Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

All Outputs (856)

The perceived and observed needs of patients with dementia admitted to acute medical wards (2018)
Journal Article
Scerri, A., Scerri, C., & Innes, A. (2020). The perceived and observed needs of patients with dementia admitted to acute medical wards. Dementia, 19(6), 1997-2017. https://doi.org/10.1177/1471301218814383

It is acknowledged that the needs of persons living with dementia admitted in acute hospitals are not always met. Previous studies have focused on the perceived needs of professional caregivers or family members whilst the voices of patients with dem... Read More about The perceived and observed needs of patients with dementia admitted to acute medical wards.

Stratified slopes, numerical and empirical stability analysis (2018)
Journal Article
Sauffisseau, R., & Ahangar Asr, A. (2018). Stratified slopes, numerical and empirical stability analysis. Proceedings of the ICE - Engineering and Computational Mechanics, 171(4), 174-185. https://doi.org/10.1680/jencm.18.00017

Urbanisation means that many natural slopes in and around cities are often subjected to cuts resulting in dramatic changes in the geometry of slope faces mostly by increasing slope angle which could lead to failures with catastrophic consequences.... Read More about Stratified slopes, numerical and empirical stability analysis.

Textile dye wastewater characteristics and constituents of synthetic effluents : a critical review (2018)
Journal Article
Yaseen, D., & Scholz, M. (2018). Textile dye wastewater characteristics and constituents of synthetic effluents : a critical review. International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 16(2), 1193-1226. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13762-018-2130-z

Textile industries are responsible for one of the major environmental pollution problems in the world, because they release undesirable dye effluents. Textile wastewater contains dyes mixed with various contaminants at a variety of ranges. Therefore,... Read More about Textile dye wastewater characteristics and constituents of synthetic effluents : a critical review.

Purpose vs performance : what does marine protected area success look like? (2018)
Journal Article
Yates, K., Clarke, B., & Thurstan, R. (2018). Purpose vs performance : what does marine protected area success look like?. Environmental Science and Policy, 92, 76-86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2018.11.012

Marine protected areas (MPAs) are an increasingly deployed spatial management tool. MPAs are primarily designed for biodiversity conservation, with their success commonly measured using a narrow suite of ecological indicators. However, for MPAs to ac... Read More about Purpose vs performance : what does marine protected area success look like?.

Assessing the requirements from ‘BB101’ 2006 and 2018 for a naturally ventilated preparatory school in the UK (2018)
Journal Article
Ji, Y., Swan, W., Fitton, R., & Fernando, T. (2018). Assessing the requirements from ‘BB101’ 2006 and 2018 for a naturally ventilated preparatory school in the UK. Building Services Engineering Research and Technology, 40(5), 638-659. https://doi.org/10.1177/0143624418815785

In the UK, BB101 is the guidance document for ventilation design of school buildings. There are significant changes proposed in the new version of BB101. The aim of this paper is to examine the requirements of thermal comfort and CO2-based indoor a... Read More about Assessing the requirements from ‘BB101’ 2006 and 2018 for a naturally ventilated preparatory school in the UK.

Prolonged occupational standing : the impact of time and footwear (2018)
Journal Article
Anderson, J., Nester, C., & Williams, A. (2018). Prolonged occupational standing : the impact of time and footwear. Footwear Science, 10(3), 189-201. https://doi.org/10.1080/19424280.2018.1538262

Prolonged occupational standing is strongly related to musculoskeletal disorders. Despite being the main external load bearing interface between the floor and musculoskeletal system, and easy to manipulate, footwear is often ignored as an interventio... Read More about Prolonged occupational standing : the impact of time and footwear.

On a new species of titi monkey (Primates: Plecturocebus Byrne et al., 2016), from Alta Floresta, southern Amazon, Brazil (2018)
Journal Article
Boubli, J., Byrne, H., da Silva, M., Silva-Júnior, J., Costa Araújo, R., Bertuol, F., …Hrbek, T. (2018). On a new species of titi monkey (Primates: Plecturocebus Byrne et al., 2016), from Alta Floresta, southern Amazon, Brazil. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 132(Mar 19), 117-137. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2018.11.012

The taxonomy of the titi monkeys (Callicebinae) has recently received considerable attention. It is now recognised that this subfamily is composed of three genera with 33 species, seven of them described since 2002. Here, we describe a new species of... Read More about On a new species of titi monkey (Primates: Plecturocebus Byrne et al., 2016), from Alta Floresta, southern Amazon, Brazil.

Relativistic and pseudorelativistic formulation of nonlinear envelope equations with spatiotemporal dispersion. I. Cubic-quintic systems (2018)
Journal Article
Christian, J., McDonald, G., & Kotsampaseris, A. (2018). Relativistic and pseudorelativistic formulation of nonlinear envelope equations with spatiotemporal dispersion. I. Cubic-quintic systems. Physical Review A, 98(5), 053823. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.98.053842

A generic envelope equation is proposed for describing the evolution of scalar pulses in systems with spatiotemporal dispersion and cubic-quintic nonlinearity. Our analysis has application, for instance, in waveguide optics where the physical origin... Read More about Relativistic and pseudorelativistic formulation of nonlinear envelope equations with spatiotemporal dispersion. I. Cubic-quintic systems.

Relativistic and pseudorelativistic formulation of nonlinear envelope equations with spatiotemporal dispersion. II. Saturable systems (2018)
Journal Article
Christian, J., McDonald, G., Lundie, M., & Kotsampaseris, A. (2018). Relativistic and pseudorelativistic formulation of nonlinear envelope equations with spatiotemporal dispersion. II. Saturable systems. Physical Review A, 98(5), 053843. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.98.053843

We consider an envelope equation with space-time symmetry for describing scalar waves in systems with spatiotemporal dispersion and a generic saturable nonlinearity. Exact bright and gray solitons are derived by direct integration methods and coordin... Read More about Relativistic and pseudorelativistic formulation of nonlinear envelope equations with spatiotemporal dispersion. II. Saturable systems.

Gait adaptability (2018)
Journal Article
Weerdesteyn, V., Hollands, K., & Hollands, M. (2018). Gait adaptability. Handbook of clinical neurology (Print), 159(8), 135-146. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-63916-5.00008-2

Our activities of daily living inherently involve interacting with the physical environment. This interaction involves both reactive (feedback) and proactive (feedforward) gait adaptations. Reactive adaptations involve responses to mechanical perturb... Read More about Gait adaptability.

On the assessment of subjective response to tonal content of contemporary aircraft noise (2018)
Journal Article
Torija Martinez, A., Roberts, S., Woodward, R., Flindell, I., McKenzie, A., & Self, R. (2019). On the assessment of subjective response to tonal content of contemporary aircraft noise. Applied Acoustics, 146, 190-203. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apacoust.2018.11.015

The Effective Perceived Noise Level (EPNL) is the primary metric used for assessing subjective response to aircraft noise. The EPNL comprises calculation of the Perceived Noise Level (in PNdB), and takes into account flyover duration and the presen... Read More about On the assessment of subjective response to tonal content of contemporary aircraft noise.

The Roosevelt – Rondon expedition marmoset (Mico marcai) : unveiling the conservation status of a data deficient species (2018)
Journal Article
Silva, F., EL Bizri, H., Goncalves, J., Lemos, L., Araujo, R., Lima, I., …Boubli, J. (2020). The Roosevelt – Rondon expedition marmoset (Mico marcai) : unveiling the conservation status of a data deficient species. Oryx, 54(4), 539-545. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605318000303

The Roosevelt-Rondon Expedition marmoset, Mico marcai, was collected in 1914 and to date, all information on this species comes from three skins brought back by the Expedition and two additional skins collected in the 1990s. It is no surprise then th... Read More about The Roosevelt – Rondon expedition marmoset (Mico marcai) : unveiling the conservation status of a data deficient species.

Rethinking stories of transnational mothering in the context of international study (2018)
Journal Article
Lockwood, K., Smith, K., & Karpenko-Seccombe, T. (2019). Rethinking stories of transnational mothering in the context of international study. Women's Studies International Forum, 72, 17-24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2018.11.006

Women’s migration has facilitated diverse understandings of both mothering and motherhood. Despite this, transnational mothering tends to be understood in narrowly defined terms, largely associated with economic necessity, with alternative motivation... Read More about Rethinking stories of transnational mothering in the context of international study.

Millimetre wave frequency band as a candidate spectrum for 5G network architecture : a survey (2018)
Journal Article
Al-Falahy, N., & Alani, O. (2019). Millimetre wave frequency band as a candidate spectrum for 5G network architecture : a survey. Physical Communication, 32(Feb 19), 120-144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phycom.2018.11.003

In order to meet the huge growth in global mobile data traffic in 2020 and beyond, the development of the 5th Generation (5G) system is required as the current 4G system is expected to fall short of the provision needed for such growth. 5G is anticip... Read More about Millimetre wave frequency band as a candidate spectrum for 5G network architecture : a survey.

Gut microbiome composition is associated with spatial structuring and social interactions in semi-feral Welsh mountain ponies (2018)
Journal Article
Antwis, R., Lea, J., Unwin, B., & Shultz, S. (2018). Gut microbiome composition is associated with spatial structuring and social interactions in semi-feral Welsh mountain ponies. Microbiome, 6(207), https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-018-0593-2

Background: Microbiome composition is linked to host functional traits including metabolism and immune function. Drivers of microbiome composition are increasingly well-characterised; however, evidence of group-level microbiome convergence is limited... Read More about Gut microbiome composition is associated with spatial structuring and social interactions in semi-feral Welsh mountain ponies.

Stronger together : combining automated classifiers with manual post-validation optimizes the workload vs reliability trade-off of species identification in bat acoustic surveys (2018)
Journal Article
López-Baucells, A., Torrent, L., Rocha, R., Bobrowiec, P., Palmeirim, J., & Meyer, C. (2018). Stronger together : combining automated classifiers with manual post-validation optimizes the workload vs reliability trade-off of species identification in bat acoustic surveys. Ecological Informatics, 49(Jan 19), 45-53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2018.11.004

Owing to major technological advances, bioacoustics has become a burgeoning field in ecological research worldwide. Autonomous passive acoustic recorders are becoming widely used to monitor aerial insectivorous bats, and automatic classifiers have... Read More about Stronger together : combining automated classifiers with manual post-validation optimizes the workload vs reliability trade-off of species identification in bat acoustic surveys.

The use of columns of the zeolite clinoptilolite in the remediation of aqueous nuclear waste streams (2018)
Journal Article
Dyer, A., Hriljac, J., Evans, N., Stokes, I., Rand, P., Kellet, S., …Bryan, N. (2018). The use of columns of the zeolite clinoptilolite in the remediation of aqueous nuclear waste streams. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 318(3), 2473-2491. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-018-6329-8

Mud Hills clinoptilolite has been used in an effluent treatment plant (SIXEP) at the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing site. This material has been used to remove 134/137Cs and 90Sr successfully from effluents for 3 decades. Samples of the zeolite have... Read More about The use of columns of the zeolite clinoptilolite in the remediation of aqueous nuclear waste streams.

Broadband characterisation of in-duct acoustic sources using an equivalent source approach (2018)
Journal Article
Meggitt, J., Elliott, A., Moorhouse, A., Banwell, G., Hopper, H., & Lamb, J. (2019). Broadband characterisation of in-duct acoustic sources using an equivalent source approach. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 442(Mar 19), 800-816. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsv.2018.10.041

This paper is concerned with the development of an experimental method capable of independently characterising low Mach number, in-duct fluid machines, such as pumps, fans, etc. The aim is to propose and test a source characterisation method that is... Read More about Broadband characterisation of in-duct acoustic sources using an equivalent source approach.

Urban land-use dynamics in the Niger Delta : the case of Greater Port Harcourt watershed (2018)
Journal Article
Dan-Jumbo, N., Metzger, M., & Clark, A. (2018). Urban land-use dynamics in the Niger Delta : the case of Greater Port Harcourt watershed. Urban Science, 2(4), 108. https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci2040108

Cities in developing countries are urbanising at a rapid rate, resulting in substantial pressures on environmental systems. Among the main factors that lead to flooding, controlling land-use change offers the greatest scope for the management of risk... Read More about Urban land-use dynamics in the Niger Delta : the case of Greater Port Harcourt watershed.