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Programmable Beam-Steering Capabilities Based on Graphene Plasmonic THz MIMO Antenna via Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) for IoT Applications (2022)
Journal Article
Khaleel, S. A., Hamad, E. K. I., Parchin, N. O., & Saleh, M. B. (2022). Programmable Beam-Steering Capabilities Based on Graphene Plasmonic THz MIMO Antenna via Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) for IoT Applications. Electronics, 12(1), Article 164. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12010164

The approaching sixth-generation (6G) communication network will modernize applications and satisfy user demands through implementing a smart and reconfigurable system with a higher data rate and wider bandwidth. The controllable THz waves are highly... Read More about Programmable Beam-Steering Capabilities Based on Graphene Plasmonic THz MIMO Antenna via Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) for IoT Applications.

Greenhouse gas production, diffusion and consumption in a soil profile under maize and wheat production (2022)
Journal Article
Button, E. S., Marshall, M., Sánchez-Rodríguez, A. R., Blaud, A., Abadie, M., Chadwick, D. R., & Jones, D. L. (2023). Greenhouse gas production, diffusion and consumption in a soil profile under maize and wheat production. Geoderma, 430, Article 116310. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2022.116310

Agricultural soil emissions are a balance between sinks and sources of greenhouse gases (GHGs). The fluxes of GHGs from soils are complex and spatially and temporally heterogenous. While the soil surface is the exchange site with the atmosphere and i... Read More about Greenhouse gas production, diffusion and consumption in a soil profile under maize and wheat production.

Hyper-parameter initialization of classification algorithms using dynamic time warping: A perspective on PCA meta-features (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Horváth, T., Mantovani, R. G., & de Carvalho, A. C. Hyper-parameter initialization of classification algorithms using dynamic time warping: A perspective on PCA meta-features

Meta-learning, a concept from the area of automated machine learning, aims at providing decision support for data scientists by recommending a suitable setting (a machine learning algorithm or its hyper-parameters) to be used for a given dataset. Suc... Read More about Hyper-parameter initialization of classification algorithms using dynamic time warping: A perspective on PCA meta-features.

Diverse features discovery transformer for pedestrian attribute recognition (2022)
Journal Article
Zheng, A., Wang, H., Wang, J., Huang, H., He, R., & Hussain, A. (2023). Diverse features discovery transformer for pedestrian attribute recognition. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 119, Article 105708. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2022.105708

Recently, Swin Transformer has been widely explored as a general backbone for computer vision, which helps to improve the performance of vision tasks due to the ability to establish associations for long-range dependencies of different spatial locati... Read More about Diverse features discovery transformer for pedestrian attribute recognition.

An Overview of Current Printing Technologies for Large-Scale Perovskite Solar Cell Development (2022)
Journal Article
Valsalakumar, S., Roy, A., Mallick, T. K., Hinshelwood, J., & Sundaram, S. (2022). An Overview of Current Printing Technologies for Large-Scale Perovskite Solar Cell Development. Energies, 16(1), Article 190. https://doi.org/10.3390/en16010190

The power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have seen significant performance improvements between 2012 and 2022. PSCs have excellent optoelectronic properties and can be built using low-cost materials. In order to compe... Read More about An Overview of Current Printing Technologies for Large-Scale Perovskite Solar Cell Development.

A Spanish-language translation for the U.S. of the type 2 diabetes stigma assessment scale (DSAS-2 Spa-US) (2022)
Journal Article
Joiner, K. L., Adams, M. P., Bayrakdar, A., & Speight, J. (2022). A Spanish-language translation for the U.S. of the type 2 diabetes stigma assessment scale (DSAS-2 Spa-US). Frontiers in Clinical Diabetes and Healthcare, 3, Article 1057559. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcdhc.2022.1057559

Background: Diabetes stigma is recognized to negatively impact health-related outcomes for people living with type 2 diabetes (T2D), but there is a dearth of evidence among U.S. Latino adults with T2D. Our aim was to develop a Spanish-language transl... Read More about A Spanish-language translation for the U.S. of the type 2 diabetes stigma assessment scale (DSAS-2 Spa-US).

Consumer-Driven racial stigmatization: The moderating role of race in online consumer-to-consumer reviews (2022)
Journal Article
Azer, J., Anker, T., Taheri, B., & Tinsley, R. (2023). Consumer-Driven racial stigmatization: The moderating role of race in online consumer-to-consumer reviews. Journal of Business Research, 157, Article 113567. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.113567

Marketing studies highlight the importance of recognizing different cultures and suggest that race plays an integral role in the functioning and ideological underpinnings of marketplace actions. Nevertheless, this role remains understudied in researc... Read More about Consumer-Driven racial stigmatization: The moderating role of race in online consumer-to-consumer reviews.

Using Social Media & Sentiment Analysis to Make Investment Decisions (2022)
Journal Article
Hasselgren, B., Chrysoulas, C., Pitropakis, N., & Buchanan, W. J. (2023). Using Social Media & Sentiment Analysis to Make Investment Decisions. Future Internet, 15(1), Article 5. https://doi.org/10.3390/fi15010005

Making investment decisions by utilizing sentiment data from social media (SM) is starting to become a more tangible concept. There has been a broad investigation into this field of study over the last decade, and many of the findings have promising... Read More about Using Social Media & Sentiment Analysis to Make Investment Decisions.

'And so with the moderns': The Role of the Revolutionary Writer and the Mythicization of History in J. Leslie Mitchell’s Spartacus (2022)
Journal Article
Lyall, S. (2022). 'And so with the moderns': The Role of the Revolutionary Writer and the Mythicization of History in J. Leslie Mitchell’s Spartacus. Clotho, 4(2), 127-152. https://doi.org/10.4312/clotho.4.2.127-152

The focus of this article is J. Leslie Mitchell’s Spartacus (1933), his fictional representation of the slave rebellion in ancient Rome led by the eponymous gladiator. The article begins by examining Mitchell’s contribution to debates over the role o... Read More about 'And so with the moderns': The Role of the Revolutionary Writer and the Mythicization of History in J. Leslie Mitchell’s Spartacus.

Drivers For Building Retrofitting Practice: A Systematic Review (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ejidike, C. C., Mewomo, M. C., Agbajor, F. D., & Olawumi, T. O. (2022, October). Drivers For Building Retrofitting Practice: A Systematic Review. Presented at 8th International Conference on Development and Investment in Infrastructure (DII-2022), Johannesburg, South Africa

Retrofitting an existing building offers a significant opportunity to improve its performance to solve the problems associated with energy consumption, occupant thermal discomfort, and cost of operation in the building, It is essential to understand... Read More about Drivers For Building Retrofitting Practice: A Systematic Review.

Empirical Investigation of Discipline-Specific Skills Required for the Employability of Built Environment Graduates (2022)
Journal Article
Aliu, J., Aghimien, D., Aigbavboa, C., Oke, A., Ebekozien, A., & Temidayo, O. (2023). Empirical Investigation of Discipline-Specific Skills Required for the Employability of Built Environment Graduates. International Journal of Construction Education and Research, 19(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/15578771.2022.2159589

As the world continues to experience significant and dynamic changes, the concept of graduate employability remains a well-discussed subject in the body of knowledge. Consequently, the concept has attracted the interest of educators, policymakers, re... Read More about Empirical Investigation of Discipline-Specific Skills Required for the Employability of Built Environment Graduates.

An experimental investigation and machine learning-based prediction for seismic performance of steel tubular column filled with recycled aggregate concrete (2022)
Journal Article
Tang, Y., Wang, Y., Wu, D., Zhang, H., Zhu, M., Chen, Z., Sun, J., & Wang, X. (2022). An experimental investigation and machine learning-based prediction for seismic performance of steel tubular column filled with recycled aggregate concrete. Reviews on Advanced Materials Science, 61(1), 849-872. https://doi.org/10.1515/rams-2022-0274

This paper presents the design and application of a low-cycle reciprocating loading test on 23 recycled aggregate concrete-filled steel tube columns (RACSTC) and 3 ordinary concrete-filled steel tube columns (OCSTC). Additionally, a systematic study... Read More about An experimental investigation and machine learning-based prediction for seismic performance of steel tubular column filled with recycled aggregate concrete.

Mindfulness and compassionate midwifery in childbirth trauma (2022)
Book Chapter
Patterson, J. (2022). Mindfulness and compassionate midwifery in childbirth trauma. In L. Davies, & S. Crowther (Eds.), Mindfulness in the Birth Sphere. Routledge

This chapter acknowledges the existence of birth trauma and the contribution that interactions between childbearing women and their care providers make to this. Authors explore the conflicting ideologies in midwifery that challenge midwives creating... Read More about Mindfulness and compassionate midwifery in childbirth trauma.

A Novel Frame Structure for Cloud-Based Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement in Multimodal Hearing-aids (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bishnu, A., Gupta, A., Gogate, M., Dashtipour, K., Adeel, A., Hussain, A., Sellathurai, M., & Ratnarajah, T. (2022, October). A Novel Frame Structure for Cloud-Based Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement in Multimodal Hearing-aids. Presented at 2022 IEEE International Conference on E-health Networking, Application & Services (HealthCom), Genoa, Italy

In this paper, we design a first of its kind transceiver (PHY layer) prototype for cloud-based audio-visual (AV) speech enhancement (SE) complying with high data rate and low latency requirements of future multimodal hearing assistive technology. The... Read More about A Novel Frame Structure for Cloud-Based Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement in Multimodal Hearing-aids.

Studies on anode mass composition and cathode flow field design for small-scale to large-scale direct methanol fuel cell stack systems (2022)
Journal Article
Kumaresan, T., Palaniswamy, K., Fly, A., & Sundaram, S. (2022). Studies on anode mass composition and cathode flow field design for small-scale to large-scale direct methanol fuel cell stack systems. AIP advances, 12(12), Article 125316. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0121729

In this research, the performance studies of a single cell Direct Methanol Fuel Cell with three different mass compositions (20%, 40%, and 60%) of platinum at anode infused in NiTiO3/C and multiple cathode flow fields, such as serpentine, parallel, a... Read More about Studies on anode mass composition and cathode flow field design for small-scale to large-scale direct methanol fuel cell stack systems.

An example of occupation & rights based practice in Scotland (2022)
Book Chapter
McKay, E. A., & Flannigan, L. (2022). An example of occupation & rights based practice in Scotland. In F. Maclean, A. F. Warren, E. Hunter, & L. Westcott (Eds.), Occupational Therapy and Dementia: Promoting Inclusion, Rights and Opportunities for People Living With Dementia. Jessica Kingsley Publishers