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Efficient High-Frequency Bandwidth Extension of Music and Speech
White Paper The use of perceptually based (lossy) audio codecs, like MPEG 1 - layer 3 ('mp3'), has become very popular in the last few years. However, at very high compression rates the perceptual quality of the signal is degraded, which is mainly exhibited as... [11 Jul 2008]
A Proposed Methodology for Web Development
White Paper The aim of this paper is to examine the domain of World Wide Web site development and propose a methodology to assist with this process. Methodologies have both their proselytizers and those who decry the constraints and rigidity of prescriptive... [03 Jul 2008]
Cabinet minister's laptop stolen
News Secretary for local government Hazel Blears has had a computer stolen from her constituency offices in Salford. The PC, which was lost on Saturday, contained details of the Cabinet minister's constituency work, and some "restricted information... [18 Jun 2008]
Local gov't adopts web-savvy interaction
News The four sites rated as excellent are those belonging to East Sussex County Council, Gloucestershire County Council, Salford City Council and Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council. The number of visitors to council websites sites increased by more... [04 Mar 2008]
Talking CCTV rolling out to 20 'trouble hotspots'
News Some of the areas the CCTV scheme will be extended to are Blackpool, Coventry, Derby, Gloucester, Mansfield, Norwich, Nottingham, Plymouth, Reading, Salford and Wirral. 'Talking' CCTV cameras that shout warnings to litter louts and those engaged in... [04 Apr 2007]
Nurses want tablets on repeat prescription
News Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust was the first hospital in Europe to trial the C5 mobile clinical assistant (MCA) - which was developed by Intel and Motion Computing - and was officially launched today. [21 Feb 2007]
Virtual Environment System for Interactive Acoustic Assess of Building
White Paper The subjective analysis and evaluation of acoustic properties prior to the actual construction of a facility is very important aspect during the design stage. Virtual Reality technology, specially visualization and auralization, provides a useful... [06 Dec 2006]
Salford Uni bets 20 years on NTL voice and data
News The University of Salford has turned to NTL Business for IP telephony and wide area network expertise - over a 20-year period. There is also scope for NTL to work with Salford on new systems and projects, some of which will be of benefit to the... [25 Nov 2005]
BT Cellnet - A UK Success Story
White Paper BT Cellnet is one of the world's biggest mobile phone success stories. Its TACS (Total Access Communication System) Network was launched in January 1985 (UK Telecommunications standard for the current analogue cellular Network- 1st generation). [17 Nov 2005]
Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council: Healthy Meals in Schools Initiative
White Paper This was a collaborative procurement between several Local Area Procurement Partnership (LAPP) members, which included: Bury; Bolton; Oldham; Salford; Tameside; Stockport; Trafford; Warrington; Greater Manchester Police; and Greater Manchester... [28 Apr 2005]
A Comparative Performance Analysis of 7 Lightweight Directory Access Protocol Directories
White Paper An LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) directory is a specialised type of database typically read or searched more often than it is updated. The directory uses a hierarchical data model originally defined in the X.500 standard. [15 Dec 2004]
Deficiencies in LDAP When Used to Support Public Key Infrastructures
White Paper This paper discusses the limitations and deficiencies in the LDAPv2 and LDAPv3 protocols when they are used to retrieve certificates and CRLs in support of a public key infrastructure. Deficiencies in both centralised and distributed directories... [10 Dec 2004]
SAP Case Study: Salford City Council
White Paper Salford City Council, situated to the west of the Greater Manchester conurbation, provides just under a quarter of a million residents with their council services and employs 11,500 staff. Salford Council recognised that an integrated solution was... [25 Oct 2004]
MARS (Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines)
White Paper The MARS procedure builds flexible regression models by fitting separate splines (or basis functions) to distinct intervals of the predictor variables. Both the variables to use and the end points of the intervals for each variable-referred to as... [06 Apr 2004]
An Overview of the CART Methodology
White Paper The CART methodology is technically known as binary recursive partitioning. The process is binary because parent nodes are always split into exactly two child nodes and recursive because the process can be repeated by treating each child node as a... [24 Feb 2004]
