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Early Career Professionals’ (Researchers, Practitioners, and Policymakers) Role in Advocating, Disseminating, and Implementing the Global Action Plan on Physical Activity: ISPAH Early Career Network View (2019)
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Direito, A., Murphy, J. J., Mclaughlin, M., Mair, J., Mackenzie, K., Kamanda, M., Sutherland, R., Montgomery, S., & Shilton, T. (2019). Early Career Professionals’ (Researchers, Practitioners, and Policymakers) Role in Advocating, Disseminating, and Implementing the Global Action Plan on Physical Activity: ISPAH Early Career Network View. Journal of Physical Activity and Health, 16(11), 940-944. https://doi.org/10.1123/jpah.2019-0450

Increasing population levels of physical activity (PA) can assist in achieving the United Nations sustainable development goals, benefiting multiple sectors and contributing to global prosperity. Practices and policies to increase PA levels exist at... Read More about Early Career Professionals’ (Researchers, Practitioners, and Policymakers) Role in Advocating, Disseminating, and Implementing the Global Action Plan on Physical Activity: ISPAH Early Career Network View.

Unlikely hikers? Activism, Instagram, and the queer mobilities of fat hikers, women hiking alone, and hikers of colour (2019)
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Stanley, P. (2020). Unlikely hikers? Activism, Instagram, and the queer mobilities of fat hikers, women hiking alone, and hikers of colour. Mobilities, 15(2), 241-256. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2019.1696038

This paper investigates a nascent, primarily online community of so-called 'unlikely hikers', united in the premise that hiking is good for everyone's mental and physical health and that diversity can and should extend to outdoor spaces including nat... Read More about Unlikely hikers? Activism, Instagram, and the queer mobilities of fat hikers, women hiking alone, and hikers of colour.

Unsuccessful Transitions: Understanding Dropout from the Athlete's Perspective (2019)
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Andronikos, G., Westbury, T., & Martindale, R. J. (2019). Unsuccessful Transitions: Understanding Dropout from the Athlete's Perspective. Athens Journal of Sports, 6(4), 195-214. https://doi.org/10.30958/ajspo.6-4-2

Limited studies have investigated the experiences of athletes who did not "make it" to elite level. To target this research gap, this study accessed and investigated this hard to reach population in order to understand the development and transition... Read More about Unsuccessful Transitions: Understanding Dropout from the Athlete's Perspective.

Adolescents in Scotland: Challenges and Opportunities for Sexual Risk Reduction (2019)
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Morrison-Beedy, D., Martin, C. H., Pow, J., & Elliott, L. (2019). Adolescents in Scotland: Challenges and Opportunities for Sexual Risk Reduction. Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, 30(6), 619-629. https://doi.org/10.1097/jnc.0000000000000095

Sexually transmitted infections, HIV, and unplanned pregnancy challenge the health of Scottish teens. We conducted focus groups with teens (ages 16-19 years) recruited from an urban youth cafe in Edinburgh and assessed sexual risk-taking and protecti... Read More about Adolescents in Scotland: Challenges and Opportunities for Sexual Risk Reduction.

Banned Books and Publishers’ Ploys: The Well of Loneliness as Exemplar (2019)
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McCleery, A. (2019). Banned Books and Publishers’ Ploys: The Well of Loneliness as Exemplar. Journal of Modern Literature, 43(1), 34-52. https://doi.org/10.2979/jmodelite.43.1.03

Archival sources provide much of the basis for a consideration of the myriad methods that UK publishers employed to avoid prosecution for obscenity. In turn, the UK legal authorities took a collusive (and cosy) approach to the issue, moving only to p... Read More about Banned Books and Publishers’ Ploys: The Well of Loneliness as Exemplar.

Melting and solidification of PCMs inside a spherical capsule: A critical review (2019)
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Kenisarin, M. M., Mahkamov, K., Costa, S. C., & Makhkamova, I. (2020). Melting and solidification of PCMs inside a spherical capsule: A critical review. Journal of Energy Storage, 27, Article 101082. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2019.101082

To date, numerous phase change materials (PCM) have been developed for application in latent heat storage systems. There are many issues in the process from the development of PCM to using them in storage systems, which should be resolved. The proble... Read More about Melting and solidification of PCMs inside a spherical capsule: A critical review.

A public e-survey to explore community understanding of the role of the midwife in Australia (2019)
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McKellar, L., Brown, A., & Adelson, P. (2019). A public e-survey to explore community understanding of the role of the midwife in Australia. European Journal of Midwifery, 3, https://doi.org/10.18332/ejm/114226

Introduction: There is compelling evidence that when a woman sees the same midwife there are better outcomes. Yet in Australia, access to midwifery continuity of care remains limited. There are a number of reasons for this but one barrier appears to... Read More about A public e-survey to explore community understanding of the role of the midwife in Australia.

A Secure Occupational Therapy Framework for Monitoring Cancer Patients’ Quality of Life (2019)
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Abdur Rahman, M., Rashid, M. M., Le Kernec, J., Philippe, B., Barnes, S. J., Fioranelli, F., Yang, S., Romain, O., Abbasi, Q. H., Loukas, G., & Imran, M. (2019). A Secure Occupational Therapy Framework for Monitoring Cancer Patients’ Quality of Life. Sensors, 19(23), Article 5258. https://doi.org/10.3390/s19235258

Once diagnosed with cancer, a patient goes through a series of diagnosis and tests, which are referred to as “after cancer treatment”. Due to the nature of the treatment and side effects, maintaining quality of life (QoL) in the home environment is a... Read More about A Secure Occupational Therapy Framework for Monitoring Cancer Patients’ Quality of Life.

Tools to measure health literacy among Chinese speakers: A systematic review (2019)
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Zhang, L., Ding, D., Fethney, J., Neubeck, L., & Gallagher, R. (2020). Tools to measure health literacy among Chinese speakers: A systematic review. Patient Education and Counseling, 103(5), 888-897. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2019.11.028

Objective Health literacy measurement can identify healthcare consumers’ needs and help inform healthcare service delivery. The objective of this review is to identify and evaluate tools to measure health literacy among Chinese speakers. Methods... Read More about Tools to measure health literacy among Chinese speakers: A systematic review.

Awareness campaigns of atrial fibrillation as an opportunity for early detection by pharmacists: an international cross-sectional study (2019)
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da Costa, F. A., Mala-Ladova, K., Lee, V., Tous, S., Papastergiou, J., Griffiths, D., Chaumais, M., Hersberger, K. E., Viola, R., Paulino, E., Lobban, T., Neubeck, L., Freedman, B., & Antoniou, S. (2020). Awareness campaigns of atrial fibrillation as an opportunity for early detection by pharmacists: an international cross-sectional study. Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis, 49, 606-617. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11239-019-02000-x

Atrial fibrillation (AF) accounts for up to one third of strokes, one of the lead mortality causes worldwide. The European Society of Cardiology guidelines recommend opportunistic screening as a means to increase the odds of early detection and insti... Read More about Awareness campaigns of atrial fibrillation as an opportunity for early detection by pharmacists: an international cross-sectional study.

Novel Fuzzy and Game Theory Based Clustering and Decision Making for VANETs (2019)
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Alsarhan, A., Kilani, Y., Al-Dubai, A., Zomaya, A. Y., & Hussain, A. (2020). Novel Fuzzy and Game Theory Based Clustering and Decision Making for VANETs. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 69(2), 1568-1581. https://doi.org/10.1109/TVT.2019.2956228

Different studies have recently emphasized the importance of deploying clustering schemes in Vehicular ad hoc Network (VANET) to overcome challenging problems related to scalability, frequent topology changes, scarcity of spectrum resources, maintain... Read More about Novel Fuzzy and Game Theory Based Clustering and Decision Making for VANETs.

Demand response potential of district heating and ventilation in an educational office building (2019)
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Vand, B., Martin, K., Jokisalo, J., Kosonen, R., & Hast, A. (2020). Demand response potential of district heating and ventilation in an educational office building. Science and Technology for the Built Environment, 26(3), 304-319. https://doi.org/10.1080/23744731.2019.1693207

This study examines the influence of demand-response control strategies on thermal conditions, indoor air CO2 concentration, and heating energy cost and consumption in an educational office building heated by a district heating system in a cold clima... Read More about Demand response potential of district heating and ventilation in an educational office building.

An X-linked meiotic drive allele has strong, recessive fitness costs in female Drosophila pseudoobscura (2019)
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Larner, W., Price, T., Holman, L., & Wedell, N. (2019). An X-linked meiotic drive allele has strong, recessive fitness costs in female Drosophila pseudoobscura. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286(1916), Article 20192038. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.2038

Selfish ‘meiotic drive’ alleles are transmitted to more than 50% of offspring, allowing them to rapidly invade populations even if they reduce the fitness of individuals carrying them. Theory predicts that drivers should either fix or go extinct, yet... Read More about An X-linked meiotic drive allele has strong, recessive fitness costs in female Drosophila pseudoobscura.

MRC4: A Modified RC4 Algorithm using Symmetric Random Function Generator for Improved Cryptographic Features (2019)
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Saha, R., Geetha, G., Kumar, G., Kim, T., & Buchanan, W. J. (2019). MRC4: A Modified RC4 Algorithm using Symmetric Random Function Generator for Improved Cryptographic Features. IEEE Access, 7, 172045-172054. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2019.2956160

The Rivest Cipher 4 (RC4) has been one of the most popular stream ciphers for providing symmetric key encryption, and is now proposed as an efficient cipher within light-weight cryptography. As an algorithm it has been considered to be one of the fas... Read More about MRC4: A Modified RC4 Algorithm using Symmetric Random Function Generator for Improved Cryptographic Features.

Isolation Enhancement of Densely Packed Array Antennas with Periodic MTM-Photonic Bandgap for SAR and MIMO Systems (2019)
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Alibakhshikenari, M., Virdee, B. S., Shukla, P., See, C. H., Abd-Alhameed, R., Falcone, F., Quazzane, K., & Limiti, E. (2020). Isolation Enhancement of Densely Packed Array Antennas with Periodic MTM-Photonic Bandgap for SAR and MIMO Systems. IET microwaves, antennas & propagation, 14(3), 183-188. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-map.2019.0362

A metamaterial photonic bandgap (MTM-PBG) periodic structure is used as a decoupling frame to improve the isolation between transmit–receive (T/R) sections of densely packed array antenna in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and multiple-input multiple-... Read More about Isolation Enhancement of Densely Packed Array Antennas with Periodic MTM-Photonic Bandgap for SAR and MIMO Systems.

Networking as an information behaviour during job search: an study of active jobseekers in the Scottish youth labour market (2019)
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Mowbray, J., & Hall, H. (2020). Networking as an information behaviour during job search: an study of active jobseekers in the Scottish youth labour market. Journal of Documentation, 76(2), 424-439. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-05-2019-0086

Purpose - Although social networks are considered influential to employment outcomes, little is known about the behavioural manifestation of networking during job search. To address this, the study presented here examined the role of networking among... Read More about Networking as an information behaviour during job search: an study of active jobseekers in the Scottish youth labour market.

Evaluation of thermal performance for a smart switchable adaptive polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) glazing (2019)
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Hemaida, A., Ghosh, A., Sundaram, S., & Mallick, T. K. (2020). Evaluation of thermal performance for a smart switchable adaptive polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) glazing. Solar Energy, 195, 185-193. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2019.11.024

A new class of smart window technologies are gaining interest as they have the functionality to control dynamic solar radiation, shading, ventilation and energy production. They are capable of improving buildings’ energy performance by adapting to di... Read More about Evaluation of thermal performance for a smart switchable adaptive polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) glazing.

The Scales Project, a cross-national dataset on the interpretation of thermal perception scales (2019)
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Schweiker, M., Abdul-Zahra, A., André, M., Al-Atrash, F., Al-Khatri, H., Alprianti, R. R., Alsaad, H., Amin, R., Ampatzi, E., Arsano, A. Y., Azadeh, M., Azar, E., Bahareh, B., Batagarawa, A., Becker, S., Buonocore, C., Cao, B., Choi, J., Chun, C., Daanen, H., …Zomorodian, Z. S. (2019). The Scales Project, a cross-national dataset on the interpretation of thermal perception scales. Scientific Data, 6(1), Article 289. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0272-6

Thermal discomfort is one of the main triggers for occupants’ interactions with components of the built environment such as adjustments of thermostats and/or opening windows and strongly related to the energy use in buildings. Understanding causes fo... Read More about The Scales Project, a cross-national dataset on the interpretation of thermal perception scales.