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Improving intrusion detection through training data augmentation. (2021)
Conference Proceeding
OTOKWALA, U., PETROVSKI, A. and KALUTARAGE, H. 2021. Improving intrusion detection through training data augmentation. In Moradpoor, N., Elçi, A. and Petrovski, A. (eds.) Proceedings of 14th International conference on Security of information and networks 2021 (SIN 2021), 15-17 December 2021, [virtual conference]. Piscataway: IEEE [online], article 17. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/SIN54109.2021.9699293

Imbalanced classes in datasets are common problems often found in security data. Therefore, several strategies like class resampling and cost-sensitive training have been proposed to address it. In this paper, we propose a data augmentation strategy... Read More about Improving intrusion detection through training data augmentation..

Automated microsegmentation for lateral movement prevention in industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). (2021)
Conference Proceeding
ARIFEEN, M., PETROVSKI, A. and PETROVSKI, S. 2021. Automated microsegmentation for lateral movement prevention in industrial Internet of Things (IIot). In Moradpoor, N., Elçi, A. and Petrovski, A. (eds.) Proceedings of 14th International conference on Security of information and networks 2021 (SIN 2021), 15-17 December 2021, [virtual conference]. Piscataway: IEEE [online], article 28. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/SIN54109.2021.9699232

The integration of the IoT network with the Operational Technology (OT) network is increasing rapidly. However, this incorporation of IoT devices into the OT network makes the industrial control system vulnerable to various cyber threats. Hacking an... Read More about Automated microsegmentation for lateral movement prevention in industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)..

Staff and student experiences and attitudes towards smoking and smoking cessation, University of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. (2021)
Journal Article
TOBAIQY, M., THOMAS, D., MACLURE, A., STEWART, D. and MACLURE, K. 2022. Staff and student experiences and attitudes towards smoking and smoking cessation, University of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Tobacco prevention and cessation [online], 7(December), article 73. Available from: https://doi.org/10.18332/tpc/144178

Introduction: Tobacco smoking causes an estimated 7 million deaths per annum with 70 thousand of those occurring in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) where the National Transformation Program highlights the need to prioritize smoking cessation. The o... Read More about Staff and student experiences and attitudes towards smoking and smoking cessation, University of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia..

Consumption of a recommended serving of wheat bran cereals significantly increases human faecal butyrate levels in healthy volunteers and reduces markers of inflammation ex vivo. (2021)
Journal Article
NEACSU, M., ANDERSON, S.E., VERSCHOOR, P., VAUGHAN, N.J., HORGAN, G.W., HULSHOF, T., DUNCAN, S.H., DUTHIE, S. and RUSSELL, W.R. 2021. Consumption of a recommended serving of wheat bran cereals significantly increases human faecal butyrate levels in healthy volunteers and reduces markers of inflammation ex vivo. Recent progress in nutrition [online], 1(4), article number 2104002. Available from: https://doi.org/10.21926/rpn.2104002

Wheat bran cereals are an important source of dietary fibre. The aim of the study was to investigate if a high intake (120 g) of fibre rich breakfast cereal (which delivers the UK Government guidelines for fibre intake in one serving but is three-fol... Read More about Consumption of a recommended serving of wheat bran cereals significantly increases human faecal butyrate levels in healthy volunteers and reduces markers of inflammation ex vivo..

Using intervention mapping to develop a decision support system–based smartphone app (selfBACK) to support self-management of nonspecific low back pain: development and usability study. (2021)
Journal Article
SVENDSEN, M.J., SANDAL, L.F., KJÆR, P., NICHOLL, B.I, COOPER, K., MAIR, F., HARTVIGSEN, J., STOCHKENDAHL, M.J., SØGAARD, K., MORK, P.J. and RASMUSSEN, C. 2022. Using intervention mapping to develop a decision support system–based smartphone app (selfBACK) to support self-management of nonspecific low back pain: development and usability study. Journal of medical internet research [online], 24(1), article e26555. Available from: https://doi.org/10.2196/26555

Background: International guidelines consistently endorse the promotion of self-management for people with low back pain (LBP); however, implementation of these guidelines remains a challenge. Digital health interventions, such as those that can be p... Read More about Using intervention mapping to develop a decision support system–based smartphone app (selfBACK) to support self-management of nonspecific low back pain: development and usability study..

The effect of bio-banding on academy soccer player passing networks: implications of relative pitch size. (2021)
Journal Article
TOWLSON, C., ABT, G., BARRETT, S., CUMMING, S., HUNTER, F., HAMILTON, A., LOWTHORPE, A., GONCALVES, B., CORSIE, M. and SWINTON, P. 2021. The effect of bio-banding on academy soccer player passing networks: implications of relative pitch size. Plos one [online], 16(12), article e0260867. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260867

The primary aims of this study were to examine the effects of bio-banding players on passing networks created during 4v4 small-sided games (SSGs), while also examining the interaction of pitch size using passing network analysis compared to a coach-b... Read More about The effect of bio-banding on academy soccer player passing networks: implications of relative pitch size..

Competency-based assessment of practice-based experiential learning in undergraduate pharmacy programmes. (2021)
Journal Article
JACOB, S.A., POWER, A., PORTLOCK, J., JEBARA, T., CUNNINGHAM, S. and BOYTER, A.C. 2021. Competency-based assessment of practice-based experiential learning in undergraduate pharmacy programmes. Pharmacy practice [online], 19(4), article 2482. Available from: https://doi.org/10.18549/PharmPract.2021.4.2482

Objective: To obtain feedback from experiential leaning (EL) leads about how competency-based assessments could be undertaken by EL facilitators, and to scope existing EL assessment structures in undergraduate Masters in Pharmacy (MPharm) programmes... Read More about Competency-based assessment of practice-based experiential learning in undergraduate pharmacy programmes..

Reframing recycling behaviour through consumers' perceptions: an exploratory investigation. (2021)
Journal Article
OKE, A., MCDONALD, S., KOROBILIS-MAGAS, E., OSOBAJO, O.A. and AWUZIE, B.O. 2021. Reframing recycling behaviour through consumers' perceptions: an exploratory investigation. Sustainability [online], 13(24), article number 13849. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/su132413849

Despite the increasing awareness of the consequences of waste, there is no consensus on how and why consumers engage in recycling, making it challenging to design behavioural interventions that might promote recycling, especially in organisational se... Read More about Reframing recycling behaviour through consumers' perceptions: an exploratory investigation..

Advancing gender equality in Africa. (2021)
Digital Artefact
ODUSANYA, T.O. 2021. Advancing gender equality in Africa. [Blog post]. Posted on Commonwealth Chamber of Commerce [online], 14 December 2021. Available from: https://commonwealthchamber.com/advancing-gender-equality-in-africa/

According to the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report (2021), another generation of women will have to wait for gender equality. As the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to be felt, the global gender gap has increased from 99.5 yea... Read More about Advancing gender equality in Africa..

Memory efficient federated deep learning for intrusion detection in IoT networks. (2021)
Conference Proceeding
ZAKARIYYA, A. KALUTARAGE, H. and AL-KADRI, M.O. 2021. Memory efficient federated deep learning for intrusion detection in IoT networks. In Sani, S. and Kalutarage, H. (eds.) AI and cybersecurity 2021: proceedings of the 2021 Workshop on AI and cybersecurity (AI-Cybersec 2021), co-located with the 41st Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence international conference on artificial intelligence (SGAI 2021), 14 December 2021, [virtual event]. CEUR workshop proceedings, 3125. Aachen: CEUR-WS [online], pages 85-99. Available from: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3125/paper7.pdf

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) methods are widely proposed for cyber security monitoring. However, training DNNs requires a lot of computational resources. This restricts direct deployment of DNNs to resource-constrained environments like the Internet o... Read More about Memory efficient federated deep learning for intrusion detection in IoT networks..

Reasoning with counterfactual explanations for code vulnerability detection and correction. (2021)
Conference Proceeding
WIJEKOON, A. and WIRATUNGA, N. 2021. Reasoning with counterfactual explanations for code vulnerability detection and correction. In Sani, S. and Kalutarage, H. (eds.) AI and cybersecurity 2021: proceedings of the 2021 Workshop on AI and cybersecurity (AI-Cybersec 2021), co-located with the 41st Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence international conference on artificial intelligence (SGAI 2021), 14 December 2021, [virtual event]. CEUR workshop proceedings, 3125. Aachen: CEUR-WS [online], pages 1-13. Available from: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3125/paper1.pdf

Counterfactual explanations highlight "actionable knowledge" which helps the end-users to understand how a machine learning outcome could be changed to a more desirable outcome. In code vulnerability detection, understanding these "actionable" correc... Read More about Reasoning with counterfactual explanations for code vulnerability detection and correction..

Resilience in a Kenyan informal settlement during the COVID-19 pandemic. (2021)
Journal Article
VERTIGANS, S., MUELLER-HIRTH, N. and OKINDA, F. 2021. Resilience in a Kenyan informal settlement during the COVID-19 pandemic. Acta academica [online], 53(2): pandemic politics, pages 122-142. Available from: https://doi.org/10.18820/24150479/aa53i2/7

Informal settlements have been identified as locations both where the spread of COVID-19 has generally been slower than within the Global North and measures to restrain the pandemic have further intensified local peoples’ marginality as income decrea... Read More about Resilience in a Kenyan informal settlement during the COVID-19 pandemic..

Exploring the relationship between oil and gas organizational culture and the management of tacit knowledge. (2021)
Journal Article
KENNEDY, J.R. and DAVIES, R.J. 2021. Exploring the relationship between oil and gas organizational culture and the management of tacit knowledge. International journal of development and sustainability [online], 10(5), pages 216-227. Available from: https://isdsnet.com/ijds-v10n5-03.pdf

Ten years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, knowledge management practices directed toward utilizing employee tacit knowledge remain underdeveloped within oil and gas operations. This is despite the management of tacit knowledge being an environm... Read More about Exploring the relationship between oil and gas organizational culture and the management of tacit knowledge..

MAN trolleybuses in Ukraine (1939–1951): a history, technical characteristics, features of operation. (2021)
Journal Article
LYTVYNENKO, A., SARANCHA, V. and SHABUNINA, V. 2021. MAN trolleybuses in Ukraine (1939-1951): a history, technical characteristics, features of operation. History of science and technology [online], 11(2), pages 411-436. Available from: https://doi.org/10.32703/2415-7422-2021-11-2-411-436

The growth of the vehicle assets and bus services in Ukrainian cities increases the level of environmental pollution. During the environmental crisis, electric transport (e-transport) is becoming a matter for scientific inquiry, a subject of discussi... Read More about MAN trolleybuses in Ukraine (1939–1951): a history, technical characteristics, features of operation..

A novel state of charge estimation method of lithium‐ion batteries based on the IWOA‐AdaBoost‐Elman algorithm. (2021)
Journal Article
LI, H., WANG, S, ISLAM, M., BOBOBEE, E.D., ZOU, C. and FERNANDEZ, C. 2022. A novel state of charge estimation method of lithium-ion batteries based on the IWOA-AdaBoost-Elman algorithm. International journal of energy research [online], 46(4), pages 5134-5151. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/er.7505

Lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery is a very complex nonlinear system. The data-driven state of charge (SOC) estimation method of Li-ion battery avoids complex equivalent circuit modeling and parameter identification, which can describe the nonlinearity of... Read More about A novel state of charge estimation method of lithium‐ion batteries based on the IWOA‐AdaBoost‐Elman algorithm..

Co-debriefing virtual simulations: an international perspective. (2021)
Journal Article
GOLDSWORTHY, S., GOODHAND, K., BARON, S., BUTTON, D., HUNTER, S., MCNEILL, L., BUDDEN, F., MCINTOSH, A., KAY, C. and FASKEN, L. 2022. Co-debriefing virtual simulations: an international perspective. Clinical simulation in nursing [online], 63, pages 1-4. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecns.2021.10.007

Co-debriefing is a process in which two or more individuals facilitate a simulation debriefing. Debriefing is considered an essential best practice that occurs as soon after a simulation as possible and should be conducted by experienced debriefers.... Read More about Co-debriefing virtual simulations: an international perspective..

A novel pipeline leak detection technique based on acoustic emission features and two-sample Kolmogorov–Smirnov test. (2021)
Journal Article
RAI, A., AHMAD, Z., HASAN, M.J. and KIM, J.-M. 2021. A novel pipeline leak detection technique based on acoustic emission features and two-sample Kolmogorov–Smirnov test. Sensors [online], 21(24): intelligent systems for fault diagnosis and prognosis, article 8247. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/s21248247

Pipeline leakage remains a challenge in various industries. Acoustic emission (AE) technology has recently shown great potential for leak diagnosis. Many AE features, such as root mean square (RMS), peak value, standard deviation, mean value, and ent... Read More about A novel pipeline leak detection technique based on acoustic emission features and two-sample Kolmogorov–Smirnov test..

Critical thinking and diagnostic reasoning when advanced practitioners assess and treat skin conditions. (2021)
Journal Article
MCPHILLIPS, H., WOOD, A.F. and HARPER-MCDONALD, B. 2021. Critical thinking and diagnostic reasoning when advanced practitioners assess and treat skin conditions. British journal of nursing [online], 30(22), 1278-1286. Available from: https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2021.30.22.1278

Advanced clinical practitioner (ACP) roles require a broad range of knowledge of both medical and surgical medicine and the ability to work autonomously in a variety of settings. Despite around half of the UK adult population presenting with a skin c... Read More about Critical thinking and diagnostic reasoning when advanced practitioners assess and treat skin conditions..

The combined effect of fluid rheology, inner pipe rotation and eccentricity on the flow of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluid through the annuli. (2021)
Journal Article
SALUBI, V., MAHON, R. and OLUYEMI, G. 2022. The combined effect of fluid rheology, inner pipe rotation and eccentricity on the flow of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluid through the annuli. Journal of petroleum science and engineering [online], 211, article 110018. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.petrol.2021.110018

The accurate prediction of the fluid dynamics and hydraulics of the axial or helical flow of non-Newtonian drilling fluids in the annuli is essential for the determination and effective management of wellbore pressure during drilling operations. Prev... Read More about The combined effect of fluid rheology, inner pipe rotation and eccentricity on the flow of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluid through the annuli..

Systemic risk measures and regulatory challenges. (2021)
Journal Article
ELLIS, S., SHARMA, S., and BRZESZCZYŃSKI, J. 2022. Systemic risk measures and regulatory challenges. Journal of financial stability [online], 61, article 100960. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfs.2021.100960

This paper discusses different definitions of systemic risk and identifies the challenges, which regulators face in addressing this phenomenon. We conducted a systematic literature review of 4859 abstracts to categorize the various methodologies deve... Read More about Systemic risk measures and regulatory challenges..