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Ethical challenges in argumentation and dialogue in a healthcare context. (2021)
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SNAITH, M., NIELSEN, R.Ø., KOTNIS, S.R. and PEASE, A. 2021. Ethical challenges in argumentation and dialogue in a healthcare context. Argument and computation [online], 12(2), pages 249-264. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3233/AAC-200908

As the average age of the population increases, so too do the number of people living with chronic illnesses. With limited resources available, the development of dialogue-based e-health systems that provide justified general health advice offers a c... Read More about Ethical challenges in argumentation and dialogue in a healthcare context..

State-of-the-art review on the energy performance of semi-transparent building integrated photovoltaic across a range of different climatic and environmental conditions. (2021)
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KHALIFEEH, R., ALRASHIDI, H., SELLAMI, N., MALLICK, T. and ISSA, W. 2021. State-of-the-art review on the energy performance of semi-transparent building integrated photovoltaic across a range of different climatic and environmental conditions. Energies [online], 14(12): building integrated PV system, article 3412. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/en14123412

Semi-transparent Building Integrated Photovoltaics provide a fresh approach to the renewable energy sector, combining the potential of energy generation with aesthetically pleasing, multi-functional building components. Employing a range of technolog... Read More about State-of-the-art review on the energy performance of semi-transparent building integrated photovoltaic across a range of different climatic and environmental conditions..

Numerical study of pipeline leak detection for gas-liquid stratified flow. (2021)
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ADEGBOYE, M.A., KARNIK, A. and FUNG, W.-K. 2021. Numerical study of pipeline leak detection for gas-liquid stratified flow. Journal of natural gas science and engineering [online], 94, article 104054. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jngse.2021.104054

Multiphase flows are of paramount importance in the oil and gas industry, considering that most petroleum industries produce and transport oil and gas simultaneously. However, systematic research on pipeline leakage conveying more than one phase at a... Read More about Numerical study of pipeline leak detection for gas-liquid stratified flow..

Individual participant data meta-analysis provides no evidence of individual response variation in individuals supplementing with beta-alanine. (2021)
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ESTEVES, G.P., SWINTON, P., SALE, C., JAMES, R.M., ARTIOLI, G.G., ROSCHEL, H., GUALANO, B., SAUNDERS, B. and DOLAN, E. 2021. Individual participant data meta-analysis provides no evidence of individual response variation in individuals supplementing with beta-alanine. International journal of sport nutrition and exercise metabolism [online], 31(4), pages 305-313. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1123/ijsnem.2021-0038

Currently, little is known about the extent of inter-individual variability in response to beta-alanine (BA) supplementation, nor what proportion of said variability can be attributed to external factors, or to the intervention itself (intervention r... Read More about Individual participant data meta-analysis provides no evidence of individual response variation in individuals supplementing with beta-alanine..

Socioemotional wealth and the innovativeness of family SMEs in the United Arab Emirates. (2021)
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NG, P.Y. and HAMILTON, R.T. [2021]. Socioemotional wealth and the innovativeness of family SMEs in the United Arab Emirates. Journal of small business and entrepreneurship [online], Latest articles. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/08276331.2021.1926779

Why are some family SMEs more innovative than others? We use the heterogeneity within family SMEs to explore how their socioemotional wealth (SEW) affects innovativeness. The ubiquity of smaller family firms means that their innovativeness is critica... Read More about Socioemotional wealth and the innovativeness of family SMEs in the United Arab Emirates..

Novel gumbel-softmax trick enabled concrete autoencoder with entropy constraints for unsupervised hyperspectral band selection. (2021)
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SUN, H., REN, J., ZHAO, H., YUEN, P. and TSCHANNERL, J. 2022. Novel gumbel-softmax trick enabled concrete autoencoder with entropy constraints for unsupervised hyperspectral band selection. IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing [online], 60, article 5506413. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2021.3075663

As an important topic in hyperspectral image (HSI) analysis, band selection has attracted increasing attention in the last two decades for dimensionality reduction in HSI. With the great success of deep learning (DL)-based models recently, a robust u... Read More about Novel gumbel-softmax trick enabled concrete autoencoder with entropy constraints for unsupervised hyperspectral band selection..

Effects of official versus online review ratings. (2021)
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GHIMIRE, B., SHANAEV, S. and LIN, Z. 2022. Effects of official versus online review ratings. Annals of tourism research [online], 92, article number 103247. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2021.103247

The rating systems of tourism and hospitality services are instrumental for both businesses and consumers. Businesses use them to determine their promotion and pricing strategies, while consumers rely on them to make an informed decision. These syste... Read More about Effects of official versus online review ratings..

Type-2 neutrosophic number based multi-attributive border approximation area comparison (MABAC) approach for offshore wind farm site selection in USA. (2021)
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DEVECI, M., ERDOGAN, N., CALI, U., STEKLI, J. and ZHONG, S. 2021. Type-2 neutrosophic number based multi-attributive border approximation area comparison (MABAC) approach for offshore wind farm site selection in USA. Engineering applications of artificial intelligence [online], 103, article 104311. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2021.104311

The technical, logistical, and ecological challenges associated with offshore wind development necessitate an extensive site selection analysis. Technical parameters such as wind resource, logistical concerns such as distance to shore, and ecological... Read More about Type-2 neutrosophic number based multi-attributive border approximation area comparison (MABAC) approach for offshore wind farm site selection in USA..

High value phycotoxins from the dinoflagellate Prorocentrum. (2021)
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CAMACHO-MUÑOZ, D., PRAPTIWI, R.A., LAWTON, L.A. and EDWARDS, C. 2021. High value phycotoxins from the dinoflagellate Prorocentrum. Frontiers in marine science [online], 8, article number 638739. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.638739

Marine dinoflagellates produce chemically diverse compounds, with a wide range of biological activity (antimicrobial, anticancer, treatment of neurodegenerative disease along with use as biomedical research tools). Chemical diversity is highlighted b... Read More about High value phycotoxins from the dinoflagellate Prorocentrum..

Children: paying the price of Bolsonaro’s social policy reform in Brazil. (2021)
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DA SILVA BARBOSA, R., SPOLANDER, G. and GARCIA, M.L.T. 2021. Children: paying the price of Bolsonaro's social policy reform in Brazil. Critical and radical social work [online], 9(3), pages 369-388. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1332/204986021X16177218821095

The impact of social inequality on children has enormous implications for young people throughout their life journey by negatively impacting their health, well-being and life chances. Following the democratisation of Brazil, significant change result... Read More about Children: paying the price of Bolsonaro’s social policy reform in Brazil..

Patients follow three distinct outcome trajectories following total knee arthroplasty. (2021)
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HAMILTON, D.F., SHIM, J., HOWIE, C.R. and MACFARLANE, G.J. 2021. Patients follow three distinct outcome trajectories following total knee arthroplasty. Bone and joint journal [online], 103-B(6), pages 1096-1102. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1302/0301-620X.103b6.BJJ-2020-1821.R1

Aims: Although total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is a highly successful procedure, about 20% of patients remain dissatisfied postoperatively. This proportion is derived from dichotomous models of the assessment of surgical success or failure, which may n... Read More about Patients follow three distinct outcome trajectories following total knee arthroplasty..

Pedestrianisation zoning and air quality in Hong Kong. (2021)
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CHAN, A. and CHOW, K. 2021. Pedestrianisation zoning and air quality in Hong Kong. Global journal of engineering sciences [online], 8(2), article number 000684. Available from: https://doi.org/10.33552/GJES.2021.08.000684

Air quality assessment in the vicinity of the Causeway Bay Pedestrianisation Scheme is conducted. The study analyses the concentration of respiratory suspended particulates, nitrogen oxides and carbon monoxides, and shows that reductions for the thre... Read More about Pedestrianisation zoning and air quality in Hong Kong..

Spatial-temporal metrics to assess collective behavior in football: a systematic review and assessment of research quality and applicability. (2021)
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CORSIE, M., CRAIG, T., SWINTON, P.A. and BUCHANAN, N. 2021. Spatial-temporal metrics to assess collective behaviour in football: a systematic review and assessment of research quality and applicability. Journal of athletic enhancement [online], 10(8). Available from: https://bit.ly/3GmZZQu

Extensive research has been conducted to investigate collective behaviour of football players using spatial-temporal data. The purpose of this systematic review was to synthesise and evaluate the applicability of this research by reviewing informatio... Read More about Spatial-temporal metrics to assess collective behavior in football: a systematic review and assessment of research quality and applicability..

New developments in the campaign against unwanted workplace banter. (2021)
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MIDDLEMISS, S. 2021. New developments in the campaign against unwanted workplace banter. Industrial law journal [online], 50(2), pages 330-335. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/indlaw/dwab013

Banter has been defined by the Cambridge Dictionary as ‘conversation that is funny and not serious’. This suggests that it is a form of dialogue or conversation that is jokey, non-threatening and wanted by the recipient. However, in reality, this is... Read More about New developments in the campaign against unwanted workplace banter..

An improved rainflow algorithm combined with linear criterion for the accurate li-ion battery residual life prediction. (2021)
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HUANG, J., WANG, S., XU, W., FERNANDEZ, C., FAN, Y. and CHEN, X. 2021. An improved rainflow algorithm combined with linear criterion for the accurate li-ion battery residual life prediction. International journal of electrochemical science [online], 16(7), article ID 21075. Available from: https://doi.org/10.20964/2021.07.29

Li-ion battery health assessment has been widely used in electric vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicle and other fields. In this paper, a new linear prediction method is proposed. By weakening the sensitivity of the Rainflow algorithm to the peak data,... Read More about An improved rainflow algorithm combined with linear criterion for the accurate li-ion battery residual life prediction..

Reply to G.A. Sforzo. (2021)
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SIECZKOWSKA, S.M., PADILHA DE LIMA, A., SWINTON, P.A., DOLAN, E., ROSCHEL, H. and GUALANO, B. 2021. Reply to G.A. Sforzo. Advances in nutrition [online], 12(3), pages 1043-1044. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/advances/nmab021

This is a letter to the editor, by the authors, in response to a comment: SFORZO, G., MOORE, M., MOORE, G. and HARENBERG, S. 2021. Comment on 'Health coaching: 100 strategies for weight loss: a systematic review and meta-anlaysis'. Advances in nutrit... Read More about Reply to G.A. Sforzo..

DAWM: cost-aware asset claim analysis approach on big data analytic computation model for cloud data centre. (2021)
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MEKALA, M.S., PATAN, R., ISLAM, S.H., SAMANTA, D., MALLAH, G.A. and CHAUDHRY, S.A. 2021. DAWM: cost-aware asset claim analysis approach on big data analytic computation model for cloud data centre. Security and communication networks [online], 2021: security, trust and privacy for cloud, fog and Internet of Things, article ID 6688162. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/6688162

The heterogeneous resource-required application tasks increase the cloud service provider (CSP) energy cost and revenue by providing demand resources. Enhancing CSP profit and preserving energy cost is a challenging task. Most of the existing approac... Read More about DAWM: cost-aware asset claim analysis approach on big data analytic computation model for cloud data centre..

Computational fluid dynamics modelling of multiphase flows in double elbow geometries. (2021)
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OGUNSESAN, O.A., HOSSAIN, M. and DROUBI, M.G. 2021. Computational fluid dynamics modelling of multiphase flows in double elbow geometries. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part E: journal of process mechanical engineering [online], 235(6), pages 1835-1846. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/09544089211021744

This study investigates the effects of elbow on the transition and development of multiphase flow using computational fluid dynamics modelling techniques. The Eulerian - Multifluid VOF model coupled with an Interfacial Area Transport Equation has bee... Read More about Computational fluid dynamics modelling of multiphase flows in double elbow geometries..

He messaged me the other night and said you are my saviour; an interpretative phenomenological analysis of intimate partners' roles in supporting veterans with mental health difficulties. (2021)
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JOHNSTONE, H. and COGAN, N. 2021. He messaged me the other night and said you are my saviour; an interpretative phenomenological analysis of intimate partners' roles in supporting veterans with mental health difficulties. Journal of military, veteran and family health [online], 7(2), pages 61-70. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3138/JMVFH-2019-0055

The limited research base regarding Veteran welfare has emphasized the adverse psychosocial aspects of being the intimate partner of a Veteran struggling with mental health difficulties. Despite this, previous research has identified that remaining i... Read More about He messaged me the other night and said you are my saviour; an interpretative phenomenological analysis of intimate partners' roles in supporting veterans with mental health difficulties..

Exploring the STEP-uP to practice: a survey of UK lead midwives for education views of the STudent midwife extended practice placement during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. (2021)
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COOKE, A., HANCOCK, A., WHITE, H., CLARK, N., GIBB, F., MCNEILL, J., THOMAS, G., LLOYD, C. and FURBER, C. 2021. Exploring the STEP-uP to practice: a survey of UK lead midwives for education views of the STudent midwife extended practice placement during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Midwifery [online], 101, article 103048. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2021.103048

Objective: to assess the effect of implementation of the extended placement option available to midwifery students during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Design: Online survey open from 2nd June 2020 to 15th July 2020. Setting: United Kingdo... Read More about Exploring the STEP-uP to practice: a survey of UK lead midwives for education views of the STudent midwife extended practice placement during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic..