DSpace at Cardiff Met: Recent submissions
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Recent Advances in Pipeline Monitoring and Oil Leakage Detection Technologies: Principles and Approaches
(MDPI, 2019-06-04)Pipelines are widely used for the transportation of hydrocarbon fluids over millions of miles all over the world. The structures of the pipelines are designed to withstand several environmental loading conditions to ensure ... -
A Critique of Trading Standards in Wales – Post-devolution Developments and Prognosis
(Cardiff Metropolitan University, 2020)This thesis investigates and critically evaluates Trading Standards (TS) delivery in Wales. TS enforces law to promote fair trading. It is delivered through local government in Great Britain. Successful enforcement protects ... -
A Parametric Technique for Traps Characterization in AlGaN/GaN HEMTs
(IEEE, 2020-04-08)A new parametric and cost-effective tech- nique is developed to decouple the mechanisms behind current degradation in AlGaN/GaN HEMTs under a nor- mal device operation: self-heating and charge trapping. A unique approach ... -
Welsh-language Scaffolding: A Strategy for Undergraduate Teaching in Cardiff School of Management
(2020)Cardiff Metropolitan University is a post-1992 university which offers undergraduate degree programmes wherein students can elect to study Welsh-medium modules. Focussing on the BA (Hons) Business and Management programme, ... -
Appetitive aggression in offending youths: Contributions of callous unemotional traits and violent cognitive patterns
(Springer, 2020-05-01)Appetitive aggression, marked by the derivation of positive affect from harming others has been observed mostly among youths in societies experiencing extreme violence. Perpetrators report craving violence, and find the ... -
Individual hop analysis and reactive strength ratios provide better discrimination of ACL reconstructed limb deficits than triple hop for distance scores in athletes returning to sport
(Elsevier, 2020)Surgical treatment and rehabilitation programs for anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) remain a costly burden to health care services (23). Approximately two thirds of patients successfully return to sport ... -
The influence of biological maturity on dynamic force-time variables and vaulting performance in young female gymnasts
(Springer, 2020)Jumping and rebounding are important prerequisites that underpin the high impact loading gymnastics skills (e.g. acrobatic series, tumbling etc.) (Suchomel et al. 2016). Further, three of the four artistic disciplines that ... -
The influence of biological maturity and competitive level on isometric force-time curve variables and vaulting performance in young female gymnasts
(Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins, 2020-06-19)This cross-sectional study investigated isometric force-time curve variables and vaulting performance in young female gymnasts of varying maturity and competitive levels. One hundred twenty gymnasts aged 5–14 years were ... -
A case study of food handler hand hygiene compliance in high-care and high-risk food manufacturing environments using covert-observation
(Taylor & Francis, 2020-07-07)Observation of behaviour is superior to cognitive data, which does not equate to behaviour. Covert-observation is seldom used in food manufacturing to assess behaviour. In this case study, closed-circuit-television footage ... -
The influence of barosensory vessel mechanics on the vascular sympathetic baroreflex: Insights into ageing and blood pressure homeostasis
(American Physiological Society, 2020)Changes in the arterial baroreflex arc contribute to elevated sympathetic outflow and altered reflex control of blood pressure with human ageing. Utilizing ultrasound and sympathetic microneurography (muscle sympathetic ... -
A systematic review of sport-based life skills programs for young people: The quality of design 2 and evaluation methods
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)Over the past two decades, researchers have reported positive life skills outcomes for young people participating in sport-based life-skills programs. However, to date, there has been a lack of consideration in the literature ... -
A Multi-Study Exploration of Factors that Optimise Hardiness in Sport Coaches and the Role of Reflective Practice in Facilitating Hardy Attitudes
(Frontiers Media, 2020)Hardiness has been identified as a key personal characteristic that may moderate the ill-effects of stress on health and performance. However, little is known about how hardiness might be developed, particularly in sport ... -
A critical application of the ‘teaching games for understanding’ approach in the coaching context: An action research study
(Cardiff Metropolitan University, 2019)The innovative nature of the ‘Teaching Games for Understanding’ (TGfU) approach (Thorpe, Bunker & Almond, 1986) has led to considerable interest from researchers and practitioners (e.g., MacPhail et al., 2008). Consequently, ... -
Risk Factors for Upper Limb Injury in Tennis Players: A Systematic Review
(MDPI, 2020-04-16)Studies in tennis injuries have successfully identified the incident rate, the location, and the type of the injury. The majority of the studies have multiple perspectives (epidemiology, biomechanics, performance), however ... -
Quantitative Weight Bearing and non-weight Bearing Measures of Stiffness in the Achilles Tendon and Gastrocnemius Muscle
(Edra, 2020-03-01)Objectives. To establish quantitative values of stiffness for the Achilles tendon (AT) and Gastrocnemius muscle (GM) in participants weight bearing and non-weight bearing. Methods. Measurements of 25 participants taken ... -
Improved reporting of overuse injuries and health problems in sport: an update of the Oslo Sport Trauma Research Center questionnaires
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2020-02-14)In 2013, the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center Overuse Injury Questionnaire (OSTRC-O) was developed to record the magnitude, symptoms and consequences of overuse injuries in sport. Shortly afterwards, a modified version ... -
Motivations and barriers to engagement with a technology-enabled community wide physical activity intervention
(Public Library of Science, 2020-06-26)Previous physical activity interventions have failed to create population change and an alternative approach is needed to support a World Health Organization target of a 15% reduction in global levels of inactivity by 2030. ... -
Aberrant Functional and Causal Connectivity in Acute Tinnitus With Sensorineural Hearing Loss
(Frontiers Media, 2020-06-30)Purpose: The neural bases in acute tinnitus remains largely undetected. The objective of this study was to identify the alteration of the brain network involved in patients with acute tinnitus and hearing loss. Methods: ... -
Dopaminergic Progenitors Derived From Epiblast Stem Cells Function Similarly to Primary VM-Derived Progenitors When Transplanted Into a Parkinson’s Disease Model
(Frontiers Media, 2020-04-07)Neural transplantation in neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s disease (PD) offers to replace cells lost during the progression of the disease process. Primary fetal ventral mesencephalon (VM), the origin of bona ... -
A comparative case study analysis of the United Kingdom and Uganda’s New Car Market
(Cardiff Metropolitan University, 2020)Integrated Marketing communications (IMC) as an emerging concept in the marketing discipline has lasted for approximately the last 30 years has achieved a tremendous welcome from both practitioners and scholars. Within ...
