their cation exchange properties. Part 4. Measurement of distribution coefficients for 241-Am, 51-Cr, 59-Fe, 54-Mn, 63-Ni, 236-Pu and 65-Zn.

Bistable dark solitons of a cubic-quintic Helmholtz equation (2010)
Journal Article
Christian, J., McDonald, G., & Chamorro-Posada, P. (2010). Bistable dark solitons of a cubic-quintic Helmholtz equation. Physical Review A, 81(5), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.81.053831

We report, to the best of our knowledge, the first exact analytical bistable dark spatial solitons of a nonlinear Helmholtz equation with a cubic-quintic refractive-index model. Our analysis begins with an investigation of the modulational instabili... Read More about Bistable dark solitons of a cubic-quintic Helmholtz equation.

CSNL: A cost-sensitive non-linear decision tree algorithm (2010)
Journal Article
Vadera, S. (2010). CSNL: A cost-sensitive non-linear decision tree algorithm. ACM transactions on knowledge discovery from data, 4(2), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1145/1754428.1754429

This article presents a new decision tree learning algorithm called CSNL that induces Cost-Sensitive Non-Linear decision trees. The algorithm is based on the hypothesis that nonlinear decision nodes provide a better basis than axis-parallel decision... Read More about CSNL: A cost-sensitive non-linear decision tree algorithm.

Stroke-related differences in axial body segment coordination during preplanned and reactive changes in walking direction (2010)
Journal Article
Hollands, K., van Vliet, P., Zietz, D., Wing, A., & Hollands, M. (2010). Stroke-related differences in axial body segment coordination during preplanned and reactive changes in walking direction. Experimental Brain Research, 202(3), 591-604. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-010-2162-1

This study quantitatively describes differences
between participants with hemiparetic stroke and agematched
healthy participants in axial body segment and gait
kinematics during a direction change task. Participants were
required to change walkin... Read More about Stroke-related differences in axial body segment coordination during preplanned and reactive changes in walking direction.

Is clinical updating a valuable mechanism for enhancing the student experience? (2010)
Journal Article
Tickle, E., Davys, D., & Mckenna, J. (2010). Is clinical updating a valuable mechanism for enhancing the student experience?. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 73(5), 237-239

This opinion piece aims to clarify the concepts of the theory-practice and practice-theory gaps, and to begin to explore the impact of these gaps on efficacious occupational therapy practice. Any perceived gaps between theoretical knowledge and prac... Read More about Is clinical updating a valuable mechanism for enhancing the student experience?.