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Indirect measurement of acoustic power into a small room at low frequencies (2011)
Journal Article
de A.C. Duarte, E., Moorhouse, A., & Viveiros, E. (2011). Indirect measurement of acoustic power into a small room at low frequencies. Applied Acoustics, 73(3), 248-255. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apacoust.2011.09.007

An essential step towards improving sound insulation is a reliable means of quantifying the performance. However, for various reasons sound insulation measurements at low frequencies are associated with relatively high uncertainty and wide variance v... Read More about Indirect measurement of acoustic power into a small room at low frequencies.

NIR-to-NIR two-photon excited CaF2:Tm3+,Yb3+ nanoparticles: multifunctional nanoprobes for highly penetrating fluorescence bio-imaging (2011)
Journal Article
Martinez Maestro, L., Dong, N., Pedroni, M., Piccinell, F., Conti, G., Sbarbati, A., …Speghini, A. (2011). NIR-to-NIR two-photon excited CaF2:Tm3+,Yb3+ nanoparticles: multifunctional nanoprobes for highly penetrating fluorescence bio-imaging. ACS nano, 5(11), 8665-8671. https://doi.org/10.1021/nn202490m

In this study, we report on the remarkable two-photon excited fluorescence efficiency in the “biological window” of CaF2:Tm3+,Yb3+ nanoparticles. On the basis of the strong Tm3+ ion emission (at around 800 nm), tissue penetration depths as large as 2... Read More about NIR-to-NIR two-photon excited CaF2:Tm3+,Yb3+ nanoparticles: multifunctional nanoprobes for highly penetrating fluorescence bio-imaging.

NIR-to-NIR two-photon excited CaF2:Tm3+,Yb3+ nanoparticles : multifunctional nanoprobes for highly penetrating fluorescence bio-imaging (2011)
Journal Article
Martinez Maestro, L., Dong, N., Pedroni, M., Conti, G., Sbarbati, A., Ramirez-Hernandez, J., …Speghini, A. (2011). NIR-to-NIR two-photon excited CaF2:Tm3+,Yb3+ nanoparticles : multifunctional nanoprobes for highly penetrating fluorescence bio-imaging. ACS nano, 5(11), 8665-8671. https://doi.org/10.1021/nn202490m

In this study, we report on the remarkable two-photon excited fluorescence efficiency in the “biological window” of CaF2:Tm3+,Yb3+ nanoparticles. On the basis of the strong Tm3+ ion emission (at around 800 nm), tissue penetration depths as large as 2... Read More about NIR-to-NIR two-photon excited CaF2:Tm3+,Yb3+ nanoparticles : multifunctional nanoprobes for highly penetrating fluorescence bio-imaging.

Detection of incoherent joint state due to inaccurate bone motion estimation (2011)
Journal Article
Schwartz, C., Leboeuf, F., Rémy-Néris, O., Brochard, S., Lempereur, M., & Burdin, V. (2011). Detection of incoherent joint state due to inaccurate bone motion estimation. Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, 16(2), 165-174. https://doi.org/10.1080/10255842.2011.613379

In biomechanical modelling and motion analysis, the use of personalised data such as bone geometry would provide more accurate and reliable results. However, there are still a limited number of tools used to measure the evolution of articular interac... Read More about Detection of incoherent joint state due to inaccurate bone motion estimation.

Lesbian, gay & queer parenting: families, intimacies, genealogies (2011)
Book
Hicks, S. (2011). Lesbian, gay & queer parenting: families, intimacies, genealogies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

How are new relationalities formed? By what methods are kinship/family claims made? How are gender and race made relevant to subjectivities? How does state welfare discipline parenting? Are new forms of intimacy possible? This book investigates such... Read More about Lesbian, gay & queer parenting: families, intimacies, genealogies.

Comparing men's and womens' experiences of multiple exclusion homelessness (2011)
Journal Article
Bowpitt,, G., Dwyer, P., Sundin, E., & Weinstein, W. (2011). Comparing men's and womens' experiences of multiple exclusion homelessness. Social Policy and Society, 10(4), 537-547. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474746411000285

This article explores gender as a variable in multiple exclusion homelessness in England. Much past research has taken insufficient account of the gender of homeless people, especially the predominance of men in the single homeless population and of... Read More about Comparing men's and womens' experiences of multiple exclusion homelessness.

The use of hydrogel as an electrode-skin interface for electrode array FES applications (2011)
Journal Article
Cooper, G., Barker, A., Heller, B., Good, T., Kenney, L., & Howard, D. (2011). The use of hydrogel as an electrode-skin interface for electrode array FES applications. Medical Engineering and Physics, 33(8), 967-982. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.medengphy.2011.03.008

Functional electrical stimulation is commonly used to restore function in post-stroke patients in upper and lower limb applications. Location of the electrodes can be a problem hence some research groups have begun to experiment with electrode arrays... Read More about The use of hydrogel as an electrode-skin interface for electrode array FES applications.

The tracker chronicles (2011)
Exhibition / Performance
Lloyd, C. The tracker chronicles. 1 October 2011 - 28 October 2011. (Unpublished)

Using surveillance technology, data collection, digital print and re-imagined objects, “The Tracker Chronicles” plays with an array of information gathering devices, exploring their possible meanings and applications. Live camera feeds and data strea... Read More about The tracker chronicles.

L’amour de l’impossible : advertising and translation (2011)
Journal Article
Sanchez, M. (2011). L’amour de l’impossible : advertising and translation. Forum (Korean Society of Conference Interpretation, École supérieure d'interprètes et de traducteurs), 9(2), 233-254. https://doi.org/10.1075/forum.9.2.11san

The translation of advertisements, in a strict sense, is rarely possible. Linguistic and cultural considerations make the translation of standard texts difficult enough: whether at word level, sentence level or text level translators constantly enco... Read More about L’amour de l’impossible : advertising and translation.

New design business models - Implications for the future of design management (2011)
Book Chapter
Cooper, R., Williams, A., & Evans, M. (2011). New design business models - Implications for the future of design management. In R. Cooper, S. Junginger, & T. Lockwood (Eds.), The handbook of design management (495-511). Oxford: Berg Publishers

Design management in the UK has developed significantly since the early 1990s, with design managers now operating across both design consultancies and within businesses. These organizations operate in a dynamic global environment; as such it is neces... Read More about New design business models - Implications for the future of design management.

Navigating the grounded theory terrain. Part 2 (2011)
Journal Article
Hunter, A., Murphy, K., Grealish, A., Casey, D., & Keady, J. (2011). Navigating the grounded theory terrain. Part 2. Nurse Researcher, 19(1), 6-11

Aim In this paper, the choice of classic grounded theory will be discussed and justified in the context of the first author's PhD research.


Background The methodological discussion takes place within the context of PhD research entitled:
Devel... Read More about Navigating the grounded theory terrain. Part 2.

Feature selection for high-dimensional machinery fault diagnosis data using multiple models and Radial Basis Function networks (2011)
Journal Article
Zhang, K., Li, Y., Scarf, P., & Ball, A. (2011). Feature selection for high-dimensional machinery fault diagnosis data using multiple models and Radial Basis Function networks. Neurocomputing, 74(17), 2941-2952. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2011.03.043

The technique of machinery fault diagnosis has been greatly enhanced over recent years with the application of many pattern classification methods. However, these classification methods suffer from the ?curse of dimensionality? when applied to high-d... Read More about Feature selection for high-dimensional machinery fault diagnosis data using multiple models and Radial Basis Function networks.

Young people living in the YMCA (2011)
Journal Article
Somerville, P., Brown, P., Morris, G., & Scullion, L. (2011). Young people living in the YMCA. Social Policy and Society, 10(4), 559-570. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474746411000303

This article presents interim findings and reflections from a case study of multiple excluded homeless people in Stoke-on-Trent. The article focuses on the experiences reported by a group of twelve such people living in the YMCA hostel. From the inte... Read More about Young people living in the YMCA.

Forced labour and UK immigration policy : status matters? (2011)
Report
Dwyer, P., Lewis, H., Scullion, L., & Waite, L. (2011). Forced labour and UK immigration policy : status matters?

This paper: investigates the links between immigration status and migrants’ vulnerability to forced labour; explores how socio-legal status (specific rights to residence, work and social welfare) impacts on migrants’ risk of forced labour, and; revie... Read More about Forced labour and UK immigration policy : status matters?.

Robust and cost-effective approach for discovering action rules (2011)
Journal Article
Kalanat, N., Shamsinejad, P., & Saraee, M. (2011). Robust and cost-effective approach for discovering action rules. International journal of machine learning and computing (Online), 1(4), 325-331. https://doi.org/10.7763/IJMLC.2011.V1.48

The main goal of Knowledge Discovery in
Databases is to find interesting and usable patterns, meaningful
in their domain. Actionable Knowledge Discovery came to
existence as a direct respond to the need of finding more usable
patterns called acti... Read More about Robust and cost-effective approach for discovering action rules.