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A building classification system for multi-hazard risk assessment of historical religious buildings (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Del Carlo, F., Caprili, S., Ferreira, T. M., Roca, P., & Uzielli, M. (2023). A building classification system for multi-hazard risk assessment of historical religious buildings. In M. Papadrakakis, & M. Fragiadakis (Eds.), A building classification system for multi-hazard risk assessment of historical religious buildings Proceedings - Volume 2 (2741-2751)

UnReinforced Masonry (URM) religious buildings have proven to require special attention in the context of natural hazards risk assessment due to their high vulnerability - connected to aging and types of construction ' and to their strong links with... Read More about A building classification system for multi-hazard risk assessment of historical religious buildings.

Digital technology in engineering design teaching (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Valentine, R., & Matthews, J. (2023). Digital technology in engineering design teaching. In DS 123: Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education (E&PDE 2023). https://doi.org/10.35199/epde.2023.13

Digital technology is widely used in engineering design teaching, enabling students to create parametric models of their solutions and data files for computer-aided manufacture (CAM). However, the digital industry is predicted to grow significant... Read More about Digital technology in engineering design teaching.

Low carbon heritage: Residents' views from Cumbria and the English Lake District World Heritage Site (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Wise, F., Moncaster, A., & Jones, D. (2023). Low carbon heritage: Residents' views from Cumbria and the English Lake District World Heritage Site. In R. Kilian, S. Saba, & C. Gietz (Eds.), EEHB 2022 Post Prints. The 4th International Conference on Energy Efficiency in Historic Buildings (219-227)

Carbon emissions from the built environment must be urgently reduced to mitigate climate change. Retrofit of existing buildings is key. However, heritage buildings pose a particular challenge, particularly domestic buildings where retrofit is mainly... Read More about Low carbon heritage: Residents' views from Cumbria and the English Lake District World Heritage Site.

Artificial intelligence for occupational health and safety management in construction (2023)
Book Chapter
Perera, S., Paton-Cole, V., Gao, S., Francis, V., Urhal, P., Manu, P., …Babalola, A. (2023). Artificial intelligence for occupational health and safety management in construction. In P. Manu, S. Gao, P. J. S. Bartolo, V. Francis, & A. Sawhney (Eds.), Handbook of Construction Safety, Health and Well-being in the Industry 4.0 Era (154-168). London: Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003213796-15

Reducing occupational safety and health (OSH) incidents has been an area of significant importance to the construction industry. The industry remains one of the most dangerous, with significant occupational fatalities and injuries. Artificial intelli... Read More about Artificial intelligence for occupational health and safety management in construction.

Developing Industry 4.0 applications - A social construction of technology approach (2023)
Book Chapter
Collinge, W. H., Osorio-Sandoval, C. A., Manu, P., & Cheung, C. (2023). Developing Industry 4.0 applications - A social construction of technology approach. In P. Manu, S. Gao, P. Jorge Silva Bartolo, V. Francis, & A. Sawhney (Eds.), Handbook of Construction Safety, Health and Well-being in the Industry 4.0 Era (42-51). London: Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003213796-5

The design and development of Industry 4.0 applications requires focused research work and close collaboration with the industry. Such an approach requires a balance between technical work and social interactions with industry partners: a social cons... Read More about Developing Industry 4.0 applications - A social construction of technology approach.

The confluence of Industry 4.0 and construction occupational safety, health and well-being (2023)
Book Chapter
Manu, P., Gao, S., Da Silva Bartolo, P. J., Francis, V., & Sawhney, A. (2023). The confluence of Industry 4.0 and construction occupational safety, health and well-being. In P. Manu, S. Gao, P. J. D. S. Bartolo, V. Francis, & A. Sawhney (Eds.), Handbook of Construction Safety, Health and Well-being in the Industry 4.0 Era (1-14). London: Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003213796-1

Globally, the construction sector accounts for more than100,000 occupational fatalities annually. There is an urgent need to improve the poor occupational safety, health and well-being (OSHW) outlook of the construction sector. The advent of the four... Read More about The confluence of Industry 4.0 and construction occupational safety, health and well-being.

Application of exoskeletons for occupational safety and health management in construction (2023)
Book Chapter
Babalola, A., Urhal, P., Manu, P., Da Silva Bartolo, P. J., Cheung, C., Yunusa-Kaltungo, A., …Paton-Cole, V. (2023). Application of exoskeletons for occupational safety and health management in construction. In P. Manu, S. Gao, P. J. S. Bartolo, V. Francis, & A. Sawhney (Eds.), Handbook of Construction Safety, Health and Well-being in the Industry 4.0 Era (249-264). London: Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003213796-23

The construction industry is a high-risk industry due to its poor record of injuries and deaths globally. Recently, exoskeletons, as part of a suite of Industry 4.0 technologies, have emerged as a potential effective technological approach for addres... Read More about Application of exoskeletons for occupational safety and health management in construction.

Critical community psychology: The perceptions of UK undergraduate psychology students (2023)
Journal Article
Thompson, M., & Thomas, Z. (2023). Critical community psychology: The perceptions of UK undergraduate psychology students. Community Psychology in Global Perspective, 9(2), 125-146. https://doi.org/10.1285/i24212113v9i2p125

Psychology undergraduates represent the future workforce of the applied psychology professions. As such, this study explores UK psychology undergraduates’ views of critical community psychology and its relevance to applied psychology related to well-... Read More about Critical community psychology: The perceptions of UK undergraduate psychology students.

Profit aus Glaubenmachen - Gewinn aus Dichtung: Wirtschaft als Wahrheitskampf (2023)
Book Chapter
Berger, S. (2023). Profit aus Glaubenmachen - Gewinn aus Dichtung: Wirtschaft als Wahrheitskampf. In I. D. Gennaro, G. N. Schaefer, & S. E. Schuster (Eds.), Geld und Gewinn. Zur Erweiterung monetär-ökonomischer Logiken (11-40). Verlag Karl Alber

Die Wirtschaftswissenschaft der Moderne befasst sich maßgeblich mit der Frage, was der Markt ist bzw. wie vom Markt zu denken ist. Aus eigener Erfahrung teilen wir hier die Einsicht des Wirtschaftsphilosophen Philip Mirowski (2013), dass die in der H... Read More about Profit aus Glaubenmachen - Gewinn aus Dichtung: Wirtschaft als Wahrheitskampf.

Post-Occupancy study of indoor air quality in university laboratories during the pandemic (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Adzic, F., Mustafa, M., Wild, O., Cheung, H. Y. W., & Malki-Epshtein, L. (2023). Post-Occupancy study of indoor air quality in university laboratories during the pandemic. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality & Climate (Indoor Air 2022) (1-8)

This post-occupancy study aims to assess the indoor air quality (IAQ) and ventilation performance in workshops and laboratories of a UK university during the COVID-19 pandemic. Supply airflow rates and CO2 were monitored as a proxy for evaluating ven... Read More about Post-Occupancy study of indoor air quality in university laboratories during the pandemic.

Applied quantification of equine sleep behaviour and environmental factors affecting its occurrence (2023)
Thesis
Greening, L. Applied quantification of equine sleep behaviour and environmental factors affecting its occurrence. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10892682

This thesis includes published academic work with a critical commentary submitted to fulfil the requirements of the University of the West of England, Bristol for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy by publication (DPhil). Five peer reviewed journal a... Read More about Applied quantification of equine sleep behaviour and environmental factors affecting its occurrence.

Introduction: Setting the scene (2023)
Book Chapter
Razzaque, J., Futhazar, G., & Maljean-Dubois, S. (2023). Introduction: Setting the scene. In Biodiversity Litigation (1-32). Oxford University Press

In 2020, the cognitive dissonance of environmental governance was made painfully clear. At the same time that the pandemic shed light on the disastrous and direct consequences of environmental degradation for the well-being of humans worldwide, envir... Read More about Introduction: Setting the scene.

Efficacy of pharmacological interventions: A systematic review informing the 2023 EULAR recommendations for the management of fatigue in people with inflammatory rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (2023)
Journal Article
Farisogullari, B., Santos, E. J. F., Dures, E., Geenen, R., & Machado, P. M. (2023). Efficacy of pharmacological interventions: A systematic review informing the 2023 EULAR recommendations for the management of fatigue in people with inflammatory rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases. RMD Open, 9(4), Article e003349. https://doi.org/10.1136/rmdopen-2023-003349

Objective To identify the best evidence on the efficacy of pharmacological interventions in reducing fatigue in people with inflammatory rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (I-RMDs) and to summarise their safety in the identified studies to inform... Read More about Efficacy of pharmacological interventions: A systematic review informing the 2023 EULAR recommendations for the management of fatigue in people with inflammatory rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases.

Public perceptions of Rainwater Harvesting (RWH): Comparing users and non-users of RWH systems (2023)
Journal Article
Snelling, A., Lamond, J., Everett, G., O'Donnell, E., Sangaralingam, A., & Thorne, C. (in press). Public perceptions of Rainwater Harvesting (RWH): Comparing users and non-users of RWH systems. Urban Water Journal, https://doi.org/10.1080/1573062X.2023.2281310

The UK’s abundant municipal water supply has resulted in slow progress with the uptake of Rainwater Harvesting (RWH) systems within the home. Research has indicated that exploring public preferences for domestic RWH are necessary for increasing deman... Read More about Public perceptions of Rainwater Harvesting (RWH): Comparing users and non-users of RWH systems.

Application of data mining techniques to rural vernacular buildings: A methodology for characterisation and awareness (2023)
Journal Article
Mouraz, C. P., Almeida, R. M., Ferreira, T. M., & Mendes Silva, J. (in press). Application of data mining techniques to rural vernacular buildings: A methodology for characterisation and awareness. International Journal of Architectural Heritage, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/15583058.2023.2287151

Data-mining techniques (DMTs) have been widely used in the context of existing buildings. However, studies comparing its application to different objects and using rural territories with vernacular constructions as case studies remain highly unexplor... Read More about Application of data mining techniques to rural vernacular buildings: A methodology for characterisation and awareness.

The nature and extent of bomb tritium remaining in deep vadose zone: A synthesis and prognosis (2023)
Journal Article
Huang, Y., Evaristo, J., Li, Z., Chun, K., Sutanudjaja, E. H., Cardenas, M. B., …van Genuchten, M. T. (in press). The nature and extent of bomb tritium remaining in deep vadose zone: A synthesis and prognosis. Vadose Zone Journal,

Tritium present in deep vadose zones is a useful tracer for estimating groundwater recharge, but its full utility is constrained by not knowing where and for how long the tritium tracing method remains applicable. We obtained 44 tritium profiles from... Read More about The nature and extent of bomb tritium remaining in deep vadose zone: A synthesis and prognosis.

Exploration of the impact of junction characteristics on pedestrian red light violation (2023)
Journal Article
Pellecuer, L., & Chusseau, A. (in press). Exploration of the impact of junction characteristics on pedestrian red light violation. Infrastructure Asset Management, https://doi.org/10.1680/jinam.23.00023

The design of the geometry and traffic controls at signalised junctions is often focused on the level of service offered to motor vehicles and rarely considers the level of service offered to pedestrians. This results in pedestrian adopting illegal a... Read More about Exploration of the impact of junction characteristics on pedestrian red light violation.

A systematic review of the impacts of extreme heat on health and wellbeing in the United Kingdom (2023)
Journal Article
Ige-Elegbede, J., Powell, J., & Pilkington, P. (in press). A systematic review of the impacts of extreme heat on health and wellbeing in the United Kingdom. Cities and Health, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2023.2283240

Climate change poses a concern globally, as it adversely affects planetary and population health. Extreme heat is one of the largest weather-related causes of mortality, projected to cause severe heatwaves and droughts globally. Current research has... Read More about A systematic review of the impacts of extreme heat on health and wellbeing in the United Kingdom.