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No pain, no gain - the provocation of laughter in slapstick comedy (2010)
Journal Article
Peacock, L. S. (2010). No pain, no gain - the provocation of laughter in slapstick comedy. Popular entertainment studies, 1(2), 93-106

This article explores the relationship between danger and laughter in the work of a number of what might be defined as slapstick or physical comedians. The notion of physical comedians risking life and limb in order to generate laughter from an admir... Read More about No pain, no gain - the provocation of laughter in slapstick comedy.

Aspiration, inspiration and illustration: initiating debate on reflective practice writing (2010)
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Knowles, Z., & Gilbourne, D. (2010). Aspiration, inspiration and illustration: initiating debate on reflective practice writing. Sport Psychologist, 24(4), 504-520. https://doi.org/10.1123/tsp.24.4.504

The present article contemplates the future of reflective practice in the domain of applied sport psychology and, in so doing, seeks to engender further critical debate and comment. More specifically, the discussion to follow revisits the topic of 'r... Read More about Aspiration, inspiration and illustration: initiating debate on reflective practice writing.

The value of e-banking services in the Egyptian environment : an integrated model (2010)
Thesis
El Naggar, R. A. E. A. I. (2010). The value of e-banking services in the Egyptian environment : an integrated model. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4214557

Introduction: Driving the introduction of e-banking services in Egypt are structural changes, which have intensified competition across the banking sector. The value (net benefits) of e-banking services to their suppliers lies in their ability to att... Read More about The value of e-banking services in the Egyptian environment : an integrated model.

Personality representation: predicting behaviour for personalised learning support (2010)
Thesis
Wood, D. H. (2010). Personality representation: predicting behaviour for personalised learning support. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4214060

The need for personalised support systems comes from the growing number of students that are being supported within institutions with shrinking resources. Over the last decade the use of computers and the Internet within education has become more pre... Read More about Personality representation: predicting behaviour for personalised learning support.

Development of porphyrin-antiangiogenic antibody immunoconjugates for photodynamic therapy (2010)
Thesis
Bullous, A. (2010). Development of porphyrin-antiangiogenic antibody immunoconjugates for photodynamic therapy. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4211381

Photodynamic therapy is a novel cancer treatment, involving the combination of light, photosensitiser and molecular oxygen to produce cytotoxic species. Currently, commercially available photosensitisers, including Photofrin and Foscan, only exhibit... Read More about Development of porphyrin-antiangiogenic antibody immunoconjugates for photodynamic therapy.

Barriers to, and facilitators of, the prevention of unintentional injury in children in the home: A systematic review and synthesis of qualitative research (2010)
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Smithson, J., Garside, R., & Pearson, M. (2011). Barriers to, and facilitators of, the prevention of unintentional injury in children in the home: A systematic review and synthesis of qualitative research. Injury Prevention, 17(2), 119-126. https://doi.org/10.1136/ip.2010.026989

Background This review considers barriers to, and facilitators of, success for interventions to reduce unintentional injury to children in the home through supply and/or installation of home safety equipment, and looks at risk assessments. Methods A... Read More about Barriers to, and facilitators of, the prevention of unintentional injury in children in the home: A systematic review and synthesis of qualitative research.

The application of organisational cybernetics to the design and diagnosis of financial performance management systems (2010)
Thesis
Morlidge, S. P. (2010). The application of organisational cybernetics to the design and diagnosis of financial performance management systems. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4219581

The object of this study is the processes that govern the flow of financial resources around an organisation. This is addressed in the context of the need for organisations to survive and prosper in an uncertain and dynamic world. Specifically, inter... Read More about The application of organisational cybernetics to the design and diagnosis of financial performance management systems.

Demographic and ethnicity effects on neuropsychological test performance : implications for dementia assessment in Caribbean populations (2010)
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Khan, K. L. (2010). Demographic and ethnicity effects on neuropsychological test performance : implications for dementia assessment in Caribbean populations. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4217272

Prevalence rates of dementia are increasing worldwide and more so in developing countries. Early and accurate diagnosis of dementia then assumes critical importance. Cross-cultural neuropsychological assessment of dementia depends on the use of instr... Read More about Demographic and ethnicity effects on neuropsychological test performance : implications for dementia assessment in Caribbean populations.

Intermetallic compounds by reductive annealing (2010)
Thesis
Kift, R. L. (2010). Intermetallic compounds by reductive annealing. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4211009

The majority of the work described in this thesis focuses on the development of a new synthetic route to binary and ternary intermetallic compounds, which avoids the need for reaction at very high temperatures, multi-step reactions, reaction under va... Read More about Intermetallic compounds by reductive annealing.

The care and feeding of linguists : the working environment of interpreters, translators, and linguists during peacekeeping in Bosnia-Herzegovina (2010)
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Baker, C. (2010). The care and feeding of linguists : the working environment of interpreters, translators, and linguists during peacekeeping in Bosnia-Herzegovina. War and Society, 29(2), 154-175. https://doi.org/10.1179/204243410X12674422128993

The history of war and peacekeeping has little to say about languages or the people who work with them, yet a closer inspection shows that contacts between different languages and the presence of an interpreter were a routine experience during the pe... Read More about The care and feeding of linguists : the working environment of interpreters, translators, and linguists during peacekeeping in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Listeners' perceptual and emotional responses to tonal and atonal music (2010)
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Prior, H. (2011). Listeners' perceptual and emotional responses to tonal and atonal music. Psychology of music, 39(4), 468-502. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305735610378182

Research in music and emotion has largely focused on responses to tonal music on isolated occasions. This article presents a novel approach to the study of music and emotion that investigates the effects of familiarity on listeners' responses to tona... Read More about Listeners' perceptual and emotional responses to tonal and atonal music.

Na troskách struktury: stati o divadelní sémiotice a strukturalismu roku 2008 (On the ruins of the structure: writings on theatre semiotics and structuralism in 2008) (2010)
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Drabek, P. (2010). Na troskách struktury: stati o divadelní sémiotice a strukturalismu roku 2008 (On the ruins of the structure: writings on theatre semiotics and structuralism in 2008). Theatralia, 13(2), 150 - 157

An article reflecting on the state of theatre semiotics and theatre structuralism as presented by two collections of essays published in 2008.

Engineering failure analysis and design optimisation with HiP-HOPS (2010)
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Papadopoulos, Y., Walker, M., Parker, D., Rüde, E., Hamann, R., Uhlig, A., …Lien, R. (2011). Engineering failure analysis and design optimisation with HiP-HOPS. Engineering Failure Analysis, 18(2), 590-608. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engfailanal.2010.09.025

The scale and complexity of computer-based safety critical systems, like those used in the transport and manufacturing industries, pose significant challenges for failure analysis. Over the last decade, research has focused on automating this task. I... Read More about Engineering failure analysis and design optimisation with HiP-HOPS.

Worth, age, and social status in early modern England (2010)
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Spicksley, J., & Shepard, A. (2011). Worth, age, and social status in early modern England. The Economic history review, 64(2), 493-530. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0289.2010.00533.x

This article introduces a new source for assessing the distribution of wealth in early modern England derived from witness depositions taken by the church courts. It discusses the accuracy of statements of ‘worth’ provided by thousands of witnesses b... Read More about Worth, age, and social status in early modern England.

Trust me, I'm a student : an exploration through grounded theory of the student experience in two small schools (2010)
Thesis
Hope, M. A. (2010). Trust me, I'm a student : an exploration through grounded theory of the student experience in two small schools. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4210951

The majority of literature about democratic education has been written from the perspective of teachers or educators. This thesis is different. It has a clear intention to listen to and learn from the experiences of students. Empirical research was... Read More about Trust me, I'm a student : an exploration through grounded theory of the student experience in two small schools.

Diasporic encounters, sacred journeys: Ritual, normativity and the religious imagination among international Asian migrant women (2010)
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Johnson, M., & Werbner, P. (2010). Diasporic encounters, sacred journeys: Ritual, normativity and the religious imagination among international Asian migrant women. The Asia Pacific journal of anthropology, 11(3-4), 205-218. https://doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2010.517510

This issue highlights recent ethnographic work that discloses migrant women's creative engagements with the people and landscapes in the places they migrate to. We challenge a dominant view that construes women international migrants from Asia as doc... Read More about Diasporic encounters, sacred journeys: Ritual, normativity and the religious imagination among international Asian migrant women.

Phylogeny and metabolic scaling in mammals (2010)
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Capellini, I., Venditti, C., & Barton, R. A. (2010). Phylogeny and metabolic scaling in mammals. Ecology, 91(9), 2783-2793. https://doi.org/10.1890/09-0817.1

The scaling of metabolic rates to body size is widely considered to be of great biological and ecological importance, and much attention has been devoted to determining its theoretical and empirical value. Most debate centers on whether the underlyin... Read More about Phylogeny and metabolic scaling in mammals.

Microfluidic perfusion system for maintaining viable heart tissue with real-time electrochemical monitoring of reactive oxygen species (2010)
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Cheah, L., Dou, Y. H., Seymour, A. M. L., Dyer, C. E., Haswell, S. J., Wadhawan, J. D., & Greenman, J. (2010). Microfluidic perfusion system for maintaining viable heart tissue with real-time electrochemical monitoring of reactive oxygen species. Lab on a chip, 10(20), 2720-2726. https://doi.org/10.1039/c004910g

A microfluidic device has been developed to maintain viable heart tissue samples in a biomimetic microenvironment. This device allows rat or human heart tissue to be studied under pseudo in vivo conditions. Effluent levels of lactate dehydrogenase an... Read More about Microfluidic perfusion system for maintaining viable heart tissue with real-time electrochemical monitoring of reactive oxygen species.

Preliminary trials of in situ ammonia stripping from source segregated domestic food waste digestate using biogas: Effect of temperature and flow rate (2010)
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De la Rubia, M. Á., Walker, M., Heaven, S., Banks, C. J., & Borja, R. (2010). Preliminary trials of in situ ammonia stripping from source segregated domestic food waste digestate using biogas: Effect of temperature and flow rate. Bioresource technology : biomass, bioenergy, biowastes, conversion technologies, biotransformations, production technologies, 101(24), 9486-9492. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2010.07.096

Batch experiments to remove ammonia from food waste digestate were set up, and preliminary runs undertaken. These experiments were based on gas stripping in a heated column reactor; the effects of different temperatures (35, 55 and 70 °C) and gas flo... Read More about Preliminary trials of in situ ammonia stripping from source segregated domestic food waste digestate using biogas: Effect of temperature and flow rate.

Lexical-semantic parameters as robust endophenotypes of abnormal cognitive decline in ageing (2010)
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Biundo, R. (2010). Lexical-semantic parameters as robust endophenotypes of abnormal cognitive decline in ageing. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4212709

The objective of this dissertation was to characterise the relative contribution of genetic influences to individual differences in cross sectional performance and decline of semantic-lexical abilities and to investigate whether these linguistic effe... Read More about Lexical-semantic parameters as robust endophenotypes of abnormal cognitive decline in ageing.