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Kaleidoscope - Volume 218 , Issue 4 (2021)
Journal Article

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) post-mortem will take years. Causes of variations in national mortality rates will be a prime target, and at the time of writing, the UK, unfortunately, has a sad record of the highest death rate per capita in... Read More about Kaleidoscope - Volume 218 , Issue 4.

An exploration into the experience, needs and service provision for cancer survivors living with persistent pain (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Protein structured reservoir computing for spike-based pattern recognition (2021)
Journal Article

Nowadays we witness a miniaturisation trend in the semiconductor industry backed up by groundbreaking discoveries and designs in nanoscale characterisation and fabrication. To facilitate the trend and produce ever smaller, faster and cheaper computin... Read More about Protein structured reservoir computing for spike-based pattern recognition.

Transcending gender boundaries: Cross-dressing female jazz musicians from Billy Tipton to Jackie Kay’s Trumpet (1998) (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Evaluation of knowledge and health behavior of University of Medical Sciences students about the prevention of COVID-19 (2021)
Journal Article

Background: Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that have symptoms ranging from the common cold to severe respiratory syndromes. Objective: The purpose of this study is to provide appropriate strategies to raise knowledge and health behavior... Read More about Evaluation of knowledge and health behavior of University of Medical Sciences students about the prevention of COVID-19.

Broken promises? Tax enforcement policy in the UK (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The value of incremental environmental sustainability innovation in the construction industry: An event study (2021)
Journal Article

Investment in the innovation of environmental sustainability in construction has been encouraged due to the industry's resource-intensity. However, it remains unclear how to convince shareholders and construction companies to invest in environmental... Read More about The value of incremental environmental sustainability innovation in the construction industry: An event study.

Senior executive women's views on female solidarity: The role of perceived gender salience (2021)
Book Chapter

The study explores senior female executives' views on supporting female subordinates in managerial careers (i.e., female solidarity). The chapter provides a distinctive approach to female managerial career development by contextualizing the study in... Read More about Senior executive women's views on female solidarity: The role of perceived gender salience.

A review of the causes of construction waste generation in Nigeria and recommendations (2021)
Journal Article

The causes of construction waste (CW) in Nigeria have been a major topic for researchers over the last 15 years. However, no effort had been made to analyse these studies to understand the trends. A structured review of 30 research studies investigat... Read More about A review of the causes of construction waste generation in Nigeria and recommendations.

Perceptions of injury risk in the home and workplace in Nepal: A qualitative study (2021)
Journal Article

Objective: Injuries are a global health problem. To develop context-specific injury prevention interventions, one needs to understand population perceptions of home and workplace injuries. This study explored a range of views and perceptions about in... Read More about Perceptions of injury risk in the home and workplace in Nepal: A qualitative study.

Seeing It On Television (2021)
Book

Seeing It on Television: Televisuality in the Contemporary US ‘High-end’ Series is co-authored by Dominic Lees and Max Sexton. The book is a detailed study of aesthetics in contemporary US television drama. It examines a range of cultural, technolog... Read More about Seeing It On Television.

A critical analysis of the impact of inter-generational differences on the attitudes to lifestyle behavioural change among South Asian population in the UK (2021)
Thesis

Background
Evidence reports that people from a South Asian background experience a higher prevalence of chronic lifestyle diseases, such as diabetes, obesity and heart disease, with correspondingly higher risk of morbidity and mortality. People who... Read More about A critical analysis of the impact of inter-generational differences on the attitudes to lifestyle behavioural change among South Asian population in the UK.

A survey of mHealth use from a physician perspective in paediatric emergency care in the UK and Ireland (2021)
Journal Article

Abstract: There has been a drive towards increased digitalisation in healthcare. The aim was to provide a snapshot of current apps, instant messaging, and smartphone photography use in paediatric emergency care. A web-based self-report questionnaire... Read More about A survey of mHealth use from a physician perspective in paediatric emergency care in the UK and Ireland.

A concept design stages protocol to support collaborative processes in architecture, engineering and construction projects (2021)
Journal Article

Purpose: This paper proposes and tests, through a series of structured multi-disciplinary design activities, a “Concept Design Stages Protocol” (CDS Protocol) to structure project initiation, to attain smoother collaboration and greater consensus amo... Read More about A concept design stages protocol to support collaborative processes in architecture, engineering and construction projects.

Modern Applications of Graph Theory (2021)
Book

This book discusses many cutting-edge applications of graph theory, such as traffic networks, navigable networks and optimal routing for emergency response, placement of electric vehicle charging stations, and graph-theoretic methods in molecular epi... Read More about Modern Applications of Graph Theory.

Unprecedented reduction in air pollution and corresponding short-term premature mortality associated with COVID-19 lockdown in Delhi, India (2021)
Journal Article

Countries around the world introduced strict restrictions on movement and activities known as ‘lockdowns’ to restrict the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) from the end of 2019. A sudden improvement in air quality was observed global... Read More about Unprecedented reduction in air pollution and corresponding short-term premature mortality associated with COVID-19 lockdown in Delhi, India.

Dream lunch (2021)
Journal Article

Wuon-Gean Ho’s Dream Lunch looks at personal depictions of food and consider how these have changed in recent months of solitude. Wuon-Gean reflects on how printmaking has some parallels with cooking, in the gathering of ingredients with a goal in mi... Read More about Dream lunch.

What are the regionally specific institutions that matter for renewable energy deployment and how can they be identified? Some insights from Italian regions (2021)
Journal Article

While energy transition processes are embedded in locally and regionally specific institutions, infrastructures and natural environments challenges remain in identifying the institutions that matter for renewable energy deployment, how they work and... Read More about What are the regionally specific institutions that matter for renewable energy deployment and how can they be identified? Some insights from Italian regions.

Jonathan’s story: “I have education to thank for my family’s pride in me” (2021)
Digital Artefact

Jonathan discusses how his re-engagement with education whilst in prison provided him with a unique second chance:
"I have education to thank for the pride my family have in me. Education has been my companion on my prison journey, a surprising comp... Read More about Jonathan’s story: “I have education to thank for my family’s pride in me”.

Modelling the effects of fiscal policy choices on debt, crises and recovery for small open economies (2021)
Thesis

Crises have littered human history with serious consequences for both the country and its people. The 2008 Great Recession and Asian Financial Crisis are exemplars of such serious economic and social damage that took many years to recover. Debt defau... Read More about Modelling the effects of fiscal policy choices on debt, crises and recovery for small open economies.