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Validation and factor structure of the Italian version of the Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised (BSS-R) (2020)
Journal Article
Nespoli, A., Colciago, E., Fumagalli, S., Locatelli, A., Hollins Martin, C. J., & Martin, C. R. (2021). Validation and factor structure of the Italian version of the Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised (BSS-R). Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 39(5), 516-531. https://doi.org/10.1080/02646838.2020.1836333

Objective
To validate the Italian-language version of the Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised (BSS-R) and report key measurement properties of the tool. To evaluate the impact of antenatal class attendance on BSS-R assessed birth satisfaction.

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A Comprehensive Survey on “Various Decoupling Mechanisms With Focus on Metamaterial and Metasurface Principles Applicable to SAR and MIMO Antenna Systems” (2020)
Journal Article
Althuwayb, A. A., Alibakhshikenari, M., Babaeian, F., Virdee, B. S., Aïssa, S., Azpilicueta, L., See, C. H., Huynen, I., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., Falcone, F., & Limiti, E. (2020). A Comprehensive Survey on “Various Decoupling Mechanisms With Focus on Metamaterial and Metasurface Principles Applicable to SAR and MIMO Antenna Systems”. IEEE Access, 8, 192965-193004. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2020.3032826

Nowadays synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) antenna systems with the capability to radiate waves in more than one pattern and polarization are playing a key role in modern telecommunication and radar systems. Thi... Read More about A Comprehensive Survey on “Various Decoupling Mechanisms With Focus on Metamaterial and Metasurface Principles Applicable to SAR and MIMO Antenna Systems”.

Gendered experiences of leading and managing through COVID-19: patriarchy and precarity (2020)
Journal Article
Mavin, S., & Yusupova, M. (2020). Gendered experiences of leading and managing through COVID-19: patriarchy and precarity. Gender in Management: An International Journal, 35(7/8), 737-744. https://doi.org/10.1108/gm-09-2020-0274

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to highlight key issues for women managers, leaders and precarious academic women during COVID-19 in organisations and in academy.

Design/methodology/approach
This paper shares the authors’ personal experienc... Read More about Gendered experiences of leading and managing through COVID-19: patriarchy and precarity.

Introducing the Mangrove Microbiome Initiative: Identifying Microbial Research Priorities and Approaches To Better Understand, Protect, and Rehabilitate Mangrove Ecosystems (2020)
Journal Article
Allard, S. M., Costa, M. T., Bulseco, A. N., Helfer, V., Wilkins, L. G. E., Hassenrück, C., Zengler, K., Zimmer, M., Erazo, N., Mazza Rodrigues, J. L., Duke, N., Melo, V. M. M., Vanwonterghem, I., Junca, H., Makonde, H. M., Jiménez, D. J., Tavares, T. C. L., Fusi, M., Daffonchio, D., Duarte, C. M., …Bowman, J. (2020). Introducing the Mangrove Microbiome Initiative: Identifying Microbial Research Priorities and Approaches To Better Understand, Protect, and Rehabilitate Mangrove Ecosystems. mSystems, 5(5), https://doi.org/10.1128/msystems.00658-20

Mangrove ecosystems provide important ecological benefits and ecosystem services, including carbon storage and coastline stabilization, but they also suffer great anthropogenic pressures. Microorganisms associated with mangrove sediments and the rhiz... Read More about Introducing the Mangrove Microbiome Initiative: Identifying Microbial Research Priorities and Approaches To Better Understand, Protect, and Rehabilitate Mangrove Ecosystems.

Estimation of component contributions to total terrestrial water storage change in the Yangtze River basin (2020)
Journal Article
Chao, N., Jin, T., Cai, Z., Chen, G., Liu, X., & Wang, Z. (2021). Estimation of component contributions to total terrestrial water storage change in the Yangtze River basin. Journal of Hydrology, 595, Article 125661. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125661

Terrestrial water storage (TWS) is a key variable in global and regional hydrological cycles. In this study, the TWS changes in the Yangtze River Basin (YRB) were derived using the Lagrange multiplier method (LMM) from Gravity Recovery and Climate Ex... Read More about Estimation of component contributions to total terrestrial water storage change in the Yangtze River basin.

Too Much Drama Defining Film in UK Copyright Law (2020)
Journal Article
Sellors, C. P. (2020). Too Much Drama Defining Film in UK Copyright Law. Journal of Media Law, 12(2), Article 6. https://doi.org/10.1080/17577632.2020.1831141

In Norowzian v Arks Ltd. (No.2) the Court of Appeal determined that the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 protects films as dramatic works. What, conceptually and in practice, this means is not clear. This article examines and compares the hist... Read More about Too Much Drama Defining Film in UK Copyright Law.

Fault diagnosis based on extremely randomized trees in wireless sensor networks (2020)
Journal Article
Saeed, U., Jan, S. U., Lee, Y., & Koo, I. (2021). Fault diagnosis based on extremely randomized trees in wireless sensor networks. Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 205, Article 107284. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2020.107284

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) being highly diversified cyber–physical system makes it vulnerable to numerous failures, which can cause devastation towards safety, economy, and systems’ reliability. Precise detection and diagnosis of failures or fault... Read More about Fault diagnosis based on extremely randomized trees in wireless sensor networks.

Coronavirus Pandemic and Disruptive Impact on Marketing and Consumers (2020)
Journal Article
Baghdasaryan, L., & Sirkeci, I. (2020). Coronavirus Pandemic and Disruptive Impact on Marketing and Consumers. Transnational Marketing Journal, 8(2), 133-134. https://doi.org/10.33182/tmj.v8i2.1180

A year full of exciting expectations, technological innovations and business opportunities, this is how 2020 was predicted to be by many business analysts and experts. However, some unexpected events followed since the identification of COVID-19 in C... Read More about Coronavirus Pandemic and Disruptive Impact on Marketing and Consumers.

The Political Histories of UK Public Libraries and Access to Knowledge (2020)
Book Chapter
Lawson, S. (2020). The Political Histories of UK Public Libraries and Access to Knowledge. In M. P. Eve, & J. Gray (Eds.), Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access (161-172). MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11885.001.0001

To complement contemporary discussions on open access, this chapter considers public libraries as one element of the longer history of access to scholarly knowledge. A historical perspective reveals that access to knowledge has undergone a long, slow... Read More about The Political Histories of UK Public Libraries and Access to Knowledge.

The dark side of occupation: an historical review of occupational therapy (2020)
Book Chapter
Anne McKay, E. (2020). The dark side of occupation: an historical review of occupational therapy. In R. Twinley (Ed.), lluminating the Dark Side of Occupation: International Perspectives from Occupational Therapy and Occupational Science. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429266256-4

This chapter will present a historical perspective of why we did not explore or engage with people involved with these occupations until now. It is useful to state upfront that it is not the occupation that is dark: it is the motivations for engagin... Read More about The dark side of occupation: an historical review of occupational therapy.

Anxiety, Depression, Traumatic Stress, and COVID-19 Related Anxiety in the UK General Population During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020)
Journal Article
Shevlin, M., McBride, O., Murphy, J., Gibson Miller, J., Hartman, T. K., Levita, L., Mason, L., Martinez, A. P., McKay, R., Stocks, T. V., Bennett, K. M., Hyland, P., Karatzias, T., & Bentall, R. P. (2020). Anxiety, Depression, Traumatic Stress, and COVID-19 Related Anxiety in the UK General Population During the COVID-19 Pandemic. BJPsych Open, 6(6), Article e125. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2020.109

Background
The COVID-19 pandemic has created an unprecedented global crisis necessitating drastic changes to living conditions, social-life, personal freedom and economic activity. No study has yet examined the presence of psychiatric symptoms in th... Read More about Anxiety, Depression, Traumatic Stress, and COVID-19 Related Anxiety in the UK General Population During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Career guidance and active labour market policies in the Republic of Armenia (2020)
Journal Article
Robertson, P. J., & Melkumyan, A. (2021). Career guidance and active labour market policies in the Republic of Armenia. International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 21, 309-327. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10775-020-09443-2

This article provides an account of current public policy for career guidance in the Republic of Armenia. Brief background information is provided in terms of key geographical, political, social and economic facts about Armenia. Then, a more specific... Read More about Career guidance and active labour market policies in the Republic of Armenia.

A critique of the Capability Approach’s potential for application to career guidance (2020)
Journal Article
Egdell, V., & Robertson, P. J. (2021). A critique of the Capability Approach’s potential for application to career guidance. International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 21, 447-463. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10775-020-09445-0

In this article, we provide a balanced critique of Sen’s Capability Approach (CA) with reference to its potential to inform career guidance theory and practice. There are varying understandings and interpretations of the CA. Some see capabilities as... Read More about A critique of the Capability Approach’s potential for application to career guidance.

Total alkalinity production in a mangrove ecosystem reveals an overlooked Blue Carbon component (2020)
Journal Article
Saderne, V., Fusi, M., Thomson, T., Dunne, A., Mahmud, F., Roth, F., Carvalho, S., & Duarte, C. M. (2021). Total alkalinity production in a mangrove ecosystem reveals an overlooked Blue Carbon component. Limnology and Oceanography Letters, 6(2), 61-67. https://doi.org/10.1002/lol2.10170

Mangroves have the capacity to sequester organic carbon (Corg) in their sediments permanently. However, the carbon budget of mangroves is also affected by the total alkalinity (TA) budget. Principally, TA emitted from carbonate sediment dissolution i... Read More about Total alkalinity production in a mangrove ecosystem reveals an overlooked Blue Carbon component.

A novel approach to stance detection in social media tweets by fusing ranked lists and sentiments (2020)
Journal Article
Al-Ghadir, A. I., Azmi, A. M., & Hussain, A. (2021). A novel approach to stance detection in social media tweets by fusing ranked lists and sentiments. Information Fusion, 67, 29-40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2020.10.003

Stance detection is a relatively new concept in data mining that aims to assign a stance label (favor, against, or none) to a social media post towards a specific pre-determined target. These targets may not be referred to in the post, and may not be... Read More about A novel approach to stance detection in social media tweets by fusing ranked lists and sentiments.

A definition and valuation of the UK offsite construction sector: ten years on (2020)
Journal Article
Taylor, M. (2022). A definition and valuation of the UK offsite construction sector: ten years on. International journal of construction management, 22(15), 2877-2885. https://doi.org/10.1080/15623599.2020.1829783

Ten years on the offsite construction (OSC) industry continues to be held high as a panacea to the inefficiencies, labour shortages and environmental impact of the construction of our built environment. Speculation concerning the gross output and the... Read More about A definition and valuation of the UK offsite construction sector: ten years on.

Reframing risk: Working with caregivers of children with disabilities to promote risk-taking in play (2020)
Book Chapter
Grady-Dominguez, P., Ihrig, K., Lane, S. J., Aberle, J., Beetham, K., Ragen, J., Spencer, G., Sterman, J., Tranter, P., Wyver, S., & Bundy, A. (2020). Reframing risk: Working with caregivers of children with disabilities to promote risk-taking in play. In S. Hepburn (Ed.), Family-Focused Interventions (1-45). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.irrdd.2020.09.001

Risky play is invigorating, challenging play with uncertain outcomes that optimizes children's development, health, and everyday well-being and creates opportunities to develop decision-making skills in low-consequence contexts, experience positive f... Read More about Reframing risk: Working with caregivers of children with disabilities to promote risk-taking in play.