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An exploration of the contribution of the arts to local economies in terms of human and social capital. (2021)
Thesis
NARINE, S. 2021. An exploration of the contribution of the arts to local economies in terms of human and social capital. Robert Gordon University, MRes thesis. Hosted on OpenAIR [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.48526/rgu-wt-1712950

Although research exists about the positive impacts of the arts on well-being and society, public funding towards this sector in the UK has decreased significantly over the past decade. Researchers suggest a demonstration of how the arts impact local... Read More about An exploration of the contribution of the arts to local economies in terms of human and social capital..

A fault diagnosis framework for centrifugal pumps by scalogram-based imaging and deep learning. (2021)
Journal Article
HASAN, M.J., RAI, A., AHMAD, Z. and KIM, J.-Y. 2021. A fault diagnosis framework for centrifugal pumps by scalogram-based imaging and deep learning. IEEE access [online], 9, pages 58052-58066. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3072854

Centrifugal pumps are the most vital part of any process industry. A fault in centrifugal pump can affect imperative industrial processes. To ensure reliable operation of the centrifugal pump, this paper proposes a novel automated health state diagno... Read More about A fault diagnosis framework for centrifugal pumps by scalogram-based imaging and deep learning..

Developments in virtual learning environments and the global workplace. (2021)
Book
SWARTZ, S., BARBOSA, B., CRAWFORD, I. and LUCK, S. (eds.) 2021. Developments in virtual learning environments and the global workplace. Hershey, PA: IGI Global [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7331-0

Although institutions of higher education have recognized the need for preparing their graduates for a digitalized, global workplace, these efforts have been sporadic, individualized, and varied from discipline to discipline. Nevertheless, over the p... Read More about Developments in virtual learning environments and the global workplace..

Making sense of the paranormal: the interactional construction of unexplained experiences. (2021)
Book
IRONSIDE, R. and WOOFFITT, R. 2021. Making sense of the paranormal: the interactional construction of unexplained experiences. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88407-9

This book is a study of how people collaboratively interpret events or experiences as having paranormal features, or as evidence of spiritual agency. The authors study recordings of paranormal research groups as they conduct real life investigations... Read More about Making sense of the paranormal: the interactional construction of unexplained experiences..

Historical development to the 1982 United Nations Conventions on the Law of the Sea and the new international economic order. (2021)
Journal Article
OCHEM, C.E. and DEBSKI, A.J. 2021. Historical development to the 1982 United Nations Conventions on the Law of the Sea and the new international economic order. Igbinedion University journal of jurisprudence and international law, 2, pages 212-237.

Pursuant to a resolution adopted by an overwhelming majority by the U.N.G.A. on the 17th of December 1970 it was decided to convene a new law of the sea in 1973, chief among other factors that would have provoked this decision, fifteen years only af... Read More about Historical development to the 1982 United Nations Conventions on the Law of the Sea and the new international economic order..

An appraisal of the mechanisms for the enforcement of environmental laws in Nigeria. (2021)
Journal Article
NWAZI, J. and DEBSKI, J.A. 2021. An appraisal of the mechanisms for the enforcement of environmental laws in Nigeria. Igbinedion University journal of jurisprudence and international law, 2, page 250-270.

This work attempts to critically evaluate the enforcement of environmental laws in Nigeria. The essence of good enforcement of environmental laws cannot be over emphasized. As a result, a lot of laws, regulations and policies have been put in place t... Read More about An appraisal of the mechanisms for the enforcement of environmental laws in Nigeria..

Examining myths of the mad, bad and sad British veteran in today's media: a qualitative approach. (2021)
Journal Article
PHILLIPS, R. and CONNELLY, V. 2021. Examining myths of the mad, bad and sad British veteran in today's media: a qualitative approach. Journal of political and military sociology [online], 48(1), pages 73-96. Available from: https://doi.org/10.5744/jpms.2021.1003

Previous research on British public perceptions of UK veterans has focused mainly on opinion polls and survey data. This is problematic, as the broader scope of public dialogue and discourse that informs and influences public perceptions of veterans... Read More about Examining myths of the mad, bad and sad British veteran in today's media: a qualitative approach..

Project managers' front-end decision making. (2021)
Conference Proceeding
LAWANI, A., FLIN, R., ADEDOKUN, R. and BENTON, P. 2021. Project managers' front-end decision making. In Proceedings of the 2021 British Academy of Management conference (BAM 2021): recovering from COVID: responsible management and reshaping the economy, 31 August - 3 September 2021, [virtual event]. London: British Academy of Management [online], paper number 493. Available from: https://virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/#/event/1821/submission/493

In project management, Front End Loading (FEL) is a core work process before project authorization or sanction. This stage is where the extent of uncertainty is highest and if properly conducted with optimal decision making, it maximises the potentia... Read More about Project managers' front-end decision making..

Use-case informed task analysis for secure and usable design solutions in rail. (2021)
Conference Proceeding
ALTAF, A., FAILY, S., DOGAN, H., MYLONAS, A. and THRON, E. 2021. Use-case informed task analysis for secure and usable design solutions in rail. In Percia, D.D., Mermoud, A. and Maillart, T. (eds.). Critical information infrastructures security: revised selected papers of 16th international conference on Critical information infrastructures security 2021 (CRITIS 2021), 27-29 September 2021, Lausanne, Switzerland. Lecture notes in computer science, 13139. Cham: Springer [online], pages 168-185. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93200-8_10

Meeting secure and usable design goals needs the combined effort of safety, security and human factors experts. Human factors experts rely on a combination of cognitive and hierarchical task analysis techniques to support their work. We present an ap... Read More about Use-case informed task analysis for secure and usable design solutions in rail..

I will kill you and nothing will happen: extra-judicial killings in Nigeria and public interest litigation. (2021)
Journal Article
ODUNAIKE, D.A., LALUDE, O.M. and ODUSANYA, T.O. 2021. I will kill you and nothing will happen: extra-judicial killings in Nigeria and public interest litigation. Białostockie studia prawnicze [online[, 26(6), pages 145-162. Available from: https://doi.org/10.15290/bsp.2021.26.06.09

Public interest litigation is a mechanism of intervention in a matter that concerns the public. It could be about human rights, government policy, or some other issue that could present a challenge to public life. Public interest litigation is import... Read More about I will kill you and nothing will happen: extra-judicial killings in Nigeria and public interest litigation..

Patients’ experiences of medicines on initiation of antineoplastic agents for the treatment of colorectal cancer: a qualitative study. (2021)
Journal Article
BRINCAT, A., VELLA BONANNO, P., STEWART, D. and WEIDMANN, A.E. 2021. Patients' experiences of medicines on initiation of antineoplastic agents for the treatment of colorectal cancer: a qualitative study. BMJ open [online], 11(12), article e047749. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-047749

Objective To explore the patients' experiences on initiation of treatment with antineoplastic medicines for colorectal cancer. Design A qualitative study using semistructured, face-to-face interviews based on the adapted patients' lived experience wi... Read More about Patients’ experiences of medicines on initiation of antineoplastic agents for the treatment of colorectal cancer: a qualitative study..

Teaching through a global pandemic: educational landscapes before, during and after COVID-19. (2021)
Conference Proceeding
SIEGEL, A.A., ZARB, M., ALSHAIGY, B., BLANCHARD, J., CRICK, T., GLASSEY, R., HOTT, J.R., LATULIPE, C., RIEDESEL, C., SENAPATHI, M., SIMON and WILLIAMS, D. 2021. Teaching through a global pandemic: educational landscapes before, during and after COVID-19. In ITiCSE-WGR '21: proceedings of the 26th ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) conference Working group reports on Innovation and technology in computer science education 2021, June 26 - July 1 2021, [virtual conference]. New York: ACM [online], pages 1-25. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/3502870.3506565

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has forced an unprecedented global shift within higher education in how instructors communicate with and educate students. This necessary paradigm shift has compelled educators to take a critical look at their teac... Read More about Teaching through a global pandemic: educational landscapes before, during and after COVID-19..

Production of biobank data for the needs of civil and criminal proceedings: jurisprudence from the EU states. (2021)
Journal Article
LYTVYNENKO, A.A. 2021. Production of biobank data for the needs of civil and criminal proceedings: jurisprudence from the EU states. International comparative jurisprudence [online], 7(2), pages 169-189. Available from: https://doi.org/10.13165/j.icj.2021.12.005

The purposes of retaining biological material may be diverse. Biorepositories, which are containers of biological materials, are referred to as biobanks in English-language scholarship or biotheques in French. There is no uniform agreement in legal a... Read More about Production of biobank data for the needs of civil and criminal proceedings: jurisprudence from the EU states..

A novel intelligent weight decreasing firefly–particle filtering method for accurate state‐of‐charge estimation of lithium‐ion batteries. (2021)
Journal Article
QIAO, J., WANG, S., YU, C., YANG, X. and FERNANDEZ, C. 2022. A novel intelligent weight decreasing firefly-particle filtering method for accurate state-of-charge estimation of lithium-ion batteries. International journal of energy research [online], 46(5), pages 6613-6622Early View. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/er.7596

Accurate state-of-charge estimation plays an extremely crucial role in battery management systems. To realize the real-time and precise state-of-charge estimation, an intelligent weight decreasing firefly–particle filtering algorithm is proposed. In... Read More about A novel intelligent weight decreasing firefly–particle filtering method for accurate state‐of‐charge estimation of lithium‐ion batteries..

Predicting CO2 and CH4 transport in landfill gas using porous inorganic membranes operated in the Darcy regime. (2021)
Conference Proceeding
GOBINA, E., OGUNLUDE, P., ABUNUMAH, O., GIWA, A. and MUHAMMAD-SUKKI, F. 2021. Predicting CO2 and CH4 transport in landfill gas using porous inorganic membranes operated in the Darcy regime. In Proceedings of 2021 International congress of Scientific Advances (ICONSAD'21), 22-25 December 2021, [virtual conference]. Turkey: ICONSAD [online], pages 770-784. Available from: https://tinyurl.com/2p8uy2rh

The present work is focusing on the utilization of previously fabricated membrane to study the effect of pressure drop and temperature on permeability. Mass transfer considerations were used under previously optimized conditions. Subsequently, gas pe... Read More about Predicting CO2 and CH4 transport in landfill gas using porous inorganic membranes operated in the Darcy regime..

Changes in patient activation following cardiac rehabilitation using the Active+me digital healthcare platform during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cohort evaluation. (2021)
Journal Article
FRITH, G., CARVER, K., CURRY, S., DARBY, A., SYDES, A., SYMONDS, S., WILSON, K., MCGREGOR, G., AUTON, K. and NICHOLS, S. 2021. Changes in patient activation following cardiac rehabilitation using the Active+me digital healthcare platform during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cohort evaluation. BMC health services research [online], 21, article number 1363. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-021-07363-7

Restrictions on face-to-face contact, due to COVID-19, led to a rapid adoption of technology to remotely deliver cardiac rehabilitation (CR). Some technologies, including Active+me, were used without knowing their benefits. We assessed changes in pat... Read More about Changes in patient activation following cardiac rehabilitation using the Active+me digital healthcare platform during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cohort evaluation..

Influence of socioemotional wealth on non-family managers' risk taking and product innovation in family businesses. (2021)
Journal Article
NG, P.Y., DAYAN, M. and MAKRI, M. 2022. Influence of socioemotional wealth of non-family managers' risk taking and product innovation in family business. Cross cultural and strategic management [online], 29(2), pages 297-319. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/CCSM-03-2021-0058

There is a growing interest in understanding family firms' strategic behavior using the socioemotional wealth (SEW) perspective. This study explores how family SEW dimensions influence non-family managers' attitudes toward risk in the context of prod... Read More about Influence of socioemotional wealth on non-family managers' risk taking and product innovation in family businesses..

Association between physical activity and immunogenicity of an inactivated virus vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 in patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases. [Dataset] (2021)
Dataset
GUALANO, B., LEMES, I.R., SILVA, R.P. et al. 2022. Association between physical activity and immunogenicity of an inactivated virus vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 in patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases. [Dataset]. Brain, behavior and immunity [online], 101, pages 49-56. Available from: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0889159121006474?via%3Dihub#s0095

To investigate whether physical activity is associated with enhanced immunogenicity of a SARS-CoV-2 inactivated vaccine (Coronavac) in patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases (ARD) (n = 898) and in non-ARD (n = 197) individuals without pre-existi... Read More about Association between physical activity and immunogenicity of an inactivated virus vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 in patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases. [Dataset].

State of science: models and methods for understanding and enhancing teams and teamwork in complex sociotechnical systems. (2021)
Journal Article
ROBERTS, A.P.J., WEBSTER, L.V., SALMON, P.M., FLIN, R., SALAS, E., COOKE, N.J., READ, G.J.M. and STANTON, N.A. 2022. State of science: models and methods for understanding and enhancing teams and teamwork in complex sociotechnical systems. Ergonomics [online], 65(2), pages 161-187. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/00140139.2021.2000043

This state of the science review brings together the disparate literature of effective strategies for enhancing and accelerating team performance. The review evaluates and synthesises models and proposes recommended avenues for future research. The t... Read More about State of science: models and methods for understanding and enhancing teams and teamwork in complex sociotechnical systems..

Association between physical activity and immunogenicity of an inactivated virus vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 in patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases. (2021)
Journal Article
GUALANO, B., LEMES, I.R., SILVA, R.P. et al. 2022. Association between physical activity and immunogenicity of an inactivated virus vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 in patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases. Brain, behavior and immunity [online], 101, pages 49-56. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2021.12.016

Objectives: To investigate whether physical activity is associated with enhanced immunogenicity of a SARS-CoV-2 inactivated vaccine (Coronavac) in patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases (ARD) (n = 898) and in non-ARD (n = 197) individuals withou... Read More about Association between physical activity and immunogenicity of an inactivated virus vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 in patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases..