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Generalized Early Stopping in Evolutionary Direct Policy Search (2024)
Journal Article
Arza, E., Le Goff, L. K., & Hart, E. (online). Generalized Early Stopping in Evolutionary Direct Policy Search. ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization, https://doi.org/10.1145/3653024

Lengthy evaluation times are common in many optimization problems such as direct policy search tasks, especially when they involve conducting evaluations in the physical world, e.g. in robotics applications. Often when evaluating solution over a fixe... Read More about Generalized Early Stopping in Evolutionary Direct Policy Search.

DBMA-Net: A Dual-Branch Multi-Attention Network for Polyp Segmentation (2024)
Journal Article
Zhai, C., Yang, L., Liu, Y., & Yu, H. (2024). DBMA-Net: A Dual-Branch Multi-Attention Network for Polyp Segmentation. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 73, Article 2512316. https://doi.org/10.1109/tim.2024.3379418

In the early prevention stage of colorectal cancer, the utilization of automatic polyp segmentation techniques from colonoscopy images has demonstrated efficacy in mitigating the misdiagnosis rate. Nonetheless, accurate polyp segmentation is always a... Read More about DBMA-Net: A Dual-Branch Multi-Attention Network for Polyp Segmentation.

The problem with shaming people for Auschwitz selfies (2024)
Digital Artefact
Wight, C., & Stanley, P. (2024). The problem with shaming people for Auschwitz selfies. [Online newspaper]

Selfies have become the modern day equivalent of postcards, a way to share our travel experiences with family and friends on social media. It’s one thing to strike a goofy pose and snap a photo for Instagram on a beach or town square, but what if you... Read More about The problem with shaming people for Auschwitz selfies.

Police custody in rural Scotland: Negotiating boundaries, risk and organisational change (2024)
Journal Article
Wooff, A. (2024). Police custody in rural Scotland: Negotiating boundaries, risk and organisational change. Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management, 47(3), 407-419. https://doi.org/10.1108/pijpsm-01-2024-0007

Design/ Methodology This paper draws on data from a study funded by the Scottish Institute for Policing Research (2016-2018), entitled ‘Measuring Risk and Efficiency in Police Custody in Scotland’. The paper adopts a qualitative methodology to deve... Read More about Police custody in rural Scotland: Negotiating boundaries, risk and organisational change.

Design and Evaluation of Memory Efficient Data Structure Scheme for Energy Drainage Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks (2024)
Journal Article
Bhatti, D. S., Saleem, S., Ali, Z., Park, T., Suh, B., Kamran, A., Buchanan, W. J., & Kim, K. (2024). Design and Evaluation of Memory Efficient Data Structure Scheme for Energy Drainage Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks. IEEE Access, 12, 41499-41516. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2024.3377144

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are deployed on a large scale and require protection from malicious energy drainage attacks, particularly those directed at the routing layer. The complexity increases during critical operations like cluster head select... Read More about Design and Evaluation of Memory Efficient Data Structure Scheme for Energy Drainage Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks.

Using Frequency B-Splines for an accurate and faster calculation of adaptive transforms for electric machines diagnosis (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pons-Llinares, J., Quijano-López, A., Bonet-Jara, J., & Vedreño-Santos, F. (2024, May). Using Frequency B-Splines for an accurate and faster calculation of adaptive transforms for electric machines diagnosis. Presented at Electrimacs 2024, Castellón de la Plana, Spain

Early detection of faults in electric motors is crucial to prevent unplanned downtime and expensive repairs. Transient analysis through time-frequency transforms reveals important information on the motor condition. Computational time of these transf... Read More about Using Frequency B-Splines for an accurate and faster calculation of adaptive transforms for electric machines diagnosis.

An examination of how voluntary international netball officials view and experience well-being (2024)
Journal Article
Barrow, C. J., Westbury, T., Cunningham, I., & Mascarenhas, D. (in press). An examination of how voluntary international netball officials view and experience well-being. Managing Sport and Leisure, https://doi.org/10.1080/23750472.2024.2326704

Research aim The purpose of this research was to explore the views and experiences of international volunteer netball officials about their well-being and its contributing factors. Research methods A qualitative methodology, involving semi-struc... Read More about An examination of how voluntary international netball officials view and experience well-being.

A single bout of vigorous intensity exercise enhances the efficacy of rituximab against human chronic lymphocytic leukaemia B-cells ex vivo (2024)
Journal Article
Collier-Bain, H. D., Emery, A., Causer, A. J., Brown, F. F., Oliver, R., Dutton, D., Crowe, J., Augustine, D., Graby, J., Leach, S., Eddy, R., Rothschild-Rodriguez, D., Gray, J. C., Cragg, M. S., Cleary, K. L., Moore, S., Murray, J., Turner, J. E., & Campbell, J. P. (2024). A single bout of vigorous intensity exercise enhances the efficacy of rituximab against human chronic lymphocytic leukaemia B-cells ex vivo. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 118, 468-479. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2024.03.023

Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) is characterised by the clonal proliferation and accumulation of mature B-cells and is often treated with rituximab, an anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody immunotherapy. Rituximab often fails to induce stringent disease... Read More about A single bout of vigorous intensity exercise enhances the efficacy of rituximab against human chronic lymphocytic leukaemia B-cells ex vivo.

Novel Aperture Antenna Array Design for Indoor Localisation UWB Radar Technologies (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ahmed, I., Aldelemy, A., Ismail, A. S., See, C. H., Ghareeb, M. F., Nafea,, S., Oda, E., & Abd-Alhameed, R. A. (2024, May). Novel Aperture Antenna Array Design for Indoor Localisation UWB Radar Technologies. Presented at 14th International Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEENG), Cairo, Egypt

A Novel RFID Tag's Antenna for Mounting on Metallic Objects (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gharbia, I., Aldelemy, A., Elmegri, F., Ismail, . A. S., Darwish, M., See, C. H., & Abd-Alhameed, R. A. (2024, May). A Novel RFID Tag's Antenna for Mounting on Metallic Objects. Presented at 14th International Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEENG), Cairo, Egypt

Gain-Enhanced/End-Fire Phased Array Antenna for Future Cellular Networks (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Basherlou, H. J., Ojaroudi Parchin, N., Manjakkal, L., See, C. H., Amar, A., & Salama, A. (2024, May). Gain-Enhanced/End-Fire Phased Array Antenna for Future Cellular Networks. Presented at 14th International Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEENG), Cairo, Egypt

Cluster-based oversampling with area extraction from representative points for class imbalance learning (2024)
Journal Article
Farou, Z., Wang, Y., & Horváth, T. (2024). Cluster-based oversampling with area extraction from representative points for class imbalance learning. Intelligent Systems with Applications, 22, Article 200357. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iswa.2024.200357

Class imbalance learning is challenging in various domains where training datasets exhibit disproportionate samples in a specific class. Resampling methods have been used to adjust the class distribution, but they often have limitations for small dis... Read More about Cluster-based oversampling with area extraction from representative points for class imbalance learning.

Prevalence and correlates of ICD-11 prolonged grief disorder among adults living in Ukraine during the war with Russia (2024)
Journal Article
Redican, E., Hyland, P., Shevlin, M., Martsenkovskyi, D., Karatzias, T., & Ben-Ezra, M. (2024). Prevalence and correlates of ICD-11 prolonged grief disorder among adults living in Ukraine during the war with Russia. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 149(5), 425-435. https://doi.org/10.1111/acps.13678

Background: Although high rates of bereavement are evident in war-affected populations, no study has investigated the prevalence and correlates of probable ICD-11 Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD) under these circumstances. Methods: Participants we... Read More about Prevalence and correlates of ICD-11 prolonged grief disorder among adults living in Ukraine during the war with Russia.

Information flow and Laplacian dynamics on local optima networks (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Richter, H., & Thomson, S. L. (2024, June). Information flow and Laplacian dynamics on local optima networks. Presented at IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC), Yokohama, Japan

We propose a new way of looking at local optima networks (LONs). LONs represent fitness landscapes; the nodes are local optima, and the edges are search transitions between them. Many metrics computed on LONs have been proposed and shown to be linked... Read More about Information flow and Laplacian dynamics on local optima networks.

PHASER: Perceptual Hashing Algorithms Evaluation and Results -an Open Source Forensic Framework (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mckeown, S., Aaby, P., & Steyven, A. PHASER: Perceptual Hashing Algorithms Evaluation and Results -an Open Source Forensic Framework. Presented at DFRWS EU 2024, Zaragoza, Spain

The automated comparison of visual content is a contemporary solution to scale the detection of illegal media and extremist material, both for detection on individual devices and in the cloud. However, the problem is difficult, and perceptual similar... Read More about PHASER: Perceptual Hashing Algorithms Evaluation and Results -an Open Source Forensic Framework.