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Assessing Identity Theft in the Internet of Things
(2014-03-01)
In the Internet of Things everything is interconnected. In the same context that “man-made fire” got the party started for human civilisation, “man-made TCP” enabled computing devices to participate in our lives. Today we ...
The use of Wikis in Education - a review of the literature
(2014-03)
This paper reviews the literature surrounding the use of Web 2.0 in education. It examines various perspectives of what Web 2.0 means, and how Web 2.0 can support a constructivist pedagogy. Case studies involving Wikis are ...
More than A to B : The role of free bus travel for the mobility and wellbeing of older citizens in London
(2014-03)
This study contributes to the literature on mobility and wellbeing at older ages. Taking London as a case study, where older citizens have free access to a relatively extensive and accessible public transport network, ...
A Power-Aware Framework for Executing Streaming Programs on Networks-on-Chip
(2014-03-01)
Software developers are discovering that practices which have successfully served single-core platforms for decades do no longer work for multi-cores. Stream processing is a parallel execution model that is well-suited for ...
Choosing Motherhood : The complexities of pregnancy decision-making among young black women 'looked after' by the State
(2014-03-01)
Objective: This paper addresses the experiences of a group of young black teenage mothers looked after by the State, most of whom were also either migrants or asylum seekers. The paper explores the experience of discovery ...
Work disability and state benefit claims in early rheumatoid arthritis : The ERAN cohort
(2014-03-01)
Objective. RA is an important cause of work disability. This study aimed to identify predictive factors for work disability and state benefit claims in a cohort with early RA. Methods. The Early RA Network (ERAN) inception ...
Evolution of cold-air-pooling processes in complex terrain
(2014-03-01)
Elucidating cold-air-pooling processes forms part of the longstanding problem of parametrizing the effects of complex terrain in larger-scale numerical models. The Weather Research and Forecasting model has been set-up and ...
Blogs in Higher Education : encouraging self-reflective learning in group assessments for Business Students
(2014-03)
This article analyses and assesses the inclusion of blogs in higher education learning and teaching, and its use as an enabler for reflective learning, particularly in the context of group work. The research reports on ...
Is it possible to detect planets around young active G and K dwarfs?
(2014-03)
Theoretical predictions suggest that the distribution of planets in very young stars could be very different to that typically observed in Gyr old systems that are the current focus of radial velocity surveys. However, the ...
The evolution and characteristics of UK deaths involving GHB and its analogues
(2014-03)
Introduction: misuse of gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB) and gamma butyrolactone (GBL) increased in Western countries from the early 1990s. The period since has seen a rising numbers of deaths. This presentation outlines the ...