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A survey on video content rating: taxonomy, challenges and open issues (2021)
Journal Article
Khaksar Pour, A., Chaw Seng, W., Palaiahnakote, S., Tahaei, H., & Badrul Anuar, N. (2021). A survey on video content rating: taxonomy, challenges and open issues. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 80, 24121-24145. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-021-10838-8

Rating a video based on its content is one of the most important solutions to classify videos for audience age groups. In this regard, Film content rating and TV programmes rating are the only two most common rating systems which have been accomplish... Read More about A survey on video content rating: taxonomy, challenges and open issues.

Mobile apps for self-management in pregnancy: a systematic review (2021)
Journal Article
Ejehiohen Iyawa, G., Rabiu Dansharif, A., & Khan, A. (2021). Mobile apps for self-management in pregnancy: a systematic review. Health and Technology, 11, 283-294. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12553-021-00523-z

Complications during pregnancy is a major problem affecting healthcare systems which requires the efforts of both patients and healthcare practitioners. For this reason, mobile apps have been increasingly sought to support self-management during preg... Read More about Mobile apps for self-management in pregnancy: a systematic review.

Radiological Determination of the Cranial Index of Present-Day Ghanaians (2021)
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Botwe, B. O., Boadu, J. N. A., Kyei, K. A., & Thompson, J. D. (2021). Radiological Determination of the Cranial Index of Present-Day Ghanaians. Forensic Sciences Research, 7(2), 138-141. https://doi.org/10.1080/20961790.2021.1886680

The cranial index (CI) of Ghanaians is currently unknown. The aim of this study was to measure the CI in a population of Ghanaians in order to classify them against pre-determined CI categories. A systematic random sampling method was used to select... Read More about Radiological Determination of the Cranial Index of Present-Day Ghanaians.

The biopsychosocial-digital continuum of foot orthosis practice and research : the VALUATOR model (2021)
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Deschamps, K., Nester, C., Newton, V., Gijon-Nogueron, G., Simsek, E., & Brabants, A. (2021). The biopsychosocial-digital continuum of foot orthosis practice and research : the VALUATOR model. Journal of Foot and Ankle Research, 14(1), 25. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13047-021-00468-6

Foot orthoses have been used for decades despite uncertainty surrounding their therapeutic efficacy. Orthoses have been used exclusively to affect neuro-biomechanical input and outcome variables, however, there is emerging evidence that therapeutic e... Read More about The biopsychosocial-digital continuum of foot orthosis practice and research : the VALUATOR model.

Seascape ecology : identifying research priorities for an emerging ocean sustainability science (2021)
Journal Article
Pittman, S., Yates, K., Bouchet, P., Alvarez-Berastegui, D., Andréfouët, S., Bell, S., …Young, M. (2021). Seascape ecology : identifying research priorities for an emerging ocean sustainability science. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 663, 1-29. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13661

Seascape ecology, the marine-centric counterpart to landscape ecology, is rapidly emerging as an interdisciplinary and spatially explicit ecological science with relevance to marine management, biodiversity conservation, and restoration. While import... Read More about Seascape ecology : identifying research priorities for an emerging ocean sustainability science.

Between-Limb Differences During 180° Turns in Female Soccer Players: Application of Statistical Parametric Mapping (2021)
Journal Article
Thomas, C., Dos'Santos, T., Warmenhoven, J., & Jones, P. A. (2021). Between-Limb Differences During 180° Turns in Female Soccer Players: Application of Statistical Parametric Mapping. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 36(11), 3136-3142. https://doi.org/10.1519/jsc.0000000000004022

This study was exploratory in nature and investigated the ability of statistical parametric mapping (SPM) to assess between-limb differences in lower-extremity movement change of direction. Fourteen female soccer players (mean ± SD; age = 20.6 ± 0.6... Read More about Between-Limb Differences During 180° Turns in Female Soccer Players: Application of Statistical Parametric Mapping.

Why we are boycotting the Independent Review of Prevent (2021)
Journal Article
Qurashi, F. (2021). Why we are boycotting the Independent Review of Prevent

Dr Fahid Qurashi explains widespread concerns in the Muslim community about the review of the controversial counter-terrorism strategy

Acceptance of Google Meet during the spread of Coronavirus by Arab university students (2021)
Journal Article
Al-Maroof, R., Alshurideh, M., Salloum, S., AlHamad, A., & Gaber, T. (2021). Acceptance of Google Meet during the spread of Coronavirus by Arab university students. Informatics, 8(2), e24. https://doi.org/10.3390/informatics8020024

The COVID-19 pandemic not only affected our health and medical systems but also has created large disruption of education systems at school and universities levels. According to the United Nation’s report, COVID-19 has influenced more than 1.6 billio... Read More about Acceptance of Google Meet during the spread of Coronavirus by Arab university students.

Embodied carbon in commercial office buildings : lessons learned from Sri Lanka (2021)
Journal Article
Nawarathna, A., Alwan, Z., Gledson, B., & Fernando, N. (2021). Embodied carbon in commercial office buildings : lessons learned from Sri Lanka. Journal of Building Engineering, 42, 102441. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2021.102441

Growing concerns over the importance of reducing the embodied carbon (EC1) of buildings have led to a greater focus on EC-related research and policymaking. Nevertheless, the Sri Lankan building sector is currently lagging behind on this issue. While... Read More about Embodied carbon in commercial office buildings : lessons learned from Sri Lanka.

Non-similar radiative bioconvection nanofluid flow under oblique magnetic field with entropy generation (2021)
Journal Article
Shukla, N., Rana, P., Kuharat, S., & Beg, O. (2022). Non-similar radiative bioconvection nanofluid flow under oblique magnetic field with entropy generation. Journal of applied and computational mechanics, 8(1), 206-218. https://doi.org/10.22055/JACM.2020.33580.2250

Motivated by exploring the near-wall transport phenomena involved in bioconvection fuel cells combined with electrically conducting
nanofluids, in the present article, a detailed analytical treatment using homotopy analysis method (HAM) is presented... Read More about Non-similar radiative bioconvection nanofluid flow under oblique magnetic field with entropy generation.

A research agenda for geographies of everyday intergenerational encounter (2021)
Journal Article
Yarker, S. (2021). A research agenda for geographies of everyday intergenerational encounter. Area, 53(2), 264-271. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12716

This paper calls for a research agenda that attends to the geographies of everyday intergenerational encounter that occur informally in communities. Using the theoretical framing of social infrastructure and encounter, it argues that we need to bette... Read More about A research agenda for geographies of everyday intergenerational encounter.

Sporting mega-event security in hyperreality and its consequences for democratic security governance (2021)
Journal Article
Aitken, A. (2021). Sporting mega-event security in hyperreality and its consequences for democratic security governance. Democracy and Security, 17(3), 233-256. https://doi.org/10.1080/17419166.2021.1891529

Within the sporting mega-events literature three key developments exist: 1. Security is performative and symbolic; 2. Security reactivates state authority and legitimacy in developing security responses; 3. Security measures have discernible security... Read More about Sporting mega-event security in hyperreality and its consequences for democratic security governance.

Stretched nerves and suffering minds : the isolating effects of female madness in Villette (2021)
Journal Article
Bury, H. (in press). Stretched nerves and suffering minds : the isolating effects of female madness in Villette. Brontë Studies, 46(2), 159-171. https://doi.org/10.1080/14748932.2021.1875631

This article analyses the symbiotic relationship between Lucy Snowe’s madness and isolation in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette (1853). I argue that madness enhances isolation, and isolation enhances madness, through an exploration of Lucy’s solitude. In... Read More about Stretched nerves and suffering minds : the isolating effects of female madness in Villette.

Stakeholder preference mapping : the case for built heritage of Georgetown, Malaysia (2021)
Journal Article
Georgetown, Malaysia. Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development, 11(2), https://doi.org/10.1108/JCHMSD-08-2020-0114

Purpose
While there is an established body of literature that discusses the importance of
stakeholder management, and also the need for involvement of all stakeholders so
that all values of a heritage site can be captured in a heritage management... Read More about Stakeholder preference mapping : the case for built heritage of Georgetown, Malaysia.

On the security and privacy challenges of virtual assistants (2021)
Journal Article
Bolton, T., Dargahi, T., Belguith, S., Al-Rakhami, M., & Sodhro, A. (2021). On the security and privacy challenges of virtual assistants. Sensors, 21(7), e2312. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21072312

Since the purchase of Siri by Apple, and its release with the iPhone 4S in 2011, virtual assistants (VAs) have grown in number and popularity. The sophisticated natural language processing and speech recognition employed by VAs enables users to inter... Read More about On the security and privacy challenges of virtual assistants.

Measuring the Heat Transfer Coefficient (HTC) in buildings : a stakeholder’s survey (2021)
Journal Article
Deb, C., Gelder, L., Spiekman, M., Guillaume, P., Jack, R., & Fitton, R. (2021). Measuring the Heat Transfer Coefficient (HTC) in buildings : a stakeholder’s survey. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 144, 111008. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2021.111008

The heat transfer coefficient (HTC) is a very important factor influencing the energy performance of a building. Recent studies have shown the importance of on-site measurements of the HTC in reducing the performance gap in buildings. However, its me... Read More about Measuring the Heat Transfer Coefficient (HTC) in buildings : a stakeholder’s survey.

A conceptual framework for contemporary professional foot care practice : ''The value based digital foot care framework'' (2021)
Journal Article
Deschamps, K., Brabants, A., Nester, C., Gijon-Nogueron, G., Simşek, E., & Newton, V. (2021). A conceptual framework for contemporary professional foot care practice : ''The value based digital foot care framework''. Journal of Foot and Ankle Research, 14(1), 22. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13047-021-00465-9

Background: A small minority of countries around the globe have podiatry as a recognized profession, hence, there are considerable differences among these countries when it comes to the curricula, the duration of training and legislation regulating t... Read More about A conceptual framework for contemporary professional foot care practice : ''The value based digital foot care framework''.

A heuristic study of the similarities and differences in offender characteristics across potential and successful serial sexual homicide offenders (2021)
Journal Article
Yaksic, E., Harrison, M., Konikoff, D., Mooney, R., Allely, C., De Silva, R., …Sarteschi, C. (2021). A heuristic study of the similarities and differences in offender characteristics across potential and successful serial sexual homicide offenders. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 39(4), 428-449. https://doi.org/10.1002/bsl.2510

This heuristic study examined potential serial sexual homicide offenders (SSHOs), an unacknowledged offender group comprised of aspiring and probable SSHOs, and compared them with successful SSHOs. Data were collected on six aspiring SSHOs who each f... Read More about A heuristic study of the similarities and differences in offender characteristics across potential and successful serial sexual homicide offenders.