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Early determinants of mortality in hospitalized COVID-19 patients in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia (2022)
Journal Article

Purpose: This study investigated the clinical determinants of mortality in hospitalized patients infected with COVID-19. Patients and Methods: A retrospective multicenter large cohort of COVID-19 patients hospitalized between March 2020 and February... Read More about Early determinants of mortality in hospitalized COVID-19 patients in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia.

An on-premise study to investigate the effects of mixing alcohol with caffeinated beverages (2022)
Journal Article

Objective: The purpose of this on-premise study was to determine if mixing alcohol with caffeinated mixers had an impact on objective and subjective intoxication. Methods: The study was conducted across eight drinking occasions in the City of Bristol... Read More about An on-premise study to investigate the effects of mixing alcohol with caffeinated beverages.

Opportunities to engage health system leaders in whole systems approaches to physical activity in England (2022)
Journal Article

Background: Physical activity plays an important role in maintaining good health and wellbeing, non-communicable disease prevention and can improve healthcare outcomes. Some progress is being made on incorporating physical activity into routine care,... Read More about Opportunities to engage health system leaders in whole systems approaches to physical activity in England.

Empathy, intersubjectivity, and the world-orienting other (2022)
Book Chapter

This chapter addresses the self-other relation through Husserl's account of empathy and phenomenological encounter. While respecting the centrality and importance of the first-person character of subjective consciousness in Husserl's phenomenology, t... Read More about Empathy, intersubjectivity, and the world-orienting other.

Female undergraduates playing it 'safe' to stay 'safe': Further understanding sexual violence against women (2022)
Journal Article

Women’s safety from sexual violence whilst at university is a global issue and the UK is no exception. Whilst the authors of this paper acknowledge that sexual violence can occur across the gender spectrum, most sexual violence ‘victims’ are women an... Read More about Female undergraduates playing it 'safe' to stay 'safe': Further understanding sexual violence against women.

Narrative practicing of the meaning of work: The gender we think and talk (2022)
Book Chapter

This chapter shows how gender asymmetry is produced through narrative practices. By analyzing the work-life narratives of 14 men and 14 women working in a variety of occupations ranging from personal care to finance, from crafts to health, from creat... Read More about Narrative practicing of the meaning of work: The gender we think and talk.

Managing group work: The impact of peer assessment on student engagement (2022)
Journal Article

This study investigates the impact of peer assessment on students’ engagement in their learning in a group work context. The study used regression analysis and was complemented by qualitative responses from a survey of 165 first-year undergraduates i... Read More about Managing group work: The impact of peer assessment on student engagement.

Mitigation of transient ground potential rise in gas insulated substations during very fast transient overvoltage (2022)
Journal Article

This paper is focused on the assessment and mitigation of the transient response of a Gas Insulated Substation's (GIS) grounding grid to the fault due to voltage breakdown using the Partial Element Equivalent Circuit (PEEC) numerical approach. The ad... Read More about Mitigation of transient ground potential rise in gas insulated substations during very fast transient overvoltage.

Reassessing the multiple values of lowland British floodplains (2022)
Journal Article

Ecosystem services provided by lowland British floodplains respectively under semi-natural conditions and converted for intensive maize production were assessed. Floodplains across lowland Britain have been extensively disconnected from river channel... Read More about Reassessing the multiple values of lowland British floodplains.

The effects of foam rolling on ankle dorsiflexion range of motion in healthy adults: A systematic literature review (2022)
Journal Article

Background: Reduced ankle dorsiflexion is associated with lower limb injury and dysfunction, with static stretching mostly used to increase ankle range of motion. Foam rolling is an alternative intervention, shown to immediately increase ankle range... Read More about The effects of foam rolling on ankle dorsiflexion range of motion in healthy adults: A systematic literature review.

pH oscillating system for molecular computation as a chemical turing machine (2022)
Journal Article

It has previously been demonstrated that native chemical Turing machines can be constructed by exploiting the nonlinear dynamics of the homogeneous oscillating Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction. These Turing machines can perform word recognition of a Cho... Read More about pH oscillating system for molecular computation as a chemical turing machine.

Experience of living near a highway in Nepal: Community perceptions of road dangers in Makwanpur district (2022)
Journal Article

Introduction: Road traffic injuries are a major but neglected global challenge. There are high and rising rates of road traffic injuries in Nepal. Most of the studies reporting these injuries in Nepal have used quantitative methods to describe the in... Read More about Experience of living near a highway in Nepal: Community perceptions of road dangers in Makwanpur district.

Supply chain sustainability risk decision support model using integrated Preference Selection Index (PSI) method and prospect theory (2022)
Journal Article

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to introduce the integrated model of the Preference Selection Index (PSI) and the prospect theory as new means to appraise the impact of supply chain sustainability risks based on five pillars of sustainability.... Read More about Supply chain sustainability risk decision support model using integrated Preference Selection Index (PSI) method and prospect theory.

Radioactivity in future phosphogypsum: New predictions based on estimates of ‘Peak P’ and rock phosphate resources (2022)
Journal Article

Global food supplies currently depend on producing inorganic P fertilisers from a finite reserve of rock phosphate (RP). P fertilisers are themselves significant pollutants but their production from RP also leaves a phosphogypsum (PG) by-product that... Read More about Radioactivity in future phosphogypsum: New predictions based on estimates of ‘Peak P’ and rock phosphate resources.

Managerial compensation and fixed intangible assets investment: The role of managerial ownership and firm characteristics (2022)
Journal Article

Purpose: This study examines how cash and stock bonus compensations influence top executives to allocate a firm's resources to fixed intangible assets investment and the extent to which this relationship is conditional on executives' ownership, firm... Read More about Managerial compensation and fixed intangible assets investment: The role of managerial ownership and firm characteristics.

The Colston Statue: What next? ‘We are Bristol’ History commission - Visual short report (2022)
Report

This version of the report contains images and presents the findings of the research in an accessable format. In the summer of 2021, the ‘We are Bristol’ History Commission consulted with the public about the future of the Colston statue and the C... Read More about The Colston Statue: What next? ‘We are Bristol’ History commission - Visual short report.

The Colston Statue: What Next? ‘We are Bristol’ History Commission - Full Report (2022)
Report

In the summer of 2021, the ‘We are Bristol’ History Commission consulted with the public about the future of the Colston statue and the Colston plinth. People had a chance to see the statue and learn about its history in a temporary display at the M... Read More about The Colston Statue: What Next? ‘We are Bristol’ History Commission - Full Report.

A framework to evaluate the accessibility, visibility, and intelligibility of green-blue spaces (GBSs) related to pedestrian movement (2022)
Journal Article

The planning of green-blue spaces (GBSs) requires considering the pedestrian needs in their walking routes for improving the walking experience. Incorporating the quantitative spatial characteristics of pedestrian movement is essential for pedestrian... Read More about A framework to evaluate the accessibility, visibility, and intelligibility of green-blue spaces (GBSs) related to pedestrian movement.

A novel deep reinforcement learning-based approach for task-offloading in vehicular networks (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Next-generation vehicular networks will impose unprecedented computation demand due to the wide adoption of compute-intensive services with stringent latency requirements. Computational capacity of vehicular networks can be enhanced by integration of... Read More about A novel deep reinforcement learning-based approach for task-offloading in vehicular networks.

Visualising the hostile environment: Creative studies of family immigration and separation (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In this talk, Dr Emma Agusita discusses her research work that uses creative digital methods to explore people’s experiences of encountering UK family immigration regulations that result in prolonged periods of separation from their partners and fami... Read More about Visualising the hostile environment: Creative studies of family immigration and separation.