All Outputs (15)

Simulation experiments with Birmingham Zero Carbon House and optimisation in the context of climate change (2012)
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The Birmingham Zero Carbon House is a Victorian house that has achieved carbon negative performance through retrofit. The house has been extensively simulated in parallel with detailed instrumental monitoring. A dynamic simulation model of the house... Read More about Simulation experiments with Birmingham Zero Carbon House and optimisation in the context of climate change.

Factors Associated with Person-Perceived Disability in Adults Aged 18+ with Rheumatoid Arthritis (2012)
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Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is associated with high risk of disability (1). Loss of independence is negatively correlated with the person’s health and wellbeing (2). The International Classification of Health and Functioning (ICF... Read More about Factors Associated with Person-Perceived Disability in Adults Aged 18+ with Rheumatoid Arthritis.

An evaluation of the availability and affordability of healthy foods in discount supermarkets (2012)
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Measurement of ground-to-building frequency response functions for assessment of human exposure to vibration from railway vibration (2012)
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The University of Salford has derived exposure-response relationships for vibration caused by railway construction and operation in residential environments. The exposure assessment methodology for almost 1000 case studies has its key factor in the m... Read More about Measurement of ground-to-building frequency response functions for assessment of human exposure to vibration from railway vibration.

Exploring the Emerging Role of the Technologist in HE: Lessons Learnt from Practitioner Research in Developing E-learning Support (2012)
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On the assessment of the human exposure from vibration caused by railway construction (2012)
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When constructing large infrastructure, such as railways, close to living environments it is important to know how residents respond to construction vibration. In this framework, the University of Salford, within the project “Human response to vibrat... Read More about On the assessment of the human exposure from vibration caused by railway construction.

Attitudinal factors as determinants of railway vibration annoyance (2012)
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The aim of this paper is to identify and understand the role of the attitudinal factors involved in annoyance reported due to railway vibration. Many non-acoustical factors have been identified with various degrees of association with annoyance due t... Read More about Attitudinal factors as determinants of railway vibration annoyance.

Human response to vibration from passenger and freight railway traffic in residential environments (2012)
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Exposure-response relationships for the human response to vibration and noise from railway activities in residential environments have been derived recently in the UK. These relationships are the outcome of a large scale field study funded by Defra (... Read More about Human response to vibration from passenger and freight railway traffic in residential environments.

Developing student’s employability working with SMEs in the North West of England (2012)
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“The Government has made it clear that we will do whatever we can to respond to
the current economic challenges. Higher education can play a central role in
supporting businesses and individuals with skills, advice, knowledge and know-how” (Lammy,2... Read More about Developing student’s employability working with SMEs in the North West of England.

Blended learning: what’s in the blend? (2012)
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The adoption of the internet into education has led to a proliferation of use of the term “Blended Learning” as indicated by over 185k scholarly articles as reported by Google Scholar.. Not surprisingly, due to the relative novelty of the term there... Read More about Blended learning: what’s in the blend?.

In vivo measurement of the biomechanical properties of plantar soft tissues under simulated gait conditions (2012)
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In vivo biomechanical properties of plantar soft tissues have been assessed via manual indentation using simplified loading profiles [1], or in gait, with low image resolution/capture rates [2]. Since plantar soft tissue properties are highly rate de... Read More about In vivo measurement of the biomechanical properties of plantar soft tissues under simulated gait conditions.

Promoting employability skills through active learning (2012)
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The Higher Education (HE) landscape in England has changed dramatically in the last two decades. There is a political drive to improve accessibility and transparency of information available to current and prospective students. This combined with the... Read More about Promoting employability skills through active learning.

Influences on agile practice tailoring in enterprise software development (2012)
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Agile development projects have become a reality in large enterprises using offshore development models. A case study involving seven international companies with offices in Bangalore, India, and London, UK was conducted, including interviews with 19... Read More about Influences on agile practice tailoring in enterprise software development.

Comparing the performance of object and object relational database systems on objects of varying complexity (2012)
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This is the first published work to compare the performance of object and object relational database systems based on the object's complexity. The findings of this research show that the performance of object and object relational database systems ar... Read More about Comparing the performance of object and object relational database systems on objects of varying complexity.

New concepts of Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE) utilizing BIM benchmarking techniques and sensing devices (2012)
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Traditionally Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE) is conducted against the prescribed performance specification and it mainly relies on two activities; i) The effective collection of real world data and information and ii) the formulation of this data /... Read More about New concepts of Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE) utilizing BIM benchmarking techniques and sensing devices.