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Multiple identities: the civic function of architectural education in Europe. (2022)
Journal Article
MARTÍNEZ SÁNCHEZ, M.J., BROWNE, J., SARA, R. and VOWLES, H. 2022. Multiple identities: the civic function of architectural education in Europe. Charrette, 8(2), pages 1-7. Hosted on Ingenta connect [online]. Available from: https://tinyurl.com/2rcwpdbr

Architectural education asks students to look beyond the confines of the studio to embrace global cultures, politics, and social contexts critically. Through making, digital interventions, drawing and critical analysis, architectural practices reveal... Read More about Multiple identities: the civic function of architectural education in Europe..

Interdisciplinary pedagogical environments in architectural education. (2022)
Journal Article
MARTÍNEZ SÁNCHEZ, M.J. and DUNDJEROVIC, A. 2022. Interdisciplinary pedagogical environments in architectural education. Charrette, 8(2), pages 33-43. Hosted on Ingenta connect [online]. Available from: https://tinyurl.com/9vuhj43k

This paper proposes the creation of interdisciplinary pedagogical environments to construct creative dialogues in architecture, landscape and performance practice that can be applied to the creation of new intersectional knowledge in various fields.... Read More about Interdisciplinary pedagogical environments in architectural education..

C-suite bias, firm characteristics, and capital structure decisions of quoted industrial firms in Nigeria. (2022)
Journal Article
FAGBEMI, T.O., KOLAWOLE, M.A., ADIGBOLE, E.A. and ABOGUN, S. 2023. C-suite bias, firm characteristics, and capital structure decisions of quoted industrial firms in Nigeria. Colombo business journal [online], 13(2), pages 21-47. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4038/cbj.v13i2.123

Most people exaggerate their own skills and accomplishments, which can have disastrous results. The C-suite has a tremendous impact on business choices, as decisions made in the workplace can be skewed by unconscious prejudice, and this bias can have... Read More about C-suite bias, firm characteristics, and capital structure decisions of quoted industrial firms in Nigeria..

Model predictive control of connected spacecraft formation. (2022)
Journal Article
KANNAN, S., BHOWMICK, P. and ALAMDARI, S.A.S. 2022. Model predictive control of connected spacecraft formation. IFAC papers online [online], 55(22): proceedings of the 22nd IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) symposium on Automatic control in aerospace 2022 (ACA 2022), 21-25 November 2022, Mumbai, India, pages 322-327. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2023.03.054

In this contribution the authors discuss the application of Model Predictive Control (MPC) to achieve a connected network formation of spacecrafts. A set of three spacecrafts are used to achieve in-plane formation which are initially in a connected n... Read More about Model predictive control of connected spacecraft formation..

Children in peace-building and violence during political instability in a Kenyan informal settlement. (2022)
Book Chapter
VERTIGANS, S. and MUELLER-HIRTH, N. 2022. Children in peace-building and violence during political instability in a Kenyan informal settlement. In Children, peace and security. Nairobi: Save the Children International; International Peace Support Training Centre [online], chapter 10, pages 170-187. Available from: https://www.ipstc.org/index.php/downloads-publications/publications?download=226:book-project

Despite increasing attention to a wide range of actors in conflict in the scholarly literature, the roles and experiences of children have been largely considered only in terms of their victimhood. Similarly, in global policy discourses, children and... Read More about Children in peace-building and violence during political instability in a Kenyan informal settlement..

On discovering optimal trade-offs when introducing new routes in existing multi-modal public transport systems. (2022)
Conference Proceeding
HAN, K., CHRISTIE, L.A., ZAVOIANU, A.-C. and MCCALL, J. 2022. On discovering optimal trade-offs when introducing new routes in existing multi-modal public transport systems. In Moreno-Díaz, R., Pichler, F. and Quesada-Arencibia, A. (eds.) Computer aided systems theory: Eurocast 2022; revised selected papers from the 18th International conference on computer aided systems theory (Eurocast 2022), 20-25 February 2022, Las Palmas, Spain. Lecture notes in computer science, 13789. Cham: Springer [online], pages 104-111. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25312-6_12

While self-driving technology is still being perfected, public transport authorities are increasingly interested in the ability to model and optimise the benefits of adding connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) to existing multi-modal transport sy... Read More about On discovering optimal trade-offs when introducing new routes in existing multi-modal public transport systems..

Lightweight interpolation-based surrogate modelling for multi-objective continuous optimisation. (2022)
Conference Proceeding
ZAVOIANU, A.-C., LACROIX, B. and MCCALL, J. 2022. Lightweight Interpolation-based surrogate modelling for multiobjective continuous optimisation. In Moreno-Díaz, R., Pichler, F. and Quesada-Arencibia, A. (eds.) Computer aided systems theory: Eurocast 2022; revised selected papers from the 18th International conference on computer aided systems theory (Eurocast 2022), 20-25 February 2022, Las Palmas, Spain. Lecture notes in computer science, 13789. Cham: Springer [online], pages 53-60. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25312-6_6

We propose two surrogate-based strategies for increasing the convergence speed of multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) by stimulating the creation of high-quality individuals early in the run. Both offspring generation strategies are desig... Read More about Lightweight interpolation-based surrogate modelling for multi-objective continuous optimisation..

Composite repair and remanufacturing. (2022)
Book Chapter
VON FREEDEN, J., DE WIT, J., CABA, S., KROLL, S., ZHAO, H., REN, J., YAN, Y., ARSHED, F., AHMAD, A. and XIROUCHAKIS, P. 2022. Composite repair and remanufacturing. In Colledani, M. and Turri, S. (eds.) Systemic circular economy solutions for fiber reinforced composites. Cham: Springer [online], pages 191-214. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22352-5_10

For the reuse of components and structures made of fiber composite materials, a complete remanufacturing process chain is necessary to prepare the parts for a further life cycle. The first step is to dismantle the parts to be reused. Fiber composite... Read More about Composite repair and remanufacturing..

Zero-error digitisation and contextualisation of piping and instrumentation diagrams using node classification and sub-graph search. (2022)
Conference Proceeding
RICA, E., ALVAREZ, S., MORENO-GARCIA, C.F. and SERRATOSA, F. 2022. Zero-error digitisation and contextualisation of piping and instrumentation diagrams using node classification and sub-graph search. In Krzyzak, A., Suen, C.Y., Torsello, A. and Nobile, N. (eds.) Structural, syntactic, and statistical pattern recognition: proceedings of the 2022 Joint International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) international workshops on statistical techniques in pattern recognition, and structural and syntactic pattern recognition (S+SSPR 2022), 26-27 August 2022, Montréal, Canada. Lecture notes in computer science, 13813. Cham: Springer [online], pages 274-282. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23028-8_28

Thousands of huge printed sheets depicting engineering drawings keep record of complex industrial structures from Oil & Gas facilities. Currently, there is a trend of digitising these drawings, having as final end the regeneration of the original com... Read More about Zero-error digitisation and contextualisation of piping and instrumentation diagrams using node classification and sub-graph search..

Searching for the ethos of a lost art school. (2022)
Book Chapter
WINTER, J. 2022. Searching for the ethos of a lost art school. In Ingold, T. (ed.) Knowing from the inside: cross-disciplinary experiments with matters of pedagogy. London: Bloomsbury Academic [online], chapter 8, pages 165-188. Available from: https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350217171.ch-008

This search is motivated by an abiding belief in the possibilities of art schools. It is a response to many conversations over recent years around the future of art education and the significant role it has played in weaving the social fabric. I cont... Read More about Searching for the ethos of a lost art school..

Online parameter identification and state of charge estimation of lithium-ion batteries based on improved artificial fish swarms forgetting factor least squares and differential evolution extended Kalman filter. (2022)
Journal Article
XIAO, W., WANG, S., YU, C., YANG, X., QIU, J. and FERNANDEZ, C. 2022. Online parameter identification and state of charge estimation of lithium-ion batteries based on improved artificial fish swarms forgetting factor least squares and differential evolution extended Kalman filter. Journal of The Electrochemical Society [online], 169(12), 120534. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1149/1945-7111/acaa5b

State of Charge (SOC) estimation is the focus of battery management systems, and it is critical to accurately estimate battery SOC in complex operating environments. To weaken the impact of unreasonable forgetting factor values on parameter estimatio... Read More about Online parameter identification and state of charge estimation of lithium-ion batteries based on improved artificial fish swarms forgetting factor least squares and differential evolution extended Kalman filter..

A novel nonlinear decreasing step-bacterial foraging optimization algorithm and simulated annealing-back propagation model for long-term battery state of health estimation. (2022)
Journal Article
XIONG, R., WANG, S., YU, C., FERNANDEZ, C., XIAO, W. and JIA, J. 2023. A novel nonlinear decreasing step-bacterial foraging optimization algorithm and simulated annealing-back propagation model for long-term battery state of health estimation. Journal of energy storage [online], 59, article 106484. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2022.106484

With the rapid development of electric energy storage, more and more attention has been paid to the accurate construction of energy storage lithium-ion battery (LIB) model and the efficient monitoring of battery states. Based on this requirement, a s... Read More about A novel nonlinear decreasing step-bacterial foraging optimization algorithm and simulated annealing-back propagation model for long-term battery state of health estimation..

A feasibility study into the production of a mussel matrix reference material for the cyanobacterial toxins microcystins and nodularins. (2022)
Journal Article
TURNER, A.D., BEACH, D.G., FOSS, A., SAMDAL, I.A., LØVBERG, K.L.E., WAACK, J., EDWARDS, C., LAWTON, L.A., DEAN, K.J., MASKREY, B.H. and LEWIS, A.M. 2023. A feasibility study into the production of a mussel matrix reference material for the cyanobacterial toxins microcystins and nodularins. Toxins [online], 15(1), article 27. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/toxins15010027

Microcystins and nodularins, produced naturally by certain species of cyanobacteria, have been found to accumulate in aquatic foodstuffs such as fish and shellfish, resulting in a risk to the health of the seafood consumer. Monitoring of toxins in su... Read More about A feasibility study into the production of a mussel matrix reference material for the cyanobacterial toxins microcystins and nodularins..

Ex-regulars in the British Army Reserve: just here for the money? (2022)
Book Chapter
CONNELLY, V., MORRISON, Z., BIRCHENOUGH, J., CUNNINGHAM-BURLEY, S. and LORETTO, W. 2022. Ex-regulars in the British Army Reserve: just here for the money? In Ben-Ari, E. and Connelly, V. (eds.) Contemporary military reserves: between the civilian and military worlds. Abingdon: Routledge [online], chapter 5, pages 83-105. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003306399-7

The UK part-time Army Reserve has seen a large influx of personnel who previously served full-time in the regular army (ex-regulars). This is contrary to the previous tradition where most army reservists had no previous full-time armed forces experie... Read More about Ex-regulars in the British Army Reserve: just here for the money?.

Efficient breast cancer classification network with dual squeeze and excitation in histopathological images. (2022)
Journal Article
SARKER, M.M.K., AKRAM, F., ALSHARID, M., SINGH, V.K., YASRAB, R. and ELYAN, E. 2023. Efficient breast cancer classification network with dual squeeze and excitation in histopathological images. Diagnostics [online], 13(1), article 103. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13010103

Medical image analysis methods for mammograms, ultrasound, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) cannot provide the underline features on the cellular level to understand the cancer microenvironment which makes them unsuitable for breast cancer subtyp... Read More about Efficient breast cancer classification network with dual squeeze and excitation in histopathological images..

An improved forgetting factor recursive least square and unscented particle filtering algorithm for accurate lithium-ion battery state of charge estimation. (2022)
Journal Article
HAO, X., WANG, S., FAN, Y., XIE, Y. and FERNANDEZ, C. 2023. An improved forgetting factor recursive least square and unscented particle filtering algorithm for accurate lithium-ion battery state of charge estimation. Journal of energy storage [online], 59, article 106478. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2022.106478

As an indispensable part of the battery management system, accurately predicting the estimation of the state of charge (SOC) has attracted more attention, which can improve the efficiency of battery use and ensure its safety performance. Taking the t... Read More about An improved forgetting factor recursive least square and unscented particle filtering algorithm for accurate lithium-ion battery state of charge estimation..

The impact of COVID-19 on the CS student learning experience: how the pandemic has shaped the educational landscape. (2022)
Conference Proceeding
SIEGEL, A.A., ZARB, M., ANDERSON, E., CRANE, B., GAO, A., LATULIPE, C., LOVELLETTE, E., MCNEILL, F. and MEHARG, D. 2022. The impact of COVID-19 on the CS student learning experience: how the pandemic has shaped the educational landscape. In ITiCSE-WGR'22: proceedings of the 2022 Working group reports (WGR), co-located with the 27th Innovation and technology in computer science education annual conference (ITiCSE-WGR '22), 11-13 July 2022, Dublin, Ireland. New York: ACM [online], pages 165-190. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/3571785.3574126

Students have experienced incredible shifts in their learning environments, brought about by the response of universities to the ever-changing public health mandates driven by waves and stages of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19). Initially, these... Read More about The impact of COVID-19 on the CS student learning experience: how the pandemic has shaped the educational landscape..

Developing a framework for stakeholders collaboration in the management and mitigation of oil pipeline disasters in Nigeria. (2022)
Journal Article
JOHNSON, F.I., LAING, R., BJEIRMI, B. and LEON, M. 2022. Developing a framework for stakeholders collaboration in the management and mitigation of oil pipeline disasters in Nigeria. AIMS energy [online], 10(6), pages 1230-1260. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3934/energy.2022058

Multi-stakeholder collaboration becomes imperative when a single agency - such as the NNPC or the oil companies - cannot by themselves adequately address a recurring menace, such as oil pipeline disasters. Thus, agencies - such as the National Emerge... Read More about Developing a framework for stakeholders collaboration in the management and mitigation of oil pipeline disasters in Nigeria..

Women's gendered experiences of political instability: Kibera during the 2017 Kenyan elections. (2022)
Journal Article
MUELLER-HIRTH, N., VERTIGANS, S. and GIBSON, N. 2023. Women's gendered experiences of political instability: Kibera during the 2017 Kenyan elections. Women's studies international forum [online], 96, article 102668. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2022.102668

This study examines how residents of Kibera, an multi-ethnic informal settlement and opposition stronghold in Nairobi, Kenya, understood and negotiated political instability in the run up to, and during, the contested elections of 2017. Much of the s... Read More about Women's gendered experiences of political instability: Kibera during the 2017 Kenyan elections..

Bringing presence to the intrapartum experience. (2022)
Book Chapter
TABIB, M. and HUMPHREY, T. 2022. Bringing presence to the intrapartum experience. In Davies, L. and Crowther, S. (eds.) Mindfulness in the birth sphere: practice for pre-conception to the critical 1000 days and beyond. Abingdon: Routledge [online], pages 130-146. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003165200-9

Being present during childbirth, having the wisdom to anchor oneself to the here and now through the breath and the body, may have profound spiritual, psychological and physiological implications. The knowledge and skills of meditation and relaxation... Read More about Bringing presence to the intrapartum experience..