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Effect of organic matter on swell and undrained shear strength of treated soils (2019)
Journal Article
Abbey, S. J., Omotayo Olubanwo, A., Ngambi, S., Umo Eyo, E., & Adeleke, B. O. (2019). Effect of organic matter on swell and undrained shear strength of treated soils. Journal of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, 4(2), 48-58. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.jccee.20190402.12

This paper presents a laboratory and statistical study on swell and undrained shear strength of cemented organic clays blended with eco-friendly (by-product) cementitious materials such as ground granulated blast slag (GGBS) and cement kiln dust (CKD... Read More about Effect of organic matter on swell and undrained shear strength of treated soils.

Robotics and automated systems in construction: Understanding industry-specific challenges for adoption (2019)
Journal Article
Davila Delgado, J. M., Oyedele, L., Ajayi, A., Akanbi, L., Akinade, L., Bilal, M., & Owolabi, H. (2019). Robotics and automated systems in construction: Understanding industry-specific challenges for adoption. Journal of Building Engineering, 26, Article 100868. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2019.100868

© 2019 The Authors The construction industry is a major economic sector, but it is plagued with inefficiencies and low productivity. Robotics and automated systems have the potential to address these shortcomings; however, the level of adoption in th... Read More about Robotics and automated systems in construction: Understanding industry-specific challenges for adoption.

The role of local perched aquifers in regional groundwater recharge in semi-arid environments: Evidence from the Cuvelai-Etosha Basin, Namibia (2019)
Journal Article
Hamutoko, J. T., Post, V. E. A., Wanke, H., Beyer, M., Houben, G., & Mapani, B. (2019). The role of local perched aquifers in regional groundwater recharge in semi-arid environments: Evidence from the Cuvelai-Etosha Basin, Namibia. Hydrogeology Journal, 27(7), 2399-2413. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10040-019-02008-w

The influence of local perched aquifers on groundwater recharge in semi-arid areas at a regional scale remains inadequately studied, especially in southern Africa where data scarcity limits the understanding of recharge and groundwater flow processes... Read More about The role of local perched aquifers in regional groundwater recharge in semi-arid environments: Evidence from the Cuvelai-Etosha Basin, Namibia.

Join the queue: Including women’s toilet needs in public space (2019)
Journal Article
Greed, C. (2019). Join the queue: Including women’s toilet needs in public space. Sociological Review, 67(4), 908-926. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038026119854274

The trend towards desegregated women’s and men’s toilets, including installing Gender Neutral Toilets (GNTs), and the implications of revisions to the Gender Recognition Act for women-only spaces, have brought into focus the pre-existing lack of fema... Read More about Join the queue: Including women’s toilet needs in public space.

Global private international law. Adjudication without frontiers (2019)
Journal Article
Blanco, E. (in press). Global private international law. Adjudication without frontiers. Journal of Private International Law,

The changes to the structure and power relations within and between societies produced by globalisation have an unavoidable and, arguably, under-theorized effect on the discipline of private international law. This review considers whether the curren... Read More about Global private international law. Adjudication without frontiers.

A multi-centre study to explore the feasibility and acceptability of collecting data for complex regional pain syndrome clinical studies using a core measurement set: Study protocol (2019)
Journal Article
Vaughan-Spickers, N., Vatine, J. J., Hirata, H., Grieve, S., Brunner, F., Buckle, L., …McCabe, C. (2019). A multi-centre study to explore the feasibility and acceptability of collecting data for complex regional pain syndrome clinical studies using a core measurement set: Study protocol. Musculoskeletal Care, https://doi.org/10.1002/msc.1408

© 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Objectives: This international, multicentre study will inform the final data collection tools and processes which will comprise the first international, clinical research registry for complex regional pain syndrome (C... Read More about A multi-centre study to explore the feasibility and acceptability of collecting data for complex regional pain syndrome clinical studies using a core measurement set: Study protocol.

A competition law first (2019)
Journal Article
Johnson, D. (2019). A competition law first. New Law Journal, 7848,

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published the full text of its first competition law decision in May 2019. The decision related to three asset management firms whose employees operated a cartel sharing price sensitive information during an init... Read More about A competition law first.

“It’s a lifeline”: Generating a sense of social connectedness through befriending parents of disabled children or children with additional need (2019)
Journal Article
Blake, L., Bray, L., & Carter, B. (2019). “It’s a lifeline”: Generating a sense of social connectedness through befriending parents of disabled children or children with additional need. Patient Education and Counseling, 102(12), 2279-2285. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2019.07.012

Objectives This study explored the influence of a parent-to-parent peer support scheme on the wellbeing of parents of disabled children or children with additional need who joined a befriending scheme. Methods A longitudinal concurrent mixed met... Read More about “It’s a lifeline”: Generating a sense of social connectedness through befriending parents of disabled children or children with additional need.

Logistics and distribution challenges to managing operations for corporate sustainability: Study on leading Indian diary organizations (2019)
Journal Article
Mangla, S. K., Sharma, Y. K., Patil, P. P., Yadav, G., & Xu, J. (2019). Logistics and distribution challenges to managing operations for corporate sustainability: Study on leading Indian diary organizations. Journal of Cleaner Production, 238, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.117620

© 2019 Elsevier Ltd In order to improve the corporate sustainability of agro-food value chains, business organizations need to rely on a higher performing and more reliable logistics system. Particularly, in case of dairy industry, organizations are... Read More about Logistics and distribution challenges to managing operations for corporate sustainability: Study on leading Indian diary organizations.

New opportunities for on-demand shared-ride services to deliver modal shift and inclusive travel (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Calvert, T., Jain, J., Parkhurst, G., Shergold, I., & Ward, S. (2019, July). New opportunities for on-demand shared-ride services to deliver modal shift and inclusive travel. Paper presented at 17th Annual Transport Practitioners Meeting, Oxford

On-demand shared-ride services promise new opportunities for modal shift and inclusive travel. This paper draws on evidence from the industrial-collaborative project ‘Mobility on Demand Laboratory Environment’ (MODLE) which has piloted a range of suc... Read More about New opportunities for on-demand shared-ride services to deliver modal shift and inclusive travel.

Inferring pyroclastic density current flow conditions using syn-depositional sedimentary structures (2019)
Journal Article
Pollock, N. M., Brand, B. D., Rowley, P. J., Sarocchi, D., & Sulpizio, R. (2019). Inferring pyroclastic density current flow conditions using syn-depositional sedimentary structures. Bulletin of Volcanology, 81(8), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-019-1303-z

The processes occurring in the basal region of concentrated pyroclastic density currents (PDCs) influence the mobility, runout distance, and damage potential of a current, but directly observing these processes is extremely difficult. Instead, we mus... Read More about Inferring pyroclastic density current flow conditions using syn-depositional sedimentary structures.

Postcards from researchers (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Holt, N. J., Jenkinson, E., & Clarke, V. (2019, July). Postcards from researchers. Presented at Exploring the potential for creative and arts-based methods for applied psychological research, UWE, Bristol

A workshop, drawing on guerrilla kindness craftivism, to share inspiration and research ideas gained from the BPS creative methods seminar.

SiP 2019 Engaged In Busy Work - Practitioner Development (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Fogg-Rogers, L. (2019, July). SiP 2019 Engaged In Busy Work - Practitioner Development. Presented at Science in Public 2019, Manchester, UK

This presentation introduced preceding festival research which led to the creation of the project ‘Unkindest Cut’. International research from the Science Live project indicated that science festival and event organisers considered their work to be a... Read More about SiP 2019 Engaged In Busy Work - Practitioner Development.

Multilingual immersive communication technology: Repurposing virtual reality for Italian teaching (2019)
Book Chapter
Brick, B., Cervi-Wilson, T., Graham, S., Tsankov, T., Ryan, K., Godson, N., & Loizou, M. (2019). Multilingual immersive communication technology: Repurposing virtual reality for Italian teaching. In New Educational Landscapes: Innovative Perspectives in Language Learning and Technology (5-10). Research-publishing.net. https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2019.36.949

This paper will report on a pilot Virtual Reality (VR) projectwhich repurposes an existing scenario-based VR asset for healthsciences. The original scenario aims to prepare health care students for home visits by allowing them to experience a semi-li... Read More about Multilingual immersive communication technology: Repurposing virtual reality for Italian teaching.

Leading ladies: discursive constructions of women leaders in the UK media (2019)
Journal Article
Tischner, I., Malson, H., & Fey, K. (in press). Leading ladies: discursive constructions of women leaders in the UK media. Feminist Media Studies, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2019.1640266

Women continue to be economically disadvantaged and under-represented in positions of power and leadership. A discursive disjunction between cultural and media representations of women and leadership has been implicated in these continuing inequaliti... Read More about Leading ladies: discursive constructions of women leaders in the UK media.

Integrated infrastructure planning: The role of territorial governance frameworks in making a difference (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Hickman, H., Hall, S., & Croft, N. (2019, July). Integrated infrastructure planning: The role of territorial governance frameworks in making a difference. Paper presented at Association of European Schools of Planning Annual Congress, Venice, Italy

Identifying Verticillium dahliae resistance in strawberry through disease screening of multiple populations and image based phenotyping (2019)
Journal Article
Cockerton, H. M., Li, B., Vickerstaff, R. J., Eyre, C. A., Sargent, D. J., Armitage, A. D., …Harrison, R. J. (2019). Identifying Verticillium dahliae resistance in strawberry through disease screening of multiple populations and image based phenotyping. Frontiers in Plant Science, 10, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2019.00924

© 2019 Cockerton, Li, Vickerstaff, Eyre, Sargent, Armitage, Marina-Montes, Garcia-Cruz, Passey, Simpson and Harrison. Verticillium dahliae is a highly detrimental pathogen of soil cultivated strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa). Breeding of Verticillium... Read More about Identifying Verticillium dahliae resistance in strawberry through disease screening of multiple populations and image based phenotyping.

Blockchain enabled industrial Internet of Things technology (2019)
Journal Article
Zhao, S., Li, S., & Yao, Y. (2019). Blockchain enabled industrial Internet of Things technology. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 6(6), 1442-1453. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSS.2019.2924054

The emerging blockchain technology shows promising potential to enhance industrial systems and the Internet of things (IoT) by providing applications with redundancy, immutable storage, and encryption. In the past a few years, many more applications... Read More about Blockchain enabled industrial Internet of Things technology.

Remote sensing for drought monitoring & impact assessment: Progress, past challenges and future opportunities (2019)
Journal Article
West, H., Quinn, N., & Horswell, M. (2019). Remote sensing for drought monitoring & impact assessment: Progress, past challenges and future opportunities. Remote Sensing of Environment, 232, Article 111291. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2019.111291

© 2019 Elsevier Inc. Drought is a common hydrometeorological phenomenon and a pervasive global hazard. As our climate changes, it is likely that drought events will become more intense and frequent. Effective drought monitoring is therefore critical,... Read More about Remote sensing for drought monitoring & impact assessment: Progress, past challenges and future opportunities.

Artificial neural network simulating microbial fuel cells with different membrane materials and electrode configurations (2019)
Journal Article
Tsompanas, M. A., You, J., Wallis, L., Greenman, J., & Ieropoulos, I. (2019). Artificial neural network simulating microbial fuel cells with different membrane materials and electrode configurations. Journal of Power Sources, 436, Article 226832. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2019.226832

© 2019 Elsevier B.V. Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are gaining interest due to higher power production achieved by deep analysis of their characteristics and their effect on the overall efficiency. To date, investigations on MFC efficiency, can only be... Read More about Artificial neural network simulating microbial fuel cells with different membrane materials and electrode configurations.