Substandard flight crew performance: recurrent human factors in flight crew initiated aircraft incidents and accidents by Raymond Newell

“…A new con-struct has been developed known as substandard flight crew performance (hereafter SFP) to provide framework and context for this research. …”
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Journey mapping from a crew's perspective: Understanding rail experiences by Luis CR Oliveira, Stewart Birrell, Rebecca Cain

“…Systems can be implemented to improve passengers’ experiences, but these may also affect the experiences of crew working on board trains. This first-of-a-kind research extends the concept of customer journey mapping as a design tool to understand the experiences of train crew. …”
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Changes in work conditions, work-related wellbeing and operational effectiveness: alternative crewing in one UK Fire and Rescue Service by Karen Maher

“…The second phase of research involves an exploration of operational effectiveness of the stations chosen to adopt the new shift system. Existing Key Performance Indicators were scrutinised within a new framework developed with inspiration from operations management literature. …”
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Mapping Emergency Responders’ Current Procedures in the Event of a CBRNe Incident by Graham Hancox, Sue Hignett, Spyros Kintzios, Hilary Pillin, Marco Plass, Jyri Silmari

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Managing urban water supply using GIS by A.K. Dikshit

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Forgive them, for they know what they do: violence and women in contemporary American literature by Emily Dickinson

“…In the years following his voyage of discovery, others such as John Cabot, Vasco da Gama, and Ferdinand Magellan followed Columbus’ example to explore and discover new lands, peoples, and cultures.Today, Columbus’ spirit of innovation and discovery flourishes in America as we seek to advance knowledge and ensure prosperity and hope for all people. …”
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Towards a common measure of operational effectiveness for the UK Fire and Rescue Service by Karen Maher, Nicola Bateman, Raymond Randall

“…This has been service developed and so features key areas of concern for Fire and Rescue Services associated with the delivery of effective fire and rescue provision for the public. …”
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The development of a culture-based tool to predict team performance by Allan Hodgson

“…Answers that might be sought, in particular by the senior managers of global companies, include (1) the best teams (or best national locations) for fundamental research, industrial research & development, product/system improvement and other key activities, and (2) the implications for system performance and, as a result, for system design, of targeting an eastern Asian market, a South-American market, etc. …”
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An application of stated choice to the valuation of bus attributes: a case study of Dhaka, Bangladesh by M.A.A. Mamun

“…Five focus groups were conducted to identify key qualitative bus attributes and their levels in order to design choice experiments for valuation. …”
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Culture and the safety of complex automated sociotechnical systems by A Hodgson, Carys Siemieniuch, Ella-Mae Hubbard

“…Although human error is now widely viewed as playing a key role in the majority of system failures, there is an increasing recognition of the oversimplification inherent in such a view. …”
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Briefing: community resilience to extreme weather by Chris Goodier, Gavin A. Wood, Li Shao

“…Preparedness and resilience measures can help to mitigate impacts and associated costs to both infrastructure and to people. A new multi-institutional research programme involving 13 universities in the UK called Crew (community resilience to extreme weather) has recently started, which will develop a tool kit to support decision making and will therefore improve the capacity for resilience of local communities to the impacts of future extreme weather. …”
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Rituparno Ghosh cinema, gender and art by Sangeeta Datta, Kaustav Bakshi, Rohit Dasgupta

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Opportunities and challenges for configurable sensor networks for enabling effective fire-in-tunnel response by Andrew May, Val Mitchell, John Piper, Lesley Hanna, Stephen Hailes, Konstantinos Koumpis

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Low-cost monocular pseudo 3D reconstruction of batsman strokes for motion analysis by Takim Lowe, Akash Pooransingh, Daniel Ringis

“…Some of these technologies aid in accurate decision-making at key points by employing complex multi-physics modeling upon state-of-the-art acquisition equipment provided by broadcasters. …”
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Enhancing the mechanical efficiency of skilled rowing through shortened feedback cycles by Philip Harfield

“…Existing motor learning literature was tested as part of the study with a key finding being the lack of support for audible display of stroke acceleration through frequency modulation. …”
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Future technology in the ‘Star Trek’ reboots. Part I: tethered and performative technology by Carl Wilson, Garrath Wilson

“…Likewise, with Captain Kirk’s (William Shatner) opening staccato from Star Trek: The Original Series (Roddenberry, 2007) - a mantra which is repeated across the Star Trek reboot films – the focus is also on exploring “new” horizons, as in “new worlds”, “new life”, and “new civilizations.” …”
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Adaptive strategies for the active control of helicopter vibration by John T. Pearson

“…The technique aims to minimise the structural vibration of a helicopter. Accelerometers measure the vibration at several key points on the fuselage. …”
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Building networks to work: an ethnographic study of informal routes into the UK construction industry and pathways for migrant up-skilling by Dylan Tutt, Sarah Pink, Andrew Dainty, Alistair Gibb

“…Yet, little is known about how migrant workers’ experiences within and outside work shape their work in the construction sector. …”
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Probing solubilization sites in block copolymer micelles using fluorescence quenching by Andres F. Olea, Patricio Silva, Irma Fuentes, Francisco Martinez, David Worrall

“…The kinetics of the quenching process depends on the pyrene location, i.e. is static in the micelle core, and largely dynamic in the inner corona at low quencher concentration. …”
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Structural analysis and topology optimisation of an aftercooler cover for weight reduction in off-highway engine application by Thomas Murton, Ramin Rahmani, John Crew

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