The complexity of ontology-based data access with OWL 2 QL and bounded treewidth queries by Bienvenu, Meghyn, Kikot, Stanislav, Kontchakov, Roman, Podolskii, Vladimir, Ryzhikov, Vladislav, Zakharyaschev, Michael

“…We show that OMQs withbounded-depth ontologieshave nonrecursive datalog (NDL) rewritings that can be constructed and evaluated inLOGCFLfor combined complexity, even inNLif their CQs are tree-shaped with a bounded numberof leaves, and so incur no overhead in complexity-theoreticterms. …”
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Welfare experiments as tools for evidence-based policy making? The political debate on Twitter about the basic income trial in Finland by Parth, Anne-Marie, Nyby, Josefine

“…However, do policymakers use welfare experiments as a policy instrument to gain empirical evidence for contested policy ideas? What can the political debate on Twitter reveal about the strategic functions of welfare experiments? …”

Dialogue and studio space: the architectural design studio as the setting for continuous reflection by Catina, Alexander

“…It will be argued that sustaining a dialogical process, based on multi-voiced provision, can contribute to the continuity of the learning experience at advanced levels of undergraduate studies, while critically addressing concerns raised about traditional studio teaching practices.…”
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Universal basic Income by McDonough, Brian, Bustillos Morales, Jessie

“…With more and more trials and experiments taking place in different countries, this book provides both the theory and context for making sense of different basic income approaches, examining how the policy can be best implemented. Unlike many other texts written on this topic, the book provides a balanced account of basic income, weighing up the pros and cons from a number of different positions. …”
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Cultural localisation as a strategy to preserve the persuasive function in the translation of tourism websites from French into English by Cowan, Sally Elizabeth

“…In the context of global marketing, tourists can be considered consumers who seek to escape from ordinary life carrying their culturally embedded mindsets with them. …”

Reducing conflict and containment rates on acute psychiatric wards: the Safewards cluster randomised controlled trial by Bowers, Len, James, Karen, Quirk, Alan, Simpson, Alan, Stewart, Duncan, Hodsoll, John

“…Conclusions Simple interventions aiming to improve staff relationships with patients can reduce the frequency of conflict and containment.…”
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‘Resilient when it comes to death’: exploring the significance of bereavement for the well - being of social work students by Turner, Denise, Price, Marie

“…Lastly, the study demonstrated that bereavement experiences are not isolated but linked to other losses and therefore students may need effective support to process these before they can effectively support others. The study appears to be distinctive in its focus on the impacts of bereavement on social work students and has significant implications for the ways in which students are supported by social work education programmes, as well as paving the way for further research in this area.…”
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Islam and foreign policy: Turkey’s ambivalent religious soft power in the authoritarian turn by Öztürk, Ahmet Erdi

“…While some are content with Turkey’s religiously fuelled policies and designate Turkey as an influential actor which can use Islam as a soft power tool, others refuse to define Turkey’s policies within the boundaries of soft power due to its extra-territorial authoritarian practices. …”
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Qucs-S/QucsStudio/Octave schematic synthesis tools for device and circuit parameter extraction from measured characteristics by Brinson, Mike

“…A universal technique for the extraction of device parameters or circuit component values from measured performance data is presented. The proposed method can be used by any circuit simulator that implements parameter sweep features and allows user defined tabulated data with independent voltage, or current, sources. …”
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Ethics and power dynamics in playful technology for animals: using speculative design to provoke reflection by French, Fiona, Hirsky-Douglas, Ilyena, Väätäjä, Heli, Chisik, Yoram, Karl, Sabrina, Kasuga, Haruka, Mangat, Mandeep, Nannoni, Eleonora, Paci, Patrizia, Pons Tomas, Patricia, Vilker, Dana, Zamansky, Anna

“…To explore these issues, we conducted a workshop in which speculative design was used as a means of debating ways through which play, a widespread phenomenon across animal species, can be used as a tool for enabling interspecies communication. …”
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Exploring endophytes for in vitro synthesis of bioactive compounds similar to metabolites produced in vivo by host plants by Sharma, Hemant, Rai, Arun Kumar, Dahiya, Divakar, Chettri, Rajen, Singh Nigam, Poonam

“…Endophytes represent microorganisms residing within plant tissues without typically causing any adverse effect to the plants for considerable part of their life cycle and are primarily known for their beneficial role to their host-plant. These microorganisms can synthesize secondary metabolites similar to metabolites produced by their host plants. …”
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Emission spectroscopy for the temperature measurement of salt-water ice during hypervelocity impact by Tandy, Jonathan D., Spathis, Vassilia, Wozniakiewicz, Penny, Alesbrook, Luke

“…Laboratory impact flash measurements from icy targets can be utilised to constrain the temperatures required for the shock-synthesis of these biologically important species. …”
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Threat intelligence using machine learning packet dissection by Sowinski-Mydlarz, Viktor, Li, Jun, Ouazzane, Karim, Vassilev, Vassil

“…During the testing against trojan malware, the models can detect the suspicious packets sent to a bogus website and attempts at downloading malware by means of packet payload analysis.…”
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‘Rewild My Street’: a model for community-led urban rewilding by Moxon, Sian

“…Using the London-based ‘Rewild My Street’ campaign as a case study, the chapter shows that solutions can come from generous designers willing to empower communities to effect change themselves. …”
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The impact of employment skills support and inequalities at work on incentives to migrate: a case study of Kosovo by Berbatovci-Sojeva, Vlora

“…This thesis contributes to the existing literature about migration by illuminating how a lack of human rights and human capital development can increase migration. It illustrates the importance of the state in supporting workers in accessing jobs and in implementing labour law. …”
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The economic determinants of corporate hedging: an empirical analysis of UK non-financial firms by Judge, Amrit

“…One of the main contributions of this study is that the evidence presented suggests that the conflicts between the results of this study and those of previous studies focusing on the hedging of specific exposures can be explained by the treatment of other hedgers in non-hedging samples. …”
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Children's constructions of work by Hutchings, Merryn

“…The thesis argues that differences in experience between children can account for the differences in their constructions of work, and in particular, draws attention to the extremely limited experience and constructions of work of children in the families of the long-term unemployed.…”
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Probation domestic abuse programmes: a study of probation domestic abuse perpetrator programmes: interactive dynamics and personal perspectives by Hughes, William John

“…This calls for a greater consideration of ‘how’ interventions are delivered, and how environments that foster change can be enhanced.…”
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The exquisite corporealities of Leibniz: performance as embodied practice of thought and documentary praxis by Spackman, Helen

“…While issues concerning the documentation of performance as an inherently ephemeral art form have recently preoccupied critical debate within the intertwined fields of contemporary Live Art and Performance Studies to which our creative and critical practice as LEIBNIZ belongs, this dissertation examines the ways in which performance can itself serve as a vibrant and accessible means of both recording and generating experience with reference to the four LEIBNIZ projects (namely: The Book of Dust, The Ship of Fools, The Book of Blood: Human Writes and Ghost Letters) presented as case studies in this submission of PhD by prior output.…”
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The art of making choices: the Feldenkrais method as a choreographic resource by Kampe, Thomas

“…The document sets out how my research contributes to the field by exemplifying a dialogic relationship between a 'somatic educational practice' and an emerging 'somatic dance practice', revealing how The Feldenkrais Method can provide an empowering and agency-constituting process for dance-makers and performers within somatic-informed contexts. …”
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