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Multifactorial e- and mHealth interventions for cardiovascular disease primary prevention: Protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials (2019)
Journal Article
Direito, A., Rawstorn, J., Mair, J., Daryabeygi-Khotbehsara, R., Maddison, R., & Tai, E. S. (2020). Multifactorial e- and mHealth interventions for cardiovascular disease primary prevention: Protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. Digital Health, 5, https://doi.org/10.1177/2055207619890480

Objective: Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are a leading cause of mortality and disease burden. Preventative interventions to augment the population-level adoption of health lifestyle behaviours that reduce CVD risk are a priority. Face-to-face interve... Read More about Multifactorial e- and mHealth interventions for cardiovascular disease primary prevention: Protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.

The transgressive festival imagination and the idealisation of reversal (2019)
Journal Article
Jamieson, K., & Todd, L. (2021). The transgressive festival imagination and the idealisation of reversal. Leisure Studies, 40(1), 57-68. https://doi.org/10.1080/02614367.2019.1693090

To consider the festival's potential as an activist tactic may seem naïve and disconnected from the colonising practices of event tourism. However, today's immersive and curated festival experiences are indebted to a wider festival imagination: a spa... Read More about The transgressive festival imagination and the idealisation of reversal.

Examining the Discriminant Validity of Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder Symptoms: Results From a United Kingdom Population Sample (2019)
Journal Article
Hyland, P., Karatzias, T., Shevlin, M., & Cloitre, M. (2019). Examining the Discriminant Validity of Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder Symptoms: Results From a United Kingdom Population Sample. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 32(6), 855-863. https://doi.org/10.1002/jts.22444

Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD) was added to the diagnostic nomenclature in the 11th version of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11). Although considerable evidence exists supporting the construct validity of CPTSD, the... Read More about Examining the Discriminant Validity of Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder Symptoms: Results From a United Kingdom Population Sample.

Dams, barriers and beating yourself up: shame in groupwork for addressing sexual offending (2019)
Journal Article
Mullins, E., & Kirkwood, S. (2019). Dams, barriers and beating yourself up: shame in groupwork for addressing sexual offending. Journal of Social Work Practice, 33(4), 369-384. https://doi.org/10.1080/02650533.2019.1594735

Shame is a powerful emotional experience embedded in prevailing social and cultural norms. It is the judgement or fear of judgement for who we are rather than what we have done. Braithwaite (1989) proposes shame can be re-integrative or stigmatising,... Read More about Dams, barriers and beating yourself up: shame in groupwork for addressing sexual offending.

Do pneumatic tube transport systems transmit potential pathogens? A hygienic risk assessment in a university hospital (2019)
Journal Article
Khaznadar, L., Dancer, S., Petersmann, A., Seifert, U., Below, H., Papke, R., Suchomel, M., Kohlmann, T., & Kramer, A. (2020). Do pneumatic tube transport systems transmit potential pathogens? A hygienic risk assessment in a university hospital. Journal of Hospital Infection, 104(3), 374-380. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2019.11.009

Background
Prompted by an outbreak of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) in a medical facility, this study examined a pneumatic tube transport system (PTS) as a potential transmission channel.

Method
Samples from the receiving station and en... Read More about Do pneumatic tube transport systems transmit potential pathogens? A hygienic risk assessment in a university hospital.

The effects of subordinates’ use of upward influence tactics on their supervisors’ job performance evaluations in Saudi Arabia: the significance of loyalty (2019)
Journal Article
Clarke, N., Alshenalfi, N., & Garavan, T. (2022). The effects of subordinates’ use of upward influence tactics on their supervisors’ job performance evaluations in Saudi Arabia: the significance of loyalty. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 33(2), 239-268. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2019.1686650

Most research examining the effects of subordinates’ use of upward influence tactics on supervisor job performance evaluations has been conducted in Western countries. In these contexts, it has been suggested that upward influence tactics bias superv... Read More about The effects of subordinates’ use of upward influence tactics on their supervisors’ job performance evaluations in Saudi Arabia: the significance of loyalty.

High Temperature and Crab Density Reduce Atmospheric Nitrogen Fixation in Red Sea Mangrove Sediments (2019)
Journal Article
Qashqari, M. S., Garcias-Bonet, N., Fusi, M., Booth, J. M., Daffonchio, D., & Duarte, C. M. (2020). High Temperature and Crab Density Reduce Atmospheric Nitrogen Fixation in Red Sea Mangrove Sediments. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 232, Article 106487. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2019.106487

Mangrove ecosystems are highly productive and provide important ecosystem services. However, in the Red Sea mangroves are under severe nutrient-limiting conditions, reflected in dwarf plants. The nutrient limitation is especially acute for iron, as v... Read More about High Temperature and Crab Density Reduce Atmospheric Nitrogen Fixation in Red Sea Mangrove Sediments.

Raman spectroscopy links differentiating osteoblast matrix signatures to pro-angiogenic potential (2019)
Journal Article
Sharma, A., Goring, A., Staines, K., Emery, R., Pitsillides, A. A., Oreffo, R. O., Mahajan, S., & Clarkin, C. E. (2020). Raman spectroscopy links differentiating osteoblast matrix signatures to pro-angiogenic potential. Matrix Biology Plus, 5, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mbplus.2019.100018

Mineralization of bone is achieved by the sequential maturation of the immature amorphous calcium phase to mature hydroxyapatite and is central to the process of bone development and repair. To study normal and dysregulated mineralization in vitro, s... Read More about Raman spectroscopy links differentiating osteoblast matrix signatures to pro-angiogenic potential.

A GRU-Based Prediction Framework for Intelligent Resource Management at Cloud Data Centres in the Age of 5G (2019)
Journal Article
Lu, L., Liu, L., Panneerselvam, J., Yuan, B., Gu, J., & Antonopoulos, N. (2020). A GRU-Based Prediction Framework for Intelligent Resource Management at Cloud Data Centres in the Age of 5G. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, 6(2), 486-498. https://doi.org/10.1109/tccn.2019.2954388

The increasing deployments of 5G mobile communication system is expected to bring more processing power and storage supplements to Internet of Things (IoT) and mobile devices. It is foreseeable the billions of devices will be connected and it is extr... Read More about A GRU-Based Prediction Framework for Intelligent Resource Management at Cloud Data Centres in the Age of 5G.

Performance strategies’ moderation of the interaction between adaptive and maladaptive narcissism on athlete training (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhang, S., Roberts, R., Pitkethly, A., & English, C. (2019, November). Performance strategies’ moderation of the interaction between adaptive and maladaptive narcissism on athlete training. Presented at BASES Conference 2019, Leicester

Literature suggests that grandiose narcissism may be debilitative to athlete training because the opportunity for self-enhancement that motivates grandiose narcissists to strive for their best is not normally present in training environments (Roberts... Read More about Performance strategies’ moderation of the interaction between adaptive and maladaptive narcissism on athlete training.

A Secure and Robust Image Hashing Scheme Using Gaussian Pyramids (2019)
Journal Article
Bashir, I., Ahmed, F., Ahmad, J., Boulila, W., & Alharbi, N. (2019). A Secure and Robust Image Hashing Scheme Using Gaussian Pyramids. Entropy, 21(11), Article 1132. https://doi.org/10.3390/e21111132

Image hash is an alternative to cryptographic hash functions for checking integrity of digital images. Compared to cryptographic hash functions, an image hash or a Perceptual Hash Function (PHF) is resilient to content preserving distortions and sens... Read More about A Secure and Robust Image Hashing Scheme Using Gaussian Pyramids.

Testing the Factor Structure of the International Trauma Questionnaire (ITQ) in African Community Samples from Kenya, Ghana, and Nigeria (2019)
Journal Article
Owczarek, M., Ben-Ezra, M., Karatzias, T., Hyland, P., Vallieres, F., & Shevlin, M. (2020). Testing the Factor Structure of the International Trauma Questionnaire (ITQ) in African Community Samples from Kenya, Ghana, and Nigeria. Journal of Loss and Trauma, 25(4), 348-363. https://doi.org/10.1080/15325024.2019.1689718

The aim of this study was to test the factorial structure of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Complex PTSD (CPTSD) as outlined in the 11th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) in three African community samples us... Read More about Testing the Factor Structure of the International Trauma Questionnaire (ITQ) in African Community Samples from Kenya, Ghana, and Nigeria.

Factors Influencing the Maternal Life Balance of Flemish Mothers, a Cross-Sectional Study (2019)
Journal Article
Kuipers, J., Van Leugenhaege, L., Van de Craen, N., Van den Branden, L., Bleijenbergh, R., Mestdagh, E., & Van Rompaey, B. (2021). Factors Influencing the Maternal Life Balance of Flemish Mothers, a Cross-Sectional Study. Applied research in quality of life, 16(2), 611-627. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11482-019-09779-0

This cross-sectional study examined the levels of maternal life balance and its influencing factors. The sample was composed of 731 Flemish mothers who self-reported on perceived maternal life balance; maternal-infant bonding; emotional wellbeing and... Read More about Factors Influencing the Maternal Life Balance of Flemish Mothers, a Cross-Sectional Study.

Child Advocacy Center intervention with sibling sexual abuse cases: Cross-cultural comparison of professionals’ perspectives and experiences (2019)
Journal Article
Tener, D., Newman, A., Yates, P., & Tarshish, N. (2020). Child Advocacy Center intervention with sibling sexual abuse cases: Cross-cultural comparison of professionals’ perspectives and experiences. Child Abuse and Neglect, 105, Article 104259. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2019.104259

Background
Despite being a complex phenomenon with potentially significant short- and long-term consequences for all involved including siblings, parents and the family as a whole, sibling sexual abuse (SSA) has not received sufficient empirical and... Read More about Child Advocacy Center intervention with sibling sexual abuse cases: Cross-cultural comparison of professionals’ perspectives and experiences.

Mother’s curse and indirect genetic effects: Do males matter to mitochondrial genome evolution? (2019)
Journal Article
Keaney, T. A., Wong, H. W. S., Dowling, D. K., Jones, T. M., & Holman, L. (2020). Mother’s curse and indirect genetic effects: Do males matter to mitochondrial genome evolution?. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 33(2), 189-201. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13561

Maternal inheritance of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) was originally thought to prevent any response to selection on male phenotypic variation attributable to mtDNA, resulting in a male‐biased mtDNA mutation load (“mother's curse”). However, the theory u... Read More about Mother’s curse and indirect genetic effects: Do males matter to mitochondrial genome evolution?.

A Cognitively Inspired System Architecture for the Mengshi Cognitive Vehicle (2019)
Journal Article
Zhang, X., Zhou, M., Liu, H., & Hussain, A. (2020). A Cognitively Inspired System Architecture for the Mengshi Cognitive Vehicle. Cognitive Computation, 12(1), 140-149. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-019-09692-6

This paper introduces the functional system architecture of the Mengshi intelligent vehicle, winner of the 2018 World Intelligent Driving Challenge (WIDC). Different from traditional smart vehicles, a cognitive module is introduced in the system arch... Read More about A Cognitively Inspired System Architecture for the Mengshi Cognitive Vehicle.

Balancing the rights of parents and children: The Children (Scotland) Bill 2019 (2019)
Report
Barnes Macfarlane, L.-A. (2019). Balancing the rights of parents and children: The Children (Scotland) Bill 2019. https://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/CurrentCommittees/112969.aspx: Scottish Parliament Justice Committee

The Scottish Government is in the process of updating the Family Justice system. This includes the legislation regulating how family court law cases (i.e. disputes about children between family members)progress through the courts.

In family law c... Read More about Balancing the rights of parents and children: The Children (Scotland) Bill 2019.