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Adaptive challenge for algebraic and realistic dynamic optimisation benchmarks. (2025)
Thesis
ALZA SANTOS, J. 2025. Adaptive challenge for algebraic and realistic dynamic optimisation benchmarks. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis. Hosted on OpenAIR [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.48526/rgu-wt-2795469

Dynamic optimisation focuses on finding the best possible solutions while continuously adapting to changing environments. One of the main challenges in academic dynamic optimisation is accurately representing the adaptive challenge of online algorith... Read More about Adaptive challenge for algebraic and realistic dynamic optimisation benchmarks..

Do cheaters prosper? Effect of externally supplied momentum during resistance training on measures of upper body muscle hypertrophy. (2025)
Journal Article
AUGUSTIN, F., PIÑERO, A., ENES, A., MOHAN, A.E., SAPUPPOZ, M., COLEMAN, M., WOLF, M., KORAKAKIS, P.A., SWINTON, P.A., NIPPARD, J. and SCHOENFELD, B.J. 2025. Do cheaters prosper? Effect of externally supplied momentum during resistance training on measures of upper body muscle hypertrophy. International journal of exercise science [online], 18(3), pages 329-342. Available from: https://doi/org/10.70252/GDBL2230

Exercise technique, defined as the controlled execution of bodily movements to ensure an exercise effectively targets specific muscle groups while minimizing the risk of injury, is a resistance training (RT) variable frequently highlighted as critica... Read More about Do cheaters prosper? Effect of externally supplied momentum during resistance training on measures of upper body muscle hypertrophy..

Enhancing employability through collaborative project-based learning. (2025)
Journal Article
AMISH, M. 2025. Enhancing employability through collaborative project-based learning. International journal of innovative science and research technology [online], 10(1), pages 1923-1932. Available from: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14831458

There is a gap between the skills taught in higher education and those needed in the workplace, with employers often finding engineering graduates lacking in soft and digital skills. Traditional university courses may not adequately prepare students... Read More about Enhancing employability through collaborative project-based learning..

Thinking is for doing: project cognition as the foundation of project behaviour. (2025)
Journal Article
STINGL, V., GILCHRIST, A., LAWANI, A., FLIN, R. and ZWIKAEL, O. 2025. Thinking is for doing: project cognition as the foundation of project behaviour. International journal of project management [online], 43(1), article number 102678. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijproman.2025.102678

Cognition, understood as the way the mind acquires, processes, and enacts information, is at the root of all behaviour. Yet, while the interest in behaviour in projects is increasing, these cognitive foundations are often disregarded or only haphazar... Read More about Thinking is for doing: project cognition as the foundation of project behaviour..

What is the welfare state for? (2025)
Book
SPICKER, P. [2025]. What is the welfare state for? Bristol: Bristol University Press [online], (forthcoming). Available from: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/trade/what-is-the-welfare-state-for

Most states in the world make some provision for the welfare of their citizens. Every state engages with health care provision, almost all provide education services, and, after an explosion of interest in recent years, a substantial majority now hav... Read More about What is the welfare state for?.

Food insecurity, diabetes self-management and support for self-management in high income countries: a qualitative systematic review and synthesis (2008 to 2024). (2025)
Journal Article
DOUGLAS, F., MACIVER, E. and KENNEDY, C. 2025. Food insecurity, diabetes self-management and support for self-management in high income countries: a qualitative systematic review and synthesis (2008 to 2024). Health and social care in the community [online], 2025, article number 7249750. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1155/hsc/7249750

People living with diabetes and food insecurity in high-income countries have poorer health-related outcomes than those who are food secure. Diabetes is a significant global health challenge. At the same time, the prevalence of household food insecur... Read More about Food insecurity, diabetes self-management and support for self-management in high income countries: a qualitative systematic review and synthesis (2008 to 2024)..

Quantitation and error measurements in dose-response curves. (2025)
Journal Article
SRINIVASAN, B. and LLOYD, M.D. 2025. Quantitation and error measurements in dose-response curves. Journal of medicinal chemistry [online], 68(3), pages 2052-2056. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jmedchem.5c00131

In contemporary early drug discovery, reliance on parameter measurements from dose–response studies constitute the backbone of structure–activity relationship (SAR)-based optimization of small-molecules. Our previous editorial dealt with basic know-h... Read More about Quantitation and error measurements in dose-response curves..

An optimized lightweight real-time detection network model for IoT embedded devices. (2025)
Journal Article
CHEN, R., WANG, P., LIN, B., WANG, L., ZENG, X., HU, X., YUAN, J., LI, J., REN, J. and ZHAO, H. 2025. An optimized lightweight real-time detection network model for IoT embedded devices. Scientific reports [online], 15(1), article number 3839. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-88439-w

With the rapid development of Internet of Things (IoT) technology, embedded devices in various computer vision scenarios can realize real-time target detection and recognition tasks, such as intelligent manufacturing, automatic driving, smart home, a... Read More about An optimized lightweight real-time detection network model for IoT embedded devices..

The International Collaboration of Pharmacy Journal Editors (ICPJE) formally constituted to foster quality around clinical and social pharmacy practice research publications. (2025)
Journal Article
DA COSTA, F.A., FERNANDEZ-LLIMOS, F., DESSELLE, S., ARNET, I., BABAR, Z., BOND, C., CORDINA, M., GARCIA CARDENAS, V., EL HAJJ, M.S., JACOBSEN, R., LAW, A.V., NØRGAARD, L.S., POLIDORI, C., SHCHERBAKOVA, N. STEWART, D., TONIN, F. and WEIDMANN, A.E. 2025. The International Collaboration of Pharmacy Journal Editors (ICPJE) formally constituted to foster quality around clinical and social pharmacy practice research publications. Journal of pharmaceutical health services research [online], 16(1), article number rmae033. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/jphsr/rmae033

The Granada statements were a result of the need to strengthen clinical, social, and administrative pharmacy practice as an area of knowledge that translates into practice, research, and policy. As a response, a group of clinical and social pharmacy... Read More about The International Collaboration of Pharmacy Journal Editors (ICPJE) formally constituted to foster quality around clinical and social pharmacy practice research publications..

Alienation and/or anomie in pharmacists: a systematic review and narrative synthesis of the international literature. (2025)
Journal Article
FORSYTH, P., MAGUIRE, B., CAREY, J., O'BRIEN, R., MAGUIRE, J., GIBLIN, L., O'HARE, R., RUSHWORTH, G.F., CUNNINGHAM, S. and RADLEY, A. 2025. Alienation and/or anomie in pharmacists: a systematic review and narrative synthesis of the international literature. Research in social and administrative pharmacy [online], 21(5), pages 392-407. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sapharm.2025.01.017

Flourishing and belonging are key concepts for the wellbeing of staff and the success of a profession. Alienation and anomie are distinct types of psycho-social ills which inhibit flourishing and belonging. A better understanding of these may offer h... Read More about Alienation and/or anomie in pharmacists: a systematic review and narrative synthesis of the international literature..

History of health psychology. (2025)
Book Chapter
CHATER, A.M., QUINN, F. and MORRISON, V. 2025. History of health psychology. In Sanderman, R. and Morgan, K. (eds.) The Routledge international handbook of health psychology: global and contemporary issues. Abingdon: Routledge [online], chapter 1, pages 3-21. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003318026-2

This chapter gives an overview of the history of health psychology, covering the development of the discipline across a number of countries, including the United States of America (USA), Europe, the United Kingdom (UK), Japan, Africa, Canada, Austral... Read More about History of health psychology..

Plastic waste over the ocean: an approach to surface recognition. (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
SHAH, F.M., FOUGH, F., SHAH, Z.M., FOUGH, N. and ZHAO, Y. 2024. Plastic waste over the ocean: an approach to surface recognition. In Proceedings of the 31st IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) International conference on electronics, circuits, and systems (ICECS 2024), 18-20 November 2024, Nancy, France. Piscataway: IEEE [online], article 10849157. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS61496.2024.10849157

To address the challenges of low detection accuracy and slow recognition of floating objects on water surfaces, an enhanced YOLOv5 algorithm has been developed. This improved algorithm incorporates a coordinate attention mechanism to enhance spatial... Read More about Plastic waste over the ocean: an approach to surface recognition..

Nothing so practical as a good prevention principle: lessons from the prevention principle in construction law. (2025)
Journal Article
CHRISTIE, D. [2025]. Nothing so practical as a good prevention principle: lessons from the prevention principle in construction law. Journal of business law [online], (accepted). To be made available at: http://legalresearch.westlaw.co.uk/

The so called "prevention principle" in contract law operates differently in construction contracts compared with the wider law. This paper examines the prevention principle in construction law and within the wider developments of English contract la... Read More about Nothing so practical as a good prevention principle: lessons from the prevention principle in construction law..

Understanding the lived experience of low-income UK parents’ and carers’, management of infant feeding challenges in the context of the current cost of living crisis: the Diet and Health Inequalities (DIO Food) project. [Preprint] (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper
HUNTER, E. and DOUGLAS, F. [2025]. Understanding the lived experience of low-income UK parents' and carers', management of infant feeding challenges in the context of the current cost of living crisis: the Diet and Health Inequalities (DIO Food) project. [Preprint]. Hosted on OSF: Centre for Open Science [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/4ebwh_v1

As the cost-of-living crisis continues, food charities report increased demand from families with young children and babies, suggesting, infants in low-income UK households are amongst the most food insecure of our citizens. This is concerning, first... Read More about Understanding the lived experience of low-income UK parents’ and carers’, management of infant feeding challenges in the context of the current cost of living crisis: the Diet and Health Inequalities (DIO Food) project. [Preprint].

Frequency-domain guided swin transformer and global-local feature integration for remote sensing images semantic segmentation. (2025)
Journal Article
ZHANG, H., XIE, G., LI, L., XIE, X. and REN, J. 2025. Frequency-domain guided swin transformer and global-local feature integration for remote sensing images semantic segmentation. IEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing [online], 63, article number 5612611. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2025.3535724

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), transformers, and the hybrid methods have been significant application in remote sensing. However, existing methods are limited in effectively modeling frequency domain information, which affects their ability to... Read More about Frequency-domain guided swin transformer and global-local feature integration for remote sensing images semantic segmentation..

Don't do anything special for us coming: the mental health impact of Ofsted inspections on teacher educators in England. (2025)
Journal Article
FITZSIMONS, S. and SMITH, D.S. 2025. Don't do anything special for us coming: the mental health impact of Ofsted inspections on teacher educators in England. Cambridge journal of education [online], 55(1), pages 93-111. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/0305764X.2025.2451280

Ofsted inspections of Initial Teacher Education (ITE) providers aim to enhance training quality for pre-service teachers in England. However, research rarely examines the impact of these inspections on the wellbeing of Teacher Educators (TEs) based i... Read More about Don't do anything special for us coming: the mental health impact of Ofsted inspections on teacher educators in England..

Air plasma sprayed multi-material composite coatings for enhanced light absorption and thermal emission. (2025)
Journal Article
FAISAL, N.H., RAJENDRAN, V., KANIAPAN, S., RAMALINGAM, V., PRATHURU, A., AHMED, R., KATIYAR, N.K., BANSAL, A., WHITTAKER, T., ISHERWOOD, P., WHITTOW, W., EGIZA, M. and GOEL, S. 2025. Air plasma sprayed multi-material composite coatings for enhanced light absorption and thermal emission. Surface and coatings technology [online], 498, article number 131854. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfcoat.2025.131854

This study pioneers a transformative approach to solar thermal technology by leveraging air plasma-sprayed (APS) multi-material composite coatings. It is to achieve unprecedented light absorption and thermal emission, redefining the design paradigm f... Read More about Air plasma sprayed multi-material composite coatings for enhanced light absorption and thermal emission..

Heat-responsive PLA/PU/MXene shape memory polymer blend nanocomposite: mechanical, thermal, and shape memory properties. (2025)
Journal Article
SANAKA, R., SAHU, S.K., SREEKANTH, P.S.R., GIRI, J., MOHAMMAD, F., AL-LOHEDAN, H.A., SAHARUDIN, M.S. and MA, Q. 2025. Heat-responsive PLA/PU/MXene shape memory polymer blend nanocomposite: mechanical, thermal, and shape memory properties. Polymers [online], 17(3), article 338. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/polym17030338

This study investigates the fabrication and characterization of heat-responsive PLA/PU/MXene shape memory polymer blend nanocomposites with varying PLA content (10, 20, 30, and 50%) and a fixed MXene content of 0.5 wt.%. The results indicate signific... Read More about Heat-responsive PLA/PU/MXene shape memory polymer blend nanocomposite: mechanical, thermal, and shape memory properties..

Multi-objective dynamic system model for the optimal sizing and real-world simulation of grid-connected hybrid photovoltaic-hydrogen (PV-H2) energy systems. (2025)
Journal Article
ATTEYA, A.I., ALI, D. and SELLAMI, N. 2025. Multi-objective dynamic system model for the optimal sizing and real-world simulation of grid-connected hybrid photovoltaic-hydrogen (PV-H2) energy systems. Energies [online], 18(3), article number 578. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/en18030578

Hybrid renewable-hydrogen energy systems offer a promising solution for meeting the globe's energy transition and carbon neutrality goals. This paper presents a new multi-objective dynamic system model for the optimal sizing and simulation of hybrid... Read More about Multi-objective dynamic system model for the optimal sizing and real-world simulation of grid-connected hybrid photovoltaic-hydrogen (PV-H2) energy systems..