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FinTech, SME efficiency and national culture: Evidence from OECD countries (2020)
Journal Article
Abbasi, K., Alam, A., Du, M., & Huynh, T. L. D. (2021). FinTech, SME efficiency and national culture: Evidence from OECD countries. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 163, Article 120454. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2020.120454

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) play a vital role in an economy; therefore, it is important to study the avenues that contribute towards their viability. As a result, we examine the impact of financial technologies (FinTechs) on SME efficiency. U... Read More about FinTech, SME efficiency and national culture: Evidence from OECD countries.

Effectiveness of a guided ACT-based self-help resilience training for depressive symptoms during pregnancy: Study protocol of a randomized controlled trial embedded in a prospective cohort (2020)
Journal Article
Witteveen, A. B., Henrichs, J., Walker, A. L., Bohlmeijer, E. T., Burger, H., Fontein-Kuipers, Y., Schellevis, F. G., Stramrood, C. A., Olff, M., Verhoeven, C. J., & de Jonge, A. (2020). Effectiveness of a guided ACT-based self-help resilience training for depressive symptoms during pregnancy: Study protocol of a randomized controlled trial embedded in a prospective cohort. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 20(1), Article 705. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-020-03395-9

Background
During pregnancy, about 10 to 20% of women experience depressive symptoms. Subclinical depression increases the risk of peripartum depression, maternal neuro-endocrine dysregulations, and adverse birth and infant outcomes. Current treatme... Read More about Effectiveness of a guided ACT-based self-help resilience training for depressive symptoms during pregnancy: Study protocol of a randomized controlled trial embedded in a prospective cohort.

Restorative justice and the State. Untimely objections against the institutionalisation of restorative justice (2020)
Journal Article
Maglione, G. (2020). Restorative justice and the State. Untimely objections against the institutionalisation of restorative justice. British Journal of Community Justice,

The incorporation of restorative justice (RJ) into penal policy is not a neutral process; it actually reshapes both the rationales and the functioning of RJ, possibly erasing its potential to be something 'other' and 'better' than criminal justice. T... Read More about Restorative justice and the State. Untimely objections against the institutionalisation of restorative justice.

A Privacy-Preserving Healthcare Framework Using Hyperledger Fabric (2020)
Journal Article
Stamatellis, C., Papadopoulos, P., Pitropakis, N., Katsikas, S., & Buchanan, W. J. (2020). A Privacy-Preserving Healthcare Framework Using Hyperledger Fabric. Sensors, 20(22), Article 6587. https://doi.org/10.3390/s20226587

Electronic health record (EHR) management systems require the adoption of effective technologies when health information is being exchanged. Current management approaches often face risks that may expose medical record storage solutions to common sec... Read More about A Privacy-Preserving Healthcare Framework Using Hyperledger Fabric.

The RESPECT study: a feasibility randomised controlled trial of a sexual health promotion intervention for people with serious mental illness in community mental health services in the UK (2020)
Journal Article
Hughes, E., Mitchell, N., Gascoyne, S., Moe-Byrne, T., Edmondson, A., Coleman, E., Millett, L., Ali, S., Cournos, F., Dare, C., Hewitt, C., Johnson, S., Kaur, H. D., McKinnon, K., Mercer, C., Nolan, F., Walker, C., Wainberg, M., & Watson, J. (2020). The RESPECT study: a feasibility randomised controlled trial of a sexual health promotion intervention for people with serious mental illness in community mental health services in the UK. BMC Public Health, 20(1), Article 1736 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09661-x

Background
People with serious mental illness (SMI) have sexual health needs but there is little evidence to inform effective interventions to address them. In fact, there are few studies that have addressed this topic for people with SMI outside US... Read More about The RESPECT study: a feasibility randomised controlled trial of a sexual health promotion intervention for people with serious mental illness in community mental health services in the UK.

'Landscape of Memory' International Online Art Exhibition (2020)
Exhibition / Performance
Bilgrami, S., & Peracha, M. 'Landscape of Memory' International Online Art Exhibition. [Curation of artworks]. Exhibited at Koel Gallery [Online - https://koelgallery.com/exhibitions/landscape-of-memory/]. 17 November 2020 - 29 December 2020

Sana Bilgrami and Maliha Peracha brought together artists from Scotland and Pakistan to discover in their work refractions of a shared and evocative vision of the elemental power, rhythm and continuity of natural forces. This exhibition reveals how b... Read More about 'Landscape of Memory' International Online Art Exhibition.

Effect of Freezing and Fixation on Quantitative Ultrasound Parameters in Phantoms of Brain and Brain Tumour (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Thomson, H., Yang, S., Cochran, S., Stritch, T., & Baldwin, M. (2020, September). Effect of Freezing and Fixation on Quantitative Ultrasound Parameters in Phantoms of Brain and Brain Tumour. Presented at 2020 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), Las Vegas, NV, USA

Quantitative ulltrasound (QUS) analyzes unprocessed radio frequency data from an ultrasound transducer or array and infers properties about tissue microstructure. Whilst it has shown success in diagnosing various soft tissue diseases, there have been... Read More about Effect of Freezing and Fixation on Quantitative Ultrasound Parameters in Phantoms of Brain and Brain Tumour.

FaceMagic: Real-time Facial Detail Effects on Mobile (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Casas, L., Li, Y., & Mitchell, K. (2020, December). FaceMagic: Real-time Facial Detail Effects on Mobile. Presented at SA '20: SIGGRAPH Asia 2020, Online [Republic of Korea]

We present a novel real-time face detail reconstruction method capable of recovering high quality geometry on consumer mobile devices. Our system firstly uses a morphable model and semantic segmentation of facial parts to achieve robust self-calibrat... Read More about FaceMagic: Real-time Facial Detail Effects on Mobile.

Lean as a Framework for Humanisation in Higher Education (2020)
Book Chapter
Yorkstone, S., Clarke, S., & Mann, J. (2020). Lean as a Framework for Humanisation in Higher Education. In C. Devis-Rozental, & S. Clarke (Eds.), Humanising Higher Education: A positive approach to enhancing wellbeing (221-241). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57430-7_13

Lean management is a compelling concept, with a significant history, and although not always described as lean in name, is having an impact in Universities worldwide. Central to lean is the idea of beginning from true purpose, and the authors seek to... Read More about Lean as a Framework for Humanisation in Higher Education.

A Novel Web Attack Detection System for Internet of Things via Ensemble Classification (2020)
Journal Article
Luo, C., Tan, Z., Min, G., Gan, J., Shi, W., & Tian, Z. (2021). A Novel Web Attack Detection System for Internet of Things via Ensemble Classification. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 17(8), 5810-5818. https://doi.org/10.1109/tii.2020.3038761

Internet of things (IoT) has become one of the fastestgrowing technologies and has been broadly applied in various fields. IoT networks contain millions of devices with the capability of interacting with each other and providing functionalities that... Read More about A Novel Web Attack Detection System for Internet of Things via Ensemble Classification.

Compact, Low-profile and Robust Inversely E-shaped Antenna Integrated with EBG Structures for Wearable Application (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ashyap, A., Abidin, . Z., Dahlan, S. H., Shah, . S., Yee, S., Majid, H., Qureshi, . S., & See, C. H. (2020, September). Compact, Low-profile and Robust Inversely E-shaped Antenna Integrated with EBG Structures for Wearable Application. Presented at 2020 IEEE Student Conference on Research and Development (SCOReD), Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia

A compact and robust inversely E-shaped antenna (IESA) integrated with electromagnetic band-gap (EBG) is presented for wearable applications at 2.4 GHz. The EBG introduced in this paper to shield the antenna from body effects, due to it... Read More about Compact, Low-profile and Robust Inversely E-shaped Antenna Integrated with EBG Structures for Wearable Application.

Actual Design Space Methodology for Preliminary Design Analysis of Switched Reluctance Machines (2020)
Journal Article
Rocca, R., Giulii Capponi, F., De Donato, G., Papadopoulos, S., Caricchi, F., Rashed, M., & Galea, M. (2021). Actual Design Space Methodology for Preliminary Design Analysis of Switched Reluctance Machines. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 57(1), 397-408. https://doi.org/10.1109/tia.2020.3038352

In the design of modern, high-performance switched reluctance machines, the highly restrictive sets of constraints and requirements severely limit the number of feasible solutions. In order to improve the chances of attaining a successful design, thi... Read More about Actual Design Space Methodology for Preliminary Design Analysis of Switched Reluctance Machines.

Liquid-Sensing Metamaterial Ring Resonator in Millimeter-wave Band for 5G Applications (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gureshi, S., Ashyap, . A., Abidin,, Z., Dahlan, S. H., Majid, . H., & See, C. H. (2020, September). Liquid-Sensing Metamaterial Ring Resonator in Millimeter-wave Band for 5G Applications. Presented at 2020 IEEE Student Conference on Research and Development (SCOReD), Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia

A novel microwave technology-based biosensor operating at 36 GHz is developed for liquid-sensing properties for 5G applications. The metamaterial resonator in the designed biosensor consists of a single ring connected by two microstrip lines. The ove... Read More about Liquid-Sensing Metamaterial Ring Resonator in Millimeter-wave Band for 5G Applications.

Capitalism and colonial approach reborn? Chinese economic involvement in Africa (2020)
Journal Article
Jaworski, P. M., Lu, X., & Gertsch, D. (2020). Capitalism and colonial approach reborn? Chinese economic involvement in Africa. Strategic Change, 29(6), 645-648. https://doi.org/10.1002/jsc.2371

Africa needs foreign investment for their economic development. Given the high risk of investing in Africa, it hampers many other potential investors from developed countries. Although China is considered as a developing country, it provides economic... Read More about Capitalism and colonial approach reborn? Chinese economic involvement in Africa.

An exploratory empirical analysis of willingness to hire and pay for flying taxis and shared flying car services (2020)
Journal Article
Shahriar Ahmed, S., Fountas, G., Eker, U., Still, S. E., & Anastasopoulos, P. C. (2021). An exploratory empirical analysis of willingness to hire and pay for flying taxis and shared flying car services. Journal of Air Transport Management, 90, Article 101963. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jairtraman.2020.101963

A new transportation mode that can simultaneously operate on land and in the air, namely the flying cars, is anticipated to penetrate the automobile fleet between 2020 and 2025. Due to their flexible mobility patterns and automated operational chara... Read More about An exploratory empirical analysis of willingness to hire and pay for flying taxis and shared flying car services.

Don’t Work for Free: Online Discursive Resistance to Precarity in Commercial Photography (2020)
Journal Article
Patrick-Thomson, H., & Kranert, M. (2021). Don’t Work for Free: Online Discursive Resistance to Precarity in Commercial Photography. Work, Employment and Society, 35(6), 1034-1052. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017020952630

While increasing academic attention has been paid to the precariousness of contemporary work, less research has examined how workers organise in response. This article examines how a group of precarious workers—commercial photographers—use an online... Read More about Don’t Work for Free: Online Discursive Resistance to Precarity in Commercial Photography.