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Interpreting interruption (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The planning and precision involved in wet-plate collodion photography necessitates a certain amount of formality, through the methodical workflow followed, a sense of order is imposed (Barger, 2015). However, this order co-exists with the countervai... Read More about Interpreting interruption.

'Smart' industrial relations in the making? Insights from analysis of union responses to digitalization in Italy (2020)
Journal Article

Shifting Sands - North Atlantic Wall (2020)
Book

A collection of new drawings and etchings made 2015 – 2020. The Atlantic Wall is a WWII German defence system built along the west coast of Europe. Chamberlain interprets these brutalist forms as architectural metaphors concerning boundaries and bord... Read More about Shifting Sands - North Atlantic Wall.

From orphan phage to a proposed new family–the diversity of N4-like viruses (2020)
Journal Article

Escherichia phage N4 was isolated in 1966 in Italy and has remained a genomic orphan for a long time. It encodes an extremely large virion-associated RNA polymerase unique for bacterial viruses that became characteristic for this group. In recent yea... Read More about From orphan phage to a proposed new family–the diversity of N4-like viruses.

Psychological and sociocultural influences on body image among midlife women with and without a history of breast cancer: Testing the Tripartite Influence Model of Body Image (2020)
Journal Article

Body image concerns are common among breast cancer survivors and women in midlife. However, effective interventions are lacking for breast cancer survivors. This may be related to prior research having examined non-modifiable and medicalised influenc... Read More about Psychological and sociocultural influences on body image among midlife women with and without a history of breast cancer: Testing the Tripartite Influence Model of Body Image.

Depression, anxiety, and loneliness among adolescents and young adults with IBD in the UK: The role of disease severity, age of onset, and embarrassment of the condition (2020)
Journal Article

Purpose: Adolescents and young adults (AYA) with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) report higher depressive symptoms and anxiety compared to healthy controls, with disease severity and abdominal pain being important factors. In the current study, buil... Read More about Depression, anxiety, and loneliness among adolescents and young adults with IBD in the UK: The role of disease severity, age of onset, and embarrassment of the condition.

Optimal integration of renewable distributed generation using the whale optimization algorithm for techno-economic analysis (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A new method for optimal integration of renewable energy sources based on photovoltaic solar panels and wind turbines in the distribution network is presented with the objective of reducing the Active Power Loss (APL) index, to improve the Total Volt... Read More about Optimal integration of renewable distributed generation using the whale optimization algorithm for techno-economic analysis.

Creativity and the problem of automation (2020)
Book Chapter

As AI-driven automation systems make their presence increasingly felt in everyday lives, the nature and value of human creativity is becoming an issue requiring urgent attention. While the disruptive impacts of digital innovation are often celebrated... Read More about Creativity and the problem of automation.

Experimental and numerical study of auxetic sandwich panels on 160 grams of PE4 blast loading (2020)
Journal Article

Mines, specifically as Anti-Tank (AT) mines are a significant threat for defence vehicles. While approaches such as v-shaped hulls are currently used to deflect the blast products from such threats, such a solution is not always usable when hull stan... Read More about Experimental and numerical study of auxetic sandwich panels on 160 grams of PE4 blast loading.

Investigating the use of joint probability curves in coastal engineering practice (2020)
Journal Article

This paper investigates the inherent inaccuracy in the estimation of various extreme response variables (RVs) for different sea defence structures using joint exceedance curve approaches in common use around the UK. Utilising stochastically generated... Read More about Investigating the use of joint probability curves in coastal engineering practice.

Randomized trial of the i-gel supraglottic airway device versus tracheal intubation during out of hospital cardiac arrest (AIRWAYS-2): Patient outcomes at three and six months (2020)
Journal Article

© 2020 The Author(s) Aim: The AIRWAYS-2 cluster randomised controlled trial compared the i-gel supraglottic airway device (SGA) with tracheal intubation (TI) as the first advanced airway management (AAM) strategy used by Emergency Medical Service cli... Read More about Randomized trial of the i-gel supraglottic airway device versus tracheal intubation during out of hospital cardiac arrest (AIRWAYS-2): Patient outcomes at three and six months.

Werner Herzog's ecstatic truth (2020)
Journal Article

In his stimulating discussion of Werner Herzog's work, Richard Eldridge emphasizes that Herzog's films are truth-disclosing. At the same time Eldridge acknowledges that Herzog makes clear the presence of the filmmaker and the process of filmmaking. I... Read More about Werner Herzog's ecstatic truth.

Secure and communications-efficient collaborative prognosis (2020)
Journal Article

Collaborative prognosis is a technique that is used to enable assets to improve their ability to predict failures by learning from the failures of similar other assets. This is typically made possible by enabling the assets to communicate with each o... Read More about Secure and communications-efficient collaborative prognosis.

Unboxing the Black Box: Reflections on Making with AI and Automation (2020)
Book

A collective publication by South West Creative Technology Network Automation Fellows. This collection presents thoughts, provocations and reflections on AI and automation in the arena of creative making from some of the South West Creative Technolog... Read More about Unboxing the Black Box: Reflections on Making with AI and Automation.

Selling salvation, selling success: Neoliberalism and the US Prosperity Gospel (2020)
Journal Article

Neoliberalism relies on optimism. Without faith in meritocracy-unwavering belief that rewards will eventually and justly come to those who work hard enough-support for the capitalist system and belief in neoliberalism would unravel. How that optimism... Read More about Selling salvation, selling success: Neoliberalism and the US Prosperity Gospel.

The impact of the coronavirus disease of 2019 on research (2020)
Journal Article

The World Health Organization declared the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) as a pandemic. Extreme control measures have been applied globally. Borders between countries have been closed, and quarantining and physical distancing have been pract... Read More about The impact of the coronavirus disease of 2019 on research.

Future socio-political scenarios for aquatic resources in Europe: An operationalized framework for aquaculture projections (2020)
Journal Article

Climate-driven changes in aquatic environments have already started to affect the European aquaculture sector’s most commercially important finfish and shellfish species. In addition to changes in water quality and temperature that can directly influ... Read More about Future socio-political scenarios for aquatic resources in Europe: An operationalized framework for aquaculture projections.

Women’s experience of traumatic childbirth: An interpretative phenomenological analysis (2020)
Thesis

Background
It has long been recognised that women may experience trauma as part of the birth process. Up to half of women worldwide report their birth as traumatic, therefore further investigation is a priority. Previous research has focused on wome... Read More about Women’s experience of traumatic childbirth: An interpretative phenomenological analysis.

Parent-reported socioemotional and cognitive development in children with a cleft lip and/or palate at 18 months: Findings from a UK birth cohort (2020)
Journal Article

Background: One of the most common congenital conditions in the world, cleft lip and/or palate (CL/P) has been shown to potentially impact long-term physical and developmental outcomes in affected children. However, little is known about the factors... Read More about Parent-reported socioemotional and cognitive development in children with a cleft lip and/or palate at 18 months: Findings from a UK birth cohort.

Adaptive gain super twisting algorithm to control a knee exoskeleton disturbed by unknown bounds (2020)
Journal Article

Knee exoskeletons as wearable robots have been increasingly aimed to assist elderly and disabled people to increase their movement abilities through flexion/extension execution of the knee. In this paper, a robust controller was suggested for a new k... Read More about Adaptive gain super twisting algorithm to control a knee exoskeleton disturbed by unknown bounds.