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Investigating the Impact of Early Specialization on Career Progression in Football (2021)
Journal Article
Morrice, E., & Andronikos, G. (2021). Investigating the Impact of Early Specialization on Career Progression in Football. International Journal of Sport and Society: Annual Review, 12(2), 167-184. https://doi.org/10.18848/2152-7857/cgp/v12i02/167-184

The current study aimed to investigate the relationship between early specialization and career progression in football (soccer). Young footballers are often motivated to specialize at an early age by aspirations of reaching elite level. However, res... Read More about Investigating the Impact of Early Specialization on Career Progression in Football.

Value(s): Taking a Systems/COR Critical Perspective (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Weaver, M., & Tan, H. (2021, September). Value(s): Taking a Systems/COR Critical Perspective. Paper presented at OR63: Operational Research Society 63rd Annual Conference, Online

Mark Carney - the former Governor of the Bank of England calls for a new kind of economics and attacks the prevalent neo-liberal paradigm, in his 2021 book, Value(s) Building a Better World for All. Echoing the Financial Times attempts to "reset capi... Read More about Value(s): Taking a Systems/COR Critical Perspective.

Cross-Validation of Good versus Poor Self-reported Outcome Trajectory Types Following Knee Arthroplasty (2021)
Journal Article
Riddle, D., MacFarlane, G., Hamilton, D., Beasley, M., & Dumenci, L. (2022). Cross-Validation of Good versus Poor Self-reported Outcome Trajectory Types Following Knee Arthroplasty. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 30(1), 61-68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joca.2021.09.004

Objective
To determine whether good versus poor outcome trajectories and predictors of poor outcome obtained in a derivation study could be replicated in an independent sample of persons undergoing knee arthroplasty (KA).
Methods
We used data from... Read More about Cross-Validation of Good versus Poor Self-reported Outcome Trajectory Types Following Knee Arthroplasty.

Organising to beat the Trade Union Act (2016) voting thresholds: a case study of organising and tactics from the University and College Union (2021)
Journal Article
Richards, J., & Ellis, V. (2022). Organising to beat the Trade Union Act (2016) voting thresholds: a case study of organising and tactics from the University and College Union. Personnel Review, 51(9), 2294-2311. https://doi.org/10.1108/PR-10-2020-0756

Purpose
A retrospective action-research case study of one branch of the University and College Union (UCU) is used to show how threshold requirements of the Act can be systematically beaten.

Design/methodology/approach
The paper responds to call... Read More about Organising to beat the Trade Union Act (2016) voting thresholds: a case study of organising and tactics from the University and College Union.

The regulations and reality of indoor environmental standards for objects and visitors in museums (2021)
Journal Article
Elkadi, H., Al-Maiyah, S., Fielder, K., Kenawy, I., & Martinson, D. B. (2021). The regulations and reality of indoor environmental standards for objects and visitors in museums. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 152, Article 111653. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2021.111653

The management of indoor microclimates is an important function of museum operations, a topic that has recently received growing attention. The way in which museum microclimates are specified is still not well documented universally, particularly in... Read More about The regulations and reality of indoor environmental standards for objects and visitors in museums.

Community radio as citizen journalism (2021)
Book Chapter
Kocic, A., Coleman, J., Padfield, J., & Milicev, J. (2021). Community radio as citizen journalism. In D. Harte, & R. Matthews (Eds.), Reappraising Local and Community News in the UK: Media, Practice, and Policy (81-93). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003173144-7

Much of the discourse surrounding local journalism in the UK has been related to its demise: whether it be newspaper titles disappearing from the presses, reductions in staff numbers, or regulatory changes relaxing ownership restrictions and localnes... Read More about Community radio as citizen journalism.

The association between physical fitness, sports club participation and body mass index on health-related quality of life in primary school children from a socioeconomically deprived area of England (2021)
Journal Article
Basterfield, L., Burn, N. L., Galna, B., Karoblyte, G., & Weston, K. L. (2021). The association between physical fitness, sports club participation and body mass index on health-related quality of life in primary school children from a socioeconomically deprived area of England. Preventive medicine reports, 24, Article 101557. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2021.101557

We examined associations between physical fitness components, body mass index (BMI) and sports club participation on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in 8- to 11-year-old children from a socioeconomically deprived region of England. From May-Oc... Read More about The association between physical fitness, sports club participation and body mass index on health-related quality of life in primary school children from a socioeconomically deprived area of England.

Analytics Capability in Marketing Education: A Practice-Informed Model (2021)
Journal Article
Kurtzke, S., & Setkute, J. (2021). Analytics Capability in Marketing Education: A Practice-Informed Model. Journal of Marketing Education, 43(3), 298-316. https://doi.org/10.1177/02734753211042404

As marketing continues to be transformed by technology and the explosion of big data, academic research has identified a significant need for analytics skills in marketing education. However, it is unclear whether current curriculum approaches to mar... Read More about Analytics Capability in Marketing Education: A Practice-Informed Model.

Harmonisation in Times of Crisis (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ghio, E. (2021). Harmonisation in Times of Crisis. Juris Poiesis, 24(35), 386-392

New Challenges For Transnational Civil And Commercial Law In The Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Rethinking the Role of Law and Legal Institutions (2021)
Journal Article
Ghio, E., & Perlingeiro, R. (2021). New Challenges For Transnational Civil And Commercial Law In The Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Rethinking the Role of Law and Legal Institutions. Juris Poiesis, 24(35), 383-385

This issue of the Juris Poesis Journal features extended abstracts of papers which have been presented at the roundtable entitled ‘New Challenges for Transnational Civil and Commercial Law in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic’, hosted by the Law and... Read More about New Challenges For Transnational Civil And Commercial Law In The Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Rethinking the Role of Law and Legal Institutions.

Numerical Analysis on hot water storage tank integrated with phase change materials (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
D'Oliveira, E. J., Costa Pereira, C., & Azimov, U. (2021). Numerical Analysis on hot water storage tank integrated with phase change materials. In Energy and Sustainability IX

The combination of solar collectors with latent heat thermal energy storage system (LHTESS) has been employed to utilise solar energy more effectively, as this technology can provide a balancing function to match the variability in supply and demand,... Read More about Numerical Analysis on hot water storage tank integrated with phase change materials.

Discrete Human Activity Recognition and Fall Detection by Combining FMCW RADAR Data of Heterogeneous Environments for Independent Assistive Living (2021)
Journal Article
Saeed, U., Shah, S. Y., Shah, S. A., Ahmad, J., Alotaibi, A. A., Althobaiti, T., Ramzan, N., Alomainy, A., & Abbasi, Q. H. (2021). Discrete Human Activity Recognition and Fall Detection by Combining FMCW RADAR Data of Heterogeneous Environments for Independent Assistive Living. Electronics, 10(18), Article 2237. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10182237

Human activity monitoring is essential for a variety of applications in many fields, particularly healthcare. The goal of this research work is to develop a system that can effectively detect fall/collapse and classify other discrete daily living act... Read More about Discrete Human Activity Recognition and Fall Detection by Combining FMCW RADAR Data of Heterogeneous Environments for Independent Assistive Living.

Energy and exergy analyses of new cooling schemes based on a serpentine configuration for a high concentrator photovoltaic system (2021)
Journal Article
Ahmed, A., Shanks, K., Sundaram, S., & Mallick, T. (2021). Energy and exergy analyses of new cooling schemes based on a serpentine configuration for a high concentrator photovoltaic system. Applied Thermal Engineering, 199, Article 117528. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2021.117528

High concentrator photovoltaic is expected to play an increasingly important role in electrical energy production. Controlling multijunction solar cell temperature within the recommended conditions is a key challenge that limits the functionality of... Read More about Energy and exergy analyses of new cooling schemes based on a serpentine configuration for a high concentrator photovoltaic system.

Coronabot: A conversational ai system for tackling misinformation (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gunson, N., Sieińska, W., Yu, Y., Hernandez Garcia, D., Part, J. L., Dondrup, C., & Lemon, O. (2021, September). Coronabot: A conversational ai system for tackling misinformation. Presented at Conference on Information Technology for Social Good, Roma, Italy

Covid-19 has brought with it an onslaught of information for the public, some true and some false, across virtually every platform. For an individual, the task of sifting through the deluge for reliable, accurate facts is significant and potentially... Read More about Coronabot: A conversational ai system for tackling misinformation.

Cybersecurity maturity assessment framework for higher education institutions in Saudi Arabia (2021)
Journal Article
Almomani, I., Ahmed, M., & Maglaras, L. (2021). Cybersecurity maturity assessment framework for higher education institutions in Saudi Arabia. PeerJ Computer Science, 7, Article e703. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.703

The Saudi Arabia government has proposed different frameworks such as the CITC’s Cybersecurity Regulatory Framework (CRF) and the NCA’s Essential Cybersecurity Controls (ECC) to ensure data and infrastructure security in all IT-based systems. However... Read More about Cybersecurity maturity assessment framework for higher education institutions in Saudi Arabia.

General practice nurses' experiences of participation in an advanced nursing practice education programme (2021)
Journal Article
Mundy, J., & Pow, J. (2021). General practice nurses' experiences of participation in an advanced nursing practice education programme. British Journal of Nursing, 30(16), 964-969. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2021.30.16.964

In the UK, transformation of the nursing workforce, including development of the role of the advanced nurse practitioner within general practice, is essential to meet healthcare demands. This article presents the results of a small, qualitative study... Read More about General practice nurses' experiences of participation in an advanced nursing practice education programme.