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Artists as HRI pioneers : A creative approach to developing novel interactions for living with robots
(Springer Nature, 2013-12)
In this article we present a long-term, continuous human-robot cohabitation experiment, which involved two professional artists, whose artistic work explores the boundary between science and society. The artists lived in ...
The Unregulated Psychoactive Compound: ‘Benzo Fury’
(2013-12)
Introduction: The ‘legal high’ ‘Benzo Fury’ [1-(benzofuran-5-yl)propan-2-amine (5-APB) and 1-(benzofuran-6-yl)propan-2-amine (6-APB)] is an unregulated psychoactive compound which has similar effects as known controlled ...
Can district nurses and care home staff improve bowel care for older people using a clinical benchmarking tool?
(2013-12)
A quasi-experimental study tested a clinical benchmarking tool (Essence of Care) to improve bowel-related care for older people living in six care homes. In the intervention care homes, district nurses and care home staff ...
Factors Impacting on the Evolution and Characteristics of UK Deaths Involving‘Traditional’ and ‘New’ Stimulants.
(2013-12)
Introduction: This presentation outlines recent changes in UK drug indicators in respect of ‘traditional’ stimulants (amphetamine, cocaine, ecstasy) and how these may have influenced the ever-quickening emergence of ‘new’ ...
Methoxetamine: An Analogue of Ketamine
(2013-12)
Introduction: Methoxetamine acts similarly to a non-competitive antagonist at the N-methyl-aspartate receptor and a Dopamine reuptake inhibitor. Its behavioural effects resemble those induced by dissociative anesthetics, ...
Marketing foods to children : a comparison of nutrient content between children's and non-children's products
(2013-12)
OBJECTIVE: The predominance of marketing of products high in fat, sugar and/or salt to children has been well documented and implicated in the incidence of obesity. The present study aimed to determine whether foods marketed ...
Linking Phospholipase C isoforms with differentiation function in human vascular smooth muscle cells
(2013-12)
The phosphoinositol phospholipase C (PLC) family of enzymes consists of a number of isoforms, each of which has different cellular functions. PLCγ1 is primarily linked to tyrosine kinase transduction pathways, whereas PLCδ1 ...
Sulayman Al-Bassam: Portrait of a Contemporary Arab Theatre
(Physica-Verlag, 2013-12)
An analytic account of the impact of Al-Bassam's work on theatre in the Arab world and around the globe.
The Seeds of Time
(2013-12)
A fictional exploration of the uses of Shakespeare in the Great Exhibition of 1851, the Festival of Britain of 1951, and the 2012 London Olympics, in the form of an imitation of H.G.Wells's story The Time Machine.