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The imperial war museum’s social interpretation project (2013)
Report
Bagnall, G., Light, B., Crawford, G., Gosling, V., Rushton, C., & Peterson, T. (2013). The imperial war museum’s social interpretation project

This report represents the output from research undertaken by University of Salford and MTM London as part of the joint Digital R&D Fund for Arts and Culture, operated by Nesta, Arts Council England and the AHRC. University of Salford and MTM Lon... Read More about The imperial war museum’s social interpretation project.

Hot goods in happy hands: Occasional user accounts and motivations for buying stolen goods (2013)
Journal Article
Patel, T. (2013). Hot goods in happy hands: Occasional user accounts and motivations for buying stolen goods. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 23(4), 500-513. https://doi.org/10.1080/10911359.2013.773202

Using qualitative data collected from an empirical study that focused on theft-related activity in a U.K. high crime area, the motivations and purchase patterns of occasional buyers of stolen goods are considered. In doing so, it is argued that as an... Read More about Hot goods in happy hands: Occasional user accounts and motivations for buying stolen goods.

A multi-faceted approach to optimising a complex unplanned healthcare system (2013)
Journal Article
Marshall-Ponting, A., Kobbacy, K., Sapountzis, S., & Kagioglou, M. (2013). A multi-faceted approach to optimising a complex unplanned healthcare system. International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management, 15(2/3), 239-248. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJLSM.2013.053769

Unscheduled and urgent healthcare represents the largest area of activity and cost for the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). Like typical complex systems unplanned care has the features of interdependence and it has structures at different scales t... Read More about A multi-faceted approach to optimising a complex unplanned healthcare system.

Reflexivity (2013)
Book Chapter
May, T. (2013). Reflexivity. In B. Kaldis (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences. London: Sage

This Encyclopedia is the first of its kind in bringing together philosophy and the social sciences. It is not only about the philosophy of the social sciences but, going beyond that, it is also about the relationship between philosophy and the socia... Read More about Reflexivity.

Representation: Clarification and ways forward, report produced for mistra urban futures (2013)
Other
May, T. (2013). Representation: Clarification and ways forward, report produced for mistra urban futures. UK

Breastfeeding mothers' experiences: The ghost in the machine (2013)
Journal Article
Regan, P., & Ball, E. (2013). Breastfeeding mothers' experiences: The ghost in the machine. Qualitative Health Research, 23(5), 679-688. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732313481641

We critically review qualitative research studies conducted from 2000 to 2012 exploring Western mothers’ breastfeeding experiences. We used the search criteria “breastfeeding,” “qualitative,” and “experiences” to retrieve 74 qualitative research stud... Read More about Breastfeeding mothers' experiences: The ghost in the machine.

Evolution of contemporary nursing (2013)
Book Chapter
Ball, E. (2013). Evolution of contemporary nursing. In C. Brooker, & A. Waugh (Eds.), Foundations of Nursing Practice (30-61). London: Elsevier

Nursing has always developed in response to the changing needs of society. As the structure of society alters, new nursing habits, customs, values and knowledge emerge in response to changes in the population and its health issues. Because of the in... Read More about Evolution of contemporary nursing.

DEHEMS: Creating a digital environment for large-scale energy management at homes (2013)
Journal Article
Liu, Q., Cooper, G., Linge, N., Takruri, H., & Sowden, R. (2013). DEHEMS: Creating a digital environment for large-scale energy management at homes. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, 59(1), 62-69

Located at the consumer-end of the Smart Grid, domestic energy monitoring and management systems aim to provide direct energy feedback whilst (or shortly after) consumption occurs, so as to persuade users to achieve energy saving and efficiency. Howe... Read More about DEHEMS: Creating a digital environment for large-scale energy management at homes.

Privacy and publicity according to facebook (2013)
Journal Article
Lin, Y. (2013). Privacy and publicity according to facebook. Journal of Mass Media Ethics, 28(3),

This is a book review on Trottier, D. (2012). Social media as surveillance: Rethinking visibility in a converging world. Surrey, England: Ashgate. 213 pp.

Towards a lean model for production management of refurbishment projects, VTT Technology: 94 (2013)
Other
Kemmer, S., Koskela, L., & Nykänen, V. (2013). Towards a lean model for production management of refurbishment projects, VTT Technology: 94. Finland

This is the Stage 3 Report for the ApRemodel project, which aims at improving processes for multi-occupancy retrofit by generating a lean model for project delivery. In this respect, a process-driven approach has been adopted to investigate what c... Read More about Towards a lean model for production management of refurbishment projects, VTT Technology: 94.

Computers and learner autonomy : trends and issues (2013)
Book Chapter
Jarvis, H. (2013). Computers and learner autonomy : trends and issues. In S. Sheehan (Ed.), British Council ELT Research Papers Volume 1 (387-409). London: British Council

This project examines the practices and perceptions of non-native adult student speakers of English (NNS) working on computer-based materials (CbMs) in selfstudy contexts in their own countries. With reference to Thai and Arabic university students... Read More about Computers and learner autonomy : trends and issues.

Re-thinking sustainable knowledge-based urbanism through active intermediation (2013)
Book Chapter
Perry, B., May, T., Marvin, S., & Hodson, M. (2013). Re-thinking sustainable knowledge-based urbanism through active intermediation. In H. Anderson, & R. Atkinson (Eds.), The Production and Use of Urban Knowledge: European Experiences (151-168). Dordrecht: Springer

This book provides new insights on cities and the nature of urban development, and the role of knowledge management in urban growth. It considers how knowledge informs policies and supports decision making, and can assist in addressing the drivers of... Read More about Re-thinking sustainable knowledge-based urbanism through active intermediation.

The influence of F-doping in SnO2 thin films (2013)
Journal Article
Yates, H., Evans, P., & Sheel, D. (2013). The influence of F-doping in SnO2 thin films. Physics Procedia, 46, 159-166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phpro.2013.07.062

Transparent conductive oxide (TCO) films are widely used in many consumer products. The properties of the TCO can critically affect the efficiency of the application. With this in mind the surface morphological, optical and electrical properties ha... Read More about The influence of F-doping in SnO2 thin films.

The real SAP® Business one cost : a case study of ERP adoption in an SME (2013)
Journal Article
Griffiths, M., Heinze, A., & Ofoegbu, A. (2013). The real SAP® Business one cost : a case study of ERP adoption in an SME. International Journal of Management Practice, 6(2), 199-215. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMP.2013.055831

This paper reports on a UK based service management Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) that invested into SAP® Business One. The action research case study highlights the real cost and difficulties faced in moving to the one single SAP system an... Read More about The real SAP® Business one cost : a case study of ERP adoption in an SME.

The interpretation of polycrystalline coherent inelastic neutron scattering from aluminium (2013)
Journal Article
Roach, D., Ross, D., Gale, J., & Taylor, J. (2013). The interpretation of polycrystalline coherent inelastic neutron scattering from aluminium. Journal of Applied Crystallography, 46, 1755-1770. https://doi.org/10.1107/S0021889813023728

A new approach to the interpretation and analysis of coherent inelastic neutron scattering from polycrystals (poly-CINS) is presented. Here we describe a simulation of the one-phonon coherent inelastic scattering from a lattice model of an arbitrary... Read More about The interpretation of polycrystalline coherent inelastic neutron scattering from aluminium.

An unsupervised aspect detection model for sentiment analysis of reviews (2013)
Journal Article
Bagheri, A., Saraee, M., & Jong, F. (2013). An unsupervised aspect detection model for sentiment analysis of reviews. Lecture notes in computer science, 7934, 140-151. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38824-8_12

With the rapid growth of user-generated content on the internet, sentiment analysis of online reviews has become a hot research topic recently, but due to variety and wide range of products and services, the supervised and domain-specific models are... Read More about An unsupervised aspect detection model for sentiment analysis of reviews.

Feature selection methods in Persian sentiment analysis (2013)
Journal Article
Saraee, M., & Bagheri, A. (2013). Feature selection methods in Persian sentiment analysis. Lecture notes in computer science, 7934, 303-308. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38824-8_29

With the enormous growth of digital content in internet, various types of online reviews such as product and movie reviews present a wealth of subjective information that can be very helpful for potential users. Sentiment analysis aims to use automat... Read More about Feature selection methods in Persian sentiment analysis.

Imperfect inspection and replacement of a system with a defective state: A cost and reliability analysis (2013)
Journal Article
Berrade, M., Scarf, P., Cavalcante, C., & Dwight, R. (2013). Imperfect inspection and replacement of a system with a defective state: A cost and reliability analysis. Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 120, 80-87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2013.02.024

We consider a system with three possible states, good, defective and failed. Failures are detected as soon as they occur; the defective state, which is only revealed by inspection, does not prevent the system from fulfilling the function for which it... Read More about Imperfect inspection and replacement of a system with a defective state: A cost and reliability analysis.

Pressure and breast thickness in mammography : an exploratory calibration study (2013)
Journal Article
Hogg, P., Taylor, M., Szczepura, K., Mercer, C., & Denton, E. (2013). Pressure and breast thickness in mammography : an exploratory calibration study. British Journal of Radiology, 86(1021), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1259/bjr.20120222

Objective To perform a calibration study to provide data to help improve consistency in the pressure that is applied during mammography. Methods Automatic readouts of breast thickness accuracy vary between mammography machines; therefore, one m... Read More about Pressure and breast thickness in mammography : an exploratory calibration study.

Strategic issues for LIS practitioner-researcher journals (2013)
Journal Article
Grant, M., & Walton, G. (2013). Strategic issues for LIS practitioner-researcher journals. Health Information and Libraries Journal, 19(3), 221-223. https://doi.org/10.1080/13614533.2013.826140

Our intention in this Editorial is to explore some of the key issues being faced by library and information science (LIS) research based journals. We are, respectively, Editor of Health Information and Libraries Journal(HILJ) (Grant) and Editor of N... Read More about Strategic issues for LIS practitioner-researcher journals.