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An evaluation into procalcitonin levels in full-term neonates managed for suspected early onset sepsis due to probable maternal intrapartum sepsis (2023)
Journal Article
Walker, S., Harding, I., Soomro, K., Bamber, A. R., & Liebling, R. E. (2023). An evaluation into procalcitonin levels in full-term neonates managed for suspected early onset sepsis due to probable maternal intrapartum sepsis. Journal of Neonatology, 37(4), 325 - 333. https://doi.org/10.1177/09732179231169623

Purpose: To investigate procalcitonin (PCT) levels in full-term neonates managed for suspected early onset sepsis (EOS) due to probable maternal intrapartum sepsis. Methods: Prospective longitudinal observational study at University Hospitals of Bris... Read More about An evaluation into procalcitonin levels in full-term neonates managed for suspected early onset sepsis due to probable maternal intrapartum sepsis.

SIGNED: Smart cIty diGital twiN vErifiable data framework (2023)
Journal Article
Pervez, Z., Khan, Z., Ghafoor, A., & Soomro, K. (2023). SIGNED: Smart cIty diGital twiN vErifiable data framework. IEEE Access, 11, 29430-29446. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3260621

Smart city digital twins can provide useful insights by making effective use of multidisciplinary urban data from diverse sources. Whilst these insights provide new information that helps cities in decision making, verifying the authenticity, integri... Read More about SIGNED: Smart cIty diGital twiN vErifiable data framework.

An evaluation into the use of procalcitonin levels as a biomarker of bacterial sepsis to aid the management of intrapartum pyrexia and chorioamnionitis (2022)
Journal Article
Walker, S., Harding, I., Soomro, K., Bamber, A. R., Carrick, S., Waheed, A. H., & Liebling, R. E. (2022). An evaluation into the use of procalcitonin levels as a biomarker of bacterial sepsis to aid the management of intrapartum pyrexia and chorioamnionitis. AJOG Global Reports, 2(3), 100064. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xagr.2022.100064

BACKGROUND Procalcitonin is an established biomarker for bacterial sepsis in the nonpregnant population with better diagnostic and prognostic value for bacterial infections. OBJEC... Read More about An evaluation into the use of procalcitonin levels as a biomarker of bacterial sepsis to aid the management of intrapartum pyrexia and chorioamnionitis.

Supporting patient nutrition in critical care units (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Soomro, K., Pimenidis, E., & McWilliams, C. (2022). Supporting patient nutrition in critical care units. In Engineering Applications of Neural Networks: EANN 2022: Engineering Applications of Neural Networks (128-136). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08223-8_11

Critical Care Unit (CCU) patients often benefit from being referred to dietitians for various reasons. This can help improve recovery time, resulting in more effective utilisation of valuable resources within the NHS (National Health Service) in the... Read More about Supporting patient nutrition in critical care units.

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
Williams, P., McWilliams, C., Soomro, K., Harding, I., Gurney, S., Thomas, M., …Martin Williams, O. (2021). 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. Journal of Infection, 82(6), E24-E26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinf.2021.03.011

Automated screening of patients for dietician referral (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Soomro, K., & Pimenidis, E. (2020). Automated screening of patients for dietician referral. In L. Iliadis, P. Angelov, C. Jayne, & E. Pimenidis (Eds.), Proceedings of the 21st EANN (Engineering Applications of Neural Networks) 2020 Conference. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48791-1_24

Critical Care Units (CCU) in a hospital treat the severely sick patients that need constant monitoring and close medical attention. Feeding patients, enteral feeding in particular, is a critical and continuous process. Monitoring patients, managing t... Read More about Automated screening of patients for dietician referral.

Smart city big data analytics: An advanced review (2019)
Journal Article
Soomro, K., Bhutta, M. N. M., Khan, Z., & Tahir, M. A. (2019). Smart city big data analytics: An advanced review. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 9(5), Article e1319. https://doi.org/10.1002/widm.1319

© 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. With the increasing role of ICT in enabling and supporting smart cities, the demand for big data analytics solutions is increasing. Various artificial intelligence, data mining, machine learning and statistical analysis... Read More about Smart city big data analytics: An advanced review.

Participatory governance in smart cities: The urbanAPI case study (2017)
Journal Article
Soomro, K., Khan, Z., & Ludlow, D. (2017). Participatory governance in smart cities: The urbanAPI case study. International Journal of Services Technology and Management, 23(5-6), 419-444. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSTM.2017.10009859

Copyright © 2017 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. This paper presents some results from an EU FP7 RTD project urbanAPI, in which three ICT applications target different aspects of participatory urban governance. The 3D Scenario Creator allows urban plan... Read More about Participatory governance in smart cities: The urbanAPI case study.

From top-down land use planning intelligence to bottom-up stakeholder engagement for smart cities – A case study: DECUMANUS service products (2017)
Journal Article
Ludlow, D., Khan, Z., Soomro, K., Marconcini, M., José, R. S., Malcorps, P., …Metz, A. (2017). From top-down land use planning intelligence to bottom-up stakeholder engagement for smart cities – A case study: DECUMANUS service products. International Journal of Services Technology and Management, 23(5-6), 465-493. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSTM.2017.10009861

Copyright © 2017 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Intelligence delivered by earth observation (EO) satellites performs a vital role in supporting ICT enabled urban governance, and the creation of decision making tools delivering integrated urban plannin... Read More about From top-down land use planning intelligence to bottom-up stakeholder engagement for smart cities – A case study: DECUMANUS service products.

Developing knowledge-based citizen participation platform to support smart city decision making: The smarticipate case study (2017)
Journal Article
Fröhlich, P., Khan, Z., Dambruch, J., Peters-Anders, J., Sackl, A., Strasser, A., …Soomro, K. (2017). Developing knowledge-based citizen participation platform to support smart city decision making: The smarticipate case study. Information, 8(2), 47. https://doi.org/10.3390/info8020047

© 2017 by the authors. Citizen participation for social innovation and co-creating urban regeneration proposals can be greatly facilitated by innovative IT systems. Such systems can use Open Government Data, visualise urban proposals in 3D models and... Read More about Developing knowledge-based citizen participation platform to support smart city decision making: The smarticipate case study.