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The key kinematic determinants of undulatory underwater swimming at maximal velocity (2015)
Journal Article
Connaboy, C., Naemi, R., Brown, S., Psycharakis, S., McCabe, C., Coleman, S., & Sanders, R. (2016). The key kinematic determinants of undulatory underwater swimming at maximal velocity. Journal of sports sciences, 34(11), 1036-1043. https://doi.org/10.1080/02640414.2015.1088162

The optimisation of undulatory underwater swimming is highly important in competitive swimming performance. Nineteen kinematic variables were identified from previous research undertaken to assess undulatory underwater swimming performance. The purpo... Read More about The key kinematic determinants of undulatory underwater swimming at maximal velocity.

Dichotomising compulsory land acquisition and land contamination valuations (2015)
Journal Article
Akujuru, V., & Ruddock, L. (2015). Dichotomising compulsory land acquisition and land contamination valuations. International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment, 6(3), 268-288. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJDRBE-11-2013-0040

Purpose – This study aims at identifying the consequences of adopting statutory rather than market basis in assessing damages due to contamination to land. Most valuations undertaken to assess compensation for damages due to contamination on land are... Read More about Dichotomising compulsory land acquisition and land contamination valuations.

Strategic management of salespeople when promoting new products : moderating effects of sales-related organizational psychological climate (2015)
Journal Article
Chen, A., Peng, N., & Hung, K. (2015). Strategic management of salespeople when promoting new products : moderating effects of sales-related organizational psychological climate. European Journal of Marketing, 49(9/10), 1616-1644. https://doi.org/10.1108/EJM-03-2014-0181

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the performance of salespeople when selling new products (namely, electronic goods) in a business-to-business context by incorporating the organizations’ perceived psychological climate into goal orien... Read More about Strategic management of salespeople when promoting new products : moderating effects of sales-related organizational psychological climate.

Might more harm be done than good when scientists and engineers engage with the public about new technology before it is fully developed? The case of hydrogen energy (2015)
Journal Article
Bellaby, P., & Clark, A. (2016). Might more harm be done than good when scientists and engineers engage with the public about new technology before it is fully developed? The case of hydrogen energy. International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 6(3), 283-302. https://doi.org/10.1080/21548455.2015.1073404

We report consultation about hydrogen energy at the Hydrogen Centre in South Wales with members of the public in the region. The Centre's research staff guided tours and outside sociologists made the independent assessment presented here. Hydrogen en... Read More about Might more harm be done than good when scientists and engineers engage with the public about new technology before it is fully developed? The case of hydrogen energy.

Enabling practitioners working with young people who self-harm (2015)
Journal Article
Foster, C., Birch, L., Allen, S., & Rayner, G. (2015). Enabling practitioners working with young people who self-harm. Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice, 10(4), 268-280. https://doi.org/10.1108/JMHTEP-05-2014-0011

Purpose: This paper outlines a United Kingdom based interdisciplinary workforce development project that had the aim of improving service delivery for children and young people who self-harm or are feeling suicidal.

Approach: This innovative prac... Read More about Enabling practitioners working with young people who self-harm.

The rationale and concept of the European code of conduct for microcredit providers (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Dayson, K. (2015, September). The rationale and concept of the European code of conduct for microcredit providers. Presented at 14th UMM Workshop : on Responsible Inclusive Finance and Customer Empowerment, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management

The article draws on the rationale and concept
of the European Code of good Conduct for
Microcredit Providers which was intended to set out
good practice guidelines that will better enable the
sector to face the challenges of accessing longterm... Read More about The rationale and concept of the European code of conduct for microcredit providers.

Aggregation of group fuzzy risk information in the railway risk decision making process (2015)
Journal Article
An, M., Qin, Y., Jia, L., & Chen, Y. (2016). Aggregation of group fuzzy risk information in the railway risk decision making process. Safety Science, 82, 18-28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2015.08.011

Railway risk assessment is a hierarchical process where risk information obtained at lower levels may be used for risk assessment at higher levels. Fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (FAHP) is widely used in risk decision making process to solve impr... Read More about Aggregation of group fuzzy risk information in the railway risk decision making process.

Air losses through the tunnel face in compressed air tunneling : a case study (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Ahangar Asr, A., & Javadi, A. (2015, September). Air losses through the tunnel face in compressed air tunneling : a case study. Presented at 16th European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Edinburgh, UK

In this study field measurement data from Feldmoching tunnel in Munich were used to develop a model with the capability of predicting the air losses in compressed air tunnelling technique. In this tunnelling project, compressed air was used to contro... Read More about Air losses through the tunnel face in compressed air tunneling : a case study.

Radiation dose differences between thoracic radiotherapy planning CT and thoracic diagnostic CT scans (2015)
Journal Article
Sanderud, A., England, A., Hogg, P., Fosså, K., Svensson, S., & Johansen, S. (2016). Radiation dose differences between thoracic radiotherapy planning CT and thoracic diagnostic CT scans. Radiography, 22(2), 107-111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radi.2015.08.003

Purpose: To compare the absorbed dose from computed tomography (CT) in radiotherapy planning (RP CT) against those from diagnostic CT (DG CT) examinations and to explore the possible reasons for any dose differences.
Method: Two groups of patients u... Read More about Radiation dose differences between thoracic radiotherapy planning CT and thoracic diagnostic CT scans.

Professionalism and what it means for you (2015)
Journal Article
Stonehouse, D. (2015). Professionalism and what it means for you. British Journal of Healthcare Assistants, 9(9), 455-457. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjha.2015.9.9.455

Within this article, the author will be discussing professionalism and what this means for the support worker in their everyday practice. The difference between being a member of a profession and acting with professionalism will be discussed.
The... Read More about Professionalism and what it means for you.

Measuring impact and the most influential works in Migration Studies (2015)
Journal Article
Sirkeci, I., & Cohen, J. (2015). Measuring impact and the most influential works in Migration Studies. Migration Letters, 12(3), 336-345. https://doi.org/10.33182/ml.v12i3.284

Our paper offers an independent measure of the citation of published research in the field of migration studies. Using the Google Scholar citation database and Ann Harzing ranking software, we have created a list of the 100 most cited articles, books... Read More about Measuring impact and the most influential works in Migration Studies.

Two-dimensional experimental and numerical modelling of a soil-filled masonry arch (2015)
Book Chapter
Ahmad, S., Augusthus Nelson, L., & Swift, G. (2015). Two-dimensional experimental and numerical modelling of a soil-filled masonry arch. In Geotechnical Engineering for Infrastructure and Development: XVI European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. ICE Publishing

The ultimate load carrying capactiy of soil-filled masonry arches is significantly higher than that of bare masonry arches. The soil fill has a stabalising effect on the masonry arch, distributing the live load and providing passive resistance to def... Read More about Two-dimensional experimental and numerical modelling of a soil-filled masonry arch.

What is legal and what is not : examining the relationship between place marketing, place branding, and legal geography in heterotopias (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Kanellopoulou, E., Ntounis, N., & Ntounis, N. (2015, September). What is legal and what is not : examining the relationship between place marketing, place branding, and legal geography in heterotopias. Presented at The Marketing of Place and Space, Leicester

In this paper, we examine place marketing, place branding, and its alternative approaches, under the prism of legal geography. We aim to provide an additional knot that ties law and space by examining the role that alternative place marketing practic... Read More about What is legal and what is not : examining the relationship between place marketing, place branding, and legal geography in heterotopias.

Building information modelling (2015)
Book
Arayici, Y. (2015). Building information modelling. Bookboon Publisher

Building Information Modelling (BIM) is often misinterpreted by practitioners and researchers as REVIT or ArchiCAD since these tools are introduced as BIM by the software vendors. Yet, BIM is much more than a software tool. It is actually more about... Read More about Building information modelling.

Developing and evaluating Christmas events for people with dementia (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Collins, T. (2015, September). Developing and evaluating Christmas events for people with dementia. Presented at Human rights and dementia conference, University of Salford, MediaCity UK campus

The Royal Voluntary Service (RVS) (2012) reports that many older people are likely to be alone over the Christmas period. This may be particularly difficult for older people living with dementia and their carers who may feel especially isolated and m... Read More about Developing and evaluating Christmas events for people with dementia.

Recommendations for the conduct of efficacy trials of treatment devices for osteoarthritis : a report from a working group of the Arthritis Research UK Osteoarthritis and Crystal Diseases Clinical Studies Group (2015)
Journal Article
Felson, D., Redmond, A., Chapman, G., Smith, T., Hamilton, D., Jones, R., …Conaghan, P. (2016). Recommendations for the conduct of efficacy trials of treatment devices for osteoarthritis : a report from a working group of the Arthritis Research UK Osteoarthritis and Crystal Diseases Clinical Studies Group. Rheumatology, 55(2), 320-326. https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/kev328

Objective. There are unique challenges to designing and carrying out high-quality trials testing therapeutic devices in OA and other rheumatic diseases. Such challenges include determining the mechanisms of action of the device and the appropriate sh... Read More about Recommendations for the conduct of efficacy trials of treatment devices for osteoarthritis : a report from a working group of the Arthritis Research UK Osteoarthritis and Crystal Diseases Clinical Studies Group.

In-play forecasting of win probability in one-day international cricket : a dynamic logistic regression model (2015)
Journal Article
Asif, M., & McHale, I. (2016). In-play forecasting of win probability in one-day international cricket : a dynamic logistic regression model. International Journal of Forecasting, 32(1), 34-43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijforecast.2015.02.005

The paper presents a model for forecasting the outcomes of One-Day International cricket matches whilst the game is in progress. Our ‘in-play’ model is dynamic, in the sense that the parameters of the underlying logistic regression model are allowed... Read More about In-play forecasting of win probability in one-day international cricket : a dynamic logistic regression model.

Three-Dimensional Imaging of Magnetic Domains with Neutron Grating Interferometry (2015)
Journal Article
Manke, I., Kardjilov, N., Schäfer, R., Hilger, A., Grothausmann, R., Strobl, M., …Banhart, J. (2015). Three-Dimensional Imaging of Magnetic Domains with Neutron Grating Interferometry. Physics Procedia, 69, 404-412. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phpro.2015.07.057

This paper gives a brief overview on3D imaging of magnetic domains with shearing grating neutron tomography. We investigated the three-dimensional distribution of magnetic domain walls in the bulk of a wedge-shaped FeSi single crystal. The width of t... Read More about Three-Dimensional Imaging of Magnetic Domains with Neutron Grating Interferometry.