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Automated Regulatory Compliance towards Quality Assurance in Healthcare Building Projects (2022)
Journal Article
Soliman-Junior, J., Tzortzopoulos, P., & Kagioglou, M. (2022). Automated Regulatory Compliance towards Quality Assurance in Healthcare Building Projects. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 1101(8), https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1101/8/082012

Healthcare building projects are severely constrained by their associated regulatory frameworks. In this context, regulatory requirements define a basic outline upon which design is developed, as well as aid designers towards compliance to minimum st... Read More about Automated Regulatory Compliance towards Quality Assurance in Healthcare Building Projects.

High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) in Hypoxia Improves Maximal Aerobic Capacity More Than HIIT in Normoxia: A Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis, and Meta-Regression (2022)
Journal Article
Westmacott, A., Sanal-Hayes, N. E. M., McLaughlin, M., Mair, J. L., & Hayes, L. D. (in press). High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) in Hypoxia Improves Maximal Aerobic Capacity More Than HIIT in Normoxia: A Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis, and Meta-Regression. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(21), 14261. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192114261

The present study aimed to determine the effect of high intensity interval training (HIIT) in hypoxia on maximal oxygen uptake (VO2max) compared with HIIT in normoxia with a Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA)-... Read More about High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) in Hypoxia Improves Maximal Aerobic Capacity More Than HIIT in Normoxia: A Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis, and Meta-Regression.

Functionalized screen-printed electrodes for the thermal detection of Escherichia coli in dairy products (2022)
Journal Article

Accurate and fast on-site detection of harmful microorganisms in food products is a key preventive step to avoid food-borne illness and product recall. In this study, screen-printed electrodes (SPEs) were functionalized via a facile strategy with sur... Read More about Functionalized screen-printed electrodes for the thermal detection of Escherichia coli in dairy products.

The impact of type of acute myocardial infarction on cardiac patient self-efficacy after hospitalization (2022)
Journal Article
Shajrawi, A., Al-Smadi, A., Momani, A., Al-Akash, H., Granat, M., & Jones, I. (2022). The impact of type of acute myocardial infarction on cardiac patient self-efficacy after hospitalization. Dimensions in Critical Care Nursing, 41(6), 295-304. https://doi.org/10.1097/DCC.0000000000000547

Background
Self-efficacy is an important psychological construct associated with patient adherence with healthy lifestyle choices. Few studies have focused on the impacts of the type of acute myocardial infarction (AMI), non–ST-elevation myocardial... Read More about The impact of type of acute myocardial infarction on cardiac patient self-efficacy after hospitalization.

Assessing the impact of binaural and non-binaural auditory beat intervention to pain and compression in mammography (2022)
Journal Article
Nelson, D., Berry, R., Szczepura, K., & Mercer, C. (2022). Assessing the impact of binaural and non-binaural auditory beat intervention to pain and compression in mammography. Radiography, 29(1), 101-108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radi.2022.09.005

Pain and discomfort has a negative impact on a patient's overall experience and may impact on subsequent re-attendance to mammography. Pain during mammography remains a significant issue. Assessment of interventions to reduce levels of pain associate... Read More about Assessing the impact of binaural and non-binaural auditory beat intervention to pain and compression in mammography.

The impact of the cost-of-living crisis on British credit unions and community-lenders (2022)
Journal Article
Vik, P., & Wallace, A. (2022). The impact of the cost-of-living crisis on British credit unions and community-lenders. Journal of co-operative studies, 55(2), 29-34

Credit unions are often hypothesised to be less vulnerable to crises than other types of businesses.
This paper examines the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on the British credit union and community
lender sector drawing on interviews with 25 m... Read More about The impact of the cost-of-living crisis on British credit unions and community-lenders.

Perceptions of arthritis glove wear of patients with rheumatoid arthritis and persistent hand pain: A nested questionnaire study within the A‐Gloves trial (2022)
Journal Article
Hammond, A., Prior, Y., Adams, J., Firth, J., O'Neill, T., & Hough, Y. (2022). Perceptions of arthritis glove wear of patients with rheumatoid arthritis and persistent hand pain: A nested questionnaire study within the A‐Gloves trial. Musculoskeletal Care, 21(2), 405-416. https://doi.org/10.1002/msc.1709

Introduction: Arthritis gloves are prescribed in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) to reduce hand pain, stiffness, and improve hand function. As part of a randomised controlled trial, this study investigated participants’ perceptions of wearing arthritis glo... Read More about Perceptions of arthritis glove wear of patients with rheumatoid arthritis and persistent hand pain: A nested questionnaire study within the A‐Gloves trial.

Special Edition 25: ALDinHE Conference Proceedings and Reflections (2022)
Journal Article
Smith, E. E., & Pearson, A. (in press). Special Edition 25: ALDinHE Conference Proceedings and Reflections. Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, https://doi.org/10.47408/jldhe.vi25.994

We are thrilled to present to you the Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education’s Collaborative Conference Proceedings and Reflections – a collection of collaboratively written reports from the annual ALDinHE Conference that took place onli... Read More about Special Edition 25: ALDinHE Conference Proceedings and Reflections.

Experimental study of temperature effect on the mechanical tensile fatigue of hydrated lime modified asphalt concrete and case application for the analysis of climatic effect on constructed pavement (2022)
Journal Article
constructed pavement. Case studies in construction materials, 17, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cscm.2022.e01622

Previous experimental studies have suggested that hot mixed asphalt (HMA) concrete using hydrated lime (HL) to partially replace the conventional limestone dust filler at 2.5% by the total weight of all aggregates showed an optimum improvement on sev... Read More about Experimental study of temperature effect on the mechanical tensile fatigue of hydrated lime modified asphalt concrete and case application for the analysis of climatic effect on constructed pavement.

Near-wall modeling of forests for atmosphere boundary layers using lattice Boltzmann method on GPU (2022)
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Shao, X., Santasmasas, M. C., Xue, X., Niu, J., Davidson, L., Revell, A. J., & Yao, H.-D. (2022). Near-wall modeling of forests for atmosphere boundary layers using lattice Boltzmann method on GPU. Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics, 16(1), 2143-2156. https://doi.org/10.1080/19942060.2022.2132420

In this paper, the simulation and modeling of the turbulent atmospheric boundary layers (ABLs) in the presence of forests are studied using a lattice Boltzmann method with large eddy simulation, which was implemented in the open-source program GASCAN... Read More about Near-wall modeling of forests for atmosphere boundary layers using lattice Boltzmann method on GPU.

An Automatic Self Shape-Shifting Soft Mobile Robot (A4SMR) (2022)
Journal Article
Al-Ibadi, M. A., Al-Assfor, F. K., & Al-Ibadi, A. (2022). An Automatic Self Shape-Shifting Soft Mobile Robot (A4SMR). Robotics, 11(6), 118. https://doi.org/10.3390/robotics11060118

This article proposes a mobile robot that is fully constructed and actuated by utilising a pneumatic artificial muscle (PAM). Several features are shown in this design including softness, lightweight, and shape change. The robot that has been designe... Read More about An Automatic Self Shape-Shifting Soft Mobile Robot (A4SMR).

A three-dimensional whole-body model to predict human walking on level ground (2022)
Journal Article
Hu, D., Howard, D., & Ren, L. (2022). A three-dimensional whole-body model to predict human walking on level ground. Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10237-022-01629-7

Predictive simulation of human walking has great potential in clinical motion analysis and rehabilitation engineering assessment, but large computational cost and reliance on measurement data to provide initial guess have limited its wide use. We dev... Read More about A three-dimensional whole-body model to predict human walking on level ground.

“Ageing in Place” and Urban Regeneration: Analysing the Role of Social Infrastructure (2022)
Journal Article
Lewis, C., Yarker, S., Hammond, M., Kavanagh, N., & Phillipson, C. (in press). “Ageing in Place” and Urban Regeneration: Analysing the Role of Social Infrastructure. Urban Planning, 7(4), https://doi.org/10.17645/up.v7i4.5689

This article explores the potential impact of future urban regeneration for older people “ageing in place” in an inner-city neighbourhood, Collyhurst, Manchester, UK. Collyhurst has been reshaped by de-industrialisation, demolition of housing, disinv... Read More about “Ageing in Place” and Urban Regeneration: Analysing the Role of Social Infrastructure.