All Outputs (20)

A flexible one-pot route to metal/metal oxide nanocomposites (2010)
Journal Article
Schnepp, Z., Hall, S., Hollamby, M., & Manna, S. (2010). A flexible one-pot route to metal/metal oxide nanocomposites. Green Chemistry, 272 - 275. https://doi.org/10.1039/C0GC00338G

We report a one-pot route to Au/CeO2 nanocomposites. A readily-available biopolymer, sodium alginate, is exploited for controlled formation and stabilisation of gold nanoparticles followed by in situ growth of a sponge-like network of CeO2 nanopartic... Read More about A flexible one-pot route to metal/metal oxide nanocomposites.

What do students do? Training, research and learning: developing skills for the next generation of near-surface geophysicists (2010)
Journal Article
Pringle. (2010). What do students do? Training, research and learning: developing skills for the next generation of near-surface geophysicists. Near Surface Geophysics, 445 -450. https://doi.org/10.3997/1873-0604.2010060

In the past decade, degree programmes throughout Europe have changed dramatically and near-surface geophysics is now commonly taught as a minor component of other undergraduate geoscience and related degree programmes. As a consequence, there has bee... Read More about What do students do? Training, research and learning: developing skills for the next generation of near-surface geophysicists.

A Transnational Pig: Reconstituting Kinship Among Filipinos in Hong Kong (2010)
Journal Article
McKay. (2010). A Transnational Pig: Reconstituting Kinship Among Filipinos in Hong Kong. Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 330 - 344. https://doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2010.513400

Migration may offer Filipinos abroad new ways to practice religious faith and opportunities to extend social networks, but many must at the same time sustain and renegotiate kinship ties at home. The obligations of kinship can mean declarations of fa... Read More about A Transnational Pig: Reconstituting Kinship Among Filipinos in Hong Kong.

Adaptable Synthesis of C-Glycosidic Multivalent Carbohydrates and Succinamide-Linked Derivatization (2010)
Journal Article
Miller. (2010). Adaptable Synthesis of C-Glycosidic Multivalent Carbohydrates and Succinamide-Linked Derivatization. Organic Letters, 5262 - 5265. https://doi.org/10.1021/ol102310x

A modular approach to the synthesis of trivalent C-glycosidic carbohydrates is described. The approach is illustrated employing carboxylate-terminated C-glycosidic d-mannose, d-glucose, and d-galactose derivatives with different length C1-linked spac... Read More about Adaptable Synthesis of C-Glycosidic Multivalent Carbohydrates and Succinamide-Linked Derivatization.

On the Face of Facebook: Historical Images and Personhood in Filipino Social Networking (2010)
Journal Article
McKay. (2010). On the Face of Facebook: Historical Images and Personhood in Filipino Social Networking. History and Anthropology, 479 - 498. https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2010.522311

Exchanging and manipulating digital images on social networking sites offers people new ways to renegotiate a wide variety of relationships. This paper examines how interactions on Facebook transform personhood and norms for relationships and belongi... Read More about On the Face of Facebook: Historical Images and Personhood in Filipino Social Networking.

Capturing stratigraphic and sedimentological complexity from submarine channel complex outcrops to digital 3D models, Karoo Basin, South Africa (2010)
Journal Article
Pringle. (2010). Capturing stratigraphic and sedimentological complexity from submarine channel complex outcrops to digital 3D models, Karoo Basin, South Africa. Petroleum Geoscience, 307 - 330 (24). https://doi.org/10.1144/1354-079309-028

Submarine slope channel-fills form complicated stratigraphy and lithofacies distributions through repeated phases of erosion and deposition. This provides a challenge to accurate 3D modelling, particularly in representing lithofacies transitions with... Read More about Capturing stratigraphic and sedimentological complexity from submarine channel complex outcrops to digital 3D models, Karoo Basin, South Africa.

The R136 star cluster hosts several stars whose individual masses greatly exceed the accepted 150 Msun stellar mass limit (2010)
Journal Article
Hirschi. (2010). The R136 star cluster hosts several stars whose individual masses greatly exceed the accepted 150 Msun stellar mass limit. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 731 -751. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17167.x

Spectroscopic analyses of H-rich WN5-6 stars within the young star clusters NGC 3603 and R136 are presented, using archival HST & VLT spectroscopy, & high spatial resolution near-IR photometry. We derive high T* for the WN stars in NGC 3603 (T*~42+/-... Read More about The R136 star cluster hosts several stars whose individual masses greatly exceed the accepted 150 Msun stellar mass limit.

Geophysics and the search of freshwater bodies: a review (2010)
Journal Article
Pringle. (2010). Geophysics and the search of freshwater bodies: a review. Science and Justice, 141 -149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scijus.2009.09.001

Geophysics may assist scent dogs and divers in the search of water bodies for human and animal remains, contraband, weapons and explosives by surveying large areas rapidly and identifying targets or environmental hazards. The most commonly applied me... Read More about Geophysics and the search of freshwater bodies: a review.

Electrical resistivity survey to search for a recent clandestine burial of a homicide victim, UK. (2010)
Journal Article
Pringle. (2010). Electrical resistivity survey to search for a recent clandestine burial of a homicide victim, UK. Forensic Science International, e1 - e7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2010.04.023

This case report details an electrical resistivity survey to assist the search for a suspected 1-year-old clandestine burial of a murder victim in North Wales in the UK. Conventional search techniques (victim recovery dogs and probing) proved unsucce... Read More about Electrical resistivity survey to search for a recent clandestine burial of a homicide victim, UK..

Training the next generation of near-surface geophysicists: team-based, student-led, problem-solving field exercises, Cumbria, UK (2010)
Journal Article
Pringle. (2010). Training the next generation of near-surface geophysicists: team-based, student-led, problem-solving field exercises, Cumbria, UK. Near Surface Geophysics, 503 -517. https://doi.org/10.3997/1873-0604.2010050

Discussions with employers of graduate applied geophysicists (reinforced by recent literature) indicate a progressive reduction in the numeracy and literacy of graduating students. In particular, there is a perception that problem-solving and quantit... Read More about Training the next generation of near-surface geophysicists: team-based, student-led, problem-solving field exercises, Cumbria, UK.

Persistent organic pollutants (PCB, DDT, HCH, HCB & BDE) in eels (Anguilla anguilla) in Scotland: current levels and temporal trends. (2010)
Journal Article
Macgregor, K., Oliver, I., Harris, L., & Ridgway, I. (2010). Persistent organic pollutants (PCB, DDT, HCH, HCB & BDE) in eels (Anguilla anguilla) in Scotland: current levels and temporal trends. Environmental Pollution, 2402 - 2411. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2010.04.005

Eels are an ideal biomonitor for persistent organic pollutants (POPs) because of their high lipid content, longevity and tendency to remain within a defined range during their freshwater life phase. This study investigated concentrations of POPs in e... Read More about Persistent organic pollutants (PCB, DDT, HCH, HCB & BDE) in eels (Anguilla anguilla) in Scotland: current levels and temporal trends..

Carbon input belowground is the major C flux contributing to leaf litter mass loss: Evidences from a C-13 labelled-leaf litter experiment (2010)
Journal Article
(2010). Carbon input belowground is the major C flux contributing to leaf litter mass loss: Evidences from a C-13 labelled-leaf litter experiment. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 1009 -1016. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2010.02.018

Partitioning of the quantities of C lost by leaf litter through decomposition into (i) CO2 efflux to the atmosphere and (ii) C input to soil organic matter (SOM) is essential in order to develop a deeper understanding of the litter-soil biogeochemica... Read More about Carbon input belowground is the major C flux contributing to leaf litter mass loss: Evidences from a C-13 labelled-leaf litter experiment.

Quantification of surface species present on a nickel/alumina methane reforming catalyst (2010)
Journal Article
(2010). Quantification of surface species present on a nickel/alumina methane reforming catalyst. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 3102 - 3107. https://doi.org/10.1039/B919977B

An alumina-supported nickel catalyst has been used to effect the 'dry' reforming of methane, using CO(2) as the oxidant. After 6 hours on-stream, reaction was stopped and the sample analysed by inelastic neutron scattering (INS). The INS spectrum rev... Read More about Quantification of surface species present on a nickel/alumina methane reforming catalyst.

Late Triassic to Early Jurassic palaeogeography and eustatic history in the NW Tethyan realm: New insights from sedimentary and organic facies of the Csovar Basin (Hungary) (2010)
Journal Article
(2010). Late Triassic to Early Jurassic palaeogeography and eustatic history in the NW Tethyan realm: New insights from sedimentary and organic facies of the Csovar Basin (Hungary). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 456 - 468. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.03.014

Sedimentary and organic facies of a continuous Late Triassic–Early Jurassic toe-of-slope to basin succession of the NE Transdanubian Range (N Hungary) was studied in order to reconstruct the palaeogeographical and eustatic evolution of the Csovár Bas... Read More about Late Triassic to Early Jurassic palaeogeography and eustatic history in the NW Tethyan realm: New insights from sedimentary and organic facies of the Csovar Basin (Hungary).

Basin evolution of the Anisian Peri-Tethys: implications from conodont assemblages of Lower Muschelkalk key sections (Central Europe) (2010)
Journal Article
(2010). Basin evolution of the Anisian Peri-Tethys: implications from conodont assemblages of Lower Muschelkalk key sections (Central Europe). Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften ZDGG, 39 -49. https://doi.org/10.1127/1860-1804/2010/0161-0039

Lower Muschelkalk carbonates of the Peri-Tethys Basin are considered as poor in age-diagnostic index fossils, thus unequivocal basin-wide correlations remain difficult. Additionally, the lack of a bed-by-bed analysis and documentation of the fossil c... Read More about Basin evolution of the Anisian Peri-Tethys: implications from conodont assemblages of Lower Muschelkalk key sections (Central Europe).

Moving beyond the limits of joined-up government? Meta-governance, quality of relations and addressing the politics of joining-up. (2010)
Journal Article
Pemberton, S., & Winstanley, R. (2010). Moving beyond the limits of joined-up government? Meta-governance, quality of relations and addressing the politics of joining-up. Urban Research and Practice, 26 - 39. https://doi.org/10.1080/17535060903534164

Recent research has questioned the ability of Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPs) to secure better coordination and management of regeneration across different branches of the state. In a period of economic recession and a curtailing of regeneration... Read More about Moving beyond the limits of joined-up government? Meta-governance, quality of relations and addressing the politics of joining-up..

Rethinking the changing structures of rural local government – State power, rural politics and local political strategies? (2010)
Journal Article
Pemberton, S., & Goodwin, M. (2010). Rethinking the changing structures of rural local government – State power, rural politics and local political strategies?. Journal of Rural Studies, 272 - 283. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2009.12.005

There is a notable absence in contemporary rural studies – of both a theoretical and empirical nature – concerning the changing nature of rural local government. Despite the scale and significance of successive rounds of local government reorganisati... Read More about Rethinking the changing structures of rural local government – State power, rural politics and local political strategies?.

Fluorinated microemulsions as reaction media for fluorous nanoparticles (2010)
Journal Article
Hollamby, M., Eastoe, J., Mutch, K., Rogers, S., & Heenan, R. (2010). Fluorinated microemulsions as reaction media for fluorous nanoparticles. Soft Matter, 971 -976. https://doi.org/10.1039/b922260j

New fluorinated microemulsions (F-MEs) formulated from partially fluorinated solvent–co-solvent mixtures and fluorinated anionic AOT-analogue surfactants are reported. These F-MEs permit incorporation of water into fluorinated solvents, up to a volum... Read More about Fluorinated microemulsions as reaction media for fluorous nanoparticles.

Local Area Agreements as a tool for addressing deprivation within UK cities (2010)
Journal Article
Nurse, A., & Pemberton. (2010). Local Area Agreements as a tool for addressing deprivation within UK cities. Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal, 158 - 167 (9)

Despite a plethora of urban regeneration interventions introduced by UK Governments over the last 20 years, variation remains in respect of levels of deprivation that exist within many urban areas. This paper focuses on the extent to which Local Area... Read More about Local Area Agreements as a tool for addressing deprivation within UK cities.

Climate change at the Triassic/Jurassic boundary in the northwestern Tethyan realm, inferred from sections in the Tatra Mountains (Slovakia) (2010)
Journal Article
(2010). Climate change at the Triassic/Jurassic boundary in the northwestern Tethyan realm, inferred from sections in the Tatra Mountains (Slovakia). Acta Geologica Polonica, 535 - 548

Sedimentological, palynological, clay mineralogical and carbon isotope studies were carried out on the Triassic/Jurassic (T/J) boundary interval in the Nw Tethyan realm. The analyses are based on two sections in the Slovakian Tatra Mountains (western... Read More about Climate change at the Triassic/Jurassic boundary in the northwestern Tethyan realm, inferred from sections in the Tatra Mountains (Slovakia).