UH Research Archive: Recent submissions
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Impact of Fatigue on Corticomuscular Coupling and EEG Microstates during Human-Robot Interaction and Physical Exercise
(2024-01-29)Human movements are controlled by the Central Nervous System. Motor dysfunction and sensory-motor deficits result in restricted use of the upper extremities in stroke patients, leading to difficulty in carrying out daily ... -
Design and Optimisation of a Modular Industrial Air Scrubber Utilising Surfactant Absorption Technology
(2024-01-19)A novel air scrubbing technology using a misting application and water additives has successfully demonstrated the capability of scrubbing H2S at a water treatment plant. The air scrubber design utilises a solution of ... -
Impact of Imaging and Distance Perception in VR Immersive Visual Experience
(2024-01-08)Virtual reality (VR) headsets have evolved to include unprecedented viewing quality. Meanwhile, they have become lightweight, wireless, and low-cost, which has opened to new applications and a much wider audience. VR ... -
The Experience of Orthodox Jewish Therapists Offering Therapy to Chareidi Female Adolescents
(2024-01-08)No published research to date has investigated the mental health experiences of Orthodox Jewish adolescents in the UK, although anecdotally, the Jewish mental health community is aware of the prevalence of mental health ... -
Analysis and Modelling of TTL ice crystals based on in-situ light scattering patterns
(2024-01-03)Even though there are numerous studies on cirrus clouds and its influence on climate, lack of detailed information on its microphysical properties like ice crystal geometry, still exists. Challenges like instrumental ... -
Understanding the role α7 nicotinic receptors play in dopamine efflux in nucleus accumbens
(2014-08-22)Neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (NNRs) of the α7 subtype have been shown to contribute to the release of dopamine in the nucleus accumbens. The site of action and the underlying mechanism, however, are unclear. ... -
Coming to Voice as Total Top or Total Bottom : Autobiographical Acts and the Sexual Politics of Versatility on Reddit
(2024-01-24)For gay, bisexual, and men who have sex with men (GBMSM), sexual versatility encompasses both insertive (top) and receptive (bottom) sexual practices. By contrast, “total top” and “total bottom” roles are often marginalized ... -
Membrane vesicles of Clostridioides difficile and other Clostridial species
(Springer Nature, 2024-01-05)Membrane vesicles are secreted by growing bacterial cells and are important components of the bacterial secretome, with a role in delivering effector molecules that ultimately enable bacterial survival. Membrane vesicles ... -
The definition of treatment resistance in anxiety disorders: a Delphi method-based consensus guideline
(2024-02-28)Anxiety disorders are very prevalent and often persistent mental disorders, with a considerable rate of treatment resistance which requires regulatory clinical trials of innovative therapeutic interventions. However, an ... -
The high energy X-ray probe (HEX-P): magnetars and other isolated neutron stars
(2024-01-09)The hard X-ray emission from magnetars and other isolated neutron stars remains under-explored. An instrument with higher sensitivity to hard X-rays is critical to understanding the physics of neutron star magnetospheres ... -
Aberrant salience in cannabis-induced psychosis: a comparative study
(2024-01-08)Background: Natural Cannabis (NC) and Synthetic Cannabinoids (SCs) use can increase the risk and exacerbate the course of psychotic disorders. These could be influenced by the Aberrant Salience (AS) construct. It refers ... -
Heuristic Search of Heuristics
(Springer Nature Link, 2023-11-08)How can we infer the strategies that human participants adopt to carry out a task? One possibility, which we present and discuss here, is to develop a large number of strategies that participants could have adopted, given ... -
Descriptive research into large-scale user data from an established alcohol identification and brief advice (IBA) intervention website
(figshare, 2024-01-16)Alcohol misuse causes significant health harms, including early mortality, increased healthcare and wider governmental costs. Identification and Brief Advice (IBA) interventions can reduce alcohol consumption, prevent ... -
Impairments in psychological functioning in refugees and asylum seekers
(2024-01-08)Refugees are at increased risk for developing psychological impairments due to stressors in the pre-, peri- and post-migration periods. There is limited knowledge on how everyday functioning is affected by migration ... -
The High Energy X-ray Probe (HEX-P): probing accretion onto stellar mass black holes
(2024-01-08)Accretion is a universal astrophysical process that plays a key role in cosmic history, from the epoch of reionization to galaxy and stellar formation and evolution. Accreting stellar-mass black holes in X-ray binaries are ... -
Empowering Academic Reading: Strategies for Student Engagement in the Digital Age
(2023-11-24)Academic staff express concerns that many students do not engage with academic reading, do not have adequate note-taking skills and lack enthusiasm for academic texts (Hoeft, 2012; Miller & Merdian, 2020). Effective academic ... -
Digital Twins Approaches and Methods Review
(Curran Associates Inc., 2023-08-10)This paper investigates the recent advances in Digital Twin technologies. The aim is to compare the approaches, available open source and proprietary technologies and methods, their features, and their integration capabilities. ... -
Analysis and implementation of semi-automatic model for vulnerability exploitations of threat agents in NIST databases
(2023-05-30)Proactive security plays a vital role in preventing the attack before entering active mode. In the modern information environment, it depends on the vulnerability management practitioners of an organization in which the ...