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Building user context into workflow process models (2007)
Thesis
Bates, D. Building user context into workflow process models. (Thesis). University of Salford

industries. This work identified clear business benefits for an intelligent algorithm that could match their information delivery requirements to the capability of their delivery networks. Therefore this research introduces a new model for relating... Read More about Building user context into workflow process models.

Radiation damage in copper indium diselenide (2007)
Thesis
Hinks, J. Radiation damage in copper indium diselenide. (Thesis). University of Salford

A study of radiation damage in copper indium diselenide (CIS) is presented. The build up of extended defects and the conditions for amorphisation have been explored. In particular, dislocation loops have been characterised and the influence of com... Read More about Radiation damage in copper indium diselenide.

Enhancing OSPF to provide adaptive traffic distribution with networks for improved QoS performance (2007)
Thesis
Tasir, A. Enhancing OSPF to provide adaptive traffic distribution with networks for improved QoS performance. (Thesis). University of Salford

In recent years the growth in demand for multimedia applications delivered over a network has been extensive illustrated by the phenomenal expansion of the World Wide Web in today's Internet. Increasing amounts of electronic information are present... Read More about Enhancing OSPF to provide adaptive traffic distribution with networks for improved QoS performance.

The occurrence of the trematode Plagiorchis muris in the wood mouse Apodemus sylvaticus in North Yorkshire, UK. (2007)
Journal Article
MT, R., PS, C., G, H., S, H., A, P., & DM, S. (2007). The occurrence of the trematode Plagiorchis muris in the wood mouse Apodemus sylvaticus in North Yorkshire, UK. Journal of Helminthology, 81(1), 57 - 62. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022149X07214105

Wood mice Apodemus sylvaticus were trapped each September over a 13-year period, from 1993 to 2005, in a wooded area adjacent to Malham Tarn, Yorkshire, UK. Plagiorchis muris was found to be the dominant intestinal trematode and occurred in every yea... Read More about The occurrence of the trematode Plagiorchis muris in the wood mouse Apodemus sylvaticus in North Yorkshire, UK..

Screening for Echinococcus granulosus in dogs: comparison between arecoline purgation, coproELISA and coproPCR with necropsy in pre-patent infection (2007)
Journal Article
Lahmar, S., Lahmar, S., Boufana, B., Bradshaw, H., & Craig, P. (2007). Screening for Echinococcus granulosus in dogs: comparison between arecoline purgation, coproELISA and coproPCR with necropsy in pre-patent infection. Veterinary Parasitology, 144(3-4), 287-292. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vetpar.2006.10.016

Echinococcus granulosus is an important zoonotic infection of dogs. The purpose of the present study assessed the performance of two laboratory diagnostic methods with arecoline purgation and necropsy in infected dogs. In total 65 dogs were successfu... Read More about Screening for Echinococcus granulosus in dogs: comparison between arecoline purgation, coproELISA and coproPCR with necropsy in pre-patent infection.

Knowledge infrastructure for EU Networks and virtual communities (2007)
Book Chapter
Mihindu, S. (2007). Knowledge infrastructure for EU Networks and virtual communities. In Proceedings of the 7th International Postgraduate Research Conference in the Built and Human Environment (IPRC’07) (212-221). Salford, UK: University of Salford

Creating a single Knowledge Management Infrastructure with intelligence interfaces to facilitate the complete Knowledge Management Life Cycle within a virtual community is a challenging opportunity. During early 2006, to excel the NoE project (EU) an... Read More about Knowledge infrastructure for EU Networks and virtual communities.

A framework for supporting context-awareness for collaborative activities within organisations (2007)
Book Chapter
Gautier, G., Mihindu, S., & Fernando, F. (2007). A framework for supporting context-awareness for collaborative activities within organisations. In Proceedings of the 7th International Postgraduate Research Conference in the Built and Human Environment (IPRC’07) (135-143). Salford, UK: University of Salford

Collaboration and innovation are frequently considered as essential elements of competitive organisations. These issues are targeted in this paper by describing a system for providing the user with context aware information about the dynamics of the... Read More about A framework for supporting context-awareness for collaborative activities within organisations.

Benefits realisation process for healthcare (2007)
Presentation / Conference
Sapountzis, S., Harris, K., & Kagioglou, M. (2007, March). Benefits realisation process for healthcare. Presented at 4th International SCRI symposium, Salford, UK

During the past ten years in the UK, education, housing, community regeneration and healthcare in particular have witnessed a massive programme of capital investment by the government through Public Private Partnerships (PPP). There is now a need to... Read More about Benefits realisation process for healthcare.

Enhancing the quality and the relevance of disaster management curricular within the Sri Lankan higher education (2007)
Presentation / Conference
Keraminiyage, K., Amaratunga, R., Haigh, R., & Seneviratne, I. (2007, March). Enhancing the quality and the relevance of disaster management curricular within the Sri Lankan higher education. Presented at Appropriate Management Approaches in a Developing Context, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka

Generation of ΔTAp73 proteins by translation from a putative internal ribosome entry site (2007)
Journal Article
Sayan, A., Roperch, J., Sayan, B., Rossi, M., Pinkoski, M., Knight, R., …Melino, G. (2007). Generation of ΔTAp73 proteins by translation from a putative internal ribosome entry site. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1095(1), 315-324. https://doi.org/10.1196/annals.1397.035

p73 belongs to a family of transcription factors, including p53 and p63, that mediate response to DNA damage and cellular stress by inducing DNA repair, cell cycle arrest, and apoptosis. TP73 gene contains two promotors and several splice variants re... Read More about Generation of ΔTAp73 proteins by translation from a putative internal ribosome entry site.

Knowledge transfer and the production and reception of scientific knowledge (2007)
Presentation / Conference
May, T. (2007, March). Knowledge transfer and the production and reception of scientific knowledge. Presented at Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (Higher Institute of Social Sciences and Business Studies), Lisbon, Portugal

Prospects for applications of lanthanide-based upconverting surfaces to bioassay and detection (2007)
Journal Article
Morgan, C., & Mitchell, A. (2007). Prospects for applications of lanthanide-based upconverting surfaces to bioassay and detection. Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 22(8), 1769-1775. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2006.08.024

Biological assays to detect binding interactions are often conducted using fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) but this has several disadvantages that markedly reduce the dynamic range of measurements. The very short range of FRET interacti... Read More about Prospects for applications of lanthanide-based upconverting surfaces to bioassay and detection.

Highly bioactive silver and silver/titania composite films grown by chemical vapour deposition (2007)
Journal Article
Brook, L., Evans, P., Foster, H., Pemble, M., Steele, A., Sheel, D., & Yates, H. (2007). Highly bioactive silver and silver/titania composite films grown by chemical vapour deposition. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, 187(1), 53-63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jphotochem.2006.09.014

This paper describes how photocatalytically active films of TiO2, grown by thermal CVD, may be functionally and structurally modified by deposition of nano-structured silver via a novel flame assisted CVD process. The resulting composite films are sh... Read More about Highly bioactive silver and silver/titania composite films grown by chemical vapour deposition.

Gastrointestinal tolerance of erythritol and xylitol ingested in a liquid (2007)
Journal Article
Storey, D., Lee, A., Bornet, F., & Brouns, F. (2007). Gastrointestinal tolerance of erythritol and xylitol ingested in a liquid. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 61(3), 349-354. https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.ejcn.1602532

Objectives: To determine and compare the gastrointestinal (GI) responses of young adults following consumption of 45 g sucrose, 20, 35 and 50 g xylitol or erythritol given as a single oral, bolus dose in a liquid. Design: The study was a random... Read More about Gastrointestinal tolerance of erythritol and xylitol ingested in a liquid.

The development and validity of the Salford Gait Tool: an observation-based clinical gait assessment tool (2007)
Journal Article
Toro, B., Nester, C., & Farren, P. (2007). The development and validity of the Salford Gait Tool: an observation-based clinical gait assessment tool. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 88(3), 321-327. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmr.2006.12.028

Objectives: To develop the construct, content, and criterion validity of the Salford Gait Tool (SF-GT) and to evaluate agreement between gait observations using the SF-GT and kinematic gait data. Design: Tool development and comparative evalu... Read More about The development and validity of the Salford Gait Tool: an observation-based clinical gait assessment tool.

Inter- and intraobserver repeatability of the Salford Gait Tool: an observation based clinical gait assessment tool (2007)
Journal Article
Toro, B., Nester, C., & Farren, P. (2007). Inter- and intraobserver repeatability of the Salford Gait Tool: an observation based clinical gait assessment tool. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 88(3), 328-332. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmr.2006.12.030

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the inter- and intraobserver repeatability of the Salford Gait Tool (SF-GT), a new observation-based gait assessment tool for evaluating sagittal plane cerebral palsy (CP) gait. DESIGN: Masked comparative evaluation. SETTING: U... Read More about Inter- and intraobserver repeatability of the Salford Gait Tool: an observation based clinical gait assessment tool.

The effect of perceived adherence to the Bobath concept on physiotherapists’ choice of intervention used to treat postural control after stroke (2007)
Journal Article
Tyson, S., & Selley, A. (2007). The effect of perceived adherence to the Bobath concept on physiotherapists’ choice of intervention used to treat postural control after stroke. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638280600841158

PURPOSE. The Bobath concept is the predominant stroke physiotherapy approach in the UK but there is little literature about its operationalization. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of perceived adherence to the Bobath concept on interve... Read More about The effect of perceived adherence to the Bobath concept on physiotherapists’ choice of intervention used to treat postural control after stroke.

Abnormal long wave dispersion phenomena in a slightly compressible elastic plate with non-classical boundary conditions (2007)
Journal Article
Rogerson, G., Sandiford, K., & Prikazchikova, L. (2007). Abnormal long wave dispersion phenomena in a slightly compressible elastic plate with non-classical boundary conditions. International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, 42(2), 298-309. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnonlinmec.2007.01.005

A two parameter asymptotic analysis is employed to investigate some unusual long wave dispersion phenomena in respect of symmetric motion in a nearly incompressible elastic plate. The plate is not subject to the usual classical traction free boundary... Read More about Abnormal long wave dispersion phenomena in a slightly compressible elastic plate with non-classical boundary conditions.

Mutual objective setting for partnering projects in the public sector (2007)
Journal Article
Swan, W., & Khalfan, M. (2007). Mutual objective setting for partnering projects in the public sector. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 14(2), 119-130. https://doi.org/10.1108/09699980710731254

Purpose – The use of partnering has grown within the public sector of the UK construction industry. Central to partnering is the use of the partnering charter. The charter establishes the mutual objectives of the project team. The purpose of this pap... Read More about Mutual objective setting for partnering projects in the public sector.

Intra- and interorganizational knowledge services to promote informed sustainability practices (2007)
Journal Article
Wetherill, M., Rezgui, Y., Boddy, S., & Cooper, G. (2007). Intra- and interorganizational knowledge services to promote informed sustainability practices. Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, 21(2), 78-89. https://doi.org/10.1061/%28ASCE%290887-3801%282007%2921%3A2%2878%29

To promote sustainable construction, the construction industry needs to intensify its efforts to move to a knowledge intensive mode. Sustainability goals can only be achieved if new resources of knowledge and expertise inform construction activities.... Read More about Intra- and interorganizational knowledge services to promote informed sustainability practices.