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Evaluation of wider economic impacts of light rail investment on cities (2015)
Journal Article
D. Knowles, R., & Ferbrache, F. (2016). Evaluation of wider economic impacts of light rail investment on cities. Journal of Transport Geography, 54, 430-439. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2015.09.002

Transport plays a critical role in facilitating competitiveness in post-industrial economies. High quality transport services and infrastructure enhance internal and external connectivity. This research examines published and unpublished evidence of... Read More about Evaluation of wider economic impacts of light rail investment on cities.

Investigation of risk factors for Echinococcus coproantigen positivity in dogs in the Alay valley, Kyrgyzstan (2015)
Journal Article
Mastin, A., van Kesteren, F., Torgerson, P., Zaidanov, I., Rogan, M., & Craig, P. (2015). Investigation of risk factors for Echinococcus coproantigen positivity in dogs in the Alay valley, Kyrgyzstan. Journal of Helminthology, 89, 655-663. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022149X15000590

Echinococcosis caused by the zoonotic cestodes Echinococcus granulosus (sensu lato) and Echinococcus multilocularis is highly endemic in the Central Asian Republic of Kyrgyzstan, and is increasingly being identified as public health problem especiall... Read More about Investigation of risk factors for Echinococcus coproantigen positivity in dogs in the Alay valley, Kyrgyzstan.

Strategies for engaging with future radiation protection professionals: a public outreach case study (2015)
Journal Article
Cole, P., Gornall, B., Wood, M., Whitcher, R., Bannon, A., Bloomer, S., …Stewart, J. (2015). Strategies for engaging with future radiation protection professionals: a public outreach case study. Journal of Radiological Protection, 35(4), N25-N32. https://doi.org/10.1088/0952-4746/35/4/N25

It is evident that there is a nuclear skills shortage within the UK, and logically it can be assumed that the shortfall extends to the radiation protection arena. Plans for nuclear new-build and the decommissioning of existing nuclear sites will requ... Read More about Strategies for engaging with future radiation protection professionals: a public outreach case study.

Perceived audio quality of sounds degraded by non-linear distortions and single-ended assessment using HASQI (2015)
Journal Article
assessment using HASQI. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 63(9), 698-712. https://doi.org/10.17743/jaes.2015.0068

For field recordings and user generated content recorded on phones, tablets, and other mobile devices nonlinear distortions caused by clipping and limiting at pre-amplification stages, and dynamic range control (DRC) are common causes of poor audio... Read More about Perceived audio quality of sounds degraded by non-linear distortions and single-ended assessment using HASQI.

Expression and activity of eIF6 trigger Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma growth in vivo (2015)
Journal Article
Miluzio, A., Oliveto, S., Pesce, E., Mutti, L., Murer, B., Grosso, S., …Biffo, S. (2015). Expression and activity of eIF6 trigger Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma growth in vivo. Oncotarget, 2015(6), 37471-37485. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.5462

eIF6 is an antiassociation factor that regulates the availability of active 80S. Its activation is driven by the RACK1/PKCβ axis, in a mTORc1 independent manner. We previously described that eIF6 haploinsufficiency causes a striking survival in the E... Read More about Expression and activity of eIF6 trigger Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma growth in vivo.

Facilities management outsourcing relationships in the higher education institutes (2015)
Journal Article
Lok, K., & Baldry, D. (2015). Facilities management outsourcing relationships in the higher education institutes. Facilities, 33(13/14), 819-848. https://doi.org/10.1108/F-05-2014-0043

Purpose – This paper aims to test the nine corollaries concerning the determinants of outsourcing relationship dimensions, strategic manoeuvres, clients’ and service providers’ evaluation regarding outsourcing category and outsourcing relationship ty... Read More about Facilities management outsourcing relationships in the higher education institutes.

High mitochondrial mass identifies a sub-population of stem-like cancer cells that are chemo-resistant (2015)
Journal Article
Farnie, G., Sotgia, F., & Lisanti, M. (2015). High mitochondrial mass identifies a sub-population of stem-like cancer cells that are chemo-resistant. Oncotarget, 6(31), 30472-30486. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.5401

Chemo-resistance is a clinical barrier to more effective anti-cancer therapy. In this context, cancer stem-like cells (CSCs) are thought to be chemo-resistant, resulting in tumor recurrence and distant metastasis. Our hypothesis is that chemo-resista... Read More about High mitochondrial mass identifies a sub-population of stem-like cancer cells that are chemo-resistant.

MonSLAR : a middleware for monitoring SLA for RESTFUL services in cloud computing (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Al-Shammari, S., & Al-Yasiri, A. (2015, October). MonSLAR : a middleware for monitoring SLA for RESTFUL services in cloud computing. Presented at IEEE 9th International Symposium on the Maintenance and Evolution of Service-Oriented and Cloud-Based Environments (MESOCA), 2015, Bremen, Germany

Measuring the quality of cloud computing provision from the client's point of view is important in order to ensure that the service conforms to the level specified in the service level agreement (SLA). With a view to avoid SLA violation, the main par... Read More about MonSLAR : a middleware for monitoring SLA for RESTFUL services in cloud computing.

Putting food banks out of business : final report (2015)
Journal Article
Perry, B., Walsh, V., & Silver, D. (2015). Putting food banks out of business : final report. Working papers of the Communities and Culture Network+, 6,

This project was funded by the EPSRC Digital Economy Communities and Culture Plus Network and Mistra Urban Futures and involved collaboration between the University of Salford, the Biospheric Foundation and the Social Action and Research Foundation b... Read More about Putting food banks out of business : final report.

Investigating factors affecting software maintenance in e-commerce companies in Jordan (2015)
Thesis
Salameen, R. (in press). Investigating factors affecting software maintenance in e-commerce companies in Jordan. (Thesis). University of Salford

The most costly phase in the software life cycle is the software maintenance phase. It consumes between 40% and 90% of a software project’s budget. Software applications play an important role in e-commerce companies and the significance of software... Read More about Investigating factors affecting software maintenance in e-commerce companies in Jordan.

Evaluating Degrees of Multitenancy Isolation: A Case Study of Cloud-Hosted GSD Tools (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Charles Ochei, L., M. Bass, J., & Petrovski, A. (2015). Evaluating Degrees of Multitenancy Isolation: A Case Study of Cloud-Hosted GSD Tools. . https://doi.org/10.1109/iccac.2015.17

Multitenancy is an essential cloud computing property where a single instance of an application serves multiple tenants. Multitenancy introduces significant challenges when deploying application components to the cloud due to the demand for different... Read More about Evaluating Degrees of Multitenancy Isolation: A Case Study of Cloud-Hosted GSD Tools.

Multi-level governance, regions and science in France : between competition and equality - selected reading (2015)
Book Chapter
Crespy, C., Heraud, J., & Perry, B. (2015). Multi-level governance, regions and science in France : between competition and equality - selected reading. In I. Bache, & M. Flinders (Eds.), Multi-level Governance : Essential Readings. Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784716240

The term ‘multi-level governance’ (MLG) has emerged from its origins in EU studies in the early 1990s to become a commonly used description of politics and policy-making in a range of settings. This collection brings together seminal papers covering... Read More about Multi-level governance, regions and science in France : between competition and equality - selected reading.

Assessing the structure of a Neotropical bat community using acoustic monitoring techniques (2015)
Journal Article
Estrada-Villegas, S., Meyer, C., McGill, B., & Kalko, E. (2015). Assessing the structure of a Neotropical bat community using acoustic monitoring techniques. ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 138(3), 1905. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4933991

Determining the structure and composition of tropical communities is challenging because some species are rare or hard to detect. Within Neotropical bats, aerial insectivores have been systematically undersampled because they avoid mist nets, the tra... Read More about Assessing the structure of a Neotropical bat community using acoustic monitoring techniques.

Mitochondrial mass, a new metabolic biomarker for stem-like cancer cells : understanding WNT/FGF-driven anabolic signaling (2015)
Journal Article
Lamb, R., Bonuccelli, G., Ozsvári, B., Peiris-Pagès, M., Fiorillo, M., Smith DL, D., …Lisanti, M. (2015). Mitochondrial mass, a new metabolic biomarker for stem-like cancer cells : understanding WNT/FGF-driven anabolic signaling. Oncotarget, 6(31), 30453-30471. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.5852

Here, we developed an isogenic cell model of “stemness” to facilitate protein biomarker discovery in breast cancer. For this purpose, we used knowledge gained previously from the study of the mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV). MMTV initiates mammary t... Read More about Mitochondrial mass, a new metabolic biomarker for stem-like cancer cells : understanding WNT/FGF-driven anabolic signaling.

Predicting the valence of a scene from observers’ eye movements (2015)
Journal Article
observers’ eye movements. PLoS ONE, 10(9), e0138198. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0138198

Multimedia analysis benefits from understanding the emotional content of a scene in a variety of tasks such as video genre classification and content-based image retrieval. Recently, there has been an increasing interest in applying human bio-signals... Read More about Predicting the valence of a scene from observers’ eye movements.

A multi polynomial CRC circuit for LTE-Advanced communication standard (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Al-doori, Q., & Alani, O. (2015, September). A multi polynomial CRC circuit for LTE-Advanced communication standard. Presented at Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Conference (CEEC), Colchester

Long Term Evolution Advanced (LTE-A) uses four different kinds of Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) to verify the integrity of the transmitted data, which implies using four circuits for each CRC in the transceiver system. In this paper, a novel algorith... Read More about A multi polynomial CRC circuit for LTE-Advanced communication standard.

M0Droid : an android behavioral-based malware detection model (2015)
Journal Article
Damshenas, M., Dehghantanha, A., Choo, K., & Mahmud, R. (2015). M0Droid : an android behavioral-based malware detection model. Journal of information privacy & security, 11(3), 141-157. https://doi.org/10.1080/15536548.2015.1073510

Anti-mobile malware has attracted the attention of the research and security community in recent years due to the increasing threat of mobile malware and the significant increase in the number of mobile devices. M0Droid, a novel Android behavioral-... Read More about M0Droid : an android behavioral-based malware detection model.

High prevalence of trypanosomes in European badgers detected using ITS-PCR (2015)
Journal Article
Ideozu, E., Whiteoak, A., Tomlinson, A., Robertson, A., Delahay, R., & Hide, G. (2015). High prevalence of trypanosomes in European badgers detected using ITS-PCR. Parasites and Vectors, 8(480), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-015-1088-7

Background Wildlife can be important sources and reservoirs for pathogens. Trypanosome infections are common in many mammalian species, and are pathogenic in some. Molecular detection tools were used to measure trypanosome prevalence in a well-stud... Read More about High prevalence of trypanosomes in European badgers detected using ITS-PCR.