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Study of microvascular blood flow modulated by electroosmosis (2018)
Journal Article
Tripathi, D., Yadav, A., Beg, O., & Kumar, R. (2018). Study of microvascular blood flow modulated by electroosmosis. Microvascular Research, 117, 28-36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mvr.2018.01.001

An analytical study of microvascular non-Newtonian blood flow is conducted incorporating the electro-osmosis phenomenon. Blood is considered as a Bingham rheological aqueous ionic solution. An externally applied static axial electrical field is impos... Read More about Study of microvascular blood flow modulated by electroosmosis.

Ram locus is a key regulator to trigger multidrug resistance in Enterobacter aerogenes (2018)
Journal Article
Molitor, A., James, C., Fanning, S., Pages, J., & Davin-Regli, A. (2018). Ram locus is a key regulator to trigger multidrug resistance in Enterobacter aerogenes. Journal of Medical Microbiology, 67(2), 148-159. https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.000667

Purpose: Several genetic regulators belonging to AraC family are involved in the emergence of MDR isolates of E. aerogenes due to alterations in membrane permeability. Compared with the genetic regulator Mar, RamA may be more relevant towards the eme... Read More about Ram locus is a key regulator to trigger multidrug resistance in Enterobacter aerogenes.

Aircraft classification for efficient modelling of environmental noise impact of aviation (2018)
Journal Article
Torija Martinez, A., & Self, R. (2018). Aircraft classification for efficient modelling of environmental noise impact of aviation. Journal of Air Transport Management, 67, 157-168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jairtraman.2017.12.007

With the environmental externalities of civil aviation under unprecedented scrutiny, and with the projected significant increase in air traffic demand over the next few decades, fleet-level studies are required to assess the potential benefit of no... Read More about Aircraft classification for efficient modelling of environmental noise impact of aviation.

Critical factors for transferring and sharing tacit knowledge within lean and agile construction processes (2018)
Journal Article
Saini, M., Arif, M., & Kulonda, D. (2018). Critical factors for transferring and sharing tacit knowledge within lean and agile construction processes. Construction innovation (London. Online), 18(1), 64-89. https://doi.org/10.1108/ci-06-2016-0036

Purpose The purpose of the paper is to investigate the critical success factors (CSFs) associated with the effectiveness of transfer and sharing of tacit knowledge in lean and agile construction processes. Design/methodology/approach The st... Read More about Critical factors for transferring and sharing tacit knowledge within lean and agile construction processes.

Evaluation of daily activity questionnaire: User manual v3 (2018)
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Hammond, A., Tennant, A., Tyson, S., & Nordenskiold, U. (2018). Evaluation of daily activity questionnaire: User manual v3. Salford, Greater Manchester

This is the updated EDAQ Manualv3 (2018). The EDAQ, an explanatory leaflet for clients and support materials are available in USIR: http://usir.salford.ac.uk/view/authors/10108.html#group see under Monographs The EDAQ, EDAQ Manual and support materia... Read More about Evaluation of daily activity questionnaire: User manual v3.

The grounds of Tolkien, unmappable, unbookable (2018)
Journal Article
Kendall, J. (2018). The grounds of Tolkien, unmappable, unbookable. Writing in Practice: the journal of creative writing research, 4,

As Tolkien himself asserted, his creative writing processes were fundamentally linguistic. They were driven by his private invented languages, by the names in those languages, and by linguistic aesthetics. To a great extent, the purpose of his creati... Read More about The grounds of Tolkien, unmappable, unbookable.

Urban development and governance in Nigeria : challenges, opportunities and policy direction (2018)
Journal Article
Gyau, K. (2018). Urban development and governance in Nigeria : challenges, opportunities and policy direction. International Development Planning Review, 40(1), 27-49. https://doi.org/10.3828/idpr.2018.1

Volumes of literature discourse illuminate several weaknesses of Nigeria’s urban planning and governance system particularly in the face of rapid urbanisation, and rising levels of urban poverty and informality. However, these literature discourses o... Read More about Urban development and governance in Nigeria : challenges, opportunities and policy direction.

An overview of a mobile focus group method for investigating space and place (2018)
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Clark, A. (2018). An overview of a mobile focus group method for investigating space and place

This case study outlines the development and implementation of a mobile-focus group technique. Ostensibly, this is a blending of various aspects of conventional focus group and mobile interview methods. The case study was developed as one of a suite... Read More about An overview of a mobile focus group method for investigating space and place.

Surgery for malignant pleural mesothelioma : an international guidelines review (2018)
Journal Article
Ricciardi, S., Cardillo, G., Zirafa, C., Carleo, F., Facciolo, F., Fontanini, G., …Melfi, F. (2018). Surgery for malignant pleural mesothelioma : an international guidelines review. Journal of thoracic disease, 10(Supp.2), S285-S292. https://doi.org/10.21037/jtd.2017.10.16

Currently there is no universally accepted surgical therapy for malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM). The goal of surgery in this dismal disease is a macroscopic complete resection (MCR) and there are two types of intervention with a curative intent.... Read More about Surgery for malignant pleural mesothelioma : an international guidelines review.

Surveying practice involvement in providing vocational skills training for undergraduate building surveyors : the ICZ way (2018)
Journal Article
building surveyors : the ICZ way. Journal of Building Survey, Appraisal and Valuation, 7(1), 85-92

The paper starts from a documented premise of there being a critical shortage of skilled building surveyors. It also uses a researched premise that all stakeholders to building surveying education favour the incorporation of vocational skills tra... Read More about Surveying practice involvement in providing vocational skills training for undergraduate building surveyors : the ICZ way.

A new processing approach for reducing computational complexity in cloud-RAN mobile networks (2018)
Journal Article
Mahmood, A., Al-Yasiri, A., & Alani, O. (2018). A new processing approach for reducing computational complexity in cloud-RAN mobile networks. IEEE Access, 6, 6927-6946. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2782763

Cloud computing is considered as one of the key drivers for the next generation of mobile networks (e.g. 5G). This is combined with the dramatic expansion in mobile networks, involving millions (or even billions) of subscribers with a greater numbe... Read More about A new processing approach for reducing computational complexity in cloud-RAN mobile networks.

Integrating sustainability within architectural education in Cairo (2018)
Journal Article
El-Feki, S., & Kenawy, I. (2018). Integrating sustainability within architectural education in Cairo. Proceeding of Science and Technology, 1(1), https://doi.org/10.21625/resourceedings.v1i1.183

Architectural education has great potential to move the entire industry towards sustainability within buildings and cities. Having the fundamental knowledge to apply the sustainable strategies can help in solving different environmental challenges be... Read More about Integrating sustainability within architectural education in Cairo.

Guest editors' introduction (2018)
Journal Article
Qin, Y., An, M., & Jia, L. (2018). Guest editors' introduction. International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, 28(04), 427-429. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218194018020023

The Cyber-Physical System (CPS) of Railways is an intelligent integration system of information acquisition, data fusion, state identification, knowledge inference, system optimization and control. CPS presents a higher combination and coordination b... Read More about Guest editors' introduction.

Making Every Contact Count: Evaluation of the use of MECC within the outpatient MSK Physiotherapy service and Bury Integrated MSK Service at Fairfield General Hospital, part of the Bury and Rochdale Care Organisation which is part of the Northern Care Alliance Group (2018)
Report
Northern Care Alliance Group

This report presents the findings of a commissioned study to evaluate the use of Making Every Contact Count (MECC) within the outpatient MSK Physiotherapy service and Bury Integrated MSK Service at Fairfield General Hospital, part of the Bury and Roc... Read More about Making Every Contact Count: Evaluation of the use of MECC within the outpatient MSK Physiotherapy service and Bury Integrated MSK Service at Fairfield General Hospital, part of the Bury and Rochdale Care Organisation which is part of the Northern Care Alliance Group.