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Progression towards high efficiency perovskite solar cells via optimisation of the front electrode and blocking layer (2016)
Journal Article

The effects of fluorine doped tin oxide (FTO) electrode, titanium dioxide (TiO2-x) blocking layer (BL) and perovskite (methyl ammonium lead triiodide) preparation on the overall properties of the photovoltaic cells have been studied. The FTO electro... Read More about Progression towards high efficiency perovskite solar cells via optimisation of the front electrode and blocking layer.

Who walks, where and why? Practitioners’ observations and perspectives on recreational walkers at UK tourist destinations (2016)
Journal Article
Davies, N. (2018). Who walks, where and why? Practitioners’ observations and perspectives on recreational walkers at UK tourist destinations. Annals of Leisure Research, 21(5), 553-574. https://doi.org/10.1080/11745398.2016.1250648

Walking is fundamental and prevalent in all tourist settings. As the most popular activity in natural spaces and managed outdoor recreation areas, it receives less attention in academic literature than it should. This paper conceptualizes recreationa... Read More about Who walks, where and why? Practitioners’ observations and perspectives on recreational walkers at UK tourist destinations.

Cross-cultural consumer perceptions of service quality in restaurants (2016)
Journal Article
Djekic, I., Kane, K., Tomic, T., Kalogianni, E., Rocha, A., Zamioudi, L., & Pacheco, R. (2016). Cross-cultural consumer perceptions of service quality in restaurants. Nutrition and Food Science, 46(6), 827-843. https://doi.org/10.1108/NFS-04-2016-0052

Purpose – This paper aims to present results from a research that analyzed consumer perceptions of
service quality in restaurants in four European cities – Belgrade (Serbia), Manchester (UK),
Thessaloniki (Greece) and Porto (Portugal).
Design/meth... Read More about Cross-cultural consumer perceptions of service quality in restaurants.

A Quantitative Evaluation of Drive Patterns in Electrical Impedance Tomography (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Impedance Tomography. Presented at MOBIHEALTH 2016 - 6th EAI International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare, Milan

Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) is a method used to display, through an image, the conductivity
distribution inside a domain by using measurements taken from electrodes placed at its periphery. This
paper presents our prototype of a stretchab... Read More about A Quantitative Evaluation of Drive Patterns in Electrical Impedance Tomography.

Surviving the Middle Ages : notes on crafting gameplay for a digital historical game (2016)
Journal Article
Hiriart, J. (2016). Surviving the Middle Ages : notes on crafting gameplay for a digital historical game. SAA Archaeological Record, 16(5), 34-37

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God's own caught in no man's land (2016)
Other
Davismoon, S. (2016). God's own caught in no man's land. [Score]

An aural memorial, a contemporary oratorio, for the fallen of the Battle of the Somme. With special reference to the tragic plight of the Salford Pals.

A critical commentary on management science in relation to reforms following institutional National Health Service failures (2016)
Journal Article
Regan, P., & Ball, E. (2016). A critical commentary on management science in relation to reforms following institutional National Health Service failures. Journal of Nursing Management, 25(2), 149-156. https://doi.org/10.1111/jonm.12425

Aim(s): A discussion paper on the United Kingdom (UK) National Health Service (NHS) market reforms. Background: NHS market reforms reliance on management science methods introduced a fundamental shift in measuring care for commissioning purposes rath... Read More about A critical commentary on management science in relation to reforms following institutional National Health Service failures.

Awareness and portion size : individuals appear to be more aware of the influence of larger portions than previously thought (2016)
Journal Article

There is reliable evidence that larger portions lead to increased energy intake. It has been suggested that individuals are unaware of the influence that large portion sizes have on the amount of food they consume. The current study sought to determi... Read More about Awareness and portion size : individuals appear to be more aware of the influence of larger portions than previously thought.

Taking stock of the ‘Common’ in the European Union’s Common Foreign and Security Policy (2016)
Book Chapter

This chapter takes stock of ‘the common’ in the European Union’s Common Foreign and Security Policy. It thereby asks to what extent common political visions exist that are the bedrock for common foreign policies. Doing so, the chapter analyses CFSP b... Read More about Taking stock of the ‘Common’ in the European Union’s Common Foreign and Security Policy.

Application of iron and silicon fertilizers reduces arsenic accumulation by two Ipomoea aquatica varities (2016)
Journal Article
accumulation by two Ipomoea aquatica varities. Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 15(11), 2613-2619. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2095-3119%2815%2961320-X

A 45 d pot experiment was conducted to examine the effects of silicon fertilizer or iron fertilizer on the growth of two typical Ipomoea aquatica cultivars and As accumuation of two typical Ipomoea aquatica cultivars grown in As-contaminated soils at... Read More about Application of iron and silicon fertilizers reduces arsenic accumulation by two Ipomoea aquatica varities.

Self or simulacra of online reviews : an empirical perspective (2016)
Journal Article
Singh, V., Nishant, R., & Kitchen, P. (2016). Self or simulacra of online reviews : an empirical perspective. Psychology and Marketing, 33(12), 1112-1118. https://doi.org/10.1002/mar.20946

Online user-generated content (UGC) includes various forms of computer-mediated online reviews, ratings, and feedback. The impact of online consumer reviews has been widely studied particularly in e-commerce, online marketing, and consumer behavior d... Read More about Self or simulacra of online reviews : an empirical perspective.

The walkthrough method : an approach to the study of apps (2016)
Journal Article

Software applications (apps) are now prevalent in the digital media environment. They are the site of significant sociocultural and economic transformations across many domains, from health and relationships to entertainment and everyday finance. As... Read More about The walkthrough method : an approach to the study of apps.

Lens or prism? How organisations sustain multiple and competing reputations (2016)
Journal Article
Harvey, W., Tourky, M., Knight, E., & Kitchen, P. (2017). Lens or prism? How organisations sustain multiple and competing reputations. European Journal of Marketing, 51(4), 821-844. https://doi.org/10.1108/EJM-03-2016-0122

Purpose: This paper challenges singular definitions, measurements and applications of corporate reputation which tend to be reductionist. We rebuff such narrow representations of reputation by showing the multiplicity of reputation in the case of a g... Read More about Lens or prism? How organisations sustain multiple and competing reputations.

“Understanding Chinese students postgraduate choices of universities” (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Reeves, P., & Lei, Z. (2016, November). “Understanding Chinese students postgraduate choices of universities”. Presented at ESRC Festival of Social Science,, University of Salford and Eurasia University China via Videolink

Species-specific cuticular hydrocarbon stability within European Myrmica Ants (2016)
Journal Article

Recognition is a fundamental process on which all subsequent behaviors are based at every organizational level, from the gene up to the super-organism. At the whole organism level visual recognition is the best understood. However, chemical communi... Read More about Species-specific cuticular hydrocarbon stability within European Myrmica Ants.

Matter and memory and deep learning (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Kreps, D. (2016, November). Matter and memory and deep learning. Presented at Diagnoses of Matter and Memory: Bergson and the Problems of Brain, Time and Memory, Tokyo, Japan

The recent phenomenon of ‘Deep Learning,’ which has given us such science-fiction-like innovations as search tools in photographic applications and the growing reality of self-driving cars, is a new form, and subset, of ‘Machine Learning’ made possib... Read More about Matter and memory and deep learning.

An evaluation of a storybook targeting parental attitudes, intention and self-efficacy to change their child’s oral health behaviour (2016)
Journal Article
O'Malley, L., Adair, P., Burnside, G., Robinson, L., Coffey, M., & Pine, C. (2017). An evaluation of a storybook targeting parental attitudes, intention and self-efficacy to change their child’s oral health behaviour. Health Psychology, 36(2), 152-159. https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0000428

Objective: Methods for reducing dental disease have traditionally focused on health education rather than targeting psychosocial determinants of the core behaviours through behaviour change strategies. This study tested a novel intervention in the fo... Read More about An evaluation of a storybook targeting parental attitudes, intention and self-efficacy to change their child’s oral health behaviour.

Primary care workforce : evaluation of ‘triumvirate leadership’ development and network programme (2016)
Report

Executive Summary
Background
Staff who demonstrate effective leadership behaviours are at the forefront of any future primary care transformation. By empowering and engaging self and others to work differently within a changing clinical context, g... Read More about Primary care workforce : evaluation of ‘triumvirate leadership’ development and network programme.

Theoretical assessment of progressive collapse capacity of reinforced concrete structures (2016)
Journal Article
Alogla, K., Weekes, L., & Augusthus Nelson, L. (2017). Theoretical assessment of progressive collapse capacity of reinforced concrete structures. Magazine of Concrete Research, 69(3), 145-162. https://doi.org/10.1680/jmacr.16.00319

The progressive collapse behaviour of reinforced concrete (RC) structures requires consideration of material and
geometric non-linearity, concrete crushing and rebar fracture. Compressive arch action (CAA) and catenary action
(CTA) are the main res... Read More about Theoretical assessment of progressive collapse capacity of reinforced concrete structures.

A closer look at Syncany Windows and Ubuntu clients’ residual artefacts (2016)
Book Chapter
Yee Yang, T., Dehghantanha, A., Choo, R., Muda, Z., Taufik, A., & Wee-Chait, C. (2016). A closer look at Syncany Windows and Ubuntu clients’ residual artefacts. In Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage (342-357). SpaCCS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49145-5_34

In this paper, we seek to determine the residual artefacts of forensic value on Windows and Ubuntu client machines of using Syncany private cloud storage service. We demonstrate the types and the locations of the artefacts that can be forensically re... Read More about A closer look at Syncany Windows and Ubuntu clients’ residual artefacts.