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Impact of home food production on nutritional blindness, stunting, wasting, underweight and mortality in children: A systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled trials (2020)
Journal Article
Vitamin A deficiency is highly prevalent and remains the major cause of nutritional blindness in children in low-and middle-income countries, despite supplementation programmes. Xeropthalmia (severe drying and thickening of the conjunctiva) is caused... Read More about Impact of home food production on nutritional blindness, stunting, wasting, underweight and mortality in children: A systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled trials.
How eco is eco-tourism? A systematic assessment of resorts on the Red Sea, Egypt (2020)
Journal Article
Eco-tourism is a growing part of the tourism industry. However, there are no agreed-upon criteria of what constitutes eco-tourism, so the industry is currently self-identified, with eco-lodges simply declaring themselves so. Here we present the first... Read More about How eco is eco-tourism? A systematic assessment of resorts on the Red Sea, Egypt.
COVID-19 opens a new political window (2020)
Journal Article
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused immense suffering and misery. However, at the same time, it has created new possibilities for rethinking the kind of society that we want to create in the future. This article adopts an international perspective and... Read More about COVID-19 opens a new political window.
Questioning the ‘real’ and ‘natural’: A case study on diamonds (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
The aim of the presentation is to explore and question the definitions assigned to materials and their promotion as natural’ and ‘real’. When it comes to identifying materials, how many processes applied to the material can be justified for it to be... Read More about Questioning the ‘real’ and ‘natural’: A case study on diamonds.
Can practitioners adopt a mental health equality imagination for recovery? (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
The lectured explored ways in which social work practitioners might seek to address the social determiants of mental health in their practice. An extension of C. Wright Mill's (1959) Socialogical Imagination to consider health inequalities was discu... Read More about Can practitioners adopt a mental health equality imagination for recovery?.
In search of territorial cohesion: An elusive and imagined notion (2020)
Journal Article
Territorial cohesion has figured in the lexicon of the European Union for some years. However, there has never been a clear definition of the notion, not even after its inclusion in the Lisbon Treaty. Moreover, within the European Union Cohesion Repo... Read More about In search of territorial cohesion: An elusive and imagined notion.
Rural cohesion: Collective efficacy and leadership in the territorial governance of inclusion (2020)
Journal Article
This article is a comparative study of the contextual conditions for collective efficacy and territorial governance of social cohesion in two different rural localities: West Dorset in England and Lemvig in Denmark. The objective is to understand the... Read More about Rural cohesion: Collective efficacy and leadership in the territorial governance of inclusion.
A wicked higher education problem: Climate emergency requires brave leadership (2020)
Journal Article
The B&C special issue EDUCATION & TRAINING: MAINSTREAMING ZERO CARBON raised three challenges: How can education and training be rapidly changed to ensure the creation of zero-carbon built environments? How can this transition be implemented success... Read More about A wicked higher education problem: Climate emergency requires brave leadership.
Impact of inoculum type on the microbial community and power performance of urine-fed microbial fuel cells (2020)
Journal Article
Bacteria are the driving force of the microbial fuel cell (MFC) technology, which benefits from their natural ability to degrade organic matter and generate electricity. The development of an efficient anodic biofilm has a significant impact on the p... Read More about Impact of inoculum type on the microbial community and power performance of urine-fed microbial fuel cells.
One-shot 3D printed underactuated gripper (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Underactuated gripping mechanisms allow a wide range of objects to be grasped, with relatively simple control and input. Current 3D printed underactuated grippers are often composed of multiple parts that need assembly before use. Consolidating many... Read More about One-shot 3D printed underactuated gripper.
ShearTouch - Towards a wearable tactile feedback device to provide continuous shear force sensation in real time (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Force feedback in current teleoperation systems typically only provides haptic/kinaesthetic feedback to operators in the form of normal forces. However, it is proposed in this paper that the introduction of shear (or lateral) force feedback to operat... Read More about ShearTouch - Towards a wearable tactile feedback device to provide continuous shear force sensation in real time.
Applications of drones for safety inspection in the Gulf Cooperation Council construction (2020)
Journal Article
Purpose: construction industry in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member countries is at the peak as the region is in the stage of developing its infrastructures. Apart from some positive sign of this boost, several other issues have also been dev... Read More about Applications of drones for safety inspection in the Gulf Cooperation Council construction.
Global industries such as fashion, beauty, advertising, and cosmetic procedures play a substantial role in promoting unrealistic societal appearance ideals. Sociocultural theory demonstrates how this promotion can lead to negative body image. Notably... Read More about Using strategic science to explore ways to foster positive body image through the lens of corporate social responsibility: A mixed methods investigation.
The growing interest in social enterprise has arguably changed the enterprise education landscape with HEIs increasingly embedding social enterprise into accredited programmes and developing extracurricular activities aimed at engendering social entr... Read More about Socially-Driven Enterprise Education: Exploring the effectiveness of socially-driven projects in developing students’ enterprise skills.
3d models for the visually impaired: The Unesco for all project making of (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Presentation of the production of the replicas for the Unesco 4 All project, made by the CFPR.
The EU UNESCO4ALL TOUR project aims to create an innovative, thematic, transnational tourism product based on the UNESCO WH sites and targeted to visually... Read More about 3d models for the visually impaired: The Unesco for all project making of.
What is entrepreneurship? How entrepreneurship education may influence creative writing and how creative writing may change approaches to entrepreneurship in the university setting (2020)
Journal Article
Entrepreneurship education is a growing part of all universities’ portfolio of subjects. As well as developing as a specialism which can be studied in isolation, all academic disciplines are being encouraged to include entrepreneurial ideas in their... Read More about What is entrepreneurship? How entrepreneurship education may influence creative writing and how creative writing may change approaches to entrepreneurship in the university setting.
NLP-based approach to detect autism spectrum disorder in saccadic eye movement (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a lifelong condition generally characterized by social and communication impairments. The early diagnosis of ASD is highly desirable, yet it could be complicated by several factors. Standard tests typically require i... Read More about NLP-based approach to detect autism spectrum disorder in saccadic eye movement.