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Is there an app for that? Mobile phones and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease (2017)
Journal Article
Neubeck, L., Cartledge, S., Dawkes, S., & Gallagher, R. (2017). Is there an app for that? Mobile phones and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease. Current Opinion in Cardiology, 32(5), 567-571. https://doi.org/10.1097/hco.0000000000000428

Purpose of review Advances in technology coupled with increased penetration of mobile phones and smart devices are rapidly changing healthcare delivery. Mobile phone applications (‘apps’), text messages, and Internet platforms used alone or in combi... Read More about Is there an app for that? Mobile phones and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease.

Male emotionality: ‘boys don’t cry’ versus ‘it’s good to talk’ (2017)
Journal Article
McQueen, F. (2017). Male emotionality: ‘boys don’t cry’ versus ‘it’s good to talk’. NORMA - Nordisk tidsskrift for maskulinitetsstudier, 12(3-4), 205-219. https://doi.org/10.1080/18902138.2017.1336877

In this article male affect within intimate relationships is examined as a product of the tension between two competing discourses: ‘it’s good to talk’ versus ‘boys don’t cry’. Central to this tension is how men perform ‘manliness’ within intimate re... Read More about Male emotionality: ‘boys don’t cry’ versus ‘it’s good to talk’.

Chatting in the face of the eyewitness: the impact of extraneous cell-phone conversation on memory for a perpetrator (2017)
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Marsh, J. E., Patel, K., Labonté, K., Battersby, K. L., Frowd, C. D., Ball, L. J., Vachon, F., Marsh, J., Patel, K., Labonte, K., Threadgold, E., Skelton, F. C., Fodarella, C., Thorley, R., Battersby, K., Frowd, C., Ball, L., & Vachon, F. (2017). Chatting in the face of the eyewitness: the impact of extraneous cell-phone conversation on memory for a perpetrator. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71(3), 183-190. https://doi.org/10.1037/cep0000101

Cell-phone conversation is ubiquitous within public spaces. The current study investigates whether ignored cell-phone conversation impairs eyewitness memory for a perpetrator. Participants viewed a video of a staged crime in the presence of 1 side of... Read More about Chatting in the face of the eyewitness: the impact of extraneous cell-phone conversation on memory for a perpetrator.

Review Essay: On Their Own: Women, Urbanization, and the Right to the City in South Africa (2017)
Journal Article
Wong, Y. N. (2017). Review Essay: On Their Own: Women, Urbanization, and the Right to the City in South Africa. Atlantis, 38(1), 262-264

The essay reviews Allison Goebal’s gendered analysis of women's 'right to the city' in post-apartheid South Africa and concludes that the work makes a crucial contribution to the scholarship in its injection of a 'politics of difference' and a gender... Read More about Review Essay: On Their Own: Women, Urbanization, and the Right to the City in South Africa.

Discrimination and resilience and the needs of people who identify as transgender: a narrative review of quantitative research studies. (2017)
Journal Article
McCann, E., & Brown, M. (2017). Discrimination and resilience and the needs of people who identify as transgender: a narrative review of quantitative research studies. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 26(23-24), 4080-4093. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.13913

Aims and objectives: to examine discrimination and resilience experiences of people who identify as transgender and establish potential health service responses. Background: people who identify as transgender face many challenges in society in terms... Read More about Discrimination and resilience and the needs of people who identify as transgender: a narrative review of quantitative research studies..

CPD needs of opioid nurse prescribers: A survey (2017)
Journal Article
Nimmo, S., Paterson, R., & Irvin, L. (2017). CPD needs of opioid nurse prescribers: A survey. Nurse Prescribing, 15(6), 297-302. https://doi.org/10.12968/npre.2017.15.6.297

Background: The Misuse of Drugs Act non-medical prescribing legislation permits nurse independent prescribers (NIPs) to prescribe any controlled drug that is within their scope of professional practice. Continuing professional development (CPD) is e... Read More about CPD needs of opioid nurse prescribers: A survey.

Spanish version of the Talent Development Environment Questionnaire for sport: Cultural adaptation and initial validation (2017)
Journal Article
Brazo-Sayavera, J., Olivares, P. R., Andronikos, G., & Martindale, R. J. J. (2017). Spanish version of the Talent Development Environment Questionnaire for sport: Cultural adaptation and initial validation. PLOS ONE, 12(6), Article e0177721. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0177721

This study aimed to translate the Talent Development Environment Questionnaire into Spanish and provide an initial validation. A recommended methodology for translation and cultural adaptation of questionnaires was applied. Once this had been complet... Read More about Spanish version of the Talent Development Environment Questionnaire for sport: Cultural adaptation and initial validation.

Augmented reality prototype HUD for passenger infotainment in a vehicular environment (2017)
Journal Article
Wang, S., Charissis, V., & Harrison, D. K. (2017). Augmented reality prototype HUD for passenger infotainment in a vehicular environment. Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems Journal, 2(3), 634-641. https://doi.org/10.25046/aj020381

The paper presents a prototype Head Up Display interface which acts as an interactive infotainment system for rear seat younger passengers, aiming to minimize driver distraction. The interface employs an Augmented Reality medium that utilizes the ext... Read More about Augmented reality prototype HUD for passenger infotainment in a vehicular environment.

Architectural and information theoretic perspectives of physical layer intruders for direct sequence spread spectrum systems (2017)
Journal Article
Yousaf, A., Loan, A., Babiceanu, R. F., Maglaras, L., & Yousaf, O. (2017). Architectural and information theoretic perspectives of physical layer intruders for direct sequence spread spectrum systems. Computers and Security, 70, 124-143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2017.05.011

In this paper an analysis of physical layer intruders, for direct sequence spread spectrum systems, is presented. Physical layer intruders are traditional jammers that do not have any intelligence as compared to smart jammers that have signal process... Read More about Architectural and information theoretic perspectives of physical layer intruders for direct sequence spread spectrum systems.

Towards an adaptive SOA-based QoS & Demand-Response Provisioning Architecture for the Smart Grid (2017)
Journal Article
Chrysoulas, C., & Fasli, M. (2017). Towards an adaptive SOA-based QoS & Demand-Response Provisioning Architecture for the Smart Grid. Journal of Communications Software and Systems, 13(2), 77. https://doi.org/10.24138/jcomss.v13i2.375

Dynamic selection of services and by extension of service providers are vital in today’s liberalized market of energy. On the other hand it is equally important for Service Providers to spot the one QoS Module that offers the best QoS level in a give... Read More about Towards an adaptive SOA-based QoS & Demand-Response Provisioning Architecture for the Smart Grid.

Multilocus sequence typing provides insights into the population structure and evolutionary potential of Brenneria goodwinii, associated with acute oak decline (2017)
Journal Article
Kaczmarek, M., Mullett, M. S., McDonald, J. E., & Denman, S. (2017). Multilocus sequence typing provides insights into the population structure and evolutionary potential of Brenneria goodwinii, associated with acute oak decline. PLOS ONE, 12(6), Article e0178390. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0178390

Brenneria goodwinii is one of the most frequently isolated Gram-negative bacteria from native oak species, Quercus robur and Q. petraea, affected by acute oak decline (AOD) in the UK. We investigated the population biology of this bacterial species u... Read More about Multilocus sequence typing provides insights into the population structure and evolutionary potential of Brenneria goodwinii, associated with acute oak decline.

InOt-RePCoN: Forecasting user behavioural trend in large-scale cloud environments (2017)
Journal Article
Panneerselvam, J., Liu, L., & Antonopoulos, N. (2018). InOt-RePCoN: Forecasting user behavioural trend in large-scale cloud environments. Future Generation Computer Systems, 80, 322-341. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2017.05.022

Cloud Computing has emerged as a low cost anywhere anytime computing paradigm. Given the energy consumption characteristics of the Cloud resources, service providers are under immense pressure to reduce the energy implications of the datacentres. For... Read More about InOt-RePCoN: Forecasting user behavioural trend in large-scale cloud environments.

Precision Agriculture in China: Exploring Awareness, Understanding, Attitudes and Perceptions of Agricultural Experts and End-Users in China (2017)
Journal Article
Kendall, H., Naughton, P., Clark, B., Taylor, J., Li, Z., Zhao, C., Yang, G., Chen, J., & Frewer, L. J. (2017). Precision Agriculture in China: Exploring Awareness, Understanding, Attitudes and Perceptions of Agricultural Experts and End-Users in China. Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science, 8(2), 703-707. https://doi.org/10.1017/s2040470017001066

Precision agriculture (PA) may improve the sustainability of Chinese agriculture. Ten experts were interviewed and 34 farm workers surveyed regarding their understanding, attitudes and perceptions towards PA. PA technologies were considered inaccessi... Read More about Precision Agriculture in China: Exploring Awareness, Understanding, Attitudes and Perceptions of Agricultural Experts and End-Users in China.

Cryptography across industry sectors (2017)
Journal Article
Buchanan, W. J., Woodward, A., & Helme, S. (2017). Cryptography across industry sectors. Journal of Cyber Security Technology, 1(3-4), 145-162. https://doi.org/10.1080/23742917.2017.1327221

Security adoption varies across industry sectors, where some companies such as Google, Apple and Microsoft are strong advocates of the adoption of HTTPS, while other companies, especially for news sites, have weak adoption. This paper provides a samp... Read More about Cryptography across industry sectors.

Travelling for Umrah: destination attributes, destination image, and post-travel intentions (2017)
Journal Article
Gannon, M. J., Baxter, I. W. F., Collinson, E., Curran, R., Farrington, T., Glasgow, S., Godsman, E. M., Gori, K., Jack, G. R. A., Lochrie, S., Maxwell-Stuart, R., MacLaren, A. C., MacIntosh, R., O'Gorman, K., Ottaway, L., Perez-Vega, R., Taheri, B., Thompson, J., & Yalinay, O. (2017). Travelling for Umrah: destination attributes, destination image, and post-travel intentions. Service Industries Journal, 37(7-8), 448-465. https://doi.org/10.1080/02642069.2017.1333601

This paper examines the links between cosmopolitanism, self-identity, and a desire for social interaction on perceived destination image and behavioural intentions. A model was tested using a sample of 538 Iranian visitors to Mecca for the purpose of... Read More about Travelling for Umrah: destination attributes, destination image, and post-travel intentions.

Belonging: Blurring the Boundaries (2017)
Journal Article
Meharg, D., Craighill, S., Varey, A., & Cairncross, S. (2017). Belonging: Blurring the Boundaries. Scottish Educational Review, 49(1), 89-103

This paper applies Whitchurch’s (2008) concept of the ‘third space’ to the emergent territory occupied by further education college students as they ‘cross the boundary’ to continue their studies at the university. Findings reveal that these transiti... Read More about Belonging: Blurring the Boundaries.