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Digital innovation in sport – barriers and opportunities for branded fitness apps for fans (2021)
Book Chapter
Fenton, A., Parry, K., Chadwick, S., Guimarães, G., & Aeron, V. (2022). Digital innovation in sport – barriers and opportunities for branded fitness apps for fans. In V. Ratten (Ed.), Entrepreneurial innovation : strategy and competition aspects (25-42). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4795-6_3

The COVID-19 pandemic is challenging the growth and future of businesses globally and technological innovation, via digital means, has been identified as a key factor for brands to survive the pandemic. However, whilst the majority of decision-makers... Read More about Digital innovation in sport – barriers and opportunities for branded fitness apps for fans.

Comparisons of core temperature between a telemetric pill and heart rate estimated core temperature in firefighters (2021)
Journal Article
Pearson, S., Highlands, B., Jones, R., & Matthews, M. (2021). Comparisons of core temperature between a telemetric pill and heart rate estimated core temperature in firefighters. Safety and Health at Work, 13(1), 99-103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shaw.2021.11.003

Background:
Firefighters may experience high environmental temperatures or carry out intensive physical tasks, or both, which leads to increased core body temperature and risk of fatalities. Hence there is a need to remotely and non-invasively monit... Read More about Comparisons of core temperature between a telemetric pill and heart rate estimated core temperature in firefighters.

The role of aesthetics in energy-retrofit strategies: the case of solid wall houses in the UK (2021)
Thesis
Seifhashemi, S. (2021). The role of aesthetics in energy-retrofit strategies: the case of solid wall houses in the UK. (Thesis). University of Salford

Solid wall dwellings are responsible for 36% of the carbon emission from the
domestic sector in the UK. Among energy retrofit measures, Solid Wall
Insulation (SWI) is the most effective in reducing energy demand. However,
the current rate for insu... Read More about The role of aesthetics in energy-retrofit strategies: the case of solid wall houses in the UK.

IoT data quality issues and potential solutions : a literature review (2021)
Journal Article
Mansouri, T., Sadeghi Moghadam, M., Monshizadeh, F., & Zareravasan, A. (2021). IoT data quality issues and potential solutions : a literature review. Computer Journal, https://doi.org/10.1093/comjnl/bxab183

In the Internet of Things (IoT), data gathered from dozens of devices are the base for creating business value and developing new products and services. If data are of poor quality, decisions are likely to be non-sense. Data quality is crucial to gai... Read More about IoT data quality issues and potential solutions : a literature review.

Efficient management of environmental control within electrical substations for decarbonisation purposes (2021)
Thesis
Collett, M. Efficient management of environmental control within electrical substations for decarbonisation purposes. (Dissertation). University of Salford

Decarbonisation of building operations is identified as a key component of national decarbonisation strategies. Reducing the energy demand of buildings is to be achieved through more stringent regulation for new construction and the retrofitting of e... Read More about Efficient management of environmental control within electrical substations for decarbonisation purposes.

IoT data quality issues and potential solutions: a literature review (2021)
Journal Article
Mansouri, T., Moghadam, M., Monshizadeh, F., & Zareravasan, A. (2021). IoT data quality issues and potential solutions: a literature review. Computer Journal, https://doi.org/10.1093/comjnl/bxab183

In the Internet of Things (IoT), data gathered from dozens of devices are the base for creating business value and developing new products and services. If data are of poor quality, decisions are likely to be non-sense. Data quality is crucial to gai... Read More about IoT data quality issues and potential solutions: a literature review.

The effectiveness of online platforms after the pandemic : will face-to-face classes affect students’ perception of their Behavioural Intention (BIU) to use online platforms? (2021)
Journal Article
Al-Maroof, R., Alnazzawi, N., Akour, I., Ayoubi, K., Alhumaid, K., AlAhbabi, N., …Salloum, S. (2021). The effectiveness of online platforms after the pandemic : will face-to-face classes affect students’ perception of their Behavioural Intention (BIU) to use online platforms?. Informatics, 8(4), e83. https://doi.org/10.3390/informatics8040083

The purpose of this study is to investigate students’ intention to continue using online learning platforms during face-to-face traditional classes in a way that is parallel to their usage during online virtual classes (during the pandemic). This inv... Read More about The effectiveness of online platforms after the pandemic : will face-to-face classes affect students’ perception of their Behavioural Intention (BIU) to use online platforms?.

Hall and ion‐slip effects on nanofluid transport from a vertical surface: Buongiorno's model (2021)
Journal Article
Reddy, P., Gaffar, S., Beg, O., & Khan, M. (2022). Hall and ion‐slip effects on nanofluid transport from a vertical surface: Buongiorno's model. ZAMM, 102(3), e202000174. https://doi.org/10.1002/zamm.202000174

AbstractThe non‐linear, non‐isothermal, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) laminar convection flows of Buongiorno's nanofluid past a vertical surface with Darcy‐Forchheimer model is mathematically investigated in the present article. Keller's Box implicit fin... Read More about Hall and ion‐slip effects on nanofluid transport from a vertical surface: Buongiorno's model.

EEG alpha and theta signatures of socially and non-socially cued working memory in virtual reality (2021)
Journal Article
Gregory, S., Wang, H., & Kessler, K. (2021). EEG alpha and theta signatures of socially and non-socially cued working memory in virtual reality. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 17(6), 531-540. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsab123

In this preregistered study (https://osf.io/s4rm9) we investigated the behavioural and neurological (EEG; alpha (attention) and theta (effort)) effects of dynamic non-predictive social and non-social cues on working memory. In a virtual environment r... Read More about EEG alpha and theta signatures of socially and non-socially cued working memory in virtual reality.

Digital transformation of design led challenges with IMPACT… (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Power, E. (2021, November). Digital transformation of design led challenges with IMPACT…. Presented at Royal Academy of Engineering 2021 Conference Visiting Professors Online Conference Event : Moving on from COVID-19 to 2021! - How has engineering and education changed?, Online

Invited Guest Speaker

Jess Power is a Professor of Teaching and Learning and Associate Dean Students at Staffordshire University. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Fellow of The Textile Institute, Fellow of Chartered Manageme... Read More about Digital transformation of design led challenges with IMPACT….

Exploring the application of practice-based research on affective cinema to the teaching of creative cinematographic techniques within UK higher education (2021)
Journal Article
Prokopic, P. (2021). Exploring the application of practice-based research on affective cinema to the teaching of creative cinematographic techniques within UK higher education. Film Education Journal, 4(2), 170-183. https://doi.org/10.14324/fej.04.2.06

This article outlines an exploratory approach to the delivery of film practice education, as developed and tested with a second-year undergraduate module in cinematography. Students were provided with two existing creative sound pieces composed by a... Read More about Exploring the application of practice-based research on affective cinema to the teaching of creative cinematographic techniques within UK higher education.

Empathy is key : addressing obstacles to policy progress of ‘work-focused healthcare’ (2021)
Journal Article
Bartys, S., Martin, R., Parker, C., Edmondson, A., & Burton, K. (2021). Empathy is key : addressing obstacles to policy progress of ‘work-focused healthcare’. Evidence and Policy, 18(3), 524-542. https://doi.org/10.1332/174426421x16340308463939

Background: In 2019, Public Health England commissioned the authors of this paper to conduct research examining healthcare professionals’ conversations about work with their patients to inform policy aimed at reducing work loss due to ill health.Aims... Read More about Empathy is key : addressing obstacles to policy progress of ‘work-focused healthcare’.

Creating Spaces for an Ageing Society: The Role of Critical Social Infrastructure (2021)
Book
Yarker, S. (2021). Creating Spaces for an Ageing Society: The Role of Critical Social Infrastructure. Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/9781839827389

Creating Spaces for an Ageing Society considers the existing social science literature on shared neighbourhood spaces through the perspective of an ageing population. It asks the question; how can we use social infrastructure to build local neighbour... Read More about Creating Spaces for an Ageing Society: The Role of Critical Social Infrastructure.

Computation of Von Karman thermo-solutal swirling flow of a nanofluid over a rotating disk to a non-Darcian porous medium with hydrodynamic/thermal slip (2021)
Journal Article
Umavathi, J., & Beg, O. (2021). Computation of Von Karman thermo-solutal swirling flow of a nanofluid over a rotating disk to a non-Darcian porous medium with hydrodynamic/thermal slip. Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-021-11126-1

Motivated by recent trends in spin coating operations in chemical engineering which are
exploiting nanomaterials, the present article investigates theoretically and numerically the steady
mass and heat transfer in Von Karman swirling slip flow of a... Read More about Computation of Von Karman thermo-solutal swirling flow of a nanofluid over a rotating disk to a non-Darcian porous medium with hydrodynamic/thermal slip.

“The aesthetic of the gap” : the limits of storytelling in the work of Jennifer Egan (2021)
Journal Article
Rouverol, A. (2021). “The aesthetic of the gap” : the limits of storytelling in the work of Jennifer Egan. Contemporary Women's Writing, 15(2), 280-299. https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpab023

A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010) is distinctively marked by the use of gaps and lacunae within the narrative’s construction, directing the reader’s focus to the unnarrated. This article examines the resultant silences and storytelling that emerges... Read More about “The aesthetic of the gap” : the limits of storytelling in the work of Jennifer Egan.

What We Measure Matters: The Case of the Missing Development Data in Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction Monitoring (2021)
Journal Article
Chmutina, K., Von Meding, J., Sandoval, V., Boyland, M., Forino, G., Cheek, W., …Marchezini, •. V. (2021). What We Measure Matters: The Case of the Missing Development Data in Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction Monitoring. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 12(6), 779-789. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13753-021-00382-2

The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030's (SFDRR) framing moved away from disaster risk as a natural phenomenon to the examination of the inequality and injustice at the root of human vulnerability to hazards and disasters. Yet, it... Read More about What We Measure Matters: The Case of the Missing Development Data in Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction Monitoring.

Postdigital place-mixing in the Wild City (2021)
Book Chapter
Scott, J. (2021). Postdigital place-mixing in the Wild City. In L. Jarvis, & K. Savage (Eds.), Avatars, activism and postdigital performance : precarious intermedial identities (161-186). Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350159341.ch-7

This chapter opens up processes of ‘place-mixing’ in wild urban landscapes. Place-mixing is a digital mixing practice arising from encounters with the city, which pays particular attention to wild forces, feelings and happenings in play. Framed throu... Read More about Postdigital place-mixing in the Wild City.

Selected derivatives of erythromycin B- in silico and anti-malarial studies (2021)
Journal Article
Bhadra, P., Magwaza, R., Nirmalan, N., Freeman, S., Barber, J., & Arsic, B. (2021). Selected derivatives of erythromycin B- in silico and anti-malarial studies. Materials, 14(22), e6980. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma14226980

Erythromycin A is an established anti-bacterial agent against Gram-positive bacteria, but it is unstable to acid. This led to an evaluation of erythromycin B and its derivatives because these have improved acid stability. These compounds were investi... Read More about Selected derivatives of erythromycin B- in silico and anti-malarial studies.

Design and performance investigation of a robot-assisted flexible ureteroscopy system (2021)
Journal Article
Zhao, J., Li, J., Cui, L., Shi, C., & Wei, G. (2021). Design and performance investigation of a robot-assisted flexible ureteroscopy system. Applied Bionics and Biomechanics, 2021, 6911202. https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/6911202

Flexible ureteroscopy (FURS) has been developed and has become a preferred routine procedure for both diagnosis and treatment of kidney stones and other renal diseases inside the urinary tract. The traditional manual FURS procedure is highly skill-de... Read More about Design and performance investigation of a robot-assisted flexible ureteroscopy system.