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Higson, Helen E., ed. (2008). Good practice guide in learning and teaching. Good practice guide in learning and teaching . Birmingham (UK): Aston University.

Garton, Sue and Richards, Keith, eds. (2008). Professional encounters in TESOL:Discourses of teachers in teaching. Palgrave Studies in Professional and Organizational Discourse . Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Abd Elsalam, O H (2008). The impact of board independence and ownership structure on the timeliness of corporate internet reporting. IN: MARG Conference. 2008-01-01 - 2008-01-01.

Abd-Elsalam, Omneya H. and El-Masry, Ahmed (2008). The impact of board independence and ownership structure on the timeliness of corporate internet reporting of Irish-listed companies. Managerial finance, 34 (12), pp. 907-918.

Abd-Elsalam, Omneya H., El-Masry, Ahmed and El-Segini, Sabri (2008). Board composition, ownership structure and dividend policies in an emerging market: further evidence from CASE 50. Managerial finance, 34 (12), pp. 953-964.

Abd-Elsalam, Omneya and El-Segini, S (2008). Corporate governance and corporate dividend policies in Egypt. IN: American Accounting Association Annual Meeting 2008. Anaheim, 2008-08-03 - 2008-08-06.

Abd-Elsalam, Omneya and El-Segini, S (2008). The impact of board independence and ownership structure on the timeliness of corporate internet reporting of Irish listed companies. IN: Irish Accounting and Finance Association Conference. Cork, 2008-09-01 - 2008-09-03.

Abdul Majid, M. (2008). The efficiency of islamic and conventional banks. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Abdul-Majid, Mariani, Saal, David S. and Battisti, Giuliana (2008). Efficiency in Islamic and conventional banking:an international comparison. Working Paper. Aston University, Birmingham (UK).

Abdul-Majid, Mariani, Saal, David S. and Battisti, Giuliana (2008). The efficiency and productivity of Malaysian banks:an output distance function approach. Working Paper. Aston University, Birmingham (UK).

Adjamian, Peyman, Hadjipapas, Avgis, Barnes, Gareth R., Hillebrand, Arjan and Holliday, Ian E. (2008). Induced gamma activity in primary visual cortex is related to luminance and not color contrast: an MEG study. Journal of Vision, 8 (7), pp. 1-7.

Ahmad, Azhar (2008). Functionalisation of ethylene-propylene rubber with glycidyl methacrylate in the presence of comonomer and in situ compatibilisation of PET/f-EPR blends. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Aidis, Ruta, Korosteleva, Julia and Mickiewicz, Tomasz (2008). Entrepreneurship in Russia. Working Paper. University College London, London (UK).

Aidis, Ruta, Mickiewicz, Tomasz and Sauka, Arnis (2008). Growth expectations and financial performance of small businesses:evidence from Latvia. Working Paper. University College London, London (UK).

Aidis, Ruta, Mickiewicz, Tomasz and Sauka, Arnis (2008). Why are optimistic entrepreneurs successful? An application of the regulatory focus theory. Working Paper. William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan, Michigan (US).

Al-Motrafi, Khalid A. (2008). Internet financial reporting in Saudi Arabia: users' perceptions and disclosures. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Alamino, Roberto C. and Caticha, Nestor (2008). Bayesian online algorithms for learning in discrete Hidden Markov Models. Discrete and Dontinuous Dynamical Systems: Series B, 9 (1), pp. 1-10.

Alamino, Roberto C. and Saad, David (2008). Typical kernel size and number of sparse random matrices over Galois fields: a statistical physics approach. Physical Review E, 77 (6), pp. 1-12.

Alamino, Roberto C. and Saad, David (2008). Typical performance of generalised vector channels. IN: Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks, WiOpt 2008. DEU: IEEE.

Ali, Habib (2008). Engineering liposomal systems to develop solubility enhancing technology. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Alias, Jamsari, Bennett, David and Hall, Matthew (2008). Transferring knowledge of manufacturing techniques in multinational corporations:preliminary findings. IN: The Third European Conference on Management of Technology. Jolly, D. (ed.) FRA: IBIMA.

Alix, Christophe (2008). Une étude générique du metteur en scène au théâtre:son émergence et son rôle moderne et contemporain. PHD thesis, null.

Allsop, Thomas D.P., Kalli, Kyriacos, Zhou, Kaiming, Dubov, Mykhaylo, Lai, Yicheng, Webb, David J. and Bennion, Ian (2008). Annealing and spectral characteristics of femtosecond laser inscribed long period gratings written into a photonic crystal fibre. IN: 19th international conference on optical fibre sensors. Sampson, David D.; Collins, Stephen; Oh, Kyunghwan and Yamauchi, Ryozo (eds) SPIE proceedings . SPIE.

Allsop, Thomas D.P., Kalli, Kyriacos, Zhou, Kaiming, Smith, Graham, Webb, David J., Mezentsev, Vladimir and Bennion, Ian (2008). The spectral characteristics of femtosecond laser inscribed long period grating bend sensors written into a photonic crystal fibre. IN: 19th international conference on optical fibre sensors. Sampson, David D.; Collins, Stephen; Oh, Kyunghwan and Yamauchi, Ryozo (eds) SPIE proceedings, 7004 . AUS: SPIE.

Allsop, Thomas D.P., Kalli, Kyriacos, Zhou, Kaiming, Smith, Graham, Yicheng, Lai, Dubov, Mykhaylo, Sugden, Kate, Webb, David J., Bennion, Ian and Komodromos, Michael (2008). Characterisation of femtosecond laser inscribed long period gratings in photonic crystal fibre. IN: Photonic crystal fibers II. Kalli, Kyriacos and Urbanczyk, Waclaw (eds) SPIE proceedings, 6990 . CZE: SPIE.

Allsop, Thomas D.P., Neal, Ron, Rehman, Saeed, Webb, David J., Mapps, Des J. and Bennion, Ian (2008). Characterization of infrared surface plasmon resonances generated from a fiber-optical sensor utilizing tilted Bragg gratings. Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 25 (4), pp. 481-490.

Amess, Kevin, Du, Jun and Girma, Sourafel (2008). Full and partial privatization in China:the labor consequences. Working Paper. University of Nottingham. (Unpublished)

Ams, Martin, Marshall, Graham D., Dekker, Peter, Dubov, Mykhaylo, Mezentsev, Vladimir, Bennion, Ian and Withford, Michael J. (2008). Investigation of ultrafast laser-photonic material interactions: Challenges for directly written glass photonics. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 14 (5), 1370 - 1388.

Amsler, Sarah S. (2008). Rethinking the 'crisis of hope' in critical theory. IN: Hope: Probing the Boundaries. 2008-09-24 - 2008-09-26. (Unpublished)

Andrews, Jane, Booth, Malcolm, Halstead, Alison and Higson, Helen E. (2008). Relevant and rigorous? The work-study balance conundrum in foundation degrees: an exploratory study. IN: British Academy of Management conference 2008. 2008-09-10 - 2008-09-11. (Unpublished)

Andrle, Miroslav and Rebollo-neira, Laura (2008). From cardinal spline wavelet bases to highly coherent dictionaries. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 41 (17),

Ania-Castañón, Juan D., Karalekas, Vassileios, Harper, Paul and Turitsyn, Sergei (2008). Simultaneous spatial and spectral transparency in ultralong fiber lasers. Physical Review Letters, 101 (12),

Ania-Castañón, Juan D. and Turitsyn, Sergei (2008). Unrepeatered transmission through ultra-long fiber laser cavities. Optics communications, 281 (23), 5760–5763.

Ania-Castañón, Juan D. and Turitsyn, Sergei (2008). Unrepeatered transmission through ultra-long fiber laser cavities. Optics Communications, 281 (23), 5760–5763.

Aponte Moreno, Marco A (2008). Metaphors in Hugo Chávez's political discourse:conceptualizing nation, revolution and opposition. UNSPECIFIED.

Archambeau, Cédric, Opper, Manfred, Shen, Yuan, Cornford, Dan and Shawe-Taylor, John (2008). Variational inference for diffusion processes. IN: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2007. Platt, J.C.; Koller, D.; Singer, Y. and Roweis, S. (eds) Advances In Neural Information Processing Systems . CAN: MIT.

Armstrong, Kathy, Bailey, David, de Ruyter, Alex, Mahdon, Michelle and Thomas, Holli (2008). Auto plant closures, policy responses and labour market outcomes:a comparison of MG Rover in the UK and Mitsubishi in Australia. Policy Studies, 29 (3), pp. 343-355.

Armstrong, Richard A. (2008). Clustering and periodicity of neurofibrillary tangles in the upper and lower cortical laminae in Alzheimer's disease. Folia Neuropathologica, 46 (1), pp. 26-31.

Armstrong, Richard A. (2008). Spatial correlations between beta-amyloid (A beta) deposits and blood vessels in familial Alzheimer's disease. Folia Neuropathologica, 46 (4), pp. 241-248.

Aspinall, David, Hofmann, Martin and Konečný, Michal (2008). A type system with usage aspects. Journal of Functional Programming, 18 (2), pp. 141-178.

Asprey, Esther C. (2008). The sociolinguistic stratification of a connected speech process - The case of the T to R rule in the Black Country. Leeds Working Papers in Linguistics and Phonetics, 13 , pp. 109-140.

Babin, S.A., Karalekas, V., Podivilov, E.V., Mezentsev, Vladimir, Harper, Paul, Ania-Castañón, Juan D. and Turitsyn, Sergei K. (2008). Turbulent broadening of optical spectra in ultralong Raman fiber lasers. Physical Review A, 77 (3), 033803.

Babin, Sergei A., Karalekas, Vassileios, Podivilov, E.V., Mezentsev, Vladimir K., Harper, Paul, Ania-Castañón, Juan D. and Turitsyn, Sergei K. (2008). Characterization of ultra-long Raman fibre lasers. IN: Fiber lasers V. Broeng, Jes and Headley, Clifford (eds) SPIE.

Bachiller, Pilar, Bustos, Pablo and Manso, Luis J. (2008). Attentional Selection for Action in Mobile Robots. IN: Advances in Robotics, Automation and Control. InTech.

Bailey, Cliff J. (2008). Metformin:a multitasking medication. Diabetes and Vascular Disease Research, 5 (3), p. 156.

Bailey, David, Kobayashi, Seiji and Macneill, Stewart (2008). Rover and out? Globalisation, the West Midlands auto cluster, and the end of MG Rover. Policy Studies, 29 (3), pp. 267-279.

Bailey, David and MacNeill, Stewart (2008). The Rover Task Force:a case study in proactive and reactive policy intervention? Regional science policy and practice, 1 (1), pp. 109-124.

Baines, T.S., Ball, P.D., Cooper, S., Dawson, P., Wilkinson, S., Woods, M. and Kay, J.M. (2008). An exploration of policies and practices used to showcase production facilities. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture, 222 (9), pp. 1181-1188.

Baines, Tim S., Benedettini, Ornella, Greenough, Richard and Lightfoot, Howard (2008). State-of-the-art in integrated vehicle health management. IN: Proceedings of the 62nd Meeting of the Society for Machinery Failure Prevention Technology. USA: Society for Machinery Failure Prevention Technology.

Baker, Daniel H. (2008). Interocular suppression and contrast gain control in human vision. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Baker, Daniel H. and Graf, Erich W. (2008). Equivalence of physical and perceived speed in binocular rivalry. Journal of Vision, 8 (4), 26.1-12.

Baker, Daniel H., Meese, Timothy S. and Hess, Robert F. (2008). Contrast masking in strabismic amblyopia: attenuation, noise, interocular suppression and binocular summation. Vision Research, 48 (15), pp. 1625-1640.

Ball, C., Davies, Stephen, Olczak, Matthew and Wilson, Christopher (2008). An evaluation of the impact upon productivity of ending resale price maintenance on books. Technical Report. Office of fair trading.

Barillec, Remi L. (2008). Bayesian data assimilation. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Bartlett, Hannah E. and Eperjesi, Frank (2008). Nutritional supplementation for type 2 diabetes: a systematic review. Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, 28 (6), pp. 503-523.

Bartlett, Hannah E. and Eperjesi, Frank (2008). A randomised controlled trial investigating the effect of lutein and antioxidant dietary supplementation on visual function in healthy eyes. Clinical Nutrition, 27 (2), pp. 218-227.

Baxter, Judith A. (2008). Feminist Post-structuralist discourse analysis: a new theoretical and methodological approach? IN: Gender and Language Research Methodologies. Harrington, Kate; Litosseliti, Lia; Sauntson, Helen and Sunderland, Jane (eds) Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Bevilacqua, Mose, Patel, Sameer, Chaudhary, Aysha, Ye, Haitao and Jackman, Richard B. (2008). Electrical properties of aggregated detonation nanodiamonds. Applied Physics Letters, 93 (13), p. 132115.

Bhamber, R.S., Latkin, A I, Boscolo, Sonia and Turitsyn, Sergei K. (2008). All-optical TDM to WDM signal conversion and partial regeneration using XPM with triangular pulses. IN: 34th European Conference on Optical Communication, 2008. ECOC 2008. IEEE.

Bhamber, Ranjeet S., Boscolo, Sonia, Turitsyn, Sergei K., Shtyrina, O.V. and Fedoruk, Mikhail P. (2008). Multi-parametric transmission performance optimisation of N x 20 Gbit/s WDM RZ-DPSK submarine systems. IN: 13th International Conference on Laser Optics 2008. Saint Petersburg, 2008-06-23 - 2008-06-26. (Unpublished)

Bhamber, Ranjeet S., Latkin, Anton I., Boscolo, Sonia and Turitsyn, Sergei K. (2008). TDM-WDM all-optical signal converter with partial regeneration based on XPM with triangular pulses. IN: 13th International Conference on Laser Optics 2008. Saint Petersburg, 2008-06-23 - 2008-06-26. (Unpublished)

Biermann-Ruben, Katja, Jonas, Melanie, Kessler, Klaus, Siebner, Hartwig Roman, Bäumer, Tobias, Schnitzler, Alfons and Münchau, Alexander (2008). Observing repetitive finger movements modulates response times of auditorily cued finger movements. Brain and Cognition, 68 (1), pp. 107-113.

Bolsmann, Chris H. and Miller, Henry (2008). International student recruitment to universities in England: discourse, rationales and globalisation. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 6 (1), pp. 75-88.

Bonander, Nicklas, Ferndahl, Cecilia, Mostad, Petter, Wilks, Martin D.B., Chang, Celia, Showe, Louise, Gustafsson, Lena, Larsson, Christer and Bill, Roslyn M. (2008). Transcriptome analysis of a respiratory Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain suggests the expression of its phenotype is glucose insensitive and predominantly controlled by Hap4, Cat8 and Mig1. BMC Genomics, 9 (365),

Boscolo, Sonia A., Latkin, Anton I. and Turitsyn, Sergei K. (2008). Passive nonlinear pulse shaping in normally dispersive fiber systems. IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, 44 (12), pp. 1196-1203.

Boscolo, Sonia and Turitsyn, Sergei K. (2008). Dissipative nonlinear structures in fiber optics. IN: SIAM conference on nonlinear waves and coherent structures. Roma, 2008-07-21 - 2008-07-24.

Boscolo, Sonia and Turitsyn, Sergei K. (2008). Nonlinear optical pulse transformations in fibre-based systems. IN: Workshop Nonlinear Physics: Theory and Experiment V. Gallipoli, 2008-06-12 - 2008-06-21.

Boscolo, Sonia and Turitsyn, Sergei K. (2008). Novel approaches in nonlinear optical fibre-based signal processing. IN: International Conference on Photonics in Switching, 2008. PS 2008. IEEE.

Boscolo, Sonia, Turitsyn, Sergei K., Latkin, Anton I. and Bhamber, Ranjeet (2008). Recent progress in nonlinear fiber-based optical pulse shaping and manipulation. IN: 17th International Laser Physics Workshop. Trondheim, 2008-06-30 - 2008-07-04.

Boscolo, Sonia, Turitsyn, Sergei and Blow, Keith (2008). Nonlinear loop mirror-based all-optical signal processing in fiber-optic communications. Optical Fiber Technology, 14 (4), pp. 299-316.

Bratel, A-S (2008). Prediction, volatility and complexity of financial markets:a move-based approach. Masters thesis, Aston University.

Bravi, E., Ellis, Andrew D., Mishra, Arvind K. and Cotter, D. (2008). Optical packet transmission in 42.6 Gbit/s wavelength-division-multiplexed clockwork-routed networks. Journal of Optical Networking, 7 (4), pp. 266-276.

Broderick, Terence and Boscolo, Sonia (2008). Simple eye-closure penalty estimate for amplitude noise-degraded signals. IN: Optical transmission, switching, and subsystems VI. Kitayama, Ken-ichi; Ghiggino, Pierpaolo C.; Roberts, Kim and Su, Yikai (eds) SPIE proceedings . SPIE.

Broderick, Terence, Boscolo, Sonia and Slater, Brendan (2008). Bit-error rate performance of 20 Gbit/s WDM RZ-DPSK non-slope matched submarine transmission systems. IN: Optical technologies for telecommunications 2007. Andreev, Vladimir A.; Burdin, Vladimir A.; Morozov, Oleg G. and Sultanov, Albert H. (eds) Proceedings of SPIE, 7026 . SPIE.

Broughton, Susan, Alic, Nazif, Slack, Cathy, Bass, Timothy, Ikeya, Tomoatsu, Vinti, Giovanna, Tommasi, Anna Maria, Driege, Yasmine, Hafen, Ernst and Partridge, Linda (2008). Reduction of DILP2 in Drosophila triages a metabolic phenotype from lifespan revealing redundancy and compensation among DILPs. PLoS ONE, 3 (11),

Buckingham, Chris D., Adams, Ann and Mace, Chris (2008). Cues and knowledge structures used by mental-health professionals when making risk assessments. Journal of Mental Health, 17 (3), pp. 299-314.

Burns, Anne, Paltridge, Brian and Wigglesworth, Gillian (2008). Review of doctoral research in second-language teaching and learning in Australia (2003–2006). Language Teaching, 41 (2), pp. 273-293.

Bush, Joe, Langley, Christopher A., Jesson, Jill K. and Wilson, Keith A. (2008). Community pharmacy in a commissioning-led NHS:can pharmacy compete effectively? IN: British Pharmaceutical Conference 2008. 2008-09-07 - 2008-09-09.

Bush, Joe, Langley, Christopher A., Jesson, Jill K. and Wilson, Keith A. (2008). Developing the public health function of locum pharmacists under the auspices of the new pharmacy contract. IN: British Pharmaceutical Conference 2008. 2008-09-07 - 2008-09-09.

Bush, Joseph (2008). Pharmacy and public health: examining the link between strategy and practice. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Busse, F.H. (2008). Asymptotic theory of wall-attached convection in a horizontal fluid layer with a vertical magnetic field. Physics of Fluids, 20 (2),

Busse, F.H. and Simitev, R.D. (2008). Toroidal flux oscillation as possible cause of geomagnetic excursions and reversals. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 168 (3-4), pp. 237-243.

Buts, V.A., Nerukh, A.G., Ruzhytska, N.N. and Nerukh, Dmitry (2008). Wave chaotic behaviour generated by linear systems. Optical and Quantum Electronics, 40 (8), pp. 587-601.

Calinescu, Radu C. (2008). Towards a generic autonomic architecture for legacy resource management. IN: Innovations and Advanced Techniques in Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering. Elleithy, Khaled (ed.) (NL): Springer.

Campbell, Noll, Ayub, Amir, Boustani, Malaz A., Fox, Chris, Farlow, Martin, Maidment, Ian and Howards, Robert (2008). Impact of cholinesterase inhibitors on behavioral and psychological symptoms of Alzheimer's disease:a meta-analysis. Clinical Interventions in Aging, 3 (4), pp. 719-728.

Cardall, Martin (2008). Contact lenses and sport. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Carroll, Malcolm C. (2008). An examination of organisational issues in third sector organisations which undertake nonviolent direct action. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Carter, Matthew R., West, Michael, Dawson, Jeremy, Richardson, Joanne and Dunckley, Maria (2008). Developing team-based working in NHS trusts. Aston University. (Unpublished)

Cartland Glover, Gregory and Generalis, Sotos C. (2008). Pattern competition in homogeneously heated fluid layers. IN: Eurotherm 2008. Stoffels, G.M.M.; van der Meer, T.H. and van Steenhoven, A.A. (eds) NLD: Eindhoven University of Technology.

Caruana, Douglas A. and Chapman, C. Andrew (2008). Dopaminergic suppression of synaptic transmission in the lateral entorhinal cortex. Neural Plasticity, 2008 ,

Castro, Olga (2008). From local to global: feminist and postcolonial approaches to the relationship between the Antipodes (Galicia-Australia). Antipodas, 2008 , pp. 161-188.

Castro, Olga (2008). Género y traducción:elementos discursivos para una reescritura feminista. Lectora, 14 , pp. 285-301.

Cathcart, Abby, Kerr, Gayle, Fletcher, Marty and Mack, Janet (2008). Engaging staff and students with graduate attributes across diverse curricula landscapes. IN: ATN Assessment Conference : Engaging Students with Assessment. UNSPECIFIED.

Chapko, R. and Johansson, B.T. (2008). An alternating potential based approach for a Cauchy problem for the Laplace equation in a planar domain with a cut. Computational Methods in Applied Mathematics, 8 (4), pp. 315-335.

Chelley-Steeley, Patricia L. and Lucey, Brian M. (2008). The microstructure of the Irish stock market. Multinational Finance Journal, 12 (3-4), pp. 279-311.

Cheng, X. (2008). UK industrial firms' dept decision under monetary policy transmission. Masters thesis, Aston University.

Chisnall, Peter C. (2008). Solid-supported boronic acid conjugates for sugar and glycopeptide recognition. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Choudhury, Khujesta (2008). Dietary enrichment by almond supplementation: effects on risk factors for cardiovascular disease. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Chow, C.W., Talli, G., Ellis, Andrew D. and Townsend, P.D. (2008). Rayleigh noise mitigation in DWDM LR-PONs using carrier suppressed subcarrier-amplitude modulated phase shift keying. Optics Express, 16 (3), pp. 1860-1866.

Claussen, Jens Christian (2008). Floquet stability analysis of Ott-Grebogi-Yorke and difference control. New Journal of Physics, 10 ,

Claussen, Jens Christian (2008). Time evolution of the rule 150 cellular automaton activity from a Fibonacci iteration. Journal of Mathematical Physics, 49 (6),

Claussen, Jens Christian and Traulsen, Arne (2008). Cyclic dominance and biodiversity in well-mixed populations. Physical Review Letters, 100 (5),

Conway, Barbara R. (2008). Delivering scents and flavours - lessons from the pharmaceutical industry. Chimica Oggi, 26 (3), pp. 66-67.

Cooke, Richard and French, David P. (2008). How well do the theory of reasoned action and theory of planned behaviour predict intentions and attendance at screening programmes? A meta-analysis. Psychology and Health, 23 (7), pp. 745-765.

Cooper, Huw R. (2008). Auditory grouping in cochlear implant listeners. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Costello, Cait, Karpanen, Tarja, Lambert, Peter A., Mistry, Preena, Parker, Katy J., Rathbone, Daniel L., Ren, Jiangmeng, Wheeldon, Laura and Worthington, Tony (2008). Thiosemicarbazones active against Clostridium difficile. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 18 (5), pp. 1708-1711.

Coulthard, Malcolm (2008). By their words shall ye know them: on linguistic identity. IN: Identity trouble: critical discourse and contested identities. Caldas-Coulthard, Carmen Rosa and Iedema, Rick (eds) London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Cowie, B.M. (2008). Tactile sensing with fibre Bragg gratings and neural networks. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Crease, Murray and Lumsden, Jo (2008). Did you see that? IN: Handbook of research on user interface design and evaluation for mobile technology. Lumsden, Jo (ed.) Hershey (US): IGI global.

D'Alimonte, Davide and Cornford, Dan (2008). Outlier detection with partial information:Application to emergency mapping. Stochastic environmental research and risk assessment, 22 (5), pp. 613-620.

D'Huys, O., Vicente, R., Erneux, T., Danckaert, J. and Fischer, I. (2008). Synchronization properties of network motifs:Influence of coupling delay and symmetry. Chaos, 18 (3),

Davies, Edward, Zhang, Lin, Bennion, Ian, Viitala, Reeta, Salomäki, Mikko and Areva, Sami (2008). Refractive index sensing properties of long-period fibre grating with sol-gel derived coatings. IEEE sensors proceedings , pp. 286-289.

Davies, Matthew N., Secker, Andrew, Halling-Brown, Mark, Moss, David S., Freitas, Alex A., Timmis, Jon, Clark, Edward and Flower, Darren R (2008). GPCRTree:online hierarchical classification of GPCR function. BMC Research Notes, 1 , p. 67.

Davies, Philip A., Hossain, Abul K., Lychnos, George and Paton, Carol (2008). Energy saving and solar electricity in fan-ventilated greenhouses. IN: International Workshop on Greenhouse Environmental Control and Crop Production in Semi-Arid Regions. Kubota, C. and Kacira, M. (eds) ISHS Acta Horticulturae, 797 . USA: International Society for Horticultural Science.

Davies, Stephen and Olczak, Matthew (2008). Assessing the efficacy of structural merger remedies:choosing between theories of harm? Working Paper. University of East Anglia, Norwich (UK).

Davies, Stephen and Olczak, Matthew (2008). Tacit vs. overt collusion firm asymmetries and numbers:what's the evidence? Competition Policy International, 4 (2), pp. 175-200.

Davis, Ann and Scully, Judith (2008). Strategic resourcing. IN: Strategic human resource management. Aston Centre for Human Resources (ed.) London (UK): CIPD.

Dawson, Jeremy F., González-Romá, Vicente, Davis, Ann J. and West, Michael A. (2008). Organizational climate and climate strengths in UK hospitals. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 17 (1), pp. 89-111.

Decker, S. (2008). Building up goodwill:British business, development and economic nationalism in Ghana and Nigeria, 1945-1977. Enterprise and Society, 9 (4), pp. 602-613.

Decker, Stephanie (2008). Dekolonisation der Wirtschaft? Wirtschaftsnationalismus in Afrika nach 1945. Archiv für Sozialgeschichte, 48 , pp. 461-486.

Decker, Stephanie (2008). Return to imperial trade? John Holt & Co (Liverpool) Ltd. as a contemporary free-standing company, 1945-2006. IN: The empire in one city? Liverpool's inconvenient imperial past. Haggerty, Sherryllyne; Webster, Anthony and White, Nicholas (eds) Studies in imperialism . Manchester (UK): Manchester University Press.

Demetriades, Panicos O., Du, Jun, Girma, Sourafel and Xu, Chenggang (2008). Does the Chinese banking system promote the growth of firms? Working Paper. University of Leicester, Leicester (UK).

Derevyanko, Stanislav (2008). Design of a flat-top fiber Bragg filter via quasi-random modulation of the refractive index. Optics Letters, 33 (20), pp. 2404-2406.

Derevyanko, Stanislav (2008). The (n+1)/2 rule for dealiasing in the split-step Fourier methods for n-wave interactions. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 20 (23), pp. 1929-1931.

Derevyanko, Stanislav, Falkovich, Gregory and Turitsyn, Sergei (2008). Evolution of non-uniformly seeded warm clouds in idealized turbulent conditions. New Journal of Physics, 10 ,

Devadoss, Paul R., Chiasson, Mike W. and van Daalen Fuente, Roger F.A. (2008). Knowing a few rules doesn't mean you can play the game:The limits of "best practice" in enterprise systems. IN: 14th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2008. CAN: UNSPECIFIED.

Dey, Prasanta K., Hariharan, Seetharaman and Despic, Ozren (2008). Managing healthcare performance in analytical framework. Benchmarking, 15 (4), pp. 444-468.

Dias, Irundika H.K., Marshall, Lindsay, Lambert, Peter A., Chapple, Iain L.C., Matthews, John B. and Griffiths, Helen R. (2008). Gingipains from Porphyromonas gingivalis increase the chemotactic and respiratory burst-priming properties of the 77-amino-acid interleukin-8 variant. Infection and Immunity, 76 (1), pp. 317-323.

Diem, G. (2008). Process improvement and quality management systems in the financial services industry:the case for the OPEX quality management system and framework. Masters thesis, Aston University.

Dilworth, Anthony J. (2008). A rule based model for the objective determination of the e-business requirements of a manufacturing organisation. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Dodds, Anneliese (2008). How does globalisation interact with higher education? The continuing lack of consensus:The continuing lack of consensus. Comparative Education: an International Journal of Comparative Studies, 44 (4), pp. 505-517.

Donnelly, Louise S., Shaw, Rachel L. and van den Akker, Olga (2008). eHealth as a challenge to `expert' power: a focus group study of internet use for health information and management. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 101 (10), pp. 501-506.

Driffield, Nigel, Du, Jun and Girma, Sourafel (2008). Optimal geographic diversification and firm performance:evidence from the U.K. Journal of Productivity Analysis, 30 (2), pp. 145-254.

Du, Jun and Girma, Sourafel (2008). Financing source and firm growth in a hybrid financial system:evidence from China United Nations World Institutes for Development Research. IN: WIDER Conference on Southern Engines of Global Growth: China, India, Brazil, and South Africa (CIBS): Financial Flows and Capital Markets. 2008-07-11 - 2008-07-12.

Dubov, Mykhaylo, Nasyrov, Ruslan K., Nikogosyan, David N., Poleshchuk, Alexander G., Mezentsev, Vladimir and Bennion, Ian (2008). Micro-holographic methods for sub-micrometer grating fabrication in fused silica with UV femtosecond laser. IN: Optical Design and Engineering III. Mazuray, Laurent; Wartmann, Rolf; Wood, Andrew; Tissot, Jean-Luc and Raynor, Jeffrey M. (eds) SPIE proceedings, 7100 . SPIE.

Dubov, Mykhaylo, Natarajan, S.R., Williams, John A.R. and Bennion, Ian (2008). Mask-less lithography for fabrication of optical waveguides. IN: Commercial and biomedical applications of ultrafast lasers VIII. Neev, Joseph; Nolte, Stefan; Heisterkamp, Alexander and Schaffer, Christopher B. (eds) SPIE proceedings, 6881 . SPIE.

Duffett-Leger, Linda and Lumsden, Jo (2008). Interactive online health promotion interventions:a “health check”. IN: IEEE international symposium on technology and society, 2008 (ISTAS 2008). CAN: IEEE.

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Gupta, Navneet, Wolffsohn, James S. W. and Naroo, Shehzad A. (2008). Optimizing measurement of subjective amplitude of accommodation with defocus curves. Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, 34 (8), pp. 1329-1338.

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Morgan, Nicola, Stanford, Ian and Woodhall, Gavin (2008). Modulation of network oscillatory activity and GABAergic synaptic transmission by CB1 cannabinoid receptors in the rat medial entorhinal cortex. Neural Plasticity, 2008 ,

Morris-Adams, Muna (2008). Coherence and understanding in informal conversations between native and non-native speakers of English. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Morrison, Geoffrey Stewart and Kinoshita, Yuko (2008). Automatic-type calibration of traditionally derived likelihood ratios:Forensic analysis of Australian English /o/ formant trajectories. IN: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association. Proceedings of Interspeech . AUS: UNSPECIFIED.

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Mrgudovic, Nathalie (2008). La France dans le Pacifique Sud:les enjeux de la puissance. Harmattan.

Mukherjee, Nilanjan and Dey, Prasanta (2008). Decision support system for spare parts warehousing. Cost Engineering, 50 (5), pp. 24-34.

Mukherjee, Satyajit (2008). Quality of service (QoS) over 802.11 wireless networks. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Nerukh, D. (2008). Computational mechanics reveals nanosecond time correlations in molecular dynamics of liquid systems. Chemical Physics Letters, 457 (4-6), pp. 439-443.

Nerukh, Dmitry, Ryabov, Vladimir and Glen, Robert C. (2008). Complex temporal patterns in molecular dynamics:a direct measure of the phase-space exploration by the trajectory at macroscopic time scales. Physical Review E, 77 (3),

Nesterov, Maxim L., Kats, Alexandre V. and Turitsyn, Sergei K. (2008). Extremely short-length surface plasmon resonance devices. Optics Express, 16 (25), pp. 20227-20240.

Nguyen, Hang T. and Nabney, Ian T. (2008). Combining the wavelet transform and forecasting models to predict gas forward prices. IN: Seventh International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, 2008. ICMLA '08. IEEE.

Norton, Russell and Grant, Tim D. (2008). Rape myth in true and false rape allegations. Psychology, Crime and Law, 14 (4), pp. 275-285.

Noubade, Rajkumar, Saligrama, Naresha, Spach, Karen, Del Rio, Roxana, Blankenhorn, Elizabeth P., Kantidakis, Theodoros, Milligan, Graeme, Rincon, Mercedes and Teuscher, Cory (2008). Autoimmune disease-associated histamine receptor H1 alleles exhibit differential protein trafficking and cell surface expression. Journal of Immunology, 180 (11), pp. 7471-7479.

Nunes, Breno and Bennett, David (2008). The contribution of modularity to green operations practices. Brazilian Journal of Operations and Production Management, 5 (2), pp. 93-108.

O'Brien, Cathal, Flower, Darren R and Feighery, Conleth (2008). Peptide length significantly influences in vitro affinity for MHC class II molecules. Immunome Research, 4 (6),

Ochumbo, A.J. (2008). Expatriate managers adjustment and its impact on subordinates reactions: a cross cultural leadership study of Kenya and Ethiopia. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Ockleford, Elizabeth, Shaw, Rachel L., Willars, Janet and Dixon-Woods, Mary (2008). Education and self-management for people newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes: a qualitative study of patients' views. Chronic IIlness, 4 (1), pp. 28-37.

Odéjobí, Odétúnjí, Wong, S.H. Sylvia and Beaumont, Anthony J. (2008). A modular holistic approach to prosody modelling for Standard Yorùbá speech synthesis. Computer Speech and Language, 22 (1), pp. 39-68.

Oladiran, Gbolahan S. (2008). Development and formulation of wax-based transdermal drug delivery systems. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Osman, Taha, Thakker, Dhavalkumar, Schaefer, Gerald and Lakin, Phil (2008). An integrative semantic framework for image annotation and retrieval. IN: Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, WI 2007. GBR: UNSPECIFIED.

Owen, Chris, Love, Douglas and Albores, Pavel (2008). Selection of simulation tools for improving supply chain performance. IN: Proceedings of 2008 OR Society Simulation Workshop. 2008-01-01 - 2008-01-01.

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Paget, Michelle B. (2008). Improving the function of islet and beta-cell grafts. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Papadopoulou, E. (2008). Study on synthetic and bio-based phenol-formaldehyde adhesives for the wood-based industry. Masters thesis, Aston University.

Park, Keebong (2008). Exchange-traded funds and information asymmetry. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Pebesma, Edzer J., Dubois, Gregoire and Cornford, Dan (2008). The challenge of real-time automatic mapping for environmental monitoring network management. IN: geoENV VI – Geostatistics for Environmental Applications Proceedings of the Sixth European Conference on Geostatistics for Environmental Applications. Springer.

Pedrosa Gil, Francisco, Bidlingmaier, Martin, Ridout, Nathan, Scheidt, Carl Eduard, Caton, Samantha, Schoechlin, Claudia and Nickel, Marius (2008). The relationship between alexithymia and salivary cortisol levels in somatoform disorders. Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, 62 (5), pp. 366-373.

Pettigrew, Andrew and Knight, Louise (2008). End of Project Report: Collaborative Management Research (RES-331-25-3001). Working Paper. Economic and Social Research Council, Swindon, U.K..

Pilcher, Katy (2008). Empowering, degrading or a 'mutually exploitative' exchange For women?: Characterising the power relations of the strip club. Journal of International Women's Studies, 10 (3), pp. 73-83.

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Punckt, Christian, Stich, Michael, Beta, Carsten and Rotermund, Harm Hinrich (2008). Suppression of spatiotemporal chaos in the oscillatory CO oxidation on Pt(110) by focused laser light. Physical Review E, 77 (4),

Punjaisri, Khanyapuss, Wilson, Alan and Evanschitzky, Heiner (2008). Exploring the influences of internal branding on employees' brand promise delivery. Journal of Relationship Marketing, 7 (4), pp. 407-424.

Raymond, Jack R. (2008). Typical case behaviour of spin systems in random graph and composite ensembles. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Reddy, Peter A. and Moores, Elisabeth (2008). Widening access to Higher Education:an evaluative case study of a foundation year alternative to access. Psychology Teaching Review, 14 (1), pp. 51-64.

Rees, Simon D., Bellary, Srikanth, Britten, Abigail C., O'Hare, J. Paul, Kumar, Sudhesh, Barnett, Anthony H. and Kelly, M. Ann (2008). Common variants of the TCF7L2 gene are associated with increased risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus in a UK-resident South Asian population. BMC Medical Genetics, 9 ,

Rillardon, V. (2008). La transformation du front national par les megretistes entre 1986 et 1999. Masters thesis, Aston University.

Roberts, S., Kingsbury, S. R., Stoeber, K., Knight, G. L., Gallimore, P. H. and Williams, G. H. (2008). Identification of an Arginine-Rich Motif in Human Papillomavirus Type 1 E1^E4 Protein Necessary for E4-Mediated Inhibition of Cellular DNA Synthesis In Vitro and in Cells. Journal of General Virology, 82 (18), pp. 9056-9064.

Rodriguez, Eduardo and Edwards, John S. (2008). Before and after modelling:risk knowledge management is required. IN: 6th Annual Premier Global Event on ERM 2008 ERManagement Symposium. 2008-04-14 - 2008-04-16.

Rogers, Mark and Satvat, Amir (2008). Rotating the boards:corporate governance. Monash Business Review, 4 (1), pp. 38-39.

Rollason, Jessica, Bastin, Lucy, Hilton, Anthony, Pillay, Devadas, Worthington, Tony, McKeon, Caroline, De, Partha, Burrows, Keith and Lambert, Peter A. (2008). Epidemiology of community-acquired meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus obtained from the UK West Midlands region. Journal of Hospital Infection, 70 (4), pp. 314-320.

Roper, Stephen, Du, Jun and Love, James H. (2008). Modelling the innovation value chain. Research policy, 37 (6-7), pp. 961-977.

Ross, Ewan A., Freeman, Sylvie, Zhao, Yan, Dhanjal, Tarvinder S., Ross, Emma J., Lax, Sian, Ahmed, Zubair, Hou, Tie Zheng, Kalia, Neena, Egginton, Stuart, Nash, Gerard, Watson, Steven P., Frampton, Jon and Buckley, Christopher D. (2008). A novel role for PECAM-1 (CD31) in regulating haematopoietic progenitor cell compartmentalization between the peripheral blood and bone marrow. PLoS ONE, 3 (6),

Rowe, Carolyn (2008). Beyond conditionality? Regions from the new EU Member States and their activities in Brussels. Comparative European Politics, 6 (2), pp. 212-234.

Russell, Steve T., Eley, Helen L., Wyke, Stacey M. and Tisdale, Michael J. (2008). Involvement of phosphoinositide 3-kinase and Akt in the induction of muscle protein degradation by proteolysis-inducing factor. Biochemical Journal, 409 (Part 3), pp. 751-759.

SACRAMENTO, C.A. (2008). The interactive effect of workplace stressors and mood on creativity and implementation activities: a dual level approach. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Schroeder, Martin, Nabney, Ian T. and Cornford, Dan (2008). Block GTM: Incorporating prior knowledge of covariance structure in data visualisation. Technical Report. Aston University, Birmingham.

Schäffner, Christina (2008). 'The prime minister said...': voices in translated political texts. Synaps, 22 , pp. 3-25.

Schütte, Uwe (2008). Basisdiskothek Rock und Pop:Essential collection rock and pop. Reclam.

Schütte, Uwe (2008). Pharmakologische Initiation im Boudoir. Zum Erzählungsband 'Haschisch' von Oscar Adolf Hermann Schmitz:on Oscar Adolf Hermann Schmitz and his short pose collection 'Haschisch'. Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik, 150 , pp. 154-162.

Shao, Lin, Wang, Y.Q., Swadener, J. Greg, Nastasi, M., Thompson, Phillip E. and Theodore, N. David (2008). Cracking in hydrogen ion-implanted Si/Si0.8Ge0.2/Si heterostructures. Applied Physics Letters, 92 (6), 061904.

Shapiro, Laura R., Lamberts, Koen and Olson, Andrew C. (2008). Measuring the influence of similarity on category-specific effects. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 20 (2), pp. 346-366.

Shapiro, Laura R. and Solity, Jonathan (2008). Delivering phonological and phonics training within whole-class teaching. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 78 (Part 4), pp. 597-620.

Shaw, Rachel L., Dyson, Phillip O. and Peel, Elizabeth A. (2008). Qualitative psychology at M level: a dialogue between learner and teacher. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 5 (3), pp. 179-191.

Shaw, Rachel L., Senior, Carl, Peel, Elizabeth A., Cooke, Richard and Donnelly, Louise S. (2008). Ethical issues in neuroimaging health research:an IPA study with research participants. Journal of Health Psychology, 13 (8), pp. 1051-1059.

Shu, Xuewen, Sugden, Kate and Bennion, Ian (2008). Apodisation of photo-induced waveguide gratings using double-exposure with complementary duty cycles. Optics express, 16 (3), pp. 2221-2225.

Shu, Xuewen, Sugden, Kate and Bennion, Ian (2008). Apodisation of photo-induced waveguide gratings using double-exposure with complementary duty cycles. Optics Express, 16 (3), pp. 2221-2225.

Shu, Xuewen, Turitsyna, Elena, Sugden, Kate and Bennion, Ian (2008). Novel complex gratings with third-order group-delay variations for tunable pure dispersion slope compensation. Optics Express, 16 (16), pp. 12090-12095.

Simpson, Gary and Essex, Anne (2008). Does attendance matter? IN: Good practice guide in learning and teaching. Higson, Helen E. (ed.) Good practice guide in learning and teaching . Birmingham (UK): Aston University.

Sivaraksa, M. (2008). Uncertainty and topographic visualisations. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Sivaraksa, Mingmanas and Lowe, David (2008). Predictive gene lists for breast cancer prognosis: a topographic visualisation study. BMC Medical Genomics, 1 (1), pp. 1-8.

Slinn, Gemma (2008). Regulation of the expression of secretory component by human airway epithelial cells in vitro. Masters thesis, Aston University.

Smets, Michael, Morris, Tim and Morris, W. (2008). Reputation and performance in large law firms. IN: 2008 Academy of Management annual meeting. 2008-08-08 - 2008-08-13.

Smith, Christopher U.M. (2008). Synapses, quantum theory and panpsychism. Neuroquantology, 6 (2), pp. 164-174.

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Smith, G., Karnakis, D., Knowles, M., Ferguson, A., Bennion, Ian and Sugden, Kate (2008). Fabrication of high aspect ratio microfluidic devices using direct FS ablation. IN: Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2008. San Jose, CA, 2008-05-04 - 2008-05-09.

Smith, J. (2008). To what extent do currently accepted for-profit new project development success factors apply in the small nonprofit context in the UK? Masters thesis, Aston University.

Solity, Jonathan and Shapiro, Laura R. (2008). Developing the practice of educational psychologists through theory and research. Educational and Child Psychology, 25 (3), pp. 123-149.

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Stubbs, Graham (2008). The fossil fuel industry and the challenge of climate change:a study of Shell's position. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Sugihara-Seki, Masako, Akinaga, Takeshi and Itano, Tomoaki (2008). Flow across microvessel walls through the endothelial surface glycocalyx and the interendothelial cleft. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 601 , pp. 229-252.

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Sweeney, E., Wagner, C.-M. and Huber, B. (2008). Supply chain management diffusion among firms in the Republic of Ireland. International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications, 11 (5), pp. 347-358.

Szent-Iványi, Balázs and Tétényi, András (2008). Transition and foreign aid policies in the Visegrád countries:a path dependant approach. Transition Studies Review, 15 (3), pp. 573-587.

Taank, R.K. (2008). An evaluation of TCP over wired-to-wireless networks. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Taylor, Robin P. (2008). Development and deployment of an autonomous micro-drilling system for cochleostomy. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Telci, Dilek, Wang, Zhuo, Li, Xiaoling, Verderio, Elisabetta A.M., Humphries, Martin J., Baccarini, Manuela, Basaga, Huveyda and Griffin, Martin (2008). Fibronectin-tissue transglutaminase matrix rescues RGD-impaired celladhesion through syndecan-4 and β integrin co-signaling. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 283 (30), pp. 20937-20947.

Temouri, Yama (2008). Multinational firms, productivity and employment. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Temouri, Yama, Driffield, Nigel L. and Añón Higón, Dolores (2008). Analysis of productivity differences among foreign and domestic firms:evidence from Germany. Review of world economics, 144 (1), pp. 32-54.

Temouri, Yama, Driffield, Nigel and Añón Higón, Dolores (2008). Offshoring:a multi-country study of FDI in high-technology sectors. Working Paper. Aston University, Birmingham (UK).

Tharp, D.L., Wamhoff, B.R., Wulff, H., Raman, G., Cheong, A. and Bowles, D.K. (2008). Local delivery of the KCa3.1 blocker, TRAM-34, prevents acute angioplasty-induced coronary smooth muscle phenotypic modulation and limits stenosis. Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular biology, 28 (6), pp. 1084-1089.

Theodorakopoulos, Nicholas and Ram, Monder (2008). A framework for assessing and managing large purchaser:minority supplier relationships in supplier diversity initiatives. IN: Supply chain. Kordic, Vedran (ed.) Vienna (AT): I-Tech Education and Publishing.

Thomas, Holli, Beer, Andrew and Bailey, David (2008). A tale of two regions:comparative versus competitive approaches to economic restructuring. Policy Studies, 29 (3), pp. 357-370.

Tolikas, Konstantinos (2008). Value-at-risk and extreme value distributions for financial returns. The Journal of Risk, 10 (3), pp. 31-77.

Toms, Tracey E., Panoulas, Vasileios F., Douglas, Karen M.J., Griffiths, Helen R and Kitas, George D. (2008). Lack of association between glucocorticoid use and presence of the metabolic syndrome in patients with rheumatoid arthritis:a cross-sectional study. Arthritis Research and Therapy, 10 (6),

Torii, Masahito, Okada, Yuuki, Ukai, Kazuhiko, Wolffsohn, James S. and Gilmartin, Bernard (2008). Dynamic measurement of accommodative responses while viewing stereoscopic images. Journal of Modern Optics, 55 (4-5), pp. 557-567.

Tsehaye, A. (2008). Geometric spectral accuracy of airborne remote sensing. Masters thesis, Aston University.

Tsioumanis, Nick (2008). A study on the flow characteristics of an industrial radiant tube burner. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Turitsyn, Sergei K. and Boscolo, Sonia (2008). Dissipative nonlinear structures in fiber optics. IN: Dissipative solitons. Akhmediev, Nail and Ankiewicz, Adrian (eds) Lecture notes in physics, 751 . Berlin (DE): Springer.

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Vaidya, Kirit (2008). Appropriate wage rate and related issues for employment intensive public works programmes in Timor Leste. Dili, Timor Leste: International Labour Organisation.

Versace, Amelia, Almeida, Jorge R.C., Hassel, Stefanie, Walsh, Nicholas D., Novelli, Massimiliano, Klein, Crystal R., Kupfer, David J. and Phillips, Mary L. (2008). Elevated left and reduced right orbitomedial prefrontal fractional anisotropy in adults with bipolar disorder revealed by tract-based spatial statistics. Archives of General Psychiatry, 65 (9), pp. 1041-1052.

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Vivien, Laurent, Marris-Morini, Delphine, Griol, Amadeu, Gylfason, Kristinn B., Hill, Daniel, Álvarez, Jesús, Sohlström, Hans, Hurtado, Juan, Bouville, David and Cassan, Eric (2008). Vertical multiple-slot waveguide ring resonators in silicon nitride. Optics Express, 16 (22), pp. 17237-17242.

Vogel, Verena, Evanschitzky, Heiner and Ramaseshan, B. (2008). Customer equity drivers and future sales. Journal of Marketing, 72 (6), pp. 98-108.

Vrettas, Michail D., Shen, Yuan and Cornford, Dan (2008). Derivations of variational gaussian process approximation framework. Technical Report. Aston University, Birmingham.

Vuong, Ba-Quy, Hui, Siu C. and He, Yulan (2008). Progressive structural analysis for dynamic recognition of on-line handwritten mathematical expressions. Pattern Recognition Letters, 29 (5), pp. 647-655.

Walker, R.M. (2008). Characterisation of resistance to ß-lactam antibiotics in a population of Haemophilus influenzae. Masters thesis, Aston University.

Wallis, Stuart A., Georgeson, Mark A. and Mehta, Puja (2008). Seeing light vs dark lines: psychophysical performance is based on separate channels, limited by noise and uncertainty. IN: 12th Applied Vision Association Christmas Meeting. 2007-12-17. (Unpublished)

Wang, Frank, Rozhin, Aleksey, Sun, Zhipei, Scardaci, Vittorio, White, Ian H., Hennrich, Frank, Milne, William I. and Ferrari, Andrea C. (2008). Wideband-tuneable, nanotube mode-locked, fibre laser. Nature Nanotechnology, 3 (2 Nove), pp. 738-742.

Wang, H., Bache, C.J. and Schwalbe, C.H. (2008). 2-(3-Hydroxy-propyl)isoindoline-1,3-dione:Competition among hydrogen-bond acceptors. Acta Crystallographica Section C: Crystal Structure Communications, 64 (7), o402-o404.

Watkins, Adam J., Papenbrock, Tom and Fleming, Tom P. (2008). The preimplantation embryo:handle with care. Seminars in Reproductive Medicine, 26 (2), pp. 175-185.

Watkins, Adam J., Wilkins, Adrian, Cunningham, Colm, Perry, V. Hugh, Seet, Meei J., Osmond, Clive, Eckert, Judith J., Torrens, Christopher, Cagampang, Felino R.A., Cleal, Jane, Gray, William P., Hanson, Mark A. and Fleming, Tom P. (2008). Low protein diet fed exclusively during mouse oocyte maturation leads to behavioural and cardiovascular abnormalities in offspring. Journal of Physiology, 586 (8), pp. 2231-2244.

Wheeldon, Laura J. (2008). Studies on clostridium difficile. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Whittle, Jon, Sawyer, Peter, Bencomo, Nelly and Cheng, Betty (2008). A language for self-adaptive system requirements. IN: International Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing: Consequences for Engineering Requirements, 2008. SOCCER '08. ESP: IEEE.

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Wilson, Gavin M. (2008). An investigation of thin amorphous carbon-based sputtered coatings for MEMS and micro-engineering applications. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Wilson, Sue, Ryan, Angela V., Greenfield, Sheila M., Clifford, Sue C., Holder, Roger L., Pattison, Helen M., Fitzmaurice, David A. and McManus, Richard J. (2008). Self-testing for cancer:a community survey. BMC Cancer, 8 (102), p. 102.

Wlazlowski, Szymon S. (2008). Asymmetric price transmission. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Wong, K.Y. Michael and Saad, David (2008). Minimizing unsatisfaction in colourful neighbourhoods. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, 41 (32), p. 324023.

Wong, K.Y. Michael, Saad, David and Yeung, C.H. (2008). Network optimisation - A statistical physics perspective. IN: Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks, WiOpt 2008. DEU: IEEE.

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Wong, W.M. and Blow, Keith J. (2008). Improved design of all-optical processor for modular arithmetic. Optics Communications, 281 (5), pp. 1017-1021.

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Woods, Margaret, Humphrey, Christopher and Dowd, Kevin (2008). Market risk reporting by the world's top banks:evidence on the diversity of reporting practice and the implications for international accounting harmonisation. Revista de contabilidad, 11 (2), pp. 9-42.

Wunderlich, Jens-Uwe (2008). Regionalism, globalisation and international order:Europe and Southeast Asia. The international political economy of new regionalisms . Farnham: Ashgate.

Xu, Mian, Wilson, Karen and Sadhukhan, Jhuma (2008). Simulation process of biodiesel production over heterogeneous catalysts. IN: 235th ACS National Meeting. New Orleans (LA), 2008-04-06 - 2008-04-10.

Yang, Jian, Chamberlain, Sophie E.L., Woodhall, Gavin L. and Jones, Roland S.G. (2008). Mobility of NMDA autoreceptors but not postsynaptic receptors at glutamate synapses in the rat entorhinal cortex. Journal of Physiology, 586 (20), pp. 4905-4924.

Yano, Claudia L., Ventrucci, Gislaine, Field, William N., Tisdale, Michael J. and Gomes-Marcondes, Maria Cristina C. (2008). Metabolic and morphological alterations induced by proteolysis-inducing factor from Walker tumour-bearing rats in C2C12 myotubes. BMC Cancer, 8 (24), 24-.

Yano, Toru, Tanaka, Toshiyuki and Saad, David (2008). A mean field theory of coded CDMA systems. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, 41 (32), p. 324022.

Ye, Haitao, Tumilty, Niall, Bevilacqua, Mose, Jackman, Richard B, Curat, Stephane, Bergonzo, Philippe and Bazin, Bertrand (2008). Electronic properties of homoepitaxial (111) highly boron-doped diamond films. Journal of Applied Physics, 103 (5), 054503.

Zhang, Liang (2008). Strategies for local drug delivery targeting the oesophagus. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Zhang, Zu Xing, Xu, Kun, Wu, Jian, Hong, Xiao B. and Lin, Jin Tong (2008). Two different operation regimes of fiber laser based on nonlinear polarization rotation : passive mode-locking and multiwavelength emission. IEEE photonics technology letters, 20 (12), pp. 979-981.

Zhang, Zuxing, Sang, Minghuang, Ye, Zhiqing, Kuang, Qiqiang and Nie, Yiyou (2008). Multiwavelength fiber laser based on nonlinear polarization rotation. Guangxue Xuebao [Acta Optica Sinica], 28 (4), pp. 648-652.

Zhang, Zuxing, Zhan, Li, Xu, Kun, Wu, Jian, Xia, Yuxing and Lin, Jintong (2008). Multiwavelength fiber laser with fine adjustment, based on nonlinear polarization rotation and birefringence fiber filter. Optics letters, 33 (4), pp. 324-326.

Zhao, J., McCarthy, M.E. and Ellis, A.D. (2008). Electronic dispersion compensation using full optical-field reconstruction in 10Gbit/s OOK based systems. Optics Express, 16 (20), pp. 15353-15365.

Zhou, Cissy C., Ahmad, Shakil, Mi, Tiejuan, Abbasi, Shahrzad, Xia, Lingwei, Day, Mary-Clare, Ramin, Susan M., Ahmed, Asif, Kellems, Rodney E. and Xia, Yang (2008). Autoantibody from women with preeclampsia induces soluble Fms-like tyrosine kinase-1 production via angiotensin type 1 receptor and calcineurin/nuclear factor of activated T-cells signaling. Hypertension, 51 (4), pp. 1010-1019.

Zhou, Deyu and He, Yulan (2008). Extracting interactions between proteins from the literature. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 41 (2), pp. 393-407.

Zhou, Deyu and He, Yulan (2008). A hybrid generative/discriminative framework to train a semantic parser from an un-annotated corpus. IN: COLING '08. Scott, Donia and Uszkoreit, Hans (eds) Stroudsburg, PA (US): Association for Computational Linguistics.

Zhou, Deyu, He, Yulan and Kwoh, Chee K. (2008). Extracting protein-protein interactions from MEDLINE using the hidden vector state model. International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications, 4 (1), pp. 64-80.

Zhou, K, Chen, X, Lai, Yicheng, Sugden, K, Zhang, Lin and Bennion, I (2008). Highly thermally responsive hybrid in-fiber slab waveguide grating structure with a plastic core and a silica cladding. IN: Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO). Optical Society of America.

Zhou, Kaiming, Chen, Xianfeng F., Lai, Y., Sugden, Kate, Zhang, Lin and Bennion, Ian (2008). Highly thermally responsive hybrid in-fiber sSlab waveguide grating structure with a plastic core and a silica cladding. IN: Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference and Photonic Applications Systems Technologies, OSA Technical Digest (CD). Optical Society of America.

Zhou, Kaiming, Chen, Xianfeng F., Lai, Yicheng, Sugden, Kate, Zhang, Lin and Bennion, Ian (2008). In-fiber polymer–glass hybrid waveguide Bragg grating. Optics letters, 33 (15), pp. 1650-1652.

Zhou, Kaiming, Chen, Xianfeng F., Webb, David J., Zhang, Lin and Bennion, Ian (2008). Simultaneous temperature and strain measurement with enhanced resolution up to 20 times by using a compact hybrid optical waveguide Bragg grating. IN: Asia Optical Fiber Communication and Optoelectronic Exposition and Conference, OSA Technical Digest (CD). Optical Society of America.

Zhou, Qin (2008). Enhancing creativity in a general work environment : the role of problem-solving demand. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Zilz, Thomas R. (2008). Evaluating the potential neurotoxicity of hexanedione isomers:an in vitro approach. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Zumer, JM, Attias, HT, Sekihara, K and Nagarajan, SS (2008). Probabilistic algorithms for MEG/EEG source reconstruction using temporal basis functions learned from data. NeuroImage, 41 (3), pp. 924-940.

van Dick, Rolf, van Knippenberg, Daan, Hägele, Silvia, Guillaume, Yves R.F. and Brodbeck, Felix C. (2008). Group diversity and group identification:the moderating role of diversity beliefs. Human Relations, 61 (10), pp. 1463-1492.

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