Building-as-a-Service: Theoretical Foundations and Conceptual Framework (2022)
Journal Article
Wildenauer, A., Mbabu, A., Underwood, J., & Basl, J. (2022). Building-as-a-Service: Theoretical Foundations and Conceptual Framework. Buildings, 12(10), 1594. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12101594

The provision of data with information management are a significant challenge for the digital developing construction industry. The utilisation of data from a built asset’s planning, design, and construction phases to the operations phase core and to... Read More about Building-as-a-Service: Theoretical Foundations and Conceptual Framework.

A bibliometric study of industry 4.0 in construction industry Using Oesterreich and Teuteberg (2016) as a key marker (2022)
Journal Article
Mansour, H., Aminudin, E., Mansour, T., Binti Zainal Abidin, N., & Roslan, A. F. B. (2022). A bibliometric study of industry 4.0 in construction industry Using Oesterreich and Teuteberg (2016) as a key marker. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 1067(1), https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1067/1/012056

This study examines how Industry 4.0 has been discussed in the construction industry and construction management (CM) research over the past four years using Oesterreich and Teuteberg’s (2016) article as a key marker. The techniques adopted in this p... Read More about A bibliometric study of industry 4.0 in construction industry Using Oesterreich and Teuteberg (2016) as a key marker.

Exploring waste tyres problems and sustainable waste management in the Tunisian context (2022)
Journal Article
Abuzukhar, M., Hardman, M., & Clark, A. (2022). Exploring waste tyres problems and sustainable waste management in the Tunisian context. Current journal of applied science and technology, 41(35), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.9734/cjast/2022/v41i353956

Waste tyres represent one of the environmentally damaging fractions of the solid waste stream in Tunisia, where the problem of inefficient waste tyre management is endemic. This is easily identified by the piles of accumulating tyre waste located on... Read More about Exploring waste tyres problems and sustainable waste management in the Tunisian context.

Machine learning-based optimized link state routing protocol for D2D communication in 5G/B5G (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Bunu, S., Saraee, M., & Alani, O. (2022, September). Machine learning-based optimized link state routing protocol for D2D communication in 5G/B5G. Presented at The 4th International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Informatics (ICELTICs) 2022, Banda Aceh, Indonesia

Device to Device (D2D) communication in Fifth
Generation (5G) and unavoidable in Beyond Fifth Generation
(B5G) technology is designed to increase network capacity by
offloading backhaul links and base stations traffic and
improving the performanc... Read More about Machine learning-based optimized link state routing protocol for D2D communication in 5G/B5G.

Determinants of nutrition practice and food choice in UK construction workers (2022)
Journal Article
Wronska, M., Coffey, M., & Robins, A. (2022). Determinants of nutrition practice and food choice in UK construction workers. Health Promotion International, 37(5), https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daac129

Summary The workplace is considered an effective setting for health and wellbeing interventions, including programmes focusing on nutrition, and provides opportunities to tailor programmes to meet the specific needs of industry and employees. This st... Read More about Determinants of nutrition practice and food choice in UK construction workers.

Exploring the role of the UK renal social worker: the nexus between health and social care for renal patients (2022)
Journal Article
Seekles, M., & Ormandy, P. (2022). Exploring the role of the UK renal social worker: the nexus between health and social care for renal patients. PLoS ONE, 17(9), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275007

Introduction
Patients living with progressive chronic kidney disease may face a variety of ongoing physical, emotional, financial and/or social challenges along the disease pathway. In most UK renal units, psychosocial support has traditionally been... Read More about Exploring the role of the UK renal social worker: the nexus between health and social care for renal patients.

Edge effects and vertical stratification of aerial insectivorous bats across the interface of primary-secondary Amazonian rainforest (2022)
Journal Article
Yoh, N., Clarke, J., López-Baucells, A., Mas, M., Bobrowiec, P., Rocha, R., & Meyer, C. (2022). Edge effects and vertical stratification of aerial insectivorous bats across the interface of primary-secondary Amazonian rainforest. PLoS ONE, 17(9), e0274637. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0274637

Edge effects, abiotic and biotic changes associated with habitat boundaries, are key drivers of community change in fragmented landscapes. Their influence is heavily modulated by matrix composition. With over half of the world’s tropical forests pred... Read More about Edge effects and vertical stratification of aerial insectivorous bats across the interface of primary-secondary Amazonian rainforest.

Why doesn’t a prosthetic hand always do what it’s told? (2022)
Journal Article

There are online videos which appear to show electrically-powered prosthetic hands to be nearperfect replacements for a missing hand (e.g. https://youtu.be/F_brnKz_2tI). However, for
many users, the reality can be different. Prosthetic hands don’t a... Read More about Why doesn’t a prosthetic hand always do what it’s told?.

The effects of anthracyclines on calcium handling and contractility in sheep ventricular myocytes (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A Proposed Digital Twin Framework to Enable Lean Strategic Facility Management (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The concept of bringing a strategic approach to facility management is gaining traction as organizations are becoming more cognizant of the strong relationship between the built assets that facility managers are responsible for managing and the organ... Read More about A Proposed Digital Twin Framework to Enable Lean Strategic Facility Management.

Interplay between local and landscape-scale effects on the taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity of aerial insectivorous Neotropical bats (2022)
Journal Article
López-Baucells, A., Rowley, S., Rocha, R., Bobrowiec, P., Palmeirim, J., Farneda, F., & Meyer, C. (2022). Interplay between local and landscape-scale effects on the taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity of aerial insectivorous Neotropical bats. Landscape Ecology, 37(11), 2861-2875. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-022-01493-x

Context Human-modified landscapes are globally ubiquitous. It is critical to understand how habitat loss and
fragmentation impact biodiversity from both a local habitat context and landscape-scale perspective to inform
land management and conservat... Read More about Interplay between local and landscape-scale effects on the taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity of aerial insectivorous Neotropical bats.

Exploring the adoption of platform-based design for manufacture and assembly (P-DFMA) in the UK construction sector: a stakeholder perspective (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Balogun, T., & Thakur, S. (2022, September). Exploring the adoption of platform-based design for manufacture and assembly (P-DFMA) in the UK construction sector: a stakeholder perspective. Presented at ARCOM Conference 2022: Build Back Wiser 38th Conference

Player valuation in thin markets: the case of European Association football (2022)
Thesis
Che, V. Player valuation in thin markets: the case of European Association football. (Thesis). University of Salford

The amount of money in football is staggering and is a concern for people of all walks of life. While these concerns are valid, the money in football is justified and consumers of football as a form of entertainment, actively participate in the set-u... Read More about Player valuation in thin markets: the case of European Association football.

Metric-based optimisation of acoustic lenses and waveguides (2022)
Thesis

This dissertation develops an automated procedure for the design of acoustic waveguides that can support single parameter (1P) wave propagation over a large bandwidth. 1P waves include plane, cylindrical and spherical waves, and the waveguides aim to... Read More about Metric-based optimisation of acoustic lenses and waveguides.

The predator problem and PCR primers in molecular dietary analysis: Swamped or silenced; depth or breadth? (2022)
Journal Article

Dietary metabarcoding has vastly improved our ability to analyse the diets of animals, but it is hampered by a plethora of technical limitations including potentially reduced data output due to the disproportionate amplification of the DNA of the foc... Read More about The predator problem and PCR primers in molecular dietary analysis: Swamped or silenced; depth or breadth?.

Cutting Movement Assessment Scores during Anticipated and Unanticipated 90-Degree Sidestep Cutting Manoeuvres within Female Professional Footballers (2022)
Journal Article
Needham, C., & Herrington, L. (2022). Cutting Movement Assessment Scores during Anticipated and Unanticipated 90-Degree Sidestep Cutting Manoeuvres within Female Professional Footballers. Sports, 10(9), 128. https://doi.org/10.3390/sports10090128

Background: ACL injuries present a considerable burden in female football, with highest incidence being related to change of direction (COD) tasks. The aim was to identify if differences existed between an anticipated and unanticipated 90-degree cutt... Read More about Cutting Movement Assessment Scores during Anticipated and Unanticipated 90-Degree Sidestep Cutting Manoeuvres within Female Professional Footballers.

Exploring the need for innovation in greening urban environments: Reflecting on radical practice in Greater Manchester, UK (2022)
Journal Article

The green agenda is high on the list of priorities of local, national, and global governments.
In the UK, a new £40 million scheme aims to encourage a sustainable recovery alongside
policies - such as the 25 Year Environment Plan - and other tools... Read More about Exploring the need for innovation in greening urban environments: Reflecting on radical practice in Greater Manchester, UK.

A Boundary Element Method (BEM) Solver for Low Frequency Room Modes (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Cicero, A., & Hargreaves, J. A. (2022, August). A Boundary Element Method (BEM) Solver for Low Frequency Room Modes. Presented at Internoise 2022, Glasgow, Scotland

Room modes are known to be problematic in small critical listening environments. They degrade the acoustic quality at low frequencies, producing peaks and nulls in the frequency domain and ringing in the time domain. The Finite Element Method (FEM) i... Read More about A Boundary Element Method (BEM) Solver for Low Frequency Room Modes.

Raytracing in Galerkin Boundary Integral form (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Emthyas, A., & Hargreaves, J. (2022, August). Raytracing in Galerkin Boundary Integral form. Presented at Internoise 2022, Glasgow, Scotland

Raytracing is an established method for computing the late-time part of room impulse responses. But it has the drawback that only very crude Monte Carlo models of boundary scattering and diffraction are possible to include without losing its attracti... Read More about Raytracing in Galerkin Boundary Integral form.

Subjective well-being among psychotherapists during the coronavirus disease pandemic: A cross-cultural survey from 12 European countries (2022)
Journal Article

Objective
The aim of this study to examine the amount of the total variance of the subjective well-being (SWB) of psychotherapists from 12 European countries explained by between-country vs. between-person differences regarding its cognitive (life s... Read More about Subjective well-being among psychotherapists during the coronavirus disease pandemic: A cross-cultural survey from 12 European countries.