All Outputs (4021)

Taxing Gambling Machines to Enhance Tourism (2020)
Journal Article

Gambling machines are a key component of global gambling tourism. The taxation of these machines is a highly controversial area of policy debate involving tensions between industry profitability, economic growth and government revenue. We present the... Read More about Taxing Gambling Machines to Enhance Tourism.

Sustainable Conversion of Carbon Dioxide into Diverse Hydrocarbon Fuels via Molten Salt Electrolysis (2020)
Journal Article

© 2020 American Chemical Society. In recent decades, the unlimited use of fossil fuels mostly for power generation has emitted a huge amount of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere which in return has led to global warming. Here we use green technology... Read More about Sustainable Conversion of Carbon Dioxide into Diverse Hydrocarbon Fuels via Molten Salt Electrolysis.

Posture, movement, and aircraft passengers: An investigation into factors influencing in-flight discomfort (2020)
Journal Article

BACKGROUND: Aircraft passengers’ physical activity levels are often limited during flight for extended periods of time, which can have serious impact on health, comfort, and passenger experience. However, several factors, such as limited personal spa... Read More about Posture, movement, and aircraft passengers: An investigation into factors influencing in-flight discomfort.

The government’s responses to incompatibility challenges to women: the case studies of Hong Kong and Taiwan (2020)
Journal Article

International organizations such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank raise concerns about the financial sustainability issues of pension systems. These issues have attracted increasing attention because of the challenges presented b... Read More about The government’s responses to incompatibility challenges to women: the case studies of Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Psychometric Evaluation of the Persian Version of the Childbirth Experience Questionnaire (CEQ) (2020)
Journal Article

Women's childbirth experience is an outcome indicator for evaluating maternity care. This study evaluated the psychometric properties of the Persian version of the Childbirth Experience Questionnaire (P-CEQ). The study recruited two hundred and fifty... Read More about Psychometric Evaluation of the Persian Version of the Childbirth Experience Questionnaire (CEQ).

OptiSens—Convex optimization of sensor and actuator placement for ultrasonic guided-wave based structural health monitoring (2020)
Journal Article

This paper presents OptiSens, a computational platform in Python and Matlab, that provides optimal sensor and actuator configurations for structural health monitoring applications using ultrasonic guided-waves. This software formulates a convex entro... Read More about OptiSens—Convex optimization of sensor and actuator placement for ultrasonic guided-wave based structural health monitoring.

Heterogeneous Multi-Rate mass transfer models in OPENFOAM® (2020)
Journal Article

© 2020 Elsevier B.V. We implement the Multi-Rate Mass Transfer (MRMT) model for mobile–immobile transport in porous media (Haggerty and Gorelick, 1995; Municchi and Icardi, 2019 [1]) within the open-source finite volume library OPENFOAM® (Foundation,... Read More about Heterogeneous Multi-Rate mass transfer models in OPENFOAM®.

Evaluating cortical responses to speech in children: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) study (2020)
Journal Article

Functional neuroimaging of speech processing has both research and clinical potential. This work is facilitating an ever-increasing understanding of the complex neural mechanisms involved in the processing of speech. Neural correlates of speech under... Read More about Evaluating cortical responses to speech in children: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) study.

Investigating the motivations and constraints of Chinese peer-to-peer accommodation hosts (2020)
Journal Article

Purpose – This research aims to identify peer-to-peer (P2P) accommodation hosts’ perceived motivations and constraints, to examine the prediction of the motivation and constraint factors on hosts’ intention to continue business based on hosts’ attitu... Read More about Investigating the motivations and constraints of Chinese peer-to-peer accommodation hosts.

The influence of surface charge on the coalescence of ice and dust particles in the mesosphere (2020)
Working Paper

Agglomeration of charged ice and dust particles in the mesosphere is studied using a classical electrostatic approach, which is extended to capture the induced polarisation of surface charge. Collision outcomes are predicted whilst varying particle s... Read More about The influence of surface charge on the coalescence of ice and dust particles in the mesosphere.

David Rooney, Spaces of Congestion and Traffic: Politics and Technologies in Twentieth-Century London (2020)
Journal Article

Physical inactivity and health inequality during coronavirus: a novel opportunity or total lockdown? (2020)
Journal Article

Government-restricted movement during the coronavirus pandemic in various countries around the world has led to rapid and fundamental changes in our health behaviour. As well as being at a higher risk of contracting and being hospitalised with COVID-... Read More about Physical inactivity and health inequality during coronavirus: a novel opportunity or total lockdown?.

Additional opinions and judicial diversity at the International Court of Justice: a research methodology (2020)
Book Chapter

Adaptive regularisation for ensemble Kalman inversion (2020)
Journal Article

We propose a new regularisation strategy for the classical ensemble Kalman inversion (EKI) framework. The strategy consists of: (i) an adaptive choice for the regularisation parameter in the update formula in EKI, and (ii) criteria for the early stop... Read More about Adaptive regularisation for ensemble Kalman inversion.

Machine learning can predict disease manifestations and outcomes in lymphangioleiomyomatosis (2020)
Journal Article

Background: Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) is a rare multisystem disease with variable clinical manifestations and differing rates of progression that make management decisions and giving prognostic advice difficult. We used machine learning to ident... Read More about Machine learning can predict disease manifestations and outcomes in lymphangioleiomyomatosis.

The geriatrician’s role in end-of-life care (2020)
Journal Article

Healthcare aims to help older people to live well, but ultimately must also support them to die well. Most people die in old age, but predicting death in both short- and long-term is impossible for many, although not all, older people. Frail older pe... Read More about The geriatrician’s role in end-of-life care.

Natural history of tinnitus in adults: A cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis (2020)
Journal Article

Objective To assess incidence and changes in tinnitus and bothersome tinnitus as well as associated risk factors in a large sample of UK adults. Design Prospective cohort study. Setting UK. Participants For cross-sectional analysis, a group of 168 34... Read More about Natural history of tinnitus in adults: A cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis.

High-resolution manometry reveals different effect of polyethylene glycol, bisacodyl and prucalopride on colonic motility in healthy subjects: an acute, open label, randomised, crossover, reader blinded study with potential clinical implications (2020)
Journal Article

PEG, bisacodyl and prucalopride have been reported to be more effective than placebo in treating patients with constipation but about 50% of the patients still do not respond to these medications. Only bisacodyl and pucalopride are expected to direct... Read More about High-resolution manometry reveals different effect of polyethylene glycol, bisacodyl and prucalopride on colonic motility in healthy subjects: an acute, open label, randomised, crossover, reader blinded study with potential clinical implications.

High‐resolution manometry reveals different effect of polyethylene glycol, bisacodyl, and prucalopride on colonic motility in healthy subjects: An acute, open label, randomized, crossover, reader‐blinded study with potential clinical implications (2020)
Journal Article

PEG, bisacodyl and prucalopride have been reported to be more effective than placebo in treating patients with constipation but about 50% of the patients still do not respond to these medications. Only bisacodyl and pucalopride are expected to direct... Read More about High‐resolution manometry reveals different effect of polyethylene glycol, bisacodyl, and prucalopride on colonic motility in healthy subjects: An acute, open label, randomized, crossover, reader‐blinded study with potential clinical implications.

Annihilating Noise (2020)
Book

Noise has become a model of cultural and theoretical thinking over the last two decades. Following Hegarty's influential 2007 book, Noise/Music, Annihilating Noise discusses in 16 essays how noise offers a way of thinking critical resistance, disrupt... Read More about Annihilating Noise.