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Traumatic life events as risk factors for psychosis and ICD-11 complex PTSD: a gender-specific examination (2021)
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Ho, G. W. K., Hyland, P., Karatzias, T., Bressington, D., & Shevlin, M. (2021). Traumatic life events as risk factors for psychosis and ICD-11 complex PTSD: a gender-specific examination. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 12(1), Article 2009271. htt

Background. Numerous studies found robust associations between psychosis and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but few have examined the relationships between psychosis and recently formulated ICD-11 Complex PTSD (CPTSD). Further, no known study... Read More about Traumatic life events as risk factors for psychosis and ICD-11 complex PTSD: a gender-specific examination.

Design as a Marked Point Process (2021)
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Quigley, J., Vasantha, G., Corney, J., Purves, D., & Sherlock, A. (2022). Design as a Marked Point Process. Journal of Mechanical Design, 144(2), Article 021713. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4052844

Although AI systems which support composition using predictive text are well established there are no analogous technologies for mechanical design. Motivated by the vision of a predictive system that interactively suggests features to designer, this... Read More about Design as a Marked Point Process.

Movement patterns of a Critically Endangered elasmobranch (Dipturus intermedius) in a Marine Protected Area (2021)
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Lavender, E., Aleynik, D., Dodd, J., Illian, J., James, M., Wright, P. J., …Thorburn, J. (2022). Movement patterns of a Critically Endangered elasmobranch (Dipturus intermedius) in a Marine Protected Area. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Eco

1. Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are widely used in marine management, but for mobile species understanding the spatio-temporal scale of management measures that is required to deliver conservation benefits depends on a detailed knowledge of species'... Read More about Movement patterns of a Critically Endangered elasmobranch (Dipturus intermedius) in a Marine Protected Area.

Evaluation of Viscosity Dependence of the Critical Meniscus Height with Optical Fiber Sensors (2021)
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Binetti, L., Simpson, F., & Alwis, L. S. M. (2021). Evaluation of Viscosity Dependence of the Critical Meniscus Height with Optical Fiber Sensors. Sensors, 21(23), Article 8130. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21238130

Conventional means of data extraction using optical fiber interrogators are not adequate for fast-paced detection of a target parameter. In this instance, the relationship between the critical meniscus heights (CMH) of several liquids to the extracti... Read More about Evaluation of Viscosity Dependence of the Critical Meniscus Height with Optical Fiber Sensors.

Preoperative morbidity and joint awareness while awaiting hip arthroscopy for femoroacetabular impingement (2021)
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Robinson, P., Williamson, T., Maempel, J., Murray, I., MacDonald, D., Hamilton, D., & Gaston, P. (2021). Preoperative morbidity and joint awareness while awaiting hip arthroscopy for femoroacetabular impingement. Journal of Experimental Orthopaedics, 8, A

Purpose The Forgotten Joint Score (FJS-12) is a valid tool in the evaluation of patients undergoing hip arthroscopy, assessing the unique concept of joint awareness in the setting of a patient’s hip pathology. The preoperative burden on patients’ me... Read More about Preoperative morbidity and joint awareness while awaiting hip arthroscopy for femoroacetabular impingement.

Cotton soot derived carbon nanoparticles for NiO supported processing temperature tuned ambient perovskite solar cells (2021)
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Bhandari, S., Roy, A., Ali, M. S., Mallick, T. K., & Sundaram, S. (2021). Cotton soot derived carbon nanoparticles for NiO supported processing temperature tuned ambient perovskite solar cells. Scientific Reports, 11, Article 23388. https://doi.org/10.103

The emergence of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) in a "catfish effect" of other conventional photovoltaic technologies with the massive growth of high-power conversion efficiency (PCE) has given a new direction to the entire solar energy field. Replaci... Read More about Cotton soot derived carbon nanoparticles for NiO supported processing temperature tuned ambient perovskite solar cells.

Participatory design in refugee camps: Ethnographic case studies from Greece (2021)
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Jaradat, S., & Beunders, N. (2023). Participatory design in refugee camps: Ethnographic case studies from Greece. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 30(3), 1080-1097. https://doi.org/10.1108/ecam-04-2021-0328

Purpose Architectural management and construction practices have not been widely explored in refugee camps which have been growing exponentially around the world. Previous research largely focused on the negativity surrounding living in refugee camp... Read More about Participatory design in refugee camps: Ethnographic case studies from Greece.

Browsers’ Private Mode: Is It What We Were Promised? (2021)
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Hughes, K., Papadopoulos, P., Pitropakis, N., Smales, A., Ahmad, J., & Buchanan, W. J. (2021). Browsers’ Private Mode: Is It What We Were Promised?. Computers, 10(12), Article 165. https://doi.org/10.3390/computers10120165

Web browsers are one of the most used applications on every computational device in our days. Hence, they play a pivotal role in any forensic investigation and help determine if nefarious or suspicious activity has occurred on that device. Our study... Read More about Browsers’ Private Mode: Is It What We Were Promised?.

A novel bipartite consensus tracking scheme for unknown nonlinear multi-agent systems: Theoretical analysis and applications (2021)
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Zhao, H., Peng, L., Wu, P., & Yu, H. (2022). A novel bipartite consensus tracking scheme for unknown nonlinear multi-agent systems: Theoretical analysis and applications. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part I: Journal of Systems a

This article proposes a novel distributed data-driven bipartite consensus tracking scheme for bipartite consensus tracking problems of multi-agent systems with bounded disturbances and coopetition networks. The proposed scheme only uses the input/out... Read More about A novel bipartite consensus tracking scheme for unknown nonlinear multi-agent systems: Theoretical analysis and applications.

Will Africans take COVID-19 vaccination? (2021)
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Anjorin, A. A., Odetokun, I. A., Abioye, A. I., Elnadi, H., Umoren, M. V., Damaris, B. F., …Fasina, F. O. (2021). Will Africans take COVID-19 vaccination?. PLOS ONE, 16(12), Article e0260575. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260575

The economic and humanistic impact of COVID-19 pandemic is enormous globally. No definitive treatment exists, hence accelerated development and approval of COVID-19 vaccines, offers a unique opportunity for COVID-19 prevention and control. Vaccine he... Read More about Will Africans take COVID-19 vaccination?.

On the ergodic Waring–Goldbach problem (2021)
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Anderson, T. C., Cook, B., Hughes, K., & Kumchev, A. (2022). On the ergodic Waring–Goldbach problem. Journal of Functional Analysis, 282(5), Article 109334. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfa.2021.109334

We prove an asymptotic formula for the Fourier transform of the arithmetic surface measure associated to the Waring–Goldbach problem and provide several applications, including bounds for discrete spherical maximal functions along the primes and dist... Read More about On the ergodic Waring–Goldbach problem.

Attributes Guided Feature Learning for Vehicle Re-Identification (2021)
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Li, H., Lin, X., Zheng, A., Li, C., Luo, B., He, R., & Hussain, A. (2022). Attributes Guided Feature Learning for Vehicle Re-Identification. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, 6(5), 1211-1221. https://doi.org/10.1109/tetci

Vehicle Re-ID has recently attracted enthusiastic attention due to its potential applications in smart city and urban surveillance. However, it suffers from large intra-class variation caused by view variations and illumination changes, and inter-cla... Read More about Attributes Guided Feature Learning for Vehicle Re-Identification.

Healthcare-acquired clusters of COVID-19 across multiple wards in a Scottish health board (2021)
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Dancer, S., Cormack, K., Loh, M., Coulombe, C., Thomas, L., Pravinkumar, S., …Keaney, J. (2022). Healthcare-acquired clusters of COVID-19 across multiple wards in a Scottish health board. Journal of Hospital Infection, 120, 23-30. https://doi.org/10.101

Background Healthcare-acquired COVID-19 has been an additional burden on hospitals managing increasing numbers of patients with SARS-CoV-2. One acute hospital (W) among three in a Scottish healthboard experienced an unexpected surge of COVID-19 clus... Read More about Healthcare-acquired clusters of COVID-19 across multiple wards in a Scottish health board.

Emerging from the Pandemic (2021)
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Mackenzie, C. (2021). Emerging from the Pandemic. International Journal of Sales Transformation, 2-25

What do companies and organisations need to think about relevant to sales and the changing landscape in the 'new normal'. A view from academics and practitioners

Study on Crack Width and Crack Resistance of Eccentrically Tensioned Steel-Reinforced Concrete Members Prestressed by CFRP Tendons (2021)
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Deng, Y., Gui, J., Zhang, H., Taliercio, A., Zhang, P., Wong, S. H. F., Sukontasukkul, P., Khan, A., Li, L., Tang, Y., & Chen, X. (2022). Study on Crack Width and Crack Resistance of Eccentrically Tensioned Steel-Reinforced Concrete Members Prestressed by

In recent decades, steel-reinforced concrete (SRC) members under eccentrical tension have been adopted more frequently in modern buildings due to the constraints of more complex structural design/detailing that accompanying contemporary architectural... Read More about Study on Crack Width and Crack Resistance of Eccentrically Tensioned Steel-Reinforced Concrete Members Prestressed by CFRP Tendons.

A new color image encryption technique using DNA computing and Chaos-based substitution box (2021)
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Ahmad, J., Masood, F., Masood, J., Zhang, L., Shaukat Jamal, S., Boulila, W., …Khan, F. A. (2022). A new color image encryption technique using DNA computing and Chaos-based substitution box. Soft Computing, 26(16), 7461-7477. https://doi.org/10.1007/s0

In many cases, images contain sensitive information and patterns that require secure processing to avoid risk. It can be accessed by unauthorized users who can illegally exploit them to threaten the safety of people’s life and property. Protecting th... Read More about A new color image encryption technique using DNA computing and Chaos-based substitution box.

Effects of silica nanoparticles on the rheological properties and morphologies of polyvinyl alcohol/silver nanowire suspensions (2021)
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Lee, S. H., Kim, S. Y., Salehiyan, R., & Hyun, K. (2021). Effects of silica nanoparticles on the rheological properties and morphologies of polyvinyl alcohol/silver nanowire suspensions. Korea-Australia rheology journal, 33(4), 321-331. https://doi.org/10

We investigated the effects of silica nanoparticles (SiNPs) on the rheological properties and microstructures of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA)/silver nanowire (AgNW) suspensions. For PVA/AgNW suspensions without SiNPs, rheological percolation threshold was... Read More about Effects of silica nanoparticles on the rheological properties and morphologies of polyvinyl alcohol/silver nanowire suspensions.

A security and authentication layer for SCADA/DCS applications (2021)
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Homay, A., Chrysoulas, C., El Boudani, B., de Sousa, M., & Wollschlaeger, M. (2021). A security and authentication layer for SCADA/DCS applications. Microprocessors and Microsystems, 87, Article 103479. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micpro.2020.103479

Mid 2010, a sophisticated malicious computer worm called Stuxnet targeted major ICS systems around the world causing severe damages to Siemens automation products. Stuxnet proved its ability to infect air-gapped-segregated critical computers control... Read More about A security and authentication layer for SCADA/DCS applications.