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Test–retest repeatability of the NX-16: a three-dimensional (3D) body scanner in a male cohort (2019)
Journal Article
Turpin, R. L., Douglas, C. C., Gleadall-Siddall, D. O., Turpin, R., Douglas, C., Ingle, L., & Garrett, A. T. (2020). Test–retest repeatability of the NX-16: a three-dimensional (3D) body scanner in a male cohort. Sport Sciences for Health, 16(2), 337-346. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11332-019-00611-8

© 2019, The Author(s). Purpose: Whole-body three-dimensional scanning is a tool utilised for the collection of body girths, volume, and surface area measurements. Few studies have investigated the validity and repeatability of this technology. The ai... Read More about Test–retest repeatability of the NX-16: a three-dimensional (3D) body scanner in a male cohort.

Supplier performance assessment: Evidence from a UK-based manufacturing company and its suppliers (2019)
Journal Article
Romule, K., Bak, O., Collicchia, C., & Shaw, S. (2020). Supplier performance assessment: Evidence from a UK-based manufacturing company and its suppliers. Benchmarking, 27(2), 817-838. https://doi.org/10.1108/BIJ-10-2018-0305

Purpose: The discussion of supplier performance assessment and implementation challenges has been evidenced well in the academic literature. However, the analysis of supplier performance assessment has been limited in terms of inclusion of suppliers’... Read More about Supplier performance assessment: Evidence from a UK-based manufacturing company and its suppliers.

Physical development of the youth athlete: Theoretical considerations and practical implications of growth and maturation. (2019)
Book Chapter
Doncaster, G., & McLaren-Towlson, C. (2019). Physical development of the youth athlete: Theoretical considerations and practical implications of growth and maturation. In E. Cope, & M. Partington (Eds.), Sports Coaching: A Theoretical and Practical Guide (109-121). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351200035

The need to recognise and accommodate the individual athlete, when working with youth populations, is arguably more pertinent than when working with adult athletes. The application of determining athlete maturity is of relevance given that children m... Read More about Physical development of the youth athlete: Theoretical considerations and practical implications of growth and maturation..

A meta-synthesis study of the key elements involved in childhood vaccine hesitancy (2019)
Journal Article
Díaz Crescitelli, M. E., Ghirotto, L., Sisson, H., Sarli, L., Artioli, G., Bassi, M. C., …Hayter, M. (2020). A meta-synthesis study of the key elements involved in childhood vaccine hesitancy. Public health, 180, 38-45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2019.10.027

Objectives: Immunization is one of the most successful and cost-effective interventions to improve health outcomes. However, internationally, the phenomenon of parental vaccine hesitancy is increasing and presents a growing challenge for health profe... Read More about A meta-synthesis study of the key elements involved in childhood vaccine hesitancy.

Promoting Independence in Dementia (PRIDE): Protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial (2019)
Journal Article
Shafayat, A., Csipke, E., Bradshaw, L., Charlesworth, G., Day, F., Leung, P., Moniz-Cook, E., Montgomery, A. A., Morris, S., Mountain, G., Ogollah, R., Sprange, K., Yates, L., & Orrell, M. (2019). Promoting Independence in Dementia (PRIDE): Protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial. Trials, 20, Article 709. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-019-3838-x

© 2019 The Author(s).
Background: Memory services often see people with early stage dementia who are largely independent and able to participate in community activities but who run the risk of reducing activities and social networks. PRIDE is a sel... Read More about Promoting Independence in Dementia (PRIDE): Protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial.

Weight, height, and midupper arm circumference are associated with haemoglobin levels in adolescent girls living in rural India: A cross‐sectional study (2019)
Journal Article
Ahankari, A. S., Tata, L., & Fogarty, A. (2019). Weight, height, and midupper arm circumference are associated with haemoglobin levels in adolescent girls living in rural India: A cross‐sectional study. Maternal & child nutrition, https://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.12908

We aimed to explore the association of physical parameters with haemoglobin (Hb) levels to test the hypothesis that impaired physical development is associated with anaemia. A cross‐sectional survey study recruited adolescent girls (13 to 17 years) l... Read More about Weight, height, and midupper arm circumference are associated with haemoglobin levels in adolescent girls living in rural India: A cross‐sectional study.

“Rats is bogies I tell you, and bogies is rats”: Rats, repression and the Gothic mode (2019)
Book Chapter
Crofts, M., & Hatter, J. (2020). “Rats is bogies I tell you, and bogies is rats”: Rats, repression and the Gothic mode. In R. Heholt, & M. Edmundson (Eds.), Gothic animals: Uncanny otherness and the animal with-out (127-140). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34540-2_8

Rats are inherently Gothic animals—uncannily intelligent, cannibalistic, constantly present, often unseen but constantly watching. As a single entity, or as part of a pack, the rat is a powerful vehicle for delivering horror in the popular Gothic ima... Read More about “Rats is bogies I tell you, and bogies is rats”: Rats, repression and the Gothic mode.

Sports coaching in the community: Developing knowledge and insight (2019)
Book
Gale, L., & Ives, B. (Eds.). (2019). Sports coaching in the community: Developing knowledge and insight. Manchester: Manchester Metropolitan University

The origins of this book lie in a community sports coaching symposium hosted by Cluster for Research into Coaching (CRiC).
The event was held at Manchester Metropolitan University in April, 2018 and it sought to share knowledge and insight from scho... Read More about Sports coaching in the community: Developing knowledge and insight.

Narrating Sovereignty: The Covenant Chain in Intercultural Diplomacy (2019)
Journal Article
Hatton, H. (2019). Narrating Sovereignty: The Covenant Chain in Intercultural Diplomacy. Journal of early American history, 9(2-3), 118-144. https://doi.org/10.1163/18770703-00902015

This article considers Haudenosaunee recitals of the history of the Covenant Chain as a powerful communicative mechanism to define and assert sovereign identity and rights in the context of intercultural diplomacy. It reflects initially on the metaph... Read More about Narrating Sovereignty: The Covenant Chain in Intercultural Diplomacy.

Interactions between taste receptors and the gastrointestinal microbiome in inflammatory bowel disease (2019)
Journal Article
Turner, A., Chijoff, E., Veysey, M., Keely, S., Scarlett, C. J., Lucock, M., & Beckett, E. L. (2019). Interactions between taste receptors and the gastrointestinal microbiome in inflammatory bowel disease. Journal of Nutrition and Intermediary Metabolism, 18, 100106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnim.2019.100106

Incidence rates of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are increasing worldwide. This correlates with increased consumption of red meats, alcohol, refined sugars, oils and animal fats, typical of a “Western” diet. Poor dietary habits are the most ubiqui... Read More about Interactions between taste receptors and the gastrointestinal microbiome in inflammatory bowel disease.

Building integrated solar concentrating systems: A review (2019)
Journal Article
Li, G., Xuan, Q., Akram, M. W., Golizadeh Akhlaghi, Y., Liu, H., & Shittu, S. (2020). Building integrated solar concentrating systems: A review. Applied energy, 260, Article 114288. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.114288

© 2019 Elsevier Ltd In the building sector, concerns towards the vast energy consumption has promoted the development of renewable energy technologies. In this regards, the solar concentration devices show a promising concept for building application... Read More about Building integrated solar concentrating systems: A review.

Beyond Settler Colonialism: State Sovereignty in Early America (2019)
Journal Article
Prior, C. (2019). Beyond Settler Colonialism: State Sovereignty in Early America. Journal of early American history, 9(2-3), 93-117. https://doi.org/10.1163/18770703-00902013

This paper offers a critical reflection on the appropriateness of ‘settler colonialism’ as an analytic category for understanding the political dynamics of early America. It argues that the paradigm’s focus on the elimination of the native obscures t... Read More about Beyond Settler Colonialism: State Sovereignty in Early America.

Ageing bone fractures: The case of a ductile to brittle transition that shifts with age (2019)
Journal Article
Zioupos, P., Kirchner, H. O., & Peterlik, H. (2020). Ageing bone fractures: The case of a ductile to brittle transition that shifts with age. Bone, 131, Article 115176. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bone.2019.115176

Human bone becomes increasingly brittle with ageing. Bones also fracture differently under slow and fast loadings, being ductile and brittle, respectively. The effects of a combination of these two factors have never been examined before. Here we sho... Read More about Ageing bone fractures: The case of a ductile to brittle transition that shifts with age.

Evaluation of bone excision effects on a human skull model—II: Finite element analysis (2019)
Journal Article
Franceskides, C., Gibson, M., & Zioupos, P. (2020). Evaluation of bone excision effects on a human skull model—II: Finite element analysis. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine, 234(4), 346-355. https://doi.org/10.1177/0954411919892799

Patient-specific computational models are powerful tools which may assist in predicting the outcome of invasive surgery on the musculoskeletal system, and consequently help to improve therapeutic decision-making and post-operative care. Unfortunately... Read More about Evaluation of bone excision effects on a human skull model—II: Finite element analysis.

Climate Change and Children: Positioning Children as Stakeholders within the Climate Change Debate in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Halstead, F., & Parsons, D. R. (2019, December). Climate Change and Children: Positioning Children as Stakeholders within the Climate Change Debate in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. Poster presented at American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2019, San Francisco

Home to almost 20 million people, the Mekong Delta in Vietnam is one of the most at risk regions globally in terms of exposure to climate change and sea-level rise, notably in terms of future flood risk. Societal resilience to climate change and floo... Read More about Climate Change and Children: Positioning Children as Stakeholders within the Climate Change Debate in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam..

Clinical quantification of the integrin αvβ6 by [18F]FB-A20FMDV2 positron emission tomography in healthy and fibrotic human lung (PETAL Study) (2019)
Journal Article
Lukey, P. T., Coello, C., Gunn, R., Parker, C., Wilson, F. J., Saleem, A., Garman, N., Costa, M., Kendrick, S., Onega, M., Kang’ombe, A. R., Listanco, A., Davies, J., Ramada-Magalhaes, J., Moz, S., Fahy, W. A., Maher, T. M., Jenkins, G., Passchier, J., & Marshall, R. P. (2020). Clinical quantification of the integrin αvβ6 by [18F]FB-A20FMDV2 positron emission tomography in healthy and fibrotic human lung (PETAL Study). European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging, 47(4), 967-979. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-019-04586-z

© 2019, The Author(s). Purpose: The RGD-integrin, αvβ6, plays a role in the pathogenesis of pulmonary fibrosis through activation of transforming growth factor beta (TGFβ). This study sought to quantify expression of αvβ6 in the lungs of healthy huma... Read More about Clinical quantification of the integrin αvβ6 by [18F]FB-A20FMDV2 positron emission tomography in healthy and fibrotic human lung (PETAL Study).

Social media effect, investor recognition and the cross-section of stock returns (2019)
Journal Article
Meng, X., Zhang, W., Li, Y., Cao, X., & Feng, X. (2020). Social media effect, investor recognition and the cross-section of stock returns. International review of financial analysis, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2019.101432

Investor recognition affects cross-sectional stock returns. In informationally incomplete markets, investors have limited recognition of all securities, and their holding of stocks with low recognition requires compensation for being imperfectly dive... Read More about Social media effect, investor recognition and the cross-section of stock returns.

Uncertainty, shame and consumption: negotiating occupational and non-work identities in community sports coaching (2019)
Journal Article
Ives, B. A., Gale, L. A., Potrac, P. A., & Nelson, L. J. (2019). Uncertainty, shame and consumption: negotiating occupational and non-work identities in community sports coaching. Sport, Education and Society, 26(1), 87-103. https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2019.1699522

This paper addressed the lived experiences of two community sports coaches in an era of neoliberal capitalism, consumerism, and insecure employment. Specifically, we considered (a) their attempts to develop a desired occupational identity in a casual... Read More about Uncertainty, shame and consumption: negotiating occupational and non-work identities in community sports coaching.

Semantic interpretability does not influence masked priming effects (2019)
Journal Article
Tseng, H., Lindsay, S., & Davis, C. J. (2020). Semantic interpretability does not influence masked priming effects. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 73(6), 856-867. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021819896766

Much of the recent masked nonword priming literature demonstrates no difference in priming between affixed and non-affixed nonword primes (e.g., maskity-MASK vs. maskond-MASK). A possible explanation for the absence of a difference is that studies ha... Read More about Semantic interpretability does not influence masked priming effects.