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University of Bedfordshire

EducationLuton, Bedford, United Kingdom
About: University of Bedfordshire is a education organization based out in Luton, Bedford, United Kingdom. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Social work. The organization has 3860 authors who have published 6079 publications receiving 143448 citations. The organization is also known as: University of Luton.


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore whether expert judgements can be taken as a proxy for citizen preferences for determining investment strategies for public goods, focusing on the provision of Public Rights Of Way (PROW) by Local Government Authorities in England.

45 citations

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TL;DR: HrQol associated factors are multiple but mainly linked with socio-demographic factors, diabetes complications and satisfaction for social support, and a patient centred approach should be tested to prevent impairment of HrZol and thus to decrease the burden of diabetes.

45 citations

Proceedings ArticleDOI
01 Nov 2014
TL;DR: A mathematical model to estimate the relative distance from the UAV's camera to an obstacle which will subsequently be used in a collision avoidance algorithm is proposed, proving it can facilitate obstacle detection and avoidance for low cost and lightweight UAVs.
Abstract: This paper presents a novel monocular vision-based realtime obstacle detection and avoidance for a low cost unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in an unstructured, GPS denied environment We propose a mathematical model to estimate the relative distance from the UAV's camera to an obstacle which will subsequently be used in a collision avoidance algorithm We validate our model with some real time experiments under both stationary and dynamic motion of the UAV during its flight The results show good agreement with the ground truth values with an acceptable percentage of error in estimation under 3% thus proving it can facilitate obstacle detection and avoidance for low cost and lightweight UAVs

45 citations

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TL;DR: It was found that the ability of these chemicals to provoke responses in the LLNA correlated closely with their reported protein reactivity, and it was proposed that dinitrohalobenzenes conform to the electrophilic theory of skin sensitization and that they should be regarded as direct acting haptens.
Abstract: The dinitrohalobenzenes are known to cause skin sensitization and have been used in many seminal investigations of the relationships between physicochemical characteristics and sensitizing potential. The electrophilic theory of skin sensitization implies that contact allergic potential should correlate positively with ability of chemicals to react with proteins to form immunogenic hapten-protein conjugates. It is intriguing, therefore, that previous studies in guinea pigs and mice have suggested that such correlations do not apply to dinitrohalobenzenes. To address this, we have examined, using the murine local lymph node assay (LLNA), the sensitizing activity of 2,4-dinitrofluorobenzene (DNFB), 2,4-dinitrochlorobenzene (DNCB), 2,4-dinitrobromo-benzene (DNBB) and 2,4-dinitroiodobenzene (DNIB). In contrast to previous investigations, it was found that the ability of these chemicals to provoke responses in the LLNA correlated closely with their reported protein reactivity. On the basis of these data, it is proposed that dinitrohalobenzenes conform to the electrophilic theory of skin sensitization and that they should be regarded as direct acting haptens.

45 citations

Patent
31 Oct 1968
TL;DR: In this article, a tool for stripping the sheath or covering from a wire or cable, comprising a pair of gripping jaws for holding a sheath and cutting jaws for cutting it, is described, with a cam which is arranged to provide for jaw opening at the end of the displacement movement.
Abstract: The invention provides a tool for stripping the sheath or covering from a wire or cable, comprising a pair of gripping jaws for holding the sheath and a pair of cutting jaws for cutting the sheath, means for closing the pairs together and then for separating the pairs so as to displace the cut portion relative to the gripped portion, in which the displacing means includes a lost motion coupling so that an initial portion of the displacement is used for jaw closing but without effecting relative displacement, and with the jaw closing being effected by a cam which is arranged to provide for jaw opening at the end of the displacement movement.

45 citations


Authors

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NameH-indexPapersCitations
Jie Zhang1784857221720
Oscar H. Franco11182266649
Timothy J. Foster9842032338
Christopher P. Denton9567542040
Ian Kimber9162028629
Michael J. Gidley8642024313
David Carling8618645066
Anthony Turner7948924734
Rhys E. Green7828530428
Vijay Kumar Thakur7437517719
Dave J. Adams7328319526
Naresh Magan7240017511
Aedin Cassidy7021817788
David A. Basketter7032516639
Richard C. Strange6724917805
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No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
20236
202248
2021345
2020363
2019323
2018329