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Use of night-time positioning equipment in care home residents with postural asymmetry : a pilot study (2020)
Journal Article
Stephens, M., & Bartley, C. (2020). Use of night-time positioning equipment in care home residents with postural asymmetry : a pilot study. Nursing Older People, 32(3), 17-24. https://doi.org/10.7748/nop.2020.e1216

Twenty four-hour postural care that includes the use of night-time positioning equipment (NTPE) is being increasingly recommended. However, because most of the published studies focus on children, there is a lack of evidence on the use of NTPE in adu... Read More about Use of night-time positioning equipment in care home residents with postural asymmetry : a pilot study.

Effects of heavy metals on organic matter decomposition in inundated soils : microcosm experiment and field examination (2020)
Journal Article
Enya, O., Heaney, N., Iniama, G., & Lin, C. (2020). Effects of heavy metals on organic matter decomposition in inundated soils : microcosm experiment and field examination. Science of the Total Environment, 724, 138223. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138223

Microcosm and field investigation were conducted to examine the effects of heavy metals on the decomposition and accumulation of organic carbon in contaminated Mersey estuarine floodplain, northwest England. The results show that inhibition of microb... Read More about Effects of heavy metals on organic matter decomposition in inundated soils : microcosm experiment and field examination.

Boundary spanning and reconstitution in migration (2020)
Journal Article
Ahmed, A. (2020). Boundary spanning and reconstitution in migration. Social Inclusion, 8(1), 238-240. https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v8i1.2984

The focus of this thematic issue is on migrants’ experiences of belonging and non-belonging, and how communities are constructed in the destination country. It includes a group of international scholars across disciplines who are studying migration i... Read More about Boundary spanning and reconstitution in migration.

Publisher correction : Impact of alloy fluctuations and Coulomb effects on the electronic and optical properties of c-plane GaN/AlGaN quantum wells (2020)
Journal Article
Roble, A., Patra, S., Massabuau, F., Frentrup, M., Leontiadou, M., Dawson, P., …Schulz, S. (2020). Publisher correction : Impact of alloy fluctuations and Coulomb effects on the electronic and optical properties of c-plane GaN/AlGaN quantum wells. Scientific reports, 10(1), 5667. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-62494-x

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.

Diabetes Status is Associated With Plantar Soft Tissue Stiffness Measured Using Ultrasound Reverberant Shear Wave Elastography Approach (2020)
Journal Article
Naemi, R., Ormaechea, J., Gutierrez, E., Casado-Pena, J., Juarez, M., Casado, F., & Castaneda Aphan, B. (2022). Diabetes Status is Associated With Plantar Soft Tissue Stiffness Measured Using Ultrasound Reverberant Shear Wave Elastography Approach. Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology, 16(2), 478-490. https://doi.org/10.1177/1932296820965259

Introduction: The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between the mechanical properties of plantar soft tissue and diabetes status.
Method: 51 (M/F: 21/30) participants with prediabetes onset (fasting blood sugar [FBS] level > 1... Read More about Diabetes Status is Associated With Plantar Soft Tissue Stiffness Measured Using Ultrasound Reverberant Shear Wave Elastography Approach.

Barriers to BIM implementation and ways forward to improve its adoption in the Nigerian AEC firms (2020)
Journal Article
Babatunde, S., Udeaja, C., & Adekunle, A. (2021). Barriers to BIM implementation and ways forward to improve its adoption in the Nigerian AEC firms. International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation, 39(1), 48-71. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJBPA-05-2019-0047

Purpose –BIM has much potential to improve the effectiveness of construction works with
respect to design, construction and maintenance. However, many Architecture, Engineering, and
Construction (AEC) firms are still lagging in the adoption and imp... Read More about Barriers to BIM implementation and ways forward to improve its adoption in the Nigerian AEC firms.

Dynamic capabilities for SME participation in public procurement (2020)
Journal Article
Akenroye, T., Owens, J., Elbaz, J., & Durowoju, O. (2020). Dynamic capabilities for SME participation in public procurement. Business Process Management Journal, 26(4), 857-888. https://doi.org/10.1108/bpmj-10-2019-0447

Purpose – Although small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play major roles in most economies in terms
of job creation, innovation and contribution to national income, they are often underrepresented in public
procurement markets. This paper aim... Read More about Dynamic capabilities for SME participation in public procurement.

RICS professional education and training for quantity surveyors and the extent to which it is relevant in the current UK built environment market (2020)
Thesis
Moore, S. RICS professional education and training for quantity surveyors and the extent to which it is relevant in the current UK built environment market. (Thesis). University of Salford

Quantity surveying is a profession that plays a major role in the administration and financial management of construction contracts in the current UK built environment market. The level of expertise and competence demonstrated by a practising charter... Read More about RICS professional education and training for quantity surveyors and the extent to which it is relevant in the current UK built environment market.

Non-adjacent dependency learning in infancy, and its link to language development (2020)
Journal Article
Frost, R., Jessop, A., Durrant, S., Peter, M., Bidgood, A., Pine, J., …Monaghan, P. (2020). Non-adjacent dependency learning in infancy, and its link to language development. Cognitive Psychology, 120, 101291. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2020.101291

To acquire language, infants must learn how to identify words and linguistic structure in speech. Statistical learning has been suggested to assist both of these tasks. However, infants’ capacity to use statistics to discover words and structure toge... Read More about Non-adjacent dependency learning in infancy, and its link to language development.

Genetic landscape of autism spectrum disorder in Vietnamese children (2020)
Journal Article
Tran, K., Le, V., Bui, H., Do, D., Ly, H., Nguyen, H., …Nguyen, L. (2020). Genetic landscape of autism spectrum disorder in Vietnamese children. Scientific reports, 10(1), 5034. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-61695-8

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex disorder with an unclear aetiology and an estimated global prevalence of 1%. However, studies of ASD in the Vietnamese population are limited. Here, we first conducted whole exome sequencing (WES) of 100 ch... Read More about Genetic landscape of autism spectrum disorder in Vietnamese children.

Stable species boundaries despite ten million years of hybridisation in tropical eels (2020)
Journal Article
Barth, J., Gubili, C., Matschiner, M., Torresen, O., Watanabe, S., Egger, B., …Schabetsberger, R. (2020). Stable species boundaries despite ten million years of hybridisation in tropical eels. Nature communications, 11, 1433. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15099-x

Genomic evidence is increasingly underpinning that hybridization between taxa is commonplace, challenging our views on the mechanisms that maintain their boundaries. Here, we focus on seven catadromous eel species (genus Anguilla) and use genome-wide... Read More about Stable species boundaries despite ten million years of hybridisation in tropical eels.

A service-oriented approach for sensing in the Internet of Things : intelligent transportation systems and privacy use cases (2020)
Journal Article
Hammoudeh, M., Epiphaniou, G., Belguith, S., Unal, D., Adebisi, B., Baker, T., …Watters, P. (2021). A service-oriented approach for sensing in the Internet of Things : intelligent transportation systems and privacy use cases. IEEE Sensors Journal, 21(14), 15753-15761. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2020.2981558

This paper presents a Sensing-as-a-Service run-time Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), called 3SOA, for the development of Internet of Things (IoT) applications. 3SOA aims to allow interoperability among various IoT platforms and support service-or... Read More about A service-oriented approach for sensing in the Internet of Things : intelligent transportation systems and privacy use cases.

Internet marketing (2020)
Book Chapter
Dobson, P., & Maheshwari, V. (2020). Internet marketing. In Entrepreneurship Marketing. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429505461-11

Internet marketing has changed the outlook for businesses in the way they promote their products and services and the how they engage with their existing and prospective customers. Customer personas have been used in traditional marketing and digital... Read More about Internet marketing.

Neighbourhoods as relational places for people living with dementia (2020)
Journal Article
Clark, A., Campbell, S., Keady, J., Kullberg, A., Manji, A., Rummery, K., & Ward, R. (2020). Neighbourhoods as relational places for people living with dementia. Social Science and Medicine, 252, 112927. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.112927

An increase in the number of people living independently with dementia across the developed world has focused attention on the relevance of neighbourhood context for enabling or facilitating social health and wellbeing. Taking the lived experiences... Read More about Neighbourhoods as relational places for people living with dementia.

Relationship between physical fitness and the physical demands of 50-over cricket in fast bowlers (2020)
Journal Article
Webster, T., Comfort, P., & Jones, P. (2020). Relationship between physical fitness and the physical demands of 50-over cricket in fast bowlers. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, https://doi.org/10.1519/JSC.0000000000003542

Professional cricket is constantly evolving and resulting in increased physiological demand placed on players. Fast bowlers experience the greatest physical demand during match-play; despite this, research has overlooked the importance of specific ph... Read More about Relationship between physical fitness and the physical demands of 50-over cricket in fast bowlers.

Coronavirus : how does procurement pivot from cars to ventilators? (2020)
Journal Article
Green, W., Wilding, R., & Owens, J. (2020). Coronavirus : how does procurement pivot from cars to ventilators?

The UK government’s call for industry to help increase production of ventilators in response to the coronavirus outbreak will put procurement professionals centre stage.

Seeking invention: creating an informed citizenry in the governance of security at sporting mega-events (2020)
Journal Article
Aitken, A. (2020). Seeking invention: creating an informed citizenry in the governance of security at sporting mega-events. Policing and Society, 31(3), 354-368. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2020.1741586

There exists a small cottage industry of case studies of mega-sporting event security at respective Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games or FIFA World Cups. This literature provides detailed accounts of the different security governance networks and met... Read More about Seeking invention: creating an informed citizenry in the governance of security at sporting mega-events.

Transitory Prints (2020)
Journal Article
Cherniwchan, C. (2020). Transitory Prints. #Journal not on list, 29(113),

Print Dialogues (2020)
Journal Article
Cherniwchan, C. (2020). Print Dialogues. #Journal not on list, 29(113),