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Somali 'influencers' in and beyond a school community using funds of knowledge to influence family and children's reading engagement (2022)
Journal Article
Carter, J., Mohammad, H., & Aidid, F. (2022). Somali 'influencers' in and beyond a school community using funds of knowledge to influence family and children's reading engagement. Educational Futures, 13(2),

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.

Cash holdings and corporate investment: Evidence from COVID-19 (2022)
Journal Article
Tawiah, B., & Keefe, M. (in press). Cash holdings and corporate investment: Evidence from COVID-19. Review of Corporate Finance, https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3712767

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
Hu, Y., Zhi, L., Li, P., T. Hancock, J. T., & Hu, X. (2022). The role of Salicylic acid signal in plant growth, development and abiotic stress. Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, 91(12), 2591-2605. https://doi.org/10.32604/PHYTON.2022.023733

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
Rogers, S. (2022). Song for a scar. The Contemporary Journal, 4,

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)
Conference Proceeding
Elbattah, M., Guérin, J., Carette, R., Cilia, F., & Dequen, G. (2022). Vision-based approach for autism diagnosis using transfer learning and eye-tracking. In Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - HEALTHINF (256-263). https://doi.org/10.5220/0010975500003123

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)
Conference Proceeding
Arnaud, É., Elbattah, M., Gignon, M., & Dequen, G. (2022). Learning embeddings from free-text triage notes using pretrained transformer models. In Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (835-841). https://doi.org/10.5220/0011012800003123

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
von Bulow, C., & Simpson, P. (2022). Negative Capability in Leadership Practice. Implications for Working in Uncertainty. Palgrave Macmillan (part of Springer Nature). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95768-1

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
Derrick, B., & White, P. (2022). Review of the partially overlapping samples framework: Paired observations and independent observations in two samples. Quantitative Methods for Psychology, 18(1), 55-65. https://doi.org/10.20982/tqmp.18.1.p055

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
Umar, T. (2022). The impact of COVID 19 on GCC construction industry. International Journal of Service Science, Management, Engineering, and Technology, 13(2), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.4018/IJSSMET.20220301.oa1

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
Mahadeo, S., Heinlein, R., & Legrenzi, G. (2022). Tracing the sources of contagion in the oil-finance nexus. In C. Floros, & I. Chatziantoniou (Eds.), Applications in Energy Finance (115-143). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92957-2_5

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
Wang, X., Kumar, V., Kumari, A., & Kuzmin, E. (2022). Impact of digital technology on supply chain efficiency in manufacturing industry. In V. Kumar, J. Leng, V. Akberdina, & E. Kuzmin (Eds.), Digital Transformation in Industry: Digital Twins and New Business Models (28). Springer (part of Springer Nature). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94617-3

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)
Conference Proceeding
Clayton, G., Fox, B., Steer, M., Thorn, R., & Reynolds, D. (2022). The control of pathogens in stored rainwater using direct electrochemical activation. In IWRA Proceedings

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.

Journeying of a revolutionary (2022)
Book Chapter
Asher, G., Cowden, S., Housee, S., & Maisuria, A. (2022). Journeying of a revolutionary. In S. Cowden, G. Asher, S. Housee, & M. Alpesh (Eds.), Critical Pedagogy and Emancipation: A Festschrift in Memory of Joyce Canaan. Peter Lang International Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.3726/b19115

A Kind of Conclusion Against Full-Stops and Bookends? (2022)
Book Chapter
Maisuria, A., & Banfield, G. (2022). A Kind of Conclusion Against Full-Stops and Bookends?. In Working with Critical Realism Stories of Methodological Encounters. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003193784

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
Maisuria, A., & Banfield, G. (2022). Introduction: Journeys through critical realism. In Working with Critical Realism Stories of Methodological Encounters. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003193784

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
Maisuria, A., & Banfield, G. (Eds.). (2022). Working with Critical Realism: Stories of Methodological Encounters. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003193784

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
Pollard, M., & Grimal, F. (2022). Embodied artificial intelligence and jus ad bellum necessity: Influence and imminence in the digital age. Georgetown Journal of International Law, 53(2), 209-275

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.

Ten years of I-Docs: A reflective discussion on polyphony and practice-led research (2022)
Book Chapter
Aston, J. (2022). Ten years of I-Docs: A reflective discussion on polyphony and practice-led research. In F. Merino, & M. Penafria (Eds.), Storybits I – Narrative and Digital Media (15-30). (1). Covilha, Portugal: Universidade de Beira Interior. https://doi.org/10.25768/654-889-6

This article is based on my keynote and accompanying workshop for the inaugural StoryBits conference in April 2021. This was ten years on from the first i-Docs symposium in March 2011, with the StoryBits conference taking a similar approach in relati... Read More about Ten years of I-Docs: A reflective discussion on polyphony and practice-led research.