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Book review: Getting welfare to work: Street-level governance in Australia, the UK, and the Netherlands By Mark Considine, Jenny M. Lewis, Siobhan O'Sullivan, Els Sol, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. ISBN 978-0-19-874370-5; £64 (hbk). (2018)
Journal Article
Ceolta-Smith, J. (2018). Book review: Getting welfare to work: Street-level governance in Australia, the UK, and the Netherlands By Mark Considine, Jenny M. Lewis, Siobhan O'Sullivan, Els Sol, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. ISBN 978-0-19-874370-5; £64 (hbk). Social Policy and Administration, 52(3), 826-827. https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12392

Book review - no abstract available.

Introduction : towards a better understanding of corruption and anti-corruption (2018)
Journal Article
Bull, M., & Heywood, P. (2019). Introduction : towards a better understanding of corruption and anti-corruption. European Political Science, 18, 185-188. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41304-018-0152-0

Despite widespread interest in corruption and how to root it out, the problem continues to grow. Anti-corruption strategies and methods have proved ineffective in achieving lasting reductions in corruption. Anti-corruption academic research has not b... Read More about Introduction : towards a better understanding of corruption and anti-corruption.

Free convection heat and mass transfer of a nanofluid past a horizontal cylinder embedded in a non-Darcy porous medium (2018)
Journal Article
Rao, A., Prasad, V., Beg, O., & Rashidi, M. (2018). Free convection heat and mass transfer of a nanofluid past a horizontal cylinder embedded in a non-Darcy porous medium. Journal of Porous Media, 21(3), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1615/JPorMedia.v21.i3.60

In the present paper, we analyzed the laminar boundary layer flow and heat transfer from a horizontal cylinder in a nanofluid-saturated non-Darcy porous medium in the presence of thermal radiation. This is the first paper presenting non-similar solution... Read More about Free convection heat and mass transfer of a nanofluid past a horizontal cylinder embedded in a non-Darcy porous medium.

Numerical and experimental transition results evaluation for a morphing wing and aileron system (2018)
Journal Article
Botez, R., Koreanschi, A., Sugar-Gabor, O., Mebarki, Y., Mamou, M., Tondji, Y., …Concilio, A. (2018). Numerical and experimental transition results evaluation for a morphing wing and aileron system. Aeronautical Journal, 122(1251), 747-784. https://doi.org/10.1017/aer.2018.15

A new wing-tip concept with morphing upper surface and interchangeable conventional and morphing ailerons was designed, manufactured, bench and wind tunnel tested. The development of this wing tip model was performed in the frame of an international... Read More about Numerical and experimental transition results evaluation for a morphing wing and aileron system.

How to identify and support your anxious patient (2018)
Journal Article
Stonehouse, D. (2018). How to identify and support your anxious patient. British Journal of Healthcare Assistants, 12(4), 186-188. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjha.2018.12.4.186

This article examines the importance of identifying the anxious patient and how to support them. Recognition of physical signs will be explained. The important areas of giving enough time, developing a therapeutic relationship, always acting in the p... Read More about How to identify and support your anxious patient.

Deep learning meets ontologies : experiments to anchor the cardiovascular disease ontology in the biomedical literature (2018)
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Arguello Casteleiro, M., Demetriou, G., Read, W., Fernandez-Prieto, M., Maroto, N., Maseda Fernandez, D., …Stevens, R. (2018). Deep learning meets ontologies : experiments to anchor the cardiovascular disease ontology in the biomedical literature. Journal of Biomedical Semantics, 9(13), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13326-018-0181-1

Background Automatic identification of term variants or acceptable alternative free-text terms for gene and protein names from the millions of biomedical publications is a challenging task. Ontologies, such as the Cardiovascular Disease Ontology (C... Read More about Deep learning meets ontologies : experiments to anchor the cardiovascular disease ontology in the biomedical literature.

Collected Scatterings : a digital anthology in the making (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Loubser, J. (2018, April). Collected Scatterings : a digital anthology in the making. Presented at British Forum for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference, International Centre for Music Studies, Newcastle University

Over the past year I, along with my technologically minded colleagues, created an industry collaboration project entitled Collected Scatterings. The premise is a simple one: to provide good quality recordings and ethnographic films for local musician... Read More about Collected Scatterings : a digital anthology in the making.

Market imperfections and crowdfunding (2018)
Journal Article
Miglo, A., & Miglo, V. (2019). Market imperfections and crowdfunding. Small Business Economics, 53(1), 51-79. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-018-0037-1

This article is the first one that considers the choice between the different types of crowdfunding and traditional financing under different types of market imperfections. In contrast to most existing literature, we focus on financial aspects of cro... Read More about Market imperfections and crowdfunding.

Unsteady reactive magnetic radiative micropolar flow, heat and mass transfer from an inclined plate with joule heating: a model for magnetic polymer processing (2018)
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Shamshuddin, M., Mishra, S., Beg, O., & Kadir, A. (2018). Unsteady reactive magnetic radiative micropolar flow, heat and mass transfer from an inclined plate with joule heating: a model for magnetic polymer processing. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, 233(4), 1246-1261. https://doi.org/10.1177/0954406218768837

Magnetic polymer materials processing involves many multi-physical and chemical effects. Motivated by such applications, in the present work a theoretical analysis is conducted of combined heat and mass transfer in unsteady mixed convection flow of m... Read More about Unsteady reactive magnetic radiative micropolar flow, heat and mass transfer from an inclined plate with joule heating: a model for magnetic polymer processing.

Knowledge exchange partnership leads to digital transformation at Hydro-X Water Treatment, Ltd (2018)
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Heinze, A., Griffiths, M., Fenton, A., & Fletcher, G. (2018). Knowledge exchange partnership leads to digital transformation at Hydro-X Water Treatment, Ltd. Global Business and Organizational Excellence, 37(4), 6-13. https://doi.org/10.1002/joe.21859

To attract a generation of workers and consumers who have never known a world without Wi-Fi, smartphones, or social media, organizations increasingly have no choice but to incorporate digital technology into every aspect of their operations and proce... Read More about Knowledge exchange partnership leads to digital transformation at Hydro-X Water Treatment, Ltd.

Shared efficacy (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Davis, D. (2018, April). Shared efficacy. Presented at BSA Annual Conference 2018 - Identity, Community and Social Solidarity, Necastle University, Newcastle, UK

Coronary heart disease is the biggest killer in the country. South Asians carry the burden of increased incidence and prevalence and have poorer outcomes after a heart attack than the general UK population. Reviews have shown lifestyle modification... Read More about Shared efficacy.

Building information modeling (BIM) in Malaysian construction industry : benefits and future challenges (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Musa, S., Marshall-Ponting, A., Nifa, F., & Shahron, S. (2018, April). Building information modeling (BIM) in Malaysian construction industry : benefits and future challenges. Presented at 3rd International Conference on Applied Science and Technology, Penang, Malaysia

Building Information Modeling is an innovative technology coupled with process and human interactions. BIM has been used by the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry in developed and developing countries including Malaysia. The r... Read More about Building information modeling (BIM) in Malaysian construction industry : benefits and future challenges.

Atmospheric impact on the performance of a 60GHz point-to-point link for 5G infrastructures (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Linge, N., Odum, R., Hill, S., von Hünerbein, S., Linnebank, P., Sutton, A., & Townend, D. (2018, April). Atmospheric impact on the performance of a 60GHz point-to-point link for 5G infrastructures. Poster presented at 12th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2018), London, UK

There is growing interest in the use of millimeter-wave spectrum as a potential candidate for the provision of high capacity, short range, back-haul solutions within future 5G ultra-dense network infrastructures. However, it is recognized that these... Read More about Atmospheric impact on the performance of a 60GHz point-to-point link for 5G infrastructures.

Secure publish and subscribe systems with efficient revocation (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Belguith, S., Cui, S., Asghar, M., & Russello, G. (2018, April). Secure publish and subscribe systems with efficient revocation. Presented at ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing, Pau, France

User revocation is one of the main security issues in publish and subscribe (pub/sub) systems. Indeed, to ensure data confidentiality, the system should be able to remove malicious subscribers without affecting the functionalities and decoupling of... Read More about Secure publish and subscribe systems with efficient revocation.

Linguistics, language and the impact agenda (2018)
Book Chapter
McIntyre, D., & Price, H. (2018). Linguistics, language and the impact agenda. In D. McIntyre, & H. Price (Eds.), Applying Linguistics : Language and the Impact Agenda (3-14). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351055185-1

This chapter introduces the concept of impact and considers (i) how it has been perceived across government and the higher education sector, and (ii) what it means to stakeholders with an interest in the impact agenda. The chapter summarises how impa... Read More about Linguistics, language and the impact agenda.

Navigating the peripheries of impact : public engagement and the problem of kneejerk linguistics (2018)
Book Chapter
Price, H. (2018). Navigating the peripheries of impact : public engagement and the problem of kneejerk linguistics. In D. McIntyre, & H. Price (Eds.), Applying Linguistics : Language and the Impact Agenda (41-52). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351055185-4

This chapter focuses on the relationship between impact and public engagement. I argue in favour of a greater consideration of public engagement activities in the assessment of impact, and in so doing I discuss the issues associated with developing s... Read More about Navigating the peripheries of impact : public engagement and the problem of kneejerk linguistics.

Three-layered electro-osmosis modulated blood flow through a micro-channel (2018)
Journal Article
Tripathi, D., Jhorar, R., Borode, A., & Beg, O. (2018). Three-layered electro-osmosis modulated blood flow through a micro-channel. European Journal of Mechanics - B/Fluids, 72, 391-402. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euromechflu.2018.03.016

Electrokinetic peristaltic multi-layered transport is considered in a micro-channel under the action of an axial electrical field. Three different layers i.e. the core layer, intermediate layer and peripheral layer are simulated with three different... Read More about Three-layered electro-osmosis modulated blood flow through a micro-channel.

Modelling inspection and replacement quality for a protection system (2018)
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Alberti, A., Cavalcante, C., Scarf, P., & Silva, A. (2018). Modelling inspection and replacement quality for a protection system. Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 176, 145-153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2018.04.002

An inspection and replacement policy for a protection system is described by a mathematical model that incorporates multiple aspects of maintenance quality. A three-state component failure model is assumed, with a defective state preceding failure. T... Read More about Modelling inspection and replacement quality for a protection system.

Mathematical modelling of pressure-driven micropolar biological flow due to metachronal wave propulsion of beating cilia (2018)
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Akbar, N., Tripathi, D., Khan, Z., & Beg, O. (2018). Mathematical modelling of pressure-driven micropolar biological flow due to metachronal wave propulsion of beating cilia. Mathematical Biosciences, 301, 121-128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mbs.2018.04.001

In this paper, we present an analytical study of pressure-driven flow of micropolar non-Newtonian physiological fluids through a channel comprising two parallel oscillating walls. The cilia are arranged at equal intervals and protrude normally from b... Read More about Mathematical modelling of pressure-driven micropolar biological flow due to metachronal wave propulsion of beating cilia.