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Challenging representations of dementia in contemporary western fiction (2015)
Book Chapter
Capstick, A., Chatwin, J., & Ludwin, K. (2015). Challenging representations of dementia in contemporary western fiction. In A. Swinnen, & M. Schweda (Eds.), Popularising Dementia : Public Expressions and Representations of Forgetfulness (229-253). London: [transcript] Independent Academic Publishing. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839427101

Fiction film is one of the most influential vehicles for the popularization of
dementia. It is likely to have a particular influence on the way dementia is
constructed by society at large, not least due to its consumption in the guise
of entertain... Read More about Challenging representations of dementia in contemporary western fiction.

Diversity in a honey bee pathogen: first report of a third master variant of the Deformed Wing Virus quasispecies (2015)
Journal Article
Mordecai, G. J., Wilfert, L., Martin, S. J., Jones, I. M., & Schroeder, D. C. (2016). Diversity in a honey bee pathogen: first report of a third master variant of the Deformed Wing Virus quasispecies. ISME Journal, 10(5), 1264-1273. https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2015.178

Treatment of emerging RNA viruses is hampered by the high mutation and replication rates that enable these viruses to operate as a quasispecies. Declining honey bee populations have been attributed to the ectoparasitic mite Varroa destructor and its... Read More about Diversity in a honey bee pathogen: first report of a third master variant of the Deformed Wing Virus quasispecies.

'Drowning in here in his bloody sea' : exploring TV cop drama's representations of the impact of stress in modern policing (2015)
Journal Article
Cummins, I., & King, M. (2015). 'Drowning in here in his bloody sea' : exploring TV cop drama's representations of the impact of stress in modern policing. Policing and Society, 27(8), 832-846. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2015.1112387

The Criminal Justice System is a part of society that is both familiar and hidden. It is familiar in that a large part of daily news and television drama is devoted to it (Carrabine, 2008; Jewkes, 2011). It is hidden in the sense that the majority of... Read More about 'Drowning in here in his bloody sea' : exploring TV cop drama's representations of the impact of stress in modern policing.

Data standards can boost metabolomics research, and if there is a will, there is a way (2015)
Journal Article
Rocca-Serra, P., Salek, R., Arita, M., Correa, E., Dayalan, S., Gonzalez-Beltran, A., …Neumann, S. (2016). Data standards can boost metabolomics research, and if there is a will, there is a way. Metabolomics, 12(1), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11306-015-0879-3

Thousands of articles using metabolomics approaches are published every year. With the increasing amounts of data being produced, mere description of investigations as text in manuscripts is not sufficient to enable re-use anymore: the underlying dat... Read More about Data standards can boost metabolomics research, and if there is a will, there is a way.

Trying to be good : lessons in oral history and performance (2015)
Book Chapter
Rouverol, A. (2015). Trying to be good : lessons in oral history and performance. In R. Perks, & A. Thomson (Eds.), The oral history reader (636-655). London: Routledge

In this essay, Alicia Rouverol assesses an oral history performance event based on life review interviews in a US prison. She explores how life review helped inmates to make new sense of their lives, the challenges of sharing authority in a prison se... Read More about Trying to be good : lessons in oral history and performance.

Multicentre analysis of incidental findings on low-resolution CT attenuation correction images : an extended study (2015)
Journal Article
CT attenuation correction images : an extended study. British Journal of Radiology, 88(1056), https://doi.org/10.1259/bjr.20150555

Objective: To review new incidental findings detected
on low-resolution CT attenuation correction (CTAC)
images acquired during single-photon emission CT-CT
myocardial perfusion imaging as an extension to our
initial study.
Methods: CTAC images... Read More about Multicentre analysis of incidental findings on low-resolution CT attenuation correction images : an extended study.

Barriers to public private partnership projects in developing countries (2015)
Journal Article
Babatunde, S., Perera, S., Zhou, L., & Udeaja, C. (2015). Barriers to public private partnership projects in developing countries. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 22(6), 669-691. https://doi.org/10.1108/ECAM-12-2014-0159

Purpose – Top managers who possess outstanding leadership competence make significant
contributions toward achieving project success. The relationship between the top managers’ leadership
and infrastructure sustainability (IS), one of the most impo... Read More about Barriers to public private partnership projects in developing countries.

Ethical practice for the playwork practitioner (2015)
Journal Article
Stonehouse, D. (2015). Ethical practice for the playwork practitioner. International Journal of Play, 4(3), 314-323. https://doi.org/10.1080/21594937.2015.1106053

This paper discusses the importance of ethics for play and playwork practitioners as the sector and work force move towards becoming a recognised profession within the United Kingdom.
Exactly what is meant by the term ethics is defined, before movin... Read More about Ethical practice for the playwork practitioner.

Sampling Salford : ‘musical quotation’ and the female voice (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Scott, J. (2015, November). Sampling Salford : ‘musical quotation’ and the female voice. Presented at Women in Sound/Women on Sound symposium, Lancaster University

This presentation arises from an on-going project, exploring the activation of popular music from Salford, through a series of live intermedial events. Live intermedial practice involves the real time mixing of sound, image, object and text and can m... Read More about Sampling Salford : ‘musical quotation’ and the female voice.

The Space Between Us : evaluating a multi-user affective brain-computer music interface (2015)
Journal Article
Eaton, J., Williams, D., & Miranda, E. (2015). The Space Between Us : evaluating a multi-user affective brain-computer music interface. Brain-Computer Interfaces, 2(2-3), 103-116. https://doi.org/10.1080/2326263x.2015.1101922

Music as a mechanism for neuro-feedback presents an interesting medium for artistic exploration, especially with regard to passive BCI control. Passive control in a brain-computer music interface (BCMI) provides a means for approximating mental state... Read More about The Space Between Us : evaluating a multi-user affective brain-computer music interface.

Strong investiture rules and minority governments in Romania (2015)
Book Chapter
Chiva, C. (2015). Strong investiture rules and minority governments in Romania. In B. Rasch, S. Martin, & J. Cheibub (Eds.), Parliaments and Government Formation: Unpacking Investiture Rules (197-216). Oxford: Oxford University Press

The chapter examines the process of government formation in post-communist Romania by seeking to explain the combination of a high incidence of minority cabinets, on the one hand, and the strong investiture rules characteristic of positive parliament... Read More about Strong investiture rules and minority governments in Romania.

Implementing BIM to streamline a Design, Manufacture and Fitting Workflow – A Case Study on a Fit-out SME in the UK. (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Machado, M., Underwood, J., & Fleming, A. (2015, November). Implementing BIM to streamline a Design, Manufacture and Fitting Workflow – A Case Study on a Fit-out SME in the UK. Presented at CITA BIM Gathering 2015, Dublin

Following the launch of the Government Construction Strategy in 2011, the UK construction sector has witnessed a significant increase in the awareness and adoption of Building Information Modelling (BIM). As recognised by the strategy, there are syne... Read More about Implementing BIM to streamline a Design, Manufacture and Fitting Workflow – A Case Study on a Fit-out SME in the UK..

Design Science: Choosing an appropriate methodology for research in BIM. (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Kehily, D., & Underwood, J. (2015, November). Design Science: Choosing an appropriate methodology for research in BIM. Presented at CITA BIM Gathering 2015, Dublin

This paper discusses Building Information Modelling (BIM) in relation to proposing design science as a methodology for BIM research. The paper firstly outlines how BIM is changing construction work practices to a more collaborative and integrated set... Read More about Design Science: Choosing an appropriate methodology for research in BIM..

Applying lean principles to higher education via a collaborative delivery approach (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Comiskey, D., Fleming, A., McLernon, T., & Harty, J. (2015, November). Applying lean principles to higher education via a collaborative delivery approach. Presented at CITA BIM Gathering Conference, Dublin, Ireland

Despite a momentum shift in professional practice towards BIM ways of working and a collaborative approach to project delivery, collaborative working practices amongst built environment students are still far from common practice within Higher Educat... Read More about Applying lean principles to higher education via a collaborative delivery approach.

How to assess deteriorating patients (2015)
Journal Article
Barker, M., Rushton, M., & Smith, J. (2015). How to assess deteriorating patients. Nursing Standard, 30(11), 34-36. https://doi.org/10.7748/ns.30.11.34.s44

This article aims to help practitioners to undertake the assessment of
deteriorating patients using a standardised ABCDE (airway, breathing,
circulation, disability, exposure) approach that allows the practitioner
to assess the patient in a struct... Read More about How to assess deteriorating patients.

Mortality among immigrants in England and Wales by major causes of death, 1971-2012: A longitudinal analysis of register-based data (2015)
Journal Article
Wallace, M., & Kulu, H. (2015). Mortality among immigrants in England and Wales by major causes of death, 1971-2012: A longitudinal analysis of register-based data. Social Science and Medicine, 147, 209-221. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.10.060

Recent research has found a migrant mortality advantage among immigrants relative to the UK-born population living in England and Wales. However, while all-cause mortality is useful to show differences in mortality between immigrants and the host pop... Read More about Mortality among immigrants in England and Wales by major causes of death, 1971-2012: A longitudinal analysis of register-based data.

Matching student skills to SME requirements : the university as facilitator (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Procter, C., Mullin, P., & Swain, L. (2015, November). Matching student skills to SME requirements : the university as facilitator. Presented at Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE), Glasgow

This paper reports on the UNITE with Business project, funded by the European Union Regional Development Fund (ERDF) between 2010 and 2015, whose objective was to support Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in order to boost the regional econom... Read More about Matching student skills to SME requirements : the university as facilitator.

Slip resistance of winter footwear on snow and ice measured using maximum achievable incline (2015)
Journal Article
Hsu, J., Shaw, R., Novak, A., Li, Y., Ormerod, M., Newton, R., …Fernie, G. (2016). Slip resistance of winter footwear on snow and ice measured using maximum achievable incline. Ergonomics, 59(5), 717-728. https://doi.org/10.1080/00140139.2015.1084051

Protective footwear is necessary for preventing injurious slips and falls in winter conditions. Valid methods for assessing footwear slip resistance on winter surfaces are needed in order to evaluate footwear and outsole designs. The purpose of this... Read More about Slip resistance of winter footwear on snow and ice measured using maximum achievable incline.

EDL : an extended delay learning based remote supervised method for spiking neurons (2015)
Book Chapter
Taherkhani, A., Belatreche, A., Li, Y., & Maguire, L. (2015). EDL : an extended delay learning based remote supervised method for spiking neurons. In Neural Information Processing : 22nd International Conference, ICONIP 2015, Istanbul, Turkey, November 9-12, 2015, Proceedings, Part II (190-197). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26535-3_22

This paper presents an Extended Delay Learning based Remote Supervised Method, called EDL, which extends the existing DL-ReSuMe learning method previously proposed by the authors for mapping spatio-temporal input spiking patterns into desired spike t... Read More about EDL : an extended delay learning based remote supervised method for spiking neurons.

The 1st international conference on advanced intelligent system and informatics (AISI2015), November 28-30, 2015, Beni Suef, Egypt (2015)
Book
Gaber, T., Hassanien, A., El-Bendary, N., & Dey, N. (2015). The 1st international conference on advanced intelligent system and informatics (AISI2015), November 28-30, 2015, Beni Suef, Egypt. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26690-9

The conference topics address different theoretical and practical aspects, and implementing solutions for intelligent systems and informatics disciplines including bioinformatics, computer science, medical informatics, biology, social studies, as wel... Read More about The 1st international conference on advanced intelligent system and informatics (AISI2015), November 28-30, 2015, Beni Suef, Egypt.