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A braindead nation: Black Summer and Trump's America (2021)
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Gaynor, S. (2021). A braindead nation: Black Summer and Trump's America. Revenant (Falmouth), 7, 246-271

America is teetering on a knife-edge of fascism, fueled by insidious social conservatism and questionable morality that has been festering for decades in the politics and culture of the United States. This article explores the deep concern expressed... Read More about A braindead nation: Black Summer and Trump's America.

Self-reported benefits for care partners of attending a person-centred dementia cafe (2021)
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Chesterton, L., Innes, A., Smith, S., & Morris, L. (2021). Self-reported benefits for care partners of attending a person-centred dementia cafe. International Journal of Care and Caring, 6(4), 586-603. https://doi.org/10.1332/239788221x16357690075748

Informal care partners of individuals with dementia are often referred to as the ‘invisible patient’, whose needs are under-represented in research. The physical, mental and emotional responsibilities of caring for someone with dementia can be both r... Read More about Self-reported benefits for care partners of attending a person-centred dementia cafe.

Mining text from natural scene and video images: A survey (2021)
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Shivakumara, P., Alaei, A., & Pal, U. (2021). Mining text from natural scene and video images: A survey. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 11(6), https://doi.org/10.1002/widm.1428

In computer terminology, mining is considered as extracting meaningful information or knowledge from a large amount of data/information using computers. The meaningful information can be extracted from normal text, and images obtained from different... Read More about Mining text from natural scene and video images: A survey.

A deep action-oriented video image classification system for text detection and recognition (2021)
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Chaudhuri, A., Shivakumara, P., Nath Chowdhury, P., Pal, U., Lu, T., Lopresti, D., & Hemantha Kumar, G. (2021). A deep action-oriented video image classification system for text detection and recognition. SN Applied Sciences, 3, Article 838. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42452-021-04821-z

For the video images with complex actions, achieving accurate text detection and recognition results is very challenging. This paper presents a hybrid model for classification of action-oriented video images which reduces the complexity of the proble... Read More about A deep action-oriented video image classification system for text detection and recognition.

Unsteady magnetohydrodynamic couple stress fluid flow from a shrinking porous sheet: Variational iteration method study (2021)
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Reddy, G. J., Hiremath, A., Kumar, M., Beg, O., & Kadir, A. (2022). Unsteady magnetohydrodynamic couple stress fluid flow from a shrinking porous sheet: Variational iteration method study. Heat Transfer, 51(2), 2219-2236. https://doi.org/10.1002/htj.22397

AbstractMotivated by magnetic polymer manufacturing applications, the present research article examines theoretically the hydromagnetic boundary layer flow of an electrically conducting non‐Newtonian couple stress fluid due to a transient shrinking (... Read More about Unsteady magnetohydrodynamic couple stress fluid flow from a shrinking porous sheet: Variational iteration method study.

How can UK housing projects be brought in line with net-zero carbon emission targets? (2021)
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Jankovic, L., Bharadwaj, P., & Carta, S. (2021). How can UK housing projects be brought in line with net-zero carbon emission targets?. Built Environment, 7, Article 754733. https://doi.org/10.3389/fbuil.2021.754733

Numerous local authorities are committed to constructing buildings to net-zero carbon emissions performance, and have declared carbon emergency, striving to reach carbon neutrality well before 2050. However, buildings in the UK are currently being de... Read More about How can UK housing projects be brought in line with net-zero carbon emission targets?.

Reduced-order modelling of parameterised incompressible and compressible unsteady flow problems using deep neural networks (2021)
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Sugar-Gabor, O. (2021). Reduced-order modelling of parameterised incompressible and compressible unsteady flow problems using deep neural networks. International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology, 66(1), 36-50. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJCAT.2021.119603

A non-intrusive reduced-order model for nonlinear parametric flow
problems is developed. It is based on extracting a reduced-order basis from
full-order snapshots via proper orthogonal decomposition and using both deep
and shallow neural network a... Read More about Reduced-order modelling of parameterised incompressible and compressible unsteady flow problems using deep neural networks.

Exploring female involvement in acts of terrorism and mass shootings : a systematic review (2021)
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Nicholson, D., & Allely, C. (2021). Exploring female involvement in acts of terrorism and mass shootings : a systematic review. Journal of Criminal Psychology, 11(4), 335-356. https://doi.org/10.1108/JCP-05-2021-0017

The primary objective of the present systematic review was: (1) To explore the current literature which assesses the incidence of completed or attempted mass shooting events in which a female party acted either alone or as an accomplice; (2) Explore... Read More about Exploring female involvement in acts of terrorism and mass shootings : a systematic review.

Love, desire, and problematic behaviors : exploring young adults’ smartphone use from a uses and gratifications perspective (2021)
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Vezzoli, M., Zogmaister, C., & Coen, S. (2021). Love, desire, and problematic behaviors : exploring young adults’ smartphone use from a uses and gratifications perspective. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000375

In light of the pervasive adoption of smartphones, scholars have explored the consequences of
problematic (i.e., excessive and uncontrolled) use of this technology. Studies have often shown that
individuals who spend much time using smartphones exp... Read More about Love, desire, and problematic behaviors : exploring young adults’ smartphone use from a uses and gratifications perspective.

Facile synthesis and biological evaluation of chrysin derivatives (2021)
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Omonga, N., Zia, Z., Ghanbour, H., Ragazzon-Smith, A., Foster, H., Hadfield, J., & Ragazzon, P. (2021). Facile synthesis and biological evaluation of chrysin derivatives. Journal of Chemical Research, 45(11-12), 1083-1092. https://doi.org/10.1177/17475198211057467

In this paper, novel synthetic methods, including microwave O-alkylation, were used to produce several chrysin derivatives. These compounds were purified, characterised and tested on different cell lines and bacterial strains. From this family, 7-(2,... Read More about Facile synthesis and biological evaluation of chrysin derivatives.

Wind tunnel measurements of the aerodynamic characteristics of a 3:2 rectangular cylinder including non-Gaussian and non-stationary features (2021)
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Nguyen, C., Nguyen, D., Owen, J., & Hargreaves, D. (2022). Wind tunnel measurements of the aerodynamic characteristics of a 3:2 rectangular cylinder including non-Gaussian and non-stationary features. Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, 220, 104826. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jweia.2021.104826

This paper presents a wind tunnel investigation of the aerodynamic characteristics (force and pressure coefficients) of a static 3:2 rectangular cylinder in smooth flow for angles of attack between and at various values of Reynolds number. In contr... Read More about Wind tunnel measurements of the aerodynamic characteristics of a 3:2 rectangular cylinder including non-Gaussian and non-stationary features.

Numerical study of time-dependent flow of immiscible Saffman dusty (fluid-particle suspension) and Eringen micropolar fluids in a duct with a modified cubic B-spline Differential Quadrature method (2021)
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Chandrawat, R., Joshi, V., & Beg, O. (2022). Numerical study of time-dependent flow of immiscible Saffman dusty (fluid-particle suspension) and Eringen micropolar fluids in a duct with a modified cubic B-spline Differential Quadrature method. International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, 130, 105758. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2021.105758

Immiscible flows arise in many diverse applications in mechanical, chemical, and environmental engineering.
Such flows involve interfacial conditions and often feature mass (species) diffusion. Motivated by applications in non-Newtonian duct process... Read More about Numerical study of time-dependent flow of immiscible Saffman dusty (fluid-particle suspension) and Eringen micropolar fluids in a duct with a modified cubic B-spline Differential Quadrature method.

Heat transfer and entropy generation analysis of water-Fe3O4/CNT hybrid magnetic nanofluid flow in a trapezoidal wavy enclosure containing porous media with the Galerkin finite element method (2021)
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Al-Kouz, W., Abderrahmane, A., Shamshuddin, M., Younis, O., Mohammed, S., Beg, O., & Toghraie, D. (2021). Heat transfer and entropy generation analysis of water-Fe3O4/CNT hybrid magnetic nanofluid flow in a trapezoidal wavy enclosure containing porous media with the Galerkin finite element method. European Physical Journal Plus, 136(11), 1184. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-021-02192-3

The present study addresses theoretically and computationally the performance of electrically
conducting water-Fe3O4/CNT hybrid nanofluid in three-dimensional natural convective heat transfer
and entropy generation within a wavy-walled trapezoidal... Read More about Heat transfer and entropy generation analysis of water-Fe3O4/CNT hybrid magnetic nanofluid flow in a trapezoidal wavy enclosure containing porous media with the Galerkin finite element method.

Comparisons of core temperature between a telemetric pill and heart rate estimated core temperature in firefighters (2021)
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Pearson, S., Highlands, B., Jones, R., & Matthews, M. (2021). Comparisons of core temperature between a telemetric pill and heart rate estimated core temperature in firefighters. Safety and Health at Work, 13(1), 99-103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shaw.2021.11.003

Background:
Firefighters may experience high environmental temperatures or carry out intensive physical tasks, or both, which leads to increased core body temperature and risk of fatalities. Hence there is a need to remotely and non-invasively monit... Read More about Comparisons of core temperature between a telemetric pill and heart rate estimated core temperature in firefighters.

IoT data quality issues and potential solutions : a literature review (2021)
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Mansouri, T., Sadeghi Moghadam, M., Monshizadeh, F., & Zareravasan, A. (2021). IoT data quality issues and potential solutions : a literature review. Computer Journal, https://doi.org/10.1093/comjnl/bxab183

In the Internet of Things (IoT), data gathered from dozens of devices are the base for creating business value and developing new products and services. If data are of poor quality, decisions are likely to be non-sense. Data quality is crucial to gai... Read More about IoT data quality issues and potential solutions : a literature review.

IoT data quality issues and potential solutions: a literature review (2021)
Journal Article
Mansouri, T., Moghadam, M., Monshizadeh, F., & Zareravasan, A. (2021). IoT data quality issues and potential solutions: a literature review. Computer Journal, https://doi.org/10.1093/comjnl/bxab183

In the Internet of Things (IoT), data gathered from dozens of devices are the base for creating business value and developing new products and services. If data are of poor quality, decisions are likely to be non-sense. Data quality is crucial to gai... Read More about IoT data quality issues and potential solutions: a literature review.

The effectiveness of online platforms after the pandemic : will face-to-face classes affect students’ perception of their Behavioural Intention (BIU) to use online platforms? (2021)
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Al-Maroof, R., Alnazzawi, N., Akour, I., Ayoubi, K., Alhumaid, K., AlAhbabi, N., …Salloum, S. (2021). The effectiveness of online platforms after the pandemic : will face-to-face classes affect students’ perception of their Behavioural Intention (BIU) to use online platforms?. Informatics, 8(4), e83. https://doi.org/10.3390/informatics8040083

The purpose of this study is to investigate students’ intention to continue using online learning platforms during face-to-face traditional classes in a way that is parallel to their usage during online virtual classes (during the pandemic). This inv... Read More about The effectiveness of online platforms after the pandemic : will face-to-face classes affect students’ perception of their Behavioural Intention (BIU) to use online platforms?.

Hall and ion‐slip effects on nanofluid transport from a vertical surface: Buongiorno's model (2021)
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Reddy, P., Gaffar, S., Beg, O., & Khan, M. (2022). Hall and ion‐slip effects on nanofluid transport from a vertical surface: Buongiorno's model. ZAMM, 102(3), e202000174. https://doi.org/10.1002/zamm.202000174

AbstractThe non‐linear, non‐isothermal, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) laminar convection flows of Buongiorno's nanofluid past a vertical surface with Darcy‐Forchheimer model is mathematically investigated in the present article. Keller's Box implicit fin... Read More about Hall and ion‐slip effects on nanofluid transport from a vertical surface: Buongiorno's model.

EEG alpha and theta signatures of socially and non-socially cued working memory in virtual reality (2021)
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Gregory, S., Wang, H., & Kessler, K. (2021). EEG alpha and theta signatures of socially and non-socially cued working memory in virtual reality. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 17(6), 531-540. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsab123

In this preregistered study (https://osf.io/s4rm9) we investigated the behavioural and neurological (EEG; alpha (attention) and theta (effort)) effects of dynamic non-predictive social and non-social cues on working memory. In a virtual environment r... Read More about EEG alpha and theta signatures of socially and non-socially cued working memory in virtual reality.