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Peace with a capital P : the spectre of communism and competing notions of ‘Peace’ in Britain, 1949–1960 (2017)
Journal Article
Barnett, N., & Smith, E. (2017). Peace with a capital P : the spectre of communism and competing notions of ‘Peace’ in Britain, 1949–1960. Labour History Review, 82(1), 51-76. https://doi.org/10.3828/lhr.2017.3

This article is concerned with different factions within the British peace movement during the 1950s and early 1960s, each of which gave the word ‘peace’ a different meaning. We argue that the movement was made up of several, often contradictory sect... Read More about Peace with a capital P : the spectre of communism and competing notions of ‘Peace’ in Britain, 1949–1960.

Consumer privacy protection in digital right management: A survey (2017)
Journal Article
Mostafa, A., Gaber, T., Eltaweel, G., & Abraham, A. (2017). Consumer privacy protection in digital right management: A survey. International journal of computer information systems and industrial management applications, 9, 218-231

Digital Right Management (DRM) is a technology used to manage the usage of the digital contentsthat distributed through the Internet, and helps the content owners to prevent un-authorized use of theircopyrighted content. Ho... Read More about Consumer privacy protection in digital right management: A survey.

Linear discriminant analysis : a detailed tutorial (2017)
Journal Article
Gaber, T., Tharwat, A., Ibrahim, A., & Hassanien, A. (2017). Linear discriminant analysis : a detailed tutorial. Ai communications : the European journal on artificial intelligence, 30(2), 169-190. https://doi.org/10.3233/AIC-170729

Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) is a very common technique for dimensionality reduction problems as a preprocessing step for machine learning and pattern classification applications. At the same time, it is usually used as a black box, but (so... Read More about Linear discriminant analysis : a detailed tutorial.

Privacy-preserving Twitter-based solution for visually impaired people (2017)
Journal Article
Ahmed, D., Gaber, T., & Wahed, M. (2017). Privacy-preserving Twitter-based solution for visually impaired people. International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, 8(7), https://doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2017.080770

Visually impaired people is a big community all over the world. They usually seek help to perform their daily activities such as reading the expired date of food cans or medicine, reading out PIN of a certain ATM Visa, identifying the color of clothe... Read More about Privacy-preserving Twitter-based solution for visually impaired people.

Trust-based security models in wireless sensor networks: a survey (2017)
Journal Article
Abdelwahab, S., Gaber, T., & Wahed, M. (2017). Trust-based security models in wireless sensor networks: a survey. International Journal of Computational Intelligence Studies, 6(2/3), 245. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJCISTUDIES.2017.089057

One of the major challenges facing wireless sensor networks today is the security. The deployment of sensor nodes is usually done in unattended or hostile environment. This makes the networks susceptible to various threats. It is known that sensor no... Read More about Trust-based security models in wireless sensor networks: a survey.

Pilot study comparing closed versus open tracheal suctioning in postoperative neonates and infants with complex congenital heart disease (2017)
Journal Article
infants with complex congenital heart disease. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 18(7), 647-654. https://doi.org/10.1097/PCC.0000000000001192

Objectives: To determine the hemodynamic effect of tracheal suction method in the first 36 hours after high-risk infant heart surgery on the PICU and to compare open and closed suctioning techniques. Design: Pilot randomized crossover study. Sett... Read More about Pilot study comparing closed versus open tracheal suctioning in postoperative neonates and infants with complex congenital heart disease.

Archaeological evaluation : New High School, Matthews Lane, Gorton, Manchester (2017)
Report
Cattell, S. (2017). Archaeological evaluation : New High School, Matthews Lane, Gorton, Manchester

In February 2017, Salford Archaeology was commissioned by Laing O’Rourke to undertake an archaeological evaluation on land located adjacent to Matthews Lane, Gorton, Manchester (centred on NGR SJ 87861 95024). The Site Area comprises an open space... Read More about Archaeological evaluation : New High School, Matthews Lane, Gorton, Manchester.

Recycled aggregates from construction and demolition waste in the production of concrete blocks (2017)
Journal Article
Ferriz-Papi, J., & Thomas, S. (2017). Recycled aggregates from construction and demolition waste in the production of concrete blocks. World academy of engineering and technology, 11(10), 1397-1402. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1132449

The construction industry generates large amounts of waste, usually mixed, which can be composed of different origin materials, most of them catalogued as non-hazardous. The European Union targets for this waste for 2020 have been already achieved by... Read More about Recycled aggregates from construction and demolition waste in the production of concrete blocks.

Procedure for impact testing of fused recycled glass (2017)
Journal Article
Halley, D., Oseng-Rees, T., Pagano, L., & Ferriz-Papi, J. (2017). Procedure for impact testing of fused recycled glass. World academy of engineering and technology, 10(11), 701-706

Recycled glass material is made from 100% recycled bottle glass and consumes less energy than re-melt technology. It also uses no additives in the manufacturing process allowing the recycled glass material, in principal, to go back to the recycling s... Read More about Procedure for impact testing of fused recycled glass.

Particle Swarm Optimization : a tutorial (2017)
Book Chapter
Tharwat, A., Gaber, T., Hassanien, A., & Elnaghi, B. (2017). Particle Swarm Optimization : a tutorial. In T. Gaber, & A. Hassanien (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Machine Learning Innovations and Trends (614-635). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2229-4.ch026

Optimization algorithms are necessary to solve many problems such as parameter tuning. Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is one of these optimization algorithms. The aim of PSO is to search for the optimal solution in the search space. This paper hig... Read More about Particle Swarm Optimization : a tutorial.

Operation Wallacea - Cusuco National Park, Honduras 2016 & 2017 : end of season report (2017)
Report
Gilroy, D., Jones, S., Vulinec, K., Thompson, P., Hoskins, H., Creedy, T., …Brown, T. (2017). Operation Wallacea - Cusuco National Park, Honduras 2016 & 2017 : end of season report

This end of season report is submitted as a review of the summer 2016-2017 seasons and the research activities of the Operation Wallacea research teams in Cusuco National Park over the course of the two summers. This report contains a summary of th... Read More about Operation Wallacea - Cusuco National Park, Honduras 2016 & 2017 : end of season report.

Tory ideology and social policy under Theresa May : current and future directions (2017)
Journal Article
Williams, B. (2017). Tory ideology and social policy under Theresa May : current and future directions. Renewal, 25(3-4),

Theresa May has sought to construct a distinctive social policy offering during her time as Prime Minister, but remains stymied by a toxic combination of triangulation and austerity. Labour must demonstrate the vacuity and incoherence at the heart of... Read More about Tory ideology and social policy under Theresa May : current and future directions.

Terrorism, tourism and religious travellers (2017)
Journal Article
Chowdhury, A., Razaq, R., Griffin, K., & Clarke, A. (2017). Terrorism, tourism and religious travellers. International journal of religious tourism and pilgrimage, 5(1), Article 3. https://doi.org/10.21427/D7VC7D

Curiously, while tourism is cited as the world’s largest industry (UNWTO, 2016), it is simultaneously a fragile industry that is highly vulnerable to the impact of the ongoing threat of terrorism. Internationally, terrorism influences the tourist min... Read More about Terrorism, tourism and religious travellers.

The Effectiveness of the Jones/Davis Type By-Catch Reduction Device (BRD) to reduce unintended catch of trawl fisheries (2017)
Journal Article
Prasetyo, A., Purwoko, R., & Antoro, H. (2017). The Effectiveness of the Jones/Davis Type By-Catch Reduction Device (BRD) to reduce unintended catch of trawl fisheries. https://doi.org/10.13170/ajas.2.2.6860

Reduction by-catch of commercial fishing is become a major concern, especially prawn trawl fisheries. By-catch reduction device developed to address that issue. However, there were trade-off problems regarding the implementation the BRD in trawl fi... Read More about The Effectiveness of the Jones/Davis Type By-Catch Reduction Device (BRD) to reduce unintended catch of trawl fisheries.