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Regulation and accreditation of surveying professions - USA and UK - Challenges going forward (2024)
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The surveying profession plays a crucial role in property boundary determination, land
development, and infrastructure planning. Surveyors ensure the preservation and protection of
land and property rights. This paper explores the educational, ex... Read More about Regulation and accreditation of surveying professions - USA and UK - Challenges going forward.

The effects of glucose supplementation on the development of Acinetobacter baumannii biofilms (2024)
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The Effect of Glucose on The Development of Acinetobacter baumannii Biofilm

Background: Acinetobacter baumannii, is an opportunistic pathogen causing pneumonia, bacteraemia, wound and urinary tract infections with high mortality rates due to multi... Read More about The effects of glucose supplementation on the development of Acinetobacter baumannii biofilms.

Embedding early intervention at the heart of alternative provision (2024)
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Embedding Early Intervention at the Heart of Alternative Provision - Opportunities, Challenges and Future Pathways.

Fraud and the new corporate failure to prevent fraud offence - How to avoid corporate criminal liability (2024)
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This talk addresses the recent changes to the law made by the Government to tackle the issue of corporate fraud. The scope of the new ‘failure to prevent fraud’ offence introduced in the Economic Crime (Corporate Transparency) Act 2023 will be assess... Read More about Fraud and the new corporate failure to prevent fraud offence - How to avoid corporate criminal liability.

Building height and density effects related to winter and summer temperature and precipitation simulation based on Local Climate Zones in a coastal city: A case study of Istanbul (2024)
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The temperature and precipitation extremes of coastal cities are modulated by land-atmospheric interactions and modified land surfaces. Local climate zones are used as land use representations in a convection-permitting model to simulate precipitatio... Read More about Building height and density effects related to winter and summer temperature and precipitation simulation based on Local Climate Zones in a coastal city: A case study of Istanbul.

DeformIO: Dynamic stiffness control on a deformable force-sensing display (2024)
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Introducing DeformIO, a novel deformable display with co-located force input and variable stiffness output. Unlike prior work, our approach does not require pin arrays or re-configurable panels. Instead, we leveraged pneumatics and resistive sensing... Read More about DeformIO: Dynamic stiffness control on a deformable force-sensing display.

Squishy, yet satisfying: Exploring deformable shapes' cross-modal correspondences with colours and emotions (2024)
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Surfaces with deformable and shape-changing properties seek to enhance and diversify tangible interactions with computing systems. However, we currently lack fundamental knowledge and user interface design principles that connect the inherent propert... Read More about Squishy, yet satisfying: Exploring deformable shapes' cross-modal correspondences with colours and emotions.

Sexism and corporations: whose social responsibility is it anyway? (2024)
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The concept of corporate social responsibility has grown significantly over the last two decades with its impact on various disciplines including competitive advantage, innovation and charities marketing. While it is a well-researched area, questions... Read More about Sexism and corporations: whose social responsibility is it anyway?.

Prints that glow (2024)
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A short presentation of the findings from my current RIS project, which focuses on the feasibility of printing glazes with wood engravings.

Qualitative research seminar: Planning co-productive research with young people (2024)
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Join us for an engaging research seminar as we delve into the insights garnered from the CCC-CATAPULT research project, aimed at exploring young people's experiences of climate education. Throughout the session, we will present some principles that w... Read More about Qualitative research seminar: Planning co-productive research with young people.

History-enhanced ICT For Sustainability education: Learning together with Business Computing students (2024)
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his research explores the use of History to enhance education in the field of ICT For Sustainability (ICT4S) in response to a challenge from the ICT4S 2023 conference. No previous studies were found in ICT4S but the literature on History and Educatio... Read More about History-enhanced ICT For Sustainability education: Learning together with Business Computing students.

Synergistic Orthopaedic Fatigue Tracking glove: SOFT glove - Preview (2024)
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Repetitive strain injury (RSI) is a major health issue with 200,000 new cases being reported per year within the UK alone, and common symptoms include cramping, prolonged pain, stiffness and weakness. This is especially prevalent within electrical as... Read More about Synergistic Orthopaedic Fatigue Tracking glove: SOFT glove - Preview.

Cable-driven exosuit to assist affected upper-limb users with hemiparesis (2024)
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Neurological impairments such as stroke cause muscular weakness in several joints in the human body. As a result, the development of activities of daily living (ADL) is affected. Particularly, upper limb movements executed with external loads are res... Read More about Cable-driven exosuit to assist affected upper-limb users with hemiparesis.

Variable stiffness hip joint for lower-limb exoskeletons (2024)
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The use of robotics in rehabilitation is a growing area of research, with the potential to greatly improve the quality of life for individuals with impairments. Robotic exoskeletons, in particular, have shown promise for enhancing mobility and indepe... Read More about Variable stiffness hip joint for lower-limb exoskeletons.

Towards safer mobility: Developing and evaluating a fall detection system for a smart walker (2024)
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Fall detection and prevention is a key issue for healthcare in older adults since it prevents the development of multiple cognitive and physical disorders. This study aims to evaluate multiple falls and near-fall detection algorithms to be integrated... Read More about Towards safer mobility: Developing and evaluating a fall detection system for a smart walker.

Transcranial direct current stimulation associated with visual and auditory cueing during gait training: A case study with a Parkinson's Disease patient (2024)
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Parkinson's Disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that leads to motor dysfunctions and restricts walking independence. Approaches such as transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and cueing gait are potential rehabilitation strategies th... Read More about Transcranial direct current stimulation associated with visual and auditory cueing during gait training: A case study with a Parkinson's Disease patient.

TRIST: Towards a container-based ICS testbed for cyber threat simulation and anomaly detection (2024)
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Cyber-attacks on Industrial Control Systems (ICS), as exemplified by the incidents at the Maroochy water treatment plant and the Ukraine's electric power grid, have demonstrated that cyber threats can inflict significant physical impacts. These incid... Read More about TRIST: Towards a container-based ICS testbed for cyber threat simulation and anomaly detection.

Using Minecraft Clubs to support neurodivergent children with STEM (2024)
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An invited presentation at the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Conference, on using Minecraft clubs to support neurodivergent children with STEM.

The structural behavior of recycled aggregate concrete walls under fire exposure: A finite element analysis (2024)
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Climate change is raising the demand for change in the construction industry, particularly in the concrete industry. One of the approaches to increase sustainability in the concrete industry is the use of recycled aggregate concrete (RAC). Many studi... Read More about The structural behavior of recycled aggregate concrete walls under fire exposure: A finite element analysis.

Nature and cycling: A literature review (2024)
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Both cycling and nature offer a range of benefits to human and planetary wellbeing. Little extant literature has directly asked how nature is experienced as part of cycling practices or how far this may influence cycling. Nonetheless, several studies... Read More about Nature and cycling: A literature review.