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Using working memory performance to predict mathematics performance 2 years on (2020)
Journal Article
Allen, K., Giofrè, D., Higgins, S., & Adams, J. (2020). Using working memory performance to predict mathematics performance 2 years on. Psychological Research, 85(5), 1986-1996. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-020-01382-5

A number of previous studies have used working memory components to predict mathematical performance in a variety of ways; however, there is no consideration of the contributions of the subcomponents of visuospatial working memory to this prediction.... Read More about Using working memory performance to predict mathematics performance 2 years on.

Model Evaluation: An Adequacy-for-Purpose View (2020)
Journal Article
Parker, W. (2020). Model Evaluation: An Adequacy-for-Purpose View. Philosophy of Science, 87(3), 457-477. https://doi.org/10.1086/708691

According to an adequacy-for-purpose view, models should be assessed with respect to their adequacy (or fitness) for particular purposes. Such a view has been advocated by scientists and philosophers alike. Important details, however, have yet to be... Read More about Model Evaluation: An Adequacy-for-Purpose View.

Exploring the Human Factor in Cyber-enabled and Cyber-dependent Crime Victimisation: A Lifestyle Routine Activities Approach (2020)
Journal Article
Akdemir, N., & Lawless, C. (2020). Exploring the Human Factor in Cyber-enabled and Cyber-dependent Crime Victimisation: A Lifestyle Routine Activities Approach. Internet Research, 30(6), 1665-1687. https://doi.org/10.1108/intr-10-2019-0400

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore human factors as the possible facilitator of cyber-dependent (hacking and malware infection) and cyber-enabled (phishing) crimes victimisation and to test the applicability of lifestyle routine activi... Read More about Exploring the Human Factor in Cyber-enabled and Cyber-dependent Crime Victimisation: A Lifestyle Routine Activities Approach.

Objects of safety and imprisonment: Breathless patients’ use of medical objects in a palliative setting (2020)
Journal Article
Binnie, K., McGuire, C., & Carel, H. (2021). Objects of safety and imprisonment: Breathless patients’ use of medical objects in a palliative setting. Journal of Material Culture, 26(2), 122-141. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359183520931900

In this article, the authors consider breathless adults with advanced non-malignant lung disease and their relationship with health objects. This issue is especially relevant now during the Covid-19 pandemic, where the experiences of breathlessness a... Read More about Objects of safety and imprisonment: Breathless patients’ use of medical objects in a palliative setting.

Latent Class Evaluation in Educational Trials: What Percentage of Children Benefits from an Intervention? (2020)
Journal Article
Uwimpuhwe, G., Singh, A., Higgins, S., Coux, M., Xiao, Z., Shkedy, Z., & Kasim, A. (2022). Latent Class Evaluation in Educational Trials: What Percentage of Children Benefits from an Intervention?. The Journal of Experimental Education, 90(2), 404-418. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220973.2020.1767021

Educational stakeholders are keen to know the magnitude and importance of different interventions. However, the way evidence is communicated to support understanding of the effectiveness of an intervention is controversial. Typically studies in educa... Read More about Latent Class Evaluation in Educational Trials: What Percentage of Children Benefits from an Intervention?.

Changing levels of local crime and mental health: a natural experiment using self-reported and service use data in Scotland (2020)
Journal Article
Baranyi, G., Cherrie, M., Curtis, S. E., Dibben, C., & Pearce, J. (2020). Changing levels of local crime and mental health: a natural experiment using self-reported and service use data in Scotland. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 74(10), 806-814. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2020-213837

Background: This study contributes robust evidence on the association between mental health and local crime rates by showing how changing exposure to small area-level crime relates to self-reported and administrative data on mental health. Methods: T... Read More about Changing levels of local crime and mental health: a natural experiment using self-reported and service use data in Scotland.

Materials Science (2020)
Digital Artefact
Mody, C. C., & Martin, J. D. (2020). Materials Science. [[Media unknown]]

Materials are everywhere. Imagine a common morning routine in the industrialized world. We arise from the synthetic sheets covering our memory-foam mattresses to cook our eggs in Teflon-coated pans while sipping coffee from ceramic mugs. We peer at n... Read More about Materials Science.

Understanding Class in the Post-Industrial Era - Thoughts on Modes of Investigation (2020)
Journal Article
Byrne, D. S. (2020). Understanding Class in the Post-Industrial Era - Thoughts on Modes of Investigation. Frontiers in Sociology, 5, Article 39. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2020.00039

The essential character of social science is that is founded around an interaction between theoretical framings and empirical investigation. Class is one of the most salient framing concepts of the discipline, always central even if somewhat pushed i... Read More about Understanding Class in the Post-Industrial Era - Thoughts on Modes of Investigation.

Time and Subtle Pictures in the History of Philosophy (2020)
Journal Article
Thomas, E. (2020). Time and Subtle Pictures in the History of Philosophy. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 120(2), 97-121. https://doi.org/10.1093/arisoc/aoaa007

For centuries, philosophers of time have produced texts containing words and pictures. Although some historians study visual representations of time, I have not found any history of philosophy on pictures of time within texts. This paper argues that... Read More about Time and Subtle Pictures in the History of Philosophy.

Translating laboratory evidence into classroom practice with teacher-led randomised controlled trials - a perspective and meta-analysis (2020)
Journal Article
Churches, R., Dommett, E., Devonshire, I., Hall, R., Higgins, S., & Korin, A. (2020). Translating laboratory evidence into classroom practice with teacher-led randomised controlled trials - a perspective and meta-analysis. Mind, Brain, and Education, 14(3), 292-302. https://doi.org/10.1111/mbe.12243

We initiated and structured a single program that supervised teachers, some with neuroscience or psychology degrees, to collaborate and explore the effects of science of learning‐translated pedagogy. This article reports on the 34 findings from teach... Read More about Translating laboratory evidence into classroom practice with teacher-led randomised controlled trials - a perspective and meta-analysis.

Children and young people’s concerns and needs relating to their use of health technology to self-manage long-term conditions: a scoping review (2020)
Journal Article
Blower, S., Swallow, V., Maturana, C., Stones, S., Phillips, R., Dimitri, P., …Martin-Kerry, J. (2020). Children and young people’s concerns and needs relating to their use of health technology to self-manage long-term conditions: a scoping review. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 105(11), 1093-1104. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2020-319103

Background: The use of patient-facing health technologies to manage long-term conditions is increasing; however, children and young people may have particular concerns or needs before deciding to use different health technologies. Aims: To identify c... Read More about Children and young people’s concerns and needs relating to their use of health technology to self-manage long-term conditions: a scoping review.

Assembling airspace: The Single European Sky and contested transnationalities of European air traffic management (2020)
Journal Article
Lawless, C. (2020). Assembling airspace: The Single European Sky and contested transnationalities of European air traffic management. Social Studies of Science, 50(4), 680-704. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312720920704

The Single European Sky (SES) encompasses a series of legislative and regulatory measures reflecting a vision for reforming Air Traffic Management (ATM) in Europe to ultimately transcend national control of airspace. This article considers SES via th... Read More about Assembling airspace: The Single European Sky and contested transnationalities of European air traffic management.

Mechanisms, laws and explanation (2020)
Journal Article
Cartwright, N., Pemberton, J., & Wieten, S. (2020). Mechanisms, laws and explanation. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 10(3), Article 25. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-020-00284-y

Mechanisms are now taken widely in philosophy of science to provide one of modern science’s basic explanatory devices. This has raised lively debate concerning the relationship between mechanisms, laws and explanation. This paper focuses on cases whe... Read More about Mechanisms, laws and explanation.