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Picaresque and Rogue Narratives (2014)
Book Chapter
Seager, N. (2014). Picaresque and Rogue Narratives. In G. Day, J. Lynch, & E. al (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of British Literature, 1660-1789. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell

Postmodern Cities (2014)
Book Chapter
Bentley, N. (2014). Postmodern Cities. In K. McNamara (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature (175--187). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CCO9781139235617.015

Postmodern cities. 5,000 words. This chapter discusses the two principal strands of the postmodern city novel: texts in which the city is presented as a verbal labyrinth, simulacrum, or technoscape (e. g. the fiction of Auster, Borges, Calvino, Murak... Read More about Postmodern Cities.

'Who Do You Think You Are Kidding?': The Retrieval of the Second World War in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remians of the Day and Ian McEwan's Atonement (2014)
Book Chapter
Bentley, N. (2014). 'Who Do You Think You Are Kidding?': The Retrieval of the Second World War in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remians of the Day and Ian McEwan's Atonement. In E. Rousselot (Ed.), Exoticizing the Past in Contemporary Neo-Historical Fiction (138--159). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137375209_9

The iconic BBC comedy series Dad’s Army set on the home front during the Second World War has over its title credits the song ‘Who Do You Think You Are Kidding, Mr Hitler?’ performed by Bud Flanagan. This song includes the lines: ‘[w]e are the boys w... Read More about 'Who Do You Think You Are Kidding?': The Retrieval of the Second World War in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remians of the Day and Ian McEwan's Atonement.

What is a Cohesive Community Anyway? The Role of Mainstream Media in Narratives of (Dis)Integration (2014)
Journal Article
Holohan, S. (2014). What is a Cohesive Community Anyway? The Role of Mainstream Media in Narratives of (Dis)Integration. Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, 27 - 45. https://doi.org/10.1163/18739865-00701009

The perceived failure of minority communities to integrate into mainstream culture and society has been of such concern in recent years that there have been a series of political endeavors to shore up notions of citizenship, inclusion, and (national)... Read More about What is a Cohesive Community Anyway? The Role of Mainstream Media in Narratives of (Dis)Integration.

An infrared census of dust in nearby galaxies with Spitzer (Dustings). I. Overview (2014)
Journal Article
Van Loon. (2014). An infrared census of dust in nearby galaxies with Spitzer (Dustings). I. Overview. Astrophysical Journal, https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/216/1/10

Nearby resolved dwarf galaxies provide excellent opportunities for studying the dust-producing late stages of stellar evolution over a wide range of metallicity (–2.7 lesssim [Fe/H] lesssim –1.0). Here, we describe DUSTiNGS (DUST in Nearby Galaxies w... Read More about An infrared census of dust in nearby galaxies with Spitzer (Dustings). I. Overview.

Kepler-432 b: a massive planet in a highly eccentric orbit transiting a red giant (2014)
Journal Article
Ciceri, S., Lillo-Box, J., Southworth, J., Mancini, L., Th. Henning, & Barrado, D. (2015). Kepler-432 b: a massive planet in a highly eccentric orbit transiting a red giant. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 573, Article L5. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201425145

We report the first disclosure of the planetary nature of Kepler-432?b (aka Kepler object of interest KOI-1299.01). We accurately constrained its mass and eccentricity by high-precision radial velocity measurements obtained with the CAFE spectrograph... Read More about Kepler-432 b: a massive planet in a highly eccentric orbit transiting a red giant.

Pre-main-sequence isochrones - III: The Cluster Collaboration isochrone server (2014)
Journal Article
Jeffries. (2014). Pre-main-sequence isochrones - III: The Cluster Collaboration isochrone server. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 3496 - 3511. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1944

We present an isochrone server for semi-empirical pre-main-sequence model isochrones in the following systems: Johnson–Cousins, Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Two-Micron All-Sky Survey, Isaac Newton Telescope (INT) Wide-Field Camera and INT Photometric Ha... Read More about Pre-main-sequence isochrones - III: The Cluster Collaboration isochrone server.

Preliminary results of sequential monitoring of simulated clandestine graves in Colombia, South America, using ground penetrating radar and botany (2014)
Journal Article
Martin Molina, C., Pringle, J. K., Saumett, M., & Hernández, O. (2015). Preliminary results of sequential monitoring of simulated clandestine graves in Colombia, South America, using ground penetrating radar and botany. Forensic Science International, 248, 61 -70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2014.12.011

In most Latin American countries there are significant numbers of missing people and forced disappearances, 68,000 alone currently in Colombia. Successful detection of shallow buried human remains by forensic search teams is difficult in varying terr... Read More about Preliminary results of sequential monitoring of simulated clandestine graves in Colombia, South America, using ground penetrating radar and botany.

Dementia, women and sexuality: how the intersection of ageing, gender and sexuality magnify dementia concerns among lesbian and bisexual women (2014)
Journal Article
(2014). Dementia, women and sexuality: how the intersection of ageing, gender and sexuality magnify dementia concerns among lesbian and bisexual women. Dementia, 1494-1514. https://doi.org/10.1177/1471301214564446

There is a growing appreciation of the significance of socio-cultural context for the experiences of an individual living with dementia. There is, too, an emergent awareness that dementia is a gendered issue, disproportionately affecting women compar... Read More about Dementia, women and sexuality: how the intersection of ageing, gender and sexuality magnify dementia concerns among lesbian and bisexual women.

Long-term variability of proglacial groundwater-fed hydrological systems in an area of glacier retreat, Skeioararsandur, Iceland (2014)
Journal Article
Levy, A., Robinson, Z., Krause, S., Weatherill, J., & Waller, R. (2015). Long-term variability of proglacial groundwater-fed hydrological systems in an area of glacier retreat, Skeioararsandur, Iceland. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 40(7), 981 -994. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.3696

Proglacial groundwater-fed features, such as seeps, substantially impact proglacial geomorphology, hydrology, and ecology. However, there is a paucity of research on the impacts of climate change and glacier retreat on the extent of these important f... Read More about Long-term variability of proglacial groundwater-fed hydrological systems in an area of glacier retreat, Skeioararsandur, Iceland.

Orbital periods of cataclysmic variables identified by the SDSS IX. NTT photometry of eight eclipsing and three magnetic systems (2014)
Journal Article
Southworth, J., Tappert, C., Gänsicke, B., & Copperwheat, C. (2015). Orbital periods of cataclysmic variables identified by the SDSS IX. NTT photometry of eight eclipsing and three magnetic systems. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 573, Article A61. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201425060

We report the discovery of eclipses and the first orbital period measurements for four cataclysmic variables, plus the first orbital period measurements for one known eclipsing and two magnetic systems. SDSS J093537.46+161950.8 exhibits 1 mag deep ec... Read More about Orbital periods of cataclysmic variables identified by the SDSS IX. NTT photometry of eight eclipsing and three magnetic systems.

High-precision photometry by telescope defocusing - VII. The ultrashort period planet WASP-103 (2014)
Journal Article
Southworth, J., Mancini, L., Ciceri, S., Budaj, J., Dominik, M., Figuera Jaimes, R., …Surdej, J. (2015). High-precision photometry by telescope defocusing - VII. The ultrashort period planet WASP-103. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 447(1), 711 -721. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu2394

We present 17 transit light curves of the ultrashort period planetary system WASP-103, a strong candidate for the detection of tidally-induced orbital decay. We use these to establish a high-precision reference epoch for transit timing studies. The t... Read More about High-precision photometry by telescope defocusing - VII. The ultrashort period planet WASP-103.

Shared identity predicts enhanced health at a mass gathering (2014)
Journal Article
(2014). Shared identity predicts enhanced health at a mass gathering. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 504-522. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430214556703

Identifying with a group can impact (positively) upon group members’ health. This can be explained (in part) through the social relations that a shared identity allows. We investigated the relationship between a shared identity and health in a longit... Read More about Shared identity predicts enhanced health at a mass gathering.

World Health organization guidelines for management of acute stress, PTSD, and bereavement: key challenges on the road ahead (2014)
Journal Article
(2014). World Health organization guidelines for management of acute stress, PTSD, and bereavement: key challenges on the road ahead. PLoS Medicine, e1001769 -?. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001769

Wietse Tol and colleagues discuss some of the key challenges for implementation of new WHO guidelines for stress-related mental health disorders in low- and middle-income countries. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary.