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‘Do I cry or just carry on’: A story completion study of healthcare professionals’ anticipated responses to experiencing chest pain (2024)
Journal Article

Healthcare professionals may experience barriers to seeking healthcare that differ from the general population. We explored healthcare professionals’ anticipated responses to experiencing chest pain following a period of stress using qualitative stor... Read More about ‘Do I cry or just carry on’: A story completion study of healthcare professionals’ anticipated responses to experiencing chest pain.

Translation and validation of the Body Esteem Scale in Adults and Adolescents among Indonesian adolescents (2024)
Journal Article

There is a need for a psychometrically robust body image measure to advance body image scholarship among Indonesian adolescents. This study aimed to validate a Bahasa Indonesia version of the Body Esteem Scale for Adults and Adolescents (BESAA). The... Read More about Translation and validation of the Body Esteem Scale in Adults and Adolescents among Indonesian adolescents.

Amphibious architecture: A biomimetic design approach to flood resilience (2024)
Journal Article

Amphibious buildings use the buoyancy principle in the design of their foundation systems to mitigate flood impact. In some cases, amphibious buildings are fitted with mechanical systems that further aid the buoyancy element to temporarily raise the... Read More about Amphibious architecture: A biomimetic design approach to flood resilience.

Early childhood graduates in the workplace: Experiences and perceptions (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Research has consistently shown that ECS graduates enhance the quality of services delivered by settings (Bonetti and Blanden, 2020). They are well-placed to improve outcomes for children and families in the areas of social and economic disadvantage... Read More about Early childhood graduates in the workplace: Experiences and perceptions.

Collective Self-Defence in International Law (2024)
Book

Collective self-defence can be defined as the use of military force by one or more states to aid another state that is an innocent victim of armed attack. However, it is a legal justification that is open to abuse and its exercise risks escalating co... Read More about Collective Self-Defence in International Law.

Seismic performance of structure equipped with a new rubber bracing damper system (2024)
Journal Article

Nowadays, vibration energy absorption devices are widely implemented in many buildings subjected to severe vibration due to natural hazards, such as earthquakes, strong winds, and typhoons. Recently, viscous dampers have been commonly used in many st... Read More about Seismic performance of structure equipped with a new rubber bracing damper system.

If racism vanished for a day: Towards a kinder, anti-racist society (2024)
Journal Article

In this article the RESPECT team (Racialised Experiences Project: Education, Children and Trust) give an overview of their research about the impact of racism on the mental health and well being of primary school children, and share some examples of... Read More about If racism vanished for a day: Towards a kinder, anti-racist society.

Iter II (2024)
Book Chapter

We have a family funeral in Telford. “The only good thing about that place,” someone says, “is the road out.” Iter II is a hybrid essay, combing teaching notes and prompts, flash fiction and critical reflection in the form of personal essay and... Read More about Iter II.

Robotic additive manufacturing of lichen composites for air quality monitoring (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In the light of an unprecedented climate emergency, there is an urgent need to reconsider the materials we use for the construction of our buildings and to explore alternative material systems that are abundant, easy to source, and exhibit increased... Read More about Robotic additive manufacturing of lichen composites for air quality monitoring.

Development of an on-column trace enrichment method for the determination of sub-μg/L bisphenol A in bottled water by RP-HPLC with fluorescent detection (2024)
Journal Article

A simple extraction-free, on-column trace enrichment liquid chromatographic method for the determination of trace levels of bisphenol A (BPA) in bottled water samples has been developed. It was found possible to determine ng/L (ppt) levels of BPA by... Read More about Development of an on-column trace enrichment method for the determination of sub-μg/L bisphenol A in bottled water by RP-HPLC with fluorescent detection.

Dynamic hydrological niche segregation: How plants compete for water in a semi-arid ecosystem (2024)
Journal Article

Hydrological niche segregation (HNS), specifically the variation in root water uptake depth among coexisting species, is an understudied area of research. This is especially the case in semi-arid ecosystems, such as China's Loess Plateau (CLP), where... Read More about Dynamic hydrological niche segregation: How plants compete for water in a semi-arid ecosystem.

Understanding paramedic work in general practice in the UK: A rapid realist synthesis (2024)
Journal Article

Background: General practice in the UK is under substantial pressure and practices are increasingly including paramedics as part of their workforce. Little is known about how different models of paramedic working may affect successful implementation... Read More about Understanding paramedic work in general practice in the UK: A rapid realist synthesis.

Artificial Intelligence perceptions and life satisfaction (2024)
Journal Article

The paper estimates whether there is any relationship between life satisfaction and people’s perceptions towards artificial intelligence. Using data from 39 European countries collected in 2021, it is consistently found that people with negative perc... Read More about Artificial Intelligence perceptions and life satisfaction.

Conflict Refugees: European Union Law and Practice (2024)
Digital Artefact

Investigation of the displacement-based seismic performance of geogrid earth-retaining walls using three-dimensional finite element modeling (2024)
Journal Article

This study evaluates the earthquake-induced movement of geogrid earth-retaining (GER) walls. A thorough investigation was conducted on a GER wall model, utilizing a comprehensive finite element (FE) analysis. This research focuses on investigating an... Read More about Investigation of the displacement-based seismic performance of geogrid earth-retaining walls using three-dimensional finite element modeling.

Estimating water storage from images (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper introduces a novel approach to estimate domestic water storage within households by leveraging the classical computer vision technique of object detection. Ensuring universal access to safe drinking water is a critical component of achievi... Read More about Estimating water storage from images.

Climate change and modern slavery in public procurement (2024)
Report

Existing links between modern slavery and climate change are becoming clearer as the need increases for a just transition to a low-carbon economy. Yet, how organisations attempt to address these risks, either separately or simultaneously, is not unde... Read More about Climate change and modern slavery in public procurement.

Explainable NLP model for predicting patient admissions at emergency department using triage notes (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) has the potential to revolutionize healthcare by providing more transparent, trustworthy, and understandable predictions made by AI models. To this end, the present study aims to develop an explainable NLP mo... Read More about Explainable NLP model for predicting patient admissions at emergency department using triage notes.

Globalised climate precarity: Environmental degradation, disasters and the international brick trade (2024)
Journal Article

Climate-linked disasters result when natural hazards meet socioeconomic precarity. Recognizing this, scholarship in recent years has emphasized how the precarity that turns climate-linked hazards into disasters is produced within the same global poli... Read More about Globalised climate precarity: Environmental degradation, disasters and the international brick trade.

Bearing the discomfort: An autoethnography on Weltschmerz (2024)
Thesis

Weltschmerz (welt ‘world’ + schmerz ‘pain’) is a German term with universal significance. It denotes a sense of pain, despondency and anger that comes from existing in the world as we know it. There has been little psychological research on Weltschme... Read More about Bearing the discomfort: An autoethnography on Weltschmerz.