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The impact of COVID-19 on circles of support and accountability (2021)
Journal Article
Kitson-Boyce, R., Wilson, R. J., McCartan, K., Höing, M., Taylor, R., & Rossoni, I. (2021). The impact of COVID-19 on circles of support and accountability. Early Career Academics Network Bulletin, 46, 29-38

2020 has seen significant challenges to social engagement broadly due to the COVID19 pandemic, including social distancing, stay-at-home orders and lockdowns. These precautions have challenged the ability of CoSA (Circles of Support and Accountabilit... Read More about The impact of COVID-19 on circles of support and accountability.

Antimicrobial stewardship program implementation in a Saudi medical city: An exploratory case study (2021)
Journal Article
Alghamdi, S., Berrou, I., Bajnaid, E., Aslanpour, Z., Haseeb, A., Hammad, M. A., & Shebl, N. (2021). Antimicrobial stewardship program implementation in a Saudi medical city: An exploratory case study. Antibiotics, 10(3), Article 280. https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics10030280

Antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) in hospitals have long been shown to improve antimicrobials’ use and reduce the rates of antimicrobial resistance. However, their implementation in hospitals, especially in developing countries such as Saudi... Read More about Antimicrobial stewardship program implementation in a Saudi medical city: An exploratory case study.

Faking it (2021)
Journal Article
Lees, D. (2021). Faking it. Sight & Sound, 31(3), 10-11

Could deepfake films make their way from YouTube novelty and artworld provocation into mainstream cinema?

An ontology-based compliance audit framework for medical data sharing across Europe (2021)
Journal Article
Boussi Rahmouni, H., & Munir, K. (2021). An ontology-based compliance audit framework for medical data sharing across Europe. International Arab Journal of Information Technology, 18(2), 158-169

Complying with privacy in multi-jurisdictional health domains is important as well as challenging. The compliance management process will not be efficient unless it manages to show evidences of explicit verification of legal requirements. In order to... Read More about An ontology-based compliance audit framework for medical data sharing across Europe.

Use of cotton apparel waste as an energy source for biomass boilers: A feasibility study (2021)
Journal Article
Prasanga, W. C., Nawarathna, A., & Rathnasiri, P. (2021). Use of cotton apparel waste as an energy source for biomass boilers: A feasibility study. International Journal of Design and Nature and Ecodynamics, 16(1), 41-51. https://doi.org/10.18280/ijdne.160106

The steady growth of the Sri Lankan apparel manufacturing sector over the last three decades has resulted in generating large amount of solid apparel waste. Currently, it is a massive environmental and financial burden of the sector. As a solution, f... Read More about Use of cotton apparel waste as an energy source for biomass boilers: A feasibility study.

Earnings management techniques in the context of Italian unlisted firms (2021)
Journal Article
Matonti, G., Iuliano, G., Palazzi, F., & Tucker, J. (2021). Earnings management techniques in the context of Italian unlisted firms. African Journal of Business Management, 15(2), 79-92. https://doi.org/10.5897/AJBM2021.9199

Our research expands the earnings management (EM) literature for Italian unlisted firms by investigating the drivers of both accrual-based (AEM) and real activity-based (REM) earnings management. According to prior literature, the reliability of fina... Read More about Earnings management techniques in the context of Italian unlisted firms.

The CARe Burn Scale—Adult Form: Translation and linguistic validation into Finnish (2021)
Journal Article
Lahdenperä, N., Repo, J. P., Aartolahti, E., Tollow, P., Griffiths, C., Harcourt, D., …Lindford, A. (2021). The CARe Burn Scale—Adult Form: Translation and linguistic validation into Finnish. Burns, 47(8), 1922-1928. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.burns.2021.02.017

Background: Burn injury can dramatically deteriorate health-related quality of life. Effective burn care may minimize the impact of the burn injury and ensure optimal functional outcome. This requires continuous improvement in burn care and assessmen... Read More about The CARe Burn Scale—Adult Form: Translation and linguistic validation into Finnish.

An institutional economics framework to explore sustainable production and consumption (2021)
Journal Article
Bradley, P. (2021). An institutional economics framework to explore sustainable production and consumption. Sustainable Production and Consumption, 27, 1317-1339. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spc.2021.02.035

Although policy actions are being taken by many governments around the world on sustainable development, the application of institutional economics to sustainable development is still in its infancy. In the literature, there are a wide range of insti... Read More about An institutional economics framework to explore sustainable production and consumption.

3D scaffolds in the treatment of diabetic foot ulcers: New trends vs conventional approaches (2021)
Journal Article
Glover, K., Ch. Stratakos, A., Varadi, A., & Lamprou, D. A. (2021). 3D scaffolds in the treatment of diabetic foot ulcers: New trends vs conventional approaches. International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 599, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpharm.2021.120423

Diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) is a serious complication of diabetes mellitus, affecting roughly 25% of diabetic patients and resulting in lower limb amputation in over 70% of known cases. In addition to the devastating physiological consequences of DFU a... Read More about 3D scaffolds in the treatment of diabetic foot ulcers: New trends vs conventional approaches.

Justice, emotions, and solidarity (2021)
Journal Article
Tava, F. (2023). Justice, emotions, and solidarity. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 26(1), 39-55. https://doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2021.1893251

This paper discusses Habermas’s argument that justice requires solidarity as its ‘reverse side’, whereby the former provides the necessary global framework for establishing intersubjective solidarity whilst the latter constitutes an important precond... Read More about Justice, emotions, and solidarity.

Unmasking Cairo: The Architecture of the City in an Age of Contradictions (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Ziada, H., & Gohar, A. (2021, February). Unmasking Cairo: The Architecture of the City in an Age of Contradictions. Presented at Unmasking Cairo: The Architecture of the City in an Age of Contradictions, University of Huddersfield and online

Cairo is a city that is changing dramatically. How does one probe a city amidst dynamic change? And what role does architecture play in it? About this Event: Underpinning this symposium is a hypothesis that a distinct phase in Cairo’s urban/archi... Read More about Unmasking Cairo: The Architecture of the City in an Age of Contradictions.

Building information modelling (BIM) readiness of construction professionals: the context of the Seychelles construction industry (2021)
Journal Article
Adam, V., Manu, P., Mahamadu, A. M., Dziekonski, K., Kissi, E., Emuze, F., & Lee, S. (2022). Building information modelling (BIM) readiness of construction professionals: the context of the Seychelles construction industry. Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, 20(3), 823-840. https://doi.org/10.1108/JEDT-09-2020-0379

Purpose: Although building information modelling (BIM) adoption in developed countries has largely been incentivised by government, in developing countries, adoption is often driven by desires of industry professionals, which is dependent on awarenes... Read More about Building information modelling (BIM) readiness of construction professionals: the context of the Seychelles construction industry.

IoT technologies for livestock management: A review of present status, opportunities, and future trends (2021)
Journal Article
Akhigbe, B. I., Munir, K., Akinade, O., Akanbi, L., & Oyedele, L. O. (2021). IoT technologies for livestock management: A review of present status, opportunities, and future trends. Big Data and Cognitive Computing, 5(1), Article 10. https://doi.org/10.3390/bdcc5010010

The world population currently stands at about 7 billion amidst an expected increase in 2030 from 9.4 billion to around 10 billion in 2050. This burgeoning population has continued to influence the upward demand for animal food. Moreover, the managem... Read More about IoT technologies for livestock management: A review of present status, opportunities, and future trends.

Exploring barriers and drivers to the implementation of circular economy practices in the mining industry (2021)
Journal Article
Upadhyay, A., Laing, T., Kumar, V., & Dora, M. (2021). Exploring barriers and drivers to the implementation of circular economy practices in the mining industry. Resources Policy, 72, Article 102037. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2021.102037

The circular economy is a widely discussed topic in the field of Eco-industrial initiatives and environmentally responsive economies. The current economic and industrial model which is termed as the produce-use-dispose model is a linear model in whic... Read More about Exploring barriers and drivers to the implementation of circular economy practices in the mining industry.

Expert-informed design and automation of persuasive, socially assistive robots (2021)
Thesis
Winkle, K. Expert-informed design and automation of persuasive, socially assistive robots. (Thesis). University of Bristol and University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/6825997

Socially assistive robots primarily provide useful functionality through their social interactions with user(s). An example application, used to ground work throughout this thesis, is using a social robot to guide users through exercise sessions. Ini... Read More about Expert-informed design and automation of persuasive, socially assistive robots.

The UK forensic science regulator: Fit for purpose? (2021)
Journal Article
Nsiah Amoako, E., & McCartney, C. (2021). The UK forensic science regulator: Fit for purpose?. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Forensic Science, 3(6), e1415. https://doi.org/10.1002/wfs2.1415

The role of Forensic Science Regulator (FSR), created in 2007, was established to assure the achievement and maintenance of forensic science service (FSS) provision that commands public confidence. The FSR works at an organizational level, to assure,... Read More about The UK forensic science regulator: Fit for purpose?.

Building the business case for Healthy Cities; Counting the cost of diseasogenic cities (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Rice, L. (2021, February). Building the business case for Healthy Cities; Counting the cost of diseasogenic cities. Presented at Economics Webinar Series, Malaysia

The presentation examines the economic implications of the relationship between the design of cities and urban areas and the resultant health outcomes for the human population. There is now good evidence linking the design of urban areas to differing... Read More about Building the business case for Healthy Cities; Counting the cost of diseasogenic cities.

A case study in the e-assessment of statistics for non-specialists (2021)
Journal Article
Weir, I. S., Gwynllyw, D. R., & Henderson, K. L. (2021). A case study in the e-assessment of statistics for non-specialists. Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 18(2), Article 5

The need to be able to choose, perform and interpret the results from appropriate statistical tests is ubiquitous in many STEM disciplines and beyond. In this case study, we illustrate a learning and assessment approach that has been used successfull... Read More about A case study in the e-assessment of statistics for non-specialists.