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Health impact assessment for the sustainable futures of Salford (2004)
Journal Article
Douglas, C., Higgins, A., Dabbs, C., & Walbank, M. (2004). Health impact assessment for the sustainable futures of Salford. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 58(8), 642-648. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech.2003.010397

Background: The Salford Health Investment for Tomorrow and the Local Improvement Finance Trust proposals for the comprehensive redevelopment of Salford Royal Hospital and the provision of four integrated primary health and social centres in the City... Read More about Health impact assessment for the sustainable futures of Salford.

Estimating live fuel moisture content from remotely sensed reflectance (2004)
Journal Article
Danson, F., & Bowyer, P. (2004). Estimating live fuel moisture content from remotely sensed reflectance. Remote Sensing of Environment, 92(3), 309-321. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2004.03.017

Fuel moisture content (FMC) is used in forest fire danger models to characterise the moisture status of the foliage. FMC expresses the amount of water in a leaf relative to the amount of dry matter and differs from measures of leaf water content whic... Read More about Estimating live fuel moisture content from remotely sensed reflectance.

Delineation of terrestrial reserves for amphibians: Post-breeding migrations of Italian crested newts (Triturus c. carnifex) at high altitude (2004)
Journal Article
Schabetsberger, R., Jehle, R., Maletzky, A., Pesta, J., & Sztatecsny, M. (2004). Delineation of terrestrial reserves for amphibians: Post-breeding migrations of Italian crested newts (Triturus c. carnifex) at high altitude. Biological Conservation, 117(1), 95-104. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0006-3207%2803%2900268-4

Little is known about the terrestrial phase of high-altitude populations of European amphibians, in spite of potentially important implications for conservation and management. We followed 51 adult Italian crested newts (Triturus carnifex) that emigr... Read More about Delineation of terrestrial reserves for amphibians: Post-breeding migrations of Italian crested newts (Triturus c. carnifex) at high altitude.

Year-to-year variability of solute flux in meltwaters draining from a highly-glacierised basin. (2004)
Journal Article
Hasholt, B., Collins, D., MacDonald, O., Elberling, B., & Hansen, B. (2004). Year-to-year variability of solute flux in meltwaters draining from a highly-glacierised basin. Hydrology Research, 35(4-5), 359-367

Electrical conductivity was monitored continuously in the Gornera, which drains the 83% glacierised basin of area 82 km2 containing Gornergletscher, Pennine Alps, Switzerland, during the summer months, in order to provide an indication of meltwater s... Read More about Year-to-year variability of solute flux in meltwaters draining from a highly-glacierised basin..

New developments for key worker housing in the UK (2004)
Journal Article
Steele, A., & Todd, S. (2004). New developments for key worker housing in the UK. Structural survey, 22(4), 179-189. https://doi.org/10.1108/02630800410563714

This paper discusses the severe housing affordability problems of certain areas of the UK and the Government's "Key Worker" initiative designed to enable teachers, health workers and other essential workers to purchase housing in these areas. A case... Read More about New developments for key worker housing in the UK.

Examining the sustainability impacts of mega-sports events: fuzzy mapping as a new integrated appraisal system (2004)
Presentation / Conference
Dodouras, S., & James, P. (2004, March). Examining the sustainability impacts of mega-sports events: fuzzy mapping as a new integrated appraisal system. Presented at 4th International Postgraduate Research Conference in the Built and Human Environment, Salford

Unlike other aspects of daily life and work, the pursuit of sustainable
development in our communities requires an understanding of complex and
sometimes counterintuitive processes that unfold over a long period of time. In order
to develop these... Read More about Examining the sustainability impacts of mega-sports events: fuzzy mapping as a new integrated appraisal system.

Landscape dynamics and risk modeling of human alveolar echinococcosis (2004)
Journal Article
Danson, F., Craig, P., Man, W., Shi, D., & Giraudoux, P. (2004). Landscape dynamics and risk modeling of human alveolar echinococcosis. Photogrammetric engineering and remote sensing, 70(3), 359-366. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031182003003639

Human alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is a rare but fatal liver disease caused by a parasitic tapeworm. Between 1994 and 1997 a medical survey in a rural area in central China revealed the highest incidence rate of the disease recorded in the world to d... Read More about Landscape dynamics and risk modeling of human alveolar echinococcosis.

Black and minority ethnic contractors and consultants and UK housing associations' contracting power (2004)
Journal Article
Steele, A., & Sodhi, D. (2004). Black and minority ethnic contractors and consultants and UK housing associations' contracting power. Construction Management and Economics, 22(2), 151-157. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144619042000201358

Housing associations are the main providers of social housing within the UK and a major force in area regeneration initiatives. They also have a pivotal role to play in promoting equality of opportunity since a large proportion of their clients are f... Read More about Black and minority ethnic contractors and consultants and UK housing associations' contracting power.

Late prehistoric and Romano-British settlement of the Mersey Basin (2004)
Journal Article
Nevell, M. (2004). Late prehistoric and Romano-British settlement of the Mersey Basin. Journal of the Chester Archaeological Society, 78, 1-21

This paper presents an overview of some recent attempts to provide a theoretical framework for both the location and interpretation of the growing number of late prehistoric and Romano-Bitish rural sites within the region centred around the theme of... Read More about Late prehistoric and Romano-British settlement of the Mersey Basin.

Application of artificical neural network in complex systems of regional sustainable development (2004)
Journal Article
Shi, C., Guo, Z., & James, P. (2004). Application of artificical neural network in complex systems of regional sustainable development. Chinese Geographical Science, 14(1), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11769-004-0001-7

Meeting the challenge of sustainable development requires substantial advances in understanding the interaction of natural and human systems. The dynamics of regional sustainable development could be addressed in the context of complex system thinkin... Read More about Application of artificical neural network in complex systems of regional sustainable development.

The abundance of premetamorphic newts (triturus cristatus, t. marmoratus) as a function of habitat determinants: an a priori model selection approach (2004)
Journal Article
model selection approach. Herpetological journal, 14, 89-97

Despite the key role of premetamorphic amphibians in experimental ecology, the factors
affecting their abundance has received relatively little attention in natural settings. We applied
a model selection approach with AIC (Akaike's Information Crit... Read More about The abundance of premetamorphic newts (triturus cristatus, t. marmoratus) as a function of habitat determinants: an a priori model selection approach.

Cost comparison of marking techniques in long-term population studies: PIT-tags versus pattern maps (2004)
Journal Article
Arntzen, J., Goudie, I., Halley, J., & Jehle, R. (2004). Cost comparison of marking techniques in long-term population studies: PIT-tags versus pattern maps. Amphibia-Reptilia, 25(3), 305-315. https://doi.org/10.1163/1568538041975116

Conservation biology requires the assessment of demographic parameters and life-history data in wildlife populations. Such data can be gathered through capture-mark-recapture (CMR) of individuals. Marking techniques may vary for study organisms, rese... Read More about Cost comparison of marking techniques in long-term population studies: PIT-tags versus pattern maps.

Detection of high levels of congenital transmission of toxoplasma gondii in natural urban populations of mus domesticus (2004)
Journal Article
Marshall, P., Hughes, J., Murphy, G., Williams, R., Smith, J., Murphy, R., & Hide, G. (2004). Detection of high levels of congenital transmission of toxoplasma gondii in natural urban populations of mus domesticus. Parasitology, 128(1), 39-42. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031182003004189

The relative importance of different transmission routes of Toxoplasma gondii has been a matter for debate. This ubiquitous parasite is generally thought to be transmitted by infective oocysts excreted by the definitive host, the cat. Ingestion of un... Read More about Detection of high levels of congenital transmission of toxoplasma gondii in natural urban populations of mus domesticus.

Training a neural network with a canopy reflectance model to estimate crop leaf area index. (2003)
Journal Article
Danson, F., Rowland, C., & Baret, F. (2003). Training a neural network with a canopy reflectance model to estimate crop leaf area index. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 24(23), 4891-4905. https://doi.org/10.1080/0143116031000070319

This paper outlines the strategies available for estimating the biophysical properties of crop canopies from remotely sensed data. Spectral reflectance and biophysical data were obtained over 132 plots of sugarbeet (Beta vulgaris var. saccharifera) a... Read More about Training a neural network with a canopy reflectance model to estimate crop leaf area index..

Low environmental temperature causes an increase in stereotypic behaviour in captive Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) (2003)
Journal Article
Rees, P. (2003). Low environmental temperature causes an increase in stereotypic behaviour in captive Asian elephants (Elephas maximus). Journal of Thermal Biology, 29(1), 37-43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtherbio.2003.10.004

(1) Captive Asian elephants exhibited a strong negative correlation between maximum daily temperature and the frequency of stereotypic behaviour, in those animals predisposed to exhibit stereotypies. (2) The frequency of stereotypic behaviours increa... Read More about Low environmental temperature causes an increase in stereotypic behaviour in captive Asian elephants (Elephas maximus).

Interactions between landscape changes and host communities can regulate echinococcus multilocularis transmission (2003)
Journal Article

An area close to the Qinghai-Tibet plateau region and subject to intensive deforestation contains a large focus of human alveolar echinococcosis while sporadic human cases occur in the Doubs region of eastern France. The current review analyses and c... Read More about Interactions between landscape changes and host communities can regulate echinococcus multilocularis transmission.