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Stuff and space in the home: Space for storage as the forgotten design and well-being dimension in standardised housing (2022)
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Marco, E. (2023). Stuff and space in the home: Space for storage as the forgotten design and well-being dimension in standardised housing. Journal of Architecture, 27(5-6), 708-733. https://doi.org/10.1080/13602365.2022.2142269

In the field of architecture, there has been scarce research on how the accumulation of material possessions impacts on space in the home. There has been little understanding of what households own, collect, store, and dispose of, nor the implication... Read More about Stuff and space in the home: Space for storage as the forgotten design and well-being dimension in standardised housing.

BRIVEST: A ‘real-world’ observational, single-centre study investigating the efficacy, safety and tolerability of Brivaracetam (2022)
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Naddell, S., Manuel, M., Cavill, R., White, P., & Sieradzan, K. (2023). BRIVEST: A ‘real-world’ observational, single-centre study investigating the efficacy, safety and tolerability of Brivaracetam. Epilepsy and Behavior, 138, 108985. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yebeh.2022.108985

Objective: Via measures of efficacy, tolerability, and safety, this open-label, single-center study assessed the overall effectiveness of Brivaracetam (BRV) for the treatment of epilepsy in the context of ‘real-world’ clinical practice. Methods: Unse... Read More about BRIVEST: A ‘real-world’ observational, single-centre study investigating the efficacy, safety and tolerability of Brivaracetam.

Factors influencing conveyance of older adults with minor head injury by paramedics to the emergency department: A multiple methods study (2022)
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Nicholson, H., Voss, S., Black, S., Taylor, H., Williams, D., & Benger, J. (2022). Factors influencing conveyance of older adults with minor head injury by paramedics to the emergency department: A multiple methods study. BMC Emergency Medicine, 22(1), 184. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12873-022-00747-w

Background: Head injury (HI) in older adults due to low-energy falls result in a substantial number of emergency department (ED) attendances. However, mortality associated with minor HI is very low. Reducing conveyance to hospital is important for ol... Read More about Factors influencing conveyance of older adults with minor head injury by paramedics to the emergency department: A multiple methods study.

Score: Practices of listening and collision (2022)
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Drofiak, N. (2022). Score: Practices of listening and collision. Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge, 3, 261-280. https://doi.org/10.14361/dak-2022-0317

A score is a research tool that approaches knowledge as a series of relations. A consciously authored, creative work, a score precipitates and establishes the initial terms of an encounter between stories or actors; performed (translated) into a con... Read More about Score: Practices of listening and collision.

Which events are experienced as traumatic by obstetricians and gynaecologists, and why? A qualitative analysis from a cross-sectional survey and in-depth interviews (2022)
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Sheen, K., Goodfellow, L., Balling, K., Rymer, J., Weeks, A., Spiby, H., & Slade, P. (2022). Which events are experienced as traumatic by obstetricians and gynaecologists, and why? A qualitative analysis from a cross-sectional survey and in-depth interviews. BMJ Open, 12, Article e061505

Objectives To explore the events perceived as traumatic by obstetricians and gynaecologists (O&G), and to examine factors contributing to the perception of trauma. Design Mixed methods: cross-sectional survey and in-depth interviews. Sample and... Read More about Which events are experienced as traumatic by obstetricians and gynaecologists, and why? A qualitative analysis from a cross-sectional survey and in-depth interviews.

First-time mothers’ understanding and use of a pregnancy and parenting mobile application (The Baby Buddy app): a qualitative study using appreciative inquiry (2022)
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Bailey, E., Nightingale, S., Thomas, N., Coleby, D., Deave, T., Goodenough, T., …Coad, J. (2022). First-time mothers’ understanding and use of a pregnancy and parenting mobile application (The Baby Buddy app): a qualitative study using appreciative inquiry. JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 10(11), e32757. https://doi.org/10.2196/32757

BACKGROUND: Internationally, there is increasing emphasis on early support for pregnant women to optimize the health and development of mothers and newborns. To increase intervention reach, digital and app-based interventions have been advocated. The... Read More about First-time mothers’ understanding and use of a pregnancy and parenting mobile application (The Baby Buddy app): a qualitative study using appreciative inquiry.

Reinforced concrete beams externally strengthened by CFRP rods with steel plate, anchorage bolts, and concrete jacketing (2022)
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Alkhateeb, M. Y., & Hejazi, F. (2022). Reinforced concrete beams externally strengthened by CFRP rods with steel plate, anchorage bolts, and concrete jacketing. Structures, 46, 1994-2013. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.istruc.2022.11.024

This study proposed a new scheme for the retrofitting of Reinforced Concrete (RC) beams using Carbon Fiber Reinforced (CFRP) rods restrained using steel plates and anchorage bolts called the mechanical anchorage system (MAS). This system also employe... Read More about Reinforced concrete beams externally strengthened by CFRP rods with steel plate, anchorage bolts, and concrete jacketing.

Juvenile idiopathic arthritis polygenic risk scores are associated with cardiovascular phenotypes in early adulthood: A phenome-wide association study (2022)
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Clarke, S. L., Jones, H. J., Sharp, G. C., Easey, K. E., Hughes, A. D., Ramanan, A. V., & Relton, C. L. (2022). Juvenile idiopathic arthritis polygenic risk scores are associated with cardiovascular phenotypes in early adulthood: A phenome-wide association study. Pediatric Rheumatology, 20(1), 105. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12969-022-00760-0

Background: There is growing concern about the long-term cardiovascular health of patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). In this study we assessed the association between JIA polygenic risk and cardiovascular phenotypes (cardiovascular ri... Read More about Juvenile idiopathic arthritis polygenic risk scores are associated with cardiovascular phenotypes in early adulthood: A phenome-wide association study.

A neural network based framework for variable impedance skills learning from demonstrations (2022)
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Zhang, Y., Cheng, L., Cao, R., Li, H., & Yang, C. (2023). A neural network based framework for variable impedance skills learning from demonstrations. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 160, 104312. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2022.104312

Robots are becoming standard collaborators not only in factories, hospitals, and offices, but also in people's homes, where they can play an important role in situations where a human cannot complete a task alone or needs the help of another person (... Read More about A neural network based framework for variable impedance skills learning from demonstrations.

Logics in fungal Mycelium networks (2022)
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Adamatzky, A., Ayres, P., Beasley, A. E., Roberts, N., & Wösten, H. A. B. (2022). Logics in fungal Mycelium networks. Logica Universalis, 16(4), 655-669. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11787-022-00318-4

The living mycelium networks are capable of efficient sensorial fusion over very large areas and distributed decision making. The information processing in the mycelium networks is implemented via propagation of electrical and chemical signals en pai... Read More about Logics in fungal Mycelium networks.

Chronic crisis: 30 years on from the Dublin Principles and still no market to value water (2022)
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Keulertz, M., & Riddell, P. (2022). Chronic crisis: 30 years on from the Dublin Principles and still no market to value water. Water International, 47(7), 1048-1059. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2022.2133426

Solving the global water crisis requires water to be economically mobile. Well-regulated water markets that can allocate scarce water resources to their best economic, social and environmental uses will require rigorous water accounting; access to th... Read More about Chronic crisis: 30 years on from the Dublin Principles and still no market to value water.

Transfer of Erwinia toletana and Erwinia iniecta to a novel genus Winslowiella gen. nov. as Winslowiella toletana comb. nov. and Winslowiella iniecta comb. nov. and description of Winslowiella arboricola sp. nov., isolated from bleeding cankers on broadleaf hosts (2022)
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Brady, C., Kaur, S., Crampton, B., Maddock, D., Arnold, D., & Denman, S. (2022). Transfer of Erwinia toletana and Erwinia iniecta to a novel genus Winslowiella gen. nov. as Winslowiella toletana comb. nov. and Winslowiella iniecta comb. nov. and description of Winslowiella arboricola sp. nov., isolated from bleeding cankers on broadleaf hosts. Frontiers in Microbiology, 13, 1063107. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.1063107

Following a screening campaign of bleeding cankers of broadleaf hosts in Great Britain, numerous bacterial strains were isolated, identified by 16S rRNA and protein-coding gene sequencing and ultimately classified. During the course of the study, sev... Read More about Transfer of Erwinia toletana and Erwinia iniecta to a novel genus Winslowiella gen. nov. as Winslowiella toletana comb. nov. and Winslowiella iniecta comb. nov. and description of Winslowiella arboricola sp. nov., isolated from bleeding cankers on broadleaf hosts.

Fiestas, saints and spirituality: Collective rituals as community eldercare in Andalusia (2022)
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Place, C. (2022). Fiestas, saints and spirituality: Collective rituals as community eldercare in Andalusia. Anthropology and Aging, 43(2), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.5195/aa.2022.384

In this paper, I explore how spirituality and collective rituals influence eldercare in a small town in Andalusia, Spain. I describe how older people’s interactions with the town’s Virgin Mary statues generate personhood, situating the Virgin saints... Read More about Fiestas, saints and spirituality: Collective rituals as community eldercare in Andalusia.

Experiences of people living with long-term neurological conditions and using telerehabilitation during the COVID-19 lockdown in Switzerland: explorative interviews (2022)
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Dummermuth, M., Keller, F., & Smith, L. (2023). Experiences of people living with long-term neurological conditions and using telerehabilitation during the COVID-19 lockdown in Switzerland: explorative interviews. Physioscience, 19(1), 33-41. https://doi.org/10.1055/a-1771-4789

Background Therapy interventions were disrupted by the first lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic in Switzerland. An instant change to telerehabilitation had to be implemented by physiotherapists. Aim Exploration of experiences of individuals living... Read More about Experiences of people living with long-term neurological conditions and using telerehabilitation during the COVID-19 lockdown in Switzerland: explorative interviews.

Covid-19 and stock market liquidity: International evidence (2022)
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Umar, M., Rubbaniy, G., Iqbal, A., Rizvi, S. K. A., & Xu, Y. (2023). Covid-19 and stock market liquidity: International evidence. Economic Research-Ekonomska Istrazivanja, 36(2), Article 2142257. https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2022.2142257

This study analyzes the impact of Covid-19 on stock market liquidity of China and four worst hit countries by the pandemic. Using daily data for the stock market illiquidity spanning over July 1, 2019 to July 10, 2020 and the data for new cases and d... Read More about Covid-19 and stock market liquidity: International evidence.

Understanding transit ridership in an equity context through a comparison of statistical and machine learning algorithms (2022)
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Yousefzadeh Barri, E., Farber, S., Jahanshahi, H., & Beyazit, E. (2022). Understanding transit ridership in an equity context through a comparison of statistical and machine learning algorithms. Journal of Transport Geography, 105, Article 103482. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2022.103482

Building an accurate model of travel behaviour based on individuals’ characteristics and built environment attributes is of importance for policy-making and transportation planning. Recent experiments with big data and Machine Learning (ML) algorithm... Read More about Understanding transit ridership in an equity context through a comparison of statistical and machine learning algorithms.

An approach for developing probabilistic models for temperature-dependent properties of construction materials from fire tests and small data (2022)
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Karaki, G., & Naser, M. Z. (in press). An approach for developing probabilistic models for temperature-dependent properties of construction materials from fire tests and small data. Fire and Materials, https://doi.org/10.1002/fam.3116

Probabilistic approaches provide a more realistic look into assessing structures under fire conditions and overcome some limitations observed in the more traditional (deterministic) approaches. These approaches have also been introduced to the fire e... Read More about An approach for developing probabilistic models for temperature-dependent properties of construction materials from fire tests and small data.

Protocol-specific and sensor network-inherited attack detection in IoT using machine learning (2022)
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Zahra, F., Jhanjhi, N. Z., Khan, N. A., Brohi, S. N., Masud, M., & Aljahdali, S. (2022). Protocol-specific and sensor network-inherited attack detection in IoT using machine learning. Applied Sciences, 12(22), https://doi.org/10.3390/app122211598

For networks with limited resources, such as IoT-enabled smart homes, smart industrial equipment, and urban infrastructures, the Routing Protocol for Low-power and Lossy Networks (RPL) was developed. Additionally, a number of optimizations have been... Read More about Protocol-specific and sensor network-inherited attack detection in IoT using machine learning.

Modeling peptide nucleic acid binding enthalpies using MM-GBSA (2022)
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Goodman, J., Attwood, D., Kiely, J., Coladas Mato, P., & Luxton, R. (2022). Modeling peptide nucleic acid binding enthalpies using MM-GBSA. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 126(46), 9528-9538. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c05547

The binding enthalpies of peptide nucleic acid (PNA) homoduplexes were predicted using a molecular mechanics generalized Born surface area approach. Using the nucleic acid nearest-neighbor model, these were decomposed into sequence parameters which c... Read More about Modeling peptide nucleic acid binding enthalpies using MM-GBSA.

Changes in motor traffic in London's Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and boundary roads (2022)
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Thomas, A., & Aldred, R. (2024). Changes in motor traffic in London's Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and boundary roads. Case Studies on Transport Policy, 15, Article 101124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cstp.2023.101124

This paper meta-analyses traffic data extracted from monitoring reports for 46 Low Traffic Neighbourhood schemes in 11 London boroughs introduced between May 2020 and May 2021. Schemes are controversial with still limited academic evidence on impacts... Read More about Changes in motor traffic in London's Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and boundary roads.