All Outputs (672)

Extending a microsimulation of the Port of Dover (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Roadknight, C., & Aickelin, U. (2012). Extending a microsimulation of the Port of Dover.

Modelling and simulating the traffic of heavily used but secure environments such as seaports and airports is of increasing importance. This paper discusses issues and problems that may arise when extending an existing microsimulation strategy. This... Read More about Extending a microsimulation of the Port of Dover.

Mathematical modeling of genome replication (2012)
Journal Article
Retkute, R., Nieduszynski, C. A., & Moura, A. D. (2012). Mathematical modeling of genome replication. Physical Review E, 86, Article 031916. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.86.031916

Eukaryotic DNA replication is initiated from multiple sites on the chromosome, but little is known about the global and local regulation of replication. We present a mathematical model for the spatial dynamics of DNA replication, which offers insight... Read More about Mathematical modeling of genome replication.

Problem formulation in mental health residential treatment: a single case analysis (2012)
Journal Article
Pino, M., & Mortari, L. (2012). Problem formulation in mental health residential treatment: a single case analysis. Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica, 7(1), https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1970-2221/2591

This paper investigates an episode of interaction in a mental health residential centre in Italy, where a resident and a staff member manage a relational problem. The episode leads to an apparently paradoxical outcome: in spite of the fact that the r... Read More about Problem formulation in mental health residential treatment: a single case analysis.

On symmetries of crystals with defects related to a class of solvable groups (S2) (2012)
Journal Article
Parry, G. P., & Nicks, R. (2012). On symmetries of crystals with defects related to a class of solvable groups (S2). Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences, 35(15), https://doi.org/10.1002/mma.2571

We find the geometrical symmetries of discrete structures which generalize the perfect lattices of crystallography to account for the existence of continuous distributions of defects.

The presence of the Breviarius de Hierosolyma in Iona’s library (2012)
Journal Article
O'Loughlin, T. (2012). The presence of the Breviarius de Hierosolyma in Iona’s library. Ériu, 62(-1), 185-188. https://doi.org/10.3318/eriu.2012.62.185

A comparative study of Adomnan (+704) writing about Jerusalem in his De locis sanctis with the anoymous work known as the Breviarius de Hierosolma shows that the the Breviarius was among the books that Adomnan consulted when he was writing his own gu... Read More about The presence of the Breviarius de Hierosolyma in Iona’s library.

Being a disciple of “The Way”: vocation and mission in the Didache (2012)
Journal Article
O'Loughlin, T. (2012). Being a disciple of “The Way”: vocation and mission in the Didache

An introduction to the role of the Didache in the apprenticeship processes of the early communities of the followers of Jesus.

Mapping the role of official bioethics advice in the governance of biotechnologies in the EU: The European Group on Ethics’ opinion on commercial cord blood banking (2012)
Journal Article
Mohr, A., Busby, H., Hervey, T., & Dingwall, R. (2012). Mapping the role of official bioethics advice in the governance of biotechnologies in the EU: The European Group on Ethics’ opinion on commercial cord blood banking. Science and Public Policy, 39(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scs003

In the early 1990s, the EU's proposed bioeconomic agenda provoked ethical concerns among its citizenry. In response to the political impasse between economic and ethical imperatives, as well as the perceived lack of democratic legitimacy, the EU esta... Read More about Mapping the role of official bioethics advice in the governance of biotechnologies in the EU: The European Group on Ethics’ opinion on commercial cord blood banking.

Interval type-2 fuzzy modelling and stochastic search for real-world inventory management (2012)
Journal Article
Miller, S., Gongora, M., Garibaldi, J., & John, R. (2012). Interval type-2 fuzzy modelling and stochastic search for real-world inventory management. Soft Computing, 16(8), 1447-1459. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-012-0848-y

Real-world systems present a variety of challenges to the modeller, not least of which is the problem of uncertainty inherent in their operation. In this research, an interval type-2 fuzzy model is applied to a real-world problem, the goal being to d... Read More about Interval type-2 fuzzy modelling and stochastic search for real-world inventory management.

Size-induced distortions in perceptual maps of visual space (2012)
Journal Article
McGraw, P. V., Roach, N. W., Badcock, D. R., & Whitaker, D. (2012). Size-induced distortions in perceptual maps of visual space. Journal of Vision, 12(4), https://doi.org/10.1167/12.4.8

In order to interact with our environment, the human brain constructs maps of visual space. The orderly mapping of external space across the retinal surface, termed retinotopy, is maintained at subsequent levels of visual cortical processing and unde... Read More about Size-induced distortions in perceptual maps of visual space.

Knowing and doing vocational education and training reform: evidence, learning and the policy process (2012)
Journal Article
McGrath, S., & Lugg, R. (2012). Knowing and doing vocational education and training reform: evidence, learning and the policy process. International Journal of Educational Development, 32(5), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2012.02.004

Much of VET policy internationally draws on a toolkit that has been seriously questioned for its logic, international relevance and effectiveness by considerable amounts of academic research. Reflecting primarily on our experiences of leading a compl... Read More about Knowing and doing vocational education and training reform: evidence, learning and the policy process.

Vocational education and training for development: a policy in need of a theory? (2012)
Journal Article
McGrath, S. (2012). Vocational education and training for development: a policy in need of a theory?. International Journal of Educational Development, 32(5), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2011.12.001

The current decade has seen a significant return of interest in vocational education and training (VET) amongst the international policy community. This rise in policy and programmatic interest in VET's role in development, however, stands in contras... Read More about Vocational education and training for development: a policy in need of a theory?.

Building new approaches to thinking about vocational education and training and development: policy, theory and evidence (2012)
Journal Article
McGrath, S. (2012). Building new approaches to thinking about vocational education and training and development: policy, theory and evidence. International Journal of Educational Development, 32(5), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2012.04.003

Editorial introduction to special issue on vocational education and training for development.

Robust learning from normals for 3D face recognition (2012)
Journal Article
Marras, I., Zafeiriou, S., & Tzimiropoulos, G. (2012). Robust learning from normals for 3D face recognition. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 7584, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33868-7_23

We introduce novel subspace-based methods for learning from the azimuth angle of surface normals for 3D face recognition. We show that the normal azimuth angles combined with Principal Component Analysis (PCA) using a cosine-based distance measure ca... Read More about Robust learning from normals for 3D face recognition.

Sustainable collaborative supply networks in the international clothing industry: a comparative analysis of two retailers (2012)
Journal Article
MacCarthy, B. L., & Jayarathne, P. (2012). Sustainable collaborative supply networks in the international clothing industry: a comparative analysis of two retailers. Production Planning and Control, 23(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2011.627655

Collaborative supply networks in the international clothing industry are of major economic significance in many countries, particularly in developing economies. The sector has gone through substantial changes in the last decade with the abolition of... Read More about Sustainable collaborative supply networks in the international clothing industry: a comparative analysis of two retailers.

Can health economics aid decision making in healthcare innovation in academia? (2012)
Journal Article
Lu, B., Martin, J. L., Craven, M. P., & Morgan, S. P. (2012). Can health economics aid decision making in healthcare innovation in academia?. International Journal of Technology Transfer and Commercialisation, 11(1/2), https://doi.org/10.1504/IJTTC.2012.043911

Health economics is extensively used by reimbursement agencies to make decisions on whether to adopt new medical technologies. It is also used by the healthcare industry as an aid to decision making during product development. This paper proposes tha... Read More about Can health economics aid decision making in healthcare innovation in academia?.

Professional skills development in a resource-poor setting: the case of pharmacy in Malawi (2012)
Journal Article
Lim, Z., Anderson, C., & McGrath, S. (2012). Professional skills development in a resource-poor setting: the case of pharmacy in Malawi. International Journal of Educational Development, 32(5), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2012.01.004

The dominance of the human capital approach in vocational skills development has been increasingly questioned for being de-humanised and de-contextualised. Contrary to this trend, the discourse in health professional skills development has shown incr... Read More about Professional skills development in a resource-poor setting: the case of pharmacy in Malawi.

Balzac’s Honorine, or, The Rape of the Independent Woman (2012)
Book Chapter
Knight, D. (2012). Balzac’s Honorine, or, The Rape of the Independent Woman. In M. Atack, D. Holmes, D. Knight, & J. Still (Eds.), Women, genre and circumstance: essays in memory of Elizabeth Fallaize. Legenda

The use of vignettes for conducting healthcare research (2012)
Book Chapter
Keane, D., Lang, A. R., Craven, M. P., & Sharples, S. (2012). The use of vignettes for conducting healthcare research. In V. G. Duffy (Ed.), Advances in human aspects of healthcare. San Franciso, USA: CRC Press

Improving healthcare requires engaging with clinicians and patients in order to better understand their needs and expectations. Research methods that are used to conduct healthcare research are selected on the basis of study objectives and practicali... Read More about The use of vignettes for conducting healthcare research.

Intraoperative portable ultrasonography localization of clinically impalpable soft-tissue tumors (2012)
Journal Article
Jagadeesan, J., Davies, J. A., Raurell, A., & Ashford, R. U. (2012). Intraoperative portable ultrasonography localization of clinically impalpable soft-tissue tumors. World Journal of Surgical Oncology, 10, Article 243. https://doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-10-243

Background: Most soft-tissue tumors are clinically palpable; however, some can be impalpable to clinical examination making it difficult to plan surgical management.

Methods: We present a simple method of perioperative tumor localization using a p... Read More about Intraoperative portable ultrasonography localization of clinically impalpable soft-tissue tumors.

Psychophysical correlates of global motion processing in the aging visual system: a critical review (2012)
Journal Article
Hutchinson, C. V., Arena, A., Allen, H. A., & Ledgeway, T. (2012). Psychophysical correlates of global motion processing in the aging visual system: a critical review. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 36(4), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2012.02.009

The consequences of visual decline in aging have a fundamental and wide-reaching impact on age-related quality of life. It is of concern therefore that evidence suggests that normal aging is accompanied by impairments in the ability to effectively en... Read More about Psychophysical correlates of global motion processing in the aging visual system: a critical review.