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Tracking changes in user activity from unlabelled smart home sensor data using unsupervised learning methods (2020)
Journal Article

© 2020, The Author(s). This paper investigates the utility of unsupervised machine learning and data visualisation for tracking changes in user activity over time. This is done through analysing unlabelled data generated from passive and ambient smar... Read More about Tracking changes in user activity from unlabelled smart home sensor data using unsupervised learning methods.

Learning through successful feedback: Digital opportunities for effective feedback in project-based architectural education (2020)
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The study focuses on improving student feedback and assessment in Architectural Education, a subject area where constructive criticism is crucial and forms a part of the methodology of both teaching and practice. The UK National Student Survey consis... Read More about Learning through successful feedback: Digital opportunities for effective feedback in project-based architectural education.

The patientsʼ perspective of important glucocorticoid effects: A nominal group study among patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Myositis (2020)
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Background/Objective The objective of this cohort study was to understand the positive and negative effects of glucocorticoids (GCs) in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and myositis from the patients' perspective with the aim of developing... Read More about The patientsʼ perspective of important glucocorticoid effects: A nominal group study among patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Myositis.

Designing ethical social robots - A longitudinal field study with older adults (2020)
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Emotional deception and emotional attachment are regarded as ethical concerns in human robot interaction. Considering these concerns is essential, particularly as little is known about longitudinal effects of interactions with social robots. We ran a... Read More about Designing ethical social robots - A longitudinal field study with older adults.

‘The object is to change the heart and soul’: Financial incentives, planning and opposition to new housebuilding in England (2020)
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© The Author(s) 2020. In 2014 the UK government announced plans to reduce opposition to housing development by making a direct payment to households in England. 1 This was part of a wider experiment with behavioural economics and financial inducement... Read More about ‘The object is to change the heart and soul’: Financial incentives, planning and opposition to new housebuilding in England.

Achieving consensus in the measurement of psychological adjustment to cleft lip and/or palate at age 8 years+ (2020)
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Background: Consensus regarding optimal outcome measurement has been identified as one of the most important, yet most challenging developments for the future of cleft lip and/or palate (CL/P) services. In 2011, a process began to adopt a shared conc... Read More about Achieving consensus in the measurement of psychological adjustment to cleft lip and/or palate at age 8 years+.

Neural learning enhanced variable admittance control for human-robot collaboration (2020)
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© 2013 IEEE. In this paper, we propose a novel strategy for human-robot impedance mapping to realize an effective execution of human-robot collaboration. The endpoint stiffness of the human arm impedance is estimated according to the configurations o... Read More about Neural learning enhanced variable admittance control for human-robot collaboration.

BCAT-induced autophagy regulates Aβ load through an interdependence of redox state and PKC phosphorylation-implications in Alzheimer's disease (2020)
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Leucine, nutrient signal and substrate for the branched chain aminotransferase (BCAT) activates the mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTORC1) and regulates autophagic flux, mechanisms implicated in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative conditions such... Read More about BCAT-induced autophagy regulates Aβ load through an interdependence of redox state and PKC phosphorylation-implications in Alzheimer's disease.

Potential impacts of non-native fish on the threatened mahseer (Tor) species of the Indian Himalayan biodiversity hot spot (2020)
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1. Mahseer (Tor) fish species are critical components of locally adapted freshwater food webs across the Indian Himalayan biodiversity hotspot; however, multiple human stressors compounded by climate change have significantly depleted their populatio... Read More about Potential impacts of non-native fish on the threatened mahseer (Tor) species of the Indian Himalayan biodiversity hot spot.

Viewing the Dublin Drug Treatment Court through the lens of therapeutic jurisprudence (2020)
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Over the last 25 years problem solving courts have developed internationally to provide a response to entrenched criminal justice related issues including addiction and mental health problems. These courts operate in adherence with the concept of The... Read More about Viewing the Dublin Drug Treatment Court through the lens of therapeutic jurisprudence.

A framework of hybrid force/motion skills learning for robots (2020)
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Human factors and human-centered design philosophy are highly desired in today's robotics applications such as human-robot interaction (HRI). Several studies showed that endowing robots of human-like interaction skills can not only make them more lik... Read More about A framework of hybrid force/motion skills learning for robots.

Discovery approach to fieldwork (2020)
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Formal verification of a hybrid machine learning-based fault prediction model in Internet of Things applications (2020)
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By increasing the complexity of the Internet of Things (IoT) applications, fault prediction become an important challenge in interactions between human, and smart devices. Fault prediction is one of the key factors to achieve better arranging the IoT... Read More about Formal verification of a hybrid machine learning-based fault prediction model in Internet of Things applications.

A hybrid fuzzy system dynamics approach for risk analysis of AUV operations (2020)
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© 2020 Fuji Technology Press. All rights reserved. The maturing of autonomous technology has fostered a rapid expansion in the use of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs). To prevent the loss of AUVs during deployments, existing risk analysis approa... Read More about A hybrid fuzzy system dynamics approach for risk analysis of AUV operations.

Big Data with deep learning for benchmarking profitability performance in project tendering (2020)
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© 2020 A reliable benchmarking system is crucial for the contractors to evaluate the profitability performance of project tenders. Existing benchmarks are ineffective in the tender evaluation task for three reasons. Firstly, these benchmarks are most... Read More about Big Data with deep learning for benchmarking profitability performance in project tendering.

Waste management in England and the 'circular economy' model (2020)
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By tracing the emergence of waste strategy in England, leading up to the most recent strategy launched in 2018, this article aims to aid the development of a shared understanding of what 'waste' means. It also looks at emerging and competing interpre... Read More about Waste management in England and the 'circular economy' model.

Leisure and wellbeing (2020)
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Drivers and challenges associated with the implementation of big data within UK facilities management sector: An exploratory factor analysis approach (2020)
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The recent advances in Internet of Things (IoT), computational analytics, processing power, and assimilation of Big Data (BD) are playing an important role in revolutionizing maintenance and operations regimes within the wider facilities management (... Read More about Drivers and challenges associated with the implementation of big data within UK facilities management sector: An exploratory factor analysis approach.

Long-term bio-power of ceramic microbial fuel cells in individual and stacked configurations (2020)
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© 2020 The Authors In order to improve the potential of Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) as an applicable technology, the main challenge is to engineer practical systems for bioenergy production at larger scales and to test how the prototypes withstand th... Read More about Long-term bio-power of ceramic microbial fuel cells in individual and stacked configurations.

Between gang talk and prohibition: The transfer of blame for County Lines (2020)
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Background The drug supply model termed ‘County Lines’ has generated extensive attention over recent years in the UK. Associated street violence, the involvement of young people and exploitation have been the source of intense concern. However, litt... Read More about Between gang talk and prohibition: The transfer of blame for County Lines.