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Prescribing within clinical toxicology (2020)
Journal Article
MacVicar, S., & Osinski, K. (2020). Prescribing within clinical toxicology. Journal of Prescribing Practice, 2(12), 674-680. https://doi.org/10.12968/jprp.2020.2.12.674

In 2020, the first clinical toxicology advanced nurse practitioner and independent prescriber post was introduced in the United Kingdom. This article discusses the remit of clinical toxicology and the integration of nurse prescribing into this servic... Read More about Prescribing within clinical toxicology.

A modified Delphi study to gain consensus for a taxonomy to report and classify physical activity referral schemes (PARS) (2020)
Journal Article
Hanson, C. L., Oliver, E., Dodd-Reynolds, C., Pearsons, A., & Kelly, P. (2020). A modified Delphi study to gain consensus for a taxonomy to report and classify physical activity referral schemes (PARS). International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 17(1), Article 158 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12966-020-01050-2

Background: Physical Activity Referral Schemes (PARS), including exercise referral schemes, are a popular approach to health improvement, but understanding of effectiveness is limited by considerable heterogeneity in reporting and evaluation. We aime... Read More about A modified Delphi study to gain consensus for a taxonomy to report and classify physical activity referral schemes (PARS).

The Need for Research on PTSD in Children and Adolescents: A commentary on Elliot et al., 2020 (2020)
Journal Article
Cloitre, M., Brewin, C. R., Kazlauskas, E., Lueger-Schuster, B., Karatzias, T., Hyland, P., & Shevlin, M. (2021). The Need for Research on PTSD in Children and Adolescents: A commentary on Elliot et al., 2020. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 62(3), 277-279. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13361

The recent release of the 11th version of The International Classification of Diseases (ICD‐11: WHO, 2018) marked a significant departure from the previous similarities between it and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM‐5;... Read More about The Need for Research on PTSD in Children and Adolescents: A commentary on Elliot et al., 2020.

Inferring Future Landscapes: Sampling the Local Optima Level (2020)
Journal Article
Thomson, S. L., Ochoa, G., Verel, S., & Veerapen, N. (2020). Inferring Future Landscapes: Sampling the Local Optima Level. Evolutionary Computation, 28(4), 621-641. https://doi.org/10.1162/evco_a_00271

Connection patterns among Local Optima Networks (LONs) can inform heuristic design for optimisation. LON research has predominantly required complete enumeration of a fitness landscape, thereby restricting analysis to problems diminutive in size comp... Read More about Inferring Future Landscapes: Sampling the Local Optima Level.

Pacific Community Filmmaking Consortium (2020)
Digital Artefact
MacLeod, K., Sar, L., Crook, T., Ryle, J., Boodoosingh, R., & Montgomery, N. (2020). Pacific Community Filmmaking Consortium. [Website including Video content]

A website showcasing the work of filmmakers, known as The Pacific Filmmaking Consortium. Consolidating this network of filmmakers, funding a slate of films and distributing their work has been the key work of this project. Due to Covid 19 there was l... Read More about Pacific Community Filmmaking Consortium.

Film4Gender - Online Launch (2020)
Exhibition / Performance
MacLeod, K., Ryle, J., Crook, T., Sar, L., & Boodoosingh, R. Film4Gender - Online Launch. [Online event]. 1 December 2020. (Unpublished)

Online launch of the Film4Gender films by the Pacific Community Filmmaking Consortium. Event to bring together the consortium filmmakers, shared discussion of the films, with Q&A. Public& international event, including participants from some of the... Read More about Film4Gender - Online Launch.

Pacific Community Filmmaking Consortium: Film4Gender (2020)
Other
MacLeod, K. (2020). Pacific Community Filmmaking Consortium: Film4Gender. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCay9m0ScfbKBOViR4GpIbvA

A Collection of Short community based films (1hour 25 mins) by Pacific Filmmakers focused on gender, gender based violence and local responses to the Covid -19 pandemic. The films were produced during 2020 by Pacific filmmakers from 7 countries - Pa... Read More about Pacific Community Filmmaking Consortium: Film4Gender.

PoNW: A Secure and Scalable Proof-of-Notarized-Work Based Consensus Mechanism (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abubakar, M., Jaroucheh, Z., Al-Dubai, A., & Buchanan, W. (2020, December). PoNW: A Secure and Scalable Proof-of-Notarized-Work Based Consensus Mechanism. Presented at ICVISP 2020: The 2020 4th International Conference on Vision, Image and Signal Processing, Bangkok

The original consensus algorithm-Proof of Work (PoW) has been widely utilized in the blockchain systems and is been adopted by many cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, among many others. Nevertheless, the concept has received criticisms o... Read More about PoNW: A Secure and Scalable Proof-of-Notarized-Work Based Consensus Mechanism.

Dog filters & flower crowns: Using Snapchat as a Pedagogical Tool in Higher Education (2020)
Journal Article
Kerr, G., & Faulkner, S. (2020). Dog filters & flower crowns: Using Snapchat as a Pedagogical Tool in Higher Education. Journal of Social Media for Learning, 1(1), 147-157. https://doi.org/10.24377/LJMU.jsml.vol1article393

Academics overwhelmingly value social media as a tool for enhancing student learning (Moran et al, 2011). Generally, academics use information technologies and social media to engage with students in a top-down fashion i.e. it is the norm to use what... Read More about Dog filters & flower crowns: Using Snapchat as a Pedagogical Tool in Higher Education.

Experimental and analytical investigation on flexural behaviour of RC beams strengthened with NSM CFRP prestressed concrete prisms (2020)
Journal Article
Deng, Y., Li, Z., Zhang, H., Corigliano, A., Lam, A. C., Hansapinyo, C., & Yang, Z. (2021). Experimental and analytical investigation on flexural behaviour of RC beams strengthened with NSM CFRP prestressed concrete prisms. Composite Structures, 257, Article 113385. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruct.2020.113385

This investigation aims to study the flexural behaviour of reinforced concrete (RC) beams strengthened with near-surface mounted (NSM) carbon fibre reinforced polymer prestressed concrete prisms (CFRP-PCPs). Eight RC beams were tested under monotonic... Read More about Experimental and analytical investigation on flexural behaviour of RC beams strengthened with NSM CFRP prestressed concrete prisms.

The effects of commodity financialization on commodity market volatility (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ding, S., Zheng, D., Cui, T., & Du, M. (2020, November). The effects of commodity financialization on commodity market volatility. Presented at ENSCON’ 20 Online International Congress of Energy Economy and Security, Istanbul, Turkey [Online]

Over the last two decades, it has been witnessed that massive capital flooded into commodity markets, provoking the commodity financialization episode, which turned into a major stimulus for the rapid development of commodity market studies. Moreover... Read More about The effects of commodity financialization on commodity market volatility.

Sino-U.S. stock market volatility, economic policy uncertainty, and fluctuation of global oil market: an empirical analysis based on TVP-SV-VAR model (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yang, T., Zhou, F., Du, M., Du, Q., & Zhou, S. (2020, November). Sino-U.S. stock market volatility, economic policy uncertainty, and fluctuation of global oil market: an empirical analysis based on TVP-SV-VAR model. Presented at ENSCON’ 20 Online International Congress of Energy Economy and Security, Istanbul, Turkey [Online]

This paper investigates the correlations among Sino-US stock markets, economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and global oil market. Specificly, by adopting a TVP-SV-VAR model this study analyzes the dynamic effects of volatility of stock price in China an... Read More about Sino-U.S. stock market volatility, economic policy uncertainty, and fluctuation of global oil market: an empirical analysis based on TVP-SV-VAR model.

Sdn heading north: Towards a declarative intent-based northbound interface (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alalmaei, S., Elkhatib, Y., Bezahaf, M., Broadbent, M., & Race, N. (2020, November). Sdn heading north: Towards a declarative intent-based northbound interface. Presented at 2020 16th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM), Izmir, Turkey

The Intent-Based Northbound Interface (NBI) offers users the ability to express what they want to achieve instead of how to achieve it, enabling improvements to network management and reducing operational costs. However, development of an Intent-Base... Read More about Sdn heading north: Towards a declarative intent-based northbound interface.

The Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity Of 2-Fraction Granular Soils And The Internal Stability (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Imre, E., Illés, Z., Bálint, Á., Barreto, D., Khaliunaa, A., Tsendsuren, B., Huong, T. Q. D., & Lizeth Guadalupe, L. L. (2020, November). The Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity Of 2-Fraction Granular Soils And The Internal Stability. Presented at 11th ICEEE – 2020 Conference, Budapest, Hungary

The four grading entropy coordinates can be used for soil classification on the basis of grain size and the grading curve shape (similarly e.g., to the diameter values). The grading entropy coordinates give information on several basic Physics featur... Read More about The Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity Of 2-Fraction Granular Soils And The Internal Stability.

An Architecture for IoT-Enabled Smart Transportation Security System: A Geospatial Approach (2020)
Journal Article
Zhang, J., Wang, Y., Li, S., & Shi, S. (2021). An Architecture for IoT-Enabled Smart Transportation Security System: A Geospatial Approach. IEEE Internet of Things, 8(8), 6205-6213. https://doi.org/10.1109/jiot.2020.3041386

Internet of Things (IoT) in urban transportation systems have been ubiquitously embedded into a variety of devices and transport entities. The IoT-enabled smart transportation system (STS) has thus gained growing tractions amongst scholars and practi... Read More about An Architecture for IoT-Enabled Smart Transportation Security System: A Geospatial Approach.

A survey of ‘standard’ occupational therapy rehabilitation for the upper limb post-stroke: investigating components delivered by clinicians within the reflects trial - based throughout Ireland (in World Stroke Congress Abstracts, 2020) (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abercrombie, W., Porter-Armstrong, A., Turtle, B., Stockley, R., & Stinson, M. A survey of ‘standard’ occupational therapy rehabilitation for the upper limb post-stroke: investigating components delivered by clinicians within the reflects trial - based throughout Ireland (in World Stroke Congress Abstracts, 2020). Presented at World Stroke Congress, Online

Background And Aims: The REfLECTS study is a randomised controlled trial (RCT) examining mirror therapy for the treatment of upper limb (UL) impairment. Located throughout Northern Ireland (NI) and Ireland, the study compares experimental and ‘standa... Read More about A survey of ‘standard’ occupational therapy rehabilitation for the upper limb post-stroke: investigating components delivered by clinicians within the reflects trial - based throughout Ireland (in World Stroke Congress Abstracts, 2020).

Optimal Electricity Trading Strategy for a Household Microgrid (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Qin, Z., Hua, H., Liang, H., Herzallah, R., Zhou, Y., & Cao, J. (2020, October). Optimal Electricity Trading Strategy for a Household Microgrid. Presented at 2020 IEEE 16th International Conference on Control & Automation (ICCA), Singapore

The recent integration of distributed generators (DGs) and renewable energy sources (RESs) into the power system led to the manifestation of a significant number of household microgrid (MG) systems in the electricity market. However, in most of the c... Read More about Optimal Electricity Trading Strategy for a Household Microgrid.

Book review: John Armbrecht, Erik Lundberg and Tommy D. Andersson (eds), A Research Agenda for Event Management (Elgar Research Agendas, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA 2019) 192 pp. (2020)
Journal Article
Snell, S. (2020). Book review: John Armbrecht, Erik Lundberg and Tommy D. Andersson (eds), A Research Agenda for Event Management (Elgar Research Agendas, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA 2019) 192 pp. Journal of Qualitative Research in Tourism, 134-137. https://doi.org/10.4337/jqrt.2020.01.09

Abstract not available.

Why is mock care not a good proxy for predicting hand contamination during patient care? (2020)
Journal Article
King, M., Wilson, A., López-García, M., Proctor, J., Peckham, D., Clifton, I., Dancer, S., & Noakes, C. (2021). Why is mock care not a good proxy for predicting hand contamination during patient care?. Journal of Hospital Infection, 109, 44-51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2020.11.016

Healthcare worker (HCW) behaviours, such as the sequence of their contacts with surfaces and hand hygiene moments, are important for understanding disease transmission. Aim To propose a method for recording sequences of HCW behaviours during mock v... Read More about Why is mock care not a good proxy for predicting hand contamination during patient care?.