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‘The Cries of Pagan Desperation’: Synge, Riders to the Sea and the discontents of historical time (2014)
Journal Article
Collins, C. (2014). ‘The Cries of Pagan Desperation’: Synge, Riders to the Sea and the discontents of historical time

This essay considers Synge’s staging of the caoine (keen) in Riders to the Sea(1904). It argues that the caoine in Riders to the Sea is not simply an aesthetic and unethical fetishization of pre-Christian cultural residue predicated on class insecuri... Read More about ‘The Cries of Pagan Desperation’: Synge, Riders to the Sea and the discontents of historical time.

Forgetting Follow (2014)
Book Chapter
Collins, C. (2014). Forgetting Follow. In Ireland, memory and performing the historical imagination. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137362186

Memory in Ireland is a performative cultural industry that is regulated by the threat of forgetting. Forgetting cannot be cured, because it determines the phenomenology of memory. The more one attempts to defend against forgetting as a phenomenon, th... Read More about Forgetting Follow.

Computational study for workforce scheduling and routing problems (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Castillo-Salazar, J. A., Landa-Silva, D., & Qu, R. (2014). Computational study for workforce scheduling and routing problems.

We present a computational study on 112 instances of the Workforce Scheduling and Routing Problem (WSRP). This problem has applications in many service provider industries where employees visit customers to perform activities. Given their similarity,... Read More about Computational study for workforce scheduling and routing problems.

Network flow models for intraday personnel scheduling problems (2014)
Journal Article
Brucker, P., & Qu, R. (2014). Network flow models for intraday personnel scheduling problems. Annals of Operations Research, 218(1), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-012-1234-y

Personnel scheduling problems can be decomposed into two stages. In the first stage for each employee the working days have to be fixed. In the second stage for each day of the planning period an intraday scheduling problem has to be solved. It consi... Read More about Network flow models for intraday personnel scheduling problems.

A data driven approach to mapping urban neighbourhoods (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Brindley, P., Goulding, J., & Wilson, M. L. (2014). A data driven approach to mapping urban neighbourhoods.

Neighbourhoods have been described by the UK Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government as the “building blocks of public service society”. Despite this, difficulties in data collection combined with the concept’s subjective nature have... Read More about A data driven approach to mapping urban neighbourhoods.

A review of microwave coal processing (2014)
Journal Article
Binner, E., Lester, E., Kingman, S., Dodds, C., Wu, T., Robinson, J. P., …Mathews, J. P. (2014). A review of microwave coal processing. Journal of Microwave Power and Electromagnetic Energy, 48(1),

This paper reviews the application of microwave energy in coal processing and utilisation. It covers a wide variety of processes including liberation of minerals, coal drying, pre-treatment to improve grindability, liquefaction enhancements and coke... Read More about A review of microwave coal processing.

Implementing a paradigm shift: implementing the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the context of mental disability law (2014)
Book Chapter
Bartlett, P. (2014). Implementing a paradigm shift: implementing the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the context of mental disability law. In Torture in healthcare settings: reflections on the Special Rapporteur on Torture’s 2013 Thematic Report. Centre for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, American University Washington College of Law

The passage of the CRPD in 2006 promises a paradigm shift in the rights of people with disabilities. Implementing this paradigm shift is a major undertaking requiring the involvement of a wide range of stakeholders. The required reforms extend acro... Read More about Implementing a paradigm shift: implementing the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the context of mental disability law.

Association between somatic cell count during the first lactation and the cumulative milk yield of cows in Irish dairy herds (2014)
Journal Article
Archer, S. C., Mc Coy, F., Wapenaar, W., & Green, M. J. (2014). Association between somatic cell count during the first lactation and the cumulative milk yield of cows in Irish dairy herds. Journal of Dairy Science, 97(4), https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2013-7158

Reduced potential milk yield is an important component of mastitis costs in dairy cows. The first aim of this study was to assess associations between somatic cell count (SCC) during the first lactation, and cumulative milk yield over the first lacta... Read More about Association between somatic cell count during the first lactation and the cumulative milk yield of cows in Irish dairy herds.

RNA-sequencing reveals the complexities of the transcriptional response to lignocellulosic biofuel substrates in Aspergillus niger (2014)
Journal Article
Archer, D. B. (2014). RNA-sequencing reveals the complexities of the transcriptional response to lignocellulosic biofuel substrates in Aspergillus niger. Fungal Biology and Biotechnology, 1(3), https://doi.org/10.1186/s40694-014-0003-x

Background: Saprobic fungi are the predominant industrial sources of Carbohydrate Active enZymes (CAZymes) used for the saccharification of lignocellulose during the production of second generation biofuels. The production of more effective enzyme co... Read More about RNA-sequencing reveals the complexities of the transcriptional response to lignocellulosic biofuel substrates in Aspergillus niger.

Relative monads formalised (2014)
Journal Article
Altenkirch, T., Chapman, J., & Uustalu, T. (2014). Relative monads formalised. Journal of Formalized Reasoning, 7(1), https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1972-5787/4389

Relative monads are a generalisation of ordinary monads where the underlying functor need not be an endofunctor. In this paper, we describe a formalisation of the basic theory of relative monads in the interactive theorem prover and dependently typed... Read More about Relative monads formalised.

Increased error observability of an inertial pedestrian navigation system by rotating IMU (2014)
Journal Article
Abdulrahim, K., Hide, C., Moore, T., & Hill, C. (2014). Increased error observability of an inertial pedestrian navigation system by rotating IMU. Journal of Engineering and Technological Sciences, 46(2), https://doi.org/10.5614/j.eng.technol.sci.2014.46.2.7

Indoor pedestrian navigation suffers from the unavailability of useful GNSS signals for navigation. Often a low-cost non-GNSS inertial sensor is used to navigate indoors. However, using only a low-cost inertial sensor for the system degrades its perf... Read More about Increased error observability of an inertial pedestrian navigation system by rotating IMU.

Rotating a mens inertial measurement unit for a foot-mounted pedestrian navigation (2014)
Journal Article
Abdulrahim, K., Hide, C., Moore, T., & Hill, C. (2014). Rotating a mens inertial measurement unit for a foot-mounted pedestrian navigation. Journal of Computer Science, 10(12), https://doi.org/10.3844/jcssp.2014.2619.2627

Pedestrian navigation especially indoors suffers from the unavailability of useful GNSS signals for positioning. Alternatively, a low-cost Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) positioning system that does not depend on the GNSS signal can be used for indo... Read More about Rotating a mens inertial measurement unit for a foot-mounted pedestrian navigation.

Microencapsulation of Lactobacillus acidophilus NCIMB 701748 in matrices containing soluble fibre by spray drying: technological characterization, storage stability and survival after in vitro digestion (2014)
Journal Article
Yonekura, L., Sun, H., Soukoulis, C., & Fisk, I. D. (2014). Microencapsulation of Lactobacillus acidophilus NCIMB 701748 in matrices containing soluble fibre by spray drying: technological characterization, storage stability and survival after in vitro digestion. Journal of Functional Foods, 6, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jff.2013.10.008

We evaluated sodium alginate, chitosan and hydroxypropyl methylcellulose (HPMC) as co-encapsulants for spray dried Lactobacillus acidophilus NCIMB 701748 by assessing their impact on cell viability and physicochemical properties of the dried powders,... Read More about Microencapsulation of Lactobacillus acidophilus NCIMB 701748 in matrices containing soluble fibre by spray drying: technological characterization, storage stability and survival after in vitro digestion.

The treatment of hypertension in care home residents: a systematic review of observational studies (2014)
Journal Article
Welsh, T., Gladman, J. R., & Gordon, A. L. (2014). The treatment of hypertension in care home residents: a systematic review of observational studies. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 15(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2013.06.012

Aim: To describe the prevalence of hypertension in care home residents, its treatment, change in treatment over time, and the achievement of blood pressure (BP) control. Method: The PubMed, Cochrane, Embase, and PsychINFO databases were searched fo... Read More about The treatment of hypertension in care home residents: a systematic review of observational studies.

National survey of the injury prevention activities of children's centres (2014)
Journal Article
Watson, M., Mulvaney, C. A., Kendrick, D., Stewart, J., Coupland, C., Hayes, M., & Wynn, P. (2014). National survey of the injury prevention activities of children's centres. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.12059

Children's centres were established across England to provide a range of services including early education, social care and health to pre-school children and their families. We surveyed children's centres to ascertain the activities they were undert... Read More about National survey of the injury prevention activities of children's centres.

The AHRC Landscape and Environment Programme Director’s Impact Fellowship (2014)
Journal Article
Veale, L. (2014). The AHRC Landscape and Environment Programme Director’s Impact Fellowship. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 13(1),

The Landscape and Environment programme was one of the first strategic research programmes to be launched by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) soon after it acquired its royal charter in 2005. In 2010, programme Director Stephen Daniels... Read More about The AHRC Landscape and Environment Programme Director’s Impact Fellowship.

Phemius Suite (2014)
Journal Article
Thomas, O. (2014). Phemius Suite. Journal of Hellenic Studies, 134, https://doi.org/10.1017/S007542691400007X

This article examines four connected aspects of Phemius’ performance in Odyssey 1. The first section examines the poet’s unusual technique in relating Phemius’ music to other, simultaneous sounds in the ‘soundscape’ of Odysseus’ hall. The second argu... Read More about Phemius Suite.

Work it, wrap it, fix it, fold it (2014)
Journal Article
Sculthorpe, N., & Hutton, G. (2014). Work it, wrap it, fix it, fold it. Journal of Functional Programming, 24(1), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956796814000045

The worker/wrapper transformation is a general-purpose technique for refactoring recursive programs to improve their performance. The two previous approaches to formalising the technique were based upon different recursion operators and different cor... Read More about Work it, wrap it, fix it, fold it.

"The Book of Negroes’ illustrated edition: circulating African-Canadian history through the Middlebrow" (2014)
Journal Article
Roberts, G. (2014). "The Book of Negroes’ illustrated edition: circulating African-Canadian history through the Middlebrow". International Journal of Canadian Studies, 48, https://doi.org/10.3138/ijcs.48.53

This article examines the 2009 deluxe illustrated edition of Lawrence Hill’s Commonwealth Writers’ Prize– and Canada Reads–winning novel The Book of Negroes, originally published in 2007. It relates the story of Aminata, a West African girl kidnapped... Read More about "The Book of Negroes’ illustrated edition: circulating African-Canadian history through the Middlebrow".

Update on otitis media – prevention and treatment (2014)
Journal Article
Qureishi, A., Lee, Y., Belfield, K., Birchall, J. P., & Daniel, M. (2014). Update on otitis media – prevention and treatment. Infection and Drug Resistance, 2014(7), https://doi.org/10.2147/IDR.S39637

Acute otitis media and otitis media with effusion are common childhood disorders, a source of significant morbidity, and a leading cause of antibiotic prescription in primary health care. Although effective treatments are available, some shortcomings... Read More about Update on otitis media – prevention and treatment.