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Providing students with an easystart to higher education: The emerging role of digital technologies to facilitate students' transitions (2014)
Journal Article
Hamshire, C., & Cullen, W. R. (2014). Providing students with an easystart to higher education: The emerging role of digital technologies to facilitate students' transitions. International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments, 5(1), https://doi.org/10.4018/ijvple.2014010105

The transition to higher education can be problematic for some students as they adapt to institutional procedures and degree level working at the same time as developing new social networks. To help facilitate these complex transitions institutions a... Read More about Providing students with an easystart to higher education: The emerging role of digital technologies to facilitate students' transitions.

Anti-Social Behaviour among Homeless People: Assumptions or Reality? (2014)
Book Chapter
Harding, J., & Irving, A. (2014). Anti-Social Behaviour among Homeless People: Assumptions or Reality?. In Anti-social Behaviour in Britain (155-165). Palgrave Macmillan UK. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137399311_13

Historically, the visible engagement of homeless people in activities considered to be ‘anti-social’, such as drunkenness and begging, have made them the target of government action on public disorder, engendering antipathy, as much as sympathy, from... Read More about Anti-Social Behaviour among Homeless People: Assumptions or Reality?.

A Combined Technique for Randomisation of a Small Number of Participants with a Variety of Covariates into Treatment and Control Groups in Randomised Controlled Trials (2014)
Journal Article
Naemi, R., Healy, A., Sundar, L., Ramachandran, A., & Chockalingam, N. (2014). A Combined Technique for Randomisation of a Small Number of Participants with a Variety of Covariates into Treatment and Control Groups in Randomised Controlled Trials. Journal of Clinical Trials, 4(1), https://doi.org/10.4172/2167-0870.1000150

Background: Randomised controlled trials are widely favoured in research design as the most rigorous way of determining the effectiveness of a treatment. For assigning a small number of participants who are identified before the start of the randomis... Read More about A Combined Technique for Randomisation of a Small Number of Participants with a Variety of Covariates into Treatment and Control Groups in Randomised Controlled Trials.

Volumetric breast density and radiographic parameters (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Khan-Perez, J., Harkness, E., Mercer, C., Bydder, M., Sergeant, J., Morris, J., …Astley, S. M. (2014). Volumetric breast density and radiographic parameters. . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07887-8_38

The detection of breast cancer relies on high-quality images from digital mammography. Optimal levels of compression force are unknown, and UK national guidelines recommend forces of less than 200N. However, large variations in compression forces exi... Read More about Volumetric breast density and radiographic parameters.

Cloud Computing: A Comparison Of Adoption Issues Between Uk And Sub-Saharan Africa SMEs (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Dahiru, A. A., Bass, J., & Allison, I. (2014). Cloud Computing: A Comparison Of Adoption Issues Between Uk And Sub-Saharan Africa SMEs.

Cloud computing can provide remote access to computing resources via the internet. This paper analyses and compares the adoption of cloud computing by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the United Kingdom (UK) and Sub-Saharan Africa (SS-Afr... Read More about Cloud Computing: A Comparison Of Adoption Issues Between Uk And Sub-Saharan Africa SMEs.

The consistency of knee kinematic, kinetic, and ground reaction force variables collected during running and cutting manoeuvres (2014)
Journal Article
Alenezi, F., Herrington, L., Jones, P., & Jones, R. (2014). The consistency of knee kinematic, kinetic, and ground reaction force variables collected during running and cutting manoeuvres. Gait and Posture, 39S,

Introduction: Abnormal biomechanics during sports activities
can lead to increased joint-reaction forces, an increased valgus
angle and increased load at the knee. The majority of studies that
assess lower-limb biomechanics commonly use 3D motion... Read More about The consistency of knee kinematic, kinetic, and ground reaction force variables collected during running and cutting manoeuvres.

Subwavelength semiconductor lasers for dense chip-scale integration (2014)
Journal Article
Gu, Q., Smalley, J., Nezhad, M., Simic, A., Lee, J., Katz, M., …Fainman, Y. (2014). Subwavelength semiconductor lasers for dense chip-scale integration. Advances in optics and photonics, 6, 1-56. https://doi.org/10.1364/AOP.6.000001

Metal-clad subwavelength lasers have recently become excellent candidates for light sources in densely packed chip-scale photonic circuits. In this review, we summarize recent research efforts in the theory, design, fabrication, and characterization... Read More about Subwavelength semiconductor lasers for dense chip-scale integration.

Compressed gas domestic aerosol valve design using high viscous product (2014)
Journal Article
Nourian, A., Nasr, G., Pillai, D., & Waters, M. (2014). Compressed gas domestic aerosol valve design using high viscous product. International Journal of Multiphysics, 8(4), 437-460. https://doi.org/10.1260/1750-9548.8.4.437

Most of the current universal consumer aerosol products using high
viscous product such as cooking oil, antiperspirants, hair removal cream
are primarily used LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) propellant which is
unfriendly environmental. The advantag... Read More about Compressed gas domestic aerosol valve design using high viscous product.

Taking an army from dictatorship to democracy : lessons learned by the Bundeswehr in absorbing the East German Army (2014)
Journal Article
Corum, J. (2014). Taking an army from dictatorship to democracy : lessons learned by the Bundeswehr in absorbing the East German Army

After the reunification of Germany, the Bundeswehr had to take over the former East-German army (Nationale Volksarmee, NVA). The reduction in the numbers of military staff throughout Eastern Europe after the Cold War also made the task more difficult... Read More about Taking an army from dictatorship to democracy : lessons learned by the Bundeswehr in absorbing the East German Army.