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Autonomous geographies in the anti-US military base movements (2011)
Journal Article
Fois, F., & Paragano, D. (2011). Autonomous geographies in the anti-US military base movements. Peace Review, 23(3), 313-319. https://doi.org/10.1080/10402659.2011.596055

The construction of a military base in a foreign country paints a portrait
of international relationships based on a top-down decision-making process.
Despite the huge academic and political debate about the importance of a participative
approach... Read More about Autonomous geographies in the anti-US military base movements.

A qualitative study of the experiences of women who are obese and pregnant in the UK (2011)
Journal Article
Furber, C. M., & McGowan, L. (2011). A qualitative study of the experiences of women who are obese and pregnant in the UK. Midwifery, 27(4), 437-444. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2010.04.001

Objective
to explore the experiences related to obesity in women with a body mass index (BMI)>35 kg/m2 during the childbearing process.

Design
a qualitative design was used. Data were collected using semi-structured interviews and field notes. W... Read More about A qualitative study of the experiences of women who are obese and pregnant in the UK.

Changing Computing Curricula in African Universities: Evaluating Progress and Challenges via Design-Reality Gap Analysis (2011)
Journal Article
Bass, J., & Heeks, R. (2011). Changing Computing Curricula in African Universities: Evaluating Progress and Challenges via Design-Reality Gap Analysis. The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, 48(1), 1-39. https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1681-4835.2011.tb00341.x

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are diffusing rapidly into all African nations. Effective use of the new technology requires a step-change in local skill levels; including a step-change in ICT-related university education. Part of t... Read More about Changing Computing Curricula in African Universities: Evaluating Progress and Challenges via Design-Reality Gap Analysis.

Qualitative exploration of empowerment from the perspective of young people with psychosis (2011)
Journal Article
Grealish, A., Tai, S., Hunter, A., & Morrison, A. (2013). Qualitative exploration of empowerment from the perspective of young people with psychosis. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 20(2), 136-148. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpp.785

Evidence suggests that empowerment is central to improving the effectiveness and quality of mental health care. Empowerment includes increased involvement, choice and access to health information for service users. Within the process of empowerment,... Read More about Qualitative exploration of empowerment from the perspective of young people with psychosis.

Computation methods affect the reported values of in vivo human tendon stiffness (2011)
Journal Article
Pearson, S., & Onambele, G. (2012). Computation methods affect the reported values of in vivo human tendon stiffness. Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 5(1), 291-297. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmbbm.2011.08.008

Scientific validity is questionable when findings from studies cannot be used to make sense of physiological and/or biomechanical data. In particular, is the case of in vivo determination of tendon stiffness (K). Here, approaches range from taking th... Read More about Computation methods affect the reported values of in vivo human tendon stiffness.

Third-order nonlinearity in silicon beyond 2350 nm (2011)
Journal Article
Gholami, F., Zlatanovic, S., Simic, A., Liu, L., Borlaug, D., Alic, N., …Radic, S. (2011). Third-order nonlinearity in silicon beyond 2350 nm. Applied Physics Letters, 99(8), https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3630130

Measurement of the Kerr nonlinearity in silicon is reported in the 2350 nm to 2750 nm wavelength range, where three-photon absorption effect is present. The measurements confirm that the Kerr interaction strength is comparable to that in the near... Read More about Third-order nonlinearity in silicon beyond 2350 nm.

Modeling batch annealing process using data mining techniques for cold rolled steel sheets (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Saraee, M., Moghimi, M., & Bagheri, A. (2011, August). Modeling batch annealing process using data mining techniques for cold rolled steel sheets. Presented at The 17th Annual ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, San Diego

The annealing process is one of the important operations in production of cold rolled steel sheets, which significantly influences the final product quality of cold rolling mills. In this process, cold rolled coils are heated slowly to a desired temp... Read More about Modeling batch annealing process using data mining techniques for cold rolled steel sheets.

Examination of the online reputation systems problems and provide solution (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Ehghaghi Kakoli, Z., Nematbakhsh, M., & Saraee, M. (2011, August). Examination of the online reputation systems problems and provide solution. Presented at 13th IEEE Joint International Computer Science and Information Technology Conference (JICSIT 2011), Chongqing, China

Electronic commerce communities are considered to
be communities that provide opportunities for the sellers on
the one hand and include threats for the purchasers on the
other hand. One of the ways to reduce such threats in these
open communities... Read More about Examination of the online reputation systems problems and provide solution.

Euro-American discussion document on entry and advanced level practice in nuclear medicine (2011)
Journal Article
Waterstram-Rich, K., Hogg, P., Testanera, G., & Medvedec, H. (2011). Euro-American discussion document on entry and advanced level practice in nuclear medicine. Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology, 39(3), 240-248. https://doi.org/10.2967/jnmt.111.096354

The European Association of Nuclear Medicine Technologist Committee (EANMTC) and the Society of Nuclear Medicine Technologist Section (SNMTS) meet biannually to consider matters of mutual importance. These meetings are held during the SNM and EANM an... Read More about Euro-American discussion document on entry and advanced level practice in nuclear medicine.

Visioning a University (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Elkadi, H. (2011, August). Visioning a University. Presented at International Conference of Australian Institute of Landscape Architecture (AILA), Brisbane, Australia

Intracellular mapping with SERS-encoded gold nanostars (2011)
Journal Article
Rodríguez-Lorenzo, L., Krpetic, Z., Barbosa, S., Alvarez-Puebla, R., Liz-Marzán, L., Prior, I., & Brust, M. (2011). Intracellular mapping with SERS-encoded gold nanostars. Integrative Biology, 3(9), 922-926. https://doi.org/10.1039/C1IB00029B

Here we report on the design, synthesis and application of small, highly bright, star-shaped SERS encoded single nanoparticles with the ability of providing an optical signal upon excitation with near infrared light. These particles are colloidally s... Read More about Intracellular mapping with SERS-encoded gold nanostars.

Exploring individual differences as determining factors in student academic achievement in higher education (2011)
Journal Article
student academic achievement in higher education. Studies in Higher Education, 37(7), 793-810. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2010.545948

study investigated the association and relative influence of
cognitive/motivational and demographic factors on final degree grade point average (GPA) in a single undergraduate cohort. Although academic selfefficacy, approaches to learning, prior ach... Read More about Exploring individual differences as determining factors in student academic achievement in higher education.

White noise : a critical evaluation of social work education’s engagement with whiteness studies (2011)
Journal Article
Jeyasingham, D. (2012). White noise : a critical evaluation of social work education’s engagement with whiteness studies. British Journal of Social Work, 42(4), 669-686. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcr110

Literature about whiteness and white identities has proliferated across the social sciences and humanities over recent years. However, there has so far been only a small amount of writing in social work, almost all concerned with social work educatio... Read More about White noise : a critical evaluation of social work education’s engagement with whiteness studies.

Hubble bubble toil and trouble : the special case of emergency services (2011)
Book Chapter
Sobreperez, P. (2011). Hubble bubble toil and trouble : the special case of emergency services. In Y. Dwivedi, M. Wade, & S. Schneberger (Eds.), Information Systems Theory Explaining and Predicting Our Digital Society (143-158). New York: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9707-4_9

The author outlines the technological frames strand of social shaping of technology theory and posits that the dimensions used by the major proponents of the theory to not necessarily apply to all situations. The proposal is to use an analogy of a te... Read More about Hubble bubble toil and trouble : the special case of emergency services.

Nano-structured morphological features of pulsed direct current magnetron sputtered Mo films for photovoltaic applications (2011)
Journal Article
Karthikeyan, S., Hill, A., & Pilkington, R. (2011). Nano-structured morphological features of pulsed direct current magnetron sputtered Mo films for photovoltaic applications. Thin Solid Films, 520(1), 266-271. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2011.07.069

Historically, molybdenum thin films have been used as the back contact for Cu(In,Ga)Se2 based solar cells and as such the properties of these layers play an important role in the overall cell structure. This paper describes the production of molybden... Read More about Nano-structured morphological features of pulsed direct current magnetron sputtered Mo films for photovoltaic applications.

Scattering of Helmholtz spatial optical solitons at material interfaces (2011)
Presentation / Conference
McCoy, E., Christian, J., & Mcdonald, G. (2011, August). Scattering of Helmholtz spatial optical solitons at material interfaces. Presented at First Annual Student Conference on Complexity Science, Winchester University, UK

The behaviour of light at the interface between different materials essentially defines the entire field of Optics. Indeed, the reflection and refraction properties of plane waves at the boundary between two dissimilar linear dielectrics are analysed... Read More about Scattering of Helmholtz spatial optical solitons at material interfaces.

Spatial solitons and instabilities in two-colour Helmholtz light fields (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Bostock, C., Christian, J., & Mcdonald, G. (2011, August). Spatial solitons and instabilities in two-colour Helmholtz light fields. Presented at First Annual Student Conference on Complexity Science, Winchester University, UK

Two-colour optical beams comprise a pair of light waves at two well-separated temporal frequencies, and which are coupled through system nonlinearity (e.g., the Kerr-type response in the host material of a planar waveguide). In addition to their fund... Read More about Spatial solitons and instabilities in two-colour Helmholtz light fields.

The pressure–temperature phase diagram of MgH2 and isotopic substitution (2011)
Journal Article
Moser, D., Baldissin, G., Bull, D., Riley, D., Morrison, I., Ross, D., …Noreus, D. (2011). The pressure–temperature phase diagram of MgH2 and isotopic substitution. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 23(30), 305403. https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/23/30/305403

Computational thermodynamics using density functional theory ab initio codes is a powerful tool for calculating phase diagrams. The method is usually applied at the standard pressure of p = 1 bar and where the Gibbs energy is assumed to be equal to t... Read More about The pressure–temperature phase diagram of MgH2 and isotopic substitution.

Influence of gender and anaesthesia type on day surgery anxiety (2011)
Journal Article
Mitchell, M. (2011). Influence of gender and anaesthesia type on day surgery anxiety. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 68(5), 1014-1025. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2648.2011.05801.x

Aim: To investigate the possible influence of gender and anaesthesia type on anxiety prior to day surgery.
Background: Elective surgery undertaken on a day, short stay or ‘day of surgery’ basis is growing and much emphasis also placed on ‘enhanced r... Read More about Influence of gender and anaesthesia type on day surgery anxiety.

Terrestrial laser scanning to estimate plot-level forest canopy fuel properties (2011)
Journal Article
Garcia, M., Danson, F., Riano, D., Chuvieco, E., Ramirez Cardozo, F., & Bandugula, V. (2011). Terrestrial laser scanning to estimate plot-level forest canopy fuel properties. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 13(4), 636-645. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2011.03.006

This paper evaluates the potential of a terrestrial laser scanner (TLS) to characterize forest canopy fuel
characteristics at plot level. Several canopy properties, namely canopy height, canopy cover, canopy base
height and fuel strata gap were est... Read More about Terrestrial laser scanning to estimate plot-level forest canopy fuel properties.