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Impact of corruption on achieving sustainable development goals within Africas construction industry (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Corruption is prevalent across the construction industry in developing countries. This is due to converging factors such as (a) the sector’s requirement for substantial capital investment, (b) government involvement, (c) time pressures to deliver new... Read More about Impact of corruption on achieving sustainable development goals within Africas construction industry.

Attitudes towards advance care planning amongst community-based older people in England (2024)
Journal Article

Background
Advance care planning has been advocated as a way for people to have their wishes recorded and respected in relation to types of treatment and place of care. However, uptake in England remains low.

Aims
To examine the views of older,... Read More about Attitudes towards advance care planning amongst community-based older people in England.

Re-establishing historic ecosystem links through targeted species reintroduction: Beaver-mediated wetlands support increased bat activity (2024)
Journal Article

Despite the global significance of wetlands, conservation strategies often fall short in preserving these ecosystems due to failures in incorporating processes that sustain the ecosystem functioning, hydrological dynamics, ecological processes, and b... Read More about Re-establishing historic ecosystem links through targeted species reintroduction: Beaver-mediated wetlands support increased bat activity.

Nostalgia, ageing, and older age (2024)
Book Chapter

This chapter offers an overview of connections between nostalgia, ageing, and older age and attempts to make a case for engaging with the complexity of older age when analysing nostalgia. The first two sections sketch out the significance of temporal... Read More about Nostalgia, ageing, and older age.

Trends in transport injuries burden and risk factors among children under 14 years old in China: 1990–2019 (2024)
Journal Article

Background
Transport injuries (TI) remains one of leading causes of death in children in China. This study aimed to analyze the temporal trend of disease burden and associated risk factors of TI among children aged 0–14 years in China, utilizing dat... Read More about Trends in transport injuries burden and risk factors among children under 14 years old in China: 1990–2019.

Attitudes towards advance care planning amongst community-based older people in England (2024)
Journal Article

Background: Advance care planning has been advocated as a way for people to have their wishes recorded and respected in relation to types of treatment and place of care. However, uptake in England remains low. Aims: To examine the views of older, wel... Read More about Attitudes towards advance care planning amongst community-based older people in England.

Reading slowly together: Facilitated climate literature book clubs and their potential for engaging young people with climate crisis (2024)
Journal Article

Engaging young people with the effects and potential future impacts of climate crisis is essential for facilitating the changes required. These topics and their consequences can be overwhelming, and the emotional responses equally diverse, from anxie... Read More about Reading slowly together: Facilitated climate literature book clubs and their potential for engaging young people with climate crisis.

An exploration of the impact of different peer learning activities utilised to develop student employability (2024)
Journal Article

Assumptions about fostering human capital for national competitiveness underpin higher education policy drivers regarding employability. Departing from this focus on human capital development, research has highlighted the importance of relationality... Read More about An exploration of the impact of different peer learning activities utilised to develop student employability.

Neurons as autoencoders (2024)
Journal Article

This letter presents the idea that neural backpropagation is exploiting dendritic processing to enable individual neurons to perform autoencoding. Using a very simple connection weight search heuristic and artificial neural network model, the effects... Read More about Neurons as autoencoders.

National audit of patient reported experience of radical cystectomy for bladder cancer pathways (2024)
Journal Article

Objective: The objective of this study was to measure and describe the national patient experience of radical cystectomy (RC) pathways in the UK using the validated Cystectomy‐Pathway Assessment Tool (C‐PAT). Patients and Methods: A cohort of 1081 pa... Read More about National audit of patient reported experience of radical cystectomy for bladder cancer pathways.

Men accepting rewards for sex, sexual content and performance: A qualitative study of the health and wellbeing needs of 'male sex workers' (2024)
Thesis

Background
Male sex workers continue to be underrepresented in both the academic literature and across health care provision. Previous attempts to address health and wellbeing needs are limited to a sexual health focus or are based on the comparativ... Read More about Men accepting rewards for sex, sexual content and performance: A qualitative study of the health and wellbeing needs of 'male sex workers'.

Reducing risk factors which impact dog welfare through injury in flyball in the UK (2024)
Thesis

To date only two studies have sought to understand the frequency of injury in canine flyball, and no experimental data exists regarding the biomechanical demands placed upon competitors. Uniquely, competitors may use different angulations of flyball... Read More about Reducing risk factors which impact dog welfare through injury in flyball in the UK.

Technology transfer and absorptive capacity: Case study of the PEEPOWER technology (2024)
Thesis

A technology is more than the hardware or system used to deliver a service. In its broad sense, it also encompasses skills, knowledge and expertise on how the technology works and how to manufacture and operate it. Literature on technology transfer h... Read More about Technology transfer and absorptive capacity: Case study of the PEEPOWER technology.

Deletions in the MAL gene result in loss of Mal protein, defining the rare inherited AnWj-negative blood group phenotype (2024)
Journal Article

The genetic background of the high prevalence red blood cell antigen AnWj has remained unresolved since its identification in 1972, despite reported associations with both CD44 and Smyd1 histone methyltransferase. Development of anti-AnWj, which may... Read More about Deletions in the MAL gene result in loss of Mal protein, defining the rare inherited AnWj-negative blood group phenotype.

Supporting Black African students to engage more in physical activity: A qualitative study of lived experiences in the Midlands, UK (2024)
Journal Article

Aim. To explore how Black African international students adjust to their new university environment and gain insight into how they feel supported to engage in physical activity (PA). Background. People from ethnic minority backgrounds have poor physi... Read More about Supporting Black African students to engage more in physical activity: A qualitative study of lived experiences in the Midlands, UK.

Strategic planning in England – Current practice and future directions (2024)
Report

This report presents the findings of research commissioned by the Royal Town Planning Institute to provide evidence on the nature, scope and efficacy and potential of current approaches to strategic planning policy and practice in 2024.
It shows wid... Read More about Strategic planning in England – Current practice and future directions.

A study into the biological activity and therapeutic potential of molecular hydrogen and oxyhydrogen gases (2024)
Thesis

Molecular hydrogen (H2) and oxyhydrogen (66% H2/ 33% O2) gases can remediate the effects of numerous diseases in adults. By acting as an anti-inflammatory and antioxidative agent, it is reported that H2 administration can improve recovery through mi... Read More about A study into the biological activity and therapeutic potential of molecular hydrogen and oxyhydrogen gases.

Properties of textured piezoceramics measured with miniature samples (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Background, Motivation and Objective: Piezoelectric materials carry intrinsic elastic-piezoelectric-dielectric (EPD) properties, typically represented in matrix form, which make them crucial for various technological fields. They are usually employed... Read More about Properties of textured piezoceramics measured with miniature samples.

Electrical signaling beyond neurons (2024)
Journal Article

Neural action potentials (APs) are difficult to interpret as signal encoders and/or computational primitives. Their relationships with stimuli and behaviors are obscured by the staggering complexity of nervous systems themselves. We can reduce this c... Read More about Electrical signaling beyond neurons.

An uncomfortable truth? Rethinking the relationship between neoliberalism and the creative and cultural industries (2024)
Book Chapter

This chapter examines the profound interconnection between the creative and cultural industries (CCI) and neoliberal economic policies, highlighting the influence of such policies on the sector’s development, structural characteristics, and the chall... Read More about An uncomfortable truth? Rethinking the relationship between neoliberalism and the creative and cultural industries.