Targeting the ERG oncogene with splice-switching oligonucleotides as a novel therapeutic strategy in prostate cancer (2020)
Journal Article

Background: The ERG oncogene, a member of the ETS family of transcription factor encoding genes, is a genetic driver of prostate cancer. It is activated through a fusion with the androgen-responsive TMPRSS2 promoter in 50% of cases. There is therefor... Read More about Targeting the ERG oncogene with splice-switching oligonucleotides as a novel therapeutic strategy in prostate cancer.

The polychromatic Woodburytype: Colour tracking in translucent, patterned gelatin/pigment films (2020)
Journal Article

The Woodburytype is a 19th century photomechanical technique capable of producing high-quality continuous-tone prints. It uses pigment dispersed in gelatin to produce a 2.5D print, in which the effect of varying tone is produced by a variation in the... Read More about The polychromatic Woodburytype: Colour tracking in translucent, patterned gelatin/pigment films.

A report on key achievements realizing thematic objectives of the international decade for people of African descent (2020)
Report

2015-2024 International Decade for People of African Descent (IDPAD) was launched at the United Nations Headquarters, New York in September 2014, by representatives of UN member states, international civil society and other stakeholders. This report... Read More about A report on key achievements realizing thematic objectives of the international decade for people of African descent.

Learning orientation and innovation performance: The mediating role of operations strategy and supply chain integration (2020)
Journal Article

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore the effect of operations strategy (cost, quality, flexibility, and delivery) and supply chain integration on innovation performance under influence of learning orientation.

Design/Methodology/appro... Read More about Learning orientation and innovation performance: The mediating role of operations strategy and supply chain integration.

The European Union's response to the CBRN terrorist threat: A multiple streams approach (2019)
Journal Article

This article examines how the European Union (EU) has sought to address the threat of CBRN terrorism using Kingdon's Multiple Streams Framework. It demonstrates that the EU has significantly developed its response to the CBRN terrorist threat, but th... Read More about The European Union's response to the CBRN terrorist threat: A multiple streams approach.

A spectral pedestrian-based approach for modal identification (2019)
Journal Article

The dynamic behaviour of footbridges is characterised by modal properties such as natural frequencies, mode shapes, damping ratios and modal masses. Their estimation via modal tests often requires expensive or difficult-to-operate equipment (e.g. sha... Read More about A spectral pedestrian-based approach for modal identification.

Cash water expenditures are associated with household water insecurity, food insecurity, and perceived stress in study sites across 20 low- and middle-income countries (2019)
Journal Article

Billions of people globally, living with various degrees of water insecurity, obtain their household and drinking water from diverse sources that can absorb a disproportionate amount of a household's income. In theory, there are income and expenditur... Read More about Cash water expenditures are associated with household water insecurity, food insecurity, and perceived stress in study sites across 20 low- and middle-income countries.

Tamil Talk: What you speak is what you get! (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Tamil is one of the longest surviving classical languages in the world. Speech to text in Tamil would benefit to
a lot of native Tamil speakers throughout the world. There are many speech recognition and speech to text applications
available for a... Read More about Tamil Talk: What you speak is what you get!.

Experimental evaluation of residual tensile strength of hybrid composite aerospace materials after low velocity impact (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019 Elsevier Ltd Although much work has considered hybridised Carbon and Glass Fibre Reinforced Polymers to positively influence the performance of composite structures when subjected to transverse impact loading, there is limited understanding co... Read More about Experimental evaluation of residual tensile strength of hybrid composite aerospace materials after low velocity impact.

Modelling of a sustainable refugee camp drainage system for stormwater management (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019 The Royal Society of Chemistry. A novel decentralised Sustainable Refugee Camp Drainage System (SRCDS) has been developed for the effective management of stormwater in the Dadaab refugee camp, Kenya. The SRCDS uses the principle of Best Manage... Read More about Modelling of a sustainable refugee camp drainage system for stormwater management.

An assessment of engaged social science research in nanoscale science and engineering communities (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. Increased funding of nanotechnology research in the USA at the turn of the millennium was paired with a legislative commitment to and a novel societal research policy fo... Read More about An assessment of engaged social science research in nanoscale science and engineering communities.

Marimo machines: Oscillators, biosensors and actuators (2019)
Journal Article

Background
The green algae balls (Aegagropila linnaei), known as Marimo, are large spherical colonies of live photosynthetic filaments, formed by rolling water currents in freshwater lakes. Photosynthesis therein produces gas bubbles that can attach... Read More about Marimo machines: Oscillators, biosensors and actuators.

Methods of identifying and recruiting older people at risk of social isolation and loneliness: A mixed methods review (2019)
Journal Article

Background
Loneliness and social isolation are major determinants of mental wellbeing, especially among older adults. The effectiveness of interventions to address loneliness and social isolation among older adults has been questioned due to the lac... Read More about Methods of identifying and recruiting older people at risk of social isolation and loneliness: A mixed methods review.

Prehospital critical care for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a complex intervention in a complex environment (2019)
Thesis

Background
Prehospital critical care has the potential to improve the currently low survival rates following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). In some areas of the United Kingdom, prehospital critical care teams are dispatched to OHCA, while in... Read More about Prehospital critical care for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a complex intervention in a complex environment.

Tools for tooling: Digital fabrication technology as the innovation enabler (2019)
Journal Article

Abstract: This paper describes research concerning the creation of a novel sheet glass forming system based on the Reconfigurable Pin Tooling (RPT) principle. The paper will initially outline some of the theoretical and technical background for the r... Read More about Tools for tooling: Digital fabrication technology as the innovation enabler.

Enhanced privacy governance in Health Information Systems through business process modelling and HL7 (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. Medical data privacy is nowadays an alarming issue thanks to the technological revolution witnessed in the medical field and the ease of data access and exchange leveraged by newly implemented Hospital I... Read More about Enhanced privacy governance in Health Information Systems through business process modelling and HL7.

The “near miss” of Liam Allan: Critical problems in police disclosure, investigation culture, and the resourcing of criminal justice (2018)
Journal Article

Miscarriages of justice have historically acted as catalysts for reform. It seems we only learn to fix the most serious problems — often obvious to those at the coal-face of practice — once the damage is done. Such miscarriages have largely resulted... Read More about The “near miss” of Liam Allan: Critical problems in police disclosure, investigation culture, and the resourcing of criminal justice.

qvm: A command line tool for the provisioning of virtual machines (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The purpose of this paper is to create and demonstrate a command line utility that uses freely available cloud images—typically intended for deployment within public and private cloud environments—to rapidly provision virtual machines on a local serv... Read More about qvm: A command line tool for the provisioning of virtual machines.

CompleX-Machine: An automated testing tool using X-Machine theory (2018)
Journal Article

This paper is aimed at creating an Automatic Java X-Machine testing tool for software development. The nature of software development is changing. Thus, the type of software testing tools required is also changing. Software is growing increasingly co... Read More about CompleX-Machine: An automated testing tool using X-Machine theory.

The effectiveness of usage of online multiple choice questions on student performance in introductory accounting (2017)
Journal Article

In this paper we investigate the effectiveness of an online learning resource for introductory financial accounting students using a suite of online multiple choice questions (MCQ) for summative and formative purposes. We found that the availability... Read More about The effectiveness of usage of online multiple choice questions on student performance in introductory accounting.