Brunel University London

About: Brunel University London is a education organization based out in London, United Kingdom. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Context (language use) & Large Hadron Collider. The organization has 10918 authors who have published 29515 publications receiving 893330 citations. The organization is also known as: Brunel & University of Brunel.

Safety behaviour and safety management: its influence on the attitudes of workers in the UK construction industry

Abstract: This paper identifies the critical factors that influence the attitudes of construction workers towards safe behaviour on construction sites. It studies these attitudes by using a research model that links three themes: safety management implementation strategies, attitudes of workers about safety and behavioural factors displayed by construction workers. This model is used to frame the responses of 126 directly employed construction workers in 10 companies. Some 56 variables were identified as having a potential influence upon attitudes to safety. The initial data analysis found that 12 technical factors significantly correlated to the development of strong positive attitudes towards safety management. Second‐order analysis, using factor analysis, isolated five variables that had a major influence on safety attitudes. The five factors were: organizing for safety supervision and equipment management, industry norms and culture, attitudes to risk taking and management behaviour.

Rethinking clinical trials of transcranial direct current stimulation: participant and assessor blinding is inadequate at intensities of 2mA.

Abstract: Copyright @ 2012 The Authors. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and 85 reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. The article was made available through the Brunel University Open Access Publishing Fund.

Measurement of the elliptic anisotropy of charged particles produced in PbPb collisions at √sNN=2.76 TeV

Abstract: The anisotropy of the azimuthal distributions of charged particles produced in √s_(NN)=2.76 TeV PbPb collisions is studied with the CMS experiment at the LHC. The elliptic anisotropy parameter, v_2, defined as the second coefficient in a Fourier expansion of the particle invariant yields, is extracted using the event-plane method, two- and four-particle cumulants, and Lee-Yang zeros. The anisotropy is presented as a function of transverse momentum (p_T), pseudorapidity (η) over a broad kinematic range, 0.3

Do multidisciplinary integrated care pathways improve interprofessional collaboration

Abstract: This paper reports on the evaluation stage of an action research project on interprofessional collaboration in discharge planning Findings from interviews with health care professionals working in the acute sector had revealed concerns about discharge planning and multidisciplinary teamwork In the United Kingdom the National Health Service (NHS) Plan has reinforced the need for an integrated approach to health care Effective health care integration requires effective communication, teamwork and the commitment to deliver integrated care Integrated documentation is a key strategy for enhancing interprofessional collaboration and reducing the isolation of professionals, and has been successfully implemented in a range of health care settings Presented with the concerns about the collaborative process in discharge planning, an action research strategy was chosen to bring about change in an orthopaedic ward in one London teaching hospital This paper will evaluate the implementation of an integrated care pathway with fractured neck of femurs in one London teaching hospital Care pathways facilitate the management of defined patient groups using interdisciplinary plans of care The emphasis will be on understanding whether integrated care pathways enhance and develop interprofessional collaboration and enable effective information access and flow across the professions and the organization The criteria for evaluation, forming the hypotheses of the study, were that interprofessional nonverbal and verbal communication would be enhanced and that interprofesisonal collaboration would increase Methods of evaluation used were: (i) stakeholder interviews, (ii) interprofessional audit and (iii) analysis of the variances from the integrated care pathway The evaluation revealed that although integrated care pathways led to improved outcomes for the health care trust there was little evidence to suggest that interprofessional relationships and communication were enhanced Furthermore, key factors in discharge delays appeared to be organizational rather than professional

Pareto or Non-Pareto: Bi-Criterion Evolution in Multiobjective Optimization

Abstract: It is known that Pareto dominance has its own weaknesses as the selection criterion in evolutionary multiobjective optimization. Algorithms based on Pareto criterion (PC) can suffer from problems such as slow convergence to the optimal front and inferior performance on problems with many objectives. Non-Pareto criterion (NPC), such as decomposition-based criterion and indicator-based criterion, has already shown promising results in this regard, but its high selection pressure may lead to the algorithm to prefer some specific areas of the problem’s Pareto front, especially when the front is highly irregular. In this paper, we propose a bi-criterion evolution (BCE) framework of the PC and NPC, which attempts to make use of their strengths and compensates for each other’s weaknesses. The proposed framework consists of two parts: PC evolution and NPC evolution. The two parts work collaboratively, with an abundant exchange of information to facilitate each other’s evolution. Specifically, the NPC evolution leads the PC evolution forward and the PC evolution compensates the possible diversity loss of the NPC evolution. The proposed framework keeps the freedom on the implementation of the NPC evolution part, thus making it applicable for any non-Pareto-based algorithm. In the PC evolution, two operations, population maintenance and individual exploration, are presented. The former is to maintain a set of representative nondominated individuals and the latter is to explore some promising areas that are undeveloped (or not well-developed) in the NPC evolution. Experimental results have shown the effectiveness of the proposed framework. The BCE works well on seven groups of 42 test problems with various characteristics, including those in which Pareto-based algorithms or non-Pareto-based algorithms struggle.