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Perceived barriers to implementing building information modeling in Iranian Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs): a Delphi survey of construction experts (2024)
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Sarvari, H., Asaadsamani, P., Olawumi, T. O., Chan, D. W., Rashidi, A., & Beer, M. (2024). Perceived barriers to implementing building information modeling in Iranian Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs): a Delphi survey of construction experts. Architectural Engineering and Design Management, 20(3), 673-693. https://doi.org/10.1080/17452007.2024.2329687

Building information modeling (BIM) is a disruptive information technology tool in the construction sector. Although this technology had a significant impact on the manufacturing industries, it, like any other technology, encountered several challeng... Read More about Perceived barriers to implementing building information modeling in Iranian Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs): a Delphi survey of construction experts.

International consensus is needed on a core outcome set to advance the evidence of best practice in cancer prehabilitation services and research (2024)
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Myers, A. M., Barlow, R. C., Baldini, G., Campbell, A. M., Carli, F., Carr, E. J., Collyer, T., Danjoux, G., Davis, J. F., Denehy, L., Durrand, J., Gillis, C., Greenfield, D. M., Griffiths, S. P., Grocott, M., Humphreys, L., Jack, S., Keen, C., Levett, D. Z. H., Merchant, Z., …Copeland, R. J. (2024). International consensus is needed on a core outcome set to advance the evidence of best practice in cancer prehabilitation services and research. British Journal of Anaesthesia, 132(5), 851-856. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bja.2024.02.021

Prehabilitation aims to optimise patients’ physical and psychological status before treatment. The types of outcomes measured to assess the impact of prehabilitation interventions vary across clinical research and service evaluation, limiting the abi... Read More about International consensus is needed on a core outcome set to advance the evidence of best practice in cancer prehabilitation services and research.

Correction: Elsherbeny et al. 2-(3-Bromophenyl)-8-fluoroquinazoline-4-carboxylic Acid as a Novel and Selective Aurora A Kinase Inhibitory Lead with Apoptosis Properties: Design, Synthesis, In Vitro and In Silico Biological Evaluation. Life 2022, 12, 876 (2024)
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Elsherbeny, M. H., Ammar, U. M., Abdellattif, M. H., Abourehab, M. A. S., Abdeen, A., Ibrahim, S. F., Abdelrahaman, D., Mady, W., Roh, E. J., & Elkamhawy, A. (2024). Correction: Elsherbeny et al. 2-(3-Bromophenyl)-8-fluoroquinazoline-4-carboxylic Acid as a Novel and Selective Aurora A Kinase Inhibitory Lead with Apoptosis Properties: Design, Synthesis, In Vitro and In Silico Biological Evaluation. Life 2022, 12, 876. Life, 14(4), 423. https://doi.org/10.3390/life14040423

In the original publication [1], reference number 26 [2] was added by mistake. Thus, it was removed. With this correction, the order of some references has been adjusted accordingly. The authors state that the scientific conclusions are unaffected... Read More about Correction: Elsherbeny et al. 2-(3-Bromophenyl)-8-fluoroquinazoline-4-carboxylic Acid as a Novel and Selective Aurora A Kinase Inhibitory Lead with Apoptosis Properties: Design, Synthesis, In Vitro and In Silico Biological Evaluation. Life 2022, 12, 876.

A Self-Attention-Based Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for IIoT Networks Intrusion Detection (2024)
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Alshehri, M. S., Saidani, O., Alrayes, F. S., Abbasi, S. F., & Ahmad, J. (2024). A Self-Attention-Based Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for IIoT Networks Intrusion Detection. IEEE Access, 12, 45762-45772. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2024.3380816

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) comprises a variety of systems, smart devices, and an extensive range of communication protocols. Hence, these systems face susceptibility to privacy and security challenges, making them prime targets for mali... Read More about A Self-Attention-Based Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for IIoT Networks Intrusion Detection.

Wireless Power Transfer Technologies, Applications, and Future Trends: A Review (2024)
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Alabsi, A., Hawbani, A., Wang, X., Dubai, A. A., Hu, J., Aziz, S. A., Kumar, S., Zhao, L., Shvetsov, A. V., & Alsamhi, S. H. (online). Wireless Power Transfer Technologies, Applications, and Future Trends: A Review. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, https://doi.org/10.1109/TSUSC.2024.3380607

Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) is a disruptive technology that allows wireless energy provisioning for energy- limited IoT devices, thus decreasing the over-reliance on batteries and wires. WPT could replace conventional energy provisioning (e.g., ene... Read More about Wireless Power Transfer Technologies, Applications, and Future Trends: A Review.

A review of seagrass cover, status and trends in Africa (2024)
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Mwikamba, E., Githaiga, M., Briers, R. A., & Huxham, M. (2024). A review of seagrass cover, status and trends in Africa. Estuaries and Coasts, 47(4), 917–934. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-024-01348-5

The recognition of the benefits that seagrasses contribute has enhanced the research interest in these marine ecosystems. Seagrasses provide critical goods and services and support the livelihoods of millions of people. Despite this, they are declini... Read More about A review of seagrass cover, status and trends in Africa.

DIBNN: A Dual-Improved-BNN Based Algorithm for Multi-Robot Cooperative Area Search in Complex Obstacle Environments (2024)
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Chen, B., Zhang, H., Zhang, F., Jiang, Y., Miao, Z., Yu, H., & Wang, Y. (online). DIBNN: A Dual-Improved-BNN Based Algorithm for Multi-Robot Cooperative Area Search in Complex Obstacle Environments. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1109/tase.2024.3379166

Aiming at the area search task of a multi-robot system in an unknown complex obstacle environment, we propose a cooperative area search algorithm based on a dual improved bio-inspired neural network (DIBNN). First, we improve the BNN model to reduce... Read More about DIBNN: A Dual-Improved-BNN Based Algorithm for Multi-Robot Cooperative Area Search in Complex Obstacle Environments.

Friends or enemies? Unraveling niche-regime interactions in grassroots digital innovations (2024)
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Gerli, P., Mora, L., Zhang, J., & Sancino, A. (2024). Friends or enemies? Unraveling niche-regime interactions in grassroots digital innovations. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 202, Article 123342. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2024.123342

During the COVID-19 pandemic, grassroots digital innovations (GDIs) have gained traction as innovation niches, providing an alternative to the prevailing mainstream regime dominating smart city transitions. Drawing upon interviews with experts and pr... Read More about Friends or enemies? Unraveling niche-regime interactions in grassroots digital innovations.

Generalized Early Stopping in Evolutionary Direct Policy Search (2024)
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Arza, E., Le Goff, L. K., & Hart, E. (online). Generalized Early Stopping in Evolutionary Direct Policy Search. ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization, https://doi.org/10.1145/3653024

Lengthy evaluation times are common in many optimization problems such as direct policy search tasks, especially when they involve conducting evaluations in the physical world, e.g. in robotics applications. Often when evaluating solution over a fixe... Read More about Generalized Early Stopping in Evolutionary Direct Policy Search.

DBMA-Net: A Dual-Branch Multi-Attention Network for Polyp Segmentation (2024)
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Zhai, C., Yang, L., Liu, Y., & Yu, H. (2024). DBMA-Net: A Dual-Branch Multi-Attention Network for Polyp Segmentation. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 73, Article 2512316. https://doi.org/10.1109/tim.2024.3379418

In the early prevention stage of colorectal cancer, the utilization of automatic polyp segmentation techniques from colonoscopy images has demonstrated efficacy in mitigating the misdiagnosis rate. Nonetheless, accurate polyp segmentation is always a... Read More about DBMA-Net: A Dual-Branch Multi-Attention Network for Polyp Segmentation.

Police custody in rural Scotland: Negotiating boundaries, risk and organisational change (2024)
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Wooff, A. (2024). Police custody in rural Scotland: Negotiating boundaries, risk and organisational change. Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management, 47(3), 407-419. https://doi.org/10.1108/pijpsm-01-2024-0007

Design/ Methodology This paper draws on data from a study funded by the Scottish Institute for Policing Research (2016-2018), entitled ‘Measuring Risk and Efficiency in Police Custody in Scotland’. The paper adopts a qualitative methodology to deve... Read More about Police custody in rural Scotland: Negotiating boundaries, risk and organisational change.

Design and Evaluation of Memory Efficient Data Structure Scheme for Energy Drainage Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks (2024)
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Bhatti, D. S., Saleem, S., Ali, Z., Park, T., Suh, B., Kamran, A., Buchanan, W. J., & Kim, K. (2024). Design and Evaluation of Memory Efficient Data Structure Scheme for Energy Drainage Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks. IEEE Access, 12, 41499-41516. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2024.3377144

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are deployed on a large scale and require protection from malicious energy drainage attacks, particularly those directed at the routing layer. The complexity increases during critical operations like cluster head select... Read More about Design and Evaluation of Memory Efficient Data Structure Scheme for Energy Drainage Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks.

An examination of how voluntary international netball officials view and experience well-being (2024)
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Barrow, C. J., Westbury, T., Cunningham, I., & Mascarenhas, D. (in press). An examination of how voluntary international netball officials view and experience well-being. Managing Sport and Leisure, https://doi.org/10.1080/23750472.2024.2326704

Research aim The purpose of this research was to explore the views and experiences of international volunteer netball officials about their well-being and its contributing factors. Research methods A qualitative methodology, involving semi-struc... Read More about An examination of how voluntary international netball officials view and experience well-being.

A single bout of vigorous intensity exercise enhances the efficacy of rituximab against human chronic lymphocytic leukaemia B-cells ex vivo (2024)
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Collier-Bain, H. D., Emery, A., Causer, A. J., Brown, F. F., Oliver, R., Dutton, D., Crowe, J., Augustine, D., Graby, J., Leach, S., Eddy, R., Rothschild-Rodriguez, D., Gray, J. C., Cragg, M. S., Cleary, K. L., Moore, S., Murray, J., Turner, J. E., & Campbell, J. P. (2024). A single bout of vigorous intensity exercise enhances the efficacy of rituximab against human chronic lymphocytic leukaemia B-cells ex vivo. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 118, 468-479. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2024.03.023

Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) is characterised by the clonal proliferation and accumulation of mature B-cells and is often treated with rituximab, an anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody immunotherapy. Rituximab often fails to induce stringent disease... Read More about A single bout of vigorous intensity exercise enhances the efficacy of rituximab against human chronic lymphocytic leukaemia B-cells ex vivo.

Cluster-based oversampling with area extraction from representative points for class imbalance learning (2024)
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Farou, Z., Wang, Y., & Horváth, T. (2024). Cluster-based oversampling with area extraction from representative points for class imbalance learning. Intelligent Systems with Applications, 22, Article 200357. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iswa.2024.200357

Class imbalance learning is challenging in various domains where training datasets exhibit disproportionate samples in a specific class. Resampling methods have been used to adjust the class distribution, but they often have limitations for small dis... Read More about Cluster-based oversampling with area extraction from representative points for class imbalance learning.

Prevalence and correlates of ICD-11 prolonged grief disorder among adults living in Ukraine during the war with Russia (2024)
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Redican, E., Hyland, P., Shevlin, M., Martsenkovskyi, D., Karatzias, T., & Ben-Ezra, M. (2024). Prevalence and correlates of ICD-11 prolonged grief disorder among adults living in Ukraine during the war with Russia. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 149(5), 425-435. https://doi.org/10.1111/acps.13678

Background: Although high rates of bereavement are evident in war-affected populations, no study has investigated the prevalence and correlates of probable ICD-11 Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD) under these circumstances. Methods: Participants we... Read More about Prevalence and correlates of ICD-11 prolonged grief disorder among adults living in Ukraine during the war with Russia.

Focal firms and interorganisational relationships in small economies: Towards a multi-level theoretical framework for enhancing value co-creation and performance (2024)
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Hosanoo, Z., Patel, P., Prikshat, V., Kanungo, R. P., & Gupta, S. (2024). Focal firms and interorganisational relationships in small economies: Towards a multi-level theoretical framework for enhancing value co-creation and performance. Journal of International Management, 30(3), Article 101135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intman.2024.101135

Underpinning Resource-Based View (RBV) and Relational View (RV) as theoretical premises, we examine the influence of the macro and micro-level factors on inter-organisational relationship/ alliances dynamics and competitive advantage of Focal Firms (... Read More about Focal firms and interorganisational relationships in small economies: Towards a multi-level theoretical framework for enhancing value co-creation and performance.

Evaluation of multi-directional speed qualities throughout adolescence in youth soccer: The non-linear nature of transfer (2024)
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Dugdale, J. H., Myers, T., Sanders, D., Andrew, M., Clarke, R., & Hunter, A. M. (2024). Evaluation of multi-directional speed qualities throughout adolescence in youth soccer: The non-linear nature of transfer. Journal of Sports Science, 42(4), 301-312. https://doi.org/10.1080/02640414.2024.2329846

Training and assessment of agility is often prioritised by soccer coaches and practitioners aiming to develop multi-directional speed. Although the importance of agility is advocated throughout childhood and adolescence, limited data evidence agility... Read More about Evaluation of multi-directional speed qualities throughout adolescence in youth soccer: The non-linear nature of transfer.

Wideband Endfire Antenna Array for 5G mmWave Mobile Terminals (2024)
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Zidour, A., Ayad, M., Alibakhshikenari, M., See, C. H., Lai, Y.-X., Ma, Y., Guenad, B., Livreri, P., Khan, S., Pau, G., & Denidni, T. A. (2024). Wideband Endfire Antenna Array for 5G mmWave Mobile Terminals. IEEE Access, 12, 39926-39935. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2023.0322000

In this paper, a compact endfire antenna array with low-profile, small clearance, and wideband operation is proposed for millimeter-wave (mmWave) fifth-generation (5G) mobile terminals. The wideband operation is achieved by exciting two identical bow... Read More about Wideband Endfire Antenna Array for 5G mmWave Mobile Terminals.

A Stiffness Approach for Coupling Structural and Magnetic Models for the Sustainable Design, Optimisation and Real-Time Structural Integrity Assessment of Radial Flux Permanent Magnet Generators for Direct-Drive Wind Turbines (2024)
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McDonald, A., & Jaen-Sola, P. (2024). A Stiffness Approach for Coupling Structural and Magnetic Models for the Sustainable Design, Optimisation and Real-Time Structural Integrity Assessment of Radial Flux Permanent Magnet Generators for Direct-Drive Wind Turbines. Sustainability, 16(6), Article 2393. https://doi.org/10.3390/su16062393

The mass of a direct-drive generator is often defined by the requirements for structural stiffness to meet the magnetic stiffness between the rotor and stator surfaces. This paper analyses this magnetic stiffness and estimates the structural stiffnes... Read More about A Stiffness Approach for Coupling Structural and Magnetic Models for the Sustainable Design, Optimisation and Real-Time Structural Integrity Assessment of Radial Flux Permanent Magnet Generators for Direct-Drive Wind Turbines.