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Do the modern distance learning tools sufficiently address the social issues in learning? (2006)
Presentation / Conference
Keraminiyage, K., Ingirige, B., & Amaratunga, R. (2006, January). Do the modern distance learning tools sufficiently address the social issues in learning?. Presented at Education in a Changing Environment, University of Salford, UK

Modern Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) tools have been identified as one of the primary enablers of delivering modern Distance Learning courses. However, it is increasingly becoming apparent that these CMC tools are often developed to cater to... Read More about Do the modern distance learning tools sufficiently address the social issues in learning?.

Good practice guidelines for improving dissertation assessment: a case study (2006)
Presentation / Conference
Pathirage, C., Haigh, R., Amaratunga, R., & Baldry, D. (2006, January). Good practice guidelines for improving dissertation assessment: a case study. Presented at Education in a Changing Environment, University of Salford, UK

There have been increasing calls for higher education, during the last decade, to improve standards, increase the quality of assessment, and for greater accountability of lecturers. The need to ensure quality, consistency and improved criteria of ass... Read More about Good practice guidelines for improving dissertation assessment: a case study.

Using real-life consultancies in teaching, learning to enhance student employability (2006)
Presentation / Conference
enhance student employability. Presented at Education in a Changing Environment, University of Salford, UK

This paper reports the findings of a TLQIS project to investigate the approaches followed and the role that consultancy projects carried out for external corporate organisations currently play in student-centred learning and skills development at the... Read More about Using real-life consultancies in teaching, learning to enhance student employability.

Teaching and testing academic writing: exploring staff and learner experiences (2006)
Presentation / Conference
Etherington, S. (2006, January). Teaching and testing academic writing: exploring staff and learner experiences. Presented at Education in a Changing Environment, University of Salford, UK

This paper reports on a small scale action research project concerning subject lecturers' and English for Academic Purposes (EAP) learners' understandings and experiences of writing in a UK university setting and considers how this can usefully infor... Read More about Teaching and testing academic writing: exploring staff and learner experiences.

Electron transfer in apoferritin probed by muon spin relaxation (2006)
Journal Article
Telling, M. T. F., & Kilcoyne, S. (2006). Electron transfer in apoferritin probed by muon spin relaxation. Physica B: Condensed Matter, 374, 451-455. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physb.2005.11.130

Electron-transfer processes play a vital role in many biological phenomena, from energy storage to photosynthesis. The labelled
electron method using positive muons allows such transfer processes in macromolecules, such as proteins, to be probed on... Read More about Electron transfer in apoferritin probed by muon spin relaxation.

The threshold of the real: A site for participatory resistance in Blast Theory's Uncle Roy all around you (2003) (2006)
Journal Article
Adams, K. (2006). The threshold of the real: A site for participatory resistance in Blast Theory's Uncle Roy all around you (2003). Body, Space & Technology, 6(1),

This article examines the collision of virtual and real spaces through simultaneous live and online play in Uncle Roy All Around You, and how this disruption of immersion is used to expose the habitual engagements associated with the digital interfac... Read More about The threshold of the real: A site for participatory resistance in Blast Theory's Uncle Roy all around you (2003).

To 'raise dream and ambition': the rhetorical analysis of a teenage pregnancy strategy (2006)
Journal Article
Fallon, D. (2006). To 'raise dream and ambition': the rhetorical analysis of a teenage pregnancy strategy. Nursing Inquiry, 13(3), 186-193. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1800.2006.00328.x

Critical discourse analysis (CDA) has been evident in disciplines such as sociology and cultural studies for many years, and is of increasing interest to nurse scholars internationally. This paper outlines what CDA is and how it might be used as an a... Read More about To 'raise dream and ambition': the rhetorical analysis of a teenage pregnancy strategy.

Nursing knowledge and the expansion of day surgery in the United Kingdom (2006)
Journal Article
Mitchell, M. (2006). Nursing knowledge and the expansion of day surgery in the United Kingdom. Ambulatory Surgery, 12(3), 131-138. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ambsur.2005.09.003

Background: The amount of surgery undertaken within United Kingdom Day Surgery Units has risen considerably over the past 15–20 years. Throughout this pioneering era, nursing roles and responsibilities within the modern surgical environment have deve... Read More about Nursing knowledge and the expansion of day surgery in the United Kingdom.

Lies, damned lies and statistics? Reliability and personal accounts of smoking among young people (2006)
Journal Article
Mair, M., Barlow, A., Woods, S., Kierans, C., Milton, B., & Porcellato, L. (2006). Lies, damned lies and statistics? Reliability and personal accounts of smoking among young people. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2005.07.002

Smoking remains a major problem among young people in Europe. However, within the research community examining the issue, debate continues about the best way of assessing the extent of that problem. Questions have been raised about the extent to whic... Read More about Lies, damned lies and statistics? Reliability and personal accounts of smoking among young people.

A critical analysis of IQ studies of adopted children (2006)
Journal Article
Richardson, K., & Norgate, S. (2006). A critical analysis of IQ studies of adopted children. Human Development, 49(6), 319-335. https://doi.org/10.1159/000096531

The pattern of parent-child correlations in adoption studies has long been interpreted to suggest substantial additive genetic variance underlying variance in IQ. The studies have frequently been criticized on methodological grounds, but those critic... Read More about A critical analysis of IQ studies of adopted children.

Development of indicators to measure European variation of nursing activities (2006)
Journal Article
Zampieron, A., Elseviers, M., Ormandy, P., Vlaminck, H., de Vos, J., Kafkia, T., …Harrington, M. (2006). Development of indicators to measure European variation of nursing activities

This paper describes a study to capture the key roles and activities of nephrology nurses across different countries in Europe. The concept of the study and the need to clarify the activities of the nephrology nurse arose as part of a larger study to... Read More about Development of indicators to measure European variation of nursing activities.

Comparison of renal care practice in Europe: centre and patient characteristics (2006)
Journal Article
Elseviers, M., de Vos, J., Harrington, M., Zampieron, A., Ormandy, P., & Kafkia, T. (2006). Comparison of renal care practice in Europe: centre and patient characteristics

The European Practice Database (EPD) contains data from 8 countries including 276 centres and 21,861 dialysis patients. Comparing patients and centre characteristics, remarkable similarities and pronounced differences in renal practice between differ... Read More about Comparison of renal care practice in Europe: centre and patient characteristics.

Scholarship, teaching and calculative thinking: a critique of the audit culture in UK nurse education (2006)
Journal Article
Horrocks, S. (2006). Scholarship, teaching and calculative thinking: a critique of the audit culture in UK nurse education. Nurse Education Today, 26(1), 4-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2005.06.005

We are only beginning to understand the significance and consequences of how the era of Quality Assurance Mechanisms is effecting nurse education. This paper argues that the later philosophy of Heidegger can teach us a lot regarding the underlying ‘c... Read More about Scholarship, teaching and calculative thinking: a critique of the audit culture in UK nurse education.

Evaluating oral stimulation as a treatment for dysphagia after stroke (2006)
Journal Article
Power, M., Fraser, C., Hobson, A., Singh, S., Tyrrell, P., Nicholson, D., …Hamdy, S. (2006). Evaluating oral stimulation as a treatment for dysphagia after stroke. Dysphagia, 21(1), 49-55. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00455-005-9009-0

Abstract Deglutitive aspiration is common after stroke and can have devastating consequences. While the application of oral sensory stimulation as a treatment for dysphagia remains controversial, data from our laboratory have suggested that it may i... Read More about Evaluating oral stimulation as a treatment for dysphagia after stroke.

Ab initio studies of structure and magnetic structure in YCo3H2 (2006)
Journal Article
Cui, X., Liu, J., Morrison, I., & Ross, D. (2006). Ab initio studies of structure and magnetic structure in YCo3H2. ChemInform, 37(9), 136-139. https://doi.org/10.1002/chin.200609003

We present an ab initio density functional study of magnetic phase transitions in the YCo3H2 system. The augmented plane wave and local orbital method as employed in the WIEN2K code is used to predict the structure and electronic structure of this co... Read More about Ab initio studies of structure and magnetic structure in YCo3H2.

The vortex line in steady, incompressible Oseen flow (2006)
Journal Article
Chadwick, E. (2006). The vortex line in steady, incompressible Oseen flow. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 462(2066), 391-401. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2005.1593

The horseshoe vortex is given in Oseen flow as a constant spanwise distribution of lift Oseenlets. From this, the vortex line is represented in steady, incompressible Oseen flow. The velocity near to the vortex line is determined, as well as near to... Read More about The vortex line in steady, incompressible Oseen flow.

In situ transmission electron microscopy studies of radiation damage in copper indium diselenide (2006)
Journal Article
Donnelly, S., Hinks, J., Edmondson, P., Pilkington, R., Yakushev, M., & Birtcher, R. (2006). In situ transmission electron microscopy studies of radiation damage in copper indium diselenide. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 242(1-2), 686-689. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2005.08.089

The ternary semiconductor, CuInSe2 (CIS), is a promising semiconductor material for use in photovoltaic applications. Of particular interest is the high tolerance of this material to bombardment by energetic particles. This is of particular importanc... Read More about In situ transmission electron microscopy studies of radiation damage in copper indium diselenide.

Ternary and quadriphase sequence diffusers (2006)
Journal Article
Angus, J., Cox, T., & D'Antonio, P. (2006). Ternary and quadriphase sequence diffusers. ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 119(1), 310-319. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.2139632

A room acoustic diffuser breaks up reflected wavefronts, and this can be achieved by presenting a spatially varying surface impedance. In hybrid surfaces, varying impedance is achieved by patches of absorption and reflection, giving reflection coeffi... Read More about Ternary and quadriphase sequence diffusers.

A profiled structure with improved low frequency absorption. (2006)
Journal Article
Wu, T., Cox, T., & Lam, Y. (2006). A profiled structure with improved low frequency absorption. ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 110(6), 3064-3070. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.1412443

It is possible to obtain good absorption from Schroeder diffusers if suitable alterations to the design are made. Interestingly, previous work has shown that good absorption appears possible below the design frequency when the diffusers are poorly co... Read More about A profiled structure with improved low frequency absorption..

Effects of porous covering on sound attenuation by periodic arrays of cylinders. (2006)
Journal Article
Umnova, O., Attenborough, C., & Linton, J. (2006). Effects of porous covering on sound attenuation by periodic arrays of cylinders. ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 119(1), 278-284. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.2133715

The acoustic transmission loss of a finite periodic array of long rigid cylinders, without and with porous absorbent covering, is studied both theoretically and in the laboratory. A multiple scattering model is extended to allow for the covering and... Read More about Effects of porous covering on sound attenuation by periodic arrays of cylinders..