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Climate financing barriers and strategies: the case of Sri Lanka (2022)
Journal Article
Dasandara, M., Ingirige, B., Kulatunga, U., & Fernando, T. (2023). Climate financing barriers and strategies: the case of Sri Lanka. Journal of Financial Management of Property and Construction, 28(2), 242-259. https://doi.org/10.1108/jfmpc-12-2021-0069

Purpose:
Climate change mitigation and adaptation play an important role in overcoming the climate change challenges facing Sri Lanka today. Many initiatives have been undertaken to implement different policies and plans in this regard, which requir... Read More about Climate financing barriers and strategies: the case of Sri Lanka.

A portable six-wheeled mobile robot with reconfigurable body and self-adaptable obstacle-climbing mechanisms (2022)
Journal Article
Song, Z., Luo, Z., Wei, G., & Shang, J. (2022). A portable six-wheeled mobile robot with reconfigurable body and self-adaptable obstacle-climbing mechanisms. Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, 14(5), 051010. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4053529

Mobile robots can replace rescuers in rescue and detection missions in complex and unstructured environments and draw the interest of many researchers. This paper presents a novel six-wheeled mobile robot with a reconfigurable body and self-adaptable... Read More about A portable six-wheeled mobile robot with reconfigurable body and self-adaptable obstacle-climbing mechanisms.

Challenges in Interpreting Geochemical Data: An Appraisal of Analytical Techniques Applied to a Karstic Lake Sediment Record (2022)
Journal Article
Haliuc, A., Bonk, A., Longman, J., Hutchinson, S. M., Zak, M., & Veres, D. (2022). Challenges in Interpreting Geochemical Data: An Appraisal of Analytical Techniques Applied to a Karstic Lake Sediment Record. Water, 14(5), 806. https://doi.org/10.3390/w14050806

The paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental changes inferred from shifts in lake sediment geochemistry require reliable, efficient and cost-effective methods of analysis. The available geochemical techniques, however, suggest that different analytical a... Read More about Challenges in Interpreting Geochemical Data: An Appraisal of Analytical Techniques Applied to a Karstic Lake Sediment Record.

Epidemiology, Distribution and Identification of Ticks on Livestock in Pakistan (2022)
Journal Article
Khan, S. S., Ahmed, H., Afzal, M. S., Khan, M. R., Birtles, R. J., & Oliver, J. D. (2022). Epidemiology, Distribution and Identification of Ticks on Livestock in Pakistan. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(5), 3024. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19053024

Background: Ticks are ectoparasites that transmit a variety of pathogens that cause many diseases in livestock which can result in skin damage, weight loss, anemia, reduced production of meat and milk, and mortality. Aim: The aim of this study was to... Read More about Epidemiology, Distribution and Identification of Ticks on Livestock in Pakistan.

Climate financing barriers and strategies : the case of Sri Lanka (2022)
Journal Article
Dasandara, M., Ingirige, B., Kulatunga, U., & Fernando, T. (2022). Climate financing barriers and strategies : the case of Sri Lanka. Journal of Financial Management of Property and Construction, https://doi.org/10.1108/JFMPC-12-2021-0069

Purpose:
Climate change mitigation and adaptation play an important role in overcoming the climate change challenges facing Sri Lanka today. Many initiatives have been undertaken to implement different policies and plans in this regard, which requir... Read More about Climate financing barriers and strategies : the case of Sri Lanka.

Research Priorities for Pediatric Intensive Care Nutrition Within the United Kingdom: A National Institute of Health Research James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership (2022)
Journal Article

OBJECTIVES: To determine research priorities in PICU nutrition, which represent the shared priorities of patients, parents, carers, and PICU healthcare professionals within the United Kingdom. DESIGN: A national multiphase priority setting methodolog... Read More about Research Priorities for Pediatric Intensive Care Nutrition Within the United Kingdom: A National Institute of Health Research James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership.

Trauma-focused EMDR for Personality disorders among Outpatients (TEMPO): study protocol for a multi-centre, single-blind, randomized controlled trial. (2022)
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Hofman, S., Hafkemeijer, L., de Jongh, A., Starrenburg, A., & Slotema, K. (2022). Trauma-focused EMDR for Personality disorders among Outpatients (TEMPO): study protocol for a multi-centre, single-blind, randomized controlled trial. Trials, 23(1), 196. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-022-06082-6

BackgroundExisting recommended treatment options for personality disorders (PDs) are extensive and costly. There is emerging evidence indicating that trauma-focused treatment using eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy aimed at... Read More about Trauma-focused EMDR for Personality disorders among Outpatients (TEMPO): study protocol for a multi-centre, single-blind, randomized controlled trial..

Electroanalytical Overview: Screen-printed electrochemical sensing platforms for the detection of vital cardiac, cancer and inflammatory biomarkers (2022)
Journal Article

Biomarkers play an important and irrefutable role in the screening, diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of a wide variety of human diseases. As these biomarkers inevitably feature more and more prominently in the patient care pathway, there is a grow... Read More about Electroanalytical Overview: Screen-printed electrochemical sensing platforms for the detection of vital cardiac, cancer and inflammatory biomarkers.

‘As queer refugees, we are out of category, we do not belong to one, or the other' : LGBTIQ+ refugees’ experiences in ‘ambivalent’ queer spaces (2022)
Journal Article

While over the last twenty years geographers of sexuality have explored the racialisation of
queer spaces, the experiences of LGBTIQ+ refugees in those spaces are rather absent in these
studies. At the same time, while in recent years there has bee... Read More about ‘As queer refugees, we are out of category, we do not belong to one, or the other' : LGBTIQ+ refugees’ experiences in ‘ambivalent’ queer spaces.

Providing, performing and protecting: the importance of work identities in negotiating conflicting work-family ideals as a single mother (2022)
Journal Article
Radcliffe, L., Cassell, C., & Malik, F. (2022). Providing, performing and protecting: the importance of work identities in negotiating conflicting work-family ideals as a single mother. British Journal of Management, 33, 890-905

The aims of this paper are twofold. First, we aim to expand understanding of work–family experiences beyond the prevalent emphasis on traditional couple-headed families within organization and management literatures by focusing on the experiences of... Read More about Providing, performing and protecting: the importance of work identities in negotiating conflicting work-family ideals as a single mother.

Symptom clusters in chronic kidney disease and their association with people’s ability to perform usual activities (2022)
Journal Article

Background
People living with a long-term condition, such as chronic kidney disease (CKD), often suffer from multiple symptoms simultaneously, making symptom management challenging. This study aimed to identify symptom clusters in adults with CKD ac... Read More about Symptom clusters in chronic kidney disease and their association with people’s ability to perform usual activities.

Sexual and reproductive health prescribing (2022)
Journal Article
Robertson, D. (2022). Sexual and reproductive health prescribing. Journal of Prescribing Practice, 4(3), 100-101. https://doi.org/10.12968/jprp.2022.4.3.100

Deborah Robertson provides an overview of recently published articles that may be of interest to non-medical prescribers. Should you wish to look at any of the papers in more detail, a full reference is provided

Living Labs in Social Housing upgrades: Process, Challenges and Recommendations (2022)
Journal Article
Engler Bridi, M., Soliman-Junior, J., Denis Granja, A., Tzortzopoulos, P., Gomes da Silva, V., & Kowaltowski, D. (2022). Living Labs in Social Housing upgrades: Process, Challenges and Recommendations. Sustainability, 14(5), https://doi.org/10.3390/su14052595

Social housing (SH) upgrades involve multiple stakeholders with sometimes divergent requirements and needs. Collaboration and participative processes are essential to ensuring an appropriate value for users is delivered through social housing upgrade... Read More about Living Labs in Social Housing upgrades: Process, Challenges and Recommendations.

Environmental and biological drivers of prevalence and number of eggs and oocysts of intestinal parasites in red howler monkeys from Central Amazonia (2022)
Journal Article
de Souza Jesus, A., de Oliveira-Ramalho, M. L., El Bizri, H. R., Valsecchi, J., & Mayor, P. (2022). Environmental and biological drivers of prevalence and number of eggs and oocysts of intestinal parasites in red howler monkeys from Central Amazonia. Folia Primatologica, 93(2), 121-138. https://doi.org/10.1163/14219980-20210701

Host-parasite relationships can be directly affected by host’s biological aspects and environmental factors, which influence both the survival of infective forms and the incidence of parasites. However, logistical difficulties in accessing biological... Read More about Environmental and biological drivers of prevalence and number of eggs and oocysts of intestinal parasites in red howler monkeys from Central Amazonia.

Psychoacoustic modelling of rotor noise (2022)
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Torija, A. J., Li, Z., & Chaitanya, P. (2022). Psychoacoustic modelling of rotor noise. ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 151(3), 1804-1815. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0009801

The aviation sector is rapidly evolving with more electric propulsion systems and a variety of new technologies of vertical take-off and landing manned and unmanned aerial vehicles. Community noise impact is one of the main barriers for the wider ado... Read More about Psychoacoustic modelling of rotor noise.

‘I'm always up against a brick wall with them’ : parents' experiences of accessing support for their child with a newly recognised developmental disorder (2022)
Journal Article
McCarthy, R., Blackburn, C., Mukherjee, R., Fleming, K., Allely, C., Kirby, L., & Cook, P. (2022). ‘I'm always up against a brick wall with them’ : parents' experiences of accessing support for their child with a newly recognised developmental disorder. British Journal of Special Education, 49(1), 41-63. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8578.12398

Three of the most prevalent developmental disorders (DDs) are autism spectrum disorder (ASD), attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD). As part of a study screening for DDs in Greater Manchester, UK,... Read More about ‘I'm always up against a brick wall with them’ : parents' experiences of accessing support for their child with a newly recognised developmental disorder.

Co-ordinated multidisciplinary intervention to reduce time to successful extubation for children on mechanical ventilation : the SANDWICH cluster stepped-wedge RCT (2022)
Journal Article

Background Daily assessment of patient readiness for liberation from invasive mechanical ventilation can reduce the duration of ventilation. However, there is uncertainty about the effectiveness of this in a paediatric population. Objectives To deter... Read More about Co-ordinated multidisciplinary intervention to reduce time to successful extubation for children on mechanical ventilation : the SANDWICH cluster stepped-wedge RCT.

Spotlight on cardiac intensive care nursing (Editorial) (2022)
Journal Article
Tume, L., & Trapani, J. (2022). Spotlight on cardiac intensive care nursing (Editorial). Nursing in Critical Care, 27(2), 139-140. https://doi.org/10.1111/nicc.12762

Welcome to our second issue for 2022. The aims and scope of Nursing in Critical specify that it caters for “the diverse specialities of critical care nursing including surgery, medicine, cardiac, renal, neurosciences, haematology, accident and emerge... Read More about Spotlight on cardiac intensive care nursing (Editorial).

Co-ordinated multidisciplinary intervention to reduce time to successful extubation for children on mechanical ventilation: the SANDWICH cluster stepped-wedge RCT (2022)
Journal Article
SANDWICH cluster stepped-wedge RCT. Health Technology Assessment, 26(18), https://doi.org/10.3310/TCFX3817

Background:
Daily assessment of patient readiness for liberation from invasive mechanical ventilation can reduce the duration of ventilation. However, there is uncertainty about the effectiveness of this in a paediatric population.

Objectives:... Read More about Co-ordinated multidisciplinary intervention to reduce time to successful extubation for children on mechanical ventilation: the SANDWICH cluster stepped-wedge RCT.