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What's going on? Impact metrics won't tell you (2011)
Journal Article
May, T. (2011). What's going on? Impact metrics won't tell you. Times higher education supplement,

The real work and worth of the academy can’t be described by ‘business performance’ metrics and management-speak, argues Tim May

Discovering cost-effective action rules (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Kalanat,, N., Shamsinejad, P., & Saraee, M. (2011, June). Discovering cost-effective action rules. Presented at 4th IEEE International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology (IEEE ICCSIT 2011),, Chengdu, China

Mining informative patterns from databases is the historical task of data mining. But now, mining actionable patterns is becoming the new duty of data mining. Most of machine learning and data mining algorithms only focus on finding patterns and usua... Read More about Discovering cost-effective action rules.

Olfactory discrimination of complex mixtures of amino acids by the black bullhead Ameiurus melas (2011)
Journal Article
Valentincic, T., Miklavc, P., Kralj, S., & Zgonik, V. (2011). Olfactory discrimination of complex mixtures of amino acids by the black bullhead Ameiurus melas. Journal of Fish Biology, 79(1), 33-52. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8649.2011.02976.x

On the basis of previous findings of behavioural discrimination of amino acids and on the knowledge of electrophysiology of the catfish (genera Ictalurus and Ameiurus) olfactory organs, behavioural experiments that investigated olfactory discriminati... Read More about Olfactory discrimination of complex mixtures of amino acids by the black bullhead Ameiurus melas.

New concepts of Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE) utilizing BIM benchmarking techniques and sensing devices (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Coates, S., Arayici, Y., & Ozturk, Z. (2011, June). New concepts of Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE) utilizing BIM benchmarking techniques and sensing devices. Presented at SEB 11 Sustainability in Energy and Buildings, Marseilles

Traditionally Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE) is conducted against the prescribed performance specification and it mainly relies on two activities; i) The effective collection of real world data and information and ii) the formulation of this data /... Read More about New concepts of Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE) utilizing BIM benchmarking techniques and sensing devices.

Multispectral and LiDAR data fusion for fuel type mapping using Support Vector Machine and decision rules (2011)
Journal Article
Garcia-Alonso, M., Riano, D., Chuvieco, E., Salas, J., & Danson, F. (2011). Multispectral and LiDAR data fusion for fuel type mapping using Support Vector Machine and decision rules. Remote Sensing of Environment, 115(6), 1369-1379. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2011.01.017

This paper presents a method for mapping fuel types using previous termLiDARnext term and previous termmultispectralnext termprevious termdatanext term. A two-phase classification method is proposed to discriminate the fuel classes of the Prometheus... Read More about Multispectral and LiDAR data fusion for fuel type mapping using Support Vector Machine and decision rules.

Research on nonlinear and quantum optics at the photonics and quantum information group of the University of Valladolid (2011)
Journal Article
quantum information group of the University of Valladolid. Optica Pura y Aplicada, 44(2), 211-217

We outline the main research lines in Nonlinear and Quantum Optics of the Group of Photonics and Quantum Information at the University of Valladolid. These works focus on Optical Solitons, Quantum Information using Photonic Technologies and the devel... Read More about Research on nonlinear and quantum optics at the photonics and quantum information group of the University of Valladolid.

Evaluation of human-like anthropomorphism in the context of online bidding and affordances (2011)
Journal Article
Murano, P., & Holt, P. (2011). Evaluation of human-like anthropomorphism in the context of online bidding and affordances. Journal of computing, 3(6),

This paper presents a four condition experiment and the results concerning the wider area of investigating the effectiveness and user satisfaction of using anthropomorphic feedback at the user interface. The specific context used was online bidding.... Read More about Evaluation of human-like anthropomorphism in the context of online bidding and affordances.

Investigating the persistence of tick-borne pathogens via the R0 model (2011)
Journal Article
Harrison, A., Montgomery, W., & Bown, K. (2011). Investigating the persistence of tick-borne pathogens via the R0 model. Parasitology, 138(07), 896-905. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031182011000400

In the epidemiology of infectious diseases, the basic reproduction number,R0, has a number of important applications, most notably it can be used to predict whether a pathogen is likely to become established, or persist, in a given area. We used the... Read More about Investigating the persistence of tick-borne pathogens via the R0 model.

Towards the simulation of ramp weaving sections (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Al-Jameel, H. (2011, June). Towards the simulation of ramp weaving sections. Presented at SPARC 2011, University of Salford

Motorway weaving sections entail intensive lane changes which lead to high turbulence within such sections. Different methods, such as mathematical modelling, have been adopted to analyse traffic behaviour and to determine weaving section capacity. H... Read More about Towards the simulation of ramp weaving sections.

Feasibility study and micrositing applications for a wind farm: A case study for northwest Turkey (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Ozturk, Z. (2011, June). Feasibility study and micrositing applications for a wind farm: A case study for northwest Turkey. Presented at SPARC 2011, University of Salford

Turkey has a booming energy demand due to accelerated development in both social and industrial areas. In Turkey, almost all types of renewable energy sources are existent with high potentials but due to economical aspects, these are not utilised as... Read More about Feasibility study and micrositing applications for a wind farm: A case study for northwest Turkey.

Selecting critical patterns based on local geometrical and statistical information (2011)
Journal Article
Li, Y., & Maguire, L. (2011). Selecting critical patterns based on local geometrical and statistical information. IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence, 33(6), 1189-1201. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPAMI.2010.188

Pattern selection methods have been traditionally developed with a dependency on a specific classifier. In contrast this paper presents a method that selects critical patterns deemed to carry essential information applicable to train those types of c... Read More about Selecting critical patterns based on local geometrical and statistical information.

Modelling mechanical behaviour of rubber concrete using evolutionary polynomial regression (2011)
Journal Article
Ahangar‐Asr, A., Faramarzi, A., Javadi, A. A., & Giustolisi, O. (2011). Modelling mechanical behaviour of rubber concrete using evolutionary polynomial regression. Engineering Computations, 28(4), 492-507. https://doi.org/10.1108/02644401111131902

Using discarded tyre rubber as concrete aggregate is an effective solution to the environmental problems associated with disposal of this waste material. However, adding rubber as aggregate in concrete mixture changes, the mechanical properties of co... Read More about Modelling mechanical behaviour of rubber concrete using evolutionary polynomial regression.

Human response to vibration in residential environments (NANR209), technical report 3 : calculation of vibration exposure (2011)
Report
Sica, G., Woodcock, J., Peris, E., Koziel, Z., Moorhouse, A., & Waddington, D. (2011). Human response to vibration in residential environments (NANR209), technical report 3 : calculation of vibration exposure

The Technical Report 3 describes the research undertaken to develop a methodology by which human exposure to vibration in residential environments can be calculated. That work has carried out by the University of Salford supported by the Department o... Read More about Human response to vibration in residential environments (NANR209), technical report 3 : calculation of vibration exposure.

Knowledge and technology transfer from universities to industries: A case study approach from the built environment field (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Arayici, Y., Coates, S., Koskela, L., & Kagioglou, M. (2011, May). Knowledge and technology transfer from universities to industries: A case study approach from the built environment field. Presented at International Higher Education Congress: New Trends and Issues, Istanbul, Turkey

Enabling kowledge societies and knowledge based economies is a key policy in the UK. KTP (Knowledge Transfer Partnership) scheme initiated by the Technology Strategy Board is a pathway for collaboration and partnerships between Higher Education insti... Read More about Knowledge and technology transfer from universities to industries: A case study approach from the built environment field.

UpWind: integrated wind turbine design - Salford final summary on WP 6.1, WP.6.2, WP 6.3 And WP 6.4 (2011)
Report
von Hünerbein, S., Bradley, S., & Piper, B. (2011). UpWind: integrated wind turbine design - Salford final summary on WP 6.1, WP.6.2, WP 6.3 And WP 6.4

Within the Upwind project the University of Salford provided development work for SODAR instruments in relation to the next generation of wind turbines. The main focus of the work was on the identification and proposal of design improvements, the dev... Read More about UpWind: integrated wind turbine design - Salford final summary on WP 6.1, WP.6.2, WP 6.3 And WP 6.4.

Characterisation of chemically lithiated heat-treated electrolytic manganese dioxide (2011)
Journal Article
Dose, W., Lehr, J., & Donne, S. (2012). Characterisation of chemically lithiated heat-treated electrolytic manganese dioxide. Materials Research Bulletin, 47(7), 1827-1834. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.materresbull.2011.05.027

Heat treated manganese dioxide is partially lithiated using butyl-lithium to determine the changes in crystal structure, chemical composition and morphology upon reduction, as a means of simulating its discharge behaviour in a non-aqueous battery cat... Read More about Characterisation of chemically lithiated heat-treated electrolytic manganese dioxide.

Negotiation of intracellular membrane barriers by TAT-Modified gold nanoparticles (2011)
Journal Article
Krpeticc, Z., Saleemi, S., Prior, I., Sée, V., Qureshi, R., & Brust, M. (2011). Negotiation of intracellular membrane barriers by TAT-Modified gold nanoparticles. ACS nano, 5(6), 5195-5201. https://doi.org/10.1021/nn201369k

This paper contributes to the debate on how nanosized objects negotiate membrane barriers inside biological cells. The uptake of peptide-modified gold nanoparticles by HeLa cells has been quantified using atomic emission spectroscopy. The TAT peptide... Read More about Negotiation of intracellular membrane barriers by TAT-Modified gold nanoparticles.

Spontaneous spatial fractals: universal contexts and applications (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Mcdonald, G., Christian, J., Heyes, A., Millington, N., Walsh, T., & Huang, J. (2011, May). Spontaneous spatial fractals: universal contexts and applications. Presented at CLEO Europe - EQEC 2011, Munich, Germany

We report on our latest research in the field of spontaneous spatial fractal patterns. New analyses, results and potential applications are reported for nonlinear ring cavities and kaleidoscope laser systems.