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Fluctuation in the global oil market, stock market volatility, and economic policy uncertainty: A study of the US and China (2021)
Journal Article
Yang, T., Zhou, F., Du, M., Du, Q., & Zhou, S. (2023). Fluctuation in the global oil market, stock market volatility, and economic policy uncertainty: A study of the US and China. Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 87, 377-387. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qref.2021.08.006

This paper investigates the relationships between the global oil market, stock markets, and economic policy, focusing on China and the US. We use a time-varying parameter stochastic volatility vector autoregression model to examine the transmission m... Read More about Fluctuation in the global oil market, stock market volatility, and economic policy uncertainty: A study of the US and China.

Towards a Declarative Approach to Constructing Dialogue Games (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Snaith, M., & Wells, S. (2021). Towards a Declarative Approach to Constructing Dialogue Games. In Proceedings of the 21st Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument (9-18)

In this paper we sketch a new approach to the development of dialogue games that builds upon the knowledge gained from several decades of dialogue game research across a variety of communities and which leverages the capabilities of the Dialogue Game... Read More about Towards a Declarative Approach to Constructing Dialogue Games.

Employee Voice: The Missing Factor in Sustainable HRM? (2021)
Journal Article
Paulet, S., Holland, P., & Bratton, A. (2021). Employee Voice: The Missing Factor in Sustainable HRM?. Sustainability, 13(17), Article 9732. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13179732

Sustainable Human Resource Management (HRM), has the potential to facilitate organisations development of principles, policies and practices for the challenges of the 21st century. However, to do this we argue a fundamental element in this process ha... Read More about Employee Voice: The Missing Factor in Sustainable HRM?.

A New Ensemble-Based Intrusion Detection System for Internet of Things (2021)
Journal Article
Abbas, A., Khan, M. A., Latif, S., Ajaz, M., Shah, A. A., & Ahmad, J. (2022). A New Ensemble-Based Intrusion Detection System for Internet of Things. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 47, 1805-1819. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13369-021-06086-5

The domain of Internet of Things (IoT) has witnessed immense adaptability over the last few years by drastically transforming human lives to automate their ordinary daily tasks. This is achieved by interconnecting heterogeneous physical devices with... Read More about A New Ensemble-Based Intrusion Detection System for Internet of Things.

‘It will make more people feel included if they can talk to them in their first language’: The experience of university students with an intellectual disability engaging in a formal Irish Sign Language Course (2021)
Journal Article
Spassiani, N. A., Clince, M., & Ó Murchadha, N. (2021). ‘It will make more people feel included if they can talk to them in their first language’: The experience of university students with an intellectual disability engaging in a formal Irish Sign Language Course. British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 49(4), 467-474. https://doi.org/10.1111/bld.12417

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Learning a second language can provide people with more opportunities to be included in society. For example, they could have more opportunities for employment, social activities and travel.
However, people with intelle... Read More about ‘It will make more people feel included if they can talk to them in their first language’: The experience of university students with an intellectual disability engaging in a formal Irish Sign Language Course.

Defining the Patient Acceptable Symptom State Using the Forgotten Joint Score 12 After Hip Arthroscopy (2021)
Journal Article
Robinson, P. G., Gaston, P., Williamson, T. R., Murray, I. R., Maempel, J. F., Rankin, C. S., MacDonald, D. J., & Hamilton, D. F. (2021). Defining the Patient Acceptable Symptom State Using the Forgotten Joint Score 12 After Hip Arthroscopy. Arthroscopy, Sports Medicine, and Rehabilitation, 3(6), e1705-e1712. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asmr.2021.07.027

Purpose
To contextualize the Forgotten Joint Score (FJS-12) by identifying a patient acceptable symptomatic state (PASS) threshold for patients undergoing hip arthroscopy and to investigate factors which correlated with postoperative FJS-12 score.... Read More about Defining the Patient Acceptable Symptom State Using the Forgotten Joint Score 12 After Hip Arthroscopy.

Health Professionals Perceptions Regarding Mental Health Care Services Quality in a Selected Psychiatric Hospital in Lesotho (2021)
Journal Article
Ramokanate, S., Nyangu, I., & Tsekoa, L. (2021). Health Professionals Perceptions Regarding Mental Health Care Services Quality in a Selected Psychiatric Hospital in Lesotho. Merit Research Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences, 9(8), 354-360

The purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions of health professionals regarding mental healthcare services quality at a selected psychiatric mental health setting in Lesotho. An exploratory descriptive qualitative design was used to collec... Read More about Health Professionals Perceptions Regarding Mental Health Care Services Quality in a Selected Psychiatric Hospital in Lesotho.

Detection of COVID-19 Using Transfer Learning and Grad-CAM Visualization on Indigenously Collected X-ray Dataset (2021)
Journal Article
Umair, M., Khan, M. S., Ahmed, F., Baothman, F., Alqahtani, F., Alian, M., & Ahmad, J. (2021). Detection of COVID-19 Using Transfer Learning and Grad-CAM Visualization on Indigenously Collected X-ray Dataset. Sensors, 21(17), Article 5813. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21175813

The COVID-19 outbreak began in December 2019 and has dreadfully affected our lives since then. More than three million lives have been engulfed by this newest member of the corona virus family. With the emergence of continuously mutating variants of... Read More about Detection of COVID-19 Using Transfer Learning and Grad-CAM Visualization on Indigenously Collected X-ray Dataset.

Intrusion Detection in Critical Infrastructures: A Literature Review (2021)
Journal Article
Panagiotis, F., Taxiarxchis, K., Georgios, K., Maglaras, L., & Ferrag, M. A. (2021). Intrusion Detection in Critical Infrastructures: A Literature Review. Smart Cities, 4(3), 1146-1157. https://doi.org/10.3390/smartcities4030061

Over the years, the digitization of all aspects of life in modern societies is considered an acquired advantage. However, like the terrestrial world, the digital world is not perfect and many dangers and threats are present. In the present work, we c... Read More about Intrusion Detection in Critical Infrastructures: A Literature Review.

Correlation of Studies between Colour, Structure and Mechanical Properties of Commercially Produced ThermoWood® Treated Norway Spruce and Scots Pine (2021)
Journal Article
Torniainen, P., Popescu, C., Jones, D., Scharf, A., & Sandberg, D. (2021). Correlation of Studies between Colour, Structure and Mechanical Properties of Commercially Produced ThermoWood® Treated Norway Spruce and Scots Pine. Forests, 12(9), Article 1165. https://doi.org/10.3390/f12091165

The thermal modification of wood has become the most-commonly commercialised wood modification process globally, with the ThermoWood® process currently being the most dominant. As with all commercial processes, there is a need to have a robust qualit... Read More about Correlation of Studies between Colour, Structure and Mechanical Properties of Commercially Produced ThermoWood® Treated Norway Spruce and Scots Pine.

Pediatric Traffic Injuries on Halloween in the United Kingdom: Prevalence and Injury Severity (2021)
Journal Article
Hsu, L., Wiratama, B. S., Chen, P., Saleh, W., Lin, H., & Pai, C. (2021). Pediatric Traffic Injuries on Halloween in the United Kingdom: Prevalence and Injury Severity. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(17), Article 9093. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18179093

The study results serve as a reminder for parents, children, and drivers to be alert to the danger of traffic crashes on Halloween. The aim of this study was to examine whether Halloween is associated with a higher incidence of traffic injuries and w... Read More about Pediatric Traffic Injuries on Halloween in the United Kingdom: Prevalence and Injury Severity.

Status, relative deprivation, and moral devaluation of immigrants (2021)
Journal Article
Gheorghiu, M., Pehrson, S., & Christ, O. (2022). Status, relative deprivation, and moral devaluation of immigrants. British Journal of Social Psychology, 61(2), 510-531. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12493

Immigration has been a prominent political issue for decades, but particularly so with rising national populism. To understand current anti-immigration opinion, we turn to the concept of relative deprivation, which, we argue, is fundamentally about e... Read More about Status, relative deprivation, and moral devaluation of immigrants.

Lane-DeepLab: Lane semantic segmentation in automatic driving scenarios for high-definition maps (2021)
Journal Article
Li, J., Jiang, F., Yang, J., Kong, B., Gogate, M., Dashtipour, K., & Hussain, A. (2021). Lane-DeepLab: Lane semantic segmentation in automatic driving scenarios for high-definition maps. Neurocomputing, 465, 15-25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2021.08.105

Accurate high-definition maps with lane markings are often used as the navigation back-end for commercial autonomous vehicles. Currently, most high-definition maps are manually constructed by human labelling. Therefore, it is urgently required to pro... Read More about Lane-DeepLab: Lane semantic segmentation in automatic driving scenarios for high-definition maps.

Improving the Sexual health of young people (under 25) in high risk populations: a systematic review of behavioural and psychosocial interventions (2021)
Journal Article
Brown, E., Lo Monaco, S., O’Donoghue, B., Nolan, H., Hughes, E., Graham, M., Simmons, M., & Gray, R. (2021). Improving the Sexual health of young people (under 25) in high risk populations: a systematic review of behavioural and psychosocial interventions. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(17), Article 9063. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18179063

Background: Ensuring young people experience good sexual health is a key public health concern, yet some vulnerable groups of young people remain at higher risk of poor sexual health. These individuals require additional support to achieve good sexua... Read More about Improving the Sexual health of young people (under 25) in high risk populations: a systematic review of behavioural and psychosocial interventions.

Excess deaths at home: engagement with service providers (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mahoney, C., Garcia-Lopez, Y., & Atherton, I. (2021, August). Excess deaths at home: engagement with service providers. Presented at Scottish Bereavement Steering Group 2021, Glasgow, UK

Design, synthesis, in vitro determination and molecular docking studies of 4-(1-(tert-butyl)-3-phenyl-1H-pyrazol-4-yl) pyridine derivatives with terminal sulfonamide derivatives in LPS-induced RAW264.7 macrophage cells (2021)
Journal Article
Mersal, K. I., Abdel-Maksoud, M. S., Ali, E. M. H., Ammar, U. M., Zaraei, S., Kim, J., Kim, S., Lee, K., Lee, K. H., Kim, S., Park, H., Ji, M., & Oh, C. (2021). Design, synthesis, in vitro determination and molecular docking studies of 4-(1-(tert-butyl)-3-phenyl-1H-pyrazol-4-yl) pyridine derivatives with terminal sulfonamide derivatives in LPS-induced RAW264.7 macrophage cells. Medicinal Chemistry Research, 30, 1925-1942. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00044-021-02784-9

In the present work, a new series of 4-(1-(tert-butyl)-3-phenyl-1H-pyrazol-4-yl) pyridine possessing terminal ethyl or propyl sulfonamides was designed and synthesized. The cytotoxic effect of the final compounds was measured by applying MTT assay in... Read More about Design, synthesis, in vitro determination and molecular docking studies of 4-(1-(tert-butyl)-3-phenyl-1H-pyrazol-4-yl) pyridine derivatives with terminal sulfonamide derivatives in LPS-induced RAW264.7 macrophage cells.