All Outputs (1002)

Risks and opportunities of the metaverse (2024)
Report

Expert memorandum prepared by Verity McIntosh and Catherine Allen, at the request of the Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media, Parliamentary Authority of the Council of Europe.

The ‘metaverse’ represents a new frontier for digital te... Read More about Risks and opportunities of the metaverse.

Recognising motivation in others: The effectiveness of using social proof to change driving behaviour (2024)
Journal Article

Purpose: This paper extends the literature on social proof by looking at the effectiveness of social proof on behaviour change for environmental benefit.

Design/methodology/approach: The research is based on real case studies currently intended to... Read More about Recognising motivation in others: The effectiveness of using social proof to change driving behaviour.

Assessment approaches for hemiplegic shoulder pain in people living with stroke - A scoping review (2024)
Journal Article

Background
Hemiplegic shoulder pain (HSP) is reported in up to 40% of people with stroke. Causes of HSP are often multifactorial. To inform appropriate treatment, reliable/valid assessments are critical. The aim of this scoping review was to collat... Read More about Assessment approaches for hemiplegic shoulder pain in people living with stroke - A scoping review.

Climate change and built environment education: A pedagogical approach to foster interdisciplinary learning (2024)
Book Chapter

Higher Education Institutions have an important role to play in Climate Education. One dimension of this role is to equip future practitioners with the necessary knowledge and skills. Therefore, interdisciplinary approaches to learning and teaching.... Read More about Climate change and built environment education: A pedagogical approach to foster interdisciplinary learning.

Methods of Graph Decompositions (2024)
Book

In general terms, a graph decomposition is a partition of a graph into parts satisfying some special conditions. Methods of Graph Decompositions discusses some state-of-the-art decomposition methods of graph theory, which are highly instrumental when... Read More about Methods of Graph Decompositions.

Impact of cold atmospheric plasma pretreatment on the recovery of phenolic antioxidants from spent coffee grounds (2024)
Journal Article

In the present study, cold atmospheric plasma (CAP) was employed as a pretreatment method for the extraction of phenolic compounds from spent coffee grounds (SCGs). The impact of CAP treatment conditions, i.e., thickness of the SCGs layer (mm), dista... Read More about Impact of cold atmospheric plasma pretreatment on the recovery of phenolic antioxidants from spent coffee grounds.

A synthetic data approach for object detection in super low resolution images (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper presents a synthetic data approach to train object detection models to address the challenges with object detection in super low-resolution images. With a particular emphasis on person detection, the study uses 28 photorealistic 3D models... Read More about A synthetic data approach for object detection in super low resolution images.

Development of a learner model tool for predicting strength and embodied carbon for lightweight concrete production (2024)
Journal Article

The demand for sustainable concrete in meeting the net zero carbon target places a burden in optimizing concrete response to structural strength that satisfy acceptable embodied carbon. In most cases, a low carbon concrete is deficient in structural... Read More about Development of a learner model tool for predicting strength and embodied carbon for lightweight concrete production.

Pulling together or pulling apart? Understanding the heterogenous collective action frames of local climate activists through a Q methodology study (2024)
Journal Article

The potential for green community groups to respond effectively to climate change depends on the heterogeneity of preferences of individual member activists. Using a Q-methodology study of two groups in England, we propose an original typology of col... Read More about Pulling together or pulling apart? Understanding the heterogenous collective action frames of local climate activists through a Q methodology study.

“It means almost forgetting that you've got a disease”: An OMERACT study to define independence in the context of rheumatoid arthritis remission from the patient perspective (2024)
Journal Article

Aims
Our previous work identified pain, fatigue, and independence as missing from the ACR/EULAR rheumatoid arthritis (RA) remission criteria from the patient perspective. Validated measures exist for pain and fatigue, but not for independence. As a... Read More about “It means almost forgetting that you've got a disease”: An OMERACT study to define independence in the context of rheumatoid arthritis remission from the patient perspective.

A systematic review exploring the effectiveness of body image interventions among boys (2024)
Journal Article

Body image concerns significantly impact boys’ physical and mental health. While several reviews synthesize evidence on body image interventions for mixed-gender adolescents, a systematic review exclusively focusing on boys is currently missing. Thus... Read More about A systematic review exploring the effectiveness of body image interventions among boys.

Misplaced British subjects: Balkan Maltese evacuees in transit 1941 - 1949 (2024)
Thesis

The focus of this thesis is a case study of British overseas evacuation policy during the second World War: the evacuation of Balkan Maltese British subjects from Turkey by the Foreign Office and their subsequent relocations during the post-war perio... Read More about Misplaced British subjects: Balkan Maltese evacuees in transit 1941 - 1949.

Promoting corporate citizenship through clinical legal education (2024)
Journal Article

With the conversation regarding corporations and their role in society becoming mainstay in the public discourse, the broad consensus appears to be that the corporation does in fact owe a duty to more than its investor constituency, even though there... Read More about Promoting corporate citizenship through clinical legal education.

Who is the true wife? The recognition of overseas marriage and divorce (2024)
Journal Article

In Uchechukwu-Onwukibo v Onwukibo and others [2023] EWHC 2812 (Fam) the Family Division of the High Court had to determine whether the applicant or first respondent was the ‘true wife’ of Mr Onwukibo who died in September 2021. The parties and the de... Read More about Who is the true wife? The recognition of overseas marriage and divorce.

Neurodivergence, autism and the appropriate adult safeguard (2024)
Journal Article

Neurodivergent suspects and defendants may be disadvantaged by the processes and procedures within the criminal process. Whilst these disadvantages may emerge at any point of the process, they are particularly pertinent during detention in police cus... Read More about Neurodivergence, autism and the appropriate adult safeguard.

A review on the modelling of aligned discontinuous fibre composites (2024)
Journal Article

Aligned discontinuous fibre-reinforced composites are becoming more popular because they have the potential to offer stiffness and strength comparable to their continuous counterparts along with better manufacturability. However, the modelling of hig... Read More about A review on the modelling of aligned discontinuous fibre composites.

Life-course influences of poverty on violence and homicide: 30-year Brazilian birth cohort study (2024)
Journal Article

Background: Homicide is the leading cause of death among young people in Latin America, one of the world's most violent regions. Poverty is widely considered a key cause of violence, but theories suggest different effects of poverty, depending on whe... Read More about Life-course influences of poverty on violence and homicide: 30-year Brazilian birth cohort study.

Trajectory patterns of macronutrient intake and their associations with obesity, diabetes, and all-cause mortality: A longitudinal analysis over 25 years (2024)
Journal Article

Over the past decades, China has been undergoing rapid economic growth, which may have significantly influenced the dietary patterns and health status of the Chinese population. Our study aimed to assess the associations of potential macronutrient tr... Read More about Trajectory patterns of macronutrient intake and their associations with obesity, diabetes, and all-cause mortality: A longitudinal analysis over 25 years.

Peak complexity – Why nothing works any more (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper

How many times have system failures – technical, human or both – caused you loss, frustration or wasted time? Have you ever dealt with customer services or technical support who seemed powerless to fix the problem? Could these growing frustrations of... Read More about Peak complexity – Why nothing works any more.

"The nurse told her to get checked more regularly because she is having sex with Black men": An exploration of the sexual health experiences of Black heterosexual men in London (2024)
Journal Article

Drivers of poor sexual health outcomes amongst Black heterosexual man are poorly understood. Previous research has identified a need to understand Black men’s behavioral experiences and motivators in the UK. This study aimed to address this gap throu... Read More about "The nurse told her to get checked more regularly because she is having sex with Black men": An exploration of the sexual health experiences of Black heterosexual men in London.