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Enhanced midwifery in the Salford 'new deal' community (2012)
Journal Article
Waterhouse, C., Lythgoe, J., & Wray, J. (2012). Enhanced midwifery in the Salford 'new deal' community. British Journal of Midwifery, 20(12), 878-882. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjom.2012.20.12.878

The ‘Enhanced Midwifery Service’ was a project to improve the health and wellbeing of pregnant women and new mothers beyond the ‘routine’ service within the ‘New Deal’ area of Salford. It started in 2008 and was funded for 2 years. It included the in... Read More about Enhanced midwifery in the Salford 'new deal' community.

Is there a future for universal midwifery postnatal care in the UK? (2012)
Journal Article
Wray, J., & Bick, D. (2012). Is there a future for universal midwifery postnatal care in the UK?. MIDIRS midwifery digest, 22(4), 495-498

Reshaping urban infrastructure: Material flow analysis and transitions analysis in an urban context (2012)
Journal Article
Hodson, M., Marvin, S., Robinson, B., & Swilling, M. (2012). Reshaping urban infrastructure: Material flow analysis and transitions analysis in an urban context. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 16(6), 789-800. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1530-9290.2012.00559.x

Urban policy makers and researchers consistently recognize the challenge of more effectively reshaping the linkages between cities, urban infrastructure, ecosystem services, and natural resources. The aim of this article is to consider the potential... Read More about Reshaping urban infrastructure: Material flow analysis and transitions analysis in an urban context.

Beneath and beyond the fragments: The charms of simmel’s philosophical path for contemporary subjectivities (2012)
Journal Article
Darmon, I., & Frade, C. (2012). Beneath and beyond the fragments: The charms of simmel’s philosophical path for contemporary subjectivities. Theory, Culture and Society, 29(7/8), 197-217. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276411435572

Our purpose in this article is to explore the reasons for the continued attractiveness of Simmel's thought today and to probe the contemporary affinities to his philosophical stance towards the world. Simmel anchored the ‘philosophical attitude' in t... Read More about Beneath and beyond the fragments: The charms of simmel’s philosophical path for contemporary subjectivities.

Design education in the UK: The students speak (2012)
Journal Article
Sun, Q. (2012). Design education in the UK: The students speak. Design Management Review, 23(4), 36-45

As a topic, design education is usually the province of academics and researchers. We also see a large number of articles by design practitioners commenting on various aspects of design education. New graduates’ voices, however, are heard less often.... Read More about Design education in the UK: The students speak.

Bigger is not always better! (2012)
Journal Article
Davies, S., & Rawlinson, H. (2012). Bigger is not always better!. AIMS journal, 24(4), 5-7

Sarah Davies and Heather Rawlinson discuss the experience of centralisation of maternity services in Greater Manchester

Accessibility of urban spaces for visually impaired pedestrians (2012)
Journal Article
Norgate, S. (2012). Accessibility of urban spaces for visually impaired pedestrians. Proceedings of the ICE - Municipal Engineer, 165(4), 231-237. https://doi.org/10.1680/muen.12.00019

An ageing demographic together with the predicted increase in visual impairment of older people calls for a renewed
consideration of the accessibility and social inclusivity of urban spaces. This paper synthesises the evidence on this
topic and hig... Read More about Accessibility of urban spaces for visually impaired pedestrians.

Effect of an antipronation foot orthosis on ankle and subtalar kinematics (2012)
Journal Article
ankle and subtalar kinematics. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 44(12), 2384-2391. https://doi.org/10.1249/MSS.0b013e318265df1d

Introduction/Purpose: The aim of this study was to describe the effect of an antipronation foot orthosis on motion of the heel relative to the leg and explore the individual contributions of the ankle and subtalar joints to this effect. Methods: Five... Read More about Effect of an antipronation foot orthosis on ankle and subtalar kinematics.

The development of high performance SnO2:F as TCOs for thin film silicon solar cells (2012)
Journal Article
Yates, H., Evans, P., Sheel, D., Nicolay, S., Ding, L., & Ballif, C. (2012). The development of high performance SnO2:F as TCOs for thin film silicon solar cells. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfcoat.2012.10.040

High performance transparent conducting oxides (TCOs) have significance for optimising photovoltaic (PV)
performance. The efficiency of the resulting solar cells is dependent particularly on achieving high light scattering,
low resistivity and low... Read More about The development of high performance SnO2:F as TCOs for thin film silicon solar cells.

Midwives and human rights (2012)
Journal Article
Kirkham, M., Davies, S., Edwards, N., & Murphy-Lawless, J. (2012). Midwives and human rights. MIDIRS midwifery digest, 22(4), 441-445

The woman has the right to make decisions about her care, in particular about where, how and with whom she
has her baby. Therefore the options she chooses must be available to her. As the midwife is the person who has
the professional duty to facil... Read More about Midwives and human rights.

The libido-maker’s apprentice : working the window’s proscenium (2012)
Journal Article
Matthews, A. (2012). The libido-maker’s apprentice : working the window’s proscenium. Performing Ethos, 3(2), 121-137. https://doi.org/10.1386/peet.3.2.121_1

This article proposes that by focusing on the professional complications of working in one-to-one encounters outside of the nominally aesthetic realm, performance-makers and researchers might discover ways of either mimicking or rupturing the form’s... Read More about The libido-maker’s apprentice : working the window’s proscenium.

An context-aware management and control mechanism in a mobile ad-hoc environment (2012)
Journal Article
Liu, Q., Linge, N., Wang, J., Ji, S., & Ma, T. (2012). An context-aware management and control mechanism in a mobile ad-hoc environment. International journal of grid and distributed computing (Print. 2008), 5(4), 21-32

Complete integration and interaction of network objects can be achieved in a mobile adhoc environment. Yet, the dynamic nature of free movement and interaction among these objects also brings challenges on information representation, processing and c... Read More about An context-aware management and control mechanism in a mobile ad-hoc environment.

Late talking toddlers : relating early phonological development to later language advance (2012)
Journal Article
Vihman, M., Keren-Portnoy, T., Whitaker, C., Bidgood, A., & McGillion, M. (2012). Late talking toddlers : relating early phonological development to later language advance

Background. Expressive Late talkers are identified as children with an unusually small productive vocabulary for their age, in the absence of any other known neurological, sensory or cognitive deficit. Their lexical delay has been found to be associa... Read More about Late talking toddlers : relating early phonological development to later language advance.

Total meniscectomy in adolescents : a forty year follow-up (2012)
Journal Article
Pengas, I., Assiotis, A., Nash, W., Hatcher, J., Banks, J., & McNicholas, M. (2012). Total meniscectomy in adolescents : a forty year follow-up. Bone and Joint Journal, 94-B(12), 1649-1654. https://doi.org/10.1302/0301-620X.94B12.30562

We continued a prospective longitudinal follow-up study of 53 remaining patients who underwent open total meniscectomy as adolescents and who at that time had no other intra-articular pathology of the knee. Their clinical, radiological and patient-re... Read More about Total meniscectomy in adolescents : a forty year follow-up.

Protecting children or creating vulnerability? (2012)
Journal Article
Hewitt-Taylor, J., & Heaslip, V. (2012). Protecting children or creating vulnerability?. Community practitioner, 85(12), 31-33

Children are, rightly, viewed as vulnerable and in need of safeguarding. However, protecting children from harm should not eclipse their need to learn about managing risky situations and those in which they are vulnerable. How adults view risk and vu... Read More about Protecting children or creating vulnerability?.

Göçmen dövizleri ve küresel mali kriz - remittances and global financial crisis (2012)
Journal Article
Ratha, D., & Sirkeci, I. (2012). Göçmen dövizleri ve küresel mali kriz - remittances and global financial crisis. Migration Letters, 9(4), 329-336. https://doi.org/10.33182/ml.v9i4.119

Migrant remittances are an important source of external finance for developing countries. The current financial crisis is believed to have influenced migrant remittance flows as well as volume and patterns of use of remittances. In this special issue... Read More about Göçmen dövizleri ve küresel mali kriz - remittances and global financial crisis.

Comparison of landing knee valgus angle between female basketball and football athletes: Possible implications for anterior cruciate ligament and patellofemoral joint injury rates (2012)
Journal Article
Munro, A., Herrington, L., & Comfort, P. (2012). Comparison of landing knee valgus angle between female basketball and football athletes: Possible implications for anterior cruciate ligament and patellofemoral joint injury rates. Physical Therapy in Sport, 13(4), 259-264. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ptsp.2012.01.005

Objective
To evaluate landing strategies of female football and basketball athletes with relation to possible injury mechanisms and disparity in injury.

Design
Descriptive laboratory study.

Participants
52 female football players and 41 fema... Read More about Comparison of landing knee valgus angle between female basketball and football athletes: Possible implications for anterior cruciate ligament and patellofemoral joint injury rates.

Circulatory shock part 1: Overview, causes, and types (2012)
Journal Article

This article, the first in a series of two, provides an introduction to the subject of circulatory shock. It discusses the definition of shock, its pathophysiology and incidence, and discusses its different causes. The second part of the series will... Read More about Circulatory shock part 1: Overview, causes, and types.

Eye tracking infants : investigating the role of attention during learning on recognition memory (2012)
Journal Article
Taylor, G., & Herbert, J. (2013). Eye tracking infants : investigating the role of attention during learning on recognition memory. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 54(1), 14-19. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjop.12002

In the present study, eye tracker methodology was used to explore whether there were age-related changes in the focus of infant attention during a learning event and subsequent recognition memory for event features. Six- and 9-month old infants watch... Read More about Eye tracking infants : investigating the role of attention during learning on recognition memory.

Residence time investigation in a co-axial dielectric barrier discharge reactor (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Babaie, M., Talebizadeh, P., Saha, S., Rahimzadeh, H., Zare, F., & Brown, R. (2012, November). Residence time investigation in a co-axial dielectric barrier discharge reactor. Presented at 4th International Conference on Computational Methods, Crowne Plaza, Gold Coast, Australia

The residence time distribution (RTD) is a crucial parameter when treating engine exhaust emissions with a Dielectric Barrier Discharge (DBD) reactor. In this paper, the residence time of such a reactor is investigated using a finite element based so... Read More about Residence time investigation in a co-axial dielectric barrier discharge reactor.