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Evaluation of following headway behaviour in mixed traffic condition in north east part of India. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Kumar, R., & Parida, P. (2013). Evaluation of following headway behaviour in mixed traffic condition in north east part of India. In A. Ahmed (Ed.), 2013 World Sustainable Development Outlook: Sustainable Development - New Multi-Disciplinary Approaches and Methodologies (365-390)

Purpose: Both a lack of understanding of the issues for following headway behaviour of the driver and a lack of sufficient data in different traffic condition have been major reasons to attempt this research study. This paper attempts to address hypo... Read More about Evaluation of following headway behaviour in mixed traffic condition in north east part of India..

In vitro assessment of engineered nanomaterials using a hepatocyte cell line: cytotoxicity, pro-inflammatory cytokines and functional markers. (2013)
Journal Article
Kermanizadeh, A., Pojana, G., Gaiser, B. K., Birkedal, R., Bilanicˇová, D., Wallin, H., …Stone, V. (2013). In vitro assessment of engineered nanomaterials using a hepatocyte cell line: cytotoxicity, pro-inflammatory cytokines and functional markers. Nanotoxicology, 7, 301-313. https://doi.org/10.3109/17435390.2011.653416

Effects on the liver C3A cell line treated with a panel of engineered nanomaterials (NMs) consisting of two zinc oxide particles (ZnO; coated 100 nm and uncoated 130 nm), two multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs), one silver (Ag < 20 nm), one 7 nm a... Read More about In vitro assessment of engineered nanomaterials using a hepatocyte cell line: cytotoxicity, pro-inflammatory cytokines and functional markers..

Visual cleaning of genotype data. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Kennedy, J., Graham, M., Paterson, T., & Law, A. (2013). Visual cleaning of genotype data. In Proceedings of BioVis 2013 (105-112). https://doi.org/10.1109/BioVis.2013.6664353

While some data cleaning tasks can be performed automatically, many more require expert human guidance to steer the cleaning process, especially if erroneous or unclean data is a product of relationships between entities. An example is pedigree genot... Read More about Visual cleaning of genotype data..

The water vapor sorption behavior of a galactomannan cellulose nanocomposite film analyzed using parallel exponential kinetics and the Kelvin-Voigt viscoelastic model. (2013)
Journal Article
Keating, B. A., Hill, C. A. S., Sun, D., English, R., Davies, P., & McCue, C. (2013). The water vapor sorption behavior of a galactomannan cellulose nanocomposite film analyzed using parallel exponential kinetics and the Kelvin-Voigt viscoelastic model. Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 129, 2352-2359. https://doi.org/10.1002/app.39132

Nanocomposite films have been developed where a galactomannan (guar) matrix was reinforced with cellulose nanowhiskers and plasticized using sorbitol. The properties of these films were compared with films made from guar only. The films were examined... Read More about The water vapor sorption behavior of a galactomannan cellulose nanocomposite film analyzed using parallel exponential kinetics and the Kelvin-Voigt viscoelastic model..

Life satisfaction in people with post-traumatic stress disorder. (2013)
Journal Article
Karatzias, T., Chouliara, Z., Power, K., Brown, K., Begum, M., McGoldrick, T., & MacLean, R. (2013). Life satisfaction in people with post-traumatic stress disorder. Journal of Mental Health, 22, 501-508. https://doi.org/10.3109/09638237.2013.819418

Background/Aims There is limited research on the association between post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and life satisfaction in community samples. We set out to investigate levels of life satisfaction and its demographic, trauma related and... Read More about Life satisfaction in people with post-traumatic stress disorder..

Empathy in mental health nursing: learned, acquired or lost? (2013)
Journal Article
Kane, G. M., Snowden, A., & Martin, C. R. (2013). Empathy in mental health nursing: learned, acquired or lost?. British Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 2, 28-36. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjmh.2013.2.1.28

Empathy is a key dimension within the philosophical architecture of everyday mental health nursing practice. Surprisingly, there have been few investigations on this important psychological domain in mental health practitioners. This investigation so... Read More about Empathy in mental health nursing: learned, acquired or lost?.

Grading UK grown larch for durability. IRG/WP 13-10808 (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Jones, D., Davies, I., Sharphouse, P., & Suttie, E. (2013). Grading UK grown larch for durability. IRG/WP 13-10808. In Proceedings 2013 Annual Meeting of the International Research Group on wood Protection

This paper reports on a joint study by BRE, the Forest Products Research Institute and TRADA Technology into the feasibility of grading UK grown larch to maximise its natural durability. The research was undertaken to assist sawmills and timber speci... Read More about Grading UK grown larch for durability. IRG/WP 13-10808.

Learning in the Workplace: Initiatives through Learning to Work 2, Placements and Internships a summary of findings in work placements: where are we now, impact and lessons learned? (2013)
Report
Irving, C., & Allford, R. (2013). Learning in the Workplace: Initiatives through Learning to Work 2, Placements and Internships a summary of findings in work placements: where are we now, impact and lessons learned?. Edinburgh, Scotland: Higher Education Authority

Report based on a literature review of the four Scottish Funding Council (SFC) Learning to Work 2 (LTW2) projects.

Feasibility and economic study of solar photovoltaic system for domestic properties in Scotland. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Irshad, W., Girard, A., & Muneer, T. (2013). Feasibility and economic study of solar photovoltaic system for domestic properties in Scotland.

Solar photovoltaic technology is continuously growing. It is providing benefits to, not only environment friendly people as a clean source of energy but it also became economically, a profitable source of energy. It is happening because of decreasing... Read More about Feasibility and economic study of solar photovoltaic system for domestic properties in Scotland..

Case management vocational rehabilitation for women with breast cancer after surgery: a feasibility study incorporating a pilot randomised controlled trial. (2013)
Journal Article
Hubbard, G., Gray, N. M., Ayansina, D., Evans, J., & Kyle, R. G. (2013). Case management vocational rehabilitation for women with breast cancer after surgery: a feasibility study incorporating a pilot randomised controlled trial. Trials, 14, 175. https://doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-14-175

Background: There is a paucity of methodologically robust vocational rehabilitation (VR) intervention trials. This study assessed the feasibility and acceptability of a VR trial of women with breast cancer to inform the development of a larger interv... Read More about Case management vocational rehabilitation for women with breast cancer after surgery: a feasibility study incorporating a pilot randomised controlled trial..

Recognizing and Meeting the Spiritual Needs of Hospital Inpatients. (2013)
Journal Article
Howard, N., Snowden, A., Telfer, I., & Waller, R. (2013). Recognizing and Meeting the Spiritual Needs of Hospital Inpatients. Health and Social Care Chaplaincy, 1, https://doi.org/10.1558/hscc.v1i1.35

The aim of this project is to improve understanding of the spiritual needs of inpatients and to establish how well these are recognized and met. Interviews were carried out with 13 patients, who had seen a chaplain, to ascertain their spiritual needs... Read More about Recognizing and Meeting the Spiritual Needs of Hospital Inpatients..

Bereavement care for childbearing women and their families: an interactive workbook. (2013)
Book
Hollins Martin, C. J., & Forrest, E. (2012). Bereavement care for childbearing women and their families: an interactive workbook. Routledge

For many bereaved parents, the care provided by health professionals at birth – from midwives to antenatal teachers – has a crucial effect on their response to a loss or death. This interactive workbook is clearly applied to practice and has been des... Read More about Bereavement care for childbearing women and their families: an interactive workbook..

Metered dose inhalers versus nebulizers for aerosol bronchodilator delivery for adult patients receiving mechanical ventilation in critical care units (2013)
Journal Article
Holland, A., Smith, F., Penny, K. I., McCrossan, G., Veitch, L., & Nicholson, C. (2013). Metered dose inhalers versus nebulizers for aerosol bronchodilator delivery for adult patients receiving mechanical ventilation in critical care units. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 6, https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD008863.pub2

Background Nebulizers and metered dose inhalers (MDI) have both been adapted for delivering aerosol bronchodilation to mechanically ventilated patients, but there is incomplete knowledge as to the most effective method of delivery. Objectives To... Read More about Metered dose inhalers versus nebulizers for aerosol bronchodilator delivery for adult patients receiving mechanical ventilation in critical care units.

Lattice summations for spread out particles: Applications to neutral and charged systems. (2013)
Journal Article
Heyes, D. M., & Brańka, A. C. (2013). Lattice summations for spread out particles: Applications to neutral and charged systems. Journal of Chemical Physics, 138, 34504. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4775367

This work is concerned with the lattice energy of periodic assemblies of mass and charge distributions of the form, exp (−αp 2), where α is an adjustable positive variable and p − is the vector from the lattice site or average position. The energy... Read More about Lattice summations for spread out particles: Applications to neutral and charged systems..

From urban space to future place. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Helgason, I., Jensen, L., Rosenbak, S., Skrinjar, L., Smyth, M., Streinzer, A., …Wouters, N. (2013). From urban space to future place.

How the UrbanIxD summer school applied critical design & design fiction to future urban technologies. Produced in collaboration with the Book Sprints for ICT Research FP7 project. http://issuu.com/urbanixd/docs/from_urban_space_to_future_place

On the role of the AIS practitioner. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Hart, E., Read, M., McEwan, C., Aickelin, U., & Greensmith, J. (2013). On the role of the AIS practitioner. In P. Liò, O. Miglino, G. Nicosia, S. Nolfi, & M. Pavone (Eds.), Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2013 (891-892). https://doi.org/10.7551/978-0-262-31709-2-ch132

Cognisant of the gulf between engineers and immunologists that currenty hinders a truly inter-disciplinary approach to the field of Artificial Immune Systems (AIS), we propose a redefinition of the term AIS practitioner, as an individual who iden... Read More about On the role of the AIS practitioner..

Transport, the poor and moving towards low-carbon societies. (2013)
Journal Article
Grieco, M. (2013). Transport, the poor and moving towards low-carbon societies. Bulletin FAL, 318, 1-8

The discussion of poverty and transport globally, and within Latin America and the Caribbean with its “high degree of residential segregation of contemporary Latin American cities”,1 must increasingly take place within the context of the social su... Read More about Transport, the poor and moving towards low-carbon societies..