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Benefits beyond cardiometabolic health: the potential of frequent high intensity ‘exercise snacks’ to improve outcomes for those living with and beyond cancer (2023)
Journal Article
Jenkins, D. G., Devin, J. L., Weston, K. L., Jenkins, J. G., & Skinner, T. L. (2023). Benefits beyond cardiometabolic health: the potential of frequent high intensity ‘exercise snacks’ to improve outcomes for those living with and beyond cancer. The Journal of Physiology, 601(21), 4691-4697. https://doi.org/10.1113/jp284985

High intensity interval training (HIIT) has been shown to consistently elicit rapid and significant adaptations in a number of physiological systems, across many different healthy and clinical populations. In addition, there is increasing interest in... Read More about Benefits beyond cardiometabolic health: the potential of frequent high intensity ‘exercise snacks’ to improve outcomes for those living with and beyond cancer.

Methane and Health Dialogue Series: April 11, 26 and May 10, 2023 (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper
(2023). Methane and Health Dialogue Series: April 11, 26 and May 10, 2023. Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)

The climate crisis is also a public health crisis, and methane, due to its impact on warming and air quality, threatens human health. Cutting methane is the quickest, most effective way to address climate change while delivering significant near-term... Read More about Methane and Health Dialogue Series: April 11, 26 and May 10, 2023.

'I always say, not all programs are created equally'; a qualitative study exploring the educational experiences, learning needs and preferences of people attending Pulmonary Rehabilitation (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Roberts, N. J., Ray, E., Ring, N. J., Turnbull, L., Jelen, T., Macdonald, D., & Porter-Armstrong, A. (2023, September). 'I always say, not all programs are created equally'; a qualitative study exploring the educational experiences, learning needs and preferences of people attending Pulmonary Rehabilitation. Paper presented at Primary Care Respiratory Conference, Telford, UK

Remote Acoustic Soundscape evaluation using Ambisonic recordings (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Di Donato, B., & McGregor, I. (2023, September). Remote Acoustic Soundscape evaluation using Ambisonic recordings. Paper presented at Basic Auditory Science 2023, London, UK

The Acoustic Soundscape ISO standard has been used in previous work to assess the soundscape during soundwalks. This approach has different results and contributions to the field. However, there are several challenges to this approach, such as logist... Read More about Remote Acoustic Soundscape evaluation using Ambisonic recordings.

Pleiotropic fitness effects across sexes and ages in the Drosophila genome and transcriptome (2023)
Journal Article
Wong, H. W. S., & Holman, L. (2023). Pleiotropic fitness effects across sexes and ages in the Drosophila genome and transcriptome. Evolution, 77(12), 2642–2655. https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpad163

Selection varies between categories of individuals, with far-reaching ramifications: Sex-specific selection can impede or accelerate adaptation, and differences in selection between young and old individuals are ultimately responsible for senescence.... Read More about Pleiotropic fitness effects across sexes and ages in the Drosophila genome and transcriptome.

Fostering a Sense of Belonging to Support Successful Online Learners (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Brodie, J. (2023, September). Fostering a Sense of Belonging to Support Successful Online Learners. Presented at QAA Scotland - The future of Learning and Teaching: Planning and Delivery of digitally Enhanced Blended Learning, Glasgow, UK

This invited round table presentation was given at The QAA Scotland's event on 'The future of Learning and Teaching: Planning and Delivery of digitally Enhanced blended learning'. The presentation discussed the challenges of supporting belonging at a... Read More about Fostering a Sense of Belonging to Support Successful Online Learners.

FireXnet: an explainable AI-based tailored deep learning model for wildfire detection on resource-constrained devices (2023)
Journal Article
Ahmad, K., Khan, M. S., Ahmed, F., Driss, M., Boulila, W., Alazeb, A., Alsulami, M., Alshehri, M. S., Ghadi, Y. Y., & Ahmad, J. (2023). FireXnet: an explainable AI-based tailored deep learning model for wildfire detection on resource-constrained devices. Fire Ecology, 19, Article 54. https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-023-00216-0

Background: Forests cover nearly one-third of the Earth’s land and are some of our most biodiverse ecosystems. Due to climate change, these essential habitats are endangered by increasing wildfires. Wildfires are not just a risk to the environment, b... Read More about FireXnet: an explainable AI-based tailored deep learning model for wildfire detection on resource-constrained devices.

Adaptive Event-Triggered Bipartite Formation for Multiagent Systems via Reinforcement Learning (2023)
Journal Article
Zhao, H., Shan, J., Peng, L., & Yu, H. (in press). Adaptive Event-Triggered Bipartite Formation for Multiagent Systems via Reinforcement Learning. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2023.3309326

This article investigates the online learning and energy-efficient control issues for nonlinear discrete-time multiagent systems (MASs) with unknown dynamics models and antagonistic interactions. First, a distributed combined measurement error functi... Read More about Adaptive Event-Triggered Bipartite Formation for Multiagent Systems via Reinforcement Learning.

Origin Region Wealth Effect and Inbound Tourism to Europe (2023)
Journal Article
Adamolekun, G., & Kladakis, G. (in press). Origin Region Wealth Effect and Inbound Tourism to Europe. Tourism Analysis, https://doi.org/10.3727/108354223x16951532650252

Despite the role of wealth in modelling the propensity to consume luxurious goods and services, the literature has so far neglected the role of wealth as inferred from the stock market in modelling tourism inflow. Using 43 European countries over the... Read More about Origin Region Wealth Effect and Inbound Tourism to Europe.

Start thinking in graphs: using graphs to address critical attack paths in a Microsoft cloud tenant (2023)
Journal Article
Elmiger, M., Lemoudden, M., Pitropakis, N., & Buchanan, W. J. (2024). Start thinking in graphs: using graphs to address critical attack paths in a Microsoft cloud tenant. International Journal of Information Security, 23, 467-485. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10207-023-00751-6

The challenge of securing IT environments has reached a new complexity level as a growing number of organisations adopt cloud solutions. This trend increases the possibility of overseen attack paths in an organisation’s IT infrastructure. This paper... Read More about Start thinking in graphs: using graphs to address critical attack paths in a Microsoft cloud tenant.

Discrete restriction estimates for forms in many variables (2023)
Journal Article
Cook, B., Hughes, K., & Palsson, E. (2023). Discrete restriction estimates for forms in many variables. Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, 66(4), 923–939. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0013091523000366

We prove discrete restriction estimates for a broad class of hypersurfaces arising in seminal work of Birch. To do so, we use a variant of Bourgain’s arithmetic version of the Tomas–Stein method and Magyar’s decomposition of the Fourier transform of... Read More about Discrete restriction estimates for forms in many variables.

The time-varying impact of geopolitical risk on natural resource prices: The post-COVID era evidence (2023)
Journal Article
Ding, S., Wang, K., Cui, T., & Du, M. (2023). The time-varying impact of geopolitical risk on natural resource prices: The post-COVID era evidence. Resources Policy, 86(B), Article 104161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2023.104161

The geopolitical risk plays a pivotal role in affecting commodity price variations, especially natural resource commodity prices. Geopolitical risk is sensitive to political environmental changes and geopolitical events, including COVID-19 and the Ru... Read More about The time-varying impact of geopolitical risk on natural resource prices: The post-COVID era evidence.

Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of peer support among disadvantaged groups: A rapid scoping review (2023)
Journal Article
Mikolajczak-Degrauwe, K., Slimmen, S. R., Gillissen, D., de Bil, P., Bosmans, V., Keemink, C., Meyvis, I., & Kuipers, Y. J. (2023). Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of peer support among disadvantaged groups: A rapid scoping review. International Journal of Nursing Sciences, 10(4), 587-601. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnss.2023.09.002

Objective To explore the current state of knowledge and evidence about peer support for various disadvantaged groups; to identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of peer support to reflect on peer support within health and soci... Read More about Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of peer support among disadvantaged groups: A rapid scoping review.

A holistic human activity recognition optimisation using AI techniques (2023)
Journal Article
Li, Z., Liu, Y., Liu, B., Le Kernec, J., & Yang, S. (2024). A holistic human activity recognition optimisation using AI techniques. IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation, 18(2), 256-265. https://doi.org/10.1049/rsn2.12474

Building on previous radar-based human activity recognition (HAR), we expand the micro-Doppler signature to 6 domains and exploit each domain with a set of handcrafted features derived from the literature and our patents. An adaptive thresholding met... Read More about A holistic human activity recognition optimisation using AI techniques.

Critical assessment of medical devices on reliability, replacement prioritization and maintenance strategy criterion: Case study of Malaysian hospitals (2023)
Journal Article
Amran, M. E., Aziz, S. A., Muhtazaruddin, M. N., Masrom, M., Haron, H. N., Bani, N. A., Mohd Izhar, M. A., Usman, S., Sarip, S., Najamudin, S. S., Zamzam, A. H., Ahmad Kamil, A. S., Azilah, N. F., & Muhammad‐Sukki, F. (2024). Critical assessment of medical devices on reliability, replacement prioritization and maintenance strategy criterion: Case study of Malaysian hospitals. Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 40(2), 970-1001. https://doi.org/10.1002/qre.3447

The Biomedical Engineering Maintenance Services (BEMS) is a comprehensive maintenance program that ensures the safety and reliability of medical devices. Significant and crucial devices are identified and prioritized for best practice prior to the eq... Read More about Critical assessment of medical devices on reliability, replacement prioritization and maintenance strategy criterion: Case study of Malaysian hospitals.

Use and operational safety (2023)
Book Chapter
Reed, N., Charisis, V., & Cowper, S. (2023). Use and operational safety. In D. Ventriglia, & M. Kahl (Eds.), FISITA Intelligent Safety White Paper – The Safety of Electro-Mobility: Expert considerations on the Safety of an Electric Vehicle from concept through end of life (107-111). FISITA

Whether you are an individual buying your first car or replacing an existing vehicle, or if you are a fleet manager making vehicle purchase decisions on behalf of a company, the acquisition of a car is usually a highly significant purchase. Increasi... Read More about Use and operational safety.