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Data-Driven Techniques for Low-Cost Sensor Selection and Calibration for the Use Case of Air Quality Monitoring (2022)
Journal Article
Kureshi, R., Mishra, B., Thakker, D., John, R., Walker, A., Simpson, S., Thakkar, N., & Wante, A. (2022). Data-Driven Techniques for Low-Cost Sensor Selection and Calibration for the Use Case of Air Quality Monitoring. Sensors, 22(3), Article 1093. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22031093

With the emergence of Low-Cost Sensor (LCS) devices, measuring real-time data on a large scale has become a feasible alternative approach to more costly devices. Over the years, sensor technologies have evolved which has provided the opportunity to h... Read More about Data-Driven Techniques for Low-Cost Sensor Selection and Calibration for the Use Case of Air Quality Monitoring.

Regionalism in the Global South: Understanding the Evolution of Mercosur (2022)
Book Chapter
Doctor, M. (2022). Regionalism in the Global South: Understanding the Evolution of Mercosur. In B. McKercher (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Diplomacy and Statecraft (309-320). (2nd edition). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003016625-31

The world economy, especially international trade in goods and services, was already slowing before the COVID pandemic hit the headlines in early 2020. Mercosur’s sparse institutional structure relies on three main decision-making organs: the Common... Read More about Regionalism in the Global South: Understanding the Evolution of Mercosur.

Are adaptation aftereffects for facial emotional expressions affected by prior knowledge about the emotion? (2022)
Journal Article
Wincenciak, J., Palumbo, L., Epihova, G., Barraclough, N. E., & Jellema, T. (2022). Are adaptation aftereffects for facial emotional expressions affected by prior knowledge about the emotion?. Cognition and Emotion, 36(4), 602-615. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2022.2031907

Accurate perception of the emotional signals conveyed by others is crucial for successful social interaction. Such perception is influenced not only by sensory input, but also by knowledge we have about the others’ emotions. This study addresses the... Read More about Are adaptation aftereffects for facial emotional expressions affected by prior knowledge about the emotion?.

Penal Servitude: Convicts and long-term imprisonment, 1853-1948 (2022)
Book
Johnston, H., Godfrey, B., & Cox, D. J. (2022). Penal Servitude: Convicts and long-term imprisonment, 1853-1948. McGill-Queen's University Press

Penal Servitude is the first comprehensive study to examine the convict prison system that housed all those sentenced to penal servitude during this time. The research details the administration and evolution of the system, from its creation in the 1... Read More about Penal Servitude: Convicts and long-term imprisonment, 1853-1948.

Fixed-time nonlinear homogeneous sliding mode approach for robust tracking control of multirotor aircraft: Experimental validation (2022)
Journal Article
Mechali, O., Xu, L., Xie, X., & Iqbal, J. (2022). Fixed-time nonlinear homogeneous sliding mode approach for robust tracking control of multirotor aircraft: Experimental validation. Journal of The Franklin Institute, 359(5), 1971-2029. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfranklin.2022.01.010

This paper presents a robust scheme for fixed-time tracking control of a multirotor system. The aircraft is subjected to matched lumped disturbances, i.e., unmodeled dynamics, parameters uncertainties, and external perturbations besides measurement n... Read More about Fixed-time nonlinear homogeneous sliding mode approach for robust tracking control of multirotor aircraft: Experimental validation.

Electrochemotherapy vs radiotherapy in the treatment of primary cutaneous malignancies or cutaneous metastases from primary solid organ malignancies: A protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis (2022)
Journal Article
McMillan, A., McElroy, L., O'Toole, L., Matteucci, P., & Totty, J. (2022). Electrochemotherapy vs radiotherapy in the treatment of primary cutaneous malignancies or cutaneous metastases from primary solid organ malignancies: A protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Surgical Protocols and Research Methodologies, 2022(1), Article snac005. https://doi.org/10.1093/jsprm/snac005

Electrochemotherapy has emerged as a valuable tool in the treatment of cutaneous malignancies that are unamenable to surgical resection. Despite growing recognition and recommendation in national guidelines, to date, no Level 1 evidence exists compar... Read More about Electrochemotherapy vs radiotherapy in the treatment of primary cutaneous malignancies or cutaneous metastases from primary solid organ malignancies: A protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis.

How female directors help firms to attain optimal cash holdings (2022)
Journal Article
Tosun, O. K., El Kalak, I., & Hudson, R. (2022). How female directors help firms to attain optimal cash holdings. International review of financial analysis, 80, Article 102034. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2022.102034

Is female board representation helpful for firms attaining optimal cash holdings? We address this question using data on 1163 US-listed firms for 2000‐–2017. We show that if there are more female directors on firm boards, ceteris paribus, there is no... Read More about How female directors help firms to attain optimal cash holdings.

An evaluation of community placements for GP registrars in Yorkshire and the Humber: ‘a home visit… not to a patient but to the community’ (2022)
Journal Article
Lang, J., Graffy, H., & Reeve, J. (in press). An evaluation of community placements for GP registrars in Yorkshire and the Humber: ‘a home visit… not to a patient but to the community’. Education for Primary Care, https://doi.org/10.1080/14739879.2022.2027274

Background: GP registrars are required to demonstrate capabilities in ‘community orientation’, reflecting skills in developing and working with services that respond to community needs. These skills have sometimes been seen as vague and difficult to... Read More about An evaluation of community placements for GP registrars in Yorkshire and the Humber: ‘a home visit… not to a patient but to the community’.

Time Series of Quad-Pol C-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar for the Forecasting of Crop Biophysical Variables of Barley Fields Using Statistical Techniques (2022)
Journal Article
Sipols, A. E., Valcarce-Diñeiro, R., Santos-Martín, M. T., Sánchez, N., & de Blas, C. S. (2022). Time Series of Quad-Pol C-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar for the Forecasting of Crop Biophysical Variables of Barley Fields Using Statistical Techniques. Remote Sensing, 14(3), Article 614. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14030614

This paper aims to both fit and predict crop biophysical variables with a SAR image series by performing a factorial experiment and estimating time series models using a combination of forecasts. Two plots of barley grown under rainfed conditions in... Read More about Time Series of Quad-Pol C-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar for the Forecasting of Crop Biophysical Variables of Barley Fields Using Statistical Techniques.

Do Local Habitat Conditions Affect Estimates of Relative Pollen Productivity and Source Area in Heathlands? (2022)
Journal Article
Bunting, M. J., & Farrell, M. (in press). Do Local Habitat Conditions Affect Estimates of Relative Pollen Productivity and Source Area in Heathlands?. Frontiers in ecology and evolution, 10, Article 787345. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.787345

Relative Pollen Productivity is an essential parameter for quantitative reconstruction of past land cover from pollen records, but published studies have produced a range of different values for the same taxa. Heathland habitats have limited plant di... Read More about Do Local Habitat Conditions Affect Estimates of Relative Pollen Productivity and Source Area in Heathlands?.

Biomechanical differences between ablebodied and spinal cord injured individuals walking in an overground robotic exoskeleton (2022)
Journal Article
Hayes, S. C., White, M., Wilcox, C. R. J., White, H. S. F., & Vanicek, N. (2022). Biomechanical differences between ablebodied and spinal cord injured individuals walking in an overground robotic exoskeleton. PLoS ONE, 17(1), Article e0262915. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0262915

Background Robotic assisted gait training (RAGT) uses a powered exoskeleton to support an individual's body and move their limbs, with the aim of activating latent, pre-existing movement patterns stored in the lower spinal cord called central pattern... Read More about Biomechanical differences between ablebodied and spinal cord injured individuals walking in an overground robotic exoskeleton.

Highly Accurate and Reliable Wireless Network Slicing in 5 th Generation Networks: A Hybrid Deep Learning Approach (2022)
Journal Article
Khan, S., Khan, S., Ali, Y., Khalid, M., Ullah, Z., & Mumtaz, S. (2022). Highly Accurate and Reliable Wireless Network Slicing in 5 th Generation Networks: A Hybrid Deep Learning Approach. Journal of Network and Systems Management, 30, Article 29. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10922-021-09636-2

In current era, the next generation networks like 5 th generation (5G) and 6 th generation (6G) networks requires high security, low latency with a high reliable standards and capacity. In these networks, reconfigurable wireless network slicing is co... Read More about Highly Accurate and Reliable Wireless Network Slicing in 5 th Generation Networks: A Hybrid Deep Learning Approach.

Adolescents’ sexual and reproductive health education: perspectives from secondary school teachers in Northern Nigeria (2022)
Journal Article
Emenike, N., Onukwugha, F. I., Sarki, A., & Smith, L. (in press). Adolescents’ sexual and reproductive health education: perspectives from secondary school teachers in Northern Nigeria. Sex Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/14681811.2022.2028613

Lack of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) education contributes to poor SRH outcomes for adolescents and young people in Sub-Saharan Africa. School-based comprehensive SRH education programmes in low- and middle-income countries aim to advance gen... Read More about Adolescents’ sexual and reproductive health education: perspectives from secondary school teachers in Northern Nigeria.

The interface between primary care and care homes: General Practitioner experiences of working in care homes for older people (2022)
Journal Article
White, C., & Alton, E. (in press). The interface between primary care and care homes: General Practitioner experiences of working in care homes for older people. Health and Social Care in the Community, https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.13734

Supporting residents in care homes for older people is an important, though little studied, aspect of the General Practitioner (GP) role. This study explored GPs’ experiences of working to support older people living in care homes, and the challenges... Read More about The interface between primary care and care homes: General Practitioner experiences of working in care homes for older people.

Pickering emulsion droplet-based biomimetic microreactors for continuous flow cascade reactions (2022)
Journal Article
Zhang, M., Ettelaie, R., Dong, L., Li, X., Li, T., Zhang, X., Binks, B. P., & Yang, H. (2022). Pickering emulsion droplet-based biomimetic microreactors for continuous flow cascade reactions. Nature communications, 13, Article 475. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28100-6

A continuous flow cascade of multi-step catalytic reactions is a cutting-edge concept to revolutionize stepwise catalytic synthesis yet is still challenging in practical applications. Herein, a method for practical one-pot cascade catalysis is develo... Read More about Pickering emulsion droplet-based biomimetic microreactors for continuous flow cascade reactions.

Biomarker-guided duration of Antibiotic Treatment in Children Hospitalised with confirmed or suspected bacterial infection (BATCH): Protocol for a randomised controlled trial (2022)
Journal Article
Waldron, C. A., Thomas-Jones, E., Bernatoniene, J., Brookes-Howell, L., Faust, S. N., Faust, S. N., Harris, D., Hinds, L., Hood, K., Huang, C., Mateus, C., Pallmann, P., Patel, S., Paulus, S., Peak, M., Powell, C., Preston, J., & Carrol, E. D. (2022). Biomarker-guided duration of Antibiotic Treatment in Children Hospitalised with confirmed or suspected bacterial infection (BATCH): Protocol for a randomised controlled trial. BMJ open, 12(1), Article e047490. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-047490

Introduction Procalcitonin (PCT) is a biomarker more specific for bacterial infection and responds quicker than other commonly used biomarkers such as C reactive protein, but is not routinely used in the National Health Service (NHS). Studies mainly... Read More about Biomarker-guided duration of Antibiotic Treatment in Children Hospitalised with confirmed or suspected bacterial infection (BATCH): Protocol for a randomised controlled trial.

Development, implementation and evaluation of an early warning system improvement programme for children in hospital: the PUMA mixed-methods study (2022)
Journal Article
Allen, D., Lloyd, A., Edwards, D., Grant, A., Hood, K., Huang, C., Hughes, J., Jacob, N., Lacy, D., Moriarty, Y., Oliver, A., Preston, J., Sefton, G., Skone, R., Strange, H., Taiyari, K., Thomas-Jones, E., Trubey, R., Tume, L., Powell, C., & Roland, D. (2022). Development, implementation and evaluation of an early warning system improvement programme for children in hospital: the PUMA mixed-methods study. Health and Social Care Delivery Research, 10(1), 307. https://doi.org/10.3310/CHCK4556

Objectives: (1) Identify, through systematic review, the following: evidence for core components of effective paediatric track-and-trigger tools and paediatric early warning systems, and contextual factors consequential for paediatric track-and-trigg... Read More about Development, implementation and evaluation of an early warning system improvement programme for children in hospital: the PUMA mixed-methods study.

Gonadal atresia, estrogen-responsive, and apoptosis-specific mRNA expression in marine mussels from the East China coast: a preliminary study (2022)
Journal Article
Zhu, J., Li, J., Chapman, E. C., Shi, H., Ciocan, C. M., Chen, K., Shi, X., Zhou, J. L., Sun, P., Zheng, Y., & Rotchell, J. M. (in press). Gonadal atresia, estrogen-responsive, and apoptosis-specific mRNA expression in marine mussels from the East China coast: a preliminary study. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00128-022-03461-2

This preliminary survey analysed mussel atresia incidences, estrogen-responsive and apoptotic-specific molecular end points, and aqueous and gonadal levels of selected estrogens from the East China coast. Estrogen levels were low (e.g. < LOD-28.36ng/... Read More about Gonadal atresia, estrogen-responsive, and apoptosis-specific mRNA expression in marine mussels from the East China coast: a preliminary study.

Experimental investigation and annual performance mathematical-prediction on a novel LT-PV/T system using spiral-descent concentric copper tube heat exchanger as the condenser for large-scale application (2022)
Journal Article
Li, Z., Ji, J., Li, J., Zhao, X., Cui, Y., Song, Z., Wen, X., & Yao, T. T. (2022). Experimental investigation and annual performance mathematical-prediction on a novel LT-PV/T system using spiral-descent concentric copper tube heat exchanger as the condenser for large-scale application. Renewable energy, 187, 257-270. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2022.01.079

The condensers of loop thermosyphon PV/T systems (LT-PV/T) are usually integrated inside water tanks, which may bring some challenges during combination use. This research innovatively proposed a concentric copper tube heat exchanger as the condenser... Read More about Experimental investigation and annual performance mathematical-prediction on a novel LT-PV/T system using spiral-descent concentric copper tube heat exchanger as the condenser for large-scale application.

Concurrent validity and prognostic utility of the Needs Assessment Tool: Progressive Disease Heart Failure (2022)
Journal Article
King, C., Khamis, A., Ross, J., Murtagh, F. E., Johnson, M. J., & Ramsenthaler, C. (in press). Concurrent validity and prognostic utility of the Needs Assessment Tool: Progressive Disease Heart Failure. Journal of pain and symptom management, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2022.01.014

Context: People with advanced heart failure have supportive and palliative needs requiring systematic assessment. Objectives: We aimed to assess the validity of the Needs Assessment Tool: Progressive Disease – Heart Failure (NAT:PD-HF). Methods: Seco... Read More about Concurrent validity and prognostic utility of the Needs Assessment Tool: Progressive Disease Heart Failure.