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Online service provisioning in NFV-enabled networks using deep reinforcement learning (2022)
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Nouruzi, A., Zakeri, A., Javan, M. R., Mokari, N., Hussain, R., & Kazmi, S. M. A. (2022). Online service provisioning in NFV-enabled networks using deep reinforcement learning. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 19(3), 3276-3289. https://doi.org/10.1109/TNSM.2022.3159670

In this paper, we study a Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) based framework for an online end-user service provisioning in a Network Function Virtualization (NFV)-enabled network. We formulate an optimization problem aiming to minimize the cost of ne... Read More about Online service provisioning in NFV-enabled networks using deep reinforcement learning.

On the use of web mapping platforms to support the seismic vulnerability assessment of old urban areas (2022)
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Columbro, C., Eudave, R. R., Ferreira, T. M., Lourenço, P. B., & Fabbrocino, G. (2022). On the use of web mapping platforms to support the seismic vulnerability assessment of old urban areas. Remote Sensing, 14(6), Article 1424. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14061424

European countries are affected by various levels of seismic hazard, including many areas with medium to high seismicity. Heavy damage over large areas has been observed in past earthquakes in these countries, particularly in masonry buildings locate... Read More about On the use of web mapping platforms to support the seismic vulnerability assessment of old urban areas.

Adaptive compliant skill learning for contact-rich manipulation with human in the loop (2022)
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Si, W., Guan, Y., & Wang, N. (2022). Adaptive compliant skill learning for contact-rich manipulation with human in the loop. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 7(3), 5834 - 5841. https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2022.3159163

It is essential for the robot manipulator to adapt to unexpected events and dynamic environments while executing the physical contact-rich tasks. Although a range of methods have been investigated to enhance the adaptability and generalization capabi... Read More about Adaptive compliant skill learning for contact-rich manipulation with human in the loop.

Assessing and Managing Risk in Historic Urban Areas: Current Trends and Future Research Directions (2022)
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Ferreira, T. M., & Ramírez Eudave, R. (2022). Assessing and Managing Risk in Historic Urban Areas: Current Trends and Future Research Directions. Frontiers in Earth Science, 10(March 2022), Article 847959. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.847959

Historic urban centres are, almost by definition, risk-prone areas. The buildings in the historical sites are often highly vulnerable to natural and human-made hazards, not only due to their construction and material characteristics but also because... Read More about Assessing and Managing Risk in Historic Urban Areas: Current Trends and Future Research Directions.

CONfidence: developing an app to promote bladder and bowel health (2022)
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Cotterill, N. (2022). CONfidence: developing an app to promote bladder and bowel health. Nursing Times, 118(4), 26-27

Through a series of events with healthcare staff, patients and members of the public in Bristol, we identified a need for more easily accessible information for bowel and bladder incontinence. This was particularly important for the many people who d... Read More about CONfidence: developing an app to promote bladder and bowel health.

The rise of twiplomacy and the making of customary international law on social media (2022)
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Green, J. A. (2022). The rise of twiplomacy and the making of customary international law on social media. Chinese Journal of International Law, 21(1), 1-53. https://doi.org/10.1093/chinesejil/jmac007

Social media usage by States has increased exponentially in recent years. This phenomenon, known as "twiplomacy", has become ubiquitous. Given that almost every State in the world now issues statements via social media, this article examines the pote... Read More about The rise of twiplomacy and the making of customary international law on social media.

Validation of the safety requirements of the landing gear using fault tree analysis (2022)
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Iven, L., & Zaidi, Y. (2022). Validation of the safety requirements of the landing gear using fault tree analysis. CEAS Aeronautical Journal, 13, 503-520. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13272-022-00572-8

We analyze the functionality of the landing system of a regional aircraft in the extension and cruise flight modes and validate safety requirements through the fault tree analysis. The main landing gear system is captured in the electromechanical–flu... Read More about Validation of the safety requirements of the landing gear using fault tree analysis.

The stability bias effect amongst lie-tellers: Testing the ‘miscalibration’ and ‘strategic’ hypotheses (2022)
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Harvey, A., Vrij, A., Hope, L., & Mann, S. (2022). The stability bias effect amongst lie-tellers: Testing the ‘miscalibration’ and ‘strategic’ hypotheses. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 11(3), 437–444. https://doi.org/10.1037/mac0000019

Unlike truth-tellers’ statements that show forgetting, lie-tellers’ statements appear less sensitive to delay. For lie-tellers, this failure to correctly simulate forgetting has been referred to as a stability bias. This experiment tests two explanat... Read More about The stability bias effect amongst lie-tellers: Testing the ‘miscalibration’ and ‘strategic’ hypotheses.

An adaptive fuzzy control for human-in-the-loop operations with varying communication time delays (2022)
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Lu, Z., Guan, Y., & Wang, N. (2022). An adaptive fuzzy control for human-in-the-loop operations with varying communication time delays. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 7(2), 5599-5606. https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2022.3158540

Time delay, especially varying time delay, is always an important factor affecting the stability to the human-in-the-loop system. Previous research usually focuses on the performance of the internal signal transmission part, but rarely considers the... Read More about An adaptive fuzzy control for human-in-the-loop operations with varying communication time delays.

Why a charter for best practice for NHS wig provision? (2022)
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Johnson, A., Wilks, L., Zucchelli, F., & Sharratt, N. (2022). Why a charter for best practice for NHS wig provision?. Dermatological Nursing, 21(1), 32-36

Dermatological hair loss (alopecia) is a devastating condition and not ‘just’ cosmetic. Wigs are recommended as a treatment by the British Association of Dermatologists (BAD) and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE); however,... Read More about Why a charter for best practice for NHS wig provision?.

Estrangement between siblings in adulthood: A qualitative exploration (2022)
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Blake, L., Bland, B., & Rouncefield-Swales, A. (2023). Estrangement between siblings in adulthood: A qualitative exploration. Journal of Family Issues, 44(7), 1859-1879. https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X211064876

Relationships between siblings have been described as the longest lasting an individual can have, yet siblings both can and do become estranged from one another in adulthood. An online survey was disseminated to individuals who had sought support fro... Read More about Estrangement between siblings in adulthood: A qualitative exploration.

Heterogeneous epidemic modelling within an enclosed space and corresponding Bayesian estimation (2022)
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Wen, C., Wei, J., Ma, Z. F., He, M., Zhao, S., Ji, J., & He, D. (2022). Heterogeneous epidemic modelling within an enclosed space and corresponding Bayesian estimation. Infectious Disease Modelling, 7(2), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.idm.2022.02.001

Since March 11th, 2020, COVID-19 has been a global pandemic for more than one years due to a long and infectious incubation period. This paper establishes a heterogeneous epidemic model that divides the incubation period into infectious and non-infec... Read More about Heterogeneous epidemic modelling within an enclosed space and corresponding Bayesian estimation.

The CARe Burn Scale—Adult Form: Identifying the responsiveness and Minimal Important Difference (MID) values of a Patient Reported Outcome Measure (PROM) to assess quality of life for adults with a burn injury (2022)
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Griffiths, C., Tollow, P., Cox, D., White, P., Pickles, T., & Harcourt, D. (2022). The CARe Burn Scale—Adult Form: Identifying the responsiveness and Minimal Important Difference (MID) values of a Patient Reported Outcome Measure (PROM) to assess quality of life for adults with a burn injury. European Burn Journal, 3(1), 211-233. https://doi.org/10.3390/ebj3010019

The CARe Burn Scales are a suite of burn-specific PROMs for adults, children, young people, and parents affected by burns. This study aimed to determine the responsiveness and minimal important difference (MID) values of the Adult Form for use in adu... Read More about The CARe Burn Scale—Adult Form: Identifying the responsiveness and Minimal Important Difference (MID) values of a Patient Reported Outcome Measure (PROM) to assess quality of life for adults with a burn injury.

Nitric oxide-releasing nanomaterials: From basic research to potential biotechnological applications in agriculture (2022)
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Seabra, A. B., Silveira, N. M., Ribeiro, R. V., Pieretti, J. C., Barroso, J. B., Corpas, F. J., …Oliveira, H. C. (2022). Nitric oxide-releasing nanomaterials: From basic research to potential biotechnological applications in agriculture. New Phytologist, 234(4), 1119-1125. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18073

Nitric oxide (NO) is a multifunctional gaseous signal that modulates the growth, development and stress tolerance of higher plants. NO donors have been used to boost plant endogenous NO levels and to activate NO-related responses, but this strategy i... Read More about Nitric oxide-releasing nanomaterials: From basic research to potential biotechnological applications in agriculture.

Which outcomes should be used in future bronchiolitis trials? Developing a bronchiolitis core outcome set using a systematic review, Delphi survey and a consensus workshop (2022)
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McNamara, P. S., Fernandes, R. M., Rosala-Hallas, A., Jones, A. P., Williamson, P. R., Bedson, E., …McNamara, P. S. (2022). Which outcomes should be used in future bronchiolitis trials? Developing a bronchiolitis core outcome set using a systematic review, Delphi survey and a consensus workshop. BMJ Open, 12(3), Article e052943. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-052943

Objectives The objective of this study was to develop a core outcome set (COS) for use in future clinical trials in bronchiolitis. We wanted to find out which outcomes are important to healthcare professionals (HCPs) and to parents and which outcomes... Read More about Which outcomes should be used in future bronchiolitis trials? Developing a bronchiolitis core outcome set using a systematic review, Delphi survey and a consensus workshop.

Periorbital and orbital cellulitis in children: A survey of emergency physicians and analysis of clinical practice guidelines across the PERUKI network (2022)
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Tolhurst-Cleaver, M., Evans, J., Waterfield, T., Adamson, J., Marlow, R., Lyttle, M. D., & Roland, D. (2022). Periorbital and orbital cellulitis in children: A survey of emergency physicians and analysis of clinical practice guidelines across the PERUKI network. Emergency Medicine Journal, 39, 766-770. https://doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2021-211713

Background: Due to limited evidence to guide management of periorbital cellulitis (POC), we surveyed current practice and assessed quality and consistency of local clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) to highlight future research priorities. Methods:... Read More about Periorbital and orbital cellulitis in children: A survey of emergency physicians and analysis of clinical practice guidelines across the PERUKI network.

UK poSt Arthroplasty Follow-up rEcommendations (UK SAFE): What does analysis of linked, routinely collected national data sets tell us about mid-late term revision risk after hip replacement? Retrospective cohort study (2022)
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Smith, L. K., Garriga, C., Kingsbury, S. R., Pinedo-Villanueva, R., Delmestri, A., Arden, N. K., …Judge, A. (2022). UK poSt Arthroplasty Follow-up rEcommendations (UK SAFE): What does analysis of linked, routinely collected national data sets tell us about mid-late term revision risk after hip replacement? Retrospective cohort study. BMJ Open, 12(3), Article e050877. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-050877

OBJECTIVE: To identify patients at risk of mid-late term revision of hip replacement to inform targeted follow-up. DESIGN: Analysis of linked national data sets from primary and secondary care (Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD-GOLD); Nationa... Read More about UK poSt Arthroplasty Follow-up rEcommendations (UK SAFE): What does analysis of linked, routinely collected national data sets tell us about mid-late term revision risk after hip replacement? Retrospective cohort study.

UK poSt Arthroplasty Follow-up rEcommendations (UK SAFE): what does analysis of linked, routinely collected national datasets tell us about mid-late term revision risk after knee replacement? (2022)
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Smith, L. K., Garriga, C., Kingsbury, S. R., Pinedo-Villanueva, R., Delmestri, A., Arden, N. K., …Judge, A. (2022). UK poSt Arthroplasty Follow-up rEcommendations (UK SAFE): what does analysis of linked, routinely collected national datasets tell us about mid-late term revision risk after knee replacement?. BMJ Open, 12(3), Article e046900. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-046900

OBJECTIVE: To identify patients at risk of mid-late term revision of knee replacement (KR) to inform targeted follow-up. DESIGN: Analysis of linked national datasets from primary and secondary care (Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD GOLD), Na... Read More about UK poSt Arthroplasty Follow-up rEcommendations (UK SAFE): what does analysis of linked, routinely collected national datasets tell us about mid-late term revision risk after knee replacement?.

Risk in active sport tourism projects: Narratives from managers in the Chinese event industry (2022)
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Zhang, W., Knox, D., & Prabhakar, G. (2023). Risk in active sport tourism projects: Narratives from managers in the Chinese event industry. Journal of China Tourism Research, 19(2), 176-196. https://doi.org/10.1080/19388160.2022.2050872

The purpose of this study is to identify risk issues in managing active sport tourism event projects in China from the perspective of event managers. A qualitative method was utilized, with 12 semi-structured interviews being conducted in China in or... Read More about Risk in active sport tourism projects: Narratives from managers in the Chinese event industry.