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The effect of environmental, physical, and nutritional factors on in vitro fertilisation (2016)
Thesis
Cunningham, T. K. The effect of environmental, physical, and nutritional factors on in vitro fertilisation. (Thesis). Hull York Medical School, the University of Hull and the University of York. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4218708

Folliculogenesis, fertilisation and implantation of a human embryo requires unity of many different pathways. The literature review discusses folliculogensis, implantation and the potential affect that endocrine disrupting agents (EDAs) and Vitamin D... Read More about The effect of environmental, physical, and nutritional factors on in vitro fertilisation.

Implications and consequences : how can learning from the use of a psychometric tool inform other HRD interventions? (2016)
Thesis
Freer, B. H. Implications and consequences : how can learning from the use of a psychometric tool inform other HRD interventions?. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4218435

This thesis presents findings on the implications and consequences of using a personality preference model as an organizational development tool. Whilst the research focuses on the proprietary model Insights Discovery®, the intention is not to valida... Read More about Implications and consequences : how can learning from the use of a psychometric tool inform other HRD interventions?.

Visual cortical alpha rhythms : function and relation to other dynamic signatures in local networks (2016)
Thesis
Hawkins, K. Visual cortical alpha rhythms : function and relation to other dynamic signatures in local networks. (Thesis). Hull York Medical School, the University of Hull and the University of York. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4218213

The alpha rhythm (8-12Hz) was the first EEG rhythm recorded by Hans Berger in 1929. Despite being the earliest rhythm discovered, alpha rhythms remain the most mysterious in terms of mechanism and function. In the visual system, post-stimulus alpha o... Read More about Visual cortical alpha rhythms : function and relation to other dynamic signatures in local networks.

Investigating reach and grasp in Parkinson's disease cognitive impairment (2016)
Thesis
Cosgrove, J. Investigating reach and grasp in Parkinson's disease cognitive impairment. (Thesis). Hull York Medical School, the University of Hull and the University of York. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4218207

Reach and grasp are evolutionary conserved motor actions controlled by highly specialised neural pathways that have major nodes in the posterior parietal and premotor frontal cortices. Mild cognitive impairment is an important non-motor symptom of Pa... Read More about Investigating reach and grasp in Parkinson's disease cognitive impairment.

Investigations into the electrical properties of hybrid memristor devices containing surface modified zinc oxide nanorods (2016)
Thesis
Gardner, B. Investigations into the electrical properties of hybrid memristor devices containing surface modified zinc oxide nanorods. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4218124

This thesis focusses on improving the fabrication and electronic switching properties of hybrid memristor devices that have been developed in the nanophysics group at the University of Hull. The devices consist of vertically aligned semiconducting Zn... Read More about Investigations into the electrical properties of hybrid memristor devices containing surface modified zinc oxide nanorods.

Bram Stoker, Ellen Terry, Pamela Colman Smith and the Art of Devilry (2016)
Book Chapter
Cockin, K. (2016). Bram Stoker, Ellen Terry, Pamela Colman Smith and the Art of Devilry. In C. Wynne (Ed.), Bram Stoker and the Gothic (159-171). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137465047_11

When Oscar Wilde designated Ellen Terry ‘Our Lady of the Lyceum’ (Robertson, 1931: 149), the Marian terminology positioned the Lyceum Theatre itself as a sacred space or seat of worship. It was Henry Irving’s temple, with Bram Stoker as his trusted b... Read More about Bram Stoker, Ellen Terry, Pamela Colman Smith and the Art of Devilry.

Metal-free nitrogen-doped carbon foam electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction in acid solution (2016)
Journal Article
Liu, J., Yu, S., Daio, T., Ismail, M. S., Sasaki, K., & Lyth, S. M. (2016). Metal-free nitrogen-doped carbon foam electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction in acid solution. Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 163(9), F1049-F1054. https://doi.org/10.1149/2.0631609jes

Metal-free, nitrogen-doped carbon foam is utilized as a model non-precious electrocatalyst system to investigate the role of nitrogen in the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in the absence of iron contamination. This graphene-like foam displays relati... Read More about Metal-free nitrogen-doped carbon foam electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction in acid solution.

Non-linear control law for articulated serial manipulators: Simulation augmented with hardware implementation (2016)
Journal Article
Ullah, M. I., Ajwad, S. A., Irfan, M., & Iqbal, J. (2016). Non-linear control law for articulated serial manipulators: Simulation augmented with hardware implementation. Elektronika Ir Elektrotechnika, 22(1), 3-7. https://doi.org/10.5755/j01.eee.22.1.14094

The performance of a robotic arm includes accuracy, repeatability and reliability to accomplish a task. These parameters, in turn, are function of associated control law. Multi-Degree Of Freedom (DOF) robotic arms, because of their inherent highly no... Read More about Non-linear control law for articulated serial manipulators: Simulation augmented with hardware implementation.

Optimal v/s robust control: A study and comparison for articulated manipulator (2016)
Journal Article
Ajwad, S. A., Mehmood, A., Ullah, M. I., & Iqbal, J. (2016). Optimal v/s robust control: A study and comparison for articulated manipulator. Journal of the Balkan Tribological Association, 22(3), 2469-2475

Highly nonlinear and coupled dynamics of a robotic manipulator demands sophisticated control strategies. These strategies must have the ability to handle the uncertainties and external disturbances that can significantly deviate the system from its d... Read More about Optimal v/s robust control: A study and comparison for articulated manipulator.

The business of decolonization: The foreign office, British business, and the end of empire in Kuwait and Qatar (2016)
Book Chapter
Smith, S. C. (2016). The business of decolonization: The foreign office, British business, and the end of empire in Kuwait and Qatar. In J. Fisher, E. G. Pedaliu, & R. Smith (Eds.), The Foreign Office, Commerce and British Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century (381-399). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-46581-8_17

The Gulf States, while small in size, were of increasing economic and financial significance to the British economy in the post-war period. While the loss of India in 1947 reduced the strategic importance of the Gulf, this was more than compensated f... Read More about The business of decolonization: The foreign office, British business, and the end of empire in Kuwait and Qatar.

Analytical modeling for switched damping electromagnetic energy harvester (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ooi, B. L., Gilbert, J. M., Aziz, A. R. A., & Thein, C. K. Analytical modeling for switched damping electromagnetic energy harvester

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016. This paper presents a novel switched damping method which is able to improve the operational bandwidth of a linear electromagnetic energy harvester. In this system, different damping coefficients,... Read More about Analytical modeling for switched damping electromagnetic energy harvester.

Different pathways for different journeys: Ethnicity, identity transition and desistance (2016)
Book Chapter
Calverley, A. (2016). Different pathways for different journeys: Ethnicity, identity transition and desistance. In A. Robinson, & P. Hamilton (Eds.), Moving on from Crime and Substance Use: Transforming Identities (121-152). Policy Press. https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447324676.003.0007

This chapter argues that the processes of adopting viable non-offending identities are as important in the desistance of minority ethnic offenders as they are for offenders who are white. However, differences in structural location and cultural expec... Read More about Different pathways for different journeys: Ethnicity, identity transition and desistance.

The peacemaking producer of LA: Negotiating and representing gangs on reality TV (2016)
Book Chapter
Metcalf, J. (2016). The peacemaking producer of LA: Negotiating and representing gangs on reality TV. In Rapper, Writer, Pop-Cultural Player: Ice-T and the Politics of Black Cultural Production (201-230). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315603612-21

© Josephine Metcalf and Will Turner and the contributors 2014. Though the Los Angeles (LA) riots of 1992 have been extensively documented by news media, pop culture, and critics alike, the gang truce that succeeded the chaotic aftermath of the uprisi... Read More about The peacemaking producer of LA: Negotiating and representing gangs on reality TV.

Developing public health provision for vulnerable young people (2016)
Journal Article
Fewings, H. (2016). Developing public health provision for vulnerable young people. Community Practitioner, 32-36

Engaging vulnerable children and young people can be a challenge. This article reports on the development of a specialist school nurse service, known as Support Services Health Team, aimed at the most vulnerable children and young people in Hull. The... Read More about Developing public health provision for vulnerable young people.

Common good politics: British Idealism and social justice in the contemporary world (2016)
Book
Tyler, C. (2016). Common good politics: British Idealism and social justice in the contemporary world. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32404-3

© The Editor(s) and The Author(s) 2017. This book examines the British tradition of common good politics, both historically and in the contemporary world. We live in a time when many anti-Conservative parties and voters feel a profound sense of crisi... Read More about Common good politics: British Idealism and social justice in the contemporary world.

Germany 2: Colonial Empire (2016)
Book Chapter
Biskup, T., & Kohlrausch, M. (2016). Germany 2: Colonial Empire. In J. M. Mackenzie, N. R. Dalziel, N. Doumanis, & M. W. Charney (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of Empire. Wiley Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118455074

The German Empire founded in 1871 possessed the fourth largest colonial empire in the period of high imperialism. Although Germany was a colonial power only between 1884 and 1919, Germans were engaged in colonial projects both before and after this p... Read More about Germany 2: Colonial Empire.

Germany 1: Colonialism Early Modern Period (2016)
Book Chapter
Biskup, T. (2016). Germany 1: Colonialism Early Modern Period. In J. M. MacKenzie, N. R. Dalziel, N. Doumanis, & M. W. Charney (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of Empire. Wiley Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118455074.wbeoe394

Although no German state maintained a continuous colonial presence outside Europe before the 1800s, Early Modern Germany formed an important part of European expansion on several levels, which had repercussions for German society and economy as well... Read More about Germany 1: Colonialism Early Modern Period.

Feedback control in quantum transport (2016)
Book Chapter
Emary, C. (2016). Feedback control in quantum transport. In Understanding Complex Systems; Control of Self-Organizing Nonlinear Systems (275-287). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28028-8_14

Quantum transport is the study of the motion of electrons through nano-scale structures small enough that quantum effects are important. In this contribution I review recent theoretical proposals to use the techniques of quantum feedback control to m... Read More about Feedback control in quantum transport.

Keynote speech - Validation of numerically generated stratigraphic architecture (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mountney, N., Colombera, L., Yan, N., Dorrell, R. M., & McCaffrey, W. D. (2016, April). Keynote speech - Validation of numerically generated stratigraphic architecture. Presented at 2nd Conference on Forward Modelling of Sedimentary Systems: From Desert to Deep Marine Depositioned Systems