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A multi-centred sequential trial comparing PEGASUS, an intervention to promote shared decision making about breast reconstruction with usual care (2021)
Journal Article

Decision making about breast reconstruction (BR) is complex. The Patients’ Expectations and Goals: Assisting Shared Understanding of Surgery (PEGASUS) intervention aims to support shared decision making by helping women and clinicians clarify and dis... Read More about A multi-centred sequential trial comparing PEGASUS, an intervention to promote shared decision making about breast reconstruction with usual care.

I’m not a “woman engineer”, I’m an engineer: Representations of women coders in the golden age of television (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Historically, there has been a stigma around the presence and capabilities of women in computer science, as well as a lack of women coders as role models both in fiction and in the real world. With the growing information age and the “golden age of... Read More about I’m not a “woman engineer”, I’m an engineer: Representations of women coders in the golden age of television.

The future of visual anthropology in the wake of Black Lives Matter: A dialogue among Shawn Sobers, Deborah Thomas and Sireita Mullings (2021)
Journal Article

As a discipline, anthropology has long been subject to the scrutiny of critical race theorists and to questions of ethical practice with regard to ethnicity and representation. This dialogue features critical Black visual anthropologists discussing t... Read More about The future of visual anthropology in the wake of Black Lives Matter: A dialogue among Shawn Sobers, Deborah Thomas and Sireita Mullings.

Modeling setup for assessing the impact of stakeholders and policy scenarios on air quality at urban scale (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

ClairCity, a project funded by the EU Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, developed an innovative quantification framework aiming to assess environmental, health and economic impacts. The quantification framework consists of (i) an integr... Read More about Modeling setup for assessing the impact of stakeholders and policy scenarios on air quality at urban scale.

I spy with my little eye: Improving user involvement in elderly care facility design through virtual reality (2021)
Book Chapter

Recent studies have established that an ageing population is the most prevalent problem for healthcare provision. Thus, the design of care facilities must ensure better support for the needs of the elderly population. One of the areas of innovation i... Read More about I spy with my little eye: Improving user involvement in elderly care facility design through virtual reality.

Multiclass stand-alone and ensemble machine learning algorithms utilised to classify soils based on their physico-chemical characteristics (2021)
Journal Article

This study has provided an approach to classify soil using machine learning. Multiclass elements of stand-alone machine learning algorithms (i.e. logistic regression (LR) and artificial neural network (ANN)), decision tree ensembles (i.e. decision fo... Read More about Multiclass stand-alone and ensemble machine learning algorithms utilised to classify soils based on their physico-chemical characteristics.

Hockney to Himid - 60 years of British printmaking (2021)
Exhibition / Performance

Including works by Edward Bawden, Peter Blake, Tracey Emin, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Chris Ofili, Grayson Perry and Rachel Whiteread, amongst others, this extraordinary exhibition features over 100 prints by 90 different artists.

From wood e... Read More about Hockney to Himid - 60 years of British printmaking.

Unravelling influential individual level factors during a crowdfunding campaign: Insights from the ALS ice bucket challenge (2021)
Journal Article

This study aims to identify the factors that drive sharing and donating in a viral crowdfunding campaign. Crowdfunding is a method of raising finance that allows founders of both for-profit and nonprofit social and cultural projects to request fundin... Read More about Unravelling influential individual level factors during a crowdfunding campaign: Insights from the ALS ice bucket challenge.

Impact of reduced rainfall on above ground dry matter production of semi-natural grassland in South Gloucestershire, UK: A rainfall manipulation study (2021)
Journal Article

In the United Kingdom, agricultural grasslands cover 40% of the land area, make up 89% of the total agricultural area and are an important land use for ecosystem services and food security. Climate change predictions suggest that the United Kingdom w... Read More about Impact of reduced rainfall on above ground dry matter production of semi-natural grassland in South Gloucestershire, UK: A rainfall manipulation study.

Precision fibre angle inspection for carbon fibre composite structures using polarisation vision (2021)
Journal Article

This paper evaluates the precision of polarisation imaging technology for the inspection of carbon fibre composite components. Specifically, it assesses the feasibility of the technology for fibre orientation measurements based on the premise that li... Read More about Precision fibre angle inspection for carbon fibre composite structures using polarisation vision.

Predictors of school students’ leisure-time physical activity: An extended trans-contextual model using Bayesian path analysis (2021)
Journal Article

The present study aimed to examine effects of motivational and social cognition constructs on children’s leisure-time physical activity participation alongside constructs representing implicit processes using an extended trans-contextual model. The s... Read More about Predictors of school students’ leisure-time physical activity: An extended trans-contextual model using Bayesian path analysis.

Man-made crystals: A review of their historic and contemporary context and use (2021)
Journal Article

This paper reports on the history and use of man-made crystals for jewelry in a contemporary context. The cross-disciplinary contextual review traces human fascination with gemstones back centuries, and covers key developments in their "imitation."Th... Read More about Man-made crystals: A review of their historic and contemporary context and use.

Integrated life-cycle optimisation and supply-side management for building retrofitting (2021)
Journal Article

Building retrofitting is a powerful approach to enhance building energy performance. The net-zero ambition urges the need to renovate building energy system in view of the life-cycle optimal, to address climate and environmental challenges. Existing... Read More about Integrated life-cycle optimisation and supply-side management for building retrofitting.

A commentary on the use of quantitative assessments to determine risk in Country Policy and Information Notes (CPINs) issued by the UK Home Office (2021)
Report

U-model-based double sliding mode control (UDSM-control) of nonlinear dynamic systems (2021)
Journal Article

This study proposes a double sliding mode control-augmented U-control ((Formula presented.) -control) method for a class of single-input single-output nonlinear systems with internal uncertain parameters, model mismatching and external system noise/d... Read More about U-model-based double sliding mode control (UDSM-control) of nonlinear dynamic systems.

Combining structural and non-structural risk-reduction measures to improve evacuation safety in historical built environments (2021)
Journal Article

Historical city centres are critical-built environments prone to earthquake risk because of the features of the complex network of Architectural Heritage, facing Open Spaces (OSs) and the users hosted by them. Structural measures, such as building re... Read More about Combining structural and non-structural risk-reduction measures to improve evacuation safety in historical built environments.

From literaturewurst to looped (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Sarah Bodman explores how we might interact with books through non-linear reading; appropriated texts from books repurposed as 3D artefacts; collaborative and participatory projects that explore books, reading and memory.

Health care professionals’ views regarding chronic post cancer treatment pain in cancer survivors: understanding, experience and confidence (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Introduction:
Chronic post-cancer treatment pain (CPCTP) is pain caused by cancer treatments, such as chemotherapy, radiotherapy or surgery (1). The prevalence of CPCTP affects many cancer ranges from 24 to 48% of people who have finished cancer t... Read More about Health care professionals’ views regarding chronic post cancer treatment pain in cancer survivors: understanding, experience and confidence.

Testing the responsiveness of and defining MID (minimal important difference) values for the CARe Burn Scales: Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) to assess quality of life for children and young people affected by burn injuries, and their parents/caregivers (2021)
Journal Article

Background: The CARe Burn Scales are a portfolio of burn-specific PROMs for people affected by burns, including a Child Form (for children < 8 years (Parent-proxy)), a Young Person Form (for young people aged 8 -17 years), an Adult Form, and a Parent... Read More about Testing the responsiveness of and defining MID (minimal important difference) values for the CARe Burn Scales: Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) to assess quality of life for children and young people affected by burn injuries, and their parents/caregivers.

Barriers and facilitators to the administration of prehospital tranexamic acid: A paramedic interview study using the theoretical domains framework (2021)
Journal Article

BACKGROUND: Tranexamic acid (TXA) is an antifibrinolytic drug used to prevent bleeding. It was introduced as an intervention for post-traumatic haemorrhage across emergency medical services (EMS) in the UK during 2012. However, despite strong evidenc... Read More about Barriers and facilitators to the administration of prehospital tranexamic acid: A paramedic interview study using the theoretical domains framework.