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Transferring the index of vulnerable homes : application at the local-scale in England to assess fuel poverty vulnerability (2019)
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Castaño-Rosa, R., Sherriff, G., Thomson, H., Guzmán, J., & Marrero, M. (2019). Transferring the index of vulnerable homes : application at the local-scale in England to assess fuel poverty vulnerability. Energy and Buildings, 203, 109458. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2019.109458

Fuel poverty, or energy poverty, has traditionally been associated with households that cannot afford to keep their homes adequately warm and/or cool due to low income and energy inefficient dwellings. Recent studies show a need for a good understand... Read More about Transferring the index of vulnerable homes : application at the local-scale in England to assess fuel poverty vulnerability.

Biological interactions between carreau fluid and micro-swimmers in a complex wavy canal with MHD effects (2019)
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Ali, N., Asghar, Z., Sajid, M., & Beg, O. (2019). Biological interactions between carreau fluid and micro-swimmers in a complex wavy canal with MHD effects. Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering, 41, 446. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40430-019-1953-y

The efficient magnetic swimming of actual or mechanically designed micro-swimmers within bounded regions is reliant on several factors. Few of which are: the actuation of these swimmers via magnetic field, rheology of surrounding liquid (with dominan... Read More about Biological interactions between carreau fluid and micro-swimmers in a complex wavy canal with MHD effects.

Urban wild meat consumption and trade in central Amazonia (2019)
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Rocha El Bizri, H., Morcatty, T., Valsecchi, J., & Mayor, P. (2019). Urban wild meat consumption and trade in central Amazonia. Conservation Biology, 34(2), 438-448. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13420

The switch from hunting wild meat for home consumption to supplying more lucrative city markets in Amazonia can adversely affect some game species. Despite this, information on the amounts of wild meat eaten in Amazonian cities is still limited. We e... Read More about Urban wild meat consumption and trade in central Amazonia.

A self-aligning prosthetic device for older patients with vascular-related amputations: Protocol for a randomised feasibility study (the STEPFORWARD study) (2019)
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Mitchell, N., Coleman, E., Watson, J., Bell, K., McDaid, C., Barnett, C., …Vanicek, N. (2019). A self-aligning prosthetic device for older patients with vascular-related amputations: Protocol for a randomised feasibility study (the STEPFORWARD study). BMJ Open, 9(9), e032924. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-032924

Introduction The majority of older patients with a transtibial amputation are prescribed a standard (more rigid, not self-aligning) prosthesis. These are mostly suitable for level walking, and cannot adjust to different sloped surfaces. This makes w... Read More about A self-aligning prosthetic device for older patients with vascular-related amputations: Protocol for a randomised feasibility study (the STEPFORWARD study).

Reading Stuart Hall : the influence of the New Left on social work (2019)
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social work. Critical and Radical Social Work, 7(3), 367-379. https://doi.org/10.1332/204986019X15668423845081

This article will discuss the work of the late cultural and political theorist Professor Stuart Hall (1932–2014). Hall made hugely significant contributions in cultural studies. In addition, he was one of the first thinkers on the Left to recognise t... Read More about Reading Stuart Hall : the influence of the New Left on social work.

A cognitive style dataset including functional near-infrared spectroscopy, eye-tracking, psychometric and behavioral measures (2019)
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Bendall, R., Lambert, S., Galpin, A., Marrow, L., & Cassidy, S. (2019). A cognitive style dataset including functional near-infrared spectroscopy, eye-tracking, psychometric and behavioral measures. Data in Brief, 26, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2019.104544

The dataset includes data from the triangulated investigation reported in our paper: ‘Psychophysiological indices of cognitive style: A triangulated study incorporating neuroimaging, eye-tracking, psychometric and behavioral measures’ [1,2]. The data... Read More about A cognitive style dataset including functional near-infrared spectroscopy, eye-tracking, psychometric and behavioral measures.

Occupation of racial grief, loss as a resource : learning from ‘The Combahee River Collective Black Feminist Statement' (2019)
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Nayak, S. (2019). Occupation of racial grief, loss as a resource : learning from ‘The Combahee River Collective Black Feminist Statement'. Psychological Studies, 64, 352-364. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12646-019-00527-w

The methodology of ‘occupation’ through rereading The Combahee River Collective Black Feminist Statement (The Combahee River Collective, in: James, Sharpley-Whiting (eds) The Black Feminist Reader. Blackwell Publishers Ltd., Oxford, pp 261–270, 19... Read More about Occupation of racial grief, loss as a resource : learning from ‘The Combahee River Collective Black Feminist Statement'.

Does speed of processing or vocabulary size predict later language growth in toddlers? (2019)
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Peter, M., Durrant, S., Jessop, A., Bidgood, A., Pine, J., & Rowland, C. (2019). Does speed of processing or vocabulary size predict later language growth in toddlers?. Cognitive Psychology, 115, 101238. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2019.101238

It is becoming increasingly clear that the way that children acquire cognitive representations depends critically on how their processing system is developing. In particular, recent studies suggest that individual differences in language processing s... Read More about Does speed of processing or vocabulary size predict later language growth in toddlers?.

Accountable privacy preserving attribute based framework for authenticated encrypted access in clouds (2019)
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Belguith, S., Kaaniche, N., Laurent, M., Jemai, A., & Attia, R. (2020). Accountable privacy preserving attribute based framework for authenticated encrypted access in clouds. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 135, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpdc.2019.08.014

In this paper, we propose an accountable privacy preserving attribute-based framework, called Ins-PAbAC, that combines attribute based encryption and attribute based signature techniques for securely sharing outsourced data contents via public clo... Read More about Accountable privacy preserving attribute based framework for authenticated encrypted access in clouds.

A family-care rubric : developing family care and communication skills using simulation (2019)
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Van Gelderen, S., Engebretson, A., Miller, A., Hancock, A., Ehmke, S., Swan, M., & Garrow, A. (2019). A family-care rubric : developing family care and communication skills using simulation. Clinical Simulation in Nursing, 36, 47-58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecns.2019.07.006

Background: A gap in the literature identified a lack of evidence-based tools that frame feedback and evaluate nursing actions. The Van Gelderen Family Care Rubric (VGFCR) was developed to enhance learning experiences and skill development of fam... Read More about A family-care rubric : developing family care and communication skills using simulation.

The effect of limb preference on braking strategy and knee joint mechanics during pivoting in female soccer players (2019)
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Thomas, C., Dos'Santos, T., Cuthbert, M., Fields, C., & Jones, P. (2019). The effect of limb preference on braking strategy and knee joint mechanics during pivoting in female soccer players. Science and Medicine in Football, 4(1), 30-36. https://doi.org/10.1080/24733938.2019.1667020

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore whether limb preference influences braking strategy and knee joint mechanics during a 180° pivot task in female soccer players. Methods: Three-dimensional motion analyses of pivoting on the prefer... Read More about The effect of limb preference on braking strategy and knee joint mechanics during pivoting in female soccer players.

‘Bring yourself to work’ : rewriting the feeling rules in ‘personalised’ social work (2019)
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Whitaker, E. (2019). ‘Bring yourself to work’ : rewriting the feeling rules in ‘personalised’ social work. Journal of Organizational Ethnography, 8(3), 325-338. https://doi.org/10.1108/JOE-06-2018-0030

Purpose: This paper explores how feeling rules are constructed, experienced and contested within personalised social work practice. It considers how organisations seek to shape practitioners towards certain forms of emotional display in increasingly... Read More about ‘Bring yourself to work’ : rewriting the feeling rules in ‘personalised’ social work.

Estimating peanut leaf chlorophyll content with dorsiventral leaf adjusted indices: minimizing the impact of spectral differences between adaxial and abaxial leaf surfaces (2019)
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Xie, M., Wang, Z., Huete, A., Brown, L., Wang, H., Xie, Q., …Ding, Y. (2019). Estimating peanut leaf chlorophyll content with dorsiventral leaf adjusted indices: minimizing the impact of spectral differences between adaxial and abaxial leaf surfaces. Remote Sensing, 11(18), https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11182148

Relatively little research has assessed the impact of spectral differences among dorsiventral leaves caused by leaf structure on leaf chlorophyll content (LCC) retrieval. Based on reflectance measured from peanut adaxial and abaxial leaves and LCC me... Read More about Estimating peanut leaf chlorophyll content with dorsiventral leaf adjusted indices: minimizing the impact of spectral differences between adaxial and abaxial leaf surfaces.

Low-molecular-weight organic acids enable biochar to immobilize nitrate (2019)
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Heaney, N., Ukpong, E., & Lin, C. (2020). Low-molecular-weight organic acids enable biochar to immobilize nitrate. Chemosphere, 240, 124872. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2019.124872

Batch experiments were conducted using two biochar materials produced from different feedstocks to examine the behavior of solution-borne nitrate in the presence and absence of three model low-molecular weight organic acids (LMWOAs). The results show... Read More about Low-molecular-weight organic acids enable biochar to immobilize nitrate.

EULAR points to consider for the development, evaluation and implementation of mobile health applications aiding self-management in people living with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (2019)
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Najm, A., Nikiphorou, E., Kostine, M., Richez, C., Pauling, J., Finckh, A., …Berenbaum, F. (2019). EULAR points to consider for the development, evaluation and implementation of mobile health applications aiding self-management in people living with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases. RMD Open, 5(2), https://doi.org/10.1136/rmdopen-2019-001014

Background: Mobile health applications (apps) are available to enable people with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs) to better self-manage their health. However, guidance on the development and evaluation of such apps is lacking. Objectiv... Read More about EULAR points to consider for the development, evaluation and implementation of mobile health applications aiding self-management in people living with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases.

An echo state network architecture based on quantum logic gate and its optimization (2019)
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Liu, J., Sun, T., Luo, Y., Yang, S., Cao, Y., & Zhai, J. (2020). An echo state network architecture based on quantum logic gate and its optimization. Neurocomputing, 371, 100-107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2019.09.002

Quantum neural network (QNN) is developed based on two classical theories of quantum computation and artificial neural networks. It has been proved that quantum computing is an important candidate for improving the performance of traditional neural n... Read More about An echo state network architecture based on quantum logic gate and its optimization.

Moving towards self-actualization : a trauma-informed and needs-focused approach to the mental health needs of survivors of commercial child sexual exploitation (2019)
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Laser-Maira, J., Peach, D., & Hounmenou, C. (2019). Moving towards self-actualization : a trauma-informed and needs-focused approach to the mental health needs of survivors of commercial child sexual exploitation. International Journal of Social Work, 6(2), 27. https://doi.org/10.5296/ijsw.v6i2.15198

There is increasing evidence that children who are subject to commercial child sexual exploitation (CCSE) are likely to experience complex mental health needs. Failure to address the trauma experienced by victims of CCSE can lead to suicide attempts,... Read More about Moving towards self-actualization : a trauma-informed and needs-focused approach to the mental health needs of survivors of commercial child sexual exploitation.

'Unlocking the door to being there'. The contribution of creative facilitators in supporting people living with dementia to engage with heritage settings (2019)
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Scholar, H., Innes, A., Haragalova, J., & Sharma, M. (2021). 'Unlocking the door to being there'. The contribution of creative facilitators in supporting people living with dementia to engage with heritage settings. Dementia, 20(1), 213-230. https://doi.org/10.1177/1471301219871388

This article reports findings from the evaluation of ‘Sensory Palaces’, an innovative project developed by the charity Historic Royal Palaces (HRP), which looks after six of the United Kingdom’s unoccupied royal palaces. The Sensory Palaces (SP) pro... Read More about 'Unlocking the door to being there'. The contribution of creative facilitators in supporting people living with dementia to engage with heritage settings.