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Railway out-of-gauge cargo transportation route selection method considering gauge modification (2022)
Journal Article
Zhang, Y., Liu, J., An, M., & Wang, J. (2022). Railway out-of-gauge cargo transportation route selection method considering gauge modification. Lecture notes in electrical engineering, 271-279. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9909-2_30

The size of railway out-of-gauge cargo is large, and the loading outline will exceed the railway gauges. In the actual transportation organization, how to choose a safe and economic transportation route is an important issue in the transportation of... Read More about Railway out-of-gauge cargo transportation route selection method considering gauge modification.

Modelling cascade dynamics of passenger flow congestion in urban rail transit network induced by train delay (2022)
Journal Article
Li, M., Zhou, X., Wang, Y., Jia, L., & An, M. (2022). Modelling cascade dynamics of passenger flow congestion in urban rail transit network induced by train delay. Alexandria engineering journal : AEJ, 61(11), 8797-8807. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aej.2022.02.022

A research into congestion propagation mechanism of urban rail transit passenger flow in train delay scenario is of great significance to the formulation of coordinated limitation measures of passenger flow among the operation lines in urban rail tra... Read More about Modelling cascade dynamics of passenger flow congestion in urban rail transit network induced by train delay.

Defining Continuous Walking Events in Free-Living Environments: Mind the Gap (2022)
Journal Article
Gbadamosi, A. R., Griffiths, B. N., Clarke-Cornwell, A. M., & Granat, M. H. (2022). Defining Continuous Walking Events in Free-Living Environments: Mind the Gap. Sensors, 22(5), 1720. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22051720

In free-living environments, continuous walking can be challenging to achieve without encountering interruptions, making it difficult to define a continuous walking event. While limited research has been conducted to define a continuous walking event... Read More about Defining Continuous Walking Events in Free-Living Environments: Mind the Gap.

Selecting educational apps for preschool children : how useful are website app rating systems? (2022)
Journal Article
Taylor, G., Kolak, J., Bent, E., & Monaghan, P. (2022). Selecting educational apps for preschool children : how useful are website app rating systems?. British Journal of Educational Technology, 53(5), 1262-1282. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.13199

In the present paper, we assess whether website rating systems are useful for selecting educational apps for preschool age children. We selected the 10 highest scoring and 10 lowest scoring apps for 2–4-year-olds from two widely used websites (Good A... Read More about Selecting educational apps for preschool children : how useful are website app rating systems?.

Pressure redistributing static chairs for preventing pressure ulcers (2022)
Journal Article
Stephens, M., Bartley, C., & Dumville, J. (2022). Pressure redistributing static chairs for preventing pressure ulcers. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2022(2), CD013644. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD013644.pub2

Background
Sitting can be viewed as a therapeutic intervention and an important part of a person's recovery process; but the risk of ulceration must be mitigated. Interventions for ulcer prevention in those at risk from prolonged sitting include th... Read More about Pressure redistributing static chairs for preventing pressure ulcers.

Development of a railway out-of-gauge freight transport routing optimal method (2022)
Journal Article
Zhang, Y., Guo, J., & An, M. (2022). Development of a railway out-of-gauge freight transport routing optimal method. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 595, 127081. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2022.127081

Railway out-of-gauge freight (ROF) is beyond railway gauges in its dimensions, which could be risks leading to serious railway accidents. This article presents a new methodology to search for a safest and more economic route of ROF by taking safety a... Read More about Development of a railway out-of-gauge freight transport routing optimal method.

An empirical investigation of agile information systems development for cybersecurity (2022)
Journal Article
Ardo, A., Bass, J., & Gaber, T. (2022). An empirical investigation of agile information systems development for cybersecurity. Lecture notes in business information processing (Internet), 567-581. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95947-0_40

Cybersecurity has been identified as a major challenge confronting the digital world,
neglecting cybersecurity techniques during software design and development increases the risk
of malicious attacks. Thus, there is a need to make security an inte... Read More about An empirical investigation of agile information systems development for cybersecurity.

Prioritisation of resilience criteria and performance indicators for road emergencies crisis response : an analytic hierarchy process (AHP) approach (2022)
Journal Article
Aziz, Z., Alzaabi, E., & Syazli Fathi, M. (2022). Prioritisation of resilience criteria and performance indicators for road emergencies crisis response : an analytic hierarchy process (AHP) approach. Journal of Financial Management of Property and Construction, https://doi.org/10.1108/JFMPC-11-2021-0065

Purpose:
This paper aims to develop a crisis readiness framework for road traffic crisis response for law enforcement agencies in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Design/methodology/approach:
A Delphi method was used that combined questionnaire-... Read More about Prioritisation of resilience criteria and performance indicators for road emergencies crisis response : an analytic hierarchy process (AHP) approach.

‘Defunding the police’: A consideration of the implications for the police role in mental health work (2022)
Journal Article
Cummins, I. (2022). ‘Defunding the police’: A consideration of the implications for the police role in mental health work. Police Journal, 96(2), 230-244. https://doi.org/10.1177/0032258x211047795

This paper examines the role of the police in mental health work. It explores whether the calls to ‘defund the police’ can be the basis for fundamental reforms of mental health services and the police role. The paper outlines the roots of the calls t... Read More about ‘Defunding the police’: A consideration of the implications for the police role in mental health work.

Improved ability to achieve single leg stance increases gait efficiency following single leg stance intervention in adults post brain injury (2022)
Journal Article
Boyer, A., & Spence, N. (2022). Improved ability to achieve single leg stance increases gait efficiency following single leg stance intervention in adults post brain injury. Physiotherapy, 114(Sup. 1), e51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physio.2021.12.304

Purpose: Acquired brain injury (ABI) survivors rate walking impairments as their most severe limitation. Following ABI adults walk 60 cm/s slower than healthy adults. Following ABI reduced gait speed correlates with reduced single leg stance (SLS) wh... Read More about Improved ability to achieve single leg stance increases gait efficiency following single leg stance intervention in adults post brain injury.

Acceptability of therapist training and delivery of a psychological informed gait rehabilitation intervention for people with early rheumatoid arthritis (2022)
Journal Article
Sekhon, M., Godfrey, E., Amirova, A., Hendry, G., Foster, N., Hider, S., …Bearne, L. (2022). Acceptability of therapist training and delivery of a psychological informed gait rehabilitation intervention for people with early rheumatoid arthritis. Physiotherapy, 114(Sup. 1), e120-e121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physio.2021.12.072

Purpose: GREAT-Strides is a novel gait rehabilitation intervention with an embedded psychological component aimed at improving walking ability in people with early rheumatoid arthritis. As part of the Gait Rehabilitation in Early Arthritis Trial (GRE... Read More about Acceptability of therapist training and delivery of a psychological informed gait rehabilitation intervention for people with early rheumatoid arthritis.

Cauda Equina screening in physiotherapy : are we asking the right questions and are we asking the questions right? (2022)
Journal Article
Kimber, D., & Pigott, T. (2022). Cauda Equina screening in physiotherapy : are we asking the right questions and are we asking the questions right?. Physiotherapy, 114(Sup. 1), e129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physio.2021.12.084

Purpose: Cauda Equina Syndrome (CES) is a surgical emergency. With Physiotherapists increasingly taking on first-contact and spinal triage roles, screening for CES must be thorough, as effective as possible and easily understood by patients. Diagnosi... Read More about Cauda Equina screening in physiotherapy : are we asking the right questions and are we asking the questions right?.

Challenging a host–pathogen paradigm: Susceptibility to chytridiomycosis is decoupled from genetic erosion (2022)
Journal Article
Smith, D., O'Brien, C., Hall, J., Sergeant, C., Brookes, L. M., Harrison, X. A., …Jehle, R. (2022). Challenging a host–pathogen paradigm: Susceptibility to chytridiomycosis is decoupled from genetic erosion. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 35(4), 589-598. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13987

The putatively positive association between host genetic diversity and the ability to defend against pathogens has long attracted the attention of evolutionary biologists. Chytridiomycosis, a disease caused by the chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dend... Read More about Challenging a host–pathogen paradigm: Susceptibility to chytridiomycosis is decoupled from genetic erosion.

Dataset of British English speech recordings for psychoacoustics and speech processing research : the Clarity Speech Corpus (2022)
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Graetzer, S., Akeroyd, M., Barker, J., Cox, T., Culling, J., Naylor, G., …Muñoz, R. (2022). Dataset of British English speech recordings for psychoacoustics and speech processing research : the Clarity Speech Corpus. Data in Brief, 41, 107951. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2022.107951

This paper presents the Clarity Speech Corpus, a publicly available, forty speaker British English speech dataset. The corpus was created for the purpose of running listening tests to gauge speech intelligibility and quality in the Clarity Project, w... Read More about Dataset of British English speech recordings for psychoacoustics and speech processing research : the Clarity Speech Corpus.

Income insecurity and the relational coping strategies of low-income households in the UK (2022)
Journal Article
Young, D. (2022). Income insecurity and the relational coping strategies of low-income households in the UK. Journal of Social Policy, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1017/S004727942200006X

Changes in the labour market, high rates of working age poverty, major welfare reforms and more recently the Covid-19 pandemic have drawn renewed attention to income security. Existing research has identified the important role of relational support... Read More about Income insecurity and the relational coping strategies of low-income households in the UK.

The Reliability and Magnitude of Time-Dependent Force-Time Characteristics During the Isometric Midthigh Pull Are Affected by Both Testing Protocol and Analysis Choices (2022)
Journal Article
Guppy, S. N., Kotani, Y., Brady, C. J., Connolly, S., Comfort, P., & Haff, G. G. (2022). The Reliability and Magnitude of Time-Dependent Force-Time Characteristics During the Isometric Midthigh Pull Are Affected by Both Testing Protocol and Analysis Choices. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 36(5), 1191-1199. https://doi.org/10.1519/jsc.0000000000004229

Guppy, SN, Kotani, Y, Brady, CJ, Connolly, S, Comfort, P, and Haff, GG. Title: The reliability and magnitude of time-dependent force-time characteristics during the isometric mid-thigh pull are impacted by both testing protocol and analysis choices.... Read More about The Reliability and Magnitude of Time-Dependent Force-Time Characteristics During the Isometric Midthigh Pull Are Affected by Both Testing Protocol and Analysis Choices.

The food bank : a safety-net in place of welfare security in times of austerity and the Covid-19 crisis (2022)
Journal Article
Beck, D., & Gwilym, H. (2022). The food bank : a safety-net in place of welfare security in times of austerity and the Covid-19 crisis. Social Policy and Society, https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474746421000907

The food bank has become a charitable safety-net for those who have been failed by the
social security system in times of austerity and during the Covid-19 pandemic. In this
article we evidence the rise of food banking in the context of declining s... Read More about The food bank : a safety-net in place of welfare security in times of austerity and the Covid-19 crisis.

Mixed convective-radiative dissipative magnetized micropolar nanofluid flow over a stretching surface in porous media with double stratification and chemical reaction effects : ADM-Padé computation (2022)
Journal Article
Pattnaik, P., Bhatti, M., Mishra, S., Abbas, M., & Beg, O. (2022). Mixed convective-radiative dissipative magnetized micropolar nanofluid flow over a stretching surface in porous media with double stratification and chemical reaction effects : ADM-Padé computation. Journal of Mathematics, 2022, 9888379. https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/9888379

The present study deals with the electrically conducting micropolar nanofluid flow
from a vertical stretching surface adjacent to a porous medium under a transverse magnetic
field. Eringen’s micropolar model is deployed for non-Newtonian characteri... Read More about Mixed convective-radiative dissipative magnetized micropolar nanofluid flow over a stretching surface in porous media with double stratification and chemical reaction effects : ADM-Padé computation.

Un-African aging? Discourses of the socio-spatial welfare for older people in urban Zimbabwe (2022)
Journal Article
Ncube, B., & Goodman Nhapi, T. (2022). Un-African aging? Discourses of the socio-spatial welfare for older people in urban Zimbabwe. Architecture and Culture, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/20507828.2021.2021746

Global discourse has evidenced that the physical and social environment continues to have a large bearing on how people age, resulting in growing recognition of the socio-spatial needs of older people in urban environments. This article examines the... Read More about Un-African aging? Discourses of the socio-spatial welfare for older people in urban Zimbabwe.