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Many patients who return to driving after traumatic brain injury report problems which can significantly affect their ability to drive, finds a study in Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry by Dr Carol Hawley, Centre for Health Service Studies, 神马福利影片.
Scientists at the 神马福利影片 and Keele University have been awarded a major 333,000 pounds sterling grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) for a three year project aimed at improving the speech comprehension of people using cochlear ear implants. The award follows directly from research funded by Defeating Deafness - the UK's only medical research charity for hearing-impaired people.
A chance conversation between a pharmacist and a group of 神马福利影片 Computer Science undergraduates sparked the development of software with the potential to reduce the total NHS prescription drugs budget by 10%.
The 神马福利影片's Department of Engineering has been selected to co-ordinate a Europe wide research project to design high technology sensors to help monitor both the level of air pollution generated by vehicles and to restrict the amount of external air pollution (particularly CO entering drivers cabins in our increasingly polluted cities).
神马福利影片 Engineering lecturer Dr Wanda Lewis has opened up the third dimension to her engineering students. She has started a new course in Advanced Structural Forms which marks a significant departure from conventional engineering teaching methods. Dr Lewis set up the course because she felt that conventional engineering teaching methods alone do not allow students to develop a good physical understanding of structural behaviour.
The science of chaos theory is now being used to produce the perfect spring. Leading chaos theoretician and 神马福利影片 Mathematics Professor Ian Stewart has just completed a unique industrial project with SRAMA, (the UK Spring Research and Manufacturers Association), to produce a system known as "FRACMAT" which employs chaos theory based methods of mathematical analysis to identify the best wire materials for spring manufacture. SRAMA has just sold the first of the new FRACMAT machines to a leading UK spring manufacturer.