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Legal aspects of surgical castration (2010)
Journal Article
Harrison, K. (2010). Legal aspects of surgical castration. Sexual offender treatment, 5(2), 42856

The use of surgical castration, whilst still legal in some European countries is now being practised only on a very small scale. This is largely due to the fact that many people have objections to the practice of surgically castrating offenders, espe... Read More about Legal aspects of surgical castration.

Risk Factors for Violent Victimisation and Injury from Six Years of the British Crime Survey (2010)
Journal Article
Brennan, I., Moore, S. C., & Shepherd, J. P. (2010). Risk Factors for Violent Victimisation and Injury from Six Years of the British Crime Survey. International review of victimology, 17(2), 209-229. https://doi.org/10.1177/026975801001700204

Identifying factors that increase the likelihood of victimisation and injury reveals the considerable variability across groups and between incidents. It also allows the efficient allocation of prevention resources to protect those at greatest risk o... Read More about Risk Factors for Violent Victimisation and Injury from Six Years of the British Crime Survey.

A review on carbon nanotubes in an environmental protection and green engineering perspective (2010)
Journal Article
Ong, Y. T., Ahmad, A. L., Zein, S. H. S., & Tan, S. H. (2010). A review on carbon nanotubes in an environmental protection and green engineering perspective. Brazilian journal of chemical Engineering, 27(2), 227-242. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-66322010000200002

Recent developments in nanotechnologies have helped to benchmark carbon nanotubes (CNTs) as one of the most studied nanomaterials. By taking advantages of CNTs extraordinary physical, chemical and electronic properties, a wide variety of applications... Read More about A review on carbon nanotubes in an environmental protection and green engineering perspective.

Restructuring the employment relationship in South Eastern Europe? Total quality-based changes on managers' careers and job security (2010)
Journal Article
Psychogios, A. G. (2010). Restructuring the employment relationship in South Eastern Europe? Total quality-based changes on managers' careers and job security. Employee relations, 32(3), 310-327. https://doi.org/10.1108/01425451011038816

Purpose – This paper aims to address the generic research question of how promising management practices such as total quality management (TQM) initiatives affect employee relations in South Eastern European (SEE) countries by focusing on managers' p... Read More about Restructuring the employment relationship in South Eastern Europe? Total quality-based changes on managers' careers and job security.

Modernism, authenticity, and Indian identity: Frank "Toronto" Prewett (1893-1962) (2010)
Book Chapter
Porter, J. (2010). Modernism, authenticity, and Indian identity: Frank "Toronto" Prewett (1893-1962). In D. L. Madsen (Ed.), Native authenticity: Transnational perspectives on Native American literary studies (103-122). State University of New York Press

Due to his Indian ancestry, the Canadian poet Frank James Prewett was nicknamed "Toronto" by the illustrious literary friends he met while recovering in England following his service in World War I. Those friends included Virginia Woolf, Siegfried Sa... Read More about Modernism, authenticity, and Indian identity: Frank "Toronto" Prewett (1893-1962).

Memorials and location: Local versus national identity and the Scottish National War Memorial (2010)
Journal Article
Macleod, J. (2010). Memorials and location: Local versus national identity and the Scottish National War Memorial. Scottish Historical Review, 89(1), 73-95. https://doi.org/10.3366/shr.2010.0004

This article seeks to explore the controversy surrounding the Scottish National War Memorial. It analyses the arguments over the design of the memorial and its impact on Edinburgh Castle. The criticisms by Lord Rosebery and others of the design propo... Read More about Memorials and location: Local versus national identity and the Scottish National War Memorial.

Cat and Mouse. Haneke's Joy in the Spectator's Distress (2010)
Book Chapter
Ornella, A. (2010). Cat and Mouse. Haneke's Joy in the Spectator's Distress. In A. D. Ornella, & S. Knauss (Eds.), Fascinatingly Disturbing. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Michael Haneke’s Cinema (145-166). Pickwick Publications

Detraining effect of the post-season on selected aerobic and anaerobic performance variables in national league rugby union players: a focus on positional status (2010)
Journal Article
Nirmalendran, R., & Ingle, L. (2010). Detraining effect of the post-season on selected aerobic and anaerobic performance variables in national league rugby union players: a focus on positional status. Medicina Sportiva, 14(4), 161-168

Introduction: The study aimed to assess the effects of 6 weeks post-season detraining in relation to player position on selected anaerobic, aerobic and anthropometric characteristics in sub-elite rugby union players.
Methods: 34 English National Div... Read More about Detraining effect of the post-season on selected aerobic and anaerobic performance variables in national league rugby union players: a focus on positional status.

The role of trust in relation to how quality in mental health services is perceived : a critical systems thinking approach (2010)
Thesis
Eid, Y. (2010). The role of trust in relation to how quality in mental health services is perceived : a critical systems thinking approach. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4209288

This research explores the role of trust in relation to how the quality of care provided by the Humber Mental Health NHS Teaching Trust (HMHTT) is perceived by stakeholders.A Participatory Action Research Project (PAR) was carried out within an overa... Read More about The role of trust in relation to how quality in mental health services is perceived : a critical systems thinking approach.

Econometric analysis of microscopic simulation models (2010)
Journal Article
Li, Y., Donkers, B., & Melenberg, B. (2010). Econometric analysis of microscopic simulation models. Quantitative finance, 10(10), 1187-1201. https://doi.org/10.1080/14697680903460176

Microscopic simulation models are often evaluated based on visual inspection of the results. This paper presents formal econometric techniques to compare microscopic simulation (MS) models with real-life data. A related result is a methodology to com... Read More about Econometric analysis of microscopic simulation models.

Competitive global city regions and 'sustainable development': an interpretive institutionalist account in the South East of England (2010)
Journal Article
Krueger, R., & Gibbs, D. (2010). Competitive global city regions and 'sustainable development': an interpretive institutionalist account in the South East of England. Environment & planning. A, 42(4), 821-837. https://doi.org/10.1068/a42111

This paper presents an argument and empirical case study to draw out additional nuance in the social construction of institutions. Adapting the conceptual work of political scientists Mark Bevir and Roderick Rhodes to recent accounts in economic geog... Read More about Competitive global city regions and 'sustainable development': an interpretive institutionalist account in the South East of England.

Effect of polytetrafluoroethylene-treatment and microporous layer-coating on the in-plane permeability of gas diffusion layers used in proton exchange membrane fuel cells (2010)
Journal Article
Ismail, M. S., Damjanovic, T., Ingham, D. B., Ma, L., & Pourkashanian, M. (2010). Effect of polytetrafluoroethylene-treatment and microporous layer-coating on the in-plane permeability of gas diffusion layers used in proton exchange membrane fuel cells. Journal of power sources, 195(19), 6619-6628. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2010.04.036

The in-plane permeability has been experimentally estimated for a number of carbon substrates and microporous layer (MPL)-coated gas diffusion layers (GDLs) as used in proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells. The results show that the in-plane perm... Read More about Effect of polytetrafluoroethylene-treatment and microporous layer-coating on the in-plane permeability of gas diffusion layers used in proton exchange membrane fuel cells.

Investigating the association between HIV/AIDS and recent fertility patterns in Kenya (2010)
Journal Article
Magadi, M., & Agwanda, A. O. (2010). Investigating the association between HIV/AIDS and recent fertility patterns in Kenya. Social science & medicine, 71(2), 335-344. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.03.040

Findings from previous studies linking the HIV/AIDS epidemic and fertility of populations have remained inconclusive. In sub-Saharan Africa, demographic patterns point to the epidemic resulting in fertility reduction. However, evidence from the 2003... Read More about Investigating the association between HIV/AIDS and recent fertility patterns in Kenya.

Circadian variation of human ventricular fibrillation dominant frequency (2010)
Journal Article
Langley, P., MacGowan, G. A., & Murray, A. (2010). Circadian variation of human ventricular fibrillation dominant frequency. Resuscitation, 81(8), 950-955. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resuscitation.2010.03.026

Aim
Circadian variation in human ventricular fibrillation (VF) dominant frequency is unknown. If present this would provide evidence of physiological influence on VF. The objective was to quantify the circadian variation in human VF dominant frequen... Read More about Circadian variation of human ventricular fibrillation dominant frequency.

Rapid PCR amplification using a microfluidic device with integrated microwave heating and air impingement cooling (2010)
Journal Article
Shaw, K. J., Docker, P. T., Yelland, J. V., Dyer, C. E., Greenman, J., Greenway, G. M., & Haswell, S. J. (2010). Rapid PCR amplification using a microfluidic device with integrated microwave heating and air impingement cooling. Lab on a chip, 10(13), 1725-1728. https://doi.org/10.1039/c000357n

A microwave heating system is described for performing polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in a microfluidic device. The heating system, in combination with air impingement cooling, provided rapid thermal cycling with heating and cooling rates of up to 6... Read More about Rapid PCR amplification using a microfluidic device with integrated microwave heating and air impingement cooling.

A hypoplastic model of skeletal muscle development displaying reduced foetal myoblast cell numbers, increased oxidative myofibres and improved specific tension capacity (2010)
Journal Article
Otto, A., Macharia, R., Matsakas, A., Valasek, P., Mankoo, B. S., & Patel, K. (2010). A hypoplastic model of skeletal muscle development displaying reduced foetal myoblast cell numbers, increased oxidative myofibres and improved specific tension capacity. Developmental Biology, 343(1-2), 51-62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ydbio.2010.04.014

The major component of skeletal muscle is the myofibre. Genetic intervention inducing over-enlargement of myofibres beyond a certain threshold through acellular growth causes a reduction in the specific tension generating capacity of the muscle. Howe... Read More about A hypoplastic model of skeletal muscle development displaying reduced foetal myoblast cell numbers, increased oxidative myofibres and improved specific tension capacity.

Where dogs, ghosts and lions roam: Learning from mobile ethnographies on the journey from school (2010)
Journal Article
Porter, G., Hampshire, K., Abane, A., Munthali, A., Robson, E., Mashiri, M., & Maponya, G. (2010). Where dogs, ghosts and lions roam: Learning from mobile ethnographies on the journey from school. Children's Geographies, 8(2), 91-105. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733281003691343

This paper draws on mobility research conducted with children in three countries: Ghana, Malawi and South Africa. It has two interlinked aims: to highlight the potential that mobile interviews can offer in research with young people, especially in re... Read More about Where dogs, ghosts and lions roam: Learning from mobile ethnographies on the journey from school.

Variation in amino acid and lipid composition of latent fingerprints (2010)
Journal Article
Croxton, R. S., Baron, M. G., Butler, D., Kent, T., & Sears, V. G. (2010). Variation in amino acid and lipid composition of latent fingerprints. Forensic Science International, 199(1-3), 93-102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2010.03.019

The enhancement of latent fingerprints, both at the crime scene and in the laboratory using an array of chemical, physical and optical techniques, permits their use for identification. Despite the plethora of techniques available, there are occasions... Read More about Variation in amino acid and lipid composition of latent fingerprints.