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Gypsy, Traveller and Travelling Showpeople accommodation assessment : Lichfield and Tamworth : Final report (2012)
Report
Scullion, L., & Brown, P. (2012). Gypsy, Traveller and Travelling Showpeople accommodation assessment : Lichfield and Tamworth : Final report

In July 2012 Lichfield District and Tamworth Borough Councils commissioned the Salford Housing & Urban Studies Unit (SHUSU) at the University of Salford to produce an updated Gypsy, Traveller and Travelling Showpeople Accommodation Assessment. The pr... Read More about Gypsy, Traveller and Travelling Showpeople accommodation assessment : Lichfield and Tamworth : Final report.

1479 Referral of children from a UK district general hospital emergency department to primary care general practitioners (2012)
Journal Article
Rowland, A., & Isba, R. (2012). 1479 Referral of children from a UK district general hospital emergency department to primary care general practitioners. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 97(Suppl), A419-A420. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2012-302724.1479

Background: This preliminary audit aimed to assess the feasibility of referring children presenting to a UK District General Hospital Emergency Department (ED), seeing 27500 children per year, to their own Primary Care General Practitioner (GP) fo... Read More about 1479 Referral of children from a UK district general hospital emergency department to primary care general practitioners.

1478 Attendances at the children's emergency department : an audit of two years of activity at a new, dedicated paediatric emergency department (2012)
Journal Article
Isba, R., Gibb, M., & Rowland, A. (2012). 1478 Attendances at the children's emergency department : an audit of two years of activity at a new, dedicated paediatric emergency department. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 97(Suppl), A419-A419. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2012-302724.1478

Aim: The aim of this audit was to explore patterns of attendance at a new, dedicated, audio-visually separate paediatric emergency department (PED) within the ED of a hospital in the North West of England. The PED was opened in June 2009 following... Read More about 1478 Attendances at the children's emergency department : an audit of two years of activity at a new, dedicated paediatric emergency department.

1554 An educational programme focusing on paediatric fracture identification maintains a low false-negative radiograph initial report rate in emergency medicine (2012)
Journal Article
Fox, T., & Rowland, A. (2012). 1554 An educational programme focusing on paediatric fracture identification maintains a low false-negative radiograph initial report rate in emergency medicine. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 97(Suppl), A440-A440. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2012-302724.1554

Introduction: False negative radiograph reports constitute greater than 80% of all diagnostic errors in Emergency Departments (EDs) with reported levels of false negative initial reports around 1%. Method: The records of all patients recalled to t... Read More about 1554 An educational programme focusing on paediatric fracture identification maintains a low false-negative radiograph initial report rate in emergency medicine.

Buckton Castle and the castles of North West England (2012)
Book
Grimsditch, B., Nevell, M., & Nevell, R. (2012). Buckton Castle and the castles of North West England. Salford: Centre for Applied Archaoelogy, University of Salford

Buckton Castle is the one of the least known, but most dramatically situated, castles in North West England. Its origins have been shrouded in mystery until quite recently, with tales of treasure and battles, but little in the way of hard fact. This... Read More about Buckton Castle and the castles of North West England.

Omani crafts as an expression of culture and heritage : an investigation of Omani craft and pottery challenges (2012)
Thesis
Al Mamari, B. Omani crafts as an expression of culture and heritage : an investigation of Omani craft and pottery challenges. (Thesis). University of Salford

The doctoral project has for main purpose to investigate the challenges facing the traditional craft enterprises in Oman and to develop a framework for understanding and managing the cultural, artistic, marketing and consumption influences that aff... Read More about Omani crafts as an expression of culture and heritage : an investigation of Omani craft and pottery challenges.

The spatial and temporal ecology of the large mammal populations and vegetation of Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania (2012)
Thesis
Oates, L. The spatial and temporal ecology of the large mammal populations and vegetation of Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania. (Thesis). University of Salford

Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania is a World Heritage Site and Biosphere Reserve and is home to tens of thousands of large mammals. This study documents the historical ecology of the crater from 1892 to 2012 based on an analysis of the published litera... Read More about The spatial and temporal ecology of the large mammal populations and vegetation of Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania.

The use of prospect theory framework in constrained multi-objective particle swarm optimisation (2012)
Thesis
Bunny, M. The use of prospect theory framework in constrained multi-objective particle swarm optimisation. (Thesis). University of Salford

Many practical problems in the real world nowadays can be formulated as constraint single or multiple objective optimisation problems with constraints. Particle swarm optimisation (PSO) is a population-based stochastic algorithm has been shown to b... Read More about The use of prospect theory framework in constrained multi-objective particle swarm optimisation.

The Trojan Horse(s) of "Hello World" culture : the story of Sony PSP domestication through the eyes of the Homebrew users (2012)
Thesis
Amin, M. The Trojan Horse(s) of "Hello World" culture : the story of Sony PSP domestication through the eyes of the Homebrew users. (Thesis). University of Salford

Technology that is released to the public is often "locked down" or "tethered" ready for domestication by the regular user in the way that the manufacturer believes that it will be used (Zittrain, 2007). However, when users such as the hacker users... Read More about The Trojan Horse(s) of "Hello World" culture : the story of Sony PSP domestication through the eyes of the Homebrew users.

Talent management, leadership development and knowledge transfer in an international context (2012)
Thesis
Iles, P. Talent management, leadership development and knowledge transfer in an international context. (Thesis). University of Salford

This submission incorporates twelve published works relating to issues of talent management, leadership development and knowledge transfer in an international context. These issues are examined from a consistently contextual and processual stance... Read More about Talent management, leadership development and knowledge transfer in an international context.

ROCView : prototype software for data collection in jackknife alternative free-response receiver operating characteristic analysis (2012)
Journal Article
Thompson, J., Hogg, P., Thompson, S., Manning, D., & Szczepura, K. (2012). ROCView : prototype software for data collection in jackknife alternative free-response receiver operating characteristic analysis. British Journal of Radiology, 85, 1320-1326. https://doi.org/10.1259/bjr/99497945

ROCView has been developed as an image display and response capture (IDRC) solution to image display and consistent recording of reader responses in relation to the free-response receiver operating characteristic paradigm. A web-based solution to IDR... Read More about ROCView : prototype software for data collection in jackknife alternative free-response receiver operating characteristic analysis.

Humanising nursing care: a theoretical model (2012)
Journal Article
Hemingway, A., Scammell, J., & Heaslip, V. (2012). Humanising nursing care: a theoretical model. Nursing Times, 108(40), 26-27

This article is the first of two exploring how nurses can humanise care. It presents a theoretical framework developed by Todres et al (2009) that explores eight central aspects of what it is to be human. The second article, published next week, look... Read More about Humanising nursing care: a theoretical model.

Modelled larval dispersal and measured gene flow : seascape genetics of the common cockle Cerastoderma edule in the southern Irish Sea (2012)
Journal Article
Coscia, I., Robins, P., Porter, J., Malham, S., & Ironside, J. (2013). Modelled larval dispersal and measured gene flow : seascape genetics of the common cockle Cerastoderma edule in the southern Irish Sea. Conservation Genetics, 14(2), 451-466. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-012-0404-4

The role of marine currents in shaping population connectivity in the common cockle Cerastoderma edule was investigated in the southern Irish Sea. C. edule is one of the most valuable and exploited shellfish species in the area, yet very little is kn... Read More about Modelled larval dispersal and measured gene flow : seascape genetics of the common cockle Cerastoderma edule in the southern Irish Sea.

Improvement of musculoskeletal model inputs : adjustment of acceleration by dynamic optimisation (2012)
Journal Article
Leboeuf, F., & Colloud, F. (2012). Improvement of musculoskeletal model inputs : adjustment of acceleration by dynamic optimisation. Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, 15(Sup_1), 186-188. https://doi.org/10.1080/10255842.2012.713693

The knowledge of intrinsic dynamics in terms of joint torques and muscle tensions is of importance for clinical investigations. The common process is to solve a multibody inverse dynamic problem based on a set of iterative equations using noisy... Read More about Improvement of musculoskeletal model inputs : adjustment of acceleration by dynamic optimisation.

Unstable gait due to spasticity of the rectus femoris : gait analysis and motor nerve block (2012)
Journal Article
Gross, R., Leboeuf, F., Rémy-Néris, O., & Perrouin-Verbe, B. (2012). Unstable gait due to spasticity of the rectus femoris : gait analysis and motor nerve block. Annals of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, 55(9-10), 609-622. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rehab.2012.08.013

We present the case of a 54 year-old man presenting with a right Brown-Séquard plus syndrome (BSPS) after a traumatic cervical spinal cord injury. After being operated on with selective tibial neurotomy and triceps surae lengthening because of a righ... Read More about Unstable gait due to spasticity of the rectus femoris : gait analysis and motor nerve block.

Mouths and meaning : a multisensory, creative and collaborative arts based exploration of food, eating and embodiment towards gaining greater understanding of the experience of eating disorders (2012)
Thesis
Platten, B. Mouths and meaning : a multisensory, creative and collaborative arts based exploration of food, eating and embodiment towards gaining greater understanding of the experience of eating disorders. (Thesis). University of Salford

While it is widely recognized that there is no single cause contributing to the onset of an eating disorder, current understanding of embodiment for those affected is predominately represented as a preoccupation with body image (Probyn, 2000). Cli... Read More about Mouths and meaning : a multisensory, creative and collaborative arts based exploration of food, eating and embodiment towards gaining greater understanding of the experience of eating disorders.

Worktown 75th Anniversary Exhibition, Bolton Museum (2012)
Exhibition / Performance
Edge, C. Worktown 75th Anniversary Exhibition, Bolton Museum. [Exhibition]. 22 September 2012 - 1 December 2012. (Unpublished)

A major exhibition of photographs and artefacts created during Mass Observation’s Worktown study of everyday life in Bolton in the 1930s, to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the project

Proposal (2012)
Exhibition / Performance
Ingleson, S. Proposal. 20 September 2012. (Unpublished)

Inspired by Rogue Game, Bristol-based collective the Collect have gathered together a whole bunch of games by and inspired by artists – card games, board games, dice games, chess games, puzzle games, hard games, easy games, experiments, follies and a... Read More about Proposal.