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Mixed methods feasibility cluster randomised controlled trials of a community-based enhanced care intervention (CECI) to improve person-centred outcomes for people living with HIV in Ghana (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abboah-Offei, M., Bristowe, K., Vanderpuye-Donton, N. A., Ansa, G., Abas, M., Higginson, I., & Harding, R. Mixed methods feasibility cluster randomised controlled trials of a community-based enhanced care intervention (CECI) to improve person-centred outcomes for people living with HIV in Ghana. Presented at 11th EAPC World Research Congress, Online

Background/aims: Despite treatment advances, people living with HIV (PLWH) continue to experience distressing physical, psychological, social and spiritual symptoms and concerns, which impact on their quality of life. Limited research has considered... Read More about Mixed methods feasibility cluster randomised controlled trials of a community-based enhanced care intervention (CECI) to improve person-centred outcomes for people living with HIV in Ghana.

Factors affecting delays in rail transportation projects using Analytic Network Process: the case of Iran (2020)
Journal Article
Tavassolirizi, M., Sarvari, H., Chan, D. W., & Olawumi, T. O. (2022). Factors affecting delays in rail transportation projects using Analytic Network Process: the case of Iran. International journal of construction management, 22(14), 2712-2723. https://doi.org/10.1080/15623599.2020.1819946

Delays in the implementation and commissioning of rail transportation projects can cause economic dam-ages to project stakeholders and the cities linked by such rail networks. Hence, the current study aims toinvestigate the key delay factors and prov... Read More about Factors affecting delays in rail transportation projects using Analytic Network Process: the case of Iran.

Relationship Between Internal and External Training Load in Field Hockey (2020)
Journal Article
Tuft, K., & Kavaliauskas, M. (2021). Relationship Between Internal and External Training Load in Field Hockey. International Journal of Strength and Conditioning, 1(1), https://doi.org/10.47206/ijsc.v1i1.24

Training load monitoring in team sports is important in order to plan and evaluate training strategies and ensure optimal performance. Integration of internal and external training load measures into a single training efficiency metric reduces the ef... Read More about Relationship Between Internal and External Training Load in Field Hockey.

Meaningful participation or tokenism for individuals on community based compulsory treatment orders? Views and experiences of the mental health tribunal in Scotland (2020)
Journal Article
Macgregor, A. (2022). Meaningful participation or tokenism for individuals on community based compulsory treatment orders? Views and experiences of the mental health tribunal in Scotland. Journal of Mental Health, 31(2), 158-165. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638237.2020.1818708

Background
The Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 was considered as world leading when it was enacted due to its rights-based approach. Changes were made to encourage participation and enhance autonomy, including the Mental Healt... Read More about Meaningful participation or tokenism for individuals on community based compulsory treatment orders? Views and experiences of the mental health tribunal in Scotland.

Metamaterial-Inspired Antenna Array for Application in Microwave Breast Imaging Systems for Tumor Detection (2020)
Journal Article
Alibakhshikenari, M., Virdee, B. S., Shukla, P., Parchin, N. O., Azpilicueta, L., See, C. H., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., Falcone, F., Huynen, I., Denidni, T. A., & Limiti, E. (2020). Metamaterial-Inspired Antenna Array for Application in Microwave Breast Imaging Systems for Tumor Detection. IEEE Access, 8, 174667-174678. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3025672

This paper presents a study of a planar antenna-array inspired by the metamaterial concept where the resonant elements have sub-wavelength dimensions for application in microwave medical imaging systems for detecting tumors in biological tissues. The... Read More about Metamaterial-Inspired Antenna Array for Application in Microwave Breast Imaging Systems for Tumor Detection.

Modeling, design, and synthesis of gram-scale monodispersed silver nanoparticles using microwave-assisted polyol process for metamaterial applications (2020)
Journal Article
Lalegani, Z., Ebrahimi, S. S., Hamawandi, B., La Spada, L., & Toprak, M. (2020). Modeling, design, and synthesis of gram-scale monodispersed silver nanoparticles using microwave-assisted polyol process for metamaterial applications. Optical Materials, 108, Article 110381. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2020.110381

High-yield monodispersed silver (Ag) nanospheres were modeled, designed, and synthesized by microwave-assisted (MW-assisted) polyol method from AgNO3, polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP), and ethylene glycol (EG), as precursors, at 145 °C within a short reac... Read More about Modeling, design, and synthesis of gram-scale monodispersed silver nanoparticles using microwave-assisted polyol process for metamaterial applications.

Temperature regulation of concentrating photovoltaic window using argon gas and polymer dispersed liquid crystal films (2020)
Journal Article
Khalid, M., Shanks, K., Ghosh, A., Tahir, A., Sundaram, S., & Mallick, T. K. (2021). Temperature regulation of concentrating photovoltaic window using argon gas and polymer dispersed liquid crystal films. Renewable Energy, 164, 96-108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2020.09.069

Low concentrating photovoltaic (LCPV) system has been studied extensively, which showed excellent potential for the building integration application. However, such a system suffers from higher operating temperatures due to the concentrated light expo... Read More about Temperature regulation of concentrating photovoltaic window using argon gas and polymer dispersed liquid crystal films.

Green Health Partnerships in Scotland; Pathways for Social Prescribing and Physical Activity Referral (2020)
Journal Article
McHale, S., Pearsons, A., Neubeck, L., & Hanson, C. L. (2020). Green Health Partnerships in Scotland; Pathways for Social Prescribing and Physical Activity Referral. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(18), Article 6832. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186832

Increased exposure to green space has many health benefits. Scottish Green Health Partnerships (GHPs) have established green health referral pathways to enable community-based interventions to contribute to primary prevention and the maintenance of h... Read More about Green Health Partnerships in Scotland; Pathways for Social Prescribing and Physical Activity Referral.

Whorlton Hall, Winterbourne View and Ely Hospital: learning from failures of care (2020)
Journal Article
Willis, D. (2020). Whorlton Hall, Winterbourne View and Ely Hospital: learning from failures of care. Learning Disability Practice, 23(6), https://doi.org/10.7748/ldp.2020.e2049

In the last 20 years or so there have been numerous reports, notably by the charity Mencap, that have highlighted the suboptimal care received by people with learning disabilities in hospitals and other inpatient care settings and have drawn public a... Read More about Whorlton Hall, Winterbourne View and Ely Hospital: learning from failures of care.

What are the Implications of Changing Place for the Professional Performativity of Prison Officers? (2020)
Journal Article
Maycock, M., McGuckin, K., & Morrison, K. (2023). What are the Implications of Changing Place for the Professional Performativity of Prison Officers?. Corrections: Policy, Practice and Research, 8(2), 57-73. https://doi.org/10.1080/23774657.2020.1821407

Throughcare Support Officers (TSOs) were a unique role in the Scottish criminal justice system when they operated between 2015 and 2019. This research challenges and extends existing prison scholarship by asking a number of novel questions: to what e... Read More about What are the Implications of Changing Place for the Professional Performativity of Prison Officers?.

The role of personal norms in the choice of mode for commuting (2020)
Journal Article
Ababio-Donkor, A., Saleh, W., & Fonzone, A. (2020). The role of personal norms in the choice of mode for commuting. Research in Transportation Economics, 83, Article 100966. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.retrec.2020.100966

Research in travel behavioural studies have shown that social forces play a significant role in travel decision making like socioeconomic factors. Several studies have tested models with different subjective variables to investigate their effects on... Read More about The role of personal norms in the choice of mode for commuting.

Risk factors for falls among adults with intellectual disabilities: A narrative review (2020)
Journal Article
Pope, J., Truesdale, M., & Brown, M. (2021). Risk factors for falls among adults with intellectual disabilities: A narrative review. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 34(1), 274-285. https://doi.org/10.1111/jar.12805

Background
The prevalence of falls involving people with intellectual disabilities (ID) is high in comparison with the general population. There has been little evidence to date on the contributing risk factors. The objective of this review was to i... Read More about Risk factors for falls among adults with intellectual disabilities: A narrative review.

Home-based end of life care for children and their families – a systematic scoping review and narrative synthesis (2020)
Journal Article
Malcolm, C., Katherine, K., & Charlotte, T. (2020). Home-based end of life care for children and their families – a systematic scoping review and narrative synthesis. Journal of Pediatric Nursing, 55, 126-133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pedn.2020.07.018

Abstract
Problem: There is a growing international drive to deliver children’s palliative care services closer to home. Families should have choice of where end of life (EOL) care is provided with home as one option. This review aims to establish t... Read More about Home-based end of life care for children and their families – a systematic scoping review and narrative synthesis.

New Research Avenues in Human-Robot Interaction (2020)
Book Chapter
Zeller, F. (2020). New Research Avenues in Human-Robot Interaction. In D. Zhang, & B. Wei (Eds.), Human–Robot Interaction: Control, Analysis, and Design (75-92). Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Effect of various spatial auditory cues on the perception of threat in a first-person shooter video game (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Semionov, K., & McGregor, I. (2020, September). Effect of various spatial auditory cues on the perception of threat in a first-person shooter video game. Presented at AM'20: Audio Mostly 2020, Graz, Austria

This study interviewed game audio professionals to establish the implementation requirements for an experiment to ascertain the effect of different spatial audio localisation systems on the perception of threat in a first-person shooter. In addition,... Read More about Effect of various spatial auditory cues on the perception of threat in a first-person shooter video game.

Sonification of an exoplanetary atmosphere (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Quinton, M., McGregor, I., & Benyon, D. (2020). Sonification of an exoplanetary atmosphere. In AM '20: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Audio Mostly (191-198). https://doi.org/10.1145/3411109.3411117

This study investigates the effectiveness of user design methods to create a sonification for an astronomer who analyses exoplanet meteorological data situated in habitable zones. Requirements about the astronomer’s work, the dataset and how to sonif... Read More about Sonification of an exoplanetary atmosphere.

A Low Power Sigma-Delta Modulator with Hybrid Architecture (2020)
Journal Article
An, S., Xia, S., Ma, Y., Ghani, A., See, C. H., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., Niu, C. F., & Yang, R. (2020). A Low Power Sigma-Delta Modulator with Hybrid Architecture. Sensors, 20(18), Article 5309. https://doi.org/10.3390/s20185309

Analogue-to-digital converters (ADC) using oversampling technology and Σ-∆ modulation mechanism are widely applied in digital audio systems. This paper presents an audio modulator with high accuracy and low power consumption by using discrete second-... Read More about A Low Power Sigma-Delta Modulator with Hybrid Architecture.

Load Magnitude and Locomotion Pattern Alter Locomotor System Function in Healthy Young Adult Women (2020)
Journal Article
Krajewski, K. T., Dever, D. E., Johnson, C. C., Mi, Q., Simpson, R. J., Graham, S. M., Moir, G. L., Ahamed, N. U., Flanagan, S. D., Anderst, W. J., & Connaboy, C. (2020). Load Magnitude and Locomotion Pattern Alter Locomotor System Function in Healthy Young Adult Women. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 8, https://doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2020.582219

Introduction: During cyclical steady state ambulation, such as walking, variability in stride intervals can indicate the state of the system. In order to define locomotor system function, observed variability in motor patterns, stride regulation and... Read More about Load Magnitude and Locomotion Pattern Alter Locomotor System Function in Healthy Young Adult Women.

"We are 'free range' prison officers", the experiences of Scottish Prison Service (SPS) Throughcare Support Officers (TSOs) working in custody and the community (2020)
Journal Article
Maycock, M., McGuckin, K., & Morrison, K. (2020). "We are 'free range' prison officers", the experiences of Scottish Prison Service (SPS) Throughcare Support Officers (TSOs) working in custody and the community. Probation Journal, 67(4), 358-374. https://doi.org/10.1177/0264550520954898

Between 2015 and 2019, forty-one Throughcare Support Officers (TSOs) supported people serving short sentences leaving custody across eleven Scottish Prison Service (SPS) establishments. The role of prison officers in the provision of throughcare in t... Read More about "We are 'free range' prison officers", the experiences of Scottish Prison Service (SPS) Throughcare Support Officers (TSOs) working in custody and the community.

The DIAMOND Model: Deep Recurrent Neural Networks for Self-Organizing Robot Control (2020)
Journal Article
Smith, S. C., Dharmadi, R., Imrie, C., Si, B., & Herrmann, J. M. (2020). The DIAMOND Model: Deep Recurrent Neural Networks for Self-Organizing Robot Control. Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 14, Article 62. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbot.2020.00062

The proposed architecture applies the principle of predictive coding and deep learning in a brain-inspired approach to robotic sensorimotor control. It is composed of many layers each of which is a recurrent network. The component networks can be spo... Read More about The DIAMOND Model: Deep Recurrent Neural Networks for Self-Organizing Robot Control.