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Tommy Sheridan: From Hero to Zero? : A Political Biography
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New Directions : Understanding interactions of air quality and climate change at regional scales
(2012-03)The estimates of the short-lived climate forcers’ (SLCFs) impacts and mitigation effects on the radiation balance have large uncertainty because the current global model set-ups and simulations contain simplified ... -
Urban livelihoods under a changing climate : Perspectives on urban agriculture and planning in Lusaka, Zambia.
(2012-02)With rapidly deteriorating national and local economies, many urban dwellers in sub-Saharan Africa are resorting to informal sector activities to ameliorate the current food insecurity that poor households face. Among these ... -
Hypermobility and the hypermobility syndrome : assessment and management
(Elsevier, 2012-04) -
In vitro toxicity of nanosized copper particles in PC12 cells induced by oxidative stress
(2012-06)Recent evidence suggests that some nanomaterials, which are widely used in many fields, have health effects. In order to investigate the cytotoxicity induced by nanosized copper particles (nano-Cu), PC12 cells, which were ... -
Novel antithrombotic agents for atrial fibrillation
(2012-06-01)Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia. It is estimated that 1 in 4 individuals aged 40 years or above will develop at least 1 episode of AF during their lifetime. Stroke is a leading cause of ... -
An abundance of small exoplanets around stars with a wide range of metallicities
(2012-06-21)The abundance of heavy elements (metallicity) in the photospheres of stars similar to the Sun provides a 'fossil' record of the chemical composition of the initial protoplanetary disk. Metal-rich stars are much more likely ... -
Can misleading hand gestures influence eyewitness testimony?
(2011-05)A wealth of research has highlighted the susceptibility of eyewitnesses to misleading verbal questions. However, the role of nonverbal influence when questioning witnesses has been overlooked, even though substantive ... -
Andalucia : An emerging regional economy in Europe
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Philosophy and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2012-07)Investigates some intriguing philosophical questions via the popular Hitchhiker books by Douglas Adams -
The funniest of all improbable worlds : Hitchhikers as philosophical satire
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2012-07) -
Mostly harmless : Hitchhikers and the ethics of entertainment
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Martensitic-Austenitic phase transformation of Ni-Ti SMAs : Thermal properties
(2012-05)The main scope of this work concerns the definition of the thermal conductivity temperature dependence of fully dense NiTi SMAs in the temperature range where the Martensitic Austenitic phase transformation occurs. The ... -
Networking and Innovation in SMEs : Evidence from the Creative Industries in the East of England
(2012)Recently, there has been a great deal of interest in creativity and in the creative industries sector (CIS). However, researchers have given little attention to the impact of networking on the innovativeness and performance ... -
Time, emotion, and depression
(2012-04)I examine several aspects of the experience of time in depression and in the experience of different emotions. Both phenomenological and experimental studies show that depressed subjects have a slowed experience of time ... -
Nurse-led case management in the National Health Service : bridging clinical and social worlds
(2012)To understand the effects of Nurse Case Managers (NCMs) working in primary care in the English National Health Service (NHS) from multiple perspectives and how this new role impacts on social workers, this paper reports ... -
Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design
(Phaidon Press, 2012)he Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design features 500 graphic designs including newspapers, magazines, posters, advertisements, typefaces, logos, corporate design, record covers and moving graphics from around the world, which ... -
Illness perceptions account for variation in positive outlook as well as psychological distress in Rheumatoid Arthritis
(2012-08-01)Psychological distress in Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is associated with adverse clinical outcomes, and appears highly related to patients' illness perceptions. This study aimed to investigate the association between illness ... -
Why don't synaesthetic colours adapt away?
(2012-05)Synaesthetes persistently perceive certain stimuli as systematically accompanied by illusory colours, even though they know those colours to be illusory. This appears to contrast with cases where a subject's colour vision ... -
Lay perspectives on lay health worker roles, boundaries and participation within three UK community-based health promotion projects
(2012)This paper examines lay interpretations of lay health worker roles within three UK community-based health promotion projects. It argues that understanding lay health worker roles requires critical analysis of the complex ...