Research publications: Recent submissions
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Environmental Epistemology
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The cognitive penetrability of perception
(Nova Science Publishers, 2005)The question of the extent to which perception is cognitively penetrated is an ambiguous one. Perception can be understood as a process occurring at the level of vehicles (V-perception) or at the level of content (C-perception) ... -
Body Language : Representing in Action
(MIT Press, 2006)This book is about the problem of representation: how is it possible for one item to represent another? We might equally call it the problem of content: how is it possible for an item to possess another as its content? Or ... -
Pragmatic influences in children's ability to answer questions
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Appropriacy judgements and pragmatic performance
(1994)This paper examines judgements of inappropriacy made by groups of independent raters from different professional backgrounds when presented with data from two boys with semantic, pragmatic and syntactic difficulties, who ... -
Relevance theory and pragmatic impairment
(1999)This paper summarizes aspects of relevance theory that are useful for exploring impairment of pragmatic comprehension in children. It explores data from three children with pragmatic language diffi culties within this ... -
Comprehension of inferential meaning in language-impaired and language normal children
(2001)Three groups of language-normal (LN) 6, 8 and 16/17 year olds, and a group of language-impaired (LI) children were given a task answering questions about pictures that involved inferential meaning. A developmental progression ... -
Two types of calcium channels in single smooth muscle cells from rabbit ear artery - studied with whole cell and single channel recordings
(1987)AB Freshly dispersed rabbit ear artery cells were studied using patch-clamp techniques to measure membrane currents in whole cells and single-channel currents in membrane patches. Whole-cell calcium currents recorded at ... -
Automatic Code-Generation Techniques for Micro-Threaded RISC Architectures
(2006)There has been an ever-widening gap between processor and memory speeds, resulting in a 'memory wall' where the time for memory accesses dominates performance. To counter this, architectures that use many very small threads ... -
Axisymmetry in protoplanetary nebulae - II : A near-infrared imaging polarimetric survey
(2005)In an imaging polarimetry survey of candidate post-AGB stars, scattering envelopes are detected around 20 objects. These envelopes represent the final mass-loss phases at the end of the AGB. In all cases, evidence for ... -
Getting the best from PowerPoint: 2 and 3 dimensional animations
(2009)PowerPoint is a package that many academics and teachers use routinely in teaching and research; the days of presentations being in the form of carousels loaded with slides are a distant memory for most. PowerPoint offers ... -
Residual renal function improves outcome in incremental haemodialysis despite reduced dialysis dose
(2009-02-24)Background and Methods. The importance of residual renal function is well recognized in peritoneal dialysis but its role in haemodialysis (HD) has received much less attention. We studied 650 incident patients in our ... -
"Mine eye hath play'd the painter"
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Craeft: poems from the Anglo-Saxon
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Text and Tragedy
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The impact of a stress management programme on staff well-being and performance at work
(1998)Stress management programmes were implemented for direct care staff in two group homes for people with learning disabilities. Staff working in three similar homes were used as controls. Assessments were made of anxiety and ... -
Using Computers to Help Pupils Tell the Time, is Feedback Necessary?
(1996)A series of three experiments have been conducted which have examined the way that various forms of feedback influence children's progress in learning to tell the time as a result of computer-based training. The first study ...