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Beyond the ballot: Girls' education, women's welfare and the Bristol Suffragists (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Impact of coastal disasters on women in urban slums: A new index (2022)
Journal Article

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.

Emissions from municipal solid waste (MSW) and its potential for energy production (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The adverse impact of the energy production from fossil fuels is now well recognised globally. Likewise, reduction in emissions is the key to tackle climate change issues and achieve environmental sustainability. Therefore, the move towards renewable... Read More about Emissions from municipal solid waste (MSW) and its potential for energy production.

A cultural intelligent leadership: Architecture and the built environment (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Inequalities and the attainment gap persist in Higher Education, whilst transforming Construction Industry diversity could take up to 200 years. This study examines the authentic development of a culturally intelligent leadership in Architecture and... Read More about A cultural intelligent leadership: Architecture and the built environment.

Online service provisioning in NFV-enabled networks using deep reinforcement learning (2022)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article

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.

A brief history of Oxygen: 250 years on (2022)
Journal Article

Although there has been some controversy surrounding exactly when oxygen was first discov-ered, it is likely that that accolade should go to Carl Wilhelm Scheele, who isolated oxygen in 1772, or even a year earlier. Others since then have been given... Read More about A brief history of Oxygen: 250 years on.

CONfidence: developing an app to promote bladder and bowel health (2022)
Journal Article

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 impact of the 2015 onshore wind policy change for local planning authorities in England: Preliminary survey results (2022)
Report

Preliminary findings from research investigating the impact of the 2015 onshore wind policy change for local planning authorities in England.

The rise of twiplomacy and the making of customary international law on social media (2022)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article

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 impact of Blockchain technology on advanced security measures for E-Government (2022)
Book Chapter

Implementation of blockchain with e-government has raised several complexities. When an area has satisfied the requirements for e-government implementation, new challenges will appear. As a result of the information technology revolution, governments... Read More about The impact of Blockchain technology on advanced security measures for E-Government.

E-government cybersecurity modeling in the context of software-defined networks (2022)
Book Chapter

Currently, information and communication technologies are going in advance, allowing more information to be distributed globally via the internet superhighway. While being interconnected to the virtual world, people are becoming increasingly focused,... Read More about E-government cybersecurity modeling in the context of software-defined networks.

The stability bias effect amongst lie-tellers: Testing the ‘miscalibration’ and ‘strategic’ hypotheses (2022)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article

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.

Niamh Fahy - Printmaking contemporary practice - Visiting lecturer Limerick School of Art and Design (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Print Contemporary Practice (PCP) programme is delighted to invite all students to an online talk to be delivered by the PCP Alumni and Ph.D. student Niamh Fahy on Friday, March 11th, at 10:00 am to talk about her artistic and academic journey since... Read More about Niamh Fahy - Printmaking contemporary practice - Visiting lecturer Limerick School of Art and Design.

Theoretical considerations of compassionate education practices (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Opening provocation exploring the theme of whether a compassionate led approach to education can lead the way for equality. Acknowledging that it is a shame that the question need be asked at all, looks into ways formal education spaces have become b... Read More about Theoretical considerations of compassionate education practices.

Why a charter for best practice for NHS wig provision? (2022)
Journal Article

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?.