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A Macroscope for Global History. Seshat Global History Databank: a methodological overview
(2016-12-22)
This article introduces the ‘Seshat: Global History’ project, the methodology it is based upon and its potential as a tool for historians and other humanists. The article describes in detail how the Seshat methodology and ...
Uncertainties in the production of p nuclei in massive stars obtained from Monte Carlo variations
(2016-12-21)
Nuclear uncertainties in the production of $p$ nuclei in massive stars have been quantified in a Monte Carlo procedure. Bespoke temperature-dependent uncertainties were assigned to different types of reactions involving ...
Bernard Shaw at Shaw's Corner: Artefacts, Socialism, Connoisseurship, and Self-Fashioning
(2016-12-20)
This thesis analyses artefacts belonging to the playwright, socialist and critic Bernard Shaw, which form part of the collections at Shaw’s Corner, Hertfordshire, now managed as a National Trust property. My original ...
Insights into the deterministic skill of air quality ensembles from the analysis of AQMEII data
(2016-12-20)
Simulations from chemical weather models are subject to uncertainties in the input data (e.g. emission inventory, initial and boundary conditions) as well as those intrinsic to the model (e.g. physical parameterization, ...
The effect of ethnicity on collectivist families’ meal social interaction behaviour in Sierra Leone, International Journal of Advanced Research
(2016-12-20)
Ethnicity has been touted to have a significant influence on Sierra Leonean families’ meal consumption behaviour. It is used to define the social grouping of individuals as it is aligned with the type of language they ...
Systematic non-LTE study of the $-2.6 \le$ [Fe/H] $\le 0.2$ F and G dwarfs in the solar neighbourhood. II. Abundance patterns from Li to Eu
(2016-12-19)
For the first time, we present an extensive study of stars with individual non-local thermodynamic equilibrium (NLTE) abundances for 17 chemical elements from Li to Eu in a sample of stars uniformly distributed over the ...
Strategies for Landscape Representation : digital and analogue techniques
(Routledge, 2016-12-16)
Strategies for Landscape Representation discusses a variety of digital and analogue production techniques for the representation of landscape at multiple scales. Careful consideration is required to represent time, and to ...
Beaten into Submissiveness? An Investigation into the Protective Strategies used by Survivors of Domestic Abuse
(2016-12-14)
The aim of the study was to identify the prevalence and perceived helpfulness of a variety of protective strategies that were used by female survivors of domestic abuse and to explore factors that may have influenced ...
Student life - Your first clinical placement : prepare well and ask for help
(2016-12-14)
Your first clinical placement as a nursing student will be an exciting experience, but it may also be somewhat overwhelming.
Discordant inflammation and pain in early and established rheumatoid arthritis : Latent Class Analysis of Early Rheumatoid Arthritis Network and British Society for Rheumatology Biologics Register data
(2016-12-13)
Background: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) disease activity is often measured using the 28-joint Disease Activity Score (DAS28). We aimed to identify and independently verify subgroups of people with RA that may be discordant ...