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Predictors associated with low-risk women's pre-labour intention for intrapartum pain relief: a cross-sectional study (2022)
Journal Article
Kuipers, Y. J., & van Beeck, E. (2022). Predictors associated with low-risk women's pre-labour intention for intrapartum pain relief: a cross-sectional study. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 4, Article 100070. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnsa.2022.100070

Background: Pregnant women have preferences about how they intend to manage labour pain. Unmet intentions can result in negative emotions and/or birth experiences.

Objective: To examine the antenatal level of intention for intrapartum pain relie... Read More about Predictors associated with low-risk women's pre-labour intention for intrapartum pain relief: a cross-sectional study.

From transparency to accountability of intelligent systems: Moving beyond aspirations (2022)
Journal Article
Williams, R., Cloete, R., Cobbe, J., Cottrill, C., Edwards, P., Markovic, M., Naja, I., Ryan, F., Singh, J., & Pang, W. (2022). From transparency to accountability of intelligent systems: Moving beyond aspirations. Data & Policy, 4, Article e7. https://doi.org/10.1017/dap.2021.37

A number of governmental and nongovernmental organizations have made significant efforts to encourage the development of artificial intelligence in line with a series of aspirational concepts such as transparency, interpretability, explainability, an... Read More about From transparency to accountability of intelligent systems: Moving beyond aspirations.

Electrochemical analysis of nano-electro fuels based on multi-walled carbon nanotubes and graphene nanoplatelets for vanadium redox flow batteries (2022)
Journal Article
Arumughan, J., Vijayakrishnan, M. K., Palaniswamy, K., Alam, T., Kumaresan, T., Angappamudaliar, S. K. P., & Sundaram, S. (2022). Electrochemical analysis of nano-electro fuels based on multi-walled carbon nanotubes and graphene nanoplatelets for vanadium redox flow batteries. Materials Letters, 315, Article 131939. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2022.131939

The limited energy performance of vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFBs) prevents their commercialization on a large scale. Active research is conducted aiming enhancement of electrochemical properties of VRFBs, nanotechnology is constantly penetratin... Read More about Electrochemical analysis of nano-electro fuels based on multi-walled carbon nanotubes and graphene nanoplatelets for vanadium redox flow batteries.

A Review of Mathematical Models of Building Physics and Energy Technologies for Environmentally Friendly Integrated Energy Management Systems (2022)
Journal Article
Zhang, Y., Vand, B., & Baldi, S. (2022). A Review of Mathematical Models of Building Physics and Energy Technologies for Environmentally Friendly Integrated Energy Management Systems. Buildings, 12(2), Article 238. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12020238

The Energy Management System (EMS) is an efficient technique to monitor, control and enhance the building performance. In the state-of-the-art, building performance analysis is separated into building simulation and control management: this may cause... Read More about A Review of Mathematical Models of Building Physics and Energy Technologies for Environmentally Friendly Integrated Energy Management Systems.

From Theory to Practice: An International Approach to Establishing Prehabilitation Programmes (2022)
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Davis, J. F., van Rooijen, S. J., Grimmett, C., West, M. A., Campbell, A. M., Awasthi, R., Slooter, G. D., Grocott, M. P., Carli, F., & Jack, S. (2022). From Theory to Practice: An International Approach to Establishing Prehabilitation Programmes. Current Anesthesiology Reports, 12(1), 129-137. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40140-022-00516-2

Purpose
This article focuses on the following:
*The importance of prehabilitation in people with cancer and the known and hypothesised benefits.
*Exploration of the principles that can be used when developing services in the absence of a single ac... Read More about From Theory to Practice: An International Approach to Establishing Prehabilitation Programmes.

The We Can Quit2 smoking cessation trial: knowledge exchange and dissemination following a community-based participatory research approach (2022)
Journal Article
Castello, S., Darker, C., Vance, J., Dougall, N., Bauld, L., & Hayes, C. B. (2022). The We Can Quit2 smoking cessation trial: knowledge exchange and dissemination following a community-based participatory research approach. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(4), Article 2333. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19042333

Background: ‘We Can Quit2’ pilot randomised controlled trial determined the feasibility [of conducting a community-based trial of We Can Quit, a peer-delivered stop-smoking programme (group support, combination nicotine replacement therapy (NRT), and... Read More about The We Can Quit2 smoking cessation trial: knowledge exchange and dissemination following a community-based participatory research approach.

Does Connected Health Technology Improve Health-Related Outcomes in Rural Cardiac Populations? Systematic Review Narrative Synthesis (2022)
Journal Article
Fraser, M. J., Gorely, T., O’Malley, C., Muggeridge, D. J., Giggins, O. M., & Crabtree, D. R. (2022). Does Connected Health Technology Improve Health-Related Outcomes in Rural Cardiac Populations? Systematic Review Narrative Synthesis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(4), Article 2302. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19042302

Individuals living in rural areas are more likely to experience cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and have increased barriers to regular physical activity in comparison to those in urban areas. This systematic review aimed to understand the types and eff... Read More about Does Connected Health Technology Improve Health-Related Outcomes in Rural Cardiac Populations? Systematic Review Narrative Synthesis.

IoT-Enabled Vehicle Speed Monitoring System (2022)
Journal Article
Khan, S. U., Alam, N., Jan, S. U., & Koo, I. S. (2022). IoT-Enabled Vehicle Speed Monitoring System. Electronics, 11(4), Article 614. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11040614

Millions of people lose their lives each year worldwide due to traffic law violations, specifically, over speeding. The existing systems fail to report most of such violations due to their respective flaws. For instance, speed guns work in isolation... Read More about IoT-Enabled Vehicle Speed Monitoring System.

Collimated Whole Volume Light Scattering in Homogeneous Finite Media (2022)
Journal Article
Velinov, Z., & Mitchell, K. (2023). Collimated Whole Volume Light Scattering in Homogeneous Finite Media. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 29(7), 3145-3157. https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2021.3135764

Crepuscular rays form when light encounters an optically thick or opaque medium which masks out portions of the visible scene. Real-time applications commonly estimate this phenomena by connecting paths between light sources and the camera after a si... Read More about Collimated Whole Volume Light Scattering in Homogeneous Finite Media.

A migratory divide spanning two continents is associated with genomic and ecological divergence (2022)
Journal Article
Turbek, S. P., Schield, D. R., Scordato, E. S., Contina, A., Da, X., Liu, Y., Liu, Y., Pagani-Núñez, E., Ren, Q., & Smith, C. C. (2022). A migratory divide spanning two continents is associated with genomic and ecological divergence. Evolution, 76(4), 722-736. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14448

Migratory divides are contact zones between breeding populations with divergent migratory strategies during the nonbreeding season. These locations provide an opportunity to evaluate the role of seasonal migration in the maintenance of reproductive i... Read More about A migratory divide spanning two continents is associated with genomic and ecological divergence.

A novel dynamic gesture understanding algorithm fusing convolutional neural networks with hand-crafted features (2022)
Journal Article
Liu, A., Song, S., Yang, L., Bian, G., & Yu, H. (2022). A novel dynamic gesture understanding algorithm fusing convolutional neural networks with hand-crafted features. Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 83, Article 103454. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvcir.2022.103454

Dynamic gestures have attracted much attention in recent years due to their user-friendly interactive characteristics. However, accurate and efficient dynamic gesture understanding remains a challenge due to complex scenarios and motion information.... Read More about A novel dynamic gesture understanding algorithm fusing convolutional neural networks with hand-crafted features.

Remotely Delivered Interventions to Support Women With Symptoms of Anxiety in Pregnancy: Mixed Methods Systematic Review and Meta-analysis (2022)
Journal Article
Evans, K., Rennick-Egglestone, S., Cox, S., Kuipers, Y., & Spiby, H. (2022). Remotely Delivered Interventions to Support Women With Symptoms of Anxiety in Pregnancy: Mixed Methods Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 24(2), Article e28093. https://doi.org/10.2196/28093

Background: Symptoms of anxiety are common in pregnancy, with severe symptoms associated with negative outcomes for women and babies. Low-level psychological therapy is recommended for women with mild to moderate anxiety, with the aim of preventing a... Read More about Remotely Delivered Interventions to Support Women With Symptoms of Anxiety in Pregnancy: Mixed Methods Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Joint Speed Control and Energy Replenishment Optimization for UAV-Assisted IoT Data Collection With Deep Reinforcement Transfer Learning (2022)
Journal Article
Chu, N. H., Hoang, D. T., Nguyen, D. N., Van Huynh, N., & Dutkiewicz, E. (2023). Joint Speed Control and Energy Replenishment Optimization for UAV-Assisted IoT Data Collection With Deep Reinforcement Transfer Learning. IEEE Internet of Things, 10(7), 5778-5793. https://doi.org/10.1109/jiot.2022.3151201

Unmanned-aerial-vehicle (UAV)-assisted data collection has been emerging as a prominent application due to its flexibility, mobility, and low operational cost. However, under the dynamic and uncertainty of Internet of Things data collection and energ... Read More about Joint Speed Control and Energy Replenishment Optimization for UAV-Assisted IoT Data Collection With Deep Reinforcement Transfer Learning.

Can we evidence-base injury prevention and management in women’s football? A scoping review (2022)
Journal Article
Okholm Kryger, K., Wang, A., Mehta, R., Impellizzeri, F., Massey, A., Harrison, M., Glendinning, R., & McCall, A. (2023). Can we evidence-base injury prevention and management in women’s football? A scoping review. Research in Sports Medicine, 31(5), 517-718. https://doi.org/10.1080/15438627.2022.2038161

This review aimed, as part of a larger FIFA project aiming to steer women’s football research, to scope literature on any level of competitive football for women, to understand the current quantity of research on women’s football injuries. The study... Read More about Can we evidence-base injury prevention and management in women’s football? A scoping review.

Modelling transitions between egalitarian, dynamic leader and absolutist power structures (2022)
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Bryden, J., Silverman, E., & Powers, S. T. (2022). Modelling transitions between egalitarian, dynamic leader and absolutist power structures. PLOS ONE, 17(2), Article e0263665. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0263665

Human groups show a variety of leadership dynamics ranging from egalitarian groups with no leader, to groups with changing leaders, to absolutist groups with a single long-term leader. Here, we model transitions between these different phases of lead... Read More about Modelling transitions between egalitarian, dynamic leader and absolutist power structures.

A hefty dose of lemons: the importance of rituals for audiences and performers at the online Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2020 (2022)
Journal Article
Piccio, B., Helgason, I., Elsden, C., & Terras, M. (2022). A hefty dose of lemons: the importance of rituals for audiences and performers at the online Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2020. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 18(1), 154-175. https://doi.org/10.1080/14794713.2022.2036489

When the pandemic began to affect the performance world, both festival artists and producers started to adopt creative approaches to moving their work online. In the study presented here, we focus on the 2020 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which offered... Read More about A hefty dose of lemons: the importance of rituals for audiences and performers at the online Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2020.

Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyhexanoate) (PHBH): Synthesis, properties, and applications - A review (2022)
Journal Article
Eraslan, K., Aversa, C., Nofar, M., Barletta, M., Gisario, A., Salehiyan, R., & Goksu, Y. A. (2022). Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyhexanoate) (PHBH): Synthesis, properties, and applications - A review. European Polymer Journal, 167, Article 111044. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2022.111044

The development of biobased and environmental-friendly polymeric materials to replace petroleum-based plastics is one of the main global challenges nowadays. Among biopolymers, polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) have gained increasing attention due to thei... Read More about Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyhexanoate) (PHBH): Synthesis, properties, and applications - A review.

What the curtains do not shield: A phenomenological exploration of patient‐witnessed resuscitation in hospital. Part 1: patients' experiences (2022)
Journal Article
Fiori, M., Latour, J. M., Endacott, R., Cutello, C. A., & Coombs, M. (2022). What the curtains do not shield: A phenomenological exploration of patient‐witnessed resuscitation in hospital. Part 1: patients' experiences. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 78(7), 2203-2213. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.15184

Aims
The aim of the study was to explore the experiences of hospital patients who witnessed resuscitation of a fellow patient.

Design
Descriptive phenomenology.

Methods
Patients who witnessed resuscitation were recruited from nine clinical w... Read More about What the curtains do not shield: A phenomenological exploration of patient‐witnessed resuscitation in hospital. Part 1: patients' experiences.

Avian predators taste reject mimetic prey in relation to their signal reliability (2022)
Journal Article
He, R., Pagani-Núñez, E., Goodale, E., & Barnett, C. (2022). Avian predators taste reject mimetic prey in relation to their signal reliability. Scientific Reports, 12(1), Article 2334. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-05600-5

Aposematic organisms defend themselves through various means to increase their unprofitability to predators which they advertise with conspicuous warning signals. Predators learn to avoid aposematic prey through associative learning that leads to low... Read More about Avian predators taste reject mimetic prey in relation to their signal reliability.

Approach to breech face impression comparison based on the robust estimation of a correspondence function (2022)
Journal Article
Zhang, H., Zaman Robin, A. U., Zhu, J., Lu, C., Fang, C., & Shyha, I. (2022). Approach to breech face impression comparison based on the robust estimation of a correspondence function. Forensic Science International, 333, Article 111229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2022.111229

Forensic firearm analysis concerns an attempt to determine if ammunition is associated with a specific firearm based on tool-marks produced by it. A feature-based method using the Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) and RANdom SAmple Consensus (... Read More about Approach to breech face impression comparison based on the robust estimation of a correspondence function.