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Risk Management practices of leading UK cost consultants. (2003)
Journal Article
Wood, G., & Ellis, R. (2003). Risk Management practices of leading UK cost consultants. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 10(4), 254-262. https://doi.org/10.1108/09699980310489960

Risk management (RM) is now widely accepted as an important tool in the management of projects. Through a series of semi-structured interviews with RM facilitators, current practice is explored. The findings provide a number of soft benchmarks. Inter... Read More about Risk Management practices of leading UK cost consultants..

A model for smoothing time series data in construction (2003)
Journal Article
Khosrowshahi, F., & Alani, A. (2003). A model for smoothing time series data in construction. Construction Management and Economics, 21(5), 483-494. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144619032000073541

The understanding of the behaviour of time-series data has been a matter of concern to researchers and practitioners in a variety of fields ranging from social science and economics to engineering. Also, the behaviour of many phenomena within fields... Read More about A model for smoothing time series data in construction.

An evaluation of the NPD activities of four food manufacturers (2003)
Journal Article
Rudder, A. (2003). An evaluation of the NPD activities of four food manufacturers. British Food Journal, 105(7), 460-476. https://doi.org/10.1108/00070700310497246

Highlights the large number of food product innovations and extensions being developed across Europe. The types of developments are often represented as “new developments”’ in their broadest sense. Research was undertaken to ascertain the types of de... Read More about An evaluation of the NPD activities of four food manufacturers.

Development and control of a ‘soft-actuated’ exoskeleton for use in physiotherapy and training (2003)
Journal Article
Tsagarakis, N., & Caldwell, D. (2003). Development and control of a ‘soft-actuated’ exoskeleton for use in physiotherapy and training. Autonomous Robots, 15(1), 21-33. https://doi.org/10.1023/A%3A1024484615192

Full or partial loss of function in the upper limb is an increasingly common due to sports injuries, occupational injuries, spinal cord injuries, and strokes. Typically treatment for these conditions relies on manipulative physiotherapy procedures wh... Read More about Development and control of a ‘soft-actuated’ exoskeleton for use in physiotherapy and training.

Discussion across borders: benefits for collaborative learning (2003)
Journal Article
Whatley, J., & Bell, F. (2003). Discussion across borders: benefits for collaborative learning. Educational Media International, 40(1-2), 139-152. https://doi.org/10.1080/0952398032000092189

Online learning is facilitated by various forms of computer-mediated communication (CMC). In higher education, CMC presents an opportunity to expand the learning community, even across national borders. This paper reports on two cycles of action rese... Read More about Discussion across borders: benefits for collaborative learning.

These Englands: or where does devolution leave the English? (2003)
Journal Article
Bryant, C. (2003). These Englands: or where does devolution leave the English?. Nations and Nationalism, 9(3), 393-412. https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8219.00103

Devolution to Scotland and Wales has not yet led to popular demand for a new constitutional settlement for England, but it has led to renewed debate about who the English are. One reason why the English find this a difficult question is that there is... Read More about These Englands: or where does devolution leave the English?.

From COBOL to SQL through program transformation and XML (2003)
Presentation / Conference
Meziane, F., & Aliwa, J. (2003, July). From COBOL to SQL through program transformation and XML. Presented at Third International Conference on Information Technology in Asia (CITA 2003), Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia

The cost of maintaining legacy software systems has spiralled and their maintenance became a burden for many organisations. In this paper we present the first prototype of the LOBS-COQ system that attempts to transform COBOL legacy systems into re... Read More about From COBOL to SQL through program transformation and XML.

The introduction of information and communications technology into physical communities : an action case study (2003)
Thesis
Byrne, B. The introduction of information and communications technology into physical communities : an action case study. (Thesis). University of Salford, UK

The role of information and communications technology, which has been mostly limited to use within business and government organisations, is now moving through society and touching all sections, groups and individuals therein. Information and comm... Read More about The introduction of information and communications technology into physical communities : an action case study.

Univercities in the knowledge economy (2003)
Presentation / Conference
May, T. (2003, July). Univercities in the knowledge economy. Presented at Public Lecture, University of Salford, UK

Manchester: Knowledge capital and higher education (2003)
Presentation / Conference
May, T., & Le Gales, P. (2003, July). Manchester: Knowledge capital and higher education. Presented at Centre for the Understanding of the Built Environment, Manchester

An approach for measuring semantic similarity between words using multiple information sources (2003)
Journal Article
Li, Y., Bandar, Z., & McLean, D. (2003). An approach for measuring semantic similarity between words using multiple information sources. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 15(4), 871-882. https://doi.org/10.1109/TKDE.2003.1209005

Semantic similarity between words is becoming a generic problem for many applications of computational linguistics and artificial intelligence. This paper explores the determination of semantic similarity by a number of information sources, which con... Read More about An approach for measuring semantic similarity between words using multiple information sources.

Percutaneous coronary intervention (2003)
Journal Article
Jones, I. (2003). Percutaneous coronary intervention. Nursing Times, 99(27), 46-47

Symptoms associated with coronary heart disease include chest pain, dyspnoea, palpitations and collapse (Delahaye, 1999). Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) has been found effective for relieving some of these symptoms (RITA-2 tria... Read More about Percutaneous coronary intervention.

The formation of colloidal crystals of lipid A diphosphate: evidence for the formation of nanocrystals at low ionic strength (2003)
Journal Article
Faunce, C., Reichelt, H., Paradies, H., Quitschau, P., Rusch, V., & Zimmermann, K. (2003). The formation of colloidal crystals of lipid A diphosphate: evidence for the formation of nanocrystals at low ionic strength. https://doi.org/10.1021/jp0304428

Dilute electrostatically stabilized aqueous solutions of hexa-acylated (C14) lipid A diphosphate from Escherichia coli form stable and regularly shaped colloidal crystals in a size range of approximately 50-1000 nm in width and 50-100 nm in thickness... Read More about The formation of colloidal crystals of lipid A diphosphate: evidence for the formation of nanocrystals at low ionic strength.

Cervical screening and health inequality in England in the 1990s (2003)
Journal Article
Baker, D., & Middleton, E. (2003). Cervical screening and health inequality in England in the 1990s. Journal of epidemiology and community health, 57(6), 417-423. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech.57.6.417

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To examine changing inequality in the coverage of cervical screening and its relation to organisational aspects of primary care and to inequality in cervical cancer incidence and mortality. DESIGN: Retrospective time trends analysis... Read More about Cervical screening and health inequality in England in the 1990s.