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Can mental healthcare for Muslim patients be person-centred without consideration of religious identity? A concurrent analysis (2022)
Journal Article
Jabeen, T., & Snowden, A. (2022). Can mental healthcare for Muslim patients be person-centred without consideration of religious identity? A concurrent analysis. Nurse Education in Practice, 64, Article 103449. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2022.103449

Background
Muslims constitute the largest, fastest growing religious minority in the UK. Globally, nurses are legally, morally and ethically obliged to provide non-discriminatory, person-centred, culturally sensitive care. This obligation includes s... Read More about Can mental healthcare for Muslim patients be person-centred without consideration of religious identity? A concurrent analysis.

Polygenic signals of sex differences in selection in humans from the UK Biobank (2022)
Journal Article
Ruzicka, F., Holman, L., & Connallon, T. (2022). Polygenic signals of sex differences in selection in humans from the UK Biobank. PLOS Biology, 20(9), Article e3001768. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001768

Sex differences in the fitness effects of genetic variants can influence the rate of adaptation and the maintenance of genetic variation. For example, “sexually antagonistic” (SA) variants, which are beneficial for one sex and harmful for the other,... Read More about Polygenic signals of sex differences in selection in humans from the UK Biobank.

Editorial: Digitalizing and greening the built environment (2022)
Journal Article
Olawumi, T. O., Chan, D. W. M., Wong, J. K. W., & Oshodi, O. (2022). Editorial: Digitalizing and greening the built environment. Frontiers in Built Environment, 8, Article 989535. https://doi.org/10.3389/fbuil.2022.989535

Procedural Audio For Virtual Environments Workshop (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Di Donato, B., & Selfridge, R. (2022, September). Procedural Audio For Virtual Environments Workshop. Presented at Audio Mostly, St. Pölten, Austria

Sound design is a crucial aspect of interactive virtual environments (VEs). Often, this activity is fixated by the constraints of the tools we use or our perception of that medium. In this on-site workshop, we present methods to model sound-producing... Read More about Procedural Audio For Virtual Environments Workshop.

Drama-based education improves student nurses’ attitudes to interprofessional working and nursing advocacy: a pre-test post-test study (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kyle, R., Bastow, F., Harper McDonald, B., & Mahoney, C. (2022, September). Drama-based education improves student nurses’ attitudes to interprofessional working and nursing advocacy: a pre-test post-test study. Paper presented at NET Conference 2022, Lancaster

In this session we share findings from our study examining the impact of the use of drama-based education on student nurses’ attitudes towards interprofessional working and nursing advocacy. We discuss the development and evaluation of two plays crea... Read More about Drama-based education improves student nurses’ attitudes to interprofessional working and nursing advocacy: a pre-test post-test study.

Transactional distance in the context of online and blended learning (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fabian, K., Smith, S., Taylor-Smith, E., & Meharg, D. (2022, September). Transactional distance in the context of online and blended learning. Paper presented at Association for Learning Technology Annual Conference, Manchester

Moore’s (1993) transactional distance theory recognises that communications and psychological distance between learner and teacher are affected by course structure, dialogue between lecturers and students, and learner’s autonomy. These factors affect... Read More about Transactional distance in the context of online and blended learning.

The relationship between the Dark Triad and attitudes towards feminism (2022)
Journal Article
Douglass, M. D., Stirrat, M., Koehn, M. A., & Vaughan, R. S. (2023). The relationship between the Dark Triad and attitudes towards feminism. Personality and Individual Differences, 200, Article 111889. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2022.111889

The Dark Triad traits are considered a male-centric framework of personality with women generally scoring lower on narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy. Research has examined the drivers behind this relationship attributing effects mostly to... Read More about The relationship between the Dark Triad and attitudes towards feminism.

Daylighting performance improvements using of split louver with parametrically incremental slat angle control (2022)
Journal Article
Alsukkar, M., Hu, M., Eltaweel, A., & Su, Y. (2022). Daylighting performance improvements using of split louver with parametrically incremental slat angle control. Energy and Buildings, 274, Article 112444. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2022.112444

Different shading device systems and control strategies can be employed in different parts of a window system to perform different functions, particularly for fully glazed façades. A split louver with various improvements was proposed in this study a... Read More about Daylighting performance improvements using of split louver with parametrically incremental slat angle control.

Development of Predictive Maintenance System for Haemodialysis Reverse Osmosis Water Purification System (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bani, N. A., Noordin, M. K., Hidayat, A. A., Kamil, A. S. A., Amran, M. E., Kasri, N. F., Muhtazaruddin, M. N., & Muhammad-Sukki, F. (2022, July). Development of Predictive Maintenance System for Haemodialysis Reverse Osmosis Water Purification System. Presented at 2022 4th International Conference on Smart Sensors and Application (ICSSA), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Predictive maintenance utilizes a variety of data analytics and statistical techniques to predict possible device or equipment failures and provide suggestions on maintenance strategy according to the results of predictive analytics. This paper prese... Read More about Development of Predictive Maintenance System for Haemodialysis Reverse Osmosis Water Purification System.

The dynamics of the nursing workforce (before and during) COVID-19: insights into retention and exit using novel registration data (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jamieson, M. (2022, September). The dynamics of the nursing workforce (before and during) COVID-19: insights into retention and exit using novel registration data. Poster presented at IPDLN conference, Edinburgh

The Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland: the views and experiences of Patients, Named Persons, Practitioners and Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland members (2022)
Report
Stavert, J., Brown, M. J., & McDonald, A. (2022). The Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland: the views and experiences of Patients, Named Persons, Practitioners and Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland members. Nuffield Foundation

Pre-validation of a reporter gene assay for oxidative stress for the rapid screening of nanobiomaterials (2022)
Journal Article
Martin, S., de Haan, L., Miro Estruch, I., Eder, K. M., Marzi, A., Schnekenburger, J., Blosi, M., Costa, A., Antonello, G., Bergamaschi, E., Riganti, C., Beal, D., Carrière, M., Taché, O., Hutchison, G., Malone, E., Young, L., Campagnolo, L., La Civita, F., Pietroiusti, A., …Bouwmeester, H. (2022). Pre-validation of a reporter gene assay for oxidative stress for the rapid screening of nanobiomaterials. Frontiers in Toxicology, 4, Article 974429. https://doi.org/10.3389/ftox.2022.974429

Engineered nanomaterials have been found to induce oxidative stress. Cellular oxidative stress, in turn, can result in the induction of antioxidant and detoxification enzymes which are controlled by the nuclear erythroid 2-related factor 2 (NRF2) tra... Read More about Pre-validation of a reporter gene assay for oxidative stress for the rapid screening of nanobiomaterials.

Lead time prediction with the Bosch production line dataset (2022)
Data
Aslan, A., Vasantha, G., El-Raoui, H., Quigley, J., Hanson, J., Corney, J., & Sherlock, A. Lead time prediction with the Bosch production line dataset. [Data]

Ontology-Based Linked Data to Support Decision Making within Universities (2022)
Journal Article
Ashour, G., Al-Dubai, A., Romdhani, I., & Alghazzawi, D. (2022). Ontology-Based Linked Data to Support Decision Making within Universities. Mathematics, 10(17), Article 3148. https://doi.org/10.3390/math10173148

In recent years, educational institutions worked hard to automate their work using more trending technologies that prove the success in supporting decision-making processes. Most the decisions in educational institutions rely on rating the academic r... Read More about Ontology-Based Linked Data to Support Decision Making within Universities.

Reliability and temperature limits of the focal spot of a primary optical component for an ultra-high concentrated photovoltaic system (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ahmed, A., Alzahrani, M., Shanks, K., Sundaram, S., & Mallick, T. K. (2021, April). Reliability and temperature limits of the focal spot of a primary optical component for an ultra-high concentrated photovoltaic system. Presented at 17TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONCENTRATOR PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS (CPV-17), Freiburg, Germany [online]

Concentrated photovoltaics (CPV) are competent systems for generating electrical power as they depend on a highly efficient semiconducting material. In this paper, we study the indoor thermal and electrical performances of silicon on glass Fresnel le... Read More about Reliability and temperature limits of the focal spot of a primary optical component for an ultra-high concentrated photovoltaic system.

How Do Biofilms Affect Surface Cleaning in Hospitals? (2022)
Journal Article
Dancer, S. J. (2022). How Do Biofilms Affect Surface Cleaning in Hospitals?. Hygiene, 2(3), 132-135. https://doi.org/10.3390/hygiene2030011

What are the patient and healthcare professional’s experiences of patient discharge from the ICU to general wards? A systematic review and meta-ethnography protocol. (2022)
Other
Thomas, J., Wojcik, G., Kydonaki, K., & Willis, D. (2022). What are the patient and healthcare professional’s experiences of patient discharge from the ICU to general wards? A systematic review and meta-ethnography protocol

Piano teachers’ perspectives on educational and professional aspects of instrumental graded exams in the United Kingdom (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Marinelli, A., & Moir, Z. (2022, September). Piano teachers’ perspectives on educational and professional aspects of instrumental graded exams in the United Kingdom. Presented at 44th International Conference of the European Piano Teachers Association (EPTA), Guimaraes, Portugal

Formal assessments in instrumental music education are much more than a snapshot-like summary of an achievement, although rarely considered within the entirety of their professional, social, economic and institutional context. Given the size of the m... Read More about Piano teachers’ perspectives on educational and professional aspects of instrumental graded exams in the United Kingdom.

Characterization of Enhanced Biobased Phase Change Material with Graphene Nanoplatelets – Early Results (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Costa Pereira, C. (2022, September). Characterization of Enhanced Biobased Phase Change Material with Graphene Nanoplatelets – Early Results. Presented at EuroSun 2022: 14th International Conference on Solar Energy for Buildings and Industry, Kassel, Germany

Energy consumption is expected to continue rising, and in conjunction with greater environmental concern, it has boosted the development of renewable and sustainable energy sources, including storage media materials for thermal energy storage (TES) s... Read More about Characterization of Enhanced Biobased Phase Change Material with Graphene Nanoplatelets – Early Results.

Participant-centred planning framework for effective gender balance activities in tech (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Taylor-Smith, E., Barnett, C., Smith, S., Barr, M., & Shankland, C. (2022, September). Participant-centred planning framework for effective gender balance activities in tech. Presented at The United Kingdom and Ireland Computing Education Research (UKICER) conference from the UK ACM Special Interest Group in Computing Science Education Chapter (UKICER 2022), Mountmellick, Ireland

The gender imbalance in the tech industry [21], mirrored in computing education [13], is problematic in terms of providing appropriate products and services for the whole population. This lack of diversity and inclusion is also self-perpetuating thro... Read More about Participant-centred planning framework for effective gender balance activities in tech.