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Designing and Developing Core Physiology Learning Outcomes for Pre-registration Nursing Education Curriculum (2020)
Journal Article
Wood, A. F., Chandler, C., Connolly, S., Finn, G., Redmond, C., Jolly, J., Powell, A. D., Davies, C., & Grant, A. (2020). Designing and Developing Core Physiology Learning Outcomes for Pre-registration Nursing Education Curriculum. Advances in physiology education, 44(3), 464-474. https://doi.org/10.1152/advan.00139.2019

Physiology is a key element of ‘bioscience’ education within pre-registration nursing programmes, but there is a lack of clarity on what is included. Physiology and bioscience content and delivery is highly varied across both higher education institu... Read More about Designing and Developing Core Physiology Learning Outcomes for Pre-registration Nursing Education Curriculum.

Global potential for material substitution in building construction: the case of cross laminated timber (2020)
Journal Article
D'Amico, B., Pomponi, F., & Hart, J. (2021). Global potential for material substitution in building construction: the case of cross laminated timber. Journal of Cleaner Production, 279, Article 123487. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.123487

The building and construction sector is a large contributor to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and consumes the vastest amount of natural resources. Widely considered a hard-to-decarbonise sector, improvements in buildings and construction are... Read More about Global potential for material substitution in building construction: the case of cross laminated timber.

Characterising the application of the “progressive overload” principle of exercise training within cardiac rehabilitation: A United Kingdom-based community programme (2020)
Journal Article
Khushhal, A., Nichols, S., Carroll, S., Abt, G., & Lee, I. (2020). Characterising the application of the “progressive overload” principle of exercise training within cardiac rehabilitation: A United Kingdom-based community programme. PLOS ONE, 15(8), Article e0237197. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0237197

Background

Recent concerns have cast doubt over the effectiveness of cardiac rehabilitation [CR] programmes for improving cardiorespiratory fitness [CRF] in patients with a history of cardiac disease in the United Kingdom [UK]. We aimed to charact... Read More about Characterising the application of the “progressive overload” principle of exercise training within cardiac rehabilitation: A United Kingdom-based community programme.

Anchor-free Convolutional Network with Dense Attention Feature Aggregation for Ship Detection in SAR Images (2020)
Journal Article
Gao, F., He, Y., Wang, J., Hussain, A., & Zhou, H. (2020). Anchor-free Convolutional Network with Dense Attention Feature Aggregation for Ship Detection in SAR Images. Remote Sensing, 12(16), Article 2619. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12162619

In recent years, with the improvement of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging resolution, it is urgent to develop methods with higher accuracy and faster speed for ship detection in high-resolution SAR images. Among all kinds of methods, deep-learn... Read More about Anchor-free Convolutional Network with Dense Attention Feature Aggregation for Ship Detection in SAR Images.

High Performance Metasurface-Based On-Chip Antenna for Terahertz Integrated Circuits (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alibakhshikenari, M., Virdee, B. S., See, C. H., A. Abd-Alhameed, R., Falcone, F., & Limiti, E. (2020, July). High Performance Metasurface-Based On-Chip Antenna for Terahertz Integrated Circuits. Presented at 2020 Third International Workshop on Mobile Terahertz Systems (IWMTS), Essen, Germany

This paper presents a simple prototype of a metasurface-based on-chip antenna operating in 0.3-0.32 THz. The proposed structure is constructed from two layers of polyimide-substrates with thickness of 0.1mm that sandwich a middle metallic ground-plan... Read More about High Performance Metasurface-Based On-Chip Antenna for Terahertz Integrated Circuits.

A Varactor-Based Very Compact Tunable Filter with Wide Tuning Range for 4G and Sub-6 GHz 5G Communications (2020)
Journal Article
Al-Yasir, Y. I. A., Ojaroudi Parchin, N., Tu, Y., Abdulkhaleq, A. M., Elfergani, I. T. E., Rodriguez, J., & Abd-Alhameed, R. A. (2020). A Varactor-Based Very Compact Tunable Filter with Wide Tuning Range for 4G and Sub-6 GHz 5G Communications. Sensors, 20(16), Article 4538. https://doi.org/10.3390/s20164538

A very compact microstrip reconfigurable filter for fourth-generation (4G) and sub-6 GHz fifth-generation (5G) systems using a new hybrid co-simulation method is presented in this manuscript. The basic microstrip design uses three coupled line resona... Read More about A Varactor-Based Very Compact Tunable Filter with Wide Tuning Range for 4G and Sub-6 GHz 5G Communications.

Hydrolytic Profile of the Culturable Gut Bacterial Community Associated With Hermetia illucens (2020)
Journal Article
Callegari, M., Jucker, C., Fusi, M., Leonardi, M. G., Daffonchio, D., Borin, S., Savoldelli, S., & Crotti, E. (2020). Hydrolytic Profile of the Culturable Gut Bacterial Community Associated With Hermetia illucens. Frontiers in Microbiology, 11, https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.01965

Larvae of the black soldier fly (BSF) Hermetia illucens (L.) convert organic waste into high valuable insect biomass that can be used as alternative protein source for animal nutrition or as feedstock for biodiesel production. Since insect biology an... Read More about Hydrolytic Profile of the Culturable Gut Bacterial Community Associated With Hermetia illucens.

Creative Informatics Guide for Online Events (2020)
Preprint / Working Paper
Elsden, C., Chan, K., Erskine, P., Helgason, I., Lechelt, S., Osborne, N., Panneels, I., Smyth, M., Warren, K., Terras, M., & Speed, C. Creative Informatics Guide for Online Events

Creative Informatics is a research and development programme based in Edinburgh, which aims to bring the city’s world-class creative industries and tech sector together. We are a collaboration between University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Napier Univers... Read More about Creative Informatics Guide for Online Events.

The strategic, organizational, and entrepreneurial evolution of smart cities (2020)
Journal Article
Schiavone, F., Appio, F. P., Mora, L., & Risitano, M. (2020). The strategic, organizational, and entrepreneurial evolution of smart cities. International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 16, 1155–1165 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11365-020-00696-5

This present editorial illustrates the recent evolution of strategy, organization and entrepreneurship in smart city. Referring to strategy, integrated smart city strategies aim to connect the physical space of cities with the economic and social sph... Read More about The strategic, organizational, and entrepreneurial evolution of smart cities.

A Novel Attention Fully Convolutional Network Method for Synthetic Aperture Radar Image Segmentation (2020)
Journal Article
Yue, Z., Gao, F., Xiong, Q., Wang, J., Hussain, A., & Zhou, H. (2020). A Novel Attention Fully Convolutional Network Method for Synthetic Aperture Radar Image Segmentation. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 13, 4585-4598. https://doi.org/10.1109/jstars.2020.3016064

As an important step of synthetic aperture radar image interpretation, synthetic aperture radar image segmentation aims at segmenting an image into different regions in terms of homogeneity. Because of the deficiency of the labeled samples and the ex... Read More about A Novel Attention Fully Convolutional Network Method for Synthetic Aperture Radar Image Segmentation.

Privacy-Preserving Passive DNS (2020)
Journal Article
Papadopoulos, P., Pitropakis, N., Buchanan, W. J., Lo, O., & Katsikas, S. (2020). Privacy-Preserving Passive DNS. Computers, 9(3), Article 64. https://doi.org/10.3390/computers9030064

The Domain Name System (DNS) was created to resolve the IP addresses of web servers to easily remembered names. When it was initially created, security was not a major concern; nowadays, this lack of inherent security and trust has exposed the global... Read More about Privacy-Preserving Passive DNS.

Adverse and Benevolent Childhood Experiences in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Complex PTSD (CPTSD): Implications for Trauma-Focused Therapies (2020)
Journal Article
Karatzias, T., Shevlin, M., Fyvie, C., Grandison, G., Garozi, M., Latham, E., Sinclair, M., Ho, G. W. K., McAnee, G., Ford, J. D., & Hyland, P. (2020). Adverse and Benevolent Childhood Experiences in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Complex PTSD (CPTSD): Implications for Trauma-Focused Therapies. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 11(1), Article 1793599. https://doi.org/10.1080/20008198.2020.1793599

Objectives
We set out to test, using latent variable modelling, whether adverse and benevolent childhood experiences could be best described as a single continuum or two correlated constructs. We also modelled the relationship between adverse and b... Read More about Adverse and Benevolent Childhood Experiences in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Complex PTSD (CPTSD): Implications for Trauma-Focused Therapies.

Infinite-dimensional Lur'e systems with almost periodic forcing (2020)
Journal Article
Gilmore, M. E., Guiver, C., & Logemann, H. (2020). Infinite-dimensional Lur'e systems with almost periodic forcing. Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems, 32, 327-360. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00498-020-00262-y

We consider forced Lur’e systems in which the linear dynamic component is an infinite-dimensional well-posed system. Numerous physically motivated delay- and partial-differential equa-tions are known to belong to this class of infinite-dime... Read More about Infinite-dimensional Lur'e systems with almost periodic forcing.

Sentiment-Apt investors and UK sector returns (2020)
Journal Article
Sakariyahu, R., Sherif, M., Paterson, A., & Chatzivgeri, E. (2021). Sentiment-Apt investors and UK sector returns. International Journal of Finance and Economics, 26(3), 3321-3351. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijfe.1964

This paper examines the relationship between sentiment-apt investors and UK stock returns at industry level over the period January 1988 to December 2017. Using two new sentiment proxies (laggards to leaders and growth opportunity index) for 10 discr... Read More about Sentiment-Apt investors and UK sector returns.

Tiny Teams Festival 2020 (2020)
Exhibition / Performance
Methven, T. Tiny Teams Festival 2020. [https://store.steampowered.com/sale/tinyteamsfestival / https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1257850/view/2729697381088908335]. Exhibited at Steam. 9 August 2020 - 15 August 2020

UK-based entertainment company Yogscast Games and the Yogscast network today announced the first ever Tiny Teams Indie Festival.

This festival aims to shine a spotlight on games from indie micro-studios and will be broadcast live on Steam and Twit... Read More about Tiny Teams Festival 2020.

All policies are wrong, but some are useful—and which ones do no harm? (2020)
Journal Article
Brito, M., Chipulu, M., Dawson, I. G., Hanoch, Y., & Katsikopoulos, K. V. (2021). All policies are wrong, but some are useful—and which ones do no harm?. Mind and Society, 20, 119-122. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11299-020-00251-3

The five of us research and teach risk analysis with an eye towards decision support. Our work has been dedicated to taming risks and helping to make challenging decisions. But nothing had prepared us for the Covid-19 pandemic. We first had to grappl... Read More about All policies are wrong, but some are useful—and which ones do no harm?.

UK trading patterns within and between regions in the automotive sector—A network analysis (2020)
Journal Article
Smith, M., & Sarabi, Y. (2021). UK trading patterns within and between regions in the automotive sector—A network analysis. World Economy, 44(2), 510-529. https://doi.org/10.1111/twec.13006

This study provides an analysis of the UK's role in the automotive sector, focusing on the trading relationship of the UK within and between regions. It additionally provides an examination of the countries that hold equivalent trading positions to t... Read More about UK trading patterns within and between regions in the automotive sector—A network analysis.

Lightweight edge authentication for software defined networks (2020)
Journal Article
Almaini, A., Al-Dubai, A., Romdhani, I., Schramm, M., & Alsarhan, A. (2021). Lightweight edge authentication for software defined networks. Computing, 103, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00607-020-00835-4

OpenFlow is considered as the most known protocol for Software Defined Networking (SDN). The main drawback of OpenFlow is the lack of support of new header definitions, which is required by network operators to apply new packet encapsulations. While... Read More about Lightweight edge authentication for software defined networks.