All Outputs (828)

A time dependent kinetic small angle neutron scattering study of a novel YFe phase (2013)
Journal Article
Simmons, L., Bentley, P., Al-Jawad, M., & Kilcoyne, S. (2013). A time dependent kinetic small angle neutron scattering study of a novel YFe phase. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 25(25), https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/25/25/255401

Crystallization of amorphous Y67Fe33 into the YFe2 C15 Laves phase via a novel 'YFe' intermediate phase has been observed through to completion using time-resolved small angle neutron scattering (SANS). The nucleation and growth kinetics of the phase... Read More about A time dependent kinetic small angle neutron scattering study of a novel YFe phase.

Creating romanticism : case studies in the literature, science and medicine of the 1790s (2013)
Book
Ruston, S. (2013). Creating romanticism : case studies in the literature, science and medicine of the 1790s. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137264299

This book argues that the term 'Romanticism' should be more culturally-inclusive, recognizing the importance of scientific and medical ideas that helped shape some of the key concepts of the period, such as natural rights, the creative imagination an... Read More about Creating romanticism : case studies in the literature, science and medicine of the 1790s.

Failed multiculturalism and limited freedoms: Browning in the terror panic context (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Patel, T. (2013, May). Failed multiculturalism and limited freedoms: Browning in the terror panic context. Presented at Symposium: The Future of the Multi-ethnic City, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

We are supposedly living in post-race times. This refers to a deconstructive approach to identity and social relations, in an attempt to move beyond traditional constructions of race. More recently within the terror panic context, post-race discussio... Read More about Failed multiculturalism and limited freedoms: Browning in the terror panic context.

Storyboarding for visual analytics (2013)
Journal Article
Walker, R., Cenydd, L., Pop, S., Miles, H., Hughes, C., Teahan, W., & Roberts, J. (2015). Storyboarding for visual analytics. Information Visualization, 14(1), 27-50. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473871613487089

Analysts wish to explore different hypotheses, organize their thoughts into visual narratives and present their findings. Some developers have used algorithms to ascertain key events from their data, while others have visualized different states of... Read More about Storyboarding for visual analytics.

'RUSSIA WINS SPACE RACE' : The British press and the Sputnik moment, 1957 (2013)
Journal Article
Barnett, N. (2013). 'RUSSIA WINS SPACE RACE' : The British press and the Sputnik moment, 1957. Media History, 19(2), 182-195. https://doi.org/10.1080/13688804.2013.791419

This article traces the development of the British press narrative from the launching of Sputnik in October 1957 to the Soviets’ second satellite, containing a dog, in early November. It argues there was an initial outpouring of surprise, combined w... Read More about 'RUSSIA WINS SPACE RACE' : The British press and the Sputnik moment, 1957.

Fibbin' Archie (2013)
Book
James, G. (2013). Fibbin' Archie. Manchester: Chapletown

Archie has quite a reputation as a practised fibber. Normally his lies are harmless but as time goes by they begin to get him into more and more trouble. They lose him his girlfriend, and bizarrely, his hearing as his ears begin to react in a very st... Read More about Fibbin' Archie.

Involving a young person in the development of a digital resource in nurse education (2013)
Journal Article
Fenton, G. (2014). Involving a young person in the development of a digital resource in nurse education. Nurse Education in Practice, 14(1), 49-54. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2013.04.014

Health policies across western societies have embedded the need for service user and carer perspectives in service design and delivery of educational programmes. There is a growing recognition of the need to include the perspectives of children and y... Read More about Involving a young person in the development of a digital resource in nurse education.

Remembering the past, looking to the future : Christmas as a symbol of change in later life widowhood (2013)
Journal Article
Collins, T. (2014). Remembering the past, looking to the future : Christmas as a symbol of change in later life widowhood. Ageing and society, 34(9), 1525-1549. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X13000329

Many older women experience the loss of a spouse or partner in later life. This paper explores older women's experiences of Christmas in order to locate process and meaning in relation to the transition of later life widowhood. Drawing on longitudina... Read More about Remembering the past, looking to the future : Christmas as a symbol of change in later life widowhood.

A mixed effects model for identifying goal scoring ability of footballers (2013)
Journal Article
ability of footballers. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 177(2), 397-417. https://doi.org/10.1111/rssa.12015

The paper presents a model that can be used to identify the goal scoring ability of footballers. By decomposing the scoring process into the generation of shots and the conversion of shots to goals, abilities can be estimated from two mixed effects m... Read More about A mixed effects model for identifying goal scoring ability of footballers.

Black minority ethnic communities and levels of satisfaction with policing : findings from a study in the north of England (2013)
Journal Article
Barrett, G., Fletcher, S., & Patel, T. (2014). Black minority ethnic communities and levels of satisfaction with policing : findings from a study in the north of England. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 14(2), 196-215. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895813483760

Using data from an original qualitative study carried out during 2009–10 with a sample located in the north of England (NES), this article considers the satisfaction levels of black minority ethnic (BME) groups with a north of England police force (N... Read More about Black minority ethnic communities and levels of satisfaction with policing : findings from a study in the north of England.

Next generation network environments in Europe — The significance of the EU as a policy actor (2013)
Journal Article
Simpson, J. (2014). Next generation network environments in Europe — The significance of the EU as a policy actor. Government Information Quarterly, 31(1), 100-107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2012.08.008

The relatively new topic of Next Generation Networks (NGN) is one which is ascending rapidly communications policy agendas in Europe and beyond. How these networks might be created and, beyond that, how they might function in a sustained and broadly... Read More about Next generation network environments in Europe — The significance of the EU as a policy actor.

Augmented and virtual reality based approaches in minimally invasive surgery training (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Rahman, M. A., Mahmud, P., & Mashuk, M. (2013). Augmented and virtual reality based approaches in minimally invasive surgery training. In 2013 International Conference on Informatics, Electronics and Vision (ICIEV). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIEV.2013.6572714

Continuing development in surgical techniques has elevated the level of sophistication in surgery. In order to reduce trauma to healthy tissue of the patient body, scientists are continuously trying different technologies in surgery. Minimally Invasi... Read More about Augmented and virtual reality based approaches in minimally invasive surgery training.

Labour ministers, intelligence and domestic anti-Communism, 1945–1951 (2013)
Journal Article
Lomas, D. (2013). Labour ministers, intelligence and domestic anti-Communism, 1945–1951. Journal of Intelligence History, 12(2), 113-133

Relations between the post-war Labour Government and Britain's Security Service (MI5) have often been seen as strained. Utilising recently released material, the article argues that, rather than view the Service with disdain, Labour Ministers saw MI5... Read More about Labour ministers, intelligence and domestic anti-Communism, 1945–1951.

Lower expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase and higher expression of arginase in rat alveolar macrophages are linked to their susceptibility to Toxoplasma gondii infection. (2013)
Journal Article
ZJ, Z., J, Z., J, W., Z, L., T, W., SQ, Y., …ZR, L. (2013). Lower expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase and higher expression of arginase in rat alveolar macrophages are linked to their susceptibility to Toxoplasma gondii infection. PLoS ONE, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0063650

Rats are naturally resistant to Toxoplasma gondii infection, particularly the RH strain, while mice are not. Previous studies have demonstrated that inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) and arginase-1 of rodent peritoneal macrophages are linked to... Read More about Lower expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase and higher expression of arginase in rat alveolar macrophages are linked to their susceptibility to Toxoplasma gondii infection..

From source to brain : modelling sound propagation and localisation in rooms (2013)
Thesis
Sheaffer, J. From source to brain : modelling sound propagation and localisation in rooms. (Thesis). University of Salford

Human localisation of sound in enclosed spaces is a cross-disciplinary research topic, with important applications in auditory science, room acoustics, spatial audio and telecommunications. By combining an accelerated model of $3$D sound propagation... Read More about From source to brain : modelling sound propagation and localisation in rooms.

Minimising flood risk accumulation through effective private and public sector engagement (2013)
Report
Ingirige, B., & Amaratunga, R. (2013). Minimising flood risk accumulation through effective private and public sector engagement

Flooding is a global problem affecting both developing and developed countries. Academics and practitioners in climate science frequently argue that changing climatic conditions are likely to worsen the length and severity of these flood events, whi... Read More about Minimising flood risk accumulation through effective private and public sector engagement.

The potential of dual-wavelength laser scanning for estimating vegetation moisture content (2013)
Journal Article
Gaulton, R., Danson, F., Ramirez Cardozo, F., & Gunawan, O. (2013). The potential of dual-wavelength laser scanning for estimating vegetation moisture content. Remote Sensing of Environment, 132, 32-39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2013.01.001

Vegetation moisture content is an important early indicator of forest drought stress, disease and fire risk. Existing remote sensing techniques to measure biochemical properties of vegetation, such as Equivalent Water Thickness (EWT), are limited by... Read More about The potential of dual-wavelength laser scanning for estimating vegetation moisture content.

Sentiment classification in Persian: Introducing a mutual information-based method for feature selection (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Bagheri, A., Saraee, M., & de Jong, F. (2013, May). Sentiment classification in Persian: Introducing a mutual information-based method for feature selection. Presented at 21st Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE), 2013, Mashhad, Iran

With the enormous growth of online reviews in Internet, sentiment analysis has received more and more attention in information retrieval and natural language processing community. Up to now there are very few researches conducted on sentiment analysi... Read More about Sentiment classification in Persian: Introducing a mutual information-based method for feature selection.

Finding association rules in linked data, a centralization approach (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Ramezani, R., Saraee, M., & Nematbakhsh, M. (2013, May). Finding association rules in linked data, a centralization approach. Presented at 21st Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE), 2013, Mashhad, Iran

Linked Data is used in the Web to create typed links between data from different sources. Connecting diffused data by using these links provides new data which could be employed in different applications. Association Rules Mining (ARM) is a data mini... Read More about Finding association rules in linked data, a centralization approach.

Local political marketing in the context of the conservative party (2013)
Journal Article
Reeves, P. (2013). Local political marketing in the context of the conservative party. Journal of Nonprofit and Public Sector Marketing, 25(2), 127-163. https://doi.org/10.1080/10495142.2013.760990

Local political marketing can be defined as marketing related strategy, activities, and tactics implemented by a political party in a local geographic constituency, in order to attempt to maximise aggregate potential voter satisfaction, and therefo... Read More about Local political marketing in the context of the conservative party.