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Introduction to special issue on Webster (2018)
Journal Article
Bergstrom, C., & Nigri, L. (2018). Introduction to special issue on Webster. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, 31(2), 146-150. https://doi.org/10.1080/0895769X.2018.1466263

John Webster’s Theater of (Dis)obedience and Damnation: A collection of essays exploring the forms and functions of violence, evil, and social realities in Webster's drama.

The UK renal psychosocial workforce : a mapping exercise (2018)
Report
Seekles, M., Coyne, E., Ormandy, P., Wells, L., Bevin, A., & Danbury-Lee, A. (2018). The UK renal psychosocial workforce : a mapping exercise

This is the first detailed workforce report in the UK that describes the provision of psychosocial care to kidney patients across 84 renal units. It presents an overview of the renal psychosocial workforce (in July 2017) and compares this to results... Read More about The UK renal psychosocial workforce : a mapping exercise.

Cross-species referential signalling events in domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) (2018)
Journal Article
Worsley, H., & O'Hara, S. (2018). Cross-species referential signalling events in domestic dogs (Canis familiaris). Animal Cognition, 21(4), 457-465. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-018-1181-3

Referential gestures are used by a signaller to draw a recipient’s attention to a specific object, individual or event in the environment. These gestures have received much research attention in relation to human and non-human primates with great ape... Read More about Cross-species referential signalling events in domestic dogs (Canis familiaris).

Assessing climate risks across different business sectors and industries : an investigation of methodological challenges at national scale for the UK (2018)
Journal Article
Surminski, S., Di Mauro, M., Baglee, J., Connell, R., Hankinson, J., Haworth, A., …Proverbs, D. (2018). Assessing climate risks across different business sectors and industries : an investigation of methodological challenges at national scale for the UK. Philosophical Transactions A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 376(2121), #20170307. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2017.0307

Climate change poses severe risks for businesses, which companies as well as governments need to understand in order to take appropriate steps to manage those. This, however, represents a significant challenge as climate change risk assessment is its... Read More about Assessing climate risks across different business sectors and industries : an investigation of methodological challenges at national scale for the UK.

Novel soft bending actuator based power augmentation hand exoskeleton controlled by human intention (2018)
Journal Article
Al-Fahaam, H., Davis, S., Nefti-Meziani, S., & Theodoridis, T. (2018). Novel soft bending actuator based power augmentation hand exoskeleton controlled by human intention. Intelligent Service Robotics, 11(3), 247-268. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11370-018-0250-4

This article presents the development of a soft material power augmentation wearable robot using novel bending soft artificial muscles. This soft exoskeleton was developed as a human hand power augmentation system for healthy or partially hand disabl... Read More about Novel soft bending actuator based power augmentation hand exoskeleton controlled by human intention.

Development of a SMA-fishing-line-McKibben bending actuator (2018)
Journal Article
Chaoqun, X., Guo, J., Yang, C., Lina, H., & Davis, S. (2018). Development of a SMA-fishing-line-McKibben bending actuator. IEEE Access, 6, 27183-27189. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2830314

High power-to-weight ratio soft artificial muscles are of overarching importance to enable inherently safer solutions to human-robot interactions. Traditional air driven soft McKibben artificial muscles are linear actuators. It is impossible for them... Read More about Development of a SMA-fishing-line-McKibben bending actuator.

Comparison of single- and dual-monitor approaches to differentiate sitting from lying in free-living conditions (2018)
Journal Article
Smits, E., Winkler, E., Healy, G., Dall, P., Granat, M., & Hodges, P. (2018). Comparison of single- and dual-monitor approaches to differentiate sitting from lying in free-living conditions. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports, 28(8), 1888-1896. https://doi.org/10.1111/sms.13203

High levels of sedentary time have been detrimentally linked to health outcomes. Differentiating sitting from lying may help to further understand the mechanisms associated with these health impacts. This study compares the inter‐method agreement bet... Read More about Comparison of single- and dual-monitor approaches to differentiate sitting from lying in free-living conditions.

Big Data, Method and the Ethics of Location: A Case Study of a Hookup App for Men Who Have Sex with Men (2018)
Journal Article
Light, B., Mitchell, P., & Wikström, P. (2018). Big Data, Method and the Ethics of Location: A Case Study of a Hookup App for Men Who Have Sex with Men. Social Media + Society, 4(2), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305118768299

With the rise of geo-social media, location is emerging as a particularly sensitive data point for big data and digital media research. To explore this area, we reflect on our ethics for a study in which we analyze data generated via an app that faci... Read More about Big Data, Method and the Ethics of Location: A Case Study of a Hookup App for Men Who Have Sex with Men.

End-user stakeholders’ management framework for public private partnership road project in Nigeria (2018)
Thesis
Toriola-Coker, O. End-user stakeholders’ management framework for public private partnership road project in Nigeria. (Thesis). University of Salford

Many developing nations such as Nigeria have embraced PPP approach in order to bridge their significant infrastructural gaps such as prisons, roads, schools, rail tracks and train systems, among others, through Public Private Partnership (PPP) scheme... Read More about End-user stakeholders’ management framework for public private partnership road project in Nigeria.

Interactive sonification exploring emergent behavior applying models for biological information and listening (2018)
Journal Article
Choi, I. (2018). Interactive sonification exploring emergent behavior applying models for biological information and listening. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 12, 197. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2018.00197

Sonification is an open-ended design task to construct sound informing a listener of data. Understanding application context is critical for shaping design requirements for data translation into sound. Sonification requires methodology to maintain re... Read More about Interactive sonification exploring emergent behavior applying models for biological information and listening.

Type D personality, stress, coping and performance on a novel sport task (2018)
Journal Article
Borkoles, E., Kaiseler, M., Evans, A., Ski, C., Thompson, D., & Polman, R. (2018). Type D personality, stress, coping and performance on a novel sport task. PLoS ONE, 13(4), e0196692. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0196692

We investigated (1) the relationship between Type D personality, stress intensity appraisal of a self-selected stressor, coping, and perceived coping effectiveness and (2) the relationship between Type D personality and performance. In study one, 482... Read More about Type D personality, stress, coping and performance on a novel sport task.

Eye of sustainable planning : a conceptual heritage-led urban regeneration planning framework (2018)
Journal Article
Dogruyol, K., Aziz, Z., & Arayici, Y. (2018). Eye of sustainable planning : a conceptual heritage-led urban regeneration planning framework. Sustainability, 10(5), no.1343. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10051343

Implementation and integration of sustainable development within a management framework is the main problem of urban regeneration projects. Therefore, this paper aims to develop a sustainable heritage-led urban regeneration planning framework, which... Read More about Eye of sustainable planning : a conceptual heritage-led urban regeneration planning framework.

A risk-based maintenance decision-making approach for railway asset management (2018)
Journal Article
Wang, L., An, M., Qin, Y., & Jia, L. (2018). A risk-based maintenance decision-making approach for railway asset management. International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, 28(4), 453-483. https://doi.org/10.1142/s0218194018400065

This paper presents a risk-based maintenance decision making modeling methodology for railway asset maintenance optimization, which takes risk and maintenance cost objectives into consideration in the decision making process. A bottom-up risk analysi... Read More about A risk-based maintenance decision-making approach for railway asset management.

The popularity of newer racisms : justifications, excuses and re-defined borders (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Patel, T. (2018, April). The popularity of newer racisms : justifications, excuses and re-defined borders. Presented at All Souls Criminology Seminar Series, The Old Library - All Souls College, Oxford, UK

This paper discusses some of the processes and consequences of newer racisms in contemporary society, based on Dr Tina Patel's paper. In arguing that we have recently witnessed a surge in the popularity of racism (under which I also include Islamopho... Read More about The popularity of newer racisms : justifications, excuses and re-defined borders.

Stagger Lee : how violent nostalgia created an American folk song standard (2018)
Journal Article
Williams, D. (2018). Stagger Lee : how violent nostalgia created an American folk song standard. Journal of Extreme Anthropology, 2(1), 89-97. https://doi.org/10.5617/jea.5546

“Stagger” Lee Shelton (1865-1912) was an African-American carriage driver and sometime-pimp from Missouri. He became immortalized in song as a folklore antihero after murdering a drinking partner following a political argument gone bad in a St Louis... Read More about Stagger Lee : how violent nostalgia created an American folk song standard.

Non-pharmacological interventions for people with fibromyalgia : a systematic review (2018)
Journal Article
Rolls, C., & Prior, Y. (2018). Non-pharmacological interventions for people with fibromyalgia : a systematic review. Rheumatology, 57(Supl.3), https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/key075.509

Background: Fibromyalgia (FM) affects approximately 2% of the population and characterised by chronic widespread pain, fatigue, sleep and cognitive problems. The revised European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) recommendations for the management of... Read More about Non-pharmacological interventions for people with fibromyalgia : a systematic review.

The contribution of occupational therapy in the care of people with musculoskeletal diseases (2018)
Journal Article
Prior, Y. (2018). The contribution of occupational therapy in the care of people with musculoskeletal diseases. Rheumatology, 57(Supl.3), https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/key075.072

Musculoskeletal conditions (MSCs) are a heterogeneous group of conditions, which affect the musculoskeletal system and are linked to bodily pain, impaired physical function and lead to decline in the performance of activities of daily living (ADLs).... Read More about The contribution of occupational therapy in the care of people with musculoskeletal diseases.

As a practitioner I feel enriched : rheumatology tutors’ experiences of delivering a manualised group cognitive-behavioural fatigue programme to patients with rheumatoid arthritis (2018)
Journal Article
Dures, E., Hammond, A., & Hewlett, S. (2018). As a practitioner I feel enriched : rheumatology tutors’ experiences of delivering a manualised group cognitive-behavioural fatigue programme to patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatology, 57(Supl.3), https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/key075.500

Background: Reducing Arthritis Fatigue by clinical Teams using cognitive-behavioural approaches (RAFT) is a seven-centre RCT of a manualised group cognitive-behavioural (CB) programme to reduce fatigue impact. After four days training plus a delivery... Read More about As a practitioner I feel enriched : rheumatology tutors’ experiences of delivering a manualised group cognitive-behavioural fatigue programme to patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

Ontology and framework for semantic labelling of document data and software methods (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Clausner, C., & Antonacopoulos, A. (2018). Ontology and framework for semantic labelling of document data and software methods. . https://doi.org/10.1109/DAS.2018.46

We present a metadata labelling framework for datasets, software tools, and workflows. An ontology for document image analysis was developed with deep support for historical data. An accompanying open source software framework was implemented to enab... Read More about Ontology and framework for semantic labelling of document data and software methods.