Towards a more professional civil service in Kosovo: evidence from a survey of civil servants in central and local government
(2018)
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Meyer-Sahling, J., Schuster, C., Sass Mikkelsen, K., Qeriqi, H., & Toth, F. Towards a more professional civil service in Kosovo: evidence from a survey of civil servants in central and local government
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Civil service management in Estonia: evidence from a survey of civil servants and employees (2018)
Preprint / Working Paper
Meyer-Sahling, J.-H., Schuster, C., Sass Mikkelsen, K., Pesti, C., & Randma-Liiv, T. (2018). Civil service management in Estonia: evidence from a survey of civil servants and employees
Digital Interventions to Reduce Sedentary Behaviors of Office Workers: Scoping Review (Preprint) (2018)
Preprint / Working Paper
Huang, Y., Benford, S., & Blake, H. Digital Interventions to Reduce Sedentary Behaviors of Office Workers: Scoping Review (Preprint)
'Sedimented Histories' and 'Embodied Legacies': Creating an Evaluative Framework for Engaging the Public in the First World War (2018)
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Allwork, L. 'Sedimented Histories' and 'Embodied Legacies': Creating an Evaluative Framework for Engaging the Public in the First World WarThis working paper chronicles the development of the construction of a methodological framework for the evaluation of the impact of the Centre for Hidden Histories, one of the AHRC’s First World War Engagement Centres. It will show how through evalu... Read More about 'Sedimented Histories' and 'Embodied Legacies': Creating an Evaluative Framework for Engaging the Public in the First World War.
The development of a clinical interface for a novel newborn resuscitation device; a Human Factors approach to understand cognitive user requirements (2018)
Preprint / Working Paper
Pickup, L., Lang, A., Shipley, L., Henry, C., Carpenter, J., McCartney, D., …Sharkey, D. The development of a clinical interface for a novel newborn resuscitation device; a Human Factors approach to understand cognitive user requirementsBackground:
A novel medical device has been developed to address an unmet need of standardizing and facilitating heart rate recording during neonatal resuscitation. In a time-critical emergency resuscitation, where failure can mean death of an in... Read More about The development of a clinical interface for a novel newborn resuscitation device; a Human Factors approach to understand cognitive user requirements.
Surface Plasmon Resonance Imaging of Excitable Cells (2018)
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Howe, C. L., Webb, K. F., Abayzeed, S. A., Anderson, D. J., Denning, C., & Russell, N. A. Surface Plasmon Resonance Imaging of Excitable CellsSurface plasmons are highly sensitive to refractive index variations adjacent to the surface. This sensitivity has been exploited successfully for chemical and biological assays. In these systems, a surface plasmon resonance (SPR)-based sensor detect... Read More about Surface Plasmon Resonance Imaging of Excitable Cells.
Gene-Based Analysis in HRC Imputed Genome Wide Association Data Identifies Three Novel Genes For Alzheimer’s Disease (2018)
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Baker, E., Sims, R., Leonenko, G., Frizzati, A., Harwood, J., Grozeva, D., …EADI Consortium. Gene-Based Analysis in HRC Imputed Genome Wide Association Data Identifies Three Novel Genes For Alzheimer’s DiseaseA novel POLARIS gene-based analysis approach was employed to compute gene-based polygenic risk score (PRS) for all individuals in the latest HRC imputed GERAD (N cases=3332 and N controls=9,832) data using the International Genomics of Alzheimer's Pr... Read More about Gene-Based Analysis in HRC Imputed Genome Wide Association Data Identifies Three Novel Genes For Alzheimer’s Disease.
The quality of civil service management in Albania: evidence from a survey of central government civil servants and public employees (2018)
Preprint / Working Paper
Meyer-Sahling, J.-H., Schuster, C., Sass Mikkelsen, K., & Shundi, A. (2018). The quality of civil service management in Albania: evidence from a survey of central government civil servants and public employees
Digital interventions to reduce sedentary behaviors of office workers: Scoping review (2018)
Preprint / Working Paper
Huang, Y., Benford, S., & Blake, H. Digital interventions to reduce sedentary behaviors of office workers: Scoping review
HST Grism Confirmation of 16 Structures at 1.4<z<2.8 from the Clusters Around Radio-Loud AGN (CARLA) Survey (2018)
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Noirot, G., Stern, D., Mei, S., Wylezalek, D., Cooke, E. A., De Breuck, C., …Stanford, S. HST Grism Confirmation of 16 Structures at 1.4We report spectroscopic results from our 40-orbit Hubble Space Telescope slitless grism spectroscopy program observing the 20 densest CARLA candidate galaxy clusters at 1.4<z<2.8. These candidate rich structures, among the richest and most distant kn...
Holographic optical trapping Raman micro-spectroscopy for interacting live cells (2018)
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Sinjab, F., Elsheikha, H. M., Awuah, D., Gibson, G., Padgett, M., Ghaemmaghami, A. M., & Notingher, I. Holographic optical trapping Raman micro-spectroscopy for interacting live cellsWe present a combined holographic optical tweezers and confocal Raman spectroscopy instrument which allows fast, flexible, and interactive manipulation with molecular measurement of interacting live cell systems. Multiple laser foci created using a s... Read More about Holographic optical trapping Raman micro-spectroscopy for interacting live cells.
Three-dimensional plant architecture and sunlit-shaded patterns: a stochastic model of light dynamics in canopies (2018)
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Retkute, R., Townsend, A. J., Murchie, E. H., Jensen, O. E., & Preston, S. P. Three-dimensional plant architecture and sunlit-shaded patterns: a stochastic model of light dynamics in canopiesBackground and Aims Diurnal changes in solar position and intensity combined with the structural complexity of plant architecture result in highly variable and dynamic light patterns within the plant canopy. This affects productivity through the comp... Read More about Three-dimensional plant architecture and sunlit-shaded patterns: a stochastic model of light dynamics in canopies.
Civil service management in developing countries: what works?: evidence from a survey with 23,000 civil servants in Africa, Asia, Eastn Europe and Latin America (2018)
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Meyer-Sahling, J.-H., Schuster, C., & Sass Mikkelsen, K. Civil service management in developing countries: what works?: evidence from a survey with 23,000 civil servants in Africa, Asia, Eastn Europe and Latin AmericaCivil servants are central to effective governance in developing countries. They deliver essential services to citizens, commission infrastructure, regulate economic activity and engage in diplomacy with foreign countries – to name just a few tasks.... Read More about Civil service management in developing countries: what works?: evidence from a survey with 23,000 civil servants in Africa, Asia, Eastn Europe and Latin America.
Vision dominates audition in adults but not children: A meta-analysis of the Colavita effect (2018)
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Hirst, R., Cragg, L., & Allen, H. A. Vision dominates audition in adults but not children: A meta-analysis of the Colavita effect
Massive post-starburst galaxies at z > 1 are compact proto-spheroids (2018)
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Almaini, O., Wild, V., Maltby, D. T., Hartley, W. G., Simpson, C., Hatch, N. A., …Rowlands, K. Massive post-starburst galaxies at z > 1 are compact proto-spheroidsWe investigate the relationship between the quenching of star formation and the structural transformation of massive galaxies, using a large sample of photometrically-selected post-starburst galaxies in the UKIDSS UDS field. We find that post-starbur... Read More about Massive post-starburst galaxies at z > 1 are compact proto-spheroids.
China's "Great Migration": the impact of the reduction in trade policy uncertainty (2017)
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Facchini, G., Liu, M. Y., Mayda, A. M., & Zhou, M. China's "Great Migration": the impact of the reduction in trade policy uncertaintyWe analyze the effect of China's integration into the world economy on workers in the country and show that one important channel of impact has been internal migration. Specifically, we study the changes in internal migration rates triggered by the r... Read More about China's "Great Migration": the impact of the reduction in trade policy uncertainty.
Scientific Synergy Between LSST and Euclid (2017)
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Rhodes, J., Nichol, R. C., Aubourg, É., Bean, R., Boutigny, D., Bremer, M. N., …Von Der Linden, A. Scientific Synergy Between LSST and EuclidEuclid and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) are poised to dramatically change the astronomy landscape early in the next decade. The combination of high cadence, deep, wide-field optical photometry from LSST with high resolution, wide-field... Read More about Scientific Synergy Between LSST and Euclid.
Twin Peaks (2017)
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Defever, F., & Riaño, A. Twin PeaksReceived wisdom suggests that most exporters sell the majority of their output domestically. In this paper, however, we show that the distribution of export intensity not only varies substantially across countries, but in a large number of cases is a... Read More about Twin Peaks.
The effects of Wikipedia referencing: a protocol for a randomised trial (2017)
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Adams, C. E., Montgomery, A. A., Aburrow, T., Bloomfield, S., Briley, P., Carew, E., …Xia, J. The effects of Wikipedia referencing: a protocol for a randomised trial
Full street simplified three player Kuhn poker (2017)
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Billingham, J. (in press). Full street simplified three player Kuhn pokerWe study a simplified version of full street, three player Kuhn poker, in which the weakest card, J, must be checked and/or folded by a player who holds it. The number of nontrivial betting frequencies that must be calculated is thereby reduced from... Read More about Full street simplified three player Kuhn poker.