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Making a case for smart buildings in preventing corona-virus: focus on maintenance management challenges (2020)
Journal Article
Osunsanmi, T. O., Aigbavboa, C. O., Oke, A., & Onyia, M. E. (2022). Making a case for smart buildings in preventing corona-virus: focus on maintenance management challenges. International journal of construction management, 22(16), 3109-3118. https://doi.org/10.1080/15623599.2020.1842960

The major prevention for the COVID-19 pandemic is staying indoors. But research has discovered that COVID-19 can be spread indoors through the touching of building components. Therefore, this study makes a case for the development of contactless smar... Read More about Making a case for smart buildings in preventing corona-virus: focus on maintenance management challenges.

How does a (Smart) Age-Friendly Ecosystem Look in a Post-Pandemic Society? (2020)
Journal Article
Marston, H. R., Shore, L., & White, P. (2020). How does a (Smart) Age-Friendly Ecosystem Look in a Post-Pandemic Society?. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(21), Article 8276. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17218276

COVID-19 has impacted not only the health of citizens, but also the various factors that make up our society, living environments, and ecosystems. This pandemic has shown that future living will need to be agile and flexible to adapt to the various c... Read More about How does a (Smart) Age-Friendly Ecosystem Look in a Post-Pandemic Society?.

Music classroom as the shifting ground for patriotism: National Anthem Law in Hong Kong (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cheng, L. (2020, July). Music classroom as the shifting ground for patriotism: National Anthem Law in Hong Kong. Presented at 20th International Seminar of the ISME Commission on Policy: Culture, Media and Education, Online

Music as an expressive art form can convey meaning and carry emotional associations. It can promote universal values such as anti-war and equality, or political ideology including both pro- and anti-establishment sentiments. As a result, various coun... Read More about Music classroom as the shifting ground for patriotism: National Anthem Law in Hong Kong.

Monitoring the psychological, social, and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the population: Context, design and conduct of the longitudinal COVID-19 Psychological Research Consortium (C19PRC) Study (2020)
Journal Article
McBride, O., Murphy, J., Shevlin, M., Gibson-Miller, J., Hartman, T. K., Hyland, P., Levita, L., Mason, L., Martinez, A. P., Mckay, R., Stocks, T. V., Bennett, K. M., Vallières, F., Karatzias, T., Valiente, C., Vazquez, C., & Bentall, R. P. (2021). Monitoring the psychological, social, and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the population: Context, design and conduct of the longitudinal COVID-19 Psychological Research Consortium (C19PRC) Study. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 30(1), Article e1861. https://doi.org/10.1002/mpr.1861

Objectives: The C19PRC Study aims to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the adult population of the UK, Republic of Ireland, and Spain. This paper describes the conduct of the first two waves of the UK survey (the ‘parent’ strand of the Co... Read More about Monitoring the psychological, social, and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the population: Context, design and conduct of the longitudinal COVID-19 Psychological Research Consortium (C19PRC) Study.

Cloud Security, Privacy and Trust Baselines (2020)
Book Chapter
Pitropakis, N., Katsikas, S., & Lambrinoudakis, C. (2020). Cloud Security, Privacy and Trust Baselines. In J. R. Vacca (Ed.), Cloud Computing Security: Foundations and Challenges. Boca Raton, US: CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429055126

Cloud services vary from data storage and processing to software provision, posing requirements for high availability and on-demand commitment-free provision of services. Cloud providers must provide information through their privacy policy and/or up... Read More about Cloud Security, Privacy and Trust Baselines.

Motivational Effects of Immersive Media on Adolescents’ Engagement in Cantonese Opera (2020)
Book Chapter
Cheng, L., & Leung, B. (2020). Motivational Effects of Immersive Media on Adolescents’ Engagement in Cantonese Opera. In W. W. Ma, K. Tong, & W. Bo Anna Tso (Eds.), Learning Environment and Design: Current and Future Impacts (213-226). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8167-0_13

Recent advancements in communication and computer technology have made available and affordable the immersive technology necessary for broader applications beyond industrial use. Facing growing competition from the emergence of new media as an attrac... Read More about Motivational Effects of Immersive Media on Adolescents’ Engagement in Cantonese Opera.

Quantification of Ammonia Oxidizing Bacterial Abundances in Environmental Samples by Quantitative-PCR (2020)
Book Chapter
Blaud, A., Maïder, A., & Clark, I. M. (2021). Quantification of Ammonia Oxidizing Bacterial Abundances in Environmental Samples by Quantitative-PCR. In L. C. Carvalhais, & P. G. Dennis (Eds.), The Plant Microbiome: Methods and Protocols (135-146). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1040-4_12

Quantitative-PCR (qPCR) enables the quantification of specific DNA targets, such as functional or phylogenetic marker genes associated with environmental samples. During each qPCR cycle, the number of copies of a gene (or region) of interest in DNA s... Read More about Quantification of Ammonia Oxidizing Bacterial Abundances in Environmental Samples by Quantitative-PCR.

An Initial Study of Biogas Upgrading to Bio-Methane with Carbon Dioxide Capture using Ceramic Membranes (2020)
Journal Article
Ogunlude, P., Abunumah, O., Orakwe, I., Shehu, H., Muhammad- Sukki, F., & Gobina, E. (2022). An Initial Study of Biogas Upgrading to Bio-Methane with Carbon Dioxide Capture using Ceramic Membranes. Catalysis Today, 388-389, 87-91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cattod.2020.11.006

Supplement to the depleting energy resources and the stringent environmental laws regarding the atmospheric emissions of greenhouse gases, the development of clean and renewable sources of energy has been a great issue. Worldwide, energy usage is ste... Read More about An Initial Study of Biogas Upgrading to Bio-Methane with Carbon Dioxide Capture using Ceramic Membranes.

Midwifery-led care in South Australia: Looking back to move forward (2020)
Journal Article
McKellar, L., Newnham, E., Fleet, J., & Adelson, P. (2021). Midwifery-led care in South Australia: Looking back to move forward. Women and Birth, 34(5), e537-e545. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wombi.2020.10.011

Background From the 1980s to the turn of the century, Australia saw an evolution of midwifery-led models of care, in part due to legislative reform and federal funding, but largely owing to the efforts of strong midwifery leaders and consumers who r... Read More about Midwifery-led care in South Australia: Looking back to move forward.

Experiences of mirror therapy in the sub-acute phase of stroke (in World Stroke Congress Abstracts, 2020) (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Turtle, B., Porter-Armstrong, A., Robinson, L., & Stinson, M. Experiences of mirror therapy in the sub-acute phase of stroke (in World Stroke Congress Abstracts, 2020). Presented at World Stroke Congress, Online

Background And Aims: Mirror therapy provides a novel, cost-effective approach to upper limb treatment following stroke. However, the effectiveness of mirror therapy in sub-acute stroke is unclear. Qualitative studies enable exploration and optimisati... Read More about Experiences of mirror therapy in the sub-acute phase of stroke (in World Stroke Congress Abstracts, 2020).

Levels of resilience, anxiety and depression in nurses working in respiratory clinical areas during the COVID pandemic (2020)
Journal Article
Roberts, N., McAloney-Kocaman, K., Lippiett, K., Ray, E., Welch, L., & Kelly, C. (2021). Levels of resilience, anxiety and depression in nurses working in respiratory clinical areas during the COVID pandemic. Respiratory Medicine, 176, Article 106219. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rmed.2020.106219

Background The delivery of healthcare during the COVID pandemic has had a significant impact on front line staff. Nurses who work with respiratory patients have been at the forefront of the pandemic response. Lessons can be learnt from these nurses’... Read More about Levels of resilience, anxiety and depression in nurses working in respiratory clinical areas during the COVID pandemic.

Investigating the Talent Development Environment in Scottish Football: a Comparison between Elite and Grassroots Academies (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Taylor, D., Armatas, V., & Andronikos, G. (2020, November). Investigating the Talent Development Environment in Scottish Football: a Comparison between Elite and Grassroots Academies. Paper presented at 3rd International e-Congress on Functional Rehabilitation of Injuries in Athletes and Trainees, Online

The Talent Development Environment (TDE) refers to the organised system influencing the progression of players and it is a crucial part of the development pathway. The purpose of the present study was to examine players’ perceptions regarding the qua... Read More about Investigating the Talent Development Environment in Scottish Football: a Comparison between Elite and Grassroots Academies.

Airport Detection in SAR Images via Salient Line Segment Detector and Edge-Oriented Region Growing (2020)
Journal Article
Tu, J., Gao, F., Sun, J., Hussain, A., & Zhou, H. (2020). Airport Detection in SAR Images via Salient Line Segment Detector and Edge-Oriented Region Growing. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 14, 314-326. https://doi.org/10.1109/jstars.2020.3036052

Airport detection in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images has attracted much concern in the field of remote sensing. Affected by other salient objects with geometrical features similar to those of airports, traditional methods often generate false d... Read More about Airport Detection in SAR Images via Salient Line Segment Detector and Edge-Oriented Region Growing.

Exploring Adversarial Attacks and Defences for Fake Twitter Account Detection (2020)
Journal Article
Kantartopoulos, P., Pitropakis, N., Mylonas, A., & Kylilis, N. (2020). Exploring Adversarial Attacks and Defences for Fake Twitter Account Detection. Technologies, 8(4), Article 64. https://doi.org/10.3390/technologies8040064

Social media has become very popular and important in people’s lives, as personal ideas, beliefs and opinions are expressed and shared through them. Unfortunately, social networks, and specifically Twitter, suffer from massive existence and perpetual... Read More about Exploring Adversarial Attacks and Defences for Fake Twitter Account Detection.

Getting Personal: the issues of trust and distrust in small and medium-sized enterprises in Nigeria (2020)
Journal Article
Omeihe, K., Amoako, I. O., Gustafsson, V., Omeihe, I., & Saud Khan, M. (2023). Getting Personal: the issues of trust and distrust in small and medium-sized enterprises in Nigeria. Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, 35(6), 907-926. https://doi.org/10.1080/08276331.2020.1836550

There is a pronounced paucity of empirically rigorous study that focuses on the impact of trust on small and medium-sized enterprises operating in a developing market context. This article therefore offers a fresh perspective on the simultaneous rela... Read More about Getting Personal: the issues of trust and distrust in small and medium-sized enterprises in Nigeria.

Using AI-Enhanced Social Robots to Improve Children’s Healthcare Experiences (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ellen Foster, M., Ali, S., Litwin, S., Parker, J., Petrick, R. P. A., Harris Smith, D., Stinson, J., & Zeller, F. (2020, November). Using AI-Enhanced Social Robots to Improve Children’s Healthcare Experiences. Presented at International Conference on Social Robotics, Golden, Colorado

This paper describes a new research project that aims to develop an autonomous and responsive social robot designed to help children cope with painful procedures in hospital emergency departments. While this is an application domain where psychologic... Read More about Using AI-Enhanced Social Robots to Improve Children’s Healthcare Experiences.

Double Trouble: The Effect of Eye Gaze on the Social Impression of Mobile Robotic Telepresence Operators (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wolf, E. D., & Li, J. (2020, November). Double Trouble: The Effect of Eye Gaze on the Social Impression of Mobile Robotic Telepresence Operators. Presented at International Conference on Social Robotics, Golden, CO, USA

Eye gaze is used to convey crucial information during interactions with humans and robots. Modern video conferencing systems, an aspect of mobile robotic telepresence (MRP) systems, have limited eye gaze functionality due to the Mona Lisa effect. Thi... Read More about Double Trouble: The Effect of Eye Gaze on the Social Impression of Mobile Robotic Telepresence Operators.

Low Energy Architecture and Low Carbon Cities: Exploring Links, Scales, and Environmental Impacts (2020)
Journal Article
Pomponi, F., & D’Amico, B. (2020). Low Energy Architecture and Low Carbon Cities: Exploring Links, Scales, and Environmental Impacts. Sustainability, 12(21), Article 9189. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12219189

Projected population growth and urbanization rates will create a huge demand for new buildings and put an unprecedented pressure on the natural environment and its limited resources. Architectural design has often focused on passive or low-energy app... Read More about Low Energy Architecture and Low Carbon Cities: Exploring Links, Scales, and Environmental Impacts.

FixM: Code generation of fixed point mathematical functions (2020)
Journal Article
Cattaneo, D., Chiari, M., Magnani, G., Fossati, N., Cherubin, S., & Agosta, G. (2021). FixM: Code generation of fixed point mathematical functions. Sustainable Computing, 29, part B, Article 100478. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.suscom.2020.100478

Approximate computing has seen significant interest as a design philosophy oriented to performance and energy efficiency [1]. Precision tuning is an approximate computing technique that trades off the accuracy of operations for performance and energy... Read More about FixM: Code generation of fixed point mathematical functions.