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Factors Inhibiting Digital Transformation of Indigenous Construction Firms in Nigeria (2022)
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Okpo, A. H., Ikediashi, D., & Ansa, O. A. (2022). Factors Inhibiting Digital Transformation of Indigenous Construction Firms in Nigeria. Covenant Journal of Research in the Built Environment, 10(2), 1-12

Despite the inherent benefits that digitalisation brings to businesses across sectors, indigenous construction firms in developing countries like Nigeria seem unprepared and reluctant to embrace the digital trend. Qualitative research technique was a... Read More about Factors Inhibiting Digital Transformation of Indigenous Construction Firms in Nigeria.

D. 49.16.6.2. Exegetical notes on contumacia militis (2022)
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Di Donato, G. (2022). D. 49.16.6.2. Exegetical notes on contumacia militis. Revista General de Derecho Romano, 39,

D. 49.16.6.2, on the subject of Roman military law, presents the cryptic expression `contumacia militis'. Taking into account the entire work of the author of this passage (Arrius Menander), as well as the thought of Roman jurists contemporary to him... Read More about D. 49.16.6.2. Exegetical notes on contumacia militis.

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people with disabilities in Ukraine: Perspectives of the organisations of persons with disabilities (2022)
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Sharapov, K., Anderson, D., Burova, O., Nazarenko, V., & Polishchuk, O. (2022). The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people with disabilities in Ukraine: Perspectives of the organisations of persons with disabilities. Sociology: Theory, Methods, Marketing, 2022(2), 177-186. https://doi.org/10.15407/sociology2022.02

Згідно з даними Національної соціальної служби та Пенсійного фонду, в Україні станом на початок 2021 року було зареєстровано щонайменше 2 724 100 осіб з інвалідністю. Утім, фактичні цифри можуть бути вищими через брак достовірної докладної статистики... Read More about The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people with disabilities in Ukraine: Perspectives of the organisations of persons with disabilities.

Career development and criminal justice: Foundations for a new integration to promote peace and justice (2022)
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Robertson, P. (2022). Career development and criminal justice: Foundations for a new integration to promote peace and justice. Indian Journal of Career and Livelihood Planning, 11(1), 16-30

The promotion of peace and justice is an important responsibility of governments, and it represents one of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN, 2015). To date there has been little consideration of how career development services mig... Read More about Career development and criminal justice: Foundations for a new integration to promote peace and justice.

The effects of exercise on complement system proteins in humans: a systematic scoping review (2022)
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Rothschild-Rodriguez, D., Causer, A. J., Brown, F. F., Collier-Bain, H. D., Moore, S., Murray, J., …Campbell, J. P. (2022). The effects of exercise on complement system proteins in humans: a systematic scoping review. Exercise Immunology Review, 28, 58-92

Background: The complement system is comprised of the classical , lectin and alternative pathways that result in the formation of: pro-inflammatory anaphylatoxins; opsonins that label cells for phagocytic removal; and, a membrane attack complex that... Read More about The effects of exercise on complement system proteins in humans: a systematic scoping review.

Creating connections: developing an online space for cross-regional mentorship and network building in the dementia research field [Version 2] (2022)
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Fullerton, J., Bettencourt, C., Daniels, M., Mclean, F., Simpson, S., Smith, A., …Kerr, F. (2022). Creating connections: developing an online space for cross-regional mentorship and network building in the dementia research field [Version 2]. AMRC Open Research, 4, Article 22. https://doi.org/10.12688/amrcopenres.13091.2

Background Effective development and retention of talented early-career researchers (ECRs) is essential to the continued success of biomedical science research fields. To this end, formal mentorship programmes (where researchers are paired with one... Read More about Creating connections: developing an online space for cross-regional mentorship and network building in the dementia research field [Version 2].

Transcultural Translation and Validation of Lasater Clinical Judgment Rubric© (2022)
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Santos Duarte, H. M., Lasater, K., & dos Anjos Coelho Rodrigues Dixe, M. (2022). Transcultural Translation and Validation of Lasater Clinical Judgment Rubric©. Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 75(6), https://doi.org/10.1590/0034-7167-2021-0880

Objectives: to translate and cross-culturally validate the Lasater Clinical Judgment Rubric((c)) (LCJR((c))) instrument for nursing students. Methods: the application of LCJR-PT (c) was preceded by a linguistic translation into Portuguese, based on t... Read More about Transcultural Translation and Validation of Lasater Clinical Judgment Rubric©.

From belonging to being: Engaging with ‘contexts of difference’ (2022)
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Graham, C. (2022). From belonging to being: Engaging with ‘contexts of difference’. Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 19(4),

This paper seeks to unveil the situated struggle that students experience in comprehending the often tacit rules that govern academic practices in order to engage fully with their academic studies and develop a sense of belonging. I present a critiqu... Read More about From belonging to being: Engaging with ‘contexts of difference’.

Sharing data to better understand one of the world’s most significant shared experiences: Data Resource Profile of the longitudinal COVID-19 Psychological Research Consortium (C19PRC) Study (2022)
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McBride, O., Butter, S., Hartman, T. K., Murphy, J., Hyland, P., Shevlin, M., …Bentall, R. P. (2022). Sharing data to better understand one of the world’s most significant shared experiences: Data Resource Profile of the longitudinal COVID-19 Psychological Research Consortium (C19PRC) Study. International Journal of Population Data Science, 5(4), https://doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v5i4.1704

This paper serves to alert IJPDS readers to the availability of a major new longitudinal survey data resource, the COVID-19 Psychological Research Consortium (C19PRC) Study, which is being released for secondary use via the Open Science Framework. Th... Read More about Sharing data to better understand one of the world’s most significant shared experiences: Data Resource Profile of the longitudinal COVID-19 Psychological Research Consortium (C19PRC) Study.

Parents’ narratives toward smoking in the home following a second-hand smoke story-telling education intervention (2022)
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MacNicol, Y., Lusher, J., Banbury, S., & Roberts, N. (2022). Parents’ narratives toward smoking in the home following a second-hand smoke story-telling education intervention. MOJ Addiction Medicine & Therapy, 7(1), 7-13. https://doi.org/10.15406/mojamt.2022.07.00152

There is a strong link between cigarette smoking and socio-economic status, with three-quarters of children living in disadvantaged communities being exposed to second-hand smoke. The present study examined parents’ views of smoking in the home after... Read More about Parents’ narratives toward smoking in the home following a second-hand smoke story-telling education intervention.

Metasurface-Inspired Flexible Wearable MIMO Antenna Array for Wireless Body Area Network Applications and Biomedical Telemetry Devices (2022)
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Althuwayb, A. A., Alibakhshikenari, M., Virdee, B. S., Rashid, N., Kaaniche, K., Ben Atitallah, A., … Falcone, F. (2022). Metasurface-Inspired Flexible Wearable MIMO Antenna Array for Wireless Body Area Network Applications and Biomedical Telemetry Devices. IEEE Access, 11, 1039-1056. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3233388

This article presents a sub-6GHz ISM-band flexible wearable MIMO antenna array for wireless body area networks (WBANs) and biomedical telemetry devices. The array is based on metasurface inspired technology. The antenna array consists of 2×2 matrix o... Read More about Metasurface-Inspired Flexible Wearable MIMO Antenna Array for Wireless Body Area Network Applications and Biomedical Telemetry Devices.

High performance aluminum-air battery for sustainable power generation (2022)
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Tan, W. C., Saw, L. H., Yew, M. C., Sun, D., & Chen, W. (2023). High performance aluminum-air battery for sustainable power generation. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 48(28), 10438-10451. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2022.11.247

Metal-air battery is receiving vast attention due to its promising capabilities as an energy storage system for the post lithium-ion era. The electricity is generated through oxidation and reduction reaction within the anode and cathode. Among variou... Read More about High performance aluminum-air battery for sustainable power generation.

Programmable Beam-Steering Capabilities Based on Graphene Plasmonic THz MIMO Antenna via Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) for IoT Applications (2022)
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Khaleel, S. A., Hamad, E. K. I., Parchin, N. O., & Saleh, M. B. (2022). Programmable Beam-Steering Capabilities Based on Graphene Plasmonic THz MIMO Antenna via Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) for IoT Applications. Electronics, 12(1), Article 164. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12010164

The approaching sixth-generation (6G) communication network will modernize applications and satisfy user demands through implementing a smart and reconfigurable system with a higher data rate and wider bandwidth. The controllable THz waves are highly... Read More about Programmable Beam-Steering Capabilities Based on Graphene Plasmonic THz MIMO Antenna via Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) for IoT Applications.

Greenhouse gas production, diffusion and consumption in a soil profile under maize and wheat production (2022)
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Button, E. S., Marshall, M., Sánchez-Rodríguez, A. R., Blaud, A., Abadie, M., Chadwick, D. R., & Jones, D. L. (2023). Greenhouse gas production, diffusion and consumption in a soil profile under maize and wheat production. Geoderma, 430, Article 116310. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2022.116310

Agricultural soil emissions are a balance between sinks and sources of greenhouse gases (GHGs). The fluxes of GHGs from soils are complex and spatially and temporally heterogenous. While the soil surface is the exchange site with the atmosphere and i... Read More about Greenhouse gas production, diffusion and consumption in a soil profile under maize and wheat production.

Hyper-parameter initialization of classification algorithms using dynamic time warping: A perspective on PCA meta-features (2022)
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Horváth, T., Mantovani, R. G., & de Carvalho, A. C. (2023). Hyper-parameter initialization of classification algorithms using dynamic time warping: A perspective on PCA meta-features. Applied Soft Computing, 134, Article 109969. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2022.109969

Meta-learning, a concept from the area of automated machine learning, aims at providing decision support for data scientists by recommending a suitable setting (a machine learning algorithm or its hyper-parameters) to be used for a given dataset. Suc... Read More about Hyper-parameter initialization of classification algorithms using dynamic time warping: A perspective on PCA meta-features.

Diverse features discovery transformer for pedestrian attribute recognition (2022)
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Zheng, A., Wang, H., Wang, J., Huang, H., He, R., & Hussain, A. (2023). Diverse features discovery transformer for pedestrian attribute recognition. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 119, Article 105708. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2022.105708

Recently, Swin Transformer has been widely explored as a general backbone for computer vision, which helps to improve the performance of vision tasks due to the ability to establish associations for long-range dependencies of different spatial locati... Read More about Diverse features discovery transformer for pedestrian attribute recognition.

An Overview of Current Printing Technologies for Large-Scale Perovskite Solar Cell Development (2022)
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Valsalakumar, S., Roy, A., Mallick, T. K., Hinshelwood, J., & Sundaram, S. (2022). An Overview of Current Printing Technologies for Large-Scale Perovskite Solar Cell Development. Energies, 16(1), Article 190. https://doi.org/10.3390/en16010190

The power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have seen significant performance improvements between 2012 and 2022. PSCs have excellent optoelectronic properties and can be built using low-cost materials. In order to compe... Read More about An Overview of Current Printing Technologies for Large-Scale Perovskite Solar Cell Development.