University of Salford

About: University of Salford is a education organization based out in Salford, Manchester, United Kingdom. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Context (language use). The organization has 13049 authors who have published 22957 publications receiving 537330 citations. The organization is also known as: University of Salford Manchester & The University of Salford Manchester.

Negotiating contested visions and place-specific expectations of the hydrogen economy

Abstract: This paper explores the role of the ‘hydrogen economy’ as a guiding vision encompassing multiple contested technological futures, value judgements and problem framings. Hydrogen visions draw upon six overarching and competing narrative themes: power and independence; community empowerment and democratisation; ecotopia; hydrogen as technical fix; inevitability and technical progress; and ‘staying in the race’. In other words the hydrogen economy possesses great interpretive flexibility. This, it is argued, is the key to hydrogen's rhetorical power, allowing it to become a space in which divergent interests and agendas are promoted. Turning to issues of scale and place, the case of London is used to document the dynamics of expectations: how the open flexible guiding vision of a hydrogen economy must inevitably be re-invented and grounded in local agendas and contexts if its promise is to become realised.

On the Calculation of Multicomponent Stable Phase Diagrams

Abstract: In a thermodynamic system, a stable phase diagram is uniquely determined by the thermodynamic parameters of each phase. A generalized phase equilibria calculation software package should enable the calculation of the phase diagram from the parameters automatically, without requiring either prior knowledge of the diagram or special user skills. Improvements to the existing software packages have been achieved in the new software package PANDAT. The approach used in this software is described briefly and some examples of its advantages are given.

The use of the pain drawing as a screening measure to predict psychological distress in chronic low back pain

Abstract: Study design The ability of three new methods of scoring the Pain Drawing to predict psychological distress in two cohorts of 100 patients with chronic low back pain was investigated. Objectives Patients completed a Pain Drawing and questionnaire measures of psychological distress and were given a standard physical examination. Summary of background data The two cohorts were significantly different on all variables (except for disability). Methods The relationship between the three new scoring systems and measures of distress, physical factors, and disability was investigated. Results The new scoring methods had high reliability. Pain Sites was a more accurate predictor of distress, but was unable to do so with sufficient specificity/sensitivity. Body Map did not correlate with physical/disability measures. Conclusion Using the new scoring systems, it was not possible to identify distressed patients with sufficient sensitivity/specificity, nor to differentiate between organic and nonorganic pain patterns.