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Ductility improvements of PLA-based binary and ternary blends with controlled morphology using PBAT, PBSA, and nanoclay (2019)
Journal Article
Nofar, M., Salehiyan, R., Ciftci, U., Jalali, A., & Durmuş, A. (2020). Ductility improvements of PLA-based binary and ternary blends with controlled morphology using PBAT, PBSA, and nanoclay. Composites Part B: Engineering, 182, Article 107661. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesb.2019.107661

In this study, binary and ternary immiscible blends of polylactide (PLA) with poly[(butylene adipate)-co-terephthalate] (PBAT) and poly[(butylene succinate)-co-adipate] (PBSA) were prepared through an injection-molding (IM) process. Blend nanocomposi... Read More about Ductility improvements of PLA-based binary and ternary blends with controlled morphology using PBAT, PBSA, and nanoclay.

‘Chineseness’ in Yimou Zhang’s Transnational Cinema (2019)
Book Chapter
Li, J. (2019). ‘Chineseness’ in Yimou Zhang’s Transnational Cinema. In Q. Li, & R. Conte (Eds.), Migration & Memory: Arts and Cinemas of The Chinese Diaspora (99-119). Paris: Maison des sciences de l’Homme

Hollywood and non-Hollywood national cinemas both seek to depict “universal” meanings to ensure better global distribution and reception. “The national” in national cinema is also in a state of hybridity (Bhabha 2004). “The national” bec... Read More about ‘Chineseness’ in Yimou Zhang’s Transnational Cinema.

Outside and Beyond “The National”: A Case Study of Ang Lee’s Cinema in Hollywood (2019)
Book Chapter
Li, J. (2019). Outside and Beyond “The National”: A Case Study of Ang Lee’s Cinema in Hollywood. In Q. Li, & R. Conte (Eds.), Migration & Memory: Arts and Cinemas of The Chinese Diaspora (21-39). Maison des sciences de l’Homme

This article takes perhaps the most successful film- maker of Chinese origin, Ang Lee, out of his Taiwanese context of discussion and investigates the ways that his transnational/global filmmaking intersects with Chinese cult... Read More about Outside and Beyond “The National”: A Case Study of Ang Lee’s Cinema in Hollywood.

Migration & Memory: Arts and Cinemas of The Chinese Diaspora (2019)
Book
Li, Q., & Conte, R. (Eds.). (2019). Migration & Memory: Arts and Cinemas of The Chinese Diaspora. Paris: Maison des Sciences de l'Homme

This work is the first of a series of books principally dedicated to the publication of papers from seminars organized, either solely by the MAISON DES SCIENCES DE L'HOMME DU PACIFIQUE, or in partnership with other institutions. Upon the arrival in t... Read More about Migration & Memory: Arts and Cinemas of The Chinese Diaspora.

Are We There Yet? In-Flight Food Safety and Cabin Crew Hygiene Practices (2019)
Journal Article
Grout, A., & Speakman, E. M. (2019). Are We There Yet? In-Flight Food Safety and Cabin Crew Hygiene Practices. Journal of Environmental Health, 82(4), 30-32

Amid the rapid expansion of global air traffic, aviation food safety is a critical issue (Huizer, Swaan, Leitmeyer, & Timen, 2015). More than 1 billion in-flight meals are served annually (Jones, 2006) and the aviation catering market is expected to... Read More about Are We There Yet? In-Flight Food Safety and Cabin Crew Hygiene Practices.

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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

E-waste and sustainability in a changing environment: a behavioural economics approach (2019)
Book Chapter
Pierron, X. (2019). E-waste and sustainability in a changing environment: a behavioural economics approach. In S. Paladini, & S. George (Eds.), Sustainable Economy and Emerging Markets. (1). Routledge

E-waste is the fastest growing waste stream (Sun et al., 2016) due a combination of increase in electronic product shipments and stagnation of collection and recycling rates, despite having one of the most advanced WEEE legislation and dynamic, open... Read More about E-waste and sustainability in a changing environment: a behavioural economics approach.

Banned Books and Publishers’ Ploys: The Well of Loneliness as Exemplar (2019)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Livingston New Town: Art, History, People (2019)
Exhibition / Performance
Vettese, S., & Devison, N. Livingston New Town: Art, History, People. [3D printed objects]. 29 November 2019 - 22 November 2020

Livingston New Town: Art, History, People Drawing on a wealth of photographs, illustrations and models, as well as historical artefacts from the museums and the archival collection of West Lothian, this exhibition explores the identity of Livingst... Read More about Livingston New Town: Art, History, People.

Evaluating the real-world performance of 5G fixed wireless broadband in rural areas (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abozariba, R., Davies, E., Broadbent, M., & Race, N. (2019). Evaluating the real-world performance of 5G fixed wireless broadband in rural areas. In 2019 IEEE 2nd 5G World Forum (5GWF) (465-470). https://doi.org/10.1109/5GWF.2019.8911655

Rural communities are often neglected in the rollout of communication infrastructure, delaying or even preventing the delivery of common digital services that are now ubiquitous in modern society. Addressing this technological gap is of paramount imp... Read More about Evaluating the real-world performance of 5G fixed wireless broadband in rural areas.

Tools to measure health literacy among Chinese speakers: A systematic review (2019)
Journal Article
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.

Cloud-assisted Adaptive Stream Processing from Discriminative Representations (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ndubuaku, M., Anjum, A., & Liotta, A. Cloud-assisted Adaptive Stream Processing from Discriminative Representations. . https://doi.org/10.1109/smc.2019.8914227

As the streaming data generated by Internet of Things (IoT) ubiquitous sensors grow in massive scale, extracting interesting information (anomalies) in real-time becomes more challenging. Traditional systems which retrospectively perform all the proc... Read More about Cloud-assisted Adaptive Stream Processing from Discriminative Representations.

Awareness campaigns of atrial fibrillation as an opportunity for early detection by pharmacists: an international cross-sectional study (2019)
Journal Article
da Costa, F. A., Mala-Ladova, K., Lee, V., Tous, S., Papastergiou, J., Griffiths, D., Chaumais, M.-C., 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.