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Designing a master degree program in building information modeling (BIM) using national professional standards: A case studyin Kazakhstan (2024)
Journal Article

This article presents the design of a master degree program focused on "Building Information Modeling (BIM) Technologies in Architecture, Engineering & Construction (AEC)" in Kazakhstan. The demand for such a program arises from the scarcity of quali... Read More about Designing a master degree program in building information modeling (BIM) using national professional standards: A case studyin Kazakhstan.

Air pollution and environmental justice in the UK (2024)
Newspaper / Magazine

Jo Barnes draws on a forthcoming Air Quality Expert Group report, looking at the links between exposure to pollutants and social inequalities.

Flawed democracy and development: A Jamaica case study (2024)
Journal Article

Clinical and cost-effectiveness of first contact physiotherapy for musculoskeletal disorders in primary care: The FRONTIER, mixed method realist evaluation (2024)
Journal Article

Background First-contact physiotherapists assess and diagnose patients with musculoskeletal disorders, determining the best course of management without prior general practitioner consultation. Objectives The primary aim was to determine the clinical... Read More about Clinical and cost-effectiveness of first contact physiotherapy for musculoskeletal disorders in primary care: The FRONTIER, mixed method realist evaluation.

Enhanced heart sound classification using Mel frequency cepstral coefficients and comparative analysis of single vs. ensemble classifier strategies (2024)
Journal Article

This paper seeks to enhance the performance of Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCCs) for detecting abnormal heart sounds. Heart sounds are first pre-processed to remove noise and then segmented into S1, systole, S2, and diastole intervals, with... Read More about Enhanced heart sound classification using Mel frequency cepstral coefficients and comparative analysis of single vs. ensemble classifier strategies.

Climate–water crises: Critically engaging relational, spatial, and temporal dimensions (2024)
Journal Article

Declarations of water crises have been ubiquitous in water policy and practice for decades. In the face of unprecedented human-caused climate change, the circulation of water crisis discourses has increased in frequency. How crises are defined and ma... Read More about Climate–water crises: Critically engaging relational, spatial, and temporal dimensions.

Understanding fitness professionals’ weight biases and uptake of weight-inclusive practices: Findings from a mixed-methods survey (2024)
Journal Article

Weight bias is highly prevalent in the fitness industry, posing significant challenges for fat people seeking to engage in health-promoting behaviours, such as physical activity. Despite small ideological shifts in the fitness industry towards more w... Read More about Understanding fitness professionals’ weight biases and uptake of weight-inclusive practices: Findings from a mixed-methods survey.

Effects of partnered dance in people with Parkinson’s (PWP) - A scoping review (2024)
Journal Article

ABSTRACT

Background: The European Physiotherapy Guidelines for Parkinson’s Disease (APPDE) suggest partnered dance shows benefits for people with Parkinson’s (PWP). However, the details of partnered dance for PWP are still ambiguous with regards t... Read More about Effects of partnered dance in people with Parkinson’s (PWP) - A scoping review.

Simulated autopoiesis in liquid automata (2024)
Journal Article

We present a novel form of Liquid Automata, using this to simulate autopoiesis, whereby living machines self-organise in the physical realm. This simulation is based on an earlier Cellular Automaton described by Francisco Varela. The basis of Liquid... Read More about Simulated autopoiesis in liquid automata.

Solar street art for a participatory energy transition (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Intersecting identities in minority-language contexts: LGBTQ+ speakers of Welsh (2024)
Book Chapter

A growing body of work on the experiences of minority-language speakers has focused on the experiences of those with intersecting linguistic identities in navigating their position among the wider minority-language community (e.g. Hornsby & Vigers 20... Read More about Intersecting identities in minority-language contexts: LGBTQ+ speakers of Welsh.

Enhancing DDoS attack detection in software-defined networks with entropy-based techniques (2024)
Journal Article

The introduction of Software-Defined Networks (SDN) represents significant advancements in network design by separating control and forwarding planes. While SDN improves network administration productivity, it has many vulnerabilities which hackers c... Read More about Enhancing DDoS attack detection in software-defined networks with entropy-based techniques.

From logwood to lasers: Bio-digital textile dyeing and design (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The textile industry is a global giant whose environmental consequences are severe. Textile processing accounts for 51% of a textile's overall carbon footprint (WRAP, 2022) and is estimated to contribute up to 20% of global industrial water pollution... Read More about From logwood to lasers: Bio-digital textile dyeing and design.

Industry 4.0 more than a challenge in modeling, identification, and control for cyber-physical systems (2024)
Book Chapter

Modeling, Identification, and Control for Cyber-Physical Systems Towards Industry 4.0 studies and analyzes the role of algorithms in identifying and controlling such a system towards Industry 4.0, which is the digital transformation of manufacturing... Read More about Industry 4.0 more than a challenge in modeling, identification, and control for cyber-physical systems.

Modeling, Identification, and Control for Cyber- Physical Systems Towards Industry 4.0 (2024)
Book

Modeling, Identification, and Control for Cyber-Physical Systems Towards Industry 4.0 studies and analyzes the role of algorithms in identifying and controlling such a system towards Industry 4.0, which is the digital transformation of manufacturing... Read More about Modeling, Identification, and Control for Cyber- Physical Systems Towards Industry 4.0.

Using the five safes to structure economic evaluations of data governance (2024)
Journal Article

As the world has become more digitally-dependent, questions of data governance such as ethics, institutional arrangements and statistical protection measures have increased in significance. Understanding the economic contribution of investments in da... Read More about Using the five safes to structure economic evaluations of data governance.

Investigating grammatical borrowing in Moseten through historical sources (2024)
Book Chapter

Using historical sources (1804-1913), this paper investigates the influence of Span-ish on the grammar of modern Mosetén, an indigenous language spoken in the foothills of the Bolivian Andes and the adjoining Amazon basin. Focusing on the categories... Read More about Investigating grammatical borrowing in Moseten through historical sources.

Functionality appreciation in young children (2024)
Journal Article

In recognition of a need to better understand children's body image, this study aimed to explore how young children describe what they appreciate about their body functionality. A total of 381 British children aged four to six years old were intervie... Read More about Functionality appreciation in young children.

Development of a new rubber buckling-restrained brace system for structures (2024)
Journal Article

Buckling-Restrained Braces (BRBs) are widely utilized in structures as an anti-seismic system to enhance performance against lateral excitations. While BRBs are designed to yield symmetrically under both tension and compression without significant bu... Read More about Development of a new rubber buckling-restrained brace system for structures.

Janus-kinase inhibitor use in immune-mediated inflammatory diseases beyond licensed indications: A scoping review (2024)
Journal Article

Introduction
The use of Janus kinase inhibitors (JAKis) in immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs) beyond licence is expanding rapidly. The aim of this scoping review was to identify and present the available evidence on the efficacy of JAKis... Read More about Janus-kinase inhibitor use in immune-mediated inflammatory diseases beyond licensed indications: A scoping review.