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Visual Speech Recognition with Lightweight Psychologically Motivated Gabor Features (2020)
Journal Article
Zhang, X., Xu, Y., Abel, A. K., Smith, L. S., Watt, R., Hussain, A., & Gao, C. (2020). Visual Speech Recognition with Lightweight Psychologically Motivated Gabor Features. Entropy, 22(12), Article 1367. https://doi.org/10.3390/e22121367

Extraction of relevant lip features is of continuing interest in the visual speech domain. Using end-to-end feature extraction can produce good results, but at the cost of the results being difficult for humans to comprehend and relate to. We present... Read More about Visual Speech Recognition with Lightweight Psychologically Motivated Gabor Features.

Impacts of decarbonization on the automotive after sales sector: A review of evidence (2020)
Journal Article
Eslava-Bautista, J., Cottrill, C. D., & Beecroft, M. (2021). Impacts of decarbonization on the automotive after sales sector: A review of evidence. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineering, 235(6),

Automotive after sales, which include provision of spare parts, customer service, and accessories sales, is one of the most profitable parts of the automotive industry and provides for an ongoing relationship with the customer. In times of recession,... Read More about Impacts of decarbonization on the automotive after sales sector: A review of evidence.

Financial Openness and Financial Development: Evidence from Emerging Countries (2020)
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Umutlu, M., Gultekin, M., & Özkaya, H. (2020). Financial Openness and Financial Development: Evidence from Emerging Countries. Istanbul Business Research, 49(2), 316-338. https://doi.org/10.26650/ibr.2020.49.0040

We investigate the potential relation between financial openness and financial development for 27 emerging countries for the period between 1996 and 2016. We focus on three dimensions of financial openness: capital account openness, trade openness, a... Read More about Financial Openness and Financial Development: Evidence from Emerging Countries.

Green-building information modelling (Green-BIM) assessment framework for evaluating sustainability performance of building projects: a case of Nigeria (2020)
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Olawumi, T. O., & Chan, D. W. (2021). Green-building information modelling (Green-BIM) assessment framework for evaluating sustainability performance of building projects: a case of Nigeria. Architectural Engineering and Design Management, 17(5-6), 458-47

There is a research gap in the use of digital systems to aid the sustainability performance assessment of buildings, which informs the development of the green-BIM assessment (GBA) framework in this paper. The study employed a conceptual framework de... Read More about Green-building information modelling (Green-BIM) assessment framework for evaluating sustainability performance of building projects: a case of Nigeria.

Dementia, Work and Employability: Using the Capability Approach to Understand the Employability Potential for People Living with Dementia (2020)
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Ritchie, L., Egdell, V., Danson, M., Cook, M., Stavert, J., & Tolson, D. (2022). Dementia, Work and Employability: Using the Capability Approach to Understand the Employability Potential for People Living with Dementia. Work, Employment and Society, 36(4)

The importance of remaining in, or re-entering, the labour market is emphasised by governments internationally. While this may bring benefits, progressive disabilities such as dementia affect an individual’s employability. Although employers have leg... Read More about Dementia, Work and Employability: Using the Capability Approach to Understand the Employability Potential for People Living with Dementia.

“What do interlocks do” revisited – a bibliometric analysis (2020)
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Smith, M., & Sarabi, Y. (2021). “What do interlocks do” revisited – a bibliometric analysis. Management Research Review, 44(4), 642-659. https://doi.org/10.1108/mrr-05-2020-0258

Purpose It has been over 20 years since the landmark publication of Mizruchi (1996) and his examination of “what do interlocks do?”. Since then, the nature of interlocks and subsequent research on the subject has evolved. This paper aims to revisit... Read More about “What do interlocks do” revisited – a bibliometric analysis.

Prescribing within clinical toxicology (2020)
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MacVicar, S., & Osinski, K. (2020). Prescribing within clinical toxicology. Journal of Prescribing Practice, 2(12), 674-680. https://doi.org/10.12968/jprp.2020.2.12.674

In 2020, the first clinical toxicology advanced nurse practitioner and independent prescriber post was introduced in the United Kingdom. This article discusses the remit of clinical toxicology and the integration of nurse prescribing into this servic... Read More about Prescribing within clinical toxicology.

A modified Delphi study to gain consensus for a taxonomy to report and classify physical activity referral schemes (PARS) (2020)
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Hanson, C. L., Oliver, E., Dodd-Reynolds, C., Pearsons, A., & Kelly, P. (2020). A modified Delphi study to gain consensus for a taxonomy to report and classify physical activity referral schemes (PARS). International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Ph

Background: Physical Activity Referral Schemes (PARS), including exercise referral schemes, are a popular approach to health improvement, but understanding of effectiveness is limited by considerable heterogeneity in reporting and evaluation. We aime... Read More about A modified Delphi study to gain consensus for a taxonomy to report and classify physical activity referral schemes (PARS).

The Need for Research on PTSD in Children and Adolescents: A commentary on Elliot et al., 2020 (2020)
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Cloitre, M., Brewin, C. R., Kazlauskas, E., Lueger-Schuster, B., Karatzias, T., Hyland, P., & Shevlin, M. (2021). The Need for Research on PTSD in Children and Adolescents: A commentary on Elliot et al., 2020. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 6

The recent release of the 11th version of The International Classification of Diseases (ICD‐11: WHO, 2018) marked a significant departure from the previous similarities between it and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM‐5;... Read More about The Need for Research on PTSD in Children and Adolescents: A commentary on Elliot et al., 2020.

Inferring Future Landscapes: Sampling the Local Optima Level (2020)
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Thomson, S. L., Ochoa, G., Verel, S., & Veerapen, N. (2020). Inferring Future Landscapes: Sampling the Local Optima Level. Evolutionary Computation, 28(4), 621-641. https://doi.org/10.1162/evco_a_00271

Connection patterns among Local Optima Networks (LONs) can inform heuristic design for optimisation. LON research has predominantly required complete enumeration of a fitness landscape, thereby restricting analysis to problems diminutive in size comp... Read More about Inferring Future Landscapes: Sampling the Local Optima Level.

Dog filters & flower crowns: Using Snapchat as a Pedagogical Tool in Higher Education (2020)
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Kerr, G., & Faulkner, S. (2020). Dog filters & flower crowns: Using Snapchat as a Pedagogical Tool in Higher Education. Journal of Social Media for Learning, 1(1), 147-157. https://doi.org/10.24377/LJMU.jsml.vol1article393

Academics overwhelmingly value social media as a tool for enhancing student learning (Moran et al, 2011). Generally, academics use information technologies and social media to engage with students in a top-down fashion i.e. it is the norm to use what... Read More about Dog filters & flower crowns: Using Snapchat as a Pedagogical Tool in Higher Education.

Experimental and analytical investigation on flexural behaviour of RC beams strengthened with NSM CFRP prestressed concrete prisms (2020)
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Deng, Y., Li, Z., Zhang, H., Corigliano, A., Lam, A. C., Hansapinyo, C., & Yang, Z. (2021). Experimental and analytical investigation on flexural behaviour of RC beams strengthened with NSM CFRP prestressed concrete prisms. Composite Structures, 257, Arti

This investigation aims to study the flexural behaviour of reinforced concrete (RC) beams strengthened with near-surface mounted (NSM) carbon fibre reinforced polymer prestressed concrete prisms (CFRP-PCPs). Eight RC beams were tested under monotonic... Read More about Experimental and analytical investigation on flexural behaviour of RC beams strengthened with NSM CFRP prestressed concrete prisms.

An Architecture for IoT-Enabled Smart Transportation Security System: A Geospatial Approach (2020)
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Zhang, J., Wang, Y., Li, S., & Shi, S. (2021). An Architecture for IoT-Enabled Smart Transportation Security System: A Geospatial Approach. IEEE Internet of Things, 8(8), 6205-6213. https://doi.org/10.1109/jiot.2020.3041386

Internet of Things (IoT) in urban transportation systems have been ubiquitously embedded into a variety of devices and transport entities. The IoT-enabled smart transportation system (STS) has thus gained growing tractions amongst scholars and practi... Read More about An Architecture for IoT-Enabled Smart Transportation Security System: A Geospatial Approach.

Book review: John Armbrecht, Erik Lundberg and Tommy D. Andersson (eds), A Research Agenda for Event Management (Elgar Research Agendas, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA 2019) 192 pp. (2020)
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Snell, S. (2020). Book review: John Armbrecht, Erik Lundberg and Tommy D. Andersson (eds), A Research Agenda for Event Management (Elgar Research Agendas, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA 2019) 192 pp. Journal of Qualitativ

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Why is mock care not a good proxy for predicting hand contamination during patient care? (2020)
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King, M., Wilson, A., López-García, M., Proctor, J., Peckham, D., Clifton, I., …Noakes, C. (2021). Why is mock care not a good proxy for predicting hand contamination during patient care?. Journal of Hospital Infection, 109, 44-51. https://doi.org/10.

Healthcare worker (HCW) behaviours, such as the sequence of their contacts with surfaces and hand hygiene moments, are important for understanding disease transmission. Aim To propose a method for recording sequences of HCW behaviours during mock v... Read More about Why is mock care not a good proxy for predicting hand contamination during patient care?.

Cloud apps to‐go: Cloud portability with TOSCA and MiCADO (2020)
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DesLauriers, J., Kiss, T., Ariyattu, R. C., Dang, H., Ullah, A., Bowden, J., …Terstyanszky, G. (2021). Cloud apps to‐go: Cloud portability with TOSCA and MiCADO. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 33(19), Article e6093. https://doi.

As cloud adoption increases, so do the number of available cloud service providers. Moving complex applications between clouds can be beneficial—or other times necessary—but achieving this so-called cloud portability is rarely straightforward. This a... Read More about Cloud apps to‐go: Cloud portability with TOSCA and MiCADO.

An Improved Genetic-Shuffled Frog-Leaping Algorithm for Permutation Flowshop Scheduling (2020)
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Wu, P., Yang, Q., Chen, W., Mao, B., & Yu, H. (2020). An Improved Genetic-Shuffled Frog-Leaping Algorithm for Permutation Flowshop Scheduling. Complexity, 2020, Article 3450180. https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/3450180

Due to the NP-hard nature, the permutation flowshop scheduling problem (PFSSP) is a fundamental issue for Industry 4.0, especially under higher productivity, efficiency, and self-managing systems. This paper proposes an improved genetic-shuffled frog... Read More about An Improved Genetic-Shuffled Frog-Leaping Algorithm for Permutation Flowshop Scheduling.

All-Optical Planar Polymer Waveguide-Based Biosensor Chip Designed for Smartphone-Assisted Detection of Vitamin D (2020)
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Walter, J., Alwis, L. S. M., Roth, B., & Bremer, K. (2020). All-Optical Planar Polymer Waveguide-Based Biosensor Chip Designed for Smartphone-Assisted Detection of Vitamin D. Sensors, 20(23), Article 6771. https://doi.org/10.3390/s20236771

An all-optical plasmonic sensor platform designed for smartphones based on planar-optical waveguide structures integrated in a polymer chip is reported for the first time. To demonstrate the applicability of the sensor system for biosensing purposes,... Read More about All-Optical Planar Polymer Waveguide-Based Biosensor Chip Designed for Smartphone-Assisted Detection of Vitamin D.

The Local Provision of Restorative Justice in Scotland: an Exploratory Empirical Study (2020)
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Maglione, G., Buchan, J., & Robertson, L. (2022). The Local Provision of Restorative Justice in Scotland: an Exploratory Empirical Study. European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, 28, 617-640. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10610-020-09470-3

This article presents the results of the first empirical qualitative research on the provision of restorative justice (RJ) in Scotland, based on interviews with 14 practitioners. In Scotland, RJ has attracted the attention of penal reformers and prac... Read More about The Local Provision of Restorative Justice in Scotland: an Exploratory Empirical Study.

Investigations towards lower cooling load in a typical residential building in Kurdistan (Iraq) (2020)
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Mustafa, M., Ali, S., Snape, J. R., & Vand, B. (2020). Investigations towards lower cooling load in a typical residential building in Kurdistan (Iraq). Energy Reports, 6, 571-580. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egyr.2020.11.011

Energy consumption in cooling the buildings and occupant’s thermal comfort is significant, and any techniques to reduce this can bring great benefits, both locally in terms of reducing the need for expensive infrastructure and globally in terms of re... Read More about Investigations towards lower cooling load in a typical residential building in Kurdistan (Iraq).