Skills in detecting gun carrying from CCTV by Anastassia Blechko, Iain T. Darker, Alastair Gale

“…Trained CCTV operators and lay people then viewed this footage and were asked to indicate whether or not they thought the surveillance target was carrying a firearm. …”
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The detection of concealed firearm carrying trough CCTV: the role of affect recognition by Anastassia Blechko

“…Since a firearm is concealed, it has been assumed that human observers would respond to subtle cues which individuals inherently produce whilst carrying a hidden firearm. These cues are believed to be reflected in the body language of those carrying firearms and might be apprehended by observers at a conscious or subconscious level. …”
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Supporting self-help groups: an action research study based on the work of Nottingham Self-Help Groups Project between 1982 and 1983 carried out by the project worker by Judith M. Wilson

“…Rather, in this research, self help development is set in context; the need for change is identified examining too how changes were carried out; and specific aspects of the work are analysed. …”
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RealTalk evidence-based communication training resources: development of conversation analysis-based materials to support training in end-of-life-related health and social care con... by Ruth Parry, Becky Whittaker, Marco Pino, Laura Jenkins, Esme Worthington, Christina Faull

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Occupational Therapy in HomEcare Re-ablement Services (OTHERS): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial by Phillip J. Whitehead, Avril Drummond, Marion F. Walker, Ruth Parry, Ian D. McGeorge, Zaid Latif

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German industry and global enterprise: BASF, the history of a company, by Werner Abelshauser (et al.) [review] by Jeremy Leaman

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Elite female soccer players’ dual career plans and the demands they encounter by Grace E. Harrison, Emma Vickers, David Fletcher, Guy Taylor

“…It is important to encourage these players to remain mindful of the benefits of carrying out a dual career (e.g., higher education and elite sport path). …”
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Static, dynamic and fatigue characteristics of helical cables by Timothy J. Davies

“…Extensive parametric studies have been carried out, using the orthotropic sheet theoretical model of Hobbs and Raoof, on a wide range of spiral strand constructions, with outside diameters, d, and lay angles, a, in the practical ranges, 16.4 mm ≤ d ≤ 184 mm, and 11 ≤ α ≤24 , respectively. …”
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Communism and the meaning of social memory: towards a critical-interpretive approach by Cristian Tileaga

“…Many of the ethical quandaries and dilemmas of collective memory and recent history can be better understood by describing the discursive and sociocultural processes of meaning-making and meaning-interpretation carried out by members of a polity.…”
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Exploring the barriers and facilitators to mental health help-seeking behaviours in British elite track and field athletes by Thomas Miller, Janine Coates, Carolyn Plateau, Jamie Barker

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HMAPs - Hybrid height-Voxel maps for environment representation by Luis Garrote, Cristiano Premebida, David Silva, Urbano Nunes

“…Moreover, validation of the proposed SLAM approach was carried out in an outdoor dataset with promising results, which lay a foundation for further research in the topic.…”
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The vaccination debate in the "post-truth" era: social media as sites of multi-layered reflexivity by Dino Numerato, Lenka Vochocova, Vaclav Stetka, Alena Mackova

“…We argue that the reflexive debate surrounding this primarily medical problem is influenced by both biomedical and social scientific knowledge. Lay actors therefore discuss not only vaccination, but also its political and economic aspects as well as the post-truth information context of the debate. …”
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Designing for sustainable behaviour in cross-cultural contexts: a design framework by Gloria M. Elizondo

“…To this end, a series of multicultural Personas were created as the direct outcome of the Cultural Probes and the scoping study, giving way to the design studies phase of the project, carried out with industrial design students in Mexico and the UK. …”
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Assessing the cooling performance of tropical dwellings using multi-year future climate scenario EnergyPlus weather files: a case study of Brunei Darussalam by Syafiq Mohamad Saiful, Steven Firth, Eftychia Spentzou

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Objects in the Familiar: Systemic contexts of production by Kavitha Ravikumar

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Production optimisation systems and consequences for workers health and safety: Lean production and effects on stress and musculoskeletal disorders by Theoni Koukoulaki

“…It provides an extensive review of studies carried out in lean production environments in the last 20 years that aims to identify the effects of lean production (negative or positive) on occupational health and related risk factors. …”
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A strategy for managing brickwork in Sri Lanka by Walimuni V.K.M. Abeysekera

“…Building with burnt clay bricks is part of Sri Lanka's engineering culture. …”
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