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Modeling fomite‐mediated SARS‐CoV‐2 exposure through personal protective equipment doffing in a hospital environment (2021)
Journal Article
King, M., Wilson, A. M., Weir, M. H., López‐García, M., Proctor, J., Hiwar, W., Khan, A., Fletcher, L. A., Sleigh, P. A., Clifton, I., Dancer, S. J., Wilcox, M., Reynolds, K. A., & Noakes, C. J. (2022). Modeling fomite‐mediated SARS‐CoV‐2 exposure through personal protective equipment doffing in a hospital environment. Indoor Air, 32(1), Article e12938. https://doi.org/10.1111/ina.12938

Self-contamination during doffing of personal protective equipment (PPE) is a concern for healthcare workers (HCW) following SARS-CoV-2-positive patient care. Staff may subconsciously become contaminated through improper glove removal; so, quantifyin... Read More about Modeling fomite‐mediated SARS‐CoV‐2 exposure through personal protective equipment doffing in a hospital environment.

Environmental cycles and individual variation in the vertical movements of a benthic elasmobranch (2021)
Journal Article
Lavender, E., Alenynik, D., Dodd, J., Illian, J., James, M., Wright, P. J., Smout, S., & Thorburn, J. A. (2021). Environmental cycles and individual variation in the vertical movements of a benthic elasmobranch. Marine Biology, 168, Article 164. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-021-03973-1

Trends in depth and vertical activity reflect the behaviour, habitat use and habitat preferences of marine organisms. However, among elasmobranchs, research has focused heavily on pelagic sharks, while the vertical movements of benthic elasmobranchs,... Read More about Environmental cycles and individual variation in the vertical movements of a benthic elasmobranch.

Static concentrating photovoltaic modelling using MATLAB (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Muhammad-Sukki, F., Farooq, H., Abu-Bakar, S. H., Ardila-Rey, J. A., Sellami, N., Kilpatrick, C., Muhtazaruddin, M. N., Bani, N. A., & Zulkipli, M. (2021, June). Static concentrating photovoltaic modelling using MATLAB. Presented at 1st International Conference of Advanced Research on Renewable Energy for Universal Sustainability 2021 (ARUS2021), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

The world has recorded an increasing interest and staggering investment in renewable technology in the last two decades, specifically in solar photovoltaic (PV). Concentrating PV (CPV) is one of PV's technology advancements and is gaining popularity... Read More about Static concentrating photovoltaic modelling using MATLAB.

A Deep Learning-Based Intrusion Detection System for MQTT Enabled IoT (2021)
Journal Article
Almas Khan, M., Khan, M. A., Ullah Jan, S., Ahmad, J., Jamal, S. S., Shah, A. A., Pitropakis, N., Buchanan, W. J., Alonistioti, N., Panagiotakis, S., & Markakis, E. K. (2021). A Deep Learning-Based Intrusion Detection System for MQTT Enabled IoT. Sensors, 21(21), Article 7016. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21217016

A large number of smart devices in Internet of Things (IoT) environments communicate via different messaging protocols. Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) is a widely used publish–subscribe-based protocol for the communication of sensor or ev... Read More about A Deep Learning-Based Intrusion Detection System for MQTT Enabled IoT.

Exploring nurses’ online perspectives and social networks during a global pandemic COVID‐19 (2021)
Journal Article
O'Leary, L., Erikainen, S., Peltonen, L., Ahmed, W., Thelwall, M., & O'Connor, S. (2022). Exploring nurses’ online perspectives and social networks during a global pandemic COVID‐19. Public Health Nursing, 39(3), 586-600. https://doi.org/10.1111/phn.12994

Objectives

Examine the online interactions, social networks, and perspectives of nursing actors on COVID-19 from conversations on Twitter to understand how the profession responded to this global pandemic.

Design
Mixed methods.

Sample
Ten-... Read More about Exploring nurses’ online perspectives and social networks during a global pandemic COVID‐19.

Elena+ Care for COVID-19, A Pandemic Lifestyle Care Intervention: Intervention Design and Study Protocol (2021)
Journal Article
Ollier, J., Neff, S., Dworschak, C., Sejdiji, A., Santhanam, P., Keller, R., Xiao, G., Asisof, A., Rüegger, D., Bérubé, C., Hilfiker Tomas, L., Neff, J., Yao, J., Alattas, A., Varela-Mato, V., Pitkethly, A., Dolores Vara, M., Herrero, R., M. Baños, R., Parada, C., …Kowatsch, T. (2021). Elena+ Care for COVID-19, A Pandemic Lifestyle Care Intervention: Intervention Design and Study Protocol. Frontiers in Public Health, 9, Article 625640. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.625640

Background: The current COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic is an emergency on a global scale, with huge swathes of the population required to remain indoors for prolonged periods to tackle the virus. In this new context, individuals’ health-promoting rout... Read More about Elena+ Care for COVID-19, A Pandemic Lifestyle Care Intervention: Intervention Design and Study Protocol.

Bleeding Free – advocacy and activism in the production of a student led documentary on period poverty and menstrual health education (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
MacLeod, K. (2021, October). Bleeding Free – advocacy and activism in the production of a student led documentary on period poverty and menstrual health education. Paper presented at Menstruation in the Media (in collaboration with Menstruation Research Network), Sheffield Halam University

This paper will discuss the a university produced social impact documentary, Bleeding Free, produced by an advocacy and impact collective, Bleedin Saor . The collective (meaning Bleeding Free in Scots & Gaelic) aimed to increase access to period prod... Read More about Bleeding Free – advocacy and activism in the production of a student led documentary on period poverty and menstrual health education.

Not an unusual life for the time and place: Etel Mittag-Fodor (2021)
Exhibition / Performance
Stutterheim, K. Not an unusual life for the time and place: Etel Mittag-Fodor. [photo]. Exhibited at Cologne, Germany. 21 October 2021 - 24 October 2021

On the occasion of the festival year "1700 Years of Jewish Life in Germany", the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) presents an exhibition of portraits, still lifes and architectural photographs by the Bauhaus photographer Etel Mittag-Fodor from 192... Read More about Not an unusual life for the time and place: Etel Mittag-Fodor.

Dielectrorheology of Aspect-Ratio-Tailored Carbon Nanotube/Polyethylene Composites under Large Deformations: Implications for High-Temperature Dielectrics (2021)
Journal Article
Erfanian, E., Kamkar, M., Williams, D., Zamani Keteklahijani, Y., Salehiyan, R., Ray, S. S., Arjmand, M., & Sundararaj, U. (2021). Dielectrorheology of Aspect-Ratio-Tailored Carbon Nanotube/Polyethylene Composites under Large Deformations: Implications for High-Temperature Dielectrics. ACS Applied Nano Materials, 4(11), 11493-11504. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.1c01698

In this work, advanced custom-synthesized carbon nanotube (CNT)-based polymer nanocomposites were designed and prepared for electrical applications, with an innovative strategy in terms of catalyst preparation. The physical structures of the CNTs wer... Read More about Dielectrorheology of Aspect-Ratio-Tailored Carbon Nanotube/Polyethylene Composites under Large Deformations: Implications for High-Temperature Dielectrics.

Combining Visual and Social Dialogue for Human-Robot Interaction (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gunson, N., Hernandez Garcia, D., Part, J. L., Yu, Y., Sieińska, W., Dondrup, C., & Lemon, O. (2021, October). Combining Visual and Social Dialogue for Human-Robot Interaction. Presented at 2021 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Montréal, QC, Canada

We will demonstrate a prototype multimodal conversational AI system that will act as a receptionist in a hospital waiting room, combining visually-grounded dialogue with social conversation. The system supports visual object conversation in the waiti... Read More about Combining Visual and Social Dialogue for Human-Robot Interaction.

Trips for Outdoor Exercise at Different Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Scotland   (2021)
Journal Article
Semple, T., Fountas, G., & Fonzone, A. (2021). Trips for Outdoor Exercise at Different Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Scotland  . Journal of transport & health, 23, Article 101280. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2021.101280

Introduction
The COVID-19 pandemic has had exceptional effects on travel behaviour in the UK. This paper focuses specifically on the outdoor exercise trips of Scottish residents at several distinct points of the COVID-19 pandemic. Given the negative... Read More about Trips for Outdoor Exercise at Different Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Scotland  .

Exploring the Brand Effect of Islamic Bank on the General Population of Scotland (2021)
Journal Article
Jackson, J., & Khaleel, F. (2021). Exploring the Brand Effect of Islamic Bank on the General Population of Scotland. Global Review of Islamic Economics and Business, 9(1), 119-138. https://doi.org/10.14421/grieb.2021.091-09

The United Kingdom (UK) currently has one of the most attractive regulatory and tax systems in the world for Islamic finance, as well as being far ahead of other western nations for provision of Islamic finance, with five sharia-compliant banks. Yet... Read More about Exploring the Brand Effect of Islamic Bank on the General Population of Scotland.

Enhancing the practicality of tools to estimate the whole life embodied carbon of building structures via machine-learning models (2021)
Journal Article
Pomponi, F., Luque Anguita, M., Lange, M., D'Amico, B., & Hart, E. (2021). Enhancing the practicality of tools to estimate the whole life embodied carbon of building structures via machine-learning models. Frontiers in Built Environment, 7, Article 745598. https://doi.org/10.3389/fbuil.2021.745598

The construction and operation of buildings account for significant environmental impacts, including greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, energy demand, resource consumption and waste generation. While the operation of buildings is fairly well regulated a... Read More about Enhancing the practicality of tools to estimate the whole life embodied carbon of building structures via machine-learning models.

Ankle Proprioception in Male and Female Surfers and the Implications of Motor Experience and Lower-Body Strength (2021)
Journal Article
Dowse, R. A., Secomb, J. L., Bruton, M., Parsonage, J., Ferrier, B., Waddington, G., & Nimphius, S. (2022). Ankle Proprioception in Male and Female Surfers and the Implications of Motor Experience and Lower-Body Strength. Journal of strength and conditioning research, 36(12), 3497-3504. https://doi.org/10.1519/jsc.0000000000004126

The primary objectives were to evaluate if the active movement extent discrimination apparatus (AMEDA) condition (i.e., front foot and back foot plantarflexion, dorsiflexion, inversion, and eversion) and the level of competition explained ankle movem... Read More about Ankle Proprioception in Male and Female Surfers and the Implications of Motor Experience and Lower-Body Strength.

Young women’s knowledge and attitudes towards cervical cancer screening at a selected higher education institution in Lesotho (2021)
Preprint / Working Paper
Nyangu, I., & Moteane, T. Young women’s knowledge and attitudes towards cervical cancer screening at a selected higher education institution in Lesotho

Background: In Lesotho, cervical cancer is the most common female cancer and leading cause of death amongst women. In 2019, the annual number of new cancer cases was 477 and 346 women died from cancer related complications in Lesotho.

Aim: The aim... Read More about Young women’s knowledge and attitudes towards cervical cancer screening at a selected higher education institution in Lesotho.