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Between-Limb Differences During 180° Turns in Female Soccer Players: Application of Statistical Parametric Mapping (2021)
Journal Article
Thomas, C., Dos'Santos, T., Warmenhoven, J., & Jones, P. A. (2021). Between-Limb Differences During 180° Turns in Female Soccer Players: Application of Statistical Parametric Mapping. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 36(11), 3136-3142. https://doi.org/10.1519/jsc.0000000000004022

This study was exploratory in nature and investigated the ability of statistical parametric mapping (SPM) to assess between-limb differences in lower-extremity movement change of direction. Fourteen female soccer players (mean ± SD; age = 20.6 ± 0.6... Read More about Between-Limb Differences During 180° Turns in Female Soccer Players: Application of Statistical Parametric Mapping.

Numerical study of nanofluid-based direct absorber solar collector systems with metallic/carbon nanoparticles, multiple geometries and multi-mode heat transfer (2021)
Thesis
Kuharat, S. Numerical study of nanofluid-based direct absorber solar collector systems with metallic/carbon nanoparticles, multiple geometries and multi-mode heat transfer. (Thesis). University of Salford

Nanofluids are complex colloidal suspensions comprising nanoparticles (metallic or carbon based or both) suspended in a base fluid (e.g. water). The resulting suspension provides demonstrably greater thermal performance than base fluids on their own... Read More about Numerical study of nanofluid-based direct absorber solar collector systems with metallic/carbon nanoparticles, multiple geometries and multi-mode heat transfer.

Establishing a structure-activity-relationship for small molecule non-sugar glycomimetics (2021)
Thesis
Dobiecki-Davies, J. Establishing a structure-activity-relationship for small molecule non-sugar glycomimetics. (Dissertation). University of Salford

DAOY Medullablastoma cells are highly invasive, mobile and can cause severe neurological and physical illness in patients affected by this cancer. Previous work by Wilkinson & Co-workers (2017) showed that some small-molecule non-sugar glycomimetic d... Read More about Establishing a structure-activity-relationship for small molecule non-sugar glycomimetics.

Exploring the influence of adipokines on neuronal function in Alzheimer’s disease (2021)
Thesis
Tomar, N. Exploring the influence of adipokines on neuronal function in Alzheimer’s disease. (Thesis). University of Salford

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is one of the major causes of dementia. Alzheimer’s disease is an irreversible, slow neurodegenerative disease leading to memory and language impairment and amyloid-β plaques and intraneuronal neurofibrillary tangles are the... Read More about Exploring the influence of adipokines on neuronal function in Alzheimer’s disease.

Synthesis and Evaluation of Benzoyl containing compounds as potential anti-cancer agents (2021)
Thesis
Ahmed, S. M. Synthesis and Evaluation of Benzoyl containing compounds as potential anti-cancer agents. (Thesis). University of Salford

Seen as one of the major causes of death worldwide, Cancer requires the development of effective treatments to combat the disease. However, pharmaceutical companies are faced by the challenge of finding and developing a suitable compound that can ove... Read More about Synthesis and Evaluation of Benzoyl containing compounds as potential anti-cancer agents.

Why we are boycotting the Independent Review of Prevent (2021)
Journal Article
Qurashi, F. (2021). Why we are boycotting the Independent Review of Prevent

Dr Fahid Qurashi explains widespread concerns in the Muslim community about the review of the controversial counter-terrorism strategy

Acceptance of Google Meet during the spread of Coronavirus by Arab university students (2021)
Journal Article
Al-Maroof, R., Alshurideh, M., Salloum, S., AlHamad, A., & Gaber, T. (2021). Acceptance of Google Meet during the spread of Coronavirus by Arab university students. Informatics, 8(2), e24. https://doi.org/10.3390/informatics8020024

The COVID-19 pandemic not only affected our health and medical systems but also has created large disruption of education systems at school and universities levels. According to the United Nation’s report, COVID-19 has influenced more than 1.6 billio... Read More about Acceptance of Google Meet during the spread of Coronavirus by Arab university students.

Embodied carbon in commercial office buildings : lessons learned from Sri Lanka (2021)
Journal Article
Nawarathna, A., Alwan, Z., Gledson, B., & Fernando, N. (2021). Embodied carbon in commercial office buildings : lessons learned from Sri Lanka. Journal of Building Engineering, 42, 102441. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2021.102441

Growing concerns over the importance of reducing the embodied carbon (EC1) of buildings have led to a greater focus on EC-related research and policymaking. Nevertheless, the Sri Lankan building sector is currently lagging behind on this issue. While... Read More about Embodied carbon in commercial office buildings : lessons learned from Sri Lanka.

Non-similar radiative bioconvection nanofluid flow under oblique magnetic field with entropy generation (2021)
Journal Article
Shukla, N., Rana, P., Kuharat, S., & Beg, O. (2022). Non-similar radiative bioconvection nanofluid flow under oblique magnetic field with entropy generation. Journal of applied and computational mechanics, 8(1), 206-218. https://doi.org/10.22055/JACM.2020.33580.2250

Motivated by exploring the near-wall transport phenomena involved in bioconvection fuel cells combined with electrically conducting nanofluids, in the present article, a detailed analytical treatment using homotopy analysis method (HAM) is presented... Read More about Non-similar radiative bioconvection nanofluid flow under oblique magnetic field with entropy generation.

A framework for implementing gamification in purchasing and supply management education (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Kelly, S., Vangorp, P., Meyer, D., & Delke, V. (2021, March). A framework for implementing gamification in purchasing and supply management education. Presented at 30th Annual IPSERA Conference 2021, Knoxville, United States

This paper uses the findings from a literature review and series of expert interviews to develop a richer and Purchasing and Supply Management (PSM) context-specific perspective of the different key techniques, tools and principles that can be used t... Read More about A framework for implementing gamification in purchasing and supply management education.

Exploring industry 4.0 professional roles and skills within purchasing and supply management (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Delke, V., Karttunen, E., Kelly, S., Stek, K., & Tkac, M. (2021, March). Exploring industry 4.0 professional roles and skills within purchasing and supply management. Presented at 30th Annual IPSERA Conference 2021, Knoxville, United States

Professional roles, including specific skills for each role, are a step towards higher professionalism and maturity within purchasing and supply management (PSM). The global development towards increasing digitalization, Industry 4.0, globalization,... Read More about Exploring industry 4.0 professional roles and skills within purchasing and supply management.

The mathematics of committees (2021)
Working Paper
Fox, R. The mathematics of committees. Salford

What is the accuracy of a majority committee decision compared to individual accuracies? What is the effect of actions? What is the effect of requiring unanimity of near unanimity? What is the effect of faction formation? When should a committee foll... Read More about The mathematics of committees.

A research agenda for geographies of everyday intergenerational encounter (2021)
Journal Article
Yarker, S. (2021). A research agenda for geographies of everyday intergenerational encounter. Area, 53(2), 264-271. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12716

This paper calls for a research agenda that attends to the geographies of everyday intergenerational encounter that occur informally in communities. Using the theoretical framing of social infrastructure and encounter, it argues that we need to bette... Read More about A research agenda for geographies of everyday intergenerational encounter.

Sporting mega-event security in hyperreality and its consequences for democratic security governance (2021)
Journal Article
Aitken, A. (2021). Sporting mega-event security in hyperreality and its consequences for democratic security governance. Democracy and Security, 17(3), 233-256. https://doi.org/10.1080/17419166.2021.1891529

Within the sporting mega-events literature three key developments exist: 1. Security is performative and symbolic; 2. Security reactivates state authority and legitimacy in developing security responses; 3. Security measures have discernible security... Read More about Sporting mega-event security in hyperreality and its consequences for democratic security governance.

Stretched nerves and suffering minds : the isolating effects of female madness in Villette (2021)
Journal Article
Bury, H. (in press). Stretched nerves and suffering minds : the isolating effects of female madness in Villette. Brontë Studies, 46(2), 159-171. https://doi.org/10.1080/14748932.2021.1875631

This article analyses the symbiotic relationship between Lucy Snowe’s madness and isolation in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette (1853). I argue that madness enhances isolation, and isolation enhances madness, through an exploration of Lucy’s solitude. In... Read More about Stretched nerves and suffering minds : the isolating effects of female madness in Villette.

Stakeholder preference mapping : the case for built heritage of Georgetown, Malaysia (2021)
Journal Article
Georgetown, Malaysia. Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development, 11(2), https://doi.org/10.1108/JCHMSD-08-2020-0114

Purpose While there is an established body of literature that discusses the importance of stakeholder management, and also the need for involvement of all stakeholders so that all values of a heritage site can be captured in a heritage management... Read More about Stakeholder preference mapping : the case for built heritage of Georgetown, Malaysia.

On the security and privacy challenges of virtual assistants (2021)
Journal Article
Bolton, T., Dargahi, T., Belguith, S., Al-Rakhami, M., & Sodhro, A. (2021). On the security and privacy challenges of virtual assistants. Sensors, 21(7), e2312. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21072312

Since the purchase of Siri by Apple, and its release with the iPhone 4S in 2011, virtual assistants (VAs) have grown in number and popularity. The sophisticated natural language processing and speech recognition employed by VAs enables users to inter... Read More about On the security and privacy challenges of virtual assistants.

Diplomacy and intelligence (2021)
Book Chapter
Lomas, D. (2021). Diplomacy and intelligence. In J. Spence, C. Yorke, & A. Masser (Eds.), New perspectives on diplomacy : a new theory and practice of diplomacy (55-76). I.B. Tauris