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The role of cognitive functioning in predicting health outcomes of cardiac rehabilitation patients (2023)
Thesis

Cardiovascular disease (CVD), characterized by a narrowing of arteries due to the build-up of plaque, is the most common cause of death worldwide, being responsible for an estimated 17.9 million death each year. Cardiac Rehabilitation (CR) is a multi... Read More about The role of cognitive functioning in predicting health outcomes of cardiac rehabilitation patients.

Laboratory grown colour and gems (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The search for, wearing and collecting of gemstones has been a popular endeavour for many decades. For most gemmologists, jewellers and gemstone collectors, the crushing of a stone would be the greatest sin. For painters or those who create pigments... Read More about Laboratory grown colour and gems.

Investigating the challenges of engineering project managers in achieving sustainability in the UK construction industry (2023)
Journal Article

Aim: The essential purpose of the current research was to identify the challenges faced by project engineering managers in the UK construction industry while seeking to achieve sustainability. Study Design: The current study was built upon six import... Read More about Investigating the challenges of engineering project managers in achieving sustainability in the UK construction industry.

Presence of boulders associated with an extreme wave event in the western Mediterranean (Cape Cope, Murcia, Spain): Possible evidence of a tsunami (2023)
Journal Article

The region of Murcia, in the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula, experiences moderate tectonic activity, with earthquakes of up to 6.2–6.9 Mw recorded. Even with seismic activity of this scale there is no geological or instrumental record of tsunamis... Read More about Presence of boulders associated with an extreme wave event in the western Mediterranean (Cape Cope, Murcia, Spain): Possible evidence of a tsunami.

Numerical shape, thickness and stacking sequence optimisation and experimental study of hybrid composite plates under in-plane shear loading (2023)
Journal Article

Shape, thickness and stacking sequence optimisation of a damage tolerant hybrid (GFRP-CFRP) composite laminate is performed using the commercial Optistruct solver. The results of the optimisation study are compared to both a benchmark non-damage tole... Read More about Numerical shape, thickness and stacking sequence optimisation and experimental study of hybrid composite plates under in-plane shear loading.

Smartphone-based colorimetric determination of gamma-butyrolactone and gamma hydroxybutyrate in alcoholic beverage samples (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

amma-hydroxybutyrate (GBH) is a popular recreational drug. Its strong sedative and amnesic effects have led to drug-facilitated sexual assaults, poisonings, overdose, and death. As a result, legislation has restricted its availability leading to GHB,... Read More about Smartphone-based colorimetric determination of gamma-butyrolactone and gamma hydroxybutyrate in alcoholic beverage samples.

Kaleidoscope - Volume 222 , Issue 4 (2023)
Journal Article

As core content to the monthly journal, Kaleidoscope highlights and discusses the most interesting recent mental health research

Cross-cultural adaptation and its impact on research in emergency care (2023)
Journal Article

The perspective of patients is increasingly recognised as important to care improvement and innovation. Patient questionnaires such as patient-reported outcome measures may often require cross-cultural adaptation (CCA) to gather their intended inform... Read More about Cross-cultural adaptation and its impact on research in emergency care.

Qualitative story completion: A creative and novel method for psychotherapy and counselling psychology research (2023)
Journal Article

Story completion (SC) – where respondents are presented with the start of a story (the story ‘stem’ or ‘cue’) and asked to complete it – originally developed as a projective technique for clinical and research assessment. While SC continues to be use... Read More about Qualitative story completion: A creative and novel method for psychotherapy and counselling psychology research.

Pandemic pedagogies: Reflecting on online learning using the community of inquiry framework (2023)
Journal Article

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in profound disruption to geography higher education. A pivot to online teaching required staff to rapidly adapt their practices to novel digital spaces. Whilst many studies have reported the different pedagogic approac... Read More about Pandemic pedagogies: Reflecting on online learning using the community of inquiry framework.

Redefining bioavailability through the 'lens' of migrant egg donors in Spain (2023)
Journal Article

This article utilises feminist technoscience studies’ notions of bodily ‘materialisation’ and ‘ontological choreographies’, offering a cyborg feminist account of ‘bioavailability’ as embodied becomings, rather than a fixed ontological state of being.... Read More about Redefining bioavailability through the 'lens' of migrant egg donors in Spain.

The future of BSL in the UK: What will the BSL Act 2022 do for us? (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This presentation considers the pros and cons of the BSL Act 2022, provides some thoughts on what deaf people want or could have now that we have a BSL Act in place, and discusses some relevant concepts and theories that could be useful in future res... Read More about The future of BSL in the UK: What will the BSL Act 2022 do for us?.

Cue consistency matters: How and when newcomers respond to supervisor creativity expectations (2023)
Journal Article

Organizations may hire newcomers as a source of creativity, bringing fresh ideas and novel solutions to benefit organizational performance. However, the conditions that foster newcomer innovation are not well understood. Drawing on behavioral plastic... Read More about Cue consistency matters: How and when newcomers respond to supervisor creativity expectations.

Direct numerical simulations of turbulent flow over low-pressure turbine blades with aeroelastic vibrations and inflow wakes (2023)
Journal Article

In the present work, direct numerical simulation is employed to investigate the unsteady flow characteristics and energy performance of low-pressure turbines (LPT) by considering the blades aeroelastic vibrations and inflow wakes. The effects of infl... Read More about Direct numerical simulations of turbulent flow over low-pressure turbine blades with aeroelastic vibrations and inflow wakes.

The secret lives of books (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A free public talk for the Paper Ink Print Festival, Saturday 18th March 2023:

If you are new to artists' books Sarah will show some examples from the CFPR Archive of what they might be: from literature inspired book objects and wordplay to works... Read More about The secret lives of books.

Assessment of knowledge, attitudes, practices, and risk perceptions regarding COVID-19: A cross-sectional study from China (2023)
Journal Article

Aim: To analyze the level of knowledge, attitudes, practices, and risk perception regarding COVID-19 among Chinese residents 1.5 years after the pandemic. Subject and methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out with both online and paper questio... Read More about Assessment of knowledge, attitudes, practices, and risk perceptions regarding COVID-19: A cross-sectional study from China.

Deaf education in Scotland and Wales: Lessons from the Scottish and Welsh approaches (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Sign language recognition has the potential to achieve transformative equality (Wilks, 2020) in relation to the everyday experiences of deaf people. The importance of recognising minority languages is well documented (Meulder, Murray and McKee, 2019;... Read More about Deaf education in Scotland and Wales: Lessons from the Scottish and Welsh approaches.

Static analysis of security issues of the Python packages ecosystem (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Python is considered the most popular programming language and offers its own ecosystem for archiving and maintaining open-source software packages. This system is called the python package index (PyPI), the repository of this programming language. U... Read More about Static analysis of security issues of the Python packages ecosystem.

Understanding the psychology and legal perspective of plastic dependency in Nigeria (2023)
Journal Article

Using the theory of planned behaviour, this article aims to understand the psychology of plastic dependency in Nigeria. The plastics pollution has been more prevalent in its impact on the marine and terrestrial environment in Nigeria, this article en... Read More about Understanding the psychology and legal perspective of plastic dependency in Nigeria.

Drift and diffusion functions of historical time series and UKCP18 convection-permitting model outputs for Bristol and Filton (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

As global temperatures continue to rise and affect atmospheric dynamics, there is a growing need to develop methods for investigating the temporal evolution of climate fields. These methods are useful to quantify both short- and long-term changes, as... Read More about Drift and diffusion functions of historical time series and UKCP18 convection-permitting model outputs for Bristol and Filton.