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Prescribing in emergency care (2020)
Journal Article
Paterson, R. (2020). Prescribing in emergency care. Journal of Prescribing Practice, 2(3), 116-117. https://doi.org/10.12968/jprp.2020.2.3.116

Ruth Paterson provides an overview of recently published articles that may be of interest to non-medical prescribers. Should you wish to look at any of the papers in more detail, a full reference is provided.

Mitigation Mechanisms Against the DAO Attack on the Routing Protocol for Low Power and Lossy Networks (RPL) (2020)
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Wadhaj, I., Ghaleb, B., Thomson, C., Al-Dubai, A., & Buchanen, B. (2020). Mitigation Mechanisms Against the DAO Attack on the Routing Protocol for Low Power and Lossy Networks (RPL). IEEE Access, 8, 43665-43675. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2977476

Destination Advertisement Objects (DAOs) are sent upward by RPL nodes toward the DODAG root, to build the downward routing paths carrying traffic from the root to its associated nodes. This routing mechanism can be exploited by a malicious node perio... Read More about Mitigation Mechanisms Against the DAO Attack on the Routing Protocol for Low Power and Lossy Networks (RPL).

A mobile phone intervention to improve obesity-related health behaviors of adolescents across Europe: An iterative co-design and feasibility study (2020)
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Martin, A., Caon, M., Adorni, F., Andreoni, G., Ascolese, A., Atkinson, S., Bul, K., Carrion, C., Castell, C., Ciociola, V., Condon, L., Espallargues, M., Hanley, J., Jesuthasan, N., Lafortuna, C. L., Lang, A., Prinelli, F., Puidomenech Puig, E., Tabozzi, S. A., & McKinstry, B. (2020). A mobile phone intervention to improve obesity-related health behaviors of adolescents across Europe: An iterative co-design and feasibility study. JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 8(3), Article e14118. https://doi.org/10.2196/14118

Background: Promotion of physical activity, healthy eating, adequate sleep and reduced sedentary behavior in adolescents is a major priority globally given the current increase in population health challenges of non-communicable diseases and risk fa... Read More about A mobile phone intervention to improve obesity-related health behaviors of adolescents across Europe: An iterative co-design and feasibility study.

A Novel Secure Occupancy Monitoring Scheme Based on Multi-Chaos Mapping (2020)
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Ahmad, J., Masood, F., Shah, S. A., Jamal, S. S., & Hussain, I. (2020). A Novel Secure Occupancy Monitoring Scheme Based on Multi-Chaos Mapping. Symmetry, 12(3), https://doi.org/10.3390/sym12030350

Smart building control, managing queues for instant points of service, security systems, and customer support can benefit from the number of occupants information known as occupancy. Due to interrupted real-time continuous monitoring capabilities of... Read More about A Novel Secure Occupancy Monitoring Scheme Based on Multi-Chaos Mapping.

Personality profile of child synaesthetes (2020)
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Rinaldi, L., Smees, R., Carmichael, D., & Simner, J. (2020). Personality profile of child synaesthetes. Frontiers in Bioscience, 12, 162-182

Previous research into personality and synaesthesia has focused on adult populations and yielded mixed results. One particular challenge has been to distinguish traits associated with synaesthesia, from traits associated with the ways in which synaes... Read More about Personality profile of child synaesthetes.

Hybrid Email Spam Detection Model Using Artificial Intelligence (2020)
Journal Article
Douzi, S., AlShahwan, F. A., Lemoudden, M., & El Ouahidi, B. (2020). Hybrid Email Spam Detection Model Using Artificial Intelligence. International Journal of Machine Learning and Computing, 10(2), 316-322. https://doi.org/10.18178/ijmlc.2020.10.2.937

The growing volume of spam Emails has generated the need for a more precise anti-spam filter to detect unsolicited Emails. One of the most common representations used in spam filters is the Bag-of-Words (BOW). Although BOW is very effective in the cl... Read More about Hybrid Email Spam Detection Model Using Artificial Intelligence.

Bhutan in 2019: A Change in Government (2020)
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Whitecross, R. W. (2020). Bhutan in 2019: A Change in Government. Asian Survey, 60(1), 204-206. https://doi.org/10.1525/as.2020.60.1.204

Bhutan in 2019 was dominated by the change of government in late 2018, better diplomatic relations with India, and cultivation of relations with China. The economy was strong, with the country due to graduate from least developed country status in 20... Read More about Bhutan in 2019: A Change in Government.

Exploring the Views of Desk-Based Office Workers and Their Employers’ Beliefs Regarding Strategies to Reduce Occupational Sitting Time, With an Emphasis on Technology-Supported Approaches (2020)
Journal Article
Stephenson, A., McDonough, S. M., Murphy, M. H., Nugent, C. D., Wilson, I. M., & Mair, J. L. (2020). Exploring the Views of Desk-Based Office Workers and Their Employers’ Beliefs Regarding Strategies to Reduce Occupational Sitting Time, With an Emphasis on Technology-Supported Approaches. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 62(2), 149-155. https://doi.org/10.1097/jom.0000000000001777

Objective: Employee and employer views regarding how technology-supported strategies can best meet their needs to reduce occupational sitting are not well known. This study explored target user and key stakeholder beliefs regarding strategies to red... Read More about Exploring the Views of Desk-Based Office Workers and Their Employers’ Beliefs Regarding Strategies to Reduce Occupational Sitting Time, With an Emphasis on Technology-Supported Approaches.

Islay Jazz Festival (2020)
Journal Article
Medboe, H., & Maclean, D. (2020). Islay Jazz Festival. Jazz Research Journal, 12(2), Article 3. https://doi.org/10.1558/jazz.40304

This article considers the ecologies and stakeholder interests that overlap in the staging of an annual jazz festival on a small Scottish island in the Outer Hebrides. Through interviews with festival promoters, performers and audience members, along... Read More about Islay Jazz Festival.

Mutual Coupling Reduction of Dual-Band Uni-Planar MIMO System Using Neutralization Line Technique (2020)
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Saleh, A. M., Nagem, T. A., Abd-Alhameed, R., Noras, J., & See, C. H. (2020). Mutual Coupling Reduction of Dual-Band Uni-Planar MIMO System Using Neutralization Line Technique. The Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Journal, 35(2), 176-186

This paper presents a low–profile dual-band (2×2) MIMO antenna that works at 2.4GHz, 5.2GHz and 5.8GHz for wireless local area networks (WLAN) applications. A neutralization line technique for enhancing the isolation is used by introducing strip line... Read More about Mutual Coupling Reduction of Dual-Band Uni-Planar MIMO System Using Neutralization Line Technique.

Annotating the Everyday in a Modernist Scholarly Edition (2020)
Journal Article
Thomson, T. (2020). Annotating the Everyday in a Modernist Scholarly Edition. Modernist Cultures, 15(1), 92-109. https://doi.org/10.3366/mod.2020.0281

This article interrogates current approaches to the annotation of scholarly editions in order to reframe annotation practice within an emerging ‘new modernist editing’. Using the Broadview edition of Dorothy Richardson’s The Tunnel as a case study to... Read More about Annotating the Everyday in a Modernist Scholarly Edition.

An Optimized Resource Scheduling Strategy for Hadoop Speculative Execution Based on Non-cooperative Game Schemes (2020)
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Jiang, Y., Liu, Q., Dannah, W., Jin, D., Liu, X., & Sun, M. (2020). An Optimized Resource Scheduling Strategy for Hadoop Speculative Execution Based on Non-cooperative Game Schemes. Computers, Materials & Continua, 62(2), 713-729. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2020.04604

Hadoop is a well-known parallel computing system for distributed computing and large-scale data processes. “Straggling” tasks, however, have a serious impact on task allocation and scheduling in a Hadoop system. Speculative Execution (SE) is an effic... Read More about An Optimized Resource Scheduling Strategy for Hadoop Speculative Execution Based on Non-cooperative Game Schemes.

Metal Coated Conductive Fabrics with Graphite Electrodes and Biocompatible Gel Electrolyte for Wearable Supercapacitors (2020)
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Pullanchiyodan, A., Manjakkal, L., Dervin, S., Shakthivel, D., & Dahiya, R. (2020). Metal Coated Conductive Fabrics with Graphite Electrodes and Biocompatible Gel Electrolyte for Wearable Supercapacitors. Advanced Materials Technologies, 5(5), Article 1901107. https://doi.org/10.1002/admt.201901107

Fabric-based supercapacitors have received considerable interest as energy storage devices for wearable systems. This work demonstrates the use of metal coated fabrics as the active material and current collector with nontoxic polyvinyl alcohol (PVA)... Read More about Metal Coated Conductive Fabrics with Graphite Electrodes and Biocompatible Gel Electrolyte for Wearable Supercapacitors.

A Novel Hybrid Secure Image Encryption Based on Julia Set of Fractals and 3D Lorenz Chaotic Map (2020)
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Masood, F., Ahmad, J., Shah, S. A., Jamal, S. S., & Hussain, I. (2020). A Novel Hybrid Secure Image Encryption Based on Julia Set of Fractals and 3D Lorenz Chaotic Map. Entropy, 22(3), Article 274. https://doi.org/10.3390/e22030274

Chaos-based encryption schemes have attracted many researchers around the world in the digital image security domain. Digital images can be secured using existing chaotic maps, multiple chaotic maps, and several other hybrid dynamic systems that enha... Read More about A Novel Hybrid Secure Image Encryption Based on Julia Set of Fractals and 3D Lorenz Chaotic Map.

Design and evaluation of a biologically-inspired cloud elasticity framework (2020)
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Ullah, A., Li, J., & Hussain, A. (2020). Design and evaluation of a biologically-inspired cloud elasticity framework. Cluster Computing, 23, 3095-3117. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-020-03073-7

The elasticity in cloud is essential to the effective management of computational resources as it enables readjustment at runtime to meet application demands. Over the years, researchers and practitioners have proposed many auto-scaling solutions usi... Read More about Design and evaluation of a biologically-inspired cloud elasticity framework.

KNN-Based Approximate Outlier Detection Algorithm Over IoT Streaming Data (2020)
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Zhu, R., Ji, X., Yu, D., Tan, Z., Zhao, L., Li, J., & Xia, X. (2020). KNN-Based Approximate Outlier Detection Algorithm Over IoT Streaming Data. IEEE Access, 8, 42749-42759. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2020.2977114

KNN-Based outlier detection over IoT streaming data is a fundamental problem, which has many applications. However, due to its computational complexity, existing efforts cannot efficiently work in the IoT streaming data. In this paper, we propose a n... Read More about KNN-Based Approximate Outlier Detection Algorithm Over IoT Streaming Data.

Doing More With Less: A Multitask Deep Learning Approach in Plant Phenotyping (2020)
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Dobrescu, A., Giuffrida, M. V., & Tsaftaris, S. A. (2020). Doing More With Less: A Multitask Deep Learning Approach in Plant Phenotyping. Frontiers in Plant Science, 11, Article 141. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2020.00141

Image-based plant phenotyping has been steadily growing and this has steeply increased the need for more efficient image analysis techniques capable of evaluating multiple plant traits. Deep learning has shown its potential in a multitude of visual t... Read More about Doing More With Less: A Multitask Deep Learning Approach in Plant Phenotyping.

Trust-aware and Cooperative Routing Protocol for IoT Security (2020)
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Djedjig, N., Tandjaoui, D., Medjek, F., & Romdhani, I. (2020). Trust-aware and Cooperative Routing Protocol for IoT Security. Journal of Information Security and Applications, 52, Article 102467. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jisa.2020.102467

The resource-constrained nature of IoT objects makes the Routing Protocol for Low-power and Lossy Networks (RPL) vulnerable to several attacks. Although RPL specification provides encryption protection to control messages, RPL is still vulnerable to... Read More about Trust-aware and Cooperative Routing Protocol for IoT Security.

A validation study of the International Trauma Questionnaire to assess ICD-11 posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and Complex PTSD (CPTSD) in treatment seeking veterans (2020)
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Murphy, D., Shevlin, M., Pearson, E., Greenberg, N., Wessely, S., Busuttil, W., & Karatzias, T. (2020). A validation study of the International Trauma Questionnaire to assess ICD-11 posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and Complex PTSD (CPTSD) in treatment seeking veterans. British Journal of Psychiatry, 216(3), 132-137. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2020.9

Background: Veterans with PTSD typically report a poorer treatment response than those who have not served in the Armed Forces. A possible explanation is that veterans often present with complex symptoms of PTSD. ICD-11 PTSD and Complex PTSD (CPTSD)... Read More about A validation study of the International Trauma Questionnaire to assess ICD-11 posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and Complex PTSD (CPTSD) in treatment seeking veterans.