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Fabrication, functionalization and characterization of silica monolith for forensic chemistry applications (2014)
Thesis
Khattab, A. K. (2014). Fabrication, functionalization and characterization of silica monolith for forensic chemistry applications. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4216084

The physiochemical properties of silica monolith make it an ideal base material for drugs extracting, pre-concentrating and separation from biological samples which can interact not only with molecules but also with ions and atoms. However, the fabri... Read More about Fabrication, functionalization and characterization of silica monolith for forensic chemistry applications.

Researching the development of problem-solving skills in undergraduate students and the effect of cognitive factors on performance (2014)
Thesis
Potter, N. M. (2014). Researching the development of problem-solving skills in undergraduate students and the effect of cognitive factors on performance. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4216068

Solving problems is the motivating force behind many scientific endeavours. A student’s ability to solve problems is a key to their academic success. Problem-solving skills developed during a degree course are of significant value to graduate employe... Read More about Researching the development of problem-solving skills in undergraduate students and the effect of cognitive factors on performance.

Reconstructing palaeoenvironments of the White Peak region of Derbyshire, northern England (2014)
Thesis
Kitcher, S. J. (2014). Reconstructing palaeoenvironments of the White Peak region of Derbyshire, northern England. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4216046

Sub-fossil pollen from Holocene tufa pool sediments is used to investigate middle – late Holocene environmental conditions in the White Peak region of the Derbyshire Peak District in northern England. The overall aim is to use pollen analysis to reso... Read More about Reconstructing palaeoenvironments of the White Peak region of Derbyshire, northern England.

Practical approaches to mining of clinical datasets : from frameworks to novel feature selection (2014)
Thesis
Poolsawad, N. (2014). Practical approaches to mining of clinical datasets : from frameworks to novel feature selection. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4215841

Research has investigated clinical data that have embedded within them numerous complexities and uncertainties in the form of missing values, class imbalances and high dimensionality. The research in this thesis was motivated by these challenges to m... Read More about Practical approaches to mining of clinical datasets : from frameworks to novel feature selection.

Reputation by accident or design? : to what degree and under which circumstances may we expect a politician's reputation to be managed strategically - rather than tactically? : an exploration of current practice (2014)
Thesis
Schnee, C. (2014). Reputation by accident or design? : to what degree and under which circumstances may we expect a politician's reputation to be managed strategically - rather than tactically? : an exploration of current practice. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4215805

Investigation of neutron-induced reactions at n_TOF: An overview of the 2009-2012 experimental program (2014)
Journal Article
Guerrero, C., Altstadt, S., Andrzejewski, J., Audouin, L., Barbagallo, M., Bécares, V., Bečvář, F., Belloni, F., Berthoumieux, E., Billowes, J., Boccone, V., Bosnar, D., Brugger, M., Calviani, M., Calviño, F., Cano-Ott, D., Carrapiço, C., Cerutti, F., Chiaveri, E., Chin, M., …Tarrío, D. (2014). Investigation of neutron-induced reactions at n_TOF: An overview of the 2009-2012 experimental program. Nuclear data sheets, 119, 5-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nds.2014.08.004

The neutron time-of-flight facility n TOF is operating at CERN (Switzerland) since 2001, having started in 2009 a new campaign with an upgraded spallation target. The ambitious program carried out includes a large number of experiments in nuclear tec... Read More about Investigation of neutron-induced reactions at n_TOF: An overview of the 2009-2012 experimental program.

High-precision measurement of the 238U (n,γ) cross section with the Total Absorption Calorimeter (TAC) at n_TOF, CERN (2014)
Journal Article
Wright, T., Guerrero, C., Billowes, J., Ware, T., Cano-Ott, D., Mendoza, E., Massimi, C., Mingrone, F., Gunsing, F., Berthoumieux, E., Lampoudis, C., Altstadt, S., Andrzejewski, J., Audouin, L., Barbagallo, M., Bécares, V., Bečvář, F., Belloni, F., Boccone, V., Bosnar, D., …Vermeulen, M. (2014). High-precision measurement of the 238U (n,γ) cross section with the Total Absorption Calorimeter (TAC) at n_TOF, CERN. Nuclear data sheets, 119, 26-30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nds.2014.08.009

The neutron capture cross section of 238 U is fundamental to the design and operation of current reactors and future fast nuclear reactors, and thus must be measured to a high level of accuracy. An experiment has been performed at the CERN n TOF faci... Read More about High-precision measurement of the 238U (n,γ) cross section with the Total Absorption Calorimeter (TAC) at n_TOF, CERN.

Measurement of the 54,57Fe (n,γ) cross section in the resolved resonance region at CERN n_TOF (2014)
Journal Article
Valenta, S., Vannini, G., Variale, V., Vaz, P., Ventura, A., Versaci, R., Wright, T., Ware, T., Weiß, C., Weigand, M., Žugec, P., Giubrone, G., Domingo-Pardo, C., Taín, J. L., Lederer, C., Altstadt, S., Andrzejewski, J., Audouin, L., Barbagallo, M., Bécares, V., …Versaci, R. (2014). Measurement of the 54,57Fe (n,γ) cross section in the resolved resonance region at CERN n_TOF. Nuclear data sheets, 119, 117-120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nds.2014.08.033

© 2014 Elsevier Inc. 54 Fe and 57 Fe are stable iron isotopes, which play an important role in the nucleosynthesis of theslow neutron capture process (s process). In addition, these nuclei are present in many structuralmaterials, and therefore, the k... Read More about Measurement of the 54,57Fe (n,γ) cross section in the resolved resonance region at CERN n_TOF.

Measurement of the neutron capture cross section of the c235U with the CERN n_TOF total absorption calorimeter and a fission tagging based on micromegas detectors (2014)
Journal Article
Žugec, P., Wright, T., Weiß, C., Weigand, M., Ware, T., Wallner, A., Vlastou, R., Vlachoudis, V., Vermeulen, M., Versaci, R., Balibrea, J., Mendoza, E., Cano-Ott, D., Guerrero, C., Berthoumieux, E., Altstadt, S., Andrzejewski, J., Audouin, L., Barbagallo, M., Bécares, V., …Tsinganis, A. (2014). Measurement of the neutron capture cross section of the c235U with the CERN n_TOF total absorption calorimeter and a fission tagging based on micromegas detectors. Nuclear data sheets, 119, 10-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nds.2014.08.005

© 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Current and future nuclear technologies require more accurate nuclear data on (n,γ) cross sections and the α-ratios of fissile isotopes. Their measurement presents several difficulties, mainly related to the... Read More about Measurement of the neutron capture cross section of the c235U with the CERN n_TOF total absorption calorimeter and a fission tagging based on micromegas detectors.

Extreme elemental processing in a high schizotypy population: Relation to cognitive deficits (2014)
Journal Article
Haddon, J. E., George, D. N., Grayson, L., McGowan, C., Honey, R. C., & Killcross, S. (2014). Extreme elemental processing in a high schizotypy population: Relation to cognitive deficits. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 67(5), 918-935. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2013.838281

The cognitive deficits observed in schizophrenia have been characterized as a failure to utilize task-setting information to guide behaviour, especially in situations in which there is response conflict. Recently, we have provided support for this ac... Read More about Extreme elemental processing in a high schizotypy population: Relation to cognitive deficits.

Context matters: fostering, orphanhood and schooling in sub-Saharan Africa (2014)
Journal Article
Hampshire, K., Porter, G., Agblorti, S., Robson, E., Munthali, A., & Abane, A. (2015). Context matters: fostering, orphanhood and schooling in sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of biosocial science, 47(2), 141-164. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021932014000169

A growing body of research suggests that orphanhood and fostering might be (independently) associated with educational disadvantage in sub-Saharan Africa. However, literature on the impacts of orphanhood and fostering on school enrolment, attendance... Read More about Context matters: fostering, orphanhood and schooling in sub-Saharan Africa.

Bank pull or bar push: What drives scroll-bar formation in meandering rivers? (2014)
Journal Article
van de Lageweg, W. I., van Dijk, W. M., Baar, A. W., Rutten, J., & Kleinhans, M. G. (2014). Bank pull or bar push: What drives scroll-bar formation in meandering rivers?. Geology, 42(4), 319-322. https://doi.org/10.1130/G35192.1

One of the most striking features of meandering rivers are quasi-regular ridges of the point bar, evidence of a pulsed lateral migration of meander bends. Scroll bars formed on the inner bend are preserved on the point-bar surface as a series of ridg... Read More about Bank pull or bar push: What drives scroll-bar formation in meandering rivers?.

The impact of welfare reform in Scotland tracking study: Baseline findings (2014)
Report
Lister, B., Graham, H., Egdell, V., McQuaid, R., & Raeside, R. (2014). The impact of welfare reform in Scotland tracking study: Baseline findings. Scottish Government

The aim of the study is to explore the impact of on-going welfare changes on a range of households in Scotland over time. This report provides a review of the literature and presents the results of the first sweep of interviews which took place from... Read More about The impact of welfare reform in Scotland tracking study: Baseline findings.

Native American environmentalism: Land, spirit and the idea of wilderness (2014)
Book
Porter, J. (2014). Native American environmentalism: Land, spirit and the idea of wilderness. Bison books

"In Native American Environmentalism the history of indigenous peoples in North America is brought into dialogue with key environmental terms such as "wilderness" and "nature." The conflict between Christian environmentalist thinking and indigenous v... Read More about Native American environmentalism: Land, spirit and the idea of wilderness.

The 3Mg trial: a randomised controlled trial of intravenous or nebulised magnesium sulphate versus placebo in adults with acute severe asthma (2014)
Journal Article
Goodacre, S., Cohen, J., Bradburn, M., Stevens, J., Gray, A., Benger, J., & Coats, T. (in press). The 3Mg trial: a randomised controlled trial of intravenous or nebulised magnesium sulphate versus placebo in adults with acute severe asthma. Health Technology Assessment, 18(22), 1-167. https://doi.org/10.3310/hta18220

Background: Magnesium sulphate, administered by the intravenous (i.v.) or inhaled (nebulised) route, has been proposed as a treatment for adults with acute severe asthma. Existing trials show mixed results and uncertain evidence of benefit. Objective... Read More about The 3Mg trial: a randomised controlled trial of intravenous or nebulised magnesium sulphate versus placebo in adults with acute severe asthma.

Issues in the mining of heart failure datasets (2014)
Journal Article
Poolsawad, N., Moore, L., Kambhampati, C., & Cleland, J. G. (2014). Issues in the mining of heart failure datasets. International Journal of Automation and Computing, 11(2), 162-179. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11633-014-0778-5

This paper investigates the characteristics of a clinical dataset using a combination of feature selection and classification methods to handle missing values and understand the underlying statistical characteristics of a typical clinical dataset. Ty... Read More about Issues in the mining of heart failure datasets.

On the atmospheric correction of Antarctic airborne hyperspectral data (2014)
Journal Article
Black, M., Fleming, A., Riley, T., Ferrier, G., Fretwell, P., McFee, J., Achal, S., & Umaña-Diaz, A. (2014). On the atmospheric correction of Antarctic airborne hyperspectral data. Remote Sensing, 6(5), 4498-4514. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs6054498

The first airborne hyperspectral campaign in the Antarctic Peninsula region was carried out by the British Antarctic Survey and partners in February 2011. This paper presents an insight into the applicability of currently available radiative transfer... Read More about On the atmospheric correction of Antarctic airborne hyperspectral data.

Awareness and confabulation (2014)
Journal Article
Shanks, M. F., McGeown, W. J., Guerrini, C., & Venneri, A. (2014). Awareness and confabulation. Neuropsychology, 28(3), 406-414. https://doi.org/10.1037/neu0000031

Objective: A single case study with control and normative data of a 74-year-old retired businessman with amnestic mild cognitive impairment, who had spontaneous confabulations concerning fantastic exploits and magical powers as well as déjà vécu expe... Read More about Awareness and confabulation.

The design and investigation of nanocomposites containing dimeric nematogens and liquid crystal gold nanoparticles with plasmonic properties showing a nematic-nematic phase transition (Nᵤ-Nₓ/Ntb) (2014)
Journal Article
Tamba, M.-G., Yu, C. H., Tang, B. J., Welch, C., Kohlmeier, A., Schubert, C. P., & Mehl, G. H. (2014). The design and investigation of nanocomposites containing dimeric nematogens and liquid crystal gold nanoparticles with plasmonic properties showing a nematic-nematic phase transition (Nᵤ-Nₓ/Ntb). Materials, 7(5), 3494-3511. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma7053494

The construction of liquid crystal compositions consisting of the dimeric liquid crystal, CB_C9_CB (cyanobiphenyl dimer = 1",9"-bis(4-cyanobiphenyl-4'-yl)nonane), and the range of nematic systems is explored. The materials include a laterally functio... Read More about The design and investigation of nanocomposites containing dimeric nematogens and liquid crystal gold nanoparticles with plasmonic properties showing a nematic-nematic phase transition (Nᵤ-Nₓ/Ntb).

Conjugatable water-soluble Pt(ii) and Pd(ii) porphyrin complexes: Novel nano- and molecular probes for optical oxygen tension measurement in tissue engineering (2014)
Journal Article
Giuntini, F., Chauhan, V. M., Aylott, J. W., Rosser, G. A., Athanasiadis, A., Beeby, A., MacRobert, A. J., Brown, R. A., & Boyle, R. W. (2014). Conjugatable water-soluble Pt(ii) and Pd(ii) porphyrin complexes: Novel nano- and molecular probes for optical oxygen tension measurement in tissue engineering. Photochemical & photobiological sciences : an international journal, 13(7), 1039-1051. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4pp00026a

Measurement of oxygen tension in compressed collagen sheets was performed using matrix-embedded optical oxygen sensors based on platinum(II) and palladium(II) porphyrins supported on polyacrylamide nanoparticles. Bespoke, fully water-soluble, mono-fu... Read More about Conjugatable water-soluble Pt(ii) and Pd(ii) porphyrin complexes: Novel nano- and molecular probes for optical oxygen tension measurement in tissue engineering.