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Influencing organisational change in the NHS: lessons learned from workplace wellness initiatives in practice (2008)
Journal Article

This article presents a discussion of the key issues in influencing organisational change in NHS settings, in the development of workplace wellness interventions to improve employee health and wellbeing. To tackle poor public health and associated ri... Read More about Influencing organisational change in the NHS: lessons learned from workplace wellness initiatives in practice.

A novel antimicrobial peptide on the ocular surface shows decreased expression in inflammation and infection (2008)
Journal Article

PURPOSE: Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are cationic host defense peptides with microbicidal and cell-signaling properties. They show promise as potential therapeutic agents. In the present study, a beta-defensin AMP gene was isolated from the ocular... Read More about A novel antimicrobial peptide on the ocular surface shows decreased expression in inflammation and infection.

The Motif Tracking Algorithm (2008)
Journal Article

The search for patterns or motifs in data represents a problem area of key interest to finance and economic researchers. In this paper we introduce the Motif Tracking Algorithm, a novel immune inspired pattern identification tool that is able to iden... Read More about The Motif Tracking Algorithm.

The effect of laser transformation notching on the controlled fracture of a high carbon (C70S6 ) steel (2008)
Journal Article

A high carbon (C70S6) steel has been laser surface treated using CO2 and Diode lasers in order to produce an embrittled region to act as a fracture notch. Such a process has been investigated as a precursor to the fracture splitting of automotive eng... Read More about The effect of laser transformation notching on the controlled fracture of a high carbon (C70S6 ) steel.

Dum (assombrado) complexo de Bartleby: Isto [não] é um livro e eu [não] sou daqui (ou da [im]possibilidade lusófona da Galiza) (2008)
Journal Article

In 2003 the Galizan writer João Guisan published Isto é um livro. Projecto Dicionário Vivo, conceived as ‘a project of a Project’ which would retain an essential relationship with language and writing but would potentially exceed them, crossing the b... Read More about Dum (assombrado) complexo de Bartleby: Isto [não] é um livro e eu [não] sou daqui (ou da [im]possibilidade lusófona da Galiza).

Symmetry detection using frequency domain motion estimation techniques (2008)
Conference Proceeding

A frequency domain approach for the detection of symmetries in real images is presented. Our framework is based on recent state-of-the-art research where motion estimation techniques are employed to sequentially determine all the associated parameter... Read More about Symmetry detection using frequency domain motion estimation techniques.

Licenses and assignments of intellectual property rights under the Rome I Regulation (2008)
Journal Article

Resettlement and reintegration: single mothers' reflections after homelessness (2008)
Journal Article

Previous research has identified that most families who become homeless are women with dependent children. Homeless families are reported to have a variety of complex needs however little is known about the experiences of families once they are re-ho... Read More about Resettlement and reintegration: single mothers' reflections after homelessness.

Real-time alert correlation with type graphs (2008)
Book Chapter

The premise of automated alert correlation is to accept that false alerts from a low level intrusion detection system are inevitable and use attack models to explain the output in an understandable way. Several algorithms exist for this purpose whic... Read More about Real-time alert correlation with type graphs.

Isotope offsets in marine diatom ?18O over the last 200 ka (2008)
Journal Article

Previous work has suggested that a species effect may be present in diatom oxygen isotope ratios (δ18Odiatom). While predominantly attributed to be a size related species effect, currently the precise mechanism remains unknown. Here, two size fractio... Read More about Isotope offsets in marine diatom ?18O over the last 200 ka.

Ambivalent improvements: biography, biopolitics, and colonial Delhi (2008)
Journal Article

This paper explores the ambivalent feelings towards the Government of India produced in one of the government’s own employees. In establishing the Delhi Improvement Trust in the 1930s, Arthur Parke Hume had to battle against governmental cost cutting... Read More about Ambivalent improvements: biography, biopolitics, and colonial Delhi.

A randomised controlled trial of triple antiplatelet therapy (Aspirin, Clopidogrel and Dipyridamole) in the secondary prevention of stroke: safety, tolerability and feasibility (2008)
Journal Article

Background: Aspirin, dipyridamole and clopidogrel are effective in secondary vascular prevention. Combination therapy with three antiplatelet agents might maximise the benefit of antiplatelet treatment in the secondary prevention of ischaemic stroke.... Read More about A randomised controlled trial of triple antiplatelet therapy (Aspirin, Clopidogrel and Dipyridamole) in the secondary prevention of stroke: safety, tolerability and feasibility.

A comparison of three different methods for classification of breast cancer data (2008)
Conference Proceeding

The classification of breast cancer patients is of great importance in cancer diagnosis. During the last few years, many algorithms have been proposed for this task. In this paper, we review different supervised machine learning techniques for classi... Read More about A comparison of three different methods for classification of breast cancer data.

Free thinking for expressivists (2008)
Journal Article

This paper replies to Zangwill’s argument that quasi-realists cannot accommodate the conceptual status of claims of moral mind-independence embedded in ordinary moral thought. I argue that this conceptual status is compatible with an ‘internal readin... Read More about Free thinking for expressivists.

An agent-based simulation of in-store customer experiences (2008)
Conference Proceeding

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

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

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

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

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

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.