Moving Through: Tracking PhD students’ experiences of COVID (2022)
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SPARC 2022 Poster Number 2

The World Health Organisation (WHO) warned that COVID-19 could negatively affect mental health. This was mainly due to governmental mandated safety measures of self-isolation, quarantine and social distancing. Current tr... Read More about Moving Through: Tracking PhD students’ experiences of COVID.

Effect of Post-Diagnosis Exercise on Depression Symptoms, Physical Functioning and Mortality in Breast Cancer Survivors: A Systematic Review (2022)
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SPARC 2022 Poster Number 1

Women with breast cancer at stages I to III often experience the long-term physical and psychosocial effects of cancer and its treatment, including pain, fatigue, lymphedema, psychological disorders, anxiety, and depress... Read More about Effect of Post-Diagnosis Exercise on Depression Symptoms, Physical Functioning and Mortality in Breast Cancer Survivors: A Systematic Review.

Comparing the Rheological Properties of Water-Based Mud Fluids Containing Nanoparticles Under High Pressure and High Temperature (HPHT) Conditions (2022)
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SPARC 2022 Poster Number 3

The designing of good drilling fluid systems is highly required in oil and gas drilling operations. This paper intends to highlight the advantages that can be obtained if any, when nanoparticles are used in drilling flui... Read More about Comparing the Rheological Properties of Water-Based Mud Fluids Containing Nanoparticles Under High Pressure and High Temperature (HPHT) Conditions.

'Enhanced Capacity Predictive Model of Li-Ion Batteries' by Khyati Shukla (2022)
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As a result of its high voltage, power and better performance at low temperature, Li-Ion batteries are widely used in numerous electrical or electronics applications. One of the significant challenges for adequate battery power consumption lies in ac... Read More about 'Enhanced Capacity Predictive Model of Li-Ion Batteries' by Khyati Shukla.

Walking in the Wild, Smart City - 300 word statement (2022)
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This 300 word statement outlines the Walking in the WIld, Smart City practice as research project and provides a link to its outputs.

Walking in the Wild, Smart City - link to research output (2022)
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This research output, published through Microsoft Sway includes the creative outputs of the research, alongside the research narrative and associated documentation.

Clitheroe Road, Whalley (2022)
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Technical report of the archaeological evaluation of a field site in Whalley, Lancashire

Precedence Effect - Listening Experiment Audio (2022)
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A zip folder containing the audio files used in a speech-in-noise test conducted in the Listening Room at the University of Salford in March 2020 towards the PhD thesis by P. Demonte (2022).



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This r... Read More about Precedence Effect - Listening Experiment Audio.

Precedence Effect: Listening experiment - Matlab script and Excel spreadsheet to play audio. (2022)
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A zip file containing a Matlab script and an associated Excel spreadsheet used for automated audio playback in a psychoacoustics listening experiment.

The speech-in-noise test was conducted over a four-loudspeaker array in the Listening Room at t... Read More about Precedence Effect: Listening experiment - Matlab script and Excel spreadsheet to play audio..

The Departure and Arrival of Sculptural Qualities shaping improvising bodies within motion capture environments (2022)
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Photo Credits: Adam Lyon, dancer and researcher Lucie Sykes (in the centre), movement participant A (on the right side).



“…Dance is living, kinetic sculpture…” (Korsch cited in Herrera, 2016) and shifts the attention to the actual movement... Read More about The Departure and Arrival of Sculptural Qualities shaping improvising bodies within motion capture environments.

'This is original practise based research. Hand cut wood block printmaking on paper' (2022)
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Rahela was born in the UK and brought up by her immigrant parents from the Bengal region of the Indian sub-continent. Her work reflects her pride in her Muslim and Bengali heritage and not feeling like she fits into the culture of assimilation. Rahel... Read More about 'This is original practise based research. Hand cut wood block printmaking on paper'.

'The hidden machine: uncovering problems with YouTube for independent sexual health learning' (2022)
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This research sought to understand the possibilities and problems of using YouTube influencer content for 13-24-year-olds' independent learning about sex, relationships and sexual health.

This research found that although YouTube has benefits for... Read More about 'The hidden machine: uncovering problems with YouTube for independent sexual health learning'.

'Food Dome Dietary Guidelines' (2022)
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Intervention components to target knowledge, attitudes, and behaviour to support improving the nutritional and lifestyle choices of 18-25-year-old university students in the Eastern Province of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The itemised list represe... Read More about 'Food Dome Dietary Guidelines'.

Precedence Effect: Listening experiment images (2022)
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A zip file containing three .png image files relating to a subjective speech-in-noise listening experiment conducted in the listening room at the University of Salford in March 2020.

This experiment towards the PhD thesis by P. Demonte (2022) inv... Read More about Precedence Effect: Listening experiment images.

'Here the Cold Secrets' (2022)
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Here the cold secrets,

Penned by my heart,

Wild yet rooted,

The free space to belong,

My adapted oddity,

Part of me.

My research has been a passionate and personal journey to tell the untold stories of social housing residents.... Read More about 'Here the Cold Secrets'.

‘Dynamic Capabilities Expediting the Transition to AIoT: The Convergence Of AI and IoT’ (2022)
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The confluence of resources and capabilities, powered by internet of things and artificial intelligence are expediting the transition to smart living, connected mobility, connected industry, smart cities, a cleaner environment, improved healthcare, a... Read More about ‘Dynamic Capabilities Expediting the Transition to AIoT: The Convergence Of AI and IoT’.

What’s on her mind? What Nigerian female directors have to say about the experiences of women in Nigerian society (2022)
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Nigeria’s film and video industry, popularly known as Nollywood has grown to become the second largest film industry in the world. In Nigeria, the film and video industry is dominated by male filmmakers and has often been criticized for the negativ... Read More about What’s on her mind? What Nigerian female directors have to say about the experiences of women in Nigerian society.

Effect of Background Music Arrangement and Tempo on Foreground Speech Intelligibility: Listening experiment settings (SNRs, GP, HEGP) spreadsheets. (2022)
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Excel spreadsheeting containing data collected and collated from objective and subjective testing of whether or not background music arrangement (timbre and instrumentation density) and tempo have any significant effect on foreground speech intelligi... Read More about Effect of Background Music Arrangement and Tempo on Foreground Speech Intelligibility: Listening experiment settings (SNRs, GP, HEGP) spreadsheets..

Effect of Background Music Arrangement and Tempo on Foreground Speech Intelligibility: wav audio files - background music (2022)
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A zip folder with sub-folders containing .wav files of background music and speech-shaped noise (SSN) (control masking noise). As used with Tang & Cooke's (2016) HEGP OIM (high energetic glimpse proportion objective intelligibility metrics) and in a... Read More about Effect of Background Music Arrangement and Tempo on Foreground Speech Intelligibility: wav audio files - background music.

Effect of Background Music Arrangement and Tempo on Foreground Speech Intelligibility: Listening experiment data and statistical analyses spreadsheets. (2022)
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Excel work book with data collected and collated from a speech-in-noise test, and associated statistical analyses.

Background music is cited as one of the four main problems that listeners complain about with regards to foreground speech audibili... Read More about Effect of Background Music Arrangement and Tempo on Foreground Speech Intelligibility: Listening experiment data and statistical analyses spreadsheets..