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    • 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 ...

    • A Systematic Review of Blockchain for Energy Applications 

      Egunjobi, OO; Gomes, A; Egwim, CN; Morais, H (2024-09)
      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 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. ...

    • 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 (2024-12-30)
      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 ...

    • The Ultraviolet Luminosity Function at 0.6 < z < 1 from UVCANDELS 

      the UVCANDELS team; Sun, Lei; Wang, Xin; Teplitz, Harry I.; Mehta, Vihang; Alavi, Anahita; Rafelski, Marc; Windhorst, Rogier A.; Scarlata, Claudia; Gardner, Jonathan P.; Smith, Brent M.; Sunnquist, Ben; Prichard, Laura; Cheng, Yingjie; Grogin, Norman; Hathi, Nimish P.; Hayes, Matthew; Koekemoer, Anton M.; Mobasher, Bahram; Nedkova, Kalina V.; O’Connell, Robert; Robertson, Brant; Taamoli, Sina; Yung, L. Y. Aaron; Brammer, Gabriel; Colbert, James; Conselice, Christopher; Gawiser, Eric; Guo, Yicheng; Jansen, Rolf A.; Ji, Zhiyuan; Lucas, Ray A.; Rutkowski, Michael; Siana, Brian; Vanzella, Eros; Ashcraft, Teresa; Bagley, Micaela; Baronchelli, Ivano; Barro, Guillermo; Blanche, Alex; Broussard, Adam; Carleton, Timothy; Chartab, Nima; Codoreanu, Alex; Cohen, Seth; Dai, Y. Sophia; Darvish, Behnam; Davé, Romeel; Kaviraj, Sugata; Lazar, Ilin; Martin, Garreth (2024-08-21)
      UVCANDELS is a Hubble Space Telescope Cycle-26 Treasury Program awarded 164 orbits of primary ultraviolet (UV) F275W imaging and coordinated parallel optical F435W imaging in four CANDELS fields—GOODS-N, GOODS-S, EGS, and ...

    • Cognitive inflexibility, obsessive-compulsive symptoms and traits and poor post-pandemic adjustment 

      Frota Lisboa Pereira De Souza, Ana Maria; Pellegrini, Luca; Fineberg, Naomi (2024-05-23)
      The ability to flexibly adapt thoughts and behaviours represents a fundamental attribute for behavioural success. Impairments in aspects of cognitive flexibility are found as transdiagnostic latent phenotypes of ...

    • O04 UKHSA Start Smart Then Focus antimicrobial stewardship: effective implementation during the COVID-19 pandemic at an NHS Foundation Trust in the UK 

      Abdelsalam Elshenawy, Rasha; Umaru, Nikkie; Aslanpour, Zoe (2024-08-23)
      Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a critical global health threat, causing 1.2 million deaths annually. While antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) promotes responsible antibiotic use, the COVID-19 pandemic led to a 15% rise in ...

    • Investigating the Diversity of Evolved Cognitive Models in Delayed Match to Sample Experiments 

      Lane, Peter; Bartlett, Laura; Gobet, F. (2024-06-12)
      The construction of programs to model cognitive behaviour can be semi-automated, using program synthesis techniques such as genetic programming. However, these techniques can produce many candidate solutions of good fitness ...