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Beyond the Screen: Exploring Students' Views on Social Media's Impact in Education (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Demeke, W. (2024, March). Beyond the Screen: Exploring Students' Views on Social Media's Impact in Education. Presented at 12nd World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, Lodz, Poland

This study delved into the intricate relationship between social media usage and academic outcomes among university students from diverse fields: en-gineering and art studies, health and social care studies, and business studies. The study employed a... Read More about Beyond the Screen: Exploring Students' Views on Social Media's Impact in Education.

Nurse independent prescribing: exploring the opportunities and challenges (2024)
Journal Article
MacVicar, S. (2024). Nurse independent prescribing: exploring the opportunities and challenges. Nursing Standard, 39(7), 40-45. https://doi.org/10.7748/ns.2024.e12304

The Nursing and Midwifery Council states that nurses should be able to demonstrate competence in prescribing practice at the point of registration to be ‘prescribing ready’. The aim is to increase the number of nurse independent prescribers and impro... Read More about Nurse independent prescribing: exploring the opportunities and challenges.

Re-politicising Anti-Trafficking: Migration, labour, and the war in Ukraine (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sharapov, K., & Mendel, J. (2024, May). Re-politicising Anti-Trafficking: Migration, labour, and the war in Ukraine. Presented at 33rd session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ), Vienna, Austria

Presentation at the side event on Human trafficking and exploitation in the context of armed conflicts: perspectives from Africa, Europe, and Latin America at the 33rd session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ), United... Read More about Re-politicising Anti-Trafficking: Migration, labour, and the war in Ukraine.

Against Dystopias with Ecological Literacy (2024)
Journal Article
Boehnert, J., Alexander, A., & Sinclair, M. (2024). Against Dystopias with Ecological Literacy. Cuadernos del Centro de Estudios en Diseño y Comunicación, 222(27), 39-63. https://doi.org/10.18682/cdc.vi222.11202

The longstanding dismissal of the ecological in civilisations that have developed dramatic ecology-altering and planetary boundary crossing technologies is at the crux of contemporary planetary polycrisis. Desirable and even viable futures depend on... Read More about Against Dystopias with Ecological Literacy.

Strategies and interventions used to provide communication education for midwifery students. A scoping review (2024)
Journal Article
Rodriguez Martin, S., Greig, Y., Shaw, E., McKellar, L., & Kuipers, Y. (2024). Strategies and interventions used to provide communication education for midwifery students. A scoping review. Nurse Education in Practice, 78, Article 103995. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2024.103995

Aim
To examine the current literature on educational strategies and interventions developed with the objective of teaching or enhancing communication skills of student midwives during their pre-registration education programmes.

Design
A scoping... Read More about Strategies and interventions used to provide communication education for midwifery students. A scoping review.

Social media, Mental health and Equestrian events (2024)
Journal Article
Snell, S., Jepson, A., Stadler, R., Walters, T., Dashper, K., Spencer, N., & Bhatia, P. (2024). Social media, Mental health and Equestrian events. Event Management, 28(8), 1149-1165. https://doi.org/10.3727/152599524X17135753220147

Many studies have investigated the benefits and drawbacks of social media, but the impact it has on amateur sports participants who use it as part of their practice has been largely overlooked. This study addresses this gap, investigating the impacts... Read More about Social media, Mental health and Equestrian events.

Design Considerations of Voice Articulated Generative AI Virtual Reality Dance Environments (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Casas, L., Mitchell, K., Tamariz, M., Hannah, S., Sinclair, D., Koniaris, B., & Kennedy, J. (2024, May). Design Considerations of Voice Articulated Generative AI Virtual Reality Dance Environments. Presented at SIGCHI GenAI in UGC Workshop, Honolulu, Hawaii

We consider practical and social considerations of collaborating verbally with colleagues and friends, not confined by physical distance, but through seamless networked telepresence to interactively create shared virtual dance environments. In respon... Read More about Design Considerations of Voice Articulated Generative AI Virtual Reality Dance Environments.

The relationship of natriuretic peptides and body mass index in chronic heart failure – A Systematic Review (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ross, C., Pearsons, A., Mills, N., & Neubeck, L. (2024, May). The relationship of natriuretic peptides and body mass index in chronic heart failure – A Systematic Review. Poster presented at European Society of Cardiology, Heart Failure 2024, Lisbon, Portugal

Background/Introduction
Chronic heart failure (CHF) represents a global health challenge, with a rising prevalence and substantial impact on patients' quality of life and healthcare resources. The identification of reliable biomarkers and risk facto... Read More about The relationship of natriuretic peptides and body mass index in chronic heart failure – A Systematic Review.

Climate change and the built environment - a systematic review (2024)
Journal Article
Tajuddeen, I., & Sajjadian, S. M. (online). Climate change and the built environment - a systematic review. Environment, Development and Sustainability, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-024-04962-2

Recent intergovernmental panel on climate change reports have once again emphasised the effective measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the importance of the built environment. Historically, passive and active solutions are known for their... Read More about Climate change and the built environment - a systematic review.

WAVE: Anticipatory Movement Visualization for VR Dancing (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Laattala, M., Piitulainen, R., Ady, N. M., Tamariz, M., & Hämäläinen, P. (2024, May). WAVE: Anticipatory Movement Visualization for VR Dancing. Presented at CHI '24: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Honolulu, HI, USA

Dance games are one of the most popular game genres in Virtual Reality (VR), and active dance communities have emerged on social VR platforms such as VR Chat. However, effective instruction of dancing in VR or through other computerized means remains... Read More about WAVE: Anticipatory Movement Visualization for VR Dancing.

To move or not to move: A review of residential relocation trends after COVID-19 (2024)
Journal Article
Ilham, M. A., Fonzone, A., Fountas, G., & Mora, L. (2024). To move or not to move: A review of residential relocation trends after COVID-19. Cities, 151, Article 105078. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2024.105078

The restrictions imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic have led to significant changes in travel behaviour and public activities, and they might have contributed to changes in residential location choices. However, research examining the relationship... Read More about To move or not to move: A review of residential relocation trends after COVID-19.

Defining Primary Palliative Care in sub-Saharan Africa: multinational consensus definition and logic model (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Peeler, A., Afolabi, O., Nkhoma, K., Evans, C., Abboah-Offei, M., Bemah Boamah Mensah, A., Namisango, E., Bates, J., Opare-Lokko, E., Chifamba, D., Farrant, L., & Harding, R. (2024, May). Defining Primary Palliative Care in sub-Saharan Africa: multinational consensus definition and logic model. Presented at The 13th World Research Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care, Barcelona, Spain

Background/aims: The number of people needing palliative is rapidly increasing in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Healthcare systems in SSA are heterogenous, and broadly defining and operationalizing primary palliative care is a major obstacle to achieving... Read More about Defining Primary Palliative Care in sub-Saharan Africa: multinational consensus definition and logic model.

Does health literacy in respiratory patients impact on their rating of important topics for education in pulmonary rehabilitation? (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Roberts, N. J., McAlooney, K., Ring, N., Ray, E., Turnbull, L., Jelen, T., & Porter-Armstrong, A. (2024, May). Does health literacy in respiratory patients impact on their rating of important topics for education in pulmonary rehabilitation?. Poster presented at 12th IPCRG World Conference, Athens, Greece

Detection of Ransomware (2024)
Patent
Buchanan, B., McLaren, P., Russell, G., & Tan, Z. (2024). Detection of Ransomware. US20240152616A1

The present invention relates to a computer program product, a computing device and a method of detecting a file encrypted by ransomware by identifying a file write operation for a file on the computing device and determining if a predetermined numbe... Read More about Detection of Ransomware.

Are nurses proactive about minimising their exposure to second hand tobacco smoke (SHS) (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Roberts, N. J., MacNicol, Y., Carnegie, E., O'Donnell, R., & Semple, S. (2024, May). Are nurses proactive about minimising their exposure to second hand tobacco smoke (SHS). Poster presented at 12th IPCRG World Conference, Athens, Greece

Fintech's Influence on Green Credit Provision: Empirical Evidence from China’s Listed Banking Sector (2024)
Journal Article
He, Z., Ge, F., Ban, S., Du, A. M., & Sheehan, M. (2024). Fintech's Influence on Green Credit Provision: Empirical Evidence from China’s Listed Banking Sector. Research in International Business and Finance, 70(B), Article 102394. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2024.102394

We explore the impact of financial technology (fintech) advancements on green credit provision, investigating publicly traded banks in China from 2007 to 2022. We particularly focus on credit modelling innovation, examining the non-linear dynamics be... Read More about Fintech's Influence on Green Credit Provision: Empirical Evidence from China’s Listed Banking Sector.

Dynamic service of geographically dispersed time-sensitive demands (2024)
Journal Article
de Jong, N., Aslan, A., & Bakir, I. (2024). Dynamic service of geographically dispersed time-sensitive demands. Transportation Research Part C : Emerging Technologies, 163, Article 104625. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2024.104625

This paper presents a new framework that models the novel dynamic vehicle dispatch problem with holding costs (DVDPHC), which focuses on serving stochastic demands at geographically dispersed locations in a timely manner. This framework is applicable... Read More about Dynamic service of geographically dispersed time-sensitive demands.

Are We Post-Enlightenment? Queer Questions for Epistemic (In)Justices. A Commentary to Dr Polynczuk-Alenius': ‘Reality’, ‘truth’, and the democratic imagination in journalistic reporting on antiracist, queer, and feminist activism in Poland (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kulpa, R. (2024, May). Are We Post-Enlightenment? Queer Questions for Epistemic (In)Justices. A Commentary to Dr Polynczuk-Alenius': ‘Reality’, ‘truth’, and the democratic imagination in journalistic reporting on antiracist, queer, and feminist activism in Poland. Presented at Public Lectures of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

On the 08 May 2024, Dr Kulpa presented a Commentary: "Are We Post-Enlightenment? Queer Questions for Epistemic (In)Justices. A Commentary to Dr Polynczuk-Alenius': ‘Reality’, ‘truth’, and the democratic imagination in journalistic reporting on antira... Read More about Are We Post-Enlightenment? Queer Questions for Epistemic (In)Justices. A Commentary to Dr Polynczuk-Alenius': ‘Reality’, ‘truth’, and the democratic imagination in journalistic reporting on antiracist, queer, and feminist activism in Poland.

What to Expect at the BAFCA Convention (2024)
Digital Artefact
Laird, P., & Davies, M. (2024). What to Expect at the BAFCA Convention. [Blog post]

BAFCA and its precursor the NFCA has been in existence since 1992. Established originally with the remit of providing knowledge sharing opportunities between coaches, one of its initial benefits was the delivery of its annual coaching conference. It... Read More about What to Expect at the BAFCA Convention.

'The Omnific Word': Hugh MacDiarmid's Religious Poetry (2024)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. 'The Omnific Word': Hugh MacDiarmid's Religious Poetry. In Hugh MacDiarmid 1923-2023: Visions & Revisions. Brill Academic Publishers

Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid (C. M. Grieve) considered himself an atheist, but his poetry attends to religious and spiritual themes and concerns. This chapter sets MacDiarmid’s work in the context of New Modernist Studies’ approaches to literature a... Read More about 'The Omnific Word': Hugh MacDiarmid's Religious Poetry.