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Serum relaxin levels affect the in vivo properties of some but not all tendons in normally menstruating young women (2011)
Journal Article
Pearson, S., Burgess, K., & Onambele, G. (2011). Serum relaxin levels affect the in vivo properties of some but not all tendons in normally menstruating young women. Experimental Physiology, 96(7), 681-8. https://doi.org/10.1113/expphysiol.2011.057877

Relaxin (hRLX) is a hormone reported to affect collagen synthesis. Its effects are also thought to be modulated by other sex hormones, including oestrogen, which has previously been found to be associated with alterations of in vivo tendon properties... Read More about Serum relaxin levels affect the in vivo properties of some but not all tendons in normally menstruating young women.

Exploring the effects of interventions to combat childhood obesity: inducing behavioural change in eating habits (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Dangerfield, B., & Zainal Abidin, N. (2011, April). Exploring the effects of interventions to combat childhood obesity: inducing behavioural change in eating habits. Presented at International Conference on Operations Research & Statistics, Penang, Malaysia

The prevalence of English child obesity has increased especially in the 1990’s. Due to the many negative impacts of obesity, such as the cost and health consequences, an urgent solution is needed to reverse current trends. This study focuses on behav... Read More about Exploring the effects of interventions to combat childhood obesity: inducing behavioural change in eating habits.

Pulsed D.C Magnetron Sputtered Mo, CuInSe2 and In2O3 Films from Powder Targets for Solar Cell Applications. (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Karthikeyan, S., Hill, A., & Pilkington, R. (2011, April). Pulsed D.C Magnetron Sputtered Mo, CuInSe2 and In2O3 Films from Powder Targets for Solar Cell Applications. Presented at Photovoltaic Science Applications and Technology, Heriot-Watt University, Ediunburgh

Pulsed D.C. Magnetron Sputtering (PDMS) is commonly used in reactive sputtering of dielectric materials because of its improved arc suppression. This is achieved by pulsing the d.c. voltage in the mid frequency region (10 to 350 kHz) to suppress the... Read More about Pulsed D.C Magnetron Sputtered Mo, CuInSe2 and In2O3 Films from Powder Targets for Solar Cell Applications..

Cortisol Circadian Rhythm Ratio: A Simple Method to Detect Stressed Horses at Higher Risk of Colic? (2011)
Journal Article
Leal, B., Alves, G., Douglas, R., Bringel, B., Young, R., Haddad, J., …Faleiros, R. (2011). Cortisol Circadian Rhythm Ratio: A Simple Method to Detect Stressed Horses at Higher Risk of Colic?. Journal of Equine Veterinary Science, 31(4), 188-190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jevs.2011.02.005

With the hypothesis that police horses with abnormal cortisol circadian rhythm (CCR) had more chance to develop colic, the aim of this study was to determine the CCR ratio in horses subjected to different housing and work conditions and to associate... Read More about Cortisol Circadian Rhythm Ratio: A Simple Method to Detect Stressed Horses at Higher Risk of Colic?.

Inequalities in immunisation and breast feeding in an ethnically diverse urban area: cross-sectional study in Manchester, UK (2011)
Journal Article
Manchester, UK. Epidemiology and community health, 65(4), 346-352. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech.2008.085142

Objectives - to examine inequalities in immunisation and breast feeding by ethnic group and their relation to relative deprivation. Design - cross-sectional study. Setting - Manchester, UK. Participants - 20203 children born in Manchester (2002-... Read More about Inequalities in immunisation and breast feeding in an ethnically diverse urban area: cross-sectional study in Manchester, UK.

Staff support in continuing professional development (2011)
Journal Article
Staniland, K., Rosen, L., & Wild, J. (2011). Staff support in continuing professional development. Nursing Management, 18(1), 33-37

This article reports on a training needs analysis (TNA) project, undertaken with three different hospital trusts in England, that uses a work-based and action-learning approach. It relates to the format of the projects and the identification of tra... Read More about Staff support in continuing professional development.

Playing in a virtual bedroom: youth leisure in the Facebook generation (2011)
Book Chapter
Downs, C. (2011). Playing in a virtual bedroom: youth leisure in the Facebook generation. In R. Jeanes, & J. Magee (Eds.), Children, Youth and Leisure (15-31). Leisure Studies

The rapidly changing uses of online social networking sites (SNS) have led to moral panics, most notably framed in terms of 'stranger danger'. However, the risks to young people from access to un-mediated content available via SNS, and most particula... Read More about Playing in a virtual bedroom: youth leisure in the Facebook generation.

Virtue ethics and customer relationship management: towards a more holistic approach for the development of best practice (2011)
Journal Article
Bull, C., & Adam, A. (2011). Virtue ethics and customer relationship management: towards a more holistic approach for the development of best practice. Business Ethics: A European Review, 20(2), 121-130. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8608.2011.01613.x

This paper focuses much-needed attention on the ethical nature of customer relationship management (CRM) strategies in organisations. The research uses an in-depth case study to reflect on the design, implementation and use of ‘best practice’ associa... Read More about Virtue ethics and customer relationship management: towards a more holistic approach for the development of best practice.

Anthropomorphic user interface feedback in a sewing context and affordances (2011)
Journal Article
Murano, P., & Sethi, T. (2011). Anthropomorphic user interface feedback in a sewing context and affordances. International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, 2(4),

The aim of the authors' research is to gain better insights into the effectiveness and user satisfaction of anthropomorphism at the user interface. Therefore, this paper presents a between users experiment and the results in the context of anthropomo... Read More about Anthropomorphic user interface feedback in a sewing context and affordances.

A survey to identify the characteristics of London sex workers (2011)
Journal Article
Munro, G., Hollins Martin, C., Bonner, A., & Martin, C. (2011). A survey to identify the characteristics of London sex workers. British Journal of Wellbeing, 2(4), 29-35

A demographic survey of London sex-workers established age, nationality, alcohol/drug use, physical/mental health concerns and whether trafficked or optionally migrated into the industry. There are overt differences between sex-workers—implications f... Read More about A survey to identify the characteristics of London sex workers.

BIM implementation and adoption process for an architectural practice (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Arayici, Y., Kiviniemi, A., Coates, S., Koskela, L., Kagioglou, M., Usher, C., & O'Reilly, K. (2011, April). BIM implementation and adoption process for an architectural practice. Presented at FIATECH Conference, USA

Purpose: Building Information Modelling (BIM) has been implemented by large design and construction practices. However, it is not widely (if at all) used by SMEs (Small, Medium Enterprises). Furthermore, adoption and implementation of BIM to enable l... Read More about BIM implementation and adoption process for an architectural practice.

Steganalysis of compressed speech to detect covert voice over Internet protocol channels (2011)
Journal Article
Huang, Y., Tang, S., Bao, C., & Yip, Y. (2011). Steganalysis of compressed speech to detect covert voice over Internet protocol channels. IET Information Security, 5(1), 26-32. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-ifs.2010.0032

A network covert channel is a passage along which information leaks across the network in violation of security policy in a completely undetectable manner. This study reveals our findings in analysing the principle of G.723.1 codec that there are ?un... Read More about Steganalysis of compressed speech to detect covert voice over Internet protocol channels.

Distributed ontology building as practical work (2011)
Journal Article
Randall, D., Procter, R., Lin, Y., Poschen, M., Sharrock, W., & Stevens, R. (2011). Distributed ontology building as practical work. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 69(4), 220-233. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2010.12.011

Ontologies – a form of structured and logically related knowledge or classification hierarchy embedded in a computer system – are regarded by many scientists as having enormous promise for the consistent use and re-use of data. To realise this promis... Read More about Distributed ontology building as practical work.

An evaluation of the arrangements for the provision of floating support services in Lancashire : Report for Lancashire County Council Supporting People (2011)
Report
Steele, A., Scullion, L., & Morris, G. (2011). An evaluation of the arrangements for the provision of floating support services in Lancashire : Report for Lancashire County Council Supporting People

The current arrangements for the provision of Supporting People floating support services across Lancashire have now been in operation since 2007. This model of service commissioning was developed in response to a number of concerns about the previou... Read More about An evaluation of the arrangements for the provision of floating support services in Lancashire : Report for Lancashire County Council Supporting People.

Group therapy for adolescents with repeated self harm : Randomised controlled trial with economic evaluation (2011)
Journal Article
Green, J., Wood, A., Kerfoot, M., Trainor, G., Roberts, C., Rothwell, J., …Harrington, R. (2011). Group therapy for adolescents with repeated self harm : Randomised controlled trial with economic evaluation. British Medical Journal, 342, d682. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.d682

Objective: To examine the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of group therapy for self harm in young people. Design: Two arm, single (assessor) blinded parallel randomised allocation trial of a group therapy intervention in addition to routine c... Read More about Group therapy for adolescents with repeated self harm : Randomised controlled trial with economic evaluation.

Oscillatory oseenlets (2011)
Thesis
Elmazuzi, R. Oscillatory oseenlets. (Thesis). University of Salford

Consider uniform flow past an oscillating body. Assume that the resulting far-field flow consists of both steady and time periodic components. The time periodic component can be decomposed into a Fourier expansion series of time harmonic terms. The... Read More about Oscillatory oseenlets.