DSpace at Cardiff Met: Recent submissions
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Nowhere man: John Lennon and spectral liminality
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Smells like teen spirit: Channelling subcultural traditions in contemporary Dr Martens branding
(Sage, 2014-02-03)In 2012, the Dr Martens footwear company announced profits of £22 million with a 230% rise in sales from 2011–2012. In the light of this achievement, this paper will investigate the ideologies behind recent marketing ... -
What lies beneath: Fabric and embodiment in Almodovar’s The Skin I Live In
(Ingenta, 2017-06-01)This article investigates discourses about fabric and embodiment in Pedro Almodovar’s The Skin I Live In (2011). The aim of the study is to consider how the film’s narrative and mise-en-scène positions fabric as an expression ... -
Working within professional rugby union
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Using Technology to Evaluate Game Play for Beginners and Proficient Players That Encompasses Game-Play Evaluation
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The effects of artificial surface temperature on mechanical properties and player kinematics during landing and acceleration
(Elsevier, 2015-06-12)Background: Artificial turf is considered a feasible global alternative to natural turf by many sports governing bodies. Consequently, its ability to provide a safe and consistent playing surface regardless of climate ... -
Monadic, material and mirroring: Female bodies in track athletics culture
(SAGE, 2014-09-12)This study explored how female track athletes experience and use their bodies within the contexts (social places) that form part of their everyday routines. Using ethnographic methods (focus groups, observations, self-directed ... -
Honey for wound care in the 21st century
(Mark Allen Healthcare, 2016-09-09)This review is written in memory of Professor Peter Molan, who published a paper in the Journal of Wound Care in 1999 describing the therapeutic properties of honey in relation to wound care. It provides an update to show ... -
Exploring the socio-ecological factors behind the (in)active lifestyles of Spanish post-bariatric surgery patients
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-06-12)Purpose: Physical activity (PA) is considered essential for the treatment of morbid obesity and the optimization of bariatric surgery outcomes. The objective of this article was to identify the facilitators and barriers ... -
The poetics of the fragment
(Wales in Venice, 2019-05-24)Installation art has two defining features. The first is that it requires the experience of the viewer or visitor for its completion. This is on the understanding that what is offered in an installation is distributed in ... -
From insignificance to significance
(Bloomsbury, 2020-02-01)Through a series of artworks, the name ‘Martin Creed’ leads us to a position where the concept of what counts as an object of attention cannot be taken for granted. We find ourselves in a context where any minute, ordinarily ... -
Local authority sustainable planning for tourism: lessons from Ireland
(Emerald PublishingCardiff School of Management, 2019-05-30)Purpose – Sustainability is an essential word in the vocabulary of modern planning; it is the key principle that underpins the Irish planning process. Yet, despite decades of academic and practical debate on sustainable ... -
Art, philosophy and the connectivity of concepts
(Taylor and Francis, 2019-05-01)In the history of philosophy, concepts are traditionally pictured as discrete containers that bring together objects or qualities based on the possession of shared, uniform properties. This paper focuses on a contrasting ... -
Probability of winning and match length in Tiebreak Ten tennis
(Taylor and Francis, 2019-05-26)New formats of tennis have been developed to make matches more exciting and unpredictable than the traditional format of the game. The purpose of the current investigation was to compare and the probability of winning ... -
Effect of travel and fixture scheduling in the Trans-Tasman Netball League
(New Zealand Federation of Sports Medicine, 2019-04-01)Introduction: Home advantage, defined as the tendency of sporting-teams to have more success at their home ground, has been well documented. Notably, air travel, which can result in travel fatigue and jet lag (particularly ... -
Mechanical Entanglement: A Collaborative Haptic-Music Performance
(2019-03)Mechanical Entanglement is a musical composition for three performers. Three force feedback devices each containing two haptic faders are mutually coupled using virtual linear springs and dampers. During the composition, ... -
Game|lan:Co-Designing and Co-Creating an Orchestra of Digital Musical Instruments within the Fab Lab Network
(CCRMA, Stanford University, 2019-03-23)This paper presents an ongoing project focused on the co-design and co-creation of a small orchestra of digitally fabricated digital musical instruments (DMIs) based on the Bela board, an open-source embedded computing ... -
The effect of FES-rowing training on cardiac structure and function: pilot studies in people with spinal cord injury
(Nature, 2016-01-12)Study design: Two studies were conducted: Study-1 was cross-sectional; and Study-2 a longitudinal repeated measures design. Objectives: To examine the influence of functional electrical stimulation (FES) rowing training ... -
Comparison of the efficacy of a neutral wrist splint and a wrist splint incorporating a lumbrical unit for the treatment of patients with carpal tunnel syndrome
(SAGE, 2015-07-20)Background: Different types of splints have been used as a conservative intervention to improve symptoms in patients with Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). Although a number of studies have been undertaken to compare different ... -
Influence of heel design in an orthopedic shoe on ground reaction forces during walking
(SAGE, 2015-08-13)BACKGROUND: One of the treatments prescribed for musculoskeletal patients is orthopedic shoe. The use of an orthopedic shoe is thought to produce a more typical ground reactive force pattern. OBJECTIVES: This study ...
