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Using e-portfolios for learning and assessment within the Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP) at the University of Salford (2011)
Journal Article

The e-portfolio system PebblePad is being trialled since September 2010 by the Academic Development Unit (ADU) during the Engaging and Enhancing Student Learning (EESL) 30 credits module of the blended PGCAP programme. It is used as a personal learni... Read More about Using e-portfolios for learning and assessment within the Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP) at the University of Salford.

A presentation of Herman Dooyeweerd's aspects of temporal reality (2011)
Journal Article
Basden, A. (2011). A presentation of Herman Dooyeweerd's aspects of temporal reality

Dooyeweerd's suite of aspects is attracting interest as an aid in analysis, discussion and research, partly because the aspects express the diversity and coherence of meaning and normativity that we experience in everyday reality. Unfortunately, no s... Read More about A presentation of Herman Dooyeweerd's aspects of temporal reality.

Application of Self Organizing Map (SOM) to model a machining process (2011)
Journal Article
Saraee, M., Moosavi, S., & Rezapour, S. (2011). Application of Self Organizing Map (SOM) to model a machining process. Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, 22(6), 818-830. https://doi.org/10.1108/17410381111149666

Purpose: This paper aims to present a practical application of Self Organizing Map (SOM) and decision tree algorithms to model a multi-response machining process and to provide a set of control rules for this process.
Design/methodology/approach: S... Read More about Application of Self Organizing Map (SOM) to model a machining process.

Guest editorial: the end of the British public university? (2011)
Journal Article
Hall, M. (2011). Guest editorial: the end of the British public university?. International Journal of Law in the Built Environment, 3(1), 5-10. https://doi.org/10.1108/17561451111122570

Purpose – This editorial aims to review key changes in the legislation that governs student finance in England, showing how these changes will have a significant impact on the concept of the public university in Britain.

Design/methodology/approac... Read More about Guest editorial: the end of the British public university?.

Automatic detection of pectoral muscle with the maximum intensity change algorithm (2010)
Book Chapter
Zhang, Z., Lu, J., & Yip, Y. (2010). Automatic detection of pectoral muscle with the maximum intensity change algorithm. In Research and Development in Intelligent Systems. Springer

The accurate segmentation of pectoral muscle in mammograms is necessary to detect breast abnormalities in computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) of breast cancer. Based on morphological characteristics of pectoral muscle, a corner detector and the Maximum In... Read More about Automatic detection of pectoral muscle with the maximum intensity change algorithm.

Effiency and effectiveness: Digital futures in innovation (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Hall, M. (2010, October). Effiency and effectiveness: Digital futures in innovation. Presented at The future of research? Meeting the challenges facing research today and the strategic role of technologies, London

The Keynote address at the JISC conference; considering how new and future digital technologies can increase both efficiency and effectiveness in research conducted in our universities.

Efficiency and effectiveness: digital futures in innovation (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Hall, M. (2010, October). Efficiency and effectiveness: digital futures in innovation. Presented at The Future of Research?, JISC, London

A presentation that considers how new and future digital technologies can increase both efficiency and effectiveness in research conducted in universities.

The social cost of variable tuition fees (2010)
Journal Article
Hall, M. (2010). The social cost of variable tuition fees

Newspaper article outlining how variable tuition fees could penalise universities that offer the best chances to students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds

Open Access celebratory event 2010 (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Hall, M., Aouad, G., & Berry, J. (2010, September). Open Access celebratory event 2010. Presented at Open Access celebratory event, The University of Salford, UK

A powerpoint presentation to accompany the University of Salford's Open Access event. The event was held to celebrate the work Salford researchers have made with the Open Access agenda over the past twelve months. Presentations were made by the Vice-... Read More about Open Access celebratory event 2010.

There was an ocean (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Hall, M. (2010, September). There was an ocean. Presented at Professorial Inaugural Lecture, University of Salford

Do worlds collide? Revisiting experiential learning (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Hall, M. (2010, September). Do worlds collide? Revisiting experiential learning. Presented at Association for Learning Technology Conference - “Something Rich and Strange – Making Sense of the Sea Change”, Nottingham

Memory work (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Hall, M. (2010, September). Memory work. Presented at Engaging the Recent Past: Public, Political, Post-Medieval Archaeology Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology, University of Glasgow

Automatic segmentation for breast skin-line (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Zhang, Z., Lu, J., & Yip, Y. (2010, June). Automatic segmentation for breast skin-line. Presented at 10th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, Bradford, UK

The accurate segmentation of breast in mammograms is critical for computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) of breast cancer. The challenges of breast segmentation come from tissue superimposition, low contrast and low visible breast boundary, noise areas and a... Read More about Automatic segmentation for breast skin-line.