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Factors in the provision of engaging experiences for the traditionalist market at visitor attractions (2021)
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Leask, A., & Barron, P. (2021). Factors in the provision of engaging experiences for the traditionalist market at visitor attractions. Tourism Management Perspectives, 38, Article 100810. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tmp.2021.100810

The global population is ageing with implications for the provision of tourism experiences to meet changing needs. The shift in demographics has encouraged a focus on the older visitor with tourism organisations recognising the value of engaging with... Read More about Factors in the provision of engaging experiences for the traditionalist market at visitor attractions.

Topology optimization of multi-material structures with elastoplastic strain hardening model (2021)
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Li, M., Deng, Y., Zhang, H., Wong, S. H. F., Mohamed, A., Zheng, Y., Gao, J., Yuen, T. Y. P., Dong, B., & Kuang, J. S. (2021). Topology optimization of multi-material structures with elastoplastic strain hardening model. Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, 64, 1141-1160. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00158-021-02905-3

The paper presents a new multi-material topology optimization method with novel adjoint sensitivity analysis that can accommodate not only multiple plasticity but also multiple hardening models for individual materials in composite structures. Based... Read More about Topology optimization of multi-material structures with elastoplastic strain hardening model.

Improving learning experiences for community college transfer hospitality and tourism students (2021)
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Chan, E. S., Cheung, K., & Ching, S. S. Y. (2021). Improving learning experiences for community college transfer hospitality and tourism students. Journal of Teaching in Travel and Tourism, 21(3), 268-289. https://doi.org/10.1080/15313220.2021.1905136

Previous studies have addressed the topic of community college transfer students, but very few have examined students’ learning experiences after their transfer to a university, and none have focused on the hospitality and tourism discipline. This st... Read More about Improving learning experiences for community college transfer hospitality and tourism students.

A Comprehensive Review on the Application of Bioethanol/Biodiesel in Direct Injection Engines and Consequential Environmental Impact (2021)
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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.

Out of the mouths of babes: listening to children of all ages in family court cases (2021)
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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)
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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)
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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.

A novel tensor-information bottleneck method for multi-input single-output applications (2021)
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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.

When to (or not to) trust intelligent machines: Insights from an evolutionary game theory analysis of trust in repeated games (2021)
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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)
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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.

Towards Reforming Sri Lanka Railways: Insights from International Experience and Industry Expert Opinion (2021)
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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.

Souvenir authenticity in the additive manufacturing age (2021)
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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.

Smartphone Applications Designed to Improve Older People’s Chronic Pain Management: An Integrated Systematic Review (2021)
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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.

Fault-tolerant AI-driven Intrusion Detection System for the Internet of Things (2021)
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Medjek, F., Tandjaoui, D., Djedjig, N., & Romdhani, I. (2021). Fault-tolerant AI-driven Intrusion Detection System for the Internet of Things. International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection, 34, Article 100436. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcip.2021.100436

Internet of Things (IoT) has emerged as a key component of all advanced critical infrastructures. However, with the challenging nature of IoT, new security breaches have been introduced, especially against the Routing Protocol for Low-power and Lossy... Read More about Fault-tolerant AI-driven Intrusion Detection System for the Internet of Things.

Factors Affecting Resilience of Nursing, Optometry, Radiography and Medical Laboratory Science Students (2021)
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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)
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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)
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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.

Application of the Gaussian Mixture Model to Classify Stages of Electrical Tree Growth in Epoxy Resin (2021)
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Mas’ud, A. A., Sundaram, A., Ardila-Rey, J. A., Schurch, R., Muhammad-Sukki, F., & Bani, N. A. (2021). Application of the Gaussian Mixture Model to Classify Stages of Electrical Tree Growth in Epoxy Resin. Sensors, 21(7), Article 2562. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21072562

In high-voltage (HV) insulation, electrical trees are an important degradation phenomenon strongly linked to partial discharge (PD) activity. Their initiation and development have attracted the attention of the research community and better understan... Read More about Application of the Gaussian Mixture Model to Classify Stages of Electrical Tree Growth in Epoxy Resin.

Ubiquitin-protein ligase Ubr5 cooperates with hedgehog signalling to promote skeletal tissue homeostasis (2021)
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Mellis, D., Staines, K. A., Peluso, S., Georgiou, I. C., Dora, N., Kubiak, M., van’t Hof, R., Grillo, M., Farquharson, C., Kinsella, E., Thornburn, A., Ralston, S. H., Salter, D. M., Riobo-Del Galdo, N. A., Hill, R. E., & Ditzel, M. (2021). Ubiquitin-protein ligase Ubr5 cooperates with hedgehog signalling to promote skeletal tissue homeostasis. PLoS Genetics, 17(4), Article e1009275. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1009275

Mammalian Hedgehog (HH) signalling pathway plays an essential role in tissue homeostasis and its deregulation is linked to rheumatological disorders. UBR5 is the mammalian homologue of the E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase Hyd, a negative regulator of the... Read More about Ubiquitin-protein ligase Ubr5 cooperates with hedgehog signalling to promote skeletal tissue homeostasis.