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British peace activism and 'new' diplomacy: revisiting the 1899 Hague Peace Conference (2015)
Journal Article
Hucker, D. (2015). British peace activism and 'new' diplomacy: revisiting the 1899 Hague Peace Conference. Diplomacy and Statecraft, 26(3), https://doi.org/10.1080/09592296.2015.1067509

This analysis provides a re-appraisal of the 1899 Hague Conference by looking more closely at how citizen activists—notably in Britain but also transnationally—used it as a forum through which to press their agenda onto politicians and diplomatists.... Read More about British peace activism and 'new' diplomacy: revisiting the 1899 Hague Peace Conference.

Education, civic empowerment, and race: commentary on Meira Levinson’s No Citizen Left Behind (2015)
Journal Article
Hoskins, Z. (2015). Education, civic empowerment, and race: commentary on Meira Levinson’s No Citizen Left Behind. Social Philosophy Today, 31, https://doi.org/10.5840/socphiltoday201551815

Meira Levinson’s No Citizen Left Behind is a thoughtful, accessible, philosophically rich look at civic education in U.S. schools. The book’s central claims are, on the whole, quite persuasive. In the interests of fostering further discussion, this e... Read More about Education, civic empowerment, and race: commentary on Meira Levinson’s No Citizen Left Behind.

Materiomics: a toolkit for developing new biomaterials (2015)
Book Chapter
Hook, A., Morgan, A., & Winkler, D. A. (2015). Materiomics: a toolkit for developing new biomaterials. In Tissue engineering. Second edition. Elsevier

Learning Objectives • To understand the what materiomics is and why it is required • To become familiar with the various approaches used to design materiomic experiments • To learn what a polymer microarray is, what it is used for and how it is pr... Read More about Materiomics: a toolkit for developing new biomaterials.

The idea of the university in the early work of R.H. Tawney (2015)
Book Chapter
Holford, J. (2015). The idea of the university in the early work of R.H. Tawney. In R. Stoilova, K. Petkova, & S. Koleva (Eds.), Knowledge as a value, scientific knowledge as a vocation: Jubilee collection in honour of Professor Pepka Boyadjieva. Iztok-Zapad

Silica stable isotopes and silicification in a carnivorous sponge Asbestopluma sp. (2015)
Journal Article
Hendry, K., Swann, G. E., Leng, M. J., Sloane, H. J., Goodwin, C., Berman, J., & Maldonado, M. (2015). Silica stable isotopes and silicification in a carnivorous sponge Asbestopluma sp. Biogeosciences, 12, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-3489-2015

The stable isotope composition of benthic sponge spicule silica is a potential source of palaeoceanographic information about past deep seawater chemistry. The silicon isotope composition of spicules has been shown to relate to the silicic acid conce... Read More about Silica stable isotopes and silicification in a carnivorous sponge Asbestopluma sp..

Sculpting a mobile musical soundtrack (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hazzard, A., Benford, S., & Burnett, G. (2015). Sculpting a mobile musical soundtrack.

We present an in-the-wild project to design and study a mobile musical soundtrack that enhances the experience of visiting a sculpture park. As with soundtracks for films and games, the goal was to enhance the emotional and narrative aspects of the e... Read More about Sculpting a mobile musical soundtrack.

Persistence of scrapie infectivity within a farm environment after cleaning and decontamination (2015)
Journal Article
Hawkins, S. A., Simmons, H. A., Gough, K. C., & Maddison, B. C. (2015). Persistence of scrapie infectivity within a farm environment after cleaning and decontamination. Veterinary Record, 176(4), https://doi.org/10.1136/vr.102743

Scrapie of sheep/goats and Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) of deer/elk are contagious prion diseases where environmental reservoirs are directly implicated in the transmission of disease. In this study the effectiveness of recommended scrapie farm deco... Read More about Persistence of scrapie infectivity within a farm environment after cleaning and decontamination.

Recursive right-tailed unit root tests for an explosive asset price bubble (2015)
Journal Article
Harvey, D. I., Leybourne, S. J., & Sollis, R. (2015). Recursive right-tailed unit root tests for an explosive asset price bubble. Journal of Financial Econometrics, 13(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/jjfinec/nbt025

In this article, we compare the local asymptotic and finite sample power of two recently proposed recursive right-tailed Dickey–Fuller-type tests for an explosive rational bubble in asset prices. It is shown that the power of the two tests can differ... Read More about Recursive right-tailed unit root tests for an explosive asset price bubble.

Characterization of capsular polysaccharides and their glycoconjugates by hydrodynamic methods (2015)
Book Chapter
Harding, S. E., Abdelhameed, A. S., Gillis, R. B., Morris, G. A., & Adams, G. G. (2015). Characterization of capsular polysaccharides and their glycoconjugates by hydrodynamic methods. In Carbohydrate-based vaccines (211-227). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2874-3_13

Hydrodynamic methods are relevant for the characterization of carbohydrates such as capsular bacterial polysaccharides or glycoconjugates in solution. This chapter focuses on the following hydrodynamic methods: sedimentation velocity analytical ultra... Read More about Characterization of capsular polysaccharides and their glycoconjugates by hydrodynamic methods.

Assessing vocabulary size through multiple-choice formats: issues with guessing and sampling rates (2015)
Journal Article
Gyllstad, H., Vilkaitė, L., & Schmitt, N. (2015). Assessing vocabulary size through multiple-choice formats: issues with guessing and sampling rates. ITL, 166(2), https://doi.org/10.1075/itl.166.2.04gyl

In most tests of vocabulary size, knowledge is assessed through multiple-choice formats. Despite advantages such as ease of scoring, multiple-choice tests (MCT) are accompanied with problems. One of the more central issues has to do with guessing and... Read More about Assessing vocabulary size through multiple-choice formats: issues with guessing and sampling rates.

How much collocation knowledge do L2 learners have?: the effects of frequency and amount of exposure (2015)
Journal Article
González Fernández, B., & Schmitt, N. (2015). How much collocation knowledge do L2 learners have?: the effects of frequency and amount of exposure. ITL, 166(1), https://doi.org/10.1075/itl.166.1.03fer

Many scholars believe that collocations are difficult to learn and use by L2 learners. However, some research suggests that learners often know more collocations than commonly thought. This study tested 108 Spanish learners of English to measure thei... Read More about How much collocation knowledge do L2 learners have?: the effects of frequency and amount of exposure.

‘Well I don’t feel that’: schemas, worlds and authentic reading in the classroom (2015)
Journal Article
Giovanelli, M., & Mason, J. (2015). ‘Well I don’t feel that’: schemas, worlds and authentic reading in the classroom. English in Education, 49(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/eie.12052

This article explores reading in the English classroom through a cognitive linguistic lens. In particular, we consider how students’ ability to engage with a text, which we term authentic reading, can be facilitated or restricted. We draw on two case... Read More about ‘Well I don’t feel that’: schemas, worlds and authentic reading in the classroom.

Building an evidence base for adult safeguarding?: problems with the reliability and validity of adult safeguarding databases (2015)
Journal Article
Fyson, R. (2015). Building an evidence base for adult safeguarding?: problems with the reliability and validity of adult safeguarding databases. British Journal of Social Work, 45(3), https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bct163

This article considers current adult safeguarding policy guidelines for England, which require local authorities to collect adult safeguarding data for the purposes of research and service development. It then moves on to report some of the findings... Read More about Building an evidence base for adult safeguarding?: problems with the reliability and validity of adult safeguarding databases.

A framework for the cross-sectoral integration of multi-model impact projections: land use decisions under climate impacts uncertainties (2015)
Journal Article
Frieler, K., Levermann, A., Elliott, J., Heinke, J., Arneth, A., Bierkens, M., …Schellnhuber, H. (2015). A framework for the cross-sectoral integration of multi-model impact projections: land use decisions under climate impacts uncertainties. Earth System Dynamics, 6(2), 447-460. https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-6-447-2015

Climate change and its impacts already pose considerable challenges for societies that will further increase with global warming (IPCC, 2014a, b). Uncertainties of the climatic response to greenhouse gas emissions include the potential passing of lar... Read More about A framework for the cross-sectoral integration of multi-model impact projections: land use decisions under climate impacts uncertainties.

Building a birds eye view: collaborative work in disaster response (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fischer, J., Reeves, S., Rodden, T., Reece, S., Ramchurn, S., & Jones, D. (2015). Building a birds eye view: collaborative work in disaster response.

Command and control environments ranging from transport control rooms to disaster response have long been of interest to HCI and CSCW as rich sites of interactive technology use embedded in work practice. Drawing on our engagement with disaster respo... Read More about Building a birds eye view: collaborative work in disaster response.

Linguistic variation in early Anglo-Saxon England (2015)
Book Chapter
Findell, M. (2015). Linguistic variation in early Anglo-Saxon England. In R. Cohen, J. Story, & N. Moon (Eds.), The impact of diasporas. Oxford Diasporas Programme & The Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain: Evidence, Memories, Inventions

A 3D scene analysis framework and descriptors for risk evaluation (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dupre, R., Argyriou, V., Greenhill, D., & Tzimiropoulos, G. (2015). A 3D scene analysis framework and descriptors for risk evaluation.

In this paper we evaluate the notion of scene analysis with regard to risk. We consider the problem of evaluating risk and potential hazards in an environment and providing a quantified risk score. A definition of risk is given incorporating two elem... Read More about A 3D scene analysis framework and descriptors for risk evaluation.

Responsive cell–material interfaces (2015)
Journal Article
Dhowre, H. S., Rajput, S., Russell, N. A., & Zelzer, M. (2015). Responsive cell–material interfaces. Nanomedicine, 10(5), https://doi.org/10.2217/nnm.14.225

Major design aspects for novel biomaterials are driven by the desire to mimic more varied and complex properties of a natural cellular environment with man-made materials. The development of stimulus responsive materials makes considerable contributi... Read More about Responsive cell–material interfaces.