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    • Assessing Moral Injury and its Clinical Associations in a UK Secure Care Population 

      Steen, Scott; Morris, Deborah; Law, Gary; Fogarty, Laura; Fox, Casey (2023-08-24)
      Introduction: Moral Injury (MI) represents a type of trauma that can manifest after committing or witnessing transgressions which result in feelings of shame, guilt, and inner turmoil. Although originally conceived and ...
    • A Bourdieusian Exploration of Ethnic Inequalities at Work: The Case of the Nigerian Banking Sector 

      Wallace, James; Umeh, Chidozie; Cornelius, Nelarine (2023-06-21)
      This article draws on Pierre Bourdieu’s critical sociology to explore the socio-political processes through which social resources or capital are sought and ethnic inequalities negotiated, legitimated and enforced in a ...
    • #UKRAS21: The 4th UK Robotics and Autonomous Systems Conference 

      Holthaus, Patrick; Amirabdollahian, Farshid; Asher, Claire; Richards, Arthur (2021-07-15)
      This year’s theme focuses on robotics at home. We haveidentified three focus areas to examine robotics and au-tonomous systems within our call for papers that are eachcovered by an inspiring keynote and four oral presentationsfrom ...
    • A Comparison Between Convolutional and Transformer Architectures for Speech Emotion Recognition 

      Iyer, Shreyah; Glackin, Cornelius; Cannings, Nigel; Veneziano, Vito; Sun, Yi (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022-09-30)
      Creating speech emotion recognition models com-parable to the capability of how humans recognise emotions is a long-standing challenge in the field of speech technology with many potential commercial applications. As ...
    • Animal Models of Human Disease 

      Lange, Sigrun; Inal, Jameel (2023-10-31)
      The use of animal models of human disease is critical for furthering our understanding of disease mechanisms, for the discovery of novel targets for treatment, and for translational research. This Special Topic entitled ...
    • Ensemble Learning for Medical Image Character Recognition based on Enhanced Lenet-5 

      Osagie, Efosa; Ji, Wei; Helian, Na (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2023-10-02)
      Generally, Medical Imaging Modalities (MIM)have a distinctive nature of low contrast, complex background, and low resolution, containing burned-in textual data of patients. The conventional OCRs hardly recognise these ...
    • Whole Life: a feasibility study of a recovery-focussed intervention in patients with stabilised schizophrenia [version 2; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations] 

      Gale, Tim M; Woodward, Jan; Meredith-Windle, Glynis; Balakumar, Thanusha; Littlechild, Brian; Hawley, Chris J (2022-02-14)
      Background: The Recovery Approach is about supporting people to live the best life they possibly can. This paper reports on a 2008-11 study of a recovery-focussed, one-to-one coaching programme called Whole Life (WL) in a ...
    • Who are resilient ELT teachers? 

      James, Gwyneth (IATEFL, 2022-05-20)
      What sustains you in your daily life as a teacher? How resilient are you? What does resilience look like? In this presentation, my aim is for us to discuss and share experiences of resilience in the workplace and identify ...
    • Towards understanding causality-a retrospective study of using explanations in interactions between a humanoid robot and autistic children 

      Sarda Gou, Marina; Lakatos, Gabriella; Holthaus, Patrick; Wood, Luke; Mousavi, Mohammadreza; Robins, Ben; Amirabdollahian, Farshid (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022-09-30)
      Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) often struggle with visual perspective taking (VPT) skills and the understanding that others might have viewpoints and perspectives that are different from their own; i.e., the ...
    • Taking a Passivhaus certified retrofit system onto scaled-up zero carbon trajectory 

      Jankovic, L.; Basurra, Shadi (2016-09-09)
      The paper describes collaboration a between industryand academia in enhancing a Passivhaus certifiedsystem for retrofit and putting it onto a zero carbontrajectory. The system was initially developed for onsite stick ...
    • Stories and Narratives in Safety Engineering 

      Menon, Catherine; Rainer, Austen (SCSC Publications, 2022-02-10)
      The use of stories and narrative is widespread throughout safety engineering,from "war stories" to use cases In this paper we consider the effectivenessof stories in modelling safety-critical systems and challenges. We ...
    • Who wins when you try to convince a mouse her best friend is a cat? The value of competition in entrepreneurship education. 

      Culkin, Nigel; Brentnall, Catherine; Rodríguez, Iván Diego (Institute of Small Business & Entrepreneurship (ISBE), 2016-08-01)
      The push by policy makers for entrepreneurship education at an ever-earlier age, and the expansion of programmes and activities at secondary schools, is increasing the likelihood that more young people will be sheep-dipped ...
    • Rapid Recognition of Olfactory Scenes with a Portable MOx Sensor System using Hotplate Modulation 

      Drix, Damien; Schmuker, Michael; Dennler, Nik (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022-06-10)
      A café, the metro, a supermarket, a book store - many locations of everyday life have a specific smell. Recognising such olfactory scenes could inform personal activity tracking, environmental monitoring, and assist robotic ...
    • Pseudo-symmetric pairs for Kac-Moody algebras 

      Regelskis, Vidas; Vlaar, Bart (American Mathematical Society, 2022-08-31)
      Lie algebra involutions and their fixed-point subalgebras give rise to symmetric spaces and real forms of complex Lie algebras, and are wellstudied in the context of symmetrizable Kac-Moody algebras. In this paper we study ...
    • LBP-CA: A Short-term Scheduler with Criticality Arithmetic 

      Fadlelseed, Sajid; Kirner, Raimund; Menon, Catherine (University of Hertfordshire, 2022-11-04)
      In safety-critical systems a smooth degradation of services is a way to deal with resource shortages. Criticality arithmetic is a technique to implement services of higher criticality by several tasks of lower criticality. ...
    • Effect of Robot-Assisted Radical Cystectomy with Intracorporeal Urinary Diversion vs Open Radical Cystectomy on 90-Day Morbidity and Mortality among Patients with Bladder Cancer : A Randomized Clinical Trial 

      Catto, James W F; Khetrapal, Pramit; Ricciardi , Federico; Ambler, Gareth; Khan, Shamim; Nair, Raj; Feber, Andrew; Dixon, Simon; Williams, Norman; Nathan, Senthil; Briggs, Tim; Sridhar, Ashwin; Ahmed, Imram; Bhatt, Jaimin; Charlesworth, Philip; Cumberbatch, Marcus; Hussain, Syed A.; Kotwal, Sanjeev; Koupparis, Anthony; McGrath, John; Noon, Aidan; Rowe, Edward; Vasdev, Nikhil; Hanchale, Vishwanath; Hagan, Daryl; Bew-Graves, Chris; Kelly, John D (2022-05-15)
      Importance  Robot-assistedradical cystectomy is being performed with increasing frequency, but it isunclear whether total intracorporeal surgery improves recovery compared withopen radical cystectomy for bladder cancer. ...
    • An Efficient Low Cost FPGA MIMO Channel Model 

      Slaney , Andrew; Sun, Yichuang; Simpson, Oluyomi (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022-12-12)
      In this paper, a mathematical model for generating AWGN and Rayleigh fading is presented and argued based around the generation of Gaussian distributed numbers. This paper is focused on a multiple input multiple output ...
    • Electronic Number Plate Generation for Performance Evaluation 

      Ramalingam, Soodamani; Martin, Bill; Rhead,, Michael; Gurney, Robert (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022-09-26)
      The authors have been involved in real world analysis of Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) data and systems particularly for law enforcement applications. As a result of such work with Law Enforcement Agencies, ...
    • Whole Systems Approach to Diet and Healthy Weight – A longitudinal Process Evaluation in East Scotland 

      Breslin, Gavin; Wills, Wendy; Bontoft, Charis; Fakoya, Olujoke; Greco, Honey-Anne; Lloyd, Nigel; Wagner, Adam; Wellings, Amander; Harding, Sian; Brown, Katherine (2023-11-29)
      Aims: Obesity contributes to morbidity and early mortality, affecting people of all ages and sociodemographic backgrounds. Despite attempts to address obesity, efforts to date have only had limited success. Adopting a whole ...
    • Transporting a Secret using Destructively-Read Memory 

      Christianson, Bruce; Shafarenko, Alex (Springer Nature Link, 2023-10-21)
      Alice wants to send Bob a secret such as a one-time pad. Our proposal is to use a specially designed mass-produced memory chip, rather like a flash drive, called a DeRM (Destructive-Read Memory). As with other distribution ...