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The potential role of recovery capital in stopping sexual offending: Lessons from circles of support and accountability to enrich practice (2020)
Journal Article
Mccartan, K., & Kemshall, H. (2020). The potential role of recovery capital in stopping sexual offending: Lessons from circles of support and accountability to enrich practice. Irish Probation Journal, 17, 87-106

The rehabilitation and reintegration of people who have committed sexual offences presents significant challenges. Current research and practice on desistance from offending behaviour discusses a harm reduction journey that is more multifaceted than... Read More about The potential role of recovery capital in stopping sexual offending: Lessons from circles of support and accountability to enrich practice.

Always in with the in-crowd: Vogue and the cultural politics of gender, place, class and taste (2020)
Book Chapter
Tincknell, E. (2020). Always in with the in-crowd: Vogue and the cultural politics of gender, place, class and taste. In L. Forster, & J. Hollows (Eds.), Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1940s-2000s (200-214). Edinburgh University Press

The venerable fashion magazine Vogue has always associated itself with the interests of the ruling class, through the cultural and symbolic capital exhibited by the diffused aesthetic of its fashion spreads and through its unabashed attachment to the... Read More about Always in with the in-crowd: Vogue and the cultural politics of gender, place, class and taste.

Language and gender in the Saudi Shura Council (2020)
Thesis
Altamami, M. Language and gender in the Saudi Shura Council. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/4595260

The Saudi Shura Council (SSC) is the consultative assembly of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Its members debate proposals for new laws, scrutinise the operations of the civil service, and advise the King of legislative matters. In 2013, women joined th... Read More about Language and gender in the Saudi Shura Council.

Investigating the use of joint probability curves in coastal engineering practice (2020)
Journal Article
Hames, D., Gouldby, B., & Hawkes, P. (2020). Investigating the use of joint probability curves in coastal engineering practice. Proceedings of the ICE - Maritime Engineering, 173(3), 68-78. https://doi.org/10.1680/jmaen.2019.12

This paper investigates the inherent inaccuracy in the estimation of various extreme response variables (RVs) for different sea defence structures using joint exceedance curve approaches in common use around the UK. Utilising stochastically generated... Read More about Investigating the use of joint probability curves in coastal engineering practice.

Werner Herzog's ecstatic truth (2020)
Journal Article
Mitcheson, K. (2020). Werner Herzog's ecstatic truth. Existenz, 15(1), 12-29

In his stimulating discussion of Werner Herzog's work, Richard Eldridge emphasizes that Herzog's films are truth-disclosing. At the same time Eldridge acknowledges that Herzog makes clear the presence of the filmmaker and the process of filmmaking. I... Read More about Werner Herzog's ecstatic truth.

Secure and communications-efficient collaborative prognosis (2020)
Journal Article
Dhada, M., Jain, A., Herrera, M., Hernandez, M. P., & Parlikad, A. (2020). Secure and communications-efficient collaborative prognosis. IET Collaborative Intelligent Manufacturing, 2(4), 164-173. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-cim.2020.0035

Collaborative prognosis is a technique that is used to enable assets to improve their ability to predict failures by learning from the failures of similar other assets. This is typically made possible by enabling the assets to communicate with each o... Read More about Secure and communications-efficient collaborative prognosis.

Depression, anxiety, and loneliness among adolescents and young adults with IBD in the UK: The role of disease severity, age of onset, and embarrassment of the condition (2020)
Journal Article
Qualter, P., Rouncefield-Swales, A., Bray, L., Blake, L., Allen, S., Probert, C., …Carter, B. (2021). Depression, anxiety, and loneliness among adolescents and young adults with IBD in the UK: The role of disease severity, age of onset, and embarrassment of the condition. Quality of Life Research, 30(2), 497-506. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-020-02653-9

Purpose: Adolescents and young adults (AYA) with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) report higher depressive symptoms and anxiety compared to healthy controls, with disease severity and abdominal pain being important factors. In the current study, buil... Read More about Depression, anxiety, and loneliness among adolescents and young adults with IBD in the UK: The role of disease severity, age of onset, and embarrassment of the condition.

Selling salvation, selling success: Neoliberalism and the US Prosperity Gospel (2020)
Journal Article
Wrenn, M. V. (2021). Selling salvation, selling success: Neoliberalism and the US Prosperity Gospel. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 45(2), 295-311. https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/beaa048

Neoliberalism relies on optimism. Without faith in meritocracy-unwavering belief that rewards will eventually and justly come to those who work hard enough-support for the capitalist system and belief in neoliberalism would unravel. How that optimism... Read More about Selling salvation, selling success: Neoliberalism and the US Prosperity Gospel.

Randomized trial of the i-gel supraglottic airway device versus tracheal intubation during out of hospital cardiac arrest (AIRWAYS-2): Patient outcomes at three and six months (2020)
Journal Article
Benger, J. R., Lazaroo, M. J., Clout, M., Voss, S., Black, S., Brett, S. J., …Rogers, C. A. (2020). Randomized trial of the i-gel supraglottic airway device versus tracheal intubation during out of hospital cardiac arrest (AIRWAYS-2): Patient outcomes at three and six months. Resuscitation, 157, 74-82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resuscitation.2020.09.026

© 2020 The Author(s) Aim: The AIRWAYS-2 cluster randomised controlled trial compared the i-gel supraglottic airway device (SGA) with tracheal intubation (TI) as the first advanced airway management (AAM) strategy used by Emergency Medical Service cli... Read More about Randomized trial of the i-gel supraglottic airway device versus tracheal intubation during out of hospital cardiac arrest (AIRWAYS-2): Patient outcomes at three and six months.

Creativity and the problem of automation (2020)
Book Chapter
Crogan, P. (2020). Creativity and the problem of automation. In P. Crogan (Ed.), Unboxing the Black Box: Reflections on Making with AI and Automation (16-22). SWCTN

As AI-driven automation systems make their presence increasingly felt in everyday lives, the nature and value of human creativity is becoming an issue requiring urgent attention. While the disruptive impacts of digital innovation are often celebrated... Read More about Creativity and the problem of automation.

Unboxing the Black Box: Reflections on Making with AI and Automation (2020)
Book
Crogan, P. (Ed.). (2020). Unboxing the Black Box: Reflections on Making with AI and Automation. SWCTN

A collective publication by South West Creative Technology Network Automation Fellows. This collection presents thoughts, provocations and reflections on AI and automation in the arena of creative making from some of the South West Creative Technolog... Read More about Unboxing the Black Box: Reflections on Making with AI and Automation.

From orphan phage to a proposed new family–the diversity of N4-like viruses (2020)
Journal Article
Wittmann, J., Turner, D., Millard, A., Mahadevan, P., Kropinski, A., & Adriaenssens, E. (2020). From orphan phage to a proposed new family–the diversity of N4-like viruses. Antibiotics, 9(10), 663. https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics9100663

Escherichia phage N4 was isolated in 1966 in Italy and has remained a genomic orphan for a long time. It encodes an extremely large virion-associated RNA polymerase unique for bacterial viruses that became characteristic for this group. In recent yea... Read More about From orphan phage to a proposed new family–the diversity of N4-like viruses.

Psychological and sociocultural influences on body image among midlife women with and without a history of breast cancer: Testing the Tripartite Influence Model of Body Image (2020)
Journal Article
Lewis-Smith, H., Diedrichs, P. C., Bond, R., & Harcourt, D. (2020). Psychological and sociocultural influences on body image among midlife women with and without a history of breast cancer: Testing the Tripartite Influence Model of Body Image. Body Image, 35, 114-125. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2020.08.011

Body image concerns are common among breast cancer survivors and women in midlife. However, effective interventions are lacking for breast cancer survivors. This may be related to prior research having examined non-modifiable and medicalised influenc... Read More about Psychological and sociocultural influences on body image among midlife women with and without a history of breast cancer: Testing the Tripartite Influence Model of Body Image.

Experimental and numerical study of auxetic sandwich panels on 160 grams of PE4 blast loading (2020)
Journal Article
Arifurrahman, F., Critchley, R., & Horsfall, I. (2021). Experimental and numerical study of auxetic sandwich panels on 160 grams of PE4 blast loading. Journal of Sandwich Structures and Materials, 23(8), 3902-3931. https://doi.org/10.1177/1099636220961756

Mines, specifically as Anti-Tank (AT) mines are a significant threat for defence vehicles. While approaches such as v-shaped hulls are currently used to deflect the blast products from such threats, such a solution is not always usable when hull stan... Read More about Experimental and numerical study of auxetic sandwich panels on 160 grams of PE4 blast loading.

Printmaking: A Maker’s Guide (2020)
Book Chapter
Ho, W. (in press). Printmaking: A Maker’s Guide. In Printmaking a Maker's Guide. London: Thames and Hudson

Printmaking: A Maker’s Guide (Published by Thames and Hudson) Chapter on Linocut and Japanese woodblock (in progress at the moment). Due out Sept 2020

Optimal integration of renewable distributed generation using the whale optimization algorithm for techno-economic analysis (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Settoul, S., Chenni, R., Zellagui, M., & Nouri, H. (2021). Optimal integration of renewable distributed generation using the whale optimization algorithm for techno-economic analysis. In S. Bououden, M. Chadli, S. Ziani, & I. Zelinka (Eds.), https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6403-1_35

A new method for optimal integration of renewable energy sources based on photovoltaic solar panels and wind turbines in the distribution network is presented with the objective of reducing the Active Power Loss (APL) index, to improve the Total Volt... Read More about Optimal integration of renewable distributed generation using the whale optimization algorithm for techno-economic analysis.

Adaptive gain super twisting algorithm to control a knee exoskeleton disturbed by unknown bounds (2020)
Journal Article
Rakhtala, S. M. (2021). Adaptive gain super twisting algorithm to control a knee exoskeleton disturbed by unknown bounds. International Journal of Dynamics and Control, 9(2), 711-726. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40435-020-00686-z

Knee exoskeletons as wearable robots have been increasingly aimed to assist elderly and disabled people to increase their movement abilities through flexion/extension execution of the knee. In this paper, a robust controller was suggested for a new k... Read More about Adaptive gain super twisting algorithm to control a knee exoskeleton disturbed by unknown bounds.

Digital heritage as a route towards social engagement (2020)
Book Chapter
Laing, R., Leon, M., Herbert, C., & Roberts, C. (2020). Digital heritage as a route towards social engagement. In F. Melendez, N. Diniz, & M. Del Signore (Eds.), Data, Matter, Design (266-271). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367369156-85

The historic environment faces many challenges, one of which is a poor understanding of the positive role it can play in the maintenance, development, and regeneration of communities, their culture, and their economy. Aberdeenshire Council considers... Read More about Digital heritage as a route towards social engagement.

Future socio-political scenarios for aquatic resources in Europe: An operationalized framework for aquaculture projections (2020)
Journal Article
Kreiss, C. M., Papathanasopoulou, E., Hamon, K. G., Pinnegar, J. K., Rybicki, S., Micallef, G., …Peck, M. A. (2020). Future socio-political scenarios for aquatic resources in Europe: An operationalized framework for aquaculture projections. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7, Article 568159. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.568159

Climate-driven changes in aquatic environments have already started to affect the European aquaculture sector’s most commercially important finfish and shellfish species. In addition to changes in water quality and temperature that can directly influ... Read More about Future socio-political scenarios for aquatic resources in Europe: An operationalized framework for aquaculture projections.

Parent-reported socioemotional and cognitive development in children with a cleft lip and/or palate at 18 months: Findings from a UK birth cohort (2020)
Journal Article
Costa, B., White, P., Kiff, J. D., Davies, A., & Stock, N. M. (2021). Parent-reported socioemotional and cognitive development in children with a cleft lip and/or palate at 18 months: Findings from a UK birth cohort. Child: Care, Health and Development, 47(1), 31-39. https://doi.org/10.1111/cch.12813

Background: One of the most common congenital conditions in the world, cleft lip and/or palate (CL/P) has been shown to potentially impact long-term physical and developmental outcomes in affected children. However, little is known about the factors... Read More about Parent-reported socioemotional and cognitive development in children with a cleft lip and/or palate at 18 months: Findings from a UK birth cohort.