This research contributes to the body of knowledge that currently exists around teacher and student well-being in secondary schools in England. It achieves this through the perceptions of both teachers and students and their joint engagement in conve... Read More about How can teaching and learning experiences of secondary school teachers and students in England change so well-being can improve?.
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Mycelium-based ELM emulation utilizing memristive oscillating cellular automata (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Engineered Living Materials (ELMs) represent a novel class of materials that possess intrinsic properties and capabilities inspired by living organisms. Among ELMs, fungal mycelium stands out due to its low-cost manufacturing process, ubiquity in nat... Read More about Mycelium-based ELM emulation utilizing memristive oscillating cellular automata.
Protecting everyday nature (2024)
Journal Article
‘Everyday nature’, understood as people’s ability to access nature nearby, should be protected in law and planning policy, facilitating three key benefits: (1) human health and wellbeing; (2) intrinsic and extrinsic ecological advantages; and (3) sup... Read More about Protecting everyday nature.
Developmental timing of associations among parenting, brain architecture, and mental health (2024)
Journal Article
Importance
Parenting relates to brain development and long-term health outcomes, though whether these associations depend on the developmental timing of exposure remains understudied. Identifying these sensitive periods can inform when and how paren... Read More about Developmental timing of associations among parenting, brain architecture, and mental health.
Consistency of XAI models against medical expertise: An assessment protocol (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Despite the significant advances made by Artificial Intelligence (AI) models in enhancing medical diagnostics and prognostics, their opacity poses a hurdle to widespread clinical adoption. In this regard, Explainable AI (XAI) aims to demystify these... Read More about Consistency of XAI models against medical expertise: An assessment protocol.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Caring for a child with a cleft lip and/or palate: A narrative review (2024)
Journal Article
Raising a child with healthcare needs places additional demands on caregivers. In 2012, Nelson and colleagues authored a review of 57 papers pertaining to parents’ experiences of caring for a child with cleft lip and/or palate (CL/P). Thanks in large... Read More about Caring for a child with a cleft lip and/or palate: A narrative review.