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Evaluation of the effect of urbanization on urban thermal behaviour using urban heat island indicators: the case of the CBD of Accra. (2021)
Thesis
GYASI-ADDO, J.A. 2021. Evaluation of the effect of urbanization on urban thermal behaviour using urban heat island indicators: the case of the CBD of Accra. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis. Hosted on OpenAIR [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.48526/rgu-wt-1603337

Various studies have shown that urban heat island (UHI) can significantly affect the local climate of the built environment. Extreme air temperatures and heat waves adversely affect people's health, their overall well-being and productivity. Tropical... Read More about Evaluation of the effect of urbanization on urban thermal behaviour using urban heat island indicators: the case of the CBD of Accra..

The relevance of trait theory for the professionalisation of the new corporate professions: a case study of project management. (2021)
Thesis
LAWMAN, A. 2021. The relevance of trait theory for the professionalisation of the new corporate professions: a case study of project management. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis. Hosted on OpenAIR [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.48526/rgu-wt-1603238

The aim of this study is to explore the extent to which trait theory is relevant to the new corporate professions through a case study of project management. The award of a Royal Charter to the UK-based professional body, Association for Project Mana... Read More about The relevance of trait theory for the professionalisation of the new corporate professions: a case study of project management..

Stratification strength and light climate explain variation in chlorophyll α at the continental scale in a European multilake survey in a heatwave summer. (2021)
Journal Article
DONIS, D., MANTZOUKI, E., MCGINNIS, D.F. et al. 2021. Stratification strength and light climate explain variation in chlorophyll a at the continental scale in a European multilake survey in a heatwave summer. Limnology and oceanography [online], 66(12), pages 4314-4333. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11963

To determine the drivers of phytoplankton biomass, we collected standardized morphometric, physical, and biological data in 230 lakes across the Mediterranean, Continental, and Boreal climatic zones of the European continent. Multilinear regression m... Read More about Stratification strength and light climate explain variation in chlorophyll α at the continental scale in a European multilake survey in a heatwave summer..

How different electricity pricing systems affect the energy trilemma: assessing Indonesia's electricity market transition. (2021)
Journal Article
HEFFRON, R.J., KÖRNER, M.-F., SUMARNO, T., WAGNER, J., WEIBELZAHL, M. and FRIDGEN, G. 2022. How different electricity pricing systems affect the energy trilemma: assessing Indonesia's electricity market transition. Energy economics [online], 107, article 105663. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2021.105663

Indonesia's current energy policy, which relies on cheap fossil fuels and focuses on two out of the three horns of the energy trilemma, namely, energy security and energy equity, may impede its efforts to higher shares of renewable energy sources. Th... Read More about How different electricity pricing systems affect the energy trilemma: assessing Indonesia's electricity market transition..

Practical guide to undertaking scoping reviews for pharmacy clinicians, researchers and policymakers. (2021)
Journal Article
KHALIL, H., MCINERNEY, P., POLLOCK, D., ALEXANDER, L., MUNN, Z., TRICCO, A.C., GODFREY, C.M. and PETERS, M.D.J. 2022. Practical guide to undertaking scoping reviews for pharmacy clinicians, researchers and policymakers. Journal of clinical pharmacy and therapeutics [online], 47(2), pages 129-134. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpt.13558

What is known and Objective: Scoping reviews are a valuable evidence synthesis methodology. They can be used to map the evidence related to any topic to allow examination of practice, methods, policy and where (and how) future research could be under... Read More about Practical guide to undertaking scoping reviews for pharmacy clinicians, researchers and policymakers..

Effect of menstrual cycle phase, menstrual irregularities, and hormonal contraceptive use on anterior knee laxity and non-contact anterior cruciate ligament injury occurrence in women: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis. [Protocol] (2021)
Other
NÉDÉLEC, E., FOLI, E., SHULTZ, S.J., SWINTON, P.A., DOLAN, E., ENRIGHT, K., PIASECKI, J., MATTHEWS, J.J., SALE, C. and ELLIOTT-SALE, K.J. 2021. Effect of menstrual cycle phase, menstrual irregularities, and hormonal contraceptive use on anterior knee laxity and non-contact anterior cruciate ligament injury occurrence in women: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis. [Protocol]. BMJ Open Sport and exercise medicine [online], 7, e001170. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjsem-2021-001170

Exercising women report three to six times more ACL tears than men, which happen, in the majority of cases, with a non-contact mechanism. This sex disparity has, in part, been attributed to the differences in reproductive hormone profiles between men... Read More about Effect of menstrual cycle phase, menstrual irregularities, and hormonal contraceptive use on anterior knee laxity and non-contact anterior cruciate ligament injury occurrence in women: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis. [Protocol].

Dealing with dehydration. (2021)
Other
KYDD, A. 2021. Dealing with dehydration. Health Europa quarterly [online], 19, pages 96-99. Available from: https://www.healtheuropa.eu/dealing-with-dehydration-in-older-adults/111477/

Food and drink are fundamental staples in our everyday lives. Not only do they play an essential part in our overall health, but they also hold holistic significance, influencing our daily habits, giving us a sense of familiarity, and helping us buil... Read More about Dealing with dehydration..

Critical analysis of female entrepreneurship and access to finance in Nigeria. (2021)
Presentation / Conference
ONOSHAKPOR, C., CUNNINGHAM, J. and GAMMIE, E. 2021. Critical analysis of female entrepreneurship and access to finance In Nigeria. Presented at 2021 Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE): bridging enterprise, policy and practice: creating social and public value, 28-29 October 2021, Cardiff, UK.

Aim: The aim of this research is to critically evaluate the role of access to finance on the development of female-run enterprises in Nigeria. The study extends this to examine the role of gender as it is perceived in the Nigerian society, and how th... Read More about Critical analysis of female entrepreneurship and access to finance in Nigeria..

Daylight, view-out, and windows: the sensorial-based design of Ottoman-era mosques. (2021)
Conference Proceeding
BELAKEHAL, A., TABET AOUL, K.A., BENNADJI, A., BENKHALFALLAH, I. and BOUNHAS, D. 2021. Daylight, view-out, and windows: the sensorial-based design of Ottoman-era mosques. In Tabet Aoul, K.A., Shafiq, M.T. and Attoye, D.E. (eds.) Proceedings of 8th Zero energy mass custom home international conference 2021 (ZEMCH 2021), 26-28 October 2021, Dubai, UAE. Al Ain: ZEMCH Network [online], pages 285-302. Available from: http://zemch.org/proceedings/2021/ZEMCH2021.pdf

Daylighting and outside view, as window design parameters, are often the main ambience-generating design factors that connect the users' sensorial relationship to their external environment. These relationships and their resulting ambiences vary by b... Read More about Daylight, view-out, and windows: the sensorial-based design of Ottoman-era mosques..

AWEU-Net: an attention-aware weight excitation U-Net for lung nodule segmentation. (2021)
Journal Article
BANU, S.F., SARKER, M.M.K., ABDEL-NASSER, M., PUIG, D. and RASWAN, H.A. 2021. AWEU-Net: an attention-aware weight excitation U-Net for lung nodule segmentation. Applied science [online], 11(21), article 10132. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/app112110132

Lung cancer is a deadly cancer that causes millions of deaths every year around the world. Accurate lung nodule detection and segmentation in computed tomography (CT) images is a vital step for diagnosing lung cancer early. Most existing systems face... Read More about AWEU-Net: an attention-aware weight excitation U-Net for lung nodule segmentation..

Effects of damaged rotor on wake dynamics of vertical axis wind turbines. (2021)
Journal Article
ASIM, T. and ISLAM, S.Z. 2021. Effects of damaged rotor on wake dynamics of vertical axis wind turbines. Energies [online], 14(21), article 7060. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/en14217060

Vertical Axis Wind Turbines (VAWTs) are omni-directional turbomachines commonly used in rural areas for small-to-medium-scale power generation. The complex flow observed in the wake region of VAWTs is affected by a number of factors, such as rotor bl... Read More about Effects of damaged rotor on wake dynamics of vertical axis wind turbines..

The influence of season phase on multivariate load relationships in professional youth soccer. (2021)
Journal Article
MAUGHAN, P.C., MACFARLANE, N.G. and SWINTON, P.A. 2022. The influence of season phase on multivariate load relationships in professional youth soccer. Journal of sports sciences [online], 40(3), pages 345-350. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/02640414.2021.1993642

The purpose of this research was to assess relationships between subjective and external measures of training load in professional youth footballers, whilst accounting for the effect of the stage of the season. Data for ratings of perceived exertion... Read More about The influence of season phase on multivariate load relationships in professional youth soccer..

Ratings of perceived exertion at the ventilatory anaerobic threshold in people with coronary heart disease: a CARE CR study. (2021)
Journal Article
NICHOLS, S., ENGIN, B., CARROLL, S., BUCKLEY, J. and INGLE, L. 2021. Ratings of perceived exertion at the ventilatory anaerobic threshold in people with coronary heart disease: a CARE CR study. Annals of physical and rehabilitation medicine [online], 64(6), article number 101462. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rehab.2020.101462

Exercise prescription guidelines for individuals undergoing cardiovascular rehabilitation (CR) are often based on heart rate training zones and rating of perceived exertion (RPE). United Kingdom guidelines indicate that patients should exercise at an... Read More about Ratings of perceived exertion at the ventilatory anaerobic threshold in people with coronary heart disease: a CARE CR study..

Fuzzy adaptive singular value decomposition cubature Kalman filtering algorithm for lithium‐ion battery state‐of‐charge estimation. (2021)
Journal Article
YANG, X., WANG, S., XU, W., QIAO, J., YU, C. and FERNANDEZ, C. 2022. Fuzzy adaptive singular value decomposition cubature Kalman filtering algorithm for lithium-ion battery state-of-charge estimation. International journal of circuit theory and applications [online], 50(2), pages 614-632. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/cta.3166

To solve the problem of the slow convergence speed for the battery state-of-charge estimation of cubature Kalman filter algorithm, the ternary lithium-ion battery is taken as the research object, and an algorithm combining the fuzzy self-adaptation a... Read More about Fuzzy adaptive singular value decomposition cubature Kalman filtering algorithm for lithium‐ion battery state‐of‐charge estimation..

Effective extraction of ventricles and myocardium objects from cardiac magnetic resonance images with a multi-task learning U-net. (2021)
Journal Article
REN, J., SUN, H., ZHAO, H., GAO, H., MACLELLAN, C., ZHAO, S. and LUO, X. 2022. Effective extraction of ventricles and myocardium objects from cardiac magnetic resonance images with a multi-task learning U-net. Pattern recognition letters [online], 155, pages 165-170. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2021.10.025

Accurate extraction of semantic objects such as ventricles and myocardium from magnetic resonance (MR) images is one essential but very challenging task for the diagnosis of the cardiac diseases. To tackle this problem, in this paper, an automatic en... Read More about Effective extraction of ventricles and myocardium objects from cardiac magnetic resonance images with a multi-task learning U-net..

Extracellular buffering supplements to improve exercise capacity and performance: a comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis. (2021)
Journal Article
FARIAS DE OLIVEIRA, L., DOLAN, E., SWINTON, P.A., DURKALEC-MICHALSKI, K., ARTIOLI, G.G., MCNAUGHTON, L.R. and SAUNDERS, B. 2022. Extracellular buffering supplements to improve exercise capacity and performance: a comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis. Sports medicine [online], 52(3), pages 505-526. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-021-01575-x

Extracellular buffering supplements (sodium bicarbonate [SB], sodium citrate [SC], sodium/calcium lactate [SL/CL]) are ergogenic supplements though questions remain about factors which may modify their effect. The aim of this study was to quantify th... Read More about Extracellular buffering supplements to improve exercise capacity and performance: a comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis..

Boredom, bromance and binging: lockdown and the NoFap community. (2021)
Presentation / Conference
SMITH, D.S., BUTLER-WARKE, A., DAVIDSON, E.-L. and STEVENS, G. 2021. Boredom, bromance and binging: lockdown and the NoFap community. Presented at BPS (British Psychological Society) Male psychology 2021: men's mental health and wellbeing, 22 October 2021, [virtual conference].

The NoFap community are a support group for those, mainly men, who want to abstain from the 'addictive cycle' of pornography, masturbation and orgasm (PMO). The main questions to be asked of this study are: 1) How many NoFappers adapted to lockdown?... Read More about Boredom, bromance and binging: lockdown and the NoFap community..

TrustMod: a trust management module for NS-3 simulator. (2021)
Conference Proceeding
HAJAR, M.S., KALUTARAGE, H. and AL-KADRI, M.O. 2021. TrustMod: a trust management module for NS-3 simulator. In Zhao, L., Kumar, N., Hsu, R.C. and Zou, D. (eds.) Proceedings of 20th IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) International conference on Trust, security and privacy in computing and communications 2021 (IEEE TrustCom 2021), 20-21 October 2021, Shenyang, China: [virtual event]. Piscataway: IEEE [online], pages 51-60. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/TrustCom53373.2021.00025

Trust management offers a further level of defense against internal attacks in ad hoc networks. Deploying an effective trust management scheme can reinforce the overall network security. Regardless of limitations, however, security researchers often... Read More about TrustMod: a trust management module for NS-3 simulator..

Static concentrating photovoltaic modelling using MATLAB. (2021)
Journal Article
MUHAMMAD-SUKKI, F., FAROOQ, H., ABU-BAKAR, S.H., ARDILA-REY, J.A., SELLAMI, N., KILPATRICK, C. MUHTAZARUDDIN, M.N., BANI, N.A. and ZULKIPLI, M. 2021. Static concentrating photovoltaic modelling using MATLAB. Journal of physics: conference series [online], 2053: proceedings of 1st Advanced research on renewable energy for universal sustainability international conference 2021 (ARUS 2021), 22-24 June 2021, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, article 012003. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2053/1/012003

The world has recorded an increasing interest and staggering investment in renewable technology in the last two decades, specifically in solar photovoltaic (PV). Concentrating PV (CPV) is one of PV's technology advancements and is gaining popularity... Read More about Static concentrating photovoltaic modelling using MATLAB..

Exploring environmental sustainability of academia as a working space. (2021)
Journal Article
STAVRIANAKIS, K. and RAMOS, W. 2022. Exploring environmental sustainability of academia as a working space. International journal of sustainability in higher education [online], 23(5), pages 1107-1124. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSHE-02-2021-0045

Purpose - This study aims to examine the organizational citizenship behaviors toward the environment among US-based faculty members, in social sciences, natural sciences, the humanities and engineering. Potential barriers that may stop academia from... Read More about Exploring environmental sustainability of academia as a working space..