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Big data innovation and implementation in projects teams: Towards a SEM approach to conflict prevention (2024)
Journal Article

Purpose: Despite an enormous body of literature on conflict management, intra-group conflicts vis-à-vis team performance, there is currently no study investigating the conflict prevention approach to handling innovation-induced conflicts that may hin... Read More about Big data innovation and implementation in projects teams: Towards a SEM approach to conflict prevention.

Field study emanation by Sarah Bodman for Wangari Maathai, Chico Mendes, Zeinab Mokalled, Shōzō Tanaka, for Field Report 2023 (2024)
Physical Artefact

Field Study emanation, edition of 100 by Sarah Bodman for: Field Report 2023 Journal of Field Study International Published April 2024 David Dellafiora (curator) - The Field Report is the annual of Field Study International, produced since 1... Read More about Field study emanation by Sarah Bodman for Wangari Maathai, Chico Mendes, Zeinab Mokalled, Shōzō Tanaka, for Field Report 2023.

Energy harvesting from plants using hybrid microbial fuel cells; potential applications and future exploitation (2024)
Journal Article

Microbial Fuel Cells (MFC) can be fuelled using biomass derived from dead plant material and can operate on plant produced chemicals such as sugars, carbohydrates, polysaccharides and cellulose, as well as being “fed” on a regular diet of primary bio... Read More about Energy harvesting from plants using hybrid microbial fuel cells; potential applications and future exploitation.

Artist’s Book Yearbook 2024-2025 (2024)
Book

Essays: David Paton considers the 50+ years of collecting the 14,000+ items now housed in the Jack Ginsberg Centre for Book Arts (JGCBA) at the Wits Art Museum, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. In Ossessione, Tanya Peixoto... Read More about Artist’s Book Yearbook 2024-2025.

Coping with crisis and precarity in the gig economy: ‘Digitally organised informality’, migration and socio-spatial networks among platform drivers in India (2024)
Journal Article

The most recent phase of services digitalisation in the global South, reflected in the widespread adoption of Internet and smart-phone technologies, has given rise to an emergent gig economy that employs tens of millions of workers across its diverse... Read More about Coping with crisis and precarity in the gig economy: ‘Digitally organised informality’, migration and socio-spatial networks among platform drivers in India.

"Music therapy is the very definition of white privilege": Music therapists' perspectives on race and class in UK music therapy (2024)
Journal Article

The resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement in the summer of 2020 following the death of George Floyd highlighted, once again, the racial and socioeconomic inequities permeating western countries, and galvanised music therapists in the UK and e... Read More about "Music therapy is the very definition of white privilege": Music therapists' perspectives on race and class in UK music therapy.

Implementation of the CHIldren with acute COugh (CHICO) intervention to improve antibiotics management: A qualitative study in primary care (2024)
Journal Article

BACKGROUND: Childhood respiratory tract infections (RTIs) are common and can lead to unnecessary antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance. The CHIldren with COugh (CHICO) intervention incorporates a clinician-focused algorithm (STARWAVe) to predic... Read More about Implementation of the CHIldren with acute COugh (CHICO) intervention to improve antibiotics management: A qualitative study in primary care.

Cost-effectiveness of a primary healthcare intervention to treat male lower urinary tract symptoms: The TRIUMPH cluster randomised controlled trial (2024)
Journal Article

Objectives To estimate the cost-effectiveness of a primary care intervention for male lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) compared with usual care. Design Economic evaluation alongside a cluster randomised controlled trial from a UK National Health S... Read More about Cost-effectiveness of a primary healthcare intervention to treat male lower urinary tract symptoms: The TRIUMPH cluster randomised controlled trial.

A shock to the (health) system: Experiences of adults with rare disorders during the first COVID-19 wave (2024)
Journal Article

Background: Before COVID-19, people with rare diseases (RD) experienced numerous disparities in quality of life and healthcare access and quality, yet little is known about the experiences of this underserved group during the pandemic. Results: Durin... Read More about A shock to the (health) system: Experiences of adults with rare disorders during the first COVID-19 wave.

Variable autonomy through responsible robotics: Design guidelines and research agenda (2024)
Journal Article

Physically embodied artificial agents, or robots, are being incorporated into various practical and social contexts, from self-driving cars for personal transportation to assistive robotics in social care. To enable these systems to better perform un... Read More about Variable autonomy through responsible robotics: Design guidelines and research agenda.

Four steps for integrating generative AI in learning and teaching (2024)
Newspaper / Magazine

From class preparation to critical thinking and reflection, this four-step checklist will help university teachers support the ethical and informed use of artificial intelligence tools in the classroom

Adsorption in action: Molecular dynamics as a tool to study adsorption at the surface of fine plastic particles in aquatic environments (2024)
Journal Article

The presence of microscopic fine plastic particles (FPPs) in aquatic environments continues to be a societal issue of great concern. Further, the adsorption of pollutants and other macromolecules onto the surface of FPPs is a well-known phenomenon. T... Read More about Adsorption in action: Molecular dynamics as a tool to study adsorption at the surface of fine plastic particles in aquatic environments.

Tactile-based grasping stability prediction based on human grasp demonstration for robot manipulation (2024)
Journal Article

To minimize irrelevant and redundant information in tactile data and harness the dexterity of human hands. In this paper, we introduce a novel binary classification network with normalized differential convolution (NDConv) layers. Our method leverage... Read More about Tactile-based grasping stability prediction based on human grasp demonstration for robot manipulation.

Development of analytical model for bonding of CFRP rod in concrete subjected to cyclic loads (2024)
Journal Article

Recent material science advances have resulted in the use of High-Performance Concrete (HPC) and Ultra-High-Performance Concrete (UHPC) in superstructures, which were chosen for their superior strength. However, under cyclic loads, these materials fr... Read More about Development of analytical model for bonding of CFRP rod in concrete subjected to cyclic loads.

From Flora to Solar Adaptive Facades: Integrating Plant-Inspired Design with Photovoltaic Technologies (2024)
Journal Article

Recognizing the significance of solar energy as a vital renewable energy source in building envelope design is becoming more and more important and needs urgent attention. Exploring solar adaptation strategies found in plants offers a wide range of e... Read More about From Flora to Solar Adaptive Facades: Integrating Plant-Inspired Design with Photovoltaic Technologies.

Three perspectives on leadership in higher education: Traditionalist, reformist, pragmatist (2024)
Journal Article

There is a fragmented and complex literature about higher education leadership representing a diversity of ideological perspectives about its nature and purposes. Internationally, the literature has been strongly shaped by the importation of concepts... Read More about Three perspectives on leadership in higher education: Traditionalist, reformist, pragmatist.

Exploring the behaviours of small business entrepreneurs in the gastro-dining industry: Risks, relationships and gourmet chefs in action (2024)
Journal Article

A growing number of chefs are setting up their own businesses to offer a gastro-dining experience in places without an extensive gastro-dining tradition. In this context, our purpose is to explore the behaviours of entrepreneurs of small businesses i... Read More about Exploring the behaviours of small business entrepreneurs in the gastro-dining industry: Risks, relationships and gourmet chefs in action.

A multi-dimensional evaluative framework for examining project reputation within the construction industry: Contractors' perspective (2024)
Thesis

The construction industry, intrinsically project-focused, faces significant challenges in managing project reputation. High-profile incidents like the collapse of the Charles de Gaulle Airport terminal and the Grenfell Tower fire have starkly highlig... Read More about A multi-dimensional evaluative framework for examining project reputation within the construction industry: Contractors' perspective.

Under-researched and under-reported new findings in microplastic field (2024)
Journal Article

After over 20 years of research on microplastic (MP) pollution, there are important areas of study which are still at the inception. In particular, between 2020 and 2023 new findings on MP have emerged, which open new sub-categories of MP research. T... Read More about Under-researched and under-reported new findings in microplastic field.

Social psychological perspectives on islandness: Identities, vulnerabilities and precarities (2024)
Journal Article

Although there are many widely perceived attractions to living on a small island, island life is not without its challenges. The physical aspects of these are well rehearsed. The psychological ones, less so. Drawing on social psychological theories,... Read More about Social psychological perspectives on islandness: Identities, vulnerabilities and precarities.