A revised approach to professional philosophy for sport and exercise psychology practitioners See

Professional philosophy is an important part of training and practice for trainee and qualified sport and exercise psychology practitioners (SEPPs) alike. Despite this, there remains limited literature addressing the philosophical premises relevant to the field, and how to navigate them. In ...

Co-Creation Methodology for Developing a Racial Inclusivity Training Resource in Physiotherapy Education See

Background: Attainment disparities and experiences of racism among physiotherapy students from racially minoritised groups highlight the need for inclusive training resources. Co-creation actively involves end users in the development process, ensures relevance and efficacy, and was considered neces...

Care of Children with Complex Needs in Low-Income Families See

This chapter provides an overview of key ethical considerations within the care of children from an interprofessional perspective. We first explore the importance and history of ethics within child health, focusing on how poverty impacts on child health and social care. We provide ...

Development of FGM and FGAM See

FGM is a special class of composite material that was first developed in Japan around 1984 for the propulsion system and airframe of space planes. The challenge was to create a thermal barrier that would be capable of withstanding a temperature of 1000 °C over a cros...

Standardisation in AM See

A standard is a published document that describes a technical specification or a list of guidelines in the form of rules, definitions, methods, vocabularies, or codes of practices. Standards provide a unified source of reference for specifying or representing products. Before the indust...

Editorial PIAM April 2020 See

The second issue for 2020 (Volume 5 Issue 2) covers a wide range of interesting topics from using Additive Manufacturing for medical applications, structural optimization of medical implants and producing solid forms of oral dosage. Other papers in this issue include build process ...

The Design of Graphical Symbols for Shape Transformations of 4D Printed Parts See

The term “4D Printing” (4DP) is defined as the ability for a part produced using an additive manufacture process to change its shape when activated by or exposed to one or more stimuli over time. This emerging technology offers unique advantages over conventional Additive Manu...

WEIGHT OPTIMIZATION USING DESIGN TOPOLOGY AND MULTI- MATERIALS FOR AM APPLICATION IN MULTHEM PROJECT See

Mechanical products such as EV Batteries and Electrical Motors have housings confined to their boundary spaces. Existing industrial products use metal like aluminium as a full-covered casing or housing material, and this is costly in terms of performance overall as weight is a majo...

Intelligent Decision Supporting System for Precursors of Rock Instability: The Application of Early Warning of Rock Shear-Slip Instability See

Underground mining is developing towards deep and large scales; the safety production situation of mining becomes more and more severe. The difficulty of early warning of rock mass instability has increased sharply. The rock shear-slip test is carried out first, crack propagation featur...