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Sports (2015)
Book Chapter
Miah, A. (2015). Sports. In H. Have (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics (1-11). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05544-2_399-1

This chapter explores the relationship between bioethics and sport ethics, which changed dramatically in the early 2000 when the genetics era generated a series of new questions about the ends of sport and how they would interface more widely with a... Read More about Sports.

'The nourishing soil of the soul' : the role of horticultural therapy in promoting well-being in community-dwelling people with dementia (2015)
Journal Article
Noone, S., Innes, A., Kelly, F., & Mayers, A. (2017). 'The nourishing soil of the soul' : the role of horticultural therapy in promoting well-being in community-dwelling people with dementia. Dementia, 16(7), 897-910. https://doi.org/10.1177/1471301215623889

Two-thirds of people with dementia reside in their own homes; however, support for community-dwelling people with dementia to continue to participate in everyday activities is often lacking, resulting in feelings of depression and isolation among peo... Read More about 'The nourishing soil of the soul' : the role of horticultural therapy in promoting well-being in community-dwelling people with dementia.

Using law and licences to supply accessible books to visually impaired students at the University of Chester (2015)
Journal Article
Peters, L., & Smith, C. (2015). Using law and licences to supply accessible books to visually impaired students at the University of Chester. Library and Information Research, 39(121), 12-21. https://doi.org/10.29173/lirg679

Provision of accessible copies of textbooks to visually impaired students has an important role to play in supporting them in their studies, including at university. Recent legislative and copyright licence developments have allowed libraries to supp... Read More about Using law and licences to supply accessible books to visually impaired students at the University of Chester.

The role of competition in structuring primate communities under different productivity regimes in the Amazon (2015)
Journal Article
Kamilar, J., Rocha, J., Pinto, M., Boubli, J., & Grelle, C. (2015). The role of competition in structuring primate communities under different productivity regimes in the Amazon. PLoS ONE, 10(12), e0145699. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0145699

The factors responsible for the formation of Amazonian primate communities are not well understood. Here we investigated the influence of interspecific competition in the assembly of these communities, specifically whether they follow an assembly r... Read More about The role of competition in structuring primate communities under different productivity regimes in the Amazon.

Soft and stretchable sensor using biocompatible electrodes and liquid for medical applications (2015)
Journal Article
electrodes and liquid for medical applications. Soft Robotics, 2(4), 146-154. https://doi.org/10.1089/soro.2015.0011

This article introduces a soft and stretchable sensor composed of silicone rubber integrating a conductive liquidfilled channel with a biocompatible sodium chloride (NaCl) solution and novel stretchable gold sputtered electrodes to facilitate the b... Read More about Soft and stretchable sensor using biocompatible electrodes and liquid for medical applications.

The electronic structure of iridium oxide electrodes active in water splitting (2015)
Journal Article
Pfeifer, V., Jones, T., Velasco Vélez, J., Massué, C., Greiner, M., Arrigo, R., …Schlögl, R. (2015). The electronic structure of iridium oxide electrodes active in water splitting. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2016(18), 2292-2296. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5cp06997a

Iridium oxide based electrodes are among the most promising candidates for electrocatalyzing the oxygen evolution reaction, making it imperative to understand their chemical/electronic structure. However, the complexity of iridium oxide's electronic... Read More about The electronic structure of iridium oxide electrodes active in water splitting.

Measuring relationships between self-compassion, compassion fatigue, burnout and well-being in student counsellors and student cognitive behavioural psychotherapists : a quantitative survey (2015)
Journal Article
student cognitive behavioural psychotherapists : a quantitative survey. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 16(1), 15-23. https://doi.org/10.1002/capr.12054

Background: Prolonged deficiency in self-care strategies puts counsellors and psychotherapists at risk of burnout and compassion fatigue. Aim: To measure associations between self-compassion, compassion fatigue, wellbeing and burnout in student cou... Read More about Measuring relationships between self-compassion, compassion fatigue, burnout and well-being in student counsellors and student cognitive behavioural psychotherapists : a quantitative survey.

Health care professionals’ views of the factors influencing the decision to refer patients to a stroke rehabilitation trial (2015)
Journal Article
Thomas, N., Plant, S., Woodward-Nutt, K., Prior, Y., & Tyson, S. (2015). Health care professionals’ views of the factors influencing the decision to refer patients to a stroke rehabilitation trial. Trials, 16(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-015-1115-1

Background: Effective recruitment is an essential element of successful research but notoriously difficult to achieve. This article examines health care professionals' views on the factors influencing decision-making regarding referral to a stroke re... Read More about Health care professionals’ views of the factors influencing the decision to refer patients to a stroke rehabilitation trial.

Audio content feature selection and classification : a random forests and decision tree approach (2015)
Presentation / Conference
AI-Maathidi, M., & Li, F. (2015, December). Audio content feature selection and classification : a random forests and decision tree approach. Presented at IEEE International Conference on Progress in Informatics and Computing (PIC), Nanjing, China

Content information can be extracted from soundtracks of multimedia files. A good audio classifier as a preprocessor is crucial in such applications. Efforts have been made to develop effective and efficient audio content classifiers in which feat... Read More about Audio content feature selection and classification : a random forests and decision tree approach.

The collaborative risk assessment environment in disaster management (2015)
Thesis
Alzahmi, M. (in press). The collaborative risk assessment environment in disaster management. (Thesis). University Of Salford

In the past century the occurrence of natural disasters and man-made disasters have steadily increased with a significant loss of life, damage caused to infrastructure and property, and destruction of the environment. There is much evidence that natu... Read More about The collaborative risk assessment environment in disaster management.

Fine-grained fault-tolerant adaptive routing for networks-on-chip (2015)
Book Chapter
Liu, J., Harkin, J., Maguire, L., Li, Y., Wan, L., & Luo, Y. (2015). Fine-grained fault-tolerant adaptive routing for networks-on-chip. In Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing : 15th International Conference, ICA3PP 2015, Zhangjiajie, China, November 18-20, 2015, Proceedings, Part IV (492-505). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27140-8_34

Due to the increase of physical defects in advanced manufacturing processes, Networks-on-Chip (NoC) system reliability is a critical challenge as faults often occur post manufacturing. Therefore it is important to add fault tolerance to the NoC syste... Read More about Fine-grained fault-tolerant adaptive routing for networks-on-chip.

High intensity interval training vs moderate intensity continuous training in the management of metabolic type disease (2015)
Journal Article
Pearson, S., Macaluso, A., & Hussain, S. (2015). High intensity interval training vs moderate intensity continuous training in the management of metabolic type disease. MOJ anatomy & physiology, 1(5), 27-33. https://doi.org/10.15406/mojap.2015.01.00027

Previously, the use of moderate-intensity continuous training (MICT) has generally been considered the most beneficial exercise treatment modality for the prevention/management of metabolic type disease. More re... Read More about High intensity interval training vs moderate intensity continuous training in the management of metabolic type disease.

Work placements as learning environments for patient safety : Finnish and British preregistration nursing students’ important learning events (2015)
Journal Article
Tella, S., Smith, N., Partanen, P., & Turunen, H. (2015). Work placements as learning environments for patient safety : Finnish and British preregistration nursing students’ important learning events. Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 68(1), 51-69. https://doi.org/10.1080/13636820.2015.1104715

Learning to ensure patient safety in complex health care environments is an internationally recognised concern. This article explores and compares Finnish (n = 22) and British (n = 32) pre-registration nursing students’ important learning events abou... Read More about Work placements as learning environments for patient safety : Finnish and British preregistration nursing students’ important learning events.

Navigating the storm : IMPACT, eMOP, and Agile Steering Standards (2015)
Journal Article
Mandell, L., Neudecker, C., Antonacopoulos, A., Grumbach, E., Auvil, L., Christy, M., …Samuelson, T. (2015). Navigating the storm : IMPACT, eMOP, and Agile Steering Standards. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 32(1), 189-194. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqv062

This article discusses two major initiatives tasked with developing tools to im- prove optical character recognition (OCR) or the mechanical keying of texts that are digitally available only as page images. The two initiatives are the IMProving ACces... Read More about Navigating the storm : IMPACT, eMOP, and Agile Steering Standards.

Investigating SME resilience to flooding : the Braunton report (2015)
Book
Ingirige, B., & Russell, R. (2015). Investigating SME resilience to flooding : the Braunton report. Salford: University of Salford

The number of major floods in Europe has risen from one per year (between 1900 and 1974) to 15 a year (between 1993 and 2001). Many parts of the UK have faced extensive flooding in recent years, notably during the winter of 2013/14, and climate chang... Read More about Investigating SME resilience to flooding : the Braunton report.

Attributes of adopters and the diffusion of benchmarking (2015)
Journal Article
Askarany, D., & Yazdifar, H. (2015). Attributes of adopters and the diffusion of benchmarking

To take advantage of the most recent advances, organisations may need to proceed with the adoption of benchmarking. However, the extant literature suggests that benchmarking is not widely adopted by many organisations. Contributing to the literature... Read More about Attributes of adopters and the diffusion of benchmarking.

Tremelimumab for the treatment of malignant mesothelioma (2015)
Journal Article
Guazzelli, A., Hussain, M., Krstic- Demonacos, M., & Mutti, L. (2015). Tremelimumab for the treatment of malignant mesothelioma. Expert Opinion on Biological Therapy, 15(12), 1819-1829. https://doi.org/10.1517/14712598.2015.1116515

Introduction: Tremelimumab demonstrated therapeutic activity in different malignancies, including malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM); however, continued research could improve the therapeutic index of this agent. Areas covered: This review descr... Read More about Tremelimumab for the treatment of malignant mesothelioma.

Changing student nurses values, attitudes, and behaviours : a meta ethnography of enrichment activities (2015)
Journal Article
Stephens, M. (2015). Changing student nurses values, attitudes, and behaviours : a meta ethnography of enrichment activities. https://doi.org/10.4172/2167-1168.1000320

Objective: The process of changing student nurses attitudes, values, and behaviours so that they become congruent with the profession are neither easy nor successful in all cases. This paper will clearly highlight to the reader the conditions neces... Read More about Changing student nurses values, attitudes, and behaviours : a meta ethnography of enrichment activities.