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Paediatric major incident triage: A Delphi process to determine clinicians' attitudes and beliefs within the United Kingdom and Ireland (2022)
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Vassallo, J., Blakey, S., Cowburn, P., Surridge, J., Smith, J. E., Scholefield, B., …(Paediatric Emergency Research in the UK and Ireland), P. (2023). Paediatric major incident triage: A Delphi process to determine clinicians' attitudes and beliefs within the United Kingdom and Ireland. Acta Paediatrica, 112(1), 154-161. https://doi.org/10.1111/apa.16567

Aim: Triage is key to effective management of major incidents, yet there is scarce evidence surrounding the optimal method of paediatric major incident triage (MIT). This study aimed to derive consensus on key components of paediatric MIT among healt... Read More about Paediatric major incident triage: A Delphi process to determine clinicians' attitudes and beliefs within the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Advocacy and civic engagement in protest discourse on Twitter: An examination of Ghana’s #OccupyFlagstaffHouse and #RedFriday campaigns (2022)
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Nartey, M. (2022). Advocacy and civic engagement in protest discourse on Twitter: An examination of Ghana’s #OccupyFlagstaffHouse and #RedFriday campaigns. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 19(4), 385-401. https://doi.org/10.1080/14791420.2022.2130950

This article examines tweets produced by Occupy Ghana during its #OccupyFlagstaffHouse and #RedFriday campaigns. It sheds light on how activist discourses are most persuasively narrativized when they capitalize on local sentiment and language feature... Read More about Advocacy and civic engagement in protest discourse on Twitter: An examination of Ghana’s #OccupyFlagstaffHouse and #RedFriday campaigns.

Numerical investigation on fire performance of LSF and steel modular floor panels (2022)
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Perera, D., Upasiri, I., Poologanathan, K., O’Grady, K., Nagaratnam, B., Kanthasamy, E., & Rajanayagam, H. (2022). Numerical investigation on fire performance of LSF and steel modular floor panels. Buildings, 12(10), Article 1721. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12101721

The steel Modular Building Systems (MBSs) that have been influenced by the Light-gauge Steel Frame (LSF) techniques have become a prominent culture in the industry. However, the detrimental behaviour of steel structural components at high temperature... Read More about Numerical investigation on fire performance of LSF and steel modular floor panels.

Numerical simulation and experimental investigation of the effect of three-layer annular coaxial shroud on gas-powder flow in laser cladding (2022)
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Lyu, P., Jin, L., Yan, B., Zhu, L., Yao, J., & Jiang, K. (2022). Numerical simulation and experimental investigation of the effect of three-layer annular coaxial shroud on gas-powder flow in laser cladding. Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 84, 457-468. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmapro.2022.10.019

Laser cladding is a notable metal additive manufacturing (AM). The outstanding benefit of laser cladding is that the cladding process is more flexible and it can be completed in an open environment. However, oxidation phenomenon of active metals such... Read More about Numerical simulation and experimental investigation of the effect of three-layer annular coaxial shroud on gas-powder flow in laser cladding.

Therapists’ experiences of remotely delivering cognitive-behavioural or graded-exercise interventions for fatigue: A qualitative evaluation (2022)
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Bennett, S. E., Almeida, C., Bachmair, E., Gray, S. R., Lovell, K., Paul, L., …Dures, E. (2022). Therapists’ experiences of remotely delivering cognitive-behavioural or graded-exercise interventions for fatigue: A qualitative evaluation. Rheumatology Advances in Practice, 6(3), Article rkac083. https://doi.org/10.1093/rap/rkac083

Objective: Fatigue is a challenging feature of all inflammatory rheumatic diseases. LIFT (Lessening the Impact of Fatigue in inflammatory rheumatic diseases: a randomized Trial) included remotely delivered personalized exercise programme (PEP) or cog... Read More about Therapists’ experiences of remotely delivering cognitive-behavioural or graded-exercise interventions for fatigue: A qualitative evaluation.

Performing extinction stories: Exploring creative responses to bee decline (2022)
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Portus, R. (2023). Performing extinction stories: Exploring creative responses to bee decline. Text and Performance Quarterly, 43(2), 95-110. https://doi.org/10.1080/10462937.2022.2134583

As extinction becomes one of the most pressing crises of our time, projects that engage with nonhuman lives have emerged as a visible fixture of the creative landscape. This raises the question of what role creative explorations might play in shaping... Read More about Performing extinction stories: Exploring creative responses to bee decline.

Impacts of sea level rise on wave overtopping rates around the coast of England (2022)
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Hames, D., Vidal, I., & Ben, G. (2023). Impacts of sea level rise on wave overtopping rates around the coast of England. Proceedings of the ICE - Maritime Engineering, 176(3), 110-117. https://doi.org/10.1680/jmaen.2021.020

There is unequivocal evidence that global sea levels are rising. It is therefore inevitable there will be socioeconomic impacts as a result of this. To aid mitigation, and the implementation of adaptation measures, it is vital the magnitude of the po... Read More about Impacts of sea level rise on wave overtopping rates around the coast of England.

Biomechanical effects of adding an ankle soft actuation in a unilateral exoskeleton (2022)
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Otálora, S., Ballen-Moreno, F., Arciniegas-Mayag, L., Cifuentes, C. A., & Múnera, M. (2022). Biomechanical effects of adding an ankle soft actuation in a unilateral exoskeleton. Biosensors, 12(10), 873. https://doi.org/10.3390/bios12100873

Stroke disease leads to a partial or complete disability affecting muscle strength and functional mobility. Early rehabilitation sessions might induce neuroplasticity and restore the affected function or structure of the patients. Robotic rehabilitat... Read More about Biomechanical effects of adding an ankle soft actuation in a unilateral exoskeleton.

The effects of audit committee characteristics on its oversight effectiveness: Evidence from Hong Kong (2022)
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Cheung, K. Y., & Adelopo, I. (2022). The effects of audit committee characteristics on its oversight effectiveness: Evidence from Hong Kong. Corporate Ownership and Control, 20(1), 8-18. https://doi.org/10.22495/cocv20i1art1

This study examines the relationships between audit committee (AC) characteristics and its oversight effectiveness primarily measured as accrual and real earnings management in Hong Kong after the Asian financial crisis in 2008 for a sample of Hong K... Read More about The effects of audit committee characteristics on its oversight effectiveness: Evidence from Hong Kong.

Feasibility of patient reported outcome measures in psychosocial palliative care: Observational cohort study of hospice day care and social support groups (2022)
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Bradley, N., Dowrick, C., & Lloyd-Williams, M. (2022). Feasibility of patient reported outcome measures in psychosocial palliative care: Observational cohort study of hospice day care and social support groups. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(20), Article 13258. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013258

Palliative care patients can be at risk of social isolation or loneliness. Interventions that can provide effective social support, and particularly emotional support, could facilitate healthy coping that bolsters quality of life and reduces depressi... Read More about Feasibility of patient reported outcome measures in psychosocial palliative care: Observational cohort study of hospice day care and social support groups.

Evaluating shifting perceptions and configurations of social capital in leadership development (2022)
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Gilani, P., Bolden, R., & Pye, A. (2023). Evaluating shifting perceptions and configurations of social capital in leadership development. Leadership, 19(1), 63-84. https://doi.org/10.1177/17427150221133888

Whilst Day's (2000) description of leadership development as an investment in social capital has been widely cited, there has been little subsequent empirical or theoretical work to explore and articulate the nature and purpose of this ‘social capita... Read More about Evaluating shifting perceptions and configurations of social capital in leadership development.

Knowledge4COVID-19: A semantic-based approach for constructing a COVID-19 related knowledge graph from various sources and analyzing treatments’ toxicities (2022)
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Sakor, A., Jozashoori, S., Niazmand, E., Rivas, A., Bougiatiotis, K., Aisopos, F., …Vidal, . M. (2023). Knowledge4COVID-19: A semantic-based approach for constructing a COVID-19 related knowledge graph from various sources and analyzing treatments’ toxicities. Journal of Web Semantics, 75, Article 100760. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.websem.2022.100760

In this paper, we present Knowledge4COVID-19, a framework that aims to showcase the power of integrating disparate sources of knowledge to discover adverse drug effects caused by drug–drug interactions among COVID-19 treatments and pre-existing condi... Read More about Knowledge4COVID-19: A semantic-based approach for constructing a COVID-19 related knowledge graph from various sources and analyzing treatments’ toxicities.

Greedy search method for separable nonlinear models using stage Aitken gradient descent and least squares algorithms (2022)
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Chen, J., Mao, Y., Gan, M., Wang, D., & Zhu, Q. (2023). Greedy search method for separable nonlinear models using stage Aitken gradient descent and least squares algorithms. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 68(8), 5044-5051. https://doi.org/10.1109/TAC.2022.3214474

Aitken gradient descent (AGD) algorithm takes some advantages over the standard gradient descent (SGD) and Newton methods: (1) can achieve at least quadratic convergence in general; (2) does not require the Hessian matrix inversion; (3) has less comp... Read More about Greedy search method for separable nonlinear models using stage Aitken gradient descent and least squares algorithms.

Investigating a citrus fruit supply chain network considering CO2 emissions using Meta-heuristic algorithms (2022)
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Goodarzian, F., Kumar, V., & Ghasemi, P. (in press). Investigating a citrus fruit supply chain network considering CO2 emissions using Meta-heuristic algorithms. Annals of Operations Research, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-022-05005-7

According to the increasing carbon dioxide released through vehicles and the shortage of water resources, decision-makers decided to combine the environmental and economic effects in the Agri-Food Supply Chain Network (AFSCN) in developing countries.... Read More about Investigating a citrus fruit supply chain network considering CO2 emissions using Meta-heuristic algorithms.

Systematic review of surveillance systems for AMR in Africa (2022)
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Okolie, O., Igwe, U., Ismail, S., Uzairue, L., & Adukwu, E. C. (2022). Systematic review of surveillance systems for AMR in Africa. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 78(1), 31-51. https://doi.org/10.1093/jac/dkac342

AIMS: Surveillance is a useful tool for tracking antimicrobial resistance (AMR) trends, patterns, therapeutic and policy interventions. Proper correlation of surveillance data gives meaningful insight into the underlying epidemiology and facilitates... Read More about Systematic review of surveillance systems for AMR in Africa.

Students’ representations of menopause and perimenopause: Out of control bodies and empathetic expert doctors (2022)
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Hayfield, N., & Campbell, C. (2022). Students’ representations of menopause and perimenopause: Out of control bodies and empathetic expert doctors. Sex Roles, 87, 365–378. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-022-01320-2

Representations of peri/menopause are influential in relation to how peri/menopause is understood and how peri/menopausal women are perceived, both of which have important implications for health and wellbeing. In this paper, we report results from a... Read More about Students’ representations of menopause and perimenopause: Out of control bodies and empathetic expert doctors.

Complete genome sequence of Pseudomonas Phage Motto (2022)
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Manohar, P., Loganathan, A., Nachimuthu, R., Loh, B., Ma, L., Turner, D., & Leptihn, S. (2022). Complete genome sequence of Pseudomonas Phage Motto. Microbiology Resource Announcements, 11(11), https://doi.org/10.1128/mra.00740-22

We describe the complete genome sequence of bacteriophage Motto, which infects clinical strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Motto is a T1-like siphovirus related to members of the family Drexlerviridae and has a capsid width of;57 nm and a tail length... Read More about Complete genome sequence of Pseudomonas Phage Motto.

Impact of climate change and socioeconomic factors on domestic energy consumption: The case of Hong Kong and Singapore (2022)
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Lam, C., He, Q., Cheng, K. L., Fan, P. Y., Chun, K. P., Choi, B., …Yetemen, O. (2022). Impact of climate change and socioeconomic factors on domestic energy consumption: The case of Hong Kong and Singapore. Energy Reports, 8(November 2022), 12886-12904. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egyr.2022.09.059

Temperature and population growth are key drivers of energy consumption. However, the relative importance of climatic and socioeconomic factors driving energy consumption at different temporal scales is not well-understood. Therefore, we developed a... Read More about Impact of climate change and socioeconomic factors on domestic energy consumption: The case of Hong Kong and Singapore.

Exposure to green and historic urban environments and mental well-being: Results from EEG and psychometric outcome measures (2022)
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Reece, R., Bornioli, A., Bray, I., & Alford, C. (2022). Exposure to green and historic urban environments and mental well-being: Results from EEG and psychometric outcome measures. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(20), 13052. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013052

Previous studies have identified the benefits of exposure to green or historic environments using qualitative methods and psychometric measures, but studies using a combination of measures are lacking. This study builds on current literature by focus... Read More about Exposure to green and historic urban environments and mental well-being: Results from EEG and psychometric outcome measures.

Description of three novel species of Scandinavium: Scandinavium hiltneri sp. nov., Scandinavium manionii sp. nov. and Scandinavium tedordense sp. nov., isolated from the oak rhizosphere and bleeding cankers of broadleaf hosts (2022)
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Maddock, D., Brady, C., Kile, H., Denman, S., & Arnold, D. (2022). Description of three novel species of Scandinavium: Scandinavium hiltneri sp. nov., Scandinavium manionii sp. nov. and Scandinavium tedordense sp. nov., isolated from the oak rhizosphere and bleeding cankers of broadleaf hosts. Frontiers in Microbiology, 13, 1011653. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.1011653

While investigating the bacterial populations of environmental samples taken from a mix of healthy and Acute Oak Decline afflicted Quercus robur (pedunculate or English oak) rhizosphere soil samples and swabs of bleeding lesions on Tilia spp. (lime)... Read More about Description of three novel species of Scandinavium: Scandinavium hiltneri sp. nov., Scandinavium manionii sp. nov. and Scandinavium tedordense sp. nov., isolated from the oak rhizosphere and bleeding cankers of broadleaf hosts.