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Modeling peptide nucleic acid binding enthalpies using MM-GBSA (2022)
Journal Article
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.

Future humanities (2022)
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Tava, F., & Oostveen, D. F. (2023). Future humanities. Future Humanities, 1(1), Article e2. https://doi.org/10.1002/fhu2.2

Future Humanities highlights the rise and convergence of new and critical humanities by publishing trans‐ and interdisciplinary research focused on diverse subjects and methodologies. These include, but are not limited to, philosophy, cultural and hi... Read More about Future humanities.

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.

Brownfield regeneration and the shifting of financial risk: Between plans and reality in public-private partnerships (2022)
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van den Hurk, M., Williams, D., Luis dos Santos Pereira, A., & Tallon, A. (2024). Brownfield regeneration and the shifting of financial risk: Between plans and reality in public-private partnerships. Urban Research and Practice, 17(2), 149-170. https://doi.org/10.1080/17535069.2022.2144430

Internationally, brownfield regeneration projects are delivered through public-private partnerships that form complex legal and structural delivery mechanisms. Utilizing private-sector finance and skills is an accepted practice to reduce financial ri... Read More about Brownfield regeneration and the shifting of financial risk: Between plans and reality in public-private partnerships.

Names in adoption law and policy: Representations of family, rights and identities (2022)
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Pilcher, J., & Coffey, A. (2024). Names in adoption law and policy: Representations of family, rights and identities. Families, Relationships and Societies, 13(1), 105-120. https://doi.org/10.1332/204674322X16651391589015

Names have heightened importance in adoption, affecting the identities of individuals who are adopted and adoptive family making. In this article, we use critical discourse analysis to gauge how names, and especially children’s forenames, are address... Read More about Names in adoption law and policy: Representations of family, rights and identities.

Interpretative phenomenological analysis: Theory, Method and research (Second edition) (2022)
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Fragkiadaki, E. (2022). Interpretative phenomenological analysis: Theory, Method and research (Second edition). Qualitative Methods in Psychology Bulletin, 54 - 58

Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) was developed and introduced by Jonathan Smith when he put together the epistemological underpinnings of phenomenology and hermeneutics along with idiography (Smith, 2008). He then worked with Michael La... Read More about Interpretative phenomenological analysis: Theory, Method and research (Second edition).

Housing and the politics of Nationally Strategic Infrastructure Planning in England (2022)
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Hickman, H., & While, A. (2023). Housing and the politics of Nationally Strategic Infrastructure Planning in England. Land Use Policy, 124, Article 106429. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106429

The 2008 Planning Act introduced a new approach for determining large (‘nationally significant’) infrastructure projects in a new national process that would unify consent regimes and speed up decisions within fixed timescales outside of local planni... Read More about Housing and the politics of Nationally Strategic Infrastructure Planning in England.

Integration of origami and deployable concept in volumetric modular units (2022)
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Beatini, V., Gatheeshgar, P., Rajanayagam, H., Poologanathan, K., Suntharalingam, T., Perera, D., …Nagaratnam, B. (2022). Integration of origami and deployable concept in volumetric modular units. Scientific Reports, 12(1), Article 19180. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-18951-w

Modular building systems (MBS) and Origami are two emerging methods used in current construction practice. Origami is directly associated with the principles of the ancient Japanese art of paper folding, characterised by high morphological possibilit... Read More about Integration of origami and deployable concept in volumetric modular units.

Sexual offending and barriers to employability: Public perceptions of who to hire (2022)
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Porter, C. N., Haggar, L., & Harvey, A. C. (2023). Sexual offending and barriers to employability: Public perceptions of who to hire. Current Psychology, 42(32), 28799-28811. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-03841-1

Employment can reduce reoffending, yet many employers refrain from hiring candidates with prior convictions, particularly for sexual offences. This study explored employability ratings before and after a disclosure and barring service (DBS) check for... Read More about Sexual offending and barriers to employability: Public perceptions of who to hire.

Pain control in palliative care (2022)
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Tredgett, K. M., & Piggin, C. (2022). Pain control in palliative care. Medicine, 50(12), 755-761. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mpmed.2022.09.001

Pain is one of the most feared symptoms of advanced, progressive disease and dying. It is a common but not universal experience in both advanced malignant and non-malignant conditions. A patient-centred approach involving systematic and thorough asse... Read More about Pain control in palliative care.

Towards a low-cost monitor-based augmented reality training platform for at-home ultrasound skill development (2022)
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Shao, M. Y., Vagg, T., Seibold, M., & Doughty, M. (2022). Towards a low-cost monitor-based augmented reality training platform for at-home ultrasound skill development. Journal of Imaging, 8(11), 305. https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging8110305

Ultrasound education traditionally involves theoretical and practical training on patients or on simulators; however, difficulty accessing training equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for home-based training systems. Due t... Read More about Towards a low-cost monitor-based augmented reality training platform for at-home ultrasound skill development.

Electrical frequency discrimination by fungi Pleurotus ostreatus (2022)
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Przyczyna, D., Szacilowski, K., Chiolerio, A., & Adamatzky, A. (2022). Electrical frequency discrimination by fungi Pleurotus ostreatus. BioSystems, 222, 104797. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2022.104797

We stimulate mycelian networks of oyster fungi Pleurotus ostreatus with low frequency sinusoidal electrical signals. We demonstrate that the fungal networks can discriminate between frequencies in a fuzzy or threshold based manner. Details about the... Read More about Electrical frequency discrimination by fungi Pleurotus ostreatus.

Performance evaluation of deep learning and boosted trees for cryptocurrency closing price prediction (2022)
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Oyedele, A. A., Ajayi, A., Oyedele, A., Bello, S., & Oyedele, L. (2023). Performance evaluation of deep learning and boosted trees for cryptocurrency closing price prediction. Expert Systems with Applications, 213(Part C), Article 119233. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2022.119233

The emergence of cryptocurrencies has drawn significant investment capital in recent years with an exponential increase in market capitalization and trade volume. However, the cryptocurrency market is highly volatile and burdened with substantial het... Read More about Performance evaluation of deep learning and boosted trees for cryptocurrency closing price prediction.

Development of a lightweight centralized authentication mechanism for the internet of things driven by fog (2022)
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Lansky, J., Sadrishojaei, M., Rahmani, A. M., Malik, M. H., Kazemian, F., & Hosseinzadeh, M. (2022). Development of a lightweight centralized authentication mechanism for the internet of things driven by fog. Mathematics, 10(22), 4166. https://doi.org/10.3390/math10224166

The rapid development of technology has made the Internet of Things an integral element of modern society. Modern Internet of Things’ implementations often use Fog computing, an offshoot of the Cloud computing that offers localized processing power a... Read More about Development of a lightweight centralized authentication mechanism for the internet of things driven by fog.

Understanding Hydrogen: Lessons to be learned from physical interactions between the inert gases and the globin superfamily (2022)
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Hancock, J. T., Russell, G., Craig, T. J., May, J., Morse, H. R., & Stamler, J. S. (2022). Understanding Hydrogen: Lessons to be learned from physical interactions between the inert gases and the globin superfamily. Oxygen, 2(4), 578-590. https://doi.org/10.3390/oxygen2040038

Hydrogen gas (molecular hydrogen, H2) has significant effects in a range of organisms, from plants to humans. Many inert gases have been reported to have similar effects, and such responses may be most pronounced when cells are stressed. Xenon (Xe),... Read More about Understanding Hydrogen: Lessons to be learned from physical interactions between the inert gases and the globin superfamily.

Joint communication, computation, and control for computational task offloading in vehicle-assisted multi-access edge computing (2022)
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Dang, T. N., Manzoor, A., Tun, Y. K., Kazmi, S. M. A., Haw, R., Hong, S. H., …Hong, C. S. (2022). Joint communication, computation, and control for computational task offloading in vehicle-assisted multi-access edge computing. IEEE Access, 10, 122513-122529. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3220251

Future generation of Electric Vehicles (EVs) equipped with modern technologies will impose a significant burden on computation and communication to the network due to the vast extension of onboard infotainment services. To overcome this challenge, mu... Read More about Joint communication, computation, and control for computational task offloading in vehicle-assisted multi-access edge computing.

Sleep-facilitated sexual assault: An analysis of case data featuring female and male victims of rape (2022)
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Rumney, P. N. S., & Mcphee, D. (2022). Sleep-facilitated sexual assault: An analysis of case data featuring female and male victims of rape. Amicus Curiae, 4(1),

This note addresses a form of rape that is neglected in the scholarly literature. This form of offending occurs when a male uses his penis to vaginally, orally or anally penetrate a female or male who is sleeping at the time of the penetration. The d... Read More about Sleep-facilitated sexual assault: An analysis of case data featuring female and male victims of rape.

Categorisation of requirements in the ontology-based framework for employer information requirements (OntEIR) (2022)
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Dwairi, S., & Mahdjoubi, L. (2022). Categorisation of requirements in the ontology-based framework for employer information requirements (OntEIR). Buildings, 12(11), 1899. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12111899

Employer Information Requirements (EIR) are the keystone for developing a successful Building Information Modelling (BIM) project. However, clients’ lack of skill and experience in categorising and defining these requirements often undermines the per... Read More about Categorisation of requirements in the ontology-based framework for employer information requirements (OntEIR).

Kwame Nkrumah’s construction of ‘the African people’ via the Unite or Perish myth: A discourse-historical analysis of populist performance (2022)
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Nartey, M. (2022). Kwame Nkrumah’s construction of ‘the African people’ via the Unite or Perish myth: A discourse-historical analysis of populist performance. Pragmatics and Society, 13(4), 605-624. https://doi.org/10.1075/ps.19023.nar

Employing Wodak's discourse-historical approach, this paper examines how Ghana's independence leader - Kwame Nkrumah - in his creation of the Unite or Perish myth constructed 'the African people' in a manner in sync with populist performance. It argu... Read More about Kwame Nkrumah’s construction of ‘the African people’ via the Unite or Perish myth: A discourse-historical analysis of populist performance.

Do international tourist arrivals change residents’ attitudes towards immigration? A longitudinal study of 28 European countries (2022)
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Ivlevs, A., & Smith, I. (2024). Do international tourist arrivals change residents’ attitudes towards immigration? A longitudinal study of 28 European countries. Tourism Economics, 30(1), 104-131. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548166221137950

Can international tourist arrivals change residents’ attitudes towards immigrants and immigration? We discuss possible underlying mechanisms and provide the first evidence on this question using data from the European Social Survey (2002–2019; n=333,... Read More about Do international tourist arrivals change residents’ attitudes towards immigration? A longitudinal study of 28 European countries.