Research publications: Recent submissions
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Current role of cytoreductive nephrectomy in metastatic renal cell carcinoma
(2021-02-01)Historically, immediate cytoreductive nephrectomy (CN) was considered the standard of care in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) who were fit enough to undergo surgery. Recently, 2 randomized controlled ... -
The increasing indications of FDG-PET/CT in the staging and management of Invasive Bladder Cancer
(2022-10-30)The management of locally advanced muscle invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) often necessitates neo-adjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) to eliminate any micro-metastatic disease prior to definitive radical cystectomy (RC) and pelvic ... -
Single tertiary cancer centre experience on the management of pT3b Prostate Cancer After Robot - assisted Laparoscopic Prostatectomy
(2022-12-31)Background Pathological involvement of the seminal vesicle poses a treatment dilemma following robotic prostatectomy. Margin status plays an important role in deciding further management. A wide range of treatment options ... -
Blue light transurethral resection and biopsy of bladder cancer with hexaminolevulinate: Histopathological characteristics and recurrence rates in a single UK centre study
(2023-09-30)Introduction: Blue light cystoscopy with hexaminolevulinate (HAL) during transurethral resection of bladder cancer (TURBT) has been shown to improve detection, thereby reducing bladder cancer recurrence compared with white ... -
A TEMPEST vulnerability prediction method for cyber security practitioners
(2023-09-01)Sensitive information can have its security compromised by unintentional electromagnetic emissions from the information technology equipment (ITE) being used to process it. It is important to assess the likelihood of a ... -
A Study on the Ability of Different Non-Intrusive Sensors for Diagnosing Outdoor Insulator Defects
(2023-07-14)Insulators’ failures caused by any type of defect may result in serious technical and economic losses. In particular, contamination flashovers due to excessive pollution and humidity are one of the main problems encountered ... -
User Comfort-Oriented Home Energy Management System Under Demand Response
(2023-06-16)Home Energy Management Systems (HEMS) play a crucial role in empowering residential consumers to actively engage in Demand Response (DR) programs by controlling their consumption and reducing or shifting their consumption ... -
Spatially resolved self-consistent spectral modelling of jellyfish galaxies from MUSE with FADO: trends with mass and stripping intensity
(2023-08-30)We present a spatially resolved stellar population analysis of 61 jellyfish galaxies and 47 control galaxies observed with ESO/MUSE attempting to understand the general trends of the stellar populations as a function of ... -
40-Hz Auditory Steady-State Responses in Schizophrenia: Toward a Mechanistic Biomarker for Circuit Dysfunctions and Early Detection and Diagnosis
(2023-10-01)There is converging evidence that 40-Hz auditory steady-state responses (ASSRs) are robustly impaired in schizophrenia and could constitute a potential biomarker for characterizing circuit dysfunctions as well as enable ... -
Multi-Link Failure Effects on MPLS Resilient Fast-Reroute Network Architectures
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021-06-03)MPLS has been in the forefront of high-speed Wide Area Networks (WANs), for almost two decades [1, 12]. The performance advantages in implementing Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) are mainly its superior speed based ... -
Kaspar Explains: The Effect of Causal Explanations on Visual Perspective Taking Skills in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2023-11-13)This paper presents an investigation into the effectiveness of introducing explicit causal explanations in a child-robot interaction setting to help children with autism improve their Visual Perspective Taking (VPT) skills. ... -
How do Human Users Teach a Continual Learning Robot in Repeated Interactions?
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2023-11-13)Continual learning (CL) has emerged as an important avenue of research in recent years, at the intersection of Machine Learning (ML) and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), to allow robots to continually learn in their environments ... -
Chemical Evolution with Radial Mixing Redux: a detailed model for formation and evolution of the Milky Way
(2023-08-01)We present a multizone galactic chemical evolution (GCE) model for the Milky Way that takes the most recently updated yields of major nucleosynthesis channels into account. It incorporates physical processes commonly found ... -
Patient Reported Experience of Kidney Care in the UK 2020
(UK Renal Registry / Kidney Care UK, 2021-05-14)Headline findings in 2020 • Encouragingly, despite the global pandemic, patients continue to rate their Overall Experience of the service provided by their renal centre highly. • Patient reported experience of Support and ... -
Patient Reported Experience of Kidney Care in the UK 2021
(UK Kidney Association, 2022-06-20)Headline findings • 12,416 people with kidney disease, from all 68 treating centres in the UK, took part in Kidney PREM this year, largely online. • Overall experience of kidney care continues to be rated highly, with many ... -
‘I am friends wt you & do Entertain no malice’: discord, disputes and defamation in Ulster Presbyterian church courts, c. 1700-1838.
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2021-11-02)Following the example of its parent church in Scotland, the Presbyterian church courts in Ireland exercised control over all aspects of its members’ lives. The making of marriage, sexual conduct, family feuds, alcohol ... -
Accelerating L1-penalized expectation maximization algorithm for latent variable selection in multidimensional two-parameter logistic models
(2023-01-17)One of the main concerns in multidimensional item response theory (MIRT) is to detect the relationship between observed items and latent traits, which is typically addressed by the exploratory analysis and factor rotation ... -
Weighted competing risks quantile regression models and variable selection
(2023-03-08)The proportional subdistribution hazards (PSH) model is popularly used to deal with competing risks data. Censored quantile regression provides an important supplement as well as variable selection methods due to large ... -
A systematic review and meta-analysis on delaying surgery for urothelial carcinoma of bladder and upper tract urothelial carcinoma: Implications for the COVID19 pandemic and beyond
(2022-10-04)Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic has led to competing strains on hospital resources and healthcare personnel. Patients with newly diagnosed invasive urothelial carcinomas of bladder (UCB) upper tract (UTUC) may experience ...