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Adapting a humanoid robot for use with children with profound and multiple disabilities (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Standen, P. J., Brown, D. J., Hedgecock, J., Roscoe, J., Galvez Trigo, M. J., & Elgajiji, E. (2016). Adapting a humanoid robot for use with children with profound and multiple disabilities.

With all the developments in information technology (IT) for people with disabilities, few interventions have been designed for people with profound and multiple disabilities as there is little incentive for companies to design and manufacture techno... Read More about Adapting a humanoid robot for use with children with profound and multiple disabilities.

Liquidity, interest rates and house prices in the Euro area: a DSGE analysis (2016)
Journal Article
Rubio, M., & Carrasco-Gallego, J. A. (2016). Liquidity, interest rates and house prices in the Euro area: a DSGE analysis. Journal of European Real Estate Research, 9(1), 4-25. https://doi.org/10.1108/JERER-03-2015-0014

In this paper, we propose a two-country monetary union DSGE model with housing, in order to study how different shocks contributed to the increase in housing prices and credit in the EMU prior to the crisis. One of the countries is calibrated to repr... Read More about Liquidity, interest rates and house prices in the Euro area: a DSGE analysis.

The xenophobe’s phrase book (2016)
Journal Article
Roberts, S. (2016). The xenophobe’s phrase book. Journal of Comparative and International Labour and Social Law / Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Arbeits- und Sozialrecht, 2016(1), 185-201

Novel human anti-claudin 1 mAbs inhibit hepatitis C virus infection and may synergize with anti-SRB1 mAb (2016)
Journal Article
Paciello, R., Urbanowicz, R. A., Riccio, G., Sasso, E., McClure, C. P., Zambrano, N., …De Lorenzo, C. (2016). Novel human anti-claudin 1 mAbs inhibit hepatitis C virus infection and may synergize with anti-SRB1 mAb. Journal of General Virology, 97(1), 82-94. https://doi.org/10.1099/jgv.0.000330

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a major cause of chronic hepatitis and liver carcinoma and new therapies based on novel targets are needed. The tight junction protein claudin 1 (CLDN-1) is essential for HCV cell entry and spread, and anti-CLDN-1 rat and m... Read More about Novel human anti-claudin 1 mAbs inhibit hepatitis C virus infection and may synergize with anti-SRB1 mAb.

Clinical effectiveness and patient perspectives of different treatment strategies for tics in children and adolescents with Tourette syndrome: a systematic review and qualitative analysis (2016)
Journal Article
Hollis, C., Pennant, M., Cuenca, J., Glazebrook, C., Kendall, T., Whittington, C., Stockton, S., Larsson, L., Bunton, P., Dobson, S., Groom, M. J., Hedderly, T., Heyman, I., Jackson, G. M., Jackson, S., Murphy, T., Rickards, H., Robertson, M., & Stern, J. (2016). Clinical effectiveness and patient perspectives of different treatment strategies for tics in children and adolescents with Tourette syndrome: a systematic review and qualitative analysis. Health Technology Assessment, 20(4), 1-450. https://doi.org/10.3310/hta20040

Background: Tourette syndrome (TS) is a neurodevelopmental condition characterised by chronic motor and vocal tics affecting up to 1% of school-age children and young people and is associated with significant distress and psychosocial impairment.
Ob... Read More about Clinical effectiveness and patient perspectives of different treatment strategies for tics in children and adolescents with Tourette syndrome: a systematic review and qualitative analysis.

Predicting online product sales via online reviews, sentiments, and promotion strategies (2016)
Journal Article
Chong, A. Y. L., Li, B., Ngai, E. W., Ch'ng, E., & Lee, F. (2016). Predicting online product sales via online reviews, sentiments, and promotion strategies. International Journal of Operations and Production Management, 36(4), https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOPM-03-2015-0151

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to investigate if online reviews (e.g. valence and volume), online promotional strategies (e.g. free delivery and discounts) and sentiments from user reviews can help predict product sales.

Design/methodolog... Read More about Predicting online product sales via online reviews, sentiments, and promotion strategies.

Household finances, income shocks and family separation in Britain (2016)
Journal Article
Bridges, S., & Disney, R. (2016). Household finances, income shocks and family separation in Britain. Economic Inquiry, 54(1), 698-718. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.12259

We examine the effect of household financial indebtedness on the incidence of partnership dissolution using a large survey of families with children in Britain. We use detailed data on household finances to provide a robust statistical analysis of th... Read More about Household finances, income shocks and family separation in Britain.

Condition monitoring approach for permanent magnet synchronous motor drives based on the INFORM method (2016)
Journal Article
Arellano-Padilla, J., Sumner, M., & Gerada, C. (2016). Condition monitoring approach for permanent magnet synchronous motor drives based on the INFORM method. IET Electric Power Applications, 10(1), 54-62. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-epa.2015.0148

This paper proposes a monitoring scheme based on saliency tracking to assess the health condition of PMSM drives operating under non stationary conditions. The evaluated scheme is based on the INFORM methodology, which is associated to the accurate s... Read More about Condition monitoring approach for permanent magnet synchronous motor drives based on the INFORM method.

The effect of conditioned inhibition on the specific Pavlovian-instrumental transfer effect (2016)
Journal Article
Alarcón, D., & Bonardi, C. (2016). The effect of conditioned inhibition on the specific Pavlovian-instrumental transfer effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 42(1), 82-94. https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000087

Four experiments examined the effect of Pavlovian conditioned inhibition on specific Pavlovian-instrumental transfer (PIT) in human participants. The task comprised an instrumental phase in which two responses (R1, R2) were each paired with one of tw... Read More about The effect of conditioned inhibition on the specific Pavlovian-instrumental transfer effect.