Is leagile still relevant? A review and research opportunities by Ran Bhamra, Alka Nand, Lili Yang, Paula Albregard, Glaucia Azevedo, Daniella Corriaini, Maria Emiliasiq

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Is job insecurity still relevant? Unpacking the meaning of "job" and "insecurity" in today's economy by Tahira M. Probst, Eva Selenko, Mindy Shoss

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The role of 'stillness' and 'nostalgia' in sustainable development: Asking different questions in communication for development by Jo Tacchi

“…I consider how notions of voice and listening might be understood as moments of stillness in a fast moving and mobile world. I draw upon Bissell and Fuller's (2010) idea of stillness as referring to practices and states of contemplation, halting, reflecting and stepping back from the fully social flow of life. …”
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Still life in the old attack dogs: the press by David Deacon, Dominic Wring

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India - women the forgotten half and sanitation still elusive by Shipra Saxena, Chandra Ganapathy

“…Woman’s role as user and motivator has been well recognized and to some extent exploited, but the core problems which are causes or effects blocking women’s access to sanitation could better be addressed if there is sensitive leadership which can sense and address the issues. …”
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“Augustus <i>Reigns, but Poets still are low</i>”: Aphra Behn’s world in <i>The Emperor of the Moon</i> (1687) by Elaine Hobby

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Battery-supported eCooking: A transformative opportunity for 2.6 billion people who still cook with biomass by Jon Leary, Matthew Leach, Simon Batchelor, Nigel Scott, Ed Brown

“…No significant change in household menus occurred and the energy-efficient devices enabled 100% of everyday cooking with just 0.87–2.06 kWh/household/day. Our initial findings have already directly influenced the development of a 5-year UKAid-funded programme in collaboration with the World Bank, ‘Modern Energy Cooking Services’, and the new draft energy policy in Uganda. …”
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‘It’s still them’: concealed racism against Roma in Romanian television news by Petre Breazu, David Machin

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Activities of daily life still cause problems for many older and physically impaired people by Ruth Sims, Diane Gyi, Russell Marshall, Keith Case

“…Without being able to do them, people can become dependent on others or simply not live their lives in the way that they would wish to. …”
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Anticipation in sport: Fifty years on, what have we learned and what research still needs to be undertaken? by A. Mark Williams, Robin Jackson

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After all this time, isn't it still 'about time'? Artists' work in slide-tape in the UK since the 1970s by Mary White

“…This article will address the use of slide-tape by artists during the 1970s and 1980s in the United Kingdom. Slide-tape is seen now as a form that was abandoned and barely worthy of mention by critics and historians, and so has been largely elided in the literature. …”
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Still feeling like a spare piece of luggage: young disabled people's construction of embodied identities within physical education and sport by Hayley F. Fitzgerald

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The Kenya eCookBook: Beans & cereals edition by Jon Leary, Jacob Fodio Todd, Simon Batchelor, Karen Chepkurui, Mourine Chepkemoi, Ann Numi, Rebecca Hanlin, Nigel Scott, Ed Brown

“…Even in 2019, many households with a kerosene, gas or electric stove still cook ‘heavy foods’ like beans on charcoal because most people believe it’s cheaper – as you will see in this eCookBook, it is not!…”
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Teamworking and Lean revisited: a reply to Carter et al. by Stephen Procter, Zoe Radnor

“…This paper is a reply to Carter et al.’s response to an earlier paper of ours in this journal on the subject of teamworking under Lean in the UK public services . Our reply covers the following issues which Carter et al. have raised: the literature we used to structure our findings; the way in which we used concepts such as autonomy and teamworking; our research methods and approach; how Carter et al.’s newly available data on teamworking might be interpreted; and how data drawn from an official employee attitude survey might best be understood. …”
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Television in Latin America is “everywhere”: Not dead, not dying, but converging and thriving by Guillermo Orozco, Toby Miller

“…Advertising investment in TV continues to increase, governments still use television to promote generalized propaganda as well as their daily agendas, football on screen remains wildly popular, and fiction programs, most notably telenovelas, dominate prime time and draw large audiences aged between 25 and 60. …”
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Lean manufacturing culture: The role of human perceptions of standardized work by Amjad Hussain, Keith Case, Ata Ur Rehman, Tariq Masood, Muhammad S. Habib

“…Work standardization is one of the lean tools whose role in terms of organizational performance improvement has been claimed in the literature; however, its implications in terms of employee's perceptions are still controversial. …”
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Communicating the deadly consequences of global warming for human heat stress by Tom Matthews, Robert Wilby, Conor Murphy

“…We show that, even in a climate held to 2 °C above PI, Karachi (Pakistan) and Kolkata (India) could expect conditions equivalent to their deadly 2015 heatwaves every year. With only 1.5 °C of global warming, twice as many megacities (such as Lagos, Nigeria, and Shanghai, China) could become heat stressed, exposing more than 350 million more people to deadly heat by 2050 under a midrange population growth scenario. …”
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A next generation manufacturing control system for a lean production environment by Leslie J. Lee

“…Whilst the operational domain in the automotive industry has moved to lean production techniques, the design of presentday manufacturing control systems is still based on systems intended for use in a mass production environment. …”
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An exploration of barriers to implement Lean in the emergency level of the Brazilian public healthcare system by Higor V. Dos Reis Leite

“…These problems constrain the system and affect the patients. Lean is a well-known approach that has been applied around the world with special focus in developed countries. …”
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The hibernating mobile phone: dead storage as a barrier to efficient electronic waste recovery by Garrath Wilson, Grace Smalley, J. Suckling, Debra Lilley, Jacquetta Lee, Richard G. Mawle

“…The average duration of ownership of mobile phones kept and still in hibernation was 4 years 11 months, with average use and hibernation durations of 1 year 11 months, and 3 years respectively; on average, mobile phones that are kept by the user are hibernated for longer than they are ever actually used as primary devices. …”
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Attenuation of low frequency ground vibrations by means of resonant scattering of rayleigh waves on heavy masses by Victor V. Krylov

“…A promising and cost effective method of screening the affected properties can be using heavy masses placed on the ground surface near the road (e.g. concrete or stone blocks, specially designed brick walls, etc). …”
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Analysing the preferred characteristics of frontline employees dealing with customer complaints: a cross-national Kano study by Thorsten Gruber, Ibrahim Abosag, Alexander E. Reppel, Isabelle Szmigin

“…The Kano results for Saudi Arabia clearly indicate that complaining customers are (still) easier to delight than their UK counterparts. …”
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The role of the UK Green Deal in shaping pro-environmental behaviours: Insights from two case studies by Candice Howarth, Ben M Roberts

“…Domestic energy use accounts for more than a quarter of total energy use in the United Kingdom (UK), with space and water heating accounting for almost 80% of this consumption. …”
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Enhancing nucleic acid detection using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, by means of metal and nano-particle labelling by Samantha Louise Kerr

“…Acid digestion of the carbon based DNA matrix enabled Pt adducts to be quantified at low dose rates of 1 Pt atom per 1 500 000 nucleotides in ~12 μg DNA. …”
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Intensity thresholds on raw acceleration data: Euclidean norm minus one (ENMO) and mean amplitude deviation (MAD) approaches by Kishan Bakrania, Thomas E. Yates, Alex V. Rowlands, Dale Esliger, Sarah Bunnewell, James Sanders, Melanie J. Davies, Kamlesh Khunti, Charlotte L. Edwardson

“…Methods Thirty-three adults [mean age (standard deviation (SD)) = 27.4 (5.9) years; mean BMI (SD) = 23.9 (3.7) kg/m2; 20 females (60.6%)] wore four accelerometers; an ActiGraph GT3X+ and a GENEActiv on the right hip; and an ActiGraph GT3X+ and a GENEActiv on the nondominant wrist. …”
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Progress in demand response and it’s industrial applications by S. M. Shahnewaz Siddiquee, Bianca Howard, Ken Bruton, Alexander Brem, Dominic T. J. O’Sullivan

“…Industries have enormous potential to deliver large-scale energy flexibility through demand response (DR) programs. This industrial demand flexibility achieved through the demand response programs will enable widespread adoption of renewable sources in the electricity grid network. …”
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An economic narrative for better managing the european energy crisis by Alistair Milne

“…Au contraire, while the looming energy crisis cannot be entirely avoided, demand management can substantially limit the price rises for European energy and, along with fiscal measures to protect the most vulnerable households, deal with its economic and social consequences. …”
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Vibration characteristics of MR cantilever sandwich beams: experimental study by Vianney Lara Prieto, Robert M. Parkin, Michael Jackson, Vadim Silberschmidt, Zbigniew Kesy

“…The concept of vibration controllability with smart fluids within flexible structures has been in the centre of interest in the past two decades. …”
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Analytical beam and annular plate models for automotive disc brake vibration by Dennis Boennen

“…Research in brake squeal has been conducted for over fifty years in many different areas and still it is not completely understood. …”
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A work process model of industrialised building system in Malaysian construction industry by Yani Ahmad

“…Although the case studies presented here cannot be generalised to all IBS classifications, the work process models could be a starting point to generate preliminary ideas on how the lean strategies can improve the IBSPCC work process. …”
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Drawing 3A2 by Martin Lewis

“…The video included here is an extract and is taken from when the drawing is 1 hour and ten minutes in. This was a particular intense period where I completely absorbed in slowing the tap down to an almost imperceptible level. …”
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Conceptualising value for construction: experience from social housing projects in Chile by Jose Salvatierra-Garrido

“…Through the years, the concept of Value has been widely discussed covering diverse fields of knowledge, such as marketing, business management, strategy, engineering, design, and the like. …”
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Comparative analysis on imbalanced multi-class classification for malware samples using CNN by Arwa Alzammam, Hamad Binsalleeh, Basil AsSdhan, Kostas Kyriakopoulos, Sangarapillai Lambotharan

“…Everyday, the number of unique malware samples are in the rise, however the ratio of benign software still greatly outnumbers malware samples. In machine learning, such datasets are known as imbalanced, where the majority class label greatly dominate the other ones. …”
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Creep behaviour of cracked high performance fibre reinforced concrete beams under flexural load by Eduardo Galeote, Ana Blanco-Alvarez, Albert De la Fuente, Sergio Pialarissi-Cavalaro

“…The deflection at the mid-span was registered by means of LVDT transducers. …”
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'The rhino horn on display has been replaced by a replica': Museum security in Finland and England by Louise Nicholas, Suzie Thomas

“…Furthermore, threats exist from accidents, natural disasters and vandalism, among many other risks that have to be built into museums security measures. In recent years, high profile art thefts from museums and even, regrettably, acts of terror, have drawn attention to the vulnerability of museum institutions as sites of crime and catastrophe. …”
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Predicting the additional GB electricity demand resulting from a widespread uptake of domestic heat pumps by Stephen Watson

“…Heat pumps have a lower flow temperature and lower maximum heat output than other types of heating system, and hence are likely to be used for more hours per day, potentially leading to lower peak demand and ramp rate. …”
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Accounting for environmental factors, bias and negative numbers in efficiency estimation: a bootstrapping application to the Hong Kong banking sector by Maximilian Hall, Karligash Glass, Richard Simper

“…Finally, with respect to the truncated regression analysis, the results suggest that smaller banks are more efficient than their larger counterparts, although larger banks are still able to enjoy gains from scale economies and benefit from the export of financial services. …”
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Robust portfolio management with multiple financial analysts by I-Chen

“…For example, to address the issue of uncertainty caused by estimation errors, the robust counterpart approach of Ben-Tal and Nemirovski (1998) has been employed frequently in recent years. …”
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Retrofitting post-war office buildings: Interventions for energy efficiency, improved comfort, productivity and cost reduction by Özlem Duran, Kevin Lomas

“…Many post-war offices will still be in use throughout the first half of this century. …”
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Adopting deep learning methods for airborne RGB fluvial scene classification by Patrice Carbonneau, Stephen Dugdale, Toby Breckon, James Dietrich, Mark Fonstad, Hitoshi Miyamoto, Amy Woodget

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Real-time deep reinforcement learning based vehicle navigation by Songsung Koh, Bo Zhou, Hui Fang, Po Yang, Zaili Yang, Qiang Yang, Lin Guan, Zhigang Ji

“…In this paper, we propose a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) method to build a real-time intelligent vehicle routing and navigation system by formulating the task as a sequence of decisions. …”
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Buffer-aided 5G cooperative networks: Considering the source delay by Mohammad Alkhawatrah, Yu Gong, Omar Aldabbas, Mohammad Hammoudeh

“…Markov chain is employed to model the system and analyze the source delay. Numerical simulations verify the analytical model, the results show that buffer-aided relays can beat non-buffer relays in terms of average packet delay, especially at low signal to noise ratio (SNR) range. …”
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Emotion recognition from skeletal movements by Tomasz Sapinski, Dorota Kaminska, Adam Pelikant, Gholamreza Anbarjafari

“…Automatic emotion recognition has become an important trend in many artificial intelligence (AI) based applications and has been widely explored in recent years. Most research in the area of automated emotion recognition is based on facial expressions or speech signals. …”
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Laser additive manufacturing of embedded 3D circuit system and microstructure manipulation using Gaussian and holographic optical elements reconstructed beams by Shuai Hou

“…Laser based additive manufacturing has been developed for many years but currently it is still used to create non-functional product. …”
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Interface study by dual-beam FIB-TEM in a pressureless infiltrated Al(Mg)–Al2O3 interpenetrating composite by H. Chan, Rebecca Higginson, J.G.P. Binner

“…Thin film samples, specifically produced across the Al(Mg)-Al2O3 interface, were prepared using a Dual Beam Focused Ion Beam (FIB) and subsequently observed using Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM). …”
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A deep convolutional neural network model for rapid prediction of fluvial flood inundation by Syed Kabir, Sandhya Patidar, Xilin Xia, Qiuhua Liang, Jeffrey Neal, Gareth Pender

“…Most of the two-dimensional (2D) hydraulic/hydrodynamic models are still computationally too demanding for real-time applications. …”
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A cross-cultural analysis of curatorial practices: Byzantine exhibitionary complexes in three European national museums by Sofia Mali

“…By doing this, I also explain the implications of those presuppositions to the making of exhibitionary meaning, and I provide an explanation of how and why the power system of the exhibitionary complex is still in play although we are shifting into the era of the Democratic museum (Fleming, 2008). …”
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The growth of school children from the subcontinent of India living in Leicestershire by Jean Peters

“…Other environmental factors such as length of time of residence in this country, or period of time spent in East Africa appear to have had some impact upon growth, since the Indians in Leicestershire are taller and heavier than their counterparts still resident in India. …”
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Deep cooperative strategies for multi-agent reinforcement learning by Rafael Pina

“…Allowing agents to talk can be key to learn certain complex tasks, and for the success of that it is necessary to learn efficient messages. …”
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Balancing the complexity of patient falls: implementing quality improvement and human factors/ergonomics and systems engineering strategies in healthcare by Laurie Wolf

“…Introduction: Falls are the leading cause of death due to injury among the elderly. …”
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