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Attacking Agility Actions: Match Play Contextual Applications With Coaching and Technique Guidelines (2022)
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Dos'Santos, T., McBurnie, A., Thomas, C., Jones, P. A., & Harper, D. (2022). Attacking Agility Actions: Match Play Contextual Applications With Coaching and Technique Guidelines. Strength and Conditioning Journal, 44(5), 102-118. https://doi.org/10.1519/ssc.0000000000000697

Attacking agility actions, such as side steps, shuffle steps, crossover cutting, split steps, spins, decelerations, and sharp turns, are important maneuvers in invasion team sports, often linked with decisive match winning moments. Generally, the aim... Read More about Attacking Agility Actions: Match Play Contextual Applications With Coaching and Technique Guidelines.

Assessing the impact of binaural and non-binaural auditory beat intervention to pain and compression in mammography (2022)
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Nelson, D., Berry, R., Szczepura, K., & Mercer, C. (2022). Assessing the impact of binaural and non-binaural auditory beat intervention to pain and compression in mammography. Radiography, 29(1), 101-108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radi.2022.09.005

Pain and discomfort has a negative impact on a patient's overall experience and may impact on subsequent re-attendance to mammography. Pain during mammography remains a significant issue. Assessment of interventions to reduce levels of pain associate... Read More about Assessing the impact of binaural and non-binaural auditory beat intervention to pain and compression in mammography.

The impact of the cost-of-living crisis on British credit unions and community-lenders (2022)
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Vik, P., & Wallace, A. (2022). The impact of the cost-of-living crisis on British credit unions and community-lenders. Journal of co-operative studies, 55(2), 29-34

Credit unions are often hypothesised to be less vulnerable to crises than other types of businesses. This paper examines the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on the British credit union and community lender sector drawing on interviews with 25 m... Read More about The impact of the cost-of-living crisis on British credit unions and community-lenders.

Perceptions of arthritis glove wear of patients with rheumatoid arthritis and persistent hand pain: A nested questionnaire study within the A‐Gloves trial (2022)
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Hammond, A., Prior, Y., Adams, J., Firth, J., O'Neill, T., & Hough, Y. (2022). Perceptions of arthritis glove wear of patients with rheumatoid arthritis and persistent hand pain: A nested questionnaire study within the A‐Gloves trial. Musculoskeletal Care, 21(2), 405-416. https://doi.org/10.1002/msc.1709

Introduction: Arthritis gloves are prescribed in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) to reduce hand pain, stiffness, and improve hand function. As part of a randomised controlled trial, this study investigated participants’ perceptions of wearing arthritis glo... Read More about Perceptions of arthritis glove wear of patients with rheumatoid arthritis and persistent hand pain: A nested questionnaire study within the A‐Gloves trial.

Special Edition 25: ALDinHE Conference Proceedings and Reflections (2022)
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Smith, E. E., & Pearson, A. (in press). Special Edition 25: ALDinHE Conference Proceedings and Reflections. Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, https://doi.org/10.47408/jldhe.vi25.994

We are thrilled to present to you the Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education’s Collaborative Conference Proceedings and Reflections – a collection of collaboratively written reports from the annual ALDinHE Conference that took place onli... Read More about Special Edition 25: ALDinHE Conference Proceedings and Reflections.

Experimental study of temperature effect on the mechanical tensile fatigue of hydrated lime modified asphalt concrete and case application for the analysis of climatic effect on constructed pavement (2022)
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constructed pavement. Case studies in construction materials, 17, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cscm.2022.e01622

Previous experimental studies have suggested that hot mixed asphalt (HMA) concrete using hydrated lime (HL) to partially replace the conventional limestone dust filler at 2.5% by the total weight of all aggregates showed an optimum improvement on sev... Read More about Experimental study of temperature effect on the mechanical tensile fatigue of hydrated lime modified asphalt concrete and case application for the analysis of climatic effect on constructed pavement.

Near-wall modeling of forests for atmosphere boundary layers using lattice Boltzmann method on GPU (2022)
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Shao, X., Santasmasas, M. C., Xue, X., Niu, J., Davidson, L., Revell, A. J., & Yao, H. (2022). Near-wall modeling of forests for atmosphere boundary layers using lattice Boltzmann method on GPU. Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics, 16(1), 2143-2156. https://doi.org/10.1080/19942060.2022.2132420

In this paper, the simulation and modeling of the turbulent atmospheric boundary layers (ABLs) in the presence of forests are studied using a lattice Boltzmann method with large eddy simulation, which was implemented in the open-source program GASCAN... Read More about Near-wall modeling of forests for atmosphere boundary layers using lattice Boltzmann method on GPU.

An Automatic Self Shape-Shifting Soft Mobile Robot (A4SMR) (2022)
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Al-Ibadi, M., Al-Assfor, F., & Al-Ibadi, A. (2022). An Automatic Self Shape-Shifting Soft Mobile Robot (A4SMR). Robotics, 11(6), https://doi.org/10.3390/robotics11060118

This article proposes a mobile robot that is fully constructed and actuated by utilising a pneumatic artificial muscle (PAM). Several features are shown in this design including softness, lightweight, and shape change. The robot that has been designe... Read More about An Automatic Self Shape-Shifting Soft Mobile Robot (A4SMR).

A three-dimensional whole-body model to predict human walking on level ground (2022)
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Hu, D., Howard, D., & Ren, L. (2022). A three-dimensional whole-body model to predict human walking on level ground. Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10237-022-01629-7

Predictive simulation of human walking has great potential in clinical motion analysis and rehabilitation engineering assessment, but large computational cost and reliance on measurement data to provide initial guess have limited its wide use. We dev... Read More about A three-dimensional whole-body model to predict human walking on level ground.

“Ageing in Place” and Urban Regeneration: Analysing the Role of Social Infrastructure (2022)
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Lewis, C., Yarker, S., Hammond, M., Kavanagh, N., & Phillipson, C. (in press). “Ageing in Place” and Urban Regeneration: Analysing the Role of Social Infrastructure. Urban Planning, 7(4), https://doi.org/10.17645/up.v7i4.5689

This article explores the potential impact of future urban regeneration for older people “ageing in place” in an inner-city neighbourhood, Collyhurst, Manchester, UK. Collyhurst has been reshaped by de-industrialisation, demolition of housing, disinv... Read More about “Ageing in Place” and Urban Regeneration: Analysing the Role of Social Infrastructure.

Designing smart drilling fluids using modified nano silica to improve drilling operations in geothermal wells (2022)
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Martin, C., Babaie, M., Nourian, A., & Nasr, G. (2022). Designing smart drilling fluids using modified nano silica to improve drilling operations in geothermal wells. Geothermics, 107(2), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geothermics.2022.102600

High pressure and high temperature (HPHT) conditions in geothermal wells have necessitated the need to develop thermally stable geothermal drilling mud systems to combat potential drilling complications. This is because mud fluids degrade under HPHT... Read More about Designing smart drilling fluids using modified nano silica to improve drilling operations in geothermal wells.

No effect of repeated post-resistance exercise cold or hot water immersion on in-season body composition and performance responses in academy rugby players: a randomised controlled cross-over design (2022)
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Horgan, B., Halson, S., Drinkwater, E., West, N., Tee, N., Alcock, R., …Haff, G. (2022). No effect of repeated post-resistance exercise cold or hot water immersion on in-season body composition and performance responses in academy rugby players: a randomised controlled cross-over design. European Journal of Applied Physiology, 123(2), 351-359. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00421-022-05075-2

Following resistance exercise, uncertainty exists as to whether the regular application of cold water immersion attenuates lean muscle mass increases in athletes. The effects of repeated post-resistance exercise cold versus hot water immersion on bod... Read More about No effect of repeated post-resistance exercise cold or hot water immersion on in-season body composition and performance responses in academy rugby players: a randomised controlled cross-over design.

Accommodating prisoners of war: a survey of the Weston Hostel (2022)
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Wild, C. (2022). Accommodating prisoners of war: a survey of the Weston Hostel. Industrial Archaeology Review, 44(2), 149-157. https://doi.org/10.1080/03090728.2022.2122680

Prisoner-of-war camps were one of the most numerous types of military sites to be established in Britain during the Second World War and yet are one of the least studied. Most comprised a series of temporary huts that were erected from prefabricated... Read More about Accommodating prisoners of war: a survey of the Weston Hostel.

Links between daytime napping, night-time sleep quality and infant attention: an eye-tracking, actigraphy and parent-report study (2022)
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Hasshim, N., Bramham, J., Keating, J., Gaffney, R. A., Keenan, L., Conroy, S., …Downes, M. (2022). Links between daytime napping, night-time sleep quality and infant attention: an eye-tracking, actigraphy and parent-report study. Children, 9(11), 1613. https://doi.org/10.3390/children9111613

The current study explored the potential influence of infant sleep, measured by parental report and actigraphy, and family functioning on attention development using eye tracking. The use of actigraphy in parallel with parental report, has the advant... Read More about Links between daytime napping, night-time sleep quality and infant attention: an eye-tracking, actigraphy and parent-report study.

Automated detection and quantification of contact behaviour in pigs using deep learning (2022)
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Alameer, A., Buijs, S., O'Connell, N., Dalton, L., Lilian Vestbjerg Larsen, M., Juul Pedersen, L., & Kyriazakis, I. (2022). Automated detection and quantification of contact behaviour in pigs using deep learning. Biosystems Engineering, 224, 118-130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2022.10.002

Change in the frequency of contact between pigs within a group may be indicative of a change in the physiological or health status of one or more pigs within a group, or indicative of the occurrence of abnormal behaviour, e.g. tail-biting. Here, we d... Read More about Automated detection and quantification of contact behaviour in pigs using deep learning.

Effective communication: core to promoting respectful maternity care for disabled women (2022)
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Collins, B., Hall, J., Hundley, V., & Ireland, J. (2022). Effective communication: core to promoting respectful maternity care for disabled women. Midwifery, 116, 103525. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2022.103525

Previous research highlights that disabled women have less choice, control and respect of their dignity during pregnancy, childbirth and parenting. The experience of dignity and respect during pregnancy and childbirth for those with physical and sens... Read More about Effective communication: core to promoting respectful maternity care for disabled women.