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Effect of the stacking sequence on the impact response of carbon-glass/epoxy hybrid composites (2020)
Journal Article
Ali, H. T., Akrami, R., Fotouhi, S., Pashmforoush, F., Fragassa, C., & Fotouhi, M. (2020). Effect of the stacking sequence on the impact response of carbon-glass/epoxy hybrid composites. Facta Universitatis, Series: Mechanical Engineering, 18(1), 69-77. https://doi.org/10.22190/FUME191119010A

This paper investigates low-velocity impact response of Quasi Isotropic (QI) hybrid carbon/glass fiber reinforced polymer composites with alternate stacking sequences. Cross-ply woven carbon and glass fibers were used as reinforcing materials to fabr... Read More about Effect of the stacking sequence on the impact response of carbon-glass/epoxy hybrid composites.

Co-production and person-centred care in neoliberal conditions (2020)
Journal Article
Blunden, N., & Calder, G. (2020). Co-production and person-centred care in neoliberal conditions. European Journal of Personality, 8(1), 75-85

The personalization of care holds an ideological ambivalence that allows for diverse and sometimes contradictory appropriations. To be person-centred may seem to be definitively unobjectionable: what is not to like about an approach that puts the u... Read More about Co-production and person-centred care in neoliberal conditions.

Circularity in the built environment? A call for a paradigm shift (2020)
Book Chapter
Malmqvist, T., Moncaster, A., Rasmussen, F., & Birgisdottir, H. (2020). Circularity in the built environment? A call for a paradigm shift. In M. Brandão, D. Lazarevic, & G. Finnveden (Eds.), Handbook of the Circular Economy. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd

This chapter considers how circularity is being, and might be, approached and achieved within the built environment. Three case studies illustrate the current situation. The first case address life cycle assessment (LCA) in measuring circularity, sho... Read More about Circularity in the built environment? A call for a paradigm shift.

Two leagues, one front? The India league and the league against imperialism in the British left, 1927-1937 (2020)
Book Chapter
Reeves, M. (2020). Two leagues, one front? The India league and the league against imperialism in the British left, 1927-1937. In M. Louro, C. Stolte, H. Streets-Salter, & S. Tannoury-Karam (Eds.), The League Against Imperialism: Lives and Afterlives (283-308). Leiden University Press

V.K. Krishna Menon always made people angry. When he left southern India in 1924, coming to England under the auspices of his mentor Annie Besant’s Theosophist and Indian Home Rule movement, Menon disappointed his father by not becoming a lawyer and... Read More about Two leagues, one front? The India league and the league against imperialism in the British left, 1927-1937.

Re-examining the effects of word writing on vocabulary learning (2020)
Book Chapter
Webb, S., & Piasecki, A. E. (2020). Re-examining the effects of word writing on vocabulary learning. In Approaches to Teaching, Learning, Testing, Researching L2 Vocabulary (73-94). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1075/bct.109.itl.00007.web

This study investigated the effects of word writing on vocabulary learning by comparing three conditions in which there was (a) limited time to write words, (b) unlimited time to write words, and (c) a non-writing word- picture pairs comparison. Non-... Read More about Re-examining the effects of word writing on vocabulary learning.

They hide with their boots on (2020)
Digital Artefact
Bell, R. (2020). They hide with their boots on. [Magazine]

Review of the Invisible Men exhibition, Westminster Menswear Archive, for Artforum Magazine (print edition).

UAV’s applications, architecture, security issues and attack scenarios: A survey (2020)
Book Chapter
Khan, N. A., Brohi, S., & Jhanjhi, N. (2020). UAV’s applications, architecture, security issues and attack scenarios: A survey. In S. Peng, L. H. Son, G. Suseendran, & D. Balaganesh (Eds.), Book cover Book cover Intelligent Computing and Innovation on Data Science (753-760). Online and in print.: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3284-9_81

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)/drones have become very popular in recent years as they are widely used in several domains. They are widely used in both military and civilian applications such as aerial photography, entertainment, search and rescue m... Read More about UAV’s applications, architecture, security issues and attack scenarios: A survey.

Best practice guidelines for responsible images of non-human primates (2020)
Digital Artefact
Waters, S., Setchell, J. M., Maréchal, L., Oram, F., Wallis, J., & Cheyne, S. M. Best practice guidelines for responsible images of non-human primates. [Online guidelines https://human-primate-interactions.org/resources/]

Photos or videos (hereafter images) can draw the attention of millions of people to non-human primate (hereafter primate) conservation and welfare. However, if the context of the images is inappropriate, unclear, or lost, people... Read More about Best practice guidelines for responsible images of non-human primates.

Role of the dipole jet in inclined stroke plane kinematics of insect flight (2020)
Journal Article
Deepthi, S., & Vengadesan, S. (2020). Role of the dipole jet in inclined stroke plane kinematics of insect flight. Journal of Bionic Engineering, 17(1), 161-173. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42235-020-0013-8

The two-dimensional (2D) inclined stroke plane kinematics of insect wing is studied for various stroke plane angles using the Immersed Boundary (IB) solver. The numerical results revealed the dominant lift enhancement mechanisms for this class of flo... Read More about Role of the dipole jet in inclined stroke plane kinematics of insect flight.

Automating concrete construction: Sustainable social housing in Colombia (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Costa, E., Shepherd, P., Velasco, R., & Hudson, R. (2020). Automating concrete construction: Sustainable social housing in Colombia. In Proceedings of the XXIV International Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics (254-259). https://doi.org/10.5151/sigradi2020-35

The construction industry is a major source of carbon, and the main culprit is concrete. In addition, productivity for the construction sector is poor, and concrete construction in particular is labour intensive, slow, and costly. This paper introduc... Read More about Automating concrete construction: Sustainable social housing in Colombia.

Researching around our subjects: Working towards a women’s labour history of trade unions in the British film and television industries (2020)
Journal Article
Galt, F. C. (2020). Researching around our subjects: Working towards a women’s labour history of trade unions in the British film and television industries. Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 166-188. https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.20.12

This article explores the opportunities and obstacles of researching women’s trade union activism in the British film and television industries between 1933 and 2017. The surviving material on women’s union participation is incomplete and fragmented,... Read More about Researching around our subjects: Working towards a women’s labour history of trade unions in the British film and television industries.

Robotic apprentices: Leveraging augmented reality for robot training in manufacturing automation (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Costa, E., Duarte, J., & Bilén, S. G. (2020). Robotic apprentices: Leveraging augmented reality for robot training in manufacturing automation. In Proceedings of the XXIV International Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics (608-616). https://doi.org/10.5151/sigradi2020-84

In the scope of Industry 4.0, a framework is proposed to leverage the potential of articulating Augmented Reality and Robotic Manufacturing in the construction industry. The objective of such framework is to enable robots to learn how to perform task... Read More about Robotic apprentices: Leveraging augmented reality for robot training in manufacturing automation.

Multi-channel ConvNet approach to predict the risk of in-hospital mortality for ICU patients (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Viton, F., Elbattah, M., Guérin, J., & Dequen, G. (2020). Multi-channel ConvNet approach to predict the risk of in-hospital mortality for ICU patients. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Deep Learning Theory and Applications (98-102). https://doi.org/10.5220/0009891900980102

The healthcare arena has been undergoing impressive transformations thanks to advances in the capacity to capture, store, process, and learn from data. This paper re-visits the problem of predicting the risk of in-hospital mortality based on Time Ser... Read More about Multi-channel ConvNet approach to predict the risk of in-hospital mortality for ICU patients.

Generative modeling of synthetic eye-tracking data: NLP-based approach with recurrent neural networks (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Elbattah, M., Guérin, J., Carette, R., Cilia, F., & Dequen, G. (2020). Generative modeling of synthetic eye-tracking data: NLP-based approach with recurrent neural networks. In Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence (479-484). https://doi.org/10.5220/0010177204790484

This study explores a Machine Learning-based approach for generating synthetic eye-tracking data. In this respect, a novel application of Recurrent Neural Networks is experimented. Our approach is based on learning the sequence patterns of eye-tracki... Read More about Generative modeling of synthetic eye-tracking data: NLP-based approach with recurrent neural networks.

Mining the Irish hip fracture database: Learning factors contributing to care outcomes (2020)
Journal Article
Elbattah, M., & Molloy, O. (2020). Mining the Irish hip fracture database: Learning factors contributing to care outcomes. International Journal of Data Science, 5(4), 290. https://doi.org/10.1504/ijds.2020.115875

Data analytics has opened the door for improving many aspects pertaining to the delivery of healthcare. This study avails of unsupervised machine learning to extract knowledge from the Irish hip fracture database (IHFD). The dataset under considerati... Read More about Mining the Irish hip fracture database: Learning factors contributing to care outcomes.

R&D activity and financing constraints: Evidence from Turkey (2020)
Journal Article
Gezici, A., Orhangazi, Ö., & Yalçın, C. (2020). R&D activity and financing constraints: Evidence from Turkey. Panoeconomicus, 67(4), 557-571. https://doi.org/10.2298/pan170420011g

We analyze the relationship between financing constraints and firms’ R&D activity using a rich and comprehensive firm-level balance sheet and income statement data set of manufacturing firms in Turkey for the period 1996 to 2013. Using a firm-specifi... Read More about R&D activity and financing constraints: Evidence from Turkey.

A balanced diet for construction workers to improve safety and productivity (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Umar, T. (2020). A balanced diet for construction workers to improve safety and productivity. In F. Sherratt, B. Hare, & F. Emuze (Eds.), Proceedings of the Joint CIB W099 & TG59 International Web-Conference 2020: Good Health, Wellbeing & Decent Work

The United Nations (UN) under its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aims to protect labour rights and promote safe and secure working environments for all workers around the world. Although the deadline to achieve the UN SDGs is approaching faster... Read More about A balanced diet for construction workers to improve safety and productivity.

Promoting employee safety performance in the Chinese construction industry (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Opoku, A., Zhao, S., Lok, K. L., Chen, C., & Umar, T. (2020). Promoting employee safety performance in the Chinese construction industry. In L. Scott, & C. Nielson (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual ARCOM Conference (285-294)

In the construction industry, safety leadership has been widely recognised as an indispensable factor that affects organisational safety performance. However, in China specifically, research on safety leadership in the construction domain is not adeq... Read More about Promoting employee safety performance in the Chinese construction industry.

Comparing agent-based control architectures for next generation telecommunication network infrastructures (2020)
Journal Article
Perez Hernandez, M., McFarlane, D., Herrera, M., Jain, A. K., & Parlikad, A. K. (2020). Comparing agent-based control architectures for next generation telecommunication network infrastructures. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 53(2), 11062-11067. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2020.12.238

Multi-agent systems have been an effective choice for designing control systems that are flexible and agile. However, few attention has been given to the evaluation of the architectures of such systems. This becomes critical with the emerging require... Read More about Comparing agent-based control architectures for next generation telecommunication network infrastructures.