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Tracking Down of a Selected Panel of Parabens: A Validated Method to Evaluate Their Occurrence in Skin Layers (2022)
Journal Article
Di Lorenzo, R., Neri, I., Russo, G., Laneri, S., & Grumetto, L. (2022). Tracking Down of a Selected Panel of Parabens: A Validated Method to Evaluate Their Occurrence in Skin Layers. Cosmetics, 9(5), Article 102. https://doi.org/10.3390/cosmetics9050102

A method was set up and validated to identify and quantify seven parabens in each of the three skin layers, i.e., Stratum Corneum, Epidermis, and Dermis, because, even if only some analogues are legally allowed in Europe, forbidden parabens are also... Read More about Tracking Down of a Selected Panel of Parabens: A Validated Method to Evaluate Their Occurrence in Skin Layers.

The development and initial validation of self-report measures of ICD-11 depressive episode and generalized anxiety disorder: The International Depression Questionnaire (IDQ) and the International Anxiety Questionnaire (IAQ) (2022)
Journal Article
Shevlin, M., Hyland, P., Butter, S., McBride, O., Hartman, T. K., Karatzias, T., & Bentall, R. P. (2023). The development and initial validation of self-report measures of ICD-11 depressive episode and generalized anxiety disorder: The International Depression Questionnaire (IDQ) and the International Anxiety Questionnaire (IAQ). Journal of Clinical Psychology, 79(3), 854-870. https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.23446

Background
The new International Classification of Diseases came into effect in 2022 (ICD-11; World Health Organization, 2022) and included updated descriptions and diagnostic rules for “Depressive Episode” and “Generalized Anxiety Disorder.” No sel... Read More about The development and initial validation of self-report measures of ICD-11 depressive episode and generalized anxiety disorder: The International Depression Questionnaire (IDQ) and the International Anxiety Questionnaire (IAQ).

“Be the change” — how Cheltenham Science Festival used a central theme to centre social change within the festival (2022)
Journal Article
Kerr, G., Whittle, E., & Navin, M. (2022). “Be the change” — how Cheltenham Science Festival used a central theme to centre social change within the festival. Journal of Science Communication, 21(06), Article R07

‘Be the change’ (BTC) was the theme for Cheltenham Science Festival. BTC set out to empower audiences as individuals and as a collective to enact positive change across a wide range of global issues linked to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. We... Read More about “Be the change” — how Cheltenham Science Festival used a central theme to centre social change within the festival.

Sub-supplier's sustainability management in multi-tier supply chains: A systematic literature review on the contingency variables, and a conceptual framework (2022)
Journal Article
Jamalnia, A., Gong, Y., & Govindan, K. (2023). Sub-supplier's sustainability management in multi-tier supply chains: A systematic literature review on the contingency variables, and a conceptual framework. International Journal of Production Economics, 255, Article 108671. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2022.108671

Sub-suppliers may violate sustainability standards for a variety of motivations, and focal firms' neglecting of sub-suppliers’ sustainability violation despite stakeholder pressures to establish sustainability compliance at sub-supplier level can bri... Read More about Sub-supplier's sustainability management in multi-tier supply chains: A systematic literature review on the contingency variables, and a conceptual framework.

The Aesthetics of Uncertainty: Co-Constructing Playful Ways of Knowing and Understanding Extended Reality (XR) and Care Identity. (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Morrison, J., & Kranicz, M. (2022, October). The Aesthetics of Uncertainty: Co-Constructing Playful Ways of Knowing and Understanding Extended Reality (XR) and Care Identity. Presented at NordiCHI '22: Nordic Human-Computer Interaction Conference, Aarhus, Denmark

This research focuses on investigating new modalities of experience with lens-based technologies and creative expression for meaning-making with care experienced individuals. The digital artefacts presented in the demo emerged from trauma-informed Re... Read More about The Aesthetics of Uncertainty: Co-Constructing Playful Ways of Knowing and Understanding Extended Reality (XR) and Care Identity..

YOLO-Fish: A robust fish detection model to detect fish in realistic underwater environment (2022)
Journal Article
Muksit, A. A., Hasan, F., Hasan Bhuiyan Emon, M. F., Haque, M. R., Anwary, A. R., & Shatabda, S. (2022). YOLO-Fish: A robust fish detection model to detect fish in realistic underwater environment. Ecological Informatics, 72, Article 101847. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2022.101847

Over the last few years, several research works have been performed to monitor fish in the underwater environment aimed for marine research, understanding ocean geography, and primarily for sustainable fisheries. Automating fish identification is ver... Read More about YOLO-Fish: A robust fish detection model to detect fish in realistic underwater environment.

Agents for change: Reimagining emancipatory career guidance practices in Scotland (2022)
Journal Article
Meldrum, S. (2022). Agents for change: Reimagining emancipatory career guidance practices in Scotland. Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling, 49(1), 41-49. https://doi.org/10.20856/jnicec.4907

This article explores how individual and group work models of career development practice could be adapted and redesigned to be more effective at empowering people to overcome barriers and inequalities. It is set in the context of the ongoing major r... Read More about Agents for change: Reimagining emancipatory career guidance practices in Scotland.

English Development Sustainability for English as Second Language College Transfer Students: A Case Study from a University in Hong Kong (2022)
Journal Article
Foung, D., Ching, S. S. Y., Zhang, L. W., Guan, G. Y., & Cheung, K. (2022). English Development Sustainability for English as Second Language College Transfer Students: A Case Study from a University in Hong Kong. Sustainability, 14(19), Article 12692. https://doi.org/10.3390/su141912692

The sustainability of English development plays a crucial role in higher education. However, the language needs of community college transfer students have not been well studied. This paper examined the language needs and support measures for vertica... Read More about English Development Sustainability for English as Second Language College Transfer Students: A Case Study from a University in Hong Kong.

Barriers and opportunities of fast-growing biobased material use in buildings (2022)
Journal Article
Göswein, V., Arehart, J., Phan-huy, C., Pomponi, F., & Habert, G. (2022). Barriers and opportunities of fast-growing biobased material use in buildings. Buildings and Cities, 3(1), 745-755. https://doi.org/10.5334/bc.254

Limiting global warming to 1.5°C requires immediate and drastic reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. A significant contributor to anthropogenic global GHG emissions is the production of building materials. Biobased materials offer the potent... Read More about Barriers and opportunities of fast-growing biobased material use in buildings.

Benthic animal-borne sensors and citizen science combine to validate ocean modelling (2022)
Journal Article
Lavender, E., Aleynik, D., Dodd, J., Illian, J., James, M., Smout, S., & Thorburn, J. A. (2022). Benthic animal-borne sensors and citizen science combine to validate ocean modelling. Scientific Reports, 12, Article 16613. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-20254-z

Developments in animal electronic tagging and tracking have transformed the field of movement ecology, but interest is also growing in the contributions of tagged animals to oceanography. Animal-borne sensors can address data gaps, improve ocean mode... Read More about Benthic animal-borne sensors and citizen science combine to validate ocean modelling.

“It’s no ordinary job”: Factors that influence learning and working for midwifery students placed in continuity models of care (2022)
Journal Article
Moncrieff, G., Martin, C. H., Norris, G., & MacVicar, S. (2023). “It’s no ordinary job”: Factors that influence learning and working for midwifery students placed in continuity models of care. Women and Birth, 36(3), e328-e334. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wombi.2022.09.009

Background
Maternity policy and guidelines increasingly recommend or stipulate the increased provision of midwifery continuity of carer as a priority model of care. The scale up and sustainability of this model will require that student midwives are... Read More about “It’s no ordinary job”: Factors that influence learning and working for midwifery students placed in continuity models of care.

A brain atlas of synapse protein lifetime across the mouse lifespan (2022)
Journal Article
Bulovaite, E., Qiu, Z., Kratschke, M., Zgraj, A., Fricker, D. G., Tuck, E. J., Gokhale, R., Koniaris, B., Jami, S. A., Merino-Serrais, P., Husi, E., Mendive-Tapia, L., Vendrell, M., O’Dell, T. J., DeFelipe, J., Komiyama, N. H., Holtmaat, A., Fransén, E., & Grant, S. G. (2022). A brain atlas of synapse protein lifetime across the mouse lifespan. Neuron, 110(24), 4057-4073. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2022.09.009

The lifetime of proteins in synapses is important for their signaling, maintenance, and remodeling, and for memory duration. We quantified the lifetime of endogenous PSD95, an abundant postsynaptic protein in excitatory synapses, at single-synapse re... Read More about A brain atlas of synapse protein lifetime across the mouse lifespan.

Energy Storage Systems: Optimization and Applications (2022)
Book
Mathew, V. K., Hotta, T. K., Ali, H. M., & Sundaram, S. (Eds.). (2022). Energy Storage Systems: Optimization and Applications. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4502-1

This book discusses generalized applications of energy storage systems using experimental, numerical, analytical, and optimization approaches. The book includes novel and hybrid optimization techniques developed for energy storage systems. It provide... Read More about Energy Storage Systems: Optimization and Applications.

The Activist Filmmaker in the Archive (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Scott, A., & Munro, E. (2022, October). The Activist Filmmaker in the Archive. Paper presented at FIAT/IFTA International Federation of Television Archives, Cape Town, South Africa

This paper examines how a non-professional, environmental campaign film On Site, Torness (29 mins 1979) gained a new life as part of the feature documentary Living Proof: a climate story (90 mins 2021). We will explore how activist films provide an a... Read More about The Activist Filmmaker in the Archive.

Detection of Signals in MC–CDMA Using a Novel Iterative Block Decision Feedback Equalizer (2022)
Journal Article
Bagadi, K., Ravikumar, C., Sathish, K., Alibakhshikenari, M., Virdee, B. S., Kouhalvandi, L., Olan-Nuñez, . K. N., Pau, G., See, C. H., Dayoub, I., Livreri, . P., Aïssa, S., Falcone, F., & Limiti, E. (2022). Detection of Signals in MC–CDMA Using a Novel Iterative Block Decision Feedback Equalizer. IEEE Access, 10, 105674-105684. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3211392

This paper presents a technique to mitigate multiple access interference (MAI) in multicarrier code division multiple access (MC-CDMA) wireless communications systems. Although under normal circumstances the MC-CDMA system can achieve high spectral e... Read More about Detection of Signals in MC–CDMA Using a Novel Iterative Block Decision Feedback Equalizer.

Do digital interventions increase adherence to home exercise rehabilitation? A systematic review of randomised controlled trials (2022)
Journal Article
Lang, S., McLelland, C., MacDonald, D., & Hamilton, D. F. (2022). Do digital interventions increase adherence to home exercise rehabilitation? A systematic review of randomised controlled trials. Archives of Physiotherapy, 12(1), Article 24. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40945-022-00148-z

Background: Home exercise regimes are a well-utilised rehabilitation intervention for many conditions; however, adherence to prescribed programmes remains low. Digital interventions are recommended as an adjunct to face-to-face interventions by the N... Read More about Do digital interventions increase adherence to home exercise rehabilitation? A systematic review of randomised controlled trials.