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Cu2ZnSnS4, a fascinating counter electrode for TiO2-free dye-sensitized solar cells (2021)
Journal Article
Roy, A., Sundaram, S., & Mallick, T. K. (2021). Cu2ZnSnS4, a fascinating counter electrode for TiO2-free dye-sensitized solar cells. ChemistrySelect, 6(7), 1541-1547. https://doi.org/10.1002/slct.202004644

Since innovation, different dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) have endeavored with additional components to escalate the efficiency, cost-effectiveness and long-term stability. Various approaches have been executed to reduce the amount of costly pla... Read More about Cu2ZnSnS4, a fascinating counter electrode for TiO2-free dye-sensitized solar cells.

Current Nutrition Practice in Cardiac Rehabilitation Programs (2021)
Journal Article
Kocanda, L., Schumacher, T. L., Kerr, J., May, J., Rollo, M. E., Neubeck, L., & Brown, L. J. (2021). Current Nutrition Practice in Cardiac Rehabilitation Programs. Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention, 41(6), E32-E38. https://doi.org/10.1097/hcr.0000000000000588

Purpose: This study sought to determine current practice regarding nutrition care within cardiac rehabilitation (CR) programs, including perceived barriers and facilitators to providing nutrition care in this setting. Methods: A cross-sectiona... Read More about Current Nutrition Practice in Cardiac Rehabilitation Programs.

Coach John Beam - Ready Ready? (2021)
Digital Artefact
Laird, P. (2021). Coach John Beam - Ready Ready?. [YouTube]

A vodcast interview with star of the netflix series Last Chance U, Coach John Beam.

A Multipath Fusion Strategy Based Single Shot Detector (2021)
Journal Article
Qu, S., Huang, K., Hussain, A., & Goulermas, Y. (2021). A Multipath Fusion Strategy Based Single Shot Detector. Sensors, 21(4), Article 1360. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21041360

Object detection has wide applications in intelligent systems and sensor applications. Compared with two stage detectors, recent one stage counterparts are capable of running more efficiently with comparable accuracy, which satisfy the requirement of... Read More about A Multipath Fusion Strategy Based Single Shot Detector.

Water, energy, and carbon dioxide footprints of the construction sector: a case study on developed and developing economies (2021)
Journal Article
Pomponi, F., & Stephan, A. (2021). Water, energy, and carbon dioxide footprints of the construction sector: a case study on developed and developing economies. Water Research, 194, Article 116935. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2021.116935

Buildings and construction are major driver of anthropogenic environmental effects. While energy use and CO2 emissions of buildings and construction have been quantified, their water footprint remains understudied from an economy-wide perspective. We... Read More about Water, energy, and carbon dioxide footprints of the construction sector: a case study on developed and developing economies.

Delphi Study of Risk to Individuals who Disclose Personal Information Online (2021)
Journal Article
Haynes, D., & Robinson, L. (2023). Delphi Study of Risk to Individuals who Disclose Personal Information Online. Journal of Information Science, 49(1), 93-106. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165551521992756

A two-round Delphi study was conducted to explore priorities for addressing online risk to individuals. A corpus of literature was created based on 69 peer-reviewed articles about privacy risk and the privacy calculus published between 2014 and 2019... Read More about Delphi Study of Risk to Individuals who Disclose Personal Information Online.

Risk Factors for Leg Ulceration in People Who Inject Drugs: A Cross-Sectional Study (2021)
Journal Article
Coull, A. F., Kyle, R. G., Hanson, C. L., & Watterson, A. (2021). Risk Factors for Leg Ulceration in People Who Inject Drugs: A Cross-Sectional Study. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 30(11-12), 1623-1632. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.15716

Aims and Objectives The aim of this study was to assess, for the first time in a hard-to-reach population, the risk factors for leg ulceration among PWID, with the objective of making improvements to prevention and care. Background An estimate... Read More about Risk Factors for Leg Ulceration in People Who Inject Drugs: A Cross-Sectional Study.

A Memetic Random Key Algorithm for the Balanced Travelling Salesman Problem (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Aslan, A. (2021). A Memetic Random Key Algorithm for the Balanced Travelling Salesman Problem. In Metaheuristics for Combinatorial Optimization: MESS 2018 (16-22). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68520-1_2

This paper considers a variant of the well-known travelling salesman problem. In this variant, the cost of travelling from a vertex to another is an arbitrary value on the real line and the objective is finding a tour with minimum absolute value cost... Read More about A Memetic Random Key Algorithm for the Balanced Travelling Salesman Problem.

AR guidance system for traffic circumvention and collision avoidance: emergency services case study (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bram-Larbi, K., Charissis, V., Khan, S., Lagoo, R., Drikakis, D., & Harrison, D. (2021, January). AR guidance system for traffic circumvention and collision avoidance: emergency services case study. Presented at 2021 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE), Las Vegas, NV, USA

Circumventing motorway traffic can be a challenging task for the Emergency Services{\textquoteright} vehicles. This work presents a preliminary Human-Computer Interface (HCI) design which employs Augmented Reality (AR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI... Read More about AR guidance system for traffic circumvention and collision avoidance: emergency services case study.

Summer outdoor thermal benchmarks in Melbourne: Applications of different techniques (2021)
Journal Article
Kenawy, I., Lam, C. K. C., & Shooshtarian, S. (2021). Summer outdoor thermal benchmarks in Melbourne: Applications of different techniques. Building and Environment, 195, Article 107658. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2021.107658

In urban planning, sustainability is often synonymous to urban livability. Urban livability seeks to improve living conditions of current and future outdoor users and hence it has become a key priority for cities authorities. Melbourne, as the world... Read More about Summer outdoor thermal benchmarks in Melbourne: Applications of different techniques.

Sociocultural Conflicts and Ottoman Settlement Policies at the Balkan Wars (2021)
Journal Article
Bilecen, T., & Sirkeci, I. (2021). Sociocultural Conflicts and Ottoman Settlement Policies at the Balkan Wars. Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 23(4), 533-548. https://doi.org/10.1080/19448953.2021.1888601

Migrations from Balkans to the Ottoman Empire continued for about 150 years; and peaked during the wars such as the 1877–78 Ottoman-Russian War and the Balkan Wars. Balkan immigrants with multi-ethnic, multicultural backgrounds and settling in with m... Read More about Sociocultural Conflicts and Ottoman Settlement Policies at the Balkan Wars.

Systematic review on use, cost and clinical efficacy of automated decontamination devices (2021)
Journal Article
Dancer, S. J., & King, M. (2021). Systematic review on use, cost and clinical efficacy of automated decontamination devices. Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, 10(1), Article 34 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13756-021-00894-y

Background More evidence is emerging on the role of surface decontamination for reducing hospital-acquired infection (HAI). Timely and adequate removal of environmental pathogens leads to measurable clinical benefit in both routine and outbreak situ... Read More about Systematic review on use, cost and clinical efficacy of automated decontamination devices.

ICD-11 Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD) in parents with perinatal bereavement: Implications for treatment and care (2021)
Journal Article
Hollins Martin, C. J., Patterson, J., Paterson, C., Welsh, N., Dougall, N., Karatzias, T., & Williams, B. (2021). ICD-11 Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD) in parents with perinatal bereavement: Implications for treatment and care. Midwifery, 96, Article 102947. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2021.102947

The 11th revision of the WHO International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) has identified Complex PTSD (CPTSD) as a new condition. Aim: To explore whether the new diagnosis of CPTSD (ICD11) is relevant to women who have experienced perinatal be... Read More about ICD-11 Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD) in parents with perinatal bereavement: Implications for treatment and care.

Metal Coated Fabric Based Asymmetric Supercapacitor for Wearable Applications (2021)
Journal Article
Pullanchiyodan, A., Manjakkal, L., & Dahiya, R. (2021). Metal Coated Fabric Based Asymmetric Supercapacitor for Wearable Applications. IEEE Sensors Journal, 21(23), 26208-26214. https://doi.org/10.1109/jsen.2021.3058894

This paper presents a fabric based asymmetric supercapacitor (ASC) with metal coated cloths as the electrode and the current collector. Graphite paste printed on silver coated textile (Berlin) is used as the negative electrode and nickel/copper/silve... Read More about Metal Coated Fabric Based Asymmetric Supercapacitor for Wearable Applications.

Estimating mechanical properties of clear wood from ten‐year‐old Melia azedarach trees using the stress wave method (2021)
Journal Article
Van Duong, D., & Ridley-Ellis, D. (2021). Estimating mechanical properties of clear wood from ten‐year‐old Melia azedarach trees using the stress wave method. European Journal of Wood and Wood Products, 79(4), 941-949. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00107-021-01664-8

The objective of this study was to examine the potential of stress wave velocity (SWV) as a rapid and non-destructive method to estimate the mechanical properties of Melia azedarach wood. The SWV, dynamic modulus of elasticity (MOE d), modulus of ela... Read More about Estimating mechanical properties of clear wood from ten‐year‐old Melia azedarach trees using the stress wave method.

A case study of timber demolition recycling in the UK (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cramer, M., & Ridley-Ellis, D. (2020, December). A case study of timber demolition recycling in the UK. Presented at Northern European Network for Wood Science and Engineering – WSE2020, Online (Helsinki)

A brief look at alternative species in the UK (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Adams, S. H., & Ridley-Ellis, D. J. (2020, December). A brief look at alternative species in the UK. Presented at Northern European Network for Wood Science and Engineering – WSE2020, Online (Helsinki)

Editorial on Special Issue “Modern Applications in Optics and Photonics: From Sensing and Analytics to Communication” (2021)
Journal Article
Alwis, L. S. M., Bremer, K., & Roth, B. (2021). Editorial on Special Issue “Modern Applications in Optics and Photonics: From Sensing and Analytics to Communication”. Applied Sciences, 11(4), Article 1589. https://doi.org/10.3390/app11041589

Note: In lieu of an abstract, this is an excerpt from the first page. Optics and photonics are among the key technologies of the 21st century and offer the potential for novel applications in areas as diverse as sensing and spectroscopy, analytics... Read More about Editorial on Special Issue “Modern Applications in Optics and Photonics: From Sensing and Analytics to Communication”.

Examining the effectiveness of telemonitoring with routinely acquired blood pressure data in primary care: challenges in the statistical analysis (2021)
Journal Article
Parker, R. A., Padfield, P., Hanley, J., Pinnock, H., Kennedy, J., Stoddart, A., Hammersley, V., Sheikh, A., & McKinstry, B. (2021). Examining the effectiveness of telemonitoring with routinely acquired blood pressure data in primary care: challenges in the statistical analysis. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 21(1), Article 31 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-021-01219-8

Background Scale-up BP was a quasi-experimental implementation study, following a successful randomised controlled trial of the roll-out of telemonitoring in primary care across Lothian, Scotland. Our primary objective was to assess the effect of te... Read More about Examining the effectiveness of telemonitoring with routinely acquired blood pressure data in primary care: challenges in the statistical analysis.

Development of Affordable Steel-Framed Modular Buildings for Emergency Situations (Covid-19) (2021)
Journal Article
Gatheeshgar, P., Poologanathan, K., Gunalan, S., Shyha, I., Sherlock, P., Rajanayagam, H., & Nagaratnam, B. (2021). Development of Affordable Steel-Framed Modular Buildings for Emergency Situations (Covid-19). Structures, 31, 862-875. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.istruc.2021.02.004

This paper presents the development of novel affordable steel-framed modular units for construction with enhanced overall (healthcare, structural, fire, and lightweight) performance, which ideally suits for emergency response situation, such as curre... Read More about Development of Affordable Steel-Framed Modular Buildings for Emergency Situations (Covid-19).