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The rapid emergence of stimulus specific perceptual learning (2012)
Journal Article
Hussain, Z., McGraw, P. V., Sekuler, A. B., & Bennett, P. J. (2012). The rapid emergence of stimulus specific perceptual learning. Frontiers in Psychology, 3(226), https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00226

Is stimulus specific perceptual learning the result of extended practice or does it emerge early in the time course of learning? We examined this issue by manipulating the amount of practice given on a face identification task on Day 1, and altering... Read More about The rapid emergence of stimulus specific perceptual learning.

Produced water treatment technologies (2012)
Journal Article
Igunnu, E. T., & Chen, G. Z. (2014). Produced water treatment technologies. International Journal of Low-Carbon Technologies, 9(3), 157-177. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijlct/cts049

Produced water is a complex mixture of organic and inorganic compounds and the largest volume of by-product generated during oil and gas recovery operations. The potential of oilfield produced water to be a source of fresh water for water-stressed oi... Read More about Produced water treatment technologies.

Informality and Employment Relationships in Small Firms: Humour, Ambiguity and Straight‐talking (2012)
Journal Article
Mallett, O., & Wapshott, R. (2014). Informality and Employment Relationships in Small Firms: Humour, Ambiguity and Straight‐talking. British Journal of Management, 25(1), 118-132. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8551.2012.00836.x

This paper presents in-depth qualitative research on three small professional service firms whose owner-managers sought to introduce greater degrees of formality in their firms' working practices and employment relationships. We focus on humour as an... Read More about Informality and Employment Relationships in Small Firms: Humour, Ambiguity and Straight‐talking.

Supporting Negotiation Behavior with Haptics-Enabled Human-Computer Interfaces (2012)
Journal Article
Oguz, S. O., Kucukyilmaz, A., Sezgin, T. M., & Basdogan, C. (2012). Supporting Negotiation Behavior with Haptics-Enabled Human-Computer Interfaces. IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 5(3), 274--284. https://doi.org/10.1109/toh.2012.37

An active research goal for human-computer interaction is to allow humans to communicate with computers in an intuitive and natural fashion, especially in real-life interaction scenarios. One approach that has been advocated to achieve this has been... Read More about Supporting Negotiation Behavior with Haptics-Enabled Human-Computer Interfaces.

Carbohydrate binding and gene expression by in vitro and in vivo propagated Campylobacter jejuni after Immunomagnetic Separation (2012)
Journal Article
King, R. M., Day, C. J., Hartley-Tassell, L. E., Connerton, I. F., Tiralongo, J., Mcguckin, M. A., & Korolik, V. (2012). Carbohydrate binding and gene expression by in vitro and in vivo propagated Campylobacter jejuni after Immunomagnetic Separation. Journal of Basic Microbiology, 53(3), 240-250. https://doi.org/10.1002/jobm.201100466

Campylobacter jejuni is an important human food-borne intestinal pathogen, however relatively little is known about its mechanisms of pathogenesis or pathogen-host interactions. To monitor changes in gene expression and glycan binding of C. jejuni wi... Read More about Carbohydrate binding and gene expression by in vitro and in vivo propagated Campylobacter jejuni after Immunomagnetic Separation.

Strengthening foundation phase teacher education through mentoring (2012)
Journal Article
Kerryn, D., Lorayne, E., Vivien, L., Corin, M., Manono, M., & Geeta, M. (2012). Strengthening foundation phase teacher education through mentoring. South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2(1), Article a20. https://doi.org/10.4102/SAJCE.V2I1.20

This paper explores a multidimensional mentorship model implemented between lecturers from the foundation phase at the Wits School of Education and four master’s students from the University of Limpopo, as part of the Departments of Education’s resea... Read More about Strengthening foundation phase teacher education through mentoring.

Making space for markets in economic geography (2012)
Journal Article
Hall, S. (2012). Making space for markets in economic geography. Dialogues in Human Geography, 2(2), 142-145. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820612449311

In this commentary, I respond to Peck's (2012) call to position markets as central conceptual, methodological and political research objects within economic geography. In particular, I suggest that cultural economy work on market devices and market a... Read More about Making space for markets in economic geography.

Competing for talent: Global mobility, immigration and the City of London's labour market (2012)
Journal Article
Beaverstock, J. V., & Hall, S. (2012). Competing for talent: Global mobility, immigration and the City of London's labour market. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 5(2), 271-287. https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rss005

The City of London's competitiveness is founded on its global talent pool and ability to attract and retain workers of all nationalities. Drawing on ONS Long-Term International Migration data and fieldwork-based studies of banking, professional servi... Read More about Competing for talent: Global mobility, immigration and the City of London's labour market.

The importance of vital signs in the triage of injured patients (2012)
Journal Article
Chalari, E., Intas, G., Stergiannis, P., Veziridis, P., & Fildissis, G. (2012). The importance of vital signs in the triage of injured patients. Critical Care Nursing Quarterly, 35(3), 292-298. https://doi.org/10.1097/CNQ.0b013e318255d6b3

Background: Vital signs are indicators of a patient presenting to an emergency department (ED). Abnormal vital signs have been associated with an increased likelihood of admission to the hospital. Physicians have long recognized the importance of vit... Read More about The importance of vital signs in the triage of injured patients.

An evolutionary non-Linear great deluge approach for solving course timetabling problems (2012)
Journal Article
Obit, J. H., Ouelhadj, D., Landa-Silva, D., & Alfred, R. (2012). An evolutionary non-Linear great deluge approach for solving course timetabling problems. International Journal of Computer Science Issues, 9(4),

The aim of this paper is to extend our non-linear great deluge algorithm into an evolutionary approach by incorporating a population and a mutation operator to solve the university course timetabling problems. This approach might be seen as a variati... Read More about An evolutionary non-Linear great deluge approach for solving course timetabling problems.

Results of antibiotic susceptibility testing do not influence clinical outcome in children with cystic fibrosis (2012)
Journal Article
Hurley, M., Amin Ariff, A., Bertenshaw, C., Bhatt, J., & Smyth, A. R. (2012). Results of antibiotic susceptibility testing do not influence clinical outcome in children with cystic fibrosis. Journal of Cystic Fibrosis, 11(4), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcf.2012.02.006

Introduction: Patients with CF experience pulmonary exacerbations. These are often initially empirically treated with intravenous antibiotics, with antibiotic choice refined after susceptibility testing. Methods: We completed a 5-year retrospectiv... Read More about Results of antibiotic susceptibility testing do not influence clinical outcome in children with cystic fibrosis.

Neoliberal and inclusive themes in European lifelong learning policy (2012)
Book Chapter
Holford, J., & Mohorčič Špolar, V. A. (2012). Neoliberal and inclusive themes in European lifelong learning policy. In S. Riddell, J. Markowitsch, & E. Weedon (Eds.), Lifelong learning in Europe: equity and efficiency in the balance. Policy Press

DRAFT: not for citation. This is a pre-peer-review, pre-copy edited version of a chapter published in Sheila Riddell, Jörg Markowitsch, and Elisabet Weedon, eds., Lifelong learning in Europe: Equity and efficiency in the balance, Bristol: Policy Pres... Read More about Neoliberal and inclusive themes in European lifelong learning policy.

Using rule-based machine learning for candidate disease gene prioritization and sample classification of cancer gene expression data (2012)
Journal Article
Glaab, E., Bacardit, J., Garibaldi, J. M., & Krasnogor, N. (2012). Using rule-based machine learning for candidate disease gene prioritization and sample classification of cancer gene expression data. PLoS ONE, 7(7), Article e39932. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0039932

Microarray data analysis has been shown to provide an effective tool for studying cancer and genetic diseases. Although classical machine learning techniques have successfully been applied to find informative genes and to predict class labels for new... Read More about Using rule-based machine learning for candidate disease gene prioritization and sample classification of cancer gene expression data.

New strategies of civil society in China: a case study of the network governance approach (2012)
Journal Article
Fulda, A., Li, Y., & Song, Q. (2012). New strategies of civil society in China: a case study of the network governance approach. Journal of Contemporary China, 21(76), https://doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2012.666837

Since the turn of the millennium a second generation of Chinese civil society organisations (CSO) have started taking on issues such as rural migrant integration, social service provision, as well as community building. Organisations such as Beijing-... Read More about New strategies of civil society in China: a case study of the network governance approach.

Altered placental expression of kisspeptin and its receptor in pre-eclampsia (2012)
Journal Article
Cartwright, J. E., & Williams, P. J. (2012). Altered placental expression of kisspeptin and its receptor in pre-eclampsia. Journal of Endocrinology, 214(1), https://doi.org/10.1530/JOE-12-0091

Kisspeptin, originally identified as metastatin, important in preventing cancer metastasis, has more recently been shown to be important in pregnancy. Roles indicated for kisspeptin in pregnancy include regulating trophoblast invasion and migration d... Read More about Altered placental expression of kisspeptin and its receptor in pre-eclampsia.

CCL3L1 copy number and susceptibility to malaria (2012)
Journal Article
Carpenter, D., Färnert, A., Ingegard, R., Armour, J. A., & Shaw, M. (2012). CCL3L1 copy number and susceptibility to malaria. Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 12(5), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.meegid.2012.03.021

Copy number variation can contribute to the variation observed in susceptibility to complex diseases. Here we present the first study to investigate copy number variation of the chemokine gene CCL3L1 with susceptibility to malaria. We present a famil... Read More about CCL3L1 copy number and susceptibility to malaria.

Pharmacovigilance in children in Camagüey Province, Cuba (2012)
Journal Article
Bárzaga Arencibia, Z., López Leyva, A., Mejías Peña, Y., González Reyes, A., Fernández Manzano, E., & Choonara, I. (2012). Pharmacovigilance in children in Camagüey Province, Cuba. European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 68(7), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00228-012-1222-9

Purpose: Our aim was to describe the adverse drug reactions (ADRs) detected following increased education about pharmacovigilance and drug toxicity in children in Camagüey Province, Cuba. Methods: Over a period of 24 months (January 2009 to Dec... Read More about Pharmacovigilance in children in Camagüey Province, Cuba.

US specificity of occasion setting: hierarchical or configural learning? (2012)
Journal Article
Bonardi, C., Bartle, C., & Jennings, D. (2012). US specificity of occasion setting: hierarchical or configural learning?. Behavioural Processes, 90(3), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2012.03.005

Four experiments in rats examined whether occasion setters and target CSs play qualitatively different roles in occasion-setting discriminations. Two visual occasion setters, A and B, signalled reinforcement of two auditory target CSs, x and y, with... Read More about US specificity of occasion setting: hierarchical or configural learning?.

The practice of continuous deep sedation until death in Flanders (Belgium), The Netherlands, and the U.K.: a comparative study (2012)
Journal Article
Anquinet, L., Rietjens, J. A., Seale, C., Seymour, J., Deliens, L., & van der Heide, A. (2012). The practice of continuous deep sedation until death in Flanders (Belgium), The Netherlands, and the U.K.: a comparative study. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 44(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2011.07.007

Context:Existing empirical evidence shows that continuous deep sedation until death is given in about 15% of all deaths in Flanders, Belgium (BE), 8% in The Netherlands (NL), and 17% in the U.K. Objectives:This study compares characteristics of cont... Read More about The practice of continuous deep sedation until death in Flanders (Belgium), The Netherlands, and the U.K.: a comparative study.

Synchronization of tool tip and tool orientation contour errors in five-axis machining (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
A. El Khalick, M., Uchiyama, N., & Sano, S. (2012). Synchronization of tool tip and tool orientation contour errors in five-axis machining. In 2012 American Control Conference (ACC). https://doi.org/10.1109/acc.2012.6314878

In current CNC machines, each axis is generally controlled by an individual controller, which tries to minimize the axial position tracking error. However, eliminating the tracking errors of each individual axis in multi-axis feed drive systems may n... Read More about Synchronization of tool tip and tool orientation contour errors in five-axis machining.