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Exploring the value of the capability approach for vocational education and training evaluation: reflections from South Africa (2014)
Journal Article
Powell, L., & McGrath, S. (2014). Exploring the value of the capability approach for vocational education and training evaluation: reflections from South Africa. International Development Policy / Revue internationale de politique de développement, 5(1), https://doi.org/10.4000/poldev.1784

In the late 1990s, South Africa was faced with the triple challenge of reforming the Apartheid divided institutional landscape of vocational education and training (VET) institutions; addressing equitable access to skills; and reorienting its skills... Read More about Exploring the value of the capability approach for vocational education and training evaluation: reflections from South Africa.

Advancing life projects: South African students explain why they come to FET colleges (2014)
Journal Article
Powell, L., & McGrath, S. (2014). Advancing life projects: South African students explain why they come to FET colleges. Journal of International and Comparative Education, 3(2), https://doi.org/10.14425/00.73.63

VET policy in South Africa is based on a set of assumptions regarding the identity of learners and why learners are in public further education and training (FET) colleges. These assumptions reflect an international orthodoxy about the centrality of... Read More about Advancing life projects: South African students explain why they come to FET colleges.

Cooperation, quorum sensing, and evolution of virulence in Staphylococcus aureus (2014)
Journal Article
Pollitt, E. J., West, S. A., Crusz, S. A., Burton-Chellew, M. N., & Diggle, S. P. (2014). Cooperation, quorum sensing, and evolution of virulence in Staphylococcus aureus. Infection and Immunity, 82(3), https://doi.org/10.1128/IAI.01216-13

The virulence and fitness in vivo of the major human pathogen Staphylococcus aureus are associated with a cell-to-cell signaling mechanism known as quorum sensing (QS). QS coordinates the production of virulence factors via the production and sensing... Read More about Cooperation, quorum sensing, and evolution of virulence in Staphylococcus aureus.

The inclusion of students with dyslexia in higher education: a systematic review using narrative synthesis (2014)
Journal Article
Pino, M., & Mortari, L. (2014). The inclusion of students with dyslexia in higher education: a systematic review using narrative synthesis. Dyslexia, 20(4), https://doi.org/10.1002/dys.1484

This article reports on a study focusing on the inclusion of students with dyslexia in higher education (HE). A systematic review was carried out to retrieve, critically appraise and synthesize the available evidence on how the inclusion of students... Read More about The inclusion of students with dyslexia in higher education: a systematic review using narrative synthesis.

Epistemic struggles in addiction therapeutic community meetings (2014)
Book Chapter
Pino, M. (2014). Epistemic struggles in addiction therapeutic community meetings. In A. Zuczkowski, R. Bongelli, I. Riccioni, & C. Canestrari (Eds.), Communicating certainty and uncertainty in medical, supportive and scientific contexts. John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/ds.25.10pin

In this study I analyse Therapeutic Community (TC) group meetings for persons with drug addiction problems. Using the method of Conversation Analysis, I specifically focus on practices of knowledge management and sharing between the educators and cli... Read More about Epistemic struggles in addiction therapeutic community meetings.

An evolutionary algorithm for graph planarisation by vertex deletion (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pinheiro, R. L., Constantino, A. A., de Mendonca, C. F. X., & Landa-Silva, D. An evolutionary algorithm for graph planarisation by vertex deletion. Presented at 16th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2014)

A non-planar graph can only be planarised if it is structurally modified. This work presents a new heuristic algorithm that uses vertices deletion to modify a non-planar graph in order to obtain a planar subgraph. The proposed algorithm aims to delet... Read More about An evolutionary algorithm for graph planarisation by vertex deletion.

Interface and surface analysis for pharmaceutical applications: challenges and recent advances (2014)
Journal Article
Piggott, M. J., & Zelzer, M. (2014). Interface and surface analysis for pharmaceutical applications: challenges and recent advances. Chimica Oggi, 32(5),

Innovation in R&D is a key target for the pharmaceutical sector to address some of the challenges it currently faces. This review discusses these challenges in the context of pharmaceutically relevant surfaces and interfaces. The surface properties o... Read More about Interface and surface analysis for pharmaceutical applications: challenges and recent advances.

Modelling of dispersive PT-symmetric Bragg grating (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Phang, S., Vukovic, A., Susanto, H., Benson, T. M., & Sewell, P. Modelling of dispersive PT-symmetric Bragg grating. Presented at Conference on Computation in Electromagnetics 2014, London, UK

This paper reports on the time-domain numerical model of a parity-time Bragg grating with saturated and dispersive gain. The model is compared against the ideal PT scenario where the gain is constant and unsaturated for all frequencies.

Saturable and dispersive parity-time symmetric directional coupler: a transmission-line modelling study (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Phang, S., Vukovic, A., Benson, T. M., Creagh, S., Sewell, P., & Gradoni, G. Saturable and dispersive parity-time symmetric directional coupler: a transmission-line modelling study. Presented at Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2014 16th International Conference on

In this paper, numerical modelling of Parity-Time (PT) coupled waveguides is reported. The PT coupled waveguide structure consists of two coupled slab waveguides based on GaAs material with gain/loss material parameter models, including both dispersi... Read More about Saturable and dispersive parity-time symmetric directional coupler: a transmission-line modelling study.

The Augustan temple and forum of the colony of Barcino: a 90 degree turn (2014)
Journal Article
Orengo, H. A., & Cortés, A. (2014). The Augustan temple and forum of the colony of Barcino: a 90 degree turn. Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 33(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/ojoa.12028

The Augustan Roman temple at Barcino has been a key element during the last 60 years in the research of the colony's urban development. Its peculiar elongated and narrow plan, first proposed in 1835, and its location at the highest point of the ancie... Read More about The Augustan temple and forum of the colony of Barcino: a 90 degree turn.

A note on geographical systems and maps of Montserrat (2014)
Journal Article
Odbert, H. M., & Grebby, S. (2014). A note on geographical systems and maps of Montserrat. Memoirs, 39, https://doi.org/10.1144/M39.27

It is often critically important that geospatial data are measured and mapped accurately, particularly for quantitative analyses and numerical modelling applications. Defining a geographical coordinate system requires a non-unique combination of geod... Read More about A note on geographical systems and maps of Montserrat.

The "eucharistic words of Jesus": an unnoticed silence in our earliest sources (2014)
Journal Article
O'Loughlin, T. (2014). The "eucharistic words of Jesus": an unnoticed silence in our earliest sources. Anaphora, 8(1),

There is a very long standing interest in the 'eucharistic words of Jesus' among both theologians and biblical scholars. However, the words that are given in the Synoptic Gospels are not eucharistic (in the sense of being Jesus' words of blessing / t... Read More about The "eucharistic words of Jesus": an unnoticed silence in our earliest sources.

Survey of the UK veterinary profession: common species and conditions nominated by veterinarians in practice (2014)
Journal Article
Nielsen, T., Dean, R. S., Robinson, N., Massey, A., & Brennan, M. L. (in press). Survey of the UK veterinary profession: common species and conditions nominated by veterinarians in practice. Veterinary Record, 174(13), https://doi.org/10.1136/vr.101745

The practice of evidence-based veterinary medicine involves the utilisation of scientific evidence for clinical decision making. To enable this, research topics pertinent to clinical practice need to be identified, and veterinary clinicians are best... Read More about Survey of the UK veterinary profession: common species and conditions nominated by veterinarians in practice.

The greenhouse metaphor and the footprint metaphor: climate change risk assessment and risk management seen through the lens of two prominent metaphors (2014)
Journal Article
Nerlich, B., & Hellsten, I. (2014). The greenhouse metaphor and the footprint metaphor: climate change risk assessment and risk management seen through the lens of two prominent metaphors. TATuP, 23(2),

This article charts the emergence and framing of anthropogenic climate change as risk through the lens of two metaphors: greenhouse effect and carbon footprint. We argue that the greenhouse effect metaphor provided the scientific basis for framing cl... Read More about The greenhouse metaphor and the footprint metaphor: climate change risk assessment and risk management seen through the lens of two prominent metaphors.

Releasing international prisoners (2014)
Book Chapter
Mulgrew, R. (2014). Releasing international prisoners. In Offender release and supervision: the role of courts and the use of discretion. Wolf Legal Publishers

This book chapter analyses the rules and procedures that govern the release of international prisoners (persons convicted for the commission of international crimes by international criminal courts) at the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the... Read More about Releasing international prisoners.

Conversational pursuit of medication compliance in a Therapeutic Community for persons diagnosed with mental disorders (2014)
Journal Article
Mortari, L., & Pino, M. (2014). Conversational pursuit of medication compliance in a Therapeutic Community for persons diagnosed with mental disorders. Disability and Rehabilitation, 36(17), https://doi.org/10.3109/09638288.2013.834987

Purpose: In this article, we contribute to the debate on medication compliance by exploring the conversational "technologies" entailed in the process of promoting clients’ adherence to psychopharmacological prescriptions. Using a case study approach,... Read More about Conversational pursuit of medication compliance in a Therapeutic Community for persons diagnosed with mental disorders.