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Availability of reliable cost data for whole life costing in the Tanzania building construction industry (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Manege, S., & Kennedy, C. (2022). Availability of reliable cost data for whole life costing in the Tanzania building construction industry. In Proceedings of The 10th World Construction Symposium 2022: Sustainability and Resilience in the Built Environment: Changed Perspectives. https://doi.org/10.31705/wcs.2022.13

Whole life costing plays a major role in ensuring that value for money is attained from the inception of a building to its end of life. Availability of reliable cost data is essential ensuring that whole life costing is undertaken with utmost precisi... Read More about Availability of reliable cost data for whole life costing in the Tanzania building construction industry.

The AGoRA V2 unilateral lower-limb exoskeleton: Mechatronic integration and biomechanical assessment (2022)
Journal Article
Otálora, S., Ballen-Moreno, F., Arciniegas-Mayag, L., Múnera, M., & A. Cifuentes, C. (2022). The AGoRA V2 unilateral lower-limb exoskeleton: Mechatronic integration and biomechanical assessment. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 7(3), 7928-7933. https://doi.org/10.1109/lra.2022.3186066

People who suffer from stroke have a higher difficulty performing gait activity, affecting their quality of life. New technologies have been developed to assist and rehabilitate the affected limbs. This paper presents the AGoRA V2 unilateral lower-li... Read More about The AGoRA V2 unilateral lower-limb exoskeleton: Mechatronic integration and biomechanical assessment.

A machine learning model for predicting sit-to-stand trajectories of people with and without stroke: towards adaptive robotic assistance (2022)
Journal Article
Bennett, T., Kumar, P., & Ruiz Garate, V. R. (2022). A machine learning model for predicting sit-to-stand trajectories of people with and without stroke: towards adaptive robotic assistance. Sensors, 22(13), https://doi.org/10.3390/s22134789

Sit-to-stand and stand-to-sit transfers are fundamental daily motions that enable all other types of ambulation and gait. However, the ability to perform these motions can be severely impaired by different factors, such as the occurrence of a stroke,... Read More about A machine learning model for predicting sit-to-stand trajectories of people with and without stroke: towards adaptive robotic assistance.

A case study: The deployment of a novel in situ fluorimeter for monitoring biological contamination within the urban surface waters of Kolkata, India (2022)
Journal Article
Fox, B., Thorn, R., Dutta, T., Bowes, M., Read, D., & Reynolds, D. (2022). A case study: The deployment of a novel in situ fluorimeter for monitoring biological contamination within the urban surface waters of Kolkata, India. Science of the Total Environment, 842, 156848. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156848

The quality and health of many of our vital freshwater systems are poor. To tackle this with ever increasing pressures from anthropogenic and climatic changes, we must improve water quality monitoring and devise and implement more appropriate water q... Read More about A case study: The deployment of a novel in situ fluorimeter for monitoring biological contamination within the urban surface waters of Kolkata, India.

Complex adaptive system behaviours in small group interaction: A year 4 classroom case study of learning as ‘emergence’ (2022)
Thesis
Knight, B. Complex adaptive system behaviours in small group interaction: A year 4 classroom case study of learning as ‘emergence’. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/9030663

Depictions of classroom teaching and learning in politics, policy and media tend to be over simplified and mechanistic. Insights from research on classroom learning draw largely on the ‘what works’ paradigm, which presents learning as directly caused... Read More about Complex adaptive system behaviours in small group interaction: A year 4 classroom case study of learning as ‘emergence’.

Profiles of British Equestrian Olympians: Evaluating historical, socio-cultural and sporting influences and how they could inform equestrianism in the future (2022)
Thesis
Dumbell, L. Profiles of British Equestrian Olympians: Evaluating historical, socio-cultural and sporting influences and how they could inform equestrianism in the future. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/8043778

Horse riding is a unique context for a human-animal study. It is both a leisure activity and the only Olympic sport where athletes compete against one another without having to declare their sex. Horse riding relies on rider and horse establishing... Read More about Profiles of British Equestrian Olympians: Evaluating historical, socio-cultural and sporting influences and how they could inform equestrianism in the future.

Modular, adaptive, and decentralised water infrastructure: promises and perils for water justice (2022)
Journal Article
Stoler, J., Jepson, W., Wutich, A., Velasco, C. A., Thomson, P., Staddon, C., & Westerhoff, P. (2022). Modular, adaptive, and decentralised water infrastructure: promises and perils for water justice. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 57, Article 101202. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2022.101202

Climate change, ageing infrastructure, and funding shortfalls threaten the sustainability of modern, 20th century centralised water systems by increasing drinking water costs and undermining water security, particularly for underserved populations. M... Read More about Modular, adaptive, and decentralised water infrastructure: promises and perils for water justice.

Do archaic tax evasion offences create unintended outcomes for tax enforcement and compliance? (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Bourton, S. (2022, June). Do archaic tax evasion offences create unintended outcomes for tax enforcement and compliance?. Presented at VIRTEU - Final International Conference, 2022, Online

In the UK, more than twenty statutory offences can be used to prosecute tax evasion. However, the prosecution of natural and legal persons for tax crimes is often undertaken using archaic common law offences and legal doctrines. In fact, very few ind... Read More about Do archaic tax evasion offences create unintended outcomes for tax enforcement and compliance?.

Role of assistive devices in rehabilitation of people with stroke (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Kumar, P. (2022, June). Role of assistive devices in rehabilitation of people with stroke. Presented at Assistive Tech workshop, Bristol Robotics Laboratory, Bristol Robotics Laboratory, UWE

This presentation provides an overview on role of assistive devices - Lycra Arm sleeves/accelerometers/ GripAble Gaming Device for the rehabilitation of upper limb function in people with stroke. Of the 80% of people with stroke who lose upper-l... Read More about Role of assistive devices in rehabilitation of people with stroke.

Redistributing power in sustainability transitions through creative and artistic methods for action and the fostering of skills and capacities (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Laggan, S. (2022, June). Redistributing power in sustainability transitions through creative and artistic methods for action and the fostering of skills and capacities

This is the slides from a presentation Sophie gave at the National Centre for Academic and Cultural Exchange's Science And Culture event. She presented alongside several other during the Communities Education And Knowledge-making session. In the... Read More about Redistributing power in sustainability transitions through creative and artistic methods for action and the fostering of skills and capacities.

CoDe ZERO - development of a co-designed zero-carbon urban freight system - Final report (2022)
Report
Paddeu, D. (2022). CoDe ZERO - development of a co-designed zero-carbon urban freight system - Final report. Decarbon8 webpage: Decarbon8

This report presents the results of CoDe ZERO, a six-month project funded by the Decarbon8 network through the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). The aim of the project was to understand challenges and opportunities of freigh... Read More about CoDe ZERO - development of a co-designed zero-carbon urban freight system - Final report.

An interpretative phenomenological analysis exploring lived experiences of bulimia nervosa (2022)
Thesis
Bishop, G. An interpretative phenomenological analysis exploring lived experiences of bulimia nervosa. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/8544752

Background Bulimia nervosa is defined as a clinically recognised disorder, the key diagnostic features of which are eating an ‘abnormally’ large amount of food within a short space of time and compensatory behaviours such as abusing laxatives, vomit... Read More about An interpretative phenomenological analysis exploring lived experiences of bulimia nervosa.

Clients’ lived experiences of rooms used for talking therapies in the NHS (2022)
Thesis
S, T. Clients’ lived experiences of rooms used for talking therapies in the NHS. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/8539267

Background: There has been little research into how clients experience rooms that are used for talking therapies within the National Health Service (NHS), despite the NHS being the single largest provider of talking therapies in the UK. This study us... Read More about Clients’ lived experiences of rooms used for talking therapies in the NHS.

Workshop on viral genomics and taxonomy (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Turner, D., Adriaenssens, E. M., & Kropinski, A. M. (2022, June). Workshop on viral genomics and taxonomy. Presented at Viruses of Microbes 2022, Guimaraes, Portugal

How many of us have isolated and sequenced a phage, gotten reads back from the sequencing facility and thought "What now?" How can I assemble the data, and should I use an automated pipeline (DFAST, RASTtk, PHANOTATE) to annotate the genome, or shall... Read More about Workshop on viral genomics and taxonomy.

Coming or going?: Angela Carter’s itinerant subjectivity in “The Quilt Maker” (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C. (2022, June). Coming or going?: Angela Carter’s itinerant subjectivity in “The Quilt Maker”. Presented at ACS Conference 2022: Nomadic texts and subjectivities metamorphic itineraries in/of Angela Carters’ works, 2022, University of Angers, France

In Angela Carter’s neglected short story ‘The Quilt Maker’, the narrator glosses the Japanese word for orgasm, ikimasu, which she learns from her Japanese lover means ‘to go’ rather than ‘to come’: “The Japanese orgasmic departure renders the English... Read More about Coming or going?: Angela Carter’s itinerant subjectivity in “The Quilt Maker”.

Sean Connery: Acting, Stardom and National Identity (2022)
Book
Spicer, A. (2022). Sean Connery: Acting, Stardom and National Identity. Manchester: Manchester University Press

This study provides an authoritative and comprehensive account of the career of one of one modern cinema’s most distinctive stars, an instantly recognisable cultural icon whose image and distinctive voice have penetrated deeply into global popular cu... Read More about Sean Connery: Acting, Stardom and National Identity.

Military assistance on request and collective self-defence (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Green, J. (2022, June). Military assistance on request and collective self-defence. Presented at International Law Association Biennial Conference, Lisbon, Portugal

The concepts of military assistance on request (or ‘intervention by invitation’) and collective self-defence are, in some respects, strikingly similar. They both involve a prima facie unlawful use of force by one state, undertaken at the request of... Read More about Military assistance on request and collective self-defence.

Remote provision of 'next steps' exercise class in people with stroke: An online survey of participants' experience (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Kumar, P., O'Hanlon, E., Clift, E., Brooks, . T., Fry, B., & Deeks, . A. (2022, June). Remote provision of 'next steps' exercise class in people with stroke: An online survey of participants' experience. Poster presented at Welsh Stroke Conference, June 2022, Online

Background: Physiotherapy rehabilitation is a fundamental component of multidisciplinary management following stroke, for biopsychosocial exercise benefits and secondary prevention. Bristol After Stroke and the University of the West of England’s Bri... Read More about Remote provision of 'next steps' exercise class in people with stroke: An online survey of participants' experience.

Commanding missions, making history (2022)
Journal Article
Glester, A. (in press). Commanding missions, making history. Physics World, 35(6), 49

Andrew Glester reviews Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars: the Story of the First American Woman to Command a Space Mission by Eileen M Collins with Jonathan H Ward.

The securitization of COVID-19 as a security norm: WHO norm entrepreneurship and norm cascading (2022)
Journal Article
Kaunert, C., Leonard, S., & Wertman, O. (2022). The securitization of COVID-19 as a security norm: WHO norm entrepreneurship and norm cascading. Social Sciences, 11(7), 266-285. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci11070266

In this article, we analyze the emergence of a global security norm of the COVID-19 epidemic as a threat to international security. This crisis is one of the gravest crises that humanity has experienced since the end of World War II in terms of the n... Read More about The securitization of COVID-19 as a security norm: WHO norm entrepreneurship and norm cascading.