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Focus on exposure to air pollution and related health impacts
(2011-12-01)
Outdoor and indoor air pollution was recently identified as a key contributor to the environmental burden of disease in European countries (EBoDE Working Group 2011). Due to the time-activity profiles of contemporary ...
Design concepts for the Cherenkov Telescope Array CTA : An advanced facility for ground-based high-energy gamma-ray astronomy
(2011-12-01)
Ground-based gamma-ray astronomy has had a major breakthrough with the impressive results obtained using systems of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. Ground-based gamma-ray astronomy has a huge potential in ...
A dynamic model of the effects of project complexity on time to complete construction projects
(2011-12-01)
The aim of this paper if to investigate the factors driving project complexity in construction projects and how they impact on project cycle time. This issue has been addressed by building a framework for project complexity ...
The Role of Forwarding-Looking Price Expectations Data published by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) in explaining and forecasting U.K. house prices.
(2011-12)
The objective of this paper is to make use of the forward-looking price expectations data published by the RICS to explain and forecast U.K. house prices, three-months ahead. The Nationwide index is used to test the ...
An integrated air quality forecast system for a metropolitan area
(2011-12-01)
Air quality forecasting is an important issue in environmental research, due to the effects that air pollutants have on population health. To deal with this topic, in this work an integrated modelling system has been ...
LOFAR and APERTIF Surveys of the Radio Sky : Probing Shocks and Magnetic Fields in Galaxy Clusters
(2011-12)
At very low frequencies, the new pan-European radio telescope LOFAR is opening the last unexplored window of the electromagnetic spectrum for astrophysical studies. The revolutionary APERTIF-phased arrays that are about ...
Lay activism and activism intentions in a faculty union : An exploratory study
(2011-12-01)
Prior conceptual work on union renewal places activism in a central role. Understanding of activism's antecedents, however, remains limited. This study uses a sample of faculty union members at a large public university, ...
Dementia care : Could animal robots benefit residents
(2011-12)
When care homes do not allow pets to visit or live in the home, is there a place for robotic pets? Can they confer any of the same benefits to residents as real animals?
Not 2 old 2 TXT : There is potential to use email and SMS text message healthcare reminders for rheumatology patients up to 65 years old
(2011-12-01)
Short message service (SMS) and email reminders have the potential to improve adherence to appointments and medication taking. Within the UK, information and communication technology (ICT) is widely used with a very high ...
The Dynamics of Radio Galaxies and Double-Double Radio Galaxies
(2011-12)
Relativistic and magnetized plasma ejected by radio loud AGNs through jets form the diffuse lobes of radio galaxies. The radiating particles (electron/electron-positron) in lobes emit in radio via the synchrotron process ...