Felt quality of sociomaterial relations: introducing emotions into sociomaterial theorizing by Mari-Klara Stein, Sue Newell, Erica L. Wagner, Robert Galliers

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Designing nonwovens: craft and industrial perspectives by Faith Kane

“…The suitability of the designs for production within different manufacturing contexts was assessed through a series of interviews with nonwoven manufacturers and their suitability for the high-end markets was evaluated through a series of focus groups and interviews with textile and product designers. …”
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Foreword: "Life is going to be different in the Future" by Maxine David, Helen Drake

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Low birthweight prevalence among Spanish women during the economic crisis: differences by parity by JM Terán, S Juárez, C Bernis, Barry Bogin, C Varea

“…Trends in adjusted RR of LBW by parity confirm that primiparous and multiparous were affected differently by the economic crisis. Older, nulliparous women may have felt more biosocial pressure to reproduce during the economic crisis, compared to women who were already mothers. …”
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Growing for health: Harvesting the perspectives of children, parents, and teachers on the benefits and barriers of children’s home and school gardening by Robert Crowder

“…Parents provided their perspectives on school and home FV gardening, and information on whether eating behaviours differed amongst individuals with different levels of FV garden participation. …”
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Emotional patterns in a simulated virtual classroom supported with an affective recommendation system by Seyma Caglar-Ozhan, Arif Altun, Erhan Ekmekcioglu

“…This result indicates that the given affective recommendation has an inherent effect on negative emotions that are felt less intensely. Different or longer-term interventions may be needed for more intense and long-lasting negative discrete emotions such as sadness. …”
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Physical performance and perception of foot discomfort during a soccer-specific match simulation. A comparison of football boots by Katrine Okholm Kryger, Kumbirai Mutamba, Sean Mitchell, Stuart Charles Miller, Steph Forrester

“…Eleven male university football players tested two commercially available “sprint boots” known to generate significantly different plantar pressures (high=Boot H and low=Boot L). …”
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Facial cooling improves thermal perceptions and maintains the interleukin-6 response during passive heating: A sex comparison Temperature by Yunuo Su, Emma ODonnell, Sven Hoekstra, Christof Leicht

“…Rectal temperature following HEAT (38.0±0.3°C) and FAN (37.8±0.3°C) did not differ between males and females (P=0.57). Females had higher forehead skin temperatures than males (P≤0.019). …”
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Improvement of sprint performance in wheelchair sportsmen with caffeine supplementation by Terri S. Graham-Paulson, Claudio Perret, Phillip Watson, Vicky Goosey-Tolfrey

“…Feeling scores improved over the course of the CAF trial only (P = .017) but did not significantly differ between trials (P > .167). Pre-warm-up (45 min postingestion) salivary CAF secretion rates were 1.05 ± 0.94 and 0.08 ± 0.05 μ g/min for CAF and PLA, respectively. …”
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Employee interpretations of employee share ownership and its impact: the role of psychological ownership by David McConville

“…A number of employees felt the share plan helped retain them in the organisation. …”
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Benefit or burden? How English schools responded to the duty to promote community cohesion by Don Rowe, Nicola Horsley, Tony Breslin, Tony Thorpe

“…Teachers embraced the new duty with different degrees of enthusiasm – for some it confirmed the importance of holistic approaches to education which they felt had been sidelined in recent years, whilst other showed various forms of resistance. …”
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Autonomy and control of behaviour in health promotion settings: influences on self-perceptions and other critical constructs by Manolis Georgiadis

“…According to this, an autonomous-authentic or self-determined behaviour seems to have an increased significance in the level of self-esteem felt by the individual (Deci and Ryan, 1985). The aim of the current thesis was to examine the impact of the four types of external regulation on physical and global self-perceptions, in different health promotion settings. …”
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Performance and durability of thin film solar cells via testing the abrasion resistance of broadband anti-reflection coatings by Sibel YILMAZ EKİNCİ, Seda SANCAKLI, Adam Law, Michael Walls

“…A variety of abraders including Felt pad, CS-10 and CS-8 under different loads are used. …”
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Is computer-based assessment good for students? by Chris Ricketts, Sally Wilks

“…Students generally (66%) felt that they had been given enough preparation, and had not (78%) prepared differently for this examination. …”
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Introduction: Alcohol, age, generation and the life course by Thomas Thurnell-Read, Laura Fenton

“…Yet, it is often in the minutia of daily life that the social and cultural uses of drinking alcohol are most keenly felt. As the chapters of this book illustrate, within each specific cultural context alcohol means different things to different people and, in being situated in biographical and generational time, observable and often sticking differences characterise the use and purpose of alcohol amongst different age groups and generation cohorts.…”
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Central fatigue during exercise: potential manuipulations and limiting factors by Ruth M. Hobson

“…It was hypothesised that those who perceived a warming effect may perform worse when a menthol solution was applied compared to a control solution and conversely, those who perceived a cooling sensation may perform better with a menthol solution than with a control solution. There was no difference in exercise performance between those who felt a warming sensation and those who felt a cooling sensation. …”
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Managing disintegration: How the European Parliament responded and adapted to Brexit by Edoardo Bressanelli, Nicola Chelotti, Wilhelm Lehmann

“…The EP and its leadership ensured the active involvement of the EP in the negotiating process—albeit in different ways for the withdrawal agreement and the future relationship—and sought to minimise the costs of Brexit, reducing the clout of British members particularly in the allocation of legislative reports.…”
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Reflections on a benchmarking survey of research support provided by 1994 Group libraries by Helen Young, Peter Lund

“…Whilst a national survey is very useful for identifying trends and behaviours, a national report includes the Russell Group universities, whose resources and ethos are significantly different from those at Loughborough, so we felt that benchmarking the 1994 Group of 19 internationally renowned research intensive universities2 best represented our sector and would yield the most meaningful comparisons; a survey was therefore carried out in late 2007. …”
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Embroidered metamaterial antenna for optimized performance on wearable applications by Ignacio Gil, Rob Seager, Raul Fernandez-Garcia

“…This work investigates the impact of different types of embroidering metamaterial patterns on the antenna performance, shielding effect in terms of human safety through specific absorption rate analysis and degree of material wearability, in comparison with the standard antenna topologies. …”
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Experimental investigation of acoustic resonance properties of vehicle compartments by R. Gorman, Victor V. Krylov

“…The reduced-scale models had different degrees of complexity and were produced in two modifications: with rigid interior walls (modelling ‘body in white’ condition) and with walls covered by felt (modelling the absorption caused by the presence of vehicle trim). …”
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A study of perceptions 'significant others' hold, of the inclusion of 'children with difficulties' in mainstream classes by Bromley H. Kniveton

“…They were asked to rank how they felt about children with certain types of ‘difficulty’, and given the opportunity to explain their decisions in a subsequent interview. …”
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The development of a technique for mixing rubber compounds in an internal mixer to a rheological setpoint by Bernard R. Matthews

“…The programs were evaluated using natural rubber with different viscosities and were found to be capable of modifying the polymers to obtain a final mixed compound to a target viscosity. …”
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Exploring the duality of Information Technology in community health trusts by Neil Doherty, Crispin Coombs, John Loan-Clarke

“…Moreover, the differences in outcome could be explained by the degree of ‘interpretive flexibility’ associated with each of the information systems projects: the empowerment of users was found in Trusts where the users were actively engaged in the system’s social and physical constitution.…”
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Library education in Japan, Republic of Korea and Taiwan : a comparative study by Young A. Um

“…It was intended to draw out similarities and differences in the educational systems with interpretations in the light of the social and cultural backgrounds. …”
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How does job insecurity affect performance and political outcomes? Social identity plays a role by Eva Selenko, Hans De Witte

“…This study broadens current literature in organizational behavior by connecting it to wider outcomes, outside the work context.…”
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Numerical investigation of the structure effects on water transportation in PEMFC gas diffusion layers using X-ray tomography based Lattice Boltzmann method by Fontip Jinuntuya

“…Each GDL structure, however, contributed to a distinct difference in water distribution in the GDL with hydrophobic wettability. …”
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Gender involvement in community waste management, urban Nigeria by A.O. Coker, A.O. Olowookere, M.K.C. Sridhar

“…Nigerian women are not homogenous because of the enormous variety of socio-economic and cultural situations which individual women may find themselves in. There are different classes of women in Nigeria, hence it is this class position that determines how a woman relates to her environment. …”
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Discharging democratic accountability: The role of strategy and performance information in local authority Health and Wellbeing Boards by Stuart Cooper, Suzana Grubnic

“…In particular emphasis has shifted to priorities where there is the potential for joint working from the different members of the HWBs. wWe find that there is some level of agreement that, whilst the use of performance information in our two HWBs has been limited, it may become more important into the future. …”
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The conceptual underpinnings of recent advances in international public sector accounting standards: Developing a standard for social benefits by Rhoda Brown, S. Ellwood, A. Conrath-Hargreaves

“…This study raises concerns regarding the coherence of the IPSASB framework as a conceptual underpinning for public sector accounting standards and questions the alignment of public sector accounting to other regimes with different users and objectives.…”
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Development of a simplified ray path model for estimating the range and depth of vocalising marine mammals by Paul Lepper, K. Kaschner, Paul R. Connelly, A.D. Goodson

“…A simplified ray path model has been developed to simulate various source, receiver geometries. The difference in the arrival time of the multi-path signals (surface and seabed reflections) were calculated and compared with those measured on recorded data obtained during sea trials. …”
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Design of the user experience for personalized mobile services by Xu Sun, Andrew May

“…They helped to ensure genuine collaboration because the wider participants felt (1) less like the object of study and (2) more able to communicate their needs during the design process.…”
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Building a common language of design representations for industrial designers & engineering designers by Eujin Pei

“…Following this, empirical research through interviews and observations outlined three problem areas: conflicts in values and principles; differences in education; and differences in representational tools and methods. …”
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Does job insecurity threaten who you are? Introducing a social identity perspective to explain well-being and performance consequences of job insecurity by Eva Selenko, Anne Makikangas, C.B. Stride

“…A three-wave survey study among 377 British employees supports this perspective. Persons who felt higher levels of job insecurity were more likely to report a weaker social identity as an employed person. …”
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Cutting anti-apartheid images: Bongiwe Dhlomo's activist linocut prints by Marion Arnold

“…In order to establish ‘homelands’ for different ethnic groups, the Nationalist government undertook forced removals and relocated people, taking them from established communities to ‘historic’ places of origin. …”
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The importance of classroom climate in fostering student creativity in Design & Technology lessons. by Ros McLellan, Bill Nicholl

“…Teachers’ perceptions differed somewhat and this is discussed with reference to the performativity culture in which they are located. …”
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Combining reminiscence therapy with oral history to intervene in the lives of isolated older people by Catherine Armstrong

“…Intergenerational activities designed to allow participants to share experiences and wisdom, and to discover similarities and differences across the generations, are especially rewarding. …”
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Information communication technology (ICT) in secondary design and technology (D&T) teaching: a study of partner schools linked to a postgraduate initial teacher education (ITE) co... by Marion Rutland, Laurence Pepper

“…In recent years there had been a marked rise in the ICT capability of the students entering the PGCE due, it was felt, to the increased use of computers on their degree courses combined with wider access and use of computers in the work place and at home. …”
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Mutuality and movement: an exploration of self-help/mutual aid groups and their relationship to social policy by Carol Munn-Giddings

“…Part Two, a case-study of two UK grassroots self-help/mutual aid groups explored members' viewpoints, their reasons for joining, benefits derived and the impact they felt it has had on their lives and their relations with professionals and wider `political' forums. …”
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What kind of dialogue do we need? Gender, deliberation and comprehensive values by Clare Chambers, Phil Parvin

“…That is, having taken on board claims about the importance of difference and identity to the ways in which people think and the values they hold, many liberal political theorists have felt the need to retreat from controversial commitments to substantive principles such as autonomy, and have instead grounded their theories in a more general commitment to public dialogue. …”
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Can intervals enhance the inflammatory response and enjoyment in upper-body exercise? by Sven P. Hoekstra, Nicolette Bishop, Christof Leicht

“…Conclusions When matched for external work, there was no difference in the inflammatory response to HIIT compared to moderate-intensity upper-body exercise. …”
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Paranoia and social inequality by John Cromby, David J. Harper

“…However, focusing on such categories assumes that the differences between them are both valid and more important than the commonalities in the experiences they represent. …”
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Call centre employee's reasons for variation in objective productivity during a cognitive ergonomics intervention by Silvia Ahmed, Michael Fray, Laurence Clift

“…The qualitative study involving two focus group discussions at different call centres, with 6 employees in one focus group and 9 in the second, stated employee's reasons for variations in the key performance metric by which they were being evaluated. …”
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Why a PhD? An exercise with LEGO®: Using novel communication tools to express multi-level complex messages by Carmen Torres, Paul Conway

“…Their level of satisfaction was high in that they felt more confident explaining an otherwise elusive question that they had found difficult to address, articulate and communicate previously. …”
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The media, resistance and civil society by Natalie Fenton

“…It is also undeniable that we live in a media dominated world with many different ideas and identities in circulation at any one time. …”
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The implementation of a cognitive teaching approach to games in Hong Kong by Yuk-Kwong Liu

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The problem of a subjective authenticity and the articulation of belonging among the Irish in England-a psychosocial approach by Marc Scully

“…In particular, I consider how this personalised sense of authenticity may come into conflict with the need to have one’s personal identity recognised as authentic within the wider set of meaning-makings around the collectivity. …”
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Understanding experiences of and influences on well-being in elite para-sport: a qualitative exploration of U.K. para-athletes by Brodie Miller, Jamie Barker, Emily Hunton, Carolyn Plateau

“…Semistructured interviews were conducted with 21 current U.K. para-athletes (13 Paralympians and eight internationally competitive para-athletes; from 12 different summer para-sports; median age: 28.8 years, range 22–47). …”
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The significance of choice in design and technology education by Steve Keirl

“…Research findings on the effectiveness of different educational technologies are briefly stated in terms of the real benefits of technology in technology education. …”
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Impact of new technology on teaching and learning in technology education by K.L. Kumar

“…Research findings on the effectiveness of different educational technologies are briefly stated in terms of the real benefits of technology in technology education. …”
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