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Security of Streaming Media Communications with Logistic Map and Self-Adaptive Detection-Based Steganography (2019)
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Peng, J., Jiang, Y., Tang, S., & Meziane, F. (2021). Security of Streaming Media Communications with Logistic Map and Self-Adaptive Detection-Based Steganography. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 18(4), 1962-1973. https://doi.org/10.1109/TDSC.2019.2946138

Voice over IP (VoIP) is finding its way into several applications, but its security concerns still remain. This paper shows how a new self-adaptive steganographic method can ensure the security of covert VoIP communications over the Internet. In th... Read More about Security of Streaming Media Communications with Logistic Map and Self-Adaptive Detection-Based Steganography.

Normalization of early isometric force production as a percentage of peak force during multijoint isometric assessment (2019)
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Comfort, P., Dos’Santos, T., Jones, P., McMahon, J., Suchomel, T., Bazyler, C., & Stone, M. (2020). Normalization of early isometric force production as a percentage of peak force during multijoint isometric assessment. International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance, 15(4), 478-482. https://doi.org/10.1123/ijspp.2019-0217

Purpose: To determine the reliability of early force production (50-, 100-, 150-, 200-, 250 ms) relative to peak force (PF) during an isometric mid-thigh pull (IMTP) and assess the relationships between these variables. Methods: Male collegiate athle... Read More about Normalization of early isometric force production as a percentage of peak force during multijoint isometric assessment.

Communities as ‘renewable energy’ for health care services? A multi-methods study into the form, scale, and role of voluntary support for community hospitals in England (2019)
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Paine, A., Kamerade-Hanta, D., Mohan, J., & Davidson, D. (2019). Communities as ‘renewable energy’ for health care services? A multi-methods study into the form, scale, and role of voluntary support for community hospitals in England. BMJ Open, 9(10), https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-030243

Objective To examine the forms, scale and role of community and voluntary support for community hospitals in England. Design A multi-methods study. Quantitative analysis of Charity Commission data on levels of volunteering and voluntary income fo... Read More about Communities as ‘renewable energy’ for health care services? A multi-methods study into the form, scale, and role of voluntary support for community hospitals in England.

Prevalence of intestinal parasitic infections among university female students, Gaza, Palestine (2019)
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Al-Hindi, A., Redwan, A., El-Egla, G., Abu Qassem, R., & Alshammari, A. (2019). Prevalence of intestinal parasitic infections among university female students, Gaza, Palestine. Avicenna Journal of Medicine, 9(4), 143-147. https://doi.org/10.4103/ajm.AJM_8_19

The intestinal parasites are still endemic among children, women, and men in Gaza Strip. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study of intestinal parasites among young female students of Islamic University of Gaza to report the existence a... Read More about Prevalence of intestinal parasitic infections among university female students, Gaza, Palestine.

Not going with the flow : locomotor activity does not constrain immunity in a wild fish (2019)
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Masud, N., Synnott, R., Hablützel, P., Friberg, I., Cable, J., & Jackson, J. (2019). Not going with the flow : locomotor activity does not constrain immunity in a wild fish. Ecology and Evolution, 9(21), 12089-12098. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5658

Immunity is a central component of fitness in wild animals, but its determinants are poorly understood. In particular, the importance of locomotory activity as a constraint on immunity is unresolved. Using a piscine model (Gasterosteus aculeatus) we... Read More about Not going with the flow : locomotor activity does not constrain immunity in a wild fish.

Planning for climate change impacts : coastal tourism destination resilience policies (2019)
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Jarratt, D., & Davies, N. (2020). Planning for climate change impacts : coastal tourism destination resilience policies. Tourism Planning and Development, 17(4), 423-440. https://doi.org/10.1080/21568316.2019.1667861

Coastal tourism is a vital part of the world economy bit also facilitates access to “blue spaces” – this offers significant health benefits to populations and shapes our relationship with the coast. At present, climate change impacts on the coast, su... Read More about Planning for climate change impacts : coastal tourism destination resilience policies.

Whatever happened to the Westminster Model? The 'Italianisation' of British politics (2019)
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Bull, M. (2019). Whatever happened to the Westminster Model? The 'Italianisation' of British politics

The UK was once viewed by political scientists as embodying a distinct majoritarian form of politics – the ‘Westminster Model’ – that stood in contrast to the ‘consensus’ democracies found elsewhere in Europe. Several of the countries in the latter g... Read More about Whatever happened to the Westminster Model? The 'Italianisation' of British politics.

The symbiotic relationship of vulnerability and resilience in nursing (2019)
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East, L., Heaslip, V., & Jackson, D. (2019). The symbiotic relationship of vulnerability and resilience in nursing. Contemporary Nurse, 56(1), 14-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/10376178.2019.1670709

Background: Whilst the terms vulnerability and resilience are commonly used within professional nursing discourses, they are often poorly understood. Vulnerability is often framed negatively and linked to being at risk of harm, whilst resilience is o... Read More about The symbiotic relationship of vulnerability and resilience in nursing.

Performance enhancement of asphalt patch repair with innovative heating strategy (2019)
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Byzyka, J., Rahman, M., Chamberlain, D., & Malieva, M. (2019). Performance enhancement of asphalt patch repair with innovative heating strategy. Proceedings of the ICE - Transport, 175(5), 300-309. https://doi.org/10.1680/jtran.19.00007

The advantage of controlled preheating of excavated asphalt surface prior to hot mix asphalt patch repair, referred as “dynamic repair”, is presented in this paper. The heating effects are compared against traditional repair, referred as “static repa... Read More about Performance enhancement of asphalt patch repair with innovative heating strategy.

Adomian decomposition method simulation of Von Kármán swirling bioconvection nanofluid flow (2019)
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swirling bioconvection nanofluid flow. Journal of Central South University, 26(10), 2797-2813. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11771-019-4214-4

The study reveals analytically on the 3-dimensional viscous time-dependent gyrotactic bioconvection in swirling nanofluid flow past from a rotating disk. It is known that the deformation of the disk is along the radial direction. In addition to tha... Read More about Adomian decomposition method simulation of Von Kármán swirling bioconvection nanofluid flow.

Mental health, big data and research ethics : parity of esteem in mental health research from a UK perspective (2019)
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Morton, J., & O'Reilly, M. (2019). Mental health, big data and research ethics : parity of esteem in mental health research from a UK perspective. Clinical Ethics, 14(4), 165-172. https://doi.org/10.1177/1477750919876243

Central to ethical debates in contemporary mental health research are the rhetoric of parity of esteem, challenges underpinned by the social construct of vulnerability, and the tendency to homogenise the population diagnosed with mental health condit... Read More about Mental health, big data and research ethics : parity of esteem in mental health research from a UK perspective.

Fire-setting and psychopathology : a brief overview of prevalence, pathways and assessment (2019)
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Allely, C. (2019). Fire-setting and psychopathology : a brief overview of prevalence, pathways and assessment. Journal of Criminal Psychology, 9(4), 149-154. https://doi.org/10.1108/JCP-06-2019-0022

Purpose: There is increasing attention on investigating the association between fire-setting and psychopathology and also the degree to which fire-setting is a manifestation of mental disorder. Despite the actual prevalence of pyromania remaining elu... Read More about Fire-setting and psychopathology : a brief overview of prevalence, pathways and assessment.

Analysis of entropy generation in biomimetic electroosmotic nanofluid pumping through a curved channel with Joule dissipation (2019)
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channel with Joule dissipation. Thermal Science and Engineering Progress, 15, 100424. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsep.2019.100424

Biomimetic designs are increasingly filtering into new areas of technology in recent years. Such systems exploit characteristics intrinsic to nature to achieve enhanced adaptivity and efficiency in engineering applications. Peristaltic propulsion is... Read More about Analysis of entropy generation in biomimetic electroosmotic nanofluid pumping through a curved channel with Joule dissipation.

The theory and application of Navier-Stokeslets (NSlets) (2019)
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Chadwick, E. (2019). The theory and application of Navier-Stokeslets (NSlets). Physics of Fluids, 31(10), 107103. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5119331

Consider a closed body moving in an unbounded fluid that decays to rest in the far-field and governed by the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. By considering a translating reference frame, this is equivalent to a uniform flow past the body. A... Read More about The theory and application of Navier-Stokeslets (NSlets).

A methodology for ontology reuse : the case of the abdominal ultrasound ontology (2019)
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Zulkarnain, N., & Meziane, F. (2019). A methodology for ontology reuse : the case of the abdominal ultrasound ontology. International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies, 15(4), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.4018/IJIIT.2019100101

There are abundance of existing biomedical ontologies such as the National Cancer Institute Thesaurus (NCIT), the Foundational Model of Anatomy (FMA) and the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine-Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT). Implementing these ontol... Read More about A methodology for ontology reuse : the case of the abdominal ultrasound ontology.

Complex associations between cross-kingdom microbial endophytes and host genotype in ash dieback disease dynamics (2019)
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Griffiths, S., Galambao, M., Rowntree, J., Goodhead, I., Hall, J., O'Brien, D., …Antwis, R. (2020). Complex associations between cross-kingdom microbial endophytes and host genotype in ash dieback disease dynamics. Journal of Ecology, 108(1), 291-309. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13302

Tree pathogens are a major threat to forest ecosystems. Conservation management strategies can exploit natural mechanisms of resistance, such as tree genotype and host‐associated microbial communities. However, fungal and bacterial communities are ra... Read More about Complex associations between cross-kingdom microbial endophytes and host genotype in ash dieback disease dynamics.

‘It's our pleasure, we count cars here’ : an exploration of the ‘neighbourhood-based connections’ for people living alone with dementia (2019)
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Odzakovic, E., Kullberg, A., Hellström, I., Clark, A., Campbell, S., Manji, K., …Ward, R. (2021). ‘It's our pleasure, we count cars here’ : an exploration of the ‘neighbourhood-based connections’ for people living alone with dementia. Ageing and society, 41(3), 645-670. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X19001259

The extent of social isolation experienced by people living with dementia who reside in the community has been well acknowledged, yet little is known about how people living alone with dementia maintain neighbourhood-based connections. The purpose of... Read More about ‘It's our pleasure, we count cars here’ : an exploration of the ‘neighbourhood-based connections’ for people living alone with dementia.

Melting curve and phase diagram of vanadium under high-pressure and high-temperature conditions (2019)
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Errandonea, D., Macleod, S., Burakovsky, L., Santamaria-Perez, D., Proctor, J., Cynn, H., & Mezouar, M. (2019). Melting curve and phase diagram of vanadium under high-pressure and high-temperature conditions. Physical Review B, 100(9), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.100.094111

We report a combined experimental and theoretical study of the melting curve and the structural behavior of vanadium under extreme pressure and temperature. We performed powder x-ray diffraction experiments up to 120 GPa and 4000 K, determining th... Read More about Melting curve and phase diagram of vanadium under high-pressure and high-temperature conditions.