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University of Salford

EducationSalford, Manchester, United Kingdom
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 & Thin film. 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.


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TL;DR: In this paper, the Curry report was used to explore both the citizen-consumer relationship and purchase strategies used by consumers to resolve value conflicts in relation to animal welfare, highlighting the need for more effective market segmentation where markets are finely attuned to their customers.
Abstract: Ethical attitudes in relation to meat purchases were studied among urban and rural consumers in Scotland. All subjects perceived at least some ethical issues in relation to animal production systems, in particular, systems keeping animals in close confinement. Welfare-friendly production systems were viewed as adding value to a food, but this value was not necessarily realizable to producers if purchases occurred only when foods were on special offer. Statements made by individuals were often contradictory, revealing ambivalence, unresolved value conflicts and a general lack of involvement in the nature of meat production. A number of barriers to the establishment of stable attitudes and behaviours in relation to the ethical treatment of food animals were also identified. A key finding of the study is that individuals can hold two views on animal welfare. On the one hand, they may think as citizens influencing societal standards, and on the other, as consumers at the point of purchase. As citizens, they support the notion of animals being entitled to a good life; as meat consumers, they avoid the cognitive connection with the live animal. This paper explores both the citizen‐consumer relationship and purchase strategies used by consumers to resolve value conflicts. Lessons for public and commercial policy are highlighted in the context of the Curry Report (2002) which advocates more effective market segmentation where markets are finely attuned to their customers, with the development of a number of assurance schemes discussed in the article.

277 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, a simple temperature index-based hydro-glaciological model was developed with a view to assessing, in data-sparse areas, by how much and when climate warming will reduce Himalayan glacier dimensions and affect downstream river flows.
Abstract: River flow from glacierized areas in the Himalaya is influenced both by intra-annual variations in precipitation and energy availability, and by longer term changes in storage of water as glacier ice. High specific discharge from ice melt often dominates flow for considerable distances downstream, particularly where other sources of runoff are limited, providing a major water resource. Should Himalayan glaciers continue to retreat rapidly, water shortages might be widespread within a few decades. However, given the difference in climate between the drier western and monsoonal eastern ends of the region, future warming is unlikely to affect river flow uniformly throughout. A simple temperature-index-based hydro-glaciological model, in which glacier dimensions are allowed to decline through time, has been developed with a view to assessing, in data-sparse areas, by how much and when climate warming will reduce Himalayan glacier dimensions and affect downstream river flows. Two glaciers having the same initial geometries were located (one each) in the headwaters of two identical nests of hypothetical catchments, representing contrasting climates in the west and east of the region. The hypothetical catchments were nested such that percentage ice cover declined with increasing basin area. Model parameters were validated against available but limited mass-balance and river flow measurements. The model was applied for 150 years from an arbitrary start date (1990), first with standard-period (1961-1990) climate data and then with application of a 0·06 °C year-1 transient climatic warming scenario. Under this warming scenario, Himalayan rivers fed by large glaciers descending through considerable elevation range will respond in a broadly similar manner, except that summer snowfall in the east will suppress the rate of initial flow increase, delay peak discharge and postpone eventual disappearance of the ice. Impacts of declining glacier area on river flow will be greater in smaller and more highly glacierized basins in both the west and east, and in the west, where precipitation is scarce, for considerable distances downstream

277 citations

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TL;DR: Physiologically, left ventricular hypertrophy is primarily an adaptive remodeling process, compensating for an increase in workload placed on the heart with the aim of minimizing ventricular wall stress.
Abstract: Physiologically, left ventricular hypertrophy is primarily an adaptive remodeling process, compensating for an increase in workload placed on the heart with the aim of minimizing ventricular wall stress. Two contrasting models of adaptation may develop depending on the patterns of stress imposed.

276 citations

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TL;DR: The very early increase in concentrations of inflammatory markers after stroke may either be induced by stroke itself, or may indicate a preexisting inflammatory condition in stroke patients which may contribute to the development of stroke.

274 citations

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TL;DR: This paper presents two machine learning aided approaches for static analysis of Android malware based on permissions and the other is based on source code analysis utilizing a bag-of-words representation model.

272 citations


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NameH-indexPapersCitations
Hongjie Dai197570182579
Michael P. Lisanti15163185150
Matthew Jones125116196909
David W. Denning11373666604
Wayne Hall111126075606
Richard Gray10980878580
Christopher E.M. Griffiths10867147675
Thomas P. Davis10772441495
Nicholas Tarrier9232625881
David M. A. Mann8833843292
Ajith Abraham86111331834
Federica Sotgia8524728751
Mike Hulme8430035436
Robert N. Foley8426031580
Richard Baker8351422970
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No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
202331
2022139
2021880
2020888
2019842
2018781