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Male‐biased sexual selection, but not sexual dichromatism, predicts speciation in birds (2021)
Journal Article
Cally, J. G., Stuart‐Fox, D., Holman, L., Dale, J., & Medina, I. (2021). Male‐biased sexual selection, but not sexual dichromatism, predicts speciation in birds. Evolution, 75(4), 931-944. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14183

Sexual selection is thought to shape phylogenetic diversity by affecting speciation or extinction rates. However, the net effect of sexual selection on diversification is hard to predict because many of the hypothesized effects on speciation or extin... Read More about Male‐biased sexual selection, but not sexual dichromatism, predicts speciation in birds.

A novel explainable machine learning approach for EEG-based brain-computer interface systems (2021)
Journal Article
Ieracitano, C., Mammone, N., Hussain, A., & Morabito, F. C. (2022). A novel explainable machine learning approach for EEG-based brain-computer interface systems. Neural Computing and Applications, 34, 11347-11360. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-020-05624-w

Electroencephalographic (EEG) recordings can be of great help in decoding the open/close hand’s motion preparation. To this end, cortical EEG source signals in the motor cortex (evaluated in the 1-s window preceding movement onset) are extracted by s... Read More about A novel explainable machine learning approach for EEG-based brain-computer interface systems.

Marker location and knee joint model constraint affect the reporting of overhead squat kinematics in elite youth football players (2021)
Journal Article
Coyne, L. M., Newell, M., Hoozemans, M. J. M., Morrison, A., & Brown, S. J. (2024). Marker location and knee joint model constraint affect the reporting of overhead squat kinematics in elite youth football players. Sports Biomechanics, 23(6), 740-757. https://doi.org/10.1080/14763141.2021.1890197

Motion capture systems are used in the analysis and interpretation of athlete movement patterns for a variety of reasons, but data integrity remains critical regardless of the purpose of measurement. The extent to which marker location or constrainin... Read More about Marker location and knee joint model constraint affect the reporting of overhead squat kinematics in elite youth football players.

Communities of practice or communicative rationality? A study of autonomous peer assisted learning (2021)
Journal Article
Jayathilake, C., & Huxham, M. (2022). Communities of practice or communicative rationality? A study of autonomous peer assisted learning. Active learning in higher education, 23(3), 205-216. https://doi.org/10.1177/1469787421998123

Defined as ‘networks of learning relationships among students and significant others’, peer assisted learning takes a bewildering array of forms in higher education. A useful way to conceptualise these is to draw from ideas of communities of practice... Read More about Communities of practice or communicative rationality? A study of autonomous peer assisted learning.

“MedChemVR”: a virtual reality game to enhance medicinal chemistry education (2021)
Journal Article
Abuhammad, A., Falah, J., Alfalah, S. F. M., Abu-Tarboush, M., Tarawneh, R. T., Drikakis, D., & Charissis, V. (2021). “MedChemVR”: a virtual reality game to enhance medicinal chemistry education. Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 5(3), Article 10. https://doi.org/10.3390/mti5030010

Medicinal chemistry (MC) is an indispensable component of the pharmacy curriculum. The pharmacists’ unique knowledge of a medicine’s chemistry enhances their understanding of the pharmacological activity, manufacturing, storage, use, supply, and hand... Read More about “MedChemVR”: a virtual reality game to enhance medicinal chemistry education.

Gendered tourism experiences in China: exploring identity, mobility, and resistance online (2021)
Journal Article
Muldoon, M. L., Witte, A., Guan, S., Fang, H. Y., Xie, Y., & Zhou, L. (2023). Gendered tourism experiences in China: exploring identity, mobility, and resistance online. Annals of Leisure Research, 26(3), 433-453. https://doi.org/10.1080/11745398.2021.1878379

This paper presents research exploring the narratives Chinese women and men share online regarding gendered tourism experiences. Data were collected from 260 blog postings and resulting discussion threads on Chinese social media travel sites from Mar... Read More about Gendered tourism experiences in China: exploring identity, mobility, and resistance online.

Grade in Britain: enabling a wider range of home grown species (2021)
Book Chapter
Ridley-Ellis, D. (2021). Grade in Britain: enabling a wider range of home grown species. In Timber 2020 Industry Yearbook (132-137). High Wycombe: TRADA

Dan Ridley-Ellis summarises the different home-grown species currently available, and looks to the future of strength grading for an increasingly wide range of species.

Towards High Impact Smart Cities: a Universal Architecture Based on Connected Intelligence Spaces (2021)
Journal Article
Komninos, N., Kakderi, C., Mora, L., Panori, A., & Sefertzi, E. (2022). Towards High Impact Smart Cities: a Universal Architecture Based on Connected Intelligence Spaces. Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 13, 1169-1197. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13132-021-00767-0

Smart cities constitute a new urban paradigm and a hegemonic phenomenon in contemporary city development. The concept envisages a data-enhanced future and efficiency gains made possible by automation and innovation in city activities and utilities. H... Read More about Towards High Impact Smart Cities: a Universal Architecture Based on Connected Intelligence Spaces.

A Critical Reflexion on Two Conceptual Tools From a Global South Perspective: Réflexion critique sur deux outils conceptuels selon la perspective des pays du sud (2021)
Journal Article
Simaan, J. (2021). A Critical Reflexion on Two Conceptual Tools From a Global South Perspective: Réflexion critique sur deux outils conceptuels selon la perspective des pays du sud. Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 88(2), 108-116. https://doi.org/10.1177/0008417421994372

Background. Occupational therapy’s conceptual tools need to be considered from Global South perspectives to make them more culturally relevant and safe. Purpose. This paper uses an empirical example, and the author’s professional and academic expe... Read More about A Critical Reflexion on Two Conceptual Tools From a Global South Perspective: Réflexion critique sur deux outils conceptuels selon la perspective des pays du sud.

Sociodemographic and Psychological Risk Factors for Anxiety and Depression: Findings from the Covid-19 Health and Adherence Research in Scotland on Mental Health (CHARIS-MH) Cross-sectional Survey (2021)
Journal Article
Hubbard, G., den Daas, C., Johnston, M., & Dixon, D. (2021). Sociodemographic and Psychological Risk Factors for Anxiety and Depression: Findings from the Covid-19 Health and Adherence Research in Scotland on Mental Health (CHARIS-MH) Cross-sectional Survey. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 28(6), 788-800. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12529-021-09967-z

Background Investigations about mental health report prevalence rates with fewer studies investigating psychological and social factors influencing mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic. Study aims: (1) identify sociodemographic groups of the a... Read More about Sociodemographic and Psychological Risk Factors for Anxiety and Depression: Findings from the Covid-19 Health and Adherence Research in Scotland on Mental Health (CHARIS-MH) Cross-sectional Survey.

Sports injuries and illnesses at the Lausanne 2020 Youth Olympic Winter Games: a prospective study of 1783 athletes from 79 countries (2021)
Journal Article
Palmer, D., Engebretsen, L., Carrard, J., Grek, N., Königstein, K., Maurer, D. J., Roos, T., Stollenwerk, L., Tercier, S., Weinguni, R., & Soligard, T. (2021). Sports injuries and illnesses at the Lausanne 2020 Youth Olympic Winter Games: a prospective study of 1783 athletes from 79 countries. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 55(17), 968-974. https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2020-103514

Objective: To describe the injury and illness characteristics among participating athletes during the Lausanne 2020 Youth Olympic Winter Games (YOG 2020), 9–22 January 2020. Methods: The daily number of athlete injuries and illnesses were recorded... Read More about Sports injuries and illnesses at the Lausanne 2020 Youth Olympic Winter Games: a prospective study of 1783 athletes from 79 countries.

(F)unctional Sifting: A Privacy-Preserving Reputation System Through Multi-Input Functional Encryption (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bakas, A., Michalas, A., & Ullah, A. (2020, November). (F)unctional Sifting: A Privacy-Preserving Reputation System Through Multi-Input Functional Encryption. Presented at Secure IT Systems 25th Nordic Conference, NordSec 2020, Online

Functional Encryption (FE) allows users who hold a specific secret key (known as the functional key) to learn a specific function of encrypted data whilst learning nothing about the content of the underlying data. Considering this functionality and t... Read More about (F)unctional Sifting: A Privacy-Preserving Reputation System Through Multi-Input Functional Encryption.

Discriminative Dictionary Design for Action Classification in Still Images and Videos (2021)
Journal Article
Roy, A., Banerjee, B., Hussain, A., & Poria, S. (2021). Discriminative Dictionary Design for Action Classification in Still Images and Videos. Cognitive Computation, 13, 698-708. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-021-09851-8

In this paper, we address the problem of action recognition from still images and videos. Traditional local features such as SIFT and STIP invariably pose two potential problems: 1) they are not evenly distributed in different entities of a given cat... Read More about Discriminative Dictionary Design for Action Classification in Still Images and Videos.

Analysis of the Polypropylene-Based Aluminium-Air Battery (2021)
Journal Article
Tan, W. C., Saw, L. H., Yew, M. C., Sun, D., Cai, Z., Chong, W. T., & Kuo, P. (2021). Analysis of the Polypropylene-Based Aluminium-Air Battery. Frontiers in Energy Research, 9, Article 599846. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenrg.2021.599846

Global energy demand is rising due to the rapid development and adoption of new technologies in every sector. Hence, there is a need to introduce a clean energy source that does not cause damage to the environment. Aluminium-air battery with its high... Read More about Analysis of the Polypropylene-Based Aluminium-Air Battery.

Experimental study on shear performance of RC beams strengthened with NSM CFRP prestressed concrete prisms (2021)
Journal Article
Deng, Y., Ma, F., Zhang, H., Wong, S. H. F., Pankaj, P., Zhu, L., Ding, L., & Bahadori-Jahromi, A. (2021). Experimental study on shear performance of RC beams strengthened with NSM CFRP prestressed concrete prisms. Engineering Structures, 235, Article 112004. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engstruct.2021.112004

This paper presents an experimental investigation of the shear performance of RC beams strengthened with near surface mounted (NSM) carbon fibre reinforced polymer (CFRP) prestressed concrete prisms (PCPs). The shear behaviour of strengthened beams c... Read More about Experimental study on shear performance of RC beams strengthened with NSM CFRP prestressed concrete prisms.

The Contribution of Leisure Center Usage to Physical Activity in the United Kingdom: Evidence From a Large Population-Based Cohort (2021)
Journal Article
Hanson, C., Kelly, P., Neubeck, L., Bell, J., Gibb, H., & Jin, K. (2021). The Contribution of Leisure Center Usage to Physical Activity in the United Kingdom: Evidence From a Large Population-Based Cohort. Journal of Physical Activity and Health, 18(4), 382-390. https://doi.org/10.1123/jpah.2020-0422

Background: Physical activity (PA) levels vary across specific population groups, contributing to health inequalities. Little is known about how local authority leisure centres contribute to population PA, and whether this differs by age, sex or soci... Read More about The Contribution of Leisure Center Usage to Physical Activity in the United Kingdom: Evidence From a Large Population-Based Cohort.

Experimental and numerical study on the effect of multiple phase change materials thermal energy storage system (2021)
Journal Article
Al Siyabi, I., Khanna, S., Mallick, T., & Sundaram, S. (2021). Experimental and numerical study on the effect of multiple phase change materials thermal energy storage system. Journal of Energy Storage, 36, Article 102226. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2020.102226

Nowadays, thermal energy storage using Phase Change Materials (PCMs) receives a great interest due to its high energy storage density especially for low and medium temperature storage applications. Nevertheless, PCM suffers from the low thermal condu... Read More about Experimental and numerical study on the effect of multiple phase change materials thermal energy storage system.