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Connecting with home, keeping in touch: Physical and virtual mobility across stretched families in sub-Saharan Africa (2018)
Journal Article
Porter, G., Hampshire, K., Abane, A., Munthali, A., Robson, E., Tanle, A., …Bango, A. (2018). Connecting with home, keeping in touch: Physical and virtual mobility across stretched families in sub-Saharan Africa. Africa, 88(2), 404-424. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972017000973

There is a long history of migration among low-income families in sub-Saharan Africa, in which (usually young, often male) members leave home to seek their fortune in what are perceived to be more favourable locations. While the physical and virtual... Read More about Connecting with home, keeping in touch: Physical and virtual mobility across stretched families in sub-Saharan Africa.

“Dance to the dominants’ tune” : the impact of institutional habitus on mature students’ study in both England and China (2018)
Thesis
Guan, S. (2018). “Dance to the dominants’ tune” : the impact of institutional habitus on mature students’ study in both England and China. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4276150

Massification in higher education has been developing globally, with more and more mature students entering university and benefiting from higher education. Because higher education has been anchored in its historical traditions of serving traditiona... Read More about “Dance to the dominants’ tune” : the impact of institutional habitus on mature students’ study in both England and China.

Virgin and Child : a novel : how the literary thriller can be used to explore morality and the nature of the divine (2018)
Thesis
Hamand, M. E. (2018). Virgin and Child : a novel : how the literary thriller can be used to explore morality and the nature of the divine. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4266367

The thesis includes a novel, Virgin and Child, and an exegesis, which explores how novelists creatively engage with issues of religion and morality within the genre of the literary thriller. The novel interweaves the Catholic position on issues of ge... Read More about Virgin and Child : a novel : how the literary thriller can be used to explore morality and the nature of the divine.

The vitamin D–folate hypothesis as an evolutionary model for skin pigmentation: An update and integration of current ideas (2018)
Journal Article
Jones, P., Lucock, M., Veysey, M., & Beckett, E. (2018). The vitamin D–folate hypothesis as an evolutionary model for skin pigmentation: An update and integration of current ideas. Nutrients, 10(5), Article 554. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu10050554

© 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Vitamin D is unique in being generated in our skin following ultraviolet radiation (UVR) exposure. Ongoing research into vitamin D must therefore always consider the influence of UVR on vitami... Read More about The vitamin D–folate hypothesis as an evolutionary model for skin pigmentation: An update and integration of current ideas.

A personalised exercise programme for individuals with lower limb amputation reduces falls and improves gait biomechanics: A block randomised controlled trial (2018)
Journal Article
Schafer, Z. A., Perry, J. L., & Vanicek, N. (2018). A personalised exercise programme for individuals with lower limb amputation reduces falls and improves gait biomechanics: A block randomised controlled trial. Gait and Posture, 63, 282-289. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gaitpost.2018.04.030

Background: Lower limb amputees (LLAs) are at increased risk of falling due to the inherent asymmetry resulting from their limb loss, muscle weakness and other neuro-musculoskeletal limitations. Research question: The aim of this study was to evaluat... Read More about A personalised exercise programme for individuals with lower limb amputation reduces falls and improves gait biomechanics: A block randomised controlled trial.

Microbial host interactions and impaired wound healing in mice and humans: defining a role for BD14 and NOD2 (2018)
Journal Article
Williams, H., Campbell, L., Crompton, R. A., Singh, G., McHugh, B. J., Davidson, D. J., …Hardman, M. J. (2018). Microbial host interactions and impaired wound healing in mice and humans: defining a role for BD14 and NOD2. Journal of Investigative Dermatology, 138(10), 2264-2274. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jid.2018.04.014

Chronic wounds cause significant patient morbidity and mortality. A key factor in their etiology is microbial infection, yet skin host-microbiota interactions during wound repair remain poorly understood. Microbiome profiles of non-infected human chr... Read More about Microbial host interactions and impaired wound healing in mice and humans: defining a role for BD14 and NOD2.

Japan: Fictionality, transmedia national branding and the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games (2018)
Book Chapter
Hernndez-Prez, M. (2018). Japan: Fictionality, transmedia national branding and the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. In M. Freeman, & W. Proctor (Eds.), Global Convergence Cultures: Transmedia Earth, 175-191. Taylor & Francis (Routledge). doi:10.4324/9781315188478-11

The chapter aims to examine the concept of transmediality (or cross-mediality) in relation to institutional communication in Japan. To do this, it examines several case studies within the current Japanese society, with special attention to crisis co... Read More about Japan: Fictionality, transmedia national branding and the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Economic simulation of cryptocurrencies (2018)
Journal Article
Mainelli, M. R., Leitch, M., & Demetis, D. (2018). Economic simulation of cryptocurrencies. Capco Journal, 47, 89-101

Cryptocurrencies have the potential to become effective currencies that give a higher level of macroeconomic control, thanks to the information that is available about holdings and transactions, and the potential for automated control mechanisms. How... Read More about Economic simulation of cryptocurrencies.

Initial public offerings in China: Underpricing, statistics and developing literature (2018)
Journal Article
Azevedo, A., Guney, Y., & Leng, J. (2018). Initial public offerings in China: Underpricing, statistics and developing literature. Research in international business and finance, 46, 387-398. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2018.04.011

We review more than two decades of literature on initial public offerings (IPOs) in China, discussing the research hypotheses that have been studied as well as the main findings. We summarize past and current developments in the literature and highli... Read More about Initial public offerings in China: Underpricing, statistics and developing literature.

A systems framework for national assessment of climate risks to infrastructure (2018)
Journal Article
Dawson, R. J., Thompson, D., Johns, D., Wood, R., Darch, G., Chapman, L., …Hall, J. W. (2018). A systems framework for national assessment of climate risks to infrastructure. Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences, 376(2121), Article 20170298. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2017.0298

Extreme weather causes substantial adverse socioeconomic impacts by damaging and disrupting the infrastructure services that underpin modern society. Globally, $2.5tn a year is spent on infrastructure which is typically designed to last decades, over... Read More about A systems framework for national assessment of climate risks to infrastructure.

Designing an educator toolkit for the mobile learning age (2018)
Journal Article
Burden, K., & Kearney, M. (2018). Designing an educator toolkit for the mobile learning age. International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning, 10(2), 88-99. https://doi.org/10.4018/ijmbl.2018040108

Mobile technologies have been described as ‘boundary’ objects which enable teachers and learners to transcend many of the barriers such as rigid schedules and spaces which have hitherto characterised traditional forms of education. However, educators... Read More about Designing an educator toolkit for the mobile learning age.

Analysis of an iterated greedy heuristic for vertex clique covering (2018)
Journal Article
Chalupa, D., & Pospíchal, J. (2018). Analysis of an iterated greedy heuristic for vertex clique covering. Computing and Informatics, 37(2), 385-404. https://doi.org/10.4149/cai_2018_2_385

The aim of the vertex clique covering problem (CCP) is to cover the vertices of a graph with as few cliques as possible. We analyse the iterated greedy (IG) algorithm for CCP, which was previously shown to provide strong empirical results for real-wo... Read More about Analysis of an iterated greedy heuristic for vertex clique covering.

Solution of half-plane contact problems by distributing climb dislocations (2018)
Journal Article
Moore, M., & Hills, D. (2018). Solution of half-plane contact problems by distributing climb dislocations. International Journal of Solids and Structures, 147, 61-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2018.04.017

We derive a novel method for addressing half-plane contact problems by using distributions of climb dislocations over the contact patch to balance the relative overlapping profile of the contacting bodies. Using this technique, we are able to forgo i... Read More about Solution of half-plane contact problems by distributing climb dislocations.

Evolution of N/O ratios in galaxies from cosmological hydrodynamical simulations (2018)
Journal Article
Vincenzo, F., & Kobayashi, C. (2018). Evolution of N/O ratios in galaxies from cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 478(1), 155–166. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1047

We study the redshift evolution of the gas-phase O/H and N/O abundances, both (i) for individual ISM regions within single spatially-resolved galaxies and (ii) when dealing with average abundances in the whole ISM of many unresolved galaxies. We make... Read More about Evolution of N/O ratios in galaxies from cosmological hydrodynamical simulations.

Mass media and risk factors for cancer: the under-representation of age (2018)
Journal Article
Macdonald, S., Cunningham, Y., Patterson, C., Robb, K., Macleod, U., Anker, T., & Hilton, S. (2018). Mass media and risk factors for cancer: the under-representation of age. BMC public health, 18(1), Article 490. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5341-9

BACKGROUND: Increasing age is a risk factor for developing cancer. Yet, older people commonly underestimate this risk, are less likely to be aware of the early symptoms, and are more likely to be diagnosed with advanced stage cancer. Mass media are a... Read More about Mass media and risk factors for cancer: the under-representation of age.

How to recognize crescentic bedforms formed by supercritical turbidity currents in the geologic record: Insights from active submarine channels (2018)
Journal Article
Hage, S., Cartigny, M. J., Clare, M. A., Sumner, E. J., Vendettuoli, D., Clarke, J. E., …Vellinga, A. J. (2018). How to recognize crescentic bedforms formed by supercritical turbidity currents in the geologic record: Insights from active submarine channels. Geology, 46(6), 563-566. https://doi.org/10.1130/G40095.1

© 2018 Geological Society of America. Submarine channels have been important throughout geologic time for feeding globally significant volumes of sediment f rom land to the deep sea. Modern observations show that submarine channels can be sculpted by... Read More about How to recognize crescentic bedforms formed by supercritical turbidity currents in the geologic record: Insights from active submarine channels.

Beyond equilibrium: Re-evaluating physical modelling of fluvial systems to represent climate changes (2018)
Journal Article
Baynes, E. R., van de Lageweg, W. I., McLelland, S. J., Parsons, D. R., Aberle, J., Dijkstra, J., …Moulin, F. (2018). Beyond equilibrium: Re-evaluating physical modelling of fluvial systems to represent climate changes. Earth-Science Reviews, 181, 82-97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2018.04.007

© 2018 Elsevier B.V. The interactions between water, sediment and biology in fluvial systems are complex and driven by multiple forcing mechanisms across a range of spatial and temporal scales. In a changing climate, some meteorological drivers are e... Read More about Beyond equilibrium: Re-evaluating physical modelling of fluvial systems to represent climate changes.

Chua mem-components for adaptive RF metamaterials (2018)
Journal Article
Georgiou, J., Kossifos, K. M., Antoniades, M. A., Jaafar, A., & Kemp, N. T. (2018). Chua mem-components for adaptive RF metamaterials. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2018-May, https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCAS.2018.8351852

Chua's mem-components are ideal for creating adaptive metasurfaces for manipulating EM waves given that they hold their state without external biases. In this paper, we propose a generic adaptive reactive element that is in fact a memcapacitor/memind... Read More about Chua mem-components for adaptive RF metamaterials.

An Optically-Programmable Absorbing Metasurface (2018)
Journal Article
Kossifos, K. M., Antoniades, M. A., Georgiou, J., Jaafar, A. H., & Kemp, N. T. (2018). An Optically-Programmable Absorbing Metasurface. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2018-May, https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCAS.2018.8351874

A tunable metasurface absorber is presented in this work using an optically-programmable capacitor as the tuning element. The tuning element does not employ conventional semiconductor technologies to operate but rather a bases its tuning by changing... Read More about An Optically-Programmable Absorbing Metasurface.