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Dust and PV Performance in Nigeria: A review (2020)
Journal Article
Chanchangi, Y. N., Ghosh, A., Sundaram, S., & Mallick, T. K. (2020). Dust and PV Performance in Nigeria: A review. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 121, Article 109704. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2020.109704

The accumulation of dust on photovoltaic (PV) devices has an adverse impact by degrading their performance. In this work, a review of the effects of dust accumulation on PV module performance and measures to mitigate them have been provided. Energy l... Read More about Dust and PV Performance in Nigeria: A review.

Orthogonally dual‐polarised MIMO antenna array with pattern diversity for use in 5G smartphones (2020)
Journal Article
Ojaroudi Parchin, N., Al‐Yasir, Y. I., Jahanbakhsh Basherlou, H., Abd‐Alhameed, R. A., & Noras, J. M. (2020). Orthogonally dual‐polarised MIMO antenna array with pattern diversity for use in 5G smartphones. IET microwaves, antennas & propagation, 14(6), 457-467. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-map.2019.0328

A new multiple-input/multiple-output (MIMO) antenna design is introduced for future smartphones. The proposed design contains four pairs of double-fed circular-ring resonators located at different edges of the smartphone printed circuit board (PCB) w... Read More about Orthogonally dual‐polarised MIMO antenna array with pattern diversity for use in 5G smartphones.

Automated Precision Tuning in Activity Classification Systems: A Case Study (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fossati, N., Cattaneo, D., Chiari, M., Cherubin, S., & Agosta, G. (2020, January). Automated Precision Tuning in Activity Classification Systems: A Case Study. Presented at PARMA-DITAM'2020: 11th Workshop on Parallel Programming and Run-Time Management Techniques for Many-core Architectures / 9th Workshop on Design Tools and Architectures for Multicore Embedded Computing Platforms, Bologna, Italy

The greater availability and reduction in production cost make wearable IoT platforms perfect candidates to continuously monitor people at risk, like elderly people. In particular these platforms, along with the use of artificial intelligence algorit... Read More about Automated Precision Tuning in Activity Classification Systems: A Case Study.

In-flight transmission of foodborne disease: How can airlines improve? (2020)
Journal Article
Grout, A., & Speakman, E. M. (2020). In-flight transmission of foodborne disease: How can airlines improve?. Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, 33, Article 101558. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tmaid.2020.101558

Food contamination during air travel presents unique risks to those affected. Foodborne pathogens can cause serious illness among all on board, and potentially jeopardize flight safety. These risks are likely to increase with current trends of “densi... Read More about In-flight transmission of foodborne disease: How can airlines improve?.

Family INvolvement in inTensive care: A qualitative exploration of critically ill patients, their families and critical care nurses (INpuT study) (2020)
Journal Article
Kydonaki, K., Kean, S., & Tocher, J. (2020). Family INvolvement in inTensive care: A qualitative exploration of critically ill patients, their families and critical care nurses (INpuT study). Journal of Clinical Nursing, 29(7-8), 1115-1128. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.15175

Aims and objectives To understand the different factors that impact on the involvement of adult family members in the care of critically ill patients from the perspective of patients, families and nurses, with the aim to inform the enactment of a pa... Read More about Family INvolvement in inTensive care: A qualitative exploration of critically ill patients, their families and critical care nurses (INpuT study).

An authentication protocol based on chaos and zero knowledge proof (2020)
Journal Article
Major, W., Buchanan, W. J., & Ahmad, J. (2020). An authentication protocol based on chaos and zero knowledge proof. Nonlinear Dynamics, 99, 3065-3087. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11071-020-05463-3

Port Knocking is a method for authenticating clients through a closed stance firewall, and authorising their requested actions, enabling severs to offer services to authenticated clients, without opening ports on the firewall. Advances in port knocki... Read More about An authentication protocol based on chaos and zero knowledge proof.

Heat island effects in urban life cycle assessment: Novel insights to include the effects of the urban heat island and UHI‐mitigation measures in LCA for effective policy making (2020)
Journal Article
Susca, T., & Pomponi, F. (2020). Heat island effects in urban life cycle assessment: Novel insights to include the effects of the urban heat island and UHI‐mitigation measures in LCA for effective policy making. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 24(2), 410-423. https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.12980

Urbanization often entails a surge in urban temperature compared to the rural surroundings: the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect. Such a temperature increase triggers the formation of pollutants worsening the urban air quality. Jointly, bad air quality... Read More about Heat island effects in urban life cycle assessment: Novel insights to include the effects of the urban heat island and UHI‐mitigation measures in LCA for effective policy making.

Using physical objects as a portal to reveal academic subject identity and thought (2020)
Journal Article
Richards, K., & Pilcher, N. (2020). Using physical objects as a portal to reveal academic subject identity and thought. Qualitative Report, 25(1), 127-144

We are lecturers who help students studying subjects that use word-based writing, non-word based writing such as Mathematics, and non-text based language such as visual semiotics. To access examples of such language with subject lecturers we have fou... Read More about Using physical objects as a portal to reveal academic subject identity and thought.

Followers, Communications and Leadership (2020)
Book Chapter
Bratton, J., & Francis, H. (2020). Followers, Communications and Leadership. In J. Bratton (Ed.), Organizational Leadership (289-316). London: SAGE Publications

CHAPTER INTRODUCTION The models we consider in this chapter will advance your understanding of the leadership process by studying the active role of followers in co-creating the leadership relationship. The success or failure of an organization is o... Read More about Followers, Communications and Leadership.

Effect of motorcycle helmet types on head injuries: evidence from eight level-I trauma centres in Taiwan (2020)
Journal Article
Lam, C., Wiratama, B. S., Chang, W., Chen, P., Chiu, W., Saleh, W., & Pai, C. (2020). Effect of motorcycle helmet types on head injuries: evidence from eight level-I trauma centres in Taiwan. BMC Public Health, 20(1), Article 78 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-8191-1

Background Motorcycle full-coverage helmet use may reduce fatalities and head injuries. Methods This retrospective cohort study extracted injury data from eight level-I trauma centres in Taiwan and performed a questionnaire survey to investigate... Read More about Effect of motorcycle helmet types on head injuries: evidence from eight level-I trauma centres in Taiwan.

The special constable in Scotland: understanding the motivations, expectations and the role of the special constabulary within Police Scotland (2020)
Report
Wooff, A., Dickson, G., & Buchan, J. (2020). The special constable in Scotland: understanding the motivations, expectations and the role of the special constabulary within Police Scotland. Scottish Institute for Policing Research (SIPR)

This project sought to examine the nature of the Special Constabulary as a volunteering resource in Scotland, considering the way(s) that the motivations, expectations and management of Special Constables could be understood and improved. By using... Read More about The special constable in Scotland: understanding the motivations, expectations and the role of the special constabulary within Police Scotland.

We are NOT Neutral: A Freirean Critique of (Popular) Music in Higher Education (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moir, Z. (2020, January). We are NOT Neutral: A Freirean Critique of (Popular) Music in Higher Education

2018 saw the 50th anniversary of the publication of Paulo Freire’s book ‘Pedagogy of the Oppressed’, which has become an important text that has influenced many progressive educators, internationally. The concepts and ideas set forth in this work hav... Read More about We are NOT Neutral: A Freirean Critique of (Popular) Music in Higher Education.

Pain in police detention: A critical point in the 'penal painscape'? (2020)
Journal Article
Skinns, L., & Wooff, A. (2021). Pain in police detention: A critical point in the 'penal painscape'?. Policing and Society, 31(3), 245-262. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2019.1706506

In this paper, we analyse pain in police detention and the extent to which Sykes’ pains of imprisonment framework usefully informs this. This analysis is based on extensive in-depth qualitative research in four custody facilities in four English poli... Read More about Pain in police detention: A critical point in the 'penal painscape'?.

Semi-global incremental input-to-state stability of discrete-time Lur'e systems (2020)
Journal Article
Gilmore, M., Guiver, C., & Logemann, H. (2020). Semi-global incremental input-to-state stability of discrete-time Lur'e systems. Systems and Control Letters, 136, Article 104593. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sysconle.2019.104593

We present sufficient conditions for semi-global incremental input-to-state stability of a class of forced discrete-time Lur'e systems. The results derived are reminiscent of well-known absolute stability criteria such as the small gain theorem and t... Read More about Semi-global incremental input-to-state stability of discrete-time Lur'e systems.

Reply to Comment on “The effectiveness of home versus community-based weight control programmes initiated soon after breast cancer diagnosis: a randomised controlled trial” (2020)
Journal Article
Harvie, M., Pegington, M., Bundred, N., Campbell, A., Belcher, J., Howell, S., & Howell, A. (2020). Reply to Comment on “The effectiveness of home versus community-based weight control programmes initiated soon after breast cancer diagnosis: a randomised controlled trial”. British Journal of Cancer, 122(6), 925-926. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41416-019-0715-z

A response to a comment on the RCT to justify our participant eligiblity.

Internal insulation condition identification for high-voltage capacitor voltage transformers based on possibilistic fuzzy clustering (2020)
Journal Article
Meng, Z., Li, H., Chen, Q., & See, C. H. (2020). Internal insulation condition identification for high-voltage capacitor voltage transformers based on possibilistic fuzzy clustering. Review of Scientific Instruments, 91(1), Article 014705. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5123438

The internal insulation condition of capacitor voltage transformers (CVTs) is a key influence factor that affects their measurement performance and safe operation. However, the internal insulation would age along with long-time operation and degrade... Read More about Internal insulation condition identification for high-voltage capacitor voltage transformers based on possibilistic fuzzy clustering.

Developing Synergies Between Social Entrepreneurship and Urban Planning: Evidence from Six European Cities (2020)
Journal Article
Margarita, A., & Mora, L. (2020). Developing Synergies Between Social Entrepreneurship and Urban Planning: Evidence from Six European Cities. disP - The Planning Review, 55(4), 28-45. https://doi.org/10.1080/02513625.2019.1708068

For more than two decades, entrepreneurship has been promoted as an effective means to advance the aims of urban development. Social entrepreneurship, more specifically, is seen as a driver of urban innovation and experimentation at the local level.... Read More about Developing Synergies Between Social Entrepreneurship and Urban Planning: Evidence from Six European Cities.

Patients’ experiences of emergency hospital care following self-harm: Systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative research (2020)
Journal Article
MacDonald, S., Ring, N., Biddle, L., Turley, R., Begley, R., Sampson, C., & Evans, R. (2020). Patients’ experiences of emergency hospital care following self-harm: Systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative research. Qualitative Health Research, 30(3), 471-485. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732319886566

Rates of hospital presentation for self-harm have increased in recent years and although clinical practice guidelines on clinical provision prioritise positive patient experiences, the quality of provision remains variable. This systematic review pro... Read More about Patients’ experiences of emergency hospital care following self-harm: Systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative research.

Random Features and Random Neurons for Brain-Inspired Big Data Analytics (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gogate, M., Hussain, A., & Huang, K. (2019, November). Random Features and Random Neurons for Brain-Inspired Big Data Analytics. Presented at 2019 International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW), Beijing, China

With the explosion of Big Data, fast and frugal reasoning algorithms are increasingly needed to keep up with the size and the pace of user-generated contents on the Web. In many real-time applications, it is preferable to be able to process more data... Read More about Random Features and Random Neurons for Brain-Inspired Big Data Analytics.