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Public Health Law in Aviation: Challenges of Harmonisation (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Speakman, E. (2019, September). Public Health Law in Aviation: Challenges of Harmonisation. Paper presented at Aviation Health Conference 2019, London, UK

Speakman, E. (2019, September). Public Health Law in Aviation: Challenges of Harmonisation. Paper presented at Aviation Health Conference 2019, London, UK

Systematic review and thematic synthesis of the implementation and impact of holistic needs assessments for people affected by cancer (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Johnston, L., Young, J., & Campbell, K. (2019, September). Systematic review and thematic synthesis of the implementation and impact of holistic needs assessments for people affected by cancer. Poster presented at IPOS World Congress of Psycho-Oncology and Psychosocial Academy, Banff, Canada

Background/rationale or Objectives/purpose: International government and clinical policy recommends individuals affected by cancer should have all their needs assessed. Implementation of holistic needs assess-ments (HNA) is howev... Read More about Systematic review and thematic synthesis of the implementation and impact of holistic needs assessments for people affected by cancer.

Beneath the ‘PROM’? What people affected by cancer really value from services: thematic synthesis of findings from two national cancer programmes (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Johnston, L., & Young, J. (2019, September). Beneath the ‘PROM’? What people affected by cancer really value from services: thematic synthesis of findings from two national cancer programmes. Poster presented at IPOS World Congress of Psycho-Oncology and Psychosocial Academy, Banff, Canada

Objective/Purpose Internationally, little is known about how services contribute to positive changes in Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) from the patients’ perspective. This study identified the critical service components that people affec... Read More about Beneath the ‘PROM’? What people affected by cancer really value from services: thematic synthesis of findings from two national cancer programmes.

MetaSurface Structure Design and Channel Modelling for THz Band Communications (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
La Spada, L., Loscri, V., & Vegni, A. M. (2019). MetaSurface Structure Design and Channel Modelling for THz Band Communications. . https://doi.org/10.1109/infcomw.2019.8845308

Recently, a huge interest has been raised in controlling and manipulating electromagnetic waves by means of MetaSurfaces. This type of material makes possible the control of phase and amplitude of electromagnetic waves paving the way of different app... Read More about MetaSurface Structure Design and Channel Modelling for THz Band Communications.

"Its All About Informed Discussions, Informed Decisions and Informed Care" (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Boyd, K., & Brooks Young, P. (2019, September). "Its All About Informed Discussions, Informed Decisions and Informed Care". Paper presented at Worms, Butterflies and Veils to Outcomes: Scottish Partnership for Care Annual Conference

This session shared learning from NHS Lothian’s systematic and ongoing work to improve palliative and end of life care in hospital, from reliable and consistent sharing of information to ensuring the right sorts of conversations happen at the right t... Read More about "Its All About Informed Discussions, Informed Decisions and Informed Care".

Mode I fracture toughness of optimized alkali-treated Bambusa Vulgaris bamboo by Box-Behnken design (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Roslan, S. A., Hassan, M. Z., Rasid, Z. A., Bani, N. A., Sarip, S., Daud, M. Y. M., & Muhammad-Sukki, F. (2018, November). Mode I fracture toughness of optimized alkali-treated Bambusa Vulgaris bamboo by Box-Behnken design. Presented at 4th International Conference on Mechanical, Manufacturing and Plant Engineering (ICMMPE 2018), Melaka, Malaysia

Alkaline treatment is widely being used to treat natural fibres and it improves the fibre surface for better bonding with the polymer matrix. The aim of this study is to optimize the alkaline treatment variables that influence the strength of natural... Read More about Mode I fracture toughness of optimized alkali-treated Bambusa Vulgaris bamboo by Box-Behnken design.

Dramatic Effect - enhancing nurse education through performance (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mahoney, C., Bastow, F., & Harper-McDonald, B. (2019, September). Dramatic Effect - enhancing nurse education through performance. Paper presented at RAISE Annual Conference, Newcastle Upon Tyne

Health and social care integration (HCI) is an important policy priority across the United Kingdom. HCI is a complex process, not least because it results in blurring and redefinition of professional roles. Because nurses are at the forefront of HCI... Read More about Dramatic Effect - enhancing nurse education through performance.

Nightmares and Other Doubles: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives on the Visual Culture of Self-shattering Dreams and Visions (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Milne, L. (2019, September). Nightmares and Other Doubles: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives on the Visual Culture of Self-shattering Dreams and Visions. Paper presented at Dream Cultures: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, University of Helsinki, Finland

The nightmare is a form of “affect-laden” or “self-shattering” dream, wherein the dreamer awakens in a state of high emotional disturbance. Such dreams include initiation and/or shamanic visions, close encounters with gods or spirits, sexual dreams,... Read More about Nightmares and Other Doubles: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives on the Visual Culture of Self-shattering Dreams and Visions.

Development and feasibility testing of a novel communitybased enhanced care intervention (ECI) to improve person-centred outcomes for people living with HIV/ AIDS in Ghana (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abboah-Offei, M. (2019, September). Development and feasibility testing of a novel communitybased enhanced care intervention (ECI) to improve person-centred outcomes for people living with HIV/ AIDS in Ghana. Paper presented at 6th International African Palliative Care Conference, Kigali City, Rwanda

The local provision of restorative justice in Scotland: an exploratory empirical study (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buchan, J., Maglione, G., & Robertson, L. (2019, September). The local provision of restorative justice in Scotland: an exploratory empirical study. Paper presented at 19th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology: ConverGENT, Ghent, Belgium

Buchan, J., Maglione, G., & Robertson, L. (2019, September). The local provision of restorative justice in Scotland: an exploratory empirical study. Paper presented at 19th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology: ConverGENT, Ghent,... Read More about The local provision of restorative justice in Scotland: an exploratory empirical study.

Visible online? Police legitimacy and face-to-face engagement (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Aston, E. (2019, September). Visible online? Police legitimacy and face-to-face engagement. Paper presented at 19th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Ghent, Belgium

Aston, E. (2019, September). Visible online? Police legitimacy and face-to-face engagement. Paper presented at 19th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Ghent, Belgium.

Generating comparative knowledge on the governance of police stops in Europe (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Aston, E., & Fazekas, J. (2019, September). Generating comparative knowledge on the governance of police stops in Europe. Paper presented at European Society of Criminology Conference, Ghent

Aston, E., & Fazekas, J. (2019, September). 'Generating comparative knowledge on the governance of police stops in Europe. Paper presented at European Society of Criminology Conference, Ghent.

How to Measure the Average and Peak Age of Information in Real Networks? (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Barakat, B., Yassine, H., Keates, S., Wassell, I., & Arshad, K. (2019, May). How to Measure the Average and Peak Age of Information in Real Networks?. Presented at European Wireless 2019, Aarhus, Denmark

The Age of information (AoI) was proposed in the literature to quantify the freshness of information. The majority of the work done in this area has theoretically evaluated AoI and its Peak (PAoI). In this paper, a method for obtaining the value of A... Read More about How to Measure the Average and Peak Age of Information in Real Networks?.

Using photogrammetry method to evaluate the shear module of the laminated glass beam in torsion tests (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Uheida, K., Zhang, J., & Deng, Y. (2019, September). Using photogrammetry method to evaluate the shear module of the laminated glass beam in torsion tests. Paper presented at Civil-Comp 2019: The Sixteenth International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing, Riva del Garda, Italy

The laminated structural glass beam is a modern, transparent and innovative structural element, widely used in supporting floor and roof plates, glass walls and many other applications. Despite many favourable characteristics inherent in the material... Read More about Using photogrammetry method to evaluate the shear module of the laminated glass beam in torsion tests.

Learning Temporal Clusters Using Capsule Routing for Speech Emotion Recognition (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jalal, M. A., Loweimi, E., Moore, R. K., & Hain, T. (2019). Learning Temporal Clusters Using Capsule Routing for Speech Emotion Recognition. In Proc. Interspeech 2019 (1701-1705). https://doi.org/10.21437/interspeech.2019-3068

Emotion recognition from speech plays a significant role in adding emotional intelligence to machines and making human-machine interaction more natural. One of the key challenges from machine learning standpoint is to extract patterns which bear maxi... Read More about Learning Temporal Clusters Using Capsule Routing for Speech Emotion Recognition.

Trainable Dynamic Subsampling for End-to-End Speech Recognition (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhang, S., Loweimi, E., Xu, Y., Bell, P., & Renals, S. (2019). Trainable Dynamic Subsampling for End-to-End Speech Recognition. In Proc. Interspeech 2019 (1413-1417). https://doi.org/10.21437/interspeech.2019-2778

Jointly optimised attention-based encoder-decoder models have yielded impressive speech recognition results. The recurrent neural network (RNN) encoder is a key component in such models — it learns the hidden representations of the inputs. However, i... Read More about Trainable Dynamic Subsampling for End-to-End Speech Recognition.

On Learning Interpretable CNNs with Parametric Modulated Kernel-Based Filters (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Loweimi, E., Bell, P., & Renals, S. (2019). On Learning Interpretable CNNs with Parametric Modulated Kernel-Based Filters. In Proc. Interspeech 2019 (3480-3484). https://doi.org/10.21437/interspeech.2019-1257

We investigate the problem of direct waveform modelling using parametric kernel-based filters in a convolutional neural network (CNN) framework, building on SincNet, a CNN employing the cardinal sine (sinc) function to implement learnable bandpass fi... Read More about On Learning Interpretable CNNs with Parametric Modulated Kernel-Based Filters.