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Automatic classification of flying bird species using computer vision techniques (2015)
Journal Article
Atanbori, J., Duan, W., Murray, J., Appiah, K., & Dickinson, P. (2016). Automatic classification of flying bird species using computer vision techniques. Pattern recognition letters, 81, 53-62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2015.08.015

Bird populations are identified as important biodiversity indicators, so collecting reliable population data is important to ecologists and scientists. However, existing manual monitoring methods are labour-intensive, time-consuming, and potentially... Read More about Automatic classification of flying bird species using computer vision techniques.

An evaluation framework for mobile health education software (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Aljaber, T., Gordon, N., Kambhampati, C., & Brayshaw, M. (2015, July). An evaluation framework for mobile health education software. Presented at 2015 Science and Information Conference (SAI), London

© 2015 IEEE. Mobile applications in general, and mobile applications for health education in particular, are commonly used to support patients, health professionals and other stakeholders. A critical evaluation framework is needed to ensure the usabi... Read More about An evaluation framework for mobile health education software.

Requirements capture analysis for MOOCS in higher education (2015)
Book Chapter
Gordon, N. A., & Brayshaw, M. (2015). Requirements capture analysis for MOOCS in higher education. In A. Mesquita, & P. Peres (Eds.), Furthering Higher Education Possibilities through Massive Open Online Courses (107-125). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8279-5.ch005

One of the attention grabbing headlines in the last two years has been of hundreds of thousands of students enrolling on MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) that are being offered by some of the world's top Universities. Large numbers of students are... Read More about Requirements capture analysis for MOOCS in higher education.

Integrating management tools and concepts to develop an estuarine planning support system: A case study of the Humber Estuary, Eastern England (2015)
Journal Article
Lonsdale, J.-A., Weston, K., Barnard, S., Boyes, S. J., & Elliott, M. (2015). Integrating management tools and concepts to develop an estuarine planning support system: A case study of the Humber Estuary, Eastern England. Marine pollution bulletin, 100(1), 393-405. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2015.08.017

© 2015. Estuaries are important because of their multiple uses and users which often makes them challenging to manage since management must strike a balance between the needs of users, the estuaries' ecological and economic value and the context of m... Read More about Integrating management tools and concepts to develop an estuarine planning support system: A case study of the Humber Estuary, Eastern England.

Maximum violations of the quantum-witness equality (2015)
Journal Article
Schild, G., & Emary, C. (2015). Maximum violations of the quantum-witness equality. Physical review. A, 92(3), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.92.032101

We consider the quantum-witness test of macroscopic realism and derive an upper bound for possible violations of this equality due to quantum mechanics. The bound depends only on the number of possible outcomes for the blind measurement at the heart... Read More about Maximum violations of the quantum-witness equality.

Exploring changes in health visitors' knowledge, confidence and decision-making for women with perinatal mental health difficulties following a brief training package (2015)
Journal Article
Jones, C., Jomeen, J., Glover, L., Gardiner, E., Garg, D., & Marshall, C. (in press). Exploring changes in health visitors' knowledge, confidence and decision-making for women with perinatal mental health difficulties following a brief training package. European journal for person centered healthcare, 3(3), 384-391. https://doi.org/10.5750/ejpch.v3i3.1012

Rationale and objective: Perinatal Mental Health (PMH) is an issue that spans the spectrum of pregnancy and childbirth and is now acknowledged to be significant on a global level. Health visitors (HVs) are increasingly expected to extend their knowle... Read More about Exploring changes in health visitors' knowledge, confidence and decision-making for women with perinatal mental health difficulties following a brief training package.

ReproPhylo: An Environment for Reproducible Phylogenomics (2015)
Journal Article
Szitenberg, A., John, M., Blaxter, M. L., & Lunt, D. H. (2015). ReproPhylo: An Environment for Reproducible Phylogenomics. PLoS Computational Biology, 11(9), Article ARTN e1004447. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004447

© 2015 Szitenberg et al. The reproducibility of experiments is key to the scientific process, and particularly necessary for accurate reporting of analyses in data-rich fields such as phylogenomics. We present ReproPhylo, a phylogenomic analysis envi... Read More about ReproPhylo: An Environment for Reproducible Phylogenomics.

A ‘More-than-architectural’ approach to faith spaces: Wesleyan methodist spaces in London, 1851–1932 (2015)
Journal Article
Slatter, R. (2015). A ‘More-than-architectural’ approach to faith spaces: Wesleyan methodist spaces in London, 1851–1932. Interiors, 6(3), 306-328. https://doi.org/10.1080/20419112.2015.1125627

Taking spaces of Wesleyan Methodist practice in London between 1851 and 1932 as its case study, this article develops a ‘more-than-architectural’ approach to faith spaces and demonstrates the analytical benefits of its application. Interested in deve... Read More about A ‘More-than-architectural’ approach to faith spaces: Wesleyan methodist spaces in London, 1851–1932.

Soccer player characteristics in English lower-league development programmes: The relationships between relative age, maturation, anthropometry and physical fitness (2015)
Journal Article
Lovell, R., Towlson, C., Parkin, G., Portas, M., Vaeyens, R., & Cobley, S. (2015). Soccer player characteristics in English lower-league development programmes: The relationships between relative age, maturation, anthropometry and physical fitness. PLoS ONE, 10(9), e0137238. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0137238

© 2015 Lovell et al. The relative age effect (RAE) and its relationships with maturation, anthropometry, and physical performance characteristics were examined across a representative sample of English youth soccer development programmes. Birth dates... Read More about Soccer player characteristics in English lower-league development programmes: The relationships between relative age, maturation, anthropometry and physical fitness.

Diagnosis, medication, and surgical management for patients with trigeminal neuralgia: a qualitative study (2015)
Journal Article
Allsop, M. J., Twiddy, M., Grant, H., Czoski-Murray, C., Mon-Williams, M., Mushtaq, F., Phillips, N., Zakrzewska, J. M., & Pavitt, S. (2015). Diagnosis, medication, and surgical management for patients with trigeminal neuralgia: a qualitative study. Acta Neurochirurgica, 157(11), 1925-1933. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00701-015-2515-4

Background
Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is a serious health problem, causing brief, recurrent episodes of stabbing or burning facial pain, which patients describe as feeling like an electric shock. The consequences of living with the condition are seve... Read More about Diagnosis, medication, and surgical management for patients with trigeminal neuralgia: a qualitative study.

A virtual approach to evaluate therapies for management of multiple myeloma induced bone disease: Modelling Therapies for Multiple Myeloma Induced Bone Disease (2015)
Journal Article
Ji, B., Genever, P. G., & Fagan, M. J. (2016). A virtual approach to evaluate therapies for management of multiple myeloma induced bone disease: Modelling Therapies for Multiple Myeloma Induced Bone Disease. International journal for numerical methods in biomedical engineering, 32(3), e02735. https://doi.org/10.1002/cnm.2735

Multiple myeloma bone disease is devastating for patients and a major cause of morbidity. The disease leads to bone destruction by inhibiting osteoblast activity while stimulating osteoclast activity. Recent advances in multiple myeloma research have... Read More about A virtual approach to evaluate therapies for management of multiple myeloma induced bone disease: Modelling Therapies for Multiple Myeloma Induced Bone Disease.

Determinants of International Student Migration (2015)
Journal Article
Abbott, A., & Silles, M. (2016). Determinants of International Student Migration. The World economy, 39(5), 621-635. https://doi.org/10.1111/twec.12319

© 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This paper considers what factors determine the migration of overseas students, when students cross borders for higher education. We utilise a gravity model for international student mobility and derive estimates for a... Read More about Determinants of International Student Migration.

Technology and restructuring the social field of dairy farming : hybrid capitals, ‘stockmanship’ and automatic milking systems (2015)
Journal Article
Butler, D., & Holloway, L. (2016). Technology and restructuring the social field of dairy farming : hybrid capitals, ‘stockmanship’ and automatic milking systems. Sociologia ruralis, 56(4), 513-530. https://doi.org/10.1111/soru.12103

This paper draws on research exploring robotic and information technologies in livestock agriculture. Using Automatic Milking Systems (AMS) as an example we use the work of Bourdieu to illustrate how technology can be seen as restructuring the practi... Read More about Technology and restructuring the social field of dairy farming : hybrid capitals, ‘stockmanship’ and automatic milking systems.

Oxidative glial cell damage associated with white matter lesions in the aging human brain (2015)
Journal Article
Al-Mashhadi, S., Simpson, J. E., Heath, P. R., Dickman, M., Forster, G., Matthews, F. E., …Wharton, S. B. (2015). Oxidative glial cell damage associated with white matter lesions in the aging human brain. Brain Pathology, 25(5), 565-574. https://doi.org/10.1111/bpa.12216

White matter lesions (WML) are common in brain aging and are associated with dementia. We aimed to investigate whether oxidative DNA damage and occur in WML and in apparently normal white matter in cases with lesions. Tissue from WML and control whit... Read More about Oxidative glial cell damage associated with white matter lesions in the aging human brain.

Changing non-participation in epidemiological studies of older people: Evidence from the Cognitive Function and Ageing Study I and II (2015)
Journal Article
Gao, L., Green, E., Barnes, L. E., Brayne, C., Matthews, F. E., Robinson, L., & Arthur, A. (2015). Changing non-participation in epidemiological studies of older people: Evidence from the Cognitive Function and Ageing Study I and II. Age and ageing, 44(5), 867-873. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afv101

Background: non-participation in epidemiological studies threatens the generalisability of findings. Objective: to investigate the change in non-participation between the Medical Research Council Cognitive Function and Ageing Study (CFAS) I and II. D... Read More about Changing non-participation in epidemiological studies of older people: Evidence from the Cognitive Function and Ageing Study I and II.

Relocation at older age: Results from the Cognitive Function and Ageing Study (2015)
Journal Article
Wu, Y. T., Prina, A. M., Barnes, L. E., Matthews, F. E., & Brayne, C. (2015). Relocation at older age: Results from the Cognitive Function and Ageing Study. Journal of Public Health, 37(3), 480-487. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdv050

Background Community environment might play an important role in supporting ageing in place. This paper aims to explore relocation at older age and its associations with individual and community level factors. Methods The postcodes of the 2424 people... Read More about Relocation at older age: Results from the Cognitive Function and Ageing Study.

A study of viability and the management of knowledge in community enterprises in Thailand (2015)
Thesis
Wisontheera Mettanont. (2015). A study of viability and the management of knowledge in community enterprises in Thailand. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4224024

This research is related to the viability and management of knowledge in community enterprises (CEs) in Thailand. CE is a term that represents a range of business activities which are founded and operated by local people in order to strengthen econom... Read More about A study of viability and the management of knowledge in community enterprises in Thailand.

Corporate governance deficits : the implications for Nigerian banking sector (2015)
Thesis
Ajibo, K. I. (2015). Corporate governance deficits : the implications for Nigerian banking sector. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4223875

In 2009, the Nigerian banking sector experienced an upheaval that was unparalleled in the nation’s financial history as a result of poor corporate governance practices in the sector. These deficits in corporate governance culture included: poor manag... Read More about Corporate governance deficits : the implications for Nigerian banking sector.

The Port of Hull, 1945-2000 : change, adaptation and memory (2015)
Thesis
Ombler, A. D. (2015). The Port of Hull, 1945-2000 : change, adaptation and memory. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4223568

In this study, which draws on a large body of archival and oral history material, I outline the economic shifts, technological development and political factors that impacted the British port system after 1945 and transformed its spaces, practices an... Read More about The Port of Hull, 1945-2000 : change, adaptation and memory.

'Tender and true': morality and masculinity in nineteenth-century women‟s fiction (2015)
Thesis
Turner, K. J. (2015). 'Tender and true': morality and masculinity in nineteenth-century women‟s fiction. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4223293

In 1883 Eliza Lynn Linton described the men in women‟s fiction as „prigs, ruffians, or curled darlings‟, claiming that women writers cannot portray morally good men in fiction without making them seem unrealistic, unattractive, or both. This thesis a... Read More about 'Tender and true': morality and masculinity in nineteenth-century women‟s fiction.