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Leveraging Contextual Graphs for Stochastic Weight Completion in Sparse Road Networks (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Han, X., Cheng, R., Grubenmann, T., Maniu, S., Ma, C., & Li, X. (2022, April). Leveraging Contextual Graphs for Stochastic Weight Completion in Sparse Road Networks. Presented at SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM22), Alexandria, Virginia, US

Road network applications, such as navigation, incident detection, and Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation, make extensive use of network edge weights (e.g., traveling times). Some of these weights can be missing, especially in a road network wher... Read More about Leveraging Contextual Graphs for Stochastic Weight Completion in Sparse Road Networks.

‘Thieves Should not Live Amongst People’: Under-Protection and Popular Support for Police Violence in Nairobi (2022)
Journal Article
Wairuri, K. (2022). ‘Thieves Should not Live Amongst People’: Under-Protection and Popular Support for Police Violence in Nairobi. African affairs; journal of the Royal African Society, 121(482), 61-79. https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adac006

This paper examines how communities at the urban margins, who are under-protected by the state police, understand police reforms through an examination of the unusual case of street protests in support of a police officer who had killed two young men... Read More about ‘Thieves Should not Live Amongst People’: Under-Protection and Popular Support for Police Violence in Nairobi.

Ageing Population, the Poverty Nexus and Wellbeing of Elderly in Mauritius (2022)
Book Chapter
Jouan, K., Rowtho, V., Rughoobur-Seetah, S., Hosanoo, Z., & Ramloll, C. (2022). Ageing Population, the Poverty Nexus and Wellbeing of Elderly in Mauritius. In S. Dhakal, A. Nankervis, & J. Burgess (Eds.), Ageing Asia and the Pacific in Changing Times: Implications for Sustainable Development (147-164). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6663-6_9

Human settlement process in Mauritius started in 1715 and by the 1960s the population had reached above 660,000 people. Life expectancy was below 60 years and the population pyramid suggested a young and growing population. The population has now dou... Read More about Ageing Population, the Poverty Nexus and Wellbeing of Elderly in Mauritius.

Remdesivir-ivermectin combination displays synergistic interaction with improved in vitro activity against SARS-CoV-2 (2022)
Journal Article
Jeffreys, L. N., Pennington, S. H., Duggan, J., Caygill, C. H., Lopeman, R. C., Breen, A. F., Jinks, J. B., Ardrey, A., Donnellan, S., Patterson, E. I., Hughes, G. L., Hong, D. W., O'Neill, P. M., Aljayyoussi, G., Owen, A., Ward, S. A., & Biagini, G. A. (2022). Remdesivir-ivermectin combination displays synergistic interaction with improved in vitro activity against SARS-CoV-2. International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, 59(3), Article 106542. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2022.106542

A key element for the prevention and management of COVID-19 is the development of effective therapeutics. Drug combination strategies of repurposed drugs offer several advantages over monotherapies, including the potential to achieve greater efficacy... Read More about Remdesivir-ivermectin combination displays synergistic interaction with improved in vitro activity against SARS-CoV-2.

Investigating the reasons for dropping out by competitive artistic gymnastics (2022)
Journal Article
Swan, I., Souglis, A., & Andronikos, G. (2022). Investigating the reasons for dropping out by competitive artistic gymnastics. Journal of Physical Education and Sport, 22(1), 55-66. https://doi.org/10.7752/jpes.2022.01007

Objective/Background: Taking part in sport can help decrease the risk of children developing obesity and related diseases in an enjoyable way, yet 35% of children dropout from sport each year. In particular, artistic gymnastics struggles with a high... Read More about Investigating the reasons for dropping out by competitive artistic gymnastics.

Environmental benefits of material-efficient design: a hybrid life cycle assessment of a plastic milk bottle (2022)
Journal Article
Pomponi, F., Li, M., Saint, R., Lenzen, M., & D'Amico, B. (2022). Environmental benefits of material-efficient design: a hybrid life cycle assessment of a plastic milk bottle. Sustainable Production and Consumption, 30, 1044-1052. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spc.2022.01.028

Over a million plastic bottles are bought around the world every minute, 20,000 every second. While there is agreement that single-use plastics should be phased out, records of plastic pollution point in the opposite direction. Until the phasing-out... Read More about Environmental benefits of material-efficient design: a hybrid life cycle assessment of a plastic milk bottle.

Lego Serious Play: Building Engagement with Cell Biology (2022)
Journal Article
Garden, C. (2022). Lego Serious Play: Building Engagement with Cell Biology. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 50(2), 216-228. https://doi.org/10.1002/bmb.21608

A Lego Serious Play (LSP) - based exercise was developed to support student engagement with learning consolidation at the end of a first-year undergraduate cell biology course. The exercise was offered in addition to a regular revision session in pre... Read More about Lego Serious Play: Building Engagement with Cell Biology.

Seven Mercies (2022)
Book
May, E., & Lam, L. (2022). Seven Mercies. London: Gollancz

The sequel to Seven Devils

Flexibility-Based Stress-Driven Nonlocal Frame Element: Formulation and Applications (2022)
Journal Article
Limkatanyu, S., Sae-Long, W., Sedighi, H. M., Rungamornrat, J., Sukontasukkul, P., Zhang, H., & Chindaprasirt, P. (2023). Flexibility-Based Stress-Driven Nonlocal Frame Element: Formulation and Applications. Engineering with Computers, 39(1), 399-417. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00366-021-01576-4

In the present work, a novel flexibility-based nonlocal frame element for size-dependent analyses of nano-sized frame-like structures is proposed. The material small-scale effect is consistently represented by the stress-driven nonlocal integral mode... Read More about Flexibility-Based Stress-Driven Nonlocal Frame Element: Formulation and Applications.

Development of a standard operating procedure for the DCFH2-DA acellular assessment of reactive oxygen species produced by nanomaterials (2022)
Journal Article
Boyles, M., Murphy, F., Mueller, W., Wohlleben, W., Jacobsen, N. R., Braakhuis, H., Giusti, A., & Stone, V. (2022). Development of a standard operating procedure for the DCFH2-DA acellular assessment of reactive oxygen species produced by nanomaterials. Toxicology Mechanisms and Methods, 32(6), 439-452. https://doi.org/10.1080/15376516.2022.2029656

Improved strategies are required for testing nanomaterials (NMs) to make hazard and risk assessment more efficient and sustainable. Including reduced reliance on animal models, without decreasing the level of human health protection. Acellular detect... Read More about Development of a standard operating procedure for the DCFH2-DA acellular assessment of reactive oxygen species produced by nanomaterials.

Machine Learning-Based Digital Twin for Predictive Modeling in Wind Turbines (2022)
Journal Article
Fahim, M., Sharma, V., Cao, T., Canberk, B., & Duong, T. Q. (2022). Machine Learning-Based Digital Twin for Predictive Modeling in Wind Turbines. IEEE Access, 10, 14184-14194. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2022.3147602

Wind turbines are one of the primary sources of renewable energy, which leads to a sustainable and efficient energy solution. It does not release any carbon emissions to pollute our planet. The wind farms monitoring and power generation prediction is... Read More about Machine Learning-Based Digital Twin for Predictive Modeling in Wind Turbines.

Anti-racism and Occupational Therapy Education: Beyond Diversity and Inclusion (2022)
Journal Article
Sterman, J., Njelesani, J., & Carr, S. (2022). Anti-racism and Occupational Therapy Education: Beyond Diversity and Inclusion. Journal of Occupational Therapy Education, 6(1), Article 3. https://doi.org/10.26681/jote.2022.060103

There is a pressing need to address racism within healthcare education; however, occupational therapy educators lack a compilation of discipline-specific knowledge of anti-racist actions. The objective of this study was to examine anti-racist instruc... Read More about Anti-racism and Occupational Therapy Education: Beyond Diversity and Inclusion.

Scottish Modernism as Renaissance (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2022, January). Scottish Modernism as Renaissance. Presented at Extension Lecture, Department of English, Sukanta Mahavidyalaya, Dhupguri, Jalpaiguri University of North Bengal [Online]

Semantic Segmentation and Edge Detection—Approach to Road Detection in Very High Resolution Satellite Images (2022)
Journal Article
Ghandorh, H., Boulila, W., Masood, S., Koubaa, A., Ahmed, F., & Ahmad, J. (2022). Semantic Segmentation and Edge Detection—Approach to Road Detection in Very High Resolution Satellite Images. Remote Sensing, 14(3), Article 613. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14030613

Road detection technology plays an essential role in a variety of applications, such as urban planning, map updating, traffic monitoring and automatic vehicle navigation. Recently, there has been much development in detecting roads in high-resolution... Read More about Semantic Segmentation and Edge Detection—Approach to Road Detection in Very High Resolution Satellite Images.

Conceptualising Risk Assessment and Management across the Public Sector: From Theory to Practice (2022)
Book
Murray, J., & Enang, I. (2022). Conceptualising Risk Assessment and Management across the Public Sector: From Theory to Practice. Emerald

Risk assessment and risk management are essential across the public sector to improve processes and outcomes. However, there is little clarity over what this actually means. This lack of understanding leads to a wide variation in risk assessment and... Read More about Conceptualising Risk Assessment and Management across the Public Sector: From Theory to Practice.

A Novel Chaotic Permutation-Substitution Image Encryption Scheme Based on Logistic Map and Random Substitution (2022)
Journal Article
Arif, J., Khan, M. A., Ghaleb, B., Ahmad, J., Munir, A., Rashid, U., & Al-Dubai, A. Y. (2022). A Novel Chaotic Permutation-Substitution Image Encryption Scheme Based on Logistic Map and Random Substitution. IEEE Access, 10, 12966-12982. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2022.3146792

Privacy is a serious concern related to sharing videos or images among people over the Internet. As a method to preserve images’ privacy, chaos-based image encryption algorithms have been used widely to fulfil such a requirement. However, these algor... Read More about A Novel Chaotic Permutation-Substitution Image Encryption Scheme Based on Logistic Map and Random Substitution.

Ransomware: Analysing the Impact on Windows Active Directory Domain Services (2022)
Journal Article
McDonald, G., Papadopoulos, P., Pitropakis, N., Ahmad, J., & Buchanan, W. J. (2022). Ransomware: Analysing the Impact on Windows Active Directory Domain Services. Sensors, 22(3), Article 953. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22030953

Ransomware has become an increasingly popular type of malware across the past decade and continues to rise in popularity due to its high profitability. Organisations and enterprises have become prime targets for ransomware as they are more likely to... Read More about Ransomware: Analysing the Impact on Windows Active Directory Domain Services.