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Controlled biped balanced locomotion and climbing. (2016)
Book Chapter
Kenwright, B. (2016). Controlled biped balanced locomotion and climbing. In D. Zhang, & B. Wei (Eds.), Dynamic Balancing of Mechanisms and Synthesizing of Parallel Robots (447-456). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17683-3_17

This chapter describes the control principles necessary for an articulated biped model to accomplish balanced locomotion during walking and climbing. we explain the synthesizes mechanism for coordinated control of lower body joints (i.e. ankle, hip a... Read More about Controlled biped balanced locomotion and climbing..

Work on the Move: mobile and nomadic working methodologies. (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Firth, R., Jennings, T., Cochrane, R., Taks, M., & Van de Graaf, P. (2016, April). Work on the Move: mobile and nomadic working methodologies. Presented at Cumulus - In this Place Conference 2016

‘Work on the move’ is a design, process-driven methodology, which uses multiple locations within an outdoors setting and movement between locations, all of which function as learning places, confined to a specified time period.
Between 2012 and 2015... Read More about Work on the Move: mobile and nomadic working methodologies..

Inspecting the bad society? Bentham’s panopticon revisited. (2016)
Journal Article
Duff, A. (2016). Inspecting the bad society? Bentham’s panopticon revisited. The Asian Conference on Technology, Information & Society, 13-25

In Panopticon; or, The Inspection-House (2008 [1797]), the utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham outlined what he perceived to be a model prison, based on ‘the inspection-principle’ (p. 68). It was centrally about power, the control of miscreants by... Read More about Inspecting the bad society? Bentham’s panopticon revisited..

Managing itch- a biopsychosocial approach to care. (2016)
Journal Article
Buchanan, P., & Chouliara, Z. (2016). Managing itch- a biopsychosocial approach to care. Skin Care Today, 2(1), 38-41

Itch is most often associated with inflammatory and non- inflammatory skin conditions, but can also manifest in other non-dermatological illnesses such as haematological conditions, malignant disease, endocrine disorders, hepatic and renal disease, h... Read More about Managing itch- a biopsychosocial approach to care..

Teenage pregnancy, parenting and intergenerational relations. (2016)
Book
Brown, S. (2016). Teenage pregnancy, parenting and intergenerational relations. Palgrave Macmillan

Drawing on interviews and focus groups with young mothers and fathers, their parents and other relatives, this book provides a rich exploration of the experience of being a teenage parent now, and for earlier generations, closely examining teenage pr... Read More about Teenage pregnancy, parenting and intergenerational relations..

The REAL Corpus: a crowd-sourced corpus of human generated and evaluated spatial references to real-world urban scenes (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bartie, P., Mackaness, W., Gkatzia, D., & Rieser, V. (2016, May). The REAL Corpus: a crowd-sourced corpus of human generated and evaluated spatial references to real-world urban scenes. Presented at 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC)

We present a newly crowd-sourced data set of natural language references to objects anchored in complex urban scenes (In short: The REAL Corpus – Referring Expressions Anchored Language). The REAL corpus contains a collection of images of real-world... Read More about The REAL Corpus: a crowd-sourced corpus of human generated and evaluated spatial references to real-world urban scenes.

Antipattern comprehension: an empirical evaluation (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hou, T., Chapman, P., & Blake, A. (2016, July). Antipattern comprehension: an empirical evaluation. Presented at 9th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems

Comprehension of justifications is known to be difficult for even experienced ontology engineers, and much more so for other stakeholders. In this paper, we present two methods for displaying justifications using concept diagrams: using multiple conc... Read More about Antipattern comprehension: an empirical evaluation.

Using Moving Image to Facilitate Storytelling as an Ideation Methodology and a Platform to Enhance the Integration of International Student Cohorts Within HE Product Design. (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Firth, R., & Stoltenberg, E. (2016, September). Using Moving Image to Facilitate Storytelling as an Ideation Methodology and a Platform to Enhance the Integration of International Student Cohorts Within HE Product Design. Presented at 18th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education (E&PDE16), Aalborg University, Denmark

The use of moving image within HE Product Design education is increasing. Here, film is commonly used as a tool for the presentation of concepts or finished objects, as an instructional tool, and in user observations and research. Iteration technique... Read More about Using Moving Image to Facilitate Storytelling as an Ideation Methodology and a Platform to Enhance the Integration of International Student Cohorts Within HE Product Design..

Innovative developments in HCI and future trends (2016)
Journal Article
Hasan, M. S., & Yu, H. (2017). Innovative developments in HCI and future trends. International Journal of Automation and Computing, 14(1), 10-20. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11633-016-1039-6

The recent developments in technology have made noteworthy positive impacts on the human-computer interaction (HCI). It is now possible to interact with computers using voice commands, touchscreen, eye movement, hand gesture, etc. This paper compiles... Read More about Innovative developments in HCI and future trends.

Beetroot juice versus chard gel: A pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic comparison of nitrate bioavailability (2016)
Journal Article
McIlvenna, L. C., Monaghan, C., Liddle, L., Fernandez, B. O., Feelisch, M., Muggeridge, D. J., & Easton, C. (2017). Beetroot juice versus chard gel: A pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic comparison of nitrate bioavailability. Nitric Oxide: Biology and Chemistry, 64, 61-67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.niox.2016.12.006

Dietary supplementation with inorganic nitrate (NO3−) has been shown to induce a multitude of advantageous cardiovascular and metabolic responses during rest and exercise. While there is some suggestion that pharmacokinetics may differ depending on t... Read More about Beetroot juice versus chard gel: A pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic comparison of nitrate bioavailability.

Effects of Dry and Wet Sieving of Soil on Identification and Interpretation of Microbial Community Composition (2016)
Book Chapter
Blaud, A., Menon, M., van der Zaan, B., Lair, G., & Banwart, S. (2017). Effects of Dry and Wet Sieving of Soil on Identification and Interpretation of Microbial Community Composition. In D. Sparks, & S. Banwart (Eds.), Quantifying and Managing Soil Functions in Earth's Critical Zone - Combining Experimentation and Mathematical Modelling (119-142). Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.agron.2016.10.006

Soil aggregates are microhabitats for microorganisms, and directly influence microorganisms that live within and are influenced by microorganisms in return. Two methods are used to isolate soil aggregates by their size: dry sieving (sieving air-dried... Read More about Effects of Dry and Wet Sieving of Soil on Identification and Interpretation of Microbial Community Composition.

TMP: Tele-Medicine Protocol for Slotted 802.15.4 With Duty-Cycle Optimization in Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks (2016)
Journal Article
Akbar, M. S., Yu, H., & Cang, S. (2017). TMP: Tele-Medicine Protocol for Slotted 802.15.4 With Duty-Cycle Optimization in Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks. IEEE Sensors Journal, 17(6), 1925-1936. https://doi.org/10.1109/jsen.2016.2645612

Recently, adaptive duty cycle-based medium access control (MAC) protocols based on the IEEE 802.15.4 standard have been proposed to address the quality of service (QoS) requirements, including a specified and combined set of time bounded data transmi... Read More about TMP: Tele-Medicine Protocol for Slotted 802.15.4 With Duty-Cycle Optimization in Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks.

Evaluation of Assessment Method to Incorporate Graduate Attributes in Building Surveying Module (2016)
Journal Article
Chowdhry, S., & Garnier, C. (2016). Evaluation of Assessment Method to Incorporate Graduate Attributes in Building Surveying Module. Journal of Today's Ideas - Tomorrow's Technologies, 4(2), 118-171. https://doi.org/10.15415/jotitt.2016.42008

This study aims at finding out whether an alternate assessment strategy in Sustainable Developments module to improve the student's employability skills and qualities. The exploratory studies, quantitative and qualitative questions acted as a data ga... Read More about Evaluation of Assessment Method to Incorporate Graduate Attributes in Building Surveying Module.

Better for everyone: an approach to multimodal network design considering equity. (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Camporeale, R., Caggiani, L., Fonzone, A., & Ottomanelli, M. (2016, June). Better for everyone: an approach to multimodal network design considering equity. Presented at International Scientific Conference on Mobility and Transport, Munich, Germany

We propose a formulation of the Network Design Problem (NDP) to support transport planners in dealing with multimodal networks in contexts characterised by different (and sometimes conflicting) interests and limited resources in a transparent way. We... Read More about Better for everyone: an approach to multimodal network design considering equity..

Light and the Manifestation of Performance Place: The Experience of Spaces and Places Through a Different Light. (2016)
Journal Article
Winton, E. M. M. (2016). Light and the Manifestation of Performance Place: The Experience of Spaces and Places Through a Different Light. Spaces and Flows: An International Journal of Urban and ExtraUrban Studies, 8(2), 31-43. https://doi.org/10.18848/2154-8676/CGP/v08i02/31-43

Through the practice-based lens of the Night in the Garden at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (2014) this paper explores how environments, both built and green, can become something powerfully augmented in the regeneration of cities and towns, and... Read More about Light and the Manifestation of Performance Place: The Experience of Spaces and Places Through a Different Light..

Mapping the UK information workforce in the library, archives, records, information management, knowledge management and related professions (2016)
Journal Article
Hall, H., & Raeside, R. (2016). Mapping the UK information workforce in the library, archives, records, information management, knowledge management and related professions. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 53(1), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.2016.14505301117

A workforce mapping project was carried out in the UK between August 2014 and October 2015. It was commissioned by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) and the Archives and Records Association (ARA) to enhance unde... Read More about Mapping the UK information workforce in the library, archives, records, information management, knowledge management and related professions.

Desistance in drug-using offenders: A narrative review (2016)
Journal Article
Van Roeyen, S., Anderson, S., Vanderplasschen, W., Colman, C., & Vander Laenen, F. (2017). Desistance in drug-using offenders: A narrative review. European Journal of Criminology, 14(5), 606-625. https://doi.org/10.1177/1477370816682980

The majority of available desistance research has examined desistance in the general offender population. However, applying the desistance approach to specific groups of offenders has potential to enrich our knowledge since their change processes sho... Read More about Desistance in drug-using offenders: A narrative review.

Corporate governance in China: Regulatory reforms and policies (2016)
Book Chapter
Du, A., & Boateng, A. (2016). Corporate governance in China: Regulatory reforms and policies. In F. Ngwu, O. Osuji, & F. Stephen (Eds.), Corporate Governance in Developing and Emerging Markets. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315666020

Corporate governance, which is defined as the structure of rights and responsibilities among the various parties who have a stake in a business organisation (Aguilera and Jackson, 2003), has attracted immense interest from academics, practitioners an... Read More about Corporate governance in China: Regulatory reforms and policies.