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Virtual workshops on the road : Co-designing with drivers, within context in real-time
(Springer Nature, 2019-07-25)An investigation was performed of the characteristics of real-time, virtually present, contextual inquiry between automobile drivers and automotive designers. 28 participants were remotely interviewed while they were in ... -
Virtual worlds players – consumers or citizens?
(2014-10-15)This article questions the preconceived notions that participants in virtual worlds are essentially consumers. Building on the existing scholarship around virtual worlds and notwithstanding the current character of virtual ... -
Virtual Worlds – a Legal Post-Mortem Account
(2014-12-31)This paper addresses the lack of legal literature in the area of death and virtual worlds. It sheds light on the legal status of different in-game assets, assessing whether these could fit within the notions of property ... -
‘A virtue beyond all medicine’ : The hanged man’s hand, gallows tradition and healing in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England
(2015-11)From the eighteenth century through to the abolition of public executions in England in 1868, the touch of a freshly hanged man's hand was sought after to cure a variety of swellings, wens in particular. While the healing ... -
Virtue Ethics and Particularism
(2021-07-01)Moral particularism is often conceived as the view that there are no moral principles. However, its most fêted accounts focus almost exclusively on rules regarding actions and their features. Such action-centred particularism, ... -
Virtue Ethics, Kantian Ethics and Consequentialism
(2002)Contemporary theories of Virtue Ethics are often presented as being in opposition to Kantian Ethics and Consequentialism. It is argued that Virtue Ethics takes as fundamental the question, “What sort of character would a ... -
Virus Infection Impairs Fungal Response to Stress: Effect of Salt
(2023-03-10)Infection with Aspergillus fumigatus polymycovirus 1 (AfuPmV-1) weakens the resistance of biofilms of common A. fumigatus reference strain Af293 in intermicrobial competition with Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and sensitizes A. ... -
Virus Infection of Aspergillus fumigatus Compromises the Fungus in Intermicrobial Competition
(2021-04-16)Aspergillus and Pseudomonas compete in nature, and are the commonest bacterial and fungal pathogens in some clinical settings, such as the cystic fibrosis lung. Virus infections of fungi occur naturally. Effects on fungal ... -
The Virus Yellows Epidemic in Sugar Beet in the UK in 2020 and the Adverse Effect of the EU Ban on Neonicotinoids on Sugar Beet Production
(2021-04-01)It is fervently to be hoped that the decision to continue the ban on neonicotinoids in the UK will not be detrimental to the long-term future of the sugar beet industry here. If yields of sugar beet suffer the same fate ... -
VISION - Vienna survey in Orion I. VISTA Orion A Survey
(2016-03-07)Orion A hosts the nearest massive star factory, thus offering a unique opportunity to resolve the processes connected with the formation of both low- and high-mass stars. Here we present the most detailed and sensitive ... -
VISION - Vienna survey in Orion. III. Young stellar objects in Orion A
(2018-09-30)We extend and refine the existing young stellar object (YSO) catalogs for the Orion A molecular cloud, the closest massive star-forming region to Earth. This updated catalog is driven by the large spatial coverage (18.3 ... -
Vision based closed-loop control system for satellite rendezvous with model-in-the-loop validation and testing
(2012)A relative motion robotic facility has been developed at the University of Bristol which allows model in the loop testing of Matlab and Simulink based models. Automated rendezvous is highly desirable for space debris ... -
A vision for the early years Curriculum in the United Kingdom
(1997)This paper presents a strictly personal point of view of a program for preschoolers in the UK. It outlines the historical influences that affected the current position. Some generally accepted principles are explained ... -
A vision-based strategy for autonomous aerial refueling tasks
(2013-08)Autonomous aerial refueling is a key enabling technology for both manned and unmanned aircraft where extended flight duration or range are required. The results presented within this paper offer one potential vision-based ... -
Visioning 2035: The future of the higher education sector in the UK
(2010)The concept of ‘university’ has been around for centuries and yet the majority of British Universities have yet to reach their 50th birthday. The higher education sector has been through extensive change over a relatively ... -
Visions of blended learning: identifying the challenges and opportunities in shaping institutional approaches to blended learning in higher education
(2023-02-17)Although higher education has engaged in blended learning since the early 1990s and its benefits are well catalogued, research often focuses on individual programmes and less on how institutions envision and engage with ... -
VISIONS: The VISTA Star Formation Atlas
(2023-05-31)VISIONS is an ESO public survey of five nearby (d < 500 pc) star-forming molecular cloud complexes that are canonically associated with the constellations of Chamaeleon, Corona Australis, Lupus, Ophiuchus, and Orion. The ... -
Visitor attractions and events : Responding to seasonality
(2015-02-28)Seasonality is a protracted problem for the tourism sector due to the uneven nature of demand and the relatively fixed nature of the supply of capacity and resources, particularly in the attraction sector. Managing the ... -
VISTA Milky Way Public Survey
(Instituto de Astronomía, UNAM, 2009-05-01)