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The intervening effect of the What Being the Parent of a New Baby is Like-Revised questionnaire on maternal affect (2022)
Journal Article
Van Beeck, E., Pridham, K. F., & Kuipers, Y. (2022). The intervening effect of the What Being the Parent of a New Baby is Like-Revised questionnaire on maternal affect. Research Ethics, 18(3), 250-262. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470161221094929

The 'What Being the Parent of a New Baby is Like-Revised' (WPL-R) is an instrument designed to measure adaptation to parenthood. In the process of pilot testing and validating the WPL-R in a postpartum Dutch population, we became aware of the potenti... Read More about The intervening effect of the What Being the Parent of a New Baby is Like-Revised questionnaire on maternal affect.

The fourth industrial revolution: a catalyst for regional development in Malaysian seaport sector (2022)
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Selvaduray, M., Suhrab, M. I. R., Somu, R., Jeevan, J., Mohd Salleh, N. H., & Zain, R. M. (2023). The fourth industrial revolution: a catalyst for regional development in Malaysian seaport sector. Australian Journal of Maritime & Ocean Affairs, 15(3), 284-295. https://doi.org/10.1080/18366503.2022.2068293

Seaports enable national and international trade in nearly every country around the globe. The new digital world has led most seaport sectors to fully embrace new technologies and tools to better compete with other seaports. Moreover, such maritime a... Read More about The fourth industrial revolution: a catalyst for regional development in Malaysian seaport sector.

How Was Your Music Festival Experience? Impacts on Loyalty, Word-of-mouth, and Sustainability Behaviors (2022)
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Sisson, A. D., & Alcorn, M. R. (2022). How Was Your Music Festival Experience? Impacts on Loyalty, Word-of-mouth, and Sustainability Behaviors. Event Management, 26(3), 565-585. https://doi.org/10.3727/152599521x16288665119495

As the popularity of music festivals increases worldwide, an essential component for successful festivals is creating an exceptional guest experience. A conceptual model is proposed, positing that experience economy has a positive effect on loyalty,... Read More about How Was Your Music Festival Experience? Impacts on Loyalty, Word-of-mouth, and Sustainability Behaviors.

Clinical teaching and learning during COVID-19 as perceived by nursing students in Lesotho: A descriptive cross-sectional survey (2022)
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Nyangu, I., & Rathobei, L. M. (2022). Clinical teaching and learning during COVID-19 as perceived by nursing students in Lesotho: A descriptive cross-sectional survey. Annals of Educational Research and Reviews, 10(1), 15-22

Background: Nursing students and their clinical instructors in higher education institutions are faced with challenges regarding clinical teaching and learning strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic. Objectives: This study aimed to determine the per... Read More about Clinical teaching and learning during COVID-19 as perceived by nursing students in Lesotho: A descriptive cross-sectional survey.

‘Now that I am connected this isn't social isolation, this is engaging with people’: Staying connected during the COVID‐19 pandemic (2022)
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Spassiani, N. A., Becaj, M., Miller, C., Hiddleston, A., Hume, A., & Tait, S. (2023). ‘Now that I am connected this isn't social isolation, this is engaging with people’: Staying connected during the COVID‐19 pandemic. British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 51(1), 99-110. https://doi.org/10.1111/bld.12478

Background
The COVID-19 global pandemic has put adults with intellectual/developmental disabilities at greater risk of being socially excluded due to physical distancing. Technology has been looked at as a tool for adults with intellectual/developme... Read More about ‘Now that I am connected this isn't social isolation, this is engaging with people’: Staying connected during the COVID‐19 pandemic.

Does the Stock Market Influence Investor Everyday Decisions? The Case of Parking Violations (2022)
Journal Article
Siganos, A. (2022). Does the Stock Market Influence Investor Everyday Decisions? The Case of Parking Violations. International Review of Financial Analysis, 82, Article 102164. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2022.102164

We explore in this study whether stock market returns influence investor decisions in their everyday life. We find that past and contemporaneous US stock market returns are related negatively to the registered number of parking violations in New York... Read More about Does the Stock Market Influence Investor Everyday Decisions? The Case of Parking Violations.

EfficientMask-Net for face authentication in the era of COVID-19 pandemic (2022)
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Azouji, N., Sami, A., & Taheri, M. (2022). EfficientMask-Net for face authentication in the era of COVID-19 pandemic. Signal, Image and Video Processing, 16(7), 1991-1999. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11760-022-02160-z

Today, we are facing the COVID-19 pandemic. Accordingly, properly wearing face masks has become vital as an effective way to prevent the rapid spread of COVID-19. This research develops an Efficient Mask-Net method for low-power devices, such as mobi... Read More about EfficientMask-Net for face authentication in the era of COVID-19 pandemic.

Putting passion to work: Passionate labour in the fashion blogosphere (2022)
Journal Article
Logan-McFarlane, A., Hamilton, K., & Hewer, P. (2022). Putting passion to work: Passionate labour in the fashion blogosphere. European Journal of Marketing, 56(4), 1210-1231. https://doi.org/10.1108/EJM-08-2019-0642

Purpose
This study aims to explore passionate labour in the fashion blogosphere and addresses two research questions: How does passion animate passionate labour? How does the emotion of passions and the discipline of labour fuse within passionate la... Read More about Putting passion to work: Passionate labour in the fashion blogosphere.

Synchronization of Monostatic Radar Using a Time-Delayed Chaos-Based FM Waveform (2022)
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Abd, M. H., Al-Suhail, G. A., Tahir, F. R., Ali Ali, A. M., Abbood, H. A., Dashtipour, K., Jamal, S. S., & Ahmad, J. (2022). Synchronization of Monostatic Radar Using a Time-Delayed Chaos-Based FM Waveform. Remote Sensing, 14(9), Article 1984. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14091984

There is no doubt that chaotic systems are still attractive issues in various radar applications and communication systems. In this paper, we present a new 0.3 GHz mono-static microwave chaotic radar. It includes a chaotic system based on a time-dela... Read More about Synchronization of Monostatic Radar Using a Time-Delayed Chaos-Based FM Waveform.

I only fear when I hear: How media affects insider trading in takeover targets (2022)
Journal Article
Aleksanyan, M., Danbolt, J., Siganos, A., & Wu, B. (2022). I only fear when I hear: How media affects insider trading in takeover targets. Journal of Empirical Finance, 67, 318-342. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jempfin.2022.04.004

We study how target firm insiders respond to Wall Street Journal articles referring to illegal insider trading in past mergers. Such articles lead to target insider share purchases before bid announcement to drop by 75%. This effect is stronger neare... Read More about I only fear when I hear: How media affects insider trading in takeover targets.

Twitter use by the dementia community during COVID-19: a user classification and social network analysis (2022)
Journal Article
Alhayan, F., Pennington, D., & Ayouni, S. (2023). Twitter use by the dementia community during COVID-19: a user classification and social network analysis. Online Information Review, 47(1), 41-58. https://doi.org/10.1108/oir-04-2021-0208

Purpose
The study aimed to examine how different communities concerned with dementia engage and interact on Twitter. Design/methodology/approach
A dataset was sampled from 8,400 user profile descriptions, which was labelled into five categories a... Read More about Twitter use by the dementia community during COVID-19: a user classification and social network analysis.

On the inhomogeneous Vinogradov system (2022)
Journal Article
Brandes, J., & Hughes, K. (2022). On the inhomogeneous Vinogradov system. Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society, 106(3), 396-403. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0004972722000284

We show that the system of equations

∑_{i=1}^{s} (x_i^j−y_i^j) = a_j (1⩽j⩽k)

has appreciably fewer solutions in the subcritical range s<k(k+1)/2
than its homogeneous counterpart, provided that a_ℓ≠0 for some ℓ⩽k−1. Our methods use Vinogrado...

Scaled up on direct methanol fuel cell under different operating conditions (2022)
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Kumaresan, T., Ponniyan, D., Chandran, M., Ramasamy, J., Venkatachalam, V., Palaniswamy, K., & Sundaram, S. (2022). Scaled up on direct methanol fuel cell under different operating conditions. Materials Letters, 319, Article 132283. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2022.132283

A direct methanol fuel cell with an active area of 100 cm2 was tested experimentally under a variety of operating situations to determine its overall performance. Different operational parameters, such as anode flow rate (1–5 ml/min), cathode reactan... Read More about Scaled up on direct methanol fuel cell under different operating conditions.

Relationship between Green Financing and Investment Logic and Effectiveness Evaluation of Financing Decisions (2022)
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Kong, L., Lei, Y., Zhang, Q., Zhang, J., Guo, X., & Shi, D. (2022). Relationship between Green Financing and Investment Logic and Effectiveness Evaluation of Financing Decisions. Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 2022, Article 4051379. https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/4051379

Green financing diverts more funds to green industries such as environmental protection, and clean energy, enabling the industries to realize structural adjustment. On green financing, the existing studies at home and abroad mainly focus on the defin... Read More about Relationship between Green Financing and Investment Logic and Effectiveness Evaluation of Financing Decisions.

Can Developmental Trauma Disorder be Distinguished from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder? A Confirmatory Factor Analytic Test of Four Structural Models (2022)
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Ford, J. D., Shevlin, M., Karatzias, T., Charak, R., & Spinazzola, J. (2022). Can Developmental Trauma Disorder be Distinguished from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder? A Confirmatory Factor Analytic Test of Four Structural Models. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 50, 1207-1218. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-022-00916-2

Developmental Trauma Disorder (DTD) is a proposed child psychopathology diagnosis with emotion/somatic, attention/behavioral, and self/relational dysregulation symptoms extending beyond posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Confirmatory factor analys... Read More about Can Developmental Trauma Disorder be Distinguished from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder? A Confirmatory Factor Analytic Test of Four Structural Models.

Drop-out from team sport among adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies (2022)
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Back, J., Johnson, U., Svedberg, P., McCall, A., & Ivarsson, A. (2022). Drop-out from team sport among adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 61, Article 102205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2022.102205

During the last decades, an increased drop-out rate in adolescents' team sport participation is observed. Given the potential adverse consequences of drop-out from team sport more information about risk factors for drop-out is warranted. The objectiv... Read More about Drop-out from team sport among adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies.

Optimal Pitch Angle Controller for DFIG-Based Wind Turbine System Using Computational Optimization Techniques (2022)
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Khurshid, A., Mughal, M. A., Othman, A., Al-Hadhrami, T., Kumar, H., Khurshid, I., Arshad, & Ahmad, J. (2022). Optimal Pitch Angle Controller for DFIG-Based Wind Turbine System Using Computational Optimization Techniques. Electronics, 11(8), Article 1290. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11081290

With the advent of high-speed and parallel computing, the applicability of computational optimization in engineering problems has increased, with greater validation than conventional methods. Pitch angle is an effective variable in extracting maximum... Read More about Optimal Pitch Angle Controller for DFIG-Based Wind Turbine System Using Computational Optimization Techniques.

A New Multistage Encryption Scheme Using Linear Feedback Register and Chaos-Based Quantum Map (2022)
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Alharbi, A. R., Ahmad, J., Arshad, Shaukat, S., Masood, F., Ghadi, Y. Y., Pitropakis, N., & Buchanan, W. J. (2022). A New Multistage Encryption Scheme Using Linear Feedback Register and Chaos-Based Quantum Map. Complexity, 2022, Article 7047282. https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/7047282

With the increasing volume of data transmission through insecure communication channels, big data security has become one of the important concerns in the cybersecurity domain. To address these concerns and keep data safe, a robust privacy-preserving... Read More about A New Multistage Encryption Scheme Using Linear Feedback Register and Chaos-Based Quantum Map.

The circle criterion for a class of sector-bounded dynamic nonlinearities (2022)
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Guiver, C., & Logemann, H. (2022). The circle criterion for a class of sector-bounded dynamic nonlinearities. Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems, 34, 461-492. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00498-022-00324-3

We present a circle criterion which is necessary and sufficient for absolute stability with respect to a natural class of sector-bounded nonlinear causal operators. This generalized circle criterion contains the classical result as a special case. F... Read More about The circle criterion for a class of sector-bounded dynamic nonlinearities.