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Beyond neutrality: professionals’ responses to clients’ indirect complaints in a Therapeutic Community for people with a diagnosis of mental illness (2013)
Journal Article

Previous research has evidenced that in different institutional settings professionals are cautious when responding to clients’ indirect complaints and tend to avoid siding either with the clients/ complainants or the complained-of absent parties... Read More about Beyond neutrality: professionals’ responses to clients’ indirect complaints in a Therapeutic Community for people with a diagnosis of mental illness.

Early stage health technology assessment (HTA) of biomedical devices: the MATCH experience (2013)
Book Chapter

Early stage Health Technology Assessment (HTA) of biomedical devices requires different methods than those usually employed for pharmaceuticals. This paper reviews widely used methods for HTA, discusses their limits for early stage evaluation of biom... Read More about Early stage health technology assessment (HTA) of biomedical devices: the MATCH experience.

Climate change on Twitter: topics, communities and conversations about the 2013 IPCC report (2013)
Journal Article

In September 2013 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published its first comprehensive assessment of physical climate science in six years, constituting a critical event in the societal debate about climate change. This paper analyses the... Read More about Climate change on Twitter: topics, communities and conversations about the 2013 IPCC report.

Recent palaeolimnological change recorded in Lake Xiaolongwan, northeast China: climatic versus anthropogenic forcing (2013)
Journal Article

Pitch production during the Roman period: an intensive mountain industry for a globalised economy? (2013)
Journal Article

The authors’ research project in the Pyrenees mountains has located and excavated Roman kilns for producing pitch from pine resin. Their investigations reveal a whole sustainable industry, integrated into the local environmental cycle, supplying pitc... Read More about Pitch production during the Roman period: an intensive mountain industry for a globalised economy?.

Reconsidering the water system of Roman Barcino (Barcelona) from supply to discharge (2013)
Journal Article

This paper presents the results of the ‘Roman Barcino Water Network’ Project. This study employed a series of methodologies aiming at joining and interpreting all data available on water supply, distribution, management, use and discharge in the Roma... Read More about Reconsidering the water system of Roman Barcino (Barcelona) from supply to discharge.

Blessing and breaking: a dissonance of action and interpretation in the Eucharistic Prayers of the Roman Rite (2013)
Journal Article

The references to 'blessing' and 'thanking' in the context of the community meal, the Eucharist, are found in the Synoptic Gospels as referring to Jesus' prayer to God; however, they are interpreted in contemporary Catholic practice as referring to t... Read More about Blessing and breaking: a dissonance of action and interpretation in the Eucharistic Prayers of the Roman Rite.

Tension space analysis: Exploring community requirements for networked urban screens (2013)
Conference Proceeding

This paper draws on the design process, implementation and early evaluation results of an urban screens network to highlight the tensions that emerge at the boundary between the technical and social aspects of design. While public interactive screens... Read More about Tension space analysis: Exploring community requirements for networked urban screens.

Presentism and eternalism (2013)
Journal Article

UK media representations of carbon capture and storage: actors, frames and metaphors (2013)
Journal Article

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is a climate change mitigation technology which has had a rather chequered history in British policy making and in the British public sphere. This article deals with the neglected topic of representations of CCS in th... Read More about UK media representations of carbon capture and storage: actors, frames and metaphors.

Which publics? When? Exploring the policy potential of involving different publics in dialogue around science and technology. (2013)
Book

How should we understand ‘the public’ in public dialogue given the dominant assumption within policy-making that the people brought together in these events must constitute a representative sample of the wider population? To improve the prospects for... Read More about Which publics? When? Exploring the policy potential of involving different publics in dialogue around science and technology..

Tissue engineered animal sparing models for the study of joint and muscle diseases (2013)
Book Chapter

Mummies and masquerades: English and Caribbean connections (2013)
Conference Proceeding

The composite mumming play script that the Ecclesfield-based Victorian children's author Juliana Horatia Ewing published in 1884 found its way to St. Kitts and Nevis in the Caribbean, where it was it was taken up enthusiastically by the black populat... Read More about Mummies and masquerades: English and Caribbean connections.

Nottingham's Owd 'Oss Mummers and their scrapbooks (2013)
Conference Proceeding

Nottingham's Owd 'Oss Mummers were formed in the late 1960s as an offshoot of the Nottingham Traditional Music Club, and continued into the 1980s. They have not totally disappeared, although they are now in new guises. The author joined them shortly... Read More about Nottingham's Owd 'Oss Mummers and their scrapbooks.

Enterprise groups in insolvency: recent international developments (2013)
Book Chapter

Overview of telematics-based prognostics and health management systems for commercial vehicles (2013)
Journal Article

Prognostics and Health Management/Monitoring (PHM) are methods to assess the health condition and reliability of systems for the purpose of maximising operational reliability and safety. Recently, PHM systems are emerging in the automotive industry.... Read More about Overview of telematics-based prognostics and health management systems for commercial vehicles.

Measuring the directional distance between fuzzy sets (2013)
Conference Proceeding

The measure of distance between two fuzzy sets is a fundamental tool within fuzzy set theory. However, current distance measures within the literature do not account for the direction of change between fuzzy sets; a useful concept in a variety of app... Read More about Measuring the directional distance between fuzzy sets.

Effects of various food ingredients on gall bladder emptying (2013)
Journal Article

Background/objectives: The emptying of the gall bladder in response to feeding is pivotal for the digestion of fat, but the role of various food ingredients in contracting the gall bladder postprandially is not well understood. We hypothesized that d... Read More about Effects of various food ingredients on gall bladder emptying.

Wavelet feature extraction and genetic algorithm for biomarker detection in colorectal cancer data (2013)
Journal Article

Biomarkers which predict patient’s survival can play an important role in medical diagnosis and treatment. How to select the significant biomarkers from hundreds of protein markers is a key step in survival analysis. In this paper a novel method is... Read More about Wavelet feature extraction and genetic algorithm for biomarker detection in colorectal cancer data.

Amorphous layer formation in Al86.0Co7.6Ce6.4 glass-forming alloy by large-area electron beam irradiation (2013)
Journal Article

Amorphous Al-Co-Ce alloys are of interest because of their resistance to corrosion, but high cooling rates are generally required to suppress the formation of crystalline phases. In this study, the surface of a bulk crystalline Al-Co-Ce alloy of a gl... Read More about Amorphous layer formation in Al86.0Co7.6Ce6.4 glass-forming alloy by large-area electron beam irradiation.