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Social Engineering in the Information Age (2005)
Journal Article
Duff, A. S. (2005). Social Engineering in the Information Age. Information Society, 21(1), 67-71. https://doi.org/10.1080/01972240590895937

This article explores the relevance of social engineering for the postindustrial epoch. The concept of social engineering has been dormant in recent years, stained by the behavior of police states in the 20th century. Yet stripped of its excesses,... Read More about Social Engineering in the Information Age.

Participatory Study on Feeding Strategies for Working Donkeys Used by Campesino Farmers in the Highlands of Central México (2005)
Journal Article
Colunga, G. B., Arriaga-Jordǭn, C. M., Velǭquez Beltran, L., Gonzǭlez-Ronquillo, M., Smith, D., Estrada-Flores, J., Rayas-Amor, A., & Castelǭn-Ortega, O. A. (2005). Participatory Study on Feeding Strategies for Working Donkeys Used by Campesino Farmers in the Highlands of Central México. Tropical Animal Health and Production, 37(S1), 143-157. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11250-005-9013-2

The aim of this work was to describe the feeding strategies for donkeys used by peasant farmers in central MǸxico. Feeding strategies for the dry and wet seasons are described, as well as the nutritional characteristics of the main forages and supple... Read More about Participatory Study on Feeding Strategies for Working Donkeys Used by Campesino Farmers in the Highlands of Central México.

Digestible Energy Requirements of Mexican Donkeys Fed Oat Straw and Maize Stover (2005)
Journal Article
Carretero-Roque, L., Colunga, G. B., Smith, D., Gonzǭlez-Ronquillo, M., Sol, A., & Castelǭn-Ortega, O. A. (2005). Digestible Energy Requirements of Mexican Donkeys Fed Oat Straw and Maize Stover. Tropical Animal Health and Production, 37(S1), 123-142. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11250-005-9012-3

The limited availability of food, together with the constraints that traditional management systems impose on the natural foraging behaviour of donkeys, often results in severe under-nutrition. Few studies have been conducted into the digestibility o... Read More about Digestible Energy Requirements of Mexican Donkeys Fed Oat Straw and Maize Stover.

Visual perception of content-prioritised sign language video quality. (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Muir, L. J., Richardson, I. E. G., & Hamilton, K. (2005, April). Visual perception of content-prioritised sign language video quality. Presented at The IEE International Conference on Visual Information Engineering (VIE 2005)

Video communication systems currently provide poor quality and performance for deaf people using sign language, particularly at low bit rates. Our previous work, involving eye movement tracking experiments and analysis of visual attention mechanisms... Read More about Visual perception of content-prioritised sign language video quality..

Overcoming barriers to the implementation of car parking charges at UK workplaces (2005)
Journal Article
Rye, T., & Ison, S. G. (2005). Overcoming barriers to the implementation of car parking charges at UK workplaces. Transport Policy, 12(1), 57-64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2004.11.002

Charging employees to park at their places of work is a transport policy measure advocated by the UK government as a means of reducing car commuting and hence achieving the twin objectives of reducing congestion and combating environmental degradatio... Read More about Overcoming barriers to the implementation of car parking charges at UK workplaces.

An investigation of cell wall micropore blocking as a possible mechanism for the decay resistance of anhydride modified wood (2005)
Journal Article
Hill, C. A. S., Forster, S. C., Farahani, M. R. M., Hale, M. D. C., Ormondroyd, G. A., & Williams, G. R. (2005). An investigation of cell wall micropore blocking as a possible mechanism for the decay resistance of anhydride modified wood. International biodeterioration & biodegradation, 55(1), 69-76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibiod.2004.07.003

Corsican pine (Pinus nigra) sapwood was chemically modified with acetic, or hexanoic anhydride to a variety of weight percentage gains. The cell wall microporosity of the wood before and after chemical modification was determined using the technique... Read More about An investigation of cell wall micropore blocking as a possible mechanism for the decay resistance of anhydride modified wood.

Sensational Interests, Mating Effort, and Personality: Evidence for Cross-Cultural Validity (2005)
Journal Article
Egan, V., Figueredo, A. J., Wolf, P., McBride, K., Sefcek, J., Vasquez, G., & Charles, K. (2005). Sensational Interests, Mating Effort, and Personality: Evidence for Cross-Cultural Validity. Journal of Individual Differences, 26(1), 11-19. https://doi.org/10.1027/1614-0001.26.1.11

We assessed whether violent or macabre interests ("sensational interests") were related to mating effort and a higher-order personality construct reflecting the combined features of higher Extraversion, lower Psychoticism, and lower Neuroticism in 1,... Read More about Sensational Interests, Mating Effort, and Personality: Evidence for Cross-Cultural Validity.

Managing social capital as knowledge management – some specification and representation issues. (2005)
Journal Article
Davenport, E., Graham, M., Kennedy, J., & Taylor, K. (2005). Managing social capital as knowledge management – some specification and representation issues. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 40, 101-108. https://doi.org/10.1002/meet.1450400113

‘Classic’ accounts of social capital have emerged in accounts of stable networks or institutional environments. These conditions do not apply in the case of many firms – a case in point being small firm networks that rely on rapid turnover of pr... Read More about Managing social capital as knowledge management – some specification and representation issues..

Network node, a communication network and a method of operation therefor (2005)
Patent
Lach, H., & Romdhani, I. (2005). Network node, a communication network and a method of operation therefor. US20050720871 20051209

A communication network (100) comprises a roaming network node (109) which may move within the network. The network node (109) comprises a network interface (201) for receiving data from a first node (107) of the network (100). The received data may... Read More about Network node, a communication network and a method of operation therefor.

Quality of life in care: The resident's perspective (2005)
Journal Article
Kydd, A. (2005). Quality of life in care: The resident's perspective. Nursing & residential care : the monthly journal for care assistants, nurses and managers working in health and social care, 7(1), 20-23. https://doi.org/10.12968/nrec.2005.7.1.17380

Angela Kydd reports on a study that asked older people about their lives. Of those surveyed, 13 were in hospital waiting to be moved to a care home and eight were in settled care home environments.