All Outputs (1820)

Constructing for the future: Can the duty of good faith improve payment in the UK construction industry? (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Adversarialism within the UK construction industry fosters poor payment practices. Thus, stakeholders down the supply chain consistently suffer cashflow issues which can cause insolvencies. This study consisted of a critical review of literature and... Read More about Constructing for the future: Can the duty of good faith improve payment in the UK construction industry?.

Digital technology in engineering design teaching (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Digital technology is widely used in engineering design teaching, enabling students to create parametric models of their solutions and data files for computer-aided manufacture (CAM). However, the digital industry is predicted to grow significantly t... Read More about Digital technology in engineering design teaching.

Low carbon heritage: Residents' views from Cumbria and the English Lake District World Heritage Site (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Carbon emissions from the built environment must be urgently reduced to mitigate climate change. Retrofit of existing buildings is key. However, heritage buildings pose a particular challenge, particularly domestic buildings where retrofit is mainly... Read More about Low carbon heritage: Residents' views from Cumbria and the English Lake District World Heritage Site.

Artificial intelligence for occupational health and safety management in construction (2023)
Book Chapter

Reducing occupational safety and health (OSH) incidents has been an area of significant importance to the construction industry. The industry remains one of the most dangerous, with significant occupational fatalities and injuries. Artificial intelli... Read More about Artificial intelligence for occupational health and safety management in construction.

Developing Industry 4.0 applications - A social construction of technology approach (2023)
Book Chapter

The design and development of Industry 4.0 applications requires focused research work and close collaboration with the industry. Such an approach requires a balance between technical work and social interactions with industry partners: a social cons... Read More about Developing Industry 4.0 applications - A social construction of technology approach.

The confluence of Industry 4.0 and construction occupational safety, health and well-being (2023)
Book Chapter

Globally, the construction sector accounts for more than100,000 occupational fatalities annually. There is an urgent need to improve the poor occupational safety, health and well-being (OSHW) outlook of the construction sector. The advent of the four... Read More about The confluence of Industry 4.0 and construction occupational safety, health and well-being.

Application of exoskeletons for occupational safety and health management in construction (2023)
Book Chapter

The construction industry is a high-risk industry due to its poor record of injuries and deaths globally. Recently, exoskeletons, as part of a suite of Industry 4.0 technologies, have emerged as a potential effective technological approach for addres... Read More about Application of exoskeletons for occupational safety and health management in construction.

Critical community psychology: The perceptions of UK undergraduate psychology students (2023)
Journal Article

Psychology undergraduates represent the future workforce of the applied psychology professions. As such, this study explores UK psychology undergraduates’ views of critical community psychology and its relevance to applied psychology related to well-... Read More about Critical community psychology: The perceptions of UK undergraduate psychology students.

Evolving multi-valued regulatory networks on tuneable fitness landscapes (2023)
Journal Article

Random Boolean networks have been used widely to explore aspects of gene regulatory networks. As the name implies, traditionally the model has used a binary representation scheme. This paper uses a modified form of the model to systematically explore... Read More about Evolving multi-valued regulatory networks on tuneable fitness landscapes.

Corporate criminal liability and the identification doctrine - A critical reflection (2023)
Book Chapter

The identification doctrine frustrates the prosecution of companies for economic crimes in the United Kingdom (UK). This is because, while the identification and attribution of criminal intent may be straightforward in cases concerning small companie... Read More about Corporate criminal liability and the identification doctrine - A critical reflection.

Profit aus Glaubenmachen - Gewinn aus Dichtung: Wirtschaft als Wahrheitskampf (2023)
Book Chapter

Die Wirtschaftswissenschaft der Moderne befasst sich maßgeblich mit der Frage, was der Markt ist bzw. wie vom Markt zu denken ist. Aus eigener Erfahrung teilen wir hier die Einsicht des Wirtschaftsphilosophen Philip Mirowski (2013), dass die in der H... Read More about Profit aus Glaubenmachen - Gewinn aus Dichtung: Wirtschaft als Wahrheitskampf.

Post-Occupancy study of indoor air quality in university laboratories during the pandemic (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This post-occupancy study aims to assess the indoor air quality (IAQ) and ventilation performance in workshops and laboratories of a UK university during the COVID-19 pandemic. Supply airflow rates and CO2 were monitored as a proxy for evaluating ven... Read More about Post-Occupancy study of indoor air quality in university laboratories during the pandemic.

Preparation and characterization of chitosan-citric acid edible films loaded with Cornelian cherry pomace extract as active packaging materials (2023)
Journal Article

The development of environmentally-friendly, intelligent and active packaging materials is crucial for the protection of food products and the prevention of environmental pollution. This work aimed to study the development of chitosan films containin... Read More about Preparation and characterization of chitosan-citric acid edible films loaded with Cornelian cherry pomace extract as active packaging materials.

Empowerment and disempowerment in women’s sport (2023)
Book Chapter

This chapter addresses disempowerment and empowerment in girls’ and women’s sports from a sociohistorical perspective with a focus on the United States. First, we discuss the historical exclusion of girls and women in sport in the U.S. from the ninet... Read More about Empowerment and disempowerment in women’s sport.

Adaptive stiffness in lattice metastructures through tensile-buckling inspired topology morphing (2023)
Journal Article

This paper explores the use of simultaneous tensile buckling of unit cells to induce a transformation in lattice topology. Under tension, unit cells undergo passive transformation from a rectangle-like to a triangle-/pentagon-like topology, with an a... Read More about Adaptive stiffness in lattice metastructures through tensile-buckling inspired topology morphing.

Investigation into the key barriers to achieving UK “Construction 2025” strategy targets (2023)
Journal Article

The “Construction 2025” is a United Kingdom (UK) Government Strategy introduced in 2013 to improve the construction industry in the United Kingdom by meeting outlined performance targets by 2025. However, with only a few years left to reach the targe... Read More about Investigation into the key barriers to achieving UK “Construction 2025” strategy targets.

Scope and arbitration in machine learning clinical EEG classification (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A key task in clinical EEG interpretation is to classify a recording or session as normal or abnormal. In machine learning approaches to this task, recordings are typically divided into shorter windows for practical reasons, and these windows inherit... Read More about Scope and arbitration in machine learning clinical EEG classification.

CORE Econ: A neoclassical synthesis for the twenty-first century? (2023)
Journal Article

This paper provides a critical review of CORE Econ’s The Economy and associated materials. It argues that there is a need for reworked economics textbooks and that CORE Econ’s approach to this project – to replace mathematical abstractions with relev... Read More about CORE Econ: A neoclassical synthesis for the twenty-first century?.

Condition assessment criteria evaluation of asymmetric aged and fully aged silicone rubber insulators based on leakage current harmonics (2023)
Journal Article

The leakage current characteristic monitoring of transmission line insulators is considered a worthy technique for insulator state prediction. In this paper, the harmonic analysis of leakage current signals has been performed to analyze the composite... Read More about Condition assessment criteria evaluation of asymmetric aged and fully aged silicone rubber insulators based on leakage current harmonics.

Imagining Contagion: Epidemic, Prisons, and Franco Spain's Politics of Space, 1936–1945 (2023)
Journal Article

Recent accounting for disease in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War has been contained within study of hunger in the early 1940s. Historians have cited the typhus epidemic which hit Spain between 1939 and 1945 as demonstrating a causal link betwe... Read More about Imagining Contagion: Epidemic, Prisons, and Franco Spain's Politics of Space, 1936–1945.