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What is the risk of acquiring SARS-CoV-2 from the use of public toilets? (2021)
Journal Article
Dancer, S. J., Li, Y., Hart, A., Tang, J. W., & Jones, D. L. (2021). What is the risk of acquiring SARS-CoV-2 from the use of public toilets?. Science of the Total Environment, 792, 148341. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148341

Public toilets and bathrooms may act as a contact hub point where community transmission of SARS-CoV-2 occurs between users. The mechanism of spread would arise through three mechanisms: inhalation of faecal and/or urinary aerosol from an individual... Read More about What is the risk of acquiring SARS-CoV-2 from the use of public toilets?.

Potential for Carbon-Neutral Advanced Biofuels in UK Road Transport (2021)
Journal Article
King, R., & Tingas, E. (2021). Potential for Carbon-Neutral Advanced Biofuels in UK Road Transport. Journal of Energy Engineering, 147(4), 04021025. https://doi.org/10.1061/%28asce%29ey.1943-7897.0000775

As a result of anthropocentric climate change, there is an urgent need to decarbonize the supply of energy. Organic biomass, referred to as feedstock, can be converted into biofuels that have the potential to decarbonize transport. However, biofuels... Read More about Potential for Carbon-Neutral Advanced Biofuels in UK Road Transport.

Optimising recruitment in habitat creation for the native European oyster (2021)
Journal Article
Chapman, E. C., Rodriguez-Perez, A., Hugh-Jones, T., Bromley, C., James, M. A., Diele, K., & Sanderson, W. G. (2021). Optimising recruitment in habitat creation for the native European oyster. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 170, Article 112579. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112579

European oyster (Ostrea edulis) restoration often requires the timely deployment of shell habitat for larval settlement. To inform this increasingly popular process, the present study investigated temporal and spatial abundance patterns of O. edulis... Read More about Optimising recruitment in habitat creation for the native European oyster.

Trust in Nigerian SMEs Exporting to West African Markets (2021)
Book Chapter
Omeihe, K., Amoako, I. O., & Gustafsson, V. (2021). Trust in Nigerian SMEs Exporting to West African Markets. In D. Nziku, & J. Struthers (Eds.), Enterprise and Economic Development in Africa (59-77). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80071-322-220211003

In this chapter, we examine trust and social networks among entrepreneurs operating in a developing market context. At the centre of this study, trust emerges from the interplay of a range of cultural-specific factors, each of which describes how soc... Read More about Trust in Nigerian SMEs Exporting to West African Markets.

Optimal Beam Association for High Mobility mmWave Vehicular Networks: Lightweight Parallel Reinforcement Learning Approach (2021)
Journal Article
Van Huynh, N., Nguyen, D. N., Hoang, D. T., & Dutkiewicz, E. (2021). Optimal Beam Association for High Mobility mmWave Vehicular Networks: Lightweight Parallel Reinforcement Learning Approach. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 69(9), 5948-5961. https://doi.org/10.1109/tcomm.2021.3088305

In intelligent transportation systems (ITS), vehicles are expected to feature with advanced applications and services which demand ultra-high data rates and low-latency communications. For that, the millimeter wave (mmWave) communication has been eme... Read More about Optimal Beam Association for High Mobility mmWave Vehicular Networks: Lightweight Parallel Reinforcement Learning Approach.

Using co-design to explore how midwives can support the emerging mother-infant relationship during the early postnatal period: Protocol for a mixed-method study (2021)
Journal Article
Stoodley, C., McKellar, L., Gwilt, I., Ziaian, T., Steen, M., & Fereday, J. (2021). Using co-design to explore how midwives can support the emerging mother-infant relationship during the early postnatal period: Protocol for a mixed-method study. JMIR Research Protocols, 10(6), https://doi.org/10.2196/29770

Background: The postnatal period can be a challenging time for women, with mothers experiencing a range of emotions. As a woman transitions to motherhood, she adjusts to a new sense of self and forms a new relationship with her infant. Becoming a mot... Read More about Using co-design to explore how midwives can support the emerging mother-infant relationship during the early postnatal period: Protocol for a mixed-method study.

SANCUS–Towards Unifying the Analysis and Control of Security, Privacy and Service Reliability (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zarakovitis, C., Pitropakis, N., Klonidis, D., & Khalife, H. (2021, June). SANCUS–Towards Unifying the Analysis and Control of Security, Privacy and Service Reliability. Poster presented at EuCNC & 6G Summit, Grenoble, France

The arrival of new technologies change the global digital landscape in many ways. In the past years, for example, network virtualization and cloud computing have given raise to organizations for meeting their everyday needs in an elastic manner witho... Read More about SANCUS–Towards Unifying the Analysis and Control of Security, Privacy and Service Reliability.

What does effective end-of-life care at home for children look like? A qualitative interview study exploring the perspectives of bereaved parents (2021)
Journal Article
Malcolm, C., & Knighting, K. (2021). What does effective end-of-life care at home for children look like? A qualitative interview study exploring the perspectives of bereaved parents. Palliative Medicine, 35(8), 1602-1611. https://doi.org/10.1177/02692163211023300

Background: End-of-life care for children with life-shortening conditions is provided in a range of settings including hospital, hospice and home. What home-based, end-of-life care should entail or what best practice might look like is not widely re... Read More about What does effective end-of-life care at home for children look like? A qualitative interview study exploring the perspectives of bereaved parents.

A mixed methods exploration of surf therapy piloted for youth well-being in post-conflict Sierra Leone (2021)
Journal Article
Marshall, J., Kamuskay, S., Samai, M. M., Marah, I., Tonkara, F., Conteh, J., Jalloh, O., Messeh-Leone, O., Missalie, M., Bangura, M., Keita, S., Leone, M., Ferrier, B., & Martindale, R. (2021). A mixed methods exploration of surf therapy piloted for youth well-being in post-conflict Sierra Leone. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(12), Article 6267. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18126267

Young people in post-conflict and post-epidemic contexts such as Sierra Leone face a range of mental health challenges as part of their daily life. An innovative approach to Sport for Development that could offer support to youth mental health is sur... Read More about A mixed methods exploration of surf therapy piloted for youth well-being in post-conflict Sierra Leone.

Classifying the 'right' answers: Research approaches for addressing COVID information challenges (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rasmussen Pennington, D., Alhayan, F., Alhassan, M. A., Chang, M., Innes, R., & Mavroeidi, A. (2021, June). Classifying the 'right' answers: Research approaches for addressing COVID information challenges. Paper presented at ASIS&T European Chapter’s Information Science Trends 2021: Information Science Research During COVID-19 & Post-Pandemic Opportunities, Online

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State-of-the-Art Review on the Energy Performance of Semi-Transparent Building Integrated Photovoltaic across a Range of Different Climatic and Environmental Conditions (2021)
Journal Article
Khalifeeh, R., Alrashidi, H., Sellami, N., Mallick, T., & Issa, W. (2021). State-of-the-Art Review on the Energy Performance of Semi-Transparent Building Integrated Photovoltaic across a Range of Different Climatic and Environmental Conditions. Energies, 14(12), Article 3412. https://doi.org/10.3390/en14123412

Semi-transparent Building Integrated Photovoltaics provide a fresh approach to the renewable energy sector, combining the potential of energy generation with aesthetically pleasing, multi-functional building components. Employing a range of technolog... Read More about State-of-the-Art Review on the Energy Performance of Semi-Transparent Building Integrated Photovoltaic across a Range of Different Climatic and Environmental Conditions.

Narratives of identity: The lived experience of the local academic in transnational higher education (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McLatchie, J. (2021, June). Narratives of identity: The lived experience of the local academic in transnational higher education. Paper presented at Narrative Methods in Multilingual and Educational Research Symposium, Edinburgh [Online]

Transnational education (TNE) has become a significantly important element of Higher Education Institution (HEI) delivery throughout the world, and much has been written on the subject. However, the majority of research in this field is produced fro... Read More about Narratives of identity: The lived experience of the local academic in transnational higher education.

Allelic losses and gains during translocations of a high conservation value fish, Coregonus lavaretus (2021)
Journal Article
Præbel, K., Bean, C. W., Dodd, J. A., Etheridge, E. C., Gowans, A. R., Knudsen, R., Lyle, A. A., Maitland, P. S., Winfield, I. J., & Adams, C. E. (2021). Allelic losses and gains during translocations of a high conservation value fish, Coregonus lavaretus. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 31(9), 2575-2585. https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.3623

The use of translocations to establish new or ‘refuge’ populations for species with high conservation value is controversial but widely used in conservation management. One of the risks of this approach is that an establishing population does not... Read More about Allelic losses and gains during translocations of a high conservation value fish, Coregonus lavaretus.

Challenges to COVID-19 vaccine supply chain: Implications for sustainable development goals (2021)
Journal Article
Alam, S. T., Ahmed, S., Ali, S. M., Sarker, S., Kabir, G., & ul-Islam, A. (2021). Challenges to COVID-19 vaccine supply chain: Implications for sustainable development goals. International Journal of Production Economics, 239, Article 108193. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2021.108193

The COVID-19 outbreak has demonstrated the diverse challenges that supply chains face to significant disruptions. Vaccine supply chains are no exception. Therefore, it is elemental that challenges to the COVID-19 vaccine supply chain (VSC) are identi... Read More about Challenges to COVID-19 vaccine supply chain: Implications for sustainable development goals.

Exploring the potential uses of ocean plastic and public engagement activities for raising awareness (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tao, X. (2021, June). Exploring the potential uses of ocean plastic and public engagement activities for raising awareness. Poster presented at Cumulus Roma 2021: Design Culture(s), Rome, Italy

Ocean plastic started to attract attention from many levels of society. Scholars have done geographical and quantitative research, but the research on the exploration of either ocean plastic as an accessible material or public perception towards ocea... Read More about Exploring the potential uses of ocean plastic and public engagement activities for raising awareness.

Study of Air Pressure and Velocity for Solution Blow Spinning of Polyvinylidene Fluoride Nanofibres (2021)
Journal Article
Atif, R., Combrinck, M., Khaliq, J., Martin, J., Hassanin, A. H., Shehata, N., Elnabawy, E., & Shyha, I. (2021). Study of Air Pressure and Velocity for Solution Blow Spinning of Polyvinylidene Fluoride Nanofibres. Processes, 9(6), Article 1014. https://doi.org/10.3390/pr9061014

Solution blow spinning (SBS) is gaining popularity for producing fibres for smart textiles and energy harvesting due to its operational simplicity and high throughput. The whole SBS process is significantly dependent on the characteristics of the att... Read More about Study of Air Pressure and Velocity for Solution Blow Spinning of Polyvinylidene Fluoride Nanofibres.

Reward-Reinforced Generative Adversarial Networks for Multi-agent Systems (2021)
Journal Article
Zheng, C., Yang, S., Parra-Ullauri, J., Garcia-Dominguez, A., & Bencomo, N. (2022). Reward-Reinforced Generative Adversarial Networks for Multi-agent Systems. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, 6(3), 479 - 488. https://doi.org/10.1109/TETCI.2021.3082204

Multi-agent systems deliver highly resilient and adaptable solutions for common problems in telecommunications, aerospace, and industrial robotics. However, achieving an optimal global goal remains a persistent obstacle for collaborative multi-agent... Read More about Reward-Reinforced Generative Adversarial Networks for Multi-agent Systems.