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A preliminary evaluation of a client-centred prompting tool for supporting everyday activities in individuals with mild to moderate levels of cognitive impairment due to dementia (2020)
Journal Article
Harris, N., Boyd, H., Evans, N., Cheston, R., Noonan, K., Ingram, T., …Ridgers, J. (2021). A preliminary evaluation of a client-centred prompting tool for supporting everyday activities in individuals with mild to moderate levels of cognitive impairment due to dementia. Dementia, 20(3), 867-883. https://doi.org/10.1177/1471301220911322

Objectives: Technology-based prompting has the potential to support people with dementia to complete multistep tasks in the home. However, these devices can be complex to use. This paper reports a feasibility trial of a personalised touchscreen digit... Read More about A preliminary evaluation of a client-centred prompting tool for supporting everyday activities in individuals with mild to moderate levels of cognitive impairment due to dementia.

Welcome To Issue One (2020)
Journal Article
Ho, W. (2020). Welcome To Issue One. IMPACT Printmaking Journal, Spring 2020(One), One

Welcome editorial to the IMPACT Printmaking Journal, a new online open access peer reviewed academic journal created by me at the Centre for Fine Print Research over the past 7 months,

Welcome to Issue one of the IMPACT Printmaking Journal (2020)
Journal Article
Ho, W. (2020). Welcome to Issue one of the IMPACT Printmaking Journal. IMPACT Printmaking Journal, Spring 2020(One),

Introduction to the online open access peer reviewed academic journal called IMPACT Printmaking Journal which has been created and edited for Centre for Fine Print Research, University of the West of England: description of peer review process and su... Read More about Welcome to Issue one of the IMPACT Printmaking Journal.

Driverless cars – a great opportunity for society? Final report of the Driverless Cars Emulsion initiative (2020)
Report
Lyons, G. (2020). Driverless cars – a great opportunity for society? Final report of the Driverless Cars Emulsion initiative. Bristol: University of the West of England and Mott MacDonald

Driverless cars (DCs) have in recent years been the subject of substantial investment and anticipation, as well as hype and exasperation. Governments have been drawn into a race for the gold at the end of the DC rainbow. But not everyone shares this... Read More about Driverless cars – a great opportunity for society? Final report of the Driverless Cars Emulsion initiative.

Woodburytype: A historical process resurrected by modern methods (2020)
Journal Article
Klein, S., Guy, W., Leech, D., & Argyle, J. (2020). Woodburytype: A historical process resurrected by modern methods. IMPACT Printmaking Journal,

One of the technological achievements of the 19th century was the mass reproduction of photographic images. Woodburytype was the first commercially successful photomechanical continuous tone printing method, of unsurpassed quality until today. Along... Read More about Woodburytype: A historical process resurrected by modern methods.

Jackie goes home, young working-class women: Higher Education, employment and social (re)alignment (2020)
Thesis
Bentley, L. Jackie goes home, young working-class women: Higher Education, employment and social (re)alignment. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/3292642

This thesis builds on and contributes to work in the field of sociology of education and employment. It provides an extension to a research agenda which has sought to examine how young people’s transitions from ‘undergraduate’ to ‘graduate’ are ‘clas... Read More about Jackie goes home, young working-class women: Higher Education, employment and social (re)alignment.

Organisational attributes that determine integrated safety, health and environmental management capability (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Asah-Kissiedu, M., Manu, P., Booth, C., & Mahamadu, A. (2020). Organisational attributes that determine integrated safety, health and environmental management capability. . https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/202031202009

Implementing separate Environmental Management System (EMS) and Safety and Health Management System (SHMS) can be costly for organisations and hence the advent of integrated management systems. The effective implementation of integrated safety, healt... Read More about Organisational attributes that determine integrated safety, health and environmental management capability.

An approach for integrating mixed reality into BIM for early stage design coordination (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Prabhakaran, A., Mahamadu, A., Mahdjoubi, L., & Manu, P. (2020). An approach for integrating mixed reality into BIM for early stage design coordination. . https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/202031204001

Building Information Modelling (BIM) and its associated technologies have proved to be one of the most promising developments in Architectural, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry. Over the past few decades, the AEC sector has been restricted... Read More about An approach for integrating mixed reality into BIM for early stage design coordination.

Attributes that determine the building information modelling capability maturity of quantity surveying practice (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Mahamadu, A., Mahdjoubi, L., Manu, P., & Aigbavboa, C. (2020). Attributes that determine the building information modelling capability maturity of quantity surveying practice. . https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/202031202002

With more than 80% of all construction projects overrunning their budget, there is a need for more efficient management of the estimated 10% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) that is expended annually on construction across the world. It has been propo... Read More about Attributes that determine the building information modelling capability maturity of quantity surveying practice.

Appraisal of the Nigerian Credit Reporting Act 2017 (2020)
Journal Article
Monye, F. N., Nwafor, N., & Mukoro, B. (2020). Appraisal of the Nigerian Credit Reporting Act 2017. Journal of African Law, 64(2), 229-243. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021855320000091

Credit reporting is the act of gathering information about the behaviour of borrowers and making such information available whenever a decision is to be made regarding a borrower's application for new credit. Following the introduction of credit bure... Read More about Appraisal of the Nigerian Credit Reporting Act 2017.

Application of renewable fuels in ternary blends for the reduction of emissions in diesel engines (2020)
Thesis
Van Niekerk, A. Application of renewable fuels in ternary blends for the reduction of emissions in diesel engines. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/4765174

The increasing use of biofuels to replace fossil fuels as well as more stringent emission regulations for internal combustion engines cause a challenge for the engine manufacturers to design engines that can cope with a wide range of fuels, but still... Read More about Application of renewable fuels in ternary blends for the reduction of emissions in diesel engines.

Exploring the subjectivities of people with alopecia areata - a critical qualitative study to inform applied psychology practice (2020)
Thesis
Davey, L. Exploring the subjectivities of people with alopecia areata - a critical qualitative study to inform applied psychology practice. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/3236744

Alopecia areata (AA) is an unpredictable appearance changing hair loss condition that biomedicine is currently powerless to cure. The physical symptoms are not painful or life-threatening but people living with AA report high levels of distress and a... Read More about Exploring the subjectivities of people with alopecia areata - a critical qualitative study to inform applied psychology practice.

'One dead bedroom': Exploring the impact of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) on women's lived experience of sex and sexuality (2020)
Thesis
Boulton, E. 'One dead bedroom': Exploring the impact of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) on women's lived experience of sex and sexuality. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1906784

Background: There is very little research, and no qualitative research, to date that has explored the lived experiences of sex and sexuality for women with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). It is thought that OCD could impact on sexuality because... Read More about 'One dead bedroom': Exploring the impact of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) on women's lived experience of sex and sexuality.

Understanding the influence of psychology and vicarious experience on property flood resilience choices (2020)
Thesis
Rose, C. B. Understanding the influence of psychology and vicarious experience on property flood resilience choices. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1490959

There is an acknowledged need to improve the resilience of those at risk of flooding in the UK. The majority of the at-risk population do not actively adopt mitigation measures even when they have experienced multiple flood events. If uptake of resil... Read More about Understanding the influence of psychology and vicarious experience on property flood resilience choices.

Calibration of sound source localisation for robots using multiple adaptive filter models of the cerebellum (2020)
Thesis
Baxendale, M. D. Calibration of sound source localisation for robots using multiple adaptive filter models of the cerebellum. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1490813

The aim of this research was to investigate the calibration of Sound Source Localisation (SSL) for robots using the adaptive filter model of the cerebellum and how this could be automatically adapted for multiple acoustic environments. The role of th... Read More about Calibration of sound source localisation for robots using multiple adaptive filter models of the cerebellum.

Realising victims’ rights to reparation, truth and justice in Guatemala in the midst of a zero-sum game, in reparations, responsibility and victimhood in transitional societies (2020)
Report
Malagon Diaz, L., & Brett, R. (2020). Realising victims’ rights to reparation, truth and justice in Guatemala in the midst of a zero-sum game, in reparations, responsibility and victimhood in transitional societies. Queens University of Belfast

Multiple obligations exist under international law for States to protect human rights and restore or establish peace and stability in the aftermath of mass violence.1 International standards, jurisprudence and doctrine formally obligate states to inv... Read More about Realising victims’ rights to reparation, truth and justice in Guatemala in the midst of a zero-sum game, in reparations, responsibility and victimhood in transitional societies.

“Embodied AI” and the direct participation in hostilities: A legal analysis (2020)
Journal Article
Pollard, M., & Grimal, F. (2020). “Embodied AI” and the direct participation in hostilities: A legal analysis. Georgetown Journal of International Law, 51(3), 513-564

This Article questions whether, under International Humanitarian Law (IHL), the concept of a “civilian” should be limited to humans. Prevailing debate within IHL scholarship has largely focused on the lawfulness (or not) of the recourse to autonomou... Read More about “Embodied AI” and the direct participation in hostilities: A legal analysis.

An experimental study to evaluate the performance of machine learning algorithms in ransomware detection (2020)
Journal Article
Dion, Y., & Brohi, S. N. (2020). An experimental study to evaluate the performance of machine learning algorithms in ransomware detection. Journal of Engineering Science and Technology, 15(2), 967-981

The research in the domain of ransomware is rapidly emerging, and the application of machine learning algorithms in ransomware detection is one of the recent breakthroughs. In this research, we constructed an experimental platform using ransomware da... Read More about An experimental study to evaluate the performance of machine learning algorithms in ransomware detection.

The impact of the “World's 25 Most Endangered Primates” list on scientific publications and media (2020)
Journal Article
Acerbi, A., Kerhoas, D., Webber, A. D., McCabe, G., Mittermeier, R. A., & Schwitzer, C. (2020). The impact of the “World's 25 Most Endangered Primates” list on scientific publications and media. Journal for Nature Conservation, 54, 125794. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnc.2020.125794

Assessing the impact of conservation campaigns is of critical importance to optimise the use of limited resources. Lists of threatened species are often employed as media outreach tools, but their usefulness is rarely tested. We investigated whether... Read More about The impact of the “World's 25 Most Endangered Primates” list on scientific publications and media.