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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.

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.

A conceptual framework for contemporary professional foot care practice : ''The value based digital foot care framework'' (2021)
Journal Article
Deschamps, K., Brabants, A., Nester, C., Gijon-Nogueron, G., Simşek, E., & Newton, V. (2021). A conceptual framework for contemporary professional foot care practice : ''The value based digital foot care framework''. Journal of Foot and Ankle Research, 14(1), 22. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13047-021-00465-9

Background: A small minority of countries around the globe have podiatry as a recognized profession, hence, there are considerable differences among these countries when it comes to the curricula, the duration of training and legislation regulating t... Read More about A conceptual framework for contemporary professional foot care practice : ''The value based digital foot care framework''.

Developing a strategic framework to enhance readiness of UAE law enforcement agencies to effectively respond to road traffic emergencies (2021)
Thesis

The high number of road traffic accidents and increasing prevalence of road traffic crises around the world has brought to the fore the need for a higher level of crisis preparedness and response. In the UAE, crisis response times are significantly b... Read More about Developing a strategic framework to enhance readiness of UAE law enforcement agencies to effectively respond to road traffic emergencies.

A heuristic study of the similarities and differences in offender characteristics across potential and successful serial sexual homicide offenders (2021)
Journal Article

This heuristic study examined potential serial sexual homicide offenders (SSHOs), an unacknowledged offender group comprised of aspiring and probable SSHOs, and compared them with successful SSHOs. Data were collected on six aspiring SSHOs who each f... Read More about A heuristic study of the similarities and differences in offender characteristics across potential and successful serial sexual homicide offenders.

Understanding the relationships between fields of research (2021)
Journal Article
Basden, A. (2021). Understanding the relationships between fields of research. Electronic Journal of Business Research Methods, 19(1), 27-41. https://doi.org/10.34190/ejbrm.19.1.2125

This paper suggests how mutual understanding and respect may be fostered between very different fields of research, which seem to have little in common. The meaning and value of each field, and the relationships among them, are revealed using Dooyewe... Read More about Understanding the relationships between fields of research.

The role of self-efficacy and catastrophizing in explaining improvements in disability, pain and fatigue among patients with chronic widespread pain treated with physiotherapy : an exploratory analysis (2021)
Journal Article
Thompson, D., Antcliff, D., & Woby, S. (2021). The role of self-efficacy and catastrophizing in explaining improvements in disability, pain and fatigue among patients with chronic widespread pain treated with physiotherapy : an exploratory analysis. Physiotherapy, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physio.2021.03.009

Most research exploring the relationship between cognitive factors (catastrophizing and self-efficacy beliefs) and levels of pain, disability and fatigue in patients with chronic widespread pain has been performed in multidisciplinary environments. I... Read More about The role of self-efficacy and catastrophizing in explaining improvements in disability, pain and fatigue among patients with chronic widespread pain treated with physiotherapy : an exploratory analysis.

Supporting Students to Engage Project – DTA (CAE) (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Power, E. (2021, March). Supporting Students to Engage Project – DTA (CAE). Presented at Exploring Race Inclusion, Staffordshire University

Here we present the results of a study which uses an alternative procedure known as ?Fitness to Study? to re-engage students that are deemed as not attending but have had some engagement. Thus, tipping the model from effectively a withdrawal procedur... Read More about Supporting Students to Engage Project – DTA (CAE).

Taylor dispersion in non-Darcy porous media with bulk chemical reaction : a model for drug transport in impeded blood vessels (2021)
Journal Article
Roy, A., Beg, O., Saha, A., & Ramana Murthy, J. (2021). Taylor dispersion in non-Darcy porous media with bulk chemical reaction : a model for drug transport in impeded blood vessels. Journal of Engineering Mathematics, 127(1), 24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10665-021-10120-8

The present article discusses the solute transport process in unsteady laminar blood flow through
a non-Darcy porous medium, as a model for drug movement in blood vessels containing deposits.
The Darcy-Brinkman-Forchheimer drag force formulation is... Read More about Taylor dispersion in non-Darcy porous media with bulk chemical reaction : a model for drug transport in impeded blood vessels.

Validation of a non-invasive imaging photoplethysmography device to assess plantar skin perfusion, a comparison with laser speckle contrast analysis (2021)
Journal Article
Naemi, R., Allan, D., & Chockalingam, N. (2021). Validation of a non-invasive imaging photoplethysmography device to assess plantar skin perfusion, a comparison with laser speckle contrast analysis. Journal of Medical Engineering and Technology, 45(3), 170-176. https://doi.org/10.1080/03091902.2021.1891309

Assessing skin perfusion is an established and reliable method to study impaired lower limb blood flow. Laser Speckle Contrast Analysis (LASCA) has been identified as the current gold standard to measure skin perfusion. Imaging photoplethysmography (... Read More about Validation of a non-invasive imaging photoplethysmography device to assess plantar skin perfusion, a comparison with laser speckle contrast analysis.