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Community Mothers Or Impromptu Actresses? The Multifaceted Experience Of Women In The New York Police Department (1900-1941), Yann Philippe Apr 2017

Community Mothers Or Impromptu Actresses? The Multifaceted Experience Of Women In The New York Police Department (1900-1941), Yann Philippe

SOLON Law, Crime and History (previously SOLON Crimes and Misdemeanours: Deviance and the Law in Historical Perspective)

In the first half of the twentieth century, women police played a small yet active role in the New York Police Department. This article does not intend to narrate the growing presence of policewomen in the department but to examine their professional roles, identities, activities and experiences. It emphasizes the diversity of their tasks and social background, taking especially into account the division between former police matrons and social workers. Given this diversity, the category of gender is thus reinterpreted to understand how it functioned as a flexible and complex identity in relation to other forms of identity. Gender could …

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Child On Child Killing: Societal And Legal Similarities And Dissimiliarities 1840-1890 And 1950-2000, Samantha Pegg Apr 2017

Child On Child Killing: Societal And Legal Similarities And Dissimiliarities 1840-1890 And 1950-2000, Samantha Pegg

SOLON Law, Crime and History (previously SOLON Crimes and Misdemeanours: Deviance and the Law in Historical Perspective)

This thesis contributes to research regarding social perceptions and legal responses to child criminality. It challenges existing preconceptions regarding the predictability of moral panic in such cases and the social perceptions of, and legal responses to, acts of child on child killing. It also challenges the efficacy of the moral panic model in successfully explicating the rise of moral panic. An in-depth study of two case examples, the Bulger case 1993 and the Burgess case 1861 is undertaken through the theoretical framework of the moral panic model. In order to establish conceptualisations of children at the time they are subsumed …

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Ifn-Λ3, Not Ifn-Λ4, Likely Mediates Ifnl3-Ifnl4 Haplotype-Dependent Hepatic Inflammation And Fibrosis, Mohammed Eslam, Duncan Mcleod, Kebitsaone Simon Kelaeng, Alessandra Mangia, Thomas Berg, Khaled Thabet, William L. Irving, Gregory J. Dore, David Sheridan, Henning Grønbæk, Maria Lorena Abate, Rune Hartmann, Elisabetta Bugianesi, Ulrich Spengler, Angela Rojas, David R. Booth, Martin Weltman, Lindsay Mollison, Wendy Cheng, Stephen Riordan, H Mahajan, Janett Fischer, Jacob Nattermann, Mark W. Douglas, Christopher Liddle, Elizabeth Powell, Manuel Romero-Gomez, Jacob George, Mayada Metwally, Rose White, Rocio Gallego-Duran, Reynold Leung, N Mahajan, Margaret Bassendine, Antony Rahme, Chiara Rosso, Lavinia Mezzabotta, Barbara Malik, Gail Matthews, Anastasia Asimakopoulos, Tanya Applegate, Jason Grebely, Vincenzo Fragomeli, Julie R. Jonsson, Rosanna Santoro Apr 2017

Ifn-Λ3, Not Ifn-Λ4, Likely Mediates Ifnl3-Ifnl4 Haplotype-Dependent Hepatic Inflammation And Fibrosis, Mohammed Eslam, Duncan Mcleod, Kebitsaone Simon Kelaeng, Alessandra Mangia, Thomas Berg, Khaled Thabet, William L. Irving, Gregory J. Dore, David Sheridan, Henning Grønbæk, Maria Lorena Abate, Rune Hartmann, Elisabetta Bugianesi, Ulrich Spengler, Angela Rojas, David R. Booth, Martin Weltman, Lindsay Mollison, Wendy Cheng, Stephen Riordan, H Mahajan, Janett Fischer, Jacob Nattermann, Mark W. Douglas, Christopher Liddle, Elizabeth Powell, Manuel Romero-Gomez, Jacob George, Mayada Metwally, Rose White, Rocio Gallego-Duran, Reynold Leung, N Mahajan, Margaret Bassendine, Antony Rahme, Chiara Rosso, Lavinia Mezzabotta, Barbara Malik, Gail Matthews, Anastasia Asimakopoulos, Tanya Applegate, Jason Grebely, Vincenzo Fragomeli, Julie R. Jonsson, Rosanna Santoro

Peninsula Medical School

No abstract provided.

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Blueprints Of Effective Biodiversity And Conservation Knowledge Products That Support Marine Policy, Lv Weatherdon, W Appeltans, N Bowles-Newark, Tm Brooks, Et Al Apr 2017

Blueprints Of Effective Biodiversity And Conservation Knowledge Products That Support Marine Policy, Lv Weatherdon, W Appeltans, N Bowles-Newark, Tm Brooks, Et Al

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Biodiversity and conservation data are generally costly to collect, particularly in the marine realm. Hence, data collected for a given—often scientific—purpose are occasionally contributed toward secondary needs, such as policy implementation or other types of decision-making. However, while the quality and accessibility of marine biodiversity and conservation data have improved over the past decade, the ways in which these data can be used to develop and implement relevant management and conservation measures and actions are not always explicit. For this reason, there are a number of scientifically-sound datasets that are not used systematically to inform policy and decisions. Transforming these …

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Clinical Proteomics: From Biological Sample To Clinical Exploitation, E Lasonder Apr 2017

Clinical Proteomics: From Biological Sample To Clinical Exploitation, E Lasonder

School of Biomedical Sciences

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The Area-To-Mass Ratio And Fractal Dimension Of Marine Flocs, D. G. Bowers, D. Mckee, C. F. Jago, W. A.M. Nimmo-Smith Apr 2017

The Area-To-Mass Ratio And Fractal Dimension Of Marine Flocs, D. G. Bowers, D. Mckee, C. F. Jago, W. A.M. Nimmo-Smith

More Faculty of Science and Engineering Research

Optical instruments have proved invaluable in the study of suspended matter in the sea but the measurements they provide are more closely related to the cross-sectional area of the particles in suspension than the mass measured by filtration or predicted by theory. In this paper, we examine the factors controlling the relationship between particle area and mass, using the fractal model of particle structure as a theoretical framework. Both theory and observation agree that the area-to-mass ratio of particles (symbol A*) decreases with increasing fractal dimension (symbol Nf) as particles hide behind each other in compact flocs. The equation A* …

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Modelling Of The Buckling Of A Diaphragm–Spine Structure For A Wave Energy Converter, K. M. Collins, M. Meng, H. R. Le, D. Greaves, N. W. Bellamy Apr 2017

Modelling Of The Buckling Of A Diaphragm–Spine Structure For A Wave Energy Converter, K. M. Collins, M. Meng, H. R. Le, D. Greaves, N. W. Bellamy

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

No abstract provided.

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Using Audio Diaries To Identify Threshold Concepts In 'Softer' Disciplines: A Focus On Medical Education, T Collett, H Neve, N Steven Apr 2017

Using Audio Diaries To Identify Threshold Concepts In 'Softer' Disciplines: A Focus On Medical Education, T Collett, H Neve, N Steven

Peninsula Medical School

Within Medical Education students more readily engage with the ‘hard’ sciences seeing sociology, psychology and ethics as ‘nice’ rather than ‘need’ to know. Yet within the published literature, there has been little research into students’ experiences of these subjects. In this paper we discuss a research method that allows the application of threshold concept theory to the exploration of the process of ‘non-biomedical science learning in medical education’. 16 students from a UK medical school were asked to record on their smart phones, their experiences of ‘doctor facilitated’ small group sessions. The students uploaded their recordings to a secure drop …

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Public Health Matters: Innovative Approaches For Engaging Medical Students, A Vyas, Vc Rodrigues, R Ayres, Pr Myles, Ej Hothersall, H Thomas Apr 2017

Public Health Matters: Innovative Approaches For Engaging Medical Students, A Vyas, Vc Rodrigues, R Ayres, Pr Myles, Ej Hothersall, H Thomas

Peninsula Medical School

No abstract provided.

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Cognitive Innovation: A View From The Bridge, M Punt, S Denham Apr 2017

Cognitive Innovation: A View From The Bridge, M Punt, S Denham

School of Art, Design and Architecture

No abstract provided.

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Undoing The Past In Order To Lie In The Present: Counterfactual Thinking And Deceptive Communication, Raluca A. Briazu, Clare R. Walsh, Catherine Deeprose, Giorgio Ganis Apr 2017

Undoing The Past In Order To Lie In The Present: Counterfactual Thinking And Deceptive Communication, Raluca A. Briazu, Clare R. Walsh, Catherine Deeprose, Giorgio Ganis

School of Psychology

No abstract provided.

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Social Influence, S Gibson, Ca Smart Apr 2017

Social Influence, S Gibson, Ca Smart

School of Psychology

Traditionally, social influence has been defined as the ‘process whereby attitudes and behaviour are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people’ (Hogg and Vaughan, p. 236). Social psychologists have distinguished between three forms of social influence: compliance, conformity and obedience. In this chapter, we review some of the most influential studies in the field, before moving on to consider critical reactions to this area of research, and alternatives proposed by critical social psychologists. In particular, we will suggest that by looking at how people use language we can recast what we understand by social influence.

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Calibration And Response Of An Agarose Gel Based Passive Sampler To Record Short Pulses Of Aquatic Organic Pollutants, Angel Belles, Claire Alary, Yann Aminot, James W. Readman, Christine Franke Apr 2017

Calibration And Response Of An Agarose Gel Based Passive Sampler To Record Short Pulses Of Aquatic Organic Pollutants, Angel Belles, Claire Alary, Yann Aminot, James W. Readman, Christine Franke

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

A passive sampler inspired from previous devices was developed for the integrative sampling of a broad range of contaminants in the water column. Our primary objective was to improve the performance of the device to provide accurate and averaged pollutant water concentrations. For this purpose, an agarose diffusive gel was used as the boundary layer that drives the analyte uptake rate. Contrary to conventional passive samplers, the developed device does not require the sampling rates to be corrected for exposure conditions (e.g. hydrodynamic flow) because the diffusive gel boundary layer selected was sufficiently large to control the pollutant diffusion rate …

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‘Literary Performances’: Edward Kimber, The Novel And Natural Knowledge In The Eighteenth Century, K Napier Gray Apr 2017

‘Literary Performances’: Edward Kimber, The Novel And Natural Knowledge In The Eighteenth Century, K Napier Gray

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

No abstract provided.

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The Price Of Attack: Rethinking Damage Costs In Animal Contests, Sarah M. Lane, Mark Briffa Apr 2017

The Price Of Attack: Rethinking Damage Costs In Animal Contests, Sarah M. Lane, Mark Briffa

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.

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Robotic Actuation Of A 2d Mechanical Vocal Tract, I Howard Mar 2017

Robotic Actuation Of A 2d Mechanical Vocal Tract, I Howard

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

No abstract provided.

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Advances In Physiological And Molecular Aspects Of Plant Cold Tolerance, Hail Z. Rihan, Mohammed Al-Issawi, Michael P. Fuller Mar 2017

Advances In Physiological And Molecular Aspects Of Plant Cold Tolerance, Hail Z. Rihan, Mohammed Al-Issawi, Michael P. Fuller

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.

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Transporting Ideas Between Marine And Social Sciences: Experiences From Interdisciplinary Research Programs., Lucy M. Turner, Ramachandra Bhatta, Louise Eriander, Lena Gipperth, Kerstin Johannesson, Alin Kadfak, I Karunasagar, I Karunasagar, Per Knutsson, Kristjan Laas, Per Olav Moksnes, Anna Godhe Mar 2017

Transporting Ideas Between Marine And Social Sciences: Experiences From Interdisciplinary Research Programs., Lucy M. Turner, Ramachandra Bhatta, Louise Eriander, Lena Gipperth, Kerstin Johannesson, Alin Kadfak, I Karunasagar, I Karunasagar, Per Knutsson, Kristjan Laas, Per Olav Moksnes, Anna Godhe

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.

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In Defence Of Effect-Centric Research, Andy J. Wills, Timothy J. Hollins Mar 2017

In Defence Of Effect-Centric Research, Andy J. Wills, Timothy J. Hollins

School of Psychology

Comments on an article by Jan De Houwer et al. (see record 2017-15804-001). In their target article, De Houwer et al. describe an archipelago of islands each colonized by a different tribe of psychologists, with little awareness of their neighbours. They focus particular attention on two tribes – the cognitivists and the functionalists – who appear to share many interests (they study the same topics, try to solve the same problems), but who have diverged in their scientific methods and theories. Worse, these two tribes communicate very little, and so do not learn from each other. The authors are troubled …

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Aiding Soundtrack Composer Creativity Through Automated Film Script-Profiled Algorithmic Composition, A Kirke, E Miranda Mar 2017

Aiding Soundtrack Composer Creativity Through Automated Film Script-Profiled Algorithmic Composition, A Kirke, E Miranda

School of Art, Design and Architecture

The creation of soundtracks for feature length films is a major undertaking. One method involves watching the film for sections that inspire some emotional response, and then improvising live. The composing of a score is often a combination of bottom up and top down processes. For example small segments of score are composed first, while in parallel a broader structure is planned based on the narrative. We present a system that attempts to aid the composer in this creative process. The system focuses on the script rather than moving image of the film. This has two advantages: (a) a composer …

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Invisibly Blighted The Digital Erosion Of Childhood, Sl Gray, A Phippen Mar 2017

Invisibly Blighted The Digital Erosion Of Childhood, Sl Gray, A Phippen

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

No abstract provided.

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A Downslope Propagating Thermal Front Over The Continental Slope, Haren H Van, Phil J. Hosegood Mar 2017

A Downslope Propagating Thermal Front Over The Continental Slope, Haren H Van, Phil J. Hosegood

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

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Characterisation Of Microsatellites For Litoria Nannotis (Amphibia : Hylidae), An Endangered Waterfall Frog Endemic To The Australian Wet Tropics, R Puschendorf, Ev Todd, Mg Gardner Mar 2017

Characterisation Of Microsatellites For Litoria Nannotis (Amphibia : Hylidae), An Endangered Waterfall Frog Endemic To The Australian Wet Tropics, R Puschendorf, Ev Todd, Mg Gardner

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Litoria nannotis is an endangered waterfall frog from the wet tropics region in north Queensland that has suffered significant population declines due to the emerging fungal disease known as chytridiomycosis. The species has two deeply divergent lineages, and we used 454 shotgun sequencing of DNA extracted from one individual of the northern lineage to identify and design PCR primers for 576 microsatellite loci. Thirty markers were tested for amplification success and variability in a population sample from each lineage. Of these, 17 were found to be polymorphic in the northern lineage and 10 loci were polymorphic in the southern lineage. …

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Where Is Home? The Unpredictability Of Life As A Cypriot Stray Dog., C Baker Mar 2017

Where Is Home? The Unpredictability Of Life As A Cypriot Stray Dog., C Baker

School of Art, Design and Architecture

The conference centers on our ever-present relationships with animals examined through the arts and humanities, sciences, and applied fields. "Living with Animals" conference from March 22 to 26, 2016. Conference abstract: Our focus this year is Co-existence: How do or can we co-exist with animals, and they with us? How have we failed to co-exist? Can we educate each other to support and sustain co-existence? Of course any topic related to animals or human-animal interaction is welcome. http://livingwithanimals.eku.edu/insidelook

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Agricultural Productivity Growth And The Role Of Capital In South Asia (1980–2013), A Anik, S Rahman, J Sarker Mar 2017

Agricultural Productivity Growth And The Role Of Capital In South Asia (1980–2013), A Anik, S Rahman, J Sarker

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

The study assessed agricultural sustainability in South Asia (i.e., Bangladesh, Pakistan, India and Nepal) by computing multi-lateral multi-temporal Total Factor Productivity (TFP) indices and their six finer components (technical change, technical-, scale- and mix-efficiency changes, residual scale and residual mix-efficiency changes) and examined the role of capital in driving TFP growth covering a 34-year period (1980-2013). Results revealed that all countries sustained agricultural productivity growth at variable rates with Bangladesh experiencing highest rate estimated @1.05% p.a. followed by India (0.52%), Pakistan (0.38%) and Nepal (0.06% p.a.). There were little or no variation in technical and scale efficiency changes among the …

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Near-Surface Distribution Of Pollutants In Coastal Waters As Assessed By Novel Polyethylene Passive Samplers, Yann Aminot, Angel Belles, Claire Alary, James W. Readman Mar 2017

Near-Surface Distribution Of Pollutants In Coastal Waters As Assessed By Novel Polyethylene Passive Samplers, Yann Aminot, Angel Belles, Claire Alary, James W. Readman

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

We report a novel and inexpensive method to provide high resolution vertical measurements of temporally integrated organic contaminants in surface and sub-surface waters in polluted coastal environments. It employs a strip of polyethylene deployed as a passive sampler. Verifications are confirmed via conventional spot sample analyses and against Performance Reference Compound (PRC) calibration methods. Analytes targeted include 16 Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons, 15 personal care products, 8 organophosphorus flame retardants, 4 antifouling 'booster' biocides and 15 n-alkanes. Whilst all contaminants typically revealed homogeneous concentrations from 10 cm to 3 m depth in the selected harbour (<30% variations), many increased sharply at the air-sea interface. The passive sampler was shown to afford better resolution than could be achieved using conventional analytical techniques at the surface microlayer (SML). Whilst hydrophobicity appeared to be a key factor for the enrichment of many determinants, less correlation was found for the emerging contaminants.

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A Global Map Of Saltmarshes, C Mcowen, L Weatherdon, J-W Bochove, E Sullivan, Et Al Mar 2017

A Global Map Of Saltmarshes, C Mcowen, L Weatherdon, J-W Bochove, E Sullivan, Et Al

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Background Saltmarshes are extremely valuable but often overlooked ecosystems, contributing to livelihoods locally and globally through the associated ecosystem services they provide, including fish production, carbon storage and coastal protection. Despite their importance, knowledge of the current spatial distribution (occurrence and extent) of saltmarshes is incomplete. In light of increasing anthropogenic and environmental pressures on coastal ecosystems, global data on the occurrence and extent of saltmarshes are needed to draw attention to these critical ecosystems and to the benefits they generate for people. Such data can support resource management, strengthen decision-making and facilitate tracking of progress towards global conservation targets …

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Improving The Identification Of Cancer In Young People: A Scoping Review, F Gibson, S Pearce, L Fern, A Martins, D Kelly Mar 2017

Improving The Identification Of Cancer In Young People: A Scoping Review, F Gibson, S Pearce, L Fern, A Martins, D Kelly

School of Nursing and Midwifery

Introduction: The challenges of achieving timely cancer diagnosis in adolescents and young adults are recognised. However, contributing factors and associated clinical and psychosocial outcomes are poorly understood. Areas covered: We present a scoping review of existing evidence into time intervals to diagnosis and potential mechanisms influencing the identification of cancer symptoms and impact on a timely diagnosis. Charting data using Walters ‘pathways to treatment’ we summarise the diagnostic pathway into four interval categories: appraisal, help-seeking, diagnostic, and pre-treatment, and illustrate where evidence exists and where unanswered questions remain. Expert commentary: Whilst the research base has expanded over the last decade …

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Interleukin-2-Regulatory T Cell Axis Critically Regulates Maintenance Of Hematopoietic Stem Cells, Sabrina Giampaolo, Gabriela Wójcik, Edgar Serfling, Amiya K. Patra Mar 2017

Interleukin-2-Regulatory T Cell Axis Critically Regulates Maintenance Of Hematopoietic Stem Cells, Sabrina Giampaolo, Gabriela Wójcik, Edgar Serfling, Amiya K. Patra

Peninsula Medical School

No abstract provided.

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Antibacterial Activity And Biofilm Inhibition By Surface Modified Titanium Alloy Medical Implants Following Application Of Silver, Titanium Dioxide And Hydroxyapatite Nanocoatings, A. Besinis, S. D. Hadi, H. R. Le, C. Tredwin, R. D. Handy Mar 2017

Antibacterial Activity And Biofilm Inhibition By Surface Modified Titanium Alloy Medical Implants Following Application Of Silver, Titanium Dioxide And Hydroxyapatite Nanocoatings, A. Besinis, S. D. Hadi, H. R. Le, C. Tredwin, R. D. Handy

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

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