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Integration of blockchain with connected and autonomous vehicles : vision and challenge (2021)
Journal Article
Dargahi, T., Ahmadvand, H., Alraja, M., & Yu, C. (2022). Integration of blockchain with connected and autonomous vehicles : vision and challenge. Journal of Data and Information Quality, 14(1), 5. https://doi.org/10.1145/3460003

Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) are introduced to improve individuals’ quality of life by offering a wide range of services. They collect a huge amount of data and exchange them with each other and the infrastructure. The collected data usu... Read More about Integration of blockchain with connected and autonomous vehicles : vision and challenge.

The effect of moisture on the thermal property of a reed thatch roof during the UK heating season (2021)
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Simpson, A. (2022). The effect of moisture on the thermal property of a reed thatch roof during the UK heating season. Energy and Buildings, 257(111777), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2021.111777

The hygrothermal performance of a replacement reed thatch roof with an insulation upgrade on Roadside cottage, a heated timber framed building in the UK, has been investigated over the winter months November 2020 to April 2021. The moisture content d... Read More about The effect of moisture on the thermal property of a reed thatch roof during the UK heating season.

Mapping New Landscapes (2021)
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Cherniwchan, C. (2021). Mapping New Landscapes. #Journal not on list, 30(120),

Floating wonder (2021)
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Cherniwchan, C. (2021). Floating wonder. #Journal not on list, 30(120),

The need for children's advocacy centres : hearing the voices of children (2021)
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Cook, D., Livesley, J., Long, T., Sam, M., & Rowland, A. (2021). The need for children's advocacy centres : hearing the voices of children. Comprehensive Child and Adolescent Nursing, https://doi.org/10.1080/24694193.2021.1989085

Children and young people (CYP) can be empowered to take on roles as agents of change in their own communities. CYP want to be heard and should be actively involved in the coproduction, design and development of services aimed at them to ensure that... Read More about The need for children's advocacy centres : hearing the voices of children.

What matters more for employees' mental health : job quality or job quantity? (2021)
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Wang, S., Kamerāde, D., Burchell, B., Coutts, A., & Balderson, U. (2021). What matters more for employees' mental health : job quality or job quantity?. Cambridge Journal of Economics, beab054. https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/beab054

Recent debates about whether the standard full-time working week (35-40 hours) can be replaced by a shorter working week have received extensive attention. Using 2015 European Working Conditions Survey data, this study contributes to these debates... Read More about What matters more for employees' mental health : job quality or job quantity?.

A methodology for strategy-oriented project portfolio selection taking dynamic synergy into considerations (2021)
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Bai, L., Bai, J., & An, M. (2021). A methodology for strategy-oriented project portfolio selection taking dynamic synergy into considerations. Alexandria engineering journal : AEJ, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aej.2021.11.056

The selection of an optimal project portfolio from multiple project proposals to implement management strategy is always a challenge task for project managers, especially, in the selection of large-scale and complicated projects. This is particular t... Read More about A methodology for strategy-oriented project portfolio selection taking dynamic synergy into considerations.

Social media and empowerment in hospitality and tourism decision-making : a study among UK Muslim women (2021)
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Khan, I., Sahadev, S., Rashid, T., & Banerjee, S. (2022). Social media and empowerment in hospitality and tourism decision-making : a study among UK Muslim women. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 101, 103125. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhm.2021.103125

Research that explores Muslim women’s hospitality and tourism decision-making is limited. This paper attempts to bring a new perspective to the literature on social media and consumption decisions in the hospitality and tourism sector by focusing on... Read More about Social media and empowerment in hospitality and tourism decision-making : a study among UK Muslim women.

Remote creation of clinical-standard myoelectric trans-radial bypass sockets during COVID-19 (2021)
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Olsen, J., Head, J., Willan, L., Dupan, S., & Dyson, M. (2021). Remote creation of clinical-standard myoelectric trans-radial bypass sockets during COVID-19. Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 6500-6503. https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC46164.2021.9630925

To enable the progression of research during the COVID-19 lockdown, a novel remote method of creating clinical standard trans-radial bypass sockets was devised as a collaboration between an engineering team and a clinical research group. The engineer... Read More about Remote creation of clinical-standard myoelectric trans-radial bypass sockets during COVID-19.

Sex‐related differences in aging rate are associated with sex chromosome system in amphibians (2021)
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Cayuela, H., Lemaitre, J., Lena, J., Ronget, V., Martinez-Solano, I., Muths, E., …Miller, D. (2022). Sex‐related differences in aging rate are associated with sex chromosome system in amphibians. Evolution, 76(2), 346-356. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14410

Sex-related differences in mortality are widespread in the animal kingdom. Although studies have shown that sex determination systems might drive lifespan evolution, sex chromosome influences on aging rates have not been investigated so far, likely d... Read More about Sex‐related differences in aging rate are associated with sex chromosome system in amphibians.

Testing a newly developed activity pacing framework for chronic pain/fatigue : a feasibility study (2021)
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Antcliff, D., Keenan, A., Keeley, P., Woby, S., & McGowan, L. (2021). Testing a newly developed activity pacing framework for chronic pain/fatigue : a feasibility study. BMJ Open, 11(12), e045398. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-045398

Objectives: To test the feasibility of using a new activity pacing framework to standardise healthcare professionals’ instructions of pacing, and explore whether measures of activity pacing/symptoms detected changes following treatment. Design: Singl... Read More about Testing a newly developed activity pacing framework for chronic pain/fatigue : a feasibility study.

Evaluation of the role of p53 tumour suppressor posttranslational modifications and TTC5 cofactor in lung cancer (2021)
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Alhebshi, H., Tian, K., Patnaik, L., Taylor, R., Bezecny, P., Hall, C., …Krstic- Demonacos, M. (2021). Evaluation of the role of p53 tumour suppressor posttranslational modifications and TTC5 cofactor in lung cancer. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 22(24), e13198. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms222413198

Mutations in the p53 tumor suppressor are found in over 50% of cancers. p53 function is controlled through posttranslational modifications and cofactor interactions. In this study, we investigated the posttranslationally modified p53, including p53 a... Read More about Evaluation of the role of p53 tumour suppressor posttranslational modifications and TTC5 cofactor in lung cancer.

Longitudinal study of foot pressures during real-world walking as infants develop from new to confident walkers (2021)
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Price, C., Montagnani, E., Martinez Santos, A., Nester, C., & Morrison, S. (2022). Longitudinal study of foot pressures during real-world walking as infants develop from new to confident walkers. Gait & Posture, 92, 351-358. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gaitpost.2021.12.003

Background: Onset of walking in infants leads to regular cyclic loading of the plantar foot surface for the first time. This is a critical period for evolving motor skills and foot structure and function. Plantar pressure literature typically studi... Read More about Longitudinal study of foot pressures during real-world walking as infants develop from new to confident walkers.

Hope : the dream we carry (2021) (2021)
Journal Article
Featherstone, K., & Whitaker, E. (2021). Hope : the dream we carry (2021). Sociology of Health and Illness, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13416

Book review of De Nora, Tia, 'Hope : the dream we carry', Palgrave Macmillan. 1st ed. 2021 edition (22 April 2021); ISBN-10: 3030698696; ISBN-13: 978–3030698690

Congruence of local ecological knowledge (LEK)‐based methods and line‐transect surveys in estimating wildlife abundance in tropical forests (2021)
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Braga‐Pereira, F., Morcatty, T. Q., El Bizri, H. R., Tavares, A. S., Mere‐Roncal, C., González‐Crespo, C., …Mayor, P. (2022). Congruence of local ecological knowledge (LEK)‐based methods and line‐transect surveys in estimating wildlife abundance in tropical forests. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 13(3), 743-756. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.13773

Effective estimation of wildlife population abundance is an important component of population monitoring, and ultimately essential for the development of conservation actions. Diurnal line-transect surveys are one of the most applied methods for abun... Read More about Congruence of local ecological knowledge (LEK)‐based methods and line‐transect surveys in estimating wildlife abundance in tropical forests.

The association between COVID-19 related food insecurity and weight promoting eating behaviours : the mediating role of distress and eating to cope (2021)
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Keenan, G., Christiansen, P., Owen, L., & Hardman, C. (2022). The association between COVID-19 related food insecurity and weight promoting eating behaviours : the mediating role of distress and eating to cope. Appetite, 169, 105835. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2021.105835

Food insecurity (a lack of stable access to nutritious food) is reliably associated with obesity, although the underlying mechanisms are unclear. Past research indicates that this relationship may, in part, be explained by the distress of being food... Read More about The association between COVID-19 related food insecurity and weight promoting eating behaviours : the mediating role of distress and eating to cope.

Meta-analysis enables prediction of the maximum permissible arsenic concentration in Asian paddy soil (2021)
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Mandal, J., Sengupta, S., Sarkar, S., Mukherjee, A., Wood, M., Hutchinson, S., & Mondal, D. (2021). Meta-analysis enables prediction of the maximum permissible arsenic concentration in Asian paddy soil. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 9, 760125. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2021.760125

It is now well-established that not just drinking water, but irrigation water contaminated with arsenic (As) is an important source of human As exposure through water-soil-rice transfer. While drinking water As has a permissible, or guideline value,... Read More about Meta-analysis enables prediction of the maximum permissible arsenic concentration in Asian paddy soil.

Qualitative study in Natural Language Processing : text classification (2021)
Journal Article
Wahdan, A., Salloum, S., & Shaalan, K. (2022). Qualitative study in Natural Language Processing : text classification. Lecture notes in networks and systems (Online), 2, 83-92. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85990-9_8

Recently Natural Language Processing (NLP) has excessive attention due to increased data available online. Although there is huge development in Arabic NLP, but still it is behind English NLP. The aim of this study is to examine the most useful quali... Read More about Qualitative study in Natural Language Processing : text classification.

Sentiment analysis of Arabic COVID-19 tweets (2021)
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Ahmed, D., Salloum, S., & Shaalan, K. (2022). Sentiment analysis of Arabic COVID-19 tweets. Lecture notes in networks and systems (Online), 2, 623-632. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85990-9_50

With the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020, information about the pandemic has been exponentially increasing and spreading across various social media platforms. People across the globe have been affected in a way or another because of different aspects such... Read More about Sentiment analysis of Arabic COVID-19 tweets.

Impact of knowledge management on organizational performance (2021)
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Bayari, R., Al Shamsi, A., Salloum, S., & Shaalan, K. (2022). Impact of knowledge management on organizational performance. Lecture notes in networks and systems (Online), 2, 1035-1046. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85990-9_82

This paper aims to explore the relationship between knowledge management (KM) and organizational performance (OP). Systematic literature review was conducted to look at different practices for KM in different sectors and locations to build a good bac... Read More about Impact of knowledge management on organizational performance.