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Improving Rice Yield Prediction Accuracy Using Regression Models with Climate Data (2024)
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Mohamad Mohsin, M. F., Umana, M. K., Hassan, M. G., Sharif, K. I. M., Ismail, M. A., Salleh, K., …Gordon, N. (2024). Improving Rice Yield Prediction Accuracy Using Regression Models with Climate Data. Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2002 CCIS, 258-267. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-9592-9_20

Rice production is critical to food security, and accurate yield predictions are required for planning and decision-making. However, precisely predicting rice yields using machine learning models can be difficult due to the complicated interactions o... Read More about Improving Rice Yield Prediction Accuracy Using Regression Models with Climate Data.

Numerical Analysis on Conceptual Feasibility of Hybrid Windcatcher and Turbine Roof Ventilator for Optimum IEQ and Wind Power Harvesting (2024)
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Mohd Nasir, D., Hughes, B. R., & Ibrahim, A. (2024). Numerical Analysis on Conceptual Feasibility of Hybrid Windcatcher and Turbine Roof Ventilator for Optimum IEQ and Wind Power Harvesting. Energy Proceedings, 43, https://doi.org/10.46855/energy-proceedings-11026

This paper introduces "SmartTURVENT," a hybrid windcatcher and turbine roof ventilator system with triple benefits: enhancing indoor environmental quality (IEQ), harnessing renewable energy, and reducing carbon emissions. Utilising a transient state... Read More about Numerical Analysis on Conceptual Feasibility of Hybrid Windcatcher and Turbine Roof Ventilator for Optimum IEQ and Wind Power Harvesting.

Molecular Analysis at Relapse of Patients Treated on the Ibrutinib and Rituximab Arm of the National Multi-Centre Phase III FLAIR Study in Previously Untreated CLL Patients (2023)
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Sarma, A., Evans, C., Dalal, S., Webster, N., Rawstron, A., Shingles, J., …Hillmen, P. (2023). Molecular Analysis at Relapse of Patients Treated on the Ibrutinib and Rituximab Arm of the National Multi-Centre Phase III FLAIR Study in Previously Untreated CLL Patients. Blood, 142(Supplement 1), 4636-4636. https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2023-188597

Using Peripheral Blood (PB) Measurable Residual Disease (MRD) Levels to Predict <0.01% Bone Marrow Disease (BM uMRD4): Identification of Effective PB Targets for CLL Treatment Cessation in the Ibrutinib+Venetoclax Arm of the FLAIR Trial (2023)
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Rawstron, A., Webster, N., Dalal, S., de Tute, R. M., Bell, S., Cairns, D. A., …Hillmen, P. (2023). Using Peripheral Blood (PB) Measurable Residual Disease (MRD) Levels to Predict <0.01% Bone Marrow Disease (BM uMRD4): Identification of Effective PB Targets for CLL Treatment Cessation in the Ibrutinib+Venetoclax Arm of the FLAIR Trial. Blood, 142(Supplement 1), 632-632. https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2023-187943

Ibrutinib Plus Venetoclax with MRD-Directed Duration of Treatment Is Superior to FCR and Is a New Standard of Care for Previously Untreated CLL: Report of the Phase III UK NCRI FLAIR Study (2023)
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Hillmen, P., Cairns, D. A., Bloor, A. J. C., Allsup, D., Cwynarski, K., Pettitt, A., …Munir, T. (2023). Ibrutinib Plus Venetoclax with MRD-Directed Duration of Treatment Is Superior to FCR and Is a New Standard of Care for Previously Untreated CLL: Report of the Phase III UK NCRI FLAIR Study. Blood, 142(Supplement 1), 631. https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2023-178298

Introduction: Ibrutinib (I), an irreversible Btk inhibitor, and venetoclax (V), a Bcl-2 inhibitor, improve CLL outcomes in trials compared to chemoimmunotherapy. I and V target two key pathophysiological pathways in CLL and should be synergistic. Thi... Read More about Ibrutinib Plus Venetoclax with MRD-Directed Duration of Treatment Is Superior to FCR and Is a New Standard of Care for Previously Untreated CLL: Report of the Phase III UK NCRI FLAIR Study.

A Portable Multi-user Cross-Platform Virtual Reality Platform for School Teaching in Malawi (2023)
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Kambili-Mzembe, F., & Gordon, N. A. (2023). A Portable Multi-user Cross-Platform Virtual Reality Platform for School Teaching in Malawi. Communications in Computer and Information Science, 1904 CCIS, 182-192. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47328-9_14

This paper discusses and evaluates a self-contained portable multi-user cross-platform Virtual Reality (VR) setup that was devised and configured using off the shelf technologies and devices. This paper exemplifies how some fundamental challenges lik... Read More about A Portable Multi-user Cross-Platform Virtual Reality Platform for School Teaching in Malawi.

A manifesto for the metaverse: opportunities and challenges for learning development (2023)
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Buckley, C., Holley, D., & Fallin, L. (2023). A manifesto for the metaverse: opportunities and challenges for learning development. Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, https://doi.org/10.47408/jldhe.vi29.1127

Drawing upon a section of the co-created learning development (LD) Manifesto (ALDinHE, 2018), in this workshop we invite participants to come and be creative-and imagine beyond what learning developers do now into what they may do in the future, insp... Read More about A manifesto for the metaverse: opportunities and challenges for learning development.

High-intensity interval training in patients with intermittent claudication (2023)
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Pymer, S., Harwood, A. E., Prosser, J., Waddell, A., Rhavindhran, B., McGregor, G., …Chetter, I. C. (2023). High-intensity interval training in patients with intermittent claudication. Journal of vascular surgery, 78(4), 1048-1056.e4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvs.2023.05.045

Objective: Provision, uptake, adherence, and completion rates for supervised exercise programs (SEP) for intermittent claudication (IC) are low. A shorter, more time-efficient, 6-week, high-intensity interval training (HIIT) program may be an effecti... Read More about High-intensity interval training in patients with intermittent claudication.

A preoperative supervised exercise program potentially improves long-term survival after elective abdominal aortic aneurysm repair (2023)
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Sethi, S., Ravindhran, B., Long, J., Gurung, R., Huang, C., Smith, G. E., …Pymer, S. (2024). A preoperative supervised exercise program potentially improves long-term survival after elective abdominal aortic aneurysm repair. Journal of vascular surgery, 79(1), 15-23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvs.2023.09.004

Objective: A preoperative supervised exercise program (SEP) improves cardiorespiratory fitness and perioperative outcomes for patients undergoing elective abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of a pre... Read More about A preoperative supervised exercise program potentially improves long-term survival after elective abdominal aortic aneurysm repair.

Understanding primary care diagnosis and management of sleep disturbance for people with dementia or mild cognitive impairment: a realist review (2023)
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Blake, J., Aryankhesal, A., Allan, L., Ballard, C., Briscoe, S., Broomfield, N., …Fox, C. (2023). Understanding primary care diagnosis and management of sleep disturbance for people with dementia or mild cognitive impairment: a realist review. The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 73(suppl 1), Article bjgp23X734169. https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp23x734169

Background Sleep disturbance (SD) is common among people living with dementia (PLwD) or mild cognitive impairment (MCI). It has a significant impact on the wellbeing of PLwD and caregivers, and makes care at home more difficult. Within primary care,... Read More about Understanding primary care diagnosis and management of sleep disturbance for people with dementia or mild cognitive impairment: a realist review.

Memristor-based LSTM neuromorphic circuits for offshore wind turbine blade fault detection (2023)
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Burton, H., Bouillard, J. S., & Kemp, N. (in press). Memristor-based LSTM neuromorphic circuits for offshore wind turbine blade fault detection. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2023, 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCAS46773.2023.10181552

The UK offshore wind industry is rapidly growing to meet CO2 emission targets. However, the main drawback of the offshore environment is the increased cost of maintenance. Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) show great potential to reduce this cost. Lon... Read More about Memristor-based LSTM neuromorphic circuits for offshore wind turbine blade fault detection.

Why the Educational Metaverse Is Not All About Virtual Reality Apps (2023)
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Gordon, N., Brayshaw, M., Kambili-Mzembe, F., & Al Jaber, T. (2023). Why the Educational Metaverse Is Not All About Virtual Reality Apps. Lecture notes in computer science, 14041 LNCS, 22-32. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34550-0_2

This paper explores how the Metaverse can be used in the context of learning and collaboration. In it we seek to dispel the story that the Metaverse is just another synonym for Virtual Reality and future technology. Instead we will argue that the Met... Read More about Why the Educational Metaverse Is Not All About Virtual Reality Apps.

Designing for diverse learners (2022)
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Fallin, L., & Tomlinson, T. (2022). Designing for diverse learners. Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, 25, https://doi.org/10.47408/jldhe.vi25.973

Learning and teaching are only sustainable if accessible and inclusive. For this reason, we produced the Designing for diverse learners poster, a set of easy to follow guidance on developing learning resources to support learners with a variety of ne... Read More about Designing for diverse learners.

Evaluating interventions for violence prevention using linked MoJ-DfE data: a feasibility study. (2022)
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Cornish, R., Tilling, K., & Brennan, I. (2022). Evaluating interventions for violence prevention using linked MoJ-DfE data: a feasibility study. International Journal of Population Data Science, 7(3), Article 105. https://doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v7i3.1877

Objective To assess the feasibility of using linked education and offending data (from the National Pupil Database, Department for Education and the Police National Computer, Ministry of Justice) to identify matched control groups to evaluate violen... Read More about Evaluating interventions for violence prevention using linked MoJ-DfE data: a feasibility study..

Internet Crime Enabling: Stalking and Cyberstalking (2022)
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Cohen-Almagor, R., & Trottier, D. (2022). Internet Crime Enabling: Stalking and Cyberstalking. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, 439 LNNS, 843-859. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98015-3_57

Cyberstalking is practiced by Internet abusers to harass, victimize and to mock peers, teachers, co-workers, neighbors and others. While typically framed as an individual pursuit, we suggest that it can best be understood as a collective process, bot... Read More about Internet Crime Enabling: Stalking and Cyberstalking.

Strategies for Achieving Pre-emptive Resilience in Military Supply Chains (2022)
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Sani, S., Schaefer, D., & Milisavljevic-Syed, J. (2022). Strategies for Achieving Pre-emptive Resilience in Military Supply Chains. Procedia CIRP, 107, 1526-1532. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2022.05.186

As technological advancement is rapidly evolving modern warfare, military supply chains are becoming more dynamic and complex with high vulnerability to unexpected disruptions. To increase their overall resilience against such unexpected disruptions,... Read More about Strategies for Achieving Pre-emptive Resilience in Military Supply Chains.

Supply Chain Management 4.0: Looking Backward, Looking Forward (2022)
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Khan, M. D., Schaefer, D., & Milisavljevic-Syed, J. (2022). Supply Chain Management 4.0: Looking Backward, Looking Forward. Procedia CIRP, 107, 9-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2022.04.002

About ten years ago, a bold vision with a prospect of largely autonomous factories of the future with digitized processes, data-driven smart applications, and seamlessly integrated supply chains was born and quickly became known as Industry 4.0 or ak... Read More about Supply Chain Management 4.0: Looking Backward, Looking Forward.

A Decision-Based Framework for Predictive Maintenance Technique Selection in Industry 4.0 (2022)
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Li, J., Schaefer, D., & Milisavljevic-Syed, J. (2022). A Decision-Based Framework for Predictive Maintenance Technique Selection in Industry 4.0. Procedia CIRP, 107, 77-82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2022.04.013

Maintenance is defined as the actions that allow machines and equipment to work for an extended period of time by retaining and restoring equipment to its original state. In Industry 4.0 context, Predictive Maintenance (PdM) is a strategy that utiliz... Read More about A Decision-Based Framework for Predictive Maintenance Technique Selection in Industry 4.0.

A Review of Distributed Ledger Technologies in the Machine Economy: Challenges and Opportunities in Industry and Research (2022)
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Khan, M. D., Schaefer, D., & Milisavljevic-Syed, J. (2022). A Review of Distributed Ledger Technologies in the Machine Economy: Challenges and Opportunities in Industry and Research. Procedia CIRP, 107, 1168-1173. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2022.05.126

Blockchain Technology has gained prominence since 2008 with trust, reliability, speed, and transparency becoming major advantages. It has also been applied and researched within a multitude of industry applications ranging from manufacturing to finan... Read More about A Review of Distributed Ledger Technologies in the Machine Economy: Challenges and Opportunities in Industry and Research.