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ApplianceNet: A neural network based framework to recognize daily life activities and behavior in smart home using smart plugs (2022)
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Fahim, M., Kazmi, S. M. A., & Khattak, A. M. (2022). ApplianceNet: A neural network based framework to recognize daily life activities and behavior in smart home using smart plugs. Neural Computing and Applications, 34(15), 12749-12763. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-022-07144-1

A smart plug can transform the typical electrical appliance into a smart multi-functional device, which can communicate over the Internet. It has the ability to report the energy consumption pattern of the attached appliance which offer the further a... Read More about ApplianceNet: A neural network based framework to recognize daily life activities and behavior in smart home using smart plugs.

Architects’ ‘enforced togetherness’: New design affordances of the home (2022)
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Marco, E., Tahsiri, M., Sinnett, D., & Oliveira, S. (2022). Architects’ ‘enforced togetherness’: New design affordances of the home. Buildings & Cities, 3(1), 168-185. https://doi.org/10.5334/bc.189

Lockdown impositions have impacted people’s lives, their health and wellbeing, changing the ways in which dwellings are used and occupied. Spaces within the home have had to be rapidly renegotiated, redesigned and resynchronised in ways not yet fully... Read More about Architects’ ‘enforced togetherness’: New design affordances of the home.

Recapturing master recordings (2022)
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Keppel-Palmer, M. (2022). Recapturing master recordings. Entertainment Law Review, 33(3), 104-109

Discusses proposals to grant musicians a right to recapture their copyrights in master recordings suggested by the Parliamentary Inquiry on the Economics of Music Streaming (2021). Reviews the US approach, the current UK position, and key difficultie... Read More about Recapturing master recordings.

Epidemiology and outcomes of tibial plateau fractures in adults aged 60 and over treated in the United Kingdom (2022)
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Donovan, R. L., Smith, J. R., Yeomans, D., Bennett, F., White, P., & Chesser, T. J. (2022). Epidemiology and outcomes of tibial plateau fractures in adults aged 60 and over treated in the United Kingdom. Injury, 53(6), 2219-2225. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.injury.2022.03.048

Background: Tibial plateau fractures are common in older adults, often resulting from low-energy falls. Although lower limb fragility fracture care has evolved, the management of tibial plateau fractures in older patients remains poorly researched. T... Read More about Epidemiology and outcomes of tibial plateau fractures in adults aged 60 and over treated in the United Kingdom.

Nonbinary representations in the NK and NKCS models (2022)
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Bull, L. (2022). Nonbinary representations in the NK and NKCS models. Complex Systems -Champaign-, 31(1), 87-101. https://doi.org/10.25088/ComplexSystems.31.1.87

The NK model has been used widely to explore aspects of natural evolution and complex systems. Traditionally, the model has used a binary representation scheme. This paper introduces a modified form of the NK model through which to systematically exp... Read More about Nonbinary representations in the NK and NKCS models.

Reshaping energy landscape: A regional approach to explore electricity infrastructure networks* (2022)
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De Laurentis, C. (2023). Reshaping energy landscape: A regional approach to explore electricity infrastructure networks*. Landscape Research, 48(2), 224-238. https://doi.org/10.1080/01426397.2022.2047910

Reconfiguring energy infrastructure networks to accommodate the expansion of renewable energy can have specific regional manifestations with regional advocacy being used to promote innovations and solutions on the ground. The paper introduces the ana... Read More about Reshaping energy landscape: A regional approach to explore electricity infrastructure networks*.

Pain management in children and young adults with minor injury in emergency departments in the UK and Ireland: A PERUKI service evaluation (2022)
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Hartshorn, S., Durnin, S., Lyttle, M. D., & Barrett, M. (2022). Pain management in children and young adults with minor injury in emergency departments in the UK and Ireland: A PERUKI service evaluation. BMJ Paediatrics Open, 6(1), Article e001273. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjpo-2021-001273

Background Management of acute pain should commence at the earliest opportunity, as it has many short-term and long-term consequences. A research priority of Paediatric Emergency Research in the UK and Ireland (PERUKI) was to examine paediatric pain... Read More about Pain management in children and young adults with minor injury in emergency departments in the UK and Ireland: A PERUKI service evaluation.

The importance of overcoming the challenges in delivering the Proper Understanding of Recurrent Stress Urinary Incontinence Treatment (PURSUIT) study (2022)
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Pope, C., Cotterill, N., Drake, M. J., Fitzgerald, B., Greenwell, T., Jha, S., …White, A. (2022). The importance of overcoming the challenges in delivering the Proper Understanding of Recurrent Stress Urinary Incontinence Treatment (PURSUIT) study. Continence, 1, Article 100020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cont.2022.100020

There is insufficient data to assess the effects of any of the different management strategies for recurrent or persistent stress urinary incontinence in women after failed interventional treatment. The evidence base lacks well-designed randomised tr... Read More about The importance of overcoming the challenges in delivering the Proper Understanding of Recurrent Stress Urinary Incontinence Treatment (PURSUIT) study.

A mixed-studies systematic review of the experiences of body image, disordered eating, and eating disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic (2022)
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Schneider, K., Pegram, G., Gibson, B., Talamonti, D., Tinoco, A., Craddock, N., …Forshaw, M. (2023). A mixed-studies systematic review of the experiences of body image, disordered eating, and eating disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 56(1), 26-67. https://doi.org/10.1002/eat.23706

Objectives: This systematic review assessed the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated restrictions on body image, disordered eating (DE), and eating disorder outcomes. Methods: After registration on PROSPERO, a search was conducted for pa... Read More about A mixed-studies systematic review of the experiences of body image, disordered eating, and eating disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Design for safety (DfS) practice in construction engineering and management research: A review of current trends and future directions (2022)
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Che Ibrahim, C. K. I., Manu, P., Belayutham, S., Mahamadu, A. M., & Antwi-Afari, M. F. (2022). Design for safety (DfS) practice in construction engineering and management research: A review of current trends and future directions. Journal of Building Engineering, 52, Article 104352. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2022.104352

For past decades, design for safety (DfS) has gained growing interest among scholars and practitioners in different geographical contexts as one of the innovative practices integrating worker health and safety in the front-end of the project lifecycl... Read More about Design for safety (DfS) practice in construction engineering and management research: A review of current trends and future directions.

One step forward, two steps back? Interpreting 'particular social group' in the European Union (2022)
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Querton, C. (2022). One step forward, two steps back? Interpreting 'particular social group' in the European Union. International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 71(2), 425 - 451. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020589322000021

The article tests the claim of feminist scholars that concerns about gender have been marginalised in refugee law, by exploring the interpretation given to the concept of a 'Particular Social Group' set out in the 1951 Refugee Convention. It is argue... Read More about One step forward, two steps back? Interpreting 'particular social group' in the European Union.

qNoise: A generator of non-Gaussian colored noise (2022)
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Deza, J. I., & Ihshaish, H. (2022). qNoise: A generator of non-Gaussian colored noise. SoftwareX, 18, Article 101034. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2022.101034

We introduce a software generator for a class of colored (self-correlated) and non-Gaussian noise, whose statistics and spectrum depend on two param- eters, q and τ. Inspired by Tsallis’ nonextensive formulation of statistical physics, the so-called... Read More about qNoise: A generator of non-Gaussian colored noise.

Clinical assessment of lower urinary tract symptoms in adults (2022)
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Ellis-Jones, J. (in press). Clinical assessment of lower urinary tract symptoms in adults. Nursing Standard, https://doi.org/10.7748/ns.2022.e11821

Lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) result from conditions and diseases that affect the bladder and the urethra, and can occur in men and women of all ages. LUTS can be debilitating and affect a person's quality of life significantly. This article de... Read More about Clinical assessment of lower urinary tract symptoms in adults.

Continuous controlled conditions assessment to promote frequent revision engagement (2022)
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Moore, C. (2022). Continuous controlled conditions assessment to promote frequent revision engagement. Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice, 22(2), 247-254. https://doi.org/10.33423/jhetp.v22i2.5062

Student engagement remains a priority in higher education. With assessment outcomes being the primary driving force for students, revisiting learning material usually occurs only during the immediate lead up to end of semester or end of year time poi... Read More about Continuous controlled conditions assessment to promote frequent revision engagement.

Everything changes… well some things do: Reflections on, and resources for, reflexive thematic analysis (2022)
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Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2022). Everything changes… well some things do: Reflections on, and resources for, reflexive thematic analysis. Qualitative Methods in Psychology Bulletin, 33, https://doi.org/10.53841/bpsqmip.2022.1.33.21

In this short piece, we respond to an invite from QMiP Bulletin to signpost the resources we have created for learning about and doing (and teaching and supervising) TA; we also briefly signal some the things that have changed in our thinking. Our ne... Read More about Everything changes… well some things do: Reflections on, and resources for, reflexive thematic analysis.

Nonlinear robust controller design for an upper limb rehabilitation robot via variable gain super twisting sliding mode (2022)
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Mirrashid, N., Alibeiki, E., & Rakhtala, S. M. (2022). Nonlinear robust controller design for an upper limb rehabilitation robot via variable gain super twisting sliding mode. International Journal of Dynamics and Control, 10(6), 1996-2010. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40435-021-00902-4

Rehabilitation robots have an effective role in helping patients with physical disabilities. Therefore, improving their performance is very important. In this paper, a robust nonlinear controller is proposed for the upper limb rehabilitation robot. T... Read More about Nonlinear robust controller design for an upper limb rehabilitation robot via variable gain super twisting sliding mode.

Functionality-preserving adversarial machine learning for robust classification in cybersecurity and intrusion detection domains: A survey (2022)
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McCarthy, A., Ghadafi, E., Andriotis, P., & Legg, P. (2022). Functionality-preserving adversarial machine learning for robust classification in cybersecurity and intrusion detection domains: A survey. Journal of Cybersecurity and Privacy, 2(1), 154-190. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcp2010010

Machine learning has become widely adopted as a strategy for dealing with a variety of cybersecurity issues, ranging from insider threat detection to intrusion and malware detection. However, by their very nature, machine learning systems can introdu... Read More about Functionality-preserving adversarial machine learning for robust classification in cybersecurity and intrusion detection domains: A survey.

The influence of the North Atlantic oscillation & East Atlantic pattern on drought in British catchments (2022)
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West, H., Quinn, N., & Horswell, M. (2022). The influence of the North Atlantic oscillation & East Atlantic pattern on drought in British catchments. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 10, Article 754597. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2022.754597

Drought events are influenced by a combination of both climatic and local catchment characteristics. In Great Britain the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) has long been recognised as the leading mode of climate variability, and studies have also note... Read More about The influence of the North Atlantic oscillation & East Atlantic pattern on drought in British catchments.

Validating clinical practice guidelines for the management of febrile infants presenting to the emergency department in the UK and Ireland (2022)
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Waterfield, T., Lyttle, M. D., Munday, C., Foster, S., McNulty, M., Platt, R., …Roland, D. (2022). Validating clinical practice guidelines for the management of febrile infants presenting to the emergency department in the UK and Ireland. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 107(4), 329-334. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2021-322586

Objective To report the performance of clinical practice guidelines (CPG) in the diagnosis of serious/invasive bacterial infections (SBI/IBI) in infants presenting with a fever to emergency care in the UK and Ireland. Two CPGs were from the National... Read More about Validating clinical practice guidelines for the management of febrile infants presenting to the emergency department in the UK and Ireland.

Impact of coastal disasters on women in urban slums: A new index (2022)
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Kantamaneni, K., Panneer, S., Sudha Rani, N. N., Palaniswamy, U., Bhat, L. D., Jimenez-Bescos, C., & Rice, L. (2022). Impact of coastal disasters on women in urban slums: A new index. Sustainability, 14(6), Article 3472. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14063472

Coastal hazards, particularly cyclones, floods, erosion and storm surges, are emerging as a cause for major concern in the coastal regions of Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India. Serious coastal disaster events have become more common in recent decades... Read More about Impact of coastal disasters on women in urban slums: A new index.