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An agent-based simulation of in-store customer experiences (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Siebers, P.-O., Aickelin, U., Celia, H., & Clegg, C. (2008). An agent-based simulation of in-store customer experiences.

Agent-based modelling and simulation offers a new and exciting way of understanding the world of work. In this paper we describe the development of an agent-based simulation model, designed to help to understand the relationship between human resourc... Read More about An agent-based simulation of in-store customer experiences.

Modelling and analysis of planar cell polarity (2008)
Journal Article
Schamberg, S., Houston, P., Monk, N. A., & Owen, M. R. Modelling and analysis of planar cell polarity. Manuscript submitted for publication

Planar cell polarity (PCP) occurs in the epithelia of many animals and can lead to the alignment of hairs, bristles and feathers; physiologically, it can organise ciliary beating. Here we present two approaches to modelling this phenomenon. The aim i... Read More about Modelling and analysis of planar cell polarity.

The grey zone: the 'ordinary' violence of extraordinary times (2008)
Journal Article
Roy, S. (2008). The grey zone: the 'ordinary' violence of extraordinary times. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 14(2), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2008.00503.x

The article analyses the 'ordinary' violence of revolutionary politics, particularly acts of gendered and sexual violence that tend to be neglected in the face of the 'extraordinariness' of political terror. Focusing on the extreme left Naxalbari mov... Read More about The grey zone: the 'ordinary' violence of extraordinary times.

Analysis of non-coherent fault trees using ternary decision diagrams (2008)
Journal Article
Remenyte-Prescott, R., & Andrews, J. (2008). Analysis of non-coherent fault trees using ternary decision diagrams. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability, 222(2), https://doi.org/10.1243/1748006XJRR154

Risk and safety assessments performed on potentially hazardous industrial systems commonly utilise Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) to forecast the probability of system failure. The type of logic for the top event is usually limited to AND and OR gates whi... Read More about Analysis of non-coherent fault trees using ternary decision diagrams.

An enhanced component connection method for conversion of fault trees to binary decision diagrams (2008)
Journal Article
Remenyte-Prescott, R., & Andrews, J. (2008). An enhanced component connection method for conversion of fault trees to binary decision diagrams. Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 93(10), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2007.09.001

Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) is widely applied to assess the failure probability of industrial systems. Many computer packages are available which are based on conventional Kinetic Tree Theory methods. When dealing with large (possibly non-coherent) fau... Read More about An enhanced component connection method for conversion of fault trees to binary decision diagrams.

Hamlet’s crisis of meaning, mental wellbeing and meaninglessness in the War on Terror (2008)
Journal Article
Pupavac, V. (2008). Hamlet’s crisis of meaning, mental wellbeing and meaninglessness in the War on Terror. Mental Health Review Journal, 13(1),

Drawing on Shakespeare, and in particular Hamlet's psychological crisis, this paper examines the relationship between emotions and meaning, a key theme in artistic work, but, it is argued, neglected in social psychology. Hamlet's psychological crisis... Read More about Hamlet’s crisis of meaning, mental wellbeing and meaninglessness in the War on Terror.

Changing international health policy and changing international development goals (2008)
Book Chapter
Pupavac, V. (2008). Changing international health policy and changing international development goals. In D. Wainwright (Ed.), A sociology of health. Sage

The World Health Organisation (WHO) was founded in 1948 with a remit to promote public health around the world. The WHO’s constitution sets out its objective as ‘the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health’ (WHO, 1948). The... Read More about Changing international health policy and changing international development goals.

Crop classification by a support vector machine with intelligently selected training data for an operational application (2008)
Journal Article
Mathur, A., & Foody, G. M. (2008). Crop classification by a support vector machine with intelligently selected training data for an operational application. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 29(8), https://doi.org/10.1080/01431160701395203

The accuracy of supervised classification is dependent to a large extent on the training data used. The aim is often to capture a large training set to fully describe the classes spectrally, commonly with the requirements of a conventional statistica... Read More about Crop classification by a support vector machine with intelligently selected training data for an operational application.

Medical Device Development: the challenge for ergonomics (2008)
Journal Article
Martin, J. L., Norris, B. J., Murphy, E., & Crowe, J. A. (2008). Medical Device Development: the challenge for ergonomics. Applied Ergonomics, 39(3),

High quality, well designed medical devices are necessary to provide safe and effective clinical care for patients as well as to ensure the health and safety of professional and lay device users. Capturing the user requirements of users and incorpor... Read More about Medical Device Development: the challenge for ergonomics.

Representativeness, legitimacy and power in public involvement in health-care management (2008)
Journal Article
Martin, G. P. (2008). Representativeness, legitimacy and power in public involvement in health-care management. Social Science and Medicine, 67(11),

Public participation in health-service management is an increasingly prominent policy internationally. Frequently, though, academic studies have found it marginalized by health professionals who, keen to retain control over decision-making, undermin... Read More about Representativeness, legitimacy and power in public involvement in health-care management.

Social access and dispersal of condiments in North-West Europe from the Roman to the medieval period (2008)
Journal Article
Livarda, A., & Van der Veen, M. (2008). Social access and dispersal of condiments in North-West Europe from the Roman to the medieval period. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 17(Supple), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-008-0168-4

The introduction and dispersal histories of eight common condiments in North-West Europe are explored: celery, dill, coriander, black mustard, fennel, summer savory, caraway and parsley. The presence of these condiments in archaeobotanical reports fr... Read More about Social access and dispersal of condiments in North-West Europe from the Roman to the medieval period.

Predicting long-term outcome after acute ischemic stroke: a simple index works in patients from controlled clinical trials (2008)
Journal Article
Konig, I., Ziegler, A., Bluhmki, E., Hacke, W., Bath, P. M., Sacco, R. L., …Weimar, C. (2008). Predicting long-term outcome after acute ischemic stroke: a simple index works in patients from controlled clinical trials. Stroke,

Background and Purpose—An early and reliable prognosis for recovery in stroke patients is important for initiation of
individual treatment and for informing patients and relatives. We recently developed and validated models for predicting survival a... Read More about Predicting long-term outcome after acute ischemic stroke: a simple index works in patients from controlled clinical trials.

RoMEO studies 7: creation of a controlled vocabulary to analyse copyright transfer agreements (2008)
Journal Article
Jenkins, C., Oppenheim, C., Probets, S., & Hubbard, B. (2008). RoMEO studies 7: creation of a controlled vocabulary to analyse copyright transfer agreements. Journal of Information Science, 34(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/0165551507084141

This paper describes the process of creating a controlled vocabulary which can be used to systematically analyse the copyright transfer agreements (CTAs) of journal publishers with regard to self-archiving. The analysis formed the basis of the newly... Read More about RoMEO studies 7: creation of a controlled vocabulary to analyse copyright transfer agreements.

The Definition of Curriculum Areas in Occupational Health Psychology (2008)
Book Chapter
Houdmont, J., Leka, S., & Bulger, C. (2008). The Definition of Curriculum Areas in Occupational Health Psychology. In Occupational Health Psychology: European Perspectives on Research, Education and Practice. Nottingham University Press

Across the international educational landscape, numerous higher education institutions (HEIs) offer postgraduate programmes in occupational health psychology (OHP). These seek to empower the next generation of OHP practitioners with the knowledge and... Read More about The Definition of Curriculum Areas in Occupational Health Psychology.

Hard measures for soft stuff: citizenship indicators and educational policy under the Lisbon Strategy (2008)
Journal Article
Holford, J. (2008). Hard measures for soft stuff: citizenship indicators and educational policy under the Lisbon Strategy. European Educational Research Journal, 7(3), https://doi.org/10.2304/eerj.2008.7.3.331

How far is the European Union a vehicle for inclusion and empowerment of a new range of policy actors in education? This article explores the role of actors in policy formation through a case study. It examines European Union attempts since 2000 to d... Read More about Hard measures for soft stuff: citizenship indicators and educational policy under the Lisbon Strategy.

Further exploration of the Dendritic Cell Algorithm: antigen multiplier and time windows (2008)
Book Chapter
Gu, F., Greensmith, J., & Aickelin, U. (2008). Further exploration of the Dendritic Cell Algorithm: antigen multiplier and time windows. In P. Bentley, D. Lee, & S. Jung (Eds.), Artificial immune systems: 7th international conference, ICARIS 2008, Phuket, Thailand, August 10-13, 2008: proceedings. Springer

As an immune-inspired algorithm, the Dendritic Cell Algorithm (DCA), produces promising performance in the field of anomaly detection. This paper presents the application of the DCA to a standard data set, the KDD 99 data set. The results of differen... Read More about Further exploration of the Dendritic Cell Algorithm: antigen multiplier and time windows.

RVM-based multi-class classification of remotely sensed data (2008)
Journal Article
Foody, G. M. (2008). RVM-based multi-class classification of remotely sensed data. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 29(6), https://doi.org/10.1080/01431160701822115

The relevance vector machine (RVM), a Bayesian extension of the support vector machine (SVM), has considerable potential for the analysis of remotely sensed data. Here, the RVM is introduced and used to derive a multi-class classification of land cov... Read More about RVM-based multi-class classification of remotely sensed data.