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Online traffic-aware fault detection for networks-on-chip (2013)
Journal Article
Liu, J., Harkin, J., Li, Y., & Maguire, L. (2014). Online traffic-aware fault detection for networks-on-chip. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpdc.2013.09.001

A key requirement for modern Networks-on-Chip (NoC) is the ability to detect and diagnose faults and failures. This paper addresses the challenge of fault diagnosis using online testing where the interruption of the runtime operation (performance) un... Read More about Online traffic-aware fault detection for networks-on-chip.

Purchase offering quality: The effects of buyer behaviour on organizational supplying behaviour (2013)
Journal Article
Ramsay, J., Wagner, B., & Kelly, S. (2013). Purchase offering quality: The effects of buyer behaviour on organizational supplying behaviour. International Journal of Operations and Production Management, 33(10), 1260-1282. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOPM-09-2011-0325

Purpose
This paper aims to explore the supply chain management problem of understanding the response of suppliers to buyer behaviours and characteristics.

Design/methodology/approach
The paper reviews the relevant literature in search of referen... Read More about Purchase offering quality: The effects of buyer behaviour on organizational supplying behaviour.

High-performance tandem silicon solar cells on F: SnO<inf>2</inf> (2013)
Journal Article
Yates, H., Evans, P., Sheel, D., Nicolay, S., Ding, L., & Ballif, C. (2013). High-performance tandem silicon solar cells on F: SnO2. Surface and Coatings Technology, 230, 228-233. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfcoat.2013.05.029

High-performance transparent conducting oxides (TCOs) have significance for optimising PV performance. The efficiency of the resulting solar cells is dependent particularly on achieving high light scattering, low resistivity and low absorption (via l... Read More about High-performance tandem silicon solar cells on F: SnO<inf>2</inf>.

Panopticons within panopticons : surveillance inversions in Willie Doherty’s video installations (2013)
Journal Article
Blair, P. (2013). Panopticons within panopticons : surveillance inversions in Willie Doherty’s video installations. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 49(5), 539-551. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2013.842775

From the understanding that postcolonialism is linked to power structures, and that surveillance activity is a means for knowledge acquisition, this article considers different ways of seeing/being seen as avenues for gaining control. It addresses su... Read More about Panopticons within panopticons : surveillance inversions in Willie Doherty’s video installations.

Automatic detection of lift-off and touch-down of a pick-up walker using 3D kinematics (2013)
Journal Article
Grootveld, L., Thies, S., Ogden, D., Howard, D., & Kenney, L. (2014). Automatic detection of lift-off and touch-down of a pick-up walker using 3D kinematics. Medical Engineering and Physics, 36(2), 255-260. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.medengphy.2013.08.008

Walking aids have been associated with falls and it is believed that incorrect use limits their usefulness. Measures are therefore needed that characterize their stable use and the classification of key events in walking aid movement is the first ste... Read More about Automatic detection of lift-off and touch-down of a pick-up walker using 3D kinematics.

Sources in the news (2013)
Journal Article

In analysing the news media's role in serving the functions associated with democratic citizenship, the number, diversity and range of news sources are central. Research conducted on sources has overwhelmingly focused on individual national systems.... Read More about Sources in the news.

Habitat loss and mammalian extinction patterns: are the reserves in the Quadrilátero Ferrífero, southeastern Brazil, effective in conserving mammals? (2013)
Journal Article

Habitat loss is considered to be the principal cause of the local extinction of mammals worldwide. We assessed the extinction pattern of medium- and large-sized mammals caused by the effects of habitat loss in reserves in the Quadrilátero Ferrífero,... Read More about Habitat loss and mammalian extinction patterns: are the reserves in the Quadrilátero Ferrífero, southeastern Brazil, effective in conserving mammals?.

‘Swift, Simple, effective justice?’ Identifying the aims of penalty notices for disorder and whether these have been realised in practice (2013)
Journal Article
Grace, S. (2014). ‘Swift, Simple, effective justice?’ Identifying the aims of penalty notices for disorder and whether these have been realised in practice. Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 53(1), 69-82. https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12034

Since the introduction of penalty notices for disorder (PNDs), there has been no clear political statement as to the purpose of the scheme. The findings of a grounded analysis of the relevant parliamentary debates, consultation papers and White Paper... Read More about ‘Swift, Simple, effective justice?’ Identifying the aims of penalty notices for disorder and whether these have been realised in practice.

The Paediatric Observation Priority Score (POPS) : a useful tool to predict likelihood of admission from the emergency department (2013)
Journal Article
Kelly, J., Rowland, A., Cotterill, S., Lees, H., & Kamara, M. (2013). The Paediatric Observation Priority Score (POPS) : a useful tool to predict likelihood of admission from the emergency department. Emergency Medicine Journal, 30(10), 877.3-878. https://doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2013-203113.29

Objectives & Background: No specific early warning score universally validated for use in all children presenting to the Emergency Department (ED) exists. POPS is a novel aggregate scoring system, designed for ED use.
Methods: Prospectively collecte... Read More about The Paediatric Observation Priority Score (POPS) : a useful tool to predict likelihood of admission from the emergency department.

Exploration of the experiences of young mothers seeking and accessing health services (2013)
Journal Article
accessing health services. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 31(4), 399-412

Objective: The objective was to explore young mothers’ experiences of seeking and accessing health services, specifically maternity care.

Study design: A phenomenological approach underpinned by the work of Husserl and guided by the framework off... Read More about Exploration of the experiences of young mothers seeking and accessing health services.

Modeling of dissolved oxygen applying stepwise regression and a template-based fuzzy logic system (2013)
Journal Article
Zounemat-Kermani, M., & Scholz, M. (2014). Modeling of dissolved oxygen applying stepwise regression and a template-based fuzzy logic system. Journal of Environmental Engineering, 140(1), 69-76. https://doi.org/10.1061/%28ASCE%29EE.1943-7870.0000780

This paper develops a template-based fuzzy inference system (TFIS) capable of simulating the dissolved oxygen (DO) concentration of an example stream by using daily data (2009–2012). Stepwise regression (SR) analysis and Mallows’ Cp statistic were em... Read More about Modeling of dissolved oxygen applying stepwise regression and a template-based fuzzy logic system.

Self-consistent field theory for the interactions between keratin intermediate filaments (2013)
Journal Article
Akinshina, A., Jambon-Puillet, E., Warren, P., & Noro, M. (2013). Self-consistent field theory for the interactions between keratin intermediate filaments. BMC Biophysics, 6(1), 12. https://doi.org/10.1186/2046-1682-6-12

Background: Keratins are important structural proteins found in skin, hair and nails. Keratin Intermediate Filaments are major components of corneocytes, nonviable horny cells of the Stratum Corneum, the outermost layer of skin. It is considered that... Read More about Self-consistent field theory for the interactions between keratin intermediate filaments.

A hybrid heuristic approach for attribute-oriented mining (2013)
Journal Article
Muyeba, M. K., Crockett, K., Wang, W., & Keane, J. A. (2014). A hybrid heuristic approach for attribute-oriented mining. Decision Support Systems, 57, 139-149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2013.08.012

We present a hybrid heuristic algorithm, clusterAOI, that generates a more interesting generalised table than obtained via attribute-oriented induction (AOI). AOI tends to overgeneralise as it uses a fixed global static threshold to cluster and gener... Read More about A hybrid heuristic approach for attribute-oriented mining.

An exploratory study on the potential of social enterprise to act as the institutional glue of network governance (2013)
Journal Article
Park, C., & Wilding, M. (2014). An exploratory study on the potential of social enterprise to act as the institutional glue of network governance. Social Science Journal, 51(1), 120-129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soscij.2013.08.004

This study combines two topics of contemporary salience for public administration: social enterprise and governance networks. While operating at different levels, both are institutions which attempt to draw together the three pillars of state, market... Read More about An exploratory study on the potential of social enterprise to act as the institutional glue of network governance.

Visual cue training to improve walking and turning after stroke: a study protocol for a multi-centre, single blind randomised pilot trial (2013)
Journal Article
Hollands, K., Pelton, T., Wimperis, A., Whitham, D., Jowett, S., Wing, A., & van Vliet, P. (2013). Visual cue training to improve walking and turning after stroke: a study protocol for a multi-centre, single blind randomised pilot trial. Trials, 14(276), https://doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-14-276

Visual information comprises one of the most salient sources of information used to control walking and the dependence on vision to maintain dynamic stability increases following a stroke. We hypothesize, therefore, that rehabilitation efforts incorp... Read More about Visual cue training to improve walking and turning after stroke: a study protocol for a multi-centre, single blind randomised pilot trial.

Development and psychometric testing of the online Adolescent Diabetes Needs Assessment Tool (ADNAT) (2013)
Journal Article
Cooper, H., Spencer, J., Lancaster, G., Titman, A., Johnson, M., Wheeler, S., & Lwin, R. (2014). Development and psychometric testing of the online Adolescent Diabetes Needs Assessment Tool (ADNAT). Journal of Advanced Nursing, 70(2), 454-468. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.12235

Aim. To report on the development and psychometric testing of the Adolescent
Diabetes Needs Assessment Tool.
Background. The UK has the fifth largest paediatric diabetes population in the
world, but one of the poorest levels of diabetes control, h... Read More about Development and psychometric testing of the online Adolescent Diabetes Needs Assessment Tool (ADNAT).

Regulation of myocardial interleukin-6 expression by p53 and STAT1 (2013)
Journal Article
Carroll, C., Sayan, B., Bailey, S., & McCormick, J. (2013). Regulation of myocardial interleukin-6 expression by p53 and STAT1. Journal of Interferon and Cytokine Research, 33(9), https://doi.org/10.1089/jir.2012.0165

Cardiovascular diseases are a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. The interferon inducible transcriptional activator signal transducer and activator of transcription-1 (STAT1) and p53 are two critical transcriptional factors that have p... Read More about Regulation of myocardial interleukin-6 expression by p53 and STAT1.

A tool for urban soundscape evaluation applying Support Vector Machines for developing a soundscape classification model (2013)
Journal Article
Torija Martinez, A., Ruiz, D., & Ramos-Ridao, A. (2014). A tool for urban soundscape evaluation applying Support Vector Machines for developing a soundscape classification model. Science of the Total Environment, 482-83, 440-451. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.07.108

To ensure appropriate soundscape management in urban environments, the urban-planning authorities need a
range of tools that enable such a task to be performed. An essential step during the management of urban
areas from a sound standpoint should b... Read More about A tool for urban soundscape evaluation applying Support Vector Machines for developing a soundscape classification model.

Fathers at the birth? (2013)
Journal Article
Hollins-Martin, C. (2013). Fathers at the birth?. Practising Midwife, Sept, 1

In the West there is a contemporary expectation that fathers
should be present at the birth of their babies (Longworth and Kingdon 2011), with many unclear of their job description(Vehvilainen-Julkunen and Liukkkonnen 1998). A former Royal College o... Read More about Fathers at the birth?.