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The role of medical officers of health in civil defence and how they influenced modern emergency medical practice (2023)
Journal Article
Hazlehurst, N. (2023). The role of medical officers of health in civil defence and how they influenced modern emergency medical practice. Public Health, 219, 31-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2023.03.016

Objectives: The article will examine the role of the Medical Officer of Health within United Kingdom Local Authorities in the period preceding the Second World War, the war itself, the residual impact of their work on emergency medical and public hea... Read More about The role of medical officers of health in civil defence and how they influenced modern emergency medical practice.

Environmental, health and safety assessment of nanoparticle application in drilling mud – review (2023)
Journal Article
Martin, C., Nourian, A., Babaie, M., & Nasr, G. (in press). Environmental, health and safety assessment of nanoparticle application in drilling mud – review. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 226, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoen.2023.211767

The rapid increase in the use of engineered nanoparticles in different industrial applications
makes risk assessment on human health, ecosystem and the environment necessary. Health,
safety and environmental (HSE) risks of a technology are an insep... Read More about Environmental, health and safety assessment of nanoparticle application in drilling mud – review.

Dynamics on ₵ with generalized Newton-Raphson maps: Julia sets, uncertainty dimension, and periodic orbits (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Christian, J., & Jensen, G. (2023, April). Dynamics on ₵ with generalized Newton-Raphson maps: Julia sets, uncertainty dimension, and periodic orbits. Poster presented at 64th British Applied Mathematics Colloquium (BAMC 2023), University of the West of England and University of Bristol, UK

The Newton-Raphson (NR) method is a well-known iterative scheme for approximating the roots of
functions. Deployed on the complex plane, ₵, perhaps its most famous application is to finding the
cube roots of –1. One often regards any specific outco... Read More about Dynamics on ₵ with generalized Newton-Raphson maps: Julia sets, uncertainty dimension, and periodic orbits.

Vector cnoidal waves in spatiotemporal propagation: exact solutions beyond slowly-varying envelopes (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Christian, J., & McAteer, É. (2023, April). Vector cnoidal waves in spatiotemporal propagation: exact solutions beyond slowly-varying envelopes. Presented at 64th British Applied Mathematics Colloquium (BAMC 2023), University of the West of England and University of Bristol, UK

Cnoidal waves are periodic solutions to certain classes of nonlinear partial differential equations
(PDEs). They are fundamental excitations in theories of waves and their more familiar localized
counterparts––solitons––typically emerge as limits.... Read More about Vector cnoidal waves in spatiotemporal propagation: exact solutions beyond slowly-varying envelopes.

Resettlement as a flood-preventive measure in Sri Lanka: investigation into the socio-economic impacts (2023)
Book Chapter
Siriwardhana, S., Kulatunga, U., & Ingirige, B. (2023). Resettlement as a flood-preventive measure in Sri Lanka: investigation into the socio-economic impacts. In V. Oladokun, D. Proverbs, O. Adebimpe, & T. Adedeji (Eds.), Handbook of Flood Risk Management in Developing Countries. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003160823-6

Resettlement has been adopted as a flood-preventive strategy to reduce the vulnerability of communities, especially those in flood-prone areas. While providing safe locations, resettlement needs to ensure long-term sustainability and satisfaction in... Read More about Resettlement as a flood-preventive measure in Sri Lanka: investigation into the socio-economic impacts.

Individuals with knee osteoarthritis demonstrate increased passive stiffness of the hip flexor muscles (2023)
Journal Article

Background: People with knee osteoarthritis stand and walk with increased trunk flexion. This altered postural alignment will increase hamstring activation, elevating mechanical knee loads during walking. Increased hip flexor stiffness may lead to in... Read More about Individuals with knee osteoarthritis demonstrate increased passive stiffness of the hip flexor muscles.

“You’ve been living here for as long as you can remember”: trauma in OMORI's environmental design (2023)
Journal Article
Younis, A., & Fedtke, J. (2023). “You’ve been living here for as long as you can remember”: trauma in OMORI's environmental design. Games and Culture, 19(3), 309-336. https://doi.org/10.1177/15554120231162982

Developed by Omocat and released in December 2020, OMORI is a surreal psychological horror role-playing game. The game follows the titular protagonist Omori as it examines such sensitive topics as suicide, grief, death, and depression. Such traumatic... Read More about “You’ve been living here for as long as you can remember”: trauma in OMORI's environmental design.

Exploring the impact of divergent thinking approaches on team-based problem-solving: a case study of 2nd year media production students creating a live camera feed using a public 5G network (2023)
Other
Davies, A. Exploring the impact of divergent thinking approaches on team-based problem-solving: a case study of 2nd year media production students creating a live camera feed using a public 5G network

This research paper presents an analysis of a collaborative task completed by students, which involved broadcasting a live camera feed from the Blue Peter Gardens at Media City UK to their Mac Studio using a 5G Public network. The paper focuses on th... Read More about Exploring the impact of divergent thinking approaches on team-based problem-solving: a case study of 2nd year media production students creating a live camera feed using a public 5G network.

Metacognitive verbs do not show a cross-language gap: An investigation of metacognitive and concrete verbs in bilingual children (2023)
Journal Article
Muszyńska, K., Kołak, J., Haman, E., Białecka-Pikul, M., & Otwinowska, A. (in press). Metacognitive verbs do not show a cross-language gap: An investigation of metacognitive and concrete verbs in bilingual children. International Journal of Bilingualism, 28(3), 316-336. https://doi.org/10.1177/13670069221149941

Purpose:: Previous research on bilingual vocabulary has focussed largely on words for imaginable objects and actions (e.g., ‘apple’, ‘write’), but did not consider abstract words. We looked for a disproportion across two languages (a cross-language g... Read More about Metacognitive verbs do not show a cross-language gap: An investigation of metacognitive and concrete verbs in bilingual children.

Barriers to, and enablers for, stakeholder collaboration in risk-sensitive urban planning: a systematised literature review (2023)
Journal Article

The lack of stakeholder collaboration has been recognised as a prominent hindrance in implementing risk-sensitive urban planning for creating resilient environments for communities against climate-induced risks. This study presents the outcome of a s... Read More about Barriers to, and enablers for, stakeholder collaboration in risk-sensitive urban planning: a systematised literature review.

Effect of additional Nordic hamstring exercise or sprint training on the modifiable risk factors of hamstring strain injuries and performance (2023)
Journal Article
Ripley, N., Cuthbert, M., Comfort, P., & McMahon, J. (2023). Effect of additional Nordic hamstring exercise or sprint training on the modifiable risk factors of hamstring strain injuries and performance. PLoS ONE, 18(3), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0281966

The Nordic hamstring exercise (NHE) has commonly been investigated in isolation, however, within practice multiple modalities are commonly incorporated. However, the NHE has a low level of compliance within sport, with sprinting being potentially bei... Read More about Effect of additional Nordic hamstring exercise or sprint training on the modifiable risk factors of hamstring strain injuries and performance.

Problem-solving and spontaneous tool-using ability in European Brown Bears (Ursus arctos arctos) (2023)
Journal Article
Chambers, H., & O'Hara, S. Problem-solving and spontaneous tool-using ability in European Brown Bears (Ursus arctos arctos). Animal Behavior and Cognition, 10(1), 40-61. https://doi.org/10.26451/abc.10.01.03.2023

Little is known about the cognitive abilities of bears, despite possessing relatively large brains for their body size. One reason this group is perhaps overlooked is because they are thought to fail to conform to the “social brain” hypothesis, by be... Read More about Problem-solving and spontaneous tool-using ability in European Brown Bears (Ursus arctos arctos).

Electrochemical detection of asparaginase antibodies using bifunctionalized carbon interfaces (2023)
Journal Article
Marshall, D., & Lehr, J. (in press). Electrochemical detection of asparaginase antibodies using bifunctionalized carbon interfaces. Electroanalysis, https://doi.org/10.1002/elan.202200456

The early detection of anti-asparaginase biomarker can facilitate timely modification of asparaginase chemotherapy, thereby avoiding serious complications. Herein we describe the preparation of a novel electrochemical biosensing interface for rapid d... Read More about Electrochemical detection of asparaginase antibodies using bifunctionalized carbon interfaces.

Baseline distribution of petroleum hydrocarbon contamination in the marine environment around the coastline of Qatar (2023)
Journal Article

Levels of organic contaminants (TPHs, PAHs) were simultaneously determined in both abiotic (sediments, seawater) and biotic (Pinctada radiata oysters) samples at four sites along the coastline of Qatar (Arabian Gulf) in 2017-2018. TPHs and PAHs were... Read More about Baseline distribution of petroleum hydrocarbon contamination in the marine environment around the coastline of Qatar.

A survey of environmental performance enhancement strategies and building data capturing techniques in the Nigerian context (2023)
Journal Article
Nigerian context. Buildings, 13(2), 452. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13020452

Abstract: The need to improve the performance of Nigeria’s office buildings is due to, energy challenges, increasing population, changing user needs, and climate change. With the expansion of
several Nigerian cities, existing buildings constitute a... Read More about A survey of environmental performance enhancement strategies and building data capturing techniques in the Nigerian context.

A survey of environmental performance enhancement strategies and building data capturing techniques in the Nigerian context (2023)
Journal Article
Omoragbon, O., Al-Maiyah, S., & Coates, P. (2023). A survey of environmental performance enhancement strategies and building data capturing techniques in the Nigerian context. Buildings, 13(2), 452

The need to improve the performance of Nigeria’s office buildings is due to, energy challenges, increasing population, changing user needs, and climate change. With the expansion of several Nigerian cities, existing buildings constitute a significant... Read More about A survey of environmental performance enhancement strategies and building data capturing techniques in the Nigerian context.