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Identifying influencing factors of sustainable public service transformation: a systematic literature review (2020)
Journal Article
Enang, I., Asenova, D., & Bailey, S. J. (2022). Identifying influencing factors of sustainable public service transformation: a systematic literature review. International Review of Administrative Sciences, 88(1), 258-280. https://doi.org/10.1177/0020852319896399

This article continues the conversation on public service innovation and transformation in the International Review of Administrative Sciences. Political, socio-economic and technological changes drive public service transformation in rendering curre... Read More about Identifying influencing factors of sustainable public service transformation: a systematic literature review.

Insider Threat Detection Using Supervised Machine Learning Algorithms on an Extremely Imbalanced Dataset (2020)
Journal Article
Moradpoor, N., & Hall, A. (2020). Insider Threat Detection Using Supervised Machine Learning Algorithms on an Extremely Imbalanced Dataset. International Journal of Cyber Warfare and Terrorism, 10(2), https://doi.org/10.4018/IJCWT.2020040101

An insider threat can take on many forms and fall under different categories. This includes: malicious insider, careless/unaware/uneducated/naïve employee, and third-party contractor. A malicious insider, which can be a criminal agent recruited as a... Read More about Insider Threat Detection Using Supervised Machine Learning Algorithms on an Extremely Imbalanced Dataset.

History of economic thoughts hidden within the archives of Abrahamic religions (2020)
Book Chapter
Khaleel, F., & Avdukic, A. (2020). History of economic thoughts hidden within the archives of Abrahamic religions. In V. Efendic (Ed.), Islamic Finance Practices: Experiences from South Eastern Europe. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34420-7

The Ibrahimic religions in spite of their theological differences, share many common grounds in their view of right and wrong within relation to persuasion of market regulations and orthology of governing the market. This research focuses on these co... Read More about History of economic thoughts hidden within the archives of Abrahamic religions.

Exploring the epistemology of utility function in Islamic economics: Foundation of Islamic finance (2020)
Book Chapter
Avdukic, A., & Khaleel, F. (2020). Exploring the epistemology of utility function in Islamic economics: Foundation of Islamic finance. In V. Efendic (Ed.), Islamic Finance Practices: Experiences from South Eastern Europe. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34420-7

An opinion held by the majority of Muslims scholars, such as, Ibn Tamiyah, supports the contention that each thing or act has an ethical value that can be comprehended through reason. Two different methodologies are used for applying reason onto mora... Read More about Exploring the epistemology of utility function in Islamic economics: Foundation of Islamic finance.

Defeating Jamming Attacks with Ambient Backscatter Communications (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Huynh, N. V., Nguyen, D. N., Hoang, D. T., Dutkiewicz, E., Mueck, M., & Srikanteswara, S. (2020, February). Defeating Jamming Attacks with Ambient Backscatter Communications. Presented at 2020 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), Big Island, HI, USA

While the existing anti-jamming solutions tend to “escape” the attacks by finding another communication channel or adapting, waiting until the attacks cease, this work proposes an unprecedented method to combat jammers by leveraging the jamming signa... Read More about Defeating Jamming Attacks with Ambient Backscatter Communications.

Forward and backward feature selection for query performance prediction (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Déjean, S., Ionescu, R. T., Mothe, J., & Ullah, M. Z. (2020, March). Forward and backward feature selection for query performance prediction. Presented at 35th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Brno, Czech Republic

The goal of query performance prediction (QPP) is to automatically estimate the effectiveness of a search result for any given query, without relevance judgements. Post-retrieval features have been shown to be more effective for this task while being... Read More about Forward and backward feature selection for query performance prediction.

The moderating effect of gender and age on the students’ acceptance of learning management systems in Saudi higher education (2020)
Journal Article
Binyamin, S. S., Rutter, M. J., & Smith, S. (2020). The moderating effect of gender and age on the students’ acceptance of learning management systems in Saudi higher education. Knowledge Management and E-Learning: An International Journal, 12(1), 30-62

Despite the widespread adoption of learning management systems (LMS) by universities worldwide, it has been found that the students’ use of them is not always optimal. Based on the technology acceptance model (TAM), this quantitative research aims to... Read More about The moderating effect of gender and age on the students’ acceptance of learning management systems in Saudi higher education.

Stay calm, be active: simple ways to boost your physical activity during COVID-19 (2020)
Other
Hanson, C., Kelly, P., Pearsons, A., Williamson, C., McHale, S., Hanson, S., & Neubeck, L. (2020). Stay calm, be active: simple ways to boost your physical activity during COVID-19. https://blogs.bmj.com/bjsm/2020/03/30/stay-calm-be-active-simple-ways-to-boost-your-physical-activity-during-covid-19/

Hanson, C., Kelly, P., Pearsons, A., Williamson, C., McHale, S., Hanson, S., & Neubeck, L. (2020). Stay calm, be active: simple ways to boost your physical activity during COVID-19. https://blogs.bmj.com/bjsm/2020/03/30/stay-calm-be-active-simple-way... Read More about Stay calm, be active: simple ways to boost your physical activity during COVID-19.

The utilisation and user characteristics of Uber services in London (2020)
Journal Article
Mohamed, M. J., Rye, T., & Fonzone, A. (2020). The utilisation and user characteristics of Uber services in London. Transportation Planning and Technology, 43(4), 424-441. https://doi.org/10.1080/03081060.2020.1747205

Ridesourcing services such as Uber are nowadays a common feature within available transport options of many cities around the world (E.g. London & San Francisco). There has been much publicity about the potential impacts of ridesourcing services and... Read More about The utilisation and user characteristics of Uber services in London.

Educational needs and preferred learning approaches of the paediatric palliative care workforce: a qualitative exploratory study (2020)
Journal Article
Malcolm, C., & McGirr, D. (2020). Educational needs and preferred learning approaches of the paediatric palliative care workforce: a qualitative exploratory study. Nurse Education Today, 89, Article 104417. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2020.104417

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Synergistic effect of nanoflower-like CdS for removal of highly toxic aqueous Cr (VI) (2020)
Journal Article
Roy, A., Velusamy, S., Mallick, T. K., & Sundaram, S. (2020). Synergistic effect of nanoflower-like CdS for removal of highly toxic aqueous Cr (VI). Materials Letters, 270, 127734. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2020.127734

Thiourea assisted hydrothermal preparation of nanoflower-like CdS (NFs) synthesis and its efficient performance to remove toxic Cr (VI) in aqueous solution has been reported in this article. CdS NFs show synergistic behaviour via photo-catalytic redu... Read More about Synergistic effect of nanoflower-like CdS for removal of highly toxic aqueous Cr (VI).

Design method of a compact static nonimaging concentrator for portable photovoltaics using parameterisation and numerical optimisation. (2020)
Journal Article
Freier Raine, D., Ramirez-Iniguez, R., Jafry, T., Muhammad-Sukki, F., & Gamio, C. (2020). Design method of a compact static nonimaging concentrator for portable photovoltaics using parameterisation and numerical optimisation. Applied Energy, 266, Article 114821. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.114821

Portable solar chargers are one of the technologies that can help to achieve universal access to electricity by 2030. However, the large number of solar photovoltaic devices required and their short life-span make achieving this goal a resource and e... Read More about Design method of a compact static nonimaging concentrator for portable photovoltaics using parameterisation and numerical optimisation..

Sea urchin chronicles. The effect of oxygen super-saturation and marine polluted sediments from Bagnoli-Coroglio Bay on different life stages of the sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus (2020)
Journal Article
Chiarore, A., Musco, L., Bertocci, I., Gallo, A., Cannavacciuolo, A., Mutalipassi, M., Caramiello, D., Giomi, F., Fusi, M., Danovaro, R., & Munari, M. (2020). Sea urchin chronicles. The effect of oxygen super-saturation and marine polluted sediments from Bagnoli-Coroglio Bay on different life stages of the sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus. Marine Environmental Research, 159, Article 104967. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2020.104967

In marinas and harbours, the accumulation of pollutants in sediments, combined with poor exchange of water with the open sea, poses a major environmental threat. The presence of photosynthetic organisms and the related oxygen production, however, may... Read More about Sea urchin chronicles. The effect of oxygen super-saturation and marine polluted sediments from Bagnoli-Coroglio Bay on different life stages of the sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus.

Exploring coupled images fusion based on joint tensor decomposition (2020)
Journal Article
Lu, L., Ren, X., Yeh, K.-H., Tan, Z., & Chanussot, J. (2020). Exploring coupled images fusion based on joint tensor decomposition. Human-Centric Computing and Information Sciences, 10, Article 10 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13673-020-00215-z

Data fusion has always been a hot research topic in human-centric computing and extended with the development of artificial intelligence. Generally, the coupled data fusion algorithm usually utilizes the information from one data set to improve the e... Read More about Exploring coupled images fusion based on joint tensor decomposition.

Machine Learning for Detecting Drift Fault of Sensors in Cyber-Physical Systems (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jan, S. U., Saeed, U., & Koo, I. (2020, January). Machine Learning for Detecting Drift Fault of Sensors in Cyber-Physical Systems. Presented at 2020 17th International Bhurban Conference on Applied Sciences and Technology (IBCAST), Islamabad, Pakistan

Cyber-Physical System (CPS) emerges as a potential direction to improve the applications relating to object-to-object, human-to-human and human-to-object communications in both the real world and virtual world. The examples of CPSs include Smart Gird... Read More about Machine Learning for Detecting Drift Fault of Sensors in Cyber-Physical Systems.

Enablers of Emergency Preparedness for People With Disabilities and Chronic Health Conditions: A Scoping Review (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sterman, J., & Villeneuve, M. (2020, March). Enablers of Emergency Preparedness for People With Disabilities and Chronic Health Conditions: A Scoping Review. Poster presented at AOTA Annual Conference & Expo, Boston, Massachusetts

This scoping review identified that people with disabilities require capability-focused knowledge networks, actions, and advocacy to enable emergency preparedness. OTs are uniquely positioned to collaboratively address unmet emergency-preparedness su... Read More about Enablers of Emergency Preparedness for People With Disabilities and Chronic Health Conditions: A Scoping Review.

In my remembered country: what poetry tells us about the changing perceptions of volcanoes between the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries (2020)
Journal Article
Soldati, A., & Illingworth, S. (2020). In my remembered country: what poetry tells us about the changing perceptions of volcanoes between the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries. Geoscience Communication, 3(1), 73-87. https://doi.org/10.5194/gc-3-73-2020

In this study we investigate what poetry written about volcanoes from the 1800s to the present day reveals about the relationship between volcanoes and the societies and times represented by poets who wrote about them, including how it evolved over t... Read More about In my remembered country: what poetry tells us about the changing perceptions of volcanoes between the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries.

Evaluation of the impact of an augmented model of The Productive Ward: Releasing Time to Care on staff and patient outcomes: a naturalistic stepped-wedge trial (2020)
Journal Article
Williams, B., Hibberd, C., Baldie, D., Duncan, E. A. S., Elders, A., Maxwell, M., Rattray, J. E., Cowie, J., Strachan, H., & Jones, M. C. (2020). Evaluation of the impact of an augmented model of The Productive Ward: Releasing Time to Care on staff and patient outcomes: a naturalistic stepped-wedge trial. BMJ Quality & Safety, 30(1), 27-37. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2019-009821

Background: Improving the quality and efficiency of healthcare is an international priority. A range of complex ward based quality initiatives have been developed over recent years, perhaps the most influential programme has been Productive Ward: Rel... Read More about Evaluation of the impact of an augmented model of The Productive Ward: Releasing Time to Care on staff and patient outcomes: a naturalistic stepped-wedge trial.

Understanding transport mode choice for commuting: the role of affect (2020)
Journal Article
Ababio-Donkor, A., Saleh, W., & Fonzone, A. (2020). Understanding transport mode choice for commuting: the role of affect. Transportation Planning and Technology, 43(4), 385-403. https://doi.org/10.1080/03081060.2020.1747203

This study examines the relationship between positive and negative user valence and transport mode choice behaviour. We integrate latent attitudes ‘affect’ and ‘salience’ into transport mode choice models using the framework of integrated choice and... Read More about Understanding transport mode choice for commuting: the role of affect.

A Formal Technique for Composing Cloud Services (2020)
Journal Article
Barati, M. (2020). A Formal Technique for Composing Cloud Services. Information Technology and Control, 49(1), 5-27. https://doi.org/10.5755/j01.itc.49.1.23403

Recent cloud search engines lack a formal method in their service composition mechanisms to automatically build composite services realizing user requirements. This paper prescribes behavior composition framework as a formal tools for the search engi... Read More about A Formal Technique for Composing Cloud Services.