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Effect of a six-week combined hip and knee neuromuscular exercise programme on joint loading and muscle co-contraction in individuals with medial knee osteoarthritis (2013)
Journal Article
Al-Khlaifat, L., Herrington, L., Hammond, A., & Jones, R. (2013). Effect of a six-week combined hip and knee neuromuscular exercise programme on joint loading and muscle co-contraction in individuals with medial knee osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 21(Sup.), S98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joca.2013.02.209

Purpose: Medial knee osteoarthritis (OA) is a mechanical condition affected by the amount of load on the knee joint. This load is determined by the magnitude of the external knee adduction moment (EKAM). Moreover, increased muscle co-contraction of t... Read More about Effect of a six-week combined hip and knee neuromuscular exercise programme on joint loading and muscle co-contraction in individuals with medial knee osteoarthritis.

Physiological, biochemical and growth responses of Italian ryegrass to butachlor exposure (2013)
Journal Article
Wang, S., Li, H., & Lin, C. (2013). Physiological, biochemical and growth responses of Italian ryegrass to butachlor exposure. Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology, 106(1-2), 21-27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pestbp.2013.03.007

A dose–response experiment was conducted to examine the effects of butachlor on the growth, physiology and biochemistry of Italian ryegrass. The plant suffered a >50% reduction in fresh biomass when exposed to a butachlor dose of 5 mg L�1. However,... Read More about Physiological, biochemical and growth responses of Italian ryegrass to butachlor exposure.

Using Framework Analysis in nursing research: a worked example (2013)
Journal Article
Ward, D. J., Furber, C., Tierney, S., & Swallow, V. (2013). Using Framework Analysis in nursing research: a worked example. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 69(11), 2423-2431. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.12127

Aims To demonstrate Framework Analysis using a worked example and to illustrate how criticisms of qualitative data analysis including issues of clarity and transparency can be addressed. Background Critics of the analysis of qualitative data som... Read More about Using Framework Analysis in nursing research: a worked example.

Integrating multiple analytical platforms and chemometrics for comprehensive metabolic profiling: application to meat spoilage detection (2013)
Journal Article
Xu, Y., Correa, E., & Goodacre, R. (2013). Integrating multiple analytical platforms and chemometrics for comprehensive metabolic profiling: application to meat spoilage detection. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 405(15), 5063-5074. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-013-6884-3

Untargeted metabolic profiling has become a common approach to attempt to understand biological systems. However, due to the large chemical diversity in the metabolites it is generally necessary to employ multiple analytical platforms so as to encomp... Read More about Integrating multiple analytical platforms and chemometrics for comprehensive metabolic profiling: application to meat spoilage detection.

Social media in Europe: Lessons from an online survey (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Aaltonen, S., Kakderi, C., Hausmann, V., & Heinze, A. (2013, March). Social media in Europe: Lessons from an online survey. Presented at 18th UKAIS Annual Conference: Social Information Systems, Worcester College, Oxford, UK

The popularity and use of social media is increasing in Europe. It facilitates a new emerging international business communication culture, which can help in developing new business relations utilizing the wide range of online applications. However,... Read More about Social media in Europe: Lessons from an online survey.

Social Media Monitoring visualisation: What do we have to look for? (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Hackett, C., Fletcher, G., & Heinze, A. (2013, March). Social Media Monitoring visualisation: What do we have to look for?. Presented at 18th UKAIS Annual Conference, Worcester College, Oxford, UK

The need for accurate and readily understandable social media monitoring is an issue faced by any organisation irrespective of their size or current levels of engagement with social media. It is increasingly a truism of social media that if an organi... Read More about Social Media Monitoring visualisation: What do we have to look for?.

The use of social media to attract generation Y in organisations (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Faour, H., & Heinze, A. (2013, March). The use of social media to attract generation Y in organisations. Presented at 18th UKAIS Annual Conference: Social Information Systems, Worcester College, Oxford, UK

Generation Y are increasingly entering the workforce, making around 50% of the global workforce by 2020. They come to the workplace with distinct characteristics and expectations causing organisations to rethink their traditional working practices. T... Read More about The use of social media to attract generation Y in organisations.

Sustainable tourism management in an internationlised learning environment (2013)
Book Chapter
Bell, R., & Ireland, S. (2013). Sustainable tourism management in an internationlised learning environment. In R. Atfield, & P. Kemp (Eds.), Enhancing Education for Sustainable Development in Business and Management, Hospitality, Leisure, Marketing, Tourism. Higher Education Academy

This chapter describes how European Union (EU) funding through Erasmus Intensive Programmes can be used to enhance the education of sustainable tourism management. It will describe how the mobility afforded to staff and students through the EU grant... Read More about Sustainable tourism management in an internationlised learning environment.

A method to measure paddle and detector pressures and footprints in mammography (2013)
Journal Article
Hogg, P., Szczepura, K., Darlington, A., & Maxwell, A. (2013). A method to measure paddle and detector pressures and footprints in mammography. Medical Physics, 40(4), 041907. https://doi.org/10.1118/1.4792720

Purpose: Compression is necessary in mammography to improve image quality and reduce radiation burden. Maximizing the amount of breast in contact with the image receptor (IR) is important. To achieve this, for the craniocaudal projection, there is n... Read More about A method to measure paddle and detector pressures and footprints in mammography.

Tidy's Physiotherapy: 15th Edition (2013)
Book
Porter, S. (Ed.). (2013). Tidy's Physiotherapy: 15th Edition. Elsevier

A classic textbook and a student favourite, Tidy's Physiotherapy aims to reflect contemporary practice of physiotherapy and can be used as a quick reference by the physiotherapy undergraduate for major problems that they may encounter throughout thei... Read More about Tidy's Physiotherapy: 15th Edition.

Context is half the work : the live brief in fine art education (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Randall, J. (2013, March). Context is half the work : the live brief in fine art education. Presented at National Association for Fine Art Education (NAFAE) AGM and National Seminar, Challenging Fine Art Pedagogies, London, UK

Jill Randall would like to use two case studies at two different sites of student projects to investigate the use of the Live Brief within teaching, and how staff research projects can introduce new ways of delivering Fine Art education, with benef... Read More about Context is half the work : the live brief in fine art education.

Could introducing vacuum delivery into the education curriculum of community midwives in Yemen improve maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity outcomes? (2013)
Journal Article
Kizler, R., & Hollins-Martin, C. (2013). Could introducing vacuum delivery into the education curriculum of community midwives in Yemen improve maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity outcomes?. Nurse Education in Practice, 13(2), 73-77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2012.10.008

At present in Yemen the neonatal mortality rate stands at 12%. A contributing factor is that when abnormalities arise during labour in rural areas, there is an absence of trained medical staff to manage complications. Consequently, childbearing women... Read More about Could introducing vacuum delivery into the education curriculum of community midwives in Yemen improve maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity outcomes?.

The visual fix : the seductive beauty of images of violence (2013)
Journal Article
Kilby, J. (2013). The visual fix : the seductive beauty of images of violence. European Journal of Social Theory, 16(3), 326-341. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368431013476539

This article questions the value of photographs of violence and suffering. Taking Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Philippe Bourgois’ anthology Violence in War and Peace (2004) as a point of departure and return, it will explore the significance of the inclu... Read More about The visual fix : the seductive beauty of images of violence.

Fluorescent nanothermometers provide controlled plasmonic-mediated intracellular hyperthermia (2013)
Journal Article
Martinez Maestro, L., Haro-Gonzalez, H., Iglesias-de la Cruz, M. C., Sanz-Rodriguez, F., Garcia Sole, J., & Jaque, D. (2013). Fluorescent nanothermometers provide controlled plasmonic-mediated intracellular hyperthermia. Nanomedicine, 8(3), https://doi.org/10.2217/nnm.12.122

This article demonstrates how controlled hyperthermia at the cellular level can be achieved.The method is based on the simultaneous intracellular incorporation of fluorescence nanothermometers (CdSe quantum dots) and metallic nanoheaters (gold nanoro... Read More about Fluorescent nanothermometers provide controlled plasmonic-mediated intracellular hyperthermia.

Sexual size dimorphism in anurans fails to obey Rensch’s rule (2013)
Journal Article
Rensch’s rule. Frontiers in Zoology, 10(10), https://doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-10-10

Background: Sexual size dimorphism (SSD) is related to ecology, behaviour and life history of organisms. Rensch’s rule states that SSD increases with overall body size in species where males are the larger sex, while decreasing with body size when... Read More about Sexual size dimorphism in anurans fails to obey Rensch’s rule.

Can virtual workspaces enhance team communication and collaboration in design review meetings? (2013)
Journal Article
Bassanino, M., Fernando, T., & Wu, K. (2014). Can virtual workspaces enhance team communication and collaboration in design review meetings?. Architectural Engineering and Design Management, 10(3-4), 200-217. https://doi.org/10.1080/17452007.2013.775102

The development of software to facilitate collaborative working among project teams has been an active research area for the last two decades. However, the recent impetus in deploying BIM in construction has brought teamwork to the forefront and, the... Read More about Can virtual workspaces enhance team communication and collaboration in design review meetings?.

'The Open Brief' 1 (2013)
Exhibition / Performance
Randall, J. (2013). 'The Open Brief' 1. [Visual artworks - Sculpture and mixed media]. 5 March 2013 - 7 March 2013. (Unpublished)

Project and Exhibition at Flat Time House, London, collaborating with undergraduate students from B.A. Visual Arts Course at the University of Salford, to re-stage APG ideas from the Tate Residency, and to generate new work related to the John Latham... Read More about 'The Open Brief' 1.