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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..

Assessing the contribution of open crop straw burning to ground-level ozone and associated health impacts in China and the effectiveness of straw burning bans. (2022)
Journal Article
HUANG, L., ZHU, Y., LIU, H., WANG, Y., ALLEN, D.T., OOI, M.C.G., MANOMAIPHIBOON, K., LATIF, M.T., CHAN, A. and LI, L. 2023. Assessing the contribution of open crop straw burning to ground-level ozone and associated health impacts in China and the effectiveness of straw burning bans. Environment international [online], 171, article 107710. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2022.107710

In recent years, ozone pollution in China has been shown to increase in frequency and persistence despite the concentrations of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) decreasing steadily. Open crop straw burning (OCSB) activities are extensive in China and... Read More about Assessing the contribution of open crop straw burning to ground-level ozone and associated health impacts in China and the effectiveness of straw burning bans..

Prospective of response surface methodology as an optimization tool for biomass gasification process. (2022)
Journal Article
ASAAD, S.M., INAYAT, A., ROCHA-MENESES, L., JAMIL, F., GHENAI, C, and SHANABLEH, A. 2023. Prospective of response surface methodology as an optimization tool for biomass gasification process. Energies [online], 16(1), article 40. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/en16010040

The worldwide population growth and the technological advancements reported in the past few years have led to an increase in the production and consumption of energy. This has increased greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the primary driver of climate ch... Read More about Prospective of response surface methodology as an optimization tool for biomass gasification process..

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..

Comparative strength and stability analysis of conventional and lighter composite flexible risers in ultra-deep water subsea environment. (2022)
Journal Article
NAMMI, S.K., GUPTA, R. and PANCHOLI, K. [2022]. Comparative strength and stability analysis of conventional and lighter composite flexible risers in ultra-deep water subsea environment. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part E: journal of process mechanical engineering [online], OnlineFirst. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/09544089221144394

The hybrid flexible risers have a multi-layered structure and use thermoplastic composite for the pressure and tensile armour. In contrast, a conventional flexible riser uses heavier carbon steel as armour which significantly contributes to its weigh... Read More about Comparative strength and stability analysis of conventional and lighter composite flexible risers in ultra-deep water subsea environment..

To opt-in or to cop out: COP26 and the policy dynamics of decarbonising African cities. (2022)
Book Chapter
ASEKOMEH, A., GERSHON, O. and AZUBUIKE, S.I. 2022. To opt-in or to cop out: COP26 and the policy dynamics of decarbonising African cities. In AZUBUIKE, S.I., ASEKOMEH, A. and GERSHON, O. (eds.) Decarbonisation pathways for African cities. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan [online], chapter 9, pages 157-178. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14006-8_9

The COP26 Glasgow Climate Pact appears to have kept alive the ambition of restricting temperature rises to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels. However, developing countries must translate the agreements into specific policies and change instruments i... Read More about To opt-in or to cop out: COP26 and the policy dynamics of decarbonising African cities..

Mobile Platform for livestock monitoring and inspection. (2022)
Conference Proceeding
FABIYI, S.D., REN, J., HAN, Y., ZHU, Q. and BARCLAY, D. 2022. Mobile platform for livestock monitoring and inspection. In Proceedings of the 3rd International informatics and software engineering conference 2022 (IISEC 2022), 15-16 December 2022, Ankara, Turkey. Piscataway: IEEE [online], article 9998279. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/iisec56263.2022.9998297

Livestock keepers acquire and manage information (e.g. identification numbers, images, etc.) about livestock to identify and keep track of livestock using systems with capabilities to extract such information. Examples of such systems are Radio Frequ... Read More about Mobile Platform for livestock monitoring and inspection..

An unsupervised domain adaptation method towards multi-level features and decision boundaries for cross-scene hyperspectral image classification. (2022)
Journal Article
ZHAO, C., QIN, B., FENG, S., ZHU, W., ZHANG, L. and REN, J. 2022. An unsupervised domain adaptation method towards multi-level features and decision boundaries for cross-scene hyperspectral image classification. IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing [online], 60, article 5546216. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2022.3230378

Despite success in the same-scene hyperspectral image classification (HSIC), for the cross-scene classification, samples between source and target scenes are not drawn from the independent and identical distribution, resulting in significant performa... Read More about An unsupervised domain adaptation method towards multi-level features and decision boundaries for cross-scene hyperspectral image classification..

Decarbonisation pathways for African cities. (2022)
Book
AZUBUIKE, S.I., ASEKOMEH, A. and GERSHON, O. (eds.) 2022. Decarbonisation pathways for African cities. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14006-8

This book examines the pathways to decarbonising African cities, structured around strategies and applications in renewable energy, waste management, healthcare, telecommunication, education and governance reconfigurations for Petro-cities. Throughou... Read More about Decarbonisation pathways for African cities..

Ongoing efforts to improve antimicrobial utilization in hospitals among African countries and implications for the future. (2022)
Journal Article
SALEEM, Z., GODMAN, B., COOK, A. et al. 2022. Ongoing efforts to improve antimicrobial utilization in hospitals among African countries and implications for the future. Antibiotics [online], 11(12), article number 1824. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics11121824

There are serious concerns with rising antimicrobial resistance (AMR) across countries increasing morbidity, mortality and costs. These concerns have resulted in a plethora of initiatives globally and nationally including national action plans (NAPs)... Read More about Ongoing efforts to improve antimicrobial utilization in hospitals among African countries and implications for the future..

Past, present, and future perspectives of plasminogen activator inhibitor 1 (PAI-1). (2022)
Journal Article
MORROW, G.B. and MUTCH, N.J. 2023. Past, present, and future perspectives of plasminogen activator inhibitor 1 (PAI-1). Seminars in thrombosis and hemostasis [online], 49(3), pages 305-313. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0042-1758791

Plasminogen activator inhibitor 1 (PAI-1), a SERPIN inhibitor, is primarily known for its regulation of fibrinolysis. However, it is now known that this inhibitor functions and contributes to many (patho)physiological processes including inflammation... Read More about Past, present, and future perspectives of plasminogen activator inhibitor 1 (PAI-1)..

Belokon v. Kyrgyzstan: practical implications of award set-asides arising from corruption allegations. (2022)
Journal Article
LAI, R. and MAK, C.H.W. 2022. Belokon v. Kyrgyzstan: practical implications of award set-asides arising from corruption allegations. ASIL insights [online], 26(14). Available from: https://www.asil.org/insights/volume/26/issue/14

As one of the most arbitration-friendly jurisdictions, French courts have long had a tradition of judicial non-interference in the arbitral process. In the context of annulment proceedings, French courts are normally granted limited scope in reviewin... Read More about Belokon v. Kyrgyzstan: practical implications of award set-asides arising from corruption allegations..

Effects of titanium oxide and graphene as nano-fillers on the thermal conductivity of biobased phase change materials as latent thermal heat storage. (2022)
Journal Article
HASBI, S., NORAZMAN, N. and SAHARUDIN, M.S. 2023. Effects of titanium oxide and graphene as nano-fillers on the thermal conductivity of biobased phase change materials as latent thermal heat storage. Materials today: proceedings [online], 75(1): proceedings of the 2022 Innovative manufacturing, mechatronics and material forum (iM3F 2022), pages 181-187. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2022.11.426

Biobased phase change materials (BPCMs) have attracted much attention as they offer proper melting temperature, high heat capacity, non-corrosive, low cost, and are abundantly available. However, the BPCMs have a low thermal conductivity which limits... Read More about Effects of titanium oxide and graphene as nano-fillers on the thermal conductivity of biobased phase change materials as latent thermal heat storage..