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    • Giving cognition a helping hand : The effect of congruent gestures on object name retrieval 

      Pine, Karen; Reeves, L. M.; Howlett, Neil; Fletcher, Ben (2013-02)
      The gestures that accompany speech are more than just arbitrary hand movements or communicative devices. They are simulated actions that can both prime and facilitate speech and cognition. This study measured participants’ ...

    • Giving Hope to Rebuild Lives: Practical and Emotional Support for Those Bereaved by Road Traffic Collisions 

      Walsh, Tomás (2024-01-15)
      In the United Kingdom (UK), the Department for Transport (DfT) reported that 1,558 people died in Road Traffic Collisions (RTC) in 2021 (DfT, 2022). A considerable proportion of the UK population is impacted by RTCs yearly. ...

    • Giving physical significance to the Hi-GAL data : determining the distance of cold dusty cores in the Milky Way 

      Russeil, D.; Pestalozzi, M.; Mottram, J.C.; Bontemps, S.; Anderson, L.D.; Zavagno, A.; Beltran, M.T.; Bally, J.; Brand, J.; Brunt, C.; Cesaroni, R.; Joncas, G.; Marshall, D.; Martin, P.; Massi, F.; Molinari, S.; Moore, T.J.T.; Noriega-Crespo, A.; Olmi, L.; Thompson, M.A.; Wienen, M.; Wyrowski, F. (2011)
      Context: Hi-GAL, an open time key-project of the Herschel satellite, was awarded 343 hours observing time to carry out a 5-band photometric imaging survey at 70, 160, 250, 350, and 500 mu m of a vertical bar b vertical bar ...

    • Giving reverse differentiation a helping hand 

      Christianson, B.; Davies, A.; Dixon, Laurence; Roy, R.; van der Zee, P. (1997)
      Reverse automatic differentiation provides a very low bound on the operations count for calculating a gradient of a scalar function in n dimensions but suffers from a high storage requirement. In this paper we will show ...

    • Giving Students the Third Degree: Using Authentic Assessment Techniques in Extra & Co-Curricular Activities (ECCAs) to Improve Teaching Standards on Academic Law Programmes 

      Berger, Dan; Wild, Charles (2015-10-06)
      Authentic assessments are closely aligned with activities that take place in real work settings, as distinct from the often artificial constructs of university courses. The undergraduate law degree differs from many other ...

    • Giving the 'dear self' its due : Kierkegaard, Frankfurt and self-love 

      Lippitt, John (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015-10-22)
      In her highly critical account of Harry Frankfurt's account of self-love (in this volume), Sylvia Walsh presents Kierkegaard’s Christian view as a corrective to Frankfurt’s naturalistic account. Walsh criticises Frankfurt ...

    • GJ 832c : A super-earth in the habitable zone 

      Wittenmyer, Robert A.; Tuomi, Mikko; Butler, R. P.; Jones, Hugh; Anglada-Escudé, Guillem; Horner, Jonathan; Tinney, C. G.; Marshall, J. P.; Carter, B. D.; Bailey, J.; Salter, G. S.; O'Toole, S. J.; Wright, D.; Crane, J. D.; Schectman, S. A.; Arriagada, P.; Thompson, I.; Minniti, D.; Jenkins, J. S.; Diaz, M. (2014-08-05)
      We report the detection of GJ 832c, a super-Earth orbiting near the inner edge of the habitable zone of GJ 832, an M dwarf previously known to host a Jupiter analog in a nearly circular 9.4 yr orbit. The combination of ...

    • GLACE survey: OSIRIS/GTC tuneable filter H$ imaging of the rich galaxy cluster ZwCl 0024.0+1652 at z = 0.395. I. Survey presentation, TF data reduction techniques, and catalogue 

      Sánchez-Portal, M.; Pintos-Castro, I.; Pérez-Martínez, R.; Cepa, J.; Pérez García, A.~M.; Domínguez-Sánchez, H.; Bongiovanni, A.; Serra, A.~L.; Alfaro, E.; Altieri, B.; Aragón-Salamanca, A.; Balkowski, C.; Biviano, A.; Bremer, M.; Castander, F.; Castañeda, H.; Castro-Rodríguez, N.; Chies-Santos, A.~L.; Coia, D.; Diaferio, A.; Duc, P.~A.; Ederoclite, A.; Geach, J.; González-Serrano, I.; Haines, C.~P.; McBreen, B.; Metcalfe, L.; Oteo, I.; Pérez-Fournón, I.; Poggianti, B.; Polednikova, J.; Ramón-Pérez, M.; Rodríguez-Espinosa, J.~M.; Santos, J.~S.; Smail, I.; Smith, G.~P.; Temporin, S.; Valtchanov, I. (2015-06-01)
      The cores of clusters at 0 ≲ z ≲ 1 are dominated by quiescent early-type galaxies, whereas the field is dominated by star-forming late-type galaxies. Clusters grow through the accretion of galaxies and groups from the ...

    • Glacial Geomorphological map of the central Southern Uplands, Scotland. 

      Pearce, Danielle; Rea, Brice; Bradwell, Tom; McDougall, Derek (2014-07-03)
      The Quaternary glacial history of the Tweedsmuir Hills, Central Southern Uplands, Scotland, has received little attention since the 1980s, with earlier studies focussing on single lines of geomorphic evidence in isolated ...

    • The glacial geomorphology of upper Godthåbsfjord (Nuup Kangerlua) in south-west Greenland 

      Pearce, Danielle; Mair, Douglas; Rea, Brice; Lea, James; Schofield, J. Edward; Kamenos, Nicholas; Schoenrock, Kathryn (2018-02-08)
      The Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) is known to have experienced widespread retreat over the last century. Information on outlet glacier dynamics, prior to this, are limited due to both a lack of observations and a paucity of ...

    • Glacier surge propagation by thermal evolution at the bed 

      Murray, T.; Stuart, G.W.; Miller, P.J.; Woodward, J.; Smith, A.M.; Porter, P.R.; Jiskoot, H. (2000)
      Bakaninbreen, southern Svalbard, began a prolonged surge during 1985. In 1986, an internal reflecting horizon on radio echo sounding data was interpreted to show that the position of the surge front coincided with a ...

    • Glaciohydraulic supercooling 

      Cook, Simon J.; Knight, Peter G. (2009-10)
      In this progress report we review recent work which has investigated the process of glaciohydraulic supercooling and its significance for a range of glaciological and geological phenomena. Since our last report (Knight and ...

    • The Glass Ceiling : Gender Differences in Perceptions of Managers in the UK Travel and Tourism Sector 

      Smith, Paul; Crimes, Brandon; Forson, Cynthia (2011)

    • Glass ceiling in the Nigerian Banking sector: evidence from senior male and female employees 

      Pepple, Dennis; Oseghale, Raphael; Nmecha, Elly; Nwagu, Joyce (2024-03-31)
      The banking and finance sector is a major employer in many countries, especially in emerging economies.Decisions made in the sector have significant implication on the economy. There is evidence that decisionmaking has ...

    • Glass encapsulated minerals for self-healing in cement based composites 

      Kanellopoulos, A.; Qureshi, T. S.; Al-Tabbaa, A. (2015-11-15)
      This study presents the encapsulation of mineral compounds as healing materials for cement-based composites. Three liquid (sodium silicate, colloidal silica and tetraethyl orthosilicate) and one powdered (magnesium oxide) ...

    • Glass Fiber/Polypropylene composites with Potential of Bone Fracture Fixation Plates: Manufacturing Process and Mechanical Characterization 

      Kabiri, Ali; Liaghat, Gholamhossein; Alavi, Fatemeh; Saidpour, Hossein; Hedayati, Seyyed Kaveh; Ansari, Mehdi; Chizari, Mahmoud (2020-07-08)
      Mechanical properties and manufacturing processes of Glass Fiber/Polypropylene (GF/PP) composites for application of flexible internal long bone fracture fixation plates have been investigated. PP/Short Chopped Glass Fiber ...

    • Glass-ceramic joining of Fe22Cr porous alloy to Crofer22APU: interfacial issues and mechanical properties 

      D' Isanto, Fabiana; Salvo, Milena; Molin, Sebastian; Koszelow, Damian; Javed, Hassan; Akram, Sufyan; Chrysanthou, Andreas; Smeacetto, Federico (2022-10-01)
      This work deals with the joining of porous Fe22Cr ferritic stainless steel to a dense Crofer22APU plate by using a silica-based, Ba-containing glass-ceramic. The chemical and interfacial stability and the mechanical ...

    • Glass-ceramic sealant for solid oxide fuel cells application: Characterization and performance in dual atmosphere 

      Sabato, A. G.; Cempura, G.; Montinaro, D.; Chrysanthou, A.; Salvo, M.; Bernardo, E.; Secco, M.; Smeacetto, F. (2016-10-01)
      Glass-ceramic composition was designed and tested for use as a sealant in solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) planar stack design. The crystallization behaviour was investigated by calculating the Avrami parameter (n) and the ...

    • GLEAM : The GaLactic and Extragalactic All-sky MWA survey 

      Wayth, R. B.; Lenc, E.; Bell, M. E.; Callingham, J. R.; Dwarakanath, K. S.; Franzen, T. M. O.; For, B. -Q.; Gaensler, B.; Hancock, P.; Hindson, L.; Hurley-Walker, N.; Jackson, C. A.; Johnston-Hollitt, M.; Kapinska, A. D.; McKinley, B.; Morgan, J.; Offringa, A. R.; Procopio, P.; Staveley-Smith, L.; Wu, C.; Zheng, Q.; Trott, C. M.; Bernardi, G.; Bowman, J. D.; Briggs, F.; Cappallo, R. J.; Corey, B. E.; Deshpande, A. A.; Emrich, D.; Goeke, R.; Greenhill, L. J.; Hazelton, B. J.; Kaplan, D. L.; Kasper, J. C.; Kratzenberg, E.; Lonsdale, C. J.; Lynch, M. J.; McWhirter, S. R.; Mitchell, D. A.; Morales, M. F.; Morgan, E.; Oberoi, D.; Ord, S. M.; Prabu, T.; Rogers, A. E. E.; Roshi, A.; Shankar, N. Udaya; Srivani, K. S.; Subrahmanyan, R.; Tingay, S. J.; Waterson, M.; Webster, R. L.; Whitney, A. R.; Williams, A.; Williams, C. L. (2015-06-22)
      GLEAM, the GaLactic and Extragalactic All-sky MWA survey, is a survey of the entire radio sky south of declination +25 deg at frequencies between 72 and 231 MHz, made with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) using a drift ...

    • Gli Psiconauti: navigatori della mente o sperimentatori chimici? 

      Orsolini, Laura; Vecchiotti, Roberta; Papanti, Duccio; Valchera, Alessandro; Corkery, John; Schifano, Fabrizio (2016-06-01)
      Recentemente, all’interno delle comunità online (forum, blog, social network), si sta diffondendo una nuova generazione di consumatori di sostanze, altamente informati ed esperti nel campo delle nuove sostanze psicoattive ...