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Optimisation of straight plate upstream deflector for the performance enhancement of vertical axis wind turbine at low, medium and high regimes of tip speed ratios (2022)
Journal Article

Location and geometry optimisations of Straight Plate Upstream Deflector (SPUD) for performance enhancement of a three-straightbladed Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT) are carried out at three regimes of tip speed ratios (TSRs). Results analysis reve... Read More about Optimisation of straight plate upstream deflector for the performance enhancement of vertical axis wind turbine at low, medium and high regimes of tip speed ratios.

Respiratory syncytial virus-associated hospitalisation in children aged ≤5 years: a scoping review of literature from 2009 to 2021 (2022)
Journal Article

Introduction Following the easing of COVID-19 restrictions in many countries, a surge in respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) hospitalisations was reported, surpassing yearly trends pre-pandemic. The changes to RSV epidemiology may have unforeseen effec... Read More about Respiratory syncytial virus-associated hospitalisation in children aged ≤5 years: a scoping review of literature from 2009 to 2021.

Insights into the use of modular housing in addressing homelessness (2022)
Report

Kaleidoscope - Volume 220 , Special Issue 4: Themed Issue: Precision Medicine and Personalised Healthcare in Psychiatry (2022)
Journal Article

Multiple sclerosis is an immune-mediated inflammatory demyelinating condition putatively triggered by a viral infection. The Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) has been proposed as a causative agent in multiple sclerosis because of observations of an increased... Read More about Kaleidoscope - Volume 220 , Special Issue 4: Themed Issue: Precision Medicine and Personalised Healthcare in Psychiatry.

The association between trajectories of loneliness and physical frailty in Chinese older adults: Does age matter? (2022)
Journal Article

Background: The present study aimed to examine age differences in the relationship between trajectories of loneliness and physical frailty among Chinese older adults. Methods: A total of 4618 participants aged ≥60 years old were taken from pooled dat... Read More about The association between trajectories of loneliness and physical frailty in Chinese older adults: Does age matter?.

Growth opportunity and investment policy: The role of managerial incentives (2022)
Journal Article

Based on the neo-classical theory of investment (Tobin's Q), this study looks at how growth opportunity drives investment policies and the extent to which this relationship is sensitive to managerial incentives. We use data from 213 non-financial and... Read More about Growth opportunity and investment policy: The role of managerial incentives.

Lesbian feminism (2022)
Book Chapter

Lesbianism is the term used to describe a sexual orientation, sexual acts and desires, and romantic and sexual love between women. During the period known as the feminist Second Wave across the Western world, roughly from the late 1960s and into the... Read More about Lesbian feminism.

Development of hybrid optimization algorithm for structures furnished with seismic damper devices using the particle swarm optimization method and gravitational search algorithm (2022)
Journal Article

Previous studies about optimizing earthquake structural energy dissipation systems indicated that most existing techniques employ merely one or a few parameters as design variables in the optimization process, and thereby are only applicable only to... Read More about Development of hybrid optimization algorithm for structures furnished with seismic damper devices using the particle swarm optimization method and gravitational search algorithm.

Flutter By (2022)
Digital Artefact

Every Friday in March

Together with The One Minutes Foundation, the last month we have been calling for digital moving image works by artists and visual storytellers on the theme of Happiness. What does happiness look like and what power does it h... Read More about Flutter By.

Read With Me (2022)
Physical Artefact

Read With Me. Extending from the experimental book project ‘Read to Me’, this book is the result of: a performative drawing event, readings by a psychometric reader, collages made during lockdown and words assembled from the dissected readings. It wa... Read More about Read With Me.

Acceptability and feasibility of an online psychosocial intervention for Dutch adolescents with a visible difference: A mixed-methods study (2022)
Journal Article

Adolescents with a visible difference can experience difficult social situations, (e.g., people staring or making unwanted comments) and are at risk for mental health problems. Unfortunately, interventions for adolescents with a visible difference ex... Read More about Acceptability and feasibility of an online psychosocial intervention for Dutch adolescents with a visible difference: A mixed-methods study.

Perceptions Of Colour Form And Amenity In Green Spaces (2022)
Journal Article

Designing healthy resilient places for people doesn't need to be too challenging or complicated. We might be best to remember that a landscape-led approach works best, where the landscape comes first, and provides the framework within the built envir... Read More about Perceptions Of Colour Form And Amenity In Green Spaces.

Efficient Shapelet Discovery for Time Series Classification (2022)
Journal Article

Time-series shapelets are discriminative subsequences, recently found effective for time series classification (tsc). It is evident that the quality of shapelets is crucial to the accuracy of tsc. However, major research has focused on building accur... Read More about Efficient Shapelet Discovery for Time Series Classification.

Global crafts: Woodblock prints with Wuon-Gean Ho (2022)
Digital Artefact

This week Oliver is joined by Wuon-Gean Ho, printmaker and research associate at the University of West England’s Centre for Print Research, to discuss the place of mokuhanga, or woodblock printmaking, in the global spread of traditional crafts. Wuon... Read More about Global crafts: Woodblock prints with Wuon-Gean Ho.

Ethical principles in an increasingly diverse planning profession: The potential impact of different types of planners (2022)
Journal Article

Response to Raelin (2022)
Journal Article

We have been invited by Bastiaan Van Der Linden and Joe Raelin to write a response to Joe’s critique of our paper “Leadership Learning, Power and Practice in Laos: A Leadership-as-Practice Perspective,” published in Management Learning. The paper exp... Read More about Response to Raelin.

An agent-based model of motor insurance customer behaviour in the UK with word of mouth (2022)
Journal Article

Attracting and retaining loyal customers is a key driver of insurance profit. An important factor is the customers’ opinion of an insurer’s service quality. If a customer has a bad experience with an insurer, they will be less likely to buy from them... Read More about An agent-based model of motor insurance customer behaviour in the UK with word of mouth.

Diabetes mellitus prediction and diagnosis from a data preprocessing and machine learning perspective (2022)
Journal Article

Background and Objective: Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder characterized by hyperglycemia, which results from the inadequacy of the body to secrete and respond to insulin. If not properly managed or diagnosed on time, diabetes can pose a ris... Read More about Diabetes mellitus prediction and diagnosis from a data preprocessing and machine learning perspective.

Prediction of shear capacity of steel channel sections using machine learning algorithms (2022)
Journal Article

This study presents the application of popular machine learning algorithms in prediction of the shear resistance of steel channel sections using experimental and numerical data. Datasets of 108 results of stainless steel lipped channel sections and 2... Read More about Prediction of shear capacity of steel channel sections using machine learning algorithms.

Politics of Impunity: Torture, the Armed Forces and the Failure of Transitional Justice in Brazil (2022)
Book