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The lexicography of Scots (2022)
Book Chapter
Scott, M. The lexicography of Scots. In The New Cambridge Companion to the History of the English Language. Cambridge University Press (CUP). Manuscript submitted for publication

This chapter considers the history of Scots dictionaries in relation to their purposes and the dominant contemporary perceptions of the Scots language. The twenty-first century Scots Dictionary for Schools (Scots Abc) mobile phone application encoura... Read More about The lexicography of Scots.

Surveillance for early detection of high-consequence pests and pathogens (2022)
Book Chapter
Bowers, J., Malayer, J., Martínez-López, B., LaForest, J., Bargeron, C., Neeley, A., …Russo, J. (2022). Surveillance for early detection of high-consequence pests and pathogens. In K. Cardwell, & K. Bailey (Eds.), Tactical Sciences for Biosecurity in Animal and Plant Systems (120-177). Pennsylvania: IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7935-0.ch005

Surveillance is one of the core activities of national organizations responsible for human, animal, or plant health, with the goal of demonstrating the absence of infection or infestation, determining the presence or distribution of infection or infe... Read More about Surveillance for early detection of high-consequence pests and pathogens.

In silico models for hepatotoxicity (2022)
Book Chapter
Ellison, C., Hewitt, M., & Przybylak, K. (2022). In silico models for hepatotoxicity. In E. Benfenati (Ed.), In Silico Methods for Predicting Drug Toxicity (2nd edition) (355-392). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1960-5_14

In this chapter, we review the state of the art of predicting human hepatotoxicity using in silico techniques. There has been significant progress in this area over the past 20 years but there are still some challenges ahead. Principally, these chall... Read More about In silico models for hepatotoxicity.

Evaluating the barriers to adopting sustainable agriculture practices in smallholder coffee farming : implications for global value chains (2022)
Book Chapter
Akenroye, T., Kumar, M., Dora, M., Ihua, U., Mtonga, V., & Aju, O. (2022). Evaluating the barriers to adopting sustainable agriculture practices in smallholder coffee farming : implications for global value chains. In R. Frei, S. Ibrahim, & T. Akenroye (Eds.), Africa and Sustainable Global Value Chains (117-142). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78791-2_6

Purpose: This study aims to access the perception of smallholder coffee farmers on barriers to the adoption of sustainable agriculture practices (SAPs). Methodology: Survey data were obtained through a questionnaire from 122 coffee producers in Ny... Read More about Evaluating the barriers to adopting sustainable agriculture practices in smallholder coffee farming : implications for global value chains.

Engineering practices : complexity-diversity-coherence-meaningfulness (2022)
Book Chapter
Basden, A. (2022). Engineering practices : complexity-diversity-coherence-meaningfulness. In A. Zambroni de Souza, M. Verkerk, & P. Ribeiro (Eds.), Interdisciplinary and Social Nature of Engineering Practices (21-43). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88016-3_2

During the writing of this chapter, a landmark was passed. For the first time, the total mass of humanly created structures and products exceeded the total biomass on earth.

MOBILISE-UTHM Resilient Tracker (RITTER) for Resilient Educational Communities in Malaysia During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2022)
Journal Article
Sulaiman, N., Fernando, T., Ismail, M., Nazir, U., Latib, S., Hafidz, H., …Abid, S. (2022). MOBILISE-UTHM Resilient Tracker (RITTER) for Resilient Educational Communities in Malaysia During the COVID-19 Pandemic. International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development, 13(8), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.4018/ijsesd.292052

Coronavirus disease has caused a pandemic across the globe and it is now representing a significant threat to global health. Certainly, managing COVID-19 as compared to other type of disasters comes with a lot of unique challenges to many sectors inc... Read More about MOBILISE-UTHM Resilient Tracker (RITTER) for Resilient Educational Communities in Malaysia During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Development of a management framework to improve the building services engineering design process; a case study of engineering management in an Irish consultancy practice (2022)
Thesis
Reilly, R. (in press). Development of a management framework to improve the building services engineering design process; a case study of engineering management in an Irish consultancy practice. (Thesis). University of Salford

The building services engineering (BSE) design process is a major source of problems at construction stage, even to the extent of undermining systematic management. Managerial practitioners have wrestled with this productivity gap for many years, and... Read More about Development of a management framework to improve the building services engineering design process; a case study of engineering management in an Irish consultancy practice.

A physical behaviour partnership from heaven: the prospective physical activity, sitting, and sleep consortium and the international society for the measurement of physical behaviour (2022)
Journal Article
Stamatakis, E., Clark, B., Ahmadi, M., Blodgett, J., Granat, M., Donnelly, A., …Koster, A. (2022). A physical behaviour partnership from heaven: the prospective physical activity, sitting, and sleep consortium and the international society for the measurement of physical behaviour. Journal for the Measurement of Physical Behaviour, 5(3), 129-131. https://doi.org/10.1123/jmpb.2022-0027

The advancement of science demands people and organizations work together toward worthy goals, a need that is especially pronounced in nascent fields like physical behavior. Partnerships offer an ideal vehicle for long-term collaboration to build res... Read More about A physical behaviour partnership from heaven: the prospective physical activity, sitting, and sleep consortium and the international society for the measurement of physical behaviour.

Aesthetic appealing wall insulation: A novel approach for uptake of solid wall insulation in the UK (2022)
Journal Article
Seifhashemi, S., & Elkadi, H. (2022). Aesthetic appealing wall insulation: A novel approach for uptake of solid wall insulation in the UK. Building and Environment, 224, https://doi.org/10.1016/J.BUILDENV.109550

Solid wall dwellings in the UK are in urgent need for energy retrofit to support achieving the UK net-zero strategies in the building sector and reduce fuel poverty. Several barriers are a cause of uncertainty for householders about Solid Wall 1nsula... Read More about Aesthetic appealing wall insulation: A novel approach for uptake of solid wall insulation in the UK.

A diagnostics and prognostics framework for multi-component systems with wear interactions: application to a gearbox-platform (2022)
Journal Article
Assaf, R., Do, P., & Scarf, P. (2022). A diagnostics and prognostics framework for multi-component systems with wear interactions: application to a gearbox-platform. Pesquisa operacional (Impresso), 42, https://doi.org/10.1590/0101-7438.2022.042nspe1.00264770

We present a novel framework for diagnostics and prognostics for multi-component systems with wear interaction between components. The principal elements of this framework are: health-state indicator extraction using signal-processing; clustering of... Read More about A diagnostics and prognostics framework for multi-component systems with wear interactions: application to a gearbox-platform.