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Effect of the stacking sequence on the impact response of carbon-glass/epoxy hybrid composites (2020)
Journal Article

This paper investigates low-velocity impact response of Quasi Isotropic (QI) hybrid carbon/glass fiber reinforced polymer composites with alternate stacking sequences. Cross-ply woven carbon and glass fibers were used as reinforcing materials to fabr... Read More about Effect of the stacking sequence on the impact response of carbon-glass/epoxy hybrid composites.

Co-production and person-centred care in neoliberal conditions (2020)
Journal Article

The personalization of care holds an ideological ambivalence that allows for diverse and sometimes contradictory appropriations. To be person-centred may seem to be definitively unobjectionable: what is not to like about an approach that puts the u... Read More about Co-production and person-centred care in neoliberal conditions.

Circularity in the built environment? A call for a paradigm shift (2020)
Book Chapter

This chapter considers how circularity is being, and might be, approached and achieved within the built environment. Three case studies illustrate the current situation. The first case address life cycle assessment (LCA) in measuring circularity, sho... Read More about Circularity in the built environment? A call for a paradigm shift.

Two leagues, one front? The India league and the league against imperialism in the British left, 1927-1937 (2020)
Book Chapter

V.K. Krishna Menon always made people angry. When he left southern India in 1924, coming to England under the auspices of his mentor Annie Besant’s Theosophist and Indian Home Rule movement, Menon disappointed his father by not becoming a lawyer and... Read More about Two leagues, one front? The India league and the league against imperialism in the British left, 1927-1937.

Conceptual Theories in Structural Dynamics (2020)
Book

This book discusses the conceptual theory of structural dynamics, using simplified methods and clear, concise explanations. It illustrates all the hypotheses in a simple and effective way and describes in detail the derivation of all related formulat... Read More about Conceptual Theories in Structural Dynamics.

Re-examining the effects of word writing on vocabulary learning (2020)
Book Chapter

This study investigated the effects of word writing on vocabulary learning by comparing three conditions in which there was (a) limited time to write words, (b) unlimited time to write words, and (c) a non-writing word- picture pairs comparison. Non-... Read More about Re-examining the effects of word writing on vocabulary learning.

They hide with their boots on (2020)
Digital Artefact

Review of the Invisible Men exhibition, Westminster Menswear Archive, for Artforum Magazine (print edition).

UAV’s applications, architecture, security issues and attack scenarios: A survey (2020)
Book Chapter

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)/drones have become very popular in recent years as they are widely used in several domains. They are widely used in both military and civilian applications such as aerial photography, entertainment, search and rescue m... Read More about UAV’s applications, architecture, security issues and attack scenarios: A survey.

Best practice guidelines for responsible images of non-human primates (2020)
Digital Artefact

Photos or videos (hereafter images) can draw the attention of millions of people to non-human primate (hereafter primate) conservation and welfare. However, if the context of the images is inappropriate, unclear, or lost, people... Read More about Best practice guidelines for responsible images of non-human primates.

Role of the dipole jet in inclined stroke plane kinematics of insect flight (2020)
Journal Article

The two-dimensional (2D) inclined stroke plane kinematics of insect wing is studied for various stroke plane angles using the Immersed Boundary (IB) solver. The numerical results revealed the dominant lift enhancement mechanisms for this class of flo... Read More about Role of the dipole jet in inclined stroke plane kinematics of insect flight.

Automating concrete construction: Sustainable social housing in Colombia (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The construction industry is a major source of carbon, and the main culprit is concrete. In addition, productivity for the construction sector is poor, and concrete construction in particular is labour intensive, slow, and costly. This paper introduc... Read More about Automating concrete construction: Sustainable social housing in Colombia.

Researching around our subjects: Working towards a women’s labour history of trade unions in the British film and television industries (2020)
Journal Article

This article explores the opportunities and obstacles of researching women’s trade union activism in the British film and television industries between 1933 and 2017. The surviving material on women’s union participation is incomplete and fragmented,... Read More about Researching around our subjects: Working towards a women’s labour history of trade unions in the British film and television industries.

Robotic apprentices: Leveraging augmented reality for robot training in manufacturing automation (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In the scope of Industry 4.0, a framework is proposed to leverage the potential of articulating Augmented Reality and Robotic Manufacturing in the construction industry. The objective of such framework is to enable robots to learn how to perform task... Read More about Robotic apprentices: Leveraging augmented reality for robot training in manufacturing automation.

Multi-channel ConvNet approach to predict the risk of in-hospital mortality for ICU patients (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The healthcare arena has been undergoing impressive transformations thanks to advances in the capacity to capture, store, process, and learn from data. This paper re-visits the problem of predicting the risk of in-hospital mortality based on Time Ser... Read More about Multi-channel ConvNet approach to predict the risk of in-hospital mortality for ICU patients.

Generative modeling of synthetic eye-tracking data: NLP-based approach with recurrent neural networks (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This study explores a Machine Learning-based approach for generating synthetic eye-tracking data. In this respect, a novel application of Recurrent Neural Networks is experimented. Our approach is based on learning the sequence patterns of eye-tracki... Read More about Generative modeling of synthetic eye-tracking data: NLP-based approach with recurrent neural networks.

Mining the Irish hip fracture database: Learning factors contributing to care outcomes (2020)
Journal Article

Data analytics has opened the door for improving many aspects pertaining to the delivery of healthcare. This study avails of unsupervised machine learning to extract knowledge from the Irish hip fracture database (IHFD). The dataset under considerati... Read More about Mining the Irish hip fracture database: Learning factors contributing to care outcomes.

R&D activity and financing constraints: Evidence from Turkey (2020)
Journal Article

We analyze the relationship between financing constraints and firms’ R&D activity using a rich and comprehensive firm-level balance sheet and income statement data set of manufacturing firms in Turkey for the period 1996 to 2013. Using a firm-specifi... Read More about R&D activity and financing constraints: Evidence from Turkey.

A balanced diet for construction workers to improve safety and productivity (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The United Nations (UN) under its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aims to protect labour rights and promote safe and secure working environments for all workers around the world. Although the deadline to achieve the UN SDGs is approaching faster... Read More about A balanced diet for construction workers to improve safety and productivity.

Promoting employee safety performance in the Chinese construction industry (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In the construction industry, safety leadership has been widely recognised as an indispensable factor that affects organisational safety performance. However, in China specifically, research on safety leadership in the construction domain is not adeq... Read More about Promoting employee safety performance in the Chinese construction industry.

Comparing agent-based control architectures for next generation telecommunication network infrastructures (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Multi-agent systems have been an effective choice for designing control systems that are flexible and agile. However, few attention has been given to the evaluation of the architectures of such systems. This becomes critical with the emerging require... Read More about Comparing agent-based control architectures for next generation telecommunication network infrastructures.