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Upgrading biogas to biomethane by use of nano-structured ceramic membranes. (2020)
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OGUNLUDE, P., ABUNUMAH, O., ORAKWE, I., SHEHU, H., MUHAMMAD-SUKKI, F. and GOBINA, E. 2020. Upgrading biogas to biomethane by use of nano-structured ceramic membranes. Detritus [online], 12, pages 73-77. Available from: https://doi.org/10.31025/2611-4135/2020.13996

In order to meet the demands of growing economies while considering environmental implications, the use of clean and renewable sources of energy has increasingly become of interest. Biogas utilisation is a means by which these rising needs can be met... Read More about Upgrading biogas to biomethane by use of nano-structured ceramic membranes..

Does education in library and information studies in the United Kingdom have a future? (2020)
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MARCELLA, R. and OPPENHEIM, C. 2020. Does education in library and information studies in the United Kingdom have a future? Education for information [online], 36(4), pages 411-440. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3233/EFI-200370

The last decade has seen a decline in the fortunes of the Library and Information Science (LIS) sector in the UK, both in professional practice and in higher education. This paper sets out to assess the health and wellbeing of LIS teaching and resear... Read More about Does education in library and information studies in the United Kingdom have a future?.

Semisupervised hypergraph discriminant learning for dimensionality reduction of hyperspectral image. (2020)
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LUO, F., GUO, T., LIN, Z., REN, J. and ZHOU, X. 2020. Semisupervised hypergraph discriminant learning for dimensionality reduction of hyperspectral image. IEEE journal of selected topics in applied earth observations and remote sensing [online], 13, pages 4242-4256. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/jstars.2020.3011431

Semisupervised learning is an effective technique to represent the intrinsic features of a hyperspectral image (HSI), which can reduce the cost to obtain the labeled information of samples. However, traditional semisupervised learning methods fail to... Read More about Semisupervised hypergraph discriminant learning for dimensionality reduction of hyperspectral image..

Photocatalytic removal of the cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa PCC7813 and four microcystins by TiO2 coated porous glass beads with UV-LED irradiation. (2020)
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PESTANA, C.J., PORTELA NORONHA, J., HUI, J., EDWARDS, C., GUNARATNE, H.Q.N., IRVINE, J.T.S., ROBERTSON, P.K.J., CAPELO-NETO, J. and LAWTON, L.A. 2020. Photocatalytic removal of the cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa PCC7813 and four microcystins by TiO2 coated porous glass beads with UV-LED irradiation. Science of the total environment [online], 745, article number 141154. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141154

Cyanobacteria and their toxic secondary metabolites are a challenge in water treatment due to increased biomass and dissolved metabolites in the raw water. Retrofitting existing water treatment infrastructure is prohibitively expensive or unfeasible,... Read More about Photocatalytic removal of the cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa PCC7813 and four microcystins by TiO2 coated porous glass beads with UV-LED irradiation..

Prostate cancer prehabilitation and the importance of multimodal interventions for person-centred care and recovery. (2020)
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PATERSON, C., ROBERTS, C., TOOHEY, K. and MCKIE, A. 2020. Prostate cancer prehabilitation and the importance of multimodal interventions for person-centred care and recovery. Seminars in oncology nursing [online], 36(4), article ID 151048. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soncn.2020.151048

Background: Prostate cancer is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer globally. Cancer prehabilitation is defined as a process on the continuum of care that occurs between the time of a cancer diagnosis and the beginning of acute treatment. This a... Read More about Prostate cancer prehabilitation and the importance of multimodal interventions for person-centred care and recovery..

Experiences of unmet need and access to supportive care for men receiving androgen deprivation therapy for prostate cancer: a bi-national study. (2020)
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PATERSON, C., PRIMEAU, C., HOWARD, N., XIBERRAS, P., PILLAY, B. and CROWE, H. 2020. Experiences of unmet need and access to supportive care for men receiving androgen deprivation therapy for prostate cancer: a bi-national study. Seminars in oncology nursing [online], 36(4), article ID 151049. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soncn.2020.151049

The number of men affected by incurable prostate cancer is expected to increase worldwide. Research is needed to enable men to share their experiences of unmet supportive care needs in current care delivery. We aimed to identify the most frequently r... Read More about Experiences of unmet need and access to supportive care for men receiving androgen deprivation therapy for prostate cancer: a bi-national study..

Identifying the immediate and remote causes of pipeline disasters in Nigeria. (2020)
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JOHNSON, F.I. and LEON, M. 2020. Identifying the immediate and remote causes of pipeline disasters in Nigeria. Global journal of science frontier research H: environment and earth science [online], 20(3), pages 1-14. Available from: https://journalofscience.org/index.php/GJSFR/article/view/2735

Several occurrences of the transport system of the natural gold vandalisms in Nigeria, especially in the Niger Delta part of Nigeria is so upfront and seem neverending. However, this seemed also to be a result of many factors ranging from the unemplo... Read More about Identifying the immediate and remote causes of pipeline disasters in Nigeria..

A narrative overview of active surveillance for clinically localised prostate cancer. (2020)
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BATES, A.S., KOSTAKOPOULOS, N., AYERS, J., JAMESON, M., TODD, J., LUKHA, R., CYMES, W., CHASAPI, D., BROWN, N., BHATTACHARYA, Y., PATERSON, C. and LAM, T.B.L. 2020. A narrative overview of active surveillance for clinically localised prostate cancer. Seminars in oncology nursing [online], 36(4), article ID 151045. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soncn.2020.151045

Background-Active surveillance (AS) is a strategy employed as an alternative to immediate standard active treatments for patients with low-risk localised prostate cancer (PCa). Active treatments such as radical prostatectomy and radiotherapy are asso... Read More about A narrative overview of active surveillance for clinically localised prostate cancer..

What does not kill us makes us stronger: the story of repetitive consumer loan applications. (2020)
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CAGLAYAN, M., TALAVERA, O., XIONG, L. and ZHANG, J. 2022. What does not kill us makes us stronger: the story of repetitive consumer loan applications. European journal of finance [online], 28(1), pages 46-65. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/1351847X.2020.1793792

We investigate borrower and lender behaviours when the borrower has experienced a sequence of failed loan applications. Our analysis is based on half a million observations from an established peer-to-peer (P2P) loan platform in China, from 2010 to 2... Read More about What does not kill us makes us stronger: the story of repetitive consumer loan applications..

Identifying the supportive care needs of men and women affected by chemotherapy-induced alopecia? A systematic review. (2020)
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PATERSON, C., KOZLOVSKAIA, M., TURNER, M., STRICKLAND, K., ROBERTS, C., OGILVIE, R., PRANAVAN, G. and CRAFT, P. 2021. Identifying the supportive care needs of men and women affected by chemotherapy-induced alopecia? A systematic review. Journal of cancer survivorship [online], 15(1), pages 14-28. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11764-020-00907-6

Purpose: To systematically evaluate evidence regarding the unmet supportive care needs of men and women affected by chemotherapy-induced alopecia (CIA) to inform clinical practice guidelines. Methods: We performed a review of CINAHL, MEDLINE, PsychIN... Read More about Identifying the supportive care needs of men and women affected by chemotherapy-induced alopecia? A systematic review..

Inconclusive bone scan in men with intermediate and high-risk prostate cancer: what next? (2020)
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PRIMEAU, C., PATERSON, C. and NABI, G. 2020. Inconclusive bone scan in men with intermediate and high-risk prostate cancer: what next? Seminars in oncology nursing [online], 36(4), article ID 151046. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soncn.2020.151046

Objective: To evaluate the incidence of inconclusive bone scans and down-stream imaging and clinical follow-up generated, including subsequent treatment outcomes in men affected by inconclusive bone scans with intermediate- and high-risk prostate can... Read More about Inconclusive bone scan in men with intermediate and high-risk prostate cancer: what next?.

CDSMOTE: class decomposition and synthetic minority class oversampling technique for imbalanced-data classification. (2020)
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ELYAN, E., MORENO-GARCIA, C.F. and JAYNE, C. 2021. CDSMOTE: class decomposition and synthetic minority class oversampling technique for imbalanced-data classification. Neural computing and applications [online], 33(7), pages 2839-2851. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-020-05130-z

Class-imbalanced datasets are common across several domains such as health, banking, security, and others. The dominance of majority class instances (negative class) often results in biased learning models, and therefore, classifying such datasets re... Read More about CDSMOTE: class decomposition and synthetic minority class oversampling technique for imbalanced-data classification..

STEM teaching for the Internet of Things maker course: a teaching model based on the iterative loop. (2020)
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CHEN, R., ZHENG, Y., XU, X., ZHAO, H., REN, J. and TAN, H.-Z. 2020. STEM teaching for the Internet of Things maker course: a teaching model based on the interative loop. Sustainability [online], 12(14), article 5758. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/su12145758

As the key technology for 5G applications in the future, the Internet of Things (IoT) is developing rapidly, and the demand for the cultivation of engineering talents in the IoT is also expanding. The rise of maker education has brought new teaching... Read More about STEM teaching for the Internet of Things maker course: a teaching model based on the iterative loop..

Improved overlap-based undersampling for imbalanced dataset classification with application to epilepsy and Parkinson's disease. (2020)
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VUTTIPITTAYAMONGKOL, P. and ELYAN, E. 2020. Improved overlap-based undersampling for imbalanced dataset classification with application to epilepsy and Parkinson's disease. International journal of neural systems [online], 30(8), article ID 2050043. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1142/S0129065720500434

Classification of imbalanced datasets has attracted substantial research interest over the past decades. Imbalanced datasets are common in several domains such as health, finance, security and others. A wide range of solutions to handle imbalanced da... Read More about Improved overlap-based undersampling for imbalanced dataset classification with application to epilepsy and Parkinson's disease..

Improving physical and mental health in patients with prostate cancer undergoing androgen deprivation therapy: strategies to promote and improve physical activity quality and quantity. (2020)
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TOOHEY, K., MCKUNE, A., NAHON, I., KAVANAGH, P. S., NEWTON, R. U., and PATERSON, C. 2020. Improving physical and mental health in patients with prostate cancer undergoing androgen deprivation therapy: strategies to promote and improve physical activity quality and quantity. Seminars in oncology nursing [online], 36(4), article ID 151051. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soncn.2020.151051

Objective: Prostate cancer continues to be one of the highest-incident cancers among men. Reducing serum testosterone with androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) is a common effective treatment. While well-demonstrated for cancer suppression, there are n... Read More about Improving physical and mental health in patients with prostate cancer undergoing androgen deprivation therapy: strategies to promote and improve physical activity quality and quantity..

Review of Natalie Loveless (ed.) "Knowings and knots: methodologies and ecologies in research-creation". (2020)
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CLARKE, J. 2020. Review of Natalie Loveless (ed.) "Knowings and knots: methodologies and ecologies in research-creation". Journal for artistic research [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.22501/jarnet.0031

Knowings and Knots itself offers few detailed discussions of actual knots, save for Caroline Cambre's impeccable description of Inca khipu knots, which 'exist at the juncture of memory, language, visual signs, and tactile processes' and could 'be und... Read More about Review of Natalie Loveless (ed.) "Knowings and knots: methodologies and ecologies in research-creation"..

The effects of oral contraceptives on exercise performance in women: a systematic review and meta-analysis. (2020)
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ELLIOTT-SALE, K.J., MCNULTY, K.L., ANSDELL, P., GOODALL, S., HICKS, K.M. THOMAS, K., SWINTON, P.A. and DOLAN, E. 2020. The effects of oral contraceptives on exercise performance in women: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Sports medicine [online], 50(10), pages 1785-1812. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-020-01317-5

Background: Oral contraceptive pills (OCPs) are double agents, which downregulate endogenous concentrations of oestradiol and progesterone whilst simultaneously providing daily supplementation of exogenous oestrogen and progestin during the OCP-takin... Read More about The effects of oral contraceptives on exercise performance in women: a systematic review and meta-analysis..

Sensitivity analysis applied to fuzzy inference on the value of information in the oil and gas industry. (2020)
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VILELA, M., OLUYEMI, G. and PETROVSKI, A. 2020. Sensitivity analysis applied to fuzzy inference on the value of information in the oil and gas industry. International journal of applied decision sciences [online], 13(3), pages 344-362. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJADS.2020.10026404

Value of information is a widely accepted methodology for evaluating the need to acquire new data in the oil and gas industry. In the conventional approach to estimating the value of information, the outcomes of a project assessment relate to the dec... Read More about Sensitivity analysis applied to fuzzy inference on the value of information in the oil and gas industry..

Co‐creation of five key research priorities across law enforcement and public health: a methodological example and outcomes. (2020)
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MURRAY, J., HEYMAN, I., DOUGALL, N., WOOFF, A., ASHTON, E. and ENANG, I. 2021. Co-creation of five key research priorities across law enforcement and public health: a methodological example and outcomes. Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing [online], 28(1): law enforcement and public mental health, pages 3-15. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/jpm.12664

Introduction: What is known on the subject?: Between policing and health, there are many shared issues. Mental health distress and crises and caring for people who may be vulnerable are priority areas. Working together in partnership is challenging,... Read More about Co‐creation of five key research priorities across law enforcement and public health: a methodological example and outcomes..

The effects of menstrual cycle phase on exercise performance in eumenorrheic women: a systematic review and meta-analysis. (2020)
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MCNULTY, K.L., ELLIOTT-SALE, K.J., DOLAN, E., SWINTON, P.A., ANSDELL, P., GOODALL, S., THOMAS, K. and HICKS, K.M. 2020. The effects of menstrual cycle phase on exercise performance in eumenorrheic women: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Sports medicine [online], 50(10), pages 1813-1827. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-020-01319-3

Background: Concentrations of endogenous sex hormones fluctuate across the menstrual cycle (MC), which could have implications for exercise performance in women. At present, data are conflicting, with no consensus on whether exercise performance is a... Read More about The effects of menstrual cycle phase on exercise performance in eumenorrheic women: a systematic review and meta-analysis..