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Social work in Brazil in the vortex of three crises: pandemic, social and political. (2022)
Journal Article
GARCIA, M.L.T., SPOLANDER, G. and DA SILVA BARBOSA, R. 2023. Social work in Brazil in the vortex of three crises: pandemic, social and political. British journal of social work [online], 53(1), pages 656-672. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcac129

Social work in Brazil advocates a radical and critical model of social work theorisation and practice. This article explores the Brazilian theoretical and practice model, identifying the profession as being in a vortex of COVID-19, increasing state e... Read More about Social work in Brazil in the vortex of three crises: pandemic, social and political..

An optimized relevant long short-term memory-squared gain extended Kalman filter for the state of charge estimation of lithium-ion batteries. (2022)
Journal Article
TAKYI-ANINAKWA, P., WANG, S., ZHANG, H., LI, H., XU, W. and FERNANDEZ, C. 2022. An optimized relevant long short-term memory-squared gain extended Kalman filter for the state of charge estimation of lithium-ion batteries. Energy [online], 260, article 125093. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2022.125093

Accurate state of charge (SOC) estimation of lithium-ion batteries by the battery management system (BMS) plays a prominent role in ensuring their reliability, safe operation, and acceptable durability in smart devices, electric vehicles, etc. In thi... Read More about An optimized relevant long short-term memory-squared gain extended Kalman filter for the state of charge estimation of lithium-ion batteries..

A (socially isolated) room of one's own: women writing lockdown. (2022)
Journal Article
ARMITT, L., COWMAN, K. and PEDERSEN, S. 2022. A (socially isolated) room of one's own: women writing lockdown. Women's history today [online], Summer 2022. Available from: https://womenshistorynetwork.org/womens-history-today-summer-2022/

Our eighteen-month project, "A [Socially Isolated] Room of One's Own: Women Writing Lockdown", is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. It involves collecting, capturing, archiving and evaluating a variety of written responses by women... Read More about A (socially isolated) room of one's own: women writing lockdown..

Prevention and early treatment of the long-term physical effects of COVID-19 in adults: design of a randomised controlled trial of resistance exercise: CISCO-21. (2022)
Journal Article
MORROW, A., GRAY, S.R., BAYES, H.K. et al. 2022. Prevention and early treatment of the long-term physical effects of COVID-19 in adults: design of a randomised controlled trial of resistance exercise: CISCO-21. Trials [online], 23, article number 660. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-022-06632-y

Background: Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) infection causes persistent health problems such as breathlessness, chest pain and fatigue, and therapies for the prevention and early treatment of post-COVID-19 syndromes are needed. Accordingly, we are... Read More about Prevention and early treatment of the long-term physical effects of COVID-19 in adults: design of a randomised controlled trial of resistance exercise: CISCO-21..

ICOSeg: real-time ICOS protein expression segmentation from immunohistochemistry slides using a lightweight conv-transformer network. (2022)
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SINGH, V.K., SARKER, M.M.K., MAKHLOUF, Y., CRAIG, S.G., HUMPHRIES, M.P., LOUGHREY, M.B., JAMES, J.A., SALTO-TELLEZ, M., O'REILLY, P. and MAXWELL, P. 2022. ICOSeg: real-time ICOS protein expression segmentation from immunohistochemistry slides using a lightweight conv-transformer network. Cancers [online], 14(16), article 3910. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers14163910

In this article, we propose ICOSeg, a lightweight deep learning model that accurately segments the immune-checkpoint biomarker, Inducible T-cell COStimulator (ICOS) protein in colon cancer from immunohistochemistry (IHC) slide patches. The proposed m... Read More about ICOSeg: real-time ICOS protein expression segmentation from immunohistochemistry slides using a lightweight conv-transformer network..

It is the future. Clinical pharmaceutical care simply has to be a matter of course: community pharmacy clinical service providers' and service developers' views on complex implementation factors. (2022)
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WEIDMANN, A.E., HOPPEL, M. and DEIBL, S. 2022. It is the future. Clinical pharmaceutical care simply has to be a matter of course: community pharmacy clinical service providers' and service developers' views on complex implementation factors. Research in social and administrative pharmacy [online], 18(12), pages 4112-4123. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sapharm.2022.08.002

While there is a lot of documented evidence about the clinical and cost effectiveness of pharmacists' role extensions there is an inherent gap between service development and implementation. This study aims to better understand the complex factors th... Read More about It is the future. Clinical pharmaceutical care simply has to be a matter of course: community pharmacy clinical service providers' and service developers' views on complex implementation factors..

Designated prescribing practitioners: a theory-based cross-sectional study of stakeholders' views on implementation of a novel pharmacy regulator mandated preceptorship model. (2022)
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JEBARA, T., MCINTOSH, T., STEWART, F., OSPREY, A., BRUCE, R. and CUNNINGHAM, S. 2022. Designated prescribing practitioners: a theory-based cross-sectional study of stakeholders' views on implementation of a novel pharmacy regulator mandated preceptorship model. International journal of clinical pharmacy [online], 44(5), pages 1195-1204. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11096-022-01467-8

The Scottish Government is increasing independent prescribers (IP) in community pharmacy (CP). A new preceptorship model using IPs as Designated Prescribing Practitioners (DPPs) has been introduced. The aim of this study was to investigate stakeholde... Read More about Designated prescribing practitioners: a theory-based cross-sectional study of stakeholders' views on implementation of a novel pharmacy regulator mandated preceptorship model..

What should come after the implementation of the mutual recognition and assistance in cross-border insolvency between mainland China and Hong Kong? [Journal article] (2022)
Journal Article
LAW, S.W. and MAK, C.H.W. 2022. What should come after the implementation of the mutual recognition and assistance in cross-border insolvency between mainland China and Hong Kong? Journal of international banking law and regulation [online], 37(9), pages 331-336. Available from: https://uk.westlaw.com/Document/I770C1A8019CF11EDB0FCF49155AD4267/View/FullText.html

This article evaluates the new cross-border insolvency cooperation arrangement between Hong Kong and Mainland China from three business perspectives. First, whether it brings a legal effect; second, whether it aids in identifying a company's assets;... Read More about What should come after the implementation of the mutual recognition and assistance in cross-border insolvency between mainland China and Hong Kong? [Journal article].

Value-added materials recovered from waste bone biomass: technologies and applications. (2022)
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HART, A., EBIUNDU, K., PERETOMODE, E., ONYEAKA, H., NWABOR, O.F. and OBILEKE, K. 2022. Value-added materials recovered from waste bone biomass: technologies and applications. RSC advances [online], 12(34), pages 22302-22330. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1039/D2RA03557J

As the world population increases, the generation of waste bones will multiply exponentially, increasing landfill usage and posing health risks. This review aims to shed light on technologies for recovering valuable materials (e.g., alkaline earth ma... Read More about Value-added materials recovered from waste bone biomass: technologies and applications..

Incremental capacity curve health-indicator extraction based on gaussian filter and improved relevance vector machine for lithium–ion battery remaining useful life estimation. (2022)
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FAN, Y., QIU, J., WANG, S., YANG, X., LIU, D. and FERNANDEZ, C. 2022. Incremental capacity curve health-indicator extraction based on gaussian filter and improved relevance vector machine for lithium–ion battery remaining useful life estimation. Metals [online], 12(8), article 1331. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/met12081331

Accurate prediction of the remaining useful life (RUL) of lithium–ion batteries is the focus of lithium–ion battery health management. To achieve high–precision RUL estimation of lithium–ion batteries, a novel RUL prediction model is proposed by comb... Read More about Incremental capacity curve health-indicator extraction based on gaussian filter and improved relevance vector machine for lithium–ion battery remaining useful life estimation..

A novel equivalent modeling method combined with the splice-electrochemical polarization model and prior generalized inverse least-square parameter identification for UAV lithium-ion batteries. (2022)
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PENG, J., SHI, H., WANG, S., WANG, L., FERNANDEZ, C., XIONG, X. and DABLU, B.E. 2022. A novel equivalent modeling method combined with the splice-electrochemical polarization model and prior generalized inverse least-square parameter identification for UAV lithium-ion batteries. Energy science and engineering [online], 10(10), pages 3727-3740. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/ese3.1268

The accuracy of lithium-ion battery state estimation is critical to the safety of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). In this paper, aiming at the high-fidelity modeling of the UAV lithium-ion battery, a splice-electrochemical polarization model (S-EPM)... Read More about A novel equivalent modeling method combined with the splice-electrochemical polarization model and prior generalized inverse least-square parameter identification for UAV lithium-ion batteries..

Improved multi-time scale lumped thermoelectric coupling modeling and parameter dispersion evaluation of lithium-ion batteries. (2022)
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SHI, H., WANG, S., FERNANDEZ, C., YU, C., XU, W., DABLU, B.E. and WANG, L. 2022. Improved multi-time scale lumped thermoelectric coupling modeling and parameter dispersion evaluation of lithium-ion batteries. Applied energy [online], 324, article 119789. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2022.119789

The rapid development of new energy fields such as electric vehicles and smart grids has put forward higher requirements for the power management of battery integrated systems. Considering that internal temperature and parameter consistency are impor... Read More about Improved multi-time scale lumped thermoelectric coupling modeling and parameter dispersion evaluation of lithium-ion batteries..

A novel square root adaptive unscented Kalman filter combined with variable forgetting factor recursive least square method for accurate state-of-charge estimation of lithium-ion batteries. (2022)
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ZHANG, M., WANG, S., YANG, X., XU, W., YANG, X. and FERNANDEZ, C. 2022. A novel square root adaptive unscented Kalman filter combined with variable forgetting factor recursive least square method for accurate state-of-charge estimation of lithium-ion batteries. International journal of electrochemical science [online], 17(9), article 220915. Available from: https://doi.org/10.20964/2022.09.27

Lithium-ion battery state-of-charge (SOC) serves as an important battery state parameter monitored by the battery management system (BMS), real-time and accurate estimation of the SOC is vital for safe, reasonable, and efficient use of the battery as... Read More about A novel square root adaptive unscented Kalman filter combined with variable forgetting factor recursive least square method for accurate state-of-charge estimation of lithium-ion batteries..

Assessment framework for prescribing: lower limb skin tears. (2022)
Journal Article
GOULD, J. and BAIN, H. 2022. Assessment framework for prescribing: lower limb skin tears. Journal of community nursing [online], 36(4), pages 42-49. Available from: https://www.jcn.co.uk/journals/issue/08-2022/article/assessment-framework-for-prescribing-lower-limb-skin-tears

Prescribing by a variety of professionals continues its progression in response to the growing demands for health care. Prescribing by nurses was initiated in the 1990s and supported by the National Prescribing Centre's 'prescribing pyramid' or seven... Read More about Assessment framework for prescribing: lower limb skin tears..

Four distinct cultures of oilfield masculinity, but absent hegemonic masculinity: some multiple masculinities perspectives from a remote UK offshore drilling platform. (2022)
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ADAMS, N.N. 2023. Four distinct cultures of oilfield masculinity, but absent hegemonic masculinity: some multiple masculinities perspectives from a remote UK offshore drilling platform. Journal of contemporary ethnography [online], 52(3), pages 344-378. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/08912416221116658

This study explores the multiple and distinct cultures of oilfield masculinity uncovered during an embedded ethnographic study of masculinities onboard a remote UK offshore drilling platform. Oilmen revealed shifting interpretations for how risky and... Read More about Four distinct cultures of oilfield masculinity, but absent hegemonic masculinity: some multiple masculinities perspectives from a remote UK offshore drilling platform..

Investigating the self-perceived educational priorities among oncology nurses. (2022)
Journal Article
TAPSALL, D., THAMM, C., PATTERSON, C. 2022. Investigating the self-perceived educational priorities among oncology nurses. Nurse education in practice [online], 64, article 103426. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2022.103426

Aim: To understand the self-perceived educational priorities among oncology nurses. Background: Oncology nurses are the main providers of care to people affected by cancer. However, little is known about the educational needs and priorities of oncolo... Read More about Investigating the self-perceived educational priorities among oncology nurses..

The effectiveness of the Healthworks Staying Steady community-based falls prevention exercise programme to improve physical function in older adults: a 6-year service evaluation. (2022)
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JAMES, E., OMAN, P., ALI, M., COURT, P., GOODALL, S., NICHOLS, S.J. and O'DOHERTY, A.F. 2022. The effectiveness of the Healthworks Staying Steady community-based falls prevention exercise programme to improve physical function in older adults: a 6-year service evaluation. BMC public health [online], 22, article number 1457. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-13832-3

Falls prevention exercise programmes are evidence-based and recommended for improving physical function in older adults. However, few service evaluations exist to assess the effectiveness of community-delivered interventions in practice. We conducted... Read More about The effectiveness of the Healthworks Staying Steady community-based falls prevention exercise programme to improve physical function in older adults: a 6-year service evaluation..

Does transforming subjective measures of load better represent training and match-play intensity in youth soccer players? (2022)
Journal Article
MAUGHAN, P.C., MACFARLANE, N.G., TOWLSON, C., BARRETT, S. and SWINTON, P.A. 2023. Does transforming subjective measures of load better represent training and match-play intensity in youth soccer players? International journal of sports science and coaching [online], 18(5), pages 1541-1549. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/17479541221114739

The purpose of this study was to investigate the structure of relationships between measures of training load and assess whether these can be modified through non-linear transformations. Ratings of perceived exertion (RPE) and seven external load mea... Read More about Does transforming subjective measures of load better represent training and match-play intensity in youth soccer players?.

The digital health and wellbeing needs, or otherwise, of a deprived Scottish community. (2022)
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MCVEAN, S. and YUILL, C. 2022. The digital health and wellbeing needs, or otherwise, of a deprived Scottish community. Scottish affairs [online], 31(3), pages 345-365. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3366/scot.2022.0421

Healthcare is becoming increasingly digitised. Access and usage of digital health technologies however is unequal in deprived communities. Despite this disparity, research remains silent on digital health and health inequalities. The present study in... Read More about The digital health and wellbeing needs, or otherwise, of a deprived Scottish community..

Examination of differential ratings of perceived exertion (dRPE) during bio-banded small-sided games. (2022)
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BARRETT, S., SHORT, K., LOWTHROPE, A., SWINTON, P., MAUGHAN, P., HAMILTON, A., HUNTER, F. and TOWLSON, C. 2022. Examination of differential ratings of perceived exertion (dRPE) during bio-banded small-sided games. PLoS One [online], 17(7), article e0270259. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0270259

The aims of the current study were to investigate the use of dRPE with academy soccer players to: 1) examine the effect of bio-banded and non-bio-banded maturity groups within SSG on players dRPE; 2) describe the multivariate relationships between dR... Read More about Examination of differential ratings of perceived exertion (dRPE) during bio-banded small-sided games..