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Evaluation of Salford Carers' Development Service (SCDS)
âA carer spends a significant proportion of their
life providing unpaid support to family or
potentially friends. This could be caring for a
relative, partner or friend who is ill, frail, disabled
or has mental health or substance misuse
problems.â
(Department of Health 2008)
Between July 2007 and July 2009, a Carersâ Support Service
operated within one area of Salford City (Charlestown and Lower Kersal). This original service was the pre-cursor to a different service known as the Salford Carersâ Development Service (SCDS). The SCDS was set up to meet carersâ support needs in other areas of the City from August 2009 using the learning from this original service. The SCDS comprised staff who had provided the Charlestown and Lower Kersal service and its senior management remained the same. The plan for the SCDS was that it would focus on three other areas of the City consecutively, with each one receiving dedicated SCDS input for a year-long period.In spring 2010, the SCDS manager (Chief Executive of Unlimited
Potential â a social enterprise in the form of a community benefit society) negotiated an evaluation study to be undertaken by researchers from the University of Salfordâs School of Nursing and Midwifery. Groundwork for the evaluation took place over the summer of 2010, with data collection commencing in October 2010 and completing in February 2011. This report shares the findings from this project which is an example of public engagement
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Rehabilitation robot cell for multimodal standing-up motion augmentation
The paper presents a robot cell for multimodal standing-up motion augmentation. The robot cell is aimed at augmenting the standing-up capabilities of impaired or paraplegic subjects. The setup incorporates the rehabilitation robot device, functional electrical stimulation system, measurement instrumentation and cognitive feedback system. For controlling the standing-up process a novel approach was developed integrating the voluntary activity of a person in the control scheme of the rehabilitation robot. The simulation results demonstrate the possibility of âpatient-drivenâ robot-assisted standing-up training. Moreover, to extend the system capabilities, the audio cognitive feedback is aimed to guide the subject throughout rising. For the feedback generation a granular synthesis method is utilized displaying high-dimensional, dynamic data. The principle of operation and example sonification in standing-up are presented. In this manner, by integrating the cognitive feedback and âpatient-drivenâ actuation systems, an effective motion augmentation system is proposed in which the motion coordination is under the voluntary control of the user
Tidal perturbations on the satellite 1967-92A
The orbit of the 1967-92A satellite was studied to ascertain the extent to which tidal forces contribute to orbital perturbations. Parameters describing the ocean tide potential-in particular for the M2 and S2 constituents-were estimated. Since the ocean tide potential is less well known than the solid Earth tide, the ocean tide parameter estimation is based upon the use of a value of 0.3 for the solid Earth tide Love number in the orbit determination procedure. These tidal parameter values are in good agreement with those appearing in numerical models of the M2 and S2 tides derived from surface data
Anomalous Radio-Wave Scattering from Interstellar Plasma Structures
This paper considers scattering screens that have arbitrary spatial
variations of scattering strength transverse to the line of sight, including
screens that are spatially well confined, such as disks and filaments. We
calculate the scattered image of a point source and the observed pulse shape of
a scattered impulse. The consequences of screen confinement include: (1) Source
image shapes that are determined by the physical extent of the screen rather
than by the shapes of much-smaller diffracting microirregularities. These
include image elongations and orientations that are frequency dependent. (2)
Variation with frequency of angular broadening that is much weaker than the
trademark \nu^{-2} scaling law (for a cold, unmagnetized plasma), including
frequency-independent cases; and (3) Similar departure of the pulse broadening
time from the usually expected \nu^{-4} scaling law. We briefly discuss
applications that include scattering of pulses from the Crab pulsar by
filaments in the Crab Nebula; image asymmetries from Galactic scattering of the
sources Cyg X-3, Sgr A*, and NGC 6334B; and scattering of background active
galactic nuclei by intervening galaxies. We also address the consequences for
inferences about the shape of the wavenumber spectrum of electron density
irregularities, which depend on scaling laws for the image size and the pulse
broadening. Future low-frequency (< 100 MHz) array observations will also be
strongly affected by the Galactic structure of scattering material. Our
formalism is derived in the context of radio scattering by plasma density
fluctuations. It is also applicable to optical, UV and X-ray scattering by
grains in the interstellar medium.Comment: 21 pages, LaTeX2e with AASTeX-4.0, 6 PostScript figures, accepted by
ApJ, revised version has minor changes to respond to referee comments and
suggestion
Teaching Physics Using Virtual Reality
We present an investigation of game-like simulations for physics teaching. We
report on the effectiveness of the interactive simulation "Real Time
Relativity" for learning special relativity. We argue that the simulation not
only enhances traditional learning, but also enables new types of learning that
challenge the traditional curriculum. The lessons drawn from this work are
being applied to the development of a simulation for enhancing the learning of
quantum mechanics
Meson-exchange Currents and Quasielastic Neutrino Cross Sections
We illustrate and discuss the role of meson-exchange currents in quasielastic
neutrino-nucleus scattering induced by charged currents, comparing the results
with the recent MiniBooNE data for differential and integrated cross sections.Comment: 9 pages, 8 figures; Proceedings of the 30th International Workshop on
Nuclear Theory IWNT30, Rila Mountains, Bulgaria, June 27 - July 2, 201
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