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The NHS health check for developing HFE competencies. (2018)
Conference Proceeding
VOSPER, H., BOWIE, P. and HIGNETT, S. 2018. The NHS health check for developing HFE competencies. In Charles, R. and Wilkinson, J. (eds.) Contemporary ergonomics and human factors 2018: proceedings of the Ergonomic and human factors conference 2018 (EHF 2018), 23-25 April 2018, Birmingham, UK. Birmingham: Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors [online], pages 31-37. Available from: https://publications.ergonomics.org.uk/publications/the-nhs-health-check-for-developing-hfe-competencies.html

Patient safety is an emergent property of complex sociotechnical healthcare systems. Human Factors and Ergonomics (HFE), with its design-based systems focus, offers frameworks for developing resilient systems, although use in healthcare has been limi... Read More about The NHS health check for developing HFE competencies..

Creative 'tips' to integrate human factors/ergonomics principles and methods with patient safety and quality improvement clinical education. (2018)
Conference Proceeding
VOSPER, H., HIGHNETT, S. and BOWIE, P. 2018. Creative 'tips' to integrate human factors/ergonomics principles and methods with patient safety and quality improvement clinical education. In Bagnara, S., Tartaglia, R., Albolino, S., Alexander, T. and Fujita, Y. (eds.) Proceedings of the 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2018), 26-30 August 2018, Florence, Italy. Advances in intelligent systems and computing, 818. Cham: Springer [online], volume 1: healthcare ergonomics, pages 97-101. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96098-2_14

The goal of these 12 tips is to enhance the effectiveness of safety and improvement work in frontline healthcare practice by providing a framework for integration of Human Factors and Ergonomics (HFE) theory and approaches within undergraduate curric... Read More about Creative 'tips' to integrate human factors/ergonomics principles and methods with patient safety and quality improvement clinical education..

Zinc-modified nanotransporter of doxorubicine for multi-targeted therapy of prostate cancer cells. (2017)
Conference Proceeding
SKALICKOVA, S., LOFFELMANN, M., DOCEKALOVA, M., UHLIROVA, D., STANKOVA, M., KEPINSKA, M., MILNEROWICZ, H., FERNANDEZ, C., RUTTKAY-NEDECKY, B., ZIDKOVA, J. and KIZEK, R. 2017. Zinc-modified nanotransporter of doxorubicine for multi-targeted therapy of prostate cancer cells. In Proceedings of the 9th Nanomaterials international conference 2017 (NANOCON 2017): research and application, 18-20 October 2017, Brno, Czech Republic. Ostrava: Tanger Ltd [online], pages 531-536. Available from: https://www.confer.cz/nanocon/2017/read/347-zinc-modified-nanotransporter-of-doxorubicine-for-multi-targeted-therapy-of-prostate-cancer-cells.pdf

Target therapy for oncologic diseases presents a big challenge for advance nanomedicine. In our work, we focused on multi-target approach development. Designed nanotransporter is based on polysaccharide chitosan which allows formation of nanoparticle... Read More about Zinc-modified nanotransporter of doxorubicine for multi-targeted therapy of prostate cancer cells..

Dependence of antibacterial properties of silver nanoparticles on their surface modification. (2017)
Conference Proceeding
CIHALOVA, K., BREZINOVA, K., STANKOVA, M., DOCEKALOVA, M., UHLIROVA, D., KEPINSKA, M., SOCHOR, J., MILNEROWICZ, H., FERNANDEZ, C., ZIDKOVA, J. and KIZEK, R. 2017. Dependence of antibacterial properties of silver nanoparticles on their surface modification. In Proceedings of the 9th Nanomaterials international conference 2017 (NANOCON 2017): research and application, 18-20 October 2017, Brno, Czech Republic. Ostrava: Tanger Ltd [online], pages 692-697. Available from: https://www.confer.cz/nanocon/2017/download/370-dependence-of-antibacterial-properties-of-silver-nanoparticles-of-their-surface-modification.pdf

Nanosilver, in the form of colloidal silver, has been used for many years. In recent years, the development of efficient green chemistry methods for the synthesis of metal nanoparticles by organisms has become a major focus of researchers. The differ... Read More about Dependence of antibacterial properties of silver nanoparticles on their surface modification..

Biophysical study of CdTe quantum dots interactions with albumin and antibody as the base of photodynamic therapy. (2017)
Conference Proceeding
RUTTKAY-NEDECKY, B., SOCHOROVA, A., DOCEKALOVA, M., UHLIROVA, D., STANKOVA, M., KEPINSKA, M., SKALICKOVA, S., CIHALOVA, K., MILNEROWICZ, H., FERNANDEZ, C., ZIDKOVA, J and KIZEK, R. 2017. Biophysical study of CdTe quantum dots interactions with albumin and antibody as the base of photodynamic therapy. In Proceedings of the 9th Nanomaterials international conference 2017 (NANOCON 2017): research and application, 18-20 October 2017, Brno, Czech Republic. Ostrava: Tanger Ltd [online], pages 537-542. Available from: https://www.confer.cz/nanocon/2017/download/348-biophysical-study-of-cdte-quantum-dots-interactions-with-albumin-and-antibody-as-the-base-of-photodynamic-therapy.pdf

Photodynamic therapy is a relatively new type of cancer treatment, or eventually it is used at the elimination of undesirable pathogenic microorganisms. Quantum dots (QDs) are semiconducting nanocrystals with a size of 2-20 nm and can be used in phot... Read More about Biophysical study of CdTe quantum dots interactions with albumin and antibody as the base of photodynamic therapy..

Energy efficient operation of photocatalytic reactors based on UV LEDs for pollution remediation in water. (2017)
Conference Proceeding
PRABHU, R., HEWITT, F., GEORGIEVA, G., MEENAKSHI, H.N., LAWTON, L.A. and ROBERTSON, P.K.J. 2017. Energy efficient operation of photocatalytic reactors based on UV LEDs for pollution remediation in water. In Proceedings of OCEANS 2017, 19-22 June 2017, Aberdeen, UK. New York: IEEE [online], article number 8085011, pages 2623-2627. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANSE.2017.8085011

Photocatalytic technology using TiO2 is one of the emerging approaches for water treatment, especially as a final step to remove complex organics such as pesticides, hormones or humic acids. Titanium dioxide (TiO2) is a semiconductor material with st... Read More about Energy efficient operation of photocatalytic reactors based on UV LEDs for pollution remediation in water..

Graph edit distance or graph edit pseudo-distance? (2016)
Conference Proceeding
SERRATOSA, F., CORTÉS, X., and MORENO, C.-F. 2016. Graph edit distance or graph edit pseudo-distance? In Robles-Kelly, A., Loog, M., Biggio, B., Escolano, F. and Wilson, R. (eds.). Structural, syntactic, and statistical pattern recognition: proceedings of the 2016 Joint International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR) International workshops on Statistical techniques in pattern recognition (SPR) and Structural and syntactic pattern recognition (SSPR) (S+SSPR 2020), 29 November - 2 December 2016, Merida, Mexico. Lecture notes in computer science, 10029. Cham: Springer [online], pages 530-540. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49055-7_47

Graph Edit Distance has been intensively used since its appearance in 1983. This distance is very appropriate if we want to compare a pair of attributed graphs from any domain and obtain not only a distance, but also the best correspondence between n... Read More about Graph edit distance or graph edit pseudo-distance?.

Characterisation of peroxidase-like activity of thermally synthesized gold nanoparticles. (2016)
Conference Proceeding
DOCEKALOVA, M., UHLIROVA, D., STANKOVA, M., KEPINSKA, M., SOCHOR, J., MILNEROWICZ, H., BABULA, P., FERNANDEZ, C., BRAZDOVA, M., ZIDKOVA, J., SUCHY, P. and KIZEK, R. 2016. Characterisation of peroxidase-like activity of thermally synthesized gold nanoparticles. In Proceedings of the 8th Nanomaterials international conference 2016 (NANOCON 2016): research and application, 19-21 October 2016, Brno, Czech Republic. Ostrava: Tanger Ltd [online], pages 429-434. Available from: https://www.confer.cz/nanocon/2016/download/506-characterisation-of-peroxidase-like-activity-of-thermally-synthesized-gold-nanoparticles.pdf

The development of nanotechnologies has attracted a lot of interest since it brings new possibilities in the field of nanomedical applications, from diagnostic methods to targeted nanotransporters. Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) belong to a group of nano... Read More about Characterisation of peroxidase-like activity of thermally synthesized gold nanoparticles..

The use of carbon and gold electrodes in anodic stripping voltammetric heavy metal sensors. (1999)
Conference Proceeding
BONSEN, E.M., ROBERTSON, P.K.J., MCSTAY, D., POLLARD, P., BACKES, M. and SHAW, J. 1999. The use of carbon and gold electrodes in anodic stripping voltammetric heavy metal sensors. In White, N. and Augousti, A.T. (eds.) Sensors and their applications X: proceedings of the 10th Conference on sensors and their applications, 5-8 September 1999, Cardiff, UK. Bristol: IOP Publishing, pages 83-88.

The use of anodic stripping voltammetry (ASV)has been proven in the past to be a precise and sensitive analytical method with an excellent limit of detection. Electrochemical sensors could help to avoid expensive and time consuming procedures as samp... Read More about The use of carbon and gold electrodes in anodic stripping voltammetric heavy metal sensors..

The application of surface second harmonic sensor to probe laser induced modification of titanium dioxide. (1999)
Conference Proceeding
LEE, S.-K., VRILLET, G., AL-OBAIDI, A.H.R., ROBERTSON, P.K.J. and MCSTAY, D. 1999. The application of surface second harmonic sensor to probe laser induced modification of titanium dioxide. In White, N. and Augousti, A.T. (eds.) Sensors and their applications X: proceedings of the 10th Conference on sensors and their applications, 5-8 September 1999, Cardiff, UK. Bristol: IOP Publishing, pages 37-41.

The effects of high power pulsed laser light on a TiO2 photocatalyst have been investigated using a surface second harmonic generation (SSHG) sensor. When TiO2 is irradiated with a laser at 355mm a visible change in colour from white to dark blue cry... Read More about The application of surface second harmonic sensor to probe laser induced modification of titanium dioxide..

Raman spectroscopy of laser irradiated titanium dioxide. (1999)
Conference Proceeding
LEE, S.-K., RICE, J.H., AL-OBAIDI, A.H.R., ROBERTSON, P.K.J. and MCSTAY, D. 1999. Raman spectroscopy of laser irradiated titanium dioxide. In White, N. and Augousti, A.T. (eds.) Sensors and their applications X: proceedings of the 10th Conference on sensors and their applications, 5-8 September 1999, Cardiff, UK. Bristol: IOP Publishing, pages 293-298.

Raman spectroscopy is applied to investigate the effect of exposure to high power laser radiation on the crystalline phases of TiO2. Measurement of the changes in the Raman spectra of TiO2 with exposure to laser radiation was reported. This has prove... Read More about Raman spectroscopy of laser irradiated titanium dioxide..