Research publications: Recent submissions
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Dynamic bandwidth assignment MAC protocol for differentiated services over GPON
(2006)A dynamic bandwidth assignment MAC protocol is proposed to facilitate the upstream channel resource sharing and to support differentiated services over GPON. A new procedure for bandwidth reporting and a novel balance ... -
Social capital and windfalls : empirical evidence
(2008)We examine the correlates of windfall gains amongst a sample of British respondents. Our results suggest that such gains are not random, but are significantly related to a variety of individual characteristics and traits. ... -
Do Motifs Reflect Evolved Function? – No Convergent Evolution of Genetic Regulatory Network Subgraph Topologies
(2008-10)Methods that analyse the topological structure of networks have recently become quite popular. Whether motifs (subgraph patterns that occur more often than in randomized networks) have specific functions as elementary ... -
A meta-analytic review of category naming in Alzheimer's disease
(2007)Patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) experience word-finding difficulties that become increasingly pronounced as pathological changes accrue in the brain. One question that has received increasing attention over the last ... -
No category specificity in Alzheimer's disease: A normal aging effect
(2008)Examines category effects on tasks of picture naming, naming to definition, and word-picture matching in 38 patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and 30 elderly controls. Each task was matched across category on all ... -
Infrared Polarimetry of Interstellar Dust
(2005)Grains in the diffuse interstellar medium, and in at least some parts of dense molecular clouds, are aligned with their short axis preferentially along the direction of the local magnetic field. At longer infrared wavelengths ... -
Self-Employment Longitudinal Dynamics: A Review of the Literature
(2005)We review longitudinal studies on self-employment dynamics, classifying studies into those that examine transitions into self-employment, and those that examine self-employment exit and survival. A number of hypotheses ... -
Differentiating insight from non-insight problems
(2005)This study aimed to investigate whether a range of tasks that have been generally classed as requiring insight form an empirically separable group of tasks distinct from tasks generally classed as non-insight. In this ... -
HIV/AIDS and its impact on student nurses
(2002)This article describes components surrounding British nursing students' (n=138) knowledge base, attitudes towards HIV/AIDS, homophobia level, willingness to care for individuals with HIV/AIDS and attitudes to sexual risk ... -
Major among the minors: a cultural materialist reading of Julius Caesar
(Routledge, 2006-06-04)When Metellus Cimber makes this contribution at the conspirators’ conference in Brutus’s orchard, he is alerting his fellow confederates to the essential importance of including Cicero in their design to overthrow Caesarean ... -
"Mots d'escalier": Clio, Orpheus, Eurydice
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Shakespearean selves
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Word and image: Burgess, Zefirelli and Jesus the Man of Nazareth
(Ashgate Publishing, 2008) -
" Darkenes was before light":hierarchy and duality in The Taming of a Shrew
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The Shakespeare Myth
(Manchester University Press, 1988) -
Biblebable
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Cue one Macbeth
(University of Delaware Press, 2004) -
D.H.Lawrence: Life, Work and Criticism
(York Press, 1988)The opening section on Lawerence's biography outlines the most important events that shaped Lawrence's life and gives insights into Lawrence's socioeconomic background and the social changes in Britain at the time that ...