Theorizing hit-and-run: A Study of Driver Decision Making Processes after a Road Traffic Collision. See

Explanations for driver decisions to hit-and-run have largely been based around a rational choice perspective that suggests drivers consider the expected costs of reporting a collision against the benefits of leaving the scene (see Tay et al., 2008; Fujita et al., 2014). Although such an explanation appears plausible, previous research has largely focused upon identifying contributory or contextual factors through analysis of quantitative datasets rather than engage with drivers in order to u...

Hopkins, Matt; Chivers, Sally

The use of why questions in child mental health assessments See

Questions form the basis of mental health assessments and yet there is limited empirical evidence about the linguistic structure of question formats in these clinical environments. While many types of questions are used, the focus of this research was on why-prefaced questions with children. Interaction analysis was employed to interrogate the data, paying specific attention to the interactional organisation of how 'why-prefaced' questions were asked and responded to. Analysis demonstrated th...

Kiyimba, Nikki; Karim, Khalid; O'Reilly, Michelle

The right to community? Legal geographies of resistance on London’s gentrification frontiers See

Displacement is central to the process of gentrification, but the importance of law in both enacting and resisting such displacement is often overlooked. Noting the tensions between existential, embodied meanings of displacement (i.e. being removed from a place called home), and the formal legal definitions of displacement (i.e. the removal of the right to a property), this paper explores how the law is implicated in the struggle for London's remaining council estates, with processes of expro...

Lees, Loretta; Hubbard, Phil

Effect of hydrogen charging on dislocation multiplication in pre-strained super duplex stainless steel See

The effect of hydrogen charging on dislocation multiplication in super duplex stainless steel was investigated. Steel samples were pre-strained and charged with hydrogen for 10 days. Dislocation density was then measured using neutron diffraction. It is found that dislocation density multiplies by about one order of magnitude in samples with less than 5% pre-strain, but remains the same level in samples with pre-strain level of 10% and above.

Liang, X. Z.; Dodge, M. F.; Kabra, S.; Kelleher, J. F.; Lee, T. L.... et al.

The Regulation of Surrogacy: A Children's Rights Persepctive See

This article examines the current regulation of surrogacy in England from a children’s rights perspective. It draws on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989 and its Optional Protocols, as well as General Comments and Concluding Observations from the Committee on the Rights of the Child, in order to analyse the extent to which the current regulatory framework on surrogacy is in line with a children’s rights approach. A children’s rights approach draws attention to the need for a ho...

Wade, Katherine

The problem with ‘dots’: questioning the role of rationality in the online environment See

Regulatory theorists often use the ‘dot’ as a metaphor to help conceptualise their models of a given environment. Lessig famously used the ‘pathetic dot’ in his classic, “Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace” and Murray’s “Regulation of Cyberspace” used interconnected dots to help describe networked communitarianism and to discuss the effectiveness and implementation of symbiotic regulation. However in both models, the dot is seen as a rational actor. The rational ‘dot’ is presumed to have a com...

Leiser, Mark

The Measurement and Role of Ecological Resilience Systems Theory Across Domain-Specific Outcomes: The Domain-Specific Resilient Systems Scales. See

Research suggests that trait resilience may be best understood within an ecological resilient systems theory, comprising engineering, ecological, and adaptive capacity resilience. However, there is no evidence as to how this theory translates to specific life domains. Data from two samples (the United States, n = 1,278; the United Kingdom, n = 211) facilitated five studies that introduce the Domain-Specific Resilient Systems Scales for assessing ecological resilient systems theory within work...

Maltby, John; Day, Liz; Hall, Sophie S.; Chivers, Sally

Sleep in children with Angelman syndrome: Parental concerns and priorities See

Angelman syndrome is a rare genetic syndrome, in which sleep disturbances are reported for 20–80% of individuals (Williams et al., 2006). This interview study delineated parental perceptions of sleep problems experienced by children with Angelman syndrome and the impact on parental sleep quality, health and wellbeing. The nature of desired interventions was also explored. Semi-structured interviews were completed with parents of 50 children, aged 16 months–15 years with Angelman syndrome who ...

Trickett, Jayne; Heald, Mary; Oliver, Chris

Editorial: The landscape of Lean across public services See

Taken from start of article……Ten years ago in Public Money and Management (Volume 28, Number 1), Radnor and Boaden (2008) wrote an editorial entitled: ‘Lean in Public Services – Panacea or Paradox?’ (pp 3-7) as an introduction to a set of articles examining lean in Public Services. In this themed issue Radnor returns with Bateman and Glennon to reflect on the implementation of lean in public services ten years on. The first point to note is that lean (and associated techniques) is still being...

Bateman, Nicola; Radnor, Zoe; Glennon, Russ

Self-knowledge of HbA1c in people with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and its association with glycaemic control. See

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of accurate self-knowledge of a patient's own HbA1c level (HbA1cSK), as a component of structural education (University Hospital's of Leicester (UHL), 2013) and its association with glycaemic control. METHODS: Data from the GUIDANCE study, a cross-sectional study involving 7597 participants from eight European countries was used. HbA1cSKwas evaluated and compared with laboratory measured HbA1c levels (HbA1cLAB), which represented...

Trivedi, Hina; Gray, Laura J.; Seidu, Samuel; Davies, Melanie J.; Charpentier, G.... et al.

Sailing through marketing: A critical assessment of spatiality in marketing literature See

Marketing has historically been entangled with the study of geography, which has become a very popular focus in the marketing literature nowadays. However, spatially-oriented perspectives in marketing tend to rest on a conceptual divide between place-oriented and space-oriented thinking, thus inhibiting the production of more eclectic and creative spatial knowledge. This conceptual paper endeavors to overcome this dichotomy by rethinking spatiality in terms of boundedness, openness, functiona...

Giovanardi, Massimo; Lucarelli, Andrea

Researching language engagement; current trends and future directions See

The paper discusses how learner engagement in language learning settings has been conceived of and investigated in the past decade. Whilst a cognitive focus used to predominate in research on language learners’ engagement, the importance of affective (and social) factors is increasingly recognised. The paper interrogates ‘engagement’ in the literature in order to better understand its role in Language Awareness and language learning. It situates Engagement With Language in relation to other s...

Svalberg, Agneta Marie-Louise

Book review: Consumerism on TV: Popular Media from the 1950s to the Present See

[First paragraph] n the twentieth century, the development of consumer society in the West was inextricably bound up with the development of television, and the medium continues to be a key site where the culture of consumerism impacts upon and even becomes part of our subjectivities. This is one of the central claims of the new edited collection Consumerism on TV: Popular Media from the 1950s to the Present, which presents original chapters on the multiple, complex and historically shif...

Kay, Jilly Boyce

Pervasive near-surface stratal disruption in an accretionary prism setting: Kaczawa Complex, SW Poland See

The tectonized and metamorphosed mudrocks within the Variscan accretionary prism of the Kaczawa Mountains in SW Poland comprise sedimentary mélanges together with more coherent stratigraphic units; some represent large olistoliths deposited in a submarine trench. We infer a trend of progressive near-surface stratal disruption in mud-dominated deposits due to dewatering that forms a continuum with subduction-related tectonic structures imposed on unconsolidated sediment during deeper burial. T...

Kostylew, Joanna; Zalasiewicz, Jan A.; Kryza, Ryszard

Mental health and wellbeing in parents of excessively crying infants: prospective evaluation of a support package See

Powell, C. L.; Bamber, D.; Long, J.; Garratt, R.; Brown, J.... et al.

A deceleration search for magnetar pulsations in the X-ray plateaus of short GRBs See

A newly formed magnetar has been proposed as the central engine of short GRBs to explain ongoing energy injection giving observed plateau phases in the X-ray light curves. These rapidly spinning magnetars may be capable of emitting pulsed emission comparable to known pulsars and magnetars. In this paper we show that, if present, a periodic signal would be detectable during the plateau phases observed using the Swift/X-Ray Telescope recording data in Window Timing mode. We conduct a targeted d...

Rowlinson, A.; Patruno, A.; O'Brien, P. T.

Multiwavelength observations of nova SMCN 2016-10a-one of the brightest novae ever observed See

We report on multiwavelength observations of nova SMCN 2016-10a. The present observational set is one of the most comprehensive for any nova in the Small Magellanic Cloud, including: low, medium, and high resolution optical spectroscopy and spectropolarimetry from SALT, FLOYDS, and SOAR; long-term OGLE V - and I- bands photometry dating back to six years before eruption; SMARTS optical and near-IR photometry from ∼ 11 days until over 280 days post-eruption; Swift satellite X-ray and ult...

Aydi, E.; Page, K. L.; Kuin, N. P. M.; Darnley, M. J.; Walter, F. M.... et al.

High-Frequency Airway Oscillating Device for Respiratory Muscle Training in Subjects With COPD See

BACKGROUND: COPD is characterized by expiratory flow limitation, which results in symptomatic dyspnea and reduced exercise capacity. Changes in breathing mechanics mean the respiratory muscles are unable to respond to the ventilatory demands, increasing the sensation of dyspnea. A high-frequency oscillating device has been developed to improve dyspnea in patients with COPD. We conducted a feasibility trial to gain insight into the potential for recruitment, retention, and study design for a f...

Daynes, Enya; Greening, Neil J.; Harvey-Dunstan, Theresa C.; Singh, Sally J.

Genetic Overlap Between Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Bipolar Disorder: Evidence From Genome-wide Association Study Meta-analysis See

Background: Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and bipolar disorder (BPD) are frequently co-occurring and highly heritable mental health conditions. We hypothesized that BPD cases with an early age of onset (≤21 years old) would be particularly likely to show genetic covariation with ADHD. Methods: Genome-wide association study data were available for 4609 individuals with ADHD, 9650 individuals with BPD (5167 thereof with early-onset BPD), and 21,363 typically developing control...

van Hulzen, Kimm J. E.; Scholz, Claus J.; Franke, Barbara; Ripke, Stephan; Klein, Marieke... et al.