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Enzyme adaptation to habitat thermal legacy shapes the thermal plasticity of marine microbiomes (2023)
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Marasco, R., Fusi, M., Coscolín, C., Barozzi, A., Almendral, D., Bargiela, R., …Daffonchio, D. (2023). Enzyme adaptation to habitat thermal legacy shapes the thermal plasticity of marine microbiomes. Nature Communications, 14(1), Article 1045. https://

Microbial communities respond to temperature with physiological adaptation and compositional turnover. Whether thermal selection of enzymes explains marine microbiome plasticity in response to temperature remains unresolved. By quantifying the therma... Read More about Enzyme adaptation to habitat thermal legacy shapes the thermal plasticity of marine microbiomes.

Mitochondrial haplotypes reveal low diversity and restricted connectivity of the critically endangered batoid population in a Marine Protected Area (2023)
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Schwanck, T., Vizer, L., Thorburn, J., Dodd, J., Wright, P., Donnan, D., …Jones, C. (2024). Mitochondrial haplotypes reveal low diversity and restricted connectivity of the critically endangered batoid population in a Marine Protected Area. Marine Ecolo

Stability and long-term persistence of a species rely heavily on its genetic diversity, which is closely allied to its capacity for adaptation. In threatened species, population connectivity can play a major role in maintaining that diversity, and ge... Read More about Mitochondrial haplotypes reveal low diversity and restricted connectivity of the critically endangered batoid population in a Marine Protected Area.

Radiation characteristic of cloud based magnetometer for vehicle detection (2023)
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Yee, S. K., Teoh, M. C., Abidin, Z. Z., Dahlan, S. H., Anuar, M. R., Tee, K. S., …Soon, C. F. (2023). Radiation characteristic of cloud based magnetometer for vehicle detection. Jurnal Teknologi, 85(2), 167-174. https://doi.org/10.11113/jurnalteknologi.

A traffic sensing and monitoring system based on a magnetometer is proposed to work with Arduino pro-mini and nRF24L01 to mitigate traffic congestion problems. As vehicles pass through the magnetometer buried underground, the microcontroller process... Read More about Radiation characteristic of cloud based magnetometer for vehicle detection.

An omnidirectional approach to touch-based continuous authentication (2023)
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Aaby, P., Giuffrida, M. V., Buchanan, W. J., & Tan, Z. (2023). An omnidirectional approach to touch-based continuous authentication. Computers and Security, 128, Article 103146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2023.103146

This paper focuses on how touch interactions on smartphones can provide a continuous user authentication service through behaviour captured by a touchscreen. While efforts are made to advance touch-based behavioural authentication, researchers often... Read More about An omnidirectional approach to touch-based continuous authentication.

Emotional Voice Puppetry (2023)
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Pan, Y., Zhang, R., Cheng, S., Tan, S., Ding, Y., Mitchell, K., & Yang, X. (2023). Emotional Voice Puppetry. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 29(5), 2527-2535. https://doi.org/10.1109/tvcg.2023.3247101

The paper presents emotional voice puppetry, an audio-based facial animation approach to portray characters with vivid emotional changes. The lips motion and the surrounding facial areas are controlled by the contents of the audio, and the facial dyn... Read More about Emotional Voice Puppetry.

MPS, Outside Interests, and Corporate Boards: Too Busy to Serve? (2023)
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Smith, M., & Newman, J. (2024). MPS, Outside Interests, and Corporate Boards: Too Busy to Serve?. Parliamentary Affairs, 77(2), 219-239. https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsad003

The corporate governance literature has often been concerned with whether individuals with a high number of board directorships are too busy to serve in their role. In the UK, many MPs also hold positions on boards of directors. This raises the quest... Read More about MPS, Outside Interests, and Corporate Boards: Too Busy to Serve?.

Adoption and use of smart devices as clickers in classrooms in higher education (2023)
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Demeke, W. (2023). Adoption and use of smart devices as clickers in classrooms in higher education. Computer Applications in Engineering Education, 31(4), 963-982. https://doi.org/10.1002/cae.22617

The availability of students' smartphones, tablets, and laptops, known as bring your own devices (BYOD), used as clickers rather than the custom devices provided by institutions is increasing. Introducing BYOD as clickers and the level of adoption by... Read More about Adoption and use of smart devices as clickers in classrooms in higher education.

Barriers and enabling factors for error analysis in NLG research (2023)
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Van Miltenburg, E., Clinciu, M., Dušek, O., Gkatzia, D., Inglis, S., Leppänen, L., …Wen, L. (2023). Barriers and enabling factors for error analysis in NLG research. Northern European Journal of Language Technology, 9(1), https://doi.org/10.3384/nejlt

Earlier research has shown that few studies in Natural Language Generation (NLG) evaluate their system outputs using an error analysis, despite known limitations of automatic evaluation metrics and human ratings. This position paper takes the stance... Read More about Barriers and enabling factors for error analysis in NLG research.

Digitization of healthcare sector: A study on privacy and security concerns (2023)
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Paul, M., Maglaras, L., Ferrag, M. A., & Almomani, I. (2023). Digitization of healthcare sector: A study on privacy and security concerns. ICT Express, 9(4), 571-588. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icte.2023.02.007

The digital revolution has taken business sectors to a new height through the advancement of technology. The healthcare sector also embraced digital technology to facilitate technological change from mechanical and analogue electronic devices to the... Read More about Digitization of healthcare sector: A study on privacy and security concerns.

Literary Prize Cultures: A Fairer Future? (2023)
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Marsden, S. (2023). Literary Prize Cultures: A Fairer Future?. Wasafiri, 38(1), 67-79. https://doi.org/10.1080/02690055.2023.2133859

In June 2022, Costa Coffee announced that they would no longer be running the Costa Book Awards, one of the UK's most significant series of awards for fiction, children's books, poetry, non-fiction, and short fiction. The cancellation of the awards w... Read More about Literary Prize Cultures: A Fairer Future?.

Vital Conditions to Remove Pollutants from Synthetic Wastewater Using Malaysian Ganoderma lucidum (2023)
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Mooralitharan, S., Mohd Hanafiah, Z., Abd Manan, T. S. B., Muhammad-Sukki, F., Wan-Mohtar, W. A. A. Q. I., & Wan Mohtar, W. H. M. (2023). Vital Conditions to Remove Pollutants from Synthetic Wastewater Using Malaysian Ganoderma lucidum. Sustainability, 15

Mycoremediation, a fungal-based technology, has seen tremendous growth as an effective alternative to treat industrial wastewater due to its ability to oxidise pollutant loadings. Considering the non-toxic properties and high potential degradation pe... Read More about Vital Conditions to Remove Pollutants from Synthetic Wastewater Using Malaysian Ganoderma lucidum.

The Quintuple Bottom Line: A Framework for Place-Based Sustainable Enterprise in the Craft Industry (2023)
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Panneels, I. (2023). The Quintuple Bottom Line: A Framework for Place-Based Sustainable Enterprise in the Craft Industry. Sustainability, 15(4), Article 3791. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15043791

This study proposes to extend the sustainable business framework of the Quadruple Bottom Line into the Quintuple Bottom Line. The five Ps of the Quintuple Bottom Line support purpose-driven businesses to consider economic profitability alongside soci... Read More about The Quintuple Bottom Line: A Framework for Place-Based Sustainable Enterprise in the Craft Industry.

‘I’m not going to leave someone to die’: carriage of naloxone by police in Scotland within a public health framework: a qualitative study of acceptability and experiences (2023)
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Speakman, E. M., Hillen, P., Heyman, I., Murray, J., Dougall, N., Aston, E. V., & McAuley, A. (2023). ‘I’m not going to leave someone to die’: carriage of naloxone by police in Scotland within a public health framework: a qualitative study of accept

Background Scotland has one of the highest rates of drug-related deaths (DRDs) per capita in Europe, the majority of which involve opioids. Naloxone is a medication used to reverse opioid-related overdoses. In efforts to tackle escalating DRDs in ma... Read More about ‘I’m not going to leave someone to die’: carriage of naloxone by police in Scotland within a public health framework: a qualitative study of acceptability and experiences.

Ethical bank disclosures and liquidity creation (2023)
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Kladakis, G., Chen, L., & Bellos, S. K. (2023). Ethical bank disclosures and liquidity creation. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 84, Article 101754. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intfin.2023.101754

Ethics in finance and in banks have attracted increasing attention after the global financial crisis of 2007-2009. Although engagement in more ethical activities for banks has been a legitimate social expectation, the impact of it on the financial pe... Read More about Ethical bank disclosures and liquidity creation.

Analysis of Attitudes towards Food Waste in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Using Fuzzy Logic (2023)
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Malibari, A., Alsawah, G., Saleh, W., & Lashin, M. M. A. (2023). Analysis of Attitudes towards Food Waste in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Using Fuzzy Logic. Sustainability, 15(4), Article 3668. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15043668

Attitudes and feelings towards food waste and positions on management policies have been vastly increased over the past few decades. Most of the available research on the analysis of attitudes towards food waste have been carried out using convention... Read More about Analysis of Attitudes towards Food Waste in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Using Fuzzy Logic.

A scoping review of the evidence for the use of screening tools in people with intellectual disabilities with dysphagia (2023)
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O'Leary, L., Maine, A., Ring, N., Reid, J., Speirs, L., Allan, L., …Taggart, L. (2023). A scoping review of the evidence for the use of screening tools in people with intellectual disabilities with dysphagia. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual

Background Dysphagia can have serious health implications including choking and respiratory infection leading to poorer quality of life. People with intellectual disabilities are at higher risk of dysphagia related health complications and early dea... Read More about A scoping review of the evidence for the use of screening tools in people with intellectual disabilities with dysphagia.

Interactive Effect of Learning Rate and Batch Size to Implement Transfer Learning for Brain Tumor Classification (2023)
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Usmani, I. A., Qadri, M. T., Zia, R., Alrayes, F. S., Saidani, O., & Dashtipour, K. (2023). Interactive Effect of Learning Rate and Batch Size to Implement Transfer Learning for Brain Tumor Classification. Electronics, 12(4), Article 964. https://doi.org/

For classifying brain tumors with small datasets, the knowledge-based transfer learning (KBTL) approach has performed very well in attaining an optimized classification model. However, its successful implementation is typically affected by different... Read More about Interactive Effect of Learning Rate and Batch Size to Implement Transfer Learning for Brain Tumor Classification.

Preserving Differential Privacy in Deep Learning Based on Feature Relevance Region Segmentation (2023)
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Wang, F., Xie, M., Tan, Z., Li, Q., & Wang, C. (2024). Preserving Differential Privacy in Deep Learning Based on Feature Relevance Region Segmentation. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, 12(1), 307 - 315. https://doi.org/10.1109/TETC.2023.

In the era of big data, deep learning techniques provide intelligent solutions for various problems in real-life scenarios. However, deep neural networks depend on large-scale datasets including sensitive data, which causes the potential risk of priv... Read More about Preserving Differential Privacy in Deep Learning Based on Feature Relevance Region Segmentation.

General practitioners’ perceptions on opportunistic single-time point screening for atrial fibrillation: A European quantitative survey (2023)
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Vermunicht, P., Grecu, M., Deharo, J., Buckley, C. M., Palà, E., Mairesse, G. H., Farkowski, M. M., Bergonti, M., Pürerfellner, H., Hanson, C. L., Neubeck, L., Freedman, B., Witt, H., Hills, M. T., Lund, J., Giskes, K., Engler, D., Schnabel, R. B., Heid

Background: There is no clear guidance on how to implement opportunistic atrial fibrillation (AF) screening in daily clinical practice. Objectives: This study evaluated the perception of general practitioners (GPs) about value and practicalities of i... Read More about General practitioners’ perceptions on opportunistic single-time point screening for atrial fibrillation: A European quantitative survey.