All Outputs (780)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The intermediary organisation of low carbon cities: A conceptual framework and comparative analysis (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Hodson, M., & Marvin, S. (2012, September). The intermediary organisation of low carbon cities: A conceptual framework and comparative analysis. Presented at Sustainable Transitions in Urban Waste Workshop, University of Manchester, Manchester

ROCView : prototype software for data collection in jackknife alternative free-response receiver operating characteristic analysis (2012)
Journal Article

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

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

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

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.

Why doesn't operations management research deliver? (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Koskela, L., & Rooke, J. (2012, September). Why doesn't operations management research deliver?. Poster presented at EPSRC Manufacturing the Future Conference 2012, Loughborough

The web site of EPSRC states: “Manufacturing operations management research is a key component for successful portfolio in Manufacturing Research; however, this area needs attention to ensure that it is delivering.” Indeed, problems regarding industr... Read More about Why doesn't operations management research deliver?.

Application of simulation and modelling in managing unplanned healthcare demand (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Lengu, D., Kobbacy, K., Sapountzis, S., & Kagioglou, M. (2012, September). Application of simulation and modelling in managing unplanned healthcare demand. Presented at 5th Annual HaCIRIC International Conference, ‘Transforming Healthcare Infrastructures and services in the age of austerity, Cardiff

Patients who attend Accident and Emergency (A & E) departments with problems that could be dealt with by
their general practitioners (GPs) use time and resources of the department that could be otherwise used for
patients with more appropriate need... Read More about Application of simulation and modelling in managing unplanned healthcare demand.

Direct laser writing of relief diffraction gratings into a bulk chalcogenide glass (2012)
Journal Article
into a bulk chalcogenide glass. Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 29(10), 2779-2786. https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.29.002779

We inscribed relief diffraction gratings with periods of 6, 14, and 24 μm into the surface of Ge15Ga3Sb12S70 bulk
glass by the material’s ablation using a femtosecond λ � 800 nm Ti:sapphire pulsed laser. The laser writing was
done with sample imple... Read More about Direct laser writing of relief diffraction gratings into a bulk chalcogenide glass.