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A study of herding behaviour in exit choice during emergencies based on random utility theory. (2015)
Journal Article
Lovreglio, R., Fonzone, A., dell’Olio, L., & Borri, D. (2016). A study of herding behaviour in exit choice during emergencies based on random utility theory. Safety Science, 82, 421-431. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2015.10.015

Modelling human behaviour in emergencies has become an important issue in safety engineering. Good behavioural models can help increase the safety of transportation systems and buildings in extreme situations like fires or terrorist attacks. Although... Read More about A study of herding behaviour in exit choice during emergencies based on random utility theory..

Energy performance of Double-Skin Façades in temperate climates: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2015)
Journal Article
Pomponi, F., Piroozfar, P. A. E., Southall, R., Ashton, P., & Farr, E. R. P. (2016). Energy performance of Double-Skin Façades in temperate climates: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 54, 1525-1536. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2015.10.075

Double Skin Façades (DSFs) are applied in both new and existing buildings, especially in temperate climates. Research in this area is steadily growing; however, there is a lack of conclusive results in available literature about energy performances r... Read More about Energy performance of Double-Skin Façades in temperate climates: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Information density and overlap in spoken dialogue (2015)
Journal Article
Dethlefs, N., Hastie, H., Cuayáhuitl, H., Yu, Y., Rieser, V., & Lemon, O. (2016). Information density and overlap in spoken dialogue. Computer Speech and Language, 37, 82-97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csl.2015.11.001

Incremental dialogue systems are often perceived as more responsive and natural because they are able to address phenomena of turn-taking and overlapping speech, such as backchannels or barge-ins. Previous work in this area has often identified disti... Read More about Information density and overlap in spoken dialogue.

Curriculum development through understanding the student nurse experience of suicide intervention education – A phenomenographic study (2015)
Journal Article
Heyman, I., Webster, B. J., & Tee, S. (2015). Curriculum development through understanding the student nurse experience of suicide intervention education – A phenomenographic study. Nurse Education in Practice, 15(6), 498-506. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2015.04.008

Suicide remains a global public health issue and a major governmental concern. The World Health Organisation argues for continued investment in education for front-line professionals, with a particular focus on nurses, to address the rising suicide l... Read More about Curriculum development through understanding the student nurse experience of suicide intervention education – A phenomenographic study.

Double skin façade (DSF) technologies for UK office refurbishments: A systemic matchmaking practice (2015)
Journal Article
Pomponi, F., & Piroozfar, P. A. E. (2015). Double skin façade (DSF) technologies for UK office refurbishments: A systemic matchmaking practice. Structural survey, 33(4/5), 372-406. https://doi.org/10.1108/ss-04-2015-0025

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to establish how UK offices and double skin façade (DSF) technologies can be best matched for refurbishment purposes.
Design/methodology/approach
This research uses a mixed methodology including primary and sec... Read More about Double skin façade (DSF) technologies for UK office refurbishments: A systemic matchmaking practice.

The benefit of context for facial-composite construction (2015)
Journal Article
Skelton, F. C., Frowd, C. D., & Speers, K. E. (2015). The benefit of context for facial-composite construction. British Journal of Forensic Practice, 17(4), 281-290. https://doi.org/10.1108/JFP-08-2014-0022

Purpose - The aim of this study was to investigate whether the presence of a whole-face context during facial composite production facilitates construction of facial composite images.
Design/Methodology - In Experiment 1, constructors viewed a celeb... Read More about The benefit of context for facial-composite construction.

The impact of irrelevant auditory facial descriptions on memory for target faces: implications for eyewitness memory (2015)
Journal Article
Marsh, J. E., Demaine, J., Bell, R., Skelton, F. C., Frowd, C. D., Roer, J. P., & Buchner, A. (2015). The impact of irrelevant auditory facial descriptions on memory for target faces: implications for eyewitness memory. Journal of Forensic Practice, 17(4), 271-280. https://doi.org/10.1108/JFP-08-2014-0029

Purpose

– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the potential susceptibility of eyewitness memory to the presence of extraneous background speech that comprises a description consistent with, or at odds with, a target face.

Design/method... Read More about The impact of irrelevant auditory facial descriptions on memory for target faces: implications for eyewitness memory.

A decade of evolving composites: regression- and meta-analysis (2015)
Journal Article
Frowd, C. D., Lampinen, J. M., Erickson, W. B., Skelton, F. C., McIntyre, A. H., & Hancock, P. J. B. (2015). A decade of evolving composites: regression- and meta-analysis. Journal of Forensic Practice, 17(4), 319-334. https://doi.org/10.1108/JFP-08-2014-0025

Purpose

– The purpose of this paper is to assess the impact of seven variables that emerge from forensic research on facial-composite construction and naming using contemporary police systems: EvoFIT, Feature and Sketch.

Design/methodology/app... Read More about A decade of evolving composites: regression- and meta-analysis.

Crowdsourcing solutions to 2D irregular strip packing problems from Internet workers (2015)
Journal Article
Vasantha, G. V., Jagadeesan, A. P., Corney, J. R., Lynn, A., & Agrawal, A. (2016). Crowdsourcing solutions to 2D irregular strip packing problems from Internet workers. International Journal of Production Research, 54(14), 4104-4125. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2015.1102355

Many industrial processes require the nesting of 2D profiles prior to the cutting, or stamping, of components from raw sheet material. Despite decades of sustained academic effort algorithmic solutions are still sub-optimal and produce results that c... Read More about Crowdsourcing solutions to 2D irregular strip packing problems from Internet workers.

Compassion for others, self-compassion, quality of life and mental well-being measures and their association with compassion fatigue and burnout in student midwives: A quantitative survey (2015)
Journal Article
Beaumont, E., Durkin, M., Hollins Martin, C. J., & Carson, J. (2016). Compassion for others, self-compassion, quality of life and mental well-being measures and their association with compassion fatigue and burnout in student midwives: A quantitative survey. Midwifery, 34, 239-244. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2015.11.002

Background

compassion fatigue and burnout can impact on the performance of midwives, with this quantitative paper exploring the relationship between self-compassion, burnout, compassion fatigue, self-judgement, self-kindness, compassion for others... Read More about Compassion for others, self-compassion, quality of life and mental well-being measures and their association with compassion fatigue and burnout in student midwives: A quantitative survey.

The impact of head movements on user involvement in mediated interaction (2015)
Journal Article
Bamoallem, B. S., Wodehouse, A. J., Mair, G. M., & Vasantha, G. A. (2016). The impact of head movements on user involvement in mediated interaction. Computers in Human Behavior, 55(A), 424-431. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2015.09.016

Communication takes place not only through speech, but also through gestures such as facial expressions, gaze, head movements, hand movements and body posture. Although developing rapidly, current communication platforms do not facilitate the types o... Read More about The impact of head movements on user involvement in mediated interaction.

Patient-centered care in maternity services: a critical appraisal and synthesis of the literature. (2015)
Journal Article
Maclennan, S. J., de Labrusse, C., Ramelet, A.-S., & Humphrey, T. (2016). Patient-centered care in maternity services: a critical appraisal and synthesis of the literature. Women's Health Issues, 26(1), 100-109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.whi.2015.09.003

Background

Patient-centered care (PCC) has been recognized as a marker of quality in health service delivery. In policy documents, PCC is often used interchangeably with other models of care. There is a wide literature about PCC, but there is a la... Read More about Patient-centered care in maternity services: a critical appraisal and synthesis of the literature..

Manufacturing at double the speed (2015)
Journal Article
Allwood, J., Childs, T., Clare, A., Silva, A. D., Dhokia, V., Hutchings, I., Leach, R., Leal-Ayala, D., Lowth, S., Majewski, C., Marzano, A., Mehnen, J., Nassehi, A., Ozturk, E., Raffles, M., Roy, R., Shyha, I., & Turner, S. (2016). Manufacturing at double the speed. Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 229, 729-757. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmatprotec.2015.10.028

The speed of manufacturing processes today depends on a trade-off between the physical processes of production, the wider system that allows these processes to operate and the co-ordination of a supply chain in the pursuit of meeting customer needs.... Read More about Manufacturing at double the speed.

Big Data: how it can predict our future health and well-being (2015)
Journal Article
O'Connor, S. (2015). Big Data: how it can predict our future health and well-being. Association of Commonwealth Universities: Bulletin, 7

The technology to continuously monitor human life (both biological and behavioural) and the environment that surrounds us is here...

A Pattern Recognition Neural Network Model for Detection and Classification of SQL Injection Attacks (2015)
Journal Article
Moradpoor Sheykhkanloo, N. (2015). A Pattern Recognition Neural Network Model for Detection and Classification of SQL Injection Attacks. International Journal of Computer, Electrical, Automation, Control and Information Engineering, 9(6), 1443-1453

Thousands of organisations store important and confidential information related to them, their customers, and their business partners in databases all across the world. The stored data ranges from less sensitive (e.g. first name, last name, date of b... Read More about A Pattern Recognition Neural Network Model for Detection and Classification of SQL Injection Attacks.

Coronary heart disease in Chinese living in western countries: new insights from a systematic review and meta-analysis. (2015)
Journal Article
Jin, K., Ding, D., Gullick, J., Koo, F., & Neubeck, L. (2015). Coronary heart disease in Chinese living in western countries: new insights from a systematic review and meta-analysis. Heart, Lung and Circulation, 24(3), S119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hlc.2015.06.015

Abstract from the ‘Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand Annual Scientific Meeting and the International Society for Heart Research Australasian Section Annual Scientific Meeting’ 13-16 August 2015

E-health, patient-centred goal-setting and cardiovascular disease. (2015)
Journal Article
Wong, A., Neubeck, L., Coorey, G., Mulley, J., Weir, K., Peiris, D., & Redfern, J. (2015). E-health, patient-centred goal-setting and cardiovascular disease. Heart, Lung and Circulation, 24(3), S454-S455. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hlc.2015.06.793

Abstracts from the ‘Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand Annual Scientific Meeting and the International Society for Heart Research Australasian Section Annual Scientific Meeting’ 13-16 August 2015