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Privacy and Trust Redefined in Federated Machine Learning (2021)
Journal Article
Papadopoulos, P., Abramson, W., Hall, A. J., Pitropakis, N., & Buchanan, W. J. (2021). Privacy and Trust Redefined in Federated Machine Learning. Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction, 3(2), 333-356. https://doi.org/10.3390/make3020017

A common privacy issue in traditional machine learning is that data needs to be disclosed for the training procedures. In situations with highly sensitive data such as healthcare records, accessing this information is challenging and often prohibited... Read More about Privacy and Trust Redefined in Federated Machine Learning.

COVID-19 UK Social Media Dataset for Public Health Research (2021)
Data
Plant, R., Hussain, A., & Sheikh, A. (2021). COVID-19 UK Social Media Dataset for Public Health Research. [Dataset]. https://doi.org/10.17869/enu.2021.2755974

We present a benchmark database of public social media postings from the United Kingdom related to the Covid-19 pandemic for academic research purposes, along with some initial analysis, including a taxonomy of key themes organised by keyword. This r... Read More about COVID-19 UK Social Media Dataset for Public Health Research.

Influence of nanoparticles and their selective localization on the structure and properties of polylactide-based blend nanocomposites (2021)
Journal Article
Nofar, M., Salehiyan, R., & Ray, S. S. (2021). Influence of nanoparticles and their selective localization on the structure and properties of polylactide-based blend nanocomposites. Composites Part B: Engineering, 215, Article 108845. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesb.2021.108845

This article critically reviews the influence of different nanoparticle localization on the final structure-property relationships of polylactide (PLA)-based blend nanocomposites. The effects of kinetics and thermodynamic parameters on the final loca... Read More about Influence of nanoparticles and their selective localization on the structure and properties of polylactide-based blend nanocomposites.

Research in football: evolving and lessons we can learn from our mistakes (2021)
Journal Article
McCall, A. (2021). Research in football: evolving and lessons we can learn from our mistakes. Science and Medicine in Football, 5(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/24733938.2021.1899275

Background: Football is evolving in many ways, including technical and physical demands as well as the scientific research underpinning and providing many recommendations to practitioners on how to optimise performance of players and by default, team... Read More about Research in football: evolving and lessons we can learn from our mistakes.

The socio-material nature of careers work: An exploration of knowledge co-creation amongst career practitioners (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Milosheva, M., Hall, H., Robertson, P., Cruickshank, P., & Lyall, C. (2021, March). The socio-material nature of careers work: An exploration of knowledge co-creation amongst career practitioners. Poster presented at iConference 2021, Beijing, China

While knowledge co-creation is a main source of innovation in organisations, little is known about the co-creation of knowledge in career settings, particularly in the context of career guidance. This study represents a novel contribution in the cons... Read More about The socio-material nature of careers work: An exploration of knowledge co-creation amongst career practitioners.

Mega-Events and Rapid Transit: Evaluating the Canada Line 10 Years After Vancouver 2010 (2021)
Journal Article
Sroka, R. (2021). Mega-Events and Rapid Transit: Evaluating the Canada Line 10 Years After Vancouver 2010. Public Works Management and Policy, 26(3), 220-238. https://doi.org/10.1177/1087724x211003099

This article examines the Canada Line rapid rail transit project in Vancouver, British Columbia, a decade after its completion and the 2010 Winter Olympic Games for which it was accelerated. The case resides at the intersection of two project classes... Read More about Mega-Events and Rapid Transit: Evaluating the Canada Line 10 Years After Vancouver 2010.

Bounds for Lacunary maximal functions given by Birch–Magyar averages (2021)
Journal Article
Cook, B., & Hughes, K. (2021). Bounds for Lacunary maximal functions given by Birch–Magyar averages. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 374(6), 3859-3879. https://doi.org/10.1090/tran/8152

We obtain positive and negative results concerning lacunary discrete maximal operators defined by dilations of sufficiently nonsingular hypersurfaces arising from Diophantine equations in many variables. Our negative results show that this problem di... Read More about Bounds for Lacunary maximal functions given by Birch–Magyar averages.

A novel domain activation mapping-guided network (DA-GNT) for visual tracking (2021)
Journal Article
Tu, Z., Zhou, A., Gan, C., Jiang, B., Hussain, A., & Luo, B. (2021). A novel domain activation mapping-guided network (DA-GNT) for visual tracking. Neurocomputing, 449, 443-454. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2021.03.056

Conventional convolution neural network (CNN)-based visual trackers are easily influenced by too much background information in candidate samples. Further, extreme imbalance of foreground and background samples has a negative impact on training the c... Read More about A novel domain activation mapping-guided network (DA-GNT) for visual tracking.

Activating transcription factor 4-dependent lactate dehydrogenase activation as a protective response to amyloid beta toxicity (2021)
Journal Article
Niccoli, T., Kerr, F., Snoeren, I., Fabian, D., Aleyakpo, B., Ivanov, D., Sofola-Adesakin, O., Cryar, A., Adcott, J., Thornton, J., & Partridge, L. (2021). Activating transcription factor 4-dependent lactate dehydrogenase activation as a protective response to amyloid beta toxicity. Brain Communications, 3(2), Article fcab053. https://doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcab053

Accumulation of amyloid beta peptides is thought to initiate the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease. However, the precise mechanisms mediating their neurotoxicity are unclear. Our microarray analyses show that, in Drosophila models of amyloid beta 4... Read More about Activating transcription factor 4-dependent lactate dehydrogenase activation as a protective response to amyloid beta toxicity.

Design and Verification of Privacy Patterns for Business Process Models (2021)
Book Chapter
Barati, M., & Rana, O. (2021). Design and Verification of Privacy Patterns for Business Process Models. In S. Patnaik, T. Wang, T. Shen, & S. Kumar Panigrahi (Eds.), Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes (125-139). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6470-7_8

Business process models can involve numerous operational activities for collecting, processing, and exchanging personal user data. Such processes may involve activities that are executed over one or more cloud-based platforms. With an increase in the... Read More about Design and Verification of Privacy Patterns for Business Process Models.

Integration and optimisation of high-penetration Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems for fulfilling electrical and thermal demand for off-grid communities (2021)
Journal Article
Kahwash, F., Maheri, A., & Mahkamov, K. (2021). Integration and optimisation of high-penetration Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems for fulfilling electrical and thermal demand for off-grid communities. Energy Conversion and Management, 236, Article 114035. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2021.114035

The recent steep decline in the cost of PV panels and wind turbines provides an opportunity to utilise Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems (HRES) to fulfil thermal loads as well as the electrical demand. Two coupled system architectures are proposed and... Read More about Integration and optimisation of high-penetration Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems for fulfilling electrical and thermal demand for off-grid communities.

Measurement of Heart Rate Using the Polar OH1 and Fitbit Charge 3 Wearable Devices in Healthy Adults During Light, Moderate, Vigorous, and Sprint-Based Exercise: Validation Study (2021)
Journal Article
Muggeridge, D. J., Hickson, K., Davies, A. V., Giggins, O. M., Megson, I. L., Gorely, T., & Crabtree, D. R. (2021). Measurement of Heart Rate Using the Polar OH1 and Fitbit Charge 3 Wearable Devices in Healthy Adults During Light, Moderate, Vigorous, and Sprint-Based Exercise: Validation Study. JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 9(3), Article e25313. https://doi.org/10.2196/25313

Background: Accurate, continuous heart rate measurements are important for health assessment, physical activity, and sporting performance, and the integration of heart rate measurements into wearable devices has extended its accessibility. Although t... Read More about Measurement of Heart Rate Using the Polar OH1 and Fitbit Charge 3 Wearable Devices in Healthy Adults During Light, Moderate, Vigorous, and Sprint-Based Exercise: Validation Study.

The worst is yet to come: the psychological impact of COVID-19 on Hong Kong music teachers (2021)
Journal Article
Cheng, L., & Lam, C. Y. (2021). The worst is yet to come: the psychological impact of COVID-19 on Hong Kong music teachers. Music Education Research, 23(2), 211-224. https://doi.org/10.1080/14613808.2021.1906215

The COVID-19 pandemic has made online and distance learning the new normal at all levels of education. Music as a school subject that relies heavily on multimodal sensory and auditory-motor interactions has been dramatically affected. Music teachers... Read More about The worst is yet to come: the psychological impact of COVID-19 on Hong Kong music teachers.

Learning Polar Encodings for Arbitrary-Oriented Ship Detection in SAR Images (2021)
Journal Article
He, Y., Gao, F., Wang, J., Hussain, A., Yang, E., & Zhou, H. (2021). Learning Polar Encodings for Arbitrary-Oriented Ship Detection in SAR Images. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 14, 3846-3859. https://doi.org/10.1109/jstars.2021.3068530

Common horizontal bounding box-based methods are not capable of accurately locating slender ship targets with arbitrary orientations in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. Therefore, in recent years, methods based on oriented bounding box (OBB) ha... Read More about Learning Polar Encodings for Arbitrary-Oriented Ship Detection in SAR Images.

Working Relationally with Adolescents Who Have Experienced Complex Interpersonal Trauma: an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (2021)
Journal Article
Amari, N., & Mahoney, A. (2022). Working Relationally with Adolescents Who Have Experienced Complex Interpersonal Trauma: an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma, 15, 75-87. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40653-021-00349-x

The study explores practitioners’ experiences of working with adolescents with complex interpersonal trauma. Five mental health professionals were recruited via purposive and snowball sampling. Semi-structured interviews were conducted, audio-recorde... Read More about Working Relationally with Adolescents Who Have Experienced Complex Interpersonal Trauma: an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis.

Debt should not be ignored (2021)
Digital Artefact
Robertson, P. (2021). Debt should not be ignored. [Blog]

This short article highlights the neglect of debt in the career development literature, and its importance as a factor shaping career decisions and career pathways.

On the dynamics of FG-GPLRC sandwich cylinders based on an unconstrained higher-order theory (2021)
Journal Article
Eyvazian, A., Sebaey, T. A., Żur, K. K., Khan, A., Zhang, H., & Wong, S. H. F. (2021). On the dynamics of FG-GPLRC sandwich cylinders based on an unconstrained higher-order theory. Composite Structures, 267, Article 113879. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruct.2021.113879

In the present paper, a novel unconstrained higher-order theory (UCHOT) is applied to analyse the free vibration of cylindrical sandwich shells with nanocomposite face sheets reinforced with graphene platelets. UCHOT considers the shear and thickness... Read More about On the dynamics of FG-GPLRC sandwich cylinders based on an unconstrained higher-order theory.