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Benefits of phoneme discrimination training in a randomized controlled trial of 50- to 74-year-olds with mild hearing loss (2014)
Journal Article
Ferguson, M. A., Henshaw, H., Clark, D., & Moore, D. R. (2014). Benefits of phoneme discrimination training in a randomized controlled trial of 50- to 74-year-olds with mild hearing loss. Ear and Hearing, 35(4), Article e110-e121. https://doi.org/10.1097/AUD.0000000000000020

Objectives: The aims of this study were to (i) evaluate the efficacy of phoneme discrimination training for hearing and cognitive abilities of adults aged 50 to 74 years with mild sensorineural hearing loss who were not users of hearing aids, and to... Read More about Benefits of phoneme discrimination training in a randomized controlled trial of 50- to 74-year-olds with mild hearing loss.

Reproducing the City of London’s institutional landscape: the role of education and the learning of situated practices by early career elites (2014)
Journal Article
Faulconbridge, J. R., & Hall, S. (2014). Reproducing the City of London’s institutional landscape: the role of education and the learning of situated practices by early career elites. Environment and Planning A, 46(7), https://doi.org/10.1068/a45392

In this paper we argue that postgraduate education forms an important, but hitherto neglected, element in the distinctive institutional landscape of the City of London. In particular, and drawing on research into early-career financial and legal eli... Read More about Reproducing the City of London’s institutional landscape: the role of education and the learning of situated practices by early career elites.

The role of sample pupil responses in problem-solving lessons: perspectives from a design researcher and two teachers (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Evans, S., Mullins, N., & Waring, L. (2014). The role of sample pupil responses in problem-solving lessons: perspectives from a design researcher and two teachers.

The benefits of learning mathematics by comparing, reflecting on and discussing multiple approaches to a problem are well-known (Silver, 2005). However, teachers using non-routine problem-solving tasks designed to encourage multiple approaches face c... Read More about The role of sample pupil responses in problem-solving lessons: perspectives from a design researcher and two teachers.

The double PHD finger domain of MOZ/MYST3 induces α-helical structure of the histone H3 tail to facilitate acetylation and methylation sampling and modification (2014)
Journal Article
Dreveny, I., Deeves, S. E., Fulton, J., Yue, B., Messmer, M., Bhattacharya, A., …Heery, D. M. (2014). The double PHD finger domain of MOZ/MYST3 induces α-helical structure of the histone H3 tail to facilitate acetylation and methylation sampling and modification. Nucleic Acids Research, 42(2), 822-835. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkt931

Histone tail modifications control many nuclear processes by dictating the dynamic exchange of regulatory proteins on chromatin. Here we report novel insights into histone H3 tail structure in complex with the double PHD finger (DPF) of the lysine ac... Read More about The double PHD finger domain of MOZ/MYST3 induces α-helical structure of the histone H3 tail to facilitate acetylation and methylation sampling and modification.

Localised auxin peaks in concentration-based transport models for plants (2014)
Journal Article
Draelants, D., Avitabile, D., & Vanroose, W. Localised auxin peaks in concentration-based transport models for plants. Manuscript submitted for publication

We study the existence and bifurcation structure of stationary localised auxin spots in concentration-based auxin-transport models posed on one- and two-dimensional networks of plant cells. In regular domains with small active transport coefficient a... Read More about Localised auxin peaks in concentration-based transport models for plants.

Kingship, parliament and the court: the emergence of "high style" in petitions to the English crown, c.1350-1405 (2014)
Journal Article
Dodd, G. (2014). Kingship, parliament and the court: the emergence of "high style" in petitions to the English crown, c.1350-1405. English Historical Review, 129(538), https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceu117

In the second half of the fourteenth century, petitioners hoping to secure royal grace began addressing the king in an increasingly obsequious and ostentatious manner. A strong historiographical tradition is now established which regards this develop... Read More about Kingship, parliament and the court: the emergence of "high style" in petitions to the English crown, c.1350-1405.

Did hardening occur among smokers in England from 2000 to 2010? (2014)
Journal Article
Docherty, G., McNeill, A., Gartner, C., & Szatkowski, L. (2014). Did hardening occur among smokers in England from 2000 to 2010?. Addiction, 109(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/add.12359

Aims To assess trends in the prevalence of ‘hardcore’ smoking in England between 2000 and 2010, and to examine associations between hardcore smoking and socio-demographic variables. Design Secondary analysis of data from the United Kingdom's... Read More about Did hardening occur among smokers in England from 2000 to 2010?.

Assessing the impact and reception of the Court of Justice of the European Union case law on UK copyright law: what does the future hold? (2014)
Journal Article
Derclaye, E. (2014). Assessing the impact and reception of the Court of Justice of the European Union case law on UK copyright law: what does the future hold?. Revue internationale du droit d'auteur, 2014(240),

Very soon it will be a quarter of a century since the first EU directive in the field of copyright was adopted. The case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (“the CJEU” or “the Court”) on copyright is now pervasive; there is no aspect... Read More about Assessing the impact and reception of the Court of Justice of the European Union case law on UK copyright law: what does the future hold?.

Variability of behaviour in electricity load profile clustering: who does things at the same time each day? (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dent, I., Craig, T., Aickelin, U., & Rodden, T. (2014). Variability of behaviour in electricity load profile clustering: who does things at the same time each day?. In P. Perner (Ed.), Advances in data mining: applications and theoretical aspects: 14th Industrial Conference, ICDM 2014, St. Petersburg, Russia, July 16-20, 2014: proceedings (70–84). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08976-8_6

UK electricity market changes provide opportunities to alter households' electricity usage patterns for the benefit of the overall electricity network. Work on clustering similar households has concentrated on daily load profiles and the variability... Read More about Variability of behaviour in electricity load profile clustering: who does things at the same time each day?.

Informal carer role in the personalization of assistive solutions connected to aspirations of people with dementia (2014)
Journal Article
De Filippis, M. L., Craven, M. P., & Dening, T. (2014). Informal carer role in the personalization of assistive solutions connected to aspirations of people with dementia. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 8868, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13105-4_35

The increase in the elderly population over the last thirty years with consequent increase in the number of people living with dementia (PwD) has resulted in a research focus on improving quality-of-life and well-being beyond basic needs, to address... Read More about Informal carer role in the personalization of assistive solutions connected to aspirations of people with dementia.

Sustaining the turnaround: what capacity building means in practice (2014)
Journal Article
Day, C. (2014). Sustaining the turnaround: what capacity building means in practice. Revista Iberoamericana sobre Calidad, Eficacia y Cambio en Educación, 12(1),

The purpose of this paper is to show how successful, sustained school improvement in schools in urban settings which serve highly disadvantaged communities relies upon the qualities and skills of their principals to engage, simultaneously, in capacit... Read More about Sustaining the turnaround: what capacity building means in practice.

Sensitivity analysis for comparison, validation and physical-legitimacy of neural network-based hydrological models (2014)
Journal Article
Dawson, C., Mount, N. J., Abrahart, R., & Louis, J. (2014). Sensitivity analysis for comparison, validation and physical-legitimacy of neural network-based hydrological models. Journal of Hydroinformatics, 16(2), https://doi.org/10.2166/hydro.2013.222

This paper addresses the difficult question of how to perform meaningful comparisons between neural network-based hydrological models and alternative modelling approaches. Standard, goodness-of-fit metric approaches are limited since they only assess... Read More about Sensitivity analysis for comparison, validation and physical-legitimacy of neural network-based hydrological models.

The relevance of mathematics: The case of functional mathematics for vocational students (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dalby, D. (2014). The relevance of mathematics: The case of functional mathematics for vocational students.

This study of recent school-leavers in Further Education explores students’ opinions of relevance and how these are influenced by their experiences of different mathematics curricula in school and college. These vocational students are taught mathema... Read More about The relevance of mathematics: The case of functional mathematics for vocational students.

Children as inventors: orchestrating an informal pedagogic scenario with digital resources (2014)
Journal Article
Crook, C., & Harrison, C. (2014). Children as inventors: orchestrating an informal pedagogic scenario with digital resources. International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning, 6(1), https://doi.org/10.1504/IJTEL.2014.060027

A pedagogic scenario is described for providing primary school children with an understanding of the processes of invention while cultivating a sense of identity as ‘inventor’. This scenario is positioned at the boundary of in-class and out-of-class... Read More about Children as inventors: orchestrating an informal pedagogic scenario with digital resources.

Quality of life tools to inform co-design in the development of assistive technologies for people with dementia and their carer (2014)
Journal Article
Craven, M. P., De Filippis, M. L., & Dening, T. (2014). Quality of life tools to inform co-design in the development of assistive technologies for people with dementia and their carer. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 8868, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13105-4_57

A number of tools exist to measure quality of life (QoL) for people with dementia (PwD). A selection of existing measures are summarised, obtained from an online literature survey, comprising of scales administered either by healthcare professionals... Read More about Quality of life tools to inform co-design in the development of assistive technologies for people with dementia and their carer.

Two-grid hp-version discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods for quasi-Newtonian fluid flows (2014)
Journal Article
Congreve, S., & Houston, P. (2014). Two-grid hp-version discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods for quasi-Newtonian fluid flows. International Journal of Numerical Analysis and Modeling, 11(3),

In this article we consider the a priori and a posteriori error analysis of two-grid hp-version discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods for the numerical solution of a strongly monotone quasi-Newtonian fluid flow problem. The basis of the two-g... Read More about Two-grid hp-version discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods for quasi-Newtonian fluid flows.

Introduction: the rest is history (2014)
Book Chapter
Collins, C., & Caulfield, M. P. (2014). Introduction: the rest is history. In C. Collins, & M. P. Caulfield (Eds.), Ireland, memory and performing the historical imagination. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137362186

If the past is a foreign country then it has been colonized. This is a book about lost histories and faded memories of Irish theatre and performance. Winners write history, no one remembers history’s so-called losers. Until now.