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Projected changes in heatwaves and its impact on human discomfort over India due to global warming under the CORDEX-CORE framework
(2024-04-30)Due to climate change, rapid warming and its further intensification over different parts of the globe have been recently reported. This has a direct impact on human health, agriculture, water availability, power generation, ... -
Land Tenure and Food Security in South India
(2023-09-30)Tenure security with land titles is considered important for agricultural productivity and growth. In this view, formal titles enable land to be used as collateral, facilitate access to credit markets and increase productivity ... -
Emotion dysregulation, impulsivity and anger rumination in borderline personality disorder: the role of amygdala and insula
(2023-04-22)Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a severe mental disorder, characterized by deficits in emotion regulation, interpersonal dysfunctions, dissociation and impulsivity. Brain abnormalities have been generally explored; ... -
A form of mental simulation with significant enhancements enabling teamwork training
(2021-09-21)Mental simulation is a type of simulation in which the clinician mentally practices a task without physically doing it. With mental simulation, the clinician can individually go through all the steps of technical and ... -
Socio-economic practices of households coping with hardship
(Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020-12-08)Top-down responses to major shocks have been of major interest to social scientists and they contributed to our understanding of restructuring, transformation and development. Research into socio-economic practices of ... -
Critical perspectives on resilience
(Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020-12-08)This chapter aims to contribute to the critical discussion of the concept of resilience and its pertinence and usefulness to contexts of socioeconomic hardship. Starting from an approach that contrasts the poverty studies ... -
Comics on Screen : Pages and Places in the Cloud
(Brill Publishing House, 2019-07-22)Comics has long been a form of sequential art that has evolved alongside the printed page. As the print industry has developed so too have comics. From the black and white strips of newspapers to the colourful serial print ... -
Embodied leadership: A Perspective on Reciprocal Body Movement
(Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023-11-17)This chapter explores the concept of embodied leadership and its ontological and epistemological underpinnings in educational and other organisational settings. Embodiment, derived from phenomenology, emphasises body-mind ... -
Cancer and exercise: a narrative analysis to understand the recovery journey undertaken for female dragon boat competitors.
(2016-03-22)Background: A cancer diagnosis, and the subsequent period, is a largely unexplored phenomenon regarding short and long term effects exercise has on mental well-being. With an increasing number of people surviving cancer, ... -
Physical harm caused to British and Japanese Judoka by abuse
(2017)Judo is a form of budo, or martial way, developed in Japan by Professor Jigoro Kano (1860–1938) and originally called Kodokan Judo (Bennett, 2009). The three fundamental tenets of judo are described as: physical education, ... -
Design of a high efficiency cyclone for collection of rare and low concentration airborne pathogens
(2017-03-16)Recent serious outbreaks of pathogens such as Chalara Fraxinea, (Ash Dieback) demonstrate the vulnerability of UK’s forests, woods, and trees. Early detection of threats is critical in the fight against such tree pests and ... -
Activity Provider-Facilitated Patient and Public Involvement with Care Home Residents
(2024-01-11)Background: In care home research, residents are rarely included in patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE) despite their lived experiences of day-to-day care. This paper reports on a novel approach to PPIE, ... -
Mitigating Modal Noise in Multimode Circular Fibres by Optical Agitation using a Galvanometer
(2024-01-02)Modal noise appears due to the non-uniform and unstable distribution of light intensity among the finite number of modes in multimode fibres. It is an important limiting factor in measuring radial velocity precisely by ... -
Co-Incubation with PPARβ/δ Agonists and Antagonists Modeled Using Computational Chemistry: Effect on LPS Induced Inflammatory Markers in Pulmonary Artery
(MDPI Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2022-05-01)Peroxisome proliferator activated receptor beta/delta (PPARβ/δ) is a nuclear receptor ubiquitously expressed in cells, whose signaling controls inflammation. There are large discrepancies in understanding the complex role ... -
Forging a Personalised Path: 3D Printing’s Role in Healthcare Transformation
(Springer Nature, 2023-12-02)The voyage towards revolutionising healthcare through digital technologies has launched, and its trajectory promises to reshape the contours of health and wellness for generations to come. The age of patient-centric medicine, ... -
Images in Space: The Challenges of Architectural Spatiality in Comics
(Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2016-01-01)A selection of hypercomics that extend the concept of the Infinite Canvas are examined to address the challenges of architectural spatiality. As comics gradually leave behind the trappings of the printed page, the language ... -
The Solar Particle Acceleration Radiation and Kinetics (SPARK) Mission Concept
(2023-12-15)Particle acceleration is a fundamental process arising in many astrophysical objects, including active galactic nuclei, black holes, neutron stars, gamma-ray bursts, accretion disks, solar and stellar coronae, and planetary ... -
3D Printing of Dietary Products for the Management of Inborn Errors of Intermediary Metabolism in Pediatric Populations
(2023-12-25)The incidence of Inborn Error of Intermediary Metabolism (IEiM) diseases may be low, yet collectively, they impact approximately 6–10% of the global population, primarily affecting children. Precise treatment doses and ... -
Guidelines for the Use and Reporting of Patient-Reported Outcomes in Multiple Myeloma Clinical Trials
(2023-12-08)Simple Summary: It is recognized that patients with multiple myeloma (MM) experience a high burden of disease and treatment-related symptoms that impact upon their quality of life (QoL). In these patients, patient-reported ...