University of Hertfordshire: Recent submissions
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Grid Multi-Butterfly Memristive Neural Network With Three Memristive Systems: Modeling, Dynamic Analysis, and Application in Police IoT
(2024-06-19)Nowadays, the Internet of Things (IoT) technology has been widely applied in the police security system. However, with more and more image data that concerns crime scenes being transmitted through the police IoT, there are ... -
Women and Mobility as a Service: An exploration of the issues faced by women when using shared mobility and possible responses by providers
(University of Hertfordshire, 2024-06-21)This White Paper reviews the latest knowledge on the relationship of women with Mobility as a Service (MaaS) and several measures that have been reported within the existing literature to address issues that women can ... -
The Frankenstein Monster Syndrome: What holds sustainable Mobility as a Service from surviving in the open market
(Centre of Research In Just Transitions (CRIJT), 2024-06-01)Mobility as a Service (MaaS) is a personalised, one-stop travel management platform, which digitally unifies trip purchase and delivery across all transport modes. MaaS promises to reduce the environmental impact of personal ... -
Return to the Forgotten Ultraluminous X-Ray Source: A Broadband NICER+NuSTAR Study of NGC 4190 ULX-1
(2024-06-18)We observed the nearby and relatively understudied ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) NGC 4190 ULX-1 jointly with Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) and NuSTAR to investigate its broadband spectrum, timing ... -
Dielectrophoretic collection of airborne particles
(2024-06-06)Aim: To investigate dielectrophoresis as a mechanism for collection of bioaerosols. -
Narratives of Prison: the Stories and Experiences of Young Black Men
(2024-04-11)BACKGROUND: Research has continuously demonstrated the social disadvantage, racial inequality, and institutional racism within a broad range of domains including, socio-economic status, education, healthcare, and the ... -
Unravelling Player's Insights: A Comparative Analysis of Topic Modelling Techniques on Game Reviews and Video Game Developers' Perspectives
(2024-06-10)Game reviews function as an important customercreated resource for game studies as they allow practitioners and developers to analyse players'opinions.Despite this,there are few studies that under take comparative evaluations ... -
Understanding The Experiences of People Who Are Considering Ending Their Lives by Assisted Dying: an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
(2024-04-22)Assisted dying (AD) is currently illegal in the United Kingdom (UK). Despite this, people from the UK are travelling abroad to organisations in Switzerland, such as Dignitas, in order to complete an assisted death. To be ... -
Effects of Ketamine and Related New Psychoactive Substances in Rat Urinary Bladder
(2024-03-28)Introduction: In 2007, Shahani et al. first described the clinical entity of ketamine-induced cystitis (KC) — a condition seen in recreational users of the drug, characterised by the development of various lower urinary ... -
Amabie goes viral: the monstrous mercreature returns to battle the Gothic Covid-19
(2020-12-10)This essay focusses on yōkai, Amabie, a mer-monster from Japan’s Edo Period (1603–1868), who is being revived to ward off the Covid-19 virus in 2020. I argue that our understanding of crises is enhanced via the hybrid ... -
Decision Fusion-Based Non-Intrusive Load Identification Involving Adaptive Threshold Event Detection
(2024-06-12)Nonintrusive load monitoring (NILM) is an important measure to improve the intelligence level of the power demand side. The existing NILM methods have poor performance in identifying low-power devices with similar power, ... -
Investigating young people’s physical activity and eating behaviours and how best to provide support: Triangulating data from young people, practitioners, and commissioners
(2024-06-07)Physical activity and diet quality decline during the adolescent years, putting young people at risk of health conditions and failure to reap health benefits. Therefore, interventions are warranted to support young people ... -
Application of Quality Function Deployment to the Management of Information Physical Security
(2020-12-31)Information physical security (IPS) refers to the prevention from intended attacks against all material devices and to the protection against deliberate attacks by supporting and managing related data/information. Information ... -
Emotional reactions to risk perception in the Herculaneum Archaeological Park
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022-02-25)The evaluation of perceived risk by people is particularly valuable for safety and security management. Each person is based on the opinion of others to make a choice and the Internet embodies the place where these opinions ... -
Emotional analysis of safeness and risk perception of London and Rome airports during the COVID-19 pandemic
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022-02-25)The evaluation of perceived safeness and risk by persons is particularly valuable for safety and security handling. Each individual is influenced by others’ opinions on safety and security and the Internet embodies the ... -
A Blockchain for Nigeria - Exploring Blockchain Policy and Adoption in Nigeria
(University of Hertfordshire, 2023-10-30)The report is written as a White Paper and contains a number of recommendations. Recommendation 1: Consider the development of a blockchain for Nigeria – ‘Nigereum’, a new blockchain infrastructure for Nigeria. This provides ... -
Beyond free trade in raw materials: Reconciling international trade rules with planetary boundaries
(2024-06-13)International trade rules enshrined in agreements like the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) promote free trade, with exceptions for environmental protection. This paper explores the tension between these rules ... -
LCADNet: A Novel Light CNN Architecture for EEG-based Alzheimer Disease Detection
(2024-06-11)Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive and incurable neurologi- cal disorder with a rising mortality rate, worsened by error-prone, time-intensive, and expensive clinical diagnosis methods. Automatic AD detection methods ...