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An investigation of smart transportation system (STS) data integration within Chinese cities: A socio-technical system perspective (2020)
Thesis
Zhang, J. An investigation of smart transportation system (STS) data integration within Chinese cities: A socio-technical system perspective. (Thesis). University of Sheffield. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2822416

In March 2014, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council of China jointly released the National New-type Urbanization Plan (NUP) (20142020). Smart City development is one of the main objectives of this policy. Amongs... Read More about An investigation of smart transportation system (STS) data integration within Chinese cities: A socio-technical system perspective.

Can Knowledge Exchange Forge a Collaborative Pathway to Policymaking? A Case Study Example of the Recognition Matters Project (2020)
Journal Article
Critchley, A., & Mitchell, M. (2020). Can Knowledge Exchange Forge a Collaborative Pathway to Policymaking? A Case Study Example of the Recognition Matters Project. British Journal of Social Work, 50(8), 2298-2318. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcaa220

Knowledge Exchange is considered a way that research might be operationalised beyond the academy, both within policy and practice. This article seeks to analyse knowledge exchange as a method of bringing field, research and policy together. It does s... Read More about Can Knowledge Exchange Forge a Collaborative Pathway to Policymaking? A Case Study Example of the Recognition Matters Project.

Asymmetric Private Set Intersection with Applications to Contact Tracing and Private Vertical Federated Machine Learning (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Angelou, N., Benaissa, A., Cebere, B., Clark, W., Hall, A. J., Hoeh, M. A., Liu, D., Papadopoulos, P., Roehm, R., Sandmann, R., Schoppmann, P., & Titcombe, T. (2020, December). Asymmetric Private Set Intersection with Applications to Contact Tracing and Private Vertical Federated Machine Learning. Poster presented at NeurIPS 2020 Workshop on Privacy Preserving Machine Learning (PPML 2020), Online

We present a multi-language, cross-platform, open-source library for asymmetric private set intersection (PSI) and PSI-Cardinality (PSI-C). Our protocol combines traditional DDH-based PSI and PSI-C protocols with compression based on Bloom filters th... Read More about Asymmetric Private Set Intersection with Applications to Contact Tracing and Private Vertical Federated Machine Learning.

Atrial fibrillation self-management: a mobile telephone app scoping review and content analysis (2020)
Journal Article
Pearsons, A., Hanson, C. L., Gallagher, R., O'Carroll, R. E., Khonsari, S., Hanley, J., Strachan, F. E., Mills, N. L., Quinn, T. J., McKinstry, B., McHale, S., Stewart, S., Zhang, M., O'Conner, S., & Neubeck, L. (2021). Atrial fibrillation self-management: a mobile telephone app scoping review and content analysis. European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 20(4), 305–314. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurjcn/zvaa014

Atrial fibrillation (AF) affects over 1.4 million people in the UK, resulting in a five-fold increased stroke risk and a three to four times greater risk of severe, disabling stroke. Atrial fibrillation, a chronic disease, requires monitoring, medica... Read More about Atrial fibrillation self-management: a mobile telephone app scoping review and content analysis.

Social inclusion for people with intellectual disabilities in seven European countries (2020)
Journal Article
Magnus Grung, R., Brown, M., Abdulla, S., Kiss, J., Orţan, F., Odrowaz-Coates, A., Surfraz, M., Tah, J., & Marsh, L. (2021). Social inclusion for people with intellectual disabilities in seven European countries. Learning Disability Practice, 24(1), 19-28. https://doi.org/10.7748/ldp.2020.e2120

Policies for people with disabilities, and specifically those with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), have undergone significant changes during the past three decades. Many people with IDD experience social exclusion, which has signif... Read More about Social inclusion for people with intellectual disabilities in seven European countries.

Identification/Non-Identification Among U.K. Veterans in Scotland (2020)
Journal Article
Frondigoun, L., Campbell, R., Leith, M., Sturgeon, J., & Thomas, L. (2020). Identification/Non-Identification Among U.K. Veterans in Scotland. Journal of Veterans Studies, 6(3), 12-22. https://doi.org/10.21061/jvs.v6i3.215

This article seeks to establish how, and why, older U.K. Armed Forces veterans resident in Scotland identify as veterans. We consider both the profile and the nature of the aged veteran population in Scotland and consider the nature of inclusion and... Read More about Identification/Non-Identification Among U.K. Veterans in Scotland.

Distribution and thermal niche of the common skate species complex in the north-east Atlantic (2020)
Journal Article
Frost, M., Neat, F. C., Stirling, D., Bendall, V., Noble, L. R., & Jones, C. S. (2020). Distribution and thermal niche of the common skate species complex in the north-east Atlantic. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 656, 65-74. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13545

Temperature is one of the most significant variables affecting the geographic distribution and physiology of elasmobranchs. Differing thermal gradients across a species' range can lead to adaptive divergence and differing developmental times, an impo... Read More about Distribution and thermal niche of the common skate species complex in the north-east Atlantic.

Transport and health: A personal and UK perspective (2020)
Book Chapter
Davis, A. (2020). Transport and health: A personal and UK perspective. In C. Curtis (Ed.), Handbook of Sustainable Transport (48-57). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789900477.00016

Starting in an era where three quantifiable impacts of road transport were viewed as the sum total of impacts – casualties and air and noise pollution – from the embryo of the evolving transport and health interdisciplinary field is charted from the... Read More about Transport and health: A personal and UK perspective.

A Traffic Analysis on Serverless Computing Based on the Example of a File Upload Stream on AWS Lambda (2020)
Journal Article
Muller, L., Chrysoulas, C., Pitropakis, N., & Barclay, P. J. (2020). A Traffic Analysis on Serverless Computing Based on the Example of a File Upload Stream on AWS Lambda. Big Data and Cognitive Computing, 4(4), Article 38. https://doi.org/10.3390/bdcc4040038

The shift towards microservisation which can be observed in recent developments of the cloud landscape for applications has led towards the emergence of the Function as a Service (FaaS) concept, also called Serverless. This term describes the event-d... Read More about A Traffic Analysis on Serverless Computing Based on the Example of a File Upload Stream on AWS Lambda.

Designing dark tourism experiences: an exploration of edutainment interpretation at lighter dark visitor attractions (2020)
Journal Article
Wyatt, B., Leask, A., & Barron, P. (2021). Designing dark tourism experiences: an exploration of edutainment interpretation at lighter dark visitor attractions. Journal of Heritage Tourism, 16(4: Special Issue), 433-449. https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873x.2020.1858087

Existing dark tourism literature has explored various aspects of interpretation, including challenges in balancing interpretation efforts with concerns for historical accuracy, and managing ethical issues with interpreting past tragedies for packaged... Read More about Designing dark tourism experiences: an exploration of edutainment interpretation at lighter dark visitor attractions.

The role of MSC therapy in attenuating the damaging effects of the cytokine storm induced by COVID-19 on the heart and cardiovascular system (2020)
Journal Article
Ellison-Hughes, G. M., Colley, L., O'Brien, K. A., Roberts, K. A., Agbaedeng, T. A., & Ross, M. (2020). The role of MSC therapy in attenuating the damaging effects of the cytokine storm induced by COVID-19 on the heart and cardiovascular system. Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 7, Article 602183. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcvm.2020.602183

The global pandemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has led to 47m infected cases and 1.2m (2.6%) deaths. A hallmark of more severe cases of SARS-CoV-2 in patients with a... Read More about The role of MSC therapy in attenuating the damaging effects of the cytokine storm induced by COVID-19 on the heart and cardiovascular system.

Women’s Barriers to Weight Loss, Perception of Future Diabetes Risk and Opinions of Diet Strategies Following Gestational Diabetes: An Online Survey (2020)
Journal Article
Gray, K. L., McKellar, L., O’Reilly, S. L., Clifton, P. M., & Keogh, J. B. (2020). Women’s Barriers to Weight Loss, Perception of Future Diabetes Risk and Opinions of Diet Strategies Following Gestational Diabetes: An Online Survey. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(24), Article 9180. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17249180

Weight loss after gestational diabetes (GDM) reduces the risk of type 2 diabetes (T2DM); however, weight loss remains challenging in this population. In order to explore perceptions of T2DM risk, barriers to weight loss, and views of diet strategies... Read More about Women’s Barriers to Weight Loss, Perception of Future Diabetes Risk and Opinions of Diet Strategies Following Gestational Diabetes: An Online Survey.

Framing the Mitigation of Livestock Emissions under the International Climate Regime (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Williams, R. (2020, December). Framing the Mitigation of Livestock Emissions under the International Climate Regime. Poster presented at Livestock, Environment and People (LEAP) Conference 2020, University of Oxford [Online]

Increasingly, research indicates that the agricultural sector contributes significantly to global greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), particularly with regards to livestock. As a result, the IPCC has recognised the importance of pursuing a sustainable g... Read More about Framing the Mitigation of Livestock Emissions under the International Climate Regime.

A novel measure of sleep based on Google: the case for financial markets (2020)
Journal Article
Siganos, A. (2021). A novel measure of sleep based on Google: the case for financial markets. European Journal of Finance, 27(12), 1151-1163. https://doi.org/10.1080/1351847x.2020.1857289

We address in this study the issue of how to proxy sleep and explore sleep’s significance for financial markets. We employ daily Google search activity on sleepiness terms (e.g. sleep deprivation) to develop an index and find that a one-day lagged sl... Read More about A novel measure of sleep based on Google: the case for financial markets.

Safety and efficacy of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine (AZD1222) against SARS-CoV-2: an interim analysis of four randomised controlled trials in Brazil, South Africa, and the UK (2020)
Journal Article
Voysey, M., Costa Clemens, S. A., Madhi, S. A., Weckx, L. Y., Folegatti, P. M., Aley, P. K., Angus, B., Baillie, V. L., Barnabas, S. L., Bhorat, Q. E., Bibi, S., Briner, C., Cicconi, P., Collins, A. M., Colin-Jones, R., Cutland, C. L., Darton, T. C., Dheda, K., Duncan, C. J. A., Emary, K. R. W., …Oxford COVID Vaccine Trial Group. (2021). Safety and efficacy of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine (AZD1222) against SARS-CoV-2: an interim analysis of four randomised controlled trials in Brazil, South Africa, and the UK. Lancet, 397(10269), 99-111. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736%2820%2932661-1

Background
A safe and efficacious vaccine against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), if deployed with high coverage, could contribute to the control of the COVID-19 pandemic. We evaluated the safety and efficacy of the ChA... Read More about Safety and efficacy of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine (AZD1222) against SARS-CoV-2: an interim analysis of four randomised controlled trials in Brazil, South Africa, and the UK.

A blockchain-based architecture for secure and trustworthy operations in the industrial Internet of Things (2020)
Journal Article
Latif, S., Idrees, Z., Ahmad, J., Zheng, L., & Zou, Z. (2021). A blockchain-based architecture for secure and trustworthy operations in the industrial Internet of Things. Journal of Industrial Information Integration, 21, Article 100190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jii.2020.100190

The industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) plays an important role in the industrial sector, where secure, scalable, and easily adopted technologies are being implemented for the smart industry. The traditional IIoT architectures are generally based on... Read More about A blockchain-based architecture for secure and trustworthy operations in the industrial Internet of Things.

Singular Integral Formulations for Electrodynamic Analysis of Metamaterial-Inspired Antenna Array (2020)
Journal Article
Alibakhshikenari, M., Virdee, B. S., Aïssa, S., See, C. H., Althuwayb, A. A., Abd-Alhameed, R., Huynen, I., Falcone, F., & Limiti, E. (2021). Singular Integral Formulations for Electrodynamic Analysis of Metamaterial-Inspired Antenna Array. IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, 20(2), 179-183. https://doi.org/10.1109/lawp.2020.3043380

In this paper, a set of singular integral formulations are derived to calculate the surface impedance matrix on the antenna array elements. The proposed mathematical model enables electrodynamic analysis of antenna arrays designed using metamaterial-... Read More about Singular Integral Formulations for Electrodynamic Analysis of Metamaterial-Inspired Antenna Array.