Research publications: Recent submissions
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Remember remember the 6th of December......a rebellion or the constituting moment of a radical morphoma?
(2010)This essay discusses two complementary dimensions of the December 2008 events in Greece: one, the obvious anger against the brutal capitalist order being established in the country; the other, the disincorporation of a ... -
Extinctions and distances to dark clouds from 2MASS, MegaCam and IPHAS surveys : LDN 1525 in the direction of the AUR OB1 association
(2010)The possibility of applying photometry from the 2MASS J, H, K-s, MegaCam u, g and IPHAS r, i, H alpha surveys for determining the distance to the dark cloud LDN 1525 (TGU 1192) in the direction of the Aur OB1 association ... -
Structure-exploiting automatic differentiation of finite element discretizations
(2008)A common way to solve PDE constrained optimal control problems by automatic differentiation (AD) is the full black box approach. This technique may fail because of the large memory requirement. In this paper we present two ... -
Processing English compounds in the first and second language : the influence of the middle morpheme
(2010)Native English speakers tend to exclude regular plural inflection when producing English noun-noun compounds (e.g., rat-eater not rats-eater) while allowing irregular plural inflection within compounds (e.g., mice-eater) ... -
Agency, institutions, and Darwinism in evolutionary economic geography
(2009)The article by Danny MacKinnon, Andrew Cumbers, Andy Pike, Kean Birch, and Robert McMaster continues the dialogue on evolutionary ideas within economic geography. In response, I argue that the word “evolution” has a variety ... -
'Thinking outside the box'? : Trade union organizing strategies and Polish migrant workers in the United Kingdom
(2010)This article focuses on the responses of British trade unions to the arrival of Polish workers since the 2004 enlargement of the European Union. It is argued that existing definitions and explanations of UK trade union ... -
Conflict resolution, restorative justice approaches and bullying in young people's residential units
(2010)Restorative justice has been an increasing feature in the discourses within adult and youth justice criminal justice systems in recent years. This article examines interpersonal conflicts arising from crime, bullying and ... -
Pelvic organ prolapse and overactive bladder
(2010)In this review we try to shed light on the following questions: How frequently are symptoms of overactive bladder (OAB) and is detrusor overactivity (DO) present in patients with pelvic organ prolapse (POP) and is there a ... -
Nutrition in older people
(2009)Over the last year the articles published in the Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics (JHND) have covered many topics and have focused on different members of the population especially children. However in this issue ... -
The philosophy of information : ten years later
(2010)This article provides replies to, and comments on, the contributions to the special issue on the philosophy of information. It seeks to highlight con-vergences and points of potential agreement, while offering clarifications ... -
Personal storage grid architecture : consuming cloud data space resources
(2010)On-demand cloud applications like online email accounts and online virtual disk space are becoming widely available in various forms. In cloud applications, one can see the importance of underlying resources, such as disk ... -
Single attestation image for a trusted and scalable grid
(2010)Traditionally, Grid users are forced to trust the Grid platforms, but the users are not always regarded as trustworthy. This trust asymmetry hinders the commercializing of Grid resources. Trusted Grid is proposed to tackle ... -
Working under protest and variation of employment terms : Robinson v Tescom Corporation [2008] IRLR 408 (EAT)
(2008)Robinson v Tescom Corporation turns on the proper analysis in law of an employee agreeing to work ‘under protest’ when faced with an attempt by the employer to vary the employment contract by imposing changes in breach of ... -
A G.984 GPON Exhibiting Multi-Wavelength Protocol Functionalities
(2010)A Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) upstream-map frame- format enhancement has been developed to accommodate dynamic multi wavelength (DMW) transmission over splitter-based GPONs. Accordingly network functionality has ... -
Hand preference and performance in 20 pairs of monozygotic twins with discordant handedness
(2006)The differences between right (RH) and left (LH) handers reported in the literature on fine motor tasks, has traditionally been interpreted relative to purported functioning of the cerebral hemispheres. However, conclusive ... -
An understanding of baby boomers' attitudes toward financial services products in Ghana
(2011)This study employed a self-completion questionnaire to determine the financial needs and specific market characteristics of baby boomers (BBs) in Ghana. The results reveal that BBs are financially savvy and conscious of ... -
Perceived control over events in the world in patients with eating disorders: a preliminary study
(2001)A number of theoretical models of anorexia nervosa (AN) and bulimia nervosa (BN) have emphasised the role of perceived control in the onset and maintenance of the psychopathology. The present study investigated these claims ... -
What happens to semantic memory when formal thought disorder remits? : Revisiting a case study
(2005)Introduction: Laws, Kondel, and McKenna (1999) previously reported a case study analysis of a schizophrenic patient (TC) with severe formal thought disorder (FTD). Examining consistency across item and modality of input, ... -
Stability of set-shifting and planning abilities in patients with schizophrenia
(2004)Patients with schizophrenia have deficits in executive function that involve attentional set-shifting and planning ability. It is unclear, however, whether such deficits are stable during the course of the illness or if ... -
Phonological memory and rule learning
(2003)Two experiments examined the relationship between individual differences in phonological memory (PM) and the ability to learn determiner–noun agreement rules in semiartificial microlanguages. Participants were tested on ...