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Salford's first quay : the Irwell waterfront 1755 to c. 1890 (2017)
Book Chapter
Nevell, M. (2017). Salford's first quay : the Irwell waterfront 1755 to c. 1890. In Recapturing the past of Salford Quays (10-29). Salford: Centre for Applied Archaeology, University of Salford

This chapter reviews the archaeological evidence for the development of the Salford bank of the River Irwell during the 18th and 19th centuries in Greater Manchester, UK. The focus is on what recent developer-funded excavations can reveal about the d... Read More about Salford's first quay : the Irwell waterfront 1755 to c. 1890.

Use of mass-participation outdoor events to assess human exposure to tickborne pathogens (2017)
Journal Article
Hall, J., Alpers, K., Bown, K., Martin, S., & Birtles, R. (2017). Use of mass-participation outdoor events to assess human exposure to tickborne pathogens. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 23(3), 463-467. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2303.161397

Mapping the public health threat of tickborne pathogens requires quantification of not only the density of infected host-seeking ticks but also the rate of human exposure to these ticks. To efficiently sample a high number of persons in a short time,... Read More about Use of mass-participation outdoor events to assess human exposure to tickborne pathogens.

Engineering better social outcomes through requirements management & integrated asset data processing (2017)
Thesis
Bew, M. Engineering better social outcomes through requirements management & integrated asset data processing. (Thesis). University of Salford

The needs of society are no longer serviceable using the traditional methods of infrastructure providers and operators. Urbanisation, pressure on global resources, population growth and migration across borders is placing new demands which traditiona... Read More about Engineering better social outcomes through requirements management & integrated asset data processing.

Effects of axial loads and soil density on pile group subjected to triangular soil movement (2017)
Journal Article
Al-Abboodi, I., & Toma-Sabbagh, T. (2017). Effects of axial loads and soil density on pile group subjected to triangular soil movement

Laboratory tests have been carried out to investigate the response of 2x2 pile group subjected to triangular soil movement. The pile group was instrumented with displacement and tilting devices at the pile cap and strain gauges on two piles of the g... Read More about Effects of axial loads and soil density on pile group subjected to triangular soil movement.

Effect of cavities on the behaviour of strip footing subjected to inclined load (2017)
Journal Article
Al-Jazaairry, A., & Toma-Sabbagh, T. (2017). Effect of cavities on the behaviour of strip footing subjected to inclined load

One of the important concerns within the field of geotechnical engineering is the presence of cavities in soils. This present work is an attempt to understand the behaviour of strip footing subjected to inclined load and constructed on cavitied soil.... Read More about Effect of cavities on the behaviour of strip footing subjected to inclined load.

Spontaneous spatial fractal pattern formation in dispersive systems (2017)
Journal Article
Huang, J., Christian, J., & McDonald, G. (2017). Spontaneous spatial fractal pattern formation in dispersive systems. Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics and Materials, 26(01), https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218863517500096

We report spontaneous spatial optical fractal patterns in a ring cavity containing a thin slice of diffusive Kerr-type material. The Turing threshold instability condition is derived through linear analysis, and static patterns are found to be descri... Read More about Spontaneous spatial fractal pattern formation in dispersive systems.

Current state on internet growth and usage in Saudi Arabia and its ability to support e-commerce development (2017)
Journal Article
Alshehri, H., & Meziane, F. (2017). Current state on internet growth and usage in Saudi Arabia and its ability to support e-commerce development. https://doi.org/10.18178/joams.5.2.127-132

It is widely recognized that the Internet has been rapidly growing and massively used in recent years. Previous studies have revealed that this is true for Internet users across the world. Likewise it is reported, lack of ICT infrastructures is one o... Read More about Current state on internet growth and usage in Saudi Arabia and its ability to support e-commerce development.

Archaeological evaluation : Store Street, Ancoats, Manchester (2017)
Report
Mottershead, S. (2017). Archaeological evaluation : Store Street, Ancoats, Manchester

In March 2017, Salford Archaeology was commissioned by CgMs Consulting to carry out an archaeological evaluation of land between Store Street and Millbank Street in the Ancoats area of Manchester (centred on NGR 385150 398175). The evaluation was... Read More about Archaeological evaluation : Store Street, Ancoats, Manchester.

A methodology to determine the significance of criteria for prioritizing road stretches for action against traffic noise,Una metodología para determinar la importancia de los criterios para priorizar las actuaciones contra el ruido del tráfico de carreteras (2017)
Journal Article
Ruiz-Padillo, A., Torija, A. J., Ramos-Ridao, Á., & Ruiz, D. P. (2017). A methodology to determine the significance of criteria for prioritizing road stretches for action against traffic noise,Una metodología para determinar la importancia de los criterios para priorizar las actuaciones contra el ruido del tráfico de carreteras. Carreteras (Madrid), 211,

Road traffic noise is one of the main environmental impacts of road infrastructures, so that efficient solutions are required for reducing noise exposure. Analyzing the noise action plans published in Spain it is observed a widespread lack of methodo... Read More about A methodology to determine the significance of criteria for prioritizing road stretches for action against traffic noise,Una metodología para determinar la importancia de los criterios para priorizar las actuaciones contra el ruido del tráfico de carreteras.

Palaeohydrological changes during the mid and late Holocene in the Carpathian area, central-eastern Europe (2017)
Journal Article
Haliuc, A., Veres, D., Brauer, A., Hubay, K., Hutchinson, S., Begy, R., & Braun, M. (2017). Palaeohydrological changes during the mid and late Holocene in the Carpathian area, central-eastern Europe. Global and Planetary Change, 152, 99-114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2017.02.010

Multi-proxy, high-resolution analyses (lithological, geochemical, environmental magnetism) anchored by 22 14C dates, of a 5.53 m long sediment core from Lake Ighiel (Romanian Carpathians, central-eastern Europe) allowed the reconstruction of key loca... Read More about Palaeohydrological changes during the mid and late Holocene in the Carpathian area, central-eastern Europe.

Cooling effect of direct green façades during hot summer days : an observational study in Nanjing, China using TIR and 3DPC data (2017)
Journal Article
Yin, H., Kong, F., Middel, A., Xu, H., & James, P. (2017). Cooling effect of direct green façades during hot summer days : an observational study in Nanjing, China using TIR and 3DPC data. Building and Environment, 116, 195-206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2017.02.020

Thermal regulation is a key ecosystem service provided by direct green façades (DGFs), as vegetated walls absorb short wave radiation, reduce solar re-radiation from hard surfaces, and provide cooling due to shading and evapotranspiration. Few studie... Read More about Cooling effect of direct green façades during hot summer days : an observational study in Nanjing, China using TIR and 3DPC data.

Effect of filtration coefficient determination method on the scale effect in water-saturated fine-grained soils (2017)
Journal Article
Rosine, T., & Toma-Sabbagh, T. (2017). Effect of filtration coefficient determination method on the scale effect in water-saturated fine-grained soils. Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, 53(6), 376-380. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11204-017-9415-y

The methods of calculating the filtration coefficient k from data obtained in tests performed under the conditions of one-dimensional consolidation in terms of consolidation coefficient cv , compressibility av and volume compressibility mv, average... Read More about Effect of filtration coefficient determination method on the scale effect in water-saturated fine-grained soils.

Mislabeling seafood does not promote sustainability : a comment on Stawitz et al (2016) (2017)
Journal Article
Mariani, S., Cawthorn, D., & Hanner, R. (2017). Mislabeling seafood does not promote sustainability : a comment on Stawitz et al (2016). Conservation Letters, 10(6), 781-782. https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12346

Recently, Stawitz et al. collated existing primary literature on DNA identification of finfish products and conducted a series of analyses to explore the environmental and economic ripples of species substitution. While we agree that the assessment o... Read More about Mislabeling seafood does not promote sustainability : a comment on Stawitz et al (2016).

Sustainable development in a construction related curriculum- quantity surveying students’ perspective (2017)
Journal Article
Tan, A., Udeaja, C., Babatunde, S., & Ekundayo, D. (2017). Sustainable development in a construction related curriculum- quantity surveying students’ perspective. International Journal of Strategic Property Management, 21(1), 101-113. https://doi.org/10.3846/1648715X.2016.1246387

Higher education institutions (HEIs) across the globe are increasingly aware of the need to integrate sustainability education within the curricula. This triggered a number of studies that were conducted by earlier researchers in embedding sustainabi... Read More about Sustainable development in a construction related curriculum- quantity surveying students’ perspective.

Rich fen development in CE Europe, resilience to climate change and human impact over the last ca. 3500 years (2017)
Journal Article
Gałka, M., Aunina, L., Feurdean, A., Hutchinson, S., Kołaczek, P., & Apolinarska, K. (2017). Rich fen development in CE Europe, resilience to climate change and human impact over the last ca. 3500 years. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 473, 57-72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.02.030

Here, for the first time in SE Poland, we document the long-term development of a rich fen and assess its sensitivity to climate change and human impacts over the last ca. 3500 years. Our results are based on a high-resolution, continuous plant macro... Read More about Rich fen development in CE Europe, resilience to climate change and human impact over the last ca. 3500 years.

Anti-CTLA-4 therapy for malignant mesothelioma (2017)
Journal Article
Guazzelli, A., Bakker, E., Krstic-Demonacos, M., Lisanti, M., Sotgia, F., & Mutti, L. (2017). Anti-CTLA-4 therapy for malignant mesothelioma. Immunotherapy, 9(3), 273-280. https://doi.org/10.2217/imt-2016-0123

Immunotherapy is an emerging therapeutic strategy with a promising clinical outcome in some solid tumors, particularly metastatic melanoma. One approach to immunotherapy is immune checkpoint inhibitors, such as blockage of CTLA-4 and PD-1/PD-L1. This... Read More about Anti-CTLA-4 therapy for malignant mesothelioma.

Telethrone reconstructed; ongoing testing toward a more natural situated display (2017)
Presentation / Conference
O'Hare, J., Fairchild, A., Wolff, R., & Roberts, D. (2017, February). Telethrone reconstructed; ongoing testing toward a more natural situated display. Presented at The 3rd International AR and VR Conference, Manchester

The concept of supporting ad-hoc or dynamic membership tele-present meetings through pulling up a chair is novel. In real world business situations, people pull up a chair after catching the eye of someone already seated. Telethrone is a situated dis... Read More about Telethrone reconstructed; ongoing testing toward a more natural situated display.

Machine learning aided android malware classification (2017)
Journal Article
Nikola, M., Dehghantanha, A., & Kim-Kwang Raymond, C. (2017). Machine learning aided android malware classification. Computers and Electrical Engineering, 61, 266-274. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compeleceng.2017.02.013

The widespread adoption of Android devices and their capability to store access significant private and confidential information have resulted in these devices being targeted by malware developers. Existing Android malware analysis techniques can be... Read More about Machine learning aided android malware classification.

A model for the rapid assessment of the impact of aviation noise near airports (2017)
Journal Article
Torija Martinez, A., Self, R., & Flindell, I. (2017). A model for the rapid assessment of the impact of aviation noise near airports. ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 141(2), 981-995. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4976053

This paper introduces a simplified model [Rapid Aviation Noise Evaluator (RANE)] for the calculation of aviation noise within the context of multi-disciplinary strategic environmental assessment where input data are both limited and constrained by... Read More about A model for the rapid assessment of the impact of aviation noise near airports.

Plantar fascia segmentation and thickness estimation in ultrasound images (2017)
Journal Article
Boussouar, A., & Meziane, F. (2017). Plantar fascia segmentation and thickness estimation in ultrasound images. Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, 56, 60-73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compmedimag.2017.02.001

Ultrasound (US) imaging offers significant potential in diagnosis of plantar fascia (PF) injury and monitoring treatment. In particular US imaging has been shown to be reliable in foot and ankle assessment and offers a real-time effective imaging tec... Read More about Plantar fascia segmentation and thickness estimation in ultrasound images.