The experience of the role of being a caregiver for carers who identify as ‘black’: an IPA study by Powell, Debra

“…Further it has been empirically noted that individuals from BME groups are less likely to access counselling services than White British people. …”
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After COVID-19: time to agree a biosecurity code of conduct under the biological and toxin weapons convention (book chapter) by Whitby, Simon, Tang, Cheng, Shang, Lijun, Dando, Malcolm

“…The devastating COVID-19 disease outbreak in early 2020 is likely to cause a major rethink about the dangers of natural, accidental and deliberate disease outbreaks in humans, animals and plants when the outbreak is eventually brought under control. …”

Get your facts right: preschoolers systematically extend both object names and category-relevant facts by Holland, Amanda, Mather, Emily, Simpson, Andrew, Riggs, Kevin J.

“…At test, children provided with the object name or category-relevant fact were significantly more likely to display systematic category extension than children who learnt the category-irrelevant fact. …”
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The Radio Garden: private pleasures and public benefits by Lewis, Peter M., Mitchell, Caroliine

“…With a touch of the screen Radio Garden offers an escape from the bubble of ‘likes’ to new musical and linguistic encounters, geographical difference and distance, perhaps even an escape from the bubble of nationality. …”
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The impact of Covid-19 on struggling ethnic minority entrepreneurs’ business strategy: the case of Bangladeshi curry houses in the United Kingdom by Razzak, B. M., Idris, Bochra, Hasan, Rahaman, Saridakis, George, Hansen, Jared M.

“…Originality/value: The results indicates that the ethnic minority owned SMEs are less likely to plan for the future operations; furthermore, they tend not to have formulated a strategy for dealing with an external shock hence affecting and threatening their performance and competitiveness in the marketplace.…”

Methodological implications of participant and researcher multilingualism: making language dynamics visible by Rolland, Louise, King, Hannah M., Lorette, Pernelle

“…This special issue (SI) brings together seven contributions which discuss the methodological implications of researching in a multilingual world, where researchers and/or research participants are likely to know more than one language. The papers examine the relationship between researchers’ language ideologies and actual practices with multilingual participants, teams or projects, from a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives. …”
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UK Vietnamese Businesses: Cultural Influences and Intra-cultural Differences by Bagwell, Sue

“…In particular 2nd generation and recent immigrants were less likely to adopt traditional collectivist approaches to the running of their business compared with the first generation, but their business practice was still often influenced by strong family loyalties. …”
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A hybrid technique using minimal spanning tree and analytic hierarchical process to prioritize functional requirements for parallel software development by Muhammad Yaseen, Muhammad Yaseen, Mustapha, Aida, Shah, Muhammad Arif, Ibrahim, Noraini

“…Software for large enterprises such as the enterprise resource planning (ERP) is more likely to be developed by a team of software developers where the functional requirements (FRs) are distributed in parallel developers. …”
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The Efficacy of Students‟ Knowledge Construction Process in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) Environment: A Malaysian View by Hashim, Suhaizal, Masek, Alias, Mohamed Zahir, Nur Zahira, Khamis, Nurhani

“…However, efforts to digitise education usually encounter two major issues: first, the applications developed are more likely to emphasise the qualities of graphics and animations; second, the multimedia presentation highlighted in the application is a stereotype that causes users to become bored. …”
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A hybrid technique using minimal spanning tree and analytic hierarchical process to prioritize functional requirements for parallel software development by Muhammad Yaseen, Muhammad Yaseen, Mustapha, Aida, Muhammad Arif Shah, Muhammad Arif Shah, Ibrahim, Noraini

“…Software for large enterprises such as the enterprise resource planning (ERP) is more likely to be developed by a team of software developers where the functional requirements (FRs) are distributed in parallel developers. …”
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Antioxidant and antiproliferative activities of Malaysian sea cucumber, (Holothuria edulis Lesson), extracts by Althunibat, Osama Yousef, Hashim, Ridzwan, Bakhtiar, M. Taher, Mohd. Daud, Jamaludin, Ikeda, Masa-Aki

“…The inhibitory effect of the exfacts on proliferation of MCF-7 (human breast adenocarcinoma) and TEI (Human esophageal squamous cell carcinoma) human cancer cell lines were demonstrated by 3-(4,5- dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT) assay. …”
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Signatures of rapid change in PRDM9 binding targets are evident in archaic humans by Tumian, Afidalina, Davies, Robert W., Myers, Simon

“…Objectives: Multiple lines of evidence suggest that the rapidly evolving zinc-finger (ZF) protein, PRDM9, is responsible for initiating much or all of recombination in human. …”
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An assessment of oxidative potential of indoor/outdoor airborne particulate matter at roadside and urban background sites in London by Mohd Aris, Mohd Shukri, Kelly, Frank, Barratt, Benjamin

“…PM oxidative activity was examined by quantifying its capacity to deplete antioxidants from the synthetic respiratory tract lining fluid (RTLF) model. RESULTS: The novel time series of PM OP dataset established in this study highlighted a clear difference between the two sites. …”
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Single layer map viewer approach for multi-scale data extraction by Wan Ab. Karim, Wan Muhd. Hairi

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Phosphorylation of protein kinase B, the key enzyme in insulin signalling cascade, is enhanced in linoleic and arachidonic acid treated HT29 and HepG2 cells by Mariniello, Katia, Min, Yoeju, Ghebremeskel, Kebreab

“…Results: The fatty acids were incorporated in PtdCho and PtdEtn of both cell lines; but, the level of incorporation was higher in HT29. …”
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From 'nobody to somebody' : challenges and opportunities for Gujarati women learning English in London by Ray, Smita

“…While the women interviewed in this research experience ‘race’ and patriarchy along class lines, they also face a dilemma of balancing their personal lives and protecting themselves from the ‘corrupting Western’ culture through imposed cultural definitions which might result in them taking up an ‘oppressed’ South Asian femininity. …”
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Modelling and analysis of complex electromagnetic problems using FDTD subgridding in hybrid computational methods by Ramli, Khairun Nidzam

“…The work also investigated the interaction between overhead high voltage transmission lines and underground utility pipelines using the FDTD technique for the whole structure, combined with a subgridding method at points of interest, particularly the pipeline. …”
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Pigment production by New Zealand microbes: screening and industrial application by Kamarudin, Kamarul Rahim, Roberts, Kelly, Lewis, Gillian, Greenwood, Dave, Villas-Bôas, Silas

“…Development of microbial food grade pigments are likely to cut down the high production cost of natural pigments, thus leading to a cheaper source of natural food colorants among the modern consumers. …”
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Pigment stability studies in selected pigment-producing microbes from New Zealand environment by Kamarudin, Kamarul Rahim, Lewis, Gillian, Greenwood, David R., Villas-Bôas, Silas

“…Development of microbial food grade pigments are likely to cut down the high production cost of natural colours, thus leading to a cheaper source of natural food colourants among the modern consumers. …”
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Factors influencing smoking behaviours among male adolescents in Kuantan district by Mohd Yassin, Rapeah, Yaacob, Munirah, Othman, Latifah, K, Faizah, S, Norsimah, M, Maryana, Saub, Roslan

“…Students whose parents had lower level of occupation were more likely to smoke (58.8%). Among smokers, 34.5% of them smoked since primary school and a majority (91.7%) smoked 10 or less cigarettes per day. …”
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