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Theoretical and experimental investigations on the combustion characteristics of three components mixed municipal solid waste. (2020)
Journal Article
LIU, X., ASIM, T., ZHU, G. and MISHRA, R. 2020. Theoretical and experimental investigations on the combustion characteristics of three components mixed municipal solid waste. Fuel [online], 267, article ID 117183. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2020.117183

The combustion characteristics of Mixed Municipal Solid Waste (MMSW) play a vital role in dictating the efficiency of the incineration process. At present, few studies on combustion characteristics of three components MMSW and the establishment of co... Read More about Theoretical and experimental investigations on the combustion characteristics of three components mixed municipal solid waste..

Scottish public libraries welcome Syrian new Scots: a transition from being a refugee to becoming an active part of the community. (2020)
Book Chapter
MARTZOUKOU, K. 2020. Scottish public libraries welcome Syrian new Scots: a transition from being a refugee to becoming an active part of the community. In Goldstein, S. (ed.) Informed societies: why information literacy matters for citizenship, participation and democracy. London: Facet [online], chapter 10. Available from: http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/title.php?id=304226

This chapter offers an overview of the information needs and experiences of Syrian refugees in Scotland, drawing from data collected as part of ‘Lost in Information: Syrian new Scots’ Information Literacy Way-finding practices’, a research project wh... Read More about Scottish public libraries welcome Syrian new Scots: a transition from being a refugee to becoming an active part of the community..

Using aquablation to treat lower urinary tract symptoms in benign prostatic hyperplasia. (2020)
Journal Article
KENNEDY, C. and PATERSON, C. 2020. Using aquablation to treat lower urinary tract symptoms in benign prostatic hyperplasia. American journal of nursing [online], 120(1), page 7. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1097/01.NAJ.0000652016.44157.19

This is a summary by the authors of a nursing care-related review of the Cochrane Review by Hwang, E.C., Jung, J.H., Borofsky, M., Kim, M.H. and Dahm, P. 2019. Aquablation of the prostate for the treatment of lower urinary tract symptoms in men with... Read More about Using aquablation to treat lower urinary tract symptoms in benign prostatic hyperplasia..

The forum bar in UK extradition law: an unnecessary failure. (2020)
Journal Article
ARNELL, P. and DAVIES, G. 2020. The forum bar in UK extradition law: an unnecessary failure. Journal of criminal law [online], 84(2), pages 142-162. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/0022018320902544

The introduction of the forum bar into UK extradition law was unnecessary. It is a failure. It was unnecessary because extant law addressed, or could have addressed, the putative mischief giving rise to it. It is a failure because it admits only limi... Read More about The forum bar in UK extradition law: an unnecessary failure..

The stigmatized hero? A review of UK opinion polls and surveys on perceptions of British veterans in UK society. (2020)
Journal Article
PHILLIPS, R. 2020. The stigmatized hero? A review of UK opinion polls and surveys on perceptions of British veterans in UK society. Journal of veterans studies [online], 6(1), pages 64-84. Available from: https://doi.org/10.21061/jvs.v6i1.150

Findings from representative opinion polls and surveys provide information on pertinent perceptions of veterans in British society. The present project compares these findings and contrasts them with factually correct information. This allows resear... Read More about The stigmatized hero? A review of UK opinion polls and surveys on perceptions of British veterans in UK society..

Varietal classification of rice seeds using RGB and hyperspectral images. (2020)
Journal Article
FABIYI, S.D., VU, H., TACHTATZIS, C., MURRAY, P., HARLE, D., DAO, T.K., ANDONOVIC, I., REN, J. and MARSHALL, S. 2020. Varietal classification of rice seeds using RGB and hyperspectral images. IEEE access [online], 8, pages 22493-22505. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2969847

Inspection of rice seeds is a crucial task for plant nurseries and farmers since it ensures seed quality when growing seedlings. Conventionally, this process is performed by expert inspectors who manually screen large samples of rice seeds to identif... Read More about Varietal classification of rice seeds using RGB and hyperspectral images..

Reclaiming wetland values: marsh, mud and wonder. (2020)
Exhibition / Performance
Reclaiming wetland values: marsh, mud and wonder. Exhibition held 27 January - 2 February 2020, Royal Geographical Society, London.

The exhibition formed a key output of the Valuing Nature Programme (https://valuing-nature.net/) initiated by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)/UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). The aim of the 4-year Valuing Nature programme is, '…to i... Read More about Reclaiming wetland values: marsh, mud and wonder..

Genetic diversity within and between British and Irish breeds: the maternal and paternal history of native ponies. (2020)
Journal Article
WINTON, C.L., MCMAHON, R., HEGARTY, M.J., MCEWAN, N.R., DAVIES-MOREL, M.C.G., MORGAN, C. and NASH, D.M. 2020. Genetic diversity within and between British and Irish breeds: the maternal and paternal history of native ponies. Ecology and evolution [online], 10(3), pages 1352-1367. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5989

The UK and Ireland have many native pony breeds with historical and cultural importance as well as being a source of uncharacterized genetic diversity. However, there is a lack of comprehensive research investigating their genetic diversity and phylo... Read More about Genetic diversity within and between British and Irish breeds: the maternal and paternal history of native ponies..

A copyright overview. (2020)
Journal Article
OPPENHEIM, C. 2020. A copyright overview. El profesional de la información [online], 29(1), article ID e290106. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2020.ene.06

This article reviews main concepts about copyright. Among the topics discussed are: ownership, joint ownership, assignments, licenses, permissions, infringements, exceptions, unpublished works, orphan works, artificial intelligence generated work rig... Read More about A copyright overview..

A cross-sectional survey of the perspectives of older people in the Scottish Highlands on the management of their chronic pain. (2020)
Journal Article
STEWART, D., RUSHWORTH, G., BAILEY, N., PFLEGER, S., JEBARA, T., MUNRO, K., YOUNGSON, E., WILSON, M., MACLEOD, J. and CUNNINGHAM, S. 2020. A cross-sectional survey of the perspectives of older people in the Scottish Highlands on the management of their chronic pain. Age and ageing [online], 49(3), pages 432-438. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afz181

Background: Although there is evidence of suboptimal outcomes in older people with chronic pain, little emphasis has been placed on those in remote and rural settings. Objective: To describe the perspectives of older people in the Scottish Highlands... Read More about A cross-sectional survey of the perspectives of older people in the Scottish Highlands on the management of their chronic pain..

Routine exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation does not increase aerobic fitness: a CARE CR study. (2020)
Journal Article
NICHOLS, S., TAYLOR, C., GOODMAN, T., PAGE, R., KALLVIKBACKA-BENNETT, A., NATION, F., CLARK, A.L., BIRKETT, S.T., CARROLL, S. and INGLE, L. 2020. Routine exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation does not increase aerobic fitness: a CARE CR study. International journal of cardiology [online], 305, pages 25-34. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcard.2020.01.044

Recent evidence suggests that routine exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation (CR) may not lead to a substantial increase in estimated peak oxygen uptake (VO2peak). This could reduce the potential benefits of CR and explain why CR no longer improves pa... Read More about Routine exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation does not increase aerobic fitness: a CARE CR study..

Energy consumption analysis in turning Ti-6Al-4V alloy. (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
JAFFERY, S.H.I., YOUNAS, M., KHAN, M. and ALI, L. 2020. Energy Consumption Analysis in Turning Ti-6Al-4V alloy. In Proceedings of the 11th IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) International conference on mechanical and intelligent manufacturing technologies 2020 (ICMIMT 2020), 20-22 January 2020, Cape Town, South Africa. Piscataway: IEEE [online], pages 18-21. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMIMT49010.2020.9041194

One of the major concerns in manufacturing industries include the amount of energy consumed during machining processes. Therefore, the study of the specific energy during machining must be analyzed in relation to the process parameters (feed rate, sp... Read More about Energy consumption analysis in turning Ti-6Al-4V alloy..

Synthesis and characterization of CoFe2O4/MWCNTs nanocomposites and high-frequency analysis of their dielectric properties. (2020)
Journal Article
KHAN, L.U., YOUNAS, M., KHAN, S.U. and REHMAN, M.Z.U. 2020. Synthesis and characterization of CoFe2O4/MWCNTs nanocomposites and high-frequency analysis of their dielectric properties. Journal of material engineering and performance [online], 29(1), pages 251-258. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11665-020-04572-9

Nanoparticles of CoFe2O4 were synthesized by chemical co-precipitation method. The CoFe2O4/MWCNT nanocomposites were synthesized with increasing contents of MWCNTs, i.e., 0.0, 2.0, 3.0, and 5.0% by weight via ultrasonication method in a dispersive me... Read More about Synthesis and characterization of CoFe2O4/MWCNTs nanocomposites and high-frequency analysis of their dielectric properties..

MIMN-DPP: maximum-information and minimum-noise determinantal point processes for unsupervised hyperspectral band selection. (2020)
Journal Article
CHEN, W., YANG, Z., REN, J., CAO, J., CAI, N., ZHAO, H. and YUEN, P. 2020. MIMN-DPP: maximum-information and minimum-noise determinantal point processes for unsupervised hyperspectral band selection. Pattern recognition [online], 102, article 107213. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2020.107213

Band selection plays an important role in hyperspectral imaging for reducing the data and improving the efficiency of data acquisition and analysis whilst significantly lowering the cost of the imaging system. Without the category labels, it is chall... Read More about MIMN-DPP: maximum-information and minimum-noise determinantal point processes for unsupervised hyperspectral band selection..

Basic principles of stable isotope analysis in humanitarian forensic science. (2020)
Book Chapter
CHESSON, L. A., MEIER-AUGENSTEIN, W., BERG, G. E., BATAILLE, C. P., BARTELINK, E. J., and RICHARDS, M. P. 2020. Basic principles of stable isotope analysis in humanitarian forensic science. In Parra, R.C., Zapico, S.C. and Ubelaker, D.H. (eds.). Forensic science and humanitarian action: interacting with the dead and the living. Forensic science in focus. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-VCH Verlag [online], pages 285-310. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119482062.ch20

While the identity of a victim of a localized disaster – such as a train or bus crash – may be established quickly through personal effects, fingerprints, dental records, and a comparison of decedent DNA to family reference specimen DNA, a different... Read More about Basic principles of stable isotope analysis in humanitarian forensic science..

Frantz Fanon’s revolutionary contribution: an attitude of decoloniality as critical pedagogy for social work. (2020)
Other
HARMS SMITH, L. 2020. Frantz Fanon’s revolutionary contribution: an attitude of decoloniality as critical pedagogy for social work. In Morley, C., Ablett, P., Noble, C. and Cowden, S. (eds.) The Routledge handbook of critical pedagogies for social work. London: Routledge [online], pages 399-411. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351002042-33

There are many reasons why Frantz Fanon’s work is relevant today. Given ongoing Coloniality evident in global power asymmetries and neoliberal economic arrangements with grave levels of global (and within-state) inequality, Fanon’s characterisation o... Read More about Frantz Fanon’s revolutionary contribution: an attitude of decoloniality as critical pedagogy for social work..

Human activity recognition with deep metric learners. (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
MARTIN, K., WIJEKOON, A. and WIRATUNGA, N. 2019. Human activity recognition with deep metric learners. In Kapetanakis, S. and Borck, H. (eds.) Proceedings of the 27th International conference on case-based reasoning workshop (ICCBR-WS19), co-located with the 27th International conference on case-based reasoning (ICCBR19), 8-12 September 2019, Otzenhausen, Germany. CEUR workshop proceedings, 2567. Aachen: CEUR-WS [online], pages 8-17. Available from: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2567/paper1.pdf

Establishing a strong foundation for similarity-based return is a top priority in Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) systems. Deep Metric Learners (DMLs) are a group of neural network architectures which learn to optimise case representations for similarity-... Read More about Human activity recognition with deep metric learners..

UHMWPE for biomedical applications: performance and functionalization. (2020)
Journal Article
AVINASH PATIL, N., NJUGUNA, J. and KANDASUBRAMANIAN, B. 2020. UHMWPE for biomedical applications: performance and functionalization. European polymer journal [online], 125, article ID 109529. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2020.109529

According to a survey conducted by Grand View Research, the market demand for medical grade UHMWPE has raise remarkably from 60.9 kilotons up to 204.8 kilotons during 2015–2024 valued at $1.36 billion (USD) with a compound annual growth rate of 15%.... Read More about UHMWPE for biomedical applications: performance and functionalization..

Instruments for assessing nurses´ palliative care knowledge and skills in specialised care setting: an integrative review. (2020)
Journal Article
SOIKKELI-JALONEN, A., STOLT, M., HUPLI, M., LEMETTI, T., KENNEDY, C., KYDD, A. and HAAVISTO, E. 2020. Instruments for assessing nurses´ palliative care knowledge and skills in specialised care setting: an integrative review. Journal of clinical nursing [online], 29(5-6), pages 736-757. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.15146

Aims and objectives: To examine the content and reported psychometric properties of instruments for assessing nurses´ palliative care knowledge and skills in specialised healthcare units. Background: Knowledge of palliative care, and competence in th... Read More about Instruments for assessing nurses´ palliative care knowledge and skills in specialised care setting: an integrative review..

Qualitative exploration of the acceptability of a postnatal pelvic floor muscle training intervention to prevent urinary incontinence. (2020)
Journal Article
GRANT, A. and CURRIE, S. 2020. Qualitative exploration of the acceptability of a postnatal pelvic floor muscle training intervention to prevent urinary incontinence. BMC women's health [online], 20, article ID 9. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12905-019-0878-z

Background: Childbirth is a major risk factor for urinary incontinence (UI). As a result, pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT) is commonly recommended during and after pregnancy to prevent the onset of UI. PFMT is often classed as a physical activity... Read More about Qualitative exploration of the acceptability of a postnatal pelvic floor muscle training intervention to prevent urinary incontinence..