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Mobile phone adoption in agri-food sector: Are farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa connected? (2017)
Journal Article
Kabbiri, R., Dora, M., Kumar, V., Elepu, G., & Gellynck, X. (2018). Mobile phone adoption in agri-food sector: Are farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa connected?. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 131, 253-261. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2017.12.010

In recent years user acceptance of a new technology has become of much interest. One of the most outstanding global problems facing Africa is the digital divide. However, the use and adoption of mobile phones is reducing the digital divide in Africa.... Read More about Mobile phone adoption in agri-food sector: Are farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa connected?.

Causes of construction accidents in Oman (2017)
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Umar, T., & Egbu, C. (2018). Causes of construction accidents in Oman. Middle East Journal of Management, 5(1), 21-33. https://doi.org/10.1504/MEJM.2018.088725

Considering the costs associated with accidents in construction, a model identifying root causes of accidents is proposed for construction organisations in Oman. The model classifies the accidents in construction mainly arising from main four causes:... Read More about Causes of construction accidents in Oman.

Search training for people with visual field loss after stroke: A cohort study (2017)
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Gilchrist, I. D., Turton, A., Angilley, J., Longley, V., & Clatworthy, P. (2018). Search training for people with visual field loss after stroke: A cohort study. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 81(5), 255-265. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308022617743481

© 2017, © The Author(s) 2017. Introduction: People with visual field loss after stroke often experience difficulties in everyday activities. The purpose of this study was to assess the acceptability of search training as used within occupational ther... Read More about Search training for people with visual field loss after stroke: A cohort study.

How patient-perpetrated workplace violence leads to turnover intention among nurses: The mediating mechanism of occupational stress and burnout (2017)
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Harris Laeeque, S., Bilal, A., Babar, S., Khan, Z., & Ul Rahman, S. (2018). How patient-perpetrated workplace violence leads to turnover intention among nurses: The mediating mechanism of occupational stress and burnout. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment and Trauma, 27(1), 96-118. https://doi.org/10.1080/10926771.2017.1410751

This study looked into the impact of patient-perpetrated workplace violence on nurses’ turnover intention by examining the sequential mediation effect of occupational stress and burnout. Results were obtained by analyzing the data collected from 216... Read More about How patient-perpetrated workplace violence leads to turnover intention among nurses: The mediating mechanism of occupational stress and burnout.

Estimation of the dynamic leakage current of a supercapacitor in energy harvesting powered autonomous wireless sensor nodes (2017)
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Yue, X., Kiely, J., Farooq, A., & Champneys, A. (2017). Estimation of the dynamic leakage current of a supercapacitor in energy harvesting powered autonomous wireless sensor nodes. Intelec, 2017-October, 278-281. https://doi.org/10.1109/INTLEC.2017.8214147

© 2017 IEEE. The supercapacitor is a candidate energy storage component for energy harvesting powered autonomous wireless sensor node aiming to achieve battery replacement-free, 'fit and forget' sensor node in low-power IoT applications. The leakage... Read More about Estimation of the dynamic leakage current of a supercapacitor in energy harvesting powered autonomous wireless sensor nodes.

Setting up a cohort study in speech and language therapy: Lessons from The UK Cleft Collective Speech and Language (CC-SL) Study (2017)
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Wren, Y., Humphries, K., Stock, N. M., Rumsey, N., Lewis, S., Davies, A., …Sandy, J. (2018). Setting up a cohort study in speech and language therapy: Lessons from The UK Cleft Collective Speech and Language (CC-SL) Study. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 53(3), 421-430. https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12364

Background: Efforts to increase the evidence base in speech and language therapy are often limited by methodological factors which have restricted the strength of the evidence to the lower levels on the evidence hierarchy. Where higher graded studies... Read More about Setting up a cohort study in speech and language therapy: Lessons from The UK Cleft Collective Speech and Language (CC-SL) Study.

A study of the analysis of acidic solutes by hydrophilic interaction chromatography (2017)
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McCalley, D. V. (2018). A study of the analysis of acidic solutes by hydrophilic interaction chromatography. Journal of Chromatography A, 1534, 64-74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chroma.2017.12.045

© 2017 Elsevier B.V. The analysis of acidic solutes was compared on a cross-linked bonded amino phase and a neutral hybrid inorganic-organic amide phase, previously shown to give reasonable retention of acidic solutes. The amino column gave strong se... Read More about A study of the analysis of acidic solutes by hydrophilic interaction chromatography.

Happiness in Bangladesh: The Role of Religion and Connectedness (2017)
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Devine, J., Hinks, T., & Naveed, A. (2019). Happiness in Bangladesh: The Role of Religion and Connectedness. Journal of Happiness Studies, 20(2), 351-371. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-017-9939-x

© 2017, The Author(s). Research into the relation between religion and happiness offers inconclusive evidence. Religion seems to matter but it is not entirely clear how and why. Moreover much of the research to date is rooted in western experiences.... Read More about Happiness in Bangladesh: The Role of Religion and Connectedness.

Towards a model of emergency department congestion (2017)
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Brady, M., Kumar, V., Byrne, P. J., Conyngham, G., Liston, P., & Gilligan, P. (2017). Towards a model of emergency department congestion. International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management, 16(3-4), 303-318. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJHTM.2017.088870

© Copyright 2017 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. The purpose of this paper is to examine the flow of patients through the emergency department of a large suburban acute general hospital and the factors that influence overcrowding and congestion. The pa... Read More about Towards a model of emergency department congestion.

Supercapacitive microbial desalination cells: New class of power generating devices for reduction of salinity content (2017)
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Atanassov, P., Soavi, F., Howe, K. J., Kodali, M., Serov, A., Abad, F. B., & Santoro, C. (2017). Supercapacitive microbial desalination cells: New class of power generating devices for reduction of salinity content. Applied Energy, 208, 25-36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.10.056

© 2017 The Author(s) In this work, the electrodes of a microbial desalination cell (MDC) are investigated as the positive and negative electrodes of an internal supercapacitor. The resulting system has been named a supercapacitive microbial desalinat... Read More about Supercapacitive microbial desalination cells: New class of power generating devices for reduction of salinity content.

Experimental evaluation of changes in strain under compressive fatigue loading of brick masonry (2017)
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Koltsida, I., Tomor, A., & Booth, C. (2018). Experimental evaluation of changes in strain under compressive fatigue loading of brick masonry. Construction and Building Materials, 162, 104-112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2017.12.016

© 2017 Elsevier Ltd Assessing the long-term performance of masonry structures and their response to increased loading conditions are critical to safety and maintenance. A series of laboratory tests have been carried out on brick masonry to assess its... Read More about Experimental evaluation of changes in strain under compressive fatigue loading of brick masonry.

Realizing low-impedance rendering in admittance-type haptic interfaces using the input-to-state stable approach (2017)
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Nabeel, M., Jafari, A., & Ryu, J. H. (2017). Realizing low-impedance rendering in admittance-type haptic interfaces using the input-to-state stable approach. Proceedings of the ... IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2017-September, 914-919. https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2017.8202254

© 2017 IEEE. This paper proposes an approach to enlarge the impedance range of admittance-type haptic interfaces. Admittance-type haptic interfaces have advantages over impedance-type haptic interfaces in the interaction with high impedance virtual e... Read More about Realizing low-impedance rendering in admittance-type haptic interfaces using the input-to-state stable approach.

Prospects for Kurdish ecology initiatives in Syria and Turkey: Democratic confederalism and social ecology (2017)
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Hunt, S. E. (2019). Prospects for Kurdish ecology initiatives in Syria and Turkey: Democratic confederalism and social ecology. Capitalism Nature Socialism, 30(3), 7-26. https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2017.1413120

This paper surveys the nascent experiments in political ecology underway in predominantly Kurdish areas of south-eastern Turkey, known as Bakûr, and Rojava (northern Syria). The Kurdish freedom movement is attempting to consolidate a social revolutio... Read More about Prospects for Kurdish ecology initiatives in Syria and Turkey: Democratic confederalism and social ecology.

Toward a conceptual and methodological shift in craniofacial research (2017)
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Stock, N. M., Feragen, K. B., Moss, T. P., & Rumsey, N. (2018). Toward a conceptual and methodological shift in craniofacial research. Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal, 55(1), 105-111. https://doi.org/10.1177/1055665617721925

© The Author(s) 2017. Objective: To date, research investigating the psychological impact of craniofacial conditions has produced variability across outcomes. The aims of this article were to summarize the challenges that may contribute to this varia... Read More about Toward a conceptual and methodological shift in craniofacial research.

Young person and parent perspectives on the impact of cleft lip and/or palate within an educational setting (2017)
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Stock, N. M., & Ridley, M. (2018). Young person and parent perspectives on the impact of cleft lip and/or palate within an educational setting. Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal, 55(4), 607-614. https://doi.org/10.1177/1055665617734991

© The Author(s) 2017. Background: During the school years, a cleft of the lip and/or palate (CL/P) may pose a risk to educational achievement. To further understand this multifaceted association, and to offer suggestions as to how young people’s educ... Read More about Young person and parent perspectives on the impact of cleft lip and/or palate within an educational setting.

Beyond conflict: Long-term labour market integration of internally displaced persons in post-socialist countries (2017)
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Ivlevs, A., & Veliziotis, M. (2018). Beyond conflict: Long-term labour market integration of internally displaced persons in post-socialist countries. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 105, 131-146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2017.12.003

© 2017 Elsevier Inc. The break-ups of the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia were accompanied by some of the worst military conflicts in modern history, claiming lives of thousands of people and forcibly displacing millions. We study how people displ... Read More about Beyond conflict: Long-term labour market integration of internally displaced persons in post-socialist countries.

Ecobat: An online resource to facilitate transparent, evidence-based interpretation of bat activity data (2017)
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Lintott, P., Davison, S., van Breda, J., Kubasiewicz, L., Dowse, D., Daisley, J., …Mathews, F. (2018). Ecobat: An online resource to facilitate transparent, evidence-based interpretation of bat activity data. Ecology and Evolution, 8(2), 935-941. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3692

© 2017 The Authors. Ecology and Evolution published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Acoustic surveys of bats are one of the techniques most commonly used by ecological practitioners. The results are used in Ecological Impact Assessments to assess the lik... Read More about Ecobat: An online resource to facilitate transparent, evidence-based interpretation of bat activity data.

Knowledge brokers or relationship brokers? The role of an embedded knowledge mobilisation team (2017)
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Wye, L., Cramer, H., Carey, J., Anthwal, R., Rooney, J., Robinson, R., …Baxter, H. (2019). Knowledge brokers or relationship brokers? The role of an embedded knowledge mobilisation team. Evidence and Policy, 15(2), 277-292. https://doi.org/10.1332/174426417X15123845516148

Aim: Policymaking decisions are often uninformed by research and research is rarely influenced by policymakers. To bridge this ‘know-do’ gap, a boundary-spanning knowledge mobilisation (KM) team was created by embedding researchers-in-residence and l... Read More about Knowledge brokers or relationship brokers? The role of an embedded knowledge mobilisation team.

Implementation fidelity of a voluntary sector-led diabetes education programme (2017)
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Kok, M., Jones, M., Solomon-Moore, E., & Smith, J. (2018). Implementation fidelity of a voluntary sector-led diabetes education programme. Health Education, 118(1), 62-81. https://doi.org/10.1108/HE-04-2017-0019

© 2018, © Michele S.Y. Kok, Mat Jones, Emma Solomon-Moore and Jane R. Smith. Purpose: The quality of voluntary sector-led community health programmes is an important concern for service users, providers and commissioners. Research on the fidelity of... Read More about Implementation fidelity of a voluntary sector-led diabetes education programme.

A conditional regime switching CAPM (2017)
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Vendrame, V., Guermat, C., & Tucker, J. (2018). A conditional regime switching CAPM. International Review of Financial Analysis, 56, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2017.12.001

© 2017 Elsevier Inc. The standard Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) is simple, intuitive, and grounded in sound economic theory. Yet, almost half a century's worth of empirical testing has so far failed to demonstrate its relevance. One major reason... Read More about A conditional regime switching CAPM.