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Impact Of Fast-Track Regulatory Designations On Strategic Commercialization Decisions For Autologous Cell Therapies, Ching Lam, Edward Meinert, Aidong Yang, Zhanfeng Cui Jan 2022

Impact Of Fast-Track Regulatory Designations On Strategic Commercialization Decisions For Autologous Cell Therapies, Ching Lam, Edward Meinert, Aidong Yang, Zhanfeng Cui

School of Nursing and Midwifery

Background: Regulatory authorities around the world have introduced incentives to improve the speed-to-market of innovative therapies. Aim & methods: To better understand the capacity and portfolio planning decisions of autologous cell therapies and particularly the impact of fast-tracking designations, this paper describes a mixed-integer linear programming approach for the optimization of capacity investment and portfolio selection decisions to maximize the net present value of a candidate portfolio of therapies under different regulatory programs. Results: The illustrative example shows that fast-track designations allow a 25% earlier breakeven, 42–86% higher net present value over a 20-year horizon with earlier upfront capital and …

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The Feasibility And Acceptability Of Digital Technology For Health And Wellbeing In Social Housing Residents In Cornwall: A Qualitative Scoping Study, Sa Buckingham, T Walker, K Morrissey Jan 2022

The Feasibility And Acceptability Of Digital Technology For Health And Wellbeing In Social Housing Residents In Cornwall: A Qualitative Scoping Study, Sa Buckingham, T Walker, K Morrissey

School of Nursing and Midwifery

Objective The aim of this study was to explore the feasibility and acceptability of digital technology for improving health and wellbeing in social housing residents living in a deprived area in Cornwall, England. Methods Qualitative scoping study with focus groups and telephone interviews (23 participants in total). Focus groups and interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed verbatim and analysed thematically. Results Levels of use and experience with digital technology were diverse in this group, ranging from ‘willing and unable’ to ‘expert’ on a self-perceived scale. Overall, participants had positive perceptions of technology and were keen to try new technologies. Five categories of …

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Core Outcome Set Development For Childhood Epilepsy Treated With Ketogenic Diet Therapy: Results Of A Scoping Review And Parent Interviews, Jennifer H. Carroll, Kirsty J. Martin-Mcgill, J. Helen Cross, Mary Hickson, Emma Williams, Val Aldridge, Avril Collinson Jan 2022

Core Outcome Set Development For Childhood Epilepsy Treated With Ketogenic Diet Therapy: Results Of A Scoping Review And Parent Interviews, Jennifer H. Carroll, Kirsty J. Martin-Mcgill, J. Helen Cross, Mary Hickson, Emma Williams, Val Aldridge, Avril Collinson

School of Health Professions

PurposeClinical trials on childhood epilepsy treated with ketogenic diet (KD) use a wide range of outcomes, however, patients and decision-makers often do not perceive the outcomes used as the most important. We sought parental opinion on outcomes of importance and compared these to outcomes reported in published research.MethodsEthical approval (London-Surrey-REC19/LO/1680). A scoping review identified outcomes reported in previous studies of childhood epilepsy and KD. Parents were recruited from nine KD centres (UK), charities and social media (international), then interviewed (Jan-April 2020) to explore priority outcomes. Content analysis identified all outcomes in transcripts. Parent identified outcomes were compared with those in …

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A Nation That Rebuilds Its Soils Rebuild Itself- An Engineer's Perspective, Karen L. Johnson, Neil D. Gray, Wendy Stone, Bryce F.J. Kelly, Mark F. Fitzsimons, Cathy Clarke, Lynsay Blake, Stephen Chivasa, Florence Mtambanengwe, Paul Mapfumo, Andy Baker, Sabrina Beckmann, Lena Dominelli, Andrew L. Neal, Tariro Gwandu Jan 2022

A Nation That Rebuilds Its Soils Rebuild Itself- An Engineer's Perspective, Karen L. Johnson, Neil D. Gray, Wendy Stone, Bryce F.J. Kelly, Mark F. Fitzsimons, Cathy Clarke, Lynsay Blake, Stephen Chivasa, Florence Mtambanengwe, Paul Mapfumo, Andy Baker, Sabrina Beckmann, Lena Dominelli, Andrew L. Neal, Tariro Gwandu

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Nations can build and rebuild degraded soils to help address climate change and potentially improve the nutritional content of food if we change policies that allow the addition of safe mineral and organic wastes to soil. We present a framework that facilitates the transition from intensive conventional to more regenerative farming practices by considering soil’s natural cycle. Our paper is presented in three parts. Firstly, we consider that ’soil is living’; just like humans, the soil biome needs a balanced diet of macro and micronutrients as well as a nurturing environment. We simplify the soil science and take a systems …

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Managing Business Relationships For Social Impact: Introduction To The Special Issue, Maciej Mitręga, Dariusz Siemieniako, Krzysztof Kubacki, Stefanos Mouzas Jan 2022

Managing Business Relationships For Social Impact: Introduction To The Special Issue, Maciej Mitręga, Dariusz Siemieniako, Krzysztof Kubacki, Stefanos Mouzas

Plymouth Business School

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The Antecedents To Social Impact In Inter-Organizational Relationships – A Systematic Review And Future Research Agenda, Dariusz Siemieniako, Maciej Mitręga, Krzysztof Kubacki Jan 2022

The Antecedents To Social Impact In Inter-Organizational Relationships – A Systematic Review And Future Research Agenda, Dariusz Siemieniako, Maciej Mitręga, Krzysztof Kubacki

Plymouth Business School

Although the social impact of businesses is not a new topic, more attention should be paid to the social impact of inter-organizational relationships, both in academia and in practice. This systematic literature review synthesizes current scholarly research, focusing on facilitators and barriers as antecedents to the social impact of inter-organizational relationships. It thus responds to calls in the business-to-business literature for state-of-the-art reviews. From the macro, mezzo, and micro perspectives, we show links between different types of interorganizational relationships and assign specific facilitators and barriers to three groups of countries by income level. We draw on our descriptive and thematic …

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Value Co-Creation On Technology-Enabled Platforms For Business Model Responsiveness And Position Enhancement In Global Value Chains, Christopher Agyapong Siaw, Chukwuneke Okorie Jan 2022

Value Co-Creation On Technology-Enabled Platforms For Business Model Responsiveness And Position Enhancement In Global Value Chains, Christopher Agyapong Siaw, Chukwuneke Okorie

Plymouth Business School

Global value chains (GVCs) enable multinational enterprises (MNEs) to engage supplier and partner firms in developing/emerging economies for lower production costs and sell products in advanced economies for maximum profits. However, digital technologies are shifting the basis of value offering in GVC from products and services to platforms. Considering that these platforms facilitate business exchanges in multi-actor networks, the partner or supplier firms of MNEs can easily become competitors to MNEs if these firms participate in different networks. Nevertheless, relatively little research addresses how MNEs can develop structural flexibility for competitive association with and differentiation from their partner firms while …

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'Mercy, Tenderness, And Compassion': A Study Into The Inclusion Of Acts Of Communal And Familial Support Within Seventeenth-Century Quaker Records Of Sufferings, Toni Wadman Jan 2022

'Mercy, Tenderness, And Compassion': A Study Into The Inclusion Of Acts Of Communal And Familial Support Within Seventeenth-Century Quaker Records Of Sufferings, Toni Wadman

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences Theses

This thesis explores the inclusion of encounters of communal and familial compassion and support within seventeenth century Quaker records of sufferings. Whilst previous academic works have used these accounts of communal support to highlight the social integration of Friends within their local communities, little focus has been placed upon the purpose or reasoning behind their presence within Quaker suffering records. This thesis, therefore, examines how Friends perceived and understood these encounters as well as the reasoning and motivation behind their inclusion in their accounts of sufferings. To help answer these questions, this project consults the Original Records of Sufferings, handwritten …

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Alcohol Misuse In Patients With Alcohol‐Related Liver Disease: How Can We Do Better? A Narrative Review Of The Literature, Jane Horrell, Lynne Callaghan, Ashwin Dhanda Jan 2022

Alcohol Misuse In Patients With Alcohol‐Related Liver Disease: How Can We Do Better? A Narrative Review Of The Literature, Jane Horrell, Lynne Callaghan, Ashwin Dhanda

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Background: Ongoing alcohol use is strongly associated with progressive liver damage and higher mortality in patients with alcohol- related liver disease (ArLD). Reduction in alcohol use is therefore the cornerstone of treatment to improve the long-term outcome of these patients. However, a large proportion of patients continue to use alcohol and do not access or engage with alcohol treatment services after a diagnosis of ArLD. We reviewed the literature on factors associated with ongoing alcohol consumption among patients with ArLD to identify barriers or facilitators to their accessing alcohol treatment.Methods: A search of MEDLINE and EMBASE was conducted using search …

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The Neoliberal Game: An Critical Analysis Of Children's Non Competitive Grassroots Football, Grace Gallacher Jan 2022

The Neoliberal Game: An Critical Analysis Of Children's Non Competitive Grassroots Football, Grace Gallacher

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences Theses

This thesis explores the propensity for harms throughout children’s non-competitive football. Adopting ethnographic approaches this project follows a team of under 9’s non-competitive team in a SW FA league, it analyses their private social media page and conducted 18 semi-structured interviews with life-long players, parents, coaches and referees. It advances a critical criminology of sport by presenting an alternative framework to Elias and the Civilising process by using contemporary critical criminology, namely ultra-realism and deviant leisure. By using ultra-realism and deviant leisure this study examines the underlying systemic harm which comes from the neoliberal environment of sport, including children’s non-competitive …

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Solo Auto/Biographical Theatre: Towards A Process Of Self-Transformation, Morris Isaac Cohen Jan 2022

Solo Auto/Biographical Theatre: Towards A Process Of Self-Transformation, Morris Isaac Cohen

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences Theses

The concept of performance as a transformational experience is not unfamiliar in academic literature; Heddon (2008), Schechner (2013) and Zarrilli (2020) have all written about different aspects of transformations in theatre and performance, including the personal, the social and the political. The specific focus of this Practice as Research PhD is self-transformation and auto/biographical performance. It asks how making, devising and performing a solo auto/biographical piece of work might be a transformational experience for the performer. By transformation, the research refers to an inner shift in perspective on outer circumstances or events, or a change in meaning-making for and by …

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Revisiting The Innovation–Export Entry Link Through A Configuration Approach, Carmen Lopez, Haddoud M Yacine, Dulekha Kasturiratne Jan 2022

Revisiting The Innovation–Export Entry Link Through A Configuration Approach, Carmen Lopez, Haddoud M Yacine, Dulekha Kasturiratne

Plymouth Business School

Findings on the innovation–export entry nexus remain inconclusive, which may be attributable to methodological issues. Most research has focused on the separate effects of single predictors and has investigated only one or two types of innovation. However, firms’ exporting behavior is complex, and is likely to be determined by interactions between innovation types. Drawing on resource orchestration theory, we adopt a configuration approach to uncover combinations of innovation types (considered here as resources) associated with exporting, rather than investigating them in isolation. The study incorporates four types of innovation: product, process, organizational and marketing innovation. The findings from a sample …

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Accurate Data: Using Young Adult Science Fiction To Explore The Impacts Of Compulsory Sexuality On Young Ace Lives, N Knight Jan 2022

Accurate Data: Using Young Adult Science Fiction To Explore The Impacts Of Compulsory Sexuality On Young Ace Lives, N Knight

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences Theses

This thesis uses Young Adult science fiction to explore regulatory systems of compulsory sexuality, and the ways in which the resulting societal norms and values impact the lives and experiences of young ace individuals.

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Diagrams Of Disturbance: Conceptual Diagrams And The Production Of A Personal Diagram Poetry., Russell Evans Jan 2022

Diagrams Of Disturbance: Conceptual Diagrams And The Production Of A Personal Diagram Poetry., Russell Evans

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences Theses

Russell Evans Title: Diagrams of Disturbance: conceptual diagrams and the production of a personal diagram poetry. This thesis is a pursuit of a personal diagram poetry, with a submission of part creative work, part critical exploration of selected diagram poetry over the past 50 years. I examine my own work and that of pioneering diagram poet Jim Rosenberg as variations of the conceptual diagram, and explore wider examples in the work of contemporary visual poets, arriving at a diagrammatics that creates systems of thought from modalities of materiality, spatiality and iconography. I follow Foucault and Deleuze’s pursuit of the diagram …

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Black Artists And Federal Muralism In New Deal Chicago: An Examination Of The Politics And Ideologies Of African-American Muralists Under The New Deal: The Illinois Federal Art Project As Case Study., James Cuffe Jan 2022

Black Artists And Federal Muralism In New Deal Chicago: An Examination Of The Politics And Ideologies Of African-American Muralists Under The New Deal: The Illinois Federal Art Project As Case Study., James Cuffe

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences Theses

James Cuffe Black Artists and Federal Muralism in New Deal Chicago: An examination of the Politics and Ideologies of African-American Muralists under the New Deal: The Illinois Federal Art Project as Case Study. This thesis provides an examination of the relationship between federal muralism and African-American art under the Illinois Federal Art Project. The exploration of the murals that were undertaken by two of Chicago’s best-known African American painters of their day, Archibald J. Motley Jr. and Charles W. White provide a useful basis for analysis. The murals also provide new insights which formulate a worthwhile contribution to current historiography. …

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‘People Not Profits’: Hawaiian Cultural Nationalism And Protest Against The United States, 1968-1980, Emily May Hough Jan 2022

‘People Not Profits’: Hawaiian Cultural Nationalism And Protest Against The United States, 1968-1980, Emily May Hough

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences Theses

Since the early nineteenth century, United States colonialism has transformed the Hawaiian Islands from an independent sovereign nation into an American controlled state. In Hawai’i, colonialism is largely represented through the appropriation of culture, people, and land for the benefit of the tourist industry, in addition to the control of land for military use and urban development. In this study, the ways in which the United States has exploited Hawaiian culture, people, and land and the resulting opposition against it is analysed, to demonstrate the effects of colonialism on Hawai'i and the ways Hawaiian people adapted to resist it. This …

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Deep Learning For Audio Segmentation And Intelligent Remixing, Satvik Venkatesh Jan 2022

Deep Learning For Audio Segmentation And Intelligent Remixing, Satvik Venkatesh

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences Theses

Audio segmentation divides an audio signal into homogenous sections such as music and speech. It is useful as a preprocessing step to index, store, and modify audio recordings, radio broadcasts and TV programmes. Machine learning models for audio segmentation are generally trained on copyrighted material, which cannot be shared across research groups. Furthermore, annotating these datasets is a time-consuming and expensive task. In this thesis, we present a novel approach that artificially synthesises data that resembles radio signals. We replicate the workflow of a radio DJ in mixing audio and investigate parameters like fade curves and audio ducking. Using this …

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Animating Potential For Intensities And Becoming In Writing: Challenging Discursively Constructed Structures And Writing Conventions In Academia Through The Use Of Storying And Other Post Qualitative Inquiries, Mary Catherine Garland Jan 2022

Animating Potential For Intensities And Becoming In Writing: Challenging Discursively Constructed Structures And Writing Conventions In Academia Through The Use Of Storying And Other Post Qualitative Inquiries, Mary Catherine Garland

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences Theses

Written for everyone ever denied the opportunity of fulfilling their academic potential, this is ‘Chloe’s story’. Using composite selves, a phrase chosen to indicate multiplicities and movement, to story both the initial event leading to ‘Chloe’s’ immediate withdrawal from a Further Education college and an imaginary second chance to support her whilst at university, this Deleuzo-Guattarian (2015a) ‘assemblage’ of post qualitative inquiries offers challenge to discursively constructed structures and writing conventions in academia. Adopting a posthuman approach to theorising to shift attention towards affects and intensities always relationally in action in multiple ‘assemblages’, these inquiries aim to decentre individual ‘lecturer’ …

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Investigation Into A Brain-Computer Interface System For Music With Speech Imagery, Alberto Tates Puetate Jan 2022

Investigation Into A Brain-Computer Interface System For Music With Speech Imagery, Alberto Tates Puetate

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences Theses

Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) aim to find a communication path with computers that dispenses with motor interaction using merely brain activity. This project investigates how BCI can have music as its destination, the system would allow people with motor impairments to get close to creative activities and offer musicians a novel dimension of performance. BCI systems present multiple challenges when attempting approaches in real-world circumstances. These challenges are encompassed in the transfer information rate and the deployability of such systems. BCI research is mainly medically focused therefore the brain activity measurement devices are designed under lab conditions, making them not portable …

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Protocol: Conflict Of Interest Issues When Engaging Stakeholders In Health And Healthcare Guideline Development: A Systematic Review, Joanne Khabsa, Jennifer Petkovic, Alison Riddle, Lyubov Lytvyn, Olivia Magwood, Pearl Atwere, Pauline Campbell, Srinivasa V. Katikireddi, Bronwen Merner, Mona Nasser, Stephanie Chang, Garcia A Jaramillo, Heather Limburg, Jeanne Marie Guise, Peter Tugwell, Elie A. Akl Jan 2022

Protocol: Conflict Of Interest Issues When Engaging Stakeholders In Health And Healthcare Guideline Development: A Systematic Review, Joanne Khabsa, Jennifer Petkovic, Alison Riddle, Lyubov Lytvyn, Olivia Magwood, Pearl Atwere, Pauline Campbell, Srinivasa V. Katikireddi, Bronwen Merner, Mona Nasser, Stephanie Chang, Garcia A Jaramillo, Heather Limburg, Jeanne Marie Guise, Peter Tugwell, Elie A. Akl

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AbstractThis is the protocol for a Campbell systematic review. The overall objective of this study is to gather and summarize the existing literature on conflict of interest issues when engaging stakeholders in guideline development.

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Doctoral Education In Business And Management, Jonathan Lean, Stephen Wilkins, Jonathan Moizer, Troy Heffernan Jan 2022

Doctoral Education In Business And Management, Jonathan Lean, Stephen Wilkins, Jonathan Moizer, Troy Heffernan

Plymouth Business School

No abstract provided.

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Living Wall Systems For Improved Thermal Performance Of Existing Buildings, Matthew Fox, Jack Morewood, Thomas Murphy, Paul Lunt, Steve Goodhew Jan 2022

Living Wall Systems For Improved Thermal Performance Of Existing Buildings, Matthew Fox, Jack Morewood, Thomas Murphy, Paul Lunt, Steve Goodhew

School of Art, Design and Architecture

Living wall systems are a relatively new form of façade cladding treatment on buildings. Bringing a host of benefits such as added biodiversity, they also have the potential to aid the thermal efficiency of a wall construction by offering an extra layer of thermal resistance. Yet few studies have been conducted to ascertain the thermal influence of living wall systems can have on existing buildings.This study reviews the impact of living walls upon the thermal and environmental performance of buildings and isolates a lack of research that directly measures associated retrofitted living wall thermal performance. A case study then monitors …

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Geophagy And Microplastic Ingestion, Hoda Amiri, Mohammad Hoseini, Sajjad Abbasi, Mohammad Malakootian, Majid Hashemi, Neamatollah Jaafarzadeh, Andrew Turner Jan 2022

Geophagy And Microplastic Ingestion, Hoda Amiri, Mohammad Hoseini, Sajjad Abbasi, Mohammad Malakootian, Majid Hashemi, Neamatollah Jaafarzadeh, Andrew Turner

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.

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Re-Colonization Of Hostile Environments By Benthic Foraminifera: An Example From Montserrat, Lesser Antilles Volcanic Arc, Malcolm B. Hart, Jodie K. Fisher, Christopher W. Smart, Rebecca Speers, Deborah Wall-Palmer Jan 2022

Re-Colonization Of Hostile Environments By Benthic Foraminifera: An Example From Montserrat, Lesser Antilles Volcanic Arc, Malcolm B. Hart, Jodie K. Fisher, Christopher W. Smart, Rebecca Speers, Deborah Wall-Palmer

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

The Soufrière Hills Volcano, on the island of Montserrat, has an eruption history spanning over 2 million years. During this time the volcano has undergone multiple eruptions with intervening periods of low activity or dormancy. The most recent activity began in 1995 and has seen a series of major eruptive events. One of the most recent of these, and the focus of this study, occurred on the 20th May 2006. This major dome collapse produced 90 million m3 of volcanic material in only 3 hours, propelling ash clouds through the air and pyroclastic flows down the side of the volcano …

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A Systematic Literature Review On Humanitarian Logistics Using Network Analysis And Topic Modeling, Jin Ju Kim, Hyunmi Jang, Saeyeon Roh Jan 2022

A Systematic Literature Review On Humanitarian Logistics Using Network Analysis And Topic Modeling, Jin Ju Kim, Hyunmi Jang, Saeyeon Roh

Plymouth Business School

The aim of this paper is to conduct a systematic literature review to understand the research trends, identify area of improvements and recommend the future research direction in humanitarian relief logistics (HRL). Using Netminer 4.0, keyword network analysis, keyword frequency analysis, and topic modeling analysis were undertaken. As a result, it has been identified that the number of studies on HRL continuously increased since it mounted in the mid-2010s, with the main issues changing by period. Keyword network analysis and keyword frequency analysis discovered that establishment of the HRL identity and disaster response, preparation and recovery were the main issues …

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Informing Versus Generating A Discussion: Comparing Two Approaches To Encouraging Mitigation Of Soil Erosion Among Maasai Pastoralists, Anna Rabinovich, Vladimir Zhischenko, Mona Nasseri, Stacey C. Heath, Alpha Laizer, Francis Mkilema, Aloyce Patrick, Maarten Wynants, William H. Blake, Kelvin Mtei, Patrick Ndakidemi Jan 2022

Informing Versus Generating A Discussion: Comparing Two Approaches To Encouraging Mitigation Of Soil Erosion Among Maasai Pastoralists, Anna Rabinovich, Vladimir Zhischenko, Mona Nasseri, Stacey C. Heath, Alpha Laizer, Francis Mkilema, Aloyce Patrick, Maarten Wynants, William H. Blake, Kelvin Mtei, Patrick Ndakidemi

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Soil erosion is a critical problem for pastoralist societies that rely on healthy grazing land for their livelihoods. Previous research suggests that unsustainable land management practice is one of the factors exacerbating soil erosion, and that willingness to adjust this practice is closely linked to community land protection norms. The present research explores approaches to building stronger community norms and intentions linked to mitigating soil erosion among Maasai pastoralists in Northern Tanzania. In particular, we compare two impact approaches based on the information deficit model (exposure to scientific information) and the social identity framework (a group-based discussion). The results demonstrate …

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Trauma In Transition - Lived Experiences Of Trauma Informed Approaches, Emma Taylor, Katie Mcbride Jan 2022

Trauma In Transition - Lived Experiences Of Trauma Informed Approaches, Emma Taylor, Katie Mcbride

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

Increasing numbers of organisations are seeking the contributions of people who haveexperienced trauma in order to develop their services and support. The aims of this piece ofresearch were to understand the lived experiences of trauma. In particular, how policy anddecision makers can best learn from people with lived experiences of trauma to improvetheir service design and delivery. The overall ambitions of the research team in relation tothis piece of work are to produce accessible knowledge that can be used to inform futureresearch, and the way in which trauma can be better accounted for and supported in boththe design and delivery …

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Dentsivka: A Ukrainian Recorder, Nuria Bonet Jan 2022

Dentsivka: A Ukrainian Recorder, Nuria Bonet

School of Art, Design and Architecture

When Ukraine hosted the Eurovision Song Contest in 2017, the interval act featured the electro-folk band ONUKA performing with the National Academic Orchestra of Folk Instruments. The performance begins with a shepherd’s melody played on a recorder. The simple tune is repeated with varying ornamentations and inflections before being taken over by the orchestra. A range of other folk instruments begin playing: the bandura (a large lute with a distinctive round shape), the trembita (an alpine horn), the tsymbaly (a hammered dulcimer), a buhay (a friction drum). Ukraine’s 2021 Eurovision entry (Shum by Go_A) features the same recorder which plays …

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Preferences Of Newly Qualified Healthcare Professionals For Working With People With Dementia: A Qualitative Study, M Hebditch, S Banerjee, J Wright, S Daley Jan 2022

Preferences Of Newly Qualified Healthcare Professionals For Working With People With Dementia: A Qualitative Study, M Hebditch, S Banerjee, J Wright, S Daley

School of Health Professions

Background there is little research on preferences in students and newly qualified healthcare professionals for working with people with dementia. Understanding the development of these preferences can help inform strategies to increase workforce capacity in response to current suboptimal dementia care and the increasing numbers of people with dementia. Objective to explore the factors that influence career preferences in relation to working with people with dementia. Specifically, to understand how these factors relate to early career doctors’ and nurses’ preferences and how they influence decisions and perspectives on their careers. Methods qualitative in-depth interviews were conducted with 27 newly qualified …

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The Fluency Trust Residential Course For Young People Who Stutter: A Pragmatic Feasibility Study., Anna Prince, Jonathan Marsden, Yvonne Wren, Rosemarie Hayhow, Sam Harding Jan 2022

The Fluency Trust Residential Course For Young People Who Stutter: A Pragmatic Feasibility Study., Anna Prince, Jonathan Marsden, Yvonne Wren, Rosemarie Hayhow, Sam Harding

School of Health Professions

Introduction A feasibility study of The Fluency Trust Residential Course (FTRC) for adolescents who stutter was conducted. The study aimed to measure key areas of a feasibility trial, for example, recruitment and retention, outcome measure completion, outcome measure reliability, and acceptability of the intervention to inform future research into the FTRC. Methods Quantitative and qualitative methods were used. Participants were 23 adolescents (12–17 years), 23 parents and 2 Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) from the FTRC. Data collection included: outcome measure collection via a pre-test post-test quasi-experimental design (including two baseline measures), intervention fidelity checklists, semi-structured interviews with adolescents to explore acceptability …

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