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Auditors’ trust in audit committees and audit quality (2024)
Journal Article

In light of global advancements in corporate governance, it is imperative for external auditors and audit committees to engage in communication and interactions to ensure that external audits are conducted to a high standard and quality. While many s... Read More about Auditors’ trust in audit committees and audit quality.

What lessons can be learnt from America’s use of competition law in the enforcement of financial crime? (2024)
Book Chapter

This chapter focusses on the United States of America (US)’s approach to the enforcement of financial crime. In particular, the use by regulators in the US of competition law to enforce financial crimes such as market manipulation will be examined an... Read More about What lessons can be learnt from America’s use of competition law in the enforcement of financial crime?.

Failure to prevent fraud and corporate criminal liability – how can you avoid being in breach of the new law? (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Invited panel member for a discussion on ‘Failure to Prevent Fraud and corporate criminal liability – how can you avoid being in breach of the new law?’. Other panellists were Andrew Gregory, Chief Information Security Officer at Ramboll, Professor N... Read More about Failure to prevent fraud and corporate criminal liability – how can you avoid being in breach of the new law?.

Fungi as Turing automata with oracles (2024)
Journal Article

In the article, we aim to understand the responses of living organisms, exemplified by mycelium, to external stimuli through the lens of a Turing machine with an oracle (oTM). To facilitate our exploration, we show that a variant of an oTM is a cellu... Read More about Fungi as Turing automata with oracles.

Rehabilitation interventions for adults With complex regional pain syndrome: A scoping review protocol (2024)
Journal Article

Objectives: This scoping review will explore the literature related to rehabilitation interventions for the treatment of adults living with complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), describe the domains and outcome measures used to assess their effectiv... Read More about Rehabilitation interventions for adults With complex regional pain syndrome: A scoping review protocol.

Adaptive real time efficient control algorithm for buildings under wind and earthquake forces (2024)
Journal Article

The study aims to tackle two key issues: the dependency of optimal controllers on available training data and their limited capability in managing multi-component structural responses. Real Time Fuzzy Logic Efficient Control system (RTFLEC) was devel... Read More about Adaptive real time efficient control algorithm for buildings under wind and earthquake forces.

Alternative education: Inclusion beyond the mainstream (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This panel responds to February’s review of alternative provision in England (CQC & Ofsted, 2024) and June’s BBC investigation revealing that numbers of UK children moving from schools to home education are at their highest levels since covid (Hatten... Read More about Alternative education: Inclusion beyond the mainstream.

Closed-loop recycling of wearable electronic textiles (2024)
Journal Article

Wearable electronic textiles (e-textiles) are transforming personalized healthcare through innovative applications. However, integrating electronics into textiles for e-textile manufacturing exacerbates the rapidly growing issues of electronic waste... Read More about Closed-loop recycling of wearable electronic textiles.

Revamping occupational safety and health (OS&H) regulations in Pakistan (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Construction is regarded as the most hazardous industrial sector due to its nature and physical demanding activities. Construction workers in developing countries are 3~4 times more likely to die from accidents on-site compared to workers in other in... Read More about Revamping occupational safety and health (OS&H) regulations in Pakistan.

Rotator cuff-related shoulder pain (RCRSP): Semistructured patient interviews to explore the barriers and enablers to rehabilitation exercises (2024)
Journal Article

This study aimed to explore the barriers and enablers to physiotherapist-prescribed rehabilitation exercises for people with rotator cuff-related shoulder pain (RCRSP) and to guide the development of a theoretically informed intervention for people w... Read More about Rotator cuff-related shoulder pain (RCRSP): Semistructured patient interviews to explore the barriers and enablers to rehabilitation exercises.

‘I’m coming out’: The role of music in LGBTQ+ identities (2024)
Journal Article

Research shows that music holds great importance to the LGBTQ+ community. However, only a handful of studies have explored personal and private music consumption and particularly its role in individual identity formation and the coming out process –... Read More about ‘I’m coming out’: The role of music in LGBTQ+ identities.

Ductile to brittle failure transition of HSLA-100 steel at high strain rates and subzero temperatures (2016)
Journal Article

Mechanical properties of HSLA-100 steel at room and subzero temperatures of −40 °C, −80 °C and −196 °C were investigated in this work. Dry ice and liquid nitrogen were used to reach the low temperatures. Also, the material response to different strai... Read More about Ductile to brittle failure transition of HSLA-100 steel at high strain rates and subzero temperatures.

Plasticity effect on residual stresses measurement using contour method (2013)
Journal Article

Residual stresses have become an important player in the field of structural integrity for many years. Exact knowledge of residual stress distributions is essential in designing the engineering components as unexpected failures are inevitable whereve... Read More about Plasticity effect on residual stresses measurement using contour method.

Fatigue life of repaired welded tubular joints (2013)
Journal Article

In this study, the effect of repair on fatigue life of tubular joints is investigated. Six cracked specimens precedently subjected to fatigue loading undergone to weld repair. Two of those specimens were shot peened before primary fatigue loading. I... Read More about Fatigue life of repaired welded tubular joints.

A neural networks approach to characterize material properties using the spherical indentation test (2011)
Journal Article

Determination of material characteristics using the instrumented indentation test has gained interests among many researchers. The output of a spherical indentation test is usually the load-penetration (P-h) curve. To achieve this goal, the elastic d... Read More about A neural networks approach to characterize material properties using the spherical indentation test.

What influences the use of research by the adult social care workforce? (2024)
Journal Article

Despite a recognition that research evidence plays a critical role in informing decisions in adult social care, there has been little investment in developing the sector’s own capacity to engage with it. This article reports on a qualitative study of... Read More about What influences the use of research by the adult social care workforce?.

Development and characterisation of a new patient-derived xenograft model of AR-negative metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (2024)
Journal Article

As the treatment landscape for prostate cancer gradually evolves, the frequency of treatment-induced neuroendocrine prostate cancer (NEPC) and double-negative prostate cancer (DNPC) that is deficient for androgen receptor (AR) and neuroendocrine (NE)... Read More about Development and characterisation of a new patient-derived xenograft model of AR-negative metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Suppression of Bcl3 disrupts viability of breast cancer cells through both p53-dependent and p53-independent mechanisms via loss of NF-κB signalling (2024)
Journal Article

The NF-κB co-factor Bcl3 is a proto-oncogene that promotes breast cancer proliferation, metastasis and therapeutic resistance, yet its role in breast cancer cell survival is unclear. Here, we sought to determine the effect of Bcl3 suppression alone o... Read More about Suppression of Bcl3 disrupts viability of breast cancer cells through both p53-dependent and p53-independent mechanisms via loss of NF-κB signalling.

PLEKHS1 drives PI3Ks and remodels pathway homeostasis in PTEN-null prostate (2023)
Journal Article

The PIP3/PI3K network is a central regulator of metabolism and is frequently activated in cancer, commonly by loss of the PIP3/PI(3,4)P2 phosphatase, PTEN. Despite huge research investment, the drivers of the PI3K network in normal tissues and how th... Read More about PLEKHS1 drives PI3Ks and remodels pathway homeostasis in PTEN-null prostate.

The discovery of a novel antimetastatic Bcl3 inhibitor (2021)
Journal Article

The development of antimetastatic drugs is an urgent healthcare priority for patients with cancer, because metastasis is thought to account for around 90% of cancer deaths. Current antimetastatic treatment options are limited and often associated wit... Read More about The discovery of a novel antimetastatic Bcl3 inhibitor.

The PTEN conundrum: How to target PTEN-deficient prostate cancer (2020)
Journal Article

Loss of the tumor suppressor phosphatase and tensin homologue deleted on chromosome 10 (PTEN), which negatively regulates the PI3K–AKT–mTOR pathway, is strongly linked to advanced prostate cancer progression and poor clinical outcome. Accordingly, se... Read More about The PTEN conundrum: How to target PTEN-deficient prostate cancer.

Bcl-3 promotes multi-modal tumour cell migration via NF-κB1 mediated regulation of Cdc42 (2020)
Journal Article

A key challenge in the implementation of anti-metastatics as cancer therapies is the multi-modal nature of cell migration, which allows tumour cells to evade the targeted inhibition of specific cell motility pathways. The nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-κB... Read More about Bcl-3 promotes multi-modal tumour cell migration via NF-κB1 mediated regulation of Cdc42.

Biodistribution PET/CT study of Hemoglobin-DFO-89Zr complex in healthy and lung tumor-bearing mice (2020)
Journal Article

Proteins, as a major component of organisms, are considered the preferred biomaterials for drug delivery vehicles. Hemoglobin (Hb) has been recently rediscovered as a potential drug carrier, but its use for biomedical applications still lacks extensi... Read More about Biodistribution PET/CT study of Hemoglobin-DFO-89Zr complex in healthy and lung tumor-bearing mice.

β‐Bisabolene, a sesquiterpene from the essential oil extract of opoponax (Commiphora guidottii), exhibits cytotoxicity in breast cancer cell lines (2015)
Journal Article

The essential oils from Commiphora species have for centuries been recognized to possess medicinal properties. Here, we performed gas chromatography-mass spectrometry on the essential oil from opoponax (Commiphora guidotti) and identified bisabolene... Read More about β‐Bisabolene, a sesquiterpene from the essential oil extract of opoponax (Commiphora guidottii), exhibits cytotoxicity in breast cancer cell lines.

Design and evaluation of a robot telemedicine system for initial medical examination with UK and Thai doctors (2024)
Journal Article

This study presents the evaluation of a robot telemedicine system used for initial diagnosis of patient with UK and Thai doctors. In a prior study, a set of user requirements for a robot telemedicine system were outlined based on a focus group with m... Read More about Design and evaluation of a robot telemedicine system for initial medical examination with UK and Thai doctors.

Customer view on servitization: The influence of strategic goals and service mix offering on firm performance (2024)
Journal Article

Following a mixed methods approach, this research investigates the reasons that lead B2B customers in the pharmaceutical sector to use different types of services and their impact on servitization outcomes and firm performance. Main findings show tha... Read More about Customer view on servitization: The influence of strategic goals and service mix offering on firm performance.

Balanced multi-UAV path planning for persistent monitoring (2024)
Journal Article

In scenarios such as environmental data collection and traffic monitoring, etc., timely responses to real-time situations are facilitated by persistently accessing nodes with revisiting constraints using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). However, imba... Read More about Balanced multi-UAV path planning for persistent monitoring.

IYOLO-FAM: Improved YOLOv8 with feature attention mechanism for cow behaviour detection (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

We introduced IYOLO-FAM (Improved YOLOv8 with Feature Attention Mechanism) for detecting cow behaviours. By leveraging the robust YOLOv8 architecture improved with Feature Attention Mechanisms (FAM), Squeeze-and-Excitation (SE) blocks and data augmen... Read More about IYOLO-FAM: Improved YOLOv8 with feature attention mechanism for cow behaviour detection.

RIBA Horizons 2034 The Environmental Challenge: An Introduction (2024)
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The environmental challenge facing us is both vast and urgent.

Use of energy and materials is increasing globally, greenhouse gas emissions are going up rather than down, the devastating impacts of climate change are already being suffered from su... Read More about RIBA Horizons 2034 The Environmental Challenge: An Introduction.

RIBA Horizons 2034 The Environmental Challenge: Mitigating carbon emissions- global challenge and regional priorities (2024)
Digital Artefact

Now more than ever, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) Sixth Assessment Report clarifies the urgency of mitigating anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions to reduce our impact on the global climate and avoid the worst predictions.... Read More about RIBA Horizons 2034 The Environmental Challenge: Mitigating carbon emissions- global challenge and regional priorities.

From Food Industry 4.0 to Food Industry 5.0: Identifying technological enablers and potential future applications in the food sector (2024)
Journal Article

Although several food-related fields have yet to fully grasp the speed and breadth of the fourth industrial revolution (also known as Industry 4.0), growing literature from other sectors shows that Industry 5.0 (referring to the fifth industrial revo... Read More about From Food Industry 4.0 to Food Industry 5.0: Identifying technological enablers and potential future applications in the food sector.

Bristol: City of Activism (2022)
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Bristol: City of Activism is a series of audio interviews with people taking action for causes they care about – from marrying trees to building comedy clubs. Each episode offers an invigorating glimpse into the many ways we can work to make things b... Read More about Bristol: City of Activism.

A practitioner’s introduction to LCA databases: EPiC and ICE (2024)
Digital Artefact

This short comparative review of two construction material databases explains their potential use for assessing embodied carbon to designers and practitioners not yet expert in the field. It introduces and examines the Australian Environmental Perfor... Read More about A practitioner’s introduction to LCA databases: EPiC and ICE.

A cost data management framework proposal to help accelerate whole life costing in Tanzania building construction industry (2024)
Book Chapter

Despite a widespread understanding of whole life costing within the Tanzanian building construction industry, practical implementation remains limited. A significant hindrance to the adoption of this approach is the absence of dependable cost data. T... Read More about A cost data management framework proposal to help accelerate whole life costing in Tanzania building construction industry.

Measuring temporal change in scrub vegetation cover using UAV‐derived height maps: A case study at two UK nature reserves (2024)
Journal Article

Measuring the outcome of practical interventions and actions helps to inform conservation management objectives and assess progress towards objectives and targets. Measuring success also informs future management by identifying actions that are effec... Read More about Measuring temporal change in scrub vegetation cover using UAV‐derived height maps: A case study at two UK nature reserves.

Contracture prevention: Knowledge, understanding, and skills of community occupational therapists and physiotherapists: A survey (2024)
Journal Article

Internet of Things (IoT) implementation in the Malaysian construction industry (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) technology in the construction industry holds significant potential for improving project efficiency, safety, and management. This research investigates the implementation of Internet of Things (IoT) in the Ma... Read More about Internet of Things (IoT) implementation in the Malaysian construction industry.

Interleukins in urine and blood as markers of infection and as risk factors for systemic conditions (2024)
Journal Article

Interleukins are a diverse group of cytokines that play a crucial role in controlling immune responses and have potential as biomarkers. This mini review evaluates 12 recent papers linking urinary interleukins to both urinary infection and systemic d... Read More about Interleukins in urine and blood as markers of infection and as risk factors for systemic conditions.

A risk assessment analysis to enhance the security of OT WAN with SD-WAN (2024)
Journal Article

This paper introduces a comprehensive risk assessment of various wide area network (WAN) technologies as applied to Operational Technology (OT) infrastructures, thus uncovering which WAN technology is best suited for OT to mitigate the risks of Denia... Read More about A risk assessment analysis to enhance the security of OT WAN with SD-WAN.

Analysis of the drivers and barriers influencing artificial intelligence for tackling climate change challenges (2024)
Journal Article

Purpose
Facilities management (FM) organizations are pivotal in enhancing the resilience of buildings against climate change impacts. While existing research delves into the adoption of digital technologies by FM organizations, there exists a gap re... Read More about Analysis of the drivers and barriers influencing artificial intelligence for tackling climate change challenges.

Revolutionizing affordable housing in Africa: A comprehensive technical and sustainability study of 3D-printing technology (2024)
Journal Article

The global challenge of providing affordable and sustainable housing, particularly in Africa's intensified housing crisis, has spurred interest in transformative solutions such as 3D-printing technology. This research addresses a significant gap in u... Read More about Revolutionizing affordable housing in Africa: A comprehensive technical and sustainability study of 3D-printing technology.

Machine vision and deep learning for robotic harvesting of shiitake mushrooms (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

There is a substantial requirement for the modernisation of our agricultural practices. Current methods can be susceptible to labour shortages, damaging to the environment, and inefficient; and these factors can lead to food wastage so threatening fo... Read More about Machine vision and deep learning for robotic harvesting of shiitake mushrooms.

Prediction of ultimate strain in anchored CFRP laminates using machine learning (2024)
Journal Article

Anchorage of carbon fibre-reinforced polymers (CFRP) laminates externally bonded to concrete by CFRP spike anchors effectively prevents the unfavourable debonding failure mode in strengthened concrete beams. However, the strain and strength enhanceme... Read More about Prediction of ultimate strain in anchored CFRP laminates using machine learning.

Constructing a discourse of hope and inspiration: A positive discourse analysis of Joko Widodo’s press statements on COVID-19 (2024)
Journal Article

Using positive discourse analysis as a framework, this article examines Indonesian President Joko Widodo’s press statements on the COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on how he constructed a message of hope and inspiration. The analysis demonstrates that... Read More about Constructing a discourse of hope and inspiration: A positive discourse analysis of Joko Widodo’s press statements on COVID-19.

Mind-body intervention and sleep (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This presentation explores the impact of mind-body interventions, specifically mindfulness meditation and Qigong, on sleep quality and disturbances in older adults. Mindfulness meditation enhances awareness and acceptance of present experiences, lead... Read More about Mind-body intervention and sleep.

Development of Dyadic mind-body intervention for Relieving Enduring sleep disturbances Among older individuals with deMentia and their caregivers (DREAM) in both white and ethnic minority communities in Bristol (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This presentation details a project focused on co-developing a dyadic mind-body intervention in collaboration with stakeholders, including older adults with dementia and their caregivers from four distinct ethnic communities: White British, Caribbean... Read More about Development of Dyadic mind-body intervention for Relieving Enduring sleep disturbances Among older individuals with deMentia and their caregivers (DREAM) in both white and ethnic minority communities in Bristol.

Monsters, metaphors and masks: Leadership insights from halloween (2024)
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In this article for the International Leadership Association (ILA) blog on 'Leadership for the Greater Good' Drs. Neil Sutherland, Rachel Wolfgramm, and ILA Fellow Dr. Richard Bolden consider what we can learn about leadership from the traditions of... Read More about Monsters, metaphors and masks: Leadership insights from halloween.

Book Review of Empire of Brutality (2024)
Journal Article

Editorial: Human-centered solutions and synergies across robotic and digital systems for rehabilitation (2024)
Journal Article

Editorial on the Research Topic Human-centered solutions and synergies across robotic and digital systems for rehabilitation s The growing need for effective, personalized, clinically compliant, and engaging rehabilitation-based on methodologies for... Read More about Editorial: Human-centered solutions and synergies across robotic and digital systems for rehabilitation.

Forensic science and policing must listen and learn to regain declining public trust (2024)
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Forensic science plays a key role in solving crimes as well as overturning wrongful convictions, but recent studies suggest public trust in forensic science is declining for a range of reasons. In this article, I talk about the need for a “collaborat... Read More about Forensic science and policing must listen and learn to regain declining public trust.