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The blue-green path to urban flood resilience (2019)
Journal Article
O'Donnell, E., Arthur, S., Birkinshaw, S., Butler, D., Dawson, D., Everett, G., …Wright, N. (2020). The blue-green path to urban flood resilience. Blue-Green Systems, 2(1), 28-45. https://doi.org/10.2166/bgs.2019.199

Achieving urban flood resilience at local, regional and national levels requires a transformative change in planning, design and implementation of urban water systems. Flood risk, wastewater and stormwater management should be re-envisaged and transf... Read More about The blue-green path to urban flood resilience.

Comparing theory-driven and data-driven attractiveness models using images of real women's faces (2019)
Journal Article
Holzleitner, I. J., Lee, A. J., Hahn, A. C., Kandrik, M., Bovet, J., Renoult, J. P., …Jones, B. C. (2019). Comparing theory-driven and data-driven attractiveness models using images of real women's faces. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 45(12), 1589-1595. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000685

Facial attractiveness plays a critical role in social interaction, influencing many different social outcomes. However, the factors that influence facial attractiveness judgments remain relatively poorly understood. Here, we used a sample of 594 youn... Read More about Comparing theory-driven and data-driven attractiveness models using images of real women's faces.

Gender and the boundaries of international refugee law: Beyond the category of ‘gender-related asylum claims’ (2019)
Journal Article
Querton, C. (2019). Gender and the boundaries of international refugee law: Beyond the category of ‘gender-related asylum claims’. Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, 37(4), 379-397. https://doi.org/10.1177/0924051919884764

The adoption of gender guidelines aiming to ensure consistency in gender-sensitive interpretation of the UN Refugee Convention definition demonstrates a general acceptance that gender is relevant to the question of who is a refugee. However, there is... Read More about Gender and the boundaries of international refugee law: Beyond the category of ‘gender-related asylum claims’.

Alive and Kicking: Reflections on the Evolving Role of Subject Support Librarians at UWE Bristol (2019)
Journal Article
Shreeve, S., & Hamley, J. (2019). Alive and Kicking: Reflections on the Evolving Role of Subject Support Librarians at UWE Bristol. Legal Information Management, 19(4), 236-240. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1472669619000550

In this article Sue Shreeve and Julie Hamley give an overview of how the subject support librarian role at UWE Bristol has evolved over the last five years, broadening from subject information specialist to encompass academic skills support and Engli... Read More about Alive and Kicking: Reflections on the Evolving Role of Subject Support Librarians at UWE Bristol.

Posted/Unposted (2019)
Journal Article
Bodman, S. (2019). Posted/Unposted. Printmaking Today, 28(112),

Exploring a project curated by Dr Angie Butler and Imi Maufe celebrating letterpress printing practice in the UK and Ireland

Direct numerical simulation of a tip-leakage flow in a planar duct with a longitudinal slit (2019)
Journal Article
Liu, Y., Fang, J., Gao, Y., Lu, L., Yao, Y., & Le Ribault, C. (2019). Direct numerical simulation of a tip-leakage flow in a planar duct with a longitudinal slit. Physics of Fluids, 31(12), 125108. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5124163

A planar duct flow configuration with a cross-flow injected from a longitudinal slit close to the upper wall of the duct is studied by using a direct numerical simulation approach to explore the underlying flow mechanism in relation to the tip-leakag... Read More about Direct numerical simulation of a tip-leakage flow in a planar duct with a longitudinal slit.

An institutional perspective of neighbourhood policing reform in austerity era England and Wales (2019)
Journal Article
Greig-Midlane, J. (2019). An institutional perspective of neighbourhood policing reform in austerity era England and Wales. International Journal of Police Science and Management, 21(4), 230-243. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461355719889464

In the austerity era in England and Wales, both socio-economic change and shifts in the policing field have triggered a range of police reform narratives. For resource intensive manifestations of community policing, police disinvestment in England an... Read More about An institutional perspective of neighbourhood policing reform in austerity era England and Wales.

An examination of the oculomotor behavior metrics within a suite of digitized eye tracking tests (2019)
Journal Article
Murray, N., Kubitz, K., Roberts, C., Hunfalvay, M., Bolte, T., & Tyagi, A. (2019). An examination of the oculomotor behavior metrics within a suite of digitized eye tracking tests. Vision development and rehabilitation, 5(4), 269-284

Eye tracking has recently been used to examine oculomotor behavior (OMB) for visual and neurological health and wellness with promise in determining characteristics of healthy eyes and in turn a healthy brain. Recent research has demonstrated that hu... Read More about An examination of the oculomotor behavior metrics within a suite of digitized eye tracking tests.

Les sciences cognitives: Un cadre pour unifier aujourd’hui la théorie et la pratique en psychothérapie? (2019)
Journal Article
Ward, T. (2019). Les sciences cognitives: Un cadre pour unifier aujourd’hui la théorie et la pratique en psychothérapie?. PSN, 17(3), 7-22

This article discusses the proposition that cognitive science has now developed to the point where it can serve as an overarching meta-theory for field of psychotherapy. It will begin with an overview of the main strands of thinking which have emerge... Read More about Les sciences cognitives: Un cadre pour unifier aujourd’hui la théorie et la pratique en psychothérapie?.

Thermo-elastic creep analysis and life assessment of thick truncated conical shells with variable thickness (2019)
Journal Article
Taghizadeh, T., Nejad, M. Z., & Davoudi Kashkoli, M. (2019). Thermo-elastic creep analysis and life assessment of thick truncated conical shells with variable thickness. International Journal of Applied Mechanics, 11(9), Article 1950086. https://doi.org/10.1142/S1758825119500868

A semi-analytical method is presented to investigate time-dependent thermo-elastic creep behavior and life assessment of thick truncated conical shells with variable thickness subjected to internal pressure and thermal load. Based on the first-order... Read More about Thermo-elastic creep analysis and life assessment of thick truncated conical shells with variable thickness.

Stick tool use by chimpanzees in a forest fragment in Uganda’s Budongo-Bugoma corridor: Preliminary observations from Kasongoire (2019)
Journal Article
Oxley, A., & Jovan, B. K. (2019). Stick tool use by chimpanzees in a forest fragment in Uganda’s Budongo-Bugoma corridor: Preliminary observations from Kasongoire. Revue de primatologie, 10, https://doi.org/10.4000/primatologie.6426

Chimpanzees are well-known tool users, with differences reported in the tool use repertoires among communities and subspecies. Chimpanzees at most study sites exhibit some degree of stick tool use behaviour for extractive foraging, with the exception... Read More about Stick tool use by chimpanzees in a forest fragment in Uganda’s Budongo-Bugoma corridor: Preliminary observations from Kasongoire.

Working with attention and distraction in leadership development (2019)
Journal Article
French, R., Sheffield, R., & Simpson, P. (2019). Working with attention and distraction in leadership development. Organisational and Social Dynamics, 19(2), 230-248

Bion’s theory of groups is used to explore the dynamics of learning on a leadership development programme. The dynamic of a group is influenced by the capacity of its members to negotiate, consciously and unconsciously, the tension between the oppose... Read More about Working with attention and distraction in leadership development.

Looking to the future: Priorities for translating research to impact in the field of appearance and body image (2019)
Journal Article
Jankowski, G. S., Alleva, J. M., Atkinson, M., Stock, N., Piran, N., Riley, S., …Williamson, H. (2020). Looking to the future: Priorities for translating research to impact in the field of appearance and body image. Body Image, 32, 53-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2019.10.006

© 2019 Elsevier Ltd The field of body image and appearance research and practice is progressing; however, there is still work to be done to ensure broad societal impact. This article consolidates reflections from a range of established and early care... Read More about Looking to the future: Priorities for translating research to impact in the field of appearance and body image.

Spatial-temporal data-driven service recommendation with privacy-preservation (2019)
Journal Article
Zhang, X., Qi, L., Li, S., Wan, S., Wen, Y., & Gong, W. (2020). Spatial-temporal data-driven service recommendation with privacy-preservation. Information Sciences, 515, 91-102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2019.11.021

© 2019 Elsevier Inc. The ever-increasing popularity of web service sharing communities have produced a considerable amount of web services that share similar functionalities but vary in Quality of Services (QoS) performances. To alleviate the heavy s... Read More about Spatial-temporal data-driven service recommendation with privacy-preservation.

Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy (CPM) and the clinical consultation: A snapshot of UK healthcare professionals’ views and experiences (2019)
Journal Article
Williams, V. S., Tollow, P., Harcourt, D., Subramanian, A., & Paraskeva, N. (2020). Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy (CPM) and the clinical consultation: A snapshot of UK healthcare professionals’ views and experiences. Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, 73(5), 865-869. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bjps.2019.11.026

© 2020 Elsevier Ltd Objectives: Increasing numbers of women are undergoing Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy (CPM) in the UK. However, professional guidelines suggest CPM does not offer oncological benefit to the majority of women with breast can... Read More about Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy (CPM) and the clinical consultation: A snapshot of UK healthcare professionals’ views and experiences.

Risk mitigation in PFI/PPP project finance: A framework model for financiers’ bankability criteria (2019)
Journal Article
Owolabi, H., Oyedele, L., Alaka, H., Ajayi, S., Bilal, M., & Akinade, O. (2020). Risk mitigation in PFI/PPP project finance: A framework model for financiers’ bankability criteria. Built Environment Project and Asset Management, 10(1), 28-49. https://doi.org/10.1108/BEPAM-09-2018-0120

Purpose: Earlier studies on risk evaluation in private finance initiative and public private partnerships (PFI/PPP) projects have focussed more on quantitative approaches despite increasing call for contextual understanding of the bankability of risk... Read More about Risk mitigation in PFI/PPP project finance: A framework model for financiers’ bankability criteria.