DSpace at Cardiff Met: Recent submissions
Now showing items 1-20 of 6564
-
MA Ceramics 2004 (Full Version)
(2005) -
The Use of Transcranial Magnetic Brain Stimulation to Study Cerebellar Language Function
(Elsevier, 2015-09-11)Many researchers now use noninvasive brain stimulation to investigate a wide range of problems in cognitive neuroscience. Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) has been used successfully for more than a decade to study ... -
Empathy and perception of emotion in eyes from the FEEST/Ekman and Friesen faces
(Elsevier, 2014-09-23)Photographs from the FEEST/Ekman and Friesen 60 faces set were cropped to show only the eye region and presented to participants in each of two experiments. In the first, 60 participants were required to choose which one ... -
Facilitation of Fast Backward Priming After Left Cerebellar Continuous Theta-Burst Stimulation
(Springer, 2017-09-05)Traditional theories of backward priming account only for the priming effects found at long stimulus onset asynchronies (SOAs). Here, we suggest that the presence of backward priming at short SOAs may be related to the ... -
Social Justice in Contemporary Housing: Applying Rawls’ Difference Principle
(Routledge, 2018-08-08)Philosophy is not usually seen as a guidance for modern housing policy, but in this new book, Dr Helen Taylor argues that there is something innovative, unusual, and worth discussing about the application of philosophy to ... -
Children’s Perceptions of Their Access to Rights in Wales: The Relevance of Gender and Age
(Brill, 2018-11-24)This paper explores children’s perceptions of gender and age as factors in accessing their rights. While much is known about the policy agenda and legal rights of children in Wales (Williams 2013), there is limited evidence ... -
A framework for customer relationship management strategy orientation support in higher education institutions
(Taylor & Francis, 2018-09-25)A number of generic Customer Relationship Management (CRM) implementation frameworks have been developed, yet no systematic framework has been developed to help HEIs orientate CRM strategy to align with university business ... -
Smart Systems Implementation in UK Food Manufacturing Companies: A Sustainability Perspective
(MDPI, 2018-12-10)The UK food industry faces significant challenges to remain sustainable. With major challenges, such as Brexit, on the horizon, companies can no longer rely on a low labour cost workforce to maintain low production costs ... -
Dividend policy in the banking sector in G-7 and GCC countries: A comparative study
(Virtus Interpress, 2018-11-23)Dividend policy has been a puzzling question for many years. This study attempts to identify the key factors affecting it in the financial sector that have been neglected in the literature. Using panel data on 621 Group ... -
Objective assessment of stiffness in Achilles tendinopathy: a novel approach using the MyotonPRO
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2018-12-05)Objectives The aim of this study was to establish quantitative values for asymptomatic and symptomatic Achilles tendons. Design Cohort study with a single (cross-sectional) time point of patients diagnosed with unilateral ... -
Objective Uniaxial Identification of Transition Points in Non-Linear Materials: Sample Application to Porcine Coronary Arteries and the Dependency of Their Pre- and Post-Transitional Moduli with Position
(Springer, 2018-11-28)This study aimed to develop an objective method for the elastic characterisation of pre- and post-transitional moduli of left anterior descending (LAD) porcine coronary arteries. Methods Eight coronary arteries were ... -
European Tourism Indicator System for Sustainable Destination Management in County Donegal, Ireland
(Varna University of ManagementCardiff School of Management, 2018-11-06)Tourism is one of Ireland's most important economic sectors. In 2017, the overall visits to the country have increased by over 10%. However, such growth if not managed correctly can present many challenges to destinations, ... -
Enhancing Seamless Nurses-Physician Communication After-Hours with Google Glass
(IEEE, 2018-07-11)There is a major issue in medical centres in Malaysia: the shared responsibility and communication between nurses at the bedside care and conversation with the physicians after-hours. Inexperience nurses may, sometimes, ... -
Age-related changes in upper body contribution to braking forward locomotion in women
(Elsevier, 2018-11-13)Introduction Gait termination is a transitory task that requires the lower body to produce braking forces and inhibit forward propulsion. However, it is still unknown whether the upper body plays an active role in braking ... -
Maintenance of behaviour change following a community-wide gamification based physical activity intervention
(Elsevier, 2018-11-13)Gamification refers to the use of game mechanics (e.g. competition, point scoring, progress visualisation and task setting) to engage and motivate people to achieve an end goal. Public health programs that incorporate ... -
The role of early experience and continued language use in bilingual speech production: A study of Galician and Spanish mid vowels by Galician-Spanish bilinguals
(Elsevier, 2018-11-21)This paper examines the vowel productions of three groups of adult Galician-Spanish bilinguals: Spanish-dominant (SD) bilinguals, Galician-dominant (GD) bilinguals, and Dual Switch (DS) bilinguals who had early experience ... -
The Housing (Wales) Act
(University of Wales Press, 2017) -
To contemplate or not to contemplate evaluating a preliminary intervention proposal in an outpatient setting: the contemplation therapy group
(Springer Nature, 2018-11-09)Purpose = The concept for the contemplation group intervention was derived from motivational interviewing (MI) to support people suffering from an eating disorder who are reluctant to engage with treatment. This evaluation ... -
UBC-Nepal Expedition: An experimental overview of the 2016 University of British Columbia Scientific Expedition to Nepal Himalaya
(Public Library of Science, 2018-10-31)The University of British Columbia Nepal Expedition took place over several months in the fall of 2016 and was comprised of an international team of 37 researchers. This paper describes the objectives, study characteristics, ... -
Evaluation or ‘anecdote’? Understanding the impact of design
(Design4Health, 2018-09)Designers are increasingly engaging in participatory co-design approaches to understand the needs and wants of the people who will engage with the artefacts produced. These approaches are particularly relevant for design ...
