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Home gardening of yellow cassava and orange maize for the prevention of nutritional blindness in children: An economic evaluation and value of information analysis (2023)
Journal Article
Esio-Bassey, C., Wilson, E. C. F., Hooper, L., Rao, N., & Whitty, J. A. (2023). Home gardening of yellow cassava and orange maize for the prevention of nutritional blindness in children: An economic evaluation and value of information analysis. Value in Health Regional Issues, 38, 77-84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vhri.2023.07.002

Objectives: Vitamin A deficiency is the leading cause of childhood blindness worldwide, affecting mostly Sub-Saharan Africa. We aimed to predict the cost-effectiveness of home gardening (HG) of yellow cassava and orange maize to prevent nutritional b... Read More about Home gardening of yellow cassava and orange maize for the prevention of nutritional blindness in children: An economic evaluation and value of information analysis.

Towards a creative and cultural industries ecosystem perspective (2023)
Book Chapter
Virani, T. (2023). Towards a creative and cultural industries ecosystem perspective. In T. Virani (Ed.), Global Creative Ecosystems: A Critical Understanding of Sustainable Creative and Cultural Production. Palgrave Macmillan (part of Springer Nature). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33961-5

The creative and cultural industries are increasingly being examined and understood through the lens of ecosystems as well as ecologies. Using ecosystems, and ecologies, has come on the back of a recognition that forensic efforts around defining, del... Read More about Towards a creative and cultural industries ecosystem perspective.

From strangers to a designer community: An ecosystem perspective of creative hub formation in Taipei City (2023)
Book Chapter
Wu, J. Y., & Virani, T. (2023). From strangers to a designer community: An ecosystem perspective of creative hub formation in Taipei City. In Global Creative Ecosystems: A Critical Understanding of Sustainable Creative and Cultural Production. Palgrave Macmillan (part of Springer Nature). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33961-5

This chapter argues that the notion of a creative ecosystem provides a better understanding regarding the intrinsic rationale of how spatial agglomeration in cultural and creative industries work and function. This is where the existing research... Read More about From strangers to a designer community: An ecosystem perspective of creative hub formation in Taipei City.

Global Creative Ecosystems: A Critical Understanding of Sustainable Creative and Cultural Production (2023)
Book
Virani, T. E. (Ed.). (2023). Global Creative Ecosystems: A Critical Understanding of Sustainable Creative and Cultural Production. Palgrave Macmillan (part of Springer Nature). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33961-5

This book reorients the lens of global creative economies in order to focus on ecological articulations of cultural production ecosystems. While numerous volumes and studies exist of how cities and regions all over the world produce culture, this vol... Read More about Global Creative Ecosystems: A Critical Understanding of Sustainable Creative and Cultural Production.

Bristol’s film and television industries: An incremental ecosystem (2023)
Book Chapter
Spicer, A. (2023). Bristol’s film and television industries: An incremental ecosystem. In T. E. Virani (Ed.), Global creative ecosystems: A critical understanding of sustainable creative and cultural production (115-133). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33961-5

This chapter explores the growth and characteristics of Bristol’s screen industries, which consist principally of television production companies and a much smaller group engaged in feature film production. In contrast to what one could call ‘enginee... Read More about Bristol’s film and television industries: An incremental ecosystem.

Practical hardware for evolvable robots (2023)
Journal Article
Angus, M., Buchanan, E., Le Goff, L. K., Hart, E., Eiben, A. E., De Carlo, M., …Tyrrell, A. M. (2023). Practical hardware for evolvable robots. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 10, Article 1206055. https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2023.1206055

The evolutionary robotics field offers the possibility of autonomously generating robots that are adapted to desired tasks by iteratively optimising across successive generations of robots with varying configurations until a high-performing candidate... Read More about Practical hardware for evolvable robots.

A reflexive approach to researching bilingualism in Wales: language, legitimacy and positionality (2023)
Journal Article
Selleck, C., & Barakos, E. (2023). A reflexive approach to researching bilingualism in Wales: language, legitimacy and positionality. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 44(8), 672-688. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2023.2195382

This paper engages with the negotiation of insider and outsider researcher identities in the context of Welsh-English bilingualism in Wales. It aims to develop a reflexive approach to researching bilingualism, foregrounding the actions and experience... Read More about A reflexive approach to researching bilingualism in Wales: language, legitimacy and positionality.

Exploring the psychosocial impact and support needs of men with breast cancer from the perspectives of patients, informal carers and healthcare professionals (2023)
Thesis
Herring, B. Exploring the psychosocial impact and support needs of men with breast cancer from the perspectives of patients, informal carers and healthcare professionals. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10761982

Although rare, the prevalence of Breast Cancer in Men (BCiM) is increasing worldwide. It is commonly perceived as a female disease, despite being responsible for proportionally more deaths annually than some male-specific cancers such as testicular... Read More about Exploring the psychosocial impact and support needs of men with breast cancer from the perspectives of patients, informal carers and healthcare professionals.

Learning in colloids: Synapse-like ZnO + DMSO colloid (2023)
Journal Article
Kheirabadi, N. R., Chiolerio, A., Phillips, N., & Adamatzky, A. (2023). Learning in colloids: Synapse-like ZnO + DMSO colloid. Neurocomputing, 557, Article 126710. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2023.126710

Colloids subjected to electrical stimuli exhibit a reconfiguration that might be used to store information and potentially compute. In a colloidal suspension of ZnO nanoparticles in DMSO, we investigated the learning, memorization, time and stimulati... Read More about Learning in colloids: Synapse-like ZnO + DMSO colloid.

The Worcester riots of November 1831 (2023)
Digital Artefact
Poole, S., Ball, R., & Drury, J. (2023). The Worcester riots of November 1831. [Website]

In October 1831 a wave of disturbances swept across England after the rejection of the Second Reform Bill in the House of Lords. These ‘reform riots’ began with serious disorder in the East Midlands (Derby, Nottingham) followed by unrest in towns in... Read More about The Worcester riots of November 1831.

The defeat of the Second Reform Bill in October 1831 – An overview of public responses (part 2 – In the metropolis) (2023)
Digital Artefact
Ball, R., Askew, J., Poole, S., & Drury, J. (2023). The defeat of the Second Reform Bill in October 1831 – An overview of public responses (part 2 – In the metropolis). [Website]

The following series of three articles examine initial public responses to the news of the defeat of the Second Reform Bill in the House of Lords on 8th October 1831 across England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. The evidential basis for this article i... Read More about The defeat of the Second Reform Bill in October 1831 – An overview of public responses (part 2 – In the metropolis).

The defeat of the Second Reform Bill in October 1831 – An overview of public responses PART 1 (2023)
Digital Artefact
Ball, R., Jane, A., Poole, S., & Drury, J. (2023). The defeat of the Second Reform Bill in October 1831 – An overview of public responses PART 1. [Website]

The following series of three articles examine initial public responses to the news of the defeat of the Second Reform Bill in the House of Lords on 8th October 1831 across England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. The evidential basis for this article i... Read More about The defeat of the Second Reform Bill in October 1831 – An overview of public responses PART 1.

Do fast fashion sustainable business strategies influence attitude, awareness and behaviours of female consumers? (2023)
Journal Article
Hageman, E., Kumar, V., Duong, L., Kumari, A., & McAuliffe, E. (2024). Do fast fashion sustainable business strategies influence attitude, awareness and behaviours of female consumers?. Business Strategy and the Environment, 33(2), 1081-1098. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.3545

In recent years, the fashion and textile industries have come under pressure to manage customer expectations. Previous research has shown that female consumers tend to buy more clothing than male consumers and are understood to care more about fashio... Read More about Do fast fashion sustainable business strategies influence attitude, awareness and behaviours of female consumers?.

Inclusive spaces for neurodivergent/neurominority students in higher education (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Whelan, J. (2023, August). Inclusive spaces for neurodivergent/neurominority students in higher education. Presented at Professional Development Programme, Rwanda

Due to the epistemic, hermeneutical injustice of neurodivergent voices, inclusive language to express and interpret experiences has been excluded from centres of language generation (higher education, journalism, and governance). Through the use of t... Read More about Inclusive spaces for neurodivergent/neurominority students in higher education.

Fertile or futile grounds for excluding criminal responsibility? A critical analysis of the Ongwen judgment in relation to the claim of coercive environment (2023)
Journal Article
Nortje, W., & Quénivet, N. (2023). Fertile or futile grounds for excluding criminal responsibility? A critical analysis of the Ongwen judgment in relation to the claim of coercive environment. International Criminal Law Review, 23(5-6), 675–704. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718123-bja10158

Dominic Ongwen was convicted and sentenced for numerous atrocities by the International Criminal Court (icc) in 2021. The Defence focused on the coercive environment that Ongwen was subjected to from his abduction as a boy until his surrender as an a... Read More about Fertile or futile grounds for excluding criminal responsibility? A critical analysis of the Ongwen judgment in relation to the claim of coercive environment.

Community led housing, health and wellbeing: a comprehensive literature review (2023)
Journal Article
McClatchey, R., McClymont, K., Griffin, E., & Carmichael, L. (in press). Community led housing, health and wellbeing: a comprehensive literature review. International Journal of Housing Policy, https://doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2023.2232200

Community Led Housing (CLH) is an umbrella term encompassing several non-profit models of housing delivery, which is used internationally. There has been little comprehensive assessment of the health impacts of housing arrangements where people inten... Read More about Community led housing, health and wellbeing: a comprehensive literature review.

The rise and decline of the European struggle against social exclusion (2023)
Book Chapter
Atkinson, R. (2023). The rise and decline of the European struggle against social exclusion. In A. Mayne (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Modern Slum (162-179). New York: Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190879457.013.10

Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, addressing social exclusion and achieving greater social inclusion figured prominently in the “social policy” discourse of the European Union and of many national governments within it. This chapter discusses soc... Read More about The rise and decline of the European struggle against social exclusion.

The mediating role of planned behaviour in the religiosity and nascent entrepreneurship nexus (2023)
Journal Article
Emmanuel Onjewu, A., Anosike, P., & Godwin, E. S. (2023). The mediating role of planned behaviour in the religiosity and nascent entrepreneurship nexus. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research, 29(8), 1950-1969. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJEBR-08-2022-0771

Purpose: Increasingly, there is scholarly recognition that individuals' faith constitutes a background factor much like other antecedents conditioning entrepreneurial inclination. Yet, there is room to expand knowledge on how faith interrelates with... Read More about The mediating role of planned behaviour in the religiosity and nascent entrepreneurship nexus.

The nonlinear stability analysis of double-diffusive convection with viscous dissipation effect (2023)
Journal Article
Deepika, N., Narayana, P. A. L., & Hill, A. (2023). The nonlinear stability analysis of double-diffusive convection with viscous dissipation effect. Transport in Porous Media, 150, 215–227. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11242-023-02006-3

In this article, the onset of double-diffusive convection with the effect of viscous dissipation in a horizontal fluid-saturated porous layer is examined. Two impermeable isothermal and isosolutal walls bound the porous layer, and Darcy’s law models... Read More about The nonlinear stability analysis of double-diffusive convection with viscous dissipation effect.

Going circular: history, present, and future of circRNAs in cancer. (2023)
Journal Article
Pisignano, G., Michael, D. C., Pirlog, R., Visal, T. H., Ladomery, M., & Calin, G. A. (2023). Going circular: history, present, and future of circRNAs in cancer. Oncogene, 42, 2783–2800. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41388-023-02780-w

To date, thousands of highly abundant and conserved single-stranded RNA molecules shaped into ring structures (circRNAs) have been identified. CircRNAs are multifunctional molecules that have been shown to regulate gene expression transcriptionally a... Read More about Going circular: history, present, and future of circRNAs in cancer..