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An investigation of governance frameworks for public projects in Norway and the UK (2009)
Journal Article
Williams, T., Klakegg, O. J., Magnussen, O. M., & Glasspool, H. (2010). An investigation of governance frameworks for public projects in Norway and the UK. International journal of project management, 28(1), 40-50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijproman.2009.04.001

This paper describes four case studies which formed a key part of an investigation into public investment project governance frameworks in Norway and the UK. The studies looked at how the embedded governance principles worked out in practice, how the... Read More about An investigation of governance frameworks for public projects in Norway and the UK.

Prioritization of looming and receding objects: Equal slopes, different intercepts (2009)
Journal Article
Skarratt, P. A., Cole, G. G., & Gellatly, A. R. (2009). Prioritization of looming and receding objects: Equal slopes, different intercepts. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 71(4), 964-970. https://doi.org/10.3758/app.71.4.964

Franconeri and Simons (2003) reported that simulated looming objects (marked by a size increase) captured attention, whereas simulated receding objects (marked by a size decrease) did not. This finding has been challenged with the demonstration that... Read More about Prioritization of looming and receding objects: Equal slopes, different intercepts.

Blocking of goal-location learning based on shape (2009)
Journal Article
Alexander, T., Wilson, S. P., & Wilson, P. N. (2009). Blocking of goal-location learning based on shape. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 35(3), 694-708. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0015124

Using desktop, computer-simulated virtual environments (VEs), the authors conducted 5 experiments to investigate blocking of learning about a goal location based on Shape B as a consequence of preliminary training to locate that goal using Shape A. T... Read More about Blocking of goal-location learning based on shape.

Towards a repository-enabled scholar's workbench: RepoMMan, REMAP and Hydra (2009)
Journal Article
Green, R., & Awre, C. (2009). Towards a repository-enabled scholar's workbench: RepoMMan, REMAP and Hydra. D-Lib magazine : the magazine of the Digital Library Forum, 15(5-6), https://doi.org/10.1045/may2009-green

Between April 2005 and March 2009, the e-Services Integration Group at the University of Hull undertook two Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)-funded projects, RepoMMan and REMAP. The RepoMMan tool developed a browser-based interface through... Read More about Towards a repository-enabled scholar's workbench: RepoMMan, REMAP and Hydra.

An expert in absentia: a case study for using technology to support recording studio practice (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
King, A. An expert in absentia: a case study for using technology to support recording studio practice. Presented at 126th Audio Engineering Society Convention 2009

This paper examines the use of a Learning Technology Interface (LTI) to support the completion of a recording workbook with audio examples over a 10-week period. The VLE provided contingent support to studio users for technical problems encountered i... Read More about An expert in absentia: a case study for using technology to support recording studio practice.

The development of film musicology: an overview (2009)
Book Chapter
Binns, A. (2009). The development of film musicology: an overview. In Sound and music in film and visual media : an overview (725 - 738). Continuum

Surveys some of the contributions to film music scholarship by musicologists who have, in the process, absorbed film music into the realm of traditional musicology.Among the scholars mentioned are David Neumeyer, James Buhler, Claudia Gorbman, Roy Pr... Read More about The development of film musicology: an overview.

Women through music in golden age Hollywood cinema (2009)
Book Chapter
Binns, A. (2009). Women through music in golden age Hollywood cinema. In Sound and music in film and visual media: an overview (375 - 387). Continuum

Explores the ways in which classical Hollywood cinema used music, among other components, to encode the presence and aura of women and, in so doing, perpetuated entrenched models of female sexuality.Examples are provided from David Lean's 1945 film B... Read More about Women through music in golden age Hollywood cinema.

Handbook of Research on Information Technology Management and Clinical Data Administration in Healthcare (2009)
Book
Dwivedi, A. (Ed.). (2009). Handbook of Research on Information Technology Management and Clinical Data Administration in Healthcare. Hershey, PA: IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-356-2

Advances in information technology have brought about a revolution in healthcare, enabling medical personnel to have round-the-clock access to clinical data regardless of geographic location. The Handbook of Research on Information Technology Mana... Read More about Handbook of Research on Information Technology Management and Clinical Data Administration in Healthcare.

Is there a North-South divide in self-employment in England? (2009)
Journal Article
Burke, A. E., Fitzroy, F. R., & Nolan, M. A. (2009). Is there a North-South divide in self-employment in England?. Regional studies, 43(4), 529-544. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343400701827360

Using decomposition analysis, the paper investigates why Northern England has fewer but higher performing self-employed individuals than the South. It is found that the causes are mainly structural differences rather than regional variation in indivi... Read More about Is there a North-South divide in self-employment in England?.

An evaluation of a primary and secondary care cardiac rehabilitation service pathway (2009)
Journal Article
Trotman-Beasty, A., McKenna, J., & Ingle, L. (2009). An evaluation of a primary and secondary care cardiac rehabilitation service pathway. British journal of cardiac nursing, 4(4), 178-184

Background: The aim of the study was to assess the synergy between patient treatment pathways in two large primary care trusts (PCTs) and general practices for patients following myocardial infarction (MI) and after completing a 12-week cardiac rehab... Read More about An evaluation of a primary and secondary care cardiac rehabilitation service pathway.

Insulin resistance and altered glucose transporter 4 expression in experimental uremia (2009)
Journal Article
Aksentijević, D., Bhandari, S., & Seymour, A. M. L. (2009). Insulin resistance and altered glucose transporter 4 expression in experimental uremia. Kidney International, 75(7), 711-718. https://doi.org/10.1038/ki.2008.691

Progressive ventricular hypertrophy can lead to the development of insulin resistance, a feature of both chronic kidney disease and heart failure. Here we induced uremia in adult male Sprague-Dawley rats using a remnant kidney model and studied the e... Read More about Insulin resistance and altered glucose transporter 4 expression in experimental uremia.

Randomized clinical trial of Entonox versus midazolam-fentanyl sedation for colonoscopy (2009)
Journal Article
Maslekar, S., Gardiner, A., & Duthie, G. (2009). Randomized clinical trial of Entonox versus midazolam-fentanyl sedation for colonoscopy. British journal of surgery, 96(4), 361 - 368. https://doi.org/10.1002/bjs.6467

BACKGROUND Intravenous sedation for colonoscopy is associated with cardiorespiratory complications and delayed recovery. The aim of this randomized clinical trial was to compare the efficacy of Entonox (50 per cent nitrous oxide and 50 per cent oxyge... Read More about Randomized clinical trial of Entonox versus midazolam-fentanyl sedation for colonoscopy.

Early fatherhood: A mapping of the evidence base relating to pregnancy prevention and parenting support (2009)
Journal Article
Trivedi, D., Brooks, F., Bunn, F., & Graham, M. (2009). Early fatherhood: A mapping of the evidence base relating to pregnancy prevention and parenting support. Health education research, 24(6), 999-1028. https://doi.org/10.1093/her/cyp025

Teenage pregnancy prevention programmes targeted at young women have received considerable attention from researchers and programme developers. However, to date, relatively limited information is available on preventing teenage fatherhood or improvin... Read More about Early fatherhood: A mapping of the evidence base relating to pregnancy prevention and parenting support.

Two-stage anaerobic digestion of biodegradable municipal solid waste using a rotating drum mesh filter bioreactor and anaerobic filter (2009)
Journal Article
Walker, M., Banks, C., & Heaven, S. (2009). Two-stage anaerobic digestion of biodegradable municipal solid waste using a rotating drum mesh filter bioreactor and anaerobic filter. Bioresource technology : biomass, bioenergy, biowastes, conversion technologies, biotransformations, production technologies, 100(18), 4121-4126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2009.03.066

A rotating drum mesh filter bioreactor (RDMFBR) with a 100 μm mesh coupled to an anaerobic filter was used for the anaerobic digestion of biodegradable municipal solid waste (BMW). Duplicate systems were operated for 72 days at an organic loading rat... Read More about Two-stage anaerobic digestion of biodegradable municipal solid waste using a rotating drum mesh filter bioreactor and anaerobic filter.

Biopower, genetics and livestock breeding: (re)constituting animal populations and heterogeneous biosocial collectivities (2009)
Journal Article
Holloway, L., Morris, C., Gilna, B., & Gibbs, D. (2009). Biopower, genetics and livestock breeding: (re)constituting animal populations and heterogeneous biosocial collectivities. Transactions - Institute of British Geographers, 34(3), 394-407. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-5661.2009.00347.x

Genetic techniques have become increasingly prevalent in livestock breeding, associated with new types of knowledge-practice and changes in the institutional and geographical relationships related to animal husbandry. This paper examines the value of... Read More about Biopower, genetics and livestock breeding: (re)constituting animal populations and heterogeneous biosocial collectivities.

D-branes and doubled geometry (2009)
Journal Article
Albertsson, C., Kimura, T., & Reid-Edwards, R. A. (2009). D-branes and doubled geometry. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2009(04), Article 113. https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2009/04/113

We define the open string version of the nonlinear sigma model on doubled geometry introduced by Hull and Reid-Edwards, and derive its boundary conditions. These conditions include the restriction of D-branes to maximally isotropic submanifolds as we... Read More about D-branes and doubled geometry.

Filter feeders and plankton increase particle encounter rates through flow regime control (2009)
Journal Article
Humphries, S. (2009). Filter feeders and plankton increase particle encounter rates through flow regime control. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106(19), 7882-7887. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0809063106

Collisions between particles or between particles and other objects are fundamental to many processes that we take for granted. They drive the functioning of aquatic ecosystems, the onset of rain and snow precipitation, and the manufacture of pharmac... Read More about Filter feeders and plankton increase particle encounter rates through flow regime control.

Electrochemical Determination of Diffusion Anisotropy in Molecularly-Structured Materials (2009)
Journal Article
Evans, L. A., Thomasson, M. J., Kelly, S. M., & Wadhawan, J. (2009). Electrochemical Determination of Diffusion Anisotropy in Molecularly-Structured Materials. Journal of physical chemistry. C, 113(20), 8901-8910. https://doi.org/10.1021/jp806322c

Theory is presented for the case of two-dimensional diffusion anisotropy in axiosymmetric systems, which, advantageously and indirectly, affords a unified theory of diffusive mass transport at planar, microdisk (or nanodisk) and cylindrical electrode... Read More about Electrochemical Determination of Diffusion Anisotropy in Molecularly-Structured Materials.