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Better Housing Better Health: A qualitative study of energy advice and support in Oxfordshire (2024)
Report
Sherriff, G., & Young, D. (2024). Better Housing Better Health: A qualitative study of energy advice and support in Oxfordshire. Oxfordshire County Council

The Better Housing Better Health (BHBH) service is provided by the National Energy Foundation (NEF) across Oxfordshire and other locations in the south of England. Delivering advice and support to residents to help them stay warm and healthy in their... Read More about Better Housing Better Health: A qualitative study of energy advice and support in Oxfordshire.

Enhancing Gearbox Fault Diagnosis through Advanced Feature Engineering and Data Segmentation Techniques (2024)
Journal Article
Shukla, K., Holderbaum, W., Theodoridis, T., & Wei, G. (in press). Enhancing Gearbox Fault Diagnosis through Advanced Feature Engineering and Data Segmentation Techniques. Machines, 12(4), 261. https://doi.org/10.3390/machines12040261

Efficient gearbox fault diagnosis is crucial for the cost-effective maintenance and reliable operation of rotating machinery. Despite extensive research, effective fault diagnosis remains challenging due to the multitude of features available for cla... Read More about Enhancing Gearbox Fault Diagnosis through Advanced Feature Engineering and Data Segmentation Techniques.

The 2nd Clarity Prediction Challenge: A Machine Learning Challenge for Hearing Aid Intelligibility Prediction (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper reports on the design and outcomes of the 2nd Clarity Prediction Challenge (CPC2) for predicting the intelligibility of hearing aid processed signals heard by individuals with a hearing impairment. The challenge was designed to promote new... Read More about The 2nd Clarity Prediction Challenge: A Machine Learning Challenge for Hearing Aid Intelligibility Prediction.

Effect of repeated post-resistance exercise cold or hot water immersion on in-season inflammatory responses in academy rugby players: a randomised controlled cross-over design (2024)
Journal Article
Horgan, B. G., West, N. P., Tee, N., Halson, S. L., Drinkwater, E. J., Chapman, D. W., & Haff, G. G. (2024). Effect of repeated post-resistance exercise cold or hot water immersion on in-season inflammatory responses in academy rugby players: a randomised controlled cross-over design. European Journal of Applied Physiology, 124(9), 2615-2628. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00421-024-05424-3

Purpose: Uncertainty exists if post-resistance exercise hydrotherapy attenuates chronic inflammatory and hormone responses. The effects of repeated post-resistance exercise water immersion on inflammatory and hormone responses in athletes were invest... Read More about Effect of repeated post-resistance exercise cold or hot water immersion on in-season inflammatory responses in academy rugby players: a randomised controlled cross-over design.

Implementing supplementary breast cancer screening in women with dense breasts: Insights from European radiographers and radiologists (2024)
Journal Article
Mizzi, D., Allely, C., Zarb, F., & Mercer, C. (2024). Implementing supplementary breast cancer screening in women with dense breasts: Insights from European radiographers and radiologists. Radiography, 30(3), 908-919. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radi.2024.04.003

Introduction In response to the critical need for enhancing breast cancer screening for women with dense breasts, this study explored the understanding of challenges and requirements for implementing supplementary b... Read More about Implementing supplementary breast cancer screening in women with dense breasts: Insights from European radiographers and radiologists.

Identification and support of autistic individuals within the UK Criminal Justice System: a practical approach based upon professional consensus with input from lived experience (2024)
Journal Article

Background: Autism spectrum disorder (hereafter referred to as autism) is characterised by difficulties with (i) social communication, social interaction, and (ii) restricted and repetitive interests and behaviours. Estimates of autism prevalence wit... Read More about Identification and support of autistic individuals within the UK Criminal Justice System: a practical approach based upon professional consensus with input from lived experience.

Broad Perspectives of the Experience of Romantic Relationships and Sexual Education in Neurodivergent Adolescents and Young Adults (2024)
Journal Article
Smusz, M., Allely, C. S., & Bidgood, A. (2024). Broad Perspectives of the Experience of Romantic Relationships and Sexual Education in Neurodivergent Adolescents and Young Adults. Sexuality and Disability, 42(2), 459-499. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11195-024-09840-3

Neurodivergent young people tend to struggle with building and maintaining their romantic relationships. Despite this, there appears to be a lack of appropriate sexuality education delivered to them. This review aims to present and discuss the most c... Read More about Broad Perspectives of the Experience of Romantic Relationships and Sexual Education in Neurodivergent Adolescents and Young Adults.

Computation of hydromagnetic tangent hyperbolic non-Newtonian flow from a rotating non- isothermal cone to a non-darcy porous medium with thermal radiative flux (2024)
Journal Article

A theoretical and numerical study is conducted on nonlinear, steady-state thermal convection boundary layer flow of a magnetized incompressible Tangent Hyperbolic non-Newtonian fluid from a rotating cone to a non-Darcy porous medium. Power-law variat... Read More about Computation of hydromagnetic tangent hyperbolic non-Newtonian flow from a rotating non- isothermal cone to a non-darcy porous medium with thermal radiative flux.

Effect of Sampling Frequency on a Unilateral Isometric Hamstring Strength Assessment Using Force Plates (2024)
Journal Article

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of sampling frequency on the 90-90 (90-degrees hip and knee flexion) isometric hamstring assessment. Thirty-three elite female soccer players (age: 18.7 ± 3.7 years; height: 158.3 ± 5.9 cm; body m... Read More about Effect of Sampling Frequency on a Unilateral Isometric Hamstring Strength Assessment Using Force Plates.

Reflective reels-student perspectives of using reflection. The impact of embedding reflection into film and television production management training (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Encouraging students to become 'reflective practitioners' is a key component of the Creative Arts Higher Education (HE) experience. Reflection regularly features in assessment criteria for written assignments; however, it is typically not included... Read More about Reflective reels-student perspectives of using reflection. The impact of embedding reflection into film and television production management training.

Numerical solutions for magneto-convective boundary layer slip flow from a nonlinear stretching sheet with wall transpiration and thermal radiation effects (2024)
Journal Article
Alzahrani, F., Beg, O., & Ferdows, M. (in press). Numerical solutions for magneto-convective boundary layer slip flow from a nonlinear stretching sheet with wall transpiration and thermal radiation effects. Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A Applications, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/10407782.2022.2163945

A mathematical model is presented for magnetohydrodynamic viscous incompressible flow of an
electrically conducting Newtonian polymeric fluid from a moving permeable horizontal stretching
sheet with variable magnetic field, momentum and thermal sli... Read More about Numerical solutions for magneto-convective boundary layer slip flow from a nonlinear stretching sheet with wall transpiration and thermal radiation effects.

COVID-19 mortality among immigrants by duration of residence in Sweden: a population-based cohort study (2024)
Journal Article

Background: Explanations for the disproportional COVID-19 burden among immigrants relative to host-country natives include differential exposure to the virus and susceptibility due to poor health conditions. Prior to the pandemic, immigrants displaye... Read More about COVID-19 mortality among immigrants by duration of residence in Sweden: a population-based cohort study.

ENSO dataset & comparison of deep learning models for ENSO forecasting (2024)
Journal Article
Mir, S., Arbab, M. A., & Rehman, S. U. (2024). ENSO dataset & comparison of deep learning models for ENSO forecasting. Earth Science Informatics, 17(3), 2623-2628. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12145-024-01295-6

Forecasting the El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a challenging task in climatology. It is one of the main factors responsible for the Earth’s interannual climatic fluctuation and can result in many climatic anomalies. The impacts include natura... Read More about ENSO dataset & comparison of deep learning models for ENSO forecasting.

Assessing Bone Mineral Density in Sickle Cell Disease Patients and linking it to Admission Rates: A Prospective Uni-center Study (2024)
Journal Article

INTRODUCTION: Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an inherited autosomal recessive disorder with bone mineral density (BMD) as a common clinical manifestation of SCD. With a prevalence of 2.6%, Saudi Arabia is among the highest incidence of SCD worldwide. T... Read More about Assessing Bone Mineral Density in Sickle Cell Disease Patients and linking it to Admission Rates: A Prospective Uni-center Study.

Impact of suppression of the SOS response on protein expression in clinical isolates of Escherichia coli under antimicrobial pressure of ciprofloxacin (2024)
Journal Article

Introduction/objective: Suppression of the SOS response in combination with drugs damaging DNA has been proposed as a potential target to tackle antimicrobial resistance. The SOS response is the pathway used to repair bacterial DNA damage induced by... Read More about Impact of suppression of the SOS response on protein expression in clinical isolates of Escherichia coli under antimicrobial pressure of ciprofloxacin.

A world of pure industrial relations (2024)
Other
Lord, J. (2024). A world of pure industrial relations. Colchester

How Cadbury, founded in 1824 by John Cadbury in Birmingham, led the way in Employee welfare