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Evaluating Local Strategic Partnerships: Theory and Practice of Change

Geddes. M. ; Davies, Jonathan S. ; Fuller, C. (Article)

Introduction: Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPs) are a major recent innovation in English local Governance (Aulakh et al, 2002; Hastings, 2003). Their role is crucial to the success of a number of other government policies ...

Evaluating novel methods for teaching toxicology, public health and emergency response to undergraduate students.

Pena-Fernandez, A. ; Lobo-Bedmar, M. C. ; Haris, P. I. (Parvez I.) ; Pena, M. A. ; Dunford, L. J. (Conference)

Recent global health threats from bioterrorism and chemical attacks to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa have shown that there is a necessity for teaching toxicology, public health and emergency preparedness to future ...

Evaluating P2P Live Streaming Systems: the CNG Case

Ahmad, Shakeel ; Bouras, Christos ; Buyukkaya, Eliya ; Hamzaoui, Raouf ; Kapoulas, Vaggelis ; Papazois, Andreas ; Shani, Alex ; Simon, Gwendal (Conference)

Many peer-to-peer (P2P) systems have been proposed for the provision of scalable live video streaming services over the Internet. While the literature contains surveys of the architectures of these systems, there is a ...

Evaluating Personalised Energy Feedback Information for Behaviour Change in Commercial Buildings

Coleman, Michael ; Irvine, K. N. ; Lemon, Mark ; Shao, L. (Conference)

Evaluating research methods for Syntactic development data collection and analysis of Chinese-speaking children in Malaysia.

Jin, Lixian (Article)

Evaluating software cost estimation models using particle swarm optimisation and fuzzy logic for NASA projects: a comparative study

Ayesh, Aladdin, 1972- ; Sheta, A. F. ; Rine, D. (Article)

Bidding for contracts depends mainly on estimated costs of a given project, which makes an accurate estimation of effort and time required very important with great impact on budget computation and project success. Inaccurate ...

Evaluating sustainability: a need for standards.

Crowther, David ; Aras, G. (Article)

Evaluating the audio-diary method in qualitative research

Williamson, I. R. ; Leeming, D. ; Lyttle, Steven ; Johnson, Sally (Article)

Evaluating the commissioners

Buck, Trevor, 1951- (Article)

Evaluating the Context of On-line History Teaching: The First Year of the Chic Project

Hall, Richard (Conference)

Evaluating the device reputation through full observation in MANETs

Bella, Giampaolo ; Costantino, G. ; Riccobene, S. (Article)

The use of small portables and mobile devices has made MANETs (Mobile Ad Hoc Networks) very popular. A MANET is a network composed by a group of mobile nodes without any fixed device or a central coordination. They ...

Evaluating the effect of age and area of residence in the metal and metalloid contents in human hair and urban topsoils

Pena-Fernandez, A. ; Gonzalez-Munoz, M. J. ; Lobo-Bedmar, M. C. (Article)

Monitoring the levels of trace elements in hair can allow estimating the effects of the geographical location and also can provide a notion of the metal body burden. However, the use of human hair is controversial due to ...

Evaluating the effect of vitamins, minerals, herbs and supplements intake on learning performance in young adults (18-22 years old).

Pena-Fernandez, A. ; Aslam, S. ; Haris, P. I. (Parvez I.) ; Gonzalez-Munoz, M. J. ; Lobo-Bedmar, M. C. (Conference)

The consumption of vitamins, minerals, herbs and other supplements (VMHS) has grown in popularity over the past several years due to an increase in health and physical appearance awareness within the young population. ...

Evaluating the factors affecting DSS usage by senior managers in local authorities in Egypt.

McBride, Neil ; Elbeltagi, I. ; Hardaker, G. (Article)

Evaluating the importance of teaching environmental toxicology to postgraduate pharmacists.

Gonzalez-Munoz, M. J. ; Lobo-Bedmar, M. C. ; Torrado, G. ; Pena, M. A. ; Pena-Fernandez, A. (Conference)

The pharmaceutical industry is demanding professionals with knowledge in environmental toxicology due to increasing public concern about protecting the environment. However, the study of toxicology within the pharmacy ...

Evaluating the link between the management of clinical waste in the National Health Service (NHS) and the risk of the spread of infections: A case study of three hospitals in England.

Tudor, T. L. ; Woolridge, A. C. ; Phillips, C. A. ; Holliday, M. ; Laird, Katie ; Bannister, S. ; Edgar, J. ; Rushbrook, P. (Article)

Evaluating the performance and ranking of DMUs: A fuzzy bounded DEA approach

Hatami-Marbini, A. ; Gholami, K. ; Ghelej Beigi, Z. (Conference)

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a common technique in measuring the relative efficiency of a set of decision making units (DMUs) with multiple inputs and multiple outputs. Unfortunately, the existing DEA models are ...

Evaluating the Performance of Physics Students on the Autistic Spectrum within HE

Bassford, Marie ; Snape, J. Richard (Conference)

Currently, a third of first year physics students at De Montfort University (DMU), Leicester, have declared that they have a disability. The majority of these students are on the autistic spectrum. How many more of the ...

Evaluating the possible effect of area of residence on the levels of mercury in the hair of Spanish children and adolescents.

Gonzalez-Munoz, M. J. ; Lobo-Bedmar, M. C. ; Evans, M. D. ; Pena-Fernandez, A. (Conference)

Human biomonitoring programmes are robust, efficient and practical tools to protect the public health against environmental pollutants. Human hair is a good matrix to measure exposure to mercury (Hg). A monitoring study ...

Evaluating the presence of free-living human pathogenic amoeba in an urban area in Leicester, UK.

Hoosen, H. ; Magnet, A. ; Pancholi, R. ; Kukathasan, S. ; Anjum, U. ; Fenoy, S. ; Izquierdo, F. ; Ollero, D. ; Lobo-Bedmar, M. C. ; Pena, M. A. ; del Aguila, C. ; Pena-Fernandez, A. (Conference)

Human pathogenic free-living amoebas include Acanthamoeba spp., Naegleria fowleri and Balamuthia mandrillaris. These FLA are widely distributed protozoa in the environment and are becoming a public health threat as they ...

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