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Study protocol of a mixed-methods evaluation of a cluster randomized trial to improve the safety of NSAID and antiplatelet prescribing: data-driven quality improvement in primary care. [Protocol] (2012)
Other
GRANT, A., DREISCHULTE, T., TREWEEK, S. and GUTHRIE, B. 2012. Study protocol of a mixed-methods evaluation of a cluster randomized trial to improve the safety of NSAID and antiplatelet prescribing: data-driven quality improvement in primary care. [Protocol]. Trials [online], 13, article number 154. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-13-154

Background: Trials of complex interventions are criticized for being 'black box', so the UK Medical Research Council recommends carrying out a process evaluation to explain the trial findings. We believe it is good practice to pre-specify and publish... Read More about Study protocol of a mixed-methods evaluation of a cluster randomized trial to improve the safety of NSAID and antiplatelet prescribing: data-driven quality improvement in primary care. [Protocol].

There are too many, but never enough: qualitative case study investigating routine coding of clinical information in depression. (2012)
Journal Article
CRESSWELL, K., MORRISON, Z., SHEIKH, A. and KALRA, D. 2012. There are too many, but never enough: qualitative case study investigating routine coding of clinical information in depression. PLoS ONE [online], 7(8), article ID e43831. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0043831

Background: We sought to understand how clinical information relating to the management of depression is routinely coded in different clinical settings and the perspectives of and implications for different stakeholders with a view to understanding h... Read More about There are too many, but never enough: qualitative case study investigating routine coding of clinical information in depression..

Cross-platform access control for mobile web applications. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
LYLE, J., MONTELEONE, S., FAILY, S., PATTI, D. and RICCIATO, F. 2012. Cross-platform access control for mobile web applications. In Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE international symposium on policies for distributed systems and networks (POLICY 2012), 16-18 July 2012, Chapel Hill, USA. Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society [online], pages 37-44. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/POLICY.2012.9

Web browsers are a common platform for delivering cross-platform applications. However, they currently fail to provide consistent access control for security and privacy sensitive JavaScript APIs, such as geolocation and local storage. This problem i... Read More about Cross-platform access control for mobile web applications..

UK young adults' safety awareness online: is it a 'girl thing'? (2012)
Journal Article
PEDERSEN, S. 2013. UK young adults' safety awareness online: is it a 'girl thing'? Journal of youth studies [online], 16(3), pages 404-419. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2012.710741

This article reports on a recent research project undertaken in the UK that investigated young adults' perception of potentially risky behaviour online. The research was undertaken through the use of an online survey associated with the UK teen soap... Read More about UK young adults' safety awareness online: is it a 'girl thing'?.

International collaboration: developing an international nursing module through the use of Wiki technology. (2012)
Journal Article
METCALFE, S., MCINALLY, W., ADAMSON, E., TIITTANEN, H. and STRICKLAND, K. 2012. International collaboration: developing an international nursing module through the use of Wiki technology. Educational developments [online], 13(3), pages 18-22. Available from: http://www.seda.ac.uk/?p=5_4_1&pID=13.3

The internationalisation of education gathered momentum with the Bologna process initiated in 1998, which focused upon lifelong learning, involvement of students into HEI’s (Higher Education Institutions), and easing mobility of students for job plac... Read More about International collaboration: developing an international nursing module through the use of Wiki technology..

The use of podcasts to enhance research-teaching linkages in undergraduate nursing students. (2012)
Journal Article
STRICKLAND, K., GRAY, C. and HILL, G. 2012. The use of podcasts to enhance research-teaching linkages in undergraduate nursing students. Nurse education in practice [online], 12(4), pages 210-214. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2012.01.006

An understanding of research is important to enable nurses to provide evidence-based care. However, undergraduate nursing students often find research a challenging subject. The purpose of this paper is to present an evaluation of the introduction of... Read More about The use of podcasts to enhance research-teaching linkages in undergraduate nursing students..

Numerical study of the effect of effective diffusivity and permeability of the gas diffusion layer on fuel cell performance. (2012)
Journal Article
HOSSAIN, M., ISLAM, S.Z. and POLLARD, P. 2012. Numerical study of the effect of effective diffusivity and permeability of the gas diffusion layer on fuel cell performance. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, part A: journal of power and energy [online], 226(7), pages 907-921. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/0957650912454402

A three-dimensional, single-phase, isothermal, explicit electrochemistry polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell model has been developed and the developed computational model has been used to compare various effective diffusivity models of the gas di... Read More about Numerical study of the effect of effective diffusivity and permeability of the gas diffusion layer on fuel cell performance..

A biomechanical comparison of the traditional squat, powerlifting squat and box squat. (2012)
Journal Article
SWINTON, P.A., LLOYD, R., KEOGH, J.W.L., AGOURIS, I. and STEWART, A. 2012. A biomechanical comparison of the traditional squat, powerlifting squat and box squat. Journal of strength and conditioning research [online], 26(7), pages 1805-1816. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1519/JSC.0b013e3182577067

The purpose of this study was to compare the biomechanics of the traditional squat with two popular exercise variations, commonly referred to as the powerlifting squat and box squat. Twelve male powerlifters performed the exercises with 30, 50 and 70... Read More about A biomechanical comparison of the traditional squat, powerlifting squat and box squat..

Music-inspired texture representation. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HORSBURGH, B., CRAW, S. and MASSIE, S. 2012. Music-inspired texture representation. In Proceedings of the 26th Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence conference on artificial intelligence (AAAI-12), co-located with the 2012 Symposium on educational advances in artificial intelligence (EAAI-12), 22-26 July 2012, Toronto, Canada. Palo Alto: AAAI Press [online], pages 52-58. Available from: https://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/AAAI/AAAI12/paper/view/5041

Techniques for music recommendation are increasingly relying on hybrid representations to retrieve new and exciting music. A key component of these representations is musical content, with texture being the most widely used feature. Current technique... Read More about Music-inspired texture representation..

Embedded workbench application of GPS sensor for agricultural tractor. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
SARKER, M.M.K., PARK, D., HAM, W., TUMENJARGAL, E. and LEE, J. 2012. Embedded workbench application of GPS sensor for agricultural tractor. In Arabnia, H.R., Deligiannidis, L. and Solo, A.M.G. (eds) Proceedings of the 2012 Embedded systems and applications international conference (ESA'12), 25-28 July 2012, Las Vegas, USA. Athens, GA: CSREA Press. Hosted by WorldComp proceedings [online], pages 40-45. Available from: http://www.worldcomp-proceedings.com/proc/proc2012/esa/papers.pdf

This paper presents a design of an embedded workbench application of Global Positioning System (GPS) for agricultural tractor. Electronic Control Unit (ECU) is Global Positioning System (GPS) sensor using IAR (IAR Embedded Workbench) and an open sour... Read More about Embedded workbench application of GPS sensor for agricultural tractor..

Efficient resource utilization for multi-flow wireless multicasting transmissions. (2012)
Journal Article
TU, W. 2012. Efficient resource utilization for multi-flow wireless multicasting transmissions. IEEE journal on selected areas in communications [online], 30(7), pages 1246-1258. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/JSAC.2012.120810

Wireless multimedia services are major applications of next generation wireless networks. This paper is one of the first to study the efficient utilization of network resources for increasing the number of concurrent multimedia flows when a channel b... Read More about Efficient resource utilization for multi-flow wireless multicasting transmissions..

Effectiveness of skill-based conditioning games in team sport athletes with different fitness levels. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
SWINTON, P., BURGESS, K. and CARVER, P. 2012. Effectiveness of skill-based conditioning games in team sport athletes with different fitness levels. Presented at the 2012 International convention on science, education and medicine in sport (ICSEMIS 2012), 19-24 July 2012, Glasgow, UK.

Skill-based conditioning games can provide an effective means of simultaneously improving the skills and physical fitness levels of team sport athletes. Improvements in technical skills as a result of medium-term interventions of skill-based conditio... Read More about Effectiveness of skill-based conditioning games in team sport athletes with different fitness levels..

Very-low-energy diets and morbidity: a systematic review of longer-term evidence. (2012)
Journal Article
MULHOLLAND, Y., NICOKAVOURA, E., BROOM, J. and ROLLAND, C. 2012. Very-low-energy diets and morbidity: a systematic review of longer-term evidence. British journal of nutrition [online], 108(5), pages 832-851. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007114512001924

Evidence from the literature supports the safe use of very-low-energy diets (VLED) for up to 3 months in supervised conditions for patients who fail to meet a target weight loss using a standard low-fat, reduced-energy approach. There is, however, a... Read More about Very-low-energy diets and morbidity: a systematic review of longer-term evidence..

Mitigation of preferential concentration of small inertial particles in stationary isotropic turbulence using electrical and gravitational body forces. (2012)
Journal Article
KARNIK, A.U. and SHRIMPTON, J.S. 2012. Mitigation of preferential concentration of small inertial particles in stationary isotropic turbulence using electrical and gravitational body forces. Physics of fluids [online], 24(7), article ID 073301. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4732540

Particles with a certain range of Stokes numbers preferentially concentrate due to action of turbulent motion and body forces such as gravity are known to influence this process. The effect of electric charge, residing on particles, upon the phenomen... Read More about Mitigation of preferential concentration of small inertial particles in stationary isotropic turbulence using electrical and gravitational body forces..

Are electronic theses and dissertations radically changing the nature and scope of doctoral research dissemination and use? (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
GOODFELLOW, L.M., MACDUFF, C., LESLIE, G., COPELAND, S., NOLFI, D. and BLACKWOOD, D. 2012. Are electronic theses and dissertations radically changing the nature and scope of doctoral research dissemination and use? Presented at the 2012 Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) Health Libraries Group conference (HLG 2012), 12-13 July 2012, London, UK.

Originally presented as: GOODFELLOW, L. M., MACDUFF, C., LESLIE, G., COPELAND, S., NOLFI, D. and BLACKWOOD, D., 2012. Are electronic theses and dissertations radically changing the nature and scope of doctoral research dissemination and use' at the A... Read More about Are electronic theses and dissertations radically changing the nature and scope of doctoral research dissemination and use?.

Tool-supported premortems with attack and security patterns. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
FAILY, S., LYLE, J. and PARKIN, S. 2012. Tool-supported premortems with attack and security patterns. In Proceedings of the 1st International workshop on cyberpatterns (Cyberpatterns 2012): unifying design patterns with security, attack and forensic patterns, 9-10 July 2012, Abingdon, UK. Oxford: Oxford Brookes University, pages 10-11.

Security patterns are a useful technique for packaging and applying security knowledge. However, because patterns represent partial knowledge of a problem and solution space, there is little certainty that addressing the consequences of one problem w... Read More about Tool-supported premortems with attack and security patterns..

Suppository formulations as a potential treatment for nephropathic cystinosis. (2012)
Journal Article
BUCHAN, B., KAY, G., MATTHEWS, K.H. and CAIRNS, D. 2012. Suppository formulations as a potential treatment for nephropathic cystinosis. Journal of pharmaceutical sciences [online], 101(10), pages 3729-3738. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/jps.23246

Nephropathic cystinosis is a rare autosomal recessive disease characterised by raised lysosomal levels of cystine in the cells of all the organs. It is treated by the 6-h oral administration of the aminothiol, cysteamine, which has an offensive taste... Read More about Suppository formulations as a potential treatment for nephropathic cystinosis..

Intercultural competence in global collaboration courses in computer engineering. (2012)
Book Chapter
BERNALD, H., CAJANDER, A., DANIELS, M., KULTUR, C., LOFSTROM, A., MCDERMOTT, R. and RUSSELL-DAG, L. 2012. Intercultural competence in global collaboration courses in computer engineering. In Schmorrow, D.D. and Nicholson, D.M. (eds.) Advances in design for cross-cultural activies: Part I. Boca Raton: CRC Press [online], chapter 35, pages 351-361. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1201/b12316-42

With the rapid and ever expanding globalization of the workforce, international collaborations are becoming part of everyday life for people of many professions. Intercultural competence has therefore become one of the central professional competenci... Read More about Intercultural competence in global collaboration courses in computer engineering..

How beneficial is international stock market information in domestic stock market trading? (2012)
Journal Article
IBRAHIM, B.M. and BRZESZCZNSKI, J. 2014. How beneficial is international stock market information in domestic market trading? European journal of finance [online], 20(3), pages 201-231. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/1351847X.2012.690773

This paper uses the foreign information transmission (FIT) model of Ibrahim and Brzeszczynski [Inter-regional and region-specific transmission of international stock market returns: The role of foreign information. Journal of International Money and... Read More about How beneficial is international stock market information in domestic stock market trading?.

Abstract book for the proceedings of the 1st International conference on structural nano composites (NANOSTRUC 2012), 02-04 July 2012, Cranfield, UK. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
SACHSE, S. and NJUGUNA, J. (eds.) 2012. Abstract book for the proceedings of the 1st International conference on structural nano composites (NANOSTRUC 2012), 02-04 July 2012, Cranfield, UK.

The purpose of the 2012 International Conference on Structural Nano Composites (NanoStruc 2012) is to promote activities in various areas of materials and structures by providing a forum for exchange of ideas, presentation of technical achievements a... Read More about Abstract book for the proceedings of the 1st International conference on structural nano composites (NANOSTRUC 2012), 02-04 July 2012, Cranfield, UK..