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Automated Algorithm Selection: from Feature-Based to Feature-Free Approaches (2023)
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Alissa, M., Sim, K., & Hart, E. (2023). Automated Algorithm Selection: from Feature-Based to Feature-Free Approaches. Journal of Heuristics, 29(1), 1-38. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10732-022-09505-4

We propose a novel technique for algorithm-selection, applicable to optimisation domains in which there is implicit sequential information encapsulated in the data, e.g., in online bin-packing. Specifically we train two types of recurrent neural netw... Read More about Automated Algorithm Selection: from Feature-Based to Feature-Free Approaches.

Eight-Port Modified E-Slot MIMO Antenna Array with Enhanced Isolation for 5G Mobile Phone (2023)
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Abubakar, H. S., Zhao, Z., Wang, B., Kiani, S. H., Parchin, N. O., & Hakim, B. (2023). Eight-Port Modified E-Slot MIMO Antenna Array with Enhanced Isolation for 5G Mobile Phone. Electronics, 12(2), Article 316. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12020316

An eight-element antenna system operating at sub 6 GHz is presented in this work for a future multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system based on a modified E-slot on the ground. The modified E-slot significantly lowers the coupling among the anten... Read More about Eight-Port Modified E-Slot MIMO Antenna Array with Enhanced Isolation for 5G Mobile Phone.

Football-specific extension of the IOC consensus statement: methods for recording and reporting of epidemiological data on injury and illness in sport 2020 (2023)
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Waldén, M., Mountjoy, M., McCall, A., Serner, A., Massey, A., Tol, J. L., …Andersen, T. E. (2023). Football-specific extension of the IOC consensus statement: methods for recording and reporting of epidemiological data on injury and illness in sport 20

Several sports have published consensus statements on methods and reporting of epidemiological studies concerning injuries and illnesses with football (soccer) producing one of the first guidelines. This football-specific consensus statement was publ... Read More about Football-specific extension of the IOC consensus statement: methods for recording and reporting of epidemiological data on injury and illness in sport 2020.

Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms, Frailty and Quality of Life in Atrial Fibrillation (2023)
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Lomper, K., Ross, C., & Uchmanowicz, I. (2023). Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms, Frailty and Quality of Life in Atrial Fibrillation. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(2), Article 1066. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph2002

Introduction: Symptoms of atrial fibrillation (AF) can significantly affect functioning in daily life and reduce patients’ quality of life (QoL). The severity and type of AF symptoms affects not only patient’s QoL, but can be a cause of the developme... Read More about Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms, Frailty and Quality of Life in Atrial Fibrillation.

Challenging the insider outsider approach to advocacy: how collaboration networks and belief similarities shape strategy choices (2023)
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Wagner, P. M., Ocelík, P., Gronow, A., Ylä-Anttila, T., & Metz, F. (2023). Challenging the insider outsider approach to advocacy: how collaboration networks and belief similarities shape strategy choices. Policy and Politics, 51(1), 47-70. https://doi.o

Advocacy strategies are a key success factor for public, private and third sector actors who participate in and seek to influence policy choices. Despite this, research on policy networks has paid little attention to the forms of advocacy studied by... Read More about Challenging the insider outsider approach to advocacy: how collaboration networks and belief similarities shape strategy choices.

Prudence as an ethical foundation for risk management (2023)
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Marshall, A., Ojiako, U., Abdoush, T., Vasilakos, N., & Chipulu, M. (2024). Prudence as an ethical foundation for risk management. Society and Business Review, 19(1), 113-131. https://doi.org/10.1108/SBR-09-2022-0244

Purpose This paper aims to draw on historical conceptions of true and false prudence within the broader context of virtue ethics ideas, to create a prudence framework for developing risk-and-ethics cultures in organisations. Design/methodology/ap... Read More about Prudence as an ethical foundation for risk management.

Modelling the drivers of data science techniques for real estate professionals in the fourth industrial revolution era (2023)
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Osunsanmi, T., Olawumi, T. O., Smith, A., Jaradat, S., Aigbavboa, C., Aliu, J., Oke, A., Ajayi, O., & Oyeyipo, O. (2024). Modelling the drivers of data science techniques for real estate professionals in the fourth industrial revolution era. Property Man

Purpose The study aims to develop a model that supports the application of data science techniques for real estate professionals in the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) era. The present 4IR era gave birth to big data sets and is beyond real estate... Read More about Modelling the drivers of data science techniques for real estate professionals in the fourth industrial revolution era.

A Critique on the UK’s Net Zero Strategy (2023)
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Sajjadian, S. M. (2023). A Critique on the UK’s Net Zero Strategy. Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, 56, Article 103003. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seta.2022.103003

Before the Covid-19 pandemic UK passed net-zero emission law legislation to become the first major economy in the world to end its contribution to global warming by 2050. Following the UK’s legislation to reach net-zero emissions, a long-term strateg... Read More about A Critique on the UK’s Net Zero Strategy.

The Impact of Government Policy Responses to the COVID‐19 Pandemic and Brexit on the UK Financial Market: A Behavioural Perspective (2023)
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Sadie Paterson, A., Sakariyahu, R., Lawal, R., & Alabi, A. (2024). The Impact of Government Policy Responses to the COVID‐19 Pandemic and Brexit on the UK Financial Market: A Behavioural Perspective. British Journal of Management, 35(1), 174-191. https:

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, the Governor of the Bank of England, while granting an interview, described the pandemic as an unprecedented economic emergency and said that the Bank could go as far as radical money-prin... Read More about The Impact of Government Policy Responses to the COVID‐19 Pandemic and Brexit on the UK Financial Market: A Behavioural Perspective.

A Joint Optimization Algorithm for Renewable Energy System (2023)
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Khan, I., Muhammad-Sukki, F., Ardila-Rey, J. A., Mas'ud, A. A., Alshammari, S. J., & Madsen, D. Ø. (2023). A Joint Optimization Algorithm for Renewable Energy System. Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing, 36(2), 1979-1989. https://doi.org/10.32604/i

Energy sustainability is a hot topic in both scientific and political circles. To date, two alternative approaches to this issue are being taken. Some people believe that increasing power consumption is necessary for countries' economic and social pr... Read More about A Joint Optimization Algorithm for Renewable Energy System.

The coastal conservation narrative is shifting from crisis to ecosystem services (2023)
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Balke, T., Vovides, A. G., Ladd, C. J., & Huxham, M. (2023). The coastal conservation narrative is shifting from crisis to ecosystem services. Marine Biodiversity, 53(1), Article 3. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-022-01304-1

Conservation biology emerged as a crisis discipline in the twentieth century amongst an increasing awareness of pollution and habitat loss. Since the early 2000s, societal and monetary benefits of nature were added to the narrative for biodiversity c... Read More about The coastal conservation narrative is shifting from crisis to ecosystem services.

Cell phenotype changes and oxidative stress response in Vibrio spp. induced into viable but non-culturable (VBNC) state (2023)
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Prosdocimi, E. M., Arioli, S., Mapelli, F., Zeaiter, Z., Fusi, M., Daffonchio, D., …Crotti, E. (2023). Cell phenotype changes and oxidative stress response in Vibrio spp. induced into viable but non-culturable (VBNC) state. Annals of Microbiology, 73(1)

Purpose: Aquatic bacteria of the genus Vibrio include animal and human pathogens. The occurrence of Vibrio-related diseases has been associated with the current climate change-driven increase of sea surface temperature. Vibrio spp. can enter into the... Read More about Cell phenotype changes and oxidative stress response in Vibrio spp. induced into viable but non-culturable (VBNC) state.

IoT: Communication protocols and security threats (2023)
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Gerodimos, A., Maglaras, L., Ferrag, M. A., Ayres, N., & Kantzavelou, I. (2023). IoT: Communication protocols and security threats. Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems, 3, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iotcps.2022.12.003

In this study, we review the fundamentals of IoT architecture and we thoroughly present the communication protocols that have been invented especially for IoT technology. Moreover, we analyze security threats, and general implementation problems, pre... Read More about IoT: Communication protocols and security threats.

In a large primary care data set, the CHA₂DS₂-VASc score leads to an almost universal recommendation for anticoagulation treatment in those aged ≥65 years with atrial fibrillation (2023)
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Orchard, J. J., Giskes, K., Orchard, J. W., La Gerche, A., Neubeck, L., Hespe, C., …Freedman, B. (2023). In a large primary care data set, the CHA₂DS₂-VASc score leads to an almost universal recommendation for anticoagulation treatment in those aged

From 2012 to 2016, the oral anticoagulant (OAC) treatment determination for atrial fibrillation (AF) patients moved from the CHADS2 score to the CHA2DS2-VASc score. A data set collated during previous studies (2011–19) with de-identified data extract... Read More about In a large primary care data set, the CHA₂DS₂-VASc score leads to an almost universal recommendation for anticoagulation treatment in those aged ≥65 years with atrial fibrillation.

A Safety-Aware Location Privacy-Preserving IoV Scheme with Road Congestion-Estimation in Mobile Edge Computing (2023)
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Babaghayou, M., Chaib, N., Lagraa, N., Ferrag, M. A., & Maglaras, L. (2023). A Safety-Aware Location Privacy-Preserving IoV Scheme with Road Congestion-Estimation in Mobile Edge Computing. Sensors, 23(1), Article 531. https://doi.org/10.3390/s23010531

By leveraging the conventional Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs), the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) paradigm has attracted the attention of different research and development bodies. However, IoV deployment is still at stake as many security and privac... Read More about A Safety-Aware Location Privacy-Preserving IoV Scheme with Road Congestion-Estimation in Mobile Edge Computing.

The listening project: A qualitative study on the experiences of pre-registered nurses during the Covid-19 pandemic in Scotland (2023)
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Calica, K. A. N., & Paterson, R. E. (2023). The listening project: A qualitative study on the experiences of pre-registered nurses during the Covid-19 pandemic in Scotland. Heliyon, 9(1), Article e12664. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e12664

Background During the COVID 19 pandemic academic institutes worldwide were forced to shift to online or socially distanced learning. Nursing students faced unique challenges due to the limited practical learning environment and removal of supernumer... Read More about The listening project: A qualitative study on the experiences of pre-registered nurses during the Covid-19 pandemic in Scotland.

Assessing the factors of transactional leadership style for construction projects: a case of Nigerian construction industry (2023)
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Olasunkanmi, F. O., Ikediashi, D. I., & Ajiero, I. R. (online). Assessing the factors of transactional leadership style for construction projects: a case of Nigerian construction industry. Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, https://doi.org/10.

Purpose The role of construction industry in harnessing human and material resources of a nation cannot be overemphasised; hence, the emergence of the requirement of leadership. This study aims to assess the usage of factors of transactional leaders... Read More about Assessing the factors of transactional leadership style for construction projects: a case of Nigerian construction industry.

Delivering asthma reviews during the Covid-19 pandemic (2023)
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Watling Smith, J., & Roberts, N. J. (2023). Delivering asthma reviews during the Covid-19 pandemic. Nursing Times, 119(1), 1-4

The Covid-19 pandemic meant that the delivery of asthma management in primary care changed virtually overnight, requiring the introduction of alternatives to face-to-face care. This study examines the experiences of nurses who were performing asthma... Read More about Delivering asthma reviews during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Spatial Channel Degrees of Freedom for Optimum Antenna Arrays (2023)
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Huang, Y., Karadimas, P., & Sohrab, A. P. (2023). Spatial Channel Degrees of Freedom for Optimum Antenna Arrays. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 22(8), 5129-5144. https://doi.org/10.1109/TWC.2022.3231732

One of the ultimate goals of future wireless networks is to maximize data rates to accommodate bandwidth-hungry services and applications. Thus, extracting the maximum amount of information bits for given spatial constraints when designing wireless s... Read More about Spatial Channel Degrees of Freedom for Optimum Antenna Arrays.

Panchromatic and multispectral image fusion for remote sensing and earth observation: Concepts, taxonomy, literature review, evaluation methodologies and challenges ahead (2023)
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Zhang, K., Zhang, F., Wan, W., Yu, H., Sun, J., Del Ser, J., …Hussain, A. (2023). Panchromatic and multispectral image fusion for remote sensing and earth observation: Concepts, taxonomy, literature review, evaluation methodologies and challenges ahead.

Panchromatic and multispectral image fusion, termed pan-sharpening, is to merge the spatial and spectral information of the source images into a fused one, which has a higher spatial and spectral resolution and is more reliable for downstream tasks c... Read More about Panchromatic and multispectral image fusion for remote sensing and earth observation: Concepts, taxonomy, literature review, evaluation methodologies and challenges ahead.