Research publications: Recent submissions
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Sex and the City : The Finales
(Syracuse University Press, 2018-10-13)This chapter looks at the finales of the globally successful HBO series 'Sex and The City'. While the original series ended in 2004, in 2006 three more endings surfaced on Youtube and, of course, there were two more endings ... -
Large-Scale Searches for Brown Dwarfs and Free-Floating Planets
(Springer Nature Link, 2018-04-13)Searches of large-scale surveys have resulted in the discovery of over 1000 brown dwarfs in the Solar neighborhood. In this chapter we review the progress in finding brown dwarfs in large datasets, highlighting the key ... -
Redressing Social Injustice : Transcending and Transforming the Borders of Art Therapy Training in South Africa
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2019-04-09)This chapter examines the children’s responses as a form of positive protest, an unconscious activism in investing in spaces that build social cohesion, ego strength, and empathic relating. This philosophy mirrors all of ... -
Biological Control of Cyst Nematodes through Microbial Pathogens, Endophytes and Antagonists
(Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International (CABI), 2018-05-08)This chapter describes the main microbial antagonists of cyst nematodes, their mode of action and how such antagonists can be used in a sustainable manner to suppress cyst nematodes and improve crop yield. -
Robot-Assisted Radical Cystectomy with Orthotopic Neobladder Reconstruction: Techniques and Functional Outcomes in Males
(2023-11-29)Background: Little is known regarding functional outcomes after robot-assisted radical cystectomy (RARC) and intracorporeal neobladder (ICNB) reconstruction. Objective: To report on urinary continence (UC) and erectile ... -
Grieving academic grant rejections: examining funding failure and experiences of loss
(2023-11-10)Bidding for research funding has increasingly become a main feature of academic work from the doctoral level and beyond. Individually and collectively, the process of grant writing – from idea conceptualisation to ... -
Dynamics analysis and image encryption application of Hopfield neural network with a novel multistable and highly tunable memeristor
(2023-11-18)Building artificial neural network models and studying their dynamic behaviors is extremely important from both a theoretical and practical standpoint due to the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence . In addition ... -
Stimulant and hallucinogenic novel psychoactive substances; an update
(2023-11-22)Introduction The renewed interest in considering a range of stimulants, psychedelics and dissociatives as therapeutics emphasizes the need to draft an updated overview of these drugs’ clinical and pharmacological issues. ... -
From Images to Features: Unbiased Morphology Classification via Variational Auto-Encoders and Domain Adaptation
(2023-10-17)We present a novel approach for the dimensionality reduction of galaxy images by leveraging a combination of variational auto-encoders (VAE) and domain adaptation (DA). We demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach ... -
Real-time operation of municipal anaerobic digestion using an ensemble data mining framework
(2023-11-13)This study presents a novel approach for real-time operation of anaerobic digestion using an ensemble decision-making framework composed of weak learner data mining models. The framework utilises simple but practical ... -
Determinants of implementing deprescribing for older adults in English care homes: a qualitative interview study
(2023-11-23)Objectives To explore the factors that may help or hinder deprescribing practice for older people within care homes. Design Qualitative semistructured interviews using framework analysis informed by the Consolidated Framework ... -
Flipped classrooms in pharmacy education: A systematic review
(2023-11-13)Background In recent years, flipped classrooms (FCs) have gained popularity in higher education, particularly among healthcare students. The FC model is a blended learning approach that combines online learning with in-class ... -
India’s new Intellectual Property Policy: Exercising sovereignty passively
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Product specialisation, global competition, and industrial decline: Portugal’s path to crisis
(2023-10-31)A widely held view in economics and comparative capitalism states that the crisis in the eurozone was a crisis of labour cost competitiveness. This view maintains that a divergence in unit labour costs engendered a cleavage ... -
History and Epidemiology Of OCPD
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Choose the Format of Your Destructor : Design Choices for Comic Creators in Print and Digital Media
(McFarland, 2019-06-30)Today, the form of comics is consumed and distributed in multiple formats across both print and digital media. For a comic creator, this variety of formats and media necessitates several important design decisions when ... -
The (Blum)House Found Footage Horror Built
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Dipendenze farmacologiche e comportamentali
(Piccin Nuova Libraria, 2021-11-22)