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Learning from accidents : machine learning for safety at railway stations (2019)
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Alawad, H., Kaewunruen, S., & An, M. (2020). Learning from accidents : machine learning for safety at railway stations. IEEE Access, 8(1), 633-648. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2962072

In railway systems, station safety is a critical aspect of the overall structure, and yet, accidents at stations still occur. It is time to learn from these errors and improve conventional methods by utilizing the latest technology, such as machine l... Read More about Learning from accidents : machine learning for safety at railway stations.

Can the anode heel effect be used to optimise radiation dose and image quality for AP pelvis radiography? (2019)
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Introduction:

A study was conducted to determine whether the anode heel effect can be used to influence optimisation of radiation dose and image quality (IQ) for AP pelvis radiography.

Methods:

ATOM dosimetry phantom and an anthropomorp... Read More about Can the anode heel effect be used to optimise radiation dose and image quality for AP pelvis radiography?.

Numerical simulation of thermal radiation influence on natural convection in a trapezoidal enclosure : heat flow visualization through energy flux vectors (2019)
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Venkatadri, K., Beg, O., Rajarajeswar, P., & Prasad, V. (2020). Numerical simulation of thermal radiation influence on natural convection in a trapezoidal enclosure : heat flow visualization through energy flux vectors. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 171, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2019.105391

A theoretical and numerical study of natural convection intwo-dimensional laminar
incompressible flow in a trapezoidal enclosurein the presence of thermal radiation is conducted,
motivated by energy systems applications. Heat flow visualization via... Read More about Numerical simulation of thermal radiation influence on natural convection in a trapezoidal enclosure : heat flow visualization through energy flux vectors.

Concurrent validity of two-dimensional video analysis of lower-extremity frontal plane of movement during multidirectional single-leg landing (2019)
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Objectives: Establish the concurrent validity between 2D video analysis and 3D motion analysis of frontal plane lower limb movements during multidirectional landing tasks.

Design: Correlation study

Setting: University Biomechanics laboratory... Read More about Concurrent validity of two-dimensional video analysis of lower-extremity frontal plane of movement during multidirectional single-leg landing.

Environmental drivers of sediment carbon storage in temperate seagrass meadows (2019)
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Do Amaral Camara Lima, M., Ward, R., & Joyce, C. (2020). Environmental drivers of sediment carbon storage in temperate seagrass meadows. Hydrobiologia, 847, 1773-1792. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-019-04153-5

Seagrass meadows are productive ecosystems that contribute to climate change mitigation by accumulating ‘Blue Carbon’ in their plant biomass and sediments. However, there is wide variation in reported sediment carbon stocks (Cstocks) across different... Read More about Environmental drivers of sediment carbon storage in temperate seagrass meadows.

Energy transfer in Cr and Nd co-doped Si-B-Na-Al-Ca-Zr-O glasses (2019)
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Cr and Nd co-doped glasses are potential gain media for solar pumped lasers (SPLs). Tanabe-Sugano analysis
shows that Cr doped Si-B-Na-Al-Ca-Zr-O (SBNACZ) glass contains a mixture of Cr3+ with octahedral coordination and Cr6+with unknown coordinatio... Read More about Energy transfer in Cr and Nd co-doped Si-B-Na-Al-Ca-Zr-O glasses.

Biomechanical determinants of the modified and traditional 505 change of direction speed test (2019)
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DosʼSantos, T., McBurnie, A., Thomas, C., Comfort, P., & Jones, P. (2020). Biomechanical determinants of the modified and traditional 505 change of direction speed test. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 34(5), 1285-1296. https://doi.org/10.1519/JSC.0000000000003439

The aim of this study was to investigate the whole-body biomechanical determinants of 180° change of direction (COD) performance. Sixty-one male athletes (age: 20.7 ± 3.8 years, height: 1.77 ± 0.06 m, mass: 74.7 ± 10.0 kg) from multiple sports (socce... Read More about Biomechanical determinants of the modified and traditional 505 change of direction speed test.

Experimental investigation on liquefaction and post-liquefaction deformation of stratified saturated sand under cyclic loading (2019)
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The soils are often distributed in a stratified structure. When an earthquake occurs, there are always risks of liquefaction for stratified soils which can cause serious consequences. The research aims to investigate the liquefaction and post-liquefa... Read More about Experimental investigation on liquefaction and post-liquefaction deformation of stratified saturated sand under cyclic loading.

A fuzzy evidential reasoning-based approach for risk assessment of deep foundation pit (2019)
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Traditional risk assessment methods, such as the probabilistic methods, are not effectively used in the construction works of a deep foundation pit (DFP) when data set collected are incomplete or vague input takes place. A new method based on fuzzy e... Read More about A fuzzy evidential reasoning-based approach for risk assessment of deep foundation pit.

Peer support for undergraduate children’s nursing students (2019)
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Background and objective: The provision of appropriate ‘pastoral’ support for nursing students is acknowledged to be problematic for a variety of reasons, (time constraints, staffing levels, unmanageable workloads). The need to initiate and access mo... Read More about Peer support for undergraduate children’s nursing students.

Effects of a hovering Unmanned Aerial Vehicle on urban soundscapes perception (2019)
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Torija Martinez, A., Zhengguang, L., & Self, R. (2020). Effects of a hovering Unmanned Aerial Vehicle on urban soundscapes perception. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 78, 102195. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2019.11.024

Several industry leaders and governmental agencies are currently investigating the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), or ‘drones’ as commonly known, for an ever-growing number of applications from blue light services to parcel delivery. For the... Read More about Effects of a hovering Unmanned Aerial Vehicle on urban soundscapes perception.

How accuracy of foot-placement is affected by the size of the base of support and crutch support in stroke survivors and healthy adults (2019)
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Background
The high prevalence of falls due to trips and slips following stroke may signify difficulty controlling balance and adjusting foot-placement in response to the environment. We know very little about how controlling foot-placement is affec... Read More about How accuracy of foot-placement is affected by the size of the base of support and crutch support in stroke survivors and healthy adults.

Echo state network optimization using binary grey wolf algorithm (2019)
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Liu, J., Sun, T., Luo, Y., Yang, S., Cao, Y., & Zhai, J. (2020). Echo state network optimization using binary grey wolf algorithm. Neurocomputing, 385, 310-318. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2019.12.069

The echo state network (ESN) is a powerful recurrent neural network for time series modelling. ESN inherits the simplified structure and relatively straightforward training process of conventional neural networks, and shows strong computational capab... Read More about Echo state network optimization using binary grey wolf algorithm.

Nonlinear dynamics of coupled transverse-rotational waves in granular chains (2019)
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Zhang, Q., Umnova, O., & Venegas, R. (2019). Nonlinear dynamics of coupled transverse-rotational waves in granular chains. Physical Review E, 100(6), 062206. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.100.062206

The nonlinear dynamics of coupled waves in one-dimensional granular chains with and without a substrate
is theoretically studied accounting for quadratic nonlinearity. The multiple time scale method is used to derive
the nonlinear dispersion relati... Read More about Nonlinear dynamics of coupled transverse-rotational waves in granular chains.

Lemn Sissay, My name is why : a memoir (2019)
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This is a review of Lemn Sissay's memoir of growing up in care

The importance of considering trauma in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder : considerations and clinical recommendations (2019)
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Purpose
The area of trauma in autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) is an important area given the substantial rates of abuse endured by these individuals. However, there are issues with the identification of trauma, understanding how it is perceived, a... Read More about The importance of considering trauma in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder : considerations and clinical recommendations.

EBNO: Evolution of cost‐sensitive Bayesian networks (2019)
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Nashnush, E., & VADERA, S. (2020). EBNO: Evolution of cost‐sensitive Bayesian networks. Expert Systems, 37(3), e12495. https://doi.org/10.1111/exsy.12495

The last decade has seen an increase in the attention paid to the development of cost sensitive learning algorithms that
aim to minimize misclassification costs while still maintaining accuracy. Most of this attention has been on cost sensitive
dec... Read More about EBNO: Evolution of cost‐sensitive Bayesian networks.

Behavioural responses in a congested sea : an observational study on a coastal nest-guarding fish (2019)
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The deleterious effects of anthropogenic noise on animal communication are nowadays recognised, not only in urban environments but also in terrestrial habitats and along coasts and in open waters. Yet, the assessment of short- and long-term exposure... Read More about Behavioural responses in a congested sea : an observational study on a coastal nest-guarding fish.

Immune checkpoints in circulating and tumor-Infiltrating CD4 + T Cell Subsets in Colorectal cancer patients (2019)
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Toor, S., Murshed, K., Al-Dhaheri, M., Khawar, M., Abu Nada, M., & Elkord, E. (2019). Immune checkpoints in circulating and tumor-Infiltrating CD4 + T Cell Subsets in Colorectal cancer patients. Frontiers in Immunology, 10, 2936. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2019.02936

Blockade of inhibitory immune checkpoints (ICs) is a promising therapeutic approach; however, it has shown limited success in some cancers including colorectal cancer (CRC). The tumor microenvironment (TME) is largely responsible for response to ther... Read More about Immune checkpoints in circulating and tumor-Infiltrating CD4 + T Cell Subsets in Colorectal cancer patients.

Multi-omics analysis of multiple missions to space reveal a theme of lipid dysregulation in mouse liver (2019)
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Spaceflight has several detrimental effects on the physiology of astronauts, many of which are recapitulated in rodent models. Mouse studies performed on the Space Shuttle showed disruption of lipid metabolism in liver. However, given that these anim... Read More about Multi-omics analysis of multiple missions to space reveal a theme of lipid dysregulation in mouse liver.