All Outputs (1345)

Unsteady draining of reservoirs over weirs and through constrictions (2019)
Journal Article
Skevington, E. W. G., & Hogg, A. J. (2020). Unsteady draining of reservoirs over weirs and through constrictions. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 882, Article A9. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2019.808

The gravitationally driven flow of fluid from a reservoir following the partial collapse of its confining dam, or the partial opening of its confining lock, is modelled using the nonlinear shallow water equations, coupled to outflow conditions, in wh... Read More about Unsteady draining of reservoirs over weirs and through constrictions.

The CAREGIVERSPRO-MMD Platform as an Online Informational and Social Support Tool for People Living With Memory Problems and Their Carers: An Evaluation of User Engagement, Usability and Usefulness (2019)
Journal Article
Howe, D., Thorpe, J., Dunn, R., White, C., Cunnah, K., Platt, R., Paulson, K., & Wolverson, E. (2019). The CAREGIVERSPRO-MMD Platform as an Online Informational and Social Support Tool for People Living With Memory Problems and Their Carers: An Evaluation of User Engagement, Usability and Usefulness. Journal of applied gerontology, 39(12), 1303-1312. https://doi.org/10.1177/0733464819885326

People living with dementia or cognitive impairment (PwD) and their carers often have unmet needs for informational and social support postdiagnosis. Web-based platforms have the potential to address these needs, although few have been developed for... Read More about The CAREGIVERSPRO-MMD Platform as an Online Informational and Social Support Tool for People Living With Memory Problems and Their Carers: An Evaluation of User Engagement, Usability and Usefulness.

The impact of social media on consumer acculturation: Current challenges, opportunities, and an agenda for research and practice (2019)
Journal Article
Kizgin, H., Dey, B. L., Dwivedi, Y. K., Hughes, L., Jamal, A., Jones, P., …Williams, M. D. (2020). The impact of social media on consumer acculturation: Current challenges, opportunities, and an agenda for research and practice. International journal of information management, 51, Article 102026. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2019.10.011

The concept of acculturation has been based on the assumption of an adaptation process, whereby immigrants lose aspects of their heritage cultures in favour of aspects of a host culture (i.e. assimilation). Past research has shown that acculturation... Read More about The impact of social media on consumer acculturation: Current challenges, opportunities, and an agenda for research and practice.

Interdisciplinary science to support North Sea marine management: lessons learned and future demands (2019)
Journal Article
Degraer, S., Van Lancker, V., Van Dijk, T. A., Birchenough, S. N., De Witte, B., Elliott, M., Le Bot, S., Reiss, H., Stelzenmüller, V., Van Gaever, S., Balian, E., Cox, D., Hernandez, F., Lacroix, G., Lindeboom, H., Reubens, J., & Soetaert, K. (2019). Interdisciplinary science to support North Sea marine management: lessons learned and future demands. Hydrobiologia, 845, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-019-04109-9

© 2019, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. The expected increase of maritime activities in the North Sea and the growing awareness of its natural environmental value require enhanced science-based environmental advice for more efficient and effective ma... Read More about Interdisciplinary science to support North Sea marine management: lessons learned and future demands.

Stakeholder identification and engagement in problem structuring interventions (2019)
Journal Article
Gregory, A. J., Atkins, J. P., Midgley, G., & Hodgson, A. (2020). Stakeholder identification and engagement in problem structuring interventions. European journal of operational research, 283(1), 321-340. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2019.10.044

© 2019 The Authors This paper addresses the under-researched issue of stakeholder identification and engagement in problem structuring interventions. A concise framework is proposed to aid critical reflection in the design and reporting of stakeholde... Read More about Stakeholder identification and engagement in problem structuring interventions.

A pulsar-based time-scale from the International Pulsar Timing Array (2019)
Journal Article
Hobbs, G., Guo, L., Caballero, R. N., Coles, W., Lee, K. J., Manchester, R. N., …Zhu, X. J. (2020). A pulsar-based time-scale from the International Pulsar Timing Array. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 491(4), 5951-5965. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz3071

We have constructed a new time-scale, TT(IPTA16), based on observations of radio pulsars presented in the first data release from the International Pulsar Timing Array (IPTA). We used two analysis techniques with independent estimates of the noise mo... Read More about A pulsar-based time-scale from the International Pulsar Timing Array.

Becoming chapels and everyday congregations: How the repair and maintenance of London's wesleyan chapels illustrates their communities' everyday practices and experiences (1851-1932) (2019)
Journal Article
Slatter, R. (2020). Becoming chapels and everyday congregations: How the repair and maintenance of London's wesleyan chapels illustrates their communities' everyday practices and experiences (1851-1932). Journal of Design History, 33(1), 34-49. https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epz032

This article uses archival references to maintenance and repair to approach nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Wesleyan chapels and their material contents as ‘becoming’ things. Reflecting on the material changes that made the maintenance or rep... Read More about Becoming chapels and everyday congregations: How the repair and maintenance of London's wesleyan chapels illustrates their communities' everyday practices and experiences (1851-1932).

Neratinib protects pancreatic beta cells in diabetes (2019)
Journal Article
Ardestani, A., Li, S., Annamalai, K., Lupse, B., Geravandi, S., Dobrowolski, A., …Maedler, K. (2019). Neratinib protects pancreatic beta cells in diabetes. Nature communications, 10(1), Article 5015. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12880-5

The loss of functional insulin-producing β-cells is a hallmark of diabetes. Mammalian sterile 20-like kinase 1 (MST1) is a key regulator of pancreatic β-cell death and dysfunction; its deficiency restores functional β-cells and normoglycemia. The ide... Read More about Neratinib protects pancreatic beta cells in diabetes.

Two-decade change in prevalence of cognitive impairment in the UK (2019)
Journal Article
Richardson, C., Stephan, B. C., Robinson, L., Brayne, C., & Matthews, F. E. (2019). Two-decade change in prevalence of cognitive impairment in the UK. European Journal of Epidemiology, 34(11), 1085-1092. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-019-00554-x

Identification of individuals at high risk of dementia has usually focused attention on the clinical concept of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), which captures an intermediate state between normal cognitive ageing and dementia. In many countries age... Read More about Two-decade change in prevalence of cognitive impairment in the UK.

Student perceptions of feedback in higher education (2019)
Journal Article
Glazzard, J., & Stones, S. (2019). Student perceptions of feedback in higher education. International Journal of Learning, Teaching and Educational Research, 18(11), 38-52. https://doi.org/10.26803/ijlter.18.11.3

Text Feedback is critical to students’ academic development in higher education. Despite this, evidence suggests that students do not consistently engage with feedback or recognise the value of it. This study explored student perceptions of feedback... Read More about Student perceptions of feedback in higher education.

Case Report of Exercise to Attenuate Side Effects of Treatment for Pancreatic Cancer (2019)
Journal Article
McLaughlin, M., Christie, A., & Campbell, A. (2020). Case Report of Exercise to Attenuate Side Effects of Treatment for Pancreatic Cancer. Case Reports in Oncology, 12(3), 845-854. https://doi.org/10.1159/000503815

Treatments for pancreatic cancer can have debilitating side effects including fatigue, weight loss, and cardiac toxicity, resulting in functional loss and psychological distress. Exercise has been proposed as a therapy to counteract physical and psyc... Read More about Case Report of Exercise to Attenuate Side Effects of Treatment for Pancreatic Cancer.

Relational and psychological aspects of the experience of chronic fatigue syndrome for patients and their significant others : a grounded theory study (2019)
Thesis
Cunnah, K. J. (2019). Relational and psychological aspects of the experience of chronic fatigue syndrome for patients and their significant others : a grounded theory study. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4223559

Social processes have been investigated as a maintaining factor in chronic fatigue syndrome, also known as myalgic encephamyelitis (CFS/ME), and the responses of the significant others (SOs) of people with CFS/ME (PwCFS/ME) have been shown to be asso... Read More about Relational and psychological aspects of the experience of chronic fatigue syndrome for patients and their significant others : a grounded theory study.

Investigating domestic violence through human rights lens in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (2019)
Thesis
Alosaimi, S. E. (2019). Investigating domestic violence through human rights lens in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4222930

Domestic violence can happen to anyone, but women and children in most cases of abuse are the victims. Despite considerable scholarship on domestic violence, Saudi Arabia remains an anomaly in terms of the Kingdom’s approach to domestic violence from... Read More about Investigating domestic violence through human rights lens in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Evaluation of the use of ICT to support students’ learning and communication in a Saudi Arabian higher education institution : conflicts, contrasts and tensions in lecturers’ perspectives (2019)
Thesis
Alabadi, N. (2019). Evaluation of the use of ICT to support students’ learning and communication in a Saudi Arabian higher education institution : conflicts, contrasts and tensions in lecturers’ perspectives. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4222810

This thesis explores lecturers’ views on the main issues surrounding their use of information and communications technology (ICT) to support students’ learning and communication in Jeddah University. It also identifies lecturers’ pedagogical beliefs... Read More about Evaluation of the use of ICT to support students’ learning and communication in a Saudi Arabian higher education institution : conflicts, contrasts and tensions in lecturers’ perspectives.

Examining the role of digital mediation in women’s sexual identity : a constructivist grounded theory study (2019)
Thesis
MacRae, S. E. (2019). Examining the role of digital mediation in women’s sexual identity : a constructivist grounded theory study. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4222729

This thesis outlines findings from a study exploring how women over 35 conceptualise their sexual identities in the digital age. As the literature lacked qualitative analysis of this aspect of adult women’s lives the research was designed using princ... Read More about Examining the role of digital mediation in women’s sexual identity : a constructivist grounded theory study.

Constraint and creative decision making in the composition of concert works, film and video-game soundtracks (2019)
Thesis
Marshall, G. A. (2019). Constraint and creative decision making in the composition of concert works, film and video-game soundtracks. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4222714

This PhD research investigates the types, implications and origins of constraint within the contexts of various music composition projects. It then presents the practical value of this deeper understanding as a contemporary music composer. To expl... Read More about Constraint and creative decision making in the composition of concert works, film and video-game soundtracks.

An investigation into the measurement and management of frailty in surgical patients (2019)
Thesis
Trotter, J. M. (2019). An investigation into the measurement and management of frailty in surgical patients. (Thesis). Hull York Medical School, the University of Hull and the University of York. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4222672

Aims This thesis intends to investigate a method of identification of frailty in the surgical population, CT defined sarcopenia, and a possible method to attenuate its effects in the preoperative period, prehabilitation. Methods 845 patients tha... Read More about An investigation into the measurement and management of frailty in surgical patients.

The role of soft tissues and minor osseous structures in cranial biomechanics (2019)
Thesis
Sellés de Lucas, V. (2019). The role of soft tissues and minor osseous structures in cranial biomechanics. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4222601

Finite element analysis is now widely recognised as an invaluable technique to investigate and understand cranial biomechanics since it can incorporate the complexity of a skull’s geometry, its construction, different materials and complex loadings.... Read More about The role of soft tissues and minor osseous structures in cranial biomechanics.

The cardiovascular effects of watercress on human health and performance (2019)
Thesis
Burke, R. R. (2019). The cardiovascular effects of watercress on human health and performance. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4222526

The purpose of this thesis is to assess an alternative dietary nitrate supplement as a possible ergogenic aid and to evaluate its therapeutic potential upon cardiovascular markers in healthy young and old age populations. The first experimental chapt... Read More about The cardiovascular effects of watercress on human health and performance.

An inquiry into the constructed meanings attributed to the notion of 'excellence' in a VET college professionalisation programme (2019)
Thesis
De Kock, S. (2019). An inquiry into the constructed meanings attributed to the notion of 'excellence' in a VET college professionalisation programme. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4222518

The thesis aims to investigate the meanings given to the notion Excellence as used in the name “de Excellente Docent” (The Excellent Teacher) given to a professionalisation programme in a VET college. Based on the understanding that meaning is con... Read More about An inquiry into the constructed meanings attributed to the notion of 'excellence' in a VET college professionalisation programme.