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‘Against fascism, war and economies’: the Communist party of Great Britain’s schoolteachers during the popular front, 1935–1939 (2014)
Journal Article
Kavanagh, M. (2014). ‘Against fascism, war and economies’: the Communist party of Great Britain’s schoolteachers during the popular front, 1935–1939. History of Education, 43(2), 208-231. https://doi.org/10.1080/0046760X.2013.874502

The Popular Front line made the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) a more hospitable place for ‘brain workers’. The emphasis the line placed on mass ideological and cultural struggle against fascism meant that they became important allies to be... Read More about ‘Against fascism, war and economies’: the Communist party of Great Britain’s schoolteachers during the popular front, 1935–1939.

Asset Management of low-zero carbon technology in social housing (2014)
Journal Article
Kempton, J. (2014). Asset Management of low-zero carbon technology in social housing. Structural survey, 32(1), 14-31. https://doi.org/10.1108/SS-09-2012-0027

Purpose – Households account for 27 per cent of the UK's total CO2 emissions therefore addressing housing energy efficiency has become a priority. Low-zero carbon technologies (LZCTs) for both new-build and the existing housing stock are one mechanis... Read More about Asset Management of low-zero carbon technology in social housing.

Use of clickers to improve student engagement in learning : observations from the built environment discipline (2014)
Journal Article
Kulatunga, U., & Rameezdeen, R. (2014). Use of clickers to improve student engagement in learning : observations from the built environment discipline. International Journal of Construction Education and Research, 10(1), 3-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/15578771.2013.826754

Student engagement and active learning have been identified as key areas for learning enhancement as students tend to understand and retain teaching material better and enjoy lectures when they are actively engaged. This would improve retention and p... Read More about Use of clickers to improve student engagement in learning : observations from the built environment discipline.

Improving collection efficiency through remote monitoring of charity assets (2014)
Journal Article
McLeod, F., Erdogan, G., Cherrett, T., Bektas, T., Davies, N., Shingleton, D., …Norgate, S. (2014). Improving collection efficiency through remote monitoring of charity assets. Waste Management, 34(2), 273-280. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2013.11.006

Collection costs associated with servicing a major UK charity’s donation banks and collecting unsold goods from their retail shops can account for up to 20% of the overall income gained. Bank and shop collections are commingled and are typically made... Read More about Improving collection efficiency through remote monitoring of charity assets.

‘God save our Queen!’ Percy Bysshe Shelley and radical appropriations of the British national anthem (2014)
Journal Article
Morgan, A. (2014). ‘God save our Queen!’ Percy Bysshe Shelley and radical appropriations of the British national anthem. Romanticism, 20(1), 60-72. https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2014.0157

A time of transition (2014)
Journal Article
Nightingale, J. (2014). A time of transition. Radiography, 20(2), 93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radi.2014.03.004

Promising near-infrared non-targeted probes: benzothiazole heptamethine cyanine dyes (2014)
Journal Article
Okoh, O., Bisby, R., Lawrence, C., Rolph, C., & Smith, R. (2014). Promising near-infrared non-targeted probes: benzothiazole heptamethine cyanine dyes. Journal of Sulfur Chemistry, 35(1), 42-56. https://doi.org/10.1080/17415993.2013.778258

A series of benzothiazole heptamethine cyanine dyes have been synthesized and their photophysical properties evaluated in relation to their structural features. These have been compared against two classical probes of this type: Indocyanine Green (IG... Read More about Promising near-infrared non-targeted probes: benzothiazole heptamethine cyanine dyes.

Future perspectives on product data management in building information modeling (2014)
Journal Article
Palos, S., Kiviniemi, A., & Kuusisto, J. (2014). Future perspectives on product data management in building information modeling. Construction innovation (London. Online), 14(1), 52-68. https://doi.org/10.1108/CI-12-2011-0080

Purpose – It has been argued that product data libraries have the potential to improve global real-estate development and increase productivity. Product data libraries provide the basis to support diverse national classification systems and different... Read More about Future perspectives on product data management in building information modeling.

An open participatory conceptual framework to support State of the Environment and Sustainability Reports (2014)
Journal Article
Ramos, T., Martins, I., Martinho, A., Douglas, C., Painho, M., & Caeiro, S. (2014). An open participatory conceptual framework to support State of the Environment and Sustainability Reports. Journal of Cleaner Production, 64, 158-172. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2013.08.038

It is fundamental to monitor, evaluate and report the state of the environment at global and local levels, to better implement sustainable development principles and practices. The State of the Environment and Sustainability Reports should be written... Read More about An open participatory conceptual framework to support State of the Environment and Sustainability Reports.

Health, functioning and social engagement among the UK Chinese (2014)
Journal Article
Rochelle, T., & Shardlow, S. (2014). Health, functioning and social engagement among the UK Chinese. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 38, 142-150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2013.08.007

The present study examines factors associated with health, functioning and social engagement among Chinese in the UK. A total of 211 Chinese men and women aged between 15 and 79 years were recruited through a selection of Chinese social organisations... Read More about Health, functioning and social engagement among the UK Chinese.

A comparative study of the usability of touch-based and mouse-based interaction (2014)
Journal Article
Travis, C., & Murano, P. (2014). A comparative study of the usability of touch-based and mouse-based interaction. International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications, 10(1), 115-134. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJPCC-01-2014-0015

Purpose – This paper is about an investigation into the usability of touch-based user interfaces. Currently, not enough knowledge is available to guide user interface designers and developers concerning the appropriate use of touch-based technology.... Read More about A comparative study of the usability of touch-based and mouse-based interaction.

The 2007 financial crisis and the UK residential housing market: Did the relationship between interest rates and house prices change? (2014)
Journal Article
Tse, C., Rodgers, T., & Niklewski, J. (2014). The 2007 financial crisis and the UK residential housing market: Did the relationship between interest rates and house prices change?. Economic Modelling, 37, 518-530. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2013.08.013

This paper investigates the impact of the 2007 financial crisis on the relationship between real mortgage interest rates and real house prices. It applies a dynamic conditional correlation based methodology that uses fractionally differenced data alo... Read More about The 2007 financial crisis and the UK residential housing market: Did the relationship between interest rates and house prices change?.

Distinction between handwritten and machine-printed text based on the bag of visual words model (2014)
Journal Article
Zagoris, K., Pratikakis, I., Antonacopoulos, A., Gatos, B., & Papamarkos, N. (2014). Distinction between handwritten and machine-printed text based on the bag of visual words model. Pattern recognition, 47(3), 1051-1062. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2013.09.005

In a variety of documents, ranging from forms to archive documents and books with annotations, machine printed and handwritten text may coexist in the same document image, raising significant issues within the recognition pipeline. It is, therefore,... Read More about Distinction between handwritten and machine-printed text based on the bag of visual words model.

Appropriately complex modelling of healthy human walking (2014)
Thesis
McGrath, M. Appropriately complex modelling of healthy human walking. (Thesis). University of Salford

Modelling human gait has become an invaluable tool in a wide range of fields such as robotics and rehabilitation. With progress in computing, model complexity has advanced quickly but nevertheless, the contributions of incremental increases in mo... Read More about Appropriately complex modelling of healthy human walking.

Chapter 24: physical problems and complications in the Puerperium (2014)
Book Chapter
Steen, M., & Wray, J. (2014). Chapter 24: physical problems and complications in the Puerperium. In J. Marshall, & M. Raynor (Eds.), Myles Textbook for Midwives. Churchill Livingstone

Effect of low-compression balls on wheelchair tennis match-play (2014)
Journal Article
Sindall, P., Lenton, J., Malone, L., Douglas, S., Cooper, R., Hiremath, S., …Goosey-Tolfrey, V. (2014). Effect of low-compression balls on wheelchair tennis match-play. International Journal of Sports Medicine, 2014(35), 424-431. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0033-1354384

The purpose of this study was to compare court-movement variables and physiological responses to wheelchair tennis match-play when using low versus standard compression tennis balls. Eleven wheelchair basketball players were monitored during repeated... Read More about Effect of low-compression balls on wheelchair tennis match-play.

Rural water supply projects and sustainable development in Nigeria (2014)
Journal Article
Ihuah, P., & Kakulu, I. (2014). Rural water supply projects and sustainable development in Nigeria. Journal of sustainable development in Africa, 16(1), 56-68

The study reviews the sustainability issues that are associated with rural community water provision and some of the challenges experienced in the in Niger Delta region of Nigeria within the context of project benefits sustenance. Several rural com... Read More about Rural water supply projects and sustainable development in Nigeria.

Reliability equivalence factors for a series-parallel system assuming an exponentiated weibull distribution (2014)
Book Chapter
Alghamdi, S., & Percy, D. (2014). Reliability equivalence factors for a series-parallel system assuming an exponentiated weibull distribution. In S. Wu (Ed.), Proceedings of 8th IMA International Conference on Modelling in Industrial Maintenance and Reliability. Institute of Mathematics and its Applications

In this study, we discuss the reliability equivalence factors of a series-parallel system with n series subsystems connected in parallel where subsystem i has m(i) independent and identically distributed components. We assume that each component has... Read More about Reliability equivalence factors for a series-parallel system assuming an exponentiated weibull distribution.

Poster abstract research showcase College of Science and Technology (2014)
Other
SMITH, J. (2014). Poster abstract research showcase College of Science and Technology

Welcome to the College of Science and Technology Research and Innovation Showcase 2014, an event which celebrates the research achievements of our science disciplines. Our research brings together scientists from architecture and the built environm... Read More about Poster abstract research showcase College of Science and Technology.

Anti-communism in the USA and American foreign policy in the late 1940s (2014)
Journal Article
Callaghan, J. (2014). Anti-communism in the USA and American foreign policy in the late 1940s. Twentieth Century Communism: A Journal of International History, 6, 149-171

As the post-war configuration of power became clearer in 1946 – involving an uncooperative Soviet Union in Europe and stronger Communist parties in Europe and Asia – American foreign policy drew upon and greatly reinforced domestic anti-Communism in... Read More about Anti-communism in the USA and American foreign policy in the late 1940s.