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Ideal point error for model assessment in data-driven river flow forecasting (2012)
Journal Article
Dawson, C., Mount, N. J., Abrahart, R., & Shamseldin, A. (2012). Ideal point error for model assessment in data-driven river flow forecasting. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 16(8), https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-16-3049-2012

When analysing the performance of hydrological models in river forecasting, researchers use a number of diverse statistics. Although some statistics appear to be used more regularly in such analyses than others, there is a distinct lack of consisten... Read More about Ideal point error for model assessment in data-driven river flow forecasting.

Bursting the bubble on bacterial biofilms: a flow cell methodology (2012)
Journal Article
Crusz, S. A., Popat, R., Rybtke, M. T., Cámara, M., Givskov, M., Tolker-Nielsen, T., …Williams, P. (2012). Bursting the bubble on bacterial biofilms: a flow cell methodology. Biofouling, 28(8), https://doi.org/10.1080/08927014.2012.716044

The flow cell biofilm system is an important and widely used tool for the in vitro cultivation and evaluation of bacterial biofilms under hydrodynamic conditions of flow. This paper provides an introduction to the background and use of such systems,... Read More about Bursting the bubble on bacterial biofilms: a flow cell methodology.

Callers' experiences of contacting a national suicide prevention helpline: report of an online survey (2012)
Journal Article
Coveney, C. M., Pollock, K., Armstrong, S., & Moore, J. (2012). Callers' experiences of contacting a national suicide prevention helpline: report of an online survey. Crisis - The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, 33(6), https://doi.org/10.1027/0227-5910/a000151

Background: Helplines are a significant phenomenon in the mixed economy of health and social care. Given the often anonymous and fleeting nature of caller contact, it is difficult to obtain data about their impact and how users perceive their value.... Read More about Callers' experiences of contacting a national suicide prevention helpline: report of an online survey.

Discontinuous Galerkin finite element approximation of quasilinear elliptic boundary value problems II: strongly monotone quasi-Newtonian flows (2012)
Journal Article
Congreve, S., Houston, P., Süli, E., & Wihler, T. P. Discontinuous Galerkin finite element approximation of quasilinear elliptic boundary value problems II: strongly monotone quasi-Newtonian flows. Manuscript submitted for publication

In this article we develop both the a priori and a posteriori error analysis of hp– version interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods for strongly monotone quasi-Newtonian fluid flows in a bounded Lipschitz domain Ω ⊂ R^d, d = 2,... Read More about Discontinuous Galerkin finite element approximation of quasilinear elliptic boundary value problems II: strongly monotone quasi-Newtonian flows.

Characterisation of retroviruses in the horse genome and their transcriptional activity via transcriptome sequencing (2012)
Journal Article
Brown, K., Moreton, J., Malla, S., Aboobaker, A. A., Emes, R. D., & Tarlinton, R. E. (2012). Characterisation of retroviruses in the horse genome and their transcriptional activity via transcriptome sequencing. Virology, 433(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.virol.2012.07.010

The recently released draft horse genome is incompletely characterised in terms of its repetitive element pro?le. This paper presents characterisation of the endogenous retrovirus (ERVs) of the horse genome based on a data-mining strategy using mur... Read More about Characterisation of retroviruses in the horse genome and their transcriptional activity via transcriptome sequencing.

Walter Hopps's Los Angeles pastoral (2012)
Journal Article
Bradnock, L. E. (2012). Walter Hopps's Los Angeles pastoral. Art Journal, 71(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/00043249.2012.10791085

An intriguing tale crops up in oral history interviews conducted with Los Angeles artists and curators of the 1950s. Recounted by the curator Walter Hopps, the artist Craig Kauffman, and the gallerist Jim Newman, it concerns a Midwestern farmer, who,... Read More about Walter Hopps's Los Angeles pastoral.

Additional interventions to enhance the effectiveness of individual placement and support: a rapid evidence assessment (2012)
Journal Article
Boycott, N., Schneider, J. M., & McMurran, M. (2012). Additional interventions to enhance the effectiveness of individual placement and support: a rapid evidence assessment. Rehabilitation Research and Practice, 2012(382420), https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/382420

Topic: Additional interventions used to enhance the e?ectiveness of individual placement and support (IPS). Aim: To establish whether additional interventions improve the vocational outcomes of IPS alone for people with severe mental illness. Method:... Read More about Additional interventions to enhance the effectiveness of individual placement and support: a rapid evidence assessment.

Effects of ?-synuclein overexpression in transgenic Caenorhabditis elegans strains (2012)
Journal Article
Bodhicharla, R., Nagarajan, A., Winter, J., Adenle, A., Nazir, A., Brady, D., …de Pomerai, D. I. (2012). Effects of α-synuclein overexpression in transgenic Caenorhabditis elegans strains. CNS and Neurological Disorders - Drug Targets, 11(8), https://doi.org/10.2174/1871527311211080005

The neural protein α-synuclein aggregates both in vivo and in vitro to form insoluble fibrils that are involved in Parkinson’s disease pathogenesis. We have generated α-synuclein/fluorescent-protein fusion constructs overexpressed in muscle cells of... Read More about Effects of ?-synuclein overexpression in transgenic Caenorhabditis elegans strains.

An investigation into the relationship between type-2 FOU size and environmental uncertainty in robotic control (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Benatar, N., Aickelin, U., & Garibaldi, J. M. (2012). An investigation into the relationship between type-2 FOU size and environmental uncertainty in robotic control.

It has often been suggested that when faced with large amount of uncertainty in situations of automated control type-2 fuzzy logic based controllers will out perform the simpler type-1 varieties due to the latter lacking a mechanism to model this un... Read More about An investigation into the relationship between type-2 FOU size and environmental uncertainty in robotic control.

Magnetic field effects on the vestibular system: calculation of the pressure on the cupula due to ionic current-induced Lorentz force (2012)
Journal Article
Antunes, A., Glover, P., Li, Y., Mian, O., & Day, B. (2012). Magnetic field effects on the vestibular system: calculation of the pressure on the cupula due to ionic current-induced Lorentz force. Physics in Medicine and Biology, 57(14), https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-9155/57/14/4477

Large static magnetic fields may be employed in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). At high magnetic field strengths (usually from about 3 tesla and above) it is possible for humans to perceive a number of effects. One such effect is mild vertigo. Rece... Read More about Magnetic field effects on the vestibular system: calculation of the pressure on the cupula due to ionic current-induced Lorentz force.

Minkowski polynomials and mutations (2012)
Journal Article
Akhtar, M., Coates, T., Galkin, S., & Kasprzyk, A. M. (2012). Minkowski polynomials and mutations. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications, 8, Article 094, pp. 707. https://doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2012.094

Given a Laurent polynomial f, one can form the period of f: this is a function of one complex variable that plays an important role in mirror symmetry for Fano manifolds. Mutations are a particular class of birational transformations acting on Lauren... Read More about Minkowski polynomials and mutations.

Neuroemulation: definition and key benefits for water resources research (2012)
Journal Article
Abrahart, R., Mount, N. J., & Shamseldin, A. (2012). Neuroemulation: definition and key benefits for water resources research. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 57(3), https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2012.658401

Neuroemulation is the art and science of using a neural network model to replicate the external behaviour of some other model and it is an activity that is distinct from neural-network-based simulation. Whilst is has become a recognised and establish... Read More about Neuroemulation: definition and key benefits for water resources research.

Modeling the re-anchoring of a ruptured tendon in bonded post-tensioned concrete (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Abdelatif, A. O., Owen, J. S., & Hussein, M. F. (2012). Modeling the re-anchoring of a ruptured tendon in bonded post-tensioned concrete.

: In this study, a theoretical model is deve loped to simulate the re-anchorage of a ruptured bonded post-tensioning tendon. This includes estimating the re-anchorage length and stress distribution over the tendon. The model accounts for equilibr... Read More about Modeling the re-anchoring of a ruptured tendon in bonded post-tensioned concrete.

Enclosure stories: narratives from Northamptonshire (2012)
Journal Article
McDonagh, B., & Daniels, S. (2012). Enclosure stories: narratives from Northamptonshire. cultural geographies, 19(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474011427361

This paper rethinks and revises enclosure narratives, thickening the concept of enclosure by researching a particular place and period: the English Midland county of Northamptonshire in the period between the 16th and the 19th centuries. It argues th... Read More about Enclosure stories: narratives from Northamptonshire.

A user-centred approach to requirements elicitation in medical device development: a case study from an industry perspective (2012)
Journal Article
Martin, J. L., Clarke, D. J., Crowe, J. A., Morgan, S. P., & Murphy, E. (2012). A user-centred approach to requirements elicitation in medical device development: a case study from an industry perspective. Applied Ergonomics, 43(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2011.05.002

The healthcare industry is dependent upon the provision of well designed medical devices. To achieve this it is recommended that user-centred design should begin early, and continue throughout device development. This is a challenge, particularly f... Read More about A user-centred approach to requirements elicitation in medical device development: a case study from an industry perspective.

Perceptual learning reduces crowding in amblyopia and in the normal periphery (2012)
Journal Article
Hussain, Z., Webb, B. S., Astle, A. T., & McGraw, P. V. (2012). Perceptual learning reduces crowding in amblyopia and in the normal periphery. Journal of Neuroscience, 32(2), https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3845-11.2012

Amblyopia is a developmental visual disorder of cortical origin, characterized by crowding and poor acuity in central vision of the affected eye. Crowding refers to the adverse effects of surrounding items on object identification, common only in nor... Read More about Perceptual learning reduces crowding in amblyopia and in the normal periphery.

A novel receive-only liquid nitrogen (LN2)-cooled RF coil for high-resolution in vivo imaging on a 3-Tesla whole-body scanner (2012)
Journal Article
Hu, B., Varma, G., Randell, C., Keevil, S. F., Schaeffter, T., & Glover, P. (2012). A novel receive-only liquid nitrogen (LN2)-cooled RF coil for high-resolution in vivo imaging on a 3-Tesla whole-body scanner. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 61(1), https://doi.org/10.1109/TIM.2011.2157575

The design and operation of a receive-only liquid nitrogen (LN2)-cooled coil and cryostat suitable for medical imaging on a 3-T whole-body magnetic resonance scanner is presented. The coil size, optimized for murine imaging, was determined by using... Read More about A novel receive-only liquid nitrogen (LN2)-cooled RF coil for high-resolution in vivo imaging on a 3-Tesla whole-body scanner.

Organizational psychosocial hazard exposures in UK policing: Management Standards Indicator Tool reference values (2012)
Journal Article
Houdmont, J., Kerr, R., & Randall, R. (2012). Organizational psychosocial hazard exposures in UK policing: Management Standards Indicator Tool reference values. Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management, 35(1), https://doi.org/10.1108/13639511211215522

Purpose: There is a paucity of contemporary evidence on the organizational (as opposed to operational) psychosocial hazard (OPH) exposures of UK police officers. The purpose of this study is to report on OPH exposures measured via an instrument devel... Read More about Organizational psychosocial hazard exposures in UK policing: Management Standards Indicator Tool reference values.

The threat to Israel’s identity in Deuteronomy: Mesopotamian or Levantine? (2012)
Journal Article
Crouch, C. (2012). The threat to Israel’s identity in Deuteronomy: Mesopotamian or Levantine?. Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, 124(4), https://doi.org/10.1515/zaw-2012-0038

Deuteronomy contains a number of indications which locate its interests in the Levant rather than in Mesopotamia. This observation challenges two major theories of the book’s origins: Deuteronomy as pre-exilic attempt to subvert Assyrian imperial pow... Read More about The threat to Israel’s identity in Deuteronomy: Mesopotamian or Levantine?.

Customer relationship management: is it still relevant to commercial banks in Taiwan? (2012)
Journal Article
Yao, H., & Khong, K. W. (2012). Customer relationship management: is it still relevant to commercial banks in Taiwan?. International Journal of Business and Management, 7(1), https://doi.org/10.5539/ijbm.v7n1p151

Nowadays, customers are regarded as a commodity. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) in a bank entails important phases such as integrating the communication tools to meet the needs of customers, treating each customer as individuals, and making... Read More about Customer relationship management: is it still relevant to commercial banks in Taiwan?.