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In celebration of the K8 telephone kiosk – Britain’s last red, cast-iron phonebox (2020)
Journal Article

Whilst every country in the world has introduced phoneboxes onto its streets, the UK stands alone in having adopted the red phonebox as a symbol of its national identity. However, that symbol is of phonebox designs produced by Giles Gilbert Scott... Read More about In celebration of the K8 telephone kiosk – Britain’s last red, cast-iron phonebox.

New 12S metabarcoding primers for enhanced Neotropical freshwater fish biodiversity assessment (2020)
Journal Article
Milan, D., Mendes, I., Damasceno, J., Teixeria, D., Guimaraes Sales, N., & Carvalho, D. (2020). New 12S metabarcoding primers for enhanced Neotropical freshwater fish biodiversity assessment. Scientific reports, 10, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-74902-3

The megadiverse Neotropical fish fauna lacks a comprehensive and reliable DNA reference database, which hampers precise species identification and DNA based biodiversity assessment in the region. Here, we developed a mitochondrial 12S ribosomal DNA r... Read More about New 12S metabarcoding primers for enhanced Neotropical freshwater fish biodiversity assessment.

Aggressive mimicry in a coral reef fish: The prey's view (2020)
Journal Article

Since all forms of mimicry are based on perceptual deception, the sensory ecology of the intended receiver is of paramount importance to test the necessary precondition for mimicry to occur, that is, model-mimic misidentification, and to gain insight... Read More about Aggressive mimicry in a coral reef fish: The prey's view.

Modelling the effects of ionising radiation on a vole population from the Chernobyl Red forest in an ecological context (2020)
Journal Article
Vives i Batlle, J., Sazykina, T., Kryshev, A., Wood, M., Smith, K., Copplestone, D., & Biermans, G. (2020). Modelling the effects of ionising radiation on a vole population from the Chernobyl Red forest in an ecological context. Ecological Modelling, 438, 109306. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2020.109306

A novel mathematical model was developed to study the historical effects of ionising radiation from the 1986 Chernobyl accident on a vole population. The model uses an ecosystem approach combining radiation damages and repair, life history and ecolog... Read More about Modelling the effects of ionising radiation on a vole population from the Chernobyl Red forest in an ecological context.

Protein disulfide isomerase A1 regulates breast cancer cell immunorecognition in a manner dependent on redox state (2020)
Journal Article

Oxidoreductase protein disulphide isomerases (PDI) are involved in the regulation of a variety of biological processes including the modulation of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress, unfolded protein response (UPR), ER‑mitochondria communication and t... Read More about Protein disulfide isomerase A1 regulates breast cancer cell immunorecognition in a manner dependent on redox state.

The implementation of quality culture in Iran’s oil and gas industry (2020)
Thesis
Sadabad, M. The implementation of quality culture in Iran’s oil and gas industry. (Thesis). University of Salford

Iran is an energy superpower and the Petroleum industry in Iran plays an important part in it. Iran holds world’s 4th largest crude oil and 1st gas reserves and is ranked as the second largest economy in the Middle East and North Africa in terms of G... Read More about The implementation of quality culture in Iran’s oil and gas industry.

Cold-start NOx emissions : diesel and waste lubricating oil as a fuel additive (2020)
Journal Article

NOx emissions from diesel engines are a concern from both environmental and health perspectives. Recently this attention has targeted cold-start emissions highlighting that emission after-treatment systems are not effective in this period. Using a 6-... Read More about Cold-start NOx emissions : diesel and waste lubricating oil as a fuel additive.

Architecture of Biologically Grown Buildings (2020)
Journal Article
Jankovic, L. (2020). Architecture of Biologically Grown Buildings

Despite the current challenges of climate change and overuse of natural resources, with buildings contributing to 30% of global carbon dioxide emissions, buildings are still designed or retrofitted using old and inefficient processes in a “business a... Read More about Architecture of Biologically Grown Buildings.

A comparative review on mobile robot path planning : classical or meta-heuristic methods? (2020)
Journal Article
Wahab, M., Nefti-Meziani, S., & Atyabi, A. (2020). A comparative review on mobile robot path planning : classical or meta-heuristic methods?. Annual Reviews in Control, 50, 233-252. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arcontrol.2020.10.001

The involvement of Meta-heuristic algorithms in robot motion planning has attracted the attention of researchers in the robotics community due to the simplicity of the approaches and their effectiveness in the coordination of the agents. This study e... Read More about A comparative review on mobile robot path planning : classical or meta-heuristic methods?.

Gorton Mills, Abbey Hey Lane (2020)
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Record of the archaeological investigation into the site of Gorton Mills, including reports, photos and site records

Urban cooling : which façade orientation has the most impact on a microclimate? (2020)
Journal Article
Taleghani, M., Swan, W., Johansson, E., & Ji, Y. (2021). Urban cooling : which façade orientation has the most impact on a microclimate?. Sustainable Cities and Society, 64, 102547. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2020.102547

Deploying solar reflective materials on urban surfaces is known as an effective heat mitigation strategy. Several studies have shown their cooling impacts; however, most of them have focused on rooftops rather than facades. The novelty of this paper... Read More about Urban cooling : which façade orientation has the most impact on a microclimate?.

An evaluation of sorter induced cell stress (SICS) on peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) after different sort conditions - are your sorted cells getting SICS? (2020)
Journal Article
Pfister, G., Toor, S., Sasidharan Nair, V., & Elkord, E. (2020). An evaluation of sorter induced cell stress (SICS) on peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) after different sort conditions - are your sorted cells getting SICS?. Journal of Immunological Methods, 487, 112902. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jim.2020.112902

Flow cytometry and fluorescence-activated cell sorting have become invaluable tools to analyze and isolate specific cell populations in a wide range of biomedical research and clinical applications. In countless approaches worldwide, scientists are u... Read More about An evaluation of sorter induced cell stress (SICS) on peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) after different sort conditions - are your sorted cells getting SICS?.

Determination of safe limit for arsenic contaminated irrigation water using solubility free ion activity model (FIAM) and Tobit Regression Model (2020)
Journal Article

Irrigation water contaminated with arsenic acts as a potent source of contamination to humans through water-soil-crop-food transfer so quantification of safe limit for irrigation water is also critical. A pot experiment was conducted to determine the... Read More about Determination of safe limit for arsenic contaminated irrigation water using solubility free ion activity model (FIAM) and Tobit Regression Model.

Christ Church, King Street, Salford (2020)
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Archaeological investigation of the King Street burial ground in Salford, including site records, photos and report

Utilization of fine water sprays in explosion mitigation : cold trial (2020)
Journal Article
Johnston, S., Nasr, G., & Nourian, A. (2020). Utilization of fine water sprays in explosion mitigation : cold trial. Atomization and Sprays, 30(6), 431-450. https://doi.org/10.1615/AtomizSpr.2020034356

For the past fifty years, there has been a great deal of interest using water-based explosion suppression systems in mitigating/reducing the impact of thermal explosions and their consequential overpressures. Previous research focused on the suppress... Read More about Utilization of fine water sprays in explosion mitigation : cold trial.

Using the common cold virus as a naturally occurring vaccine to prevent COVID-19 : lessons from Edward Jenner (2020)
Journal Article
Sotgia, F., & Lisanti, M. (2020). Using the common cold virus as a naturally occurring vaccine to prevent COVID-19 : lessons from Edward Jenner. Aging, 12(19), 18797-18803. https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.104166

Three recent papers published in Nature, Science and Cell, all present clear evidence that there is cross-reactive T-cell immunity between human coronaviruses (229E, NL63, OC43, and HKU1), linked with the common cold, and SARS-CoV-2, the causative ag... Read More about Using the common cold virus as a naturally occurring vaccine to prevent COVID-19 : lessons from Edward Jenner.

Gore Street, Salford (2020)
Data

Records, reports, photos of the archaeological investigation carried out on Gore Street, Salford

READ FIRST: Information and Guidance for The Salford Samples (2020)
Data

This document offers a guide to the materials in the collection and proposes a chronology for navigating through those materials.

Harnessing the real estate market for equitable affordable housing provision in Nairobi, Kenya : insights from California, USA (2020)
Thesis
Nzau, B. Harnessing the real estate market for equitable affordable housing provision in Nairobi, Kenya : insights from California, USA. (Thesis). University of Salford

Affordable housing remains a problem for both developed and developing countries. The Government of Kenya recently unveiled affordable housing as one of its main agenda. Housing provision approaches supported by the current planning and housing polic... Read More about Harnessing the real estate market for equitable affordable housing provision in Nairobi, Kenya : insights from California, USA.

The development of an offsite construction adoption strategic guideline for the Iraqi construction industry (2020)
Thesis
Saffar, N. The development of an offsite construction adoption strategic guideline for the Iraqi construction industry. (Thesis). University of Salford

Offsite construction (OSC) has been recognised as one of the alternative technological solutions to address the housing shortage and historical problems associated with the construction industry’s performance, such as labour shortages, time and cost... Read More about The development of an offsite construction adoption strategic guideline for the Iraqi construction industry.