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“Ageing in Place” and Urban Regeneration: Analysing the Role of Social Infrastructure (2022)
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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.

Designing smart drilling fluids using modified nano silica to improve drilling operations in geothermal wells (2022)
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Martin, C., Babaie, M., Nourian, A., & Nasr, G. (2022). Designing smart drilling fluids using modified nano silica to improve drilling operations in geothermal wells. Geothermics, 107(2), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geothermics.2022.102600

High pressure and high temperature (HPHT) conditions in geothermal wells have necessitated the need to develop thermally stable geothermal drilling mud systems to combat potential drilling complications. This is because mud fluids degrade under HPHT... Read More about Designing smart drilling fluids using modified nano silica to improve drilling operations in geothermal wells.

No effect of repeated post-resistance exercise cold or hot water immersion on in-season body composition and performance responses in academy rugby players: a randomised controlled cross-over design (2022)
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Following resistance exercise, uncertainty exists as to whether the regular application of cold water immersion attenuates lean muscle mass increases in athletes. The effects of repeated post-resistance exercise cold versus hot water immersion on bod... Read More about No effect of repeated post-resistance exercise cold or hot water immersion on in-season body composition and performance responses in academy rugby players: a randomised controlled cross-over design.

Accommodating prisoners of war: a survey of the Weston Hostel (2022)
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Wild, C. (2022). Accommodating prisoners of war: a survey of the Weston Hostel. Industrial Archaeology Review, 44(2), 149-157. https://doi.org/10.1080/03090728.2022.2122680

Prisoner-of-war camps were one of the most numerous types of military sites to be established in Britain during the Second World War and yet are one of the least studied. Most comprised a series of temporary huts that were erected from prefabricated... Read More about Accommodating prisoners of war: a survey of the Weston Hostel.

Links between daytime napping, night-time sleep quality and infant attention: an eye-tracking, actigraphy and parent-report study (2022)
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The current study explored the potential influence of infant sleep, measured by parental report and actigraphy, and family functioning on attention development using eye tracking. The use of actigraphy in parallel with parental report, has the advant... Read More about Links between daytime napping, night-time sleep quality and infant attention: an eye-tracking, actigraphy and parent-report study.

Automated detection and quantification of contact behaviour in pigs using deep learning (2022)
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Alameer, A., Buijs, S., O'Connell, N., Dalton, L., Lilian Vestbjerg Larsen, M., Juul Pedersen, L., & Kyriazakis, I. (2022). Automated detection and quantification of contact behaviour in pigs using deep learning. Biosystems Engineering, 224, 118-130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2022.10.002

Change in the frequency of contact between pigs within a group may be indicative of a change in the physiological or health status of one or more pigs within a group, or indicative of the occurrence of abnormal behaviour, e.g. tail-biting. Here, we d... Read More about Automated detection and quantification of contact behaviour in pigs using deep learning.

Effective communication: core to promoting respectful maternity care for disabled women (2022)
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Collins, B., Hall, J., Hundley, V., & Ireland, J. (2022). Effective communication: core to promoting respectful maternity care for disabled women. Midwifery, 116, 103525. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2022.103525

Previous research highlights that disabled women have less choice, control and respect of their dignity during pregnancy, childbirth and parenting. The experience of dignity and respect during pregnancy and childbirth for those with physical and sens... Read More about Effective communication: core to promoting respectful maternity care for disabled women.

A Novel CNN pooling layer for breast cancer segmentation and classification from thermograms (2022)
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A. Mohamed, E., Gaber, T., Karam, O., & Rashed, E. A. (2022). A Novel CNN pooling layer for breast cancer segmentation and classification from thermograms. PLoS ONE, 17(10), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0276523

Breast cancer is the second most frequent cancer worldwide, following lung cancer and the fifth leading cause of cancer death and a major cause of cancer death among women. In recent years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been successfully... Read More about A Novel CNN pooling layer for breast cancer segmentation and classification from thermograms.

‘Should I Stay or Should I Go’? The Experiences of Forty Social Workers in England Who Had Previously Indicated They Would Stay In or Leave Children and Families Social Work (2022)
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McLaughlin, H., Scholar, H., McCaughan, S., & Pollock, S. (2023). ‘Should I Stay or Should I Go’? The Experiences of Forty Social Workers in England Who Had Previously Indicated They Would Stay In or Leave Children and Families Social Work. The British Journal of Social Work, 53(4), 1963-1983. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcac191

This article is focused on the concern about the retention of child and family social workers in England. Retention of workers is seen as a major issue for the delivery of quality services for service users, stability of workforces and development of... Read More about ‘Should I Stay or Should I Go’? The Experiences of Forty Social Workers in England Who Had Previously Indicated They Would Stay In or Leave Children and Families Social Work.

Large-scale population disappearances and cycling in the white-lipped peccary, a tropical forest mammal (2022)
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Many vertebrate species undergo population fluctuations that may be random or regularly cyclic in nature. Vertebrate population cycles in northern latitudes are driven by both endogenous and exogenous factors. Suggested causes of mysterious disappear... Read More about Large-scale population disappearances and cycling in the white-lipped peccary, a tropical forest mammal.

Treatment of food aversion and eating problems in children with short bowel syndrome: a systematic review (2022)
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Gigola, F., Carletti, V., Coletta, R., Certini, M., Del Riccio, M., Bortolotti, C., & Morabito, A. (2022). Treatment of food aversion and eating problems in children with short bowel syndrome: a systematic review. Children, 9(10), 1582. https://doi.org/10.3390/children9101582

Food Aversion (FA) is a strong refusing behaviour to the oral assumption of food that can affect children with Short Bowel Syndrome (SBS). Management includes behavioural and Messy Play treatments, with few reports on systematic strategies to return... Read More about Treatment of food aversion and eating problems in children with short bowel syndrome: a systematic review.

SMEs respond to climate change: evidence from developing countries (2022)
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Alam, A., Anna, D., Rahman, M., Yazdifar, H., & Abbasi, K. (2022). SMEs respond to climate change: evidence from developing countries. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 185, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2022.122087

Given the concerns stemming from climate change, it is important to investigate whether SMEs could become innovative (and thereby invest in technologies mitigating climate change) because of heightened climate change risk. This study explores the imp... Read More about SMEs respond to climate change: evidence from developing countries.

Multiple resonances in lossy acoustic black holes - theory and experiment (2022)
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Umnova, O., Brooke, D., Leclaire, P., & Dupont, T. (2022). Multiple resonances in lossy acoustic black holes - theory and experiment. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 543, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsv.2022.117377

Acoustic properties of the metamaterial graded absorber, also known as ``acoustic black hole'', are studied in the linear regime. The absorber consists of thin metallic circular plates, each with a central perforation, separated by annular air caviti... Read More about Multiple resonances in lossy acoustic black holes - theory and experiment.

Intestinal twin-to-twin transplant for short gut: Review of the literature and discussion of a complex case (2022)
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Ugolini, S., Coletta, R., & Morabito, A. (2022). Intestinal twin-to-twin transplant for short gut: Review of the literature and discussion of a complex case. Pediatria Medica e Chirurgica, 44(2), https://doi.org/10.4081/pmc.2022.287

Paediatric Intestinal Transplantation (IT) presents the highest mortality on the waiting-list due to anatomical disproportion. Living-Donor IT (LDIT) offers the best advantages and when performed among identical monozygotic twins, it also benefits fr... Read More about Intestinal twin-to-twin transplant for short gut: Review of the literature and discussion of a complex case.

Snapshot of the Atlantic Forest canopy: surveying arboreal mammals in a biodiversity hotspot (2022)
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Kaizer, M. C., Alvim, T. H., Novaes, C. L., McDevitt, A. D., & Young, R. J. (2022). Snapshot of the Atlantic Forest canopy: surveying arboreal mammals in a biodiversity hotspot. Oryx, 56(6), 825-836. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0030605321001563

The Atlantic Forest of South America supports a rich terrestrial biodiversity but has been reduced to only a small extent of its original forest cover. It hosts a large number of endemic mammalian species but our knowledge of arboreal mammal ecology... Read More about Snapshot of the Atlantic Forest canopy: surveying arboreal mammals in a biodiversity hotspot.

Dynamics of tangent-hyperbolic nanoliquids configured by stratified extending surface: effects of transpiration, Robin conditions and dual stratifications (2022)
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Nasir, M., Waqas, M., Beg, O., Zamri, N., Leonard, H., & Guedri, K. (2022). Dynamics of tangent-hyperbolic nanoliquids configured by stratified extending surface: effects of transpiration, Robin conditions and dual stratifications. International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, 139, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2022.106372

A mathematical study is presented to evaluate double stratification effects on the
dual convected flow of a non-Newtonian (tangent-hyperbolic) nanoliquids persuaded by porous
stretching surface. Thermal radiation along with transpiration (wall suct... Read More about Dynamics of tangent-hyperbolic nanoliquids configured by stratified extending surface: effects of transpiration, Robin conditions and dual stratifications.