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A survey of environmental performance enhancement strategies and building data capturing techniques in the Nigerian context (2023)
Journal Article
Nigerian context. Buildings, 13(2), 452. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13020452

Abstract: The need to improve the performance of Nigeria’s office buildings is due to, energy challenges, increasing population, changing user needs, and climate change. With the expansion of
several Nigerian cities, existing buildings constitute a... Read More about A survey of environmental performance enhancement strategies and building data capturing techniques in the Nigerian context.

A pilot study of co-produced autism training for police custody staff : evaluating the impact on perceived knowledge change and behaviour intentions (2022)
Journal Article
Holloway, C., Munro, N., Cossburn, K., & Ropar, D. (2022). A pilot study of co-produced autism training for police custody staff : evaluating the impact on perceived knowledge change and behaviour intentions. Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management, https://doi.org/10.1108/PIJPSM-11-2021-0159

Purpose

Autistic people have reported particularly negative experiences in police custody, which can lead to significant long-term personal and legal consequences. Research has suggested providing autism training to police forces would help impr... Read More about A pilot study of co-produced autism training for police custody staff : evaluating the impact on perceived knowledge change and behaviour intentions.

A cross-sectional analysis of the muscle strength, spinal shrinkage, and recovery during a working day of military police officers (2021)
Journal Article
Hoflinger, F., Rodacki, A. L. F., Tavares, J. M., Fadel Neto, M. I., Paulo, A. C., Fowler, N. E., & Rodacki, C. L. N. (2021). A cross-sectional analysis of the muscle strength, spinal shrinkage, and recovery during a working day of military police officers. Journal of occupational health, 63(1), e12297. https://doi.org/10.1002/1348-9585.12297

Objective: Military personnel has a large prevalence of back pain, especially those involved in patrolling routines, as they wear heavy protective equipment. Patrolling includes long periods of sustaining the protective equipment in a sitting or in a... Read More about A cross-sectional analysis of the muscle strength, spinal shrinkage, and recovery during a working day of military police officers.

Running costs indices for commercial buildings using the hedonic price imputation approach: a case of Sri Lanka (2021)
Journal Article
Hemba Geekiyanage, M., & Ramachandra, T. (in press). Running costs indices for commercial buildings using the hedonic price imputation approach: a case of Sri Lanka. Construction Management and Economics, 39(8), 704-721. https://doi.org/10.1080/01446193.2021.1950790

Running expenses of a building consume a substantial share of its total life cycle cost and range between 70 and 80% in commercial buildings. Despite this, investment decisions are primarily based on construction costs due to the absence of a reliabl... Read More about Running costs indices for commercial buildings using the hedonic price imputation approach: a case of Sri Lanka.

Sentiment analysis in English texts (2020)
Journal Article
Alshamsi, A., Bayari, R., & Salloum, S. (in press). Sentiment analysis in English texts. Advances in science, technology and engineering systems journal, 5(6), 1683-1689. https://doi.org/10.25046/aj0506200

The growing popularity of social media sites has generated a massive amount of data that attracted researchers, decision-makers, and companies to investigate people’s opinions and thoughts in various fields. Sentiment analysis is considered an emergi... Read More about Sentiment analysis in English texts.

The use of self-reflection for enhanced enterprise education : a case study (2020)
Journal Article
Clarke, A., Cornes, C., & Ferry, N. (2020). The use of self-reflection for enhanced enterprise education : a case study. Education and Training, 62(5), 581-598. https://doi.org/10.1108/ET-03-2019-0050

Purpose
A case study was undertaken to evaluate the use of self-reflection in enterprise education in a UK university, where the taught content was tailored to ensure relevance to the students who were from a variety of subject disciplines.

Desi... Read More about The use of self-reflection for enhanced enterprise education : a case study.

The view from Salford : perspectives on scholarly communications from a research-informed university (2020)
Journal Article
Bayjoo, J., Broadhurst, D., Clay, D., & Smith, E. (2020). The view from Salford : perspectives on scholarly communications from a research-informed university. Insights, 33, https://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.511

This article presents a range of perspectives on the current state of the scholarly communications sector through the lens of a research-informed university, beginning with a short overview of research at the University of Salford and followed by our... Read More about The view from Salford : perspectives on scholarly communications from a research-informed university.

The increasing significance of impact within the Research Excellence Framework (REF) (2020)
Journal Article
Sutton, E. (2020). The increasing significance of impact within the Research Excellence Framework (REF). Radiography, 26(Sup 2), S17-S19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radi.2020.02.004

Introduction

The UK's Research Excellence Framework (REF) is a performance-based research funding system that was introduced in 2014. REF is a process of expert review in universities which assesses the quality and reach of research across higher... Read More about The increasing significance of impact within the Research Excellence Framework (REF).

Review of the efficacy of ultraviolet C for surface decontamination (2020)
Journal Article
Elgujja, A., Altalhi, H., & Ezreqat, S. (2020). Review of the efficacy of ultraviolet C for surface decontamination. Journal of nature and science of medicine (Print), 3(1), 8-12. https://doi.org/10.4103/jnsm.jnsm_21_19

Evidence has shown that the state of the patient care environment has a direct impact on heightening the risks of hospital-acquired infections among patients admitted in hospitals. Moreover in view of the suboptimal standard of cleanings by housekeep... Read More about Review of the efficacy of ultraviolet C for surface decontamination.

A systematic literature review for understanding the antecedents of the Digital Open Government matrix (2020)
Journal Article
Alenizi, A. (2020). A systematic literature review for understanding the antecedents of the Digital Open Government matrix. International Journal of Electronic Government Research, 16(1), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.4018/ijegr.2020010101

Developed and developing nations are increasingly focused on implementing Digital Open Government (DOG) systems with the purpose of fostering community engagement, citizen participation, accountability, growth and development, better public services,... Read More about A systematic literature review for understanding the antecedents of the Digital Open Government matrix.

Review of the efficacy of UVC for surface decontamination (2019)
Journal Article
Elgujja, A., Altalhi, H., & Ezreqat, S. (2019). Review of the efficacy of UVC for surface decontamination. https://doi.org/10.4103/JNSM.JNSM_21_19

Evidence has shown that the state of the patient care environment has a direct impact in heightening the risks of hospital acquired infections among patients admitted in hospitals. And in view of the sub-optimal standard of cleanings by housekeeping... Read More about Review of the efficacy of UVC for surface decontamination.

A case for using both direct and indirect benchmarking to compare university performance metrics (2018)
Journal Article
Harris, W., Langan, A., Barrett, N., Jack, K., Wibberley, C., & Hamshire, C. (2018). A case for using both direct and indirect benchmarking to compare university performance metrics. Studies in Higher Education, 44(12), 2281-2292. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2018.1490893

Benchmarking is used in higher education as a means to improve and compare performance. Comparative metric benchmarks may take two forms, based on direct standardization (DS) or indirect standardization (IS). DS can be used to measure variation in pe... Read More about A case for using both direct and indirect benchmarking to compare university performance metrics.

Everyone has something worthwhile to say: an introduction to Salford Zine Library (2018)
Journal Article
Carlton, S., & Francis, I. (2018). Everyone has something worthwhile to say: an introduction to Salford Zine Library. Art Libraries Journal, 43(02), 101-105. https://doi.org/10.1017/alj.2018.9

Salford Zine Library is a volunteer-run, not-for-profit collection of approximately 2,000 zines and other self-published materials housed at Nexus Art Café in Manchester. The makeup of the collection, the way it has been built and its comparatively l... Read More about Everyone has something worthwhile to say: an introduction to Salford Zine Library.