UH Research Archive: Recent submissions
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Smith and Keenan's Company Law
(Pearson Education, 2013-07-01)Smith and Keenan’s Company Law provides a readable yet detailed account of the law of corporations and a reputation you can trust. The sixteenth edition continues to explore the impact of the Companies Act 2006 and emerging ... -
Steiner Schools in England
(University of the West of England, 2005)The Department for Education and Skills (DfES) commissioned a research project to comprehensively map Steiner school education in England, identify and investigate good practice, explore the differences and commonalities ... -
Class and Exclusion at Work : The Case of UK Film and Television
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Effects of a Web-Based Personalized Intervention on Physical Activity in European Adults : A Randomized Controlled Trial
(2015-10-14)BACKGROUND: The high prevalence of physical inactivity worldwide calls for innovative and more effective ways to promote physical activity (PA). There are limited objective data on the effectiveness of Web-based personalized ... -
Council Regulation (EC) 44/2001 and internet consumer contracts: some thoughts on article 15 and the futility of applying ‘in the box’ conflict of law rules to the ‘out of the box’ borderless world
(2005-01-01)The Internet is by definition a borderless medium. Reflecting on the Council Regulation (EC) 44/2001 and Internet Consumer Contracts, this article develops some thoughts on the futility of applying some traditional conflict ... -
The Copyright Clink Conundrum : Is Chan Nai-Ming the Modern Day Josef K.?
(2007-11-01)A study of the plight of the unfortunate3 Mr Chan Nai-Ming of Hong Kong leads the authors to conclude that a by-product of the digital age is the increasing criminalisation of copyright law. Increasingly, there is a worldwide ... -
Cyber Warfare : A review of Theories, Law, Policies, Actual Incidents – and The Dilemma of Anonymity
(2010)In this paper, the authors undertake a study of cyber warfare reviewing theories, law, policies, actual incidents - and the dilemma of anonymity. Starting with the United Kingdom perspective on cyber warfare, the authors ... -
Lawrence Lessig’s ‘Bleak House’ : A Critique of ‘Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity' or 'How I learned to stop worrying and love internet law'
(2005-01-01)The single most significant issue that intellectual property lawyers have had to deal with in recent years has been the impact of the Internet on copyright. It has raised more than mere legal queries, obliging society as ... -
The Green's function formalism as a bridge between single- and multi-compartmental modeling
(2013-12)Neurons are spatially extended structures that receive and process inputs on their dendrites. It is generally accepted that neuronal computations arise from the active integration of synaptic inputs along a dendrite between ... -
Finite Element Model Updating of a Thin Wall Enclosure under Impact Excitation
(2010)Simulation result of a structural dynamics problem is dependent on the techniques used in the finite element model and the major task in model updating is determination of the changes to be made to the numerical model so ... -
Energy absorption and bending stiffness in CFRP laminates : the effect of 45º plies
(2008-07)The impact characteristics of cross-ply and angle-ply composite laminates were investigated, with an instrumented impact drop tester by performing gravity-assisted drop tests on [0/90]6s and [0/45/90]4s laminates. The ... -
Tensile testing of cellulose based natural fibres for structural composite applications
(2009-05)A series of tensile tests were conducted on a Lloyd LRX tensile testing machine for numerous natural fibers deemed potential candidates for development in composite applications. The tensile tests were conducted on the ... -
An experimental study of damage accumulation in balanced CFRP laminates due to repeated impact
(2008-05)The behaviour of balanced laminates (symmetric, antisymmetric and asymmetric) under repeated low energy hits of a 12.1 mm hemispheric impactor was evaluated. The resistance to the impulsive force was found to be influenced ... -
Gender and Sexuality in Dracula
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Garden City Utopias and Everyday Life : exploring the spatial accessibility of Welwyn Garden City
(2015-11-12)The concept of utopia, for many people, may have extinguished but the power of imagining cities remains vital (Brook 2013). David Pinder’s (2005) call for critical utopianism in comparison to authoritarian forms of future ... -
Deconstructing the practice of internationalisation : from a policy position to a way of being
(2010-06-28)The title frames an initial piece of research forming one aspect of the writer’s broader research examining and evaluating internationalisation strategy discourses in UK Higher Education Institutions. For this particular ... -
Using International Recruitment Agents: Risks and Regulation?
(Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, 2013-07)The expansion of the international student market has coincided with a 'dramatic proliferation' of universities using agents to recruit international students. This practice is controversial due to the apparent conflict ...