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Barriers and facilitators to extended working life : a qualitative study (2022)
Book Chapter
Edge, C., Coffey, M., Cook, P., & Weinberg, A. (2022). Barriers and facilitators to extended working life : a qualitative study. In L. Fitzgerald (Ed.), Women entrepreneurs and employment : past, present and future perspectives. New York: Nova Science Publishers

Aim: To explore employee experiences of nearing or working beyond state pensionable age, and the factors enabling and inhibit them to work for longer. Specifically, the study explored the health, social, workplace and financial barriers and facilitat... Read More about Barriers and facilitators to extended working life : a qualitative study.

Serial and mass murderers (2022)
Book Chapter
Allely, C. (2022). Serial and mass murderers. In L. Kurtz (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict (Third Edition) (768-780). Academic Press (Elsevier). https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-820195-4.00048-0

This article will explore serial and mass murder. It will cover the literature which has investigated leakage and warning signs or red flags in mass shooters. The role of biological, or body-related, issues; narcissism; fame-seeking; the injustice co... Read More about Serial and mass murderers.

Fear, faith and finances : health literacy experiences of English and Swahili speaking women newly diagnosed with breast and cervical cancer (2022)
Journal Article
Kassaman, D., Mushani, T., Kiraithe, P., Brownie, S., & Barton-Burke, M. (2022). Fear, faith and finances : health literacy experiences of English and Swahili speaking women newly diagnosed with breast and cervical cancer. ecancermedicalscience, 16, 1350. https://doi.org/10.3332/ECANCER.2022.1350

Breast and cervical cancer are among the leading causes of cancer-related deaths globally. In Kenya, delayed presentation and diagnosis contribute to breast and cervical cancer mortality. The Kenyan government acknowledges the cancer burden with esti... Read More about Fear, faith and finances : health literacy experiences of English and Swahili speaking women newly diagnosed with breast and cervical cancer.

Computation of thermo-solutal convection with Soret-Dufour cross diffusion in a vertical duct containing carbon/metallic nanofluids (2022)
Journal Article
Umavathi, J., & Beg, O. (2022). Computation of thermo-solutal convection with Soret-Dufour cross diffusion in a vertical duct containing carbon/metallic nanofluids. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, 236(13), 7456-7472. https://doi.org/10.1177/09544062211072693

Duct flows constitute an important category of modern thermal engineering. Optimizing efficiency has become a significant objective in the 21st century in, for example, heating ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC), coolant or heat transfer fluid... Read More about Computation of thermo-solutal convection with Soret-Dufour cross diffusion in a vertical duct containing carbon/metallic nanofluids.

Minimizing enterostomy complication in neonates, lessons learnt from three European tertiary centres (2022)
Journal Article
Coletta, R., Zulli, A., O'Shea, K., Mussi, E., Bianchi, A., & Morabito, A. (2022). Minimizing enterostomy complication in neonates, lessons learnt from three European tertiary centres. Children, 9(2), 162. https://doi.org/10.3390/children9020162

Stoma formation in neonates is often a life-saving procedure across a variety of conditions but is still associated with significant morbidity. Tube stoma technique was originally described for short bowel patients, but in selected cases of neonates... Read More about Minimizing enterostomy complication in neonates, lessons learnt from three European tertiary centres.

Biomechanical analysis of the effect of the finger extensor mechanism on hand grasping performance (2022)
Journal Article
Wei, Y., Zou, Z., Qian, Z., Ren, L., & Wei, G. (2022). Biomechanical analysis of the effect of the finger extensor mechanism on hand grasping performance. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 30, 360-368. https://doi.org/10.1109/TNSRE.2022.3146906

Quantifying the effect of routing and topology of the inter-connected finger extensor mechanism on hand grasping performances is a long-standing research problem for the better clinical diagnosis, surgical planning and biomimetic hand development. Ho... Read More about Biomechanical analysis of the effect of the finger extensor mechanism on hand grasping performance.

How big data characteristics can help the manufacturing industry mitigate the bullwhip effect in their supply chain (2022)
Thesis
Nyamukoroso, M. How big data characteristics can help the manufacturing industry mitigate the bullwhip effect in their supply chain. (Dissertation). University of Salford

For years, practitioners and academics have significantly studied the impact, causes, and remedies of the bullwhip effect in the supply chain. Numerous approaches have been developed throughout the years to help minimise demand amplification; these i... Read More about How big data characteristics can help the manufacturing industry mitigate the bullwhip effect in their supply chain.

Simulated performance of an energy storage and return prosthetic ankle based on cams and miniature hydraulics (2022)
Journal Article
Pace, A., Gardiner, J., Kenney, L., & Howard, D. (2022). Simulated performance of an energy storage and return prosthetic ankle based on cams and miniature hydraulics. IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, https://doi.org/10.1109/TMRB.2022.3146628

Prosthetic feet are limited in their ability to mimic the energy-recycling behaviour of an intact ankle, negatively affecting lower-limb amputees’ gait in terms of metabolic cost and walking speed. To overcome these weaknesses, a novel prosthetic ank... Read More about Simulated performance of an energy storage and return prosthetic ankle based on cams and miniature hydraulics.

Proline-specific aminopeptidase P prevents replication-associated genome instability (2022)
Journal Article
Silva, N., Castellano-Pozo, M., Matsuzaki, K., Barroso, C., Roman-Trufero, M., Craig, H., …Martinez-Perez, E. (2022). Proline-specific aminopeptidase P prevents replication-associated genome instability. PLoS Genetics, 18(1), e1010025. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010025

Genotoxic stress during DNA replication constitutes a serious threat to genome integrity and causes human diseases. Defects at different steps of DNA metabolism are known to induce replication stress, but the contribution of other aspects of cellular... Read More about Proline-specific aminopeptidase P prevents replication-associated genome instability.

Electroosmotic modulated unsteady squeezing flow with temperature-dependent thermal conductivity, electric and magnetic field effects (2022)
Journal Article
Prakash, J., Tripathi, D., Beg, O., & Sharma, R. (2022). Electroosmotic modulated unsteady squeezing flow with temperature-dependent thermal conductivity, electric and magnetic field effects. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-648X/ac4ead

Modern lubrication systems are increasingly deploying smart (functional) materials. These respond to various external stimuli including electrical and magnetic fields, acoustics, light etc. Motivated by such developments, in the present article uns... Read More about Electroosmotic modulated unsteady squeezing flow with temperature-dependent thermal conductivity, electric and magnetic field effects.

Affective space : a conceptual and practical approach to cinematography (2022)
Journal Article
Prokopic, P. (2022). Affective space : a conceptual and practical approach to cinematography

This article seeks to provide a theoretical justification and context to the understanding of cinematography as affective space, both in the aesthetic effects in the film image and in how this understanding can inform a specific approach to cinematog... Read More about Affective space : a conceptual and practical approach to cinematography.

Covid Realities: documenting life on a low income during the pandemic (2022)
Report
Patrick, R., Garthwaite, K., Power, M., Kaufman, J., Page, G., Pybus, K., …Howes, S. (2022). Covid Realities: documenting life on a low income during the pandemic. Nuffield Foundation

Families living on a low income are profoundly disadvantaged and Covid-19 has only made this worse. In this final report, we summarise the evidence from the multiple strands of the Covid Realities research programme, which documented the everyday ex... Read More about Covid Realities: documenting life on a low income during the pandemic.

Communication skills training for family caregivers of people living with dementia : the experiences of peer facilitators and course attendees (2022)
Journal Article
Innes, A., Morris, L., Wyatt, M., & McEvoy, P. (2022). Communication skills training for family caregivers of people living with dementia : the experiences of peer facilitators and course attendees. Educational Gerontology, 48(3), 103-113. https://doi.org/10.1080/03601277.2021.2018961

Family caregivers of people with dementia can find the impairments in their relative’s ability to communicate an enormous challenge. Peer facilitated educational interventions are a potentially efficient and effective way to address these complex com... Read More about Communication skills training for family caregivers of people living with dementia : the experiences of peer facilitators and course attendees.

Aesthetics and education for sustainability (2022)
Journal Article
Acevedo, B., Malevicius, R., Fadli, H., & Lamberti, C. (2022). Aesthetics and education for sustainability. Culture and Organization, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2022.2028147

Although there have been important developments in the provision of education for sustainability, the focus remains on the transmission of knowledge, and analysis of case studies that seldom relate to the daily lives and concerns of higher education... Read More about Aesthetics and education for sustainability.

Numerical study of magnetohydrodynamic natural convection in a non-Darcian porous enclosure filled with electrically conducting helium gas (2022)
Journal Article
Beg, O., Venkatadri, K., Prasad, V., Beg, T., Leonard, H., Gorla, R., & Rajarajeswari, P. (2022). Numerical study of magnetohydrodynamic natural convection in a non-Darcian porous enclosure filled with electrically conducting helium gas. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, https://doi.org/10.1177/09544062211003624

A theoretical and computational study of MHD natural convection in an isotropic non-Darcian porous medium saturated with electrically conducting helium gas in an enclosure in the presence of heat generation is presented. A Brinkman extended Darcy-For... Read More about Numerical study of magnetohydrodynamic natural convection in a non-Darcian porous enclosure filled with electrically conducting helium gas.

Linear advancing actions followed by deceleration and turn are the most common movements preceding goals in male professional soccer (2022)
Journal Article
Martinez, D., Quinn, M., & Jones, P. (2022). Linear advancing actions followed by deceleration and turn are the most common movements preceding goals in male professional soccer. Science and Medicine in Football, https://doi.org/10.1080/24733938.2022.2030064

Data were collected through time-motion analysis from soccer players participating in the English Premier League using a modified version of the Bloomfield Movement Classification with differences analysed through chi-square. The most common indiv... Read More about Linear advancing actions followed by deceleration and turn are the most common movements preceding goals in male professional soccer.

Determinants of intention to use medical smartwatch-based dual-stage SEM-ANN analysis (2022)
Journal Article
Almarzouqi, A., Aburayya, A., & Salloum, S. (2022). Determinants of intention to use medical smartwatch-based dual-stage SEM-ANN analysis. Informatics in Medicine Unlocked, 28, 100859. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.imu.2022.100859

The current study is based on an integrated research model developed by combining constructs from the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and other features affecting smartwatch effectiveness, such as content richness and user satisfaction (SAT). TAM i... Read More about Determinants of intention to use medical smartwatch-based dual-stage SEM-ANN analysis.

Performance of magnetite-based stone mastic asphalt (SMA) as a superior surface course material (2022)
Journal Article
Al-Kheetan, M., Azim, M., Byzyka, J., Ghaffar, S., & Rahman, M. (2022). Performance of magnetite-based stone mastic asphalt (SMA) as a superior surface course material. Construction and Building Materials, 322, 126463. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2022.126463

A new line of research is reported in this study where magnetite is used as a partial replacement of traditional aggregates in stone mastic asphalt (SMA) mixtures. The objective is to enhance the functional and mechanical properties of SMA while taki... Read More about Performance of magnetite-based stone mastic asphalt (SMA) as a superior surface course material.