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Exploring survival rates of companies in the UK video-games industry: an empirical study (2016)
Journal Article
Cabras, I., Goumagias, N., Fernandes, K., Cowling, P., Li, F., Kudenko, D., & Nucciarelli, A. (2017). Exploring survival rates of companies in the UK video-games industry: an empirical study. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 117, 305-314. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2016.10.073

The study presented in this paper investigates companies operating in the UK video-game industry with regard to their levels of survivability. Using a unique dataset of companies founded between 2009 and 2014, and combining elements and theories from... Read More about Exploring survival rates of companies in the UK video-games industry: an empirical study.

Foundations and approaches to the study of care in the past (2016)
Book Chapter
Southwell-Wright, W., Gowland, R., & Powell, L. (2016). Foundations and approaches to the study of care in the past. In W. Southwell-Wright, L. Powell, & R. Gowland (Eds.), Care in the past : archaeological and interdisciplinary perspectives (1-19). Oxbow Books

Understanding the psychology of mobile gambling: A behavioural synthesis (2016)
Journal Article
James, R. J., O'Malley, C., & Tunney, R. J. (2017). Understanding the psychology of mobile gambling: A behavioural synthesis. British Journal of Psychology, 108(3), 608-625. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12226

This manuscript reviews the extant literature on key issues related to mobile gambling and considers whether the potential risks of harm emerging from this platform are driven by pre-existing comorbidities or by psychological processes unique to mobi... Read More about Understanding the psychology of mobile gambling: A behavioural synthesis.

Experimental abrasion of water submerged bone: The influence of bombardment by different sediment classes on microabrasion rate (2016)
Journal Article
Griffith, S., Thompson, C., Thompson, T., & Gowland, R. (2016). Experimental abrasion of water submerged bone: The influence of bombardment by different sediment classes on microabrasion rate. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 10, 15-29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.09.001

Data presented here demonstrates the utility of quantitative analysis of sediment-induced microabrasion on bone's surface. Fresh sheep (Ovis aries) bone, acting as a human analogue, was bombarded by mobile sediments from silt, sand and gravel classes... Read More about Experimental abrasion of water submerged bone: The influence of bombardment by different sediment classes on microabrasion rate.

Hope Comes in Many Forms: Out-Group Expressions of Hope Override Low Support and Promote Reconciliation in Conflicts (2016)
Journal Article
Cohen-Chen, S., Crisp, R. J., & Halperin, E. (2016). Hope Comes in Many Forms: Out-Group Expressions of Hope Override Low Support and Promote Reconciliation in Conflicts. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 8(2), 153-161. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550616667612

In conflicts, political attitudes are based to some extent on the perception of the out-group as sharing the goal of peace and supporting steps to achieve it. However, intractable conflicts are characterized by inconsistent and negative interactions,... Read More about Hope Comes in Many Forms: Out-Group Expressions of Hope Override Low Support and Promote Reconciliation in Conflicts.

Immaculate conceptions: Micro-CT analysis of diagenesis in Romano-British infant skeletons (2016)
Journal Article
Booth, T., Redfern, R., & Gowland, R. (2016). Immaculate conceptions: Micro-CT analysis of diagenesis in Romano-British infant skeletons. Journal of Archaeological Science, 74, 124-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2016.08.007

Most histological analyses of bone diagenesis are destructive and limited to the inspection of a cross-section that may not be representative of the whole. X-ray microtomography (Micro-CT) may provide a non-destructive means of investigating taphonom... Read More about Immaculate conceptions: Micro-CT analysis of diagenesis in Romano-British infant skeletons.

Growing Old: Biographies of Care and Disability in Later Life (2016)
Book Chapter
Gowland, R. (2016). Growing Old: Biographies of Care and Disability in Later Life. In L. Tilley, A. Schrenk, & D. Martin (Eds.), New developments in the bioarchaeology of care : further case studies and expanded theory (237-251). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39901-0_12

The elderly are the most neglected demographic in archaeology and have also been overlooked in studies of disability and care in the past. This is in part because impairment and frailty have been regarded as normalised facets of later life. This chap... Read More about Growing Old: Biographies of Care and Disability in Later Life.

On the relationship between cultural diversity and creativity in education: The moderating role of communal versus divisional mindset. (2016)
Journal Article
Vezzali, L., Goclowska, M. A., Crisp, R. J., & Stathi, S. (2016). On the relationship between cultural diversity and creativity in education: The moderating role of communal versus divisional mindset. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 21, 152-157. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsc.2016.07.001

We conducted an experimental study with the aim of testing certain conditions under which engaging with cultural diversity increases creativity among schoolchildren. Results obtained from a sample of 149 Italian elementary schoolchildren revealed tha... Read More about On the relationship between cultural diversity and creativity in education: The moderating role of communal versus divisional mindset..

Dedicated followers of fashion? Bioarchaeological perspectives on socio-economic status, inequality, and health in urban children from the Industrial Revolution (18th-19th C), England (2016)
Journal Article
Newman, S., & Gowland, R. (2016). Dedicated followers of fashion? Bioarchaeological perspectives on socio-economic status, inequality, and health in urban children from the Industrial Revolution (18th-19th C), England. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 27(2), 217-229. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2531

The 18th and 19th centuries in England were characterised by a period of increasing industrialisation of its urban centres. It was also one of widening social and health inequalities between the rich and the poor. Childhood is well-documented as bein... Read More about Dedicated followers of fashion? Bioarchaeological perspectives on socio-economic status, inequality, and health in urban children from the Industrial Revolution (18th-19th C), England.