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Effect of the stacking sequence on the impact response of carbon-glass/epoxy hybrid composites (2020)
Journal Article

This paper investigates low-velocity impact response of Quasi Isotropic (QI) hybrid carbon/glass fiber reinforced polymer composites with alternate stacking sequences. Cross-ply woven carbon and glass fibers were used as reinforcing materials to fabr... Read More about Effect of the stacking sequence on the impact response of carbon-glass/epoxy hybrid composites.

Co-production and person-centred care in neoliberal conditions (2020)
Journal Article

The personalization of care holds an ideological ambivalence that allows for diverse and sometimes contradictory appropriations. To be person-centred may seem to be definitively unobjectionable: what is not to like about an approach that puts the u... Read More about Co-production and person-centred care in neoliberal conditions.

Circularity in the built environment? A call for a paradigm shift (2020)
Book Chapter

This chapter considers how circularity is being, and might be, approached and achieved within the built environment. Three case studies illustrate the current situation. The first case address life cycle assessment (LCA) in measuring circularity, sho... Read More about Circularity in the built environment? A call for a paradigm shift.

Two leagues, one front? The India league and the league against imperialism in the British left, 1927-1937 (2020)
Book Chapter

V.K. Krishna Menon always made people angry. When he left southern India in 1924, coming to England under the auspices of his mentor Annie Besant’s Theosophist and Indian Home Rule movement, Menon disappointed his father by not becoming a lawyer and... Read More about Two leagues, one front? The India league and the league against imperialism in the British left, 1927-1937.

Conceptual Theories in Structural Dynamics (2020)
Book

This book discusses the conceptual theory of structural dynamics, using simplified methods and clear, concise explanations. It illustrates all the hypotheses in a simple and effective way and describes in detail the derivation of all related formulat... Read More about Conceptual Theories in Structural Dynamics.

Re-examining the effects of word writing on vocabulary learning (2020)
Book Chapter

This study investigated the effects of word writing on vocabulary learning by comparing three conditions in which there was (a) limited time to write words, (b) unlimited time to write words, and (c) a non-writing word- picture pairs comparison. Non-... Read More about Re-examining the effects of word writing on vocabulary learning.

They hide with their boots on (2020)
Digital Artefact

Review of the Invisible Men exhibition, Westminster Menswear Archive, for Artforum Magazine (print edition).

UAV’s applications, architecture, security issues and attack scenarios: A survey (2020)
Book Chapter

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)/drones have become very popular in recent years as they are widely used in several domains. They are widely used in both military and civilian applications such as aerial photography, entertainment, search and rescue m... Read More about UAV’s applications, architecture, security issues and attack scenarios: A survey.

Best practice guidelines for responsible images of non-human primates (2020)
Digital Artefact

Photos or videos (hereafter images) can draw the attention of millions of people to non-human primate (hereafter primate) conservation and welfare. However, if the context of the images is inappropriate, unclear, or lost, people... Read More about Best practice guidelines for responsible images of non-human primates.

Role of the dipole jet in inclined stroke plane kinematics of insect flight (2020)
Journal Article

The two-dimensional (2D) inclined stroke plane kinematics of insect wing is studied for various stroke plane angles using the Immersed Boundary (IB) solver. The numerical results revealed the dominant lift enhancement mechanisms for this class of flo... Read More about Role of the dipole jet in inclined stroke plane kinematics of insect flight.

Researching around our subjects: Working towards a women’s labour history of trade unions in the British film and television industries (2020)
Journal Article

This article explores the opportunities and obstacles of researching women’s trade union activism in the British film and television industries between 1933 and 2017. The surviving material on women’s union participation is incomplete and fragmented,... Read More about Researching around our subjects: Working towards a women’s labour history of trade unions in the British film and television industries.

Mining the Irish hip fracture database: Learning factors contributing to care outcomes (2020)
Journal Article

Data analytics has opened the door for improving many aspects pertaining to the delivery of healthcare. This study avails of unsupervised machine learning to extract knowledge from the Irish hip fracture database (IHFD). The dataset under considerati... Read More about Mining the Irish hip fracture database: Learning factors contributing to care outcomes.

R&D activity and financing constraints: Evidence from Turkey (2020)
Journal Article

We analyze the relationship between financing constraints and firms’ R&D activity using a rich and comprehensive firm-level balance sheet and income statement data set of manufacturing firms in Turkey for the period 1996 to 2013. Using a firm-specifi... Read More about R&D activity and financing constraints: Evidence from Turkey.

3 Public objects of remembering and forgetting in contemporary Spain (2020)
Journal Article

Richards’s article is a reflection on comparative history inspired by the pulling down of the statue of the slave-trader Edward Colston in Bristol in June 2020. It explores the evolution in Spain of state policies and civil society activism to do wit... Read More about 3 Public objects of remembering and forgetting in contemporary Spain.

Patients’ experiences of an acceptance and commitment therapy-based approach for psychosocial difficulties relating to an appearance-affecting condition (2020)
Journal Article

Some individuals with appearance-affecting conditions experience psychosocial challenges such as social anxiety and avoidance. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) may offer a suitable approach for these challenges. This qualitative study investig... Read More about Patients’ experiences of an acceptance and commitment therapy-based approach for psychosocial difficulties relating to an appearance-affecting condition.

Would shared health visitor and emergency department records improve recognition of child maltreatment within the emergency department? A prospective multicentre study (2020)
Journal Article

Burns are common causes of paediatric emergency care attendance; approximately ten per cent result from maltreatment. Following emergency department (ED) attendance with a burn by 232 under five-year-olds, 11 risk factors for maltreatment were collec... Read More about Would shared health visitor and emergency department records improve recognition of child maltreatment within the emergency department? A prospective multicentre study.

In silico optimization of cancer therapies with multiple types of nanoparticles applied at different times (2020)
Journal Article

© 2020 The Author(s) Background and Objective: Cancer tumors constitute a complicated environment for conventional anti-cancer treatments to confront, so solutions with higher complexity and, thus, robustness to diverse conditions are required. Alter... Read More about In silico optimization of cancer therapies with multiple types of nanoparticles applied at different times.

Symbolic regionalism and European governance: Why Africa is different (2020)
Book Chapter

"So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world" (Immanuel Kant).

Elicitation of the factors affecting electricity distribution efficiency using the fuzzy AHP method (2020)
Journal Article

Efficient and uninterrupted energy supply plays a crucial role in the quality of modern daily life, while it is obvious that the efficiency and performance of energy supply companies has a significant impact on energy supply itself and on determining... Read More about Elicitation of the factors affecting electricity distribution efficiency using the fuzzy AHP method.

Critical ambience (2020)
Book Chapter

This chapter argues that ambient cultural practices can be reframed as critically focused experiences rather than either passive backgrounds or immersive entertainment. We argue that ambient literature can leave the reader or listener with a heighten... Read More about Critical ambience.