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The Scales Project, a cross-national dataset on the interpretation of thermal perception scales (2019)
Journal Article
Schweiker, M., Abdul-Zahra, A., André, M., Al-Atrash, F., Al-Khatri, H., Alprianti, R. R., Alsaad, H., Amin, R., Ampatzi, E., Arsano, A. Y., Azadeh, M., Azar, E., Bahareh, B., Batagarawa, A., Becker, S., Buonocore, C., Cao, B., Choi, J., Chun, C., Daanen, H., …Zomorodian, Z. S. (2019). The Scales Project, a cross-national dataset on the interpretation of thermal perception scales. Scientific Data, 6(1), Article 289. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0272-6

Thermal discomfort is one of the main triggers for occupants’ interactions with components of the built environment such as adjustments of thermostats and/or opening windows and strongly related to the energy use in buildings. Understanding causes fo... Read More about The Scales Project, a cross-national dataset on the interpretation of thermal perception scales.

Institutional investor sentiment, beta, and stock returns (2019)
Journal Article
Wang, W. (2020). Institutional investor sentiment, beta, and stock returns. Finance Research Letters, 37, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2019.101374

This paper examines the role of institutional investor sentiment in determination of the beta-return relation. Empirical evidence documents a positive (negative) beta-return relation over bearish (bullish) periods, implying that institutional investo... Read More about Institutional investor sentiment, beta, and stock returns.

Professional Learning for Self-Management Support: the Problem of Generic Skills Development (2019)
Journal Article
Doyle, S. (2019). Professional Learning for Self-Management Support: the Problem of Generic Skills Development. Health Education in Practice: Journal of Research for Professional Learning, 2(2), 6-26. https://doi.org/10.33966/hepj.2.2.13349

Supporting people to self-manage long-term conditions, such as diabetes and heart disease, is a concern for health-care providers globally. Despite continued attention being paid to the production of educational resources for workforce development na... Read More about Professional Learning for Self-Management Support: the Problem of Generic Skills Development.

Effects of urease and nitrification inhibitors on soil N, nitrifier abundance and activity in a sandy loam soil (2019)
Journal Article
Fu, Q., Abadie, M., Blaud, A., Carswell, A., Misselbrook, T. H., Clark, I. M., & Hirsch, P. R. (2020). Effects of urease and nitrification inhibitors on soil N, nitrifier abundance and activity in a sandy loam soil. Biology and Fertility of Soils, 56(2), 185-194. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00374-019-01411-5

Inhibitors of urease and ammonia monooxygenase can limit the rate of conversion of urea to ammonia and ammonia to nitrate, respectively, potentially improving N fertilizer use efficiency and reducing gaseous losses. Winter wheat grown on a sandy soil... Read More about Effects of urease and nitrification inhibitors on soil N, nitrifier abundance and activity in a sandy loam soil.

Determination of the Aspect-ratio Distribution of Gold Nanorods in a Colloidal Solution using UV-visible absorption spectroscopy (2019)
Journal Article
Kumar, R., Binetti, L., Nguyen, H. T., Alwis, L. S. M., Agrawal, A., Sun, T., & Grattan, K. T. V. (2019). Determination of the Aspect-ratio Distribution of Gold Nanorods in a Colloidal Solution using UV-visible absorption spectroscopy. Scientific Reports, 9, Article 17469. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-53621-4

Knowledge of the distribution of the aspect ratios (ARs) in a chemically-synthesized colloidal solution of Gold Nano Rods (GNRs) is an important measure in determining the quality of synthesis, and consequently the performance of the GNRs generated f... Read More about Determination of the Aspect-ratio Distribution of Gold Nanorods in a Colloidal Solution using UV-visible absorption spectroscopy.

Constructing identifiable composite faces: The importance of cognitive alignment of interview and construction procedure (2019)
Journal Article
Skelton, F. C., Frowd, C. D., Hancock, P. J. B., Jones, H. S., Jones, B. C., Fodarella, C., Battersby, K., & Logan, K. (2020). Constructing identifiable composite faces: The importance of cognitive alignment of interview and construction procedure. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 26(3), 507-521. https://doi.org/10.1037/xap0000257

We investigated the impact of congruency between the witness interview and method used to construct a composite face. Experiment 1, using a typical feature-by-feature composite method, revealed that aligning cognitive processes during interview and... Read More about Constructing identifiable composite faces: The importance of cognitive alignment of interview and construction procedure.

Midwives’ views of changing to a Continuity of Midwifery Care (CMC) model in Scotland: a baseline survey (2019)
Journal Article
Hollins Martin, C. J., MacArthur, J., Martin, C. R., & McInnes, R. J. (2020). Midwives’ views of changing to a Continuity of Midwifery Care (CMC) model in Scotland: a baseline survey. Women and Birth, 33(5), e409-e419. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wombi.2019.08.005

Background: There is good evidence that Continuity of Midwifery Care (CMC) is associated with improved clinical outcomes, greater maternal satisfaction, and improved work experiences for midwives. Changes made to the organisation require careful impl... Read More about Midwives’ views of changing to a Continuity of Midwifery Care (CMC) model in Scotland: a baseline survey.

In situ characterization of nanoscale strains in loaded whole joints via synchrotron X-ray tomography (2019)
Journal Article
Madi, K., Staines, K., Bay, B., Javaheri, B., Geng, H., Bodey, A., Cartmell, S., Pitsillides, A., & Lee, P. (2020). In situ characterization of nanoscale strains in loaded whole joints via synchrotron X-ray tomography. Nature Biomedical Engineering, 4(3), 343-354. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-019-0477-1

Imaging techniques for quantifying changes in the hierarchical structure of deforming joints are constrained by destructive sample treatments, sample-size restrictions and lengthy scan times. Here, we report the use of fast low-dose pink-beam synchro... Read More about In situ characterization of nanoscale strains in loaded whole joints via synchrotron X-ray tomography.

Searching for Atrial Fibrillation Poststroke: A White Paper of the AF-SCREEN International Collaboration (2019)
Journal Article
Boriani, G., Brachmann, J., Brandes, A., Bustamante, A., Casadei, B., Crijns, H., Doehner, W., Engström, G., Fauchier, L., Freedman, B., Friberg, L., Gladstone, D., Glotzer, T., Goto, S., Georg, H., Graeme, H., Harbison, J., Healey, J., Hobbs, R., Johnson, L., …Yan, B. (2019). Searching for Atrial Fibrillation Poststroke: A White Paper of the AF-SCREEN International Collaboration. Circulation, 140(22), 1834-1850. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.119.040267

Cardiac thromboembolism attributed to atrial fibrillation (AF) is responsible for up to one third of ischemic strokes. Stroke may be the first manifestation of previously undetected AF. Given the efficacy of oral anticoagulants (OAC) in preventing AF... Read More about Searching for Atrial Fibrillation Poststroke: A White Paper of the AF-SCREEN International Collaboration.

Teaching the process of building an Intrusion Detection System using data from a small-scale SCADA testbed (2019)
Journal Article
Maglaras, L., Cruz, T., Ferrag, M. A., & Janicke, H. (2020). Teaching the process of building an Intrusion Detection System using data from a small-scale SCADA testbed. Internet Technology Letters, 3(1), Article e132. https://doi.org/10.1002/itl2.132

Security of Critical National Infrastructures (CNI) is one of the major concerns to countries both in a European and in a worldwide level. Training on scenarios that involve such systems is important to the effective handling of incidents. Experienti... Read More about Teaching the process of building an Intrusion Detection System using data from a small-scale SCADA testbed.

Machine Learning for Health and Social Care Demographics in Scotland (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buchanan, W. J., Smales, A., Lawson, A., & Chute, C. (2019, November). Machine Learning for Health and Social Care Demographics in Scotland. Paper presented at HEALTHINFO 2019, Valencia, Spain

This paper outlines an extensive study of applying machine learning to the analysis of publicly available health and social care data within Scotland, with a focus on learning the most significant variables involved in key health care outcome factors... Read More about Machine Learning for Health and Social Care Demographics in Scotland.

Estimating the Relative Speed of RF Jammers in VANETs (2019)
Journal Article
Kosmanos, D., Argyriou, A., & Maglaras, L. (2019). Estimating the Relative Speed of RF Jammers in VANETs. Security and Communication Networks, 2019, Article 2064348. https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/2064348

Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) aim at enhancing road safety and providing a comfortable driving environment by delivering early warning and infotainment messages to the drivers. Jamming attacks, however, pose a significant threat to their perform... Read More about Estimating the Relative Speed of RF Jammers in VANETs.

Shared decision aids in pregnancy care: A scoping review (2019)
Journal Article
Kennedy, K., Adelson, P., Fleet, J., Steen, M., McKellar, L., Eckert, M., & Peters, M. D. J. (2020). Shared decision aids in pregnancy care: A scoping review. Midwifery, 81, Article 102589. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2019.102589

Background
Shared decision making in pregnancy, labour, and birth is vital to woman-centred care and despite strong evidence for the effectiveness of shared decision making in pregnancy care, practical uptake has been slow.

Design and Aim
This s... Read More about Shared decision aids in pregnancy care: A scoping review.

We Can Quit2 (WCQ2): a community-based intervention on smoking cessation for women living in disadvantaged areas of Ireland—study protocol for a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial (2019)
Journal Article
Hayes, C., Ciblis, A., Darker, C., Dougall, N., Vance, J., O’Connell, N., Dobbie, F., Loudon, K., Burke, E., Devane, D., & Bauld, L. (2019). We Can Quit2 (WCQ2): a community-based intervention on smoking cessation for women living in disadvantaged areas of Ireland—study protocol for a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 5, Article 138 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-019-0511-9

Background
Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death in Ireland with almost 6000 smokers dying each year from smoking-related diseases. The ‘We Can Quit2’ (WCQ2) study is a pilot pragmatic two-arm, parallel-group, cluster randomised tria... Read More about We Can Quit2 (WCQ2): a community-based intervention on smoking cessation for women living in disadvantaged areas of Ireland—study protocol for a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial.

L&D professionals in organisations: much ambition, unfilled promise (2019)
Journal Article
Garavan, T., Heneghan, S., O'Brien, F., Gubbins, C., Lai, Y., Carbery, R., Duggan, J., Lannon, R., Sheehan, M., & Grant, K. (2020). L&D professionals in organisations: much ambition, unfilled promise. European Journal of Training and Development, 44(1), 1-86. https://doi.org/10.1108/EJTD-09-2019-0166

This monograph reports a study investigating the roles of learning and development (L&D) professionals in Irish, UK European and US organisations. The study investigates the contextual factors influencing L&D roles in organisations, the strategic and... Read More about L&D professionals in organisations: much ambition, unfilled promise.

Potential regions in the Persian Gulf to deploy offshore floating photovoltaic systems (2019)
Journal Article
Goh, K., Gupta, N., Honnuravali, M., & Umar, T. (2020). Potential regions in the Persian Gulf to deploy offshore floating photovoltaic systems. Proceedings of the ICE - Energy, 173(3), 94-100. https://doi.org/10.1680/jener.19.00061

Generating energy needs by means of renewable sources is a vital strategy for all the GCC countries. Photovoltaic systems in the GCC have been a primary choice of renewable sources due to regional weather and high levels of irradiance. However, the u... Read More about Potential regions in the Persian Gulf to deploy offshore floating photovoltaic systems.

Algorithmic Analysis of Chemical Dynamics of the Autoignition of NH3–H2O2/Air Mixtures (2019)
Journal Article
Khalil, A. T., Manias, D. M., Tingas, E., Kyritsis, D. C., & Goussis, D. A. (2019). Algorithmic Analysis of Chemical Dynamics of the Autoignition of NH3–H2O2/Air Mixtures. Energies, 12(23), Article 4422. https://doi.org/10.3390/en12234422

The dynamics of a homogeneous adiabatic autoignition of an ammonia/air mixture at constant volume was studied, using the algorithmic tools of Computational Singular Perturbation. Since ammonia combustion is characterized by both unrealistically long... Read More about Algorithmic Analysis of Chemical Dynamics of the Autoignition of NH3–H2O2/Air Mixtures.