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A Comprehensive Review on the Application of Bioethanol/Biodiesel in Direct Injection Engines and Consequential Environmental Impact (2021)
Journal Article
Siddique, M. B. M., Khairuddin, N., Ali, N. A., Hassan, M. A., Ahmed, J., Kasem, S., Tabassum, M., & Afrouzi, H. N. (2021). A Comprehensive Review on the Application of Bioethanol/Biodiesel in Direct Injection Engines and Consequential Environmental Impact. Cleaner Engineering and Technology, 3, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clet.2021.100092

Bioethanol/biodiesel are deemed a highly suitable alternative to conventional fuels in the near future due to their versatility in production techniques and operability. This paper examines the engine performance and possible scope of improvement in... Read More about A Comprehensive Review on the Application of Bioethanol/Biodiesel in Direct Injection Engines and Consequential Environmental Impact.

Creatives in Crisis (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Patrick, H. (2021, April). Creatives in Crisis. Paper presented at International Labour Process Conference 2021, London [Online]

Developing the concept of leaveism: From a form of presenteeism/absence to an emergent and expanding domain of work (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Richards, J., Canduela, J., Pustelnikovaite, T., Ellis, V., & Saxena, S. (2021, April). Developing the concept of leaveism: From a form of presenteeism/absence to an emergent and expanding domain of work. Paper presented at International Labour Process Conference, University of Greenwich

The purpose of the paper is to develop the emergent notion of leaveism by drawing on concepts related to work intensification (WI) and ideal worker (IW) norms. The argument driving the paper is leaveism can be developed from being associated with pre... Read More about Developing the concept of leaveism: From a form of presenteeism/absence to an emergent and expanding domain of work.

Young people’s expectations of work, and readiness of the workplace: Two sides of the same coin? (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Grant, K., Egdell, V., & Vincent, D. (2021, April). Young people’s expectations of work, and readiness of the workplace: Two sides of the same coin?. Paper presented at The 39th International Labour Process Conference, University of Greenwich, London

Since the 2008 economic downturn, the education-to-work transitions of young people have been a concern for governments across Europe (Coppola & O’Higgins 2016). Young people may experience complex, delayed and insecure education-to-work transitions.... Read More about Young people’s expectations of work, and readiness of the workplace: Two sides of the same coin?.

Out of the mouths of babes: listening to children of all ages in family court cases (2021)
Journal Article
Barnes Macfarlane, L. (2021). Out of the mouths of babes: listening to children of all ages in family court cases. The Journal of the Law Society of Scotland,

Critical overview of amendments made by the Children (S) Act 2020 to cases brought under Part 1 of the Children (S) Act 1995 (e.g. contact/residence disputes). These amendments are intended to better align Scottish Law with the contemporary understan... Read More about Out of the mouths of babes: listening to children of all ages in family court cases.

Does semantics aid syntax? An empirical study on named entity recognition and classification (2021)
Journal Article
Zhong, X., Cambria, E., & Hussain, A. (2022). Does semantics aid syntax? An empirical study on named entity recognition and classification. Neural Computing and Applications, 34, 8373-8384. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-021-05949-0

Many researchers jointly model multiple linguistic tasks (e.g., joint modeling of named entity recognition and named entity classification and joint modeling of syntactic parsing and semantic parsing) with an implicit assumption that these individual... Read More about Does semantics aid syntax? An empirical study on named entity recognition and classification.

Food Security, Dietary Intake, and Foodways of Urban Low-Income Older South African Women: An Exploratory Study (2021)
Journal Article
Odunitan-Wayas, F. A., Faber, M., Mendham, A. E., Goedecke, J. H., Micklesfield, L. K., Brooks, N. E., Christensen, D. L., Gallagher, I. J., Myburgh, K. H., Hunter, A. M., & Lambert, E. V. (2021). Food Security, Dietary Intake, and Foodways of Urban Low-Income Older South African Women: An Exploratory Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(8), Article 3973. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18083973

This cross-sectional study explored the differences in sociodemographics, dietary intake, and household foodways (cultural, socioeconomic practices that affect food purchase, consumption, and preferences) of food secure and food insecure older women... Read More about Food Security, Dietary Intake, and Foodways of Urban Low-Income Older South African Women: An Exploratory Study.

Application of Artificial Neural Network in Predicting Flashover Behaviour of Outdoor Insulators under Polluted Conditions (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sajjad, U., Arshad, Ahmad, J., & Shoaib, S. (2021, January). Application of Artificial Neural Network in Predicting Flashover Behaviour of Outdoor Insulators under Polluted Conditions. Presented at 2021 IEEE Conference of Russian Young Researchers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (ElConRus), St. Petersburg, Moscow, Russia

Safe and reliable delivery of power through transmission lines mainly depends on the quality condition of the high voltage insulators. In the last few decades, demand in polymeric insulator has been dramatically increased due to their advanced perfor... Read More about Application of Artificial Neural Network in Predicting Flashover Behaviour of Outdoor Insulators under Polluted Conditions.

A novel tensor-information bottleneck method for multi-input single-output applications (2021)
Journal Article
Lu, L., Ren, X., Cui, C., Tan, Z., Wu, Y., & Qin, Z. (2021). A novel tensor-information bottleneck method for multi-input single-output applications. Computer Networks, 193, Article 108088. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2021.108088

Ensuring timeliness and mobility for multimedia computing is a crucial task for wireless communication. Previous algorithms that utilize information channels, such as the information bottleneck method, have shown great performance and efficiency, whi... Read More about A novel tensor-information bottleneck method for multi-input single-output applications.

Towards Reforming Sri Lanka Railways: Insights from International Experience and Industry Expert Opinion (2021)
Journal Article
Kumara, E. G. N. S. H., & Bandara, Y. M. (2021). Towards Reforming Sri Lanka Railways: Insights from International Experience and Industry Expert Opinion. Sri Lanka Journal of Economic Research, 8(2), 51-80. https://doi.org/10.4038/sljer.v8i2.137

Growing of the automobile industry and the demand for personal car use and chronic financial deficits in the balance sheets of rail operators have significantly affected the rail industry deterioration since 1970. However, gradual rail reforms were c... Read More about Towards Reforming Sri Lanka Railways: Insights from International Experience and Industry Expert Opinion.

Smartphone Applications Designed to Improve Older People’s Chronic Pain Management: An Integrated Systematic Review (2021)
Journal Article
Dunham, M., Bonacaro, A., Schofield, P., Bacon, L., Spyridonis, F., & Mehrpouya, H. (2021). Smartphone Applications Designed to Improve Older People’s Chronic Pain Management: An Integrated Systematic Review. Geriatrics, 6(2), Article 40. https://doi.org/10.3390/geriatrics6020040

(1) Background: Older people’s chronic pain is often not well managed because of fears of side-effects and under-reporting. Telehealth interventions, in the form of smartphone applications, are attracting much interest in the management of chronic di... Read More about Smartphone Applications Designed to Improve Older People’s Chronic Pain Management: An Integrated Systematic Review.

The Entangled Terrestrials: Mapping E.T.’s Ecological Web (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alder, E. (2021, April). The Entangled Terrestrials: Mapping E.T.’s Ecological Web. Paper presented at British Society for Literature and Science Annual Conference, Online

Steven Spielberg’s E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) has accrued an eclectic but small body of scholarly criticism. With this paper I contribute an ecocritical analysis of the film, suggesting that the disruption to Elliott’s schoolboy life caused by... Read More about The Entangled Terrestrials: Mapping E.T.’s Ecological Web.

When to (or not to) trust intelligent machines: Insights from an evolutionary game theory analysis of trust in repeated games (2021)
Journal Article
Han, T. A., Perrett, C., & Powers, S. T. (2021). When to (or not to) trust intelligent machines: Insights from an evolutionary game theory analysis of trust in repeated games. Cognitive Systems Research, 68, Article 111-124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsys.2021.02.003

The actions of intelligent agents, such as chatbots, recommender systems, and virtual assistants are typically not fully transparent to the user. Consequently , users take the risk that such agents act in ways opposed to the users' preferences or goa... Read More about When to (or not to) trust intelligent machines: Insights from an evolutionary game theory analysis of trust in repeated games.

A Hybrid Deep Random Neural Network for Cyberattack Detection in the Industrial Internet of Things (2021)
Journal Article
Huma, Z. E., Latif, S., Ahmad, J., Idrees, Z., Ibrar, A., Zou, Z., Alqahtani, F., & Baothman, F. (2021). A Hybrid Deep Random Neural Network for Cyberattack Detection in the Industrial Internet of Things. IEEE Access, 9, 55595-55605. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2021.3071766

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) refers to the use of traditional Internet of Things (IoT) concepts in industrial sectors and applications. IIoT has several applications in smart homes, smart cities, smart grids, connected cars, and supply ch... Read More about A Hybrid Deep Random Neural Network for Cyberattack Detection in the Industrial Internet of Things.

Souvenir authenticity in the additive manufacturing age (2021)
Journal Article
Anastasiadou, C., & Vettese, S. (2021). Souvenir authenticity in the additive manufacturing age. Annals of Tourism Research, 89, Article 103188. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2021.103188

The expansion of additive manufacturing or 3D printing as a novel (re)production method disrupts social consumption patterns and challenges existing conceptualisations of tourist souvenirs as material, metonymic and symbolic objects that often lack a... Read More about Souvenir authenticity in the additive manufacturing age.

Factors Affecting Resilience of Nursing, Optometry, Radiography and Medical Laboratory Science Students (2021)
Journal Article
Ching, S. S. Y., & Cheung, K. (2021). Factors Affecting Resilience of Nursing, Optometry, Radiography and Medical Laboratory Science Students. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(8), Article 3867. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18083867

Background: The concern over the high level of stress experienced by students of the caring professions has led to increased attention being paid to the promotion of their resilience. Most earlier studies have focused on the resilience of medical and... Read More about Factors Affecting Resilience of Nursing, Optometry, Radiography and Medical Laboratory Science Students.

Are Rurality, Area Deprivation, Access to Outside Space, and Green Space Associated with Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic? A Cross Sectional Study (CHARIS-E) (2021)
Journal Article
Hubbard, G., Den Daas, C., Johnston, M., Murchie, P., Thompson, C. W., & Dixon, D. (2021). Are Rurality, Area Deprivation, Access to Outside Space, and Green Space Associated with Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic? A Cross Sectional Study (CHARIS-E). International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(8), Article 3869. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18083869

The study investigated if rurality, area deprivation, access to outside space (Study 1), and frequency of visiting and duration in green space (Study 2) are associated with mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic and examined if individual demogra... Read More about Are Rurality, Area Deprivation, Access to Outside Space, and Green Space Associated with Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic? A Cross Sectional Study (CHARIS-E).

Corporate liquidity, supply chain and cost issues awareness within the Covid-19 context: evidence from US management reports’ textual analysis (2021)
Journal Article
Fassas, A., Bellos, S., & Kladakis, G. (2021). Corporate liquidity, supply chain and cost issues awareness within the Covid-19 context: evidence from US management reports’ textual analysis. Corporate governance : the international journal of business in society, 21(6), 1155-1171. https://doi.org/10.1108/cg-09-2020-0399

Purpose
The purpose of this study is to assess the management responses and intentions of 3,279 US firms from all industries, before and after the coronavirus outbreak, to identify the level of managerial concern about specific financial issues and... Read More about Corporate liquidity, supply chain and cost issues awareness within the Covid-19 context: evidence from US management reports’ textual analysis.