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The video game asset pipeline - A pattern approach to visualization (2021)
Thesis

Video games consist of virtual worlds modelled as an approximation of either a real or imaginary environment. The amount of content required to populate the environments for Triple-A (AAA) video games doubles every few years to satisfy the expectatio... Read More about The video game asset pipeline - A pattern approach to visualization.

The dynamics of procalcitonin in COVID-19 patients admitted to Intensive care unit - a multi-centre cohort study in the South West of England, UK. (2021)
Journal Article

Facilitating the design of data-informed andragogic tools to promote hypercognition for UK access to higher education learners (2021)
Thesis

Access to Higher Education courses in the UK serve the purpose of providing a route to Higher Education level study for those without the requisite qualifications to do so. However, students on these courses tend to be disproportionately from groups... Read More about Facilitating the design of data-informed andragogic tools to promote hypercognition for UK access to higher education learners.

Cultural adaptation and validation of the Body Esteem Scale for Adults and Adolescents for use in English among adolescents in urban India (2021)
Journal Article

Body image research is growing in India; however, there are no psychometrically valid measures to assess body image concerns among an Indian population. In this study, the Body Esteem Scale for Adults and Adolescents (BESAA) underwent adaptation and... Read More about Cultural adaptation and validation of the Body Esteem Scale for Adults and Adolescents for use in English among adolescents in urban India.

An internet of things approach for water efficiency: A case study of the beverage factory (2021)
Journal Article

There is a lack of knowledge among food manufacturers about adopting the Internet of Things (IoT)-based water monitoring system and its ability to support water minimisation activities. It is therefore necessary to investigate the applicability of Io... Read More about An internet of things approach for water efficiency: A case study of the beverage factory.

A roadmap for genome-based phage taxonomy (2021)
Journal Article

Bacteriophage (phage) taxonomy has been in flux since its inception over four decades ago. Genome sequencing has put pressure on the classification system and recent years have seen significant changes to phage taxonomy. Here, we reflect on the state... Read More about A roadmap for genome-based phage taxonomy.

Twin delayed hierarchical actor-critic (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning (HRL) addresses the common problem in sparse rewards environments of having to manually craft a reward function. We present a modified version of the Hierarchical Actor-Critic (HAC) architecture called Twin Delayed... Read More about Twin delayed hierarchical actor-critic.

The limits of Intellectual Property: Exhaustion of rights, international trademarks and digital copyright (2021)
Preprint / Working Paper

Strong Intellectual Property (IP) protection is a fundamental point in the establishment of a market for new products and services. IP can give significant power to the owner of intangible assets in financing, manufacturing or in general commercial t... Read More about The limits of Intellectual Property: Exhaustion of rights, international trademarks and digital copyright.

Sustainability concerns on consumers’ attitude towards short food supply chains: An empirical investigation (2021)
Journal Article

While industrialized agro-food supply systems have gained tremendous success in recent decades, it has been increasingly criticized for its adverse environmental and social impact. Amongst this criticism, Short Food Supply Chains (SFSCs) have emerged... Read More about Sustainability concerns on consumers’ attitude towards short food supply chains: An empirical investigation.

Public attitudes & behavioural change (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The Valencia consensus-based adaptation of the IASP complex regional pain syndrome diagnostic criteria (2021)
Journal Article

Raising awareness of neurodiversity my lived experience of dyspraxia (2021)
Digital Artefact

Ingestion of metallic foreign bodies: A Paediatric Emergency Research in the United Kingdom and Ireland survey of current practice and hand-held metal detector use (2021)
Journal Article

Aim: To describe variation in the initial management of children presenting to Emergency Departments (ED) with coins lodged in the oesophagus. To determine the usage of hand-held metal detectors (HHMDs) in EDs, including their role in clinical decisi... Read More about Ingestion of metallic foreign bodies: A Paediatric Emergency Research in the United Kingdom and Ireland survey of current practice and hand-held metal detector use.

Brachytherapy for locally advanced cervical cancer: A survey of UK provision of care and support (2021)
Journal Article

Background and purpose: Gynaecological brachytherapy can cause anxiety, distress and discomfort. It is not known how variation in delivery impacts women's experiences. To inform future research an online survey was carried out to identify variations... Read More about Brachytherapy for locally advanced cervical cancer: A survey of UK provision of care and support.

Adversarial reconstruction loss for domain generalization (2021)
Journal Article

The biggest fear when deploying machine learning models to the real world is their ability to handle the new data. This problem is significant especially in medicine, where models trained on rich high-quality data extracted from large hospitals do no... Read More about Adversarial reconstruction loss for domain generalization.

Re-envisioning economics with substantive meaning: A paradigm shift from economic growth to the good life (2021)
Other

Structural fire design of SHS, RHS and CHS high strength steel columns (2021)
Journal Article

Despite substantial progress in recent years to improve the design guidance for high strength steel (HSS) structural elements, this has mainly been for ambient conditions with their fire response still in need of further research. Accordingly, this p... Read More about Structural fire design of SHS, RHS and CHS high strength steel columns.

Formation of furan in baby food products: Identification and technical challenges (2021)
Journal Article

Furan is generally produced during thermal processing of various foods including baked, fried, and roasted food items such as cereal products, coffee, canned, and jarred prepared foods as well as in baby foods. Furan is a toxic and carcinogenic compo... Read More about Formation of furan in baby food products: Identification and technical challenges.

Seeds of change: Establishing frameworks for understanding global environmental changes: This article belongs to Ambio's 50th Anniversary Collection. Theme: Agricultural land use (2021)
Journal Article

Utilising the various modes of Minecraft in teaching (2021)
Journal Article