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Be my guest! Challenges and practical solutions of undertaking interviews with children in the home setting (2015)
Journal Article
Coad, J., Gibson, F., Horstman, M., Milnes, L., Randall, D., & Carter, B. (2015). Be my guest! Challenges and practical solutions of undertaking interviews with children in the home setting. Journal of Child Health Care, 19(4), 432-443. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367493514527653

This article aims to share critical debate on undertaking interviews with children in the home setting and draws on the authors’ extensive research fieldwork. The article focuses on three key processes: planning entry to the child’s home, conducting... Read More about Be my guest! Challenges and practical solutions of undertaking interviews with children in the home setting.

Harmonizing nursing terminologies (2015)
Journal Article
Coenen, A., Paese, F., Saba, V., Jansen, K., Hardiker, N., & Kim, T. (2015). Harmonizing nursing terminologies. Studies in health technology and informatics (Print), 216, 776-779. https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-564-7-776

In this paper, the authors report on a study aimed at harmonising two nursing terminologies, the Clinical Care Classification (CCC) and the International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP®). As the electronic health record evolves and the nee... Read More about Harmonizing nursing terminologies.

Chinese Postgraduate choices when considering a UK business and management programme (2015)
Journal Article
Manns, Y., & Swift, J. (2015). Chinese Postgraduate choices when considering a UK business and management programme. Higher Education Quarterly, 70(1), 3-23. https://doi.org/10.1111/hequ.12080

This research investigated Chinese students' decision making processes for enrolling on a postgraduate taught business and management programme in a UK university, based on structured interviews, followed by a survey of just over 450 respondents. The... Read More about Chinese Postgraduate choices when considering a UK business and management programme.

Observer studies in mammography (2015)
Book Chapter
Hogg, P., Millington, S., Manning, D., & Mraity, H. (2015). Observer studies in mammography. In Digital Mammography (291-302). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04831-4_36

Mammography is a special imaging technique and is unusual in a number of ways: Some of these are technical because of the type of tissue under investigation and some apply to the distinctive nature of the client group. But in one important aspect mam... Read More about Observer studies in mammography.

Psychological considerations in attending for mammography screening (2015)
Book Chapter
Pearson, A., & Weinberg, A. (2015). Psychological considerations in attending for mammography screening. In Digital Mammography (83-88). Springer International Publishing Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04831-4_10

The UK NHS Breast Screening Programme has set a national minimum rate for uptake of routine invitations at 70 % [1]. In 2012–2013, 2.32 million women aged 50–70 were invited to attend for a routine mammogram, 72.2 % of whom complied. This represented... Read More about Psychological considerations in attending for mammography screening.

Client-practitioner interactions within Breast Care Services (2015)
Book Chapter
Nightingale, J., Murphy, F., & Borgen, R. (2015). Client-practitioner interactions within Breast Care Services. In Digital Mammography (97-104). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04831-4_12

United Kingdom (UK) breast care services are delivered within one of two models. Clients presenting with breast symptoms (symptomatic) are assessed within a ‘one stop’ (all done at one hospital attendance) out-patient setting whilst asymptomatic clie... Read More about Client-practitioner interactions within Breast Care Services.

Tissue viability and skin tearing in mammography (2015)
Book Chapter
Stephens, M. (2015). Tissue viability and skin tearing in mammography. In Digital Mammography (119-122). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04831-4_15

It has been acknowledged that some women are more sensitive to the handling and pressure exerted on their breasts during a mammogram than others [1]. This sensitivity can include heightened feelings of pain, skin reddening, tingling and bruising [2];... Read More about Tissue viability and skin tearing in mammography.

A source separation evaluation method in object-based spatial audio (2015)
Book Chapter
Liu, Q., Wang, W., Jackson, P., & Cox, T. (2015). A source separation evaluation method in object-based spatial audio. In 2015 23rd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) (1088-1092). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/EUSIPCO.2015.7362551

Representing a complex acoustic scene with audio objects is desirable but challenging in object-based spatial audio production and reproduction, especially when concurrent sound signals are present in the scene. Source separation (SS) provides a pote... Read More about A source separation evaluation method in object-based spatial audio.

Insourcing a government information system : an analysis using institutions and the capability approach (2015)
Book Chapter
Omar, A., Bass, J., & Lowit, P. (2015). Insourcing a government information system : an analysis using institutions and the capability approach. In 2015 International Conference on Information Society (i-Society) (91-96). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/i-Society.2015.7366866

This study explores the effectiveness of insourcing in the Malaysian Government. The research discusses the factors and issues of insourcing in a Malaysian government agency in the context of post contract termination of an outsourcing agreement. A q... Read More about Insourcing a government information system : an analysis using institutions and the capability approach.

Enhanced cloud patterns : a case studyof multi-tenancy patterns (2015)
Book Chapter
Adewojo, A., Bass, J., & Allison, I. (2015). Enhanced cloud patterns : a case studyof multi-tenancy patterns. In 2015 International Conference on Information Society (i-Society) (53-58). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/i-Society.2015.7366858

Multi-tenancy is a vital cloud computing property that enables multiple tenants of an application to be served concurrently while guaranteeing isolation between the tenants. Current cloud deployment patterns catalogue for implementing multi-tenancy l... Read More about Enhanced cloud patterns : a case studyof multi-tenancy patterns.

Evaluating degrees of tenant isolation in multitenancy patterns : a case study of cloud-hosted Version Control System (VCS) (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Ochei, L., Petrovski, A., & Bass, J. (2015). Evaluating degrees of tenant isolation in multitenancy patterns : a case study of cloud-hosted Version Control System (VCS). In 2015 International Conference on Information Society (i-Society). https://doi.org/10.1109/i-Society.2015.7366859

One of the key concerns of implementing multitenancy (i.e., serving multiple tenants with a single instance of an application) on the cloud is how to enable the required degree of isolation between tenants, so that the required performance of one ten... Read More about Evaluating degrees of tenant isolation in multitenancy patterns : a case study of cloud-hosted Version Control System (VCS).

Potential cyber-attacks against global oil supply chain (2015)
Book Chapter
Nasir, M., Sultan, S., Nefti-Meziani, S., & Manzoor, U. (2015). Potential cyber-attacks against global oil supply chain. In 2015 International Conference on Cyber Situational Awareness, Data Analytics and Assessment (CyberSA) (1-7). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/CyberSA.2015.7166137

The energy sector has been actively looking into cyber risk assessment at a global level, as it has a ripple effect; risk taken at one step in supply chain has an impact on all the other nodes. Cyber-attacks not only hinder functional operations in a... Read More about Potential cyber-attacks against global oil supply chain.

Improving robustness of speaker recognition in noisy and reverberant conditions via training (2015)
Book Chapter
Al-Noori, A., Al-Karawi, K., & Li, F. (2015). Improving robustness of speaker recognition in noisy and reverberant conditions via training. In 2015 European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference (180-180). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/EISIC.2015.20

Speaker recognition can be used as a security means to authenticate the speaker or as a forensic tool to determine who is likely to be the talker. For such critical applications, robustness or reliability of the system is crucial. In spite of the dev... Read More about Improving robustness of speaker recognition in noisy and reverberant conditions via training.

Quantum dot array based intermediate band solar cell : effect of light concentration (2015)
Book Chapter
Tomic, S., Sogabe, T., & Okada, Y. (2015). Quantum dot array based intermediate band solar cell : effect of light concentration. In 2015 IEEE 42nd Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC) (1-3). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2015.7356067

Laterally coupled semiconductor quantum dot (QD) arrays emerged recently as promising structures for the next generation of high efficiency intermediate band solar cell (IBSC).We present here a method based on multi-band k·p Hamiltonian combined with... Read More about Quantum dot array based intermediate band solar cell : effect of light concentration.

Absorption characteristics of reduced graphene oxide : Application to TCO and solar cells active region (2015)
Book Chapter
Lundie, M., Slivancanin, Z., & Tomic, S. (2015). Absorption characteristics of reduced graphene oxide : Application to TCO and solar cells active region. In 2015 IEEE 42nd Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC) (1-4). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2015.7355661

The controlled and patterned reduction of graphene oxide offers a promising method to tune the electronic and optical properties of the material through a wide range. Using ab initio calculations in which the exact exchange energy from Hartree-Fock t... Read More about Absorption characteristics of reduced graphene oxide : Application to TCO and solar cells active region.

An optimized strategy for speculative execution in a heterogeneous environment (2015)
Book Chapter
Liu, Q., Cai, W., Fu, Z., Shen, J., & Linge, N. (2015). An optimized strategy for speculative execution in a heterogeneous environment. In 2015 9th International Conference on Future Generation Communication and Networking (FGCN) (9-12). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/FGCN.2015.9

MapReduce is a popular programming model for the purposes of processing large data sets. Speculative execution known as an approach for dealing with the above problems works by backing up those tasks running on a low performance machine to a higher o... Read More about An optimized strategy for speculative execution in a heterogeneous environment.