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Impact of rapid mixing velocity and rapid mixing time on sludge dewaterability (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Fitria, D., Scholz, M., & Swift, G. (2014, October). Impact of rapid mixing velocity and rapid mixing time on sludge dewaterability. Presented at 1st International Conference on Science and Technology for Sustainability, Batam Island, Riau Archipelago (Kepulauan Riau) Province, Indonesia

Race equality and mental health policy (2014)
Book Chapter
Patel, T. (2014). Race equality and mental health policy. In P. Taylor, K. Corteen, & S. Morley (Eds.), A Companion to Criminal Justice, Mental Health and Risk. Bristol: Policy Press

Publisher's description of book: Within the domains of criminal justice and mental health care, critical debate concerning ‘care’ versus ‘control’ and ‘therapy’ versus ‘security’ is now commonplace. Indeed, the ‘hybridisation’ of these areas is now... Read More about Race equality and mental health policy.

Having the last word: paratextual framing in the Work of Alasdair Gray and 'Sidney Workman's Epilogue' to 'Old Men in Love' (2007) (2014)
Book Chapter
White, G. (2014). Having the last word: paratextual framing in the Work of Alasdair Gray and 'Sidney Workman's Epilogue' to 'Old Men in Love' (2007). In C. Manfredi (Ed.), Alasdair Gray: Ink for Worlds (132-147). Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan

‘Sidney Workman’s Epilogue’ concludes Alasdair Gray’s Old Men in Love (2006) and in so doing notes that Gray has told him that because “this novel would be his last (for he is seventy-two and in poor health) I [Workman] could be sure of having the la... Read More about Having the last word: paratextual framing in the Work of Alasdair Gray and 'Sidney Workman's Epilogue' to 'Old Men in Love' (2007).

Metal removal from contaminated soils trough bioleaching with oxidizing bacteria and washing with rhamnolipid bio surfactants. (2014)
Journal Article
Rienzo, M. A., Urdaneta De Ranson, I., Dorta, B., Banat, I. M., Blazquez, M. L., Gonzalez, F., …Ballester, A. (2014). Metal removal from contaminated soils trough bioleaching with oxidizing bacteria and washing with rhamnolipid bio surfactants. Soil and Sediment Contamination, 24(1), 16-29. https://doi.org/10.1080/15320383.2014.907239

The use of surfactants as a method for solubilization and removal of heavy metal contamination from soil has been reported before. Biosurfactants produced by some microorganisms are able to modify the surface of various metals and aggregate on interp... Read More about Metal removal from contaminated soils trough bioleaching with oxidizing bacteria and washing with rhamnolipid bio surfactants..

Joint protection and hand exercises for hand osteoarthritis: an economic evaluation comparing methods for the analysis of factorial data (2014)
Journal Article
Oppong, R., Jowett, A., Nicholls, E., Whitehurst, D., Hill, S., Hammond, A., …Dziedzic, K. (2014). Joint protection and hand exercises for hand osteoarthritis: an economic evaluation comparing methods for the analysis of factorial data. Rheumatology, 54(5), 876-883. https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/keu389

Objectives: Evidence regarding the cost-effectiveness of joint protection and hand exercises for the management of hand osteoarthritis (OA) is not well established. The primary aim of this study is to assess the cost-effectiveness (cost-utility) of... Read More about Joint protection and hand exercises for hand osteoarthritis: an economic evaluation comparing methods for the analysis of factorial data.

Nanoscale characterisation and magnetic properties of Co81Cu19/Cu multilayer nanowires (2014)
Journal Article
Zhang, J., Ma, H., Zhang, S., Zhang, H., Deng, X., Lan, Q., …Peng, Y. (2014). Nanoscale characterisation and magnetic properties of Co81Cu19/Cu multilayer nanowires. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 3(1), 85-93. https://doi.org/10.1039/C4TC01510J

Bamboo-like CoCu/Cu multilayer nanowires have been successfully fabricated into anodic aluminium oxide templates using an electrodeposition method, and their chemistry and crystal structure have been characterised at the nanoscale. Energy-dispersive... Read More about Nanoscale characterisation and magnetic properties of Co81Cu19/Cu multilayer nanowires.

A critical investigation of electronic patient records in the NHS in England : tracing an elusive object through its actor-network (2014)
Thesis
Goff, M. A critical investigation of electronic patient records in the NHS in England : tracing an elusive object through its actor-network. (Thesis). University of Salford

This study is a critical investigation of electronic patient records in the National Health Service in England. It explores whether EPRs benefit clinicians in the context of a technology that has been explicitly designed to fulfil multiple purposes,... Read More about A critical investigation of electronic patient records in the NHS in England : tracing an elusive object through its actor-network.

Equation of state and high-pressure/high-temperature phase diagram of magnesium (2014)
Journal Article
Stinton, G., Macleod, S., Cynn, H., Errandonea, D., Evans, W., Proctor, J., …McMahon, M. (2014). Equation of state and high-pressure/high-temperature phase diagram of magnesium. Physical review B: Condensed matter and materials physics, 90(13), 134105-134105. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.90.134105

The phase diagram of magnesium has been investigated to 211 GPa at 300 K, and to 105 GPa at 4500 K, by using a combination of x-ray diffraction and resistive and laser heating. The ambient pressure hcp structure is found to start transforming to the... Read More about Equation of state and high-pressure/high-temperature phase diagram of magnesium.

Special issue: Comparative biogeography of neotropical primates (2014)
Journal Article
Lynch Alfaro, J., Cortés-Ortiz, L., Di Fiore, A., & Boubli, J. (2015). Special issue: Comparative biogeography of neotropical primates. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 82, 518-529. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2014.09.027

New research presented in this special issue of Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution on the “Phylogeny and Biogeography of Neotropical Primates” greatly improves our understanding of the evolutionary history of the New World monkeys and provides ins... Read More about Special issue: Comparative biogeography of neotropical primates.

Microbial community structure mediates response of soil C decomposition to litter addition and warming (2014)
Journal Article
decomposition to litter addition and warming. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 80, 175-188. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2014.10.008

Microbial activity has been highlighted as one of the main unknowns controlling the fate and turnover of soil organic matter (SOM) in response to climate change. How microbial community structure and function may (or may not) interact with increasi... Read More about Microbial community structure mediates response of soil C decomposition to litter addition and warming.

Through the keyhole (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Braine, M., Gawthorpe, D., Howe, P., & Ratcliffe, S. (2014, October). Through the keyhole. Presented at 43rd British Association of Neuroscience Nurses Annual Conference, Manchester

A new simplified allometric approach for predicting the biological half-life of radionuclides in reptiles (2014)
Journal Article
Beresford, N., & Wood, M. (2014). A new simplified allometric approach for predicting the biological half-life of radionuclides in reptiles. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 138, 116-121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2014.08.012

A major source of uncertainty in the estimation of radiation dose to wildlife is the prediction of internal radionuclide activity concentrations. Allometric (mass-dependent) relationships describing biological half-life (T1/2b) of radionuclides in or... Read More about A new simplified allometric approach for predicting the biological half-life of radionuclides in reptiles.

Incorporating the flow duration curve method within the digital filtering algorithms to estimate the base flow contribution to total runoff (2014)
Journal Article
Al-Faraj, F., & Scholz, M. (2014). Incorporating the flow duration curve method within the digital filtering algorithms to estimate the base flow contribution to total runoff. Water Resources Management, 28(15), 5477-5489. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11269-014-0816-7

The urgent need for rational use of water resources and the intense competition among most of the riparian countries with respect to the use of shared water sources have raised the importance of examining the contribution of base flow to total stream... Read More about Incorporating the flow duration curve method within the digital filtering algorithms to estimate the base flow contribution to total runoff.

Capital structure of internet companies : case study (2014)
Journal Article
Miglo, A., Lee, Z., & Liang, S. (2014). Capital structure of internet companies : case study. Journal of Internet Commerce, 13(3-4), 253-281. https://doi.org/10.1080/15332861.2014.961348

The financing decisions and capital structure of Internet companies are analyzed, and observed findings are related to the common capital structure theories. Large Internet companies usually have low debt, and small Internet companies have high debt.... Read More about Capital structure of internet companies : case study.

China’s responses to external pressures on Its WMD-related exports after 2004 : reactive and proactive (2014)
Journal Article
Wu, F. (2015). China’s responses to external pressures on Its WMD-related exports after 2004 : reactive and proactive. Journal of Contemporary China, 24(93), 511-530. https://doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2014.953855

China, although a member of most of the international non-proliferation and multilateral export control regimes and having a law-based comprehensive export control system, has not fully complied with its non-proliferation obligations, which is eviden... Read More about China’s responses to external pressures on Its WMD-related exports after 2004 : reactive and proactive.

Two-to-one color-response mapping and the presence of semantic conflict in the Stroop task (2014)
Journal Article
Hasshim, N., & Parris, B. A. (2014). Two-to-one color-response mapping and the presence of semantic conflict in the Stroop task. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 1157. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01157

A series of recent studies have utilized the two-to-one mapping paradigm in the Stroop task. In this paradigm, the word red might be presented in blue when both red and blue share the same-response key (same-response trials). This manipulation has be... Read More about Two-to-one color-response mapping and the presence of semantic conflict in the Stroop task.

Male body size and parental relatedness but not nuptial colouration influence paternity success during scramble competition in Rana arvalis (2014)
Journal Article
Rausch, A., Sztatecsny, M., Jehle, R., Ringler, E., & Hoedl, W. (2014). Male body size and parental relatedness but not nuptial colouration influence paternity success during scramble competition in Rana arvalis. Behaviour, 151, 1869-1884. https://doi.org/10.1163/1568539X-00003220

Female mate choice promotes the development of male secondary sexual traits such as nuptial colouration, whereas scramble competition favours male traits which enhance their ability for access to females. In the explosively breeding moor frog (Rana a... Read More about Male body size and parental relatedness but not nuptial colouration influence paternity success during scramble competition in Rana arvalis.

Advancing performability in playable media : a simulation-based interface as a dynamic score (2014)
Journal Article
Choi, I. (2014). Advancing performability in playable media : a simulation-based interface as a dynamic score. EAI endorsed transactions on creative technologies, 14(1), e5. https://doi.org/10.4108/ct.1.1.e5

When designing playable media with non-game orientation, alternative play scenarios to gameplay scenarios must be accompanied by alternative mechanics to game mechanics. Problems of designing playable media with non-game orientation are stated as... Read More about Advancing performability in playable media : a simulation-based interface as a dynamic score.