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Sexual behaviours, desires and wellbeing of UK young adults during social lockdown due to COVID-19
Get PDFData from a survey conducted at the peak of social lockdown restrictions (14th–18th May, 2020) in the UK on 565 young adults. The survey collected general demographics, information on the general impact and perception of COVID-19 including general health and wellbeing, relationship activities, online dating activities, social networking use during social lockdown, pornography use during social lockdown, sexual activities during social lockdown, and sexual health during social lockdown. Data from the following scales are also included: the sociosexuality scale; the sexual desire inventory; the multidimensional scale of perceived social support; the loneliness scale; and measures for neuroticism and extraversion
Composing with Flexible Phrases
No full textThis practice-based research project is an original investigation into the process of producing five compositions employing a self-designed digital musical instrument (DMI) called the ‘Flexible Phrase System’ (FPS). This research consists of two interconnected design processes: one is the production of a portfolio of music, and the other is the development of the FPS, which supports the production of the music. Composing the music and designing the FPS are developed in an iterative design process. The interconnected processes affect the content of the compositions, and it impacts the development of the FPS. Similarly, the FPS is designed for underscoring western advertising or movie trailers; therefore, the compositions are biased towards western popular music. All of the original works are three minutes long and used western popular instruments. The iterative design process offers insights into the compositional process and the artistic motivation that are intertwined with the possibilities provided by the PS.
The thesis, “Composing with flexible phrases: The impact of a newly designed digital musical instrument upon composing western popular music for commercials and movie trailers”, contains 13 audio-visual files. The research data is the core of the thesis, and the thesis describes in great detail the audio-visual material
Memories of Nursing - dataset
Get PDFThe Memories of Nursing project recorded stories from the professional lives of a group of ageing nurses, many who had memories of nursing before and during the Second World War and remembered the early days of the National Health Service. The stories were collected from residents at the Retired Nurse National Home (RNNH). This dataset consists of the audio records and transcripts (where available)
Data from research project entitled: MAMI Tech Toolkit: Utilising Action Research to Develop a Technological Toolkit to Facilitate Access to Music-Making. Engineering Doctorate.
No full textMusic is essential to most of us, it can light up all areas of the brain, help develop skills with communication, help to establish identity, and allow a unique path for expression. However, barriers to access or gaps in provision can restrict access to music-making and sound exploration for some people. Research has shown that technology can provide unique tools to access music-making but that technology is underused by practitioners. This action research project details the development and design of a technological toolkit called MAMI – the Modular Accessible Musical Instrument technology toolkit - in conjunction with stakeholders from four research sites. Stakeholders included music therapists, teachers, community musicians, and children and young people. The overarching aims of the research were: to explore how technology was incorporated into practices of music creation and sound exploration; to explore the issues that stakeholders had with current music technology; to create novel musical tools and tools that match criteria as specified by stakeholders, and address issues as found in a literature review; to assess the effectiveness of these novel tools with a view to improving practices; and to navigate propagation of the practices, technologies, and methods used to allow for transferability into the wider ecology. Outcomes of the research include: a set of design considerations that contribute to knowledge around the design and practical use of technological tools for music-making in special educational needs settings; a series of methodological considerations to help future researchers and developers navigate the process of using action research to create new technological tools with stakeholders; and the MAMI Tech Toolkit – a suite of four bespoke hardware tools and accompanying software - as an embodiment of the themes that emerged from: the cycles of action research; the design considerations; and a philosophical understanding of music creation that foregrounds it as an situated activity within a social context
Transcripts of interviews connected to i-doc Phocaea1914.org and thesis entitled "THE 1914 FORCED DISPLACEMENT OF THE OTTOMAN GREEK POPULATION OF PHOCAEA – AN ONLINE INTERACTIVE DOCUMENTARY"
Get PDFFocusing on an often overlooked series of violent events during the decade preceding the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, this thesis and interactive documentary brings together a synthesis of microhistory, oral history, historiography, and digital non-linear interactive architecture and narrative capabilities, in an effort to inform, educate, entertain, and surprise its users.
It is a digital ark of memory about the June 12-13, 1914 looting of the coastal towns of Old Phocaea and New Phocaea (in what is now Turkey) by Ottoman government-backed irregulars, with the aim of forcefully expelling the local Ottoman Greek population.
An instance of ethnic cleansing, the events easily feed into the decades-long hostile character of Greco-Turkish relations which builds on victimisation and retaliation. Yet through extensive historical research, original interviews with historians from both Turkey and Greece, the translation and curation of eye-witnesses’ statements and memoirs, photographic evidence, newspaper clippings, official ministerial correspondence, and original video interviews with Greeks and Turks connected to the towns, the Phocaea 1914 i-doc challenges –for anyone with a WiFi connection– the supposed inevitability of Greco-Turkish antagonism by providing access to first-hand accounts of what perpetrators thought and victims experienced, and by highlighting stories of mutual understanding that span more than a century.
It does that by building a user experience that simulates what a historical researcher does: discovers and cross-checks diverse historical data and appreciates the interpretational conflicts hidden in putting them together into narratives. In this way, Phocaea 1914 does what journalistic and history i-docs rarely do: it questions its own main narrative lines, presents divergent historical interpretations, and provides users with the means to compare them against each other and against historical evidence.
It thus serves as a prototype for future i-doc designers who may wish to incorporate historical research into their work –and must acknowledge the tension between the veracity of facts and the subjectivity of representation and performance– as well as for historians who might want to examine digital interactive ways to conduct and showcase research, and to teach methodology to their students. It can also be utilised in future empirical studies that will systematically test whether meaning-complexity in online interactive platforms encourages open-mindedness in users and/or behavioural tolerance towards ‘the Other’
Environmental factors are stronger predictors of primate species' distributions than basic biological traits
Get PDFUnderstanding the neutral, biological and environmental processes driving species distributions is valuable in informing conservation efforts because it will help us predict how species will respond to changes in environmental conditions. Environmental processes affect species differently according to their biological traits, which determine how they interact with their environment. Therefore, functional, trait-based modelling approaches are considered important for predicting distributions and species responses to change but even for data-rich primate communities our understanding of the relationships between traits and environmental conditions is limited. Here we use a large-scale, high-resolution dataset of African diurnal primate distributions, biological traits and environmental conditions to investigate the role of biological traits and environmental trait filtering in primate distributions. We collected data from published sources for 354 sites, and 14 genera with 57 species across Sub-Saharan Africa. We then combined a three-table ordination method, RLQ, with the Fourth Corner approach to test relationships between environmental variables and biological traits and used a mapping approach to visually assess patterning in primate genus and species' distributions. We found no significant relationships between any groups of environmental variables and biological traits, despite a clear role of environmental filtering in driving genus and species' distributions. The most important environmental driver of species distributions was temperature seasonality, followed by rainfall. We conclude that the relative flexibility of many primate genera means that not any one particular set of traits drives their species-environment associations, despite the clear role of such associations in their distribution patterns
Footprint data
No full textFootprint data as used in the "Sexing a 2D footprint using convolutional neural networks" paper
Osteological data for human remains excavated at Portland St. Andrew's Church, Portland, UK
No full textOsteological analysis for all human remains excavated from Portland St. Andrew's Church, that are now housed at Bournemouth University. Osteological data collated on the human remains consists of information relating to the following: sex determination, age estimation, stature, non-metric traits, pathology and dental pathology
Sweet Talk Qualitative Audio Transcripts
Get PDFThe files are transcripts of focus groups and interviews conducted in February 2020, for the project "Sweet Talk Qualitative", Chapter 4 of thesis "Sweet Disposition: Individual, population and global positionings of sweet taste"
Narrative approach to understand people's comprehension of acquaintance rape: The role of Sex Role Stereotyping
Get PDFOne of the most unreported crime is acquaintance rape (McGregor, 2017). This may be the result of people's understanding of what rape is because of their rape script (Ryan, 1988) and their stereotypes of victim characteristics (Hockett, Saucier & Badke, 2016). These judgements may be moderated by sex role stereotyping (SRS: Burt, 1980). We utilised a narrative approach to understand low and high SRS participants' rape scripts. Young-adult participants described what they believed a typical rape was, followed by describing an acquaintance rape and then what they believed the stereotypical victim of each crime would be. We found that the blitz script is still held by 44% of low SRS and 47% of high SRS people despite 90% of rapes being committed by an acquaintance. While acquaintance rape scripts existed, the emotional imagery and content of these depended on participants level of SRS. Stereotypical victim characteristics also depended on SRS: those with high SRS were more likely to endorse rape myth ideals in describing victims than those with low SRS. These results have implications for educating people about what rape is so that victims might feel more confident in reporting rape