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    • Patient-Reported Experience Measures to Evaluate and Improve the Quality of Care in Nephrology 

      Munro Wild, Helen; Busby, Amanda; Mackintosh, Lucy; Wellsted, David (2024-09-05)
      Patient experience is considered a pillar of high-quality care, integral to patient-centered care, but despite significant policy focus on patient-reported experience measures (PREMs), little is published regarding their ...

    • Why premium in freemium: a hedonic shopping motivation model in virtual game retailing 

      Hussain, Ali; Ding, Ting Hooi; Marder, Ben (2024-09-06)
      Purpose Hedonic shopping is a growing phenomenon designed to enhance gamers’ virtual content shopping experience with increasing economic significance, yet limited attention has been dedicated to this area. Our study ...

    • Constraining the Number Density of the Accretion Disk Wind in Hercules X-1 Using its Ionization Response to X-ray Pulsations 

      Kosec, P.; Rogantini, D.; Kara, E.; Canizares, C. R.; Fabian, A. C.; Pinto, C.; Psaradaki, I.; Staubert, R.; Walton, D. J. (2024-08-22)
      X-ray binaries are known to launch powerful accretion disk winds that can have significant impact on the binary systems and their surroundings. To quantify the impact and determine the launching mechanisms of these outflows, ...

    • Moving an exercise referral scheme to remote delivery during the Covid-19 pandemic: an observational study examining the impact on uptake, adherence, and costs 

      Newby, Katie; Howlett, Neil; Wagner, Adam; Smeeton, Nigel; Fakoya, Olujoke; Lloyd, Nigel; Freethy, Imogen; Bontoft, Charis; Brown, Katherine; McKibben, Mary-Ann; Petherick, Annie; Wills, Wendy (2024-08-27)
      Background Exercise Referral Schemes (ERSs) have been implemented across Western nations to stimulate an increase in adult physical activity but evidence of their effectiveness and cost-effectiveness is equivocal. Poor ERS ...

    • Personality, property and other provocations : Exploring the conceptual muddle of data protection rights under EU law 

      Pearce, Henry (2018-06-17)
      This article considers the right to data protection under EU law and examines a range conceptual and practical difficulties with which it is besieged. Particularly, the article engages with questions regarding whether the ...

    • What is local government financialisation? Four empirical channels to clarify the roles of local government 

      Hasenberger, Hannah (2024-08-01)
      Recent literature at the nexus of geography and political economy notes that local governments are becoming financialised. But it is not always clear what this means. Specifically, what is being financialised? And what is ...

    • Staff Confidence in Supporting Student Mental Health: Outcomes from a Survey 

      Whyte, Ellice; Payne, Helen; Hajilou, Behrad (2024-08-09)
      (1) Background: The number of university students experiencing mental health problems has been a growing concern over recent decades, and support for them is now considered an inevitable part of the role of an academic. ...

    • A Systematic Review of Blockchain for Energy Applications 

      Egunjobi, OO; Gomes, A; Egwim, CN; Morais, H (2024-08-29)
      The increasing penetration of distributed energy resources and the growing electrification of end-use consumption complicate energy management. Current strategies, which rely on centralized systems for peer-to-peer ...

    • The Expanding Mycovirome of Aspergilli 

      Battersby, Josephine L.; Stevens, David A.; Coutts, Robert H. A.; Havlíček, Vladimír; Hsu, Joe L.; Sass, Gabriele; Kotta-Loizou, Ioly (2024-08-17)
      Mycoviruses are viruses that infect fungi and are widespread across all major fungal taxa, exhibiting great biological diversity. Since their discovery in the 1960s, researchers have observed a myriad of fungal phenotypes ...

    • Security Evaluation of Companion Android Applications in IoT: The Case of Smart Security Devices 

      Allen, Ashley; Mylonas, Alexios; Vidalis, Stilianos; Gritzalis, Dimitris (2024-08-23)
      Smart security devices, such as smart locks, smart cameras, and smart intruder alarms are increasingly popular with users due to the enhanced convenience and new features that they offer. A significant part of this convenience ...

    • Ensemble of ensembles for fine particulate matter pollution prediction using big data analytics and IoT emission sensors 

      Egwim, Christian Nnaemeka; Alaka, Hafiz; Pan, Youlu; Balogun, Habeeb; Ajayi, Saheed; Hye, Abdul; Egunjobi, Oluwapelumi Oluwaseun (2023-11-07)
      Purpose The study aims to develop a multilayer high-effective ensemble of ensembles predictive model (stacking ensemble) using several hyperparameter optimized ensemble machine learning (ML) methods (bagging and boosting ...

    • Cities and architecture in the context of global migration 

      Polimeni, Beniamino; Toler, Michael (2022-06-30)
      Since the origins of human society, communities have dealt with migration issues as established settlements grappled with how to deal with new arrivals. As societies became larger and more complex and human movement became ...

    • Staff Confidence in Supporting Student Mental Health: Outcomes from Survey 

      Whyte, Ellice; Payne, Helen; Hajilou, Behrad (2024-08-09)
      The number of university students suffering from mental health problems has been a growing concern over recent decades and support for them is now considered an inevitable part of the role of an academic. Research into the ...

    • Incidence, characteristics, and prehospital outcomes of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Qatar: a nationwide gender-based investigation 

      Awad, Emad; Farhat, Hassan; Shami, Rakan; Gholami, Nooreh; Mortada, Bothina; Rumbolt, Niki; Azizurrahman, Adnaan; Arabi, Abdul Rahman; Alinier, Guillaume (2024-09-02)
      Background: Research on incidence and characteristics of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA) in the Middle East is limited. We assessed the incidence, prehospital characteristics, and outcomes of OHCA in Qatar, a Middle ...

    • Combination of Ipsative and Sociomaterial Assessment Methodologies within University-Level Science Education 

      Kukol, Andreas (2024-09-05)
      This article presents a comprehensive exploration of ipsative and sociomaterial assessment methodologies, dissecting their theoretical frameworks, practical implementations, and the resultant effects on educational paradigms. ...

    • FEResearchmeet. A Further Education (FE) practitioner-researcher led initiative to share and develop capacity for research and scholarship across Wales and England : analysing and theorising the period of initial development. 

      Jones, Samantha; Scattergood, Kerry; Rees, Jodie; Crowther, Norman (2024-08-20)
      This paper analyses emergent issues from four conceptualisers of FEResearchmeet. FEResearchmeet claims to be a free and democratic model for building and supporting engagement with research, led by practitioners. The ...

    • The VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea eXtended (VVVX) ESO public survey: Completion of the observations and legacy 

      Saito, R. K.; Hempel, M.; Alonso-García, J.; Lucas, P. W.; Minniti, D.; Alonso, S.; Baravalle, L.; Borissova, J.; Caceres, C.; Chené, A. N.; Cross, N. J. G.; Duplancic, F.; Garro, E. R.; Gómez, M.; Ivanov, V. D.; Kurtev, R.; Luna, A.; Majaess, D.; Navarro, M. G.; Pullen, J. B.; Rejkuba, M.; Sanders, J. L.; Smith, L. C.; Albino, P. H. C.; Alonso, M. V.; Amôres, E. B.; Angeloni, R.; Arias, J. I.; Arnaboldi, M.; Barbuy, B.; Bayo, A.; Beamin, J. C.; Bedin, L. R.; Bellini, A.; Benjamin, R. A.; Bica, E.; Bonatto, C. J.; Botan, E.; Braga, V. F.; Brown, D. A.; Cabral, J. B.; Camargo, D.; Garatti, A. Caratti o; Carballo-Bello, J. A.; Catelan, M.; Chavero, C.; Chijani, M. A.; Clariá, J. J.; Coldwell, G. V.; Peña, C. Contreras; Ramos, R. Contreras; Corral-Santana, J. M.; Cortés, C. C.; Cortés-Contreras, M.; Cruz, P.; Daza-Perilla, I. V.; Debattista, V. P.; Dias, B.; Donoso, L.; D'Souza, R.; Emerson, J. P.; Federle, S.; Fermiano, V.; Fernandez, J.; Fernández-Trincado, J. G.; Ferreira, T.; Lopes, C. E. Ferreira; Firpo, V.; Flores-Quintana, C.; Fraga, L.; Froebrich, D.; Galdeano, D.; Gavignaud, I.; Geisler, D.; Gerhard, O. E.; Gieren, W.; Gonzalez, O. A.; Gramajo, L. V.; Gran, F.; Granitto, P. M.; Griggio, M.; Guo, Z.; Gurovich, S.; Hilker, M.; Jones, H. R. A.; Kammers, R.; Kuhn, M. A.; Kumar, M. S . N.; Kundu, R.; Lares, M.; Libralato, M.; Lima, E.; Maccarone, T. J.; Cortés, P. Marchant; Martin, E. L.; Masetti, N.; Matsunaga, N.; Mauro, F.; McDonald, I.; Mejías, A.; Mesa, V.; Milla-Castro, F. P.; Minniti, J. H.; Bidin, C. Moni; Montenegro, K.; Morris, C.; Motta, V.; Navarete, F.; Molina, C. Navarro; Nikzat, F.; Castellón, J. L. Nilo; Obasi, C.; Ortigoza-Urdaneta, M.; Palma, T.; Parisi, C.; Ramírez, K. Pena; Pereyra, L.; Perez, N.; Petralia, I.; Pichel, A.; Pignata, G.; Alegría, S. Ramírez; Rojas, A. F.; Rojas, D.; Roman-Lopes, A.; Rovero, A. C.; Saroon, S.; Schmidt, E. O.; Schröder, A. C.; Schultheis, M.; Sgró, M. A.; Solano, E.; Soto, M.; Stecklum, B.; Steeghs, D.; Tamura, M.; Tissera, P.; Valcarce, A. A. R.; Valotto, C. A.; Vasquez, S.; Villalon, C.; Villanova, S.; Cádiz, F. Vivanco; Bacigalupo, R. Zelada; Zijlstra, A.; Zoccali, M. (2024-06-24)
      The ESO public survey VISTA Variables in the V\'ia L\'actea (VVV) surveyed the inner Galactic bulge and the adjacent southern Galactic disk from $2009-2015$. Upon its conclusion, the complementary VVV eXtended (VVVX) survey ...

    • Medical Image Character Recognition Using Attention-Based Siamese Networks for Visually Similar Characters with Low Resolution 

      Osagie, Efosa; Ji, Wei; Helian, Na (Springer Nature, 2024-08-01)
      The emergence of optical character recognition (OCR) has been adopted in many domains to automate various tasks. Still, recognising visually similar characters (VSC) remains a challenging problem in the general OCR domain. ...

    • Applying Positive Psychology in Sport: A Trainee’s Case Study 

      Gunning, Scott; Smith, Jenny (2024-06-17)
      Positive psychology is an approach to psychology that focuses on the utilization of strengths, positive emotions, well-being, and personal growth to help individuals thrive, flourish, and achieve optimal functioning. The ...

    • Analysis of Student Preference to Group Work Assessment in Cybersecurity Courses 

      Xiao, Hannan; Spring, William Joseph; Kuzminykh, Ievgeniia (CEUR-WS, 2024-06-08)
      This study explores the impact of taking a diverse and inclusive approach to designing a group work assessment for an undergraduate cybersecurity course delivered to third year university cohorts. Students were given the ...