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Launching Adversarial Label Contamination Attacks Against Malicious URL Detection (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Marchand, B., Pitropakis, N., Buchanan, W. J., & Lambrinoudakis, C. (2021, September). Launching Adversarial Label Contamination Attacks Against Malicious URL Detection. Presented at TrustBus 2021: Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business, Online

Web addresses, or Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), represent a vector by which attackers are able to deliver a multitude of unwanted and potentially harmful effects to users through malicious software. The ability to detect and block access to such... Read More about Launching Adversarial Label Contamination Attacks Against Malicious URL Detection.

Structural Optimisation of Offshore Direct-Drive Wind Turbine Generators Including Static and Dynamic Analyses (2021)
Journal Article
Tartt, K., Kazemi Amiri, A., McDonald, A., & Jaen-Sola, P. (2021). Structural Optimisation of Offshore Direct-Drive Wind Turbine Generators Including Static and Dynamic Analyses. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2018(1), Article 012040. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2018/1/012040

One way to achieve increased wind capacity is by installing larger and more efficient wind turbines, which results in larger/heavier generators. Direct-drive, permanent magnet generators are favoured due to their increased efficiency, but the added w... Read More about Structural Optimisation of Offshore Direct-Drive Wind Turbine Generators Including Static and Dynamic Analyses.

Developing Students' Clinical Reasoning Skills: A Faculty Guide (2021)
Journal Article
Gonzalez, L., Nielsen, A., & Lasater, K. (2021). Developing Students' Clinical Reasoning Skills: A Faculty Guide. Journal of Nursing Education, 60(9), 485-493. https://doi.org/10.3928/01484834-20210708-01

Background:
Safe patient care relies on the ability of nurses to make timely, sound clinical judgments, yet new nurse graduates are underprepared. Nurse educators must take action with teaching to develop students' clinical reasoning skills and ulti... Read More about Developing Students' Clinical Reasoning Skills: A Faculty Guide.

Journey Women: The development of identity in midwives (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Crozier, S. (2021, September). Journey Women: The development of identity in midwives. Paper presented at NET2021 Conference, Online

This paper presents the findings from a doctoral study which used Narrative Inquiry to explore the development of professional identity in Midwives. The exploration is important because there is concern about the retention of midwives within the work... Read More about Journey Women: The development of identity in midwives.

An Accessible Method of Embedding Fibre Optic Sensors on Lithium-ion Battery Surface for in-situ Thermal Monitoring (2021)
Journal Article
Alcock, K., Grammel, M., González-Vila, A., Binetti, L., Goh, K., & Alwis, L. (2021). An Accessible Method of Embedding Fibre Optic Sensors on Lithium-ion Battery Surface for in-situ Thermal Monitoring. Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 332(1), Article 113061. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sna.2021.113061

Presented is a proof of concept to evaluate the suitability of a mounting technique for fibre optic sensors (FOSs) to measure Lithium-ion Battery (LIB) temperature. Two mounting techniques for the optical fibre, i.e. containing multiple Fibre Bragg G... Read More about An Accessible Method of Embedding Fibre Optic Sensors on Lithium-ion Battery Surface for in-situ Thermal Monitoring.

A novel Two-Factor HoneyToken Authentication Mechanism (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Papaspirou, V., Maglaras, L., Ferrag, M. A., Kantzavelou, I., Janicke, H., & Douligeris, C. (2021, July). A novel Two-Factor HoneyToken Authentication Mechanism. Presented at 2021 International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), Athens, Greece

The majority of systems rely on user authentication on passwords, but passwords have so many weaknesses and widespread use that easily raise significant security concerns, regardless of their encrypted form. Users hold the same password for different... Read More about A novel Two-Factor HoneyToken Authentication Mechanism.

Fundamentals in Cancer Care (2021)
Book
Foulkes, M., Lavender, V., Kumaralingam, N., & Campbell, K. (Eds.). (2021). Fundamentals in Cancer Care. Witney: EBN health

This is a practice focus guide for staff working in clinical practice in primary and acute cancer care with an emphasis on nursing .
A valuable tool for learners at multiple levels of practice from pre-registration to specialised cancer care roles.... Read More about Fundamentals in Cancer Care.

Efficient algorithms for MAC layer duty cycling and frame delivery in wireless sensor network (2021)
Thesis
Thomson, C. J. Efficient algorithms for MAC layer duty cycling and frame delivery in wireless sensor network. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2850793

In Wireless Sensor Networks, with small, limited capacity devices now more prevalent, the issue of Neighbour Discovery has shifted. These devices utilise duty cycling methods in order to conserve battery power. Hence, the main issue is now that these... Read More about Efficient algorithms for MAC layer duty cycling and frame delivery in wireless sensor network.

The Graphene Field Effect Transistor Modeling Based on an Optimized Ambipolar Virtual Source Model for DNA Detection (2021)
Journal Article
Akbari, M., Shahbazzadeh, M. J., La Spada, L., & Khajehzadeh, A. (2021). The Graphene Field Effect Transistor Modeling Based on an Optimized Ambipolar Virtual Source Model for DNA Detection. Applied Sciences, 11(17), Article 8114. https://doi.org/10.3390/app11178114

The graphene-based Field Effect Transistors (GFETs), due to their multi-parameter characteristics, are growing rapidly as an important detection component for the apt detection of disease biomarkers, such as DNA, in clinical diagnostics and biomedica... Read More about The Graphene Field Effect Transistor Modeling Based on an Optimized Ambipolar Virtual Source Model for DNA Detection.

A Secure Random Number Generator with Immunity and Propagation Characteristics for Cryptography Functions (2021)
Journal Article
Saha, R., Geetha, G., Kumar, G., Buchanan, W. J., & Kim, T. (2021). A Secure Random Number Generator with Immunity and Propagation Characteristics for Cryptography Functions. Applied Sciences, 11(17), Article 8073. https://doi.org/10.3390/app11178073

Cryptographic algorithms and functions should possess some of the important functional requirements such as: non-linearity, resiliency, propagation and immunity. Several previous studies were executed to analyze these characteristics of the cryptogra... Read More about A Secure Random Number Generator with Immunity and Propagation Characteristics for Cryptography Functions.

Failure across borders: the spread of bad anti-trafficking (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mendel, J., & Sharapov, K. (2021, August). Failure across borders: the spread of bad anti-trafficking. Paper presented at RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2021, London

Ineffective and harmful anti-trafficking is being internationalised in some striking ways, partly in response to representations of trafficking networks as borderless and omnipresent. Everything from damaging anti-trafficking raids to poor-quality le... Read More about Failure across borders: the spread of bad anti-trafficking.

OTTers: One-turn Topic Transitions for Open-Domain Dialogue (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sevegnani, K., Howcroft, D. M., Konstas, I., & Rieser, V. (2021, August). OTTers: One-turn Topic Transitions for Open-Domain Dialogue. Presented at 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Online

Mixed initiative in open-domain dialogue requires a system to pro-actively introduce new topics. The one-turn topic transition task explores how a system connects two topics in a cooperative and coherent manner. The goal of the task is to generate a... Read More about OTTers: One-turn Topic Transitions for Open-Domain Dialogue.

Perception of Drone Application and Practicality among Environmental, Health and Safety Practitioners at Building Construction Sites in Malaysia (2021)
Journal Article
Maha Yudden, M. K. A., Mohd Saudi, A. S., Mahmud, M. M., Ali, F., Shafii, N. Z., Zakri, L., Kamarudin, M. K. A., Mohd Saudi, M., Muhammad-Sukki, F., & Ali, M. H. (2021). Perception of Drone Application and Practicality among Environmental, Health and Safety Practitioners at Building Construction Sites in Malaysia. Journal of Occupational Safety and Health, 18(1), 47-56

Safety management in the construction sector is still lagging in terms of technological involvement. A new drone application was proposed as a new inspection tool for a small-scale aerial drone that will give advantages to Environmental, Health and S... Read More about Perception of Drone Application and Practicality among Environmental, Health and Safety Practitioners at Building Construction Sites in Malaysia.

From Trauma Theory to Systemic Violence: Narratives of Post-Katrina New Orleans (2021)
Book Chapter
Keeble, A. (2021). From Trauma Theory to Systemic Violence: Narratives of Post-Katrina New Orleans. In K. R. McNamara (Ed.), The City in American Literature and Culture (276-292). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

This chapter begins with a discussion of some of the contemporary critiques that have been aimed at trauma theory, focussing specifically on the way writing by Lauren Berlant and Rob Nixon has urged us to attend to systemic and/or slow violence. It a... Read More about From Trauma Theory to Systemic Violence: Narratives of Post-Katrina New Orleans.

Dimensional latent structure of ICD-11 posttraumatic stress disorder, complex PTSD, and adjustment disorder: Evidence from Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria (2021)
Journal Article
Charak, R., Cano-Gonzalez, I., Shevlin, M., Ben-Ezra, M., Karatzias, T., & Hyland, P. (2022). Dimensional latent structure of ICD-11 posttraumatic stress disorder, complex PTSD, and adjustment disorder: Evidence from Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria. Traumatology, 28(2), 223-234. https://doi.org/10.1037/trm0000311

With the release of ICD-11 in 2018, there has been a surge in studies examining the nosology of mental disorders, including disorders associated with stress, namely, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), complex PTSD (CPTSD), and adjustment disorder... Read More about Dimensional latent structure of ICD-11 posttraumatic stress disorder, complex PTSD, and adjustment disorder: Evidence from Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria.

Interculturality and the English Language Classroom (2021)
Book
Victoria, M., & Sangiamchit, C. (Eds.). (2021). Interculturality and the English Language Classroom. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76757-0

This book examines the concept of interculturality in English Language Teaching (ELT), using examples from diverse international and educational settings to demonstrate different approaches. Increased contact between multilingual speakers from differ... Read More about Interculturality and the English Language Classroom.

Stochastic Attention Head Removal: A Simple and Effective Method for Improving Transformer Based ASR Models (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhang, S., Loweimi, E., Bell, P., & Renals, S. (2021). Stochastic Attention Head Removal: A Simple and Effective Method for Improving Transformer Based ASR Models. In Proc. Interspeech 2021 (2541-2545). https://doi.org/10.21437/interspeech.2021-280

Recently, Transformer based models have shown competitive automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance. One key factor in the success of these models is the multi-head attention mechanism. However, for trained models, we have previously observed th... Read More about Stochastic Attention Head Removal: A Simple and Effective Method for Improving Transformer Based ASR Models.

Speech Acoustic Modelling Using Raw Source and Filter Components (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Loweimi, E., Cvetkovic, Z., Bell, P., & Renals, S. (2021). Speech Acoustic Modelling Using Raw Source and Filter Components. In Proc. Interspeech 2021 (276-280). https://doi.org/10.21437/interspeech.2021-53

Source-filter modelling is among the fundamental techniques in speech processing with a wide range of applications. In acoustic modelling, features such as MFCC and PLP which parametrise the filter component are widely employed. In this paper, we inv... Read More about Speech Acoustic Modelling Using Raw Source and Filter Components.