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Education for competence (2015)
Book Chapter
Gaskell, L., Beaton, S., & Neville, L. (2015). Education for competence. In T. Barton, & D. Allan (Eds.), Advanced Nursing Practice Changing Healthcare in a Changing World. Palgrave

The chapter reviews the strategies developed for teaching and assessment between the University of Salford and designated National Health Service Trusts within the North West required to produce Advanced Practitioners that are fit for purpose and awa... Read More about Education for competence.

Putting food banks out of business : final report (2015)
Journal Article
Perry, B., Walsh, V., & Silver, D. (2015). Putting food banks out of business : final report. Working papers of the Communities and Culture Network+, 6,

This project was funded by the EPSRC Digital Economy Communities and Culture Plus Network and Mistra Urban Futures and involved collaboration between the University of Salford, the Biospheric Foundation and the Social Action and Research Foundation b... Read More about Putting food banks out of business : final report.

A Higher Education - a polemic (for a change) (2015)
Journal Article
Peters, L. (2015). A Higher Education - a polemic (for a change). Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 14(4), 313-317. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474022215591102

The Radio 4 comedy-drama A Higher Education was written in 1999 to present a satire of a dysfunctional and cash-strapped university (Northfield) led by the egotistical and amoral Head of Drama Don Crookfield (Rik Mayall). For those of us passionately... Read More about A Higher Education - a polemic (for a change).

Joint kinetics and kinematics during common lower limb rehabilitation exercises (2015)
Journal Article
Comfort, P., Jones, P., Smith, L., & Herrington, L. (2015). Joint kinetics and kinematics during common lower limb rehabilitation exercises. Journal of Athletic Training, 50(10), 1011-1018. https://doi.org/10.4085/1062-6050-50.9.05

Context: Unilateral body-weight exercises are commonly used to strengthen the lower limbs during rehabilitation after injury, but data comparing the loading of the limbs during these tasks are limited.
Objective: To compare joint kinetics and kinem... Read More about Joint kinetics and kinematics during common lower limb rehabilitation exercises.

The influence of personality disorder on outcome in adolescent self-harm (2015)
Journal Article
Ayodeji, E. (2015). The influence of personality disorder on outcome in adolescent self-harm. British Journal of Psychiatry, 207(4), 313-319. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.bp.113.138941

Background:
Little is currently known about the presence and impact
of personality disorder in adolescents who self-harm.

Aims:
To evaluate personality disorder in repeated self-harm in
adolescence and its impact on self-harm psychopatholo... Read More about The influence of personality disorder on outcome in adolescent self-harm.

Investigating factors affecting software maintenance in e-commerce companies in Jordan (2015)
Thesis
Salameen, R. (in press). Investigating factors affecting software maintenance in e-commerce companies in Jordan. (Thesis). University of Salford

The most costly phase in the software life cycle is the software maintenance phase. It consumes between 40% and 90% of a software project’s budget. Software applications play an important role in e-commerce companies and the significance of software... Read More about Investigating factors affecting software maintenance in e-commerce companies in Jordan.

How to promote relationship-building leadership at work? A comparative exploration of leader humor behavior between North America and China (2015)
Journal Article
Yang, I., Kitchen, P., & Bacouel-Jentjens, S. (2017). How to promote relationship-building leadership at work? A comparative exploration of leader humor behavior between North America and China. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 28(10), 1454-1474. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2015.1089065

There is a growing consensus that humor could be one of the most important competencies of a leader. This impression seems to be especially so under the clan controls where relationship-building between a leader and employees become crucial in managi... Read More about How to promote relationship-building leadership at work? A comparative exploration of leader humor behavior between North America and China.

Reading the death of Mrs A : a serious case review (2015)
Journal Article
Cummins, I., & Foley, M. (2015). Reading the death of Mrs A : a serious case review. Journal of Adult Protection, 17(5), 321-330. https://doi.org/10.1108/JAP-12-2014-0038

Purpose – The purpose is to report the main themes identified into the SCR produced by
Surrey Safeguarding Adults Board (SSAB) regarding the suicide of Mrs A in January
2013.
Design –A case study approach is used to examine the SCR. The article li... Read More about Reading the death of Mrs A : a serious case review.

In their words : how television and visual media can raise awareness of dementia and other health conditions that carry stigma, including disabilities (2015)
Journal Article
Heward, M., Palfreman-Kay, J., & Innes, A. (2015). In their words : how television and visual media can raise awareness of dementia and other health conditions that carry stigma, including disabilities. Journal of Popular Television, 3(2), 229-242. https://doi.org/10.1386/jptv.3.2.229_1

This article explores the mutual contribution television and disability studies can make to one another, focusing on the role of television and visual media in raising awareness and challenging gaps in understanding of dementia, a health condition th... Read More about In their words : how television and visual media can raise awareness of dementia and other health conditions that carry stigma, including disabilities.

Aurally bloodcurdling : representing Dracula and his brethren in BBC Radio drama (2015)
Book Chapter
McMurtry, L. (2015). Aurally bloodcurdling : representing Dracula and his brethren in BBC Radio drama. In I. Ermida (Ed.), Dracula and the Gothic in Literature, Pop Culture and the Arts. Amsterdam: Brill | Rodopi

The most hideous aspects of Dracula and his vampire brethren are visual ones – pallor, dark hirsute hands, piercing eyes, razor-sharp fangs. The settings, too, in Dracula are integral to creating mood: for example, Harker’s journey into Transylvania... Read More about Aurally bloodcurdling : representing Dracula and his brethren in BBC Radio drama.

A narrative review of fathers’ involvement during labour and birth and their influence on decision making (2015)
Journal Article
Longworth, M. K., Furber, C., & Kirk, S. (2015). A narrative review of fathers’ involvement during labour and birth and their influence on decision making. Midwifery, 31(9), 844-857. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2015.06.004

Objective
to identify and critically review the research literature that has examined fathers׳ involvement during labour and birth and their influence on decision making.

Design
the review follows the approach of a narrative review. Systematic s... Read More about A narrative review of fathers’ involvement during labour and birth and their influence on decision making.

Evaluating Degrees of Multitenancy Isolation: A Case Study of Cloud-Hosted GSD Tools (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Charles Ochei, L., M. Bass, J., & Petrovski, A. (2015). Evaluating Degrees of Multitenancy Isolation: A Case Study of Cloud-Hosted GSD Tools. . https://doi.org/10.1109/iccac.2015.17

Multitenancy is an essential cloud computing property where a single instance of an application serves multiple tenants. Multitenancy introduces significant challenges when deploying application components to the cloud due to the demand for different... Read More about Evaluating Degrees of Multitenancy Isolation: A Case Study of Cloud-Hosted GSD Tools.

A novel and simple test of gait adaptability predicts gold standard measures of functional mobility in stroke survivors (2015)
Journal Article
Hollands, K., Pelton, T., van der Veen, S., Alharbi, S., & Hollands, M. (2016). A novel and simple test of gait adaptability predicts gold standard measures of functional mobility in stroke survivors. Gait & Posture, 43, 170-175. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gaitpost.2015.09.018

Background: Although there is evidence that stroke survivors have reduced gait adaptability, the
underlying mechanisms and the relationship to functional recovery are largely unknown. We explored
the relationships between walking adaptability and c... Read More about A novel and simple test of gait adaptability predicts gold standard measures of functional mobility in stroke survivors.

Multi-level governance, regions and science in France : between competition and equality - selected reading (2015)
Book Chapter
Crespy, C., Heraud, J., & Perry, B. (2015). Multi-level governance, regions and science in France : between competition and equality - selected reading. In I. Bache, & M. Flinders (Eds.), Multi-level Governance : Essential Readings. Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784716240

The term ‘multi-level governance’ (MLG) has emerged from its origins in EU studies in the early 1990s to become a commonly used description of politics and policy-making in a range of settings. This collection brings together seminal papers covering... Read More about Multi-level governance, regions and science in France : between competition and equality - selected reading.

How mobile-based visuals operate as messages of information for different cultures? Action case in the pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia (2015)
Journal Article
Mohamad, M., Alamoudy, S., Alnuwairan, M., & Wood-Harper, T. (2015). How mobile-based visuals operate as messages of information for different cultures? Action case in the pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. Action research,

Crowd control is a growing problem in the tourism industry that is flourishing in many western and eastern countries. The “pilgrimage” or “Hajj” to Makkah, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), offers the biggest tourism revenues in the world. Regret... Read More about How mobile-based visuals operate as messages of information for different cultures? Action case in the pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.

Assessing the structure of a Neotropical bat community using acoustic monitoring techniques (2015)
Journal Article
Estrada-Villegas, S., Meyer, C., McGill, B., & Kalko, E. (2015). Assessing the structure of a Neotropical bat community using acoustic monitoring techniques. ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 138(3), 1905. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4933991

Determining the structure and composition of tropical communities is challenging because some species are rare or hard to detect. Within Neotropical bats, aerial insectivores have been systematically undersampled because they avoid mist nets, the tra... Read More about Assessing the structure of a Neotropical bat community using acoustic monitoring techniques.

Psychometric testing of the valued life activities questionnaire in people with rheumatoid arthritis in the UK : Rasch Analysis (2015)
Journal Article
Prior, Y., Hammond, A., & Tennant, A. (2015). Psychometric testing of the valued life activities questionnaire in people with rheumatoid arthritis in the UK : Rasch Analysis. Arthritis and Rheumatism, 67(Supp10),

Background/Purpose: Developed in the USA, the Valued Life Activities Scale (VLAs) measures participation in daily activities, and the 14 item scale (i.e. short version of VLAs) has been psychometrically tested for use in a population of adults with R... Read More about Psychometric testing of the valued life activities questionnaire in people with rheumatoid arthritis in the UK : Rasch Analysis.