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Air and Water Pollution XXX (2022)
Book

Proceedings of the 30th Air and Water Pollution Conference organised by the Wessex Institute of Technology and the University of the West of England. The merger of two successful events to form the 30th International Conference on Modelling, Monitori... Read More about Air and Water Pollution XXX.

Somali 'influencers' in and beyond a school community using funds of knowledge to influence family and children's reading engagement (2022)
Journal Article

Identifying approaches to enable traditionally ‘hard to reach’ children and families engage with book choice, book sharing and reading, has been an area for research and development for some years. Ensuring families have access to books is an essenti... Read More about Somali 'influencers' in and beyond a school community using funds of knowledge to influence family and children's reading engagement.

Can diet change meet climate targets? (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Ruminant livestock produce more than half of the UK’s agricultural greenhouse gas emissions, leading the Climate Change Committee to call for diets to move away from meat and dairy. We run simulations in Defra’s partial equilibrium model of the UK’s... Read More about Can diet change meet climate targets?.

Cash holdings and corporate investment: Evidence from COVID-19 (2022)
Journal Article

Firms hold cash for precautionary reasons. The COVID-19 pandemic plausibly represents an exogenous shock for which firms hold cash. We examine the impact of cash holdings on corporate investment during the COVID-19 pandemic. We find that Capital Expe... Read More about Cash holdings and corporate investment: Evidence from COVID-19.

The role of Salicylic acid signal in plant growth, development and abiotic stress (2022)
Journal Article

In nature, plants are constantly affected by adverse conditions. Unlike animals, plants can resist these adverse stresses only by insisting on their original positions. Stress can be divided into biological stress and abiotic stress, abiotic stress d... Read More about The role of Salicylic acid signal in plant growth, development and abiotic stress.

Song for a scar (2022)
Journal Article

One poem in a special issue of the journal on the theme of "Care"

Vision-based approach for autism diagnosis using transfer learning and eye-tracking (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The potentials of Transfer Learning (TL) have been well-researched in areas such as Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing. This study aims to explore a novel application of TL to detect Autism Spectrum Disorder. We seek to develop an approa... Read More about Vision-based approach for autism diagnosis using transfer learning and eye-tracking.

Learning embeddings from free-text triage notes using pretrained transformer models (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The advent of transformer models has allowed for tremendous progress in the Natural Language Processing (NLP) domain. Pretrained transformers could successfully deliver the state-of-the-art performance in a myriad of NLP tasks. This study presents an... Read More about Learning embeddings from free-text triage notes using pretrained transformer models.

Negative Capability in Leadership Practice. Implications for Working in Uncertainty (2022)
Book

Working in uncertainty has become the new normal, but what do leaders have to draw upon when lacking the requisite knowledge? In this book, the authors make a case for Negative Capability, which enables leaders to work in a state of not knowing witho... Read More about Negative Capability in Leadership Practice. Implications for Working in Uncertainty.

Review of the partially overlapping samples framework: Paired observations and independent observations in two samples (2022)
Journal Article

A frequently asked question in quantitative research is how to compare two samples that include some combination of paired observations and unpaired observations. In our publications and R package, we refer to the scenario as ‘partially overlapping... Read More about Review of the partially overlapping samples framework: Paired observations and independent observations in two samples.

The impact of COVID 19 on GCC construction industry (2022)
Journal Article

The Coronavirus pandemic has badly affected everyone on the earth. Apart from losing thousands of lives, businesses and individuals are going to be affected by the long-lasting financial effects due to an expected global recession. The impact of the... Read More about The impact of COVID 19 on GCC construction industry.

Tracing the sources of contagion in the oil-finance nexus (2022)
Book Chapter

We introduce an approach to trace the genesis of contagion occurring in the oil-finance nexus, which consolidates veteran non-linear oil price measures derived from the empirical oil literature, to construct a rule-based specification for filtering s... Read More about Tracing the sources of contagion in the oil-finance nexus.

Impact of digital technology on supply chain efficiency in manufacturing industry (2022)
Book Chapter

With the advancement of digital technologies, supply chain management is changing dramatically. However, the practice and application of digital supply chains are complex and challenging. Some studies claim that technology is the core element, while... Read More about Impact of digital technology on supply chain efficiency in manufacturing industry.

The control of pathogens in stored rainwater using direct electrochemical activation (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Purpose of study or research hypothesis: The main study aim was to control waterborne pathogens using small-scale direct electrochemical activation. Key issue(s) or problem(s) addressed: Rainwater harvesting systems enable households o... Read More about The control of pathogens in stored rainwater using direct electrochemical activation.

Logistics and Supply Chain Management in the Globalized Business Era (2022)
Book

Journeying of a revolutionary (2022)
Book Chapter

A Kind of Conclusion Against Full-Stops and Bookends? (2022)
Book Chapter

Given the intention of this edited collection is to capture the stories of students, researchers, and academics grappling with critical realism, as the Editors, we thought it appropriate for at least two reasons that we do the same. First, if reasons... Read More about A Kind of Conclusion Against Full-Stops and Bookends?.

Introduction: Journeys through critical realism (2022)
Book Chapter

This international and interdisciplinary collection gathers stories from researchers and research students about their methodological encounters with critical realism. Whether the contributors are experienced or novice researchers, they are predomina... Read More about Introduction: Journeys through critical realism.

Working with Critical Realism: Stories of Methodological Encounters (2022)
Book

This international and interdisciplinary collection gathers stories from researchers and research students about their methodological encounters with critical realism. Whether the contributors are experienced or novice researchers, they are predomina... Read More about Working with Critical Realism: Stories of Methodological Encounters.

Embodied artificial intelligence and jus ad bellum necessity: Influence and imminence in the digital age (2022)
Journal Article

In “re-opening” the classic debate surrounding a state’s wider right of self- defense (in light of emerging technologies, and via the “lens” of influence communications), the authors controversially “close” the following discussion in favor of allowi... Read More about Embodied artificial intelligence and jus ad bellum necessity: Influence and imminence in the digital age.